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Motorized Mini Excavator Rises From Sheets Of Plywood
Fathers of Hackaday, we’ve got bad news — you’ve been out-fathered. Behold the mechanism of your undoing: a working miniature excavator, executed in plywood.
To be fair, the rules of the game have changed lately. Time was when a nipper would ask for the impossible, and we dads would never have to deliver. But with CNC routers, 3D-printing, and industrial-grade CAD software you can use for free, the possibility hurdle is getting ever shorter. Still, when his son put in this request, [Alex Lovegrove] really delivered. Everything on this excavator works, from tracks to boom to bucket. There are hundreds of parts, mostly machined from plywood but with a smattering of 3D-printed gears and brackets. The tracks and slew gear are powered by gear motors, while linear actuators stand in for hydraulic rams on the boom. The videos below show the machine under test and the unbearable cuteness of it being loved.
Hacker parents need not despair, of course. There’s plenty of room left for your imagination to run amok. For inspiration, check out this working railway system, or any of the several backyard roller coasters we’ve featured.
Posted in Slider, Toy HacksTagged CNC router, digger, excavator, linear actuator, plywood, track, trackhoe
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51 thoughts on “Motorized Mini Excavator Rises From Sheets Of Plywood”
No doubt this kid is the envy of all his friends !!!!
Khordas says:
I think there was a story here a year or so ago about a dad who built his son a working plywood tank. Let the battle for supremacy begin…
Alex Rich says:
Idea for a future hackaday contest – toys you have made for your kids (or other people’s kids)
Building things for children is necessarily a man’s job? I thought this site’s writers were more feminist than that.
“Hacker dads and grandfathers…” not the best choice of words, he’d like to have that one back
email says:
there are activity that are “natural” for men and “natural” for woman. With “natural” i mean: in huge percentage” each of us prfere to address a particpular range of tasks. I.E. my wife prefere gardening (the good side: grow flowers under delicate shdow) and cooking, my tasks are more focused in home painting, gardening (the bad side: cuts grass for hours and hours under hot sun) and other masculine tasks. Thanks to Eaven, here in Europe we are still safe form the USA desease of “to be politically correct at any costs”. f++k off feminist from ’68, each of us has a “natural” role, what Nature plasmate all of us to do. Human wishes can fighth againnsta, but not win over Nature’s Laws.
Admiralranga says:
You don’t think those might be the result of society pushing us in those directions? Especially when we’re young.
could be, but much more could not. Look israeli kibbuz back in ’50: they was a socialist sels suntained-indipndent-societies where all the members (man & womans) are called to server the same tasks: work the field, care animales, cock foods, care children, build houses, ecc. Slowly but progressively, man left “feminine” tasks and embrace masculine tasks (work the fileds, care the animales, build houses) and at the same time womans did the opposite, left masculine tasks and embrace feminine tasks.
Now, i dont want to say that by force we must do only a particular sub-set of whole the activities available, simply i think that there are some tasks that we embrace easely in more natural way beause of “genetic” push to that side that we have coded in DNA.
As m if i prefere care kids or drive a escavator, i prefere t second. Of course there are some “forcing” by Sociey: i.e. is demostatd that woman are at same level (or even better) than men in math, but majority of mathematicians are male. it is a “society crookedness” that say “math is not for womans”.
Mike Szczys says:
You’re right, everyone should be building cool stuff. I’ve changed the dads and grandfathers part to hacker parents.
FW says:
Oh noooos!
Eric Cherry says:
I must have missed something while I was out playing in the street, sand is dangerous now?
So are eating, drinking and sleeping. Oh, and breathing of course…
Avoid water at all costs!
And sand and water? That’s why we have sharks!
The question is similiar to, why don’t you wear underpants on your head? It’s as if given free choice, people won’t wear pants on their heads.
But you’d be wrong. When missionaries first went to the indigenous tribes in South America, they saw the people were going around buck naked, so they tried to make them wear boxers and shorts to make them “modest”. In the jungle heat, all natural fabric just gets wet and soon rots away, so the tribesmen found little use of the garments and in any case they were inconvenient to wear, so they wore them as fancy hats.
Dives under rock and prays to god that the social justice lunatics won’t notice him when they come to kill the poster for daring to disagree with their One True Way ™
B^)
A Human Individual says:
We don’t know everything yet but studies of the human brain seem to suggest that it is more complicated than this. People who think a person’s gender will necessarily steer them into or out of certain fields are wrong. People who believe that given equal opportunity there will be equal people of both genders in every field are also wrong.
Statistically there are differences in the makeup of the male and female brain. It is quite possible that this explains some of the ‘sorting’ that occurs. On the other hand that’s just statistics. Among individuals there is variance that is greater than the differences between male and female. You probably have some parts in your own brain that are more similar to the ‘typical’ brain of the opposite sex!
The moral… stop looking at gender statistics. Absolutely do not discourage someone from doing what they want to do because of their gender. But.. also do not try to artificially boost the number of some ‘underrepresented’ gender in a particular field either! Let people chose something because they wanted it, not because you told them more girls (or boys) are needed.
If you want a better world for all of human kind just look at the individuals. What percentage have the opportunity to attempt* to get into their field of choice? What percentage are happy with the field that they are in**? Keep those two high and we all win!
*-It’s only an opportunity to attempt. If more people are not needed in a field or if you just aren’t any good at it or just plain lazy you are not entitled for someone to start paying you their own hard earned money to do that thing. You may be able to pick it up as a hobby though. (Not if you wanted to be a brain surgeon please)
**-Being happy with the field you are in and being in the field you chose are not the same. Bad choices are a thing. They are an unfortunately common thing. Teach people to evaluate themselves as individuals and the work fields as market opportunities so that they might be better equipped to make a good decision. This will do far more to improve people’s happiness and well-being than pushing some gender to participate in a field more.
TheRegnirps. says:
Well said. Do not bring this up in an HR meeting: On the individual versus group topic, some very large meta-studies that to avoid influences of culture have shown a striking math ability distribution. They don’t show any limit for women or men, but the shape of the curve for women is much different than for men. Women are clumped near the center and men tail off much more slowly to the high ability end. In fact, IIRC they imply that the 1 in ten male is equal to a 1 in 100 female and 1 in 100 male is like a 1 in 1000 (or more) female, etc. Essentially, the result is that the ratio of males to females for example in engineering, matches the ratios we see in the statistics for the calculus level math needed for an engineering degree. It also means the women who have what it takes in engineering are as good or better than the men. But don’t expect proportion of women to go up if difficulty stays constant.
By the way, I think the studies also showed that in the ensemble, if you do some kind of smartness comparison, women overall have better math brains than men, it is just that in the very high end, men have an advantage of 1000 to 1 or so. Now, an interesting question is, where do you have to be on the graph in order to understand the meaning of the graph?
“feminist” is not something I’ve ever thought of in conjunction with HaD or its writers. Can we keep at least THIS site free of the identity politics that every other corner of the internet seems hell-bent on involving itself in?
err… Nope. Sorry old chap. The cause fascists won’t allow that.
ngart says:
sorry your world is changing, that must be so hard on you. I for one welcome the inclusive change, seeing little girls think they can’t be engineers because of the word set up by oldtimers like you is disheartening. Luckily your views will be gone with your generation
DasEnglander says:
I fully appreciate that ‘SJW’s such as yourself are both intellectually and linguistically challenged but surely even you must realise that neither of the posters above said any such thing.
The main thing stopping women from becoming engineers is scum like you going round schools telling them that they can’t because ‘men’ won’t let them.
I think the hope is that when it breaks it will be a team activity to repair/re-engineer it. Broken stuff usually tugs at your curiosity.
barry99705 says:
Jamie needs one of these!
That thing is lovely! Well done!
expat says:
Very impressive! I want one so bad!! For myself of course – let the kids and grand kids get their own! I agree, the actuators could be faster, but it’s probably safer the way you have it. I’m a bit unclear on how pop rivets can hold the bucket steel plate onto plywood end grain. Seems they should pull right out, or do they attach to something metallic inside the wood? It’s projects like these that make me wonder what I’ve been spending my time on. Great use of available materials and parts.
Leithoa says:
Blind [Pop (r)] rivets expand on the back side rather than needing a bucking form or other peening process, so you’d be far more likely to delaminate thin plywood installing them than pulling it out with no other failures.
chagrinnish says:
Just doesn’t make sense why you’d use rivets. Screws are the much more obvious choice.
Alex Lovegrove says:
Hi I used rivets purely for aesthetic reasons. Rivers to my mond look nicer than screws. They actually work surprisingly well in the end grain of ply. None of them have pulled out and the bucket is strong. The hole drilled has to be just the right size to let the rivet expand but not delaminate the ply.
Rivets. Mind. !
AKA the A says:
Drill hole, insert rivet into rivet tool of choice, pop it…
fonz says:
Matthias Wandel has competion :)
Yeah, I changed the tweet for this one to say something about being the greatest thing you can build with plywood. With Mathias’ body of work that’s a bold claim. Superlatives aside, I just can’t get over how complete this is, especially the documentation. I love it!
I can not describe how close to nirvana I would have been to have had this as a child. It ranks right up there with the 12 year-old “If I only had a dirt bike, everything would be perfect!” Or if the 1968 Ford Country Squire was a spaceship in disguise.
Mark Atherton says:
Congratulations, this brilliant.
Hi thanks for the comments, really appreciate the constructive input. This project took over a year from conception to completion. I am thinking of making another one refining the parts that don’t work so well. Thanks HaD for posting this on the blog. This is one of life’s ambitions achieved so I am very pleased!….
Woot! It’s an awesome project, and super well documented. Kudos.
Solderfume says:
A great build although not the first one.
This was done years ago: http://harvelit.proboards.com/thread/1729/micro-kaivuri
Nay says:
You can bet every permutation of diggers, bulldozers, trucks, jeeps and whatnot has been built for children many times over.
Wow using electric drills for the actuators. Now thats a hack!
I’m all grown up and stuff but I seriously envy this
Irish says:
I imagine that once he gets older and becomes physically too big to ride on it, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to put servos on the controls and make the whole thing radio controlled.
pacman10101 says:
or swap the sticks for relays
I had thought about making it radio controlled….
nopmataru says:
maintenance: apply termite spray every 30 days :)
that is all kinds of awesome :-)
JackDanson says:
This is really cool. I would think that it would be possible to find real, rubber tracks for the thing, and they’d provide a lot better longevity and be way less painful to manufacture.
will Richey says:
Cheaper and easier than that is to get conveyor chain, the flights are made in a variety of standard widths up to 12 inches. The stuff can be bought extremely cheap on ebay. I am currently working on a very similar excavator for my son ( a little larger than this one) and that is what I am planning on using.
The father who made this has created a happy and creative future engineer ! Kudos to you !!
Out of all construction machinery excavators is the sh-t!
Not really the same thing, but in the spirit of “hacker parents”, I’ve been building this (http://lego-boats.oobergeek.net) for my son’s birthday on Sunday. He saw something similar in San Diego’s Legoland and loved it there. I’m kind of hoping he loves this one as much :)
I built it to be modular, so we can disassemble after the party and trot it out whenever the mood takes us. It takes about 20-30 minutes to assemble from scratch since it’s all 4’x8′ plywood and foam. Stacks vertically in the garage.
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Chen-ou Liu’s First Firefly
On March 31, 2020 March 31, 2020 By Nicholas KlacsanzkyIn Haiku3 Comments
first firefly
among the stars …
a child’s wish
– Chen-ou Liu (Canada)
When I was a child, I used to watch fireflies, considering them as a lucky charm. This haiku reminds me of my childhood memories associated with fireflies and I can relate to it.
A “first firefly” is a hope in the darkness that we want to have in our lives. The poet beautifully put two contrasting realities together.
One is stars we cannot touch and the other one is a firefly that we can touch and personally feel its existence. The firefly is more like a dream that comes true—a kind of wish that is fulfilled by feeling the existence of a firefly’s light that resembles starlight. One can also see the limitation of certain realities that are beyond our understanding and access but possible through imagination and adopting alternative approaches. A child enjoys his or her access to the stars through a firefly that takes him close to his imagination and fulfills the wish of touching stars.
It is an ordinary experience but extraordinary at the same time. Seeing the flash of light from a firefly against a starry night sky is enchanting and mystical to witness. It makes us appreciate nature’s majesty more.
Usually, fireflies come out strong in the summer when they are looking for mates. So, the first firefly could be an indication of summer. The child does not know about fireflies’ mating seasons and his or her wish is based on one of beauty and wonder. It makes for an interesting dichotomy, though, of innocence and experience. However, the last line could be interpreted in two ways: it is the child’s wish to see a firefly with the stars, or that a firefly among stars is like a child’s wish.
As Hifsa mentioned, this haiku merges the earthly and the cosmic, each with its own light. Though the distance is substantially different, the circumference of light might be about the same from the view of a person. In this way, a star’s twinkle might as well be a star’s brilliance, and vice versa.
At a technical glance, we have alliteration in the first line that adds a musical sense to the haiku. The structure is standard and the ellipsis as a kireji works well. It gives a chance for the reader to slow down and imagine the wonderful scene. Each line comprises four syllables, which makes it compact like most well-written haiku (though the kireji would be counted in Japanese).
A haiku powered by enchanting imagery that gives readers more than something to imagine: it prompts us to see the connection between the mundane and the cosmic, and to appreciate the wonder of a child.
– Nicholas Klacsanzky (USA)
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Maria Chiara Miduri’s Wings
On March 9, 2020 March 9, 2020 By Nicholas KlacsanzkyIn Haiku1 Comment
a crow feeds
tiny wings
while the bough floats
– Maria Chiara Miduri (Italy)
Wales Haiku Journal, Spring Issue, 2019
Haiku about crows always brings mystery to me. I start relating them to certain deep realities of life. A crow can symbolize intelligence, flexibility, and destiny in certain cultures, whilst bad luck and death in others. For me, a crow is a symbol of wisdom and survival that keeps on knocking on the doors of our mind and heart to awaken and understand the depth of life.
The tiny wings, as I understand, is the beginning of new life that needs energy and enthusiasm to keep going and to face the harsh realities of life.
In terms of the bough that floats on the water, I think it signifies the survival of the fittest in the tidal waves of life, but it is the crow that leads us to overcome our weaknesses and to handle it with strength and wisdom.
This haiku is the combination of nature and nurture where wisdom, realities, and trials are beautifully described with the help of the elements of nature.
The first thing that struck me about this haiku is that it is written essentially as one part. Haiku often do not work well as one part, but there is a whole history of masterful haiku that do. In Japanese, these type of haiku are called “ichibutsu jitate” (物仕立て).
Because the imagery is so stark, the poem is carried by it and the resonance is strong. The care the mother crow is giving her chicks (“tiny wings”), while the wind or water tosses the bough that they are on, is extraordinary. It is a lesson in focus and concern. It also lends to the image of life’s precariousness and that at any moment, something can go wrong. But in the face of this, the mother crow supplies nourishment to her chicks.
Despite the haiku being one phrase, the line breaks allow readers to take in the image well. Also, the sound of the poem is rich with the letters w and o. I would say the “w” sounds supply a sense of lightness that is inherent in the imagery, whereas the “o” sounds slow down the scene for us and reflects being in awe of the moment that is captured in the haiku.
Overall, with a unique structure, stark imagery, and a fine sense of sound, this haiku conveys showing care through the obstacles of our lives.
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China Plans Tariffs on $75B of U.S. Goods; Trump Vows Response
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U.S. President Donald Trump meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Donald Trump on Friday called on U.S. companies with operations in China to consider an alternative place to do business after Beijing announced a series of retaliatory tariffs Friday.
“I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon,” Trump tweeted. “This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States.”
U.S. markets tumbled, as did markets in Asia and Europe.
The U.S. has said it plans to impose 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods in two steps, on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. China on Friday announced new tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for those tariffs, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into recession.
China also will increase import duties on U.S.-made autos and auto parts, the Finance Ministry announced.
The announcement comes as leaders of the Group of 7 major economies prepare to meet in France this weekend.
Tariffs of 10% and 5% will take effect on two batches of goods on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15, the ministry said in a statement. It gave no details of what goods would be affected, but the timing matches Trump’s planned duty hikes.
Washington is pressing Beijing to narrow its trade surplus and roll back plans for government-led creation of global competitors in robotics, electric cars and other technology industries.
On Friday, Trump tweeted, “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon.”
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about what authority the president believes he has to order private companies to change their business practices.
The spiraling conflict has battered exporters on both sides and fueled concern it might drag down weakening global economic growth.
Peter Navarro, who advises Trump on trade policy, tried to downplay the impact of Chinese tariff hikes. He said they were “well anticipated” and would only strengthen Trump’s resolve.
China’s government appealed to Trump this week to compromise in order to reach a settlement, after Trump warned that the American public might need to endure economic pain in order to achieve long-term results.
The United States, Europe, Japan and other trading partners say Beijing’s development plans violate its market-opening commitments and are based on stealing or pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology. Some American officials worry they might erode U.S. industrial leadership.
Chinese leaders have offered to alter details, but are resisting giving up a development strategy they see as a path to prosperity and global influence.
The talks are deadlocked over how to enforce any deal. China insists Trump’s punitive tariffs have to be lifted as soon as an agreement takes effect. Washington says at least some have to stay to ensure Beijing carries out any promises it makes.
Trump announced plans to raise tariffs Sept. 1 on $300 billion of Chinese products after talks broke down in May. Increases on some goods were postponed to Dec. 15.
Trump escalated “trade frictions” and is “seriously threatening the multilateral trading system,” the Finance Ministry said. “China was forced to take countermeasures.”
A separate statement said tariffs of 25% and 5% would be imposed on U.S.-made autos and auto parts on Dec. 15. Beijing announced that increase last year but suspended it after Trump and his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, agreed at a meeting in December in Argentina to put off further trade action while they negotiated.
Trump and Xi agreed in June to resume negotiations. But talks in Shanghai in July ended with no indication of progress. Negotiators talked by phone this month and are due to meet again in Washington next month.
BMW, Tesla, Ford and Mercedes Benz are likely to be the hardest hit by the Chinese auto tariffs. In 2018, BMW exported about 87,000 luxury SUVs to China from a plant near Spartanburg, S.C. It exports more vehicles to China than any other U.S. auto plant.
Ford, BMW, Mercedes and other automakers exported a combined 164,000 vehicles to China from the U.S. in 2018, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a think tank in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Most of them are luxury cars and SUVs with higher profit margins that can cover higher U.S. wages. The exports are down from about 262,000 in 2017.
Tesla, which is building a plant in China, last year got about 12% of its revenue by exporting about 14,300 electric cars and SUVs from California to China, according to Barclays. A majority of Ford’s exports are from the Lincoln luxury brand, but most of the vehicles it sells in China are made in joint-venture factories.
Trump already has imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese products. Beijing retaliated by imposing its own penalties on $110 billion of American goods. But their lopsided trade balance meant China was running out of imports for retaliation.
Friday’s announcement, if it applied to goods not already affected by Chinese penalties, would extend tariff hikes to everything China imports from the United States. That would match Trump’s hikes, which cover almost all of what Americans buy from China.
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Bo Nix Biography
By Kylie - Sep 02, 2019
Quick Facts Of Bo Nix
Celebrated Name
Bo Nix
Birth Nation
His comeback win in his debut game against Oregon.
Patrick Nix
Krista Nix
Pinson Valley High School
Body Build/Type
6ft. 2inch.(1.88m)
94kg(207 lbs)
Bo Nix is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Auburn Tigers. The son of the legendary player, Patrick Nix, Bo Nix is just on the right path of following his father's pathway of leading the team in the field. Bo Nix marked his name in the field after the match against Oregon held on August 31, 2019.
Bo Nix Set a Mark of His Presence In the Field
Recently, on Saturday, August 31, 2019, Bo Nix, the first true freshman quarterback, plays the hero for Auburn in the first start of his college career.
Bo Nix made a great start opener for Auburn since Travis Tidwell, that ranked Tigers No. 16 led to a victory in the first game of his college career, 27-21, over No. 13 Oregon.
Source: [email protected]
What is Bo Nix Famous for?
Bo Nix is best known for his comeback win in his debut game against Oregon.
When was Bo Nix Born?
Bo Nix was born on February 25, 2000, in the United States. His birth name is Bo Nix. His nationality is American. He belongs to White ethnicity.
Bo Nix was born to Patrick Nix(father) and Krista Nix(mother). His father Patrick is one of the best and most efficient quarterbacks who played quarterback at Auburn from 1992-1995.
Nix graduated from Pinson Valley High School and currently is attending Auburn University. He always wanted to start at quarterback for the "Auburn Tigers" since his childhood.
Bo Nix is on his Fleeks: Auburn University
Bo Nix marked himself as the great start opener in his first-ever game of college career against Oregon on August 31, 2019. He became the first true freshman to start a season as Auburn’s quarterback since Travis Tidwell in 1946.
Keeping his two interceptions–including a couple of critical errors and the fact that he completed only 13-of-31 passes for 177 yards aside, his 26-yard pass to Seth Williams with 9 seconds left gave the No. 16-ranked Tigers a lavish victory against No. 13-ranked Oregon.
His father, Patrick coached him to back-to-back Class 6A state championships at Pinson Valley High. Even, Bo Nix during his years at Pinson Valley High School was a state high school record-holder in both career yards (more than 12,000) and touchdowns (167).
He was the reigning Mr. Football and the No. 1-rated dual-threat quarterback recruit in the Class of 2019.
How tall is Bo Nix?
The 19 aged, Bo Nix has a well-maintained body physique. He stands tall with a height of 6ft. 2inch.(1.88m). His body weighs around 94kg(207 lbs). He has a fair complexion with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Bo Nix was the reigning Mr. Football and the No. 1-rated dual-threat quarterback recruit in the Class of 2019.
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Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. Lara's got enough problems of her own. Her start-up company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, and she's just been dumped by the love of her life. But as Lara spends time with Sadie, life becomes more glamorous and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Could Sadie's ghost be the answer to Lara's problems and can two girls from different times end up learning something special from each other?
The fabulous new novel from this number one bestselling author.
Sophie's latest tome is a wise, funny ghost story that will have you gripped from the first page. Perfect summer reading. Heat Best read with a cold glass of wine at sunset (with tissues). The Times Wonderfully witty tale...You'll love this quirky read - it's just as girly, exciting and fabulously funny as Sophie's other gems ***** Heat This is Kinsella at her quirkiest and best, and Lara's gradual appreciation of the fact that there's a bright young thing trapped inside every ageing body adds real pathos to this otherwise light-hearted and sweetly comic novel Daily Telegraph Kinsella's latest offering is a classic chick-lit read: light, entertaining and often funny too. This is essential reading for anyone looking for a dose of escapism this summer. Sunday Express
Sophie Kinsella is a writer and fomer financial journalist. She is the international bestselling author of the hugely popular Shopaholic novels as well as the number one bestsellers Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess and Remember Me? Confessions of a Shopaholic, the blockbuster Hollywood movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, is based on Sophie Kinsella's novel The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. She lives in London with her husband and children.
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Today on my island, I was a logger, gathering wood so I could fabricate myself an extremely adorable new bed https://www.lolga.com/animal-crossing-bells. It's pink with a green blanket. It took 30 minutes of cleaving at trees to assemble all the materials, yet I delighted in each second. Nothing else made a difference during those 30 minutes aside from building that adorable new bed, and making some superb memories doing it.
Selena Gomez astounded aficionados of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Wednesday (Aug. 5) by slamming a television show inside the game with an off the cuff meeting and performance https://www.lolga.com.Appearing as her symbol, the pop star halted by the game's late-night syndicated program Animal Talking, where she dished on the chance of a joint effort with as a matter of fact Taylor Swift.
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Earlier this year, I was contacted by Dr. Susanne Mauss, a German academic and researcher, who was writing a book and preparing an exhibition on the Jewish German lawyers in Nord-Rhein Westfalen who had been excluded from the legal profession by the Third Reich. She was seeking information and a photograph of Charlotte Grunebaum, later Hachenburg, changed to Hackett. I put Dr. Mauss in touch with Thomas Hackett, one of Charlotte’s sons. In his words:
“Lotte” Grunebaum
(Dr. Mauss was looking for) a photograph of my mother, Charlotte (usually known to her family, her husband and friends as Lotte) from the 1930’s, namely the period after she’d been barred by the “Nuremberg laws” from continuing her career in the legal profession.
My mother, although she’d qualified as a lawyer and had already been accepted (and may’ve even begun) as a Referendar (legal intern), was unable to continue her legal career because of the blocking measures then introduced. I had a photo which I passed on and which is now reproduced in the book which is entitled “Nicht zugelassen” (Not Allowed), published recently. It’s available on Amazon.de.
Thomas’s Ancestors
Salomon Herz Hirschland (one of the three original brothers)
Simon Hirschland
Isaac Hirschland
Agathe Hirschland Grunebaum (and Ernst)
Charlotte Grunebaum (Hachenburg changed to) Hackett
Thomas Hackett
The book is a fascinating exploration of the lives of these professional men (apart from my mother and one other woman, Käthe Levy) and their families, their trials and tribulations, and in many cases their tragic fates. Some names from the deepest caverns of memory emerge – Susanne’s book refers to the friendship of (various Grunebaums) with Frank Opton (who apparently was linked romantically with my mother before my father came on the scene – news to me but I don’t think my mother was short of admirers and her relatively late marriage by the standards of the time was due more to her professional ambitions followed by the upheavals of the late 1930’s). … Also Hans Wetzler, whose son is a holistic doctor in London, apparently working a lot with the Haredi community.
The book consists of short (sometimes quite long in fact) histories of these men/families, what happened in the 1930s and after, supported by archival references and reproduced photos and documents.
In another email, Thomas noted that:
My aunt (by marriage) Gabriele (Gaby) Grünebaum (geb. Neumann) came from Cottbus to Munich University where she met my mother as they were both studying law there. My mother introduced Gaby to her brother Erich and the two married in October 1933 (almost 80 years to the day). I don’t think Gaby can be said to have been prevented from pursuing her legal career as their first child was born 14 months later (his parents took the post-March 1933 precaution of having the birth in London to give him a British passport – the British authorities were less hostile to immigrants in those days, possibly because they were rather fewer!) after which I think she applied herself more to domestic responsibilities. Gaby’s story can be found here.
Dr. Mauss commented that the book has created a landslide of information about Jewish lawyers who could not practice because of the prohibitions:
Today I got a phone call from a woman (daughter of a former attorney in Düsseldorf who was a colleague of Kurt Frank) who read the book and had further information for me. It is like a landslide. People read the book and remember things you can’t find in the archives. That is really important because in some years the “children” who still know the people on the pictures will disappear and nobody can ever tell their stories. This woman still got photos from her father with old friends from the years before 1933. I will meet her in November. This makes my work really satisfying when there are answers from total strangers.
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The secret to sustainability in family business
The success and sustainability of a family business is built on three Cs: connection, communication and a bit of (healthy) conflict.
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There’s more to the success of a family business than what it says on the balance sheet.
The 2018 KPMG Enterprise and Family Business Australia survey reveals how socio-emotional wealth (or SEW) impacts financial performance and sustainability.
What is your business’s ‘emotional value’?
SEW measures the ‘emotional value’ of a business through the following five areas:
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Businesses with low SEW scores are more likely to be sold or passed on to non-family members, or forced to close, so balancing emotional and economic needs is crucial to sustainability.
Unfortunately, it has also been the main source of conflict for family businesses each year since the survey began in 2005, and 2018 was no different.
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If there is one thing the most recent survey highlighted, it’s the vital role communication and healthy conflict play in boosting SEW, and therefore family and business wellbeing.
In particular, KPMG Enterprise Director Michelle De Lucia says there is a general lack of formal communication when it comes to “planning for the future of the business and the family, and how those two things tie together”.
This is backed up by the survey results, in which just 14 per cent of the family businesses planning to transfer leadership within the next five years had a documented plan for how the family will participate or be recognised in the business in the future, and only 26 percent had identified who ownership would pass to.
“As generations prepare to pass the business on, we need to make sure that the connectivity of the family remains,” says De Lucia, who is leading a master class on balancing emotional and financial needs in family business. “And by that, I mean the family’s passion for and involvement in the business.”
Staying focused
For Jen Geale, who co-founded Mountain Bikes Direct with her husband and their two friends, another couple, one of the benefits of being in business with family is that you don’t have to dance around a point.
“It can be really great because you’re not necessarily trying to be super polite to each other – you can just cut straight through to the heart of the issue,” she says.
This leads to plenty of healthy debate – or, as Geale describes it, “resolving discussions, but quickly and with energy” – so to combat conflict, the co-founders created an ‘org chart’ mapping out each person’s role and responsibilities. Now, they’re never unclear about who has the final word on a particular discussion.
This is a good example of how governance structures support formal communication around important business operations, ensuring everybody is on the same page and working towards a common goal.
As De Lucia says, “It’s making sure we grab the passion of the family and use it to create that amazing competitive advantage you get as a family business.”
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January 20, 2015 By RGK in Uncategorized Tags: Judge Joseph William Woodrough, longest serving federal judge, trivia may not be trivial 9 Comments
The Federal Judges Association, which is the union I belong to, sent out a message today keeping we unionists informed on all manner of things that may impact the brotherhood and sisterhood. On a “light” note, the message ended with “TRIVIA.” In part, it read:
Who has been the longest serving federal judge in U.S. History? Joseph William Woodrough served as a district court judge in the District of Nebraska from 1916 until 1933, and as a circuit court judge in the Eighth Circuit from 1933 until his death in 1977–spanning a period of more than 61 years!
The judge was born in Ohio in 1873, was educated at Heidelberg University in Germany, read law, served as a prosecutor and judge (at age 22) in Texas, and practiced law in Omaha, Nebraska from 1898 to 1916 until he was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson and confirmed by the Senate in 1916 to serve as a district judge. More than six decades of federal judicial service followed. The judge’s service may now be trivia to some, but it certainly was not, and will never be, trivial.*
*For more on the judge, see our archives. The judge was a highly regarded trial lawyer at the time of his appointment to the federal bench. As a contemporary wrote, “He tried single-handed many civil and criminal cases that won for him a statewide reputation. . . . He is one of the most agreeable lawyers that I have ever opposed in the trial of a lawsuit; being pleasant and agreeable, both to the court and the opposing counsel.” Ed F. Morearty, Omaha Memories (Schwart Printing 1917).
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Nick Purifoy says:
On another trivia note, the only judge to serve at an age older than Judge Woodrough was Judge Wesley Brown in the District of Kansas. He was still sharp on the bench at 104.
Would have thought O’Malley v Woodrough should be added to trivia or like Holmes do you like taxes Judge. In early 70s NY Times described a USDCJ in Maine then in his 90s as oldest living federal judge, Woodrough wrote to Times quoting Mark Twain on exaggeration of death. Correction followed.
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Anonymous is repentinglawyer displaying incompetence.
RGK says:
Dear Repenting Lawyer,
Thanks for the reminder that Judge Woodrough fought the good fight but lost. Here is the Supreme Court’s tawdry opinion.
Dredd says:
Well said Judge RGK.
Anon. says:
If Yale Holland would have been added to that dream team, the good judge would have won in the Supreme Court.
I did not know this (In fact, I thought it was Judge Learned Hand).
Thanks Nick. Judge Brown was certainly legendary. I like the idea of two great and long serving judges coming from Kansas and Nebraska. Emulating the wind that never stops in these parts is a good way to understand long serving judges like these two.
Remember Yale Holland’s wonderful confrontations with Terry Carpenter over taxing Aksarben. During Terry’s tirades Yale would remove his glasses with attached hearing aids until Terry was done speaking.
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Will the Pew Israel Report Open our Eyes?
Rabbi Uri Regev presents his first impressions of the 2016 Pew report on Israel's Religiously Divided Society. His intimate familiarity with the subject matter and the population surveyed provide him a unique prism, which served him in assessing the report.
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It was with mixed feelings that I read the Pew report on Israel’s Religiously Divided Society, which was released this week.
Pew research publications are always a cause of excitement, if not for the findings, which are often grim and disturbing, then for their depth, scope and reliability. This time I happen to be very familiar with the subject matter and the population surveyed, and therefore have an additional prism, which served me in assessing the report. Hiddush – Freedom of Religion for Israel, the trans-denominational Israel-Diaspora partnership organization, which I have the privilege of leading, has been focusing on polling public opinion regarding religion and state in Israel from its inception; and I have been closely following such studies for some decades now. For obvious reasons (that have to do with the thrust of Hiddush’s work) my focus here is on the findings regarding the Jewish population.
Needless to say, Pew’s thoroughness in conducting its polling based upon face-to-face interviews with over 5,000 participants, including both Israel’s Jewish and non-Jewish populations in the representative sample is almost unparalleled. To a great degree, the key findings follow the pattern already familiar to everyone who is interested in this field; and yet there were some surprises both in what the study revealed and in what it did not include.
The report is vast, and even though the Hebrew language version prepared by Pew includes only 39 pages, compared to the 236 pages of the original English report, I fear that the number of people who will take in its full scope is limited. The Israeli media’s reaction to it, even though advanced copies were made available to the journalists, focused primarily on the alarming data regarding widely held anti-Arab sentiments among Israeli Jews. This was naturally seen as more sensational than the oft-discussed clash of religion and state, of halakha and democracy, and of patterns of religious observance. As could be expected, some of the Orthodox media triumphantly declared that the report validates the traditional character of Israeli Jews and underscores the low traction that Reform and Conservative have achieved in the country. Both these aspects are merely partial pictures of what should occupy a much greater place in Israel’s public and political discourses, and also that of responsible world Jewish leadership.
Israel is embroiled in a battle between its Jewish and democratic characters
The Pew study provides us with an opportunity to focus once again on the religion-state conflict in Israel, something that Diaspora Jewish leadership usually tries to avoid discussing, not wanting to generate controversy within their respective communities, fearing divisiveness, or for fear of raising criticism against Israel at a time when the country’s image is under constant challenge. Simply put, even though the study shows that a majority of both secular and religious Israeli Jews believe that Israel’s Jewish and democratic characters are compatible, the truer picture is quite different. Israel at 68 years old is embroiled in a battle over these often conflicting concepts. The question regarding which of these one would follow in the case of a contradiction is very telling. A majority of Israel’s religious Jewish population would put aside democratic values and principles if they perceive them to conflict with halakha. For Israel’s secular population, the Jewish majority, the opposite is true. When put in abstract terms, the significance of these questions may seem somewhat sterile, and therefore not alarming.
It is clear that Azoulay, Gafni, and their colleagues in the government and the Knesset are making every possible maneuver to bring us closer to theocracy.
This finding of the Pew report is connected to another finding, according to which the majority of the ultra-Orthodox and Zionist Orthodox support halakha becoming the binding law of the state for Jews, compared to the majority of secular and masorti Jews who oppose this. While the concern that Israel may turn into a theocracy (a Torah state), which starkly contradicts the vision of the Declaration of Independence and goes against the will of the majority of Israel, is not realistic in the foreseeable future… Nevertheless, even if we are not there yet, it is clear that Azoulay, Gafni, and their colleagues in the government and the Knesset are making every possible maneuver to bring us closer to theocracy, and to deny Israeli Jewish citizens the freedom of choice and ability to break off the shackles of the fundamentalist state rabbinate, which controls vast areas of community and personal life. It is not a coincidence therefore that in key areas of the conflict over religion and state the study proves once again that the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews support freedom of religion and equality and oppose the government’s coercive policies in areas such as public transportation onShabbat, mandatory drafting of yeshiva students, and prohibiting enforced gender separation in public transportation, including that which serves the Haredi population.
The clear majority of Israelis support marriage freedom and ending the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly
It is very unfortunate that even though the report acknowledges that Israel recognizes only religious marriage avenues, prohibiting both civil and non-Orthodox alternatives, it did not see the importance of exploring Israelis’ support for civil marriages and the principle of marriage freedom. Rather, the study limited itself to asking a question exclusively about support for Reform and Conservative marriages. This creates a misperception as to the public view of marriage freedom in Israel. Both Hiddush’s extensive polling and other studies that have taken place over recent years have shown without exception the clear majority support freedom of marriage and ending the Orthodox rabbinic monopoly over marriage and divorce. In neglecting to ask these questions the Pew study missed the opportunity to shed further light on the stronger position that Israelis hold regarding the fact that Israel is the last and only Western Democracy that denies its citizens the right to marry due to religious strictures (in the case of the Jewish community, Orthodox religious strictures) on all its citizenry. The price exacted from both the Israeli population and potentially from world Jewry is enormous. Hundreds of thousands of citizens are denied the basic civil right of marriage. Millions more are denied the right to marriage ceremonies that befit their beliefs and lifestyles, and the majority of children growing up the Jewish community in America would find that if they choose to make their lives in Israel, they would be denied the right of legal marriage. It is commendable that in the last couple years we see an unprecedented awakening among mainstream Jewish leadership on the issue of marriage equality, and it is to be hoped that the Pew finding regarding Reform and Conservative marriages will not distract the readership from the truly overriding issue of the right to marry altogether.
In both these instances, the issue at stake is freedom of religion, freedom of worship, and equal access to state funded institutions.
Two recent examples put these survey questions into a very different context.
Firstly, a clear majority of the ministers in Netanyahu’s government approved the historic Western Wall agreement between the Israeli government, the Reform and Conservative movements, and the Women of the Wall, affirming the agreement as a government resolution. Then, Minister of Religious Services David Azoulay (of Shas, the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox party) who has specific authority over Israel’s Jewish sacred sites, announced that he would not sign into effect the regulations stipulated in the agreement because his rabbi told him not to. Imagine a similar situation in the US, with a Cabinet member refusing to follow a court ruling or Presidential executive order because she gives greater weight to her pastor’s religious edicts than to those of the courts or the Commander-in-Chief. This is exactly what we have been facing for quite some time in Israel. Rather than show the specific minister and his likeminded civil servants the door, PM Netanyahu and his Cabinet members are now engaged in acrobatics, trying to appease Azoulay, his fellow ultra-Orthodox political leaders, and their rabbis; while not losing face with the non-Orthodox diaspora movements with whom the agreement was reached.
Similarly, a couple of weeks ago, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling that allowed non-Orthodox converts access to public ritual baths (mikva’ot) for their conversions, the powerful chair of the Knesset finance committee, Rabbi Moshe Gafni (of UTJ, the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox party), announced that he sees the Supreme Court ruling as yet another declaration of war by the Court against Judaism. He stated, “The Supreme Court declared war on the Torah. It will not cease and will not rest until it destroys and decimates Judaism in the country such that, God forbid, nothing will be left. We will put up a battle and fight against it,” and submitted a draft bill that would undo the Supreme Court ruling. His proposed legislation quickly received full support from both the MKs of the ultra-Orthodox parties, as well as the MKs of the Zionist Orthodox Jewish Home party, led by Minister Naftali Bennett.
In both these instances, the issue at stake is freedom of religion, freedom of worship, and equal access to state funded institutions. Neither instance involves a real clash between Judaism and democracy, but rather between narrow sectarian interpretations of Judaism in Israel, aiming not at ensuring religious liberty for the ultra-Orthodox, but denying that liberty to others.
There are many more examples of this nature. The Pew study’s findings are not new. Last month, Hiddush published comparable results of a poll that included a similar question. This a known challenge, which neither Israeli political leaders on the right and left, nor Diaspora Jewish leadership really want to address. This poses a major threat to the integrity of Israel’s democracy and its ability to maintain the solidarity and identification of world Jewry with Israel, and yet it continues to be pushed under the carpet. In recent years, we have seen the beginning of a shift on the part of Diaspora Jewry, which we and most Israelis highly welcome, but how far and vocal it will be remains to be seen. I’m referring to the landmark JPPI study of diaspora Jewish leadership views on Israel as Jewish and democratic state, the JFNA’s new iRep project (the Israel Religious Expression Platform) aimed at promoting freedom of marriage in Israel, and AJC’s J-REC coalition to advance religious pluralism, marriage freedom and Jewish status issues in Israel.
The non-Orthodox movements in Israel have grown considerably in recent years
For diaspora Jewry it is important to understand that whereas in their communities the division of Jewish identity along denominational lines is common, for Israelis the phenomenon of the non-Orthodox denominations is a relatively recent development, going against the political stream, unsupported by government funds (which generously fund all forms of Orthodox operations), and often discriminated against and denied full legal recognition. Nevertheless, both non-Orthodox movements have grown considerably in Israel in recent years, belying the misguided notion of yesteryear that “the synagogue that the Israeli Jew does not attend must be Orthodox.” Not only are the Movements growing, but there is a flourishing of post-denominational prayer groups and synagogues, such as Beit Tefila Yisraeli in Tel Aviv, which attracts some thousand participants to their popular musical kabbalat Shabbat services at the Tel Aviv port. Under these circumstances, we should not attach too much importance to the specific percentage the study indicated of Israelis who identify with Reform and Conservative. We should bear in mind that similarly credible recent studies of public opinion in Israel have indicated higher percentages, and that as reliable as this study is, it’s still acknowledges a margin of error of some 3%.
Questions about the Pew study’s population sample
When I looked at the makeup of the impressive 5,000+ sample, I couldn’t help but wonder whether it is fully representative of the current reality of the Jewish population in Israel.
One group which is undoubtedly underrepresented in the sample but has significant implications for the topics explored is the some 350,000 Israeli citizens from the FSU whose mothers are not Jewish. They make up more than 5% of the Israeli Jewish population, adversely impacted by the alignment of religion and politics in Israel, but they are hardly present in the Pew study. The study notes the significant difference between its 1% share of “other” or “without religion,” and that of the Central Bureau of Statistics’ 4%. The sample’s omission is notable when one looks at the responses to Jewish ancestry, for only 1% of Israeli Jews in the Pew sample claim to have only a Jewish father.
The facile conclusion that the study shows that the hiloni are a minority does not do justice to the real picture of Israel’s Jewish identity mosaic today.
The other unfortunate choice of the study was, in my view, was to maintain the older categories of Jewish identity, which included only one “masorti” label. For more than 10 years now, the CBS has divided this category into two; “masorti leaning towards religious,” and “masorti not so religious.” While the labels may seem awkward, the distinction is of great importance. As the study clearly indicates, Israeli hiloni are far from atheist, and the study shows high levels of traditional observance among them. The phenomenon of the “masorti not so religious,” which according to the CBS constitute approximately 25% of Israeli Jews, is far closer to the hiloni population with regards to positions on many religion-state conflicts, than to that of the religious population. Given these two considerations, namely that the hiloni are not atheist, and that the “not so religious” are similar to them, the facile conclusion of some journalists (especially those that write for Israel’s religious media) that the study shows that the hiloni are a minority is a very self-serving conclusion, which does not do justice to the real picture of Israel’s Jewish identity mosaic today.
Implications of the findings on the Jewish-Arab conflict
Another major area of concern that the Pew study reveals, which has been known for quite some time per previous public opinion studies, but has not received the proper attention is the Jewish-Arab conflict within Israel. Much of the Pew media coverage focused on the trees rather than the forest; rather than, for instance, the emerging conclusion that there is a looming threat from religious quarters to Israeli democracy and the rule of law, and that the clear majority of Israelis object to the euphemistically described “status quo,” and the policies of Israeli governments over the years.
The study itself chose a sensational question to illustrate the topic by asking the respondents’ opinions regarding the expulsion and transfer of Arabs. One of the leading Israeli experts in the field – Professor Sami Samocha – has already reacted to the study, pointing to the question’s ambiguous language and the difficulty of attaching full value to the responses. Regardless of whether the phrasing of the question is optimal or not, the results indicate a clear division between the majority of religious and ultra-Orthodox who support this and the majority of the Hiloni and masorti that oppose it. Oddly, regarding the question on “preferential treatment of Jews in Israel,” according the Pew study, a majority of all subgroups of Jews in Israel support this, but one may ask whether this question was adequately phrased and what the respondents actually understood it to mean. I intuitively hold that a more accurate way of asking the question and therefore assessing the responses is found in the IDI democracy index of 2014: “do you agree or disagree that Jewish citizens of Israel should have greater rights than non-Jewish citizens?” The majority of Zionist Orthodox and haredim agreed with this, and the majority of hiloni and traditional disagreed.
There is dire and urgent need to address some of the threatening trends, especially those that are cloaked in religious rhetoric and claim exemption from review and rebuke, invoking the Divine name.
Let me not be misunderstood – I do not claim that Jewish religiosity is identical to anti-gentile, anti-Arab sentiments. Some of the leading champions of democracy and civil liberties come from the religious Israeli sector. What I’m saying is – that the repeated statistical data indicating an alarming level of correlation between religious identity and education with anti-democratic, anti-rule-of-law, anti-gentile views should lead us to an urgent reckoning that something very basic is wrong with religious instruction that breeds such views. Clearly the powers that be in Israel, whether the chief rabbinate, haredi rabbinic leadership, and their political representatives have done little if anything to stem this tide. No true democracy can flourish if such anti-democratic views are allowed to grow and spread their venom throughout it. Deep soul searching and urgent political, public and educational measures are needed. Other than Israel’s president, who limits his message primarily to the racist plague, none of these avenues are meeting the challenge. It will be easy to dissect the Pew study and look at its numerous questions, and analyze them ad nauseum, but its true contribution, as well as the seminal few comparable studies done in recent years will be best made if it opens the eyes of both policymakers and public opinion molders within Israel and the Jewish communities outside Israel to understand that seven decades after the founding of the State of Israel, there is dire and urgent need to address some of the threatening trends, especially those that are cloaked in religious rhetoric and claim exemption from review and rebuke, invoking the Divine name.
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GW Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: GWPH), the world leader in the science, development, and commercialization of cannabinoid prescription medicines, today reported preliminary, unaudited net product sales for the fourth quarter and full year 2020 and key priorities for 2021. Justin Gover, GW’s Chief Executive Officer, expects to discuss these updates as part of a webcast presentation at the 38th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, Jan. 12th at 10:00 a.m. ET.
“Epidiolex sales increased by over 70% in 2020 despite the challenges of COVID-19, reflecting the positive impact this medicine has on patients as well as the performance of our commercial team. We remain encouraged by our patients’ experience on this product, as demonstrated by high persistence and refill rates. This, combined with our expansion of payer coverage and the recently approved Tuberous Sclerosis Complex indication, leads us to expect continued strong growth in 2021 in both the US and Europe,” said Justin Gover, GW’s Chief Executive Officer. “Our goals in 2021 include driving further Epidiolex growth and advancing multiple US pivotal trials for nabiximols in the treatment of MS spasticity, with the first data readout expected this year. In addition to our previously announced pipeline activities, we are leveraging our world leadership in cannabinoid science to design and synthesize novel cannabinoid molecules and expect our first novel product candidate to enter the clinic in 2021.”
Preliminary Unaudited Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2020 Net Product Sales
Based on preliminary unaudited financial information, the Company expects total net product sales to be approximately $148 million for the fourth quarter and approximately $526 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. Total net product sales of Epidiolex are expected to be approximately $144 million for the fourth quarter, comprising $129 million in the US and $15 million ex-US. Total net product sales of Epidiolex for the year ended December 31, 2020 are expected to be approximately $510 million compared to $296 million in 2019. Cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2020 were approximately $486 million.
Key Priorities for 2021
EPIDIOLEX commercialization:
Continue to drive revenue growth in US and Europe:• Execute on TSC label expansion and continued penetration in Dravet and LGS• Build further on expanded payer coverage achievements• Accelerate adoption across a broader prescriber base• Increase penetration in long-term care segment• Continue launches in Germany and UK and achieve successful pricing and reimbursement, and launch execution in France, Spain and Italy, as well as other European countries• Obtain approval of the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex indication in Europe
Supplement existing 14 Orange Book listed patents (expiry 2035) with additional use patents, and obtain grant of the Epidiolex “composition” patent
Commence pivotal trial in fourth target orphan epilepsy indication
Nabiximols in the US:
Continue recruitment of two ongoing pivotal MS spasticity trials and commence three additional pivotal trials in MS spasticity
Achieve data from at least one pivotal MS spasticity trial in 2021
NDA submission expected following first positive pivotal MS spasticity trial
Commence clinical program to expand future label to include spasticity associated with Spinal Cord Injury
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Continue recruitment of ongoing Phase 2b study of a cannabidiol formulation for the treatment of schizophrenia
Conduct placebo-controlled trials with both CBDV and CBD in autism
Advance NHIE clinical program utilizing an intravenous formulation of cannabidiol
Complete Phase 1 trial for novel botanical drug candidate GW541
Advance first novel NCE cannabinoid candidate into Phase 1
About GW Pharmaceuticals plc and Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.Founded in 1998, GW is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics from its proprietary cannabinoid product platform in a broad range of disease areas. The Company’s lead product, EPIDIOLEX® (cannabidiol) oral solution, is commercialized in the U.S. by its U.S. subsidiary Greenwich Biosciences for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), Dravet syndrome, or tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in patients one year of age and older. This product has received approval in the European Union under the tradename EPIDYOLEX® for the adjunctive treatment of seizures associated with LGS or Dravet syndrome in conjunction with clobazam in patients two years and older and is under EMA review for the treatment of TSC. The Company has a deep pipeline of additional cannabinoid product candidates, in particular nabiximols, for which the Company is advancing multiple late-stage clinical programs in order to seek FDA approval in the treatment of spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury. The Company has additional cannabinoid product candidates in clinical trials for autism and schizophrenia. For further information, please visit www.gwpharm.com.
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The updated EU bioeconomy strategy. An interview with Marc Palahí, director EFI
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Marc Palahi at the European Bioeconomy Summit in Helsinki
“We need to put emphasis in ensuring that the areas and actions identified in the new Bioeconomy Strategy are strategically integrated in other European policies and Programmes to ensure coherence, scale and synergies; CAP; Industrial Policy, European Investment Bank portfolio, Strategic Partnership for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement, etc.” To say it – in this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista – is Marc Palahí, director at the European Forest Institute. He talks with us, on his way to China, just after the publication of the updated EU bioeconomy strategy.
Interview by Mario Bonaccorso
What is your opinion with respect to the updated bioeconomy strategy? Does it meet your expectations?
Yes, I believe that it’s a very good document, well balanced and with a transformative vision and strategic framework for action. It is important that now it clearly connects to the Circular Economy and also reflects on recent key developments like the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
In addition, I am very happy to see that key forest based opportunities are explicitly identified, but especially that you perceive a “forest way of thinking” along the document as the sustainability of the bioeconomy is framed within the ecological boundaries of our ecosystems and biodiversity and ecosystem services become central to its development.
The updated strategy proposes three main action areas: strengthen and scale-up the biobased sectors, unlock investments and market; deploy local bioeconomy rapidly across Europe; understand the ecological boundaries of the bioeconomy. Would you add others?
First of all, developing a Bioeconomy Strategy for Europe is not an easy task! Each of us would emphasis or add specific aspects, but most of the issues can be addressed within these three broad areas. To me the challenge is how now to bring these areas into action at European level. So, instead of adding other areas, we need to put emphasis in ensuring that the areas and actions identified in the new Bioeconomy Strategy are strategically integrated in other European policies and Programmes to ensure coherence, scale and synergies; CAP; Industrial Policy, European Investment Bank portfolio, Strategic Partnership for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement, etc.
In addition, I would place important attention to support cities and regions to incorporate the bioeconomy in their agendas. But it is identified in the strategy.
The only additional aspect, I would have stressed more is the importance of communication, of creating a compelling narrative to engage with society at large, with our increasingly urbanized society and young people: who are the future.
What do you think about the EUR 100 million Circular Bioeconomy Thematic Investment Platform mentioned in the updated strategy? How could it really de-risk private investments in sustainable solutions?
I would need to learn more about it in order to answer. But as you remember in the last Bioeconomy Investment Summit (Helsinki, 2017), it was clear that de-risking private investments was identified as a key challenge. It was also highlighted that we need to attract massive investments to transform the bioeconomy into an economic reality but this does not mean to focus only on massive projects. There is a great diversity of bioeconomy companies and projects that need to be supported. I hope such Platform can address such diversity effectively.
An important role in supporting the circular bioeconomy is played by public perception, which is often more interested in the cost of a product rather than in its ecological footprint. How is it possible to make the bioeconomy more attractive?
Well, markets are not perfect and they need to be regulated in order to address the negative externalities they generate. We need to internalize the environmental costs of fossil products into their product prices. This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, William D. Nordhaus, argues that the most efficient remedy for the problems caused by greenhouse gas emissions would be a global scheme of carbon taxes that are uniformly imposed on all countries. Such measure is probably the most effective single measure to unlock the potential of a sustainable bioeconomy too.
The updated strategy mentions also the concept of urban bioeconomies. What’s the role of the forest industry in this area?
Forests and forest based solutions are called to be the backbone for future sustainable cities. As the world continues to urbanize, cities need to play a leading role in fighting climate change while providing new homes, schools and other buildings. We have not yet built 50% of the urban fabric which will be required globally by 2050. But the construction sector is currently dominated by materials like concrete and steel, whose production is not environmentally friendly and their production is a main contributor to climate change and other environmental problems.For instance, the use and construction of buildings in the European Union is responsible for 35% of the EU’s carbon emissions, and 40% of its energy consumption while uses 50% of the raw materials.
In that context, the forest bioeconomy provides new engineered wood solutions: the only significant construction material that is renewable and can be grown sustainably. Using wood in construction is one of the most effective carbon sequestration and capture technologies we have, still not prominent in the ongoing discussion on the need for negative emissions to meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals. If we replace concrete and steel with wood, we can reduce the carbon footprint of a building by around 50%. Furthermore, another way to improve the sustainability of our cities is to plant trees and urban forests. Trees can cool cities by between 2C and 8C. If you plant trees near buildings, it can cut air conditioning use by 30%, and reduce heating energy use by 20 to 50%.
From where would you start tomorrow morning to strengthen the connection between economy, society and the environment?
I am answering this interview on my way to China, where I will be for a week presenting and discussing with Chinese organizations why the bioeconomy is key to transform our world towards a sustainable path and how to act together. China produces half of the world’s textile fibers, a third of the plastics and more than half of the cement and steel produced globally. Understanding better Chinese economy and creating an informed dialogue on common global challenges and opportunities is crucial from a European and global perspective.
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What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
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Millions more under lockdown in China
China posted its biggest daily jump in COVID cases in more than five months on Wednesday, stepping up containment measures that have seen four cities put under lockdown.
Most of the new cases were reported near the capital, Beijing, but a province in the far northeast also saw a rise in infections, amid a resurgence that has seen more than 28 million people put under home quarantine.
While the Chinese city of Wuhan was the initial epicenter of the novel coronavirus, which emerged there in late 2019, China had in recent months largely kept it at bay.
U.S. to require negative tests for air passengers
Nearly all air travelers will need to present a negative coronavirus test to enter the United States under expanded testing requirements announced on Tuesday.
All travelers aged 2 and older must comply except passengers who are only transiting through the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will also consider waivers of testing requirements for airlines flying to countries with little or no testing capacity, including some places in the Caribbean.
The order dramatically broadens a requirement imposed on Dec. 28 for travelers arriving from the UK as a more transmissible variant of the virus circulated there.
Bolsonaro sabotaged anti-COVID efforts, says rights body
Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has tried to sabotage efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 in his country and pursued policies that undermine the rights of Brazilians, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
Other institutions have stepped up to protect Brazilians and blocked some of Bolsonaro's most damaging policies, the rights group said in the Brazil chapter of its annual world report.
Bolsonaro wanted to remove the authority of states to restrict people's movements, as they sought to contain the world's second-deadliest coronavirus outbreak after the United States, but the Supreme Court ruled against him.
Working people jabbed first in Indonesia’s vaccination drive
Indonesia launched one of the world's biggest COVID-19 vaccination campaigns on Wednesday with President Joko Widodo getting the first shot of a Chinese vaccine as his country fights one of the worst outbreaks in Asia.
The drive aims to inoculate 181.5 million people, with the first to be vaccinated receiving the CoronaVac vaccine from China's Sinovac Biotech, which Indonesia authorised for emergency use on Monday.
Unlike many countries, Indonesia intends to inoculate its working population first, rather than the elderly, partly because it does not have enough data from clinical trials on CoronaVac's efficacy on older people.
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Japan expanded a state of emergency in the Tokyo area to seven more prefectures on Wednesday amid a steady rise in cases as a survey by public broadcaster NHK showed most people want to cancel or postpone the already delayed Summer Olympics.
The governors of Osaka, Kyoto and other hard-hit prefectures asked the government to announce the emergency, which gives local authorities the legal basis to curb movement and business.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has been wary about taking measures that would hamper economic activity, while he has put on a brave face against the mounting challenges of hosting the Olympics, delayed from 2020, in Tokyo.
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Photo From Prayagraj Shared as Mosque on Old Delhi Railway Station
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An image of what appears to be a mosque on a railway station platform has gone viral with a claim that the mosque is at the platform of the Old Delhi railway station. The claim seemingly comes on the back of the recent demolition of a Hanuman Temple in Chandni Chowk, as part of the Delhi government’s redevelopment plan.
However, we found that the image showed Line Shah Baba tomb which is situated in Prayagraj Junction and not Old Delhi.
The image was shared with a caption that read, “ये मस्जिद पुरानी दिल्ली रेलवे स्टेशन के प्लेटफॉर्म पर है, किसी मे हिम्मत है इसको कब तुड़वा रहे हो या सिर्फ हनुमान मंदिर ही रास्ते का रोड़ा था तुम्हारे |”
[Translation: This mosque is on the platform of Old Delhi railway station. Will anyone dare to break it or was the Hanuman temple the only obstacle?]
The image was massively viral on Facebook and Twitter.
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An archive of the post can be found here.
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WHAT WE FOUND OUT
We conducted a reverse image search on the image and found that the same image was used in two blog posts published in 2013. One such blog post was titled, “Masjid in Prayagaraj railway station” and it talked about how it was wrong to have a religious structure on a railway station, which is a public place.
Based on the information from the article, we looked for “Mosque on Prayagraj/Allahabad railway station”. While going through the search results under the images tab, we came across a photo available on Getty Images that had the image of the religious structure from a different angle and the name of Prayagraj Junction station was visible.
In the search results, we also found that the structure was actually a tomb and was called Line Shah Baba Tomb. Several images of the tomb from various angles were available online. We also found a 360-degree image posted by a user on Google Maps which showed the tomb along with the Prayagraj Junction sign.
A link to the image can be found here.
We also reached out to a local journalist from Uttar Pradesh, who confirmed to us that the image was from Prayagraj junction.
Evidently, an image of the Line Shah Baba tomb at the Prayagraj Junction was falsely shared as a mosque built at the Old Delhi railway station.
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My name is James Devine. I am an Associate Professor at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick Canada, where I teach international politics. My research focuses on the politics of the Middle East, and the domestic politics and foreign policy of Iran in particular. This blog is intended primarily for my students, though all are welcome. Its purpose is to make the connection between the theories and concepts discussed in class, and current events in the real world.
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The new PKK: unleashing a social revolution in Kurdistan -Roarmag.org
Fascinating look at the PKK’s adoption of libertarian socialism, a variation of social anarchism originated by American Murray Bookchin. Although there are a number of tensions if not outright contradictions between the PKK’s past/present actions and the ideology, there were numerous stories of social anarchism taking hold in Kurdish areas in northern Syria prior to the fighting around Kobane.
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“Öcalan, an atheist, was finally writing as a free-thinker, unshackled from Marxist-Leninist mythology. He indicated that he was seeking an “alternative to capitalism” and a “replacement for the collapsed model of … ‘really existing socialism’,” when he came across Bookchin. His theory of democratic confederalism developed out of a combination of inspiration from communalist intellectuals, “movements like the Zapatistas”, and other historical factors from the struggle in northern Kurdistan (Turkey). Öcalan proclaimed himself a student of Bookchin, and after a failed email correspondence with the elderly theorist, who was to his regret too sick for an exchange on his deathbed in 2004, the PKK celebrated him as “one of the greatest social scientists of the 20th century” on the occasion of Bookchin’s death two years later.”
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How Turkey misread the Kurds -Al Jazeera
There was rioting in the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir in south eastern Turkey this week. This article provides an interesting overview of the continuing tensions between the Turkish AKP government and the country’s Kurdish population.
“The war in Syria has emerged as a new cause for tension between Turkey’s Kurds and the Turkish government, at times straining the AKP’s ongoing peace talks with the PKK – and the AKP’s Syria border policy and its support for certain extremist opposition groups in Syria is a big reason why.
Ankara is reported to have links to numerous Syrian rebel groups. These links have drawn the ire of many Kurds in both Syria and Turkey, who view much of the Syrian opposition with suspicion due to their conservative outlook and their support for a strong central Syrian government.”
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/how-turkey-misread-kurds-201511910421859659.html
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Home: Toronto, Ontario
Title: Erin, Subrata and Maya
Media: Oil on mylar on board / huile sur mylar sur panneau
The concept of a portrait is of a representation of a subject but it can also be a representation of an idea. A racially mixed family is a portrait of a successful Canada and of the future of culture. It is a representation of multiculturalism and a reminder of Canada’s migratory roots.
Matthew Schofield graduated with honours from Ontario College of Art and Design (1997) and McMaster University (2000). He exhibits his paintings locally and internationally on a yearly basis in commercial galleries and artist run centres. Matthew’s digital painting have been nominated for many awards including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special and also two Gemini Nominations for Best Visual Effects.
Recently, Matthew has explored the notion of reverse engineering subconscious thought. The imagery he produces is plucked from the random imagery and distraction one encounters in day to day life and pieced back together in a continuous tapestry.
2000 Bachelor of Arts – Honours Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1997 AOCAD Honours: Drawing and Painting Program, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 Off Campus Program, Ontario College of Art, Florence, Italy
1991 – 1992 Architecture / Art History: Carleton University
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Exhibition of new work at AWOL Gallery, Toronto, On.
November 12-22; reception: Friday, Nov. 13, 2009.
2006 (almost) everything, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Keeping a Distance, Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2002 November, The Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Stills, PROPELLER Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Hiding Place, Hamilton and Region Arts Council, Hamilton, Ontario; Physiognomy, New Space, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2009 NEXT art fair, Chicago, USA
2007 Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA
2006 Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA
2005 Williamsburg Square Foot, New York, USA; Square Foot, Affordable Art Fair, New York, New York; Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Whole, A.W.O.L. offsite gallery, Toronto, Ontario; Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario; Art Strikes Back, A.W.O.L. offsite gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Standard, A.W.O.L. offsite gallery, Toronto, Ontario; Drawing 2001(curators Dr. Katherine Lochnan, Stuart Reid, Sally Wildman); John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario; Killing Time, (curator Gregory Klages), PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Loop + 1, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Exile on James Street, Hamilton, Ontario; Alternating Currents, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2008 Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, Magenta Publishing for the Arts, Toronto, 2008.
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Co-op refinery revels in repeated refusals to co-opertate
THE IRONY IS STUNNING AND INFURIATING. This is not what a co-op does. No company that calls itself a “co-operative” absolutely, categorically, adamantly, perversely refuses to co-operate. But the Federated Co-operatives Limited in Regina did, and does.
THE IRONY IS STUNNING AND INFURIATING. No co-op does that. No company that calls itself a “co-operative” absolutely, categorically, adamantly, perversely refuses to co-operate. But the Federated Co-operatives Limited in Regina did, and does.
First, it locks out all its 800 plus refinery workers represented by Unifor Local 594. Then, it brings in scabs to run the plant. Then, it refuses to negotiate for over 100 days. Then, it rejects all recommendations from mediators. Then, on lockout day 111, it’s “final offer” is to demand more concessions.
Direct government action called for
Such corporate arrogance makes immediate government action legitimate and necessary says Unifor National President, Jerry Dias.
Dias says the mediation set up by Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe needed to be binding and not just “a friendly suggestion for Co-op to ignore.” But it wasn’t.
The Co-op’s high-handed actions leaves the government with no alternative, says Dias. “The province must introduce legislation to end to this dispute and force this rogue employer to restore safe operation of Saskatchewan’s largest refinery.”
The “final offer” from Co-op demands concessions that go far beyond what was proposed by the mediators’ report commissioned and paid for by the Saskatchewan government. Co-op’s new demands include a significant reduction in the company’s pension responsibilities while gutting the employee savings plan.
Pension tension
The lockout began after Local 594 members refused to give in to aggressive demands from the company for concessions that would have “gutted the pension plan.”
The union says it wants “choice and protection to ensure pension security for every worker. Anything less would be an unnecessary concession”.
Choice, for the union, means giving workers the option to stick with their defined benefits pension plan; protection means no tampering with the plan to “gut” it for those who do choose to stick with the defined benefits plan.
“This will be resolved when the Co-op Refinery decides to take their demand for concessions off the table,”said Scott Doherty, lead negotiator for Unifor Local 594.
Doherty says, “it’s just plain ridiculous” to ask the workers to to give concessions to an employer that made $2.5 billion in the last three years.
“Co-op has never wanted to compromise. They want it all,” said Kevin Bittman, Unifor Local 594 President. “But it’s too late for that. The mediators’ report was the process that workers and the company agreed to, we ratified it with a 98% vote, and it’s what Scott Moe needs to enforce.”
“The crowded scab camp is a health disaster waiting to happen. It is in the province’s interest for Premier Moe to put an end to this lockout and close the scab camp once and for all,” said Dias.
Swimming in money
Co-op Refinery is not some tiny mom and pop operation hanging on by its fingertips. It has over 500 gas stations in four provinces, and diesel churning through most farms on the Prairies. The Co-op Refinery Complex produces 145,000 barrels per day and covers 800 acres of land in the north east corner of Regina, Saskatchewan.
Consultants say a business can pay out up to 30% of gross sales in wages and salaries and still be in great shape. In 2018 Suncor, for example, paid out 8.2 % of gross sales in salaries and wages; by comparison, Co-op only paid out 4.2% of its gross sales in salaries and wages.
A Local 594 publication notes: “The numbers don’t lie. We aren’t being paid too much. Maybe, we are being paid too little. But that’s okay. Our membership has made bargaining for the future, rather than the present, a priority. Pension security compared to wage increases and benefits, because we are here for the long haul.
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Resident Evil 5 Review: A Mutation of Fun
It's unfortunate that before its launch Resident Evil 5 became about everything, but the game. The most hotly debated questions had little to do with what should matter most to gamers: Is it fun?
In Resident Evil 5, Chris Redfield returns, no longer a member of STARS, but as a member of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance, traveling to the fictional African nation of Kijuju to investigate the origins of the zombifying virus.
With wide-open settings and a partner in tow, can this latest iteration stay the horror survival course and deliver a fun and frightening experience?
Graphics: Visually, this is one of the most stunning games I've played to date. It's not just that the graphics are so high-resolution, so painstakingly detailed, but that they paint a vivid image of a real world setting. More impressive still are the cut-scenes which play like movies, beefing up the already laudable visual fidelity of the game.
Codependency: Resident Evil 5's use of a partner makes everything more tense. You suddenly feel responsible not just for your own survival but your partner's. You need to heal her when she's down, call for help when you get pinned, trade weapons, ammo, everything. It adds extra edge to an already sharp experience.
Early Tension: Initially I was disappointed to find that the game seems to lack any big scares. No dog-through-the-window moments that so ingrained the first title in my memories. But as I played through the game, I came to realize that those haunted house moments are cheap scares. Instead Capcom takes a more adult, more sophisticated approach to delivering thrills. And while it lasts, for about the first half of the game, it is indeed thrilling.
Interactive Cut Scenes: There are several times in the game when the highly-polished, gripping cut-scenes become interactive battles. These battles tightly weave together the artistry of one and the action-button mashing of the other to create some of the game's most memorable moments.
Boss Fights: What I like best about this game's boss battles is that they're so diverse. Spread through the game's six chapters are enemies functioning as cleverly disguised puzzles, enormous, awe-inspiring creatures requiring wearing down and, in my favorite, a culminating battle worthy of the franchise.
Level Design: Often, survival horror games rely too heavily on the obvious settings: darkened rooms, empty homes, abandoned hospitals. While those locations help tap into the natural fears of gamers, they also lead to generic scares than are more reactive than psychological. Resident Evil 5 delivers its suspense and scares across a broad range of settings which, while perhaps push the game too far away from its roots, still provides an eclectic mix of tightly constructed levels.
Cooperative: While online cooperative Resident Evil 5 can have the occasional hiccup, the ability to drop into a game, either online or on the same couch, makes this a fun and occasionally frightening group experience.
Less Tomb Raider, More Silent Hill: About halfway through the game, Resident Evil 5 seems to undergo a sudden and dramatic metamorphosis, dropping all pretense of being a survival horror title and unmasking itself as an action shooter title. There are moments this late into the game that feel more like a solid, enjoyable Tomb Raider or Uncharted: Drake's Fortune style experience than the horror action many fans will be expecting.
Drop the Anchor: I've grown to accept, perhaps embrace, the fact that you can't move once you aim a firearm in Resident Evil 5. I know it sticks to the game's history—and, more importantly, police and military often lock into position before firing off a few rounds. So I'm OK with that. But knife fights? Knife fights are fluid things that are often more about positioning and movement than the cutting motion. Unfortunately, in Resident Evil 5 these potentially strategic melee moments turn into zombie piñata, with gamers patiently waiting for a bad guy to walk into their cutting radius. The situation, not the controls should be the thing rooting you to one spot.
Load Screens: The loading screens, especially early on in the game, are plentiful. Sometimes they make you sit about reading Resident Evil history for as long as you end up playing before hitting another load point. The issue seems to go away as the game progresses, but it never completely leaves the game.
Resident Evil 5 is a game straddling two genres, the obvious and mostly successful attempt by Capcom to make the title once more relevant to a broader and more mainstream audience. Judging by Resident Evil 5, I think the next iteration will be more like Uncharted than Silent Hill. While that could be a disappointment for some, I think that if handled properly a genuinely scary adventure game could be better than a horror survival title that squeezes out shallow, undeserving frights.
As it stands, Resident Evil 5 is a game that slowly winds the tension up from section beginning to end, missing several obvious and easy opportunities to be genuinely scary, instead opting for a persistent and growing feeling of suspense, one that seems to be approaching dread but never actually arrives.
It's this wait for a second shoe to drop that wears at the gamer and deliver a fear much more robust and meaningful than what has come before in survival horror games.
It's unfortunate that that shoe never drops and instead the game retreats into action and shooting to wrap up what could have been an exceptional thriller.
Despite my qualms and hand-wringing over what type of game Resident Evil 5 is, one thing is clear, it's fun. From beginning to end, this latest Resident Evil delivers a riveting and intense experience well worth the time spent playing it.
Resident Evil 5 was developed and published by Capcom for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 and released on March 13. Retails for $59.95 USD. Played campaign to completion on Xbox 360 tested online coop mode on Playstation 3.
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If you upload the game to your Xbox360.. while there are a lot of load screens.. they barely last a couple of seconds.
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Teens And Teachers Say Fortnite Mobile Is Destroying Some Schools
For months now, teachers everywhere have heard students talk about Fortnite, the world’s latest obsession, nonstop. While the popularity of the game is nothing new, its release on iOS has apparently only made things more intense. Fortnite is now a huge distraction you can now take anywhere, after all.
Many schools have rules against cell phones, but judging from posts on social media, nothing can stop students from booting up the ruthless shooter. Everyone is playing it, teens say, so schools have tried to ban it. It’s a huge enough problem that some schools are reportedly having Wi-Fi problems as teens try their best to survive the battle royale through shared networks. People are fighting over the game, or they’re ignoring schoolwork. In some schools, it’s all Fortnite all the time now:
Students aren’t the only ones taking to Twitter about this phenomenon:
“There has been a rise in the number of incidents with students walking into classes while playing the games,” Nick Gutierrez, a high school AP computer science teacher, told Kotaku. “They started a match during lunch, or before school, and need to finish the 10-15 [minute] long matches. I have noticed in my room students siting next to each other trying to play while pretending to do work.”
For many of us, playing games during school time is old hat: I remember sneaking a Game Boy under my desk in elementary school. Plenty of people have memories of playing games on their calculators, too. What makes Fortnite different is that it is a meaty and intense game that everyone is playing, because it’s free. Plus, if you’re bad at Fortnite, you can still just watch others play and have a blast. It’s a great spectator sport. The temptation to play or watch it and chum around with your peers is bigger than most games that have come before it.
According to Nick Fisher, the teacher with the Fortnite mobile confiscation bin Tweet, part of what makes Fornite so viral for kids is that its culture is tied to social media. Players feel compelled to talk about Fortnite with other people, to make their prowess public.
“When you mix in the fact that you have to Snapchat every ‘dub’ (win) you get or Snapchat your friends losing it merges two of the biggest distractions in school...I would say Snapchat is a bigger issue than games. But Fortnite marries the two of them into a monster.”
Phones are enough of a neccesity that students can use them during designated times, like lunch breaks, but there’s still some marvel over how much Fortnite is taking over student’s lives. “[My] school allows phones during the lunch breaks and instead of socialising all they do is play Fortnite,” said high school teacher Priscilla Cullen.
“Instead of socialising all they do is play Fortnite.”
Fortnite isn’t the only shooter occupying student’s minds right now, as PUBG also released on mobile earlier this month. But judging from conversations with teachers, many students seem to prefer one over the other.
Gutierrez says that in his class, students have a question at the start of the first bell ring that they need to discuss in order to prep for the AP test. One day, instead of delving into the material, students in Gutierrez’ class debated the particulars of a game instead.
“Students spent the entire time talking about PUBG’s auto aim, and not the question like normal,” Gutierrez said. “I jokingly asked ‘Which is going to matter more in a few months for the AP exam? This, or PUBG?’ to which, predictably, a student in the back yells ‘FORTNITE’S BETTER.’”
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Avenatti Reacts to the News that Prosecutors Won’t Be Pursuing Felony Charges
Matt NahamNov 21st, 2018, 4:57 pm
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday afternoon that they will not be pursuing felony charges against California attorney Michael Avenatti.
A case presented today by #LosAngeles police involving attorney Michael Avenatti has been referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing consideration, the #LACounty District Attorney’s Office announced. @CityAttorneyLA @LAPDHQ #LADAOffice
— LA District Attorney (@LADAOffice) November 21, 2018
Avenatti was arrested last week on suspicion of felony domestic violence.
“A case presented today by Los Angeles police involving attorney Michael Avenatti has been referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing consideration,” a message from the Los Angeles DA’s official Twitter account said.
The identity of the alleged victim in this case went public this week. The woman was identified as Avenatti’s girlfriend, actress Mareli Miniutti. According to IMDB, she has appeared in productions of “How to Be Single,” “Chuck,” “Forgetting Sandy Glass,” “The Go Girls,” “The Mystery Gang” and “Ocean’s Eight.”
According to the documents, Miniutti alleged that she and Avenatti had been arguing over money on November 13, when he allegedly called her an “ungrateful f**king bitch,” before hitting her in the face with pillows, grabbing her by the wrist, pulling her off a bed and dragging her by arm on his apartment floor. At one point, he allegedly told her, “Do not disrespect me. You don’t get to sleep in my house tonight.” Miniutti also reportedly claimed that Avenatti has been “verbally abusive and financially controlling” in the past, and mentioned an incident from February. She claimed he pushed her out of his apartment into the hallway, resulting in her hitting her head on a neighbor’s door.
Avenatti has denied the allegations of abuse from the start, saying that he has never struck a woman.
“I want to thank the hard-working men and women of the LAPD for their professionalism and their work today. They had no option in light of the allegations,” he said after he was released from police custody on Nov. 14. “I have never struck a woman. I never will strike a woman.”
“I have been an advocate for women’s rights my entire career and I’m going to continue to be an advocate,” he added. “I am not going to be intimidated from stopping what I am doing. I am a father to two beautiful, smart daughters. I would never disrespect them by touching a woman inappropriately or striking a woman.”
Avenatti released a statement on Wednesday, saying that he was “thankful” that the DA “rejected” filing felony charges against him.
“I am thankful that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has rejected filing any charges against me after a fair, careful and thorough investigation,” Avenatti said. “I have maintained my innocence since the moment of my arrest. I wish to thank my supporters, friends, family, attorneys and clients for the outpouring of support they provided.”
“This Thanksgiving, I am especially grateful for justice,” he said.
Avenatti then tweeted “Full Steam Ahead” and promoted The Fight PAC.
Full Steam Ahead – I am immediately focusing on holding Donald Trump and his unethical cronies like Jacob Wohl accountable for their cowardly acts and efforts to intimidate innocent people who believe in the rule of law. Join me: https://t.co/PJzFVkbkP7
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) November 21, 2018
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FA Women’s Championship, 18th August 2019
Posted on August 16, 2019 August 21, 2019 by Barry CollinsIn Women's
We look back at the FA Women’s Championship game v Blackburn Rovers
Rooks off to a flyer in season opener …
Here’s the best bits from Sunday’s FA Women’s Championship opener
Emma Jones scores the opener for Lewes – pic: James Boyes
Marcus Lee reports from a fine day out at the Pan …
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Freya and Kim
Today’s Supporter of the Match is Freya Carroll, pictured here with housemate and fellow Lewes Women fan, Kim Mulholland.
Freya said, ‘I started supporting Lewes Women at the start of last season when my housemate Kim brought me along to a game after finding out about the club’s commitment to equal pay for the squads. We’re a feminist house so it then became a bit of a ritual for all of us housemates to make the Sunday trip to Lewes from Brighton to support the team. And it’s been the best experience every time: exciting and empowering.”
“It’s amazing to see a club take such pride in their women’s team, and for the community to give them so much support. We’re all moving away now, but definitely plan to get back together at The Dripping Pan in the future….plus, surely it’s only a matter of time until the Rooks get televised?! And we’ve finished on a high with a 5-1 win against Blackburn!”
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Photo: James Boyes
Good afternoon and welcome to the Dripping Pan! I’d like to welcome Gemma, her staff, players and the supporters who have come down from Blackburn Rovers.
Blackburn have been the best team in their division for the past thee years. Many thought they would be one of the first teams to join the new FA Women’s Championship. Now, at last, they are here.
We know Blackburn is a strong team. They have a winning mentality and some very good players, so this will be a tough test for my squad.
This league is more competitive this season, with every team making improvements, adding quality to their squads. I expect Lewes to play well, to improve throughout the season and I hope we will make you, the fans, very happy.
Fran’s View: Blackburn Rovers, FA Women’s Championship
THE MIGHTY ROOKS
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Good afternoon everyone and welcome back to the Dripping Pan for the new FA Women’s Championship season. It’s been too long since we have seen competitive football at our fantastic ground. It’s so good to be back!
I’d like to welcome our guests from Lancashire and congratulate them on their promotion to the Championship. I hope you enjoy your off the field hospitality at the Pan today and a safe journey home back up the M6 (via M23, M25, M40 and M42 probably!)
Whilst many of you will have been enjoying our fantastic summer weather, it’s been all systems go behind the scenes here. Fran has been incredibly busy (a look at my WhatsApp can testify to this!) building his new squad and whilst it is always sad to say goodbye to some of our familiar faces, it’s exciting to see some new players pull on our famous red and black shirt. Off the pitch our team has been strengthened by the arrival of Maggie Murphy as our new GM and Lynne Burrell as our Secretary and already they’ve made a huge impact to our readiness for both today and the season in general.
I’m sure you will agree that the Pan is looking fantastic. There has been an incredible amount of work that has gone into the preparation of the pitch in pre-season. With both Fran and Darren, our Men’s manager, wanting to play with the ball on the ground as much as possible, having a good playing surface is paramount. Roger and Chalky have certainly delivered something special.
Our new Rook Inn is looking fantastic, thanks to the hard work of new co-opted director Steve Keegan and his team. We hope you enjoy the new food on offer, especially the pie, mash and mushy peas, something I am sure our visitors today will appreciate – the only question is, gravy or mint sauce?
The highlight of the footballing summer was of course the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which was a fantastic tournament and did so much to change perceptions of the Women’s game. In the next few weeks we will share some of our thoughts as well as the stories relating to the club from those who were there.
Enjoy the game and let’s get behind the team!
BLACKBURN ROVERS LADIES FC
Gemma Donelly, head coach Blackburn Rovers Ladies
Blackburn Manager Gemma Donnelly looks forward to today’s match
“I’m looking forward to travelling down to Lewes. They’ve been very welcoming of us into this division, as have all the teams.
“We’ve done overnight preparation and travel in the FA Cup before so in terms of planning it won’t be dissimilar to that.
“But how we’re going to play in terms of opposition analysis, our analysis team will be on that providing feedback so we can target certain areas.”
“I’ve got ideas about what I would like to achieve as a team. I don’t want to be unrealistic or set the bar too low for them.
“The first season in a new division, we want to try and get settled, not get relegated, to compete and just put the feelers out there and see what we can expect.
“I’m not going to suggest that we will walk into this league and win it, far from it, but I do want to offer some really good competition.
“And see if these players that have been so dominant in the league below can go up and give a good account of themselves in this division.”
Rovers Squad List
2- Chelsey Jukes
3- Alex Taylor
5- Kelsey Pearson
6- Jess Holbrook
7- Lauren Davies
8- Natasha Fenton
9- Saffron Jordan
10- Natasha Flint
11- Rhema Lord-Mears
12- Kayleigh McDonald
13- Danielle Hill (GK)
15- Lauren Thomas
16- Sophie Charlton
22- Serena Fletcher
28- Charlotte Redman
37- Ellie Stewart
Click here to view Rovers Ladies’ history
Find out more – https://www.lewesfc.com/article/lewes-fc-girls-academy-to-expand-and-boys-to-reopen-in-2020
Each of our 2019/20 season home match posters will feature an Inspirational Women. Our first this season is Greta Thunberg.
Greta Thunberg Saves the World #InspirationalWomen
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist who began protesting outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 about the need for immediate action to combat climate change. Her “school strike for the climate” began attracting media attention and she has since become an outspoken climate activist. In response to the publicity, the school strike for climate movement began in November 2018 and spread globally after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in December the same year.
On 15 March 2019, an estimated 1.4 million students in 112 countries around the world joined her call in striking and protesting. A similar event involving students from 125 countries took place on 24 May 2019. In July 2019, on behalf of the OPEC, secretary-general Mohammed Barkindo declared Thunberg, and other young climate activists as the “greatest threat” to the fossil fuel industry. Quite the accolade!
In March 2019, three members of the Norwegian Parliament nominated Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize. In May 2019 she was featured on the cover of Time magazine.
Some media have described her impact on the world stage as the “Greta Thunberg effect.” We think she’s a remarkable, inspirational young woman.
(Information sourced from Wikipedia.com)
Thunberg’s speech at the UN Climate Change Conference COP24. Greta was 15 years old.
Now, at the ripe old age of 16, Greta is about to set sail on a voyage across the Atlantic
to deliver her message to a climate conference in New York.
NO DEAL: A BIG DEAL FOR FOOTBALL?
The Art Of No Deal: What a hard Brexit might mean for future transfers
Daniel Geey takes a look at the effects a No Deal Brexit might have on the football transfer market in the UK. Click on the headline to open the piece.
Daniel is a Partner in the Sports Group at Sheridans, providing advice on various FA, EPL, EFL, UEFA and FIFA rules and has kindly given Lewes permission to run this link in today’s Progcast.
SISTERSHIPS: DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES
Equality is a rising tide that lifts all boats
As the first (and still the only) football club in the world to have closed the gender pay gap between male and female players, Lewes FC is pleased to announce the launch of its ‘SisterShips’ at today’s match.
Read more about SisterShip here
Call yourself a fan? Are you in good voice?
Great stuff, cos there’ll be onsite football chanting practice before the match at about 12.30 in the covered stands near the half-way line! Owner & comedian Donna McPhail will lead us in some chants so we’re good and ready to support Lewes FC Women in their first match this season…’ere we go, ere we go, ere we go-oh, ere we go, oh here we go!!
ON THE WRACK
@SuzyWrack is a Women’s football and women’s sport writer for @guardian_sport, FA Level 1 coach.and a member of @WomeninFootball. Suzy took a moment to share her thoughts on the new FAWC.
“There is something extremely exciting about the Women’s Championship this season. With the promotion of Manchester United and Tottenham to the Women’s Super League the door is open for any one of a number of clubs to challenge for the title.
The investment at Aston Villa, the full-time London City Lionesses and the arrival of Blackburn Rovers and Coventry United into the division has upped the unpredictability of the league.
With both Lewes and now London City Lionesses pioneering new forms of ownership and funding structures, albeit in very different ways, and breaking away from the parent club model adopted by most, the league offers something the Women’s Super League can’t, the chance to buy into the ideologies of clubs as well as the teams. ”
We are delighted to welcome SkullDrummery back to the Dripping Pan today.
This skilful band of ne’er-do-wells can be seen across the county and the country, performing at festivals and events, not least tassels-deep in the Lewes Bonfire celebrations.
To read more about this fine body of men and women, visit http://skulldrummery.com/
LEWES, GLYNDE & BEDDINGHAM BRASS BRAND
We welcome LGB Brass to the Dripping Pan
LGB Brass is an active and popular band based in Lewes, the county town of East Sussex.
They have around 50 members from across East and West Sussex, attracted by the band’s friendly atmosphere and high standard of music. As well as the main band, there is a training band of young learners who are preparing to move into the main band.
Repertoire and booking
LGB Brass have a large and varied repertoire. You will hear traditional marches, music from film and stage, virtuoso solo items and the best from the modern brass repertoire.
The starting line-ups will appear here before kick-off
FILIMG AT MATCHES
Today there may be film crews in the ground, filming on behalf of Lewes Football Club and other media organisations. The filming is usually for Lewes FC marketing purposes, to show what a matchday looks/sounds like and to generally promote what we do. There may also be film crews from media organisations who will use their footage in news reports, and crews for a documentary about Lewes FC Women, Reds. Lewes Football Club respectfully asks for your permission to be filmed. If you do not want to be filmed, please let the crew know directly and they will oblige. Thanks for your cooperation in helping to build a successful club.
The FA Women’s Championship strongly supports recent FA statements that there should be a zero tolerance approach against racism and all forms of discrimination. Accordingly, any form of discriminatory abuse, whether it be based on race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, faith, age, ability or any other form of abuse will be reported to The Football Association for action by that Association. (The FA 0800 085 0508/Kick It Out 020 7253 0162)
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Chairman Stuart Fuller
Directors Ed Briggs, Barry Collins, Charlie Dobres, Stuart Fuller, John Peel, Eddie Ramsden, Jon Ruben, Galia Omre, Roger Warner
Steve Keegan*, Karen Dobres*, Michelle Bowie*
* Directors seconded onto the board
Operations Manager Duncan Thompson
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General Manager Maggie Murphy
Assistant GM Lynne Burrell
Marketing Officer Maggie Murphy
Head Coach Fran Alonso
Assistant Coach Simon Parker
Assistant Coach Jesus Cordon
Goalkeeping Coach Lee Callender
S&C Coach Andrea Gillardoni
Team Psychologist Chelsea Orme
Data Analyst Adam Chilcott
Kit Wrangler Joe Gander
DS Manager Zak Dove
DS Coach Alan Dove
U18s Manager Kelly Newton
U18s Coaches Charlie Carter, Greg Cross
Web Editor Stuart Fuller
Progcast Editor Ash Head
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Malcolm Turnbull's NBN hit by delays, blown-out budget
29th Feb 2016 7:35 AM
IT WAS meant to be faster, cheaper, and available sooner, but the no-frills National Broadband Network devised by Malcolm Turnbull is tumbling behind schedule, according to the NBN's own assessments.
Fairfax is reporting the NBN is falling behind in two-thirds of the timeframes set for it to be installed on time.
When the report was published on February 19, there should have been 1.4 million premises with the NBN installed, instead it sat at 662,665 or less than half.
NBN Co had the budget to install fibre-to-the-node "construction completions" in 94,000 places. Instead it had achieved 29,005.
Fairfax reports that while the now Prime Minister fought for the cut-price plan at the 2013 election, including the shift from Labor's proposal to run the fibre optic cable to homes, and instead run them to nearby "nodes", which would then link to a neighbourhood by copper wire.
This change has now bogged down as NBN Co struggles to negotiate with power companies on how best to supply electricity to these nodes - the Labor plan did not require electricity in the same way.
Mr Turnbull also claimed the $44.9 billion Labor NBN was too expensive.
The later version was to cost $29.5 billion, but this has now blown out to close to twice that price.
In a media statement released on Monday, NBN Co said it "will not be drawn on alleged internal documents".
"We report quarterly and our results are audited," the statement read.
"This is an incredible complex project unlike any infrastructure build anywhere in the world."
"We're now tracking over 10,000 new activations a week. By the end of this financial year we're on track for nearly one in four homes to be able to order an nbn service and by June of 2018 this is set to grow to three in four."
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Serge Ibaka attacks Marquese Chriss.
NBA stars trade punches in wild exchange
by Michael Blinn
IT got hot in Cleveland. Raptors forward Serge Ibaka and Cavaliers forward Marquese Chriss were ejected at the end of the third quarter in Tuesday's match-up after tempers flared.
Ibaka took exception to Chriss' defence as they battled for an inbounds pass with one second left on the clock. Ibaka got up from the floor and went after Chriss, putting his hands around Chriss' throat before they began throwing punches.
While the fight was broken up quickly, both players earned a trip to the locker room to cool things down. Ibaka had hit the court hard in the second quarter after being fouled by Chriss after scoring on a rebound.
Ibaka and Chriss out here throwing punches 😳 pic.twitter.com/NwRhL6Apw4
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) 12 March 2019
Cleveland had the last laugh, cruising to a 126-101 blowout of the Eastern Conference contenders as Collin Sexton scored 28 points and Kevin Love had 16 points and 18 rebounds.
Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points after sitting out Sunday's victory in Miami, but his return didn't help the Raptors, who have the league's second-best record.
Cedi Osman scored 19 points and Ante Zizic had 17 for Cleveland, which placed six players in double figures.
Leonard was 11 of 19 from the field, but the Raptors only led briefly in the first half. Cleveland was ahead for most of the half and outscored Toronto 32-22 in the third quarter.
Cleveland took command in the fourth and went ahead 108-88 midway through the period. The Cavaliers build the lead to 27 points late in the game.
Kyle Lowry scored 14 points for the Raptors. Toronto (48-20) trails Milwaukee by 2 1/2 games for the best record in the league.
Serge Ibaka is escorted off the court after getting ejected in the second half. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Toronto rolled to a 125-104 win over the Heat without Leonard, tying a franchise record with 21 3-pointers and outscoring Miami 63-24 from beyond the arc.
Leonard, averaging 27.1 points going into the game, hasn't appeared in more than two consecutive games since playing in five straight from January 25 through February 5.
The Raptors, showing signs of being tired in their third straight road game, struggled throughout the game. Toronto fell behind by 10 points and committed 11 turnovers leading to 13 points for the Cavaliers.
Cleveland coach Larry Drew said before the game Love, who hasn't played in back-to-back games since returning from foot surgery, will sit out Tuesday in Philadelphia.
- with AP
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Architects panned 2014 Brandt proposal as unsuitable for CNIB site
Emails show government was supportive at the time but that changes to design have been made since initial report.
Arthur White-Crummey • Regina Leader-Post
Feb 09, 2019 • February 9, 2019 • 4 minute read
Rubble sits in the space where the CNIB building used to be on Broad Street. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post
Architectural advisers reviewing a Brandt proposal for developing the CNIB site expressed “profound difficulties” over its impact on Wascana Park as early as fall 2014.
But emails obtained by the Leader-Post suggest the government was already indicating its support for the proposal’s concept.
Architects panned 2014 Brandt proposal as unsuitable for CNIB site Back to video
Contacted Friday to discuss the architects’ reluctance, one of the architects said he resigned from the Wascana Centre Authority’s (WCA) Architectural Advisory Committee shortly afterward.
Emails and associated reports show that Brandt Developments and CNIB were working together earlier than previously known, with a plan far more advanced than commonly realized.
In October 2014, the advisory committee submitted a report on what it called a “four storey commercial building” to replace the CNIB building along Broad Street.
It said the “scale and character” of the proposed structure did not comply with the Wascana Centre Master Plan, which broadly determines what can and cannot be built in the park. It reserves the space for public enjoyment, as well as educational, governmental and other institutional uses.
The Architectural Advisory Committee was responsible for reviewing proposed buildings and making recommendations to the WCA board. Projects were not generally supposed to go ahead without the committee finding they complied with the master plan, though the WCA had the option of pushing proposals through anyway if it was “satisfied” they complied.
Brandt was not explicitly mentioned in the committee’s report. But Bernadette McIntyre, then-CEO of the WCA, corresponded with Brandt executives in the days following. She sent an email to Lisa Semple on Oct. 29, 2014 advising her that the committee had reviewed the company’s proposal and advised that it didn’t comply with the plan and “would not be recommended.”
Brandt president Shaun Semple was CCed on the email.
Two days later, McIntyre informed the committee members that “the reaction has not been positive from the developer.”
But the architects continued to raise concerns. In a November report, the committee said the proposed structure was too big for such an “important and sensitive” site, which it deemed unsuitable for “a new building and a significant parking area.”
“The committee has had profound difficulties with the proposal, stemming in part from the size and layout of the building,” the Nov. 11, 2014, report said.
It recommended that approval should be withheld until those issues could be corrected.
A further email from McIntyre suggests the government was aware of the proposal and at least generally approved.
“As of last night the indications are that the Province will support the concept of this proposal,” she informed the architects on Dec. 3, 2014.
When reached for comment Friday, McIntyre explained that the landowner would always be approached early in any proposal. While CNIB held a lease on the site, the province owned the land, and still does today. She said her email merely informed the committee members that the province was amenable to the idea.
“What you can interpret that as is the province wasn’t saying this is a hard stop or a no go,” she told the Leader-Post, adding that she was not aware of any attempt by the government to influence the deliberations and ensure the project was approved.
The Ministry of Central Services responded in a statement on Friday that “any discussions at that time would have been preliminary.”
The ministry laid out its own timeline for the government’s involvement with the project. It said that discussions between WCA and CNIB were already occurring in 2012.
The government provided WCA with written confirmation it would extend the lease on the land in March 2015, when it agreed that CNIB could “go ahead and seek options for development through an invitation process.” CNIB advertised an expression of interest for developing the building and chose Brandt as their partner that May, the ministry said.
It did not explain how Brandt had become so involved months before that agreement.
Messages left with executives from CNIB and Brandt were not immediately returned.
The October 2014 committee report states that the proposal was then in an “advanced concept stage.” The architects expressed frustrations that it arrived “fully formed” without any input from them.
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The architects made numerous recommendations for changes that could help the project fit into its environment. They objected to the diagonal orientation of the proposed building. They suggested it follow the line of Broad Street and called for efforts to reduce its height.
The committee also recommended the use of Tyndal stone to ensure the structure matched other buildings in the park.
In McIntyre’s view, the developer made “a number of changes” in light of those recommendations. She said Tyndal stone was substituted for the brick finishes initially proposed, and a large peak was eliminated. The orientation was also made parallel to the street.
She said parking issues raised by the architects were not resolved by the time Wascana Centre Authority was disbanded in 2017, when it became the Provincial Capital Commission.
The current design of the building, as advertised on Colliers Canada, retains the straightened orientation. It also appears to follow certain minimum standards suggested by the architects. They said its street frontage should be “no higher than three storeys,” with the other side of the building capped at four.
The design advertised appears to meet those limits.
Calgary-based architect Fred Valentine, who sat on the committee in 2014, confirmed that he and his colleagues reviewed several submissions around that time and had “reservations.” But he said he was bound by a confidentiality agreement and could not discuss the deliberations in detail.
Asked about his feelings at the time, he replied simply:
“I resigned.”
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He’s still standing: Elton John to finish Down Under tour
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Elton John intends to play his remaining shows in New Zealand and Australia, his tour promoters said Monday, a day after illness caused the singer to lose his voice and cut short a performance.
Video clips posted online by fans at Sunday night’s performance showed John breaking down in tears as he told the cheering crowd he couldn’t go on any longer. The 72-year-old singer said he had walking pneumonia and was assisted off stage.
Tour promoters Chugg Entertainment said John was resting and doctors were confident he would recover. They said a concert planned for Tuesday in Auckland would be delayed until Wednesday on the advice of doctors.
“Elton John was disappointed and deeply upset at having to end his Auckland concert early last night,†the promoters said in their statement.
The concert was part of John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. As well as the delayed performance on Wednesday, John is scheduled to play again in Auckland on Thursday and then seven performances in Australia before traveling to the U.S. and Canada.
He thanked the concert attendees via an Instagram post and apologized for ending the show early.
“I want to thank everyone who attended tonight’s gig in Auckland. I was diagnosed with walking pneumonia earlier today, but I was determined to give you the best show humanly possible,†John wrote. “I played and sang my heart out, until my voice could sing no more. I’m disappointed, deeply upset and sorry. I gave it all I had.”
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she watched the show and got to meet John for about five minutes before he started playing.
“You could tell that he wasn’t feeling well and he said he wasn’t feeling well,†Ardern said. “So I think you could see that on the stage last night, which I think is just a credit to his commitment to his fans.â€
Ardern said the pair discussed politics and how her toddler daughter Neve loves to dance to his music. John has previously expressed his admiration for the New Zealand leader.
The New Zealand Herald reported that John told the crowd he was ill but that he didn’t want to miss the show. He slumped on a stool and required medical attention after performing “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” but recovered and continued to play, the newspaper reported. Later, as he he attempted to sing “Daniel,†he realized he had no voice left and was escorted off stage.
John had just returned to New Zealand after performing at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. He won an Oscar for best original song for his theme song for the movie “Rocketman.â€
According to the Mayo Clinic, walking pneumonia is an informal term for a milder form of pneumonia that isn’t severe enough to require hospitalization or bed rest. It affects the respiratory tract and is most often caused by bacteria.
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GraphLab thinks its new software can democratize machine learning
Given the current state of affairs, though, I asked Guestrin whether it’s really possible for a software product to democratize machine learning the way he hopes Create can do. “That’s a yet-to-be-answered question, because nobody has yet done it,” he said. So far, he acknowledged, most machine learning research has focused on one-off systems and “my curve is better than your curve” demonstrations. He thinks GraphLab Create can reach 80 to 90 percent of use cases because the focus from the beginning was on usability and robustness. There are other commercial machine learning products on the market, including Skytree, but Guestrin said the big difference between them and GraphLab is in the barrier to actually using the product.
New Strategies and Features to Help Organizations Better Protect Against Pass-the-Hash Attacks
Given that organizations must continue to operate after a breach, it is critical for them to have a plan to minimize the impact of successful attacks on their ongoing operations. Adopting an approach that assumes a breach will occur, ensures that organizations have a holistic plan in place before an attack occurs. A planned approach enables defenders to close the seams that attackers are aiming to exploit. The guidance also underscores another important point - that technical features alone may not prevent lateral movement and privilege escalation.
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Clearly corporate bribery, insider trading, and intentional manipulation of financial results are both unlawful and unethical, but what about lesser misconduct? If a permissible, but highly aggressive, accounting treatment is employed to enhance financial reporting results, is the result legal but unethical because of the underlying motivation? Moreover, even if the acts in question technically comply with the law, does the unethical behavior violate the spirit of the law and expose the individual or entity to the unwanted consequences of a government investigation or shareholder suit?
Analytically speaking, Dell delves into the Internet of Things
One of Dell's main thrusts in this area is to round out their analytics platform and offering with Statsoft's analytics software. The short-term plan is to build a data factory. With a data factory, Dell's products can bring in all of your data sources, including IoT, and develop actions around the analytics that you gather. Because as we all well know, data is just noise unless you can do something useful with it. Dell plans to help you do something relevant with your data by using its other products in conjunction with Statsoft's STATISTICA software. John confirmed that there's a lot of talk within Dell surrounding IoT, predictive analytics, and product integration. You can look forward to some announcements related to cloud services and predictive analytics later in 2014.
Oracle hopes to make SQL a lingua franca for big data
Oracle over time will add support for using Big Data SQL with other hardware systems it sells, according to Mendelson. The software is set for general availability within the next couple of months, with pricing to be announced at that time. Big Data SQL isn’t an attempt to replace the SQL engines already created for Hadoop, such as Hive and Impala, which Oracle will continue to ship with the Big Data Appliance, he said. “We’re really solving a wider problem.” One big challenge facing data scientists is simply the overhead of moving data among systems, he said.
Data – the Next Big Thing for Utilities
On average, meter readers, for example, once collected one reading per customer per month. Today, utilities have access to an almost overwhelming amount of data from both meters and other smart endpoints on their infrastructure, as well as external sources such as news and weather aggregators. To realize maximum value of all the data their communication system delivers, utilities need data analytics. The first thing utilities should understand when adopting data analytics is that the majority of these applications are communication vendor agnostic. However, a fixed-base communication network with dedicated spectrum and the ability to prioritize incoming data is more efficient and reliable.
Orchestrate cloud service makes using many databases easy
If we fast forward to today, there are many more types of database engines that support many different types of data. Building an application that accesses and updates data using many different data sources can be quite a challenge for a developer. Furthermore, as each of the sources evolves over time, that application must be updated or things don't work any more. Orchestrate hopes that by inserting their middleware into the mix of technology that developers are using, they can use the API to access different data sources rather than be forced to develop their own ETL code.
Cloud Protection: How to Avoid Emergency-Related Outages
In an age of advanced technology and many excellent preemptive tools and systems available, it’s hard to imagine an entire data center losing power. However, it was only two years ago when Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast wiping out data centers between Virginia, New York, and New Jersey causing them to lose public power and go dark for days. For government agencies or large enterprise organizations that use internal data centers to house their applications, public multi-tenant clouds offer a lower-cost, easy to deploy disaster recovery/continuation of operations (DR/COOP) solution. The following steps can help these data centers plan and execute effectively with minimal to no disruption in the production environment.
DBAccess: a Thread-safe, Efficient Alternative to Core Data
DBAccess claims to provide three key benefits over Core Data: Thread-safety; High performance and support for query performance fine tuning; Event model that enables binding data objects to UI controls and keep them updated with changes made in the database. DBAccess can be used and distributed freely. Its latest version includes a few improvements such as support for ASYNC queries, better performance with large result sets, and reduction in memory usage in queries with many columns. DBAccess proposes a very simple usage model. A persistent object declaration is very similar to a Core Data's:
Three Questions To Help Cultivate Your Leadership Style
Fortunately, a wise senior manager took me aside and suggested I would be more effective over the long haul if I quit acting like a machine and started acting like a human who cared about people at least as much as he cared about results. He suggested that I was leaving, money, performance and the growth of people on the table, and he challenged me to think long and hard about the type of leader I wanted to be. I am grateful to this day for that leadership wake-up call. Over the months following the “machine” comment, he regularly challenged me with a number of provocative questions that ultimately shifted my focus from results at all costs to results through supporting and developing others. How will you answer these questions?
"Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution" -- Andy Grove
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The Importance of being Fellaini!
March 30, 2015 Pat
How important is Marouane Fellaini to Manchester United’s success?
Marouane Fellaini has been rather indispensable to everything that Manchester United have done so far this season. He may not be the most watchable footballer you will see in the modern game, but his usefulness to this Red Devils’ side, under the tutelage of Louis van Gaal, has been inexplicably high. He has predominantly been utilized in an attacking role, often behind the lead striker, to harness his aerial and possession retaining ability. From Manchester United’s perspective: can they win games without Fellaini in their ranks? Read on… ....Read more...
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Man United title hopes BOOSTED by Chelsea woes
It could be a very big week of football for Manchester United fans. First of all the fans have a very winnable home Premier League game against Leicester City to look forward to and then it’s back to Old Trafford on Tuesday for the FA cup replay against Cambridge United.
Two wins could see Man United looking ahead to a great chance of a trophy or two. Clearly the FA cup is more likely for us, with a potential 5th round clash with either Preston or Sheffield United, both from League One. And with the rest of the Premier League clubs dropping like flies, the Red Devils have a great chance. ....Read more...
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Man United Analysis – Juan Mata’s stats make grim reading
January 21, 2015 Pat
How has Juan Mata fared this season? by SK
Juan Mata, it is safe to say, hasn’t had a good first half of this season for Manchester United. At the beginning of the season when the likes of Angel Di Maria, Radamel Falcao and Ander Herrera joined Manchester United, there was a major doubt whether the Spaniard would have a regular place in Manchester United’s starting XI, but due to the injuries Falcao and Herrera suffered, Mata has been able to feature regularly in Louis van Gaal’s first-choice XI, most notably as the No.10. In this article, let us focus on Mata’s stats this season and discern how he has fared during the first half of this campaign. ....Read more...
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De Gea – Man United should buy Fabregas but keep Mata!
The Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea has joined up with his Spanish international team-mates in preparation for the World Cup, and he has been giving some advice to Louis Van Gaal about his team selection for next season.
There have been many Man United rumours that the new boss is willing to sacrifice Juan Mata to bring in his own midfield stars, but De Gea thinks this would be a massive mistake. De Gea advised: “I would not sell Juan Mata. He is very important player for us,” he told Movistar. ....Read more...
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Man United warned off bid for ex-Arsenal star
If David Moyes had been a bit more successful in his transfer dealings last summer, perhaps he would still be in charge at Manchester United at the moment. It was no secret that Moyes had made Barcelona’s Cesc Fabregas his main target a year ago, but ended up bring in the overwhelmingly disappointing Marouane Fellaini instead, and we all know how that panned out!
Now the new manager Louis Van Gaal has apparently decided to go down the same route and try and bring the ex-Arsenal captain back to renew his old partnership with Robin Van Persie, amid rumours that Barcelona fans have has fallen out of love with Pep Guardiola’s prodigy. ....Read more...
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Man United MUST complete at least these FOUR transfers
May 1, 2014 Admin 3 Comments
One of the most important things for Manchester United to do this summer, maybe even more crucial than the selection of a new permanent manager, is to have a successful summer in the transfer market. One of the major problems faced by David Moyes was the failure to get the signings that he wanted and so he had to cope with a side that wasn’t his and was light in some key areas. ....Read more...
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Man United favourites to beat Arsenal to Cesc Fabregas this summer
Last summer David Moyes made a concerted effort to bring the ex-Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas to Manchester United but the Catalan club refused to do business. Now that the Catalan club have had their transfer ban lifted it seems that they may now be willing to let the out-of-favour midfielder move back to the Premiership.
It was recently reported that the Barca fans have made Fabregas a scapegoat for this seasons failures, and the player himself could now feel his love affair with his hometown club is now over. ....Read more...
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Man United set to spend £50m on TWO Barcelona stars?
As usual their are a lot of Manchester United transfer rumours around this morning, but the two big ones that have caught my eye are concerning two top Barcelona stars, which could take a big chunk out of David Moyes rumoured £200m transfer kitty.
First of all the Metro reports that Moyes intends to go back to the Catalan club to try again to lure the ex-Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas back to the Premiership, and reports are saying that Barca are now willing to listen to offers after another lacklustre performance from Pep Guardiola’s one-time prodigy. ....Read more...
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Will Man Utd raise Herrera bid after Bilbao reject £25m?
August 31, 2013 Admin 3 Comments
David Moyes’ hunt for a midfielder to replace Paul Scholes at Manchester United continues after he has had a £25 million bid rejected for Athletic Bilbao playmaker Ander Herrera.
This is another headache that the club could do without at the moment. We have needed new bodies in midfield all summer and time is running out fast. The transfer window closes on Monday and we are trailing with Arsenal in the lack of spending department. We have failed in our bids to sign Thiago Alcantara and Cesc Fabregas this summer. We are currently continuing to fail to get Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini and now this happens as well. ....Read more...
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Low Man Utd bids may mean Everton will refuse to sell at any price
August 20, 2013 Admin 1 Comment
Should David Moyes even bother chasing Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini now? I ask this because of how angry Everton are, not because I don’t like the players or think they aren’t good enough. In fact they were my top two personal choices to join the club this summer. I still can’t believe the bids that the club made the other day though. Everton are rightfully angry in my opinion. They have previously rejected a £12M offer for Baines so what do we do…… we come back with a £12M bid…… ....Read more...
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Amazon to open checkout-free stores in Chicago and San Francisco
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(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> is bringing its grocery store without checkout lines to Chicago and San Francisco, the company said in a statement this week, confirming reports it will expand the concept beyond its pilot in Seattle.
Known as Amazon Go, the store is fashioned after small grocery shops with a crucial difference: it has no cashiers. Customers scan a smartphone app to enter the store, and then cameras and sensors track what they remove from the shelves and what they put back. Amazon then bills shoppers’ credit cards on file after they leave.
It was not clear when the new stores will open. Amazon posted job listings for Amazon Go store managers in San Francisco and Chicago last month. News of the listings was reported by The Seattle Times on Monday.
The concept has the potential to alter brick-and-mortar retail and has spawned similar designs from startups hoping to sell the technology to other retailers.
(Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
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W.B. Yeats on Madame Blavatsky: The Trembling of the Veil
How things have changed with the digital abundance! Back when I was writing The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, I found myself shelling out for books I knew I would need to consult often and at length. In addition to some (then) wildly expensive print-on-demand editions, I bought a number of rare books that probably were not the best investments. (Main lesson learned: if you're going to shell out for a rare book, get the best quality condition you can, first edition if possible, and make sure it has its dust-jacket.)
But these days, much as I relish collecting rare books, I am thrilled to be able to find so many old books free, yes ~ ~ ~ free as the wind ~ ~ ~ on-line on sites such as gutenberg.org. One that is on my bibliography for Metaphysical Odyssey Into the Mexican Revolution is Irish poet W.B. Yeats's memoir, The Trembling of the Veil (1,000 copies privately printed, 1922), which includes a spicy riff on Oscar Wilde, and this about his friend Madame Blavatsky (especially fun parts in bold):
I found Madame Blavatsky in a little house at Norwood, with but, as she said, three followers left—the Society of Psychical Research had just reported on her Indian phenomena—and as one of the three followers sat in an outer room to keep out undesirable visitors, I was kept a long time kicking my heels. Presently I was admitted and found an old woman in a plain loose dark dress: a sort of old Irish peasant woman with an air of humour and audacious power. I was still kept waiting, for she was deep in conversation with a woman visitor. I strayed through folding doors into the next room and stood, in sheer idleness of mind, looking at a cuckoo clock. It was certainly stopped, for the weights were off and lying upon the ground, and yet, as I stood there the cuckoo came out and cuckooed at me. I interrupted Madame Blavatsky to say, “Your clock has hooted me.”[Pg 61] “It oftens hoots at a stranger,” she replied. “Is there a spirit in it?” I said. “I do not know,” she said, “I should have to be alone to know what is in it.” I went back to the clock and began examining it and heard her say: “Do not break my clock.” I wondered if there was some hidden mechanism and I should have been put out, I suppose, had I found any, though Henley had said to me, “Of course she gets up fraudulent miracles, but a person of genius has to do something; Sarah Bernhardt sleeps in her coffin.” Presently the visitor went away and Madame Blavatsky explained that she was a propagandist for women’s rights who had called to find out “why men were so bad.” “What explanation did you give her?” I said. “That men were born bad, but women made themselves so,” and then she explained that I had been kept waiting because she had mistaken me for some man, whose name resembled mine and who wanted to persuade her of the flatness of the earth.
When I next saw her she had moved into a house at Holland Park, and some time must have passed—probably I had been in Sligo where I returned constantly for long visits—for she was surrounded by followers. She sat nightly before a little table covered with green baize and on this green baize she scribbled constantly with a piece of white chalk. She would scribble symbols, sometimes humorously explained, and sometimes unintelligible figures, but the chalk was intended to mark down her score when she played patience. One saw in the next room a large table where every night her followers and guests, often a great number, sat down to their vegetable meal, while she encouraged or mocked through the folding doors. A great passionate nature, a sort of[Pg 62] female Dr Johnson, impressive I think to every man or woman who had themselves any richness, she seemed impatient of the formalism of the shrill abstract idealism of those about her, and this impatience broke out in railing and many nicknames: “O you are a flap-doodle, but then you are a theosophist and a brother.” The most devout and learned of all her followers said to me, “H. P. B. has just told me that there is another globe stuck on to this at the north pole, so that the earth has really a shape something like a dumb-bell.” I said, for I knew that her imagination contained all the folklore of the world, “That must be some piece of Eastern mythology.” “O no it is not,” he said, “of that I am certain, and there must be something in it or she would not have said it.” Her mockery was not kept for her followers alone, and her voice would become harsh, and her mockery lose fantasy and humour, when she spoke of what seemed to her scientific materialism. Once I saw this antagonism, guided by some kind of telepathic divination, take a form of brutal fantasy. I brought a very able Dublin woman to see her and this woman had a brother, a physiologist whose reputation, though known to specialists alone, was European, and because of this brother a family pride in everything scientific and modern. The Dublin woman scarcely opened her mouth the whole evening and her name was certainly unknown to Madame Blavatsky, yet I saw at once in that wrinkled old face bent over the cards, and the only time I ever saw it there, a personal hostility, the dislike of one woman for another. Madame Blavatsky seemed to bundle herself up, becoming all primeval peasant, and began complaining of her ailments, more especially of her bad leg. But of late[Pg 63] her master—her “old Jew,” her “Ahasuerus”—cured it, or set it on the way to be cured. “I was sitting here in my chair,” said she, “when the master came in and brought something with him which he put over my knee, something warm which enclosed my knee—it was a live dog which he had cut open.” I recognized a cure used sometimes in mediaeval medicine. She had two masters and their portraits, ideal Indian heads, painted by some most incompetent artist, stood upon either side of the folding doors. One night when talk was impersonal and general, I sat gazing through the folding doors into the dimly lighted dining room beyond. I noticed a curious red light shining upon a picture and got up to see where the red light came from. It was the picture of an Indian and as I came near it slowly vanished. When I returned to my seat, Madame Blavatsky said, “What did you see?” “A picture,” I said. “Tell it to go away.” “It is already gone.” “So much the better,” she said, “I was afraid it was mediumship. But it is only clairvoyance.” “What is the difference?” “If it had been mediumship, it would have stayed in spite of you. Beware of mediumship; it is a kind of madness; I know for I have been through it.”
I found her almost always full of gaiety that, unlike the occasional joking of those about her, was illogical and incalculable and yet always kindly and tolerant. I had called one evening to find her absent but expected every moment. She had been somewhere at the seaside for her health and arrived with a little suite of followers. She sat down at once in her big chair, and began unfolding a brown paper parcel while all looked on full of curiosity. It contained a large family Bible. “This is a present for my maid,”[Pg 64] she said. “What a Bible and not even annotated!” said some shocked voice. “Well, my children,” was the answer, “what is the good of giving lemons to those who want oranges?” When I first began to frequent her house, as I soon did very constantly, I noticed a handsome clever woman of the world there, who seemed certainly very much out of place, penitent though she thought herself. Presently there was much scandal and gossip for the penitent was plainly entangled with two young men, who were expected to grow into ascetic sages.
The scandal was so great that Madame Blavatsky had to call the penitent before her and to speak after this fashion, “We think that it is necessary to crush the animal nature; you should live in chastity in act and thought. Initiation is granted only to those who are entirely chaste,” and so it ran on for some time. However, after some minutes in that vehement style, the penitent standing crushed and shamed before her, she had wound up, “I cannot permit you more than one.” She was quite sincere but thought that nothing mattered but what happened in the mind, and that if we could not master the mind our actions were of little importance. One young man filled her with exasperation for she thought that his settled gloom came from his chastity. I had known him in Dublin where he had been accustomed to interrupt long periods of asceticism, in which he would eat vegetables and drink water, with brief outbreaks of what he considered the devil. After an outbreak he would for a few hours dazzle the imagination of the members of the local theosophical society with poetical rhapsodies about harlots and street lamps, and then sink into weeks of melancholy. A fellow-theosophist once found him hanging from the windowpole, but cut him down in[Pg 65] the nick of time. I said to the man who cut him down, “What did you say to each other?” He said, “We spent the night telling comic stories and laughing a great deal.” This man, torn between sensuality and visionary ambition, was now the most devout of all, and told me that in the middle of the night he could often hear the ringing of the little “astral bell” whereby Madame Blavatsky’s master called her attention, and that, although it was a silvery low tone, it made the whole house shake.
Another night I found him waiting in the hall to show in those who had right of entrance, on some night when the discussion was private, and as I passed he whispered into my ear, “Madame Blavatsky is perhaps not a real woman at all. They say that her dead body was found many years ago upon some Russian battlefield.” She had two dominant moods, both of extreme activity, one calm and philosophic, and this was the mood always on that night in the week when she answered questions upon her system, and as I look back after thirty years I often ask myself, “Was her speech automatic? Was she a trance medium, or in some similar state, one night in every week?” In the other mood she was full of fantasy and inconsequent raillery. “That is the Greek Church, a triangle like all true religion,” I recall her saying, as she chalked out a triangle on the green baize, and then as she made it disappear in meaningless scribbles, “it spread out and became a bramble bush like the Church of Rome.” Then rubbing it all out except one straight line, “Now they have lopped off the branches and turned it into a broomstick and that is protestantism.” And so it was night after night always varied and unforeseen. I have observed a like sudden extreme change in others,[Pg 66] half whose thought was supernatural and Lawrence Oliphant records somewhere or other like observations. I can remember only once finding her in a mood of reverie, something had happened to damp her spirits, some attack upon her movement, or upon herself. She spoke of Balzac, whom she had seen but once, of Alfred de Musset, whom she had known well enough to dislike for his morbidity, and George Sand, whom she had known so well that they had dabbled in magic together of which “neither knew anything at all” in those days; and she ran on, as if there was nobody there to overhear her, “I used to wonder at and pity the people who sell their souls to the devil, but now I only pity them. They do it to have somebody on their side,” and added to that, after some words I have forgotten, “I write, write, write as the Wandering Jew walks, walks, walks.”
Besides the devotees, who came to listen and to turn every doctrine into a new sanction for the puritanical convictions of their Victorian childhood, cranks came from half Europe and from all America, and they came that they might talk. One American said to me, “She has become the most famous woman in the world by sitting in a big chair and permitting us to talk.” They talked and she played patience, and totted up her score on the green baize, and generally seemed to listen, but sometimes she would listen no more. There was a woman who talked perpetually of “the divine spark” within her, until Madame Blavatsky stopped her with—“Yes, my dear, you have a divine spark within you and if you are not very careful you will hear it snore.” A certain Salvation Army captain probably pleased her, for if vociferous and loud of voice, he had much animation. He had known hardship and spoke of his visions while starving[Pg 67] in the streets and he was still perhaps a little light in the head. I wondered what he could preach to ignorant men, his head ablaze with wild mysticism, till I met a man who had heard him talking near Covent Garden to some crowd in the street. “My friends,” he was saying, “you have the kingdom of heaven within you and it would take a pretty big pill to get that out.”
P.S. For those W.B. Yeats fans with some $$$, a first edition, autographed, with dust-jacket, of The Trembling of the Veil is listed on abebooks.com for USD $1,900.
PSS Update: and here is another first edition, also signed, for $2,951.
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“We are always on the lookout for innovative solutions to drive conversion rates,” said Dennis Koptiz, director of eCommerce at Shinola. “With Magento and Amazon Pay, we now have a powerful and flexible commerce solution coupled with a faster checkout experience. The integration with Amazon Pay has helped us expand our online business and capture more sales. Our customers appreciate how easy it is to log into our store and complete a purchase – it’s been a critical part of our online growth.”
Since the launch of Magento Commerce Cloud, the company has accelerated the pace of innovation with over 500 enhancements in the past year alone. This latest release delivers new cloud capabilities and innovative performance initiatives, including flash sales, simplified deployment, and enhanced business intelligence for deeper insights into omnichannel performance.
“The average combined sales growth of our customers year-over-year has been more than 80 percent,” said Jason Woosley, SVP, Product and Technology at Magento Commerce. “With this new release, merchants will continue to streamline their checkout and payment processes and tap into the power of the Magento Commerce Cloud to support and simplify the management of their commerce sites.”
This release was announced on stage at Imagine, The 8th annual Magento conference which brings together more than 3,000 eCommerce experts. These new capabilities are integrated into the Magento Commerce platform and will be available in early May 2018.
About Magento Commerce
Magento Commerce is the leading provider of cloud commerce innovation to merchants and brands across B2C and B2B industries, with more than $155 billion in gross merchandise volume transacted on the platform annually. In addition to its flagship digital commerce platform, Magento Commerce boasts a strong portfolio of cloud-based omnichannel solutions that empower merchants to successfully integrate digital and physical shopping experiences. Magento Commerce is the #1 provider to the Internet Retailer Top 1000, the B2B 300 and the Top 500 Guides for Europe and Latin America. Magento Commerce is supported by a vast global network of solution and technology partners, a highly active global developer community and the largest e-commerce marketplace for extensions available for download on the Magento Marketplace. For more information, visit at www.magento.com.
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Jeff Bezos Buys David Geffen's LA Mansion for $165 Million
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The world’s wealthiest person, Jeff Bezos, has purchased a Beverly Hills mansion for a record-breaking sum.
Bezos is taking over the Warner Estate, previously owned by media mogul David Geffen, who originally purchased the home in 1990 for $47.5 million. The comparatively meager price was a then-record for a Los Angeles-area home, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The home is named for the person who built the mansion in 1937, Jack Warner, a Warner Bros Studio chief. The home features terraces, several guest homes, a tennis court, and a nine-hole golf course.
Napoleon stood here. Jeff Bezos bought David Geffen's Beverly Hills mansion for a record $165 million. It includes a floor Napoleon once owned. Plus a golf course. https://t.co/OJW1bTHB5i
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 13, 2020
Bezos, with a net worth of $131 billion according to Forbes, owns several properties around the world, so it’s not clear if the Warner Estate will become his primary residence. The New York Post reported last week that Bezos was on the house hunt, looking at mansions around the LA area with girlfriend Lauren Sanchez.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Bezos purchased three New York apartments earlier this year in a deal worth $80 million.
The mansion purchase for $165 million is thought to be the biggest transaction for a residential property in Los Angeles since Lachlan Murdoch dropped $150 million on the Chartwell estate in Bel-Air.
Fans may recognize the famed Chartwell estate, as it was the home of the fictional Clampett family in CBS’ “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
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November 28, 2020 by Clay
Song of the Day #4,530: ‘From Afar’ – Vance Joy
‘From Afar’ was the debut single from Vance Joy’s 2014 album Dream Your Life Away. It’s a pining portrait of unrequited love that kicks into another gear during its yearning outro.
The song was eclipsed by the success of second single ‘Riptide,’ which became the longest-charting single in Joy’s home country of Australia and enjoyed worldwide success.
I think I’ve listened to this album only once. I love ‘Riptide,’ though, and this song is a winner as well. Might be worth a revisit.
You told me, “Boy, look the other way”
You told me, “Boy, bite your tongue”
Yes, that’s not the way
Yeah, that’s not the way
Ah, that’s just not the way that friends behave
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
You lined me up across the room
Two falling sparks, one willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You told me, “Boy, hide those hands”
Well, I’ve been living on the crumbs of your love
And I’m starving now
And that is just the way that we remain
Oh, that will be the way that we remain
It shouldn’t come as a surprise
What I’m feeling, what I’m feeling now
She got darling hazel eyes
This entry was posted in random weekends and tagged Dream Your Life Away, From Afar, Vance Joy.
2 thoughts on “Song of the Day #4,530: ‘From Afar’ – Vance Joy”
Always love me some Vance Joy 🙂
Dana Gallup says:
I’m sure Maddie would agree it’s worth a second listen.
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Mayaro virus disease: an emerging mosquito-borne zoonosis in tropical South America. (1/1576)
This report describes the clinical, laboratory, and epidemiological findings on 27 cases of Mayaro virus (MV) disease, an emerging mosquito-borne viral illness that is endemic in rural areas of tropical South America. MV disease is a nonfatal, dengue-like illness characterized by fever, chills, headache, eye pain, generalized myalgia, arthralgia, diarrhea, vomiting, and rash of 3-5 days' duration. Severe joint pain is a prominent feature of this illness; the arthralgia sometimes persists for months and can be quite incapacitating. Cases of two visitors from the United States, who developed MV disease during visits to eastern Peru, are reported. MV disease and dengue are difficult to differentiate clinically. (+info)
Long-term studies of hantavirus reservoir populations in the southwestern United States: rationale, potential, and methods. (2/1576)
Hantaviruses are rodent-borne zoonotic agents that cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Asia and Europe and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in North and South America. The epidemiology of human diseases caused by these viruses is tied to the ecology of the rodent hosts, and effective control and prevention relies on a through understanding of host ecology. After the 1993 HPS outbreak in the southwestern United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated long-term studies of the temporal dynamics of hantavirus infection in host populations. These studies, which used mark-recapture techniques on 24 trapping webs at nine sites in the southwestern United States, were designed to monitor changes in reservoir population densities and in the prevalence and incidence of infection; quantify environmental factors associated with these changes; and when linked to surveillance databases for HPS, lead to predictive models of human risk to be used in the design and implementation of control and prevention measures for human hantavirus disease. (+info)
Preventing zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised persons: the role of physicians and veterinarians. (3/1576)
We surveyed physicians and veterinarians in Wisconsin about the risk for and prevention of zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised persons. We found that physicians and veterinarians hold significantly different views about the risks posed by certain infectious agents and species of animals and communicate very little about zoonotic issues; moreover, physicians believe that veterinarians should be involved in many aspects of zoonotic disease prevention, including patient education. (+info)
Natural and experimental oral infection of nonhuman primates by bovine spongiform encephalopathy agents. (4/1576)
Experimental lemurs either were infected orally with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or were maintained as uninfected control animals. Immunohistochemical examination for proteinase-resistant protein (prion protein or PrP) was performed on tissues from two infected but still asymptomatic lemurs, killed 5 months after infection, and from three uninfected control lemurs. Control tissues showed no staining, whereas PrP was detected in the infected animals in tonsil, gastrointestinal tract and associated lymphatic tissues, and spleen. In addition, PrP was detected in ventral and dorsal roots of the cervical spinal cord, and within the spinal cord PrP could be traced in nerve tracts as far as the cerebral cortex. Similar patterns of PrP immunoreactivity were seen in two symptomatic and 18 apparently healthy lemurs in three different French primate centers, all of which had been fed diets supplemented with a beef protein product manufactured by a British company that has since ceased to include beef in its veterinary nutritional products. This study of BSE-infected lemurs early in their incubation period extends previous pathogenesis studies of the distribution of infectivity and PrP in natural and experimental scrapie. The similarity of neuropathology and PrP immunostaining patterns in experimentally infected animals to those observed in both symptomatic and asymptomatic animals in primate centers suggests that BSE contamination of zoo animals may have been more widespread than is generally appreciated. (+info)
Ortho- and paramyxoviruses from migrating feral ducks: characterization of a new group of influenza A viruses. (5/1576)
Ortho- and parainfluenza viruses isolated from the cloacas of migrating feral ducks shot on the Mississippi flyway included three strains of influenza. A virus (Hav6 Nav1, Hav6 Nl, Hav7 Neq2) as well as Newcastle disease virus. One influenza virus, A/duck/Memphis/546/74, possessed Hav3 haemagglutinin, but the neuraminidase was not inhibited by any of the known influenza reference antisera. The neuraminidase on this virus was related to the neuraminidases on A/duck/GDR/72 (H2 N?), A/turkey/Ontario/7732/66 (Hav 5 N?), A/duck/Ukraine/1/60 (Hav3 N?) and A/turkey/Wisconsin/68. We therefore propose that the neuraminidase on this group of influenza viruses be designated Nav6. The A/duck/Memphis/546/74 influenza virus caused an ocular discharge in 1 of 5 ducks and was shed in faeces for 10 days; it was stable in faecal samples for up to 3 days at 20 degrees C. These results suggest that ecological studies on influenza in avian species should include attempts to isolate virus from faeces. Faecal-oral transmission is an attractive explanation for the spread of influenza virus from feral birds to other animals. (+info)
Gnathostomosis, an emerging foodborne zoonotic disease in Acapulco, Mexico. (6/1576)
Between 1993 and 1997, 98 gnathostomosis cases were clinically identified in Acapulco, Mexico. Intermittent cutaneous migratory swellings were the commonest manifestation. Larvae were identified in 26 cases, while in 72, final diagnosis was made on the basis of epidemiologic data, food habits, and positive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western blot results. (+info)
Epidemiology of human fascioliasis: a review and proposed new classification. (7/1576)
The epidemiological picture of human fascioliasis has changed in recent years. The number of reports of humans infected with Fasciola hepatica has increased significantly since 1980 and several geographical areas have been described as endemic for the disease in humans, with prevalence and intensity ranging from low to very high. High prevalence of fascioliasis in humans does not necessarily occur in areas where fascioliasis is a major veterinary problem. Human fascioliasis can no longer be considered merely as a secondary zoonotic disease but must be considered to be an important human parasitic disease. Accordingly, we present in this article a proposed new classification for the epidemiology of human fascioliasis. The following situations are distinguished: imported cases; autochthonous, isolated, nonconstant cases; hypo-, meso-, hyper-, and holoendemics; epidemics in areas where fascioliasis is endemic in animals but not humans; and epidemics in human endemic areas. (+info)
Human rabies postexposure prophylaxis during a raccoon rabies epizootic in New York, 1993 and 1994. (8/1576)
We describe the epidemiology of human rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) in four upstate New York counties during the 1st and 2nd year of a raccoon rabies epizootic. We obtained data from records of 1,173 persons whose rabies PEP was reported to local health departments in 1993 and 1994. Mean annual PEP incidence rates were highest in rural counties, in summer, and in patients 10 to 14 and 35 to 44 years of age. PEP given after bites was primarily associated with unvaccinated dogs and cats, but most (70%) was not attributable to bites. Although pet vaccination and stray animal control, which target direct exposure, remain the cornerstones of human rabies prevention, the risk for rabies by the nonbite route (e. g., raccoon saliva on pet dogs' and cats' fur) should also be considered. (+info)
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Dao Kiaw Duen Episode 11 Finale
Is it really over? Someone pinch me. *Ouch. Ok, eleven episodes it is. Dao Kiaw Duen, The Star Courts the Moon, a lakorn title that is worth chewing over in and of itself, has come to an end. It was a great run, funny and serious at the same time- and with a finale that will make you smile. I hope it was everything you hoped for.
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Tagged: Aum Atichart, Dao Kiaw Duen, Janie Tienphosuwan
Dao Kiaw Duen Episode 10
It’s a romcom that is actually funny, with a mixture of melodrama. This is a Broadcast Thai production after all. Plans backfire and a few truths come out, but at the end of the day, how will Dao confront the reality that she’s still lying to Khun Chai Jan? I’m just waiting for the proverbial shoe to drop, and it ain’t gonna be pretty, especially when we’ve been told that Chai Jan hates liars. Bring on the drama (but thank you for keeping it funny, Show!)
Dao Kiaw Duen Episode 9
Show, why so cute and intense at the same time? Revelations are made, adventures are in store. And there is light at the end of the tunnel, this addicting show, maintaining a consistent 10 point rating in Bangkok, feels like it will be closing out in the next couple of episodes. Boo. But I’d be crazy to say that I don’t want to see how this ends.
It’s Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday. Ah, my cheek hurts. It’s another solid episode for our midweek crack- the only shining, most awesome diversion for hump day. I think I’m still alive from the workweek, although that remains to be seen. Fewer pictures due to P’Fia’s time constraint, but you’ll go on over and watch it anyway, right? So let the fun begin!
Dao Kiaw Duen Episode 7 Summary
You know how I mentioned earlier that Pongjan and Ying Nim’s characters have a lot of potential to develop here, and when acted and directed properly, it can really take off? Yes and yes. Especially regarding Pongjan’s character, he gets even more fleshed out in this episode, allowing for his character write-up and even screen time pertinent to the story itself. Khunchai is still the man, but he best not let a determined Pongjan catch up, because he’s already clipping at his heels. Thankfully there’s all sorts of fun things to stand in the way of Pongjan taking over Khunchai’s number one spot in Dao’s supposed future baby daddy list. And once you find out, try not to laugh so hard.
It’s Wednesday! Who’s doing a happy dance? Yours truly is! I’m doing things a little bit differently this time: watching, recapping and then releasing the recaps as we go along. Reason being, I may not get to the whole episode by the end of the day. The good thing is, you can read along faster, the bad thing is, you don’t get to read it all at once. Time and energy are two very important factors that play into the reason why I can’t spend six hours (at a time) for any particular recaps anymore, but I’ll do my best to get as much done as possible (in between distractions we call life!) So thank you so much for your understanding. Some key points…
Can Dao repair her image? Will Khunchai redeem himself? It’s all in a day’s work of episode 5, and then some.
It has been one long week without Dao Kiaw Duen. This episode makes some headway with the relationship between Dao and Khunchai Jan. The oppositions are mounting, breaking down the fluff and forcing the leads to question the authenticity of their fake relationship. We explore the beautiful moon, true love, and the all-important trust.
No one ever said going against mainstream expectations would be easy. To what extent is Prakai Dao willing to go to in order to fulfill her dreams? It’s almost a moot question, as we watch her, to the horror of her brother and friend, try to pull off this fake relationship with Khun Chai Jantarapanu, and withholding what he must give in exchange for her help. Despite Dao’s continued strength, we start to see semblance of the consequences of going rogue, and we are forced to wonder, will Khun Chai Jan take her hand and tango, or leave her to fend off the admirers and critics alone?
How does one go about this sperm acquisition business, mission ‘find baby daddy’ with a straight face? But that’s what makes this show so funny, Prakai Dao is intent on pursuing her dreams to the extent of hilarity. But reaching her goals, as she is starting to discover, is no walk in the park, especially when you have pesky ex-boyfriend, shameless love interest and hussies standing in your way. Let the catfights (fun) begin.
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Marcus Ericsson says his former F1 colleague Kevin Magnussen would make a good fit with IndyCar as the... The post Ericsson: Magnussen 'aggressive style' suited for IndyCar appeared first on F1i.com.
Marcus Ericsson says his former F1 colleague Kevin Magnussen would make a good fit with IndyCar as the US single-seater series caters to "aggressive" drivers.
Magnussen will leave Haas at the end of the current season after a four-year stint with the US outfit. But the Dane's prospects of returning to the F1 grid in the future appear remote, encouraging the 28-year-old to consider a change of environment.
Ericsson, who quit F1 at the end of 2018, embarked on a career in IndyCar the following year, running first with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and then switching to Chip Ganassi Racing for the 2020 campaign.
“Kevin is in the same situation as me when I ended my Formula 1 career," Ericsson told Danish website BT.
"It’s just hard to show what you can do when you are in a team that is not at the top at all. IndyCar is a series where the driver makes a bigger difference.
"Of course, there are different sizes of teams with more money, but it depends more on the driver than in Formula 1, and that was a big motivation for me."
Ericsson says that in the past, before his exit from F1, he often discussed the IndyCar series with Magnussen, sparking the latter's interest.
"When I was on my way out of Formula 1, we talked a lot about IndyCar. I remember that when I signed my first contract in IndyCar, Kevin was the most interested of the other drivers around my switch to the series," he said.
In F1, there is no lack of drivers who found themselves on the receiving end of Magnussen's often borderline aggressive style. But Ericsson believes his former F1 rival's combative approach would prove an asset in America.
"As a driver, Kevin has a rather aggressive driving style and it will suit IndyCar well," contends the Swede.
"The series caters to aggressive drivers, which is why I think Kevin fits in well with IndyCar.
"When I raced against Kevin, he was aggressive but in a good way.
"In American motorsport, the stewards interfere less, so it is more permissible to drive hard than in Formula 1, and I think Kevin would like that."
As for Magnussen's view on a move west to the promised land, the Dane is open to the opportunity, but he also highlights how the current state of the world due to the coronavirus pandemic limit his chances of finding a good drive.
"I always thought it was super cool and I would love to have a go in that [IndyCar] at some point," he recently said.
"But even outside Formula 1, the whole world is hit by the times we have had this year and it doesn’t look easy to get good deals over there. We will see.
"I am not saying no to it at all, I am not saying it is impossible, but it looks like it would be difficult."
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War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction
(View article at Middle East Monitor)
The Iraqi war canon has been overtaken by American military accounts. US military titles have been published and promoted with regularity while war literature by Iraqi authors has consistently been ignored or left untranslated. In Iraqi literature, the occupation is presented as almost an exclusively American event. Post-occupation Iraqi fiction, or post-2003 fiction, is largely absent from the literary accounts of the war in the US. This is why Ikram Masmoudi’s War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction, published this year, is a necessary and welcome intervention.
Masmoudi addresses this dearth by revealing how post-occupation fiction by Iraqis represents “their relation to war and sovereign power”, not only in relation to the “new Iraq” but also in a broad historical context. She reveals that the post-2003 Iraqi war canon is made up not only of US occupation literature, but also addresses the “Ba’athification” of culture, particularly since the seventies, the Iran-Iraq War in the eighties and the 1991 Gulf War, as well as the latest US invasion and occupation of Iraq. According to Masmoudi, this new crop of post-2003 literature taking on issues from decades past is a natural (albeit delayed) result of the Saddam era of censorship. And, while writers sometimes engaged in auto-censorship by cloaking controversial writing in mythology and symbols to get past the censors, much literature was effectively repressed until the fall of the Saddam regime. When the pressure valve was lifted, many past phenomena were given a platform, like accounts of desertion during the Iran-Iraq War.
Beyond novels featuring the deserter figure like Asātidhat Al-wahm (The Professors of Illusion, 2011) by Ali Badr and Hubūt Al-malāʾika (The Descent of the Angels, 2013) by Muhammad Óasan, literary excavations of the past also expose in the Gulf War “the myth of a clean, precise and bloodless war”. Masmoudi analyses a variety of novels, like Baghdad Mālbūrū (Baghdad Marlboro, 2012) by Najm Wālī, Mā baʿd al-aubb (2003, Beyond Love(2012)) by Hadiyya Hussein, and ¤ayāʿ fī Óafr Al-Bātin (Loss in Óafr al-Bātin, 2009) by ʿAbd Al-Karīm Al-ʿUbaydī, which resituate “the geographical horizon of this conflict from the virtual space of the monitor screen where the war was displayed and inflated into a worldwide war back into the forgotten real space—the desert of Óafr al-Bātin.”
There are moments, especially in the introduction, when the author delves for pages into Agamben’s theoretical concepts or topics like the development of the Iraqi novel, which could’ve really been collapsed into a few paragraphs. Often, she leans too heavily on theory without referring back to her own analyses and allowing the theory to serve her arguments in order to make a theoretical framework really hers. She leads with the Agambenian concept of homo sacer, or bare life, of the Iraqi individual as “‘he who can be killed and not sacrificed’ without his killing becoming a murder… abandoned by the law, exposed and targeted, having only their given natural life, their zoe,” in establishing four major figures of Iraqi narratives, like the war deserter, soldier, suicide bomber and camp detainee.
Yet, Masmoudi’s own discoveries and observations about post-2003 Iraqi fiction are far more intriguing. In Green Zone (Al-Mintaqa Al-khadrāʾ, 2009), she discusses the dangerous role of the Iraqi translator as native informant and marked traitor. She also explores the new power dynamics between the occupied and occupiers; through an analysis of the novel’s intense sexual relationship between a Christian woman who leads the division of translators in the Green Zone and a US colonel, she explores the new privileged and compromising relationship between Iraqi minorities and architects of the occupation. Moreover, we get a glimpse into some of the bizarre tactics of the Fallujah siege wherein “loudspeakers are attached to rifles, tied to the soldiers’ belts, hung from the towers, and tied to the Humvees” to play piercing heavy metal music, children’s cries, men’s screams in order to enervate the militants. Moreover, Masmoudi highlights the uniquely timely feature of this neglected war literature, wherein war novels are not written after the war (as is usually the case), but it is written during the war, thus “they look as though they come directly and immediately from the battlefield and the arena of killing; and this makes them closer to journalistic-style reports coming from the lines of fire.”
Exploring this neglected literature “wherein the sight of bodies piled up beyond the morgues’ capacity” is a regular feature is not only a necessary intervention amid the predominantly American narratives, but it begs the question: why haven’t most of the novels been translated? Considering the number of post-occupation novels published and distributed, let alone just written, why has most of the Iraqi war canon been left untranslated? In what ways do we, as writers and readers, participate in the same atmosphere of censorship under which Iraqis lived for decades by not demanding that the literary voices of Iraq be made at least minimally accessible?
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Share this Story: Bid by Allan Legere for parole prompts debate over whether release laws need review
Bid by Allan Legere for parole prompts debate over whether release laws need review
Serial killer Allan Legere is permitted to keep seeking parole — and that has federal politicians and a former jailer suggesting release laws may need to be changed to ensure he doesn’t succeed.
The parole board rejected Legere’s application to be released following a hearing on Wednesday but board officials noted he has the legal right to reapply for day parole in one year and that the board must render a decision in a reasonable period of time.
Bid by Allan Legere for parole prompts debate over whether release laws need review Back to video
The 72-year-old convicted serial murderer, rapist and arsonist escaped from custody on May 3, 1989, while serving a life sentence for the murder of store owner John Glendenning during a June 1986 robbery.
He returned to the Miramichi area to carry out four brutal murders and a sexual assault and was only recaptured on Nov. 24 of that year, during yet another return to the community, in a commandeered truck.
Conservative MP Rob Moore says that while the former Harper government succeeded in tightening the parole system, the Legere case suggests further changes should be considered to prevent victims from repeatedly having to lobby against the release of serial killers.
John Harris, a former Correctional Service of Canada manager who dealt with Legere at a federal prison in New Brunswick, says federal legislation should be changed to allow the parole board more latitude in determining whether to review cases.
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Council Decided 5 May 2015
Posted Thursday 07 May 2015
1. Fit for the Future
Council considered a detailed report on Fit for the Future, including an analysis of the community consultation that had been undertaken between February and April this year. Bearing in mind the results of this consultation and discussions with neighbouring councils over recent months the following key outcomes informed Council’s decision making on the way forward:
There is significant community support for Mosman’s continued independence
Mosman residents and ratepayers are strongly opposed to the lower north shore amalgamation model recommended by the Independent Local Government Review Panel, as well as smaller amalgamations with either North Sydney or Manly Council
The results of random street surveys in March 2015 indicated a high level of overall satisfaction with the performance of Mosman Council
The northern Sydney Councils have expressed clear views that they oppose the amalgamation model recommended by the Independent Local Government Review Panel
Adjoining Councils have also failed to demonstrate any appetite for amalgamations with Mosman on a smaller scale to that proposed by the Independent Panel
Based on the Special Rate Variation application submitted to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal in February 2015, Mosman Council is capable of meeting the NSW Government’s Fit for the Future benchmarks for Sustainability, Infrastructure and Service Management and Efficiency
Mosman Council operates at a scale and capacity that it considers appropriate to the continued delivery of excellent services to the Mosman community and to effective engagement across the community, industry and government, being an effective member of the Shore Regional Organisation of Councils (SHOROC) and other ongoing and successful collaborations and partnerships as well as being a willing and capable participant in further strategic alliances and co-operative ventures
Accordingly, Mosman Council affirmed its commitment to remain an independent local government area (and local authority) and its opposition to merging with other local government areas/Councils, either as recommended by the Independent Local Government Panel or otherwise. This means that Council will prepare and submit the ‘Council Improvement Proposal (Existing Structure)’ as it’s Fit for the Future submission to the NSW Government’s Expert Advisory Panel.
Further on 26 April 2015 the Minister for Local Government advised that the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) would serve as the Expert Advisory Panel to review the Fit for the Future submissions. IPART will be assisted by Mr John Comrie, a former CEO of the Office of Local Government in South Australia and former CEO of Local Government South Australia.
On 27 April 2015 the NSW Government’s Terms of Reference for IPART to act as the Expert Advisory Panel and a Consultation Paper from IPART dated April 2015 titled ‘Methodology for Assessment of Council Fit for the Future Proposals’ were released. This consultation paper provides a further level of detail in relation to how proposals will be assessed and comments on the paper’s contents are being sought up until Monday 25 May 2015. Council resolved to submit its views on the proposed methodology.
2. Mosman Civic Centre Site
Following an extensive period of public consultation on Council’s vision for the Civic Centre Site Council resolved that there is a need to improve civic and community facilities on the Civic Centre site to meet the Mosman community’s needs. However, to progress the project there is a requirement to undertake more detailed consideration of development options for the site, including a comprehensive financial analysis of refurbishment versus redevelopment options and a traffic study and site planning and design.
3. 10/50 Tree Replacement Program
On 1 August 2014 the NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS), brought into effect the 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Law. In response to misuse of the law, in November 2014 the NSW RFS, in partnership with the Department of Planning and Environment commenced a formal review of the 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Scheme. Whilst the review is underway the NSW RFS has reduced the area of entitlement to properties within 100 metres of category-one bushland and 30 metres of category-two bushland. The 10/50 rule allows the clearing of trees up to 10 metres from homes and other vegetation up to 50 metres.
Since the 10/50 Vegetation Clearing law was introduced, the Mosman local government area has seen 140 canopy trees removed from private property. These include remnant trees, some estimated to be 100 years old. Further losses are likely noting that the current tally of 140 represents trees that Council is aware of. The loss of these trees has reduced Council’s overall canopy coverage and habitat links to its bushland areas. An overwhelming majority of the trees that were removed had previously been refused for removal through Council’s tree permit system and development application process.
In response, Council has allocated $40,000 in the 2015/16 Budget for the Tree Replacement Program. This level of funding will mean that approximately 150-180 trees will be planted on public land with a focus on those areas that have been impacted by the removal of trees under the 10/50 law.
Whilst there is little that Council can do to mandate plantings on Private Property, to encourage plantings Council will enhance its tubestock program. This program provides
tubestock of native canopy species free of charge to residents at the Mosman Christmas Markets. This program will be advertised in the Mosman Daily and actively promoted on Council’s Website.
4. Community BBQs in Council’s Parks and Reserves
Council recently undertook public consultation on a proposal to install community BBQs in some of Council’s Parks and Reserves, including Sirius Cove Reserve, Clifton Gardens, Rosherville Reserve and Spit West Reserve. Results from the consultation showed that the majority of respondents strongly supported the installation of BBQs at the proposed locations with the preference being a simple twin plated BBQ without shelters and adjoining facilities.
Council resolved that the installation of BBQs in the identified locations would be considered along with other capital project priorities as part of the development of the 2017/18 Budget.
5. ANZAC Day Celebrations
Council noted the increasing popularity of the ANZAC Dawn Service, and whilst recognising that the Mosman Sub-branch is the organising agency for the Dawn Service will offer to meet with the Sub-Branch to discuss any support or assistance that may be required in conducting future Dawn Services.
6. Owners Consent to Various Proposed Developments
Council considered and granted owners consent to two separate developments that are proposed on Council owned or managed land. It is important to remember that the granting of owners consent does not constitute support or approval of any of the Development Applications (DA) which include:
Mosman Rowing Club – adjustments to the Pearl Bay club premises to improve access and facilities
Café Brindis Pty Limited trading as Beach House by GPO (1/2 Awaba Street also known as 67 The Esplanade) construction of two timber decked platforms on Council’s footpath on The Esplanade and Awaba Street for the purpose of outdoor dining
The relevant Development Applications will be exhibited and members of the community will have the opportunity to comment on the merits of these proposals.
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5 Upcoming Maruti Cars for India
Published 2 months ago on November 26, 2020 By Susmit Gupta
Maruti Suzuki India is the largest automobile manufacturer in our country for a very long time. People have loved the brand due to its affordability, low cost of maintenance and great fuel efficiency. While safety and overall build quality of Maruti cars have always remained a grey area, recent NEXA cars and some offerings from Arena have performed quite well in the safety tests. Find out below about the top 5 upcoming Maruti cars in India.
1) Maruti XL5
Maruti WagonR has remained one of the most popular as well as the most selling car in its segment for a very long time now. While the tall boy design looks a little out-dated now, Indians are a fan of the great headroom provided by the car. Maruti Suzuki has been testing a more premium version of the WagonR and it is likely to be called XL5. It will be sold through the premium Nexa dealership network of the brand and will offer premium cabin layout with some extra features compared to the WagonR.
Maruti Suzuki may also tweak the face of the vehicle following the same Ertiga-XL6 theme. Nexa cars come with advanced safety features from the base variant itself and the build quality of the car will also be improved greatly to keep up with the industry standards. The Maruti XL5 has already been spotted testing a couple of times in our country recently.
2) Maruti Celerio
The entry-level hatchback segment from Maruti is also set to get an update very soon in the form of new generation Maruti Celerio. This Arena product will remain true to its roots and provide great fuel efficiency at an affordable price. The new generation Maruti Celerio also has been spotted testing a couple of times in our country. Now from the new on test images, the upcoming Maruti hatchback gets new interior features and changed the placement of buttons.
Also, the design of the front portion of the vehicle has been changed. These are too many changes for a new-gen model of a car and so we expect this car to be a completely new offering from Maruti. Let’s wait for Maruti to reveal their plans for the year 2021 and then we might have a clearer idea about this. More about 5 upcoming Maruti cars for India below.
3) Maruti Jimny
The new generation Mahindra Thar created a lot of buzz in its segment after the successful launch of the crowd-favourite product. Maruti Jimny, its close rival, however, is yet to make an appearance for India officially. Rumours indicated that the SUV will be manufactured in Gujarat, India but will only be exported and not sold domestically. If this is the case, it will serve as a great blow to off-road enthusiasts in India.
The Maruti Jimny if launched in India, will also come only with a 1.5L K-series engine as Maruti have already ditched all their Diesel engines post BS6. Maruti India also strongly indicated that they may only launch the 5-door version of the car in India due to customer demands. The new generation Mahindra Thar, however, is three-door and performing quite well in its segment being the sole competitor.
4) Maruti A-Cross
Hyundai Creta and Kia Seltos have been ruling the mid-size SUV segment for quite some time now. While Maruti is a sales leader in the majority of the other segments, it is missing out on a large number of customer due to a lack of product in this segment. The Maruti Vitara Brezza which is the closest SUV to the Creta as of now from Maruti fails to stand on par with it. Maruti already sells A-Cross, a rebadged version of the Toyota RAV4 in the international market which is the perfect car for this segment.
Toyota already sells rebadged versions of Maruti due to their partnership. The Maruti A-cross if launched soon will be the first rebadged Toyota product. More about 5 upcoming Maruti cars for India below.
5) Maruti WagonR 7-seater
As stated above Maruti WagonR is quite famous in India and many consumers are eagerly waiting for a 7-seater variant of the car to be launched soon. While Maruti has already shown a concept car, any new details have still not been revealed by the manufacturer. The Maruti Ertiga currently is the only 7-seater MPV from Maruti in India. For people looking for a cheaper 7-seater option, there is no other product from Maruti.
According to some sources, MSI has imported two units of the Wagon R 7-seat MPV- Codenamed YJC – into India for research and development purpose. The MPV was first unveiled as a concept at the 2013 Indonesia International Motor Show. Interestingly, Maruti has already shared the list of components to its vendors required for the development of the sub-compact MPV. It is likely to cost around INR 80,000 more than the regular variant.
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‘Ghost Rider 2’ Heading for Development!
Ghost Rider 2 Heading for Development!
Nicolas Cage is a fan of the comic book and is passionate about playing the character.
At a press-event for Sony Pictures and Marvel Entertainment's Ghost Rider, producer Avi Arad announced that talks are now underway to develop a sequel to the action-packed superhero movie starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes.
Cage would once again portray stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze who has sold his soul to the devil. By day, Johnny is a die-hard stunt rider... but at night, in the presence of evil, he becomes the Ghost Rider, a bounty hunter of rogue demons, forced to do the devil's bidding.
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Ghost Rider is one of Nicholas Cage's favorite comics; he is very passionate about playing the character and would be eager to come back for future installments.
Arad said that the crew spent a year tweaking the Ghost Rider graphics technology. We were able to see the film at a special press-screening - the first time the audience gets to see Johnny Blaze transform into the Ghost Rider, it is a mind-blowing experience ... the effects are that incredible!
Check back in the coming days for full interviews with both Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes as well as a review of the film.
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Stay Away From Gold?!?
July 29, 2020 /5 Comments/by Addison Quale
Forbes Senior Contributor Larry Light penned an opinion piece this week titled “Stay the Hell Away From Gold”.
As you can imagine, he took a strong position on whether or not purchasing gold right now is a good idea.
Spoiler Alert: he’s against it.
His argument boils down to this: gold is volatile, and while it may keep rising in dollars after hitting a new record above $1900, it’s likely to come back down later – just as it did in the 2010s following the last financial crisis.
In his brief analysis, Light overlooks a couple of fundamental facts about gold.
Gold Prices Beyond the 2010s
First, instead of taking a microscope to the 2010s as Light does, let’s look at the long-term history of gold prices. Since 1975, the rubber-band dollar has stretched from $140 per ounce to over $1900, against the steel meter stick of an “ounce.” You can go back even further, of course, to the year 1915 when gold was less than $20 per ounce.
Attribution: Macrotrends.net Gold Prices – 100 Year Historical Chart Note: chart corrected on 30 July
As the chart shows, the dollar has lost nearly all its value against gold over the last 100 years. This fact is indisputable and perhaps points to the idea that something might be amiss with our entirely gold-free monetary system. But I digress. The point is simply that, over the long term, gold has a very strong track record. It’s not at all unreasonable to expect that trend to continue.
Consider Counterparty Risk
Second, gold has zero counterparty risk. Gold isn’t just valuable for avoiding the falling value of the dollar, it’s most valuable because it doesn’t depend on anyone else “coming through”.
In other words, gold cannot default. That’s more than can be said for the US dollar, which is ultimately an IOU. Or, as our CEO Keith Weiner wrote at Forbes, it’s a slice of debt owed by the Federal Reserve.
And it’s actually something that may become more in demand during these days of crisis. Investors hold their dollars, after all, in financial institutions which had to be bailed out pretty hard back in 2008. We now seem to be in the midst of another financial crisis. How likely is another round of bailouts going forward?
Additionally, perhaps you remember MF Global, whose clients lost all their money back in 2011 (predicted well by the popular “It’s gone!” South Park clip). Not to mention the possibility of “bail-ins” in this day and age – which reared their ugly head back in 2013 in Cyprus.
Who escaped from these situations completely unscathed? Gold owners.
The point is that gold, while not sexy, is no one else’s liability. That’s perhaps the top reason to own it. And Larry Light doesn’t even mention it.
Who Invests in Gold?
Light tells us that the “smart money” doesn’t invest in gold. (Though he then concedes that gold does benefit an investment portfolio in small doses because of diversification – which lowers overall volatility and raises returns). He notes, as an example, that the Texas Teachers’ Retirement System puts only 1% of its portfolio towards gold.
But Light misses the obvious reason why institutions like Texas Teachers don’t allocate more to gold. Institutional investors are all about yield. They need to earn a yield on their capital so that they can support their programs going forward. That is their mandate. And until recently, gold offered zero yield.
Gold Does Offer a Yield
Big news! We no longer live in a world where gold doesn’t earn a yield. Monetary Metals has been paying interest on gold since 2016 – between 2.0% and 4.5% annual (with minimum investment levels at 10 ounces for gold, 1000 ounces in silver).
If you can get that kind of return on your gold, then that’s one more reason why investors shouldn’t “stay the hell away from it.”
Take a look at this chart, comparing a traditional 60/40 stock portfolio with a portfolio that adds just a 4% allocation to gold. Then replace that gold allocation with gold that pays a yield at 3.5% annually.
(Results based on backtesting simulations of multiple portfolios using custom data sets with assumptions. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. For more information on the assumptions and the data used for this chart, please download our white paper The Case for Gold Yield in Investment Portfolios)
The contrast is striking. It’s clear that adding some gold to your portfolio increases returns and adding gold-with-yield increases them significantly more.
Overall, we find that Light is doing his readers a disservice. Not only is he shoo-ing investors away from the one financial asset that is no one else’s liability – and an option that is extremely valuable in times of crisis – he’s unaware that gold is no longer a yield-free, dead metal.
Gold-with-a-yield is a reality now. And it’s a game-changer. It merits consideration in a well-diversified investment portfolio – even at $1900 an ounce.
Add Gold to Your Portfolio
To learn more about improving the performance of your investment portfolio and investing in gold that pays a yield, download our white paper The Case for Gold Yield in Investment Portfolios. Or schedule a call with a Monetary Metals team member and get started earning interest on gold today!
https://monetary-metals.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/WHAT-featured.jpg 630 1500 Addison Quale http://monetary-metals.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/MM-MonetaryMetals-Unlock-Homepage-295x62.png Addison Quale2020-07-29 06:31:322020-07-30 11:02:22Stay Away From Gold?!?
dclinde says:
Usually for an asset class to significantly move the needle on a portfolio, you need at least a 10% allocation. That gold-with-a-yield can do that with a 4% allocation is very impressive and indeed a game-changer.
Dickson Buchanan says:
Hello dclinde,
Thank you for your comment. Agreed. The larger the allocation the more impact it will have on the overall performance of the portfolio. In our white paper, we run backtests for several different model portfolios, including one with a 10% allocation to “gold with yield” and another with a 20% allocation to “gold with yield.” You can access the paper for free here: http://goldyield.monetary-metals.com/the-case-for-gold
Hi Keith.
It’s the first time I can recall you directly making the argument for gold as an unencumbered asset (otherwise known as “Collateral”, or simply “Money”) vs. being someone else’s liability.
That, plus the ability to earn a respectable yield on owned gold that’s consistent with the risk undertaken, ought to be all a skeptical gold investor needs to understand to decide on that 4%+ allocation. It’s simplostoc enough for even a money manager working for a Teachers’ Union to explain to her clients.
Whoops! Credit to Addison for this article!
Back of the envelope numbers:
Total wealth of the world $360 Trillion.
What if 4% were allocated to holding gold?
That’d be $14.4 Trillion allocated to holding
the world’s stock of gold, which may be 200,000 metric tonnes or 7,054,792,000 ounces.
Or roughly $2,041/ounce.
So in a sense, the world is almost at this portfolio allocation.
If only all of it were deposited in a Monetary Metals account 😉
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Netflix Cancels ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’
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It got great reviews from critics, it was adored by fans of the cult movie that inspired it, and last week it won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program — the first winner in that category for its streaming home, Netflix.
None of that was enough to get the show a second season.
Yes, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is done at Netflix after just a single run of ten hand-crafted episodes. Those episodes premiered over a year ago, in late August of 2019, and since then Netflix has given no word about a potential return. Today, producer Lisa Henson gave a statement to io9, confirming that a second season of Age of Resistance would not be coming. It read:
We can confirm that there will not be an additional season of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. We know fans are eager to learn how this chapter of The Dark Crystal saga concludes and we’ll look for ways to tell that story in the future. Our company has a legacy of creating rich and complex worlds that require technical innovation, artistic excellence, and masterful storytelling. Our history also includes productions that are enduring, often finding and growing their audience over time and proving again and again that fantasy and science fiction genres reflect eternal messages and truths that are always relevant.
While Netflix cranks out new movies and shows every week of the year, this has increasingly become part of their rep: They cancel shows freely and readily. Almost nothing lasts there for longer than a handful of seasons — even many popular shows. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is just their latest victim. In canceling the show, Netflix seems to be putting its Dark Crystal on track to join the original 1982 movie as a cult classic that went under-appreciated in its day, only to find a wider and more appreciative audience later in life. If you missed the show, it is still available on Netflix.
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Federal Agents Comb Through Austal USA Shipyard as Part of Apparent Financial Investigation
By: Sam LaGrone, Ben Werner and Megan Eckstein
January 24, 2019 4:07 PM • Updated: January 24, 2019 5:40 PM
USS Tulsa (LCS-16) launched on March 15, 2017. Austal USA photo.
This post has been updated to include additional information on Austal USA’s financial history with the Littoral Combat Ship program.
Federal agents visited Littoral Combat Ship manufacturer Austal USA in its Mobile, Ala., shipyard as part of an unspecified investigation involving the U.S. Navy, according to local media.
“Department of Defense, NCIS and [the Defense Criminal Investigative Service] have been seen on site,” according to NBC 15 in Mobile, Ala.
“Investigators are expected to be on site for several hours.”
In a brief Thursday statement, Austal said the company was cooperating with authorities but gave no additional details as to the nature of the inquiry.
“Austal USA is working with the U.S. Navy on an open investigation,” reads the statement. “We are unable to provide additional details due to the nature of the investigation. We are continuing business as usual, executing our existing and recently awarded contracts.”
An Austal USA spokesman did not provide additional information when contacted by USNI News. U.S. Navy officials referred USNI News to the Department of Justice when called for comment.
The Mobile shipyard employs 4,000 workers and builds the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport and Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship for the Navy. Austal USA is the American branch of Australian aluminum shipbuilder Austal. Earlier Thursday, Australian media reported Austal was under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission over market updates related to losses around the Independence-class LCS.
The Australian authorities are said to be focusing on statements issued by Austal regarding the blow out, or sudden increase in costs, associated with finishing USS Jackson (LCS-6)
On December 10, 2015, Austal announced it was experiencing “schedule and margin pressure on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 6.”
Jackson was a challenging ship in two respects. First, it was the first ship Austal USA had built as the prime contractor, whereas USS Independence (LCS-2) and USS Coronado (LCS-4) were built at the Austal yard with General Dynamics serving as the prime contractor on the project. Second, Jackson was the first LCS to be built under a block buy contract from the Navy. Austal implemented a new manufacturing process for the block buy ships meant to reduce cost and schedule down the line through serial production, but Jackson being the first serial production ship still meant there were lessons to be learned and procedural kinks to be worked out.
Austal officials conceded in the Dec. 2015 statement that their ability to boost LCS earnings through these new production processes did not live up to expectations. Savings on the LCS-8 and LCS-10 production were also more limited than anticipated, Austal officials said in the Dec. 2015 statement.
“Austal’s ability to apply lessons learnt and productivity enhancements from LCS 6 to vessels in advanced construction, namely LCS 8 and LCS 10, has been more limited than anticipated,” the statement said.
“The LCS program is maturing more slowly than we had expected, however we are working hard to manage the risks and expect an improvement across the program after delivery of LCS 10,” Andrew Bellamy, who then served as Austal’s chief executive, said in the December 2015 release.
“Austal has a strong balance sheet and is generating good cash flow, which is enabling further investment in the business during the 2016 financial year to best position the Company to win additional contracts and service work to build our order book, revenue, and earnings into the future.”
However, according to Austal’s Fiscal Year 2016 annual report, the company reported a loss of A$84.2 million, compared to a profit of A$53.2 million in 2015.
A significant portion of the company’s loss for the year was the US $115 million charge Austal recorded to account for the increased cost in LCS construction. The sudden increase in cost was related to work required to make the ships meet the Navy’s military shock testing, according to a July 4, 2016, release from Austal. Jackson conducted full ship shock trials in June and July 2016, which required the shipyard to prepare for the trials and then conduct maintenance afterwards to repair anything that broke during the underwater blast.
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First recipients of COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity grants announced
“The creativity, resourcefulness and desire to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated in these projects … is impressive.”
A group of 20 VCU faculty members received awards to quickly pivot or expand their work to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. (File photo)
By A.J. Hostetler
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Twenty Virginia Commonwealth University faculty members received internal awards to quickly pivot or expand their work to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health system and the community.
Nearly 70 investigators applied for support through the VCU COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation and the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research.
The initial support neared $200,000 in funding, but in light of the large volume of high-quality project proposals submitted, the overall funding was increased to $300,000.
"When the funding opportunity was announced on April 3, VCU researchers across both campuses were ready to hit the ground running to address COVID-19," said F. Gerard Moeller, M.D., director of the Wright Center and associate vice president for clinical research. “It was particularly important to the Wright Center to help fund the exciting biomedical projects included in these applications."
“This opportunity garnered many outstanding proposals that exceeded our expectations,” said P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., vice president for research and innovation. “The creativity, resourcefulness and desire to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated in these projects spanning various disciplines is impressive and hopefully will be impactful. In addition to the 20 projects selected, we are reviewing many other exciting COVID-19 proposals and look forward to announcing further grant recipients in the coming weeks.”
The first group of funding recipients are:
Somaya Albhaisi, MBBCh, School of Medicine, “Virginia Commonwealth University Registry of SARS-CoV-2”
Adam Blandin, Ph.D., School of Business, “Real Time Labor Market Estimates During the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak”
Gregory Buck, Ph.D., School of Medicine, “Epidemiology and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and the Human Microbiome”
Daniel Conway, Ph.D., College of Engineering, “Characterizing the Importance of Nuclear-cytoskeletal Transport in SARS-CoV-2 Viral Pathogenicity”
Dwayne Ray Cormier, Ph.D., School of Education, “Exploring PreK-12 Public School Systems' Pandemic Preparedness During COVID-19 School Closures”
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Richard Armitage, gender trouble, and status expertise
[This is a theoretical post / building block.]
Guy of Gisborne (Richard Armitage) importuned by the Sheriff (Keith Allen) in Robin Hood 2.6. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com
I’ve referred occasionally, particularly while discussing Guy of Gisborne, to what I’ve called Guy’s “gender trouble.” The first time I said it, no one noticed, and the second time, two very astute readers said, “What do you mean?”
I’ve been wanting to write about this idea for years, and just never felt I had the time. Recently a few things came together in my awareness of Armitage, and then I saw a Richard Armitage confession that made me think a lot, and Judi mentioned some of the questions around the gender elements of Guy’s appearance, so it seemed like a good time to start dealing with this question. My attention’s been fragmented, and I’m not sure this is going to be as well-organized as I’d like, but it’s time to starting making good on my insight about writing from the Fall if I want to get somewhere on my goals for the blog.
I’ll begin by defining what I mean (and don’t mean) by “gender trouble” and continue by talking in very general terms about how I think the concept illuminates pieces of Richard Armitage’s work — Guy of Gisborne in particular, but also almost every other major role he’s done from Paul Andrews in Between the Sheets, to the “role of his life” so far, in which gender is up for grabs: Thorin Oakenshield. I did a post on how aspects of this idea applied to John Porter in Strike Back 1.1 without, however, calling it “gender trouble.” I hope to write periodically about how I see this dynamic working itself out both in Armitage’s dramatic performances and its intersections with his performances of self.
Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) expresses concern over Lucas North’s (Richard Armitage) capacity to return to work, in Spooks 7.1. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com
Longtime readers know that I’m a fairly strong opponent of the notion that it’s primarily biological qualities or “human nature” that affect our perception of and response to the person and work of Richard Armitage. My position on questions like this was heavily influenced by my discovery during grad school of the now-famous book, Gender Trouble (1990) by Judith Butler, professor of English at UC-Berkeley. In college, I learned that theorists had come to distinguish between “sex” (the physiological quality of being male or female) and “gender” (the cultural expression of being male or female). This division probably seems relatively uncontroversial, as simple observation of culture reveals changes in femininity and masculinity over time. Butler’s most important contribution to gender studies involved assertions against this view. Gender Trouble presented a series of essays that critiqued the vestiges of essentialist views of sex, gender, and sexuality in the theories of sex and gender then prevalent. Butler argued that sex itself is not inherent in a particular kind of a body, but culturally constructed through a series of acts over time that cause observers to associate (for example) the expression of masculinity in gender with the male physical body and the sexual desires of those two with the notion of a male kind of desire, or sexuality.
In other words, Butler’s most important contribution to gender studies was the idea that sex, gender, and sexuality are performative rather than inherent to a particular form of body. (NB: This assertion makes the concept particularly useful to examining the work of any actor.) On this view, seeing someone whom we identify as “male” is a matter not primarily of identifying the body (sex) of the person who occupies a gender, but rather of understanding the performed actions of the person in relationship to other actors and observers (including ourselves). A simplified way of putting this, on Judith Butler’s view, would be to say that a man is not so much a person who has a penis or a beard, but rather a person who performs masculinity successfully. To put it crudely — we know that Richard Armitage or one of his characters is a man not because he has the necessary (to us as viewers mostly hidden) primary or (in some cases visually prominent, as with the beard) secondary sex characteristics of a male (though he might / does), but rather because he acts like a man. And the masculine quality of a man is never something essential, but always a matter of context (personal, social, historical, cultural). This argument — that our current notions of binary sex are constituted by performances rather than physiology — is probably the most notorious claim associated with Butler’s work.
Harry (Richard Armitage) comes back for one last look at Geraldine (Dawn French) in Vicar of Dibley: The Handsome Stranger. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com
Hope everyone follows the argument that far, even if you disagree. Please note that Butler’s not claiming that there is no such thing as a body or that primary or secondary sex characteristics have no meaning — although, in a point that’s relatively less important to what I want to say about Richard Armitage, she would assert that the physiological qualities of the human body are much less binary than the scientists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have led us to think. Rather, on Butler’s view, the physiological quality of the body comes to have meaning through performances of gender. Her point would be that the perception and meaning of the apparent physiological qualities of sex are created by how people act and how others perceive those actions. So she’s claiming that our perception of the body is unavoidably constituted by culture and society. In order to have a particular physiological sex, Butler would say, one must act that sex out via a performance of gender. Only then, through perception, does one come to embody a particular sex.
Additionally, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Butler went on to note that performances of sex, gender, and sexuality are not exclusively independent choices made by the person performing them. As a person becomes a man via his performance of masculinity, he does not decide himself or on his own or even necessarily consciously how to do so. Rather, in identifying himself as a man, performing masculinity, and experiencing male desire, he both acts in response to and in turn contributes to systems of social rules about masculinity. (I would call these “discourses,” but I know that raises hackles among a certain group of readers). These social rules (Foucault called them “disciplinary regimes” because they have the effect of coercing results) make a gender appear “natural” (so that we say that certain elements of performing masculinity are inherent, natural, biological, etc.) Note that an important component of this activity in our society is the performance of the other gender in the binary system, as well as the performance of gender transgressions of various kinds — so that when fans like us react to a performance as particularly “masculine,” we not only act to define that term, but in doing so, we also perform our gender (whatever that is) ourselves.
*** John Porter makes a crack about “conjugal visits” when Layla (Jodhi May) appears in Chikurubi Prison, in Strike Back 1.3. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com
Drawing in Foucault raises a third essential moment of Butler’s argument: performances of gender are a means of constituting and negotiating power between parties involved. Not all performances are successful, not all are created equal; some are deliberately parodic; but a successful performance of gender is one that offers its performers a means of taking or losing or mediating power as the performer desires.
Summary of this section, then:
When I write, in the analysis of a scene, that an Armitage character finds himself in gender trouble or creates gender trouble, I am arguing that something in Armitage’s performance of gender in that particular setting makes the traditional or expected gender/power axis unstable.
I would also argue that Armitage’s games with, or even at times outright subversion of, gender performances constitute a striking feature of his acting style, which brings me to my next point, but.
How could it be otherwise? Two caveats.
Mr. Thornton (Richard Armitage) kisses Margaret (Daniela Denby-Ashe) in episode 4 of North & South. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com
Before I get there. First. Longtime readers of the Armitage blogosphere may remember a few posts that RAFrenzy wrote in response to Strike Back and Spooks 9 about Richard Armitage as alpha or beta male in various roles he played (particularly here and here). I’m not so much disagreeing with her as taking a different, more contextual, performance-oriented route to approaching my discussion of Armitage and gender. The main similarity in her argument to mine is the congruence that we can observe varieties of ways to appear male and that Armitage’s work mixes these varieties up in interesting ways. However, I wouldn’t have chosen that schematic for explaining Armitage’s work. First, in its original articulation, the alpha / beta distinction is essentialist in its reliance on dynamics of animal behavior. Second, I haven’t found it very useful for explaining human interactions, mostly because the exercise of gender power is so much more subtle than simply whether someone is acting aggressively or less aggressively. In my perception, power, its expression, and its exercise are more complicated than simply dominance and submission, leadership or hanging back, silence or articulation. Alpha / beta discussions assume the very standards that I’m trying to critique here — and that I think Richard Armitage’s performances often subvert. I want to decide from within the scene just exactly how Armitage’s work assess and attacks, overtakes, or undermines the gender dynamics, not start from a previous assumption about what exactly constitutes dominance (and whether Armitage’s performance achieves that standard). Finally, the circulation of gender performances and power are not unidirectional; they do not result solely from the choices of a performer, but also emerge in the responses provoked in him and which he provokes in others. I’m hoping that gender trouble will provide a more diffuse, less rigid framework for looking at Armitage’s work than comparisons to biologistic schemata.
And second: It’s really important to me to emphasize the contextual quality of the arguments I will be making. Although I think certain patterns in Armitage’s manipulation of or responses to gender / power in his dramatic work can be observed, I am not talking about Armitage’s own personal notions of gender or sexuality, about which I have the necessary information to say exactly nothing, and I will keep it that way. I know that some people will misunderstand what I’m saying here on purpose in order to serve their own ends, so let me say clearly: I AM TALKING ONLY ABOUT ARMITAGE’S PERFORMANCES OF SEX, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY HERE. When I say, “Armitage performs sex / gender / sexuality in the following way,” I am not saying “Armitage’s sex / gender / sexuality is as follows.” To assert “Armitage performs desire” is not the same as asserting “Armitage desires.” I have a lot of information about the first and none about the second. I hope everyone keeps this difference in mind as they read these posts.
So, to summarize what I’ve been trying to say so far: Armitage’s acting draws interest, I will argue, via its gender performances.
Lucas North (Richard Armitage) the moment after kissing Sarah for the first time in Spooks 7.2. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com
What I want to add as a second but equally important point is also verges on something I’ve talked about before; that is, Armitage’s use of power and status negotiations between characters in his acting. Understanding Armitage’s work from the perspective of performances of gender enhances our capacity to evaluate them as performances that are inherently and always about power and negotiating power. Even more than the creation of gender trouble in Armitage’s acting, the theme of status negotiation may be the most striking feature of his work. Armitage is what one calls, as I’ve mentioned before, a status expert. At the time I broached that topic, there was some suspicion of what I was saying, apparently, but I think it’s perhaps clearer now that the matter of power plays a role in his own thinking, in light of his own remarks about his status vis-a-vis Gandalf (and how Ian McKellen gave Armitage his status) and what he’s said about the nature of Thorin’s leadership in some of the press about The Hobbit.
Armitage uses both conscious and unconscious moves, along with an employment of some of his more marked physical characteristics, to negotiate power. I’m thinking about things like the variable permeability of physical boundaries that he signals with his body; hand, chin, lip, mouth, eye, and head position playing counterintuitively against the status he gains by being tall; particular gestures that we see often enough from him that they appear to belong to a repertoire (though Thorin Oakenshield has significantly complicated an assessment of such tendencies). I’m also thinking of characteristic styles of speaking, particular vocal timbres and pitches that signal particular emotional responses; and the way that all of the above are used to create responses that in turn provoke.
I had originally planned to talk about some examples of this second point, but I am going to leave it for now and hopefully move on to examples as soon as I can.
And I want to add one last point — Armitage’s performances of gender and power are executed in ways that may be likely to appeal to particular segments of a female audience. Now there’s a cliffhanger assertion.
More soon.
~ by Servetus on July 29, 2013.
Posted in Richard Armitage
Tags: acting, gender trouble, Guy of Gisborne, John Porter, Judith Butler, Lucas North, Mr. Thornton, Richard Armitage
101 Responses to “Richard Armitage, gender trouble, and status expertise”
“I know that some people will misunderstand what I’m saying here on purpose in order to serve their own ends…” Question:
When you state this, do you mean it as a general assertion of human behavior in the inevitable statistical sense of the number of possible reactions, or are you specifically thinking about one or more people you have chosen no to name in order not to fuel the fire? What catches my attention is the use of the words “on purpose”. I ask because – if you did not have anyone specific in mind when you wrote that – then it makes it sound like you believe that those who say they disagree with you or simply do not understand what you are saying or where you are coming from. are pretending to do so in order to rile you up. The whole sentence stuck me as strange. If your reasons are private and none of my business, please accept my apologies. Thank you.
mujertropical said this on July 29, 2013 at 7:17 am | Reply
Whenever I break into a controversial topic, someone misstates my actual position despite my ability to point out with textual evidence that what I said neither states nor implies their misstatement. This has happened to me at least five times now. And no amount of me pointing out to those readers that I didn’t say what they said I said, nor is it a necessary conclusion of what I said, has stopped attacks on me. I love thoughtful discussion. But I’m no longer naive. I know this blog has readers who are not of good will. Not understanding and disagreement with a claim are very different things than saying, “Servetus, you are saying X” when I am not in fact doing that and the text of my assertions is visible for all to see.
You might extrapolate from what I would say here something that is a possible extrapolation, but which I am not saying. It’s fine to extrapolate — your thoughts are your own and not mine — but readers need to take responsibility for those thoughts as their own extrapolations and not tage them as assertions of mine.
Since I think the issue that I’m talking about it is pretty clear from the examples given in that paragraph, I don’t think I need to say any more. If it turns out that I do need to say a lot more, I’ll continue to write on the topic as it interests me, but I’ll simply close comments. The level of time and energy suck pointing out other people’s cognitive errors is no longer affordable in my world.
Servetus said this on July 29, 2013 at 7:27 am | Reply
Another reason for pretending not to understand this discussion may be to further someone else’s agenda having to do with sexuality … – which is expressly not the topic. Such a professed lack of understanding could drive the discussion in a different direction, on purpose. Something the writer anticipates.
I’m only guessing.
perry322 said this on July 29, 2013 at 7:32 am | Reply
it might be said that I occasionally write via aporias. There are topics I never discuss but I also never say what they are.
I don’t understand how the first element, the physiological fact of being male ( or female), can be performative – unless the term “physiological qualities” means something different from physiological. What is the definition of the noun “sex” if not the fact that one has the equipment and chromosomes , i.e. the biological characteristics, of either male or female –
Aside from that, which I know you will explain, can this be boiled down to “if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck,” it will be perceived as a duck, and if it is perceived as a duck, than it is a duck?
On the first point — it’s a point that’s akin to the argument that scholars of race have been making for several generations now (scholars of race got there first) — not that physiological differences don’t exist (they may. I’m not a strong poststructuralist, so I’d even go so far as to say they possibly do) but that our perceptions also create them. There are many physiological differences in humans that we do not invest with meaning. It is at first the choice to invest the physiological characteristic with meaning (skin color and other features in the case of racism; secondary sex characteristics in the case of sexism) that creates the notion of (in our culture) binary sex as a characteristic. The means of making that investment, Butler would say, is performative (rather than essential).
I’m not sure to what the pronoun in the second paragraph (this / it) refers. But I’m trying pretty hard here following Butler not to create another ontological category. I’m talking only about perceptions of gender as a means of power negotiations.
The “it” meant the specific individual being perceived, i.e it’s up to the duck to act like and look like how we think a duck should act, and then we’ll recognize it as a duck. But Ok, anyway- you answered my question based on the first paragraph.
ah, I see. yes, I am saying that for the purposes of gender the perception and conditioning of the performance serves as the reality. This is a point that works really well with regarding to talking about acting. I’m less convinced of its applicability to things like (say) childbirth. I do happen to think people have bodies.
You would be surprised knowing sex is a matter of quantity and not quality even in genetic. We all have the same “possibility” then something (depending you are XX or XY) develops or not. Even physiological sexuality is not a Yes/No thing. Everything is more blurred than we can think.
micra1 said this on July 29, 2013 at 7:57 am | Reply
This was an issue that Butler had been interested in when she wrote her early works — the assignment of gender to gender-ambiguous bodies and the gender “misidentification” of people with a particular chromosome combination that would indicate one gender as a member of the other gender, which is apparently fairly frequent (something like 10% of the population). The tendency in the twentieth century, too, was to constitute chromosome combinations like (say) XXY as “errors” rather than as legitimate sexes in their own right, due to cultural constitutions of gender.
Very interesting post. I will read your next ones on the subject with great pleasure and interest (I also have to read the ones you linked here). I’d say I agree with you about gender perception and the difference betwen sex and gender. I like your cliffhanger final assertion. Waiting for more 😉
That question (why Armitage and women?) was the one that finally pushed me out of the closet on this question — I don’t know how this is going to go or how regular this will be but I will be doing my best.
Fascinating. Looking forward to the next part immensely. Am particularly interested in this as I soak up most everything I can find on gender politics and self-identification in the Middle East and South-East Asia (particularly the latter — India’s hijras ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia) are an example) and am very interested in this topic here in our own culture as well. I’ll look forward to more. 😀 Hooray!
Christine (msgigglepants) said this on July 29, 2013 at 7:46 am | Reply
That’s a nice example of what Butler would see as instance of potential gender troubling as it demonstrates her point about the cultural creation of physiological sex (in this case the physiological quality of male is a category that doesn’t really apply). Butler would also call lesbianism a different gender.
Yes. While we were in India in December, I actually saw the hijra in action, along with some of the different status variations of the phenomenon. We also saw a version of it in Bali, but not from an informed perspective.
Okay, I’m following, interesting stuff, learning new words (biologistic schemata). But did that last line mean you’re really going to tell us? Why women of a “particular segment” cough (age?) and Armitage? Or am I still just water wings in the shallow end.
CarlyQ said this on July 29, 2013 at 9:11 am | Reply
And something even more diabolical raises it’s head in my world…is he doing it, knowing exactly what he’s doing? I mean, fully understanding his appeal to a “particular segment”? Because then I feel, manipulated, cheated, not sure? Or is is back to our old friends, biology, society, training…it’s is so late at night for me to still be typing….
I think it’s part of the success of his performance that we can’t really tell. All performances are to some extent intentional and manipulative. They also always have unconscious elements.
Servetus said this on July 29, 2013 at 6:07 pm | Reply
yeah, I’m going to hypothesize about that.
That’s great 🙂 I can’t wait for your hipotheses, Servetus! ..and thank you for this very interesting post….( I always suspected that I’m a bad performer 😉 )
Joanna said this on July 29, 2013 at 11:26 pm | Reply
me, too. can’t be *rsed. 🙂
Tip-toeing around your stake, Servetus… I admire your courage and wait eagerly for part two; though I’ll probably find myself in disagreement as I often do, these posts are always stimulating. Thank you.
movie said this on July 29, 2013 at 10:32 am | Reply
Disagreement is fine. Just given stuff in the fandom I need to make clear what I’m not discussing 🙂
Completely fascinating. You are stretching my brain, and I love it! Please continue as you are able to do so. I really feel you are onto something essential with regard to the perrenial question: Why Richard?
Lynneloubielat said this on July 29, 2013 at 11:36 am | Reply
That’s what I want to know, too. Why Richard? (and why us?)
I am hanging on your every word. The reason being I have been confused by the wide range of comments concerning the different perceptions of Thorin’s “actions” in the Hobbit. Is he flirting with Bilbo in one scene? Does he truly feel his manhood is being questioned when Gandalf takes over the company? I only saw him at first as man conflicted by his past…I had to go back and rewatch it to look for those scenes. Then there’s the FANART. What a wide range that is! At least now I think someone is ‘splainin’ it to me. I am not ready yet to get into the whole Mr. Thornton thing yet. Thanks, Serv. xoxox
TheArkenstone said this on July 29, 2013 at 1:17 pm | Reply
YES. FANTASTIC comment here. One of the recent things that helped to push me over to speaking about this was the confusion among fans on so many levels about Thorin’s gender / sexuality. It’s an interesting problem — do dwarves have gender? And the fact that fan response to that question (on the level of Thorin confessions, fanfic, discussions about honor, etc.) is so multivalent means that Thorin is a prime example of gender trouble.
This is really fascinating and I look forward to reading more of your thoughts and the readers’ reactions. While RA may or may not be familiar with Butler, I suspect he gives much thought to these types of issues when creating a character’s biography.
For example, why insist on remaining nude during Lucas’ torture scenes when the director offered to allow him to wear some clothing? Was it because of the stark contrast between traditional hallmarks of physical masculinity which exude strength, power and control compared with the degradation, humiliation and utter powerlessness caused by what was happening, and the recognition of a person being considered vulnerable when unclothed (at least according to some cultural standards)? I don’t join CarlyQ’s fear that he works within blurred gender roles to ensnare a female audience of any type–I think it’s simply an actor making choices so that the character makes sense to him and becomes more alive. For example, his recent comment that he would have asked Tolkien if Thorin had a love of his life, and his surmising there would likely have been a princess, was not, I believe, a moment of “Gee, let’s see how many of these ladies will say ‘awwww, isn’t that adorable'” but really a question a thinking actor would have. Thorin as heir to the throne would certainly have had a match, even with the scarcity of dwarf females, because of his status, whether he wanted one or not. Power and wealth would have made him an attractive choice and the necessity to continue the line of Durin would have played a part as well. But it is much more complicated–was it a political match or a love match or both? If he “lost” her along with the throne, was she killed during the attack (prompting even more personal sorrow) did she reject him because he no longer had status and had failed to protect his people, or even her own family (increasing Thorin’s humiliation and shame) or (what I believe) did his shame and need to take back Erebor cause him to jettison someone who was personally meaningful to foster the welfare of his people (highlighting his nobility)? There are hundreds of clues as to Thorin’s character which would have been filled in if Tolkien stated whether or not Thorin had a partner or possible partner and what his feelings toward her and interactions with her were like. RA is an intelligent enough actor to have considered the possibilities to form his character. Does he smile at Kili simply because he is fond of his nephew or is he also wistfully envisioning a son he didn’t have? Would he be a less bitter man-even with having lost his throne-if he had regular interactions with a partner? How would Thorin’s exhibited masculinity be different depending on the answer to the question RA would have liked Tolkien to answer?
Northern gal said this on July 29, 2013 at 1:55 pm | Reply
I think it’s unlikely that Armitage has read Butler. Although it’s a kind of academic bestseller (and came out before he went to drama school), it’s not the kind of book that anyone would pick up casually unless they were incredibly interested in central questions of feminism and I don’t read him as that. Establishing a chain of causality doesn’t require me to postulate him having read it, however — Butler is describing general forces operating in our world. He wouldn’t have to be explicitly aware of them to have them operate within his thinking. What I’m saying is that we pick up indices of the issue of gender trouble in his work because gender trouble is a feature of our world. We can use Butler to help us understand it because she describes that phenomenon. I’m mostly going to leave Butler behind after this — but I needed her to establish that gender is performative rather than essential.
I think you’re absolutely correct in what you say about Armitage’s remarks about Thorin’s “lost love.” If he thinks about Thorin as an entity, one of his primary questions is who are Thorin’s most important relationships going to be with. And I agree that the fact that he wants to fulfill some sort of realism in certain settings that in turn involves toplessness is also an index of his thinking imaginatively about what realism involves. (Realism is also an aesthetic effect; we could call its form verisimilitude. We could talk about that, too, but it’s a more conventional effect of all acting at the moment. Realistic/naturalistic performances are currently in style.) What that assertion (Armitage is thinking about how to make something look real) points out to me is that gender trouble (gender / sex / power negotiations) are a feature of our world, whether Armitage addresses them explicitly or not.
Now: it is also observable –we have seen it– that a statement about Thorin’s lost love is going to provoke, has provoked, certain reactions in an audience listening to that remark. That is *also* a gender performance (on both sides — Armitage’s statement, audience responses). But it is a separate gender performance than the question of how who Thorin might have loved affects Armitage’s performance of Thorin.
I’m looking forward to future posts on this subject, to see how you apply this to specific characters. right now what you’ve said is just floating around in my brain, waiting for examples to apply it to in order for me to get a real grasp on what you’re saying 🙂
kelbel75 said this on July 29, 2013 at 2:45 pm | Reply
yeah. The concept itself took enough space to explain that I thought I should stay away from examples. Although the illustrations may give you something to think about. But the days when I can write 10k word posts are probably over at least temporarily.
What a fascinating post, especially your cliff-hanger! If you’re going where I think you’re going, I look forward immensely to further posts on this subject. I don’t know if it is a deliberately malicious manipulative method of acting designed to appeal to a certain “type”. I think it more likely that he saw the response to N&S and purposely honed those mannerisms/methods in order to keep up the success. I cannot imagine how such a response as he won with N&S would not inform his further work. It seems to me that he is obsessed with his work, and having cottoned on to what succeeds, he would be a fool not to capitalize on it. And a fool he is not, I think.
chaifreak said this on July 29, 2013 at 2:52 pm | Reply
This! I agree! (but I think is manipulative…)
movie said this on July 29, 2013 at 4:12 pm | Reply
I agree that it is manipulative, just not maliciously manipulative.
I don’t think there’s a real strong line between doing something deliberately and doing something unconsciously, except in our heads (do I feel manipulated?) I would say that on some level if we feel manipulated, that’s the sign of a unsuccessful performance. Performances are supposed to hide their traces so they appear “natural.” For myself, I don’t ever feel manipulated by Armitage himself, certainly not when I am watching his work, perhaps occasionally when I am watching him. I often feel manipulated in the last year or so, however, by the Hobbit marketing machine. If we want to talk about maliciousness — I think it’s hard to charge an actor with maliciousness (and I know you are not, but what you say gets to the question of intentionality). An actor just wants you to believe him in a role, to find his work convincing. Presumably the viewer wants that as well. If that succeeds, is that malicious? Is some harm intended? Yes, the actor gains from having succeeded, but that was his goal all along. It would only be malicious if the actor sought to gain something from the interaction that was not actually real. But everything about acting is illusion — the point of acting is that you believe something that is not real while watching it.
Yeah, in acting, both the actor and the audience are willing participants in the deception. As an audience member you know it’s a story, but you’ve agreed to believe it for the purpose of your own gratification. Intentional, yes. Deliberate, yes. But how can it be malicious? I don’t think that’s possible.
saraleee said this on July 29, 2013 at 7:39 pm | Reply
I wonder if all handsome actors are analyzed as deeply as this young man has been. Maybe he is just a really cool guy.
Janet E. Nisbett` said this on July 29, 2013 at 3:01 pm | Reply
Nothing I said precludes him being “a really cool guy,” Janet. But this is an analytical blog, so I’m going to analyze. In the end, I will never know what Richard Armitage is really like. My data don’t support that. What I’m looking at here is his performance — I am evaluating his work and its effect on me.
Oh, what an interesting and thought-provoking post! I like the way you (or maybe it’s Butler) distinguish between sex and gender — that’s very helpful to me.
Yes, it seems to me that gender roles are socially and culturally dictated, like when people say that if a guy does a certain thing, he’ll “lose his Man Card,” as if being a man is not just a biological fact, but something that can be diminished or lost by one’s thoughts or actions. And I felt like women didn’t have this same problem, because (thanks in large part to feminism) women today are able to do many things once considered unfeminine and still be womanly. Not entirely, but mostly.
And with respect to Richard Armitage’s performances, I’ve always believed that the reason he has garnered such a devoted female fandom was because in his roles he shows us a man who thinks and acts the way women think men think and act. He communicates the thoughts and feelings of his character in a way that makes complete sense to me. Still, I couldn’t figure out why it should be that other talented actors didn’t produce performances that resonated in me on such a profound level — they should have, because the attitudes and emotions these others expressed were also universally understandable. But they were being expressed by someone who was different from me in some indefinable way (sorry, I don’t know if that makes sense. I mean that I would have to think to myself, “If I were him, I would feel that way,” and not “Yes, I feel that way too”).
Until you expressed this idea of negotiating power and status in relationships, I couldn’t figure out why he had such an effect on me, but I think that may be a big part of it.
I’m looking forward to more on this subject. Thanks, Servetus.
Leaving aside questions about what feminism has achieved (too big a topic for me), I think it’s an important question about why so many women identify *with* Armitage either as opposed to or even as they find him attractive on gender terms — and his performances of power through gender get at that question.
Yes! Women identify with him, as well as finding him attractive. I see that in the fanfic depictions of his characters.
I think women identify with him because what he brings to characters is the universe of complex emotions common to all humans. How that is filtered though (or perhaps filtered by) gender is fascinating and the interpretation of the actor’s work need not be limited to the gender identification chosen by the actor. There is no reason to think men aren’t capable of responding similarly, although due to societal constraints, many men would not feel comfortable discussing or identifying with certain common aspects of the human condition, such as vulnerability based on something other than lack of political, financial or physical power or deep desire unconnected to money, power or sex (the act). Although, oddly enough, how many great pieces of literature and art, created by men, have explored these very things? This is why I think traditional American gender stereotypes (and I limit this to the US as it is the only place I’ve lived) does a disservice to men–they are culturally conditioned not to explore “non-masculine” emotions or perceptions. But that’s a whole other topic!
Note that I am not saying “gender is the only way to express emotion” or “gender is the only way Armitage expresses emotion.” I am saying “gender is a prominent way in which Armitage does that.”
All actors strive to portray emotions. All audiences interpret particular strategies for expressing emotions within the cultural frameworks that condition their responses. What makes a particular actor unique are the means to which he resorts for doing that. What I will argue here is that Armitage often does that by subtle creations of gender trouble.
Sorry, Servetus. I suppose I was unclear–I meant the emotions which his performance evokes from the viewer and was not entirely focusing on just how RA expresses himself. Long day here and words are not my best friend at the moment. LOL.
Northern gal said this on July 29, 2013 at 10:42 pm | Reply
Lots of food for thought here. I’m looking forward to further posts on this subject.
Little Red said this on July 29, 2013 at 6:43 pm | Reply
Wow, to say this post is thought-provoking would be an understatement. Having discovered Thorin fan fic, I was wondering why character ran the gamut of sexual preferences. Watching the movie I did not feel any sexual ambiguity from the characters. it just wasn’t on my radar. I even asked my son who used to write and read a lot of Manga why there is so much m/m parings for this movie. Was it because Thorin gave BIlbo a big hug on the carrock? He said that happens all the time in fan fic and the carrock scene didn’t have anything to do with it. But would this choice of hugging create gender trouble and would it not be the director’s choice? I guess what I would like to explore is how much gender trouble comes from Richard. the writers or director since film is such a collaborative medium. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I apologize in advance if I am off base. I am still unclear on what gender trouble is exactly. Is it sending a subtle message of gender ambiguity? Is it something old movie stars like John Wayne didn’t explore and now actors feel freer to do? Like all good writers, you raise many more questions than you answer. Well done, even if your post went way over my head.
Kathy Jones said this on July 29, 2013 at 8:44 pm | Reply
I have to sit here by Kathy Jones for a bit! Thanks for letting me know I’m not the only one who didn’t realize there was such a question about Thorin. I don’t regularly read other blogs, or get on Tumblr, though I have read some Hobbit fanfic that I saw on Legenda. I was aware of Bagginshield and Durincest but not that there was so much discussion about that among fans.
I’m curious to hear what you think about how much of it is up to PJ and other directors/writers, what feeling or question are they trying to raise with these moments. Or is it only Mr. Armitage in that scene that would bring on that discussion. Ex. If another actor were portraying Thorin and hugging Bilbo, would there still be so much discussion? What about a Fili/Bilbo hug or a Kili/Bilbo hug.
Thanks Kathy, for reading my mind.
CarlyQ said this on July 29, 2013 at 9:02 pm | Reply
I’m confused too ladies 😉 that’s why I said it will be floating around in my brain until the future posts with examples. I would expect this kind of discussion about Guy, but not Thorin. Thorin seems very “manly” to me, so the thought that there is “gender trouble” in relation to him has thrown me off. and personally, that word “trouble” is prickling under my skin, it makes me feel defensive for some reason.
I’m totally with you on Guy! That poor man suffered more creepy attention from the sheriff ….I’ll never get over the look on his face at the arrow slap to the backside… 0_0
Now that we’ve mentioned Guy I’m thinking about how “sleek” Mr. Armitage has been in most of his pre-hobbit work and also how graceful he seems to naturally be and I wonder if that contributes to the trouble?
Appearance is definitely one aspect of performing gender.
She means that word in the same sense as that song, “Wade in the Water” … “for the Lord’s gonna trouble the water.” It means something like “stir up,” “roil,” or in its figurative sense, to say something troubles one means that one is occupied with it. I picked the concept on purpose in place of the more common “gender confusion” because I don’t think anyone, Armitage, characters or fellow actors, is actually confused about gender.
thank you for that clarification 🙂 that word kept throwing up walls for me when I tried to wrap my head around this. I was looking at it as “gender confusion” 😉
yes, i needed that clarification too. I was reading this post and was a little perturbed as to why what you were describing was considered “trouble” (i.e. something negative, something needing to be rectified).
Llory said this on August 17, 2013 at 8:49 pm | Reply
Thanks for the comment and welcome!
Servetus said this on August 17, 2013 at 8:57 pm | Reply
To add a bit, this is also part of why I put that long caveat in there. There are some people who are going to claim that what I’m saying is that Armitage is somehow not masculine. I’m not claiming that. I’m saying that his performances make traditional hierarchical gender axes less stable in productive ways.
You know I find him terribly feminine myself so…NOT….where was I.. oh yes, but the innate grace and the vigorous wax/shave regimen make him more gender ambiguous as Guy or Porter or Lucas? N’est pas? I mean, to me, Thorin is the least gender ‘troubled’ character I think I’ve seen him play.
I’m sure you’re going to clear all this up….err, please?
I was just thinking how much more fun this conversation would be, on a beach, in Greece, with some wine and Mr. Armitage moderating. (and giving me the odd definition here or there to words that are beyond my current vocab)
I am so there. I’ll bring the wine if you bring Richard.
Kathy Jones said this on July 30, 2013 at 3:13 am | Reply
Okay. I don’t know anything about wine so that works great for me.
I think it depends on how you interpret a character who doesn’t have a human gender. Some people are more inclined to accept that silence and not think about it, while others read the silence on gender in a different way, by filling in certain blanks in the story.
that’s a really interesting perspective. I fit the former category, and have always been baffled by the latter type of people.
i just assumed that all the unconventional pairings of Thorin with this character or Thorin with that character were because fandom … is fandom. Fandom is just nutty. But this casts it in a different light… that maybe fanfic writers (and fan art illustrators) are just experimenting with the concept of gender. Maybe their conceptions of gender and sexuality are just more open-minded than mine…
If you wanted to ask questions about gender (or if gender were more fluid that it is represented as being), fantasy would be the best place to accomplish that. LOTR is a *very* male world (PJ’s attempts to add a female character to it notwithstanding).
I’m there with you about Thorin and seeing no “gender trouble” performance . He seems all male Dwarf to me. Ha!
Gratiana Lovelace said this on July 31, 2013 at 3:14 am | Reply
And then some….
Those are all great questions, Kathy Jones. It’s true that fanfic, manga, etc. are more open to all kinds of gender trouble (I read a fanfic yesterday where a pregnant Kili, who’d been impregnated by Fili, was observed by a proud Thorin to be giving birth to cats with Bilbo as midwife). Some genres demand greater or lesser avoidance in adherence to gender convention.
Part of talking something about as gender trouble is gets away from saying, “this is happening because the actor / director did x”. It points out that gender readings and acts come from all over the place.
One consequence of gender trouble can be sending a message about ambiguous gender. That’s not the only one, though.
homoeroticism is one permutation of gender trouble, as is drag.
Sorry, I meant you are welcome to CarlyQ for sitting next to me.
Sometimes on these comment threads I’ll occasionally hide behind people too….
Não sei o porque de toda essa análise e discussões, só sei que, para mim, RA reune em si mesmo as caracteristicas e a beleza dos 3 homens mais lindos e machos que conheço: Hugh Jackman, Gerard Buttler e James MacVoy.
Em poucas palavras, RA é para mim o resumo de tudo oque vem a minha mente quando penso na palavra HOMEM !! Beijos! Obrigada por postar…
Regina said this on July 29, 2013 at 8:54 pm | Reply
Thanks for the comment and welcome. My response would be: why do you identify those particular features / actors as masculine? That’s the kind of question that Butler seeks to answer.
Well, , I’m going to reveal myself as an intellectual lightweight here, but I just don’t understand the connection with gender performance and power negotiations. I have not read Butler or Foucault. Are you saying that the performance of masculine gender is to appear dominant, and the performance of feminine gender is to appear to be submissive? So that when Armitage uses “feminine” attributes in his performance WHILE he is also performing those of a “masculine” nature, that = gender trouble? Sorry for being dense!
marieastra8 said this on July 29, 2013 at 10:44 pm | Reply
No. I’m saying something pretty different. I’m saying that the performance of gender and power contingent on particular situations in which we see it expressed. Masculine is *not* the same as dominant; feminine is *not* the same as submissive. Gender trouble results from any situation in which gender and power relations begin to appear unstable because of the actions of the participants.
Servetus said this on July 29, 2013 at 10:47 pm | Reply
OK. I’m going to back out of this because I really don’t undertand. The performance of gender and power is contingent on particular situations in which we see it expressed. Maybe I’ll understand when you give examples in a later post. Sorry! Don’t pay any attention to me.
We can’t give a definition to gender or power until we see them. They do not have essential definitions outside of a particular setting in which we identify them. Their definitions depend on their context. (This is why we cannot say masculine=dominant for every case.)
so is the focus more on the actions themselves, rather than the being who is performing them?
kelbel75 said this on July 29, 2013 at 11:07 pm | Reply
yes — this is what it means to say gender is performative — we only know it, indeed it only exists, when we see it being performed.
Oh, I get it. Thank you for explaining! Don’t we as observers give different definitions depending on our cultural expectations?
Sure — that’s kind of the point of talking about sex as a cultural rather than an essential quality. Armitage and his audiences have to negotiate this as well; the standards for masculinity vary from place to place. In some settings in the US the British accent is coded as not masculine because too “refined.”
Yes, I see that. Thanks.
HAH! The plethora of British accents as too refined. The insularity of the US sometimes boggles the mind.
chaifreak said this on July 30, 2013 at 12:02 am | Reply
well, and US codings of masculinity are often troubled with regard to the question of manners.
Here’s another example of gender trouble that appeared recently:
http://jezebel.com/5946643/reddit-users-attempt-to-shame-sikh-woman-get-righteously-schooled
A woman appears in public as a matter of course with a lot of facial hair and someone is so disturbed that he takes a picture of it and posts it on reddit.
Power iterations:
— woman appears at herself, without bothering to shave / depilate in order to conform to western conventions of femininity. She thus has both prominent breasts and noticeable facial hair and apparently no shame. [Asserts power by not altering her body]
— observer so troubled by this that he not only takes a picture, but also posts it for discussion, apparently with object that women with facial hair should be discursively disciplined. Why? What is the threat of a woman with facial hair? [Asserts power by attempt to discipline woman for not altering her body]
— observers of picture begin to discuss the incident, thus interacting with gender norms, both reinforcing those norms [ick, it’s gross for a woman to have facial hair, she should shave it off] and questioning them.
— story makes it back to woman, who writes a rather kind post explaining why she doesn’t shave [both asserts power — I have a reason for not shaving — but also accepts the boundaries of the discussion, as her comments imply that she accepts the judgment of some observers that she is not beautiful]
— discursive disciplining goes on in the comments, with some people arguing that she is misrepresenting her religion, her position is not innerly consistent, while others argue that she has high self-esteem, etc.
What we have here is the case of a person standing in a line somewhere, reading. Gender trouble occurs because of the enforcement of gender norms — for a woman in the US, standing in line somewhere with a beard is transgressive.
Note that while gender trouble always in some way challenges power norms, in some cases it ends up reaffirming them (especially if the trouble is able to be suppressed or disciplined) and in some cases it ends up destroying them.
I am glad am I late to this one. At first I was not sure what to say, but I have it now. I think it is culture, what ones culture deems ok. Culture can be be as what ones family has as there culture, or country etc. Last springs class comes back to mind for me on this one. It seems I really learned a lot in that class ( back to collage soon again). I also think that people think that there normal is the right normal. Is there such a thing as normal? What is right for one may not be for someone else.
I must get ready for lots of hugs and kisses in less than two weeks. Mr. 70’s family’s culture is big on this and after 24 years with him I guess I am used to it. My poor teen sons, they live it.
Looking forward to what you have to say next.
katie70 said this on July 30, 2013 at 1:32 am | Reply
hugging and kissing you!
Thanks! Now just need to work on the polka, oh I forgot I don’t dance, well in public or around Mr. 70. I am sure someone will want to dance too. His family aunts, uncles and cousins are such fun.
I am massively intrigued by this prologue, Servetus. I am not quite sure I know where you are gonna go with this, but it’s probably going to set off an avalanche… 79 comments on this post alone (and I have not read through them, apologies). Gender preception and construction is something that I am hugely interested in. In fact, had I not decided on a degree in photography, I would’ve applied for an MA in gender studies. I must look into Butler – I don’t think I came across her work when I did my first degree a hundred years ago…
(PS: Half way through *ooof*, just taking a break before “Endspurt”… Should be out later today.)
guylty said this on July 30, 2013 at 11:30 am | Reply
Very much looking forward to the next instalment, Serv. As with many of your analytical posts, I spent quite some time down the rabbit hole chasing previous links so I could fully grasp your meaning- most intriguing!
KatharineD said this on July 30, 2013 at 2:37 pm | Reply
thank you for posting the link to the story about the woman with facial hair. it made my day. I have re-read this post three or four times. the word that is bothering me is “trouble.” I can’t get my head around it, it seems like the wrong word. I want it to be gender bending or elastic, not gender trouble. Maybe I am missing the entire point?
@Rob said this on July 30, 2013 at 7:01 pm | Reply
see the comments above in response to questions about “trouble.” Another reason to use “trouble” here is because of the matter of questioning the hierarchies. In a lot of the scenes that are most intriguing to me, the power problem caused by gender play is as significant as the gender play itself.
Interesting concepts–they harken back to some women and gender studies doc classes I took a few years ago.
As to whether or not the gender performance theory/concept is controversial, I can’t say–then there is Erving Goffman’s theory about one’s own impression management as performance. But that’s another essay. Ha!. Each of us has a lens (or two, or three) through which we view the world and form our opinions about how to understand our world. I’m not so objectivist to think that anyone’s opinion is fact. So no reason to get one’s nitey in a knot about it. Ha! Rather, reading other people’s opinions, provides a stimulus for further reflection.
So, thanks for continually making us think with your insightful essays.
what’s controversial is the assertion that physiological sex is constructed by gender. I agree with Butler but I can see why people would disagree.
Uh huh. I guess I’ve been around the gender studies folks long enough that the theory of “constructing” gender, sex, or anything else doesn’t phase me any more. Ha!
I’ve been looking forward to this analysis and it’s going to take me awhile to digest all you’ve written, but I’m wondering if I’m on the right track: the gist of the theory is our sex is based on our genitalia; however we perform a gender based on what’s accepted/expected from our culture?
sloan said this on August 10, 2013 at 7:55 pm | Reply
kind of.
the 80s feminist would have said sex (male / female) =physiognomy; gender=cultural standards about being male or female (masculine / feminine). Butler would have said that sex is also performed, that there’s no difference between sex and gender. The aspect of the claim that performance constitutes a sex is less important to me than the bigger issue, which is that we determine someone else’s sex or gender primarily based on his / her performance of same.
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Jaguar Land Rover suspends worker pictured wearing fake suicide vest
January 10, 2019 United Kingdom
Jaguar Land Rover has suspended one of its workers for wearing a fake suicide vest to work and asking his colleagues if he should 'blow it up'.
The smiling worker is pictured wearing the mock suicide belt at the UK car giant's Solihull plant in the West Midlands.
Colleagues claims he was surrounded by 60 other employees assembling vehicles when he asked one: 'Shall I pull the string and blow it up?'
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The shocking incident has emerged as the manufacturer prepares to cut 5,000 jobs in an austerity drive, including ones at its Solihull base.
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'Jaguar Land Rover promotes diversity and inclusiveness to create a respectful workplace and adopts a zero tolerance to discrimination on any ground.
'We can't comment any further whilst this investigation continues.'
Someone who works inside the Lode Lane plant but wished to remain anonymous said: 'Shop floor banter has got to this stage and it is a regular occurrence.
'I believe this to be the wrong attitude. If you don't deal with an issue then it will keep raising its ugly head.
'This issue was reported prior to Christmas shutdown and has only been escalated this week.'
Today Jaguar Land Rover is announcing cuts to 10 per cent of its UK workforce - and blaming Brexit for its woes.
The luxury carmaker employs 44,000 workers in the UK at sites in Halewood on Merseyside and Solihull, Castle Bromwich and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.
The thousands of jobs will be axed as part of a £2.5 billion savings plan amid falling sales in China and a drop in demand for diesel cars.
The firm, owned by Indian conglomerate Tata, cut 1,000 temporary contract workers last year at its plant in Solihull.
The announcement is expected to include details of sales for 2018, the business outlook for this year, an update on cost savings and planned investment in UK plants.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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noneofthisisnormal Daily Check-In March 21, 2018
Tuesday March 20th.
Ted Cruz under fire for ties to Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower to testify to House Democrats on Facebook data operation
‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
FTC opens probe into Facebook after firm scrapes millions of users’ personal data
Facebook’s auditors visited Cambridge Analytica’s offices but were told to stand down by UK authorities
As Facebook Ire Grows, Senator Says Zuckerberg ‘Ought to Be Subpoenaed’
Cruz says Cambridge Analytica assured him its practices were legal
MPs summon Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence on ‘catastrophic failures’ of Cambridge Analytica data breach
Wylie: We Were Testing Trump Slogans in 2014
Spicy Mic: Facebook vs. UK Parliament
Spicy Mic: 2013-2014 Federal Election Commission Filings That Include Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica had Contract with State Department
Senator Thom Tillis Runs From Committee, Press to Avoid Questions about Ties to Cambridge Analytica
Zuckerberg asked to testify in UK; data firm’s CEO suspended
Cambridge Analytica: We ran all of Trump’s digital campaign
Cambridge Analytica Bosses: We Secretly Made Ads for Trump and We’ll Never Be Caught
Here’s a Photo of Cambridge Analytica’s CEO With the Russian Ambassador to the UK
Zuckerberg has sold more Facebook stock in the last 3 months than any insider at any other company
Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump’s data firm
Mark Zuckerberg Met With Kremlin’s Number 2 Man
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ghosted recently, and spent the last couple months selling off stock. The U.S. and U.K. want him to appear before their governments to answer questions. And I’ve talked before about his taking Russian money, and screwing over Ukraine.
Massachusettes, New Jersey, New York, U.K., and U.S. governments are investigating CA. Probably a dozen more states will join in by the end of the week.
Ted Cruz and Thom Tillis used CA to win their most recent elections.
Spicy has the paperwork to show they took their services.
The Mercer family gave CA a ton of money to push their right-wing agenda, and to attack democracy around the world.
Remember when I talked about Steve Bannon flipping on the Mercer family and CA to avoid the death penalty? (Check Daily Check-In 01/05/2018 in the Rumor Mill for that one.). Hearing these accusations about CA’s work come from the Mainstream Media, and the near complete absence of Steve Bannon adds a little credence to those rumors. Of course, Daily Check-In 02/15/2018 had Bannon interviewing with Mueller for 20 hours to further keep Bannon from getting charged with capital crimes.
Yes, I’m talking about the death penalty. This is just the beginning.
HOLY FUCK, MARK WARNER JUST IMPLICATED THE RUSSIANS IN BREXIT! I’ve mentioned more than a few times before that the Russians were involved in Brexit, and that Cambridge Analytica played a major role in it.
MUELLER AND TRUMP-RUSSIA
Republicans dismiss legislation to protect special counsel
Yes, This Is Going to Be Worse Than Watergate
Trump spoke with Russia’s Putin on Tuesday: NBC News
Trump congratulates Putin on election, discusses meeting, Kremlin says
Russian Roulette review: as Joe Biden said, ‘If this is true, it’s treason’
McConnell Remains Silent Over Trump’s Attacks on Mueller
Rachel Maddow to Interview James Comey on April 19
An “Ashamed” Fox News Commentator Just Quit The “Propaganda Machine”
Former French president Sarkozy detained over allegations of bribery by Libya
In congratulatory call to Putin, Trump ignored advisers’ prominent warning
The leader of the Free World does not congratulate a dictator on winning a rigged, sham election.
Fox News Commentator Ralph Peters, a retired Lt. Colonel, quit the company after a decade on the air.
“Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law… Fox has degenerated…to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration”
I first mentioned on Daily Check-In 9/21/2017 some rumors that Fox News was under investigation for pushing Russian propaganda, per Louise Mensch at Patribotics. Since then, I’ve seen several stories leaning that way, including the Seth Rich lawsuits and Fox News’s constant disinformation.
As far as Mueller, the Republican leadership in Congress says that they don’t need legislation to protect Mueller because “Trump gave them assurances that he won’t try to fire Mueller.” MOTHER FUCKER, HE DONE TRIED TWICE ALREADY.
But, this does answer a question I had about Paul Ryan. How full of shit does a spineless person have to be to sit up? ANSWER: This much.
TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM
Trump has openly discussed firing lawyer Ty Cobb: report
Trump Might Remove Dowd from Legal Team
High-profile conservative lawyer Theodore B. Olson declines offer to join Trump legal team
EWS ‘Legal superstar’ turns down offer to defend Trump in Russia probe
Ted Olson has been approached multiple times in the last year, and once again gave Trump the “Thanks, but no thanks” treatment.
Here’s the problem with Trump and lawyers; he’s incapable of taking their advice. Trump views anyone taking his money as an inferior, not an expert brought in to perform a special skill. He can’t take their advice or counsel. Instead, he sees their job as to listen to him, follow his orders, and make his will reality.
Plus, he doesn’t pay his bills. There’s a lot of crap that a lawyer will put up with, but unpaid bills are not on that list.
Given all of that, any surprise why the best lawyers are avoiding him like the plague?
STORMYWATCH, FROM THE STORMCENTER 6000 METEOROPORNOLIGICAL CENTER
NYT: Former Playboy model who alleges affair with Trump sues company that didn’t publish her story
Ex-Playboy Model Sues National Enquirer Owner to Break Silence on Alleged Trump Affair
Lie detector test shows Stormy Daniels truthful about Trump affair
Trump Can’t Dodge Lawsuit Saying He Lied About Groping, Judge Says
Cohen Says He’s Never Threatened Stormy Daniels
Playboy model sues to speak about alleged affair with Trump
Defamation case against Trump to move forward
Judge allows ‘Apprentice’ contestant’s defamation suit against Trump to proceed
Wall Street Journal publishes polygraph results backing Stormy Daniels
Stormy passed a polygraph, Karen McDougal’s suing National Enquirer, and Summer Zervos’s lawsuit is going forward. Oh, and Trump’s Lawyer that needs his own Lawyer can’t keep his mouth shut.
I have to ask a question. At first, it was going to be a joke, but the more I think about it, I think this might be a question that gets an actual answer.
How many women are needed to achieve class action status?
Packages believed bound for Austin explodes at Texas FedEx Facility
2nd unexploded device found in Texas FedEx facility, authorities say
FedEx Press Release about Incidents in Texas
Police backtrack, say no second unexploded device found at FedEx where package detonated
New reported package explosion in Austin injures 1, officials say
Earlier today, a bomb detonated in the San Antonio FedEx facility. Two people suffered minor injuries. It was determined that the package that detonated was shipped from and destined for Austin, TX, about 80 miles away. Upon further investigation, another device was found in a station in Southern Area of Austin, near the Airport. According to law enforcement, both packages were shipped at the same time from the other side of the city, by the same person. This information helped law enforcement get surveillance footage of a person of interest.
So, how did San Antonio get involved with this if the package was being shipped from one side of Austin to the other?
Logistics companies like FedEx, UPS, US Postal Service and Amazon operate on a hub-spoke model, like airports. There might not be enough volume to justify a flight from Seattle, WA to Columbus, OH, but there’s more than enough for a Seattle to Chicago and Chicago to Columbus. This is how we end up with layovers, because it’s cheaper and faster for the airline to move people to a hub and reroute from there than it is to schedule special flights every day from A to B.
That’s how a package going from one side of Austin to the other made a 160 mile (260 km) round trip. There isn’t enough guaranteed volume across town to justify the trip, but there are guaranteed trips every day to and from San Antonio.
Also, I hope no one reading this ever gets the urge to make bombs and ship them, but don’t use a major shipper like FedEx, UPS, Amazon, or USPS to deliver the bombs. These companies track EVERYTHING. They have to keep track of millions of packages per day. They know who paid for it, who handled it, who loaded it on the truck, who drove the truck, who delivered it, who signed for it, who requested a tracking update on it, and who left special delivery instructions like ‘leave under doormat.”
Hopefully, this will lead to catching the person right away, before anyone else gets hurt.
Two students injured, gunman dead in Md. high school shooting
New NRA attack ad targets Parkland survivors and the March For Our Lives
Girl critically hurt in HS shooting may have had relationship with suspected gunman, police say
School Shooting in Great Mills, Maryland
Another kid is dead today. Two more are in the hospital, and the “Enthusiasts” are going hurt themselves patting themselves on the back because the kid was killed by a security guard/cop in the school, and that the kids was too young to buy the gun used, so gun laws wouldn’t help.
Gimme a fucking break.
Most likely, it was daddy’s gun. Did dad have his gun locked in a safe? Did he have the ammo stored away?
And what would happen if that guard missed? Bullets fly until they hit something, whether it’s the target, the wall behind it, or a kid behind the wall.
COLD WAR 2.0
Russian diplomats expelled from UK head back to Moscow
Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency to Evade U.S. Sanctions
HOLY FUCK, MARK WARNER JUST IMPLICATED THE RUSSIANS IN BREXIT! I can’t stress enough how fucking big this is.
CWGBTP (Can we get back to politics?)
As DeVos Faces Congress, Officials Say She Hid Plans to Overhaul Department
Ben Carson Blames Purchase of $31,000 Office Dining Set on His Wife
Why Democrats Should Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Conor Lamb got my first donation to a Democrat in 50 years. It’s time to stop Donald Trump.
‘The job is not done’: Puerto Rico’s needs go unmet 6 months after Maria
One thing I’m semi-thankful for is the blatant incompetence of the people in charge during this attempted slide into Authoritarianism. If they were good at their jobs or solving problems, who knows where we’d be now?
RUMOR MILL: AUSSIES ARE ON IT
This one comes from Louise Mensch and Pete Evans (@911CORLEBRA777).
Australian parties deny using data firm Cambridge Analytica
On the surface, this seems pretty innocuous. Senior members of Cambridge Analytica came to Australia and met with senior officials of the two largest parties, but nothing happened. Both parties got the pitch, but decided not to pursue CA for the next election.
Seems simple, right? Well, not so much.
According to this tweet thread, this was part of an Intelligence Operation executed by Australian Secret Intelligence, ASI. Both political parties went into the meetings with CA, and recorded the whole thing.
That’s right. They pulled in politicians to work an op, and recorded everything.
I’m still skeptical about rumors like these, but Peter’s been on point for a lot of stories.
Remember, Australia is part of Five Eyes, the Intelligence sharing group that consists of the Aussies, the Kiwis, the Brits, the Yanks, and the Canucks. Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. What we see, they see, and vice versa.
That’s it for today. My next non-daily article will be about gun control. Specifically, some ideas and thoughts I’ve had for a while, as well as some criticisms about the plan. Gun control is a touchy subject for a lot of people, and there’s been a couple generations of marketing and propaganda to make people think that nothing can be done. I’ve got a few ideas, and I’ll write them up this week. I hope.
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News From the Shores of Ocean Beach and Point Loma
by Frank Gormlie on May 1, 2015 · 10 comments
in California, Culture, Economy, Environment, Media, Ocean Beach
Editor: Often OBceans and their neighbors in Point Loma are too busy to find all the news from OB and the Peninsula, and that’s why the OB Rag on a nearly weekly basis provides those folks with updates of the news they missed. The only thing we ask, is that you, dear reader, show your appreciation for these efforts by hitting the “like” button at the end of the article.
People’s Co-op Members Elect 2 Board Members
413 Co-op owners voted in the 2015 Board of Directors’ Election. Thomas Baker, PhD and incumbent Chris Young were elected. Co-op News
Plumber Ignites Fire in Cape May Apartment
A plumber working in an Ocean Beach apartment accidentally ignited a fire in one wall Thursday [April 30], San Diego fire officials said. The fire was reported about 1:50 p.m. at a two-story building on Cape May Avenue at Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. Crews had to tear out a section of wall in one apartment to get to the fire, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher said. The flames were extinguished within about 15 minutes. Damage was estimated at $5,000 to $10,000. The Red Cross was called to assist two displaced tenants. U-T San Diego 4/30/15
Police Fatally Shoot Man With Knife in Midway Area
San Diego Police officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man early Thursday in the Midway District. An employee of the Highlight Book Store called for help after the armed man threatened people in the 3200 block of Hancock Street near West Camino del Rio around 12:05 a.m., San Diego Police Lt. Mike Hastings said. The gunman man then entered the business and threatened the worker before heading back outside. An arriving officer spotted the suspect behind the building. The knife- wielding man charged at the officer prompting him to open fire, according to Hastings. The suspect was taken to a hospital but later died, Hastings said. His name was withheld pending family notification. Hastings said the officer who shot the suspect had been with the San Diego Police Department for 27 years. Times of San Diego.
Innocence Project Stages Another Walk to OB from Downtown
About 30 people walked from California Western School of Law, home of the California Innocence Project, to Ocean Beach Monday, April 27, to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the start of the Innocence March, an effort to raise awareness about a dozen men and women serving time on offenses their attorneys say they did not commit. U-T San Diego
Parents of OB 5-Year-Old Battling Leukemia Needs Help
Family and friends of Roc Wooldridge, a lively, energetic, and hilarious 5-year-old Ocean Beach boy diagnosed with leukemia, are hosting fundraisers to help defray his medical expenses. Roc is the best at quoting movies as well as being the biggest Marvel Comics fan ever. He was recently diagnosed with leukemia and began chemotherapy. San Diego Community News Group
4 Unit Apartment in Midway Sells for $1 Million+
The four-unit apartment at 4405-4411 W. Point Loma Blvd., in the Midway area has been sold for $1.08 million, cash. The buyer was Point Loma Lofts LLC, a California limited liability company, a real estate developer, located at 830 25th St., Studio 200, San Diego 92102. The sellers were Douglas Martin Harvey and James Kenneth Harvey, co-trustees of The Harvey Family Trust. The pitched-roof apartment consists of four two-bedroom/one-bath units approximately 750-square-feet each with original hardwood floors on a raised foundation, and patio spaces. The property includes four single-car garages with access from intersecting Rialto St. Daily Transcript (subscription)
Teen Pulls Elderly Couple From Mini-Van After Crash in Loma Portal
A San Diego teenager was one of the first to jump in and help a couple trapped and in shock following in a hit-and-run crash in Loma Portal Saturday [April 25]. “It hurt my heart because they were helpless and didn’t know what to do,” said 18-year-old Nida Wongsri. Wongsri told NBC 7 she first spotted the couple’s minivan near the intersection of Chatsworth Boulevard and Elliot Street Saturday night, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said.
Updated Coroner’s Report on Mike Hardin
A coroner’s report obtained by NBC 7 Investigates Monday reveals new details about the sudden death of Hodad’s burger joint owner Mike “Bossman” Hardin. The beloved Ocean Beach resident died from a heart attack at a central California hotel on Feb. 5, brought on by an enlarged heart and severe coronary artery disease, according to a report from the Madera County Coroner’s Office. The forensic pathologist who examined Hardin found one of his arteries was filled at least 75 percent with plaque. He also discovered evidence of a previous heart attack, as well as lung and liver problems. According to a Madera County Sheriff’s Office report, the front desk clerk at the Chowchilla Holiday Inn told investigators Hardin was supposed to check out at 11 a.m. on Feb. 5, but by 1:30 p.m., no one had heard from him.
Female Brewmaster in LA Got Her Training at OB’s Pizza Port
Devon Randall, former head brewer at Pizza Port in Solana Beach, is originally from L.A. She grew up on the Westside … and she moved to San Diego five years ago to get brewing experience and worked at SoCal powerhouse Lost Abbey (helping them run their extensive barrel program) and Pizza Port Ocean Beach (where she trained under local legend Yiga Miyashiro) before taking the job at the Solana Beach location in early 2013. LA Weekly
LomaPalooza Celebrates 15 years of Point Loma Concerts
Point Loma Summer Concerts announces LomaPalooza, a community concert commemorating 15 years of summer concerts at Point Loma Park. The event will feature home grown bands and musical groups and will take place right in the middle of the Point Loma Summer Concerts season on Saturday, July 25. San Diego Community News Group
Pedestrian Killed Near SeaWorld
A 51-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car on SeaWorld Drive Tuesday night [April 28] prompting police to shut down traffic in the busy area. Police said the woman was walking southbound on SeaWorld Drive along the crosswalk around 8 p.m. when a 32-year-old man driving a Honda hit her. MSNBC
Fisherman Warns About Sea Lions After Being Pulled Under Water By One
A photo captured the very moment the terror began for Dan Carlin. Dan and Trish Carlin of Carmel Valley told only 10News about their horrifying story of an unusual sea lion attack caught in a photo. They want to warn people that sea lions can be dangerous. They also want to set the record straight about what really happened. Ch10News
OB Gets Props in Lesbian Travel Show
Here’s the line from Button and Bly’s Travel Show: “Other notable beaches are Mission Beach, where there is a boardwalk and small amusement park, Belmont Park, and Ocean Beach, which is a local favorite with a laid-back vibe that is super dog-friendly.”
Point Loma Husband Sentenced to 11 Years for Wife’s Death
It’s possible – probable even – that no one will ever know how Fumiko Ogawa Simoneau died. Except for her husband, … who admitted in an El Cajon courtroom that he killed his wife eight years ago … A judge sentenced Anthony Edward Simoneau to the 11-year … The wife’s skeletal remains were found at a campground in the Anza Borrego Desert. They weren’t identified until two years later. U-T San Diego
Point Loma High Baseball Team Ready for League Title
Point Loma High’s baseball team has made steady improvement throughout the season and now finds itself in position to challenge for at least a share of the Western League crown. Sporting a 10-7 overall record, the Pointers stand at 3-1 in league action, with their only loss at home to undefeated (4-0, 13-7 overall) Madison. San Diego Community News Group
Surfrider San Diego’s 15th Annual Art Gala Helps Keep Our Coast Beautiful
The San Diego County Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation presents the chapter’s 15th Annual Art Gala on Friday, May 8, from 6 to 10 p.m. at Paradise Point Resort and Spa, 1404 Vacation Road San Diego, CA 92109. From featured artwork to interactive event experiences, guests at the Gala will be treated to an evening of art, entertainment and ocean advocacy. Attendees will enjoy live music by Aja Lee and The Mattson 2, live art demonstrations by featured artists Jared Lazer and Shawn Erler, and will bid on artwork, furniture and “experience packages” in silent and live auction settings. Featured art pieces have been highlighted in the Art Gala blog, and many of the artists will be in attendance.
Rogue Five May 1, 2015 at 1:39 pm
So was the guy killed by the police wielding a knife or a gun ? It starts off with a knife and suddenly the “gunman” enters the business ? Kinda a big difference
John O. May 1, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Agreed. Rogue Five. Who is editing this stuff? And the story is so vague.
Frank Gormlie May 1, 2015 at 5:16 pm
We picked up the error from the Times of San Diego, and have corrected it – thanks for the heads up. We’ll fire our proof reader … oh, wait … we don’t have one, sorry.
editordude May 1, 2015 at 5:21 pm
We have it on good authority (statcounter) that nearly a 100 readers have gone to this article, and even though gormlie explicitly asked readers to hit the “like” button to show some good vibes for the work that goes into this weekly column – despite a typo here and there – only one reader has done so. It’s those likes that help us to gather the info without pay and share it with our fellow OBceans. The press is not free. Support your local media. IF you can’t hit the like button, then send us a monthly donation – and hit the paypal button on the upper right of the homepage instead.
jettyboy May 2, 2015 at 10:50 am
The like button looks like a post to Facebook button. Could be confusing editordude.
Frank Gormlie May 2, 2015 at 11:40 am
Yeah, that’s right jetty o’ boy; a lot of people don’t have facebook so hitting the button wo/ facebook, I think, doesn’t do anything. It’s a drag ola, but …
So, I meant to say, don’t be so harsh on our readers.
OB Joe May 1, 2015 at 5:23 pm
I hear ya, editordude, I just forget to hit it. But you’re right – as I do write an occasional piece for this here rag – we writers need some props now and then and an ol’ pat on the back now and then.
john May 3, 2015 at 2:43 am
As far as I know the current practice is if you come across victims of crash you are not to move them unless they are under direct threat of fire or drowning. Let the paramedics extricate them, moving them could cause further injury and even get you sued.
Geoff Page May 4, 2015 at 9:33 am
Two comments. First, the seal lion did not attack the guy it went after the fish the guy was holding and got him at the same time. Just like giving a hungry dog a bone, sometimes the dog gets the bone and some fingers. It is misleading to tell people they need to fear that these animals will attack people unprovoked. This was a freak accident, nothing more.
Second, how does a guy only get 11 years in prison for an admitted murder? With time off for good behavior too? That judgement was a travesty.
Thanks for the update on local news, OB Rag.
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19 May Holly Ann Jarvis – Social Distancing and Art, Episode 1
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Holly Ann Jarvis: Aerial Art Performance
April 3rd, 630pm MST: streamed live on Facebook and Instagram
OGDEN CONTEMPORARY ARTS, an organization committed to engaging with our community through contemporary art forms, announced a new Virtual Art Series to begin on Friday, April 3rd in lieu of an in-person art stroll event. The series is an ongoing program of online art experiences designed to connect and inspire our community through the arts, particularly during these times of unrest and isolation. This new platform for engagement also raises important questions that the art world and creative businesses at large are grappling with, including the ways in which we must adapt and deliver arts-related programming.
“Amidst all of the dramatic changes over the past few weeks, we have been working to find a way to continue to support our creatives and engage our community,” says Venessa Castagnoli, OCA Executive Director. “By changing our format to a virtual platform, we can keep our artist community alive but also broaden our reach to creative communities all over the world.”
Episode 1 of the OCA Virtual Art Series featured a live stream performance by Ogden aerial artist Holly Ann Jarvis. “Isolation,” an original work performed with aerial silks to instrumental music and no physical audience, broadcasted through OCA’s social media platforms. Community members in Ogden and beyond tuned into Facebook and Instagram to watch live as Jarvis performed two five-minute sets interjected by a ten-minute artist commentary.
“Rather than reflect on feelings of isolation and disconnectedness, this performance is more about offering positivity and lightness through movement,” says Jarvis.
“Performing, moving, dancing – especially giving that to other people, makes me feel fearless. It’s like I’m escaping time – like I have nothing holding me back.”
Despite the physical isolation of the event, Jarvis aimed to impart these feelings of fearlessness through her performance in an effort to temporarily alleviate the overwhelming uncertainty that ripples through our global community. On another level, “Isolation” speaks to the current state of the performing arts from dance to theater to music, and how these art forms will ultimately be affected by the COVID-19 crisis. When we view performance through a screen and remove the ability to experience art in a live space, does the power of the message change? And what effect is left on the audience?
Based in Ogden, Jarvis is a full-time aerial artist who travels around the world as a performer and instructor. She studied visual arts at Weber State University and began her career as an aerial dancer in 2011.
Episode 1 of the Virtual Art Series was produced in collaboration with The Monarch, local videographer Kenn Sullivan, and local photographer Cam McLeod.
Social Distancing, Virtual Art Series
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Home/Breaking News/59% Indians Sceptical About Covid-19 Vaccine, Won’t Rush To Take It: Survey
59% Indians Sceptical About Covid-19 Vaccine, Won’t Rush To Take It: Survey
New Delhi: With chances of affordable Covid-19 vaccine likely to be available by February 2021, 59 per cent Indians divulged that they will not rush to take it, a survey revealed on Wednesday.
The last few weeks have given hope to the world with three vaccine makers — Pfizer, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca releasing their efficacy data. Oxford-AstraZeneca has a partnership with Serum Institute of India for production and reports suggest that the vaccine could be available as early as February at Rs 500-600 per dose.
With the possibility of an affordable vaccine by February 2021, a survey was conducted by ‘LocalCircles’ to understand the hesitancy levels. The survey received more than 25,000 responses from citizens across 262 districts of India.
The first question in the survey asked, “The Covid-19 vaccine is likely to be available from February 2021 via private and Government channels. If that happens, what will be your approach to taking this vaccine?”.
Responses from 8,936 citizens were received. Of which, 8 per cent said, “I am a health or frontline worker and will get it on priority through the government”, 13 per cent said “will get it as quickly as it becomes available via any healthcare channel”, 11 per cent said “will get it as quickly as it becomes available via private healthcare channel”.
Another 59 per cent of respondents said that they will not rush to take the vaccine even if it is available in the near future. The perception of the majority of citizens sceptical on taking vaccine has not changed much as compared to the result of the survey conducted in mid-October by LocalCircles.
Sixty-one per cent of 8,312 voters at the time had said they are sceptical about COVID-19 vaccine and will not rush to take it in 2021 even if it is available.
Closer home in India, where Serum Institute of India is conducting trials for the vaccine under name Covishield, a participant who undertook the trial has alleged the vaccine of causing him serious side-effects, both neurological and psychological filing for damages against Serum.
Serum has dismissed the claims as “oblique pecuniary motive” maintaining that the participant’s suffering was independent of the vaccine trial he underwent and has sought damages for malicious allegations in excess of Rs 100 crores.
According to some experts, Serum should have made the adverse event public with some already calling this low level of transparency on the vaccine and it possibly leading to increase in distrust amongst citizens.
In July 2020, citizens via LocalCircles had alerted the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on black marketing of Remdesivir leading to immediate issuance of an order by DCGI to all state drug controllers asking them to up enforcement against the same. Many posts have been received from citizens in the last 3 weeks raising concerns of black marketing of vaccine.
The second question asked citizens, “Once the COVID-19 vaccine is ready and commercially available, what is the level of black-marketing risk do you envisage?”. 8,934 responses were received. Notably, 72 per cent Indians believe that once the vaccine is available, there is a high risk of it being sold in the market.
In mid-July, after the Remdesivir black marketing escalation, LocalCircles on citizen recommendation wrote to Department of Pharmaceuticals and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to implement serial number and bar code based tracking of vaccine from factory to administration to a patient such that there is no room for black-marketing.
The same was acknowledged by Department of Pharmaceuticals which directed the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) to evaluate the same. In early October, the Government announced the implementation of a digital platform to track the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine, movement, storage and distribution to individual beneficiaries. However the timeline of this platform’s availability is still unclear.
The third question asked citizens, “Should the vaccine be rolled out for hospitals only after a digital platform is introduced with the use of a unique serial number to track the supply of COVID-19 vaccine from factory to administration to citizens?”.
Of 7,786 responses, 65 per cent of citizens believe that the COVID-19 vaccine should not be rolled out till a digital platform to track every dose from factory to final administration to citizens is functional.
With 65 per cent citizens believing that the vaccine should not be rolled for commercial or hospital use till the digital vaccine tracking platform is ready indicates that people of India believe that there is a high risk that the vaccine without a working digital platform could get in the wrong hands leading to black-marketing scenarios and even counterfeiting.
The digital vaccine tracking platform would reportedly need to track the supply of close to 1.7 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses needed to immunise most of India’s adult population – a mammoth task than any in the history, keeping in mind the country’s experience with large immunisation campaigns.
The Prime Minister has asked all States to set up steering committees and task forces, down to block level preparation for Covid-19 vaccine disbursal so India is prepared when the vaccine does become ready.
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MU-LapaRobot: A Corporative Surgical Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery
Chawaphol Direkwatana1, Jackrit Suthakorn1, *
, Chumpon Wilasrussamee2
1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Biomedical and Robotics Technology (BART LAB), Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
2 Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
© 2020 Direkwatana et al.
* Address correspondence to this author at the Center for Biomedical and Robotics Technology (BART LAB) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand; Tel: +662-441-4255; Fax: +662-441-4254; E-mail:jackrit.sut@mahidol.ac.th; jackrit@bartlab.org
Development of surgical instrument robot (MU-LapaRobot) for assisting in conventional laparoscopic surgery.
A robot was designed based on instrument movement for a conventional procedure. The mechanism mimics and constrains manipulation movement through the wire-driven transmission. It is flexible for robot end-effector, which has a lightweight and small size. The usability of the robot is passive and active robot tasks with an interconnected driving system. Three main parts of the robot are robot end-effector, transmission, and a driving system.
On a robot platform, a parameter for setup is robot posture. The adjustment of robot position and projection of manipulation area is influenced by the accuracy of movement. To verify movement, command and exact movements are measured. Compensation with the control system is improved in order to improve the accuracy of the system.
MU-LapaRobot provides surgical instrument manipulation by using wire-driven transmission with an effective system and requires less interference in the conventional operation.
Keywords: Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), Laparoscopic surgery, MU-LapaRobot, Medical robotics, Surgical robotics, Wire-driven transmission.
In the past decade, Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has been a popular surgical technique for operating in the abdominal cavity through small incisions. Nowadays, MIS has become a standard procedure in laparoscopic surgery, thoracic surgery, and stereotactic surgery. Most of the cases in laparoscopic surgery are cholecystectomy surgery. This procedure utilizes several small and long stick instruments and a laparoscope with light insert through a port on the patient's abdominal wall that is different from the conventional surgical procedures. CO2 gas is filled in the abdominal cavity to create more working areas for the manipulation of surgical instruments [1, 2]. The surgeon can view the abdominal cavity by a monitor beside the surgical table, which displays real-time images from a CCD camera system attached at the tip of the laparoscope. There are many benefits of MIS, such as small wounds on the abdominal wall, less blood loss, short-stay hospitals, and fast recovery. In several cases, laparoscopic surgery takes a longer period (two or more hours) that causes fatigue to the surgeon [3-5]. Although there are many benefits for the patients, it also has some limitations for surgeon, such as lack of direct palpation and visibility on organs, loss of tactile feedback from long stick instruments, motion constraint through a small incision, and lack of eye-hand coordination [6]. In general, the camera operator (first assistant) provides the right field of view based on the command from the primary surgeon. Table 1 shows the advantages of a surgical robot over human surgeon.
In the 1990s, ZEUS, the first robotic surgical system with high performance, had been available in the market with three serial-chain manipulators in planar robot arm configuration. Robot arms with surgical console performed successfully in fallopian tubes operation. An endoscopic camera is commanded by AESOP™ voice-controlled [7].
Nowadays, da Vinci, which has a surgical tool and combination system with high definition imaging and ergonomic design, is widely used in many countries [8, 9]. High performance of dexterous instruments provides a broad coverage of the surgical areas, including 3D vision system. In addition, a bulky system and cost are considered in practical use. The development of the compact size of the robot assistant was introduced, such as LER robot [10]. It was developed for holding an endoscope as a human assistant in minimally invasive surgery. It has a full motion range of 360 degrees with a small footprint in rotation with back-drivable motors.
However, a high performance active surgical robot that can perform quite similar to da Vinci is the REVEN robot [ 11 ]. The same principle is a remote operation, but the structure is small and stiff. Moreover, a MC 2 E, which is attached with a force sensor, provides force feedback to a user while controlling the robot [ 12 ]. A joint actuator provides a spherical workspace through a fixed fulcrum point on structure with difficulty to setup. According to remote transmission, a miniature component is selected, such as a small wire for transmission. A CURES robot is a two wire-driven joint transmission with a grasping instrument with the actuator in moving parts [ 13 ]. Inertia of mass from the actuator, which has a high torque, causes a non-smooth movement in normal speed. However, a full teleoperation robotic system requires training with a new system. Moreover, a high torque of the actuator is difficult to reconfigure a robot posture to the desired position.
Furthermore, many Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery (MIRS) procedures have been developed on research such as small size [14] robot, a surgical robot with force feedback [13], telesurgery system, and single-port surgical robot [15, 16].
Therefore, the corporative robot is proposed for a laparoscopic surgery that requires less interference and training. A robot end-end effector that is lightweight and small footprint occupies over the patient. This study focuses on the design and development of the new laparoscopic surgical robot, called “MU-LapaRobot,” aimed to use in teleoperation by a surgeon for existing surgical tools and procedures.
The robot is designed for cooperating with a surgeon instead of a remote commander in MIS. In terms of design, it should be compact, lightweight, with ease of use, and short setup time. The main purpose of the robot is to perform as a surgical instrument holder in any position of constraint movement and teleoperation driven by actuators. The workspace requirement is the important point; hence port placement is properly angled to each other. This surgery uses many types of instruments such as a laparoscope, grasper, dissector, scissors, forceps, and else, which should be sterilized. There are four degrees of freedom in surgical manipulation [17].
The movements are 1 DOF for rotation, 2 DOF for translation of instrument, and 3 and 4 DOF are the combination of two axes that generate cone space. Ideally, the tip of the instrument should easily reach the working area (approximately 15 cm or a half of instrument length) sleeve of the trocar about 10 cm within the abdominal cavity. The two instruments should form a 60˚ (from top to bottom) to 90˚ (from left-to-right) angle from the tips of instruments for the ergonomic approach (Fig. 1). The instrument tips should be at a working distance of 80 mm to cover the working area. From the study [10, 11], the recommended conical range of motion is 60˚ angle in tool operations called dexterous workspace, DWS and a full range of tool motion called extended dexterous workspace (EDWS) needed to move 90˚ in left to the right direction and 60˚ in the foot to head direction. In laparoscopic surgery, a procedure starts from port placement on the abdominal wall through which any surgical instrument should reach the target. The manipulation angle of 60 degrees is recommended for efficiency and performance [18-20].
Table 1. Contrast of the role of Surgeon and robotics in minimally invasive surgery.
Pros Outstanding decision
Exceptional hand- eye coordination
Admirable skill
Intelligent to assimilate and act on several sources
Straightforwardly expert Exceptional symmetrical correctness
Resistant to ionizing radiation
Steadiness without tremble
Distantly controlled
Unpretentious by radiation
Console Surgeon Robot
Cons Disposed to to exhaustion and carelessness
Hand tremble bounds fine motion
Cannot see through tissue
Imperfect symmetrical accuracy
Pretentious by radiation, contagion Incomplete hand-eye organisation
Deprived judgment
Cannot act in different circumstances
Necessity of maintenance
Fig. (1). Manipulation of Surgical Instrument.
2.1. Conceptual Design
The kinematics of mechanism design constructs by joints that exhibit the DOF. Several mechanisms for the surgical robot are satisfied by pivot point constraints. Most robot manipulators have revolute joints or sliding joints [21, 22]. The conceptual design of a new instrument-holder assists in passive and active MISR. Surgeons can interact with the robot in passive mode and help to hold the instrument while operation with less interference dexterity of movement [17, 18]. A setup procedure starts from attaching the robot on the surgical bed. After positioning on the fulcrum point or incision point on the abdominal wall, the axis of the surgical instrument is passed through the fulcrum point in any direction of movement because a mechanical constraint fixes one point on the workspace. The robot arm section is used only in positioning an incision point. For this stage, robotic parts are designed and movement of a parallelogram and spherical mechanism is analyzed and used for mechanical constraint movement to create a virtual fulcrum point. These mechanisms are used to design the surgical robot to avoid collision around the incision. Next, the enhancement of MU-LapaRobot is applied to the driving system. The constraint movement of the surgical robot can be separated into three sections (Fig. 2), which are active MU-LapaRobot, Passive Positioning Manipulator, and Robot base.
2.2. Active MU-LapaRobot
The end-effector of the robot arm is designed by using the mechanism, which provides the constraint movement (Fig. 3). The axis of movement is passed through the fulcrum point. The end-effector with 4 DOF is made lightweight by providing the wire-driven force transmission [17].
The constraint mechanism of the robot manipulator is safer compared to an open-chain robot manipulator. The parallelogram mechanism, which provides a virtual pivot point, is selected in robot structure. The conceptual design (Fig. 4) of a developed passive robot to an active robot has three main parts. Robot end-effector, passive arm, and driving system are the components of cooperative robot-assisted surgery.
Fig. (2). MU-LapaRobot: System overview.
Fig. (3). Kinematics of robot end-effector.
Fig. (4). The conceptual design of Active MU-LapaRobot.
2.3. Workspace Analysis
The workspace of the mechanism can be calculated by applying rotations to the mathematical equations, Rx(γ), then Ry(β), and then Rz(α), and the rotation matrices are shown in equation (1).
The coordinate frame or “frame”, denoted by {_} is the origin of that frame. The vector AP, targets coordinate with respect to frame A, BP, targets coordinate with respect to frame B and addition of vector in {A}, frame A, relative to {B}, APBorgin origin A, the origin of frame B is with respect to frame A. The addition of vector can be calculated by:
In order that the equation-(2) may write the mathematics given in the operator form by (1), and define a 4x4 matrix operator and use 4x1 position vector, so that (1) has a structure
The 4x4 matrix in equation (3) is called a homogeneous transform. The construction uses to cast the rotation and translation of general transform into a single matrix form. These equations are used as a simulation of workspace to see the range of the robot end-effector. The cone shape is assumed as the working area in the abdomen. The red line represents the pathway of the surgical instrument in the range of the robot end-effector movement.
2.4. Tool Interchangeable
The end-effector of Active MU-LapaRobot has a system, which allows the surgeon to change the surgical instrument by themselves. There is a small structure, which is a socket for instrument installation. The additional parts are attached to a surgical instrument. There are three steps to change the instrument from the robot. First, a small lever locks the instrument at the translation joint. Second, the surgeon just presses a small lever to release the instrument. Finally, the instrument is pulled out of the socket and new instrument is changed in the socket step by step.
2.5. Laser Guidance of Positioning Port
In robot setup, a port placement can be identified by a laser pointer that provides a virtual fulcrum point on the surface (Fig. 5). Due to the virtual pivot point on the mechanism, it is not easy to check the fulcrum point. If two dots of laser pointer appear on the surface, it means that the robot is too close or too far from the abdominal wall. The transmission consists of a driving system that transmits a force by wire to robot end-effector. A Passive Positioning Manipulator works separately from Active MU-LapaRobot. Two wires connect from one end to another end for transmitting the rotation of joint movement in counterclockwise and clockwise. There are 3 rotations and 1 translation on end-effector.
Fig. (5). Laser Guidance and alignment of positioning port.
Fig. (6). Diagram of active robot.
2.6. Driving System
The driving system is a switchable function on the actuator and mechanism. The actuator connects to the grooved pulley, which rolls a wire by a clutch. Through the first function, called freehand, a surgeon can use instruments through the port by robot mechanism without electrical need. For the second function, called holder, the robot not only follows instrument manipulation by constraint mechanism but can be held in a certain position by the surgeon's control, thereby acting as a third hand. All actuators are not operated in this function. The third function, called teleoperation, is a combination of a clutch and actuator, which is a power transmission to robot end-effector, thus operated outside the working area [23, 24]. In this robot platform, there are two sides to MU-LapaRobot. The robot is controlled by a joystick in 4 directions. The driving system can be placed in a remote area (Fig. 6). The high torque actuators are used in the robot driving system.
The wire-driven system is used as the transmission of movement from actuators, hence making the end-effector lightweight, and requiring a low power to actuate it. Thereby providing strength points such as high stiffness, low friction, high strength, low weight, absence of backlash [25]. When the clutch is on, the rotation of the driving pulley is locked. Consequently, the motion of a surgical instrument is held in a certain position. When the pulley is moving, the cable trajectory along the pulley’s axis direction is changed. One end of the wire is collected when the driving pulley turns into a joint of translation. The number of turns will increase at one side of the driving pulley when it collects wire in the groove by robot movement. On the other hand, another side of the driving pulley, which fixes the other end of the cable rotates the same displacement along the alignment (Table 2). Consequently, the wire angle is changed while the driving pulley rotates forwards and backwards. For the driving system, the robot has 4 DOFs, which is motorized by 4 actuators and 4 electromagnetic micro clutch systems (Table 3). There are 3 features which include freehand, surgical tool holder, and teleoperation. The pulley is connected to the one side of the clutch, which attaches to the other side of the clutch. If the clutch gets electricity, the other side is connected to the actuator. The two terminals of cable are installed at the pulley by rolling cable in the groove with the number of turns depending on the rotation angle in each joint or length of translation of insertion. When the pulley turns in more, the angle of cable (n) will be changed. If the angle is high, it is possible for the cable to jump from the groove. Therefore, the system will fail to be controlled by teleoperation and surgical tool holder features.
Table 2. Robot Functions.
Freehand => Off Off
Holder => On Off
Teleoperation => On On
2.7. Passive Positioning Manipulator and Robot base
There are 2 passive arms on the robot base. An end-effector is attached at the end of the robot arm. The idea is a central locking arm designed planar which is able to move along the planar plane combined with vertical direction on the robot base using a wire-driven transmission. One step of adjustment stops or release an arm movement. In this mechanism, a release lever at the joint is adjusted manually. By turning the release lever, the friction force increases between pulleys that rolls on a wire and linkage surface. There are 3 linkages and 3 layers of the rotor under the release lever. Friction force will increase with compression force from the locking process (Fig. 7) so that all rotors and link 3 have more friction force on its contact surface. When the release lever is turned until its tight, all moveable parts will not be able to turn by an external force. On the other hand, all rotors freely rotate when there is less friction force on the surface. All joints can be rotated in 180 degrees.
The base of the Robot platform has 4 lockable wheels. The pole of the robot platform has a rectangular base in a vertical direction. It can be mounted with a robot arm or other equipment. The back of the platform has a box for computer units or store equipment. The adjustment of a lever is easy because of the weight balance in a pole. The weight balance can be adjusted by changing a weight bar inside a pole. This platform helps to carry all weight and easy to move.
3. EXPERIMENT
In the experiment, MU-LapaRobot was tested on its functions by using the measuring device. The NDI PolarisVicra Position Sensor Camera is used to test a position of a robot controlled by a computer. Polaris is an optical system that measures the 3D coordinate of passive markers and simulates the real pathway of the instrument. It can distinguish the shape of a marker by a pattern of reflector ball on the marker. The workspace of the robot is simulated from acquiring a 3D coordination from a sensor and transfer to calculation. An experiment tested the repeatability and accuracy of the robot to be 10 times at the same speed. The marker is attached to a moving part of the robot joint. An optical camera is located in the range of camera vision to detect an optical marker. The coordinate parameters are measured from a moving part. In order to record force-torque characteristics, F/T sensor ATi Nano25 was used for the measurement of 3 axes of forces (Fx, Fy, Fz), 3 axes of torque (Tx, Ty, Tz); orientation. The sensor was mounted onto a custom designed 3d printed holder with acting as a case for the surgical instrument.
Fig. (7). Joints locking.
Table 3. The range of joint movement.
Range (angle/ displacement, mm.)
#1 DOF 160 degree
#2 DOF 75 degree
#4 DOF 160 mm.
The surgical instrument is attached by a marker and is manipulated from up to down and left to right on a robot range of movement, as shown in Fig. (8). The simulation in this experiment only measures Joint 1 and Joint 2 to see how surgical instrument moves along a robot workspace. One stroke of insertion is about 15 cm, which is half of the long sleeve of a surgical instrument. The coordinates on the limitation of movement can be calculated to find the angle in each direction by Euclidean distance (11). The angle inside the triangle can be calculated by trigonometry (12).
Where, D denotes the distance between two coordinates, i denotes the number of 3D coordinates, ã denotes the angle opposite the side of length c between lengths b and a.
The coordination of marker, with respect to the fulcrum point of mechanism, generates a relationship of two directions in a cone shape. The angle at each point between Polaris and fulcrum point can be calculated. There are many data sets from Polaris Victra while a marker is moving. The simulation from manipulating a surgical instrument in the workspace shows the virtual environment of movement. Four perspective views of movement are shown in Fig. (9). The angles from top to bottom and left to the side are more than 60º. In this experiment, the surgical instrument is manipulated in two directions up to down and left to right to see the action through the incision point. The length of the insertion moves along the z-axis.
The long transmission may cause an error of manipulation. In the driving system, each actuator connects to the clutch, which connects to the groove pulley. Once a joint is rotated, the other joints remain the same. A clutch connects to the actuator and groove pulley to transmit a torque by wire, which travels to the joint. The angle of rotation in each joint is relative to the travel distance of the wire. The relationship between the angle of rotation and distance is in equation (8). In this experiment, the robot is tested about the position of the surgical instrument to which the marker from Polaris Victra is attached when it is rotated by the driving system. Next, the camera is adjusted to cover the range of view. The robot is controlled by using a microcontroller to command the angle movement.
Where, A denotes angle of rotation; L denotes wire length of rotation and m, p, j denote motor, pulley groove, and joint.
Fig. (8). MU LapaRobot experiment setup.
Fig. (9). 3D positions on a limited range.
Fig. (10). Euclidean distance error (%) of all joints.
The results of (Fig. 10) show the errors. The result of joint 1(vertical joint axis or planar joint) is rotated at 80 degrees of joint angle and shows errors approximately 1 millimeter of each axis. Joint 2 rotates the robot end-effector at an angle of 50 degrees in each test. It has long displacement on X1 but the rest has few errors. Both joint 1 and joint 2 are a combination of axes which generate cone workspace (Fig. 11). Joint 3 which rotation angle of the test is 120 degree of the axis of the instrument shaft has a few errors about a millimeter in each axis similar to joint 1. Joint 4(translation joint) has a stroke of 15 cm length. A stroke of the test is 10 cm. It has long displacement on the X-axis and Y, Z also has some error. Two dots of laser pointer at the end-effector become one dot, represent the center of fulcrum point. If two dots laser pointer shows on the abdominal wall mean the height of the end-effector is too high or too close. (Fig. 12). In this step, the robot does not install with a surgical instrument. The modified surgical instrument is attached with a small adaptor on the instrument shaft using a standard trocar.
Fig. (11). MU-LapaRobot Workspace.
Fig. (12). Identification of fulcrum point (Left: Too close, Middle: center, Right: Too high).
The design and development of cooperative robots are proposed for laparoscopic surgery. There are three main parts of this robot: first is the Active MU-LapaRobot with end-effector, about 1.5 kilograms (lightweight), second is the Passive Positioning Manipulator, which uses wire-driven transmission in structure. The manipulator is convenient for adjusting a position on the planar plane and positioning the entry point on the abdominal wall. And the third is the Robot Base, which is a mobile platform that can adjust the vertical length of the Passive Positioning Manipulator. These two parts are adjusted to position the entry point. The adjustment in vertical and horizontal planes is determined before Active MU-LapaRobot runs. The Active MU-LapaRobot, which has a mechanical constraint, works above the abdomen. The driving system is the power source that transfers it to the joint movement by the wire-driven method. There is 4 DOF for surgical tool manipulation with a semi-motorized system. The laser positioning helps to find the incision point on the abdominal wall. As the surgical tool holder functions, teleoperation and cooperation work when all clutches are turned on. (Fig. 10) shows that joints 1 and 3 have a low error in a millimeter because these joints need low torque, while joint 2 has some errors on one side of the movement. On joint 4, high errors happen due to the effect of Joint 2. Four joints are relative in joint movement. Consequently, the surgical instrument can be manipulated quite freely, but it still has a friction problem in the translation joint that will be solved in the future by improving the control system.
MIS = Minimally Invasive Surgery
MIRS = Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery
DWS = Dexterous Workspace
EDWS = Extended Dexterous Workspace
No animals/humans were used in the studies that is the basis of this research.
The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this research are available within the article.
This research is financially supported by the National Research University Funds through Mahidol University and Government Research Budget through Mahidol University (Grant No. 111-2558). Another fund resource was the Computer-Integrated Intelligent Medical System Project under the Thailand National Research University Grant through Mahidol University, Thailand.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the research support from the Center for Biomedical and Robotics Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand. Moreover, Sakol Nakdhamabhorn, Branesh M. Pillai, and BART LAB Researchers for their kind support.
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There is also doxygen generated documentation available * [http://openbios.org/data/toke/toke-0.6.10 doxygen documentation for toke 0.6.10] * [http://openbios.org/data/toke/toke-1.0 doxygen documentation for toke 1.0.0] * TODO: doxygen documentation for toke 1.0.2 === Executables for three platforms === While you can find a couple of executables here we strongly recommend that you compile the FCode toolchain from the sources above so you gain from the integration work and fixes that have been done since these executables have been created. There are three programs: the Tokenizer, the Detokenizer and the ROMHeaders utility. ([http://www.openbios.org/data/fcodesuite/Binaries Binaries]) There is a version for each of three platforms (i.e., combinations of Processor and O/S): Cygwin running on an X86, GNU Linux running on a Power-PC, and AIX running on a Power-PC. There are two variants of each version: One that has level-2 Optimization and one that has no optimization at all, which I provided for purposes of Debugging. Optimization causes some routines and variables to become obscured and inaccessible to debuggers, and also re-arranges the sequence of execution in a way that can become confusing during single-stepping. And finally, for each, there is a "stripped" and an "unstripped" executable image. The "unstripped" image has an extension of "unstripped"; the "stripped" image has no extension. There are separate directories for the Debug and Optim(ized Level)2 variants. Under each are sub-directories for the different platforms, within which the executable images reside. All binaries are also available in a single Tar-File: [http://www.openbios.org/data/fcodesuite/Binaries.tar.bz2 Binaries.tar.bz2] === Local Value Support === Includ-able tokenizer-source files for [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/localvalues Local Values Support] (explained in one of the User's Guide documents). Five files: * One supplies the [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/localvalues/LocalValuesSupport.fth basic functionality] * the second adds a [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/localvalues/LocalValuesDevelSupport.fth development-time facility] * the third generates a variant behavior ([https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/localvalues/GlobalLocalValues.fth "Global" scope] rather than scope limited to a single Device-Node) * and the fourth [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/localvalues/GlobalLocalValuesDevel.fth combines the "Global" variant behavior with the development-time facility]. * The fifth [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/localvalues/TotalLocalValuesSupport.fth allows the choice of combinations to be governed by command-line switches], and is probably the best to use with Makefiles in commercial development and production environments. There is commentation in each one explaining how it is to be used. Available as part of the OpenBIOS FCODE suite. === Todo === A list of "Still To Be Done" items, excerpted from the commentation in the Sources The source files have, scattered among their commentation, an occasional item discussing a feature or implementation detail that might be worth attention in future revisions. This file is a [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/TODO collection of all of them] in a single convenient location. == Unit-Test Suite == === The suite of unit-test cases === This is the [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/testsuite accumulation of test-cases] that were created in the course of development. Some of these are a straightforward invocation of a feature, others are convoluted combinations of features whose interaction needed to be carefully watched, and still others are collections of coding errors, for purposes of verifying the Error-detection capabilities of the Tokenizer. They are grouped into sub-directories representing broad categories. Run the unit-test cases with $ make tests === Test Tools === The tools to run the Unit-Test Suite as a batch and examine the results for changes relative to the results from a previous run. The process of manually running a unit-test and comparing against the previous output, after every change, became unwieldy, especially when it came to running the entire suite of tests. These scripts were developed to automate both processes: * [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/testsuite/AutoExec AutoExec] automates the execution, and * [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/testsuite/AutoCompare AutoCompare] automates the comparison. There is commentation in each explaining how it is used. == Unit-Test Suite Logs == These can be used as base-lines for comparison against future versions, or, if so be, versions compiled for additional platforms. Note that a comparison of these against each other will not yield exact identity. Some of the test-cases, for instance, code the current date and time, others display a complete file-path, and still one other attempts to load a file for encoding using a syntax that is erroneous on some O/S's but not on others. All in all, five or six file differences will be expected to be reported by AutoCompare. * The results from a run of the Unit-Test Suite on the [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/testlogs/testlogs-x86-cygwin X86/Cygwin] platform. * The results from a run of the Unit-Test Suite on the [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/testlogs/testlogs-ppc-linux PowerPC/Linux] platform. * The results from a run of the Unit-Test Suite on the [https://github.com/openbios/fcode-utils/tree/master/testlogs/testlogs-ppc-aix PowerPC/AIX] platform. == Coverage Reports == The test suite has been run using gcov/lcov to produce graphical code coverage reports. * [http://www.openbios.org/data/coverage-fcode-suite-1.0.2/ coverage report for FCODE suite 1.0.2] * [http://www.openbios.org/data/coverage-toke-1.0.2/ coverage report for toke 1.0.2] * [http://openbios.org/data/toke/coverage/ coverage report for toke 1.0.0] == Kudos and Thanks == <div style="margin-top:0.5em; margin-bottom:0.5em; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em; background-color:#efefff; align:right; border:1px solid #aabbcc;"> The OpenBIOS FCODE Suite has been significantly enhanced to meet commercial grade requirements by [mailto:David@paktor.biz David Paktor]. 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Carolyn Krieg
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The prints and canvases of Bothell, Wash., artist Carolyn Krieg will launch haunting tales in your imagination. “Most people like my photographs, but some people think they’re scary,” says the 52-year-old, who lives and works in a studio attached to the barn that shelters her rescue-racehorse, Ollie; a goat named Stanley; and Weimaraners, Reynard and Kiefer.
Krieg started taking pictures when she was maybe 8 or 10, after her parents gave her a Brownie camera. “The thing about photography is that it’s magic,” she says. “You take an image and you don’t know exactly what you’ve got until you print it.”
After studying for a time at the American College in Paris (where she also studied mime with the ex-wife of Marcel Marceau!), she taught French for a while and then, in her 30s, began taking art classes at Marylhurst University and, after moving to Seattle, at the University of Washington. Krieg’s prints start with an original digital or analog photograph, which she may manipulate via computer, erasing a background here or oomphing up the frame’s texture there. From this work she generates a 4 by 5 negative, which she often embellishes with photo oils and inks. “When I’m painting on a negative it feels like creating memory—accessing the collective unconscious,” she says.
Saloming (above) started with a photograph Krieg took of the funeral casket of Alexander the Great when she visited a museum in Istanbul shortly after 9-11. She colorized and textured the “pretty straightforward” shot in the computer, then used oils to create the landscape that anchors the bottom of the frame. “The photograph is beyond Istanbul,” she says. “Saloming is an archtype for me of the way horses are. Their power. Their strength. Their mystery. Their hold over the human psyche. Some people are afraid of horses and some people, like me, can’t live without them.” Saloming, a 30 by 40 Fuji crystal archive print, sells for $2,500.
Contact artist Carolyn Krieg via her website, carolynkrieg.com .
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And that’s something that I want in my life,” she said. “It’s hard to meet black guys who want to be in a committed relationship. And that’s what I’m.
Latrese Williams is one such black traveler. When Ms. Williams goes out in Chicago or pretty much anywhere else in the United States, she said, she often feels ignored by men who seem to barely register her existence. These polar reactions occur, she said, because she is black. Williams said in her home in the Monti neighborhood of Rome.
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Romance was in the air on that day, but what about the rest of the year when it comes to Black women? What are their attitudes toward love, dating and marriage in general? Seven hundred participants completed the survey, which was fielded in February The respondents represented a diversity of educational and financial backgrounds. Almost half of them have never been married; 34 percent are currently married; and the remaining percentages are either divorced, widowed or separated.
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Despite her very apparent flaws, she has no problem attracting men and ends up in a relationship with a guy named Gus. The recently cheated-on Gus is newly single and still coping with his breakup. Like other men on the show, he takes a deep interest in Mickey, despite her chaotic lifestyle. But when black and brown women tend to be chaotic in film, similar to Mickey, they are not successful in the world of dating or particularly sought after. Like many of the rom-com shows and movies I indulge in, Love is lacking in female characters of color.
Not a single one plays a lead role in the three-season series.
Leah Donnella. What is love? Baby don’t hurt me. Nicole Xu for NPR hide caption. Is it really true that a good black man is hard to find? This week, we’re taking on some long-lasting stereotypes about black-on-black love.
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But what about the guys? Could we expect the tropes of simplicity and predictability with regard to African-American males and the same subjects? Again, the results were surprising and complex. Welcome to Nearly African-American males, whose numbers were spread evenly across educational and financial demographics, participated in the survey. Fifty-four percent of respondents have never been married, 31 percent are currently married and the remainder are either divorced, widowed or separated.
Black women are more conservative than Black men, certainly, but men are far from cavalier when it comes to first having sex in dating relationships. More than half of Black men 52 percent surveyed want to marry their current partners, 38 percent indicate not being sure and only 11 percent say they have no interest.
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Share this Story: Ottawa's council won't be shrunk like Toronto's, Doug Ford says
Ottawa's council won't be shrunk like Toronto's, Doug Ford says
David Reevely
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson met with Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford at Ottawa City Hall on April 16, 2018 to discuss the city's priorities, including the Stage 2 LRT plan. Jon Willing/Postmedia OTTwp
Ottawa’s council doesn’t need shrinking because it’s either not as big a city as Toronto is or because it’s a much more complicated one, depending whom you ask in the provincial government.
Premier Doug Ford made the first argument at a Friday-morning news conference where he revealed his plans to cut the number of Toronto city councillors from a planned 47 to 25 in this fall’s election, by drawing new wards that line up with provincial and federal riding boundaries. Why would Toronto have 25 councillors when Ottawa keeps 23, a reporter asked him.
Ottawa's council won't be shrunk like Toronto's, Doug Ford says Back to video
“Let’s not even compare Ottawa,” Ford said. “It’s apples and oranges. Apples and oranges when you compare a town the size of Ottawa, a beautiful city, compared to a city the size of Toronto, you can’t even compare it. You’re looking at a city that’s going to be eventually three million people.”
Toronto’s more like Los Angeles, he said, which has 15 councillors for a population of four million (though it also has 97 “neighbourhood councils” that have a lot of autonomy).
“Good governance, in any company, says you should not have more than seven to nine people on the board. You could have 20 of the smartest people around the table, nothing gets done. We’re going to get things done, we’re going to run (Toronto) city hall a lot more efficiently than before,” Ford said.
The second argument, that Ottawa is more complex than Toronto, came from local Progressive Conservative MPPs, including Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod.
Ottawa, she tweeted Friday morning, “is the world’s largest agricultural city with many rural communities inside urban boundary-making us physically larger than Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary & Vancouver combined. We are also home to a large francophone community. We are unique as Ontario’s 2nd largest city.”
Ottawa is the world’s largest agricultural city with many rural communties inside urban boundary-making us physically larger than Montreal,Toronto, Edmonton,Calgary&Vancouver combined.We are also home to a large francophone community.We are unique as Ontario’s 2nd largest City.
— Lisa MacLeod (@MacLeodLisa) July 27, 2018
Goldie Ghamari, who represents the Carleton riding next to MacLeod’s in Nepean, elaborated in a written statement.
“This morning, (Doug Ford) likened Ottawa and Toronto to apples and oranges — and I agree,” Ghamari wrote. Driving across her riding takes an hour, and yet all of it is within Ottawa’s borders. “We have four hard-working city councillors, all serving different communities with their own individual and unique challenges and needs. I look forward to strengthening my relationship with Carleton’s four city councillors, whomever they might be, after the upcoming municipal elections. Their insight into local community issues continues to be invaluable.”
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'Speedy Trial' Date Set In Seth Williams Corruption CaseA Federal judge has set the trial date for Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams to begin May 31, a much shorter time than past indicted political figures who've recently been tried on corruption charges.
Black Lives Matter Activists Call For Resignation Of DA Seth WilliamsThe group has scheduled a rally in front of the Office of the District Attorney at 8:45 a.m. Monday.
Zeoli Show Log 01.18.17Rich discussed President Obama defending his decision to pardon Chelsea Manning, organizations paying protesters and Gov. Chris Christie's harsh perception of Eagles' fans. He also discussed the confirmation hearings, a biker group coming to Donald Trump's defense for the inauguration and more. Rich spoke with Breitbart's Senior Editor Joel Pollak regarding his new book How Trump Won at 4pm.
Woman Sentenced For Slashing Tires On City Owned VehiclesThe woman who confessed to slashing tires on vehicles parked outside the Philadelphia District Attorney's office has been sentenced for her crimes.
Police Charge Phila. DA's Girlfriend With Slashing Tires On 2 City Owned VehiclesForty-seven-year-old Stacey Cummings surrendered Sunday to face charges of criminal mischief and possession of an instrument of crime.
Supreme Court Ruling May Give Juvenile Lifers In Philadelphia A Second ChanceThere are new protocols in place to help deal with the backlog of juvenile life without parole cases in Philadelphia.
15 Arrested For Alleged Gang-Related Violence That Terrorized NeighborhoodA law enforcement task force has arrested several alleged gang members who are accused of shocking violence.
City Council Will Look To Add Hate Crimes To Philadelphia CodeCity council members are introducing a bill that adds hate crimes to the individual conduct portion of the city code.
Deadly Shooting Of 3-Year-Old In Philadelphia Has Officials Calling For ActionDistrict Attorney Seth Williams and other officials held a press conference to bring attention to a bill sitting in the state House and Senate.
Philadelphia Lawmaker: It's 'High' Time To Decriminalize Marijuana PossessionCouncilman Jim Kenney wants to downgrade Philadelphia's marijuana possession offense even further.
Civil Rights Groups Call For Moratorium On Philly Death Penalty ProsecutionsA coalition of civil rights groups kicked off a new campaign at a rally Saturday at the First United Church of Germantown.
Jury Selection Underway In Trial Of Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Charged With Multiple MurdersJury selection is underway in the capital murder case against West Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who allegedly routinely performed illegal, late-term abortions at his Women's Medical Society on Lancaster avenue.
Charges Filed Against Two Former Officers Involved In Fatal ShootingThe Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has filed numerous charges including voluntary manslaughter against two former police officers in connection with a fatal shooting in 2008.
$20K Reward Offered For Arrest Of Criminals Dressed As Muslim WomenMembers of Philadelphia's Muslim community are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of criminals who are dressing as Muslim women to carry out the crimes.
Trial Ordered for 4th Defendant in Tacony 'Basement of Horrors' Kidnap/Fraud CaseA man for whom all charges were previously dismissed in the so-called "Basement of Horrors" Tacony kidnap and fraud case is now being held for trial.
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The Paris Poets Society is now accepting entries for its group poetry and photography exhibition/book, What Brings You Here? The exhibition/book will explore the personal and individual experiences and memories of those living in or visiting Northeast Texas. The exhibition/book will be based on the journey of the artists—what brings them to the place they now find themselves artistically as well as the geographical influence Northeast Texas has had on their lives. Please note the photographs are intended to stand alone and not as illustration of the works of poetry.
PHOTOGRAPHY ENTRIES
The photographs are intended to stand alone and not as illustration of the works of poetry. All capture types and photographic processes are welcome. The exhibit is seeking photographic work that expresses personal ties to Northeast Texas. You do not have to live in the area currently, but you must have some expressed tie to Northeast Texas. Please explain how this applies to you in your artist statement.
Photography Juror, Amy Holmes George
Amy Holmes George is a fine art photographer based near Dallas, Texas, where she has held teaching appointments at Baylor University, the University of North Texas and Collin College. As a former tenured professor of photography and digital media from Stephen F. Austin State University, she holds an MFA in photography from Clemson University and a BFA cum laude in photography and graphic design from Miami University. Currently Amy is executive director of the Texas Photographic Society and a member of the National Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education.
Exhibited widely throughout the United States as well as in Italy, England, France, and China, Amy’s work has been featured in more than a hundred exhibitions and is housed in several permanent collections, including The Getty, The Kinsey Institute and the Fratelli Alinari Museum. In 2008, Amy was awarded a Fulbright grant to fund a rephotographic project based on the Fratelli Alinari photo archives in Florence, Italy. Her work also has been published in a variety of texts, including the third edition of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Gum Printing and other Amazing Contact Printing Processes, and the fifth edition of Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels.
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Writers who have personal ties to Northeast Texas are invited to submit, by post or email, 3 to 6 poems (10 pages maximum) in any style. Please include a statement of no more than 250 words explaining your connection to the area. You do not have to live in the area currently, but you must have some expressed tie to Northeast Texas.
Poetry Juror, LuAnn Keener-Mikenas
LuAnn Keener-Mikenas won the 2013 Library of Virginia Poetry Award for Homeland (Louisiana Literature Press, 2012). Her first collection, Color Documentary (Calyx Books, 1994), won in manuscript a 1990 Virginia Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Chelsea, and numerous other journals, and has been anthologized in Entering the Real World (Virginia Center for Creative Arts 40th Anniversary Anthology); Southern Poetry Review (Guy Owen prize winners); The Mind’s Eye (textbook); A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry; Buck and Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000; and Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers. Other honors include the Writers at Work Prize for Poetry, the Chelsea Poetry Award, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for Poetry.
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Grett takes over journalism, yearbook, English, “pens”ively
“My favorite part about teaching is when I see a student who has been struggling with something, and they get that look on their face when they start to understand. It is so rewarding to see my students becoming successful in class and in life,” English teacher Mrs. Brooke Grett said.
Last school year, PCM had a hard time finding a steady teacher to take over the newspaper, yearbook, English 9 and British literature classes. This year, however, Grett eagerly stepped in to fill that role.
Grett graduated from Panorama High School in 2007, and she proceeded on to Iowa State University where she graduated with a major in English Education with an endorsement in speech/theatre and reading in 2011.
An interesting fact about Mrs. Brooke Grett is her obsession with pens. She isn’t sure how or why the fad began, but she is eager to collect them when she can. /by Kinsey Phipps
PCM is the fourth school Grett has taught at; as a result, she has taught almost every segment of high school English there are: English 9, 10, 11, 12, DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College) communications course, speech, drama, modern literature, creative writing, journalism, yearbook, website, AP Language, and british literature.
“Because this is the fourth school I’ve worked for, I’ve gone through a lot of change. I don’t think that is a bad thing at all, though,” Grett said. “I’ve learned so much at each school and use the practices I’ve learned on a daily basis.”
At this time last year, Grett was living in Grand Junction, Colo. She taught at Grand Junction High School for a year, then she moved to a nearby district where she taught at Palisade High School for two years.
“My family and I have always loved Colorado; we knew we wanted to live there at some point. My brother also lives in Grand Junction which is why we picked that area. We loved waking up to the mountains, camping, hiking, and my husband loved to go mountain biking. One of my favorite things was the drive to and from work,” Grett said. “Our town was in a valley, so we were literally surrounded by mountains. It was so beautiful every direction you looked. I definitely miss the mountains and the weather.”
Grett’s family decided to move back to Iowa in order to be closer to family. It was important for their two small children, ages four and two, to be raised around their grandparents.
Grett said, “There was just something about Iowa that we missed. People always joke about moving back to corn fields, but there really is something about the way the sun rises and sets over a corn field. It is beautiful, and it is home.”
Moving back to Iowa meant finding a job at a new district. Grett found PCM, and she gained segments of yearbook and journalism to take over after a rocky previous year.
“There’s always a bit of a challenge when you are new to the district and picking up a journalism and yearbook program because there are always differences. However, I feel that I can bring a lot to the school and both these programs,” Grett said. “I’m already feeling comfortable at PCM, and the staff here is very helpful whenever I have a question.”
Grett is looking forward to many things this year at PCM.
“Mainly connecting with students and staff and being able to see the outcome of my teaching here at PCM. Whether that is better writing and reading skills from my students or some awards and recognitions for my journalism and yearbook students,” Grett said.
Grett is settling into the Prairie City-Monroe community well, and she has been attending sporting events to support her students. The school district is welcoming her with open arms, eagerly awaiting what she will do with the English programs here at PCM High School.
“My best advice to students would be to stay positive. Not every day is going to go your way. It’s okay to not get things right, that’s how we learn,” Grett said. “If everyone was perfect and no one ever made mistakes, well that would be a pretty boring world.”
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When Old Laws Threaten New Climate Ambitions: A New York Case Study
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Several states have recently passed legislation mandating ambitious levels of economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions. While the laws establishing these state mandates authorize agencies to adopt new regulations, they do not spell out what to do about existing laws that enable—and, in some cases, encourage—the consumption of fossil fuels. Our webinar, co-hosted by the Environmental Defense Fund, will explore this challenge by considering New York's clean energy transition, and tensions between old laws and the landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. After a presentation of research by Justin Gundlach and Elizabeth Stein, speakers will consider some of the issues and proposals raised by the authors. Moderated Q&A will follow.
Dale Bryk, Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Regional Plan Association
Rory Christian, Principal at Concentric Consulting Group and Board Member of WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Michael Gerrard, Founder and Faculty Director, Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Justin Gundlach, Senior Attorney, Institute for Policy Integrity
Elizabeth Stein, Lead Counsel, Energy Transition Strategy, Environmental Defense Fund
Derek Sylvan, Strategy Director, Institute for Policy Integrity
Many climate laws add a layer of legislation to the landscape, but fail to excavate the foundations of existing, countervailing laws that are likely to impede the realization of the new legislation’s basic objective. In New York, an especially clear instance of this tension between new and old laws arises from the interaction of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and provisions of the Public Service Law that govern—and facilitate expansion of—gas distribution infrastructure. New York's situation shows that, unless the institutional framework and laws pertaining to fossil fuels are modified appropriately, efforts to make a safe and just transition to clean energy will likely be stymied by confusion and related opportunities for opposition.
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Goliath Fails to Topple David in Oregon
American politics is full of bullies, but nowhere are the bullies more apparent than in the groups trying to legalize marijuana. In Oregon, the marijuana financiers, including George Soros’ Drug Policy Action, donated $9,273,848 towards Measure 91, the successful marijuana legalization ballot which won by a large margin in 2014. The opposition raised only $179,672 . A similar ballot failed in the state two years earlier, when the financial backers of marijuana gave their money to ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington, instead of Oregon.
In a manifestation of Goliath’s power over David, the pro-pot forces in Oregon filed complaints against the opposition to Measure 91. The marijuana interests in Oregon had 45 times the amount of money as No on 91, thanks to the out-of-state money. Egged on by disc jockey Russ Belville, they still felt a need to intimidate local drug prevention organizers
In letters sent out last week, the Secretary of State’s office didn’t find any merit in two complaints. Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis didn’t violate campaign law as organizer of a 13-stop marijuana education tour. After Rep. Blumenauer complained about the the tour’s organization, the tour was scaled back to 7 stops. The complaint also cited DA Steven Leriche, campaign chair Mandi Puckett and Sheriff Gary Bettencourt, all of whom were cleared.
The Secretary of State’s Office said, “This office reviewed a video of one of the tour stops (Roseburg) and while the issue of marijuana was discussed, this in not unreasonable in the context of programming about substance abuse and drug abuse prevention. The measure was not discussed, and no one advocated for or against Measure 91.” The office found that “there was very little public employee participation in the actual execution of the Tour.” Four pro-marijuana state legislatures had filed the complaint.
Beaverton pot advocate Jennifer Alexander filed a second complaint against Marquis and Leriche. She claimed their work setting up the tour amounted to “political advocacy,” and that they were required to file as a political committee. Compliance Specialist Jennifer Hertel wrote, “We have concluded that the Tour was not a political committee.”
Clatsop CountyDistrict Attorney Josh MarquisDrug Policy ActionGary BettencourtGeorge SorosJennifer AlexanderJennifer HertelMandi PuckettOregonSteven Leriche
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Commentary| November 26 2020
Another twist to the GLI code
Alex J. Timmis;
Alex J. Timmis
1School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
Natalia A. Riobo-Del Galdo
2Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
Correspondence: Natalia A. Riobo-Del Galdo (n.a.riobo-delgaldo@leeds.ac.uk)
Biochem J (2020) 477 (22): 4343–4347.
https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20200617
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Alex J. Timmis, Natalia A. Riobo-Del Galdo; Another twist to the GLI code. Biochem J 27 November 2020; 477 (22): 4343–4347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20200617
The canonical Hedgehog (Hh) signalling pathway is essential for vertebrate development and its uncontrolled activation is a common occurrence in human cancers. Hh signalling converges in the modification of a family of transcription factors, GLI1, GLI2 and GLI3, to orchestrate a cell type and context-specific transcriptional response. Despite binding to very similar responsive elements, the GLI family members can exert diverse and even opposing functions. A recent article by Tolosa et al. (Biochem. J. 477, 3131–3145, 2020) reveals an unexpected layer of complexity, through physical and functional interaction between GLI1 and GLI2. This commentary discusses the biological significance of the findings and incorporates them into an updated ‘GLI code'.
Gene Expression & Regulation, Molecular Interactions, Signaling
The Hedgehog (Hh) signalling pathway has essential roles in the patterning of the dorsoventral aspect of the central nervous system, digit specification, vasculogenesis, angiogenesis and lung branching in the vertebrate embryo [1]. Postnatally, Hh signalling remains active in many stem and rapid proliferating progenitor cells, with constitutive activation often linked to tumourigenesis [1]. The membrane protein PTCH1, which is the receptor for all three Hh ligands (SHH, IHH, and DHH), represses the G protein-coupled receptor Smoothened (SMO) in their absence. Binding of a Hh protein to PTCH1 relieves this inhibition, allowing SMO accumulation in the primary cilium and activation of the GLI family of transcription factors, composed of GLI1, GLI2 and GLI3. GLI2 and GLI3 are constitutively expressed, and the balance of their full length, transcriptional activator forms versus their processed, transcriptional repressor forms is regulated by signals from SMO. In contrast, GLI1 lacks a repressor domain and its expression is only induced by GLI2 and GLI3, upon their activation. GLI1 acts as a transcriptional activator in concert with GLI2 to further amplify the Hh signal [2]. Ruiz i Altaba's group coined the term ‘GLI code' to convey the diverse functions of the three vertebrate GLI isoforms (Figure 1) [3]. In this model, GLI1 is exclusively a transcriptional activator; however, research in the past decade has shown a darker side of GLI1, uncovering its potential to serve as a transcriptional repressor of selected genes, such as ANO1, CDH1, AQP1 and SOCS1 [4–6]. How can GLI1 mechanistically act as a repressor? Unlike its siblings GLI2 and GLI3, which encode four clusters of phosphorylation sites that are initially modified by PKA, subsequently becoming substrates for GSK3β and CK1, followed by ubiquitylation and partial proteasomal degradation, GLI1 has a reduced number of phosphorylation sites and no degron motifs [7,8]. GLI1 has been only found in full-length form, and a repressive function could be explained by the acquisition of such through physical interaction with the repressor form of GLI2 or GLI3. The possibility of the formation of heterodimers among the GLI family members has also been suggested by sporadic evidence of synergy between GLI1 and GLI2, despite the ability of all three isoforms to bind to the same responsive elements in the promoters of target genes, containing the canonical GLI binding sequence (GBS) GACCACCCA or slight variations of it [9–11]. Indeed, all essential transcriptional functions of GLI2 can be replaced by GLI1 when expressed from the GLI2 locus, and GLI1 is not essential for embryonic development. However, the role of GLI1 in maintaining cancer cells phenotype and/or in maintaining a stem-like state suggests a gain of function during tumour formation and progression that cannot totally be replaced by GLI2. A novel study by Tolosa et al. [6] sheds new light onto these questions and offers mechanistic explanations for the exceptions to the GLI code.
The canonical Hedgehog signalling response is mediated through the differential repressor and activator functions of the three GLI transcription factors.
A concentration gradient of Hh ligands elicits step-wise changes in the modifications and processing of each isoform. Light blue rectangles represent the Zinc Finger (ZF) domain of GLIs, which mediate DNA binding to GLI-binding sequences (GBS) in the promoters of Hh-regulated genes.
The authors set out to investigate the nature of the cooperativity of GLI1 and GLI2 in the regulation of selected cancer-relevant genes that regulate cell growth (MYCN, CNND1, CNND2, E2F1 and CDK2) and survival (BCL2, XIAP, BIRC5) in pancreatic cancer cells and two non-transformed cell lines. In addition, they compared their transcriptional activity towards two GLI hallmark target genes, PTCH1 and PTCH2. The central question of the study was to distinguish whether the dependence of GLI1 and GLI2 for expression of specific target genes is competitive in nature. Could only one of the two GLI isoforms binding to the same genomic elements at any given time, or could they function synergistically, through co-occupancy of the same promoters?
Using a cellular model of pancreatic cancer (PANC1 cells), Tolosa et al. first demonstrated that GLI1 can physically interact with GLI2 and that this interaction does not require DNA binding. Partial deletion analysis revealed that the interaction requires the highly conserved C2H2 zinc finger domain (ZFs 1–5) of both GLI1 and GLI2, and an additional N- or C-terminal stretch of GLI2. A previous study had also shown evidence of GLI2/GLI3 and GLI3/GLI3 physical association, but not of GLI1/GLI3 [12]. In that study, the first two zinc fingers of GLI3 (ZFs 1–2) where used as bait to pull down C-terminally deleted GLI2 and GLI3, in agreement with the new finding of the requirement of the ZF domain for heterodimerisation of GLI1 and GLI2. The ZFs 3–5 of GLI1 were shown to mediate most of the contact with DNA in a crystal of the GLI1 ZF domain complexed to DNA containing a GBS [13], supporting the findings of that ZFs 1–2 serve as protein–protein interaction domains instead. In addition, older studies revealed that the three GLI family members can also interact through their ZF domain with — and their transcriptional activity enhanced — another family of C2H2-zinc finger transcription factors called ZIC1, ZIC2 and ZIC3 [12,14]. Altogether, these findings show the existence of GLI family heterodimers, GLI–ZIC family heterodimers, and possibly GLI homodimers, adding a new layer of complexity to the GLI code (Figure 2).
Updated model for the GLI code.
The transcriptional output depends on the balance of the (1) expression level, (2) processing into repressor forms, (3) positive and negative post-translational modifications, and (4) the presence of additional protein interactors. The gradient of Hh ligands regulates GLI1 expression and GLI2 and GLI3 PTMs and processing, while other signalling pathways activated by TGF-β and EGFR alter the balance through up-regulation of GLI2 and phosphorylation changes of GLI1 and GLI2. Based on the new findings of Tolosa et al. [6] and earlier reports, dimerisation of GLI isoforms through their Zinc Finger (ZF) domain adds another level of transcriptional activity regulation. The proposed specific function of various GLI homo- and heterodimers is indicated by their effects on target genes. GLI1/GLI2 dimers have been identified in [6]. We propose the existence of other homo- and heterodimers (shaded shapes), based on reported biochemical interaction of the individual ZF domains, or unexpected functional outputs. Note: GLI1/GLI3 heterodimers are not included in the model because their ZF domains do not show interaction in the same assays. Light blue rectangles represent the Zinc Finger (ZF) domain of GLIs, which mediate binding to GBS elements and protein–protein interaction.
These findings also raise new interesting questions. For example, it seems theoretically possible that GLI1 can also associate with the repressor form of GLI2 (GLI2R), which includes the ZF domain, since the interaction between GLI isoforms does not require the most C-terminal domain lost in GLI2R. If so, would GLI1 act as a transcriptional activator or a repressor? Would they display intermediate activities that could translate the morphogen gradient of Hh ligands in vivo? Understanding if the dimers are competent to bind DNA, and they display differential transcriptional activity compared with individual monomers, will be essential to answer these questions.
In agreement with the idea that different homo or heterodimers could preferentially bind to specific promoters, depletion of GLI1 or GLI2 in PANC1 cells or in pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts resulted in differential down-regulation of a number of GLI-target genes. While cell growth and survival genes such as BCL2, MYCN and CCND1 were similarly affected by depletion of either GLI1 or GLI2, others showed a skewed preferential reduction in the absence of one of the two GLIs. Of relevance to HH signalling, expression of the receptor and negative regulator PTCH1 seems to be exclusively under the control of GLI1, while expression of the homologue PTCH2, without the capacity to transduce the Hh signal, is under the control of both GLI isoforms. One can speculate that the negative feedback exerted as a consequence of PTCH1 induction would be confined to a high threshold of active GLI1 transcriptional activators, to prevent early signal termination.
In agreement with the relative sensitivity to GLI1 or GLI2 silencing, chromatin immunoprecipitation of GLI1 and GLI2 showed promoter occupancy in line with the observed transcriptional activity. The PTCH1 promoter contained bound GLI1 but much lower levels of GLI2, while similar levels of GLI1 and GLI2 were detected in promoters of genes partially regulated by both isoforms. Nonetheless, when endogenous GLI1 was depleted by siRNA, the occupancy of GLI2 in the BCL2, MYCN and CCND1 promoters was strongly reduced, indicating a promoter-specific synergistic function. This intriguing result could not be explained by changes in total GLI2 levels or by significant changes in nuclear trafficking of GLI2, because occupancy of the PTCH1 promoter by GLI2 in the same cells was unaffected. Instead, this suggests that those growth and survival genes (cancer-associated genes) could be preferentially targeted by a GLI1/GLI2 heterodimer. However, binding of a heterodimer to DNA has not been proven yet, and will require future identification of mutants that abolish GLI1–GLI2 contact without disrupting their binding to DNA, or their individual transcriptional activity.
What does this novel information reveal about a potential biological role of the GLI1/GLI2 heterodimer? If heterodimers are competent to bind to DNA, as suggested by the lack of dissociation of the GLI1/GLI2 heterodimer by GANT61 and the functional and positional studies, they might fine-tune GLI transcriptional outputs. Another scenario is that GLI1/GLI2 heterodimers differentially accumulate in the cell nucleus, either by increased nuclear shuttling or reduced exit, or have a different affinity to the Sufu chaperone [15]. Furthermore, the heterodimers could be more resistant to phosphorylation by PKA, GSK3β and CK1, or less efficient ubiquitylation substrates.
All three GLI isoforms are substrates of extensive post-translational modifications (PTMs) that regulate their activity, stability, and subcellular localisation. In addition to the inhibitory phosphorylation by PKA, GSK3β and CK1, stimulation of their transcriptional activity by MEK, JNK, aPKCι/λ and other unknown kinases has been suggested [7,16–18]. Furthermore, acetylation, ubiquitylation and SUMOylation are known to regulate GLI activity and stability [19,20]. Does the dimerisation of GLI transcription factors affect the repertoire of PTMs achievable? Is ciliary trafficking of GLI2 and GLI3 affected by potential dimerisation with each other? Finally, is dimerisation of GLIs a requirement for binding to DNA akin to bHLH type transcription factors clamping of DNA?
An oncogenic role for GLI1 and GLI2 has been reported by many independent studies in different cancer types. Only a selected group of malignancies — SHH-type medulloblastoma, basal cell carcinoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma — arise by constitutive activation of the canonical HH pathway through PTCH1, SMO or SUFU mutations. However, GLI1 is up-regulated in many other cancer types and subtypes by SHH or IHH up-regulation or by crosstalk with other cancer-associated signalling pathways, such as EGFR, IL6/STAT3 and TGFβ/SMAD signalling [3,21–23]. Silencing of GLI1 in cancer cells reduces cell proliferation and tumour growth, inhibits expression of stemness markers, and increases apoptosis [24–27]. In light of the new findings of Tolosa et al., an attractive hypothesis is that expression of some key oncogenic GLI1 target genes might not be achievable at a similar level by a redundant function of GLI2.
In summary, the new evidence indicates that the GLI code is much more complex than previously thought, through the existence of heterodimers of GLI in addition to GLI/ZIC dimers, whose characteristics are just beginning to be unveiled. Of particular interest is their role in tumorigenesis and the potential therapeutic effect of targeting the dimers interface.
The authors declare that there are no competing interests associated with the manuscript.
Research in the Riobo-Del Galdo laboratory is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), grant BB/S01716X/1 to NRDG. Alex J. Timmis is recipient of a Leeds Doctoral Scholarship from the University of Leeds.
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“It was only thoughts of you that pulled me
from the depths of hell and kept me moving forward…”
-Leigh Robbins, Out of the Dusk
Out of The Dusk (A Military Romance) Review
By: Lindsey Jane Philipson
Brett Parker is a war-torn veteran serving in Afghanistan, risking his life on a daily basis for his country and fellow men. Coming back to see his ill mother after a thirteen-year absence and protected by his family, Brett is shocked to find that his mother is dying. In her last moments, his Mother tells Brett that she is worried about him, that in serving as a Marine he has lost sight of his own life and his chance for love and pleads with Brett to find someone to “show (him) the beauty of life again.” Brett admits to his Mum that he did indeed find the one, Lauren Cage, a woman who he met in hospital whilst visiting her injured brother Matt, another serving military man. However, although the pair enjoyed a heady romance, he lost her after she found out he was lying to her about having a fiancée back home in Texas.
Making a promise to his dying Mother to reconnect with her, Brett embarks on a new mission to reclaim Lauren as his soul mate. After researching on the internet, he finds that Lauren, now Terrelini, although remarried, is now widowed and running a successful bakery with her best friend. Brett bites the bullet and makes contact with her, inviting her to meet up with him before his final deployment. The pair meet and immediately the heady attraction between them is reawakened. But Brett is a very changed man to the one that Lauren, his beauty, knew eight years ago: ravaged by war, he is scarred by the events he has witnessed and due to the role he has served, considers himself a beast and consequently is now fighting an internal battle of his own. Although the passionate side of their romance is instantly relighted, obstacles are thrown in their path which leave both in doubt about their future together. Can the lovers overcome these and beauty have her beast or will their respective pasts and the baggage they now carry, mean that these two broken souls will never be…
Wow! This was an intense but highly enjoyable read. Although essentially a love story, the author cleverly used her account to demonstrate the plight of those who are in active service and the after effects which some military personnel succumb to: i.e. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The author, through her narrative, highlighted the pitfalls which some returning military members have to endure as they re-adjust to civilian life and how the traumatic events which they witness can have a lasting effect on their psyche. The story of Brett and Lauren was a real roller coaster to read. Both are wary of each other: Brett struggling to cope with the horrors of war and Lauren, recently widowed, is scared to love again, as Brett previously broke her heart. The two cautiously navigate around each other and the author creates a wonderful sense of tension between them so you really find yourself rooting for the pair as they fight to be together. Moreover, offset to the main story, there are also sub plots running with secondary characters, which add dimension and substance to the tale, as a whole.
This was an immensely moving, wonderfully written love story. Would highly recommend. Not suitable for younger readers.
My Rating: 4 / 5
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World marks 50 years since election of revolutionary Pope Paul VI
June 21, 2013 by Stephanie Fenton Leave a Comment
Pope Paul VI with Cardinal Patriarch Albino Luciani, Venice, 1972. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
FRIDAY, JUNE 21: Fifty years ago today, in 1963, the world saw the election of a groundbreaking new pope: Paul VI. Though he was no stranger to the Vatican, having served its Secretariat of State for 32 years prior to his election, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini—who took the name Paul VI—broke Church history on several levels. The formerly frail child took the Catholic Church by storm, becoming the first pope to travel to six continents during his reign and changing the 400-year-old format of Mass. Last year, Pope Benedict XVI declared Paul VI to have been of heroic virtue, thus earning him the title “Venerable.”
FROM A FRAIL BABY TO
A STRONG PONTIFF
A wealthy family welcomed Giovanni Battista Montini in 1897, and despite the baby’s frailness, the young child would go on to receive extensive education from the Jesuits and the seminary. (The Vatican has a full biography.) First ordained a priest in 1920, Montini advanced to Gregorian University and the University of Rome, finally placing an emphasis on studying canon law.
When World War II emerged, current events and danger to the pontiff took first priority, and Montini stepped up to organize several relief projects. Having won the affections of the bishop of Rome, Montini was appointed Archbishop of Milan, revitalized the diocese, won over the laboring class, promoted Catholic education and attracted international press for his efforts. (Wikipedia has details.) Upon the death of Pope John XXIII, Montini was elected the new pope on June 21, 1963. Montini chose the name “Paul” to indicate a renewed mission to spread the Word of Christ.
A POPE OF FIRSTS AND
THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL
From the moment he was crowned, Pope Paul VI sought to make an impression. He delivered the allocution in nine languages, demonstrating his plan to reach out to new communities and peoples; he sold the papal tiara and distributed profits to the poor in several regions of the world; and while Vatican II had automatically closed with the death of John XXIII, the pope educated in canon law promised to re-convoke it. Throughout his reign, Pope Paul VI would keep his promise of reaching out internationally, beginning with his first papal visit being to the United Nations headquarters in New York. Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit six continents and the first to set foot in the Holy Land since St. Peter left nearly 2,000 years earlier and went to Rome. The reopening of the Second Vatican Council in 1963 saw four priorities outlined: a better understanding of the Catholic Church, Church reforms, advancing the unity of Christianity and dialogue with the world. Vatican II successfully closed in 1965, and Pope Paul VI implemented its mandates until his death in 1978.
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"I did not make those statements in the house and I did not make them as a member of the executive council, but as an Inuk that values life."
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Netsilik MLA Emiliano Qirngnuq told the assembly he would not support the motion to oust Netser because "we do have an expression of freedom" in Canada.
"We have to think about our children and the future of our children. We have to deeply reflect on our society's values into the future," Qirngnuq said
Justice Minister Jeannie Ehaloak told the assembly Netser's comments were concerning. And politicians can't say whatever they want, if their words have a negative impacts on people.
Speaking to reporters after the vote, Savikataaq said the decision to remove Netser was not easy but had to be made.
Because Nunavut has a consensus-style government, only a full caucus can remove cabinet members.
Netser, who represents Coral Harbour and Naujaat, is to stay on as an MLA.
A leadership forum is expected to take place next week to select Netser's replacement in cabinet.
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SWR postpones homecoming festivities; football game will go on Saturday
By Kate Nalepinski
Shoreham-Wading River’s homecoming festivities have been postponed until the week of Oct. 22 following the tragic crash Sunday that left a 12-year-old middle school student dead.
The district announced that all spirit week festivities leading up to homecoming have been rescheduled. The football team’s game Saturday against Hampton Bays will be played as scheduled at 2:30 p.m. at Thomas Cutinella Memorial Field.
The final regular season football game against Bayport-Blue Point will now be a day game played Oct. 27 at 2 p.m., according to Section XI.
The Prodell Middle School open house, scheduled for Oct. 4, has also been canceled, and a new date has yet to be finalized.
According to a separate announcement on the district website, the District’s Crisis Response Team is in the process of implementing a plan to assist students who are coping with the loss of their peer. This includes an information session Wednesday evening from 5 to 6 p.m. at the middle school library for parents on helping children deal with grief.
The announcement said support services will be made available to students and staff as needed.
“Our thoughts are with all those involved in this accident, and our hearts and deepest condolences with the family and friends of the student who tragically passed away,” the district said.
A district spokesperson said no school officials would be made available for interviews.
Kate Nalepinski is a general assignment reporter primarily covering education on the North Fork. She’s a 2018 graduate of Ithaca College and has volunteered with the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists at Stony Brook University.
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Pee Wee (singer)
"Un Beso" is Aventura's third single from their fourth studio album God's Project. The song reached big recognition in many Spanish-speaking countries and reached number six on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart and number 36 on the Billboard Regional Mexican Airplay chart. It was later included on the compilation album Bachata Romántica: 1's (2009).
The music video for "Un Beso" shows Romeo sitting down in a club when he sees this girl dancing. He walks up to her, and then they start dancing, and then they share a kiss. They fall in love after the kiss, and leave the club to go on a cruise then they share another kiss.
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Irvin Salinas (born December 8, 1988), better known as Pee Wee, is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He was a former singer for the band Kumbia Kings and was a lead singer for Kumbia All Starz, both created by A.B. Quintanilla. In early 2008, he left Kumbia All Starz to become a solo artist. His debut studio album Yo Soy was released on August 11, 2009.
Early life and discovery (1988–2003)
Irvin Salinas, known as Pee Wee was born on December 8, 1988 in Othello, Washington. He is the youngest of three siblings (his older sister named Elizabeth Salinas and his older brother Simon Salinas). His father, Horacio Salinas was an alcoholic, and put in rehabilitation while Irvin was thirteen years old. After his parents separated, his mother, María Martínez, changed residence to La Joya, Texas, located in the outskirts of McAllen, Texas. Irvin began to wash cars and perform other small jobs in order to provide his family with extra income. He has an uncle in Navasota, Texas after the name of Rafael Salinas. At thirteen, he met A.B. Quintanilla, brother of Selena, in a casting at Pee Wee' s middle school. It was then that A.B. Quintanilla expressed interest in Pee Wee, and informed him about a casting for a music video with his band and offered him an audition. Irvin accepted, presenting to him a few days later in the casting. He also went to Memorial Middle School and La Joya High School.
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Un Beso Mas, Jody Bernal
Un Beso Mas
COUPLET 1:
Siento que algo querrias decir
Sufriendo tanto cuando no estas aqui
Voy a cantare al mundo por fin
Mi son, mi amor deseo de ti
Oye! Manuela bailando (a)qui
Oye! Aqui!
Un beso menos
Besito que me diste
Me gusta mas
Besitos que daras
Amor que se siembra florece por ti
Tu almo germina pensando en mi
Amor que me llama al lado de ti
Tu sabes, te quiero
Ven hacia mi
REFREIN
Cuento las horas errando sin ti
Serasmi delino amor de vivir
No puedo pasar una nocha sin ti
Lo sabes, carino
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“The greater reward is with the greater trial or the greater the trial or difficulty of test or hardship is then the greater the reward. And when Allah loves a person He will test them. So, he who will be pleased and then He will be pleased.” [Ibn Majah]
Sheikh Abdallah Kamel is a living example of this hadith. Blind by birth (1985), Sheikh Abdallah did not allow his physical impairment to define his life. Instead, he took over it and memorized the entire Qur’an by making use of the Louis Braille system.
The Sheikh’s melodious and unfeigned recitation of the Qur’an will stir your heart and will drive you to tears. His mesmerizing tilawah attracts large crowds who gather to offer their Salaah in tranquillity and khushoo.
Sheikh Abdallah Kamel is a highly respected man in Egypt. He graduated from Al Fayoum University in 2005 and went on to join the faculty of Dar Al Uloom in the same University. He was also appointed to lead the Taraweeh prayers in in Badr Al Islami’s mosque. Whilst there, he would take weekly classes as well. His work as a speaker also continued in a mosque in Al Kiman.
Besides the appointments at mosques and Universities, Sheikh Abdallah Kamel has also worked for the media. He had a television show, Nabadat Al Shaeir {The Poet Pulses) on Al Rahma channel, in addition to giving many lessons on the same channel. He has also hosted another television show called Al Muqri’at on Al Nass channel.
The Sheikh has also secured the first place in a competition called, Mizmar Al Dawud hosted on the television channel, Fajr.
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About Muhammad Al-Aalim Al-Dokali
Country: Libya
Muhammad Al-Aalim Al-Dokali is born in Awlad Al-Aalim, Libya in 1949, Shaykh Muhammad Al-Aalim Al-Dokali was a famous Quran reciter and Imam par excellence.
Shaykh Al-Dokaly got his education in the Institute Al-Asmari, after which he sought to procure specialization in Islamic studies from the renowned Institute of Malik Ibn Anass in Tripoli, Libya.
Post seeking a sound education, Shaykh graduated in Arts in Sharia and Law from the Islamic University in Bayda, which also allowed him to maintain various positions of importance namely Khateeb in the mosque of Balmain in Tripoli, Imam and a teacher of the Quran at the faculty of Daawa Al-Islamiya.
The official and coveted designation of general director of legal affairs of the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments in 1998 was a stepping stone in the life of the Shaykh for future lucrative prospects.
He also led prayers as an Imam in Moulay Mohammed Mosque, Morocco.
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#Flashartmark 06/07/2020 14 min read0 5
SummerStage Anywhere Digital Series Schedule – July 6th – 12th
SummerStage Anywhere
Digital Series Content
Programming Week of July 6th – July 12th
Femi Kuti, A$AP Ferg, Fab 5 Freddy,
Shura, Rich Medina, Sheila Jordan,
Christian McBride, VP Records,
Dwight Rhoden, Karine Plantadit & More
Upcoming Performances & Conversations With La India, Pabllo Vittar, Angelique Kidjo, Patrick Watson, Venus X, Ibeyi, Emicida, Fenne Lily,
Michael Brun, Joan Myers Brown Of Philadanco! &
More To Be Announced
JULY 6, 2020 – NEW YORK, NY – Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is kicking off July with its free digital series SummerStage Anywhere. The platform will offer daily one-of-a-kind digital arts content every week throughout the summer, starting today July 6th. For the most up-to-date scheduling and lineup information, please visit SummerStageAnywhere.org.
SummerStage Anywhere digital schedule for week of July 6th -12th:
● Monday, July 6th: Monday Meditations will take over the SummerStage Instagram channel live every Monday starting today at 12:00PM EST for a 30 minute workshop focused on keeping your mind and body happy, healthy and active with guest host Karine Plantadit, former Alvin Ailey and Broadway Tony Award nominated dancer (Come Fly Away, The Lion King), instructor, choreographer, certified yoga teacher and life coach.
● Monday, July 6th: Dwight Rhoden, Founding Artistic Director/Resident Choreographer of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, will join SummerStage Dance Curator Danni Gee for our first live episode of Soundcheck: Curator Conversations tonight at 7:00PM EST on the SummerStage Instagram channel. They will discuss Rhoden’s artistic vision, making work that reflects the times, and how the company has been staying engaged during the Covid “pause.”
● Tuesday, July 7th: Showcasing global content with two SummerStage alums for our first episode of SummerStage Anywhere Session: Femi Kuti. Kuti, who played SummerStage in 2018, is a performer and activist who travels the world performing the music of his father, celebrated Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. This exclusive digital performance was filmed at The New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria, a venue opened for the community of Lagos where ordinary people could come together and be themselves regardless of class. Fela performed frequently at the venue in the 1970s until it burned down, but the legacy continued when his son Femi rebuilt the Shrine in 2000. This performance marked Femi’s return home to the Shrine. Kicking off the evening is SummerStage alum DJ Rich Medina of The Originals with a live DJ set starting at 7:00PM EST, followed by Femi’s performance at 7:30PM EST available on both our SummerStage YouTube channeland SummerStage Facebook channel.
● Wednesday, July 8th: Live SummerStage Anywhere Session performance from electro-pop singer and songwriter Shura at 8:00PM EST on our SummerStage Instagram channel. A self-taught YouTube artist, she has collaborated with the likes of songwriter Joel Pott (of indie band Athlete) and Talib Kweli. Shura’s music is often described as “infectious but melancholy electropop” that blurs gender and sexuality.
● Thursday, July 9th: Salsa dance all-stars Ernesto and Denisse will host the first SummerStage Studio: Digital dance class, teaching youth and families salsa moves at 2:00PM EST available on both our SummerStage YouTube channel and SummerStage Facebook channel. With 20 years of experience dancing Salsa all around the world, Ernesto and Denisse became partners after moving to New York to dance for Yamulee Dance Company and compete with the four time salsa team World Champions, The New York Movement.
● Friday, July 10th: Two powerhouse hip-hop tastemakers will headline our Hip Hop Friday. Join our first Hip-Hop Culture Talk with Fab 5 Freddy and A$AP Ferg at 8:00PM EST available on both our SummerStage YouTube channel or SummerStage Facebook channel. Old school meets new school when these New York legends discuss their process in creating music that reflects and amplifies racial inequalities. Fab 5 Freddy emerged in the downtown underground scene in the late 1970s and has since been regarded as a pioneer of hip hop. Freddy became the first host of the groundbreaking hip hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps. A$AP Ferg emerged from Harlem with a captivating solo rap career in 2007, and is also a member of the hip hop collective A$AP Mob along with artists A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ant, Playboi Carti and others. Following the talk, join Fab 5 Freddy for a live Q&A as he takes questions from the audience starting at 8:30PM EST on the SummerStage Facebook channel.
● Saturday, July 11th: Jazz Culture Talk with Sheila Jordan & Christian McBride at 8:00 PM EST available on both our SummerStage YouTube channel and SummerStage Facebook channel. A contemporary and friend of Charlie Parker’s, Jordan is known for her bebop and scat jazz singing style with only an upright bass as her accompaniment. McBride, a six-time Grammy Award winning jazz bassist, composer and arranger, has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Palmieri, as well as with pop, hip-hop, soul and classical musicians like Sting, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, The Roots, Queen Latifah, and James Brown. These two established Jazz titans will come together to discuss the long lasting impact of Charlie Parker’s work around the celebration of his 100th birthday.
● Sunday, July 12th: Weekly #PeopleSpeakSundays curator takeover will launch at 2:00 PM EST with special guest curator VP Records, an independent reggae, dancehall and soca record label based in Queens. This special collaboration will feature a beats workshop and a dub yoga session live on the SummerStage Instagram channel. The series will also highlight crowdsourced performers who submit #PeopleSpeakSundays entries on Instagram.
Looking ahead at the week of July 13th, SummerStage Anywhere will feature exclusive performances with indie musician Patrick Watson, tap class with dancer Ayodele Casel, DJ sets with Latin trendsetter DJ Lobo, conversations with global singer and Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo & dance instructor and PHILADANCO! Founder Joan Myers Brown, New York DJ Venus X Ghetto Gothic Instagram live takeover and more. A full calendar is below.
Every day this summer, SummerStage Anywhere will highlight genres that were born in or deeply represent New York – Mondays: Contemporary Dance, Tuesdays: Global, Wednesdays: Indie Rock, Thursdays: Latin, Fridays: Hip Hop and Saturdays: Jazz. Daily genre-driven content will be featured across multiple SummerStage social channels (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch) and will vary between exclusive digital performances, in-depth conversations, one-on-one interviews, DJ sets, and arts engagement programs for youth and families.
Our digital episodes will follow themes each week:
● SummerStage Anywhere Sessions – exclusive digital performances with artists either live streamed or pre-recorded and then premiered on our digital channels.
● Culture Talks – in-depth and intimate conversations with artists focused on their connection to New York and how the city has influenced their work.
● Soundcheck: Curator Conversations – one-on-one interviews with industry curators and leaders on the behind-the-scenes work of the arts industry. Speakers include SummerStage curators, artists and arts professionals.
● Weekly Beat: DJ sessions – sets by DJs and artists playing music that inspires and motivates them and crate digging for their favorite finds.
● SummerStage Studio: Digital presented by Disney- arts engagement programs for kids and families including movement and percussion workshops.
Still to come this season, performances and conversations with salsa star La India, Brazilian drag queen and pop star Pabllo Vittar, Afro-French Cuban musical duo Ibeyi, Brazilian rapper and MC Emicida, Dominican-Ecuadorian, indie folk singer/songwriter Fenne Lily, Haitian DJ Michael Brun, Joan Myers Brown, and much more.
For the most up-to-date scheduling and lineup information about SummerStage Anywhere, please visit SummerStageAnywhere.org.
Featured Artist/Speaker
Karine Plantadit
Dwight Rhoden
Soundcheck: Curator Conversations
DJ Rich Medina
SummerStage Anywhere Sessions – Live DJ Set
Facebook + YouTube Live
Femi Kuti
SummerStage Anywhere Sessions
Facebook + YouTube
Shura
Ernesto and Denisse
SummerStage Studio: Digital
Latin / Dance / Family
Fab 5 Freddy & A$AP Ferg
Fab 5 Freddy
Sheila Jordan & Christian McBride
VP Records: Beats workshop with Richard “Shams” Browne
#PeopleSpeak
Yoga on Dub with Jah9
Joan Myers Brown
Angelique Kidjo & Amy Andrieux
DJ Lobo
Kool DJ Red Alert
Twitch + YouTube
Ayodele Casel
Jazz / Dance / Family
Ghetto Gothic
DJ Michael Brun
La Frae Sci
Indie /
La India + TBD
Afrolatino Festival NY
2:00PMET
CABD Juel D Lane
Fenne Lilly
Instagram, Facebook + YouTube Live
SummerStage Social Media
Twitter:@SummerStage
Facebook:SummerStage NYC
Instagram:@SummerStage
YouTube:NYCSummerStage
Twitch:SummerStageNYC
Official Hashtag: #SummerStage #SummerStageAnywhere
As an independent, not-for-profit organization, we rely on our donors to help us make SummerStage possible. Support from donors will help secure the future of SummerStage as New York’s largest free outdoor performing arts festival. We believe the arts are for everyone and encourage those who can donate to visit cityparksfoundation.org/give for more information.
Capital One is the Title Sponsor of the 2020 SummerStage festival. Disney is a sponsor of SummerStage family programming, including presenting sponsor of SummerStage Studio: Digital. Supporting sponsorship is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies and United Airlines.
Generous private support is provided by The Thompson Family Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Shubert Organization, and the New York Community Trust NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund. SummerStage is also supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the NYS Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is generously provided by our dedicated SummerStage Members.
Media partners include Big Room, iHeart Radio featuring Lite FM, Power 105.1, 103.5 KTU, Q104.3, and Z100, Telemundo, WFUV, Relix, WNYC, WBGO, Time Out New York, DoNYC, Futuro Media Group and Big Screen Plaza. Big Room is the exclusive live stream partner of SummerStage Anywhere.
In all of its programming and activities, City Parks Foundation partners with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to improve neighborhood parks and the communities.
About City Parks Foundation
At City Parks Foundation, we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building and education programs for all New Yorkers. Our programs — located in more than 400 parks, recreation centers and public schools across New York City –reach 300,000 people each year. Our ethos is simple: thriving parks mean thriving communities.
About SummerStage
Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is New York’s largest free outdoor performing arts festival. SummerStage annually presents approximately 100 performances in 15-18 parks throughout the five boroughs. With performances ranging from American pop, Latin, world music, dance and theater, SummerStage fills a vital niche in New York City’s summer arts festival landscape. Since its inception 34 years ago, more than six million people from New York City and around the world have enjoyed SummerStage. Capital One is the Title Sponsor of SummerStage. For more information, visit www.SummerStage.org.
About Capital One
Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital One, N.A., and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., had $249.8 billion in deposits and $372.5 billion in total assets as of December 31, 2018. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Capital One, N.A. has branches located primarily in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “COF” and is included in the S&P 100 index. Visit the Capital One newsroom for more Capital One news.
Big Picture MediaDigital Series ScheduleJuly 6th - 12thSummerStage Anywhere
Previous Lee Rogers – Drops New Single – ‘Silent Song’ – July 17th
Next FEUERSCHWANZ – Release Official Music Video For “Meister Der Minne”
Octopus Montage Debuts New Single & Music Video “Dopamine”
Run River North share an animated take on their latest single “Lonely Weather”
Charming Liars Share Latest Video From The “Live Sounds of 2020” Performance Series
MOD SUN AND AVRIL LAVIGNE DROP POWER PUNK ANTHEM “FLAMES”
MOD SUN Drops Cinematic Visual for Recently Released Single “Bones”
girlfriends // girlfriends // Album Review
Next Week With SummerStage Anywhere – Rodrigo y Gabriela & The Mavericks
SummerStage Anywhere Announces Live Stream Series with AARP New York
SummerStage Anywhere – PJ Morton, The Revival ft. Cory Henry, National Dance Day + More
Next Week – SummerStage Anywhere with Amazon Music
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100 DOGS AND CATS STERILIZED IN SEPTEMBER
Sep. 23, 2018—Staff and volunteers from ROLDA Sverige were in Romania this weekend to carry out a sterilization campaign for pets of impoverished families who cannot afford the procedure. With the help of our local team, 100 dogs and cats were successfully sterilized and registered in Smardan and Piscu.
The families and their neighbors welcomed us with open arms. They gave us tomatoes, grapes, and wine in appreciation for our hard work and good intentions. They made us feel at home and like part of their tight-knit community. It was wonderful and inspiring to spend time with such honest and caring people who share our vision for better animal welfare in Romania.
By allowing us to sterilize their pets, these families are contributing to the solution, and we couldn’t be more grateful for their support and understanding.
These are humble citizens who struggle to subsist each day on a low allowance that can barely pay for food, so it’s understandable for them to prioritize feeding their pets over sterilizing them.
Even if they had extra money to spend, they would probably spend it to secure next month’s meals, not to spay or neuter their pet. For them, it’s much more important that their dogs, cats, or livestock are fed and healthy. And while they all agree that the stray crisis in Romania is terrible, they have bigger problems to worry about.
We understand. We fundraise for these sterilization campaigns because anybody can see that these poor people are doing their best to provide for their families, including their animal companions. They love their pets, and they hate to see homeless dogs and cats suffering. They want to see less of them on the streets and more rehomed.
They feel so blessed to have our charity nearby to help them address these issues, and we are honored to be so welcomed into their community, and for giving us the opportunity to help them.
Their cooperation is important in solving the stray dog crisis in our country, and we deeply appreciate their support.
ROLDA would also like to thank the incredible ROLDA Sverige team for their commitment and dedication, and everyone who helped us make this campaign possible.
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Posts Tagged ‘Ryan McMahon’
2016 RotoRob Top 75 MLB Prospects, Part IV
April 29, 2016 | by RotoRob | Comments Comments Off on 2016 RotoRob Top 75 MLB Prospects, Part IV
Ryan McMahon should soon be more of a household name. (Grand Junction Rockies)
Welcome back to the 2016 RotoRob MLB Draft Kit as we continue to count down our Top 75 Prospects. So while PED suspicions swirl around Jake Arrieta, let’s review prospects 39 through 30.
For previous prospects:
Prospects 75 through 60
39. Ryan McMahon, 3B, Colorado Rockies (NR): McMahon, Colorado’s 2013 second round pick, was a somewhat unknown in Fantasy circles until last season when he hit .300 with a boatload of runs and ribbies at High-A. We love his slugging potential, and while he’s having a tough time adjusting to Double-A in the early going this season, we’re not worried. McMahon is starting to show signs of productivity (see video below) and it’s just a matter of time before he adjusts to this level and starts to drum up more hype. Of course, the Rox already have a pretty good young player manning the hot corner, but it’s a good problem to have, right?
38. Clint Frazier, OF, Cleveland Indians (NR): Another newcomer to the list this year, Frazier was Cleveland’s top pick in 2013 and after improving his contact rates and flashing more speed than ever at High-A last year, he’s landed firmly on the prospect list. He has power, speed, can hit for a pretty high average and will even bunt his way on at times. Frazier has made the jump to Double-A this year and while the Georgia high school product isn’t walking as much, the rest of his numbers have remained solid — a very promising sign, indeed.
37. Jake Thompson, SP, Philadelphia Phillies (49): Thompson — who was yet another component of the return Philly got for Cole Hamels — has risen into the top 40 after posting a decent ERA and doing a good job of limiting homers at Double-A last year. Thompson was a little easier to hit last season, and he’s finding the adjustment to Triple-A very difficult so far, but this righty is armed with a nice slider and he should be ready to make his MLB debut later this year — assuming he can find his game in the minors soon. The best part? Now that he’s with the Phillies, his opportunities to advance will be much more plentiful.
36. Josh Bell, 1B/OF, Pittsburgh Pirates (47): Bell is another player that has risen in our rankings this year based on a fine 2015 campaign. The switch-hitter showed decent pop and fine production at Double-A and then really turned it on after being promoted to Triple-A for the final few weeks of the season. This year, Bell’s slash line has dipped at Triple-A, but he’s been extremely productive, so much so that he could force his way up to Pittsburgh at some point. He’s starting to look like a potential star.
35. Jesse Winker, OF, Cincinnati Reds (61): Yet another returnee that made a nice jump in this year’s rankings, Winker projects as a high average, power-hitting outfielder. With the Reds’ current left field situation hardly awe-inspiring, he has a chance to be a factor at some point this year. Winker had a productive season at Double-A in 2015 and he has not looked overmatched in the least in moving to Triple-A this year. So far, only the flu has slowed him down, so we’re expecting his big league debut to occur in the not too distant future.
34. Lewis Brinson, OF, Texas Rangers (NR): Brinson, Texas’ first round pick in 2012, debuted on the list this year based on a breakthrough campaign in which he tore up High-A, continued to flash sweet power at Double-A and then raked in a brief trial at Triple-A at the end of the season. All told, he enjoyed some serious power last year, and this extremely athletic outfielder that’s brimming with skill is very coachable. Brinson is back at Double-A this year, and while he’s not dominating the way he did in 2015, Texas has shown a penchant for bringing youngsters to the bigs and giving them a shot, so don’t be shocked if he gets the call at some point soon.
33. David Dahl, OF, Colorado Rockies (22): Dahl is one of the players on this list heading in the wrong direction. He’s slipped out of the top 25 this season after an injury-shorted and unproductive 2015 effort. The good news is Dahl has hit the ground running back at Double-A this year with a serious power showing and an improved walk rate over the first few weeks. He’s piling up the runs and is putting up his best numbers since Rookie ball. If Dahl’s exploits continue, he’ll put himself in consideration as a potential big league call-up later this season.
32. Jeff Hoffman, SP, Colorado Rockies (NR): The first new pitcher in this section of the rankings, Hoffman was the Jays’ 2014 first round pick (ninth overall) and sent to Colorado last year as part of the Troy Tulowitzki trade. In his first pro season last year, Hoffman enjoyed a solid ERA at High-A before getting bumped up to Double-A just before the deal. Overall, he proved he can win in the pros and got some great experience — enough so that the Rockies felt comfortable enough to promote him to Triple-A this year. It’s a jump Hoffman has handled with ease, going undefeated with a microscopic ERA through the first few weeks. He’s very hard to hit and difficult to take yard, although once he arrives at Coors Field, we’ll test that theory in earnest. Colorado is intent not to rush this kid, but the way he’s pitching, it may not have a choice soon but to see what he can do in the bigs.
31. Gleyber Torres, SS, Chicago Cubs (NR): Just what the Cubs need — another stud middle infield prospect. Torres burst onto the map last year after showing some nice extra-base pop at Class-A before earning a late-season promotion to High-A. All told, he showed he’s capable of delivering the hits, but fewer Ks and better work on the basepaths will be needed for him to become a star. Signed by the Cubs as an International free agent out of Venezuela in 2013, Torres has some sweet tools and as soon as those begin being translated into results at High-A, he has a chance to move up very quickly.
30. Ozzie Albies, SS, Atlanta Braves (NR): Another new shortstop to the rankings (are we heading into another golden age of shortstops or what?), Albies took on full season ball for the first time last year, and while an injury shortened his season, he hit very impressively while active (he’s a .330 hitter through 175 career minor league games). Better yet, he’s now moved up to Double-A, and has taken his game to a whole new level through the first 20 games of the season. Manny Aybar better start looking over his shoulder with both Albies and Dansby Swanson soon ready to take Atlanta by storm. Yes, Aybar was brought in as a short-term solution, but that period may become vastly more truncated than originally anticipated.
Now it’s your turn. Let us know in the comments below which prospects you’re tracking this season.
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Tags: MLB, Prospects, Ryan McMahon
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RS246.com
10 Years Old Today!!!
December 29, 2012 RS246.com
In hindsight, we chose a terrible month to launch RS246 but here we are 10 years later…. To quote one of the founding members, “Built it – they will come!” and you did! 10 years on and we have an amazing enthusiast community.
Last year we celebrated 50 million hits and well on the way to see another million on top of that for this year. In the last 12 months, RS246.com has had around 7 million page views during 1 million visits from around 250,000 unique visitors.
The forum, with over 560,000 posts, is where most of the “action” takes place. RS246 is renowned as the premier source of information from real Audi R, S and RS owners.
Wishing everyone the very best for 2013!!
Audi R20
Audi’s Egg?
The render looks like a Koenigsegg. Right, that’s out of the way. So what’s the scoop?
Audi plans to equip the R20 with the trademark full-length tailfin of an R18 LeMans racer. Other design features are said to include a downsized, singleframe grille; stacked LED headlights; ventilated front and rear wings; an adjustable tail spoiler (which may double as an air brake); and a relatively narrow canopy-style cockpit accessed through gullwing doors. An important engineering element is the active aerodynamics system, which can distribute the downforce between the front and rear axles for optimum stability in the critical 100-200 mph range.
The interior of the R20 is as extreme and purposeful as the exterior. Expect a dynamic mode selector, a multi-functional black panel center display instead of conventional instruments, active-contour seats with integrated four-point belts, a multi-segment high-intensity windshield wiper and a camera-based surround-view package that renders door mirrors superfluous.
Insiders expect Audi to opt for the diesel-hybrid powertrain, with the proven twin-turbo V-6. The power output of the road car engine should be in the area of 550 hp. Add to this the lightweight body and the two 75 hp motors than drive the front wheels (Audi’s e-quattro), and it’s easy to picture a compelling power-to-weight ratio as well as excellent performance figures. The e-quattro layout not only yields an extra 150 hp, it also adds torque vectoring, some zero-emissions capability, ultimate traction, an on-demand boost effect, and a beefed up torque curve. Furthermore, the hybrid technology makes provisions for staggered brake energy recuperation, high-speed coasting, and a broader start-stop application. At this point, there are no acceleration, top speed, or consumption figures available.
With Audi on target to reach its goal and sell 1.5 million vehicles by 2015, the R20 will likely be unveiled at the Pebble Beach event that year to celebrate the achievement. Production would commence in the spring of 2016. The output will be restricted, but it is at this point not clear to how many. It may be as few as 100 to 250 units.
Now for the pictures, sorry renders….
Audi RS7 Breaking Cover
Pictures are starting to appear of what seems to be the all new Audi RS7. The pictures below are actually the same car but on different plates (Due to plate expiry).
We have added some pictures of the current S7 so you can compare the differences and the authenticity of this alleged test mule.
Audi RS6 V8 Saloon
December 7, 2012 RS246.com
According to Audi, this will never be made but we thought it would be worth sharing Theophilus’ render of what a C7 RS6 saloon would look like.
Audi RS5 Cabriolet
Why do RS’es look so good in blue? No so keen on the white one shown in Paris earlier this year…
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← Department store restaurants: Wanamaker’s
When ladies lunched: Schrafft’s →
August 24, 2008 · 1:20 pm
Taste of a decade: 1960s restaurants
Americans grew wealthier, traveled more, and demanded more exotic cuisine. Yet there were few trained restaurant cooks. Convenience food – in the guise of continental dishes (as in pineapple = Hawaiian) – offered the solution for many restaurants as the decade wore on. In other developments, old restaurant formats such as automats, diners, cafeterias, and drive-ins disappeared or shrank drastically in numbers. Fast food and dinner house chains, relatively scarce at the beginning of the decade, flourished by its end. Black Americans began to make headway in gaining civil rights in restaurants. By the middle of the decade signs of the counterculture could be seen here and there.
1960 New Armour & Co. boiling bags filled with beef burgundy, lobster Newburg, and coq au vin mean that “Every drive-in can now be a Twenty-One Club, every restaurant a Maxim’s de Paris,” according to a trade mag. – In Columbus Ohio the opening of the Kahiki adds to the Polynesian restaurant boom, while in NYC La Fonda del Sol opens, offering exotica such as Empanadas, Grilled Peruvian Tidbits on Skewers, and Papaya Filled with Fresh Fruits.
1961 In Sherman Oaks the Wild Goose adds four dishes to its menu: Boned Pheasant Chicken Kahlua, Veal Cutlet Oskar, Fresh Gulf Shrimp Stroganoff, and Breast of Chicken Kiev. – Four-star Lutèce opens in New York, one year after La Caravelle.
1962 A café in Sioux Falls announces “microwave cooking,” while in New York’s Time Square a restaurant opens featuring frozen entrees which the customer is to pop into a tabletop microwave. – A new product for restaurants comes on the market: instant mouthwash in a sealed paper cup to be presented to customers after they eat heavily spiced dishes.
1964 Continental and Polynesian restaurants find they must add steak to their offerings. – Kelly’s steak house in Sherman Oaks announces it sold approximately 400,000 pounds of steak in the past year.
1965 Maxwell’s Plum opens in NYC with an eclectic menu that ranges from Pâté and Escargots Bourguignonne to a Foot-long Hot Dog with Chili. Rumors spread of a naked woman seen walking casually through the dining room. — Extra-thick Frymaster Jet Griddles are marketed to keep cooking temperatures stable even when “completely loaded with frozen food.” – Aggressively cheerful California-style coffee shops, which combine the features of drive-ins, coffee shops, dinner houses, and cocktail bars, spread across the country.
1966 After touring the US, a wine expert says that he believes 99% of licensed restaurants have no interest in promoting wine. He reports that not once did a server ask if he’d like wine with his dinner. Instead they asked if he wanted a cocktail, followed by “Coffee now or later?” – Alice Brock opens The Back Room in Stockbridge MA which will be made famous by Arlo Guthrie as “Alice’s Restaurant.”
1967 Students at the University of Washington, Seattle, boycott Aggie’s Restaurant because they believe it discriminates against students, especially if they are dressed in “funny clothes,” following an incident involving a long-haired “fringie.” – The adoption of frozen convenience foods increases in restaurants after passage of the Minimum Wage Act which raises kitchen workers’ pay.
1968 Countering the fast food trend, the menu at the Trident in Sausalito advises its patrons to be patient: “Welcome to Our Space. Positive energy projection is the trip. … Care in the preparation of food requires time especially if we’re busy! So please take a deep breath, relax and dig on the love & artistry about you. May all our offerings please you. Peace within you.” – In Fayetteville, Arkansas, a diner declares he is tired of an “unrelieved diet of chili dogs and waffle fries” and bemoans the lack of any “quality dining establishments.”
1969 The Scarlet Monk in Oakland advertises a “Topless Luncheon” Monday through Friday. – In Chicago, menu language has become more sophisticated, according to linguistic researchers. They report: “Du jour is an accepted form on menus and appears more often than of the day. Anything – pie, potatoes, sherbet, cake, pudding – can be du jour (or de jour, du jor, dujour, and du-jour), and the Florentine Room even has … potato del giorno.”
Read about other decades: 1800 to 1810; 1810 to 1820; 1820 to 1830; 1860 to 1870; 1890 to 1900; 1900 to 1910; 1920 to 1930; 1930 to 1940; 1940 to 1950; 1950 to 1960; 1970 to 1980
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Tagged as Alice's Restaurant, chicken Kiev, convenience foods, La Fonda del Sol, Maxwell's Plum, restaurant cuisine, The Trident, wine
45 responses to “Taste of a decade: 1960s restaurants”
Delores Triplett
Does anyone remember where Smokin’ Bill’s Restaurant in Gary, IN was located?
Does anyone remember a restaurant in Savannah, GA during the 1940s called the Spaghetti House or something like that?
Does anyone remember a restaurant in Kingston NY that burned in the early 1960s? The owner always entertained children at Christmas.
Brenda Mims Nieto
I’m looking to see if anyone remembers a restaurant called Ruby’s Truck Stop on 17th State, in Milwaukee, WI. I think it was back in 1975 thru 1977. Ruby and Big Dave owned it. If anyone has any pictures of this restaurant or remembers it would you please let me know? Thank you.
clklowe
Does anyone remember the Bishops Perch in New York City? Owned by Tom James and Joe Nameth hung out there.
Italian restaurant on Astoria Blvd. in the 1970’s near 86th Street in Jackson Hts. (East Elmhurst) Classy and very good food !! Please someone tell me the name !!!
David Finkelstein
Does anyone know the name of a long since closed French restaurant in Stockbridge, Ma just off of Main St ?
margaret e. Hoeft
Does anyone remember the restaurant in Clayton, Missouri called Port St. Louis? They had a very good salad there, and I would like to find the recipe for it. It was in the late 1960’s
Does anyone know of a restaurant that existed in the late 1960s in Watts name Woodys? Please let me know at omgluv2shop96@gmail.com
Frank talmadge
Does anybody remember the new Moon Cafe in Auburn, Wa.? Long gone but had the best almond fried bone in chicken in the world. Gone since the 70’s. Frank Talmadge
Does anyone remember the Idle Hour on Stony Island Chicago, Il. 1960s?
I am looking for the old Frenchy’s on City Island in 1960. I got engaged there with marie p.
Does anyone remember the pie chain that sold all different kids of pies in the New York/Long Island area in the 60’s?
BOBBY SEYMOUR
4 N 20 PIE,S
Larry Mc Grean
Can anyone remember Frisky’s in Des Moines in the late 60’S early 70’s? The owner was an art teacher, I think at East. Had the best gunie grinder, pizzas and onion rings.
Gloria Gardiner
Larry, I remember it. We used to get a guinea grinder and onion rings every Friday night. I went to East, Classic of ’67.
mulemannorm@yahoo.com
I remember getting pizza most every Sunday night in the late 60’s. Loved it. Still think it was and is the best ever.. Wish we could get the guinea grinder recipe. Grace Carson Reinier
Thanks ladies for your replies. The owner was Bob Friskie or Frisk. I know a lot of people from East went there. Yes I think he has the best grinders and pizza in town.
Sue Thievon
Bob Frisk was my father. He owned Frisky’s Drive In and was an artist. We served homemade pizzas, guinea grinders, tenderloins, onion rings and more – fondly remembered by many East Siders from the 60’s and early 70’s!
Does anyone remember an oyster bar inside the Port Authority, NY, I believe on the 42nd st side?
leslie honcharik
Port Authority BUS terminal @ 42nd St did not have an oyster bar as I recall, but Port Authority @ Cortland and Church Sts had a clam/oyster bar that was open 24hrs….this was in the mid 1960’s.
jules eggleston
Does anyone remember Tabletalk restaurant in NYC in the late 60’s?
Yes! I remember it! on @2nd ave I believe.
Does anyone remember the Tower Suite Restaurant on 6th Avenue in the 50’s in New York City?
Bernard Barton
I do remember the Tower Suite and I went there once. It was the top floor of a midtown office building and it may have been owned by Restaurant Associates who operated many restaurants in midtown NYC.
I’M TRYING TO RECALL WHAT I THINK WAS A FRENCH RESTAURANT IN DOWNTOWN D.C. DURING THE 1970S. ALL OF THE POWER BROKERS FREQUENTED IT. I RECALL THERE WAS ONE LEVEL AS YOU ENTERED AND THEN ANOTHER LOWER LEVEL. ANYONE HAVE ANY THOUGHTS?
Chez Francois on K Street.
Does anyone remember “The Huddle” a restaurant in Reno Nevada in the 1960’s? Any info would be great. Thanks!
Shelby Sweet
Does anyone remember a luncheon place at the State Street Marshall Field’s where the waitresses brought your order on a tray. You filled out your order by checking off what you wanted on a little order form with a little pencil? I remember the restaurant as having a garden patio look. I think that was the name too. This would have been in the late ’50’s or possibly the early ’60’s. I’d really like to hear from you if you remember it because my best childhood friend has no recollection of it. I swear I remember having lunch there with my mother when I was a little girl. Shelby
patti johnsen
The garden room on the 7th floor.
Jean Wolfe
I do not know if it was the same restaurant, but I ate at one at Marshall Field’s in the mid 70’s where you filled out your order on a piece of paper and check marked what you wanted. There were a number of choices for each category – entree and dessert as I recall – and the menu changed daily. I worked at the U.S. Court House at the time and was a regular there and at Berghoff’s – which used to have a very reasonable special lunch menu.
Joe Maliga
The restaurant was indeed in Field’s. It was called the Verandah (sp).
One of the menu items was an open-face sandwich composed of rye bread, iceberg lettuce, swiss cheese, roast turkey and 1000 Island dressing.
Turner Lois
What state was that in?
Illinois.
sue muller
I remember it, when I shopped at marshall fields I always had lunch in the garden room..my kids were 2 and 4 so it was 1966-8. I lived in chicago for 2 great years then back to New Jersey.
It was not at Marshall Fields. It was at Carson’s. I ate there many times when I worked downtown from 1976 – 1979. I do not recall the name.
Shelby…see my comment below.
Elaine Johnston
Does anyone remember a restaurant in the 60’s around Canal Street/Spring Street located in a Brownstone with dining in the backyard? Possibly starts with an “R”?
Chumlies ????
J.Lay
Does anyone remember Lay’s Restaurant in Omaha Ne. in the 1960’s?
Linda Karnes
Yes, it was down the street from where I lived and several of us went there before a sweetheart dance at Westside in the early 70’s. Very fancy and good. The daughter of the owner ended up being my Freshman college room mate. Wondering where she is now…
Speaking of ’60’s cuisine…
I need a restaurant that makes a ‘reheated’ version of Coq au Vin. It tastes soooo much better when dish is allowed to rest overnight and the sauce has a chance to re-moisten the chicken.
Pan American Airways had this entree from Maxim’s of Paris ….fabulous. Who knew anyone could be nostalic for airline food!
Can anyone tell me the name of the French restaurant which was at 1540 Second Ave NY before it became “Pig Heaven”?
You may be thinking of Ida de France, run by the Swiss-born Chiesi brothers, Alexander and Peter. Peter Chiesi, who founded the Hapsburg House at 313 East 55th Street, joined Alexander as chef at Ida de France in 1968. In 1970 Craig Claiborne reviewed the restaurant, praising its seafood crepes with Mornay sauce and watercress soup. He said it had a bistro atmosphere, with raspberry walls, posters, paintings, and plaster busts. It may have closed that year, when Peter died. In 1974 Szechuan East is listed at that address. Pig Heaven opened in 1984.
Lanisha Smith
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Spain-based discounter DIA has revealed its Q4 2020 results, which showed total group sales of €1.7 bn and an increase in like-for-like (LFL) sales of 6.9%. The results were particularly positive given DIA’s store numbers fell by 457, with the retailer ending Q4 2020 with a total of 6,169. Division sales performance DIA Spain’s sales increased by 9%, to €1.14 bn, while LFL sales grew by 10...
Conad’s 2020 preliminary results
Market leader Conad has announced its preliminary results and is expecting to have generated a turnover of €15.7 bn, an increase of 10.2%, in 2020. Meanwhile, Todis revealed its results, saying it had seen an increase in turnover and like-for like (LFL) sales. Conad’s sales performance in 2020 Conad announced its preliminary results for 2020, saying it expected to increase its turnover by 1...
How will discounters respond to online?
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development and evolution of retailers across the world. For the discount channel, one of the biggest changes in 2020 has been the acceleration of developing online services, to catch up with other non-discounter competitors and meet shoppers’ expectations. With profitability being at the heart of the discount model and a key measure of success, the ...
Lidl UK: sales +17.9% for record Christmas
Lidl saw its strongest Christmas performance on record, with sales growth reaching +17.9% in the four weeks to 27 December. Performance was driven by an increased basket size, which rose 24.8%. We take a look at the other factors that helped Lidl to a record breaking Christmas. Promotional incentives help to differentiate from Aldi Based on released results, Lidl is the best performing of k...
Spain: discount and convenience developments in Q4 2020
Lidl Spain continues to grow its network, investing a further €60m to open 10 new stores during Q4 2020 as it also collaborates with a celebrity chef to launch a limited-edition range. Meanwhile, Aldi has revealed its plans to continue its expansion and claims it increased its space by 6.4% in 2019. Separately, Caprabo has launched a new online platform, which has enabled an increase in capaci...
Poundland temporary store closures
Despite being an essential retailer, Poundland will once again be temporarily closing some of its stores as a result of the current lockdown. Reduced footfall leads to 'temporary hibernation' of 44 stores Poundland has put 44 stores into 'temporary hibernation', according to The Grocer. Stores closed on 8th January. Poundland has not given a date for when the stores will reopen, due to the ...
B&M reports strong Q3 results
Variety discounter B&M's Q3 results (13-week period from 27 September to 26 December 2020) show positive growth across the majority of the business, particularly its UK banner. Revenue growth across all banners, expect Babou Group revenue +22.5% to £1,398.5m (2019: £1,138m) B&M UK +26.6% to £1,211.8m (2019: £957.4m) Heron Foods +7.6% to £102.9m (2019: £95.6m) Babou (France) -1.4% ...
Could Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd merge their promotional offers?
The two discounters continue to work closer together in Germany. To better understand how their strategies are evolving we looked at the first folders of the year. Below are the key learnings we identified from the promotional offers on private label and branded products, Veganuary and the marketing messages. Two different folders but common offers on several categories In many European cou...
GB grocery market: +11.4% over Christmas
In the 12 weeks to 27 December 2020 the grocery market grew +11.4%, the fastest rate since August 2020, according to Kantar. Growth was driven by Christmas spending and changing shopping habits due to increased restrictions. Here we look at the results in more detail, including an overview of performance in the online and discount channels. Record four weeks of sales With the closure of ...
Aldi UK Christmas sales +10.6%
Aldi UK's sales grew 10.6% in the four weeks leading to 24th December, compared with the same trading period a year ago. The retailer's 2020 Christmas growth was stronger in comparison to 2019's +7.9%. However, it was a slow down from the previous heights of +15% seen in 2018. We look at the drivers behind the growth and the retailer's latest commitments to British suppliers. Positive performa...
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The fundamental things apply as time goes by.
Yes, we're back to Casablanca. Above you see a Spanish poster for this award winning war drama, which premiered in Madrid today in 1946. The movie was a smash hit everywhere because, simply put, it dealt with every important theme in the realm of human experience, which is why it's still fundamental viewing. And that would be true even if most of the characters weren't migrants—a type of person that's very prominent in the news these days.
The poster art is signed MCP, the designation applied to work produced by the Barcelona based design company owned by artists Ramón Martí, Josep Clavé, and Hernán Pico. We'll get back to this trio's output a bitlater. Casablanca generated some very nice promos, and MCP's effort is one of the best, in our opinion. We also recommend checking out the Japanese ones here.
SpainMadridBarcelonaCasablancaWorld War IIIngrid BergmanRamon MartiJosep ClaveHernán PicoEstudio MCPposter artcinema
Vintage Pulp Apr 10 2018
Fatal confrontation leaves world a sadder place.
Here's a colorful little something from our house hunting raid last week, a pocket paperback entitled Diablo Rubio, or “blonde devil,” written by Jim Bravo for Madrid based Publicaciones Crucero. The narrative is set in Arizona and concerns a famed gunman and the rivals that dog his heels. We haven't actually read it yet. We can read Spanish but we're too lazy to do it right now, even though we're dying to know why the clown got shot. Ever been to a rodeo? Cowboys and clowns are natural allies, so there must be a complex story behind this tragedy. The art is uncredited, of course, but seems to be signed “M Leal” or “N Leal.” We get no hits on either name. Nor do we get hits on writer Jim Bravo, an obvious pseudonym. But we'll dig, and if we find anything we'll report back.
SpainMadridArizonaPublicaciones CruceroJim BravoM. Lealcover artliterature
Like Shakespeare wrote, what's past is prologue.
This unusual poster was made to promote the Spanish run of Retorno al pasado, a movie better known as Out of the Past. The title says it all. A man who thinks he's left his sordid past behind sees it rear its ugly head and threaten to ruin the good future he's planned for himself. Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas, this is one of the top noir thrillers, in our opinion. Certainly it's one of the most beautifully shot, thanks to director Jacques Tourneur and cinematographer Nicholas Mesuraca. Like the poster art by Macario Gomez, the film is richly textured and lushly black, which makes for a nice sense of gathering danger, especially in the pivotal fight sequence about forty minutes in. Plus it has the always compelling Mexico connection used by many excellent noirs, as well as nice location shooting around Lake Tahoe and Reno. Highly recommended, this one. After opening in the U.S. in November 1947 it had its Spanish premiere in Madrid today in 1948.
SpainMexicoMadridLake TahoeRenoRetorno al pasadoOut of the PastRobert MitchumJane GreerKirk DouglasRhonda FlemingJacques TourneurNicholas MesuracaMacario Gomezposter artcinemafilm noirmovie review
Modern Pulp Apr 11 2015
El Caso documented the underbelly of Spanish society for thirty-five years.
Our friends in Spain are really getting the hang of this pulp thing. The first item we received from them was a set of photos on Spanish post-pulp artist Vicente B. Ballestar. Next they e-mailed us scans from the Burgos-based fanzine Monografico, which had used a 1960s men’s magazine cover for an art piece. Now we’ve been sent some scans from the Spanish crime tabloid El Caso, which was published out of Madrid by Empresa Eugenio Suarez. For thirty-five years—from 1952 to 1987—El Caso was an important post-Spanish revolution publication, topping 100,000 readers per issue at one point. The copy you see here appeared today in 1981, and it has splatter photos, tales from Spain’s mean streets, and interesting art from A. Arnau. We have four more scans below and if we get lucky maybe we’ll be sent more (hint) later.
SpainMadridEmpresa Eugenio SuarezEl CasoA. Arnaumurdertabloid
Sportswire Dec 20 2014
For a little while at least, sports can bring a nation together.
The art deco influenced fútbol poster above, which is signed in its lower right corner by an artist whose identity is unknown to us, advertises a match between top flight Spanish sides Valencia F.C. and Real Madrid at Valencia’s Estadio de Mestalla. Months earlier Spain had become a republic after years of dictatorship under Miguel Primo de Rivera, and was about to enter into a period of unrest and rising fascism, leading to civil war and decades more dictatorship under Francisco Franco. But on this particular winter Sunday in Valencia the sole battle took place on the pitch at Mestalla. The star player on the field was Manuel Olivares Lapeña, who you see at right, but it was Jaime Lazcano Escolá and Juan Costa Font who netted goals that day. The game ended in a 1-1 draw—a triumph for a Valencia squad languishing at the bottom third of the table. But Real Madrid won the league.
SpainLiga Nacional de Fútbol ProfesionalEstadio de MestallaValencia F.C.Real MadridManuel Olivares LapeñaJaime Lazcano EscoláJuan Costa FontMiguel Primo de RiveraFrancisco FrancoJosep Segrelles
Vintage Pulp Sep 8 2014
It's one of the best uses of sixty minutes we can imagine (that doesn't involve taking off our clothes).
We have quite a bit of Spanish pulp we’ve been lazy about sharing, but today we’re remedying that at least a little. We snagged this little item entitled El Piño y la Palmera (The Pine and the Palm) in Spain several years ago. It’s one of Madrid-based Editores Reunidos’ novelas de una hora, or one-hour novels, so-named because it’s about 60 pages long (more like 50, after masthead credits, illustrations, and rear advertising). This one appeared all the way back in 1936 and has fiction from Francisco Camba and art credited to Bocquet y Longoria. The way Spanish surnames function, this could be one person, but in this case it’s two—cover artist José Longoria and interior artist José P. Bocquet. We got this for two euros, which we think is a pretty nice price for an hour’s entertainment.
SpainMadridEditores ReunidosEl Piño y la PalmeraFrancisco CambaBocquet y LongoriaJosé P. BocquetJosé Longoriacover artliterature
Vintage Pulp Aug 31 2011
The pain in Spain stays mainly in the brain.
The cover of this December 1956 issue of the American tabloid Exposed offers teasers on Kim Novak, Laurence Olivier, and Hollywood bad boy William Holden, but it's Ava Gardner who's front and center as readers learn about her mingling with Spanish bullfighters. Gardner had been introduced to the spectacle of the plaza de toros several years earlier by Ernest Hemingway, and she became a fixture at both the fights and on the Madrid social circuit. Since she was married to Frank Sinatra, this was of great interest to U.S. readers, not to mention Sinatra himself, and all the tabloids were reporting on it. The publicity didn’t help what was already a stormy marriage. Gardner eventually pursued and bedded matador Luis Miguel Dominguín, and not very discreetly. Everyone knew. Sinatra knew, and it tortured him. His buddy Humphrey Bogart rebuked Gardner, telling her, “Half the world’s female population would throw themselves at Frank’s feet and you are flouncing around with guys who wear capes and ballerina slippers.” Sinatra knew he was losing the love of his life, and he wasn't about to let it happen without a fight. He flew to Spain in a desperate bid to win his wife back, but it was no use—seven months after this Exposed hit newsstands, he and Gardner were divorced.
SpainCubaMadridExposedAva GardnerFrank SinatraKim NovakErnest HemingwayLuis Miguel DominguínHumphrey Bogarttabloid
Vintage Pulp Jan 27 2011
The National Police Gazette picks on an aging Ava Gardner.
This January 1974 issue of The National Police Gazette gives shape to every actress’s worst fear—natural aging. Editors slapped the header: “Oh my God! What’s happened to Ava?” above a photo of fifty-four year-old Ava Gardner, and the collective shiver that ran through Hollywood women probably resulted in a 4.5 Richter Scale earth temblor. Interestingly, Gazette editors don’t actually slam Gardner in the accompanying article, but they don’t have to because the message is clear in that header and the accompanying photo—Holy shit, look at this hag that just fell out of the ugly tree! There’s no doubt show business was and is a brutal field for women, but at least in Ava’s case you don’t have to feel too bad. She had become a millionaire thanks to cinema and was living in comfort in her favorite country Spain, sipping rioja and perfecting the siesta. The presumed gasps of horror from fans that remembered her as an ingénue would have been the flipside of a Devil’s bargain that allowed her to achieve that life. We doubt she gave a toss what the Gazette thought anyway. Elsewhere in this issue editors treat you to Raquel Welch, Muhammad Ali, UFOs, test tube babies, bikini bombshells of 1974, and much more. Okay, see you tomorrow—we’re off for our Botox injections. Hey, we never said we were as strong as Ava.
SpainMadridPolice GazetteAva GardnerMuhammad AliRaquel Welchtabloid
Intl. Notebook Mar 11 2010
We got some serious Spaining to do.
Yes, it’s that time again—we’re going to take some days off and go traveling. As always, part of the agenda will be finding more material to post, but there will also be some earthly pleasures mixed in. At least we hope so. Not sure when we’ll be back, but wherever we are we’ll start posting again regardless on Monday. If we don’t, call the authorities. Oh, and pop by and water the ficus. Thanks.
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Intl. Notebook Nov 24 2009
We’re off to run a few important errands, visit some old friends, and look for yet more pulp. This time it’s Madrid and, with any luck, we'll get tossed from another nightclub. Anyway, we’ll be back in a few days. Meanwhile, these posts located here, here, here, here, and here, are pretty cool, and they’re old, which means you probably haven’t seen them. So enjoy.
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Rosemary Rizq
Dr, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Centre for Therapeutic Education
Centre for Research in Social and Psychological Transformation
Emailr.rizq@roehampton.ac.uk
3021 Parkstead House, Whitelands
Dr. Rosemary Rizq is a Chartered Psychologist, an HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist and a Senior Practitioner Member of the British Psychological Society's Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy. She is also a UKCP registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychology at University of Roehampton, where she teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice for trainees on the PsychD. Counselling Psychology programme. She is also engaged in clinical and research supervision.
Rosemary was Specialist Lead for Research and Development for NHS Ealing's Mental Health and Well-being Service for many years, and was also Adult Psychotherapist at North-East London Foundation Trust's Forest House Psychotherapy Clinic. She now has a part-time private practice in West London where she offers psychotherapy, counselling and clinical and research supervision. Rosemary was Submissions Editor for Psychodynamic Practice 2004-2010 and is now on its Editorial Advisory Board. She is a regular reviewer for the British Journal of Psychotherapy, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling and The International Journal for Psycho-Analysis. She writes on unconscious organisational dynamics, clinical practice and training and the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature.
PhD, BSc, MSc, C. Psychol. AFBPsS. FHEA.
Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society.
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
BPS Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy with Senior Practitioner Status.
UKCP Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist.
EFPA European Certificate of Specialist Expertise in Psychotherapy.
Rosemary's current research interests are in three main areas: psychotherapeutic training and clinical practice; the organizational dynamics of public sector services; and the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. She is particularly interested in supervising doctoral projects in the field of personal development using qualitative methodologies. In addition to supervising doctoral projects at Roehampton University, she has been external research supervisor for doctoral and masters-level trainees at City University, University of Oxford and the Metanoia Institute. She is regularly asked to act as external examiner for doctorates at Lancaster University (DClinPsych), Brunel University (PhD), City University (PsychD), University of the West of England (UWE), Regent's University,(DPsych). and University College, London (PhD).
Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
UKCP Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis section).
Member of the College of Research Fellows, International Psychoanalytic Association.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Psychoanalytic theory and practice
Professional practice.
Award Date: 1 Oct 2009
Adult Psychotherapist, North East London Foundation Trust
Sep 2015 → Sep 2017
1 Sep 2010 → …
Specialist Lead, Research and Development, NHS Ealing
Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs
Rizq, R., Davies, J. (ed.) & Guy, A. (ed.), 28 Jul 2020, Monmouth: PCCS Books.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
What every psychological therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs
Rizq, R. (ed.), Guy, A. (ed.) & Stainsby, K. (ed.), 2020, (Accepted/In press) APPG PDD .
What have we lost?
Rizq, R., 12 Nov 2020, In: Psychodynamic practice : Individuals, Groups and Organisations.
A plea for a measure of opacity: Psychoanalysis in an age of transparency
Rizq, R., 9 May 2019, In: Psychodynamic Practice.
At the Queen's Hall with E. M. Forster and Jean Laplanche
Rizq, R., 9 Dec 2019, In: British Journal of Music Therapy.
Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize
Rizq, Rosemary (Recipient), 3 Nov 2020
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Psychoanalysis and Surveillance
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The Industrialisation of Mental Health Care
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Can we talk about prescribed drug dependence?
Rosemary Rizq (Speaker), Anne Guy (Speaker) & Joanna Moncrieff (Speaker)
What every psychological therapist should know about working with prescribed psychiatric drugs
Rosemary Rizq (Keynote/plenary speaker), James Davies (Keynote/plenary speaker) & Anne Guy (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Industrialisation of Therapy
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Rachel Knight
Sondra Yvonne Bivins
Rachel’s Children Fathered by Jesse Davis Knight
Slaves had few legal rights, least of all to marry and have children. Just two years after arriving on Jackie Knight’s place, Rachel became the slave mistress of his son, Jesse Davis Knight. Illicit interracial sexual relationships were not unusual in the antebellum South in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Jesse Davis Knight’s liaison with Rachel resulted in the birth of three known children: Jeffery Earley, Edmund, and Frances.
Early in 1858, Rachel gave birth to a son, her third child. Jeffery Earley was born a slave, owned by his grandfather, John “Jackie” Knight. By law, the status of the mother determined the status of the children, so Rachel and her children were his property. After slavery, while still a teenager, Jeffery married Martha Ann Eliza Jane, “Mollie,” the daughter of Serena and Newton Knight. The rumor mill started immediately, with claims that Newt forced his daughter to marry the former slave boy who in physical appearance was nearly white and who after all shared the same grandfather. To local whites it was just impossible for a white girl to become attracted to and fall in love with a Negro; however, to the family this was just the case. Jeffery and Mollie had grown up working and playing together on Newton’s farm. Newton was well aware of this, and so he determined to erase any vestige of Negro in both Rachel’s and George Ann’s children.
To the union of Jeffery and Mollie were born the following children: Ollie Jane (1883); Charles Madison (1886); Lawrence Larkin (1887); Altimara (1890); Leonard Ezra(1892); Chauncie Omar (1897); and Otho (1900). In 1890, Jeffery had an outside affair with Newton’s youngest daughter, Cora Ann, and fathered a son named Billy (1891). In March 1817, two months after Mollie died from uterine cancer, he married Susan Ella Smith. J. E. lived and died in the Six Town Community and did not associate socially with Blacks.
Edmond was born on February 8, 1861 two months prior to the first shots fired at Ft. Sumter, SC. He died when he was about sixteen or seventeen years old.
Frances, who was called Fan, was born March 18, 1863 and married Newt’s white son George Madison, “Matt,” in Dec 1878. She had nine children before he deserted her for a white cousin named Francis Smith. Fan later married an itinerate preacher named Dock Howze from Clarke County, MS. In 1914, she denied under oath that she was black. It is possible, but not proven, that Dock Howze was a part-Choctaw whose given name was Benson Howze.
According to family stories, Jeffrey Early and Fan both had deep-seated issues with being defined as “Negroes.” Although Fan had delicate features, she could not pass for a white person, so she claimed to be mixed with French and Native American. All of Jeffrey Early’s children by Newton’s daughter Mollie married white, almost white, or to relatives to avoid being classified as Negroes. They were raised as white in an isolated environment and had difficulty being accepted by either whites or blacks. Their situation reminds me of the song that Kermit the Frog sang about “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
Rachel’s Children Fathered by Newton Knight
The ex–slave Martha Wheeler said it best. Children of white fathers were given privileges that other former slaves did not have. As soon as Newton’s children were old enough, the indoctrination began. Newt indoctrinated them with an elitist attitude that made them believe they were somehow better than the average black because of their white blood. He helped build a school in the community and attempted to send his children by Rachel to that school. When the local whites rejected them, it is said that he burned it down.
Martha Ann Knight was born August 15, 1866. She had long, bushy hair and light complexion, café au lait, or coffee with cream color. She married Samuel Knight whose parents were Daniel Thomas Knight, Newt’s cousin, and Harriet Carter, another of John Knight’s slaves. Martha and Samuel had four children: Sidney, Amos, Viola Ode and Senia. Martha and Samuel encouraged their children to marry someone of their own kind. All except Senia married a cousin. Senia fell in love with and married a black man named Robert Johnson. The couple eventually had to move away to avoid harassment.
John Stewart, born in May 1868, was believed to be homosexual by family members and never married. Anyone breaking the peace in the family was accused of acting like Stewart. Living alone, he was brutally hacked to death in 1920 by locals looking for money.
John Floyd was born in 1871. His first wife was a white girl named Sophronia Cox. He married her in 1890. The marriage was witnessed by her brother Richard C. Cox. There is no record of Floyd’s marriage to Lucy Ainsworth Smith. Quill Anderson stated that his family moved to the Soso area around 1895. Floyd and Lucy had three children: William Wilder (1895), Ivy Jane (1898) and Octavia “Tavy” (1900). Floyd died in 1942 after suffering a stroke. He is buried in the cemetery of Shady Grove Church in the Kelly Settlement Community.
Augusta Ann “Gustan” was born April 22, 1873. After the death of her mother, she lived with several of her siblings, the last of whom was Martha Ann. Gustan married William Watts of Lamar County, MS in 1906. Her children attended Oakwood College in Huntsville, AL.
John “Hinchie” Madison was born in 1875. Hinchie married Lucy Ainsworth’s daughter, Mary Florence Magdalene “Maggie” Smith in 1893. Their marriage is recorded in the white Marriage Record Book at the Ellisville Court House. Hinchie was a prosperous farmer. His fifteen children mostly remained in the Soso community or in Mississippi, with a few moving to California in the 1950s.
With the exception of John Floyd during his brief marriage to Sophronia Cox, none of Rachel’s children fathered by Newton passed for white.
In the antebellum South and after the War, white men believed and accepted that it was a natural rite of passage to manhood to sexually exploit black women, which resulted in families of mixed race children like those of Rachel Knight. Everyone in the slave community knew who fathered Rachel’s children, but it was not openly discussed. Since she was raised from birth to be a slave, Rachel was aware that she did not own her own body; she was property and did not have the right to reject sexual advances. The white woman on the other hand was expected to be a loving and dutiful wife, an affectionate mother, and subservient to her husband. It was easy for her to blame the slave for her husband or son’s indiscretion. In the South, white women were powerless and little more than servants, too. Unlike today, divorcing a husband who had extramarital relationships was frowned upon and not an easy to obtain. The white mistress often punished the slave woman for her husband’s wrong-doings, telling herself that the powerless slave seduced her husband, or even demanding that the slave be sold to remove the temptation.
There remains to this day a hush-hush “open secret” and outright denial of past race-mixing in the South by slave masters. After emancipation, Newt, like many fathers of mixed race families, provided land and financial assistance to his off-spring which resulted sometimes in the development of elitist attitudes among them and resentment by neighbors, both black and white. Often when a mixed race person was successful in any endeavor, whites would exclaim that it was their “white blood.” In general, after the Civil War blacks were treated with callous contempt by whites; however, children fathered by their former masters were given a certain amount of protection from local harassment that lasted as long as the white father lived. The descendants of Rachel Knight, who were neither accepted nor openly rejected by their white and black neighbors, came under attack after Newt Knight died in 1922. Two of Fan Knight’s grandchildren, Rachel Dorothy and Fred Nolan, were poisoned by local whites in the early twenties, while Fan and Dock Howze both died under mysterious circumstances in 1916. It should be noted that Newton was not the only white man in Jones and neighboring counties committing miscegenation; the others simply did not openly flaunt their relationships.
Rachel Dorothy Knight, daughter of Mat Knight (son of Newt and Serena) and Fannie Knight (daughter of Jesse Davis and Rachel Knight). Collection of Ardella Knight Barrett.
Slave Narrative of Martha Wheeler, former slave of John “Jackie” Knight
In the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to interview former slaves to preserve a picture of the African-American experience with slavery. Martha Wheeler was interviewed in the Hebron neighborhood when she was 86 years old. She states in the interview that she was one of Jacky Knight’s slaves born on his place and at the age of eight, was sold Elizabeth Coleman Knight after his death.
The following is what she had to say about Newt, Rachel and George Ann:
“For many years the Knights seldom married outside of their family, but Newt and his family were the only ones to mix extensively with the Negroes. Rachel was considered his woman, then he moved her to his place and her daughter, Georgiann, took her place and separated him from his wife, who went out and lived, until her death a few years ago, among her children. He never married the Negro but brought up a family of seven with her at his old home place and died among them. He is buried in Jasper County half way between Stringer and Soso, one mile west of the road. His Negro children were given advantages and are said by many to be handsome. One girl lives in the old home. Another is high in school circles and served as a missionary to Japan and a third married a white man from other parts and has never been back home. His wife is buried at Palestine Church, three miles from Laurel on the Bay Springs road, now U. S. Highway 15. Newt’s parents, Mason and Albert, are buried at Hebron cemetery right at Solon Huff’s house. Their graves are probably at the beginning of the cemetery.”
Embracing My One Drop
After being questioned by a friend, I had to take a bit of time to reflect on why I choose to embrace my “one drop” of African blood and must admit that it has been an emotional reflection. It would be very difficult to believe that I am African American if I did not tell you so.
When I began researching my family line, something or someone kept tugging at me to keep digging for the truth. I knew that once I published my ancestry, it would cause some anxiety and denial from some of my relatives. I felt a deep sense of needing to connect with my ancestor and became curious to know just who that woman was that survived the anguishing trip from the shores of Africa and endured the horrors of slavery, never-ending work, and rape. I envisioned that she was young, strong and slender with a coal black complexion and kinky hair–not like the character that Ethel Knight described in Echo of the Black Horn, which is the only description of Rachel that exists other than what I was told about her. It seems to me that she was calling me to set the record straight, because so many of her descendents had either denied her existence or claimed she was something other than a strong black woman.
If I could meet her mother, I would want to know where she was born, the places she lived, when she was abducted and when and by whom she was captured. Did she come directly to the New World or did she get broken in the Caribbean Islands? How many generations passed before Rachel was born? These are questions that will forever remain unanswered because my family lineage stops with a bill of sale when she was purchased by John “Jackie” Knight.
As a child, I grew up in an environment where I was instilled with middle class values and taught to be proud of my racial heritage. I was taught to value honest work and an education and not the color of my skin or any other physical attributes. My mother made many sacrifices for us, never missing a day of work in 32 years in order that we might go to college. She was a great role model.
Mary Ann Smith Dodds, mother of Yvonne Bivins. Collection of Yvonne Bivins.
I remember that my grandmother was often asked why she chose to be black by whites. She would boldly say that she chose to be black because if she were white, she’d be poor white and would rather be a dog. She didn’t think too highly of poor whites. According to her, they had been white and free all their lives and no reason to be poor. My Grandfather just quietly accepted his lot.
Note: This is the final installment of Yvonne Bivins’s history of Rachel Knight. My thanks to Yvonne for sharing her research with Renegade South.
Categories: Mississippi, Multiracial Families/Communities, The Free State of Jones
Tagged as: dock howze, fannie knight, jeffrey knight, jesse davis knight, jones county MS, mary ann smith dodds, mat knight, mixed race, mollie knight, multiracial, newt knight, rachel dorothy knight, serena knight
Gertrude Shiver says:
I really enjoy reading about the knight families. I hope you all will continue doing research and writing about interracial families.
Gertrude,
Thank you so much for your kind words, and hopefully I’ll soon be posting another historical essay by Yvonne!
Sheila parchment says:
I’m trying connect my knight side of the family with Newton Knight are all the Knights related .
Yvonne Bivins says:
Yes and no. John “Jackie” Knight had a large family and lots of slaves. After emancipation, slaves who had no surnames usually took on the surname of their owners. This was because that is how they were referred, e.g. Knight’s Negro. In his Will, John Knight left three female slaves plus their children to his children: Morning, Harriet and Rachel. These females were the mothers of the Knights in Soso and Jones County and descended from sons of John Knight. Of interest to you, is Harriet Carter. So, all the Knights, black and white, who are descended from John Knight are related.
I was completely fascinated by the telling of your family history. Thank you! so interesting and riveting. Keep up the research.
Sherri Tyler says:
I’m fascinated with this story because I have one of my own, except for the race in question, which is American Indian, specifically, the Shawnee. Like you I was profoundly pressured to dig for the truth by “someone” (I happen to believe those someone(s) were my Shawnee ancestors who’d been hidden away behind their having to pass as white after running away from a forced march from Ohio to Kansas where the reservation was.) I looked at my grandmother’s beautiful face at the age of six and asked her why she “looked Eskimo” – at six that was all i could come up with. Decades later my mother, immediately after her death, gave me the gift of dreams that brought back the memories of my being 4 years old, overhearing my “grown-ups” talking about my grandmother’s bio-father, a Shawnee man, writing to her when she was in her late 40’s telling her the white man she’d grown up with was not her actual father. Short version – the Shawnee family had been passing as white, which explained why I never found them in Indian records. Even my grandmother, whose appearance is that of a 100% Native American, never knew she was part American Indian – they hid it so well. I got the whole, fascinating story by putting the memories together with dozens of clues and hints from living relatives (all of whom had a version of the “Indian story”) and then being gobsmacked by finding them in Censuses and other documents on an ancestry site – complete with ages, names and everything needed to prove to me they were my people, living on Shawnee land that had been turned into farms for white people and a few Shawnee families. Then, as if all that weren’t enough, I had my second DNA test done, on the same ancestry site, which came back proving I’m not the great-granddaughter of the white man who raised my grandmother – the Shawnee man is my great-grandfather… I’m still speechless and trying to let it sink in. These People of mine are powerful people to be able to give me their story and then prove it with science, and they wanted their story told. Bravo to you for never giving up, no matter what anyone thinks – it’s an awesome thing to know where and who we come from….
J.Pratt says:
This is so fascinating to me. More power to you for finding your roots and the truth. Stay true to you. This helps others. If people would just love who they really are we would not have all of the lies and secrets. Why does color mean so much? Why can’t we just love each other and skin color not matter? Stay true to you, I loved your store.
Davie Bradley says:
I am intrigued this story reminds me of my own family story I’m part of the Bradley family and it’s a very interesting story itself but I was wondering in the movie was that man sent to jail for marrying his kin
Hi Davie, thanks for your comment. I’m not certain which man you’re referring to from the movie, but I know of no one from this Jones County clan that was sent to jail for marrying their kin. First cousin marriages were quite common in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century, especially in the rural South. Many states have since passed laws against such marriage, including Mississippi, but not all.
Vincent Knight says:
I stumbled across this information about my ancestors and am blown away. I have pictures with names on them of who I thought were “white people”. I now know that they are part of my family history. Now the puzzel is beginning to take shape thanks to your good work.
P.S. – Viola Ode Knight and Luther KNight were my grandparents
Please contact me through me personal email which is sybivins@gmail.com. I am interested in exactly your connection to Ode and Luther Knight.
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Dale M. Knight says:
Hello Vincent,
My name is Dale Knight. I am the son of Udell and Gladys Rae McMillin Knight of the Soso community. Luther Knight is my father’s uncle and the brother of my grandfather, Robert “Bob” Knight. Both are the offsprings of Andy Knight. Just like you, I am fasinated with the rich history of the Knight family. As a young boy, I used to go over Uncle Luther’s house and watch him plow his mule and tend his garden. A lot of people get tight lipped when they hear that Uncle Luther and Aunt Ode were first cousins. That was the way things were. However, Yvonne has done a masterful job by researching and outing the real, complex and sometimes uncomfortable history of our families. The younger generations just want to know the truth so it can be properly passed down to future Knight relatives. Keep it coming Yvonne!
Dale Knight
Kecia says:
Great job! Looking forward to some time in Soso this summer. I am the granddaughter of Haywood Knight, his father was Hugh Knight. Haywood moved to the gulf coast with his wife and children in 1951.
Mr. Ducksworth says:
Greetings, can anyone tell me how I can obtain Martha Wheeler’s slave narratives? I have searched but to no avail. Thanks in advance.
Mr. Duckworth,
The ex-slave narratives are online, but I read Martha Wheeler’s interview at my university college library. The published slave narrative volumes that it’s part of are carried by almost all college libraries and many public libraries. Look for: George P. Rawick, ed. The American Slave: a Composite Autobiography. Supplement, series 1, vol. 10, Mississippi Narratives, pt. 5 (Greenwood Press, 1972), pp. 2263-64.
Much of Martha’s interview was never published, but may still be read at the Mississippi State Archives in Jackson, where it is contained in the Unpublished WPA Records, Record Group #60, volume 315.
quakergirl2 says:
Thanks- for Unpublished WPA Records, Record Group #60, volume 315- i was looking and looking for Wheeler’s interview and didn’t find it.
Quakergirl2, you might try visiting a library that contains the multi-volume set of WPA ex-slave narratives. That’s where I found Martha Wheeler’s interview, and here’s the citation from my book, The Free State of Jones:
George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, supplement, series 1, volume 10, Mississippi Narratives, part 5 (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1972). page 2265.
If you would share your email address with me through Vikki, I will send a copy to you. I copied the narrative when it was on the ancestry.com website. It has since been removed or I just can’t remember where it is located on the website.
Thanks a bunch 😉 Email sent 😉 As usual Yvonne, you are so gracious with sharing information!
I looked and looked and never found it- why do you think they took it off?
Thanks so much. Martha is my great great great grandmother 😉
Mr. Ducksworth,
That’s great to know! Martha left one of the most important contemporary accounts that I drew on for writing The Free States of Jones! Hope you locate her interviews without too much trouble. The unpublished sections are well worth the search in the unpublished WPA papers in Jackson.
I can’t find any additional information about Martha Wheeler! I have a Martha Ann Wheeler that pops up in my genealogy research but I want to be sure it’s her before I jump the gun. Did they collect any more information on her?
If by “they,” you mean the WPA (Works Projects Administration), the interview conducted with Martha Wheeler by Addie West was fairly extensive. Only part of it was published in the ex-slave narratives (George Rawick, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography). To read the entire interview (which I quoted from in Free State of Jones) you should visit the State Archives in Jackson, MS. The longer version of the interview, in which Wheeler describes the Confederacy’s execution of Ben Knight, is contained there in the records of the “U.S. Works Projects Administration, Record Group 60,” vol. 315, Jones County.
Good luck with your research.
anthony crosby says:
Rachel Knight is my great great grandmother. My father’s name is John Floyd Crosby who’s mother’s name is Louise Knight Crosby daughter of John Hinchie Madison Knight. As a kid we would always go to Soso, Ms to see my dad’s family. Two things I always wondered when I was there alot of my relatives looked white and had alot of land. My father didn’t tell my brother and I about Newt Knight only until my father passed. I was told by my Aunts if I knew as a kid I would of used that info for my history class..
Miles Warnock says:
I grew up in Laurel in the ’60’s. My parents knew Ethel Knight, and we often hunted arrowheads on her place by Reddoch’s Ferry on the Leaf River. As a kid, I always thought Ms. Knight was a bit eccentric. Others may have used another word. I enjoyed your research and writing so much. Great to hear stories of Jones County and Soso. Thank you.
I grew up In laurel married to a man from west Africa to which many slaves of South decented.i also have a biracial child in the 87.it Was Very difficult. I now live in Washington state where every other is biracial I we’ll be so glad we. This taboo of m u ed is over we are all human all of us bleed red.
Junie parm says:
My grate grandfather name was Robert Alonzo Knight
Glenn Brumfield says:
My ggg-grandparents are John “Jackie” Knight and Keziah Davis Knight, through my gg-grandmother Harriet Knight, wife of Charles Brumfield. Of course the father of Newton Knight is Albert Knight, brother to Harriet Knight Brumfield. I am thoroughly enjoying reading about my ancestors and expect to see the movie, The Free State of Jones, and to travel to Jones/Jasper Counties in MS. I grew up in Yazoo County, MS, and now live in SC.
Cynthia Owens says:
I just watched the movie and became well founded of the story. I love history.
Wilson Bingham says:
I too grew knowing lots of folk from Soso,Hot Coffee,Bay Springs and even certain areas around Ellisville (e.g.) Curry Community. Where The Knights, Crosbys,Barnes,The Speeds,All these Folks were somehow related.For the most part all were pretty decent people.All about Family.I always admired that about them.I grew up in Laurel in The late 50’s early 60’s So none of this new news to those of Us who grew up in that era and in that region.
Stacie Jenkins says:
Hello I am the daughter of Ernestine Knight from So So Mississippi. My mother parents were Lillian Knight and Bae Knight. My great great grandfather was Andy Knight. How am I descendent of Newton and Rachel Knight.
Sondra Yvonne Bivins says:
Stacie, you are not a direct descendant of Newton and Rachel. Andy Knight’s father was a cousin of Newton Knight named Daniel Thomas Knight. Andy’s mother and grandmother were a slaves named of John “Jackie” Knight, Harriet Carter Ward and Phyllis Knight, respectively. Andy’s grandfather was a slave named Andy Carter.
Chyvonne Angelle says:
After researching some family history. I am related to Newton him being my gggg grandfather. His son George married Frances (Rachel’s daughter) and had a son named George Monroe who must have fled Mississippi and changed his name to George Monroe McKnight because we were all told we are Indians. I did find where he was born a Knight and became a McKnight.
Chyvonne, Your comment is fascinating to me. About 30 years ago I was friends with a young college student named Stephanie McKnight (Pfeiffer College in Misenheimer, NC). I have lost track of her but after reading Ms.Bivins wonderful article about Rachel Knight and your reply, I can’t help but wonder if Stephanie was related to the Knights. She had the beautiful look of creamy skin and soft wavy hair–she never identified herself as any race to me, she could have even been Indian. As I said, I just found this a curious connection to a friend from the past.
Hello after knowing nothing of my history I have discovered I am Newton Knights gggg granddaughter. He and Serena’s son George Madison married Rachel’s daughter Frances And had 9 children one being Gerorge Moroe who is my gg grandfather and who later changed his named to McKnight .. Any idea why his name became McKnight ? His parents are listed as Frances knight and George knight but somehow he chose to be “McKnight”
Chyvonne, Thank you for your comment and question about the origins of the McKnight name. I have been corresponding with several members of the McKnight family for years.
When your ancestor, George Monroe Knight, grandson of Newt Knight and Rachel Knight, moved to Texas in the early 20th century and changed his surname to McKnight, our nation was in the midst of one of the most violently racist periods in its history. Segregation was in full swing; lynching of blacks was common, and supported by many in the white community. Simultaneously, the Civil War had been rewritten as a “noble Confederate cause” that had no connection to slavery. This version of history is still popular today, although based on prejudice, poor research, and outright lies.
That is the world that Newt and Rachel’s descendants faced, as did all people of color. It did not matter if you were 100 percent or 1 percent African in descent, if you had “one drop” of African ancestry, you were defined as “Negro”—subjected to discriminatory laws that kept you from finding a good job or gaining a quality education, to say the least. If you complained about second class citizenship, worked to change those laws, or simply rebelled against the rules, you might find yourself run out of town—or even lynched.
I don’t know exactly when, why, or how that George Monroe Knight changed his surname to McKnight. But when I consider what he faced from a white society that defined his grandfather Newt as a traitor to the “Cause”, and which trampled on his own rights of citizenship because of having a formerly enslaved grandmother, I certainly am not surprised that George moved on to Texas and gave himself a new identity—one that assured his children would also have a better life than back in Jones County, Mississippi. (Many descendants of Newt and Rachel moved away from Jones County for the same reason.)
Those were dark times, and I hope we never see a return to anything like them. That’s why it’s so important to tell your family story, and to place it in its true historical context.
One other question.. We are still researching and seem to
Keep running into contradictions. Some info is starting that Rachel’s daughter Frances is George Monroes mother and some others I’ve come across say his mother is Frances k Smith. Do you know to whom which Feancss is his mother?
The parents of George Monroe Knight are George Madison “Matt” Knight and Frances “Fannie” Knight. Matt Knight was the son of Newt and Serena Knight. Fannie Knight was the daughter of Rachel Knight. (Fannie’s father is believed to have been Jesse Davis Knight, Newt Knight’s uncle.)
Matt and Fannie Knight had a large family together, including your ancestor, George Monroe. Matt abandoned Fannie later in their marriage, however, and did not have to obtain a divorce because their interracial marriage was no longer considered legal after 1890 in Mississippi. He then married his second cousin, Frances K. (the K stood for Knight) Smith. Frances Knight Smith was the daughter of Newt Knight’s cousin, John A Knight. Frances’s first marriage was to S. G. Smith; her second marriage was to George Madison “Matt” Knight.
It’s easy to see where the confusion comes from. Matt married two different women named “Frances,” one the daughter of his uncle, the other the daughter of Rachel, Newt Knight’s partner of some twenty years. And so, through Matt and Fannie, the McKnights are descended from both Newt and Rachel, but also from Serena, Matt’s mother.
I hope this is helpful and clarifies the family line for you.
Elisha Brenham says:
I am a gggg grand daughter of Newton Knight, George Monroe is my gg grandfather.
My sister forwarded me your response to her question about George Monroe changing his surname to McKnight, very exciting and informative response! Thank you!
A question that is gnawing at me is “who is Frances K Smith?”
I am aware he left Frances (Rachel’s daughter) for Frances Smith but I can’t find any additional info on her. Can you help?
Please see my answer to Chyvonne.
Please note that I have corrected my reply to Chyvonne, I originally wrote that John A. Knight was the BROTHER of Newt Knight, but he is actually his COUSIN. John A. Knight married his cousin, Cassandra, who was the daughter of Benjamin F. Knight and Catherine Reddoch Knight. Their daughter Frances married S.G. Smith, and latter married George Madison “Matt” knight, your ancestor.
Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.
Vilenda Stevens says:
Do you happen to know the names of all Fannie’s children? My grandmother was “Dorothy Maxine Knight” and her sister was “Rachel Knight.” They said their mother’s name was Fannie, so I’m trying to determine how/if we fit into the family tree. Thanks.
After doing a little more research and talking with my Mother we believe we are Amos’ grandchildren (under Martha Ann)… and we are also linked to the Watts. Cool 🙂
Porcha says:
Hi I would love to know how the Shelby and Musgrove families tie into the Knights. I know there is a connection with the families, I just don’t know where
Taylor Massey says:
Porcha, was your question about the Shelby and Musgrove families ever answered as far as their link to the Knight family? I am curious as well because My best friend who lives in Hattiesburg is related to the Musgroves. He is of light completion with curly peppered hair. I called him and told him of the intriguing stories I read about Newt and Rachel’s descendants. I watched the movie which prompted me to research the stories and read the well researched and informative pieces of Bivins and “Renegade”. My friend’s father is buried in Soso. Sadly, he was a stabbing victim before my friend was born. Anyway, when we were in college at Jackson State over 30 years ago, we visited some elderly Musgrove ladies, his relatives, who looked white and who lived in Jones County. I can’t recall the city’s name.I’m sure they are deceased now. My friend and his family live in Hattiesburg, and I in California. I’d love to share the answers to your questions with him. Therefore, if you got the answer , although your post was a year ago, please share. Thank you, Taylor.
Victoria Strong says:
My grandmother name is Claudia Knight.Her father was Claud Knight ,he Married Emma Barnes. Newton Knight is supposed to be his father or grandfather do you have any information on a claud Knight. My grandmother was born in 1910 she was the only child by Claud and Emma.
Linda Thigpen says:
Newt Knight was my Great Great grandfather it really doesn’t bother me the pass is the pass but thank God I Am Here.She had to do what she had to do and I am proud of my Great Great grandmother Rachel.I enjoy your writing
Pamala Knight says:
Thank you for such a thought-provoking and exhaustive account of your family. You mentioned the Knights of Monroe and Bibb Counties in Alabama and those are my Knight relations (from the Cullen Cotton Knight plantation. He married Sarah Marshall). Can you tell me if they are related to the families in Jones? Like, did Cullen’s relatives travel from NC and settle in Mississippi as far as you know? Thanks.
LaJane Banks Adams ( Va. Arrington's ) says:
Love your family history, and yes , so much family history is kept a secret for a number of reasons. Can I get archive access online ? Mine would be family history from, Va., I live in Ga.
What a beautiful, thought provoking article to your family you have written. I am eternally grateful to you for bringing all this information to me in a loving tribute. I hope you will continue your family research and provide us with more great writings.
Pat Langston says:
My husband’s mother Mildred Knight was born in Wedowee, Alabama (Randolph Co.) To John Knight and Sally Fannie Poole (Knight). Her grandfather was Hime Knight, also from Alabama, a Caucasian man & grandmother Rita, a slave woman that bore him many child. I also have a cousin related to the Soso Ms. Knights. There’s a lot of physical resemblance to both the Mississippi & Alabama Knights. I was wondering if Hime Knight from Alabama (Randolph County and Newton Knight from (Jones County) Mississippi were related. The physical resemblance of some of their offspring is uncanny.
Rekell Knight says:
I’m not sure if I’m related to any of the knights mentioned being that I don’t know much about that side of my family but I was very enlightened. Great read!
Geneastoria says:
Thank you very much for the testimony
vanessa roy says:
Newt Knight was just someone having children with the women around the home. He was having sex with Rachel and her daughter. Rachel was having kids by other men, Newt and Serena’s children having children with cousins, his children with Serena were having children with Rachael kids It was all inbreeding to keep his kids white. If Rachael was supposed to be with Newt for years, why was she having children by other men? What happened to her children in her teen years…. I watched the movie and Newt and Rachel were going to get married and she is having children with other men and their was no mention of 2 kids at 15… The whole family was inbreeding….
Vanessa, I appreciate your concerns. While I believe the movie version of FSOJ did a great job on the class politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction—reminding us that common people rose up against the Confederacy and sometimes formed interracial alliances in the process—I agree with you that it went too far in romanticizing Newt’s relationship with Rachel.
Hollywood has a dilemma. It needs to present an action-packed story with a clear hero to succeed at the box office, and in 2 hours it can’t waste time on details. Still, I wish the story of Newt and Rachel had been closer to what we know to be true. In real life, Newt clearly exercised his patriarchal prerogative as a white man, and the women, especially Rachel, who had little to no power in this society, were surely exploited.
That said, let me address your statements individually. First, there was nothing shocking about cousins marrying cousins in rural nineteenth century America; it happened regularly and was not considered by most people to be inbreeding. Frankly, there wasn’t a wide range of marital choices beyond cousins in some of these small communities.
Second, Rachel did not have children by other men after she gave birth to Martha, her first child by Newt Knight. And she likely was sexually forced into sex by her former slave masters; slave women were frequently raped or coerced, and their masters were not liable to rape charges because the women were their “property.”
Third, Rachel’s previous children (including those from her teen years) became part of the household that she, Newt, and Serena put together after the war. That meant that Newt and Serena’s children knew Rachel’s children very well. Because the household was interracial, white society ostracized the white as well as mixed Knight children, severely limiting their marital choices. And so two of the white children (of Newt and Serena) intermarried with two of Rachel’s mixed-race children.
I think it’s important to try to analyze this family on its own terms, to understand the choices they had and why they made the ones they did. To me, it’s much more complicated than the word “inbreeding” implies. That term might fit our definitions of proper relationships today, but did not during the nineteenth century. We also were not there. We don’t know who loved whom or who made which choices. We do know that this was a hardworking, law-abiding family who produced many descendants who went on to lead successful, productive lives.
It’s interesting. People of that time were much more shocked by the Knights marrying across the color line than they were by cousin marriages, which were common among the entire society. Today, it’s the opposite.
My husband has a ton of DNA matches to Jesse Knight and his parents, John Knight and Keziah Davis. He also comes up 5% black on both Ancestry and MyHeritage. Makes me wonder if Rachel or another slave of John’s is his ancestor. I can’t work any of them into his tree and it’s driving me insane. But he wouldn’t have a ton of matches with them in their trees if he wasn’t a descendant. This was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
Marvin Watts says:
Was Rachel Knight of “Creek Indian” ancestry ???
I have always wanted to learn more about Rachel Knight–especially because so little seems known about her ancestry. My name is Marvin Watts, and Newt and Rachel Knight are my great grandparents through Augusta Ann (“Gustan”) Knight (my grandmother, who married William Watts) and her son (my father), Curtis James Watts, Sr.
I have a distinct recollection of my father telling me about his mother (Gustan)–along with his recalling what she said about her mother (Rachel). I was 14 years old at the time, and my father was 63–so I take both his recollections and mine as reliable (I am now 62). I share this because someone may be able to cross-relate other findings with what I have to share, and possibly provide further insight into Rachel’s background…
Specifically, my father told me that his grandmother Rachel had “Creek Indian” ancestry–which overlaps with Dianne Walkup’s (great-great granddaughter of Newton, Serena and Rachel Knight) understanding of native American origins for Rachel.
According to Yvonne Bivin’s account here, Rachel’s parents were he named Abraham and Viney, and were from Virginia. If anyone has done further research on them and/or ancestry of either one, it would be great to know. I am just seeing their names for the first time, so will now start my own research in that area–as well as on native Americans in Virginia who were considered “Creek Indians”.
– Marv Watts
THK says:
Many mixed race people claimed Native American ancestry to deflect from being black. Creek Native Americans didn’t come from VA , but we’re forced from their land in the Carolinas and GA.
Extensive research concludes that the descendants of Newt and Rachel were black and white.
Joe Knight says:
I wonder if i fit in this family loop nobody knows where my “5%” comes from !
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Welcome to our Repeating Islands blog–a site for information and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts.
Our use of the title of Antonio Benítez Rojo’s influential text, The Repeating Island, for the name of our blog represents both our tribute to a lost friend and a simple way of defining our audience–those scholars and readers whose interests focus on pan-Caribbean literatures and cultures. We welcome your comments and contributions.
Please note that this is a project intended to bring the broader Caribbean community closer through the sharing of news and information that transcends the linguistic divide in the region. It is a labor of love supported partially by our institutions in the form of student assistants. Therefore, we do not accept advertisements nor will we in the future. We thank you for understanding.
Our banner is taken from Gesner Abelard’s Agwe-Ta-Royau (1955), from Jonathan Demme’s collection of Haitian paintings.
246 thoughts on “Our Blog”
Tried to find an email contact instead of posting but it escapes me.
Just wanted to let you know that the poet Millicent Graham in the calabash blog is from Jamaica. the article mentioned a bajan poet, but that is Ester Phillips.
lisaparavisini says:
Thanks for pointing that out. Of course, you’re right. I got the wires crossed there and wil make the correction.
Sonia Crescioni says:
Hi, Lisa, I’m doing a final paper for a Poetry course and I need to find scholarship on Jacqueline Bishop’s Fauna and Snapshots and Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics. Has anything been written here in this publication on this or on Caribbean women? I need to read what other writers have published on them and on the topic of Caribbean women and although I have found some citations, I am not very good at getting the whole citation, I usually just get a chunk of it before I am asked to purchase the article.
This is for my doctoral studies at the University of Puerto Rico.
Xaymaca says:
I am trying to get in touch with Sonia Crescioni regarding scholarship on Jacqueline Bishop.
adiptee says:
I am interested in this blog, but can’t figure out how to follow it. Have you included the “follow blog” option so that subscribers can get an email after new posts are made?
Audra Diptee
ivetteromero says:
Yes, we did. But a few other readers have not been able to find it either. We will look into this. Thank you. IR
Gabriel Christian says:
Dear Lisa, Gabriel Christian here. I bought your book on Dominica’s Phyllis Shand Allfrey years ago at the University of Maryland College Park Campus, book store. It was an excellent piece. I share with you that during WW II she worked alongside Royal Air Force flyers from Dominica such as Edward Scobie Darymple) and Ulric Cross from Trinidad about whom more can be found here http://www.caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com. I knew Mrs. Allfrey as a child when visiting her favorite place, the Roseau Public Library which was a gift of Andrew Carnegie. We pay tribute to the Roseau Free Library as it was called then here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc1mElByzsA.
We are very pleased with your work which has spotlighted the Caribbean in general, but the strong women and innovative people from our islands who have made many contributions to humanity.
Maybe one day we can do a lecture on Ms. Allfrey and Eugenia Charles (who were allies), along with the assistance of Polly Patullo who has done much to keep her literary works alive.
Gabriel Christian
http://www.marylandattorneyatlaw.com
Paul Mateo says:
Hello, love your blog. Found this really recommended beautiful article from the DR its very Rep Islands.
Flying kites in times of quarantine:
https://www.diariolibre.com/revista/cultura/volar-chichigua-en-tiempos-de-cuarentena-BO18079181
Continual Blessings: I am king: Arthur, Selassie
I am a poet, drumer, and a Bingi- Man.
It is Good to see the Springs of Bob reaching out to the international community for more creativity along the gravel road that symbolized the essence of Mr. Rasta Marley.
Bob influenced me and my songs and he continues to be the bridge that gaps the gray area of society that frowns on the upright Ethiopian.
Nuff Blessings/ Cotinue to reach/teach what you know of
Mr. Rasta Marley!
Ps. I am related to Peter Machintosh of the The Whalers. my Pops comes from Clark’s Town; In Trelawny.
One/Love Fr. King Arthur Selassie
Add. Rootsarthur@aol.com
claudia roberts says:
gr8 site..thnxs
Im with the Downtown Film Festival and tomorrow we will be showing a movie by Euzhan Palcy called Aime Cesaire. I wanted to know if you would be interested to cover the film and after party, in Downtown Los Angeles tomorrow night.
Jeff H.
I just discovered this site, and, as a writer, I think it’s a good resource and will return. I wanted to find out about making announcements and perhaps submitting books for review as my book The Boy from Willow Bend is being re-released this year. Is there an email contact? Or perhaps you could email me? I’d like to connect.
pryiadeoram says:
I am a non national working in barbados buy not legal it is possible for me to go on a carribbean curise.
pryia
I very happy to to on the carribben curise but i am not legal in Barbados please answer my question when i leave barbados it is possible for me to get in the island back.
Been badly let down with transfer arrangements – arriving in St Kitts on 21 Nov 16:25 and need to get to St Barth’s. Flight out to St Maarten’s after UK flight arrives , is too late to use either ‘plane or ferry from St Maarten’s to St Barth’s.
Any ideas please on how to get to St Barth’s fro St Kitt’s.????
anthazia says:
I am from the caribbean, and have always been driven by our nations- all of our nations cultural mix. However the troubling issue that always remains fresh in my minds is – how often we let our mix serve as dividing wall between oursleves. The colour of our skin has always been a problem we seemly tend to ingnore. With this notion in mind I am penning my first book.
sloppishizzlerecords says:
Lisa please contact me I have a story about a Rastafarian whos musical choices are creating a new genre of music and he’s #12 on the JA charts and has a new video called “Back Broke.” I would like to talk to you…
Sorry here is my contact info: Info@Sloppishizzle.com 🙂
I am proud to announce that “Air MarBrisa” has opened a new branch in Miami specializing in travel to Cuba known as AMB Travel a Destination Management Company. AMB Travel will now be able to assist you not just with your “cargo transportation” but with all of your travel needs as well!
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AMB Travel is located at 801 Madrid St, Suite 201, Coral Gables, FL 33134 (on the corner of SW 8th Street & 53rd Avenue).
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Maureen Marks-Mendonca says:
Hi, I’m an author, and am quite excited to find such a vibrant online Caribbean literary community! My book, Legend of the Swan Children, was published by Macmillan Caribbean, as part of its new Island Fiction Series for teens and tweens. It hit the stores in the Caribbean and the U.K. in February 2009, and online stores a month or two before that. I’m really curious to know whether the marketing to-date has been very effective, and would like to ask how many of you good literary folks are actually aware of the launching of this new series? Looking forward to hearing from you!
http://www.swanislandhome.com
mmm@swanislandhome.com
We’ll post the book for our readers and perhaps you will get some answers about their previous knowledge of the book. COngratulations.
STEPHANIE COCKERILL says:
What a vibrant picture at the top of this blog its so full of life
Rene Mercedes Baptiste says:
I agree,this picture is full of life and color like us caribbean people.
By the the way, a new book has been just released in St.Vincent by Kathy Martin-” Set in Stone” published (2011) by the St.Vincent and the Grenadines National Trust. This book is a must-read for students of Caribbean History and Archeology; full of photos of numerous petroglyphs dating back to A D 100 and 1450. it is amazing; my ancestory written in stone. i could cry with joy!!!!!!!!!!
ALEENA.S. ALI says:
hey i’d like to know wat kind of studies u all are offering to the public. i hear that u guys are really good.
richard gonzales says:
What do you guys think about this Medical Marijuana Educational Expo?
Got this message from Bruce Perlowin “The King Of Pot” http://www.bruceperlowin.com”
I’m proud to announce a new exciting series of events as Medical Marijuana, Inc’s Educational Expo kicks off the new year in the Los Angeles Convention Center presenting another solution for this emerging industry where anyone in any city in America can participate in the business model. I just wanted to get the word out as soon as possible for the new year: http://medicalmarijuanaeducationalexpo.com. Spread the word far and wide and Happy New Year.
Medical Marijuana, Inc’s Educational Expo has a buy one ticket get one free to their Medical Marijuana Business Expo. They are going to teach you how to get in the Medical Marijuana business, how to grow medical marijuana and more: hxxp://medicalmarijuanaeducationalexpo.com.
Spread the word far and wide.
Emma Asomba says:
Just dropping by to say that this platform is a wonderful project. Very informative! It gives very good snapshots of the Caribbean diversity across many interesting narratives. Keep it up
Many, many thanks for the encourgament. Very kind of you.
Jolien and Annelien says:
We have a question. We have to make an affiche for school because we’re going to have a benefit show for Haïti. We we’re wondering if we could use a picture of yours : https://repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/haiti5.jpg
Thanks anyway !
spongebob britney says:
this beta be ram meaning chris
Karole Gizolme says:
Bonjour / Hello
Thanks one more time for your efforts. Is it possible to put on your blog tis important petition to restore education an research in Haiti ? Thanks a lot.
http://www.petitiononline.com/EduHaiti/petition.html
Karole
Haiti-Earthquake : Mondomix create an exclusive support compilation
http://mp3.mondomix.com/sos-haiti
On the 12th of January 2010, a violent earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, and its surrounding areas, killing more than 100,000 Haitians and injuring many more, as well as destroying most of the region’s buildings.
This compilation presents a panorama of Haitian music, from the great classics (Toto Bissainthe) to field recordings, folk and voodoo funk.
The album has been created to assist in the country’s reconstruction.
The proceeds will be shared between two NGOS : AlterPresse, an independent news agency (for more information -http://mymondomix.com/alterpresse) and the Haiti Culture Network (for more information –
http://mymondomix.com/reseauculturehaiti )
Related Artists : Adjabel, Toto Bissainthe, Bélo, Carimi, Mélissa Laveaux, Carlton Rara
Janisette Cruz says:
Estimada Lisa:
Mi nombre es Janisette, he visitado su blog, buscando información sobre el premio otorgado al artista plástico cubano Mearson Daniel, y me ha sorprendido muy gratamente los artículos publicados sobre nuestra cultura.
Actualmente radico en Toronto, me gustaría visitara nuestro sitio http://www.oleoscuba.com, que promueve artistas plásticos cubanos. Cualquier sugerencia al sitio será bienvenida y si de alguna forma pudiéramos colaborar en la promoción de estos artistas, se lo agradeceríamos igualmente.
Rosalie Roman says:
I’d like to let you know about a new Puerto Rican author, Andres Torres.
The only child of deaf Puerto Rican migrants, Andres Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles. In his new book “Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family”, he opens a window into the little known culture of deaf Latinos chasing the American dream. Like many children of deaf adults (codas), Torres loved his parents deeply but also longed to be free from being their interpreter to the hearing world. Torres’s story is unique in that his family communicated in three languages. The gatherings of his family reverberated with ‘deaf talk”, in sign, Spanish, and English. What might have struck outsiders as a strange chaos of gestures and mixed spoken languages was just normal for his family.
Torres describes his early life as one of conflicting influences in his search for identity. His parents’ deep involvement in the Puerto Rican Society for the Catholic Deaf led him to study for the priesthood. He later left the seminary as his own ambitions took hold. Torres became very active in the Puerto Rico independence movement against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle and protest against the Vietnam War. Throughout these defining events, Torres’s journey never took him too far from his deaf Puerto Rican family roots and the passion of arms, hands, and fingers filling the air with simultaneous translation and understanding.
Andres Torres works as a researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City.
For more information about the book, visit:
http://www.gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SIPRbookpage.html
I’d like to bring your attention to the publication of a short story collection featuring 2 Caribbean authors and others from the African diaspora. Bloodlines – Tales From The African Diaspora has 14 stories and is available at Amazon, Smashwords and on the Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/Bloodlines-Tales-African-Diaspora-1/dp/0984467904/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267991935&sr=1-1
The book is brought to you by MyAfricanDiaspora.com
http://www.myafricandiaspora.com
Dario Navaro says:
Could someone at this website please email me the name of beautiful painting used in the header of this blog together with the name of the artist? I would like to learn more about this work of art and the artist who created it. Your kind cooperation is greatly appreciated.
Dario Navarro says:
I found the reference to the artist and the title of the paiting in the banner. No reply is necessary to my previous inquiry.
I have sent you via e-mail a copy of the complete image.
Lisa could you help me with a copy or print of this banner
Gesner Abelard’s Agwe-Ta-Royau (1955),
Lisa,would you also please send me a copy of the complete image of the painting in the banner
Bill & Harriet Mohr says:
Dear Ivette and Lisa,
We were pleasantly surprised to find the Jerusalem Post article on our Haiti connection on your blog. We very much would like to connect with you regarding our endeavor: THE SHOAH HAITI LEGACY PROJECT.
The following links will give you a little more information on the subject of Haiti and the Jews.
Montreal Gazette http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Honouring+Haiti+courage/2668499/story.html
Canadian Jewish News
http://www.cjc.ca/2010/03/17/exhibit-highlights-haiti’s-heroism-in-holocaust/ .
We have just started our own new blog: http://haitiholocaustsurvivors.wordpress.com/
With our very best wishes for continued success,
Bill & Harriet Mohr
Steve Hyppolite says:
My name is Steve Hyppolite aspiring author from the Miami/Hollywood Fl. area. Check out my debut novel, A Warrior’s Passage. It is a Sci-fi/Mystery for young adults and it has a diverse cast of characters in pivotal roles with a compelling story. It’s a modern day adventure that parallels two cultures (Haitian & Native American) in the beleif of the supernatural. It will be featured in the July edition of Uptown magazine and is the book of the month at the black science fiction society’s website. I’ve received many features, but I really need the support with a novel that includes us. I thank you all for your time and I’ve included a link where my novel is available on-line for inquiries and purchases.
Jose Acosta says:
Paintings by Cuban American Artist Jose Acosta
Opening Reception Saturday, July 24, 2010 From 5-8 p.m. at G.A.S. (Gallery And Studio) This is a free event that Jose Acosta and his family will create so that the whole community can attend and enjoy beautiful Art, Live Music and Great Food Music by “La Orquesta de Los Taino” 196 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Tel 845-486-4592 http://www.galleryandstudio.org Exhibition will be at G.A.S. from July 17th to August 7th
Love your blog. So informative.
You may be interested in this short film “Nom Fwigè” http://vimeo.com/12180500
Anne Frandi-Coory says:
I love the Haitian painting on your blog-what a great site!
Thank you for the kind words on the blog. They are very encouraging.
polly Pattullo says:
Lisa – how do I send Repeating Islands the press release of the Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair?
Thanks, Polly
saussard says:
is LAGUERRE is a name given to slaves in Puerto Rico at the old time of slavory
Insomnia says:
Reopening of Southern Caribbean Artist’s website coming soon. Read her biography, see her works at http://www.lethe-art.com
Reisen says:
my new websites
http://ddalaber.wordpress.com/
Nadeve says:
Is there a way to email you guys directly without posting? Just wanted to bring Patrick St. Eloi’s passing to your attention: http://fr.news.yahoo.com/82/20100918/tcu-l-ancien-chanteur-de-kassav-est-mort-f46ac05.html
Adopt Haiti Project says:
The Adopt Haiti Project in partnership with the Richmond Red Cross are hosting an Adopt Haiti Family and Friends Day Cookout Sunday September 26th with special guest, Miss Haiti Universe Sarodj Bertin. The event is sponsored by Foothold World Wide, Bon Secours, Virginia State University, and the Crown Plaza Hotel.
amanda morales says:
I work for the education correspondent for PBS NewsHour. We are working on stories about education and Haiti and a feature on Edwidge Dandicat. I would love to share the stories with you once they are up – is there an email for submissions/ story ideas? I couldn’t find one on the site.
Amanda Morales
Winnifred says:
What a wonderful blog!! Thank you for creating this!
Thank you very much, Winnifred. We are very pleased you like the site.
Hi! I want to know if you can recommend books on Caribbean arts (including PR, Sto. Domingo and Cuba). Thanks!
Well, it is difficult to recommend without a better idea of what you are looking for, specifically, but you may want to use the search capabilities of the blog and find information about various art books. In general terms, I recommend Veerle Poupeye’s Caribbean Art. I will send you an email message so that you can explain in a bit more detail what you need.
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Tequila Minsky says:
An outlet for ‘Heart of Haiti’ artisan gifts
Tequila Minsky
Creating on-going sustainable jobs in Haiti is a herculean task and necessary for an economic base so that people can live humane lives. In spite of almost no tourism in the past decade compounded by the devastation of January’s earthquake, over 240 artisans in Haiti are selling their goods and experiencing a steady income stream.
Fairwinds Trading’s founder Willa Shalit believes in trade not aid and had been invited by the Clinton Foundation to help jump start the artisan sector in Haiti.
“The creativity in Haiti is widely powerful,” says Shalit who linked up with Brandaid, an organization working with artisans in Haiti.
Now with Macy’s as a partner and outlet, a wider public will have access to buy vibrantly decorated papier-mache vases and painted trays from Jacmel, metal worked picture frames, fruit bowls, and pendants from Croix des Bouquets, and quilted potholders, oven mitts and cosmetic bags from Citi Soleil women quilters.
“For $10, people can own something from Haiti and it can help support artists there.” Shalit notes, “You don’t have to be a foundation, everybody can help Haiti, own a piece and connect.”
Last week, Macy’s launched their International Gifting Centers in New York and Miami, a gift corner in the home décor departments. By the end of October, 25 Macy’s stores will carry the Heart of Haiti line plus ‘Rwanda Path to Peace’ items.
Designer J. went to Haiti in May, met with the artisans, and developed samples—a collaboration of the indigenous vision and craft techniques, and a retail market. “It is totally from the Haitian aesthetic,” Shalit commented, “We suggested shapes and sizes. It’s like bringing the market to the product, what may appeal to a greater audience.”
Shipping began in mid-August.
Jacmel, two hours south of Port-au-Prince, is known for its fabulous carnival with creative costumes and papier-mache masks, and was heavily damaged by the earthquake. The artisans, using their craft techniques, are making vases, bowls, and other decorative items. They work outside, storing their creations in tents–the earthquake destroyed their studios and homes. Shalit suggests that hopefully, with the money from these orders they can get out of their tents. Brandaid received a grant from Clinton Bush Foundation to help rebuild the workshops.
Well-known metal artist from Croix des Bouquets Serge Jolimeau whose beautifully crafted metal items are for sale and Sister Angela, who works with the women quilters in Citi Soleil, attended the Manhattan launch. Haitian diva Emeline Michel sang with her musicians. Haitians and friends of Haiti celebrated the launch and were spotted buying their favorite gift items. The accompanying website is: http://bit.ly/haitianartisans.
Opening in time for the holiday season, the Centers will continue as an on-going part of Macy’s. Fairwinds Trading is working on its spring line of items.
Shalit acknowledges that in times of crisis aid is necessary, but in countries where people live on just a few dollars a day, Fairwinds Trading helps establish a market for artisan products creating on-going income-producing jobs; she started with basket makers in Rwanda. Other partners in this sustainable business model of trade not aid are PQ2 Peacequilters and Gahaya Links.
Ngozichi Omekara says:
I would like to bring to your notice this new book, while not your typical Caribbean story but based in West Africa, the origins of most Caribbean people,
http://www.deltafires.com/
Fuelling the Delta Fires
Based on the real life situation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, Fuelling the Delta Fires is a 134,000-word expose and action adventure novel revealing why there is turmoil in the world’s sixth largest crude oil exporter.
Chief Tom-George is a corrupt local politician and the governor of Western Ijaw State. Under Nigeria’s military dictatorship, Chief Tom-George served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister and made tidy sums of money from a combination of kickbacks and outright crude embezzlement.
With the transition to democracy and elections looming, Chief Tom-George decides that he wants to be governor of his state and decides to go about building up a support base. To “spread his message” across the state, the Ijaw chief buys the services of Mene Bene, the leader of the largest youth militant group the Niger Delta Liberation Movement (NDLM).
In exchange for cash, Bene ensures that Chief Tom-George’s opponents are harassed, that his political rivals are beaten up and threatens communities that refuse to back his man’s National Umbrella Party. However, once he was sworn in as governor, Chief Tom-George no longer needed Bene and the NDLM, so they had a problem.
To compound the crisis, the NDLM was getting more militant as with its main source of revenue now cut off, it resorts to kidnapping as a means of raising funds to sustain its operations. What started off as a little bit of mischief, soon grew into a multi-million dollar industry as NDLM found out that oil companies were willing to pay handsome sums for the return of the expatriate workers.
Although the Nigerian Army scored several successes in clashes with the militants and eventually arrested Bene, the problem did not stop. All that happened was that the NDLM fractured into local groups, with each controlling its own “territory.” Before long, a class of millionaire kidnappers has emerged.
Meanwhile, the poor people of the Niger Delta, never see one penny of all the ransom money that changes hands. Their creeks remain polluted, their villages stay inaccessible and social amenities like electricity and pipe-borne water remained dreams.
Chief Tom-George and other Ijaw “elders” milk the crisis in the Niger Delta to the fullest. They get the federal government to increase derivation from oil earnings to 13% from 3% for the Delta’s nine oil-producing states, dramatically increased the quota of appointments they get in the federal government and always have first refusal when the head of a security agency or a government parastatal is up for grabs.
This dramatic book and potential blockbuster, also gives a real live account of the experience of Alan Ward, a kidnapped British oil worker. Alan is held on the isolated and desolate delta island of Epeleama, which was originally built by the Portuguese but is now uninhabited.
Unlike any other book before, Fuelling the Delta Fires also takes the reader through the travails of Mene Bene, the NDLM leader. It profiles the man, looks at his persona, his childhood and orientation that led to him taking up arms against the government and oil companies. The book also looks at the conflicts of interest he wrestles with as his split loyalty to his political masters, money and his people often pulls him in different directions.
Fuelling the Delta Fires ends with Chief Tom-George’s ambitions to run for the presidency of Nigeria in tatters. He is the front runner until at the last minute, the rug is pulled from under his feet when a litany of his corrupt deals are read out to him a day before the ruling party selects its presidential candidate. Faced with the threat of standing down or being indicted, he does the former and watches on helplessly as the prize slips from his grasp.
Narayan deVera, M.D. says:
Is everything OK with you, Ivette and Lisa?? I have not read any postings since election day November 28th; and the last date here above is Oct. 23rd. I thought for sure that I got postings by e-mail after Oct 23rd. Since I suscribe by e-mail, I have not been to the web site directly. I am going to Haiti (my first trip there) from December 14th to Jan 17th. Anyone is welcome to communicate with me about the various projects, initiated in Africa and India between 2005 and 2009, which I will be inaugurating in Haiti to support redevelopment and leadership training projects in Haiti
Hello: We’ve been posting steadily and have not stopped. Perhaps there is something wrong with the email delivery. Have a wonderful and productive trip. We will be looking forward to hearing about your projects. IR
Halcyone says:
Thank you for all your work!
Many thanks for the encouraging words.
rebray says:
The book Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters is awesome. I did not know that the same sort of shoes worn by a Jamaican doctor on a banana boat to set an Olympic record in London in 1948 look like the pair Usain used to set 3 world record in Beijing in 2008. You must read about the differences and sameness between Jamaica and USA sprinters in an article called charting ancestry from Africa. The book is easy to read and I predict will be a Caribbean best seller. A pyschiatrist wrote a simple funny article that Jamaicans run for everything, their lives and they also try to run everything . This article is so apt and funny. Awesome, just awesome book. It is a Caribbean book
Sign me up.
Stan Kuiperi says:
All the best for 2011! I’m happy to see the site growing steadily in great news and traffic, and I plan to be contributing relevant cultural news from Aruba soon. Thanks again!
Dejiridoo says:
Are you on Twitter? If so, can you kindly forward the Twitter username to my email? I am interested in topics about arts in the Caribbean.
Dejiridoo
Congratulations on 2nd birthday. Your eclectic postings are very welcome. There are so few sources of pan-Caribbean news and there will be even fewer when the BBC annihilates its Caribbean service. So thanks so much.
Adorei esse blog,há algum tempo venho procurando algo que destacasse as culturas caribenha e princilpalmente a do Haiti.Necessito conhecer a cultura desse povo.obrigado!
Obrigada pela sua mensagem; ficamos muito agradecidas.
Kyle Dorsett says:
Just wanted to drop some love again! Thank you so much for this blog. I love every post; especially the ones about the Bahamas 🙂
KMD
We really appreciate your feedback. Thanks so much! IR
Jason Frydman says:
Dear Repeatingislands,
There’s an interesting story in the Guardian that you and your readers might find interesting:
Richard Prince ordered to destroy lucrative artwork in copyright breach
US federal judge rules against Gagosian gallery and Prince for unfair use of ‘appropriated’ Cariou rastafarian images
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/23/richard-prince-artwork-copyright-breach
Thank you for all your work on this wonderful blog!
Thank you so much for your kind words and the interesting suggestion. We’ll check it out. IR
Christine Marrett says:
Would you be so kind to post the following on your blog? Follow the links. If you need further information, please do let me know
1. Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta (www.2seasonsguesthouse.com/blog) – a day of literary fare, Saturday May 28, 2011. Part of the Treasure Beach Bread Basket Festival (www.treasurebeach.net/BreadBasketFestival)
2. Hanging out with Mervyn Morris (http://2seasonsguesthouse.com/blog/?p=35) – spend a weekend (July 30-31)in the company of one of Jamaica’s foremost poets. Have your work critiqued by him, learn from his experience. Maximum 16 persons. 6 rooms still available.
3. Hanging out with Cecil Cooper (http://2seasonsguesthouse.com/blog/?p=132) – spend a weekend (April 30-May 1)in the company of one of Jamaica’s foremost artists. Have your work critiqued by him, learn from his experience. Maximum 16 persons. 6 rooms still available.
Christine Marrett
Two Seasons Guest House
Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth
http://www.2seasonsguesthouse.com
“Where the welcome is warm and the runnings cool”
Registered with the Jamaica Tourist Board
Member, Jamaica Association of Villas and Apartments
Aragorn says:
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I am researching for a project on traditional sailing boats of the Virgin Islands.
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Thank you for your any suggestions
Thanks so much for your kind words. Your project sounds fascinating. Have you tried getting in touch with the editors of All at Sea (http://www.allatsea.net/)?
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Jermain Ostiana says:
Bon Tardi Repeating Islands, I’ve written a critique about the film project Tula the Revolt.
Could you contact me to check if I can submit it?
Jermain Ostiana
Dear Mr. Ostiana,
What a coincidence that today I had been researching this upcoming film and just added a post on it! Please feel free to send us your review with a link to where it has been published so that our readers may access the original article. Thank you.
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Winnifred Brown-Glaude says:
Dear Repeating island, I love your blog and have been following for the past year. Thanks so much for your hard work! I have just published a book on Higglers (women street vendors) in Kingston Jamaica, can you please tell me how I can submit the title to your list of new books on the Caribbean?
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worldwidecruiselineink says:
Hi there, lovely site … I found you because we seem to have Haitian Primitive Art in common … tho’ my post is a tad smaller than your site’s great info. Please check out WWCL’s Caribbean Meditation, Day 21 for a (very) brief note about the Primitives. All the best …
I’d love to share this event with you.
Yvonne Daniel
“Corporeal Consequences of Dancing Divinity”
Monday, September 26, 2011 taking place in NY
For more info: http://www.transcarib.org/?page_id=112
Dear Lisa and Ivette — I am hoping you can post an announcement about our upcoming fanon commemoration – The Fanon Symposium: Remembering the Life and Work of Frantz Fanon, featuring Mireille Fanon-Mendes France.
(http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu/programs/events/Fanon%20Symposium%20event)
This 3-day event is a commemoration marking the 50th anniversary of cultural and political icon, Frantz Fanon.
The symposium kicks-off with a screening of “Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work.” Frantz Fanon, a Martinique-born psychiatrist, theorist and activist, became an unlikely Caribbean born spokesperson for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism in the 1950’s. Fifty years after his death, this documentary reveals the short and intense life of one of the great thinkers of the 20th century.
The Stone Center will hosts a keynote presentation on October 6 at 7pm with Mirelle Fanon Mendes-France, joined immediately after in conversation and discussion with Professor Linda Carty, Associate Professor of African Studies, Syracuse University.
The program continues on October 7 with panel discussions throughout the day with visiting scholars as well as UNC and other local area faculty.
Many thanks for the great work that is Repeating Islands
Claire Barrett-Coppin says:
First I would like to say how glad I am to have literally stumbled upon this website. It will definitely be useful resource for me moving forward.
After 20+ years as a university administrator & 3 teenagers later, I started the MEd program at York University, Toronto, Canada in September. I have many research interests, but am currently focussing on the lives of Caribbean born females who migrated to the UK to determine how their life experiences influenced their role as mothers and relationships with daughters, with specific reference to the decisions regarding education .
Drawing on my own heritage as a reference point, I set out to undertake preliminary research about schooling and education in Guyana/British Guiana. So far, I have not been very successful in finding literature that provides a comprehensive and historical analysis of education in Guyana from colonial days to present. Scholars I have consulted with to date have cited the so-called “brain drain” of Guyanese intellectuals as a reason for this vaccuum. Having found this site I’d like to know if members of this community could provide feedback and recommendations as to sources I could review in my quest for meaningful and authentic reflections of schooling and education in Guyana (especially 1900s onwards).
I look forward to your responses and finding out more about Repeating Islands.
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Laura Kay says:
I stumbled across Repeating Islands whilst researching Caribbean societies – haiti in particular.
Sorry to use the comment section to ask – but do you have a contact email for this blog. I’d love to discuss all things Haiti with you. Would you be open to the idea of raising awareness for humanitarian projects in Haiti?
Alison Knights Bramble says:
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‘The Eye of the Storm’ written in the British Virgin Islands by me – Alison Knights Bramble, has been published by aLookingGlass Books and is available through http://www.specialolympicsbvi.org soon to be on amazon where you will find it listed.
I am hoping it is the first of a series of modern day ‘Enid Blyton type’ stories weaved around sailing, pirates and freedom…
Giles Smith says:
St. Thomian living in PR. I am trilingual, speaking English, Spanish and French. May i be of some assistance? I have an article i wrote about a Puerto Rican artist Samuel Lind and the Santiago Apostol festival in Loiza Puerto Rico. If interested, I would love to share.
I would love to network.
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My name is Leonard Dabydeen and I am a Guyanese-born Canadian, originally from Canje, Berbice, Guyana. Prior to 1983, in Guyana, I was a school teacher, Headmaster, and lecturer at the Government Teachers’ Training College. I am a graduate of the University of Guyana ( Education). At present I am a Licensed Paralegal and member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. I have been engaged in creative writing since I was a teenager, and have recently published a book of poems: Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems, Xlibris Publications (2012), ISBN: 9781469148021. I am also connected to several poetry websites, including http://www.poemhunter.com where you can find my e-book. I live in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
As we seem to be of like minded people here, I very much wanted to share news about a new Caribbean middle reader / YA novel. I am pleased to say the book has no vampires or wizards inside and the world has not ended already!!
‘The Eye of the Storm’ is about the magical environment and the real freedom for young people that still exists in our part of the Caribbean. Kamaria and Scorpion Island are where the teenager friends discover an old sailing sloop, the descendent of a real life pirate, and a hurricane that threatens to destroy everything in its path…
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I hope this will be of interest
http://www.peepaltreepress.com/single_book_display.asp?isbn=9781845230548
An Invitation to the launch of a major anthology of West Indian writing on West Indian Cricket
The Bowling was Superfine
With readings by several of the writers represented in the collection
Including Mark McWatt, Sir Hilary Beckles, Philip Nanton and Stewart Brown
At 7.00 pm on Monday March 26th
In the pavilion of the 3Ws ground on the UWI campus at Cave Hill
(Copies of the book will be available for purchase at a special discounted price for the launch of $50)
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald (Eds.)
The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald present a multi-faceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the world outside. With poems, calypsos, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches, cricket journalism and essays about cricket writing, the editors show cricket inhabiting all areas of the Caribbean imagination.
From its expression at the highest level on the global field of play, to the no less titanic struggles on the bumpier fields of the village or the sugar estate, this is a celebration of those who forged an art out of a game, those who transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism, and, in the 1970s and 80s changed forever the nature of the game. Over both editors hovers the benign ghost of that great West Indian CLR James, and The Bowling Was Superfine is not least a worthy act of homage to the writer whose Beyond a Boundary first revealed the convergence of Caribbean being and cricket.
Writers represented in the anthology include Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, Sam Selvon, C.L.R. James, Bruce St. John, Learie Constantine, Sylvia Wynter, Edgar Mittelholzer, Mark McWatt, Stanley Graves, Anthony Kellman, Paul Keens Douglas, Edward Baugh, Phillip Nanton and Michael Anthony
Stewart Brown is a poet and has edited of several major anthologies as well as critical studies of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.
Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.
The book is 371 pp, regular price approx. Bdos $75. http://www.peepaltreepress.com
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Justine Henzell
oz@cwjamaica.com (email)
[March 26 2012 � Kingston, Jamaica]
LOVE JAMAICA AT JUBILATION! 50
The stellar team that brought Jamaica ten years of excellent programing, quality literary offerings and professional and efficient organization with the Calabash International Literary Festival, is back at it again.
Jubilation! 50 represents a return of the Calabash International Literary Festival Trust on the world literary scene. GQ Magazine UK has already listed the festival in the Top 100 things to do in the world in 2012.
Between May 25-27, Jakes Resort in Treasure Beach in St. Elizabeth will be abuzz with international literary figures, live music, seminars, great food and one of the best views available in Jamaica. Jubilation! 50 will celebrate Jamaica’s fiftieth anniversary of independence with the same formulae of earthy, inspirational, daring and diverse programming that made The Wall Street Journal report in June 2010 �Calabash is, in a nutshell, all that’s right with Jamaica”
“Is Calabash back?” asks festival programmer and award winning poet, Kwame Dawes, “Well, the spirit of Calabash is back, the standards and values of Calabash are back, the experience of great writing, great music and great vibes is back.” According to festival organizers Kwame Dawes and Justine Henzell, Jubilation! 50 is merely a continuation of the mission of the Calabash International Literary Festival Trust, the governing entity that brought ten years of Calabash to Jamaica. “We wanted to continue our mission in a focused and selective way, and Jubilation! 50 does exactly that,” said Justine Henzell. She quickly reeled off a list of some of the women featured at this years festival, and it is clear that the festival has not lost its knack of attracting renowned authors from around the world.
“Acclaimed novelists Chimamanda Adichie from Nigeria and Maaza Mengiste from Ethiopia, poets such as Carolyn Forche and Elizabeth Alexander from the US, the award winning sisters Sadie and Melissa Jones from the UK, Jamaica�s Olive Senior and on and on. �
�We have sought to bring writers with a strong connection to Jamaica to help us commemorate our fiftieth anniversary through the arts. We have programmed quite a celebration and the tagline for JUBILATION! 50 says it all, we simply Love Jamaica” said Kwame Dawes.
JUBILATION! 50 is proudly endorsed by the Jamaica Tourist Board. �The Jamaica Tourist Board has been associated with the Calabash Festival since its inception,� said Director of Tourism John Lynch. �It is an association which we treasure. Jamaica is blessed with literary talent and is an inspiration to the creativity of the human mind. We are thrilled with the return of the festival as Jubilation! 50�.
More information on the programme will be released in coming weeks and the website http://www.calabashfestival.org and Facebook page are great resource for all things related to the Festival.
I too hope that this will be of interest:
I would like to make a request for the consideration of posting my debut book, Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems (2012), Published by Xlibris Publishers, ISBN 978-1-4691-4802-1 along with a Review of the Book by Mydavolu Sathyanarayana who is also a published poet from India. I am a Guyanese living in Brampton, Ontario and would like to share this new book of poems with you. Here is a link from Guyanese Online Newsletter:
Top 100 – Most Popular Posts for March 2012:
Leonard Dabydeen: Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems
Leonard Dabydeen
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In a recent interview Connors said; “The style of furniture made in the Caribbean islands form the 1920s to the 1950s is a genre that has been totally overlooked and/or neglected – except by collectors. This is the perfect time to illuminate the unsurpassed beauty and elegant legacy of Caribbean modern (moderne, or art deco inspired) design.” He went on to say, “This younger look, classification and expression of furniture forms is completely new to the interior design and furniture marketplace, and Scott Thomas Furniture has the foresight, understanding and ability to reproduce it.”
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As the BBC’s World Service gets set to close its doors at the iconic Bush House, author and historian Colin Grant talks to ‘The Telegraph’ about his latest book, ‘Bageye at the Wheel’, a comic memoir about growing up in a West Indian household in a small British town in the 1970s. [‘Bageye at the Wheel’ is part of a trilogy of books about African Caribbean life in the twentieth century.] And, as everyone decamps to Broadcasting House, Grant -the last in a long line of writers from the Diaspora to be associated with the BBC’s World Service – shares his thoughts.
BBC producer Colin Grant stands beneath the majestic Portland Stone portico of London’s Bush House and points out the spot, around 10 years ago, where he met his literary hero V S Naipaul. “I remember going to meet him in reception in this wonderful, grand entrance,” says Grant. “And in he came rather regally, like a viceroy. He appeared to be wearing a cloak, was with his entourage, and he had a fedora hat on. And I remember he looked at me, and without the bat of an eye, handed me his hat to hold, as if I was his valet”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9257935/A-Page-in-the-Life-Colin-Grant.html
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icil phillips says:
I wish to submit an article for publication on your blog. It is a review of Barbadian Anthony Kellman’s latest book of poems-South Eastern Stages published by Peepal Press. Mr Kellman is a professor in Augusta, Georgia.
I would appreciate a response to my suggestion.
icil phillips
Ariel Camejo says:
Here is the Call for Papers for the Congress Cuba Trasatlántica, to be held in Havan in june 2013. We will appreciate if you could post it in your blog. Best regards,
Ariel Camejo
CUBA TRASATLÁNTICA
Congreso internacional de estudios culturales, interdisciplinarios y
transatlánticos
El Grupo de Estudios Trasatlánticos de la Universidad de La Habana, el
Proyecto LETRAL de la Universidad de Granada y el Proyecto Transatlántico de Brown University, con el co-auspicio del Ministerio de Cultura de la República de Cuba, convocan al congreso “Cuba Trasatlántica”, que tendrá lugar del 10 al 12 de junio de 2013, en La Habana, Cuba.
El propósito de este congreso académico es levantar un primer mapa de las interacciones que entre las culturas europeas, africanas y americanas tienen lugar en el proceso de configuración moderna de la cultura cubana.
Proponemos leer los objetos y procesos de esta cultura no sólo dentro de sus fronteras sino en su interacción con otras orillas, en sus
escenarios, orígenes y proyectos. Más que de influencias se trata del
intercambio, de la mezcla, la heterogeneidad, la transculturación e
hibridez de los objetos culturales cubanos que queremos explorar en sus
procesos desplegados como proyecciones, rupturas y aperturas. Este
diálogo al interior de los textos, la música, las artes visuales, el
teatro y el cine, pero también de la historia de las ideas y las
prácticas culturales, pone en relieve la trama trasatlántica de la
cultura en el mundo moderno.
Algunos de los tópicos de esta historia de la cultura en Cuba son los
. Descubrimiento y la conquista española: nuevas documentación y
lecturas.
. Etnias y razas en la conformación de la cultura cubana: la trata
esclava; migraciones, desplazamientos.
. La lengua en Cuba.
. Archivos, léxicos, bibliotecas y fuentes: la información histórica
en Cuba.
. Diálogo Cuba-Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX.
. Universo de ideas en la Cuba decimonónica.
. Imágenes de lo cubano en la cultura del siglo XIX.
. Viajeros y viajeras en Cuba.
. Mujeres escritoras y artistas del siglo XIX y primera mitad del XX.
. El diálogo intergenérico e interdiscursivo y la formación de un
. Dilemas del vanguardismo.
. Las disyuntivas de la piel entre África, el Caribe, Estados Unidos
y Cuba.
. Diálogos trasatlánticos en la conformación de la cultura cubana.
. La traducción y los traductores en Cuba.
. Los horizontes caribeños de la cultura cubana: Del contrapunteo del
tabaco y el azúcar a la isla que se repite.
. Barroco y neo-barroco en la cultura cubana.
. Calibán caribeño: el debate cubano sobre América Latina.
. El diálogo cultural entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos.
. Poetas y poéticas en el siglo XX.
. Escritores y artistas cubanos de la diáspora en los siglos XIX, XX
y XXI.
. Universos de la cinematografía cubana. Del celuloide al mundo
. Mujeres escritoras en los siglos XX y XXI.Hacia el XXI: Un arte y
una literatura cubanos internacionales.
. El patrimonio cultural y el resguardo de la identidad.
. El arte popular en el horizonte de la cultura cubana.
. Diálogos trasatlánticos en la arquitectura cubana.
. Creación y mercado del libro y de las artes en Cuba.
. Religiones y religiosidad en la formación y definición de la
cultura cubana.
Estos tópicos ejemplifican la riqueza y variedad de la trama atlántica
cubana. La representación de Cuba en el cine norteamericano y la música cubana en el mundo, son otros temas por explorar y poner al día. Los más pertinentes y productivos serán los que salgan de la misma investigación en marcha de los estudiosos y críticos que este congreso convoca.
El congreso rendirá homenaje a Fina García Marruz, eminente poeta y
ensayista, miembro del Grupo Orígenes, y a los estudiosos Keith Ellis,
Ivan Schulman y Carmen Ruiz Barrionuevo.
Profesores y especialistas, así como estudiantes avanzados, están
invitados a presentar propuestas de ponencias hasta el 21 de diciembre de 2012. Enviar quince líneas con el título de su ponencia, descripción del tema, su nombre, dirección, y filiación académica. Pueden también
presentar una propuesta de sesión, que incluiría a tres ponentes.
Inscripción para ponentes cubanos: 100 pesos (MN) profesores, 70 pesos (MN) estudiantes.
Inscripción para ponentes del extranjero: 100 CUC (Cuban Currency)
profesores, 70 CUC estudiantes. Dirección electrónica para enviar las
propuestas de sesiones y ponencias: cuba.trasatlantica@gmail.com.
Información sobre plan de viaje y hotelería: La información la brindará
oportunamente la agencia cubana de turismo cultural “Paradiso”.
Coordinan el congreso los profesores Julio Ortega (Universidad de Brown), Rogelio Rodríguez Coronel (Universidad de La Habana), Álvaro Salvador (Universidad de Granada) y, como secretario, Ariel Camejo (Universidad de La Habana), con el apoyo de la Asociación Hermanos Saíz de jóvenes escritores y artistas cubanos.
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Esmeralda AbdAllah-Portales says:
Hi there, I’ve already established contact between you & Cuban Sandra Álvarez but don’t know if you have seen this. Maybe you like it and repost it. Thanks. Kind regards from Hannover, Germany.
http://www.cubainformacion.tv/index.php/cuba/sociedad/41005-entrevista-sandra-alvarez-autora-del-blog-negra-cubana-tenia-que-sera
Thank you, Esmeralda. I am a follower of the “Negra cubana tenía ser” blog. Thanks for the interview. Ivette
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Jerry W Carlson says:
The Parsley Massacre:
Assessment & Representation 75 Years Later
A Panel Discussion
In early October 1937 the Dominican Dictator Raphael Trujillo ordered an ethnic cleansing of Haitians along the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic marked by the Massacre River. The murderers identified their targets as Haitians by an inability to pronounce properly the Spanish word perejil for parsley. Historians estimate that 15,000 to 30,000 victims perished. As news leaked, international concern followed. The Dictator denied the gravity and intent of the events. The approaching clouds of the World War II soon darkened memory of what happened to poor people in an obscure place. Even so, the events of the extermination campaign have long stained relations between the countries.
In memory of the victims, our panel explores how the events have been represented, remembered, and interpreted by Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and artists from both cultures. The issues are particularly pertinent because, in transnational diasporic terms, New York City is the second largest city of both Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Panel organizer & moderator:
Jerry W. Carlson (The City College & Graduate Center)
Michele Wucker (World Policy Institute)
Kaiama L. Glover (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Maja Horn (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Francois Pierre-Louis (Queens College & Graduate Center)
Where: Room C-197 The CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave. @ 34th St.)
When: 4pm Friday Oct 5
Subways: B, D, F, M, N, Q, R to 34th St. or 6 to 33rd St.
Sponsored by the Doctoral Program in French, the Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, the Dominican Studies Institute, and the MA in the Study of the Americas of the City University of New York.
Many thanks for this information. We will post it soon. IR
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Teofilo Colon Jr. says:
Ivette and Lisa,
I tried finding email contact information for this blog, but couldn’t find anything. Below is a link to a review of the new documentary, GARIFUNA NATION. I thought that perhaps readers of your blog might be interested in it.
http://www.beinggarifuna.com/blog/2012/10/30/review-garifuna-nation-documentary-by-carlos-de-jesus/
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The Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta was held in May 2011, and February 2012 on the grounds of the Two Seasons Guest House (www.2seasonsguesthouse.com) in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. For a review of these two events, please visit http://2seasonsguesthouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Talking-Trees-Magazine-2-1.pdf
You may also view a short video on Two Seasons Guest House at http://www.youtube.com/user/TwoSeasonsJamaica
We are hoping to stage Talking Trees for this year again. Stay tuned.
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Natasha Gordon-Chipembere says:
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Th Afro-Latino Diasporas book series aims to gather scholarly and creative writing on the African diasporic experience in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States.
The editors welcome manuscripts addressing any and all aspects of Afro-Latin@ life and cultural expression throughout the hemisphere, with a strong focus on US Latin@s of African descent. We will also consider relevant work on the transnational Brazilian and Haitian experience. We encourage submission of manuscripts in any and all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches. Fictional and poetic work will be included, though the emphasis will be on critical historical and sociological analysis on a broad range of topics, including religion, history, literature, theory, biography, and scholarship in sociology, politics, and economics. We especially welcome works on issues of class, gender and sexuality, in addition to studies of the transnational Afro-Latin@ experience.
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Los Pleneros de la 21 Continues Mission of Education through Tradition
Los Pleneros de la 21 (LP21), a Spanish-Harlem based performing troop specializing in Bomba and Plena music and performance take their special talents to the stage in North Carolina this month.
The Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a 2 day residency with Los Pleneros de la 21 April 19 and 20th. The residency will include 2 free community workshops on April 19th and culminate with a performance on Saturday evening, April 20th.
The ensemble was founded 26 years ago in the South Bronx, NYC. The name evokes the place of origin of its members, the Parada 21 (Bus Stop 21). The Parada 21 was a predominantly black neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico where many of the islands’ bomba and plena performers resided. The term Los Pleneros means “plena practitioner/ musicians” and LP21 are considered New York’s preeminent bomba and plena musicicans. The ensemble has performed all over the world including Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Australia and the former Soviet Union.
LP21 perform two styles of Afro-Puerto Rican music; each has its own historical trajectory and musical distinctiveness. Bomba and plena are traditional Afro-Puerto Rican musical genres respectively dating back to the early 17th and 20th centuries. The music took root when Spanish colonists brought West African slaves to cultivate Puerto Rico’s sugarcane. Bomba describes a range of regional styles, rhythmic patterns and associated dance styles that were cultivated by Africans and their descendants in the context of plantation life in early colonial Puerto Rico. The musical style is highly participatory with dancers moving their bodies to the beat of a drum. Plena has a similar call and response fashion, but places more emphasis on lyrical narration of daily life and satirical commentary on current events.
The Stone Center brought LP21 to the UNC campus in 2009 as part of the Carolina Creative Campus Initiative, a year-long University-wide project initiated by the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts to explore global diasporas and examine ideas on migration, nationality and the politics of home.
For more information on LP21 and the UNC-Chapel Hill residency, please call 919-962-9001 or email stonecenter@unc.edu.
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Hi! I am glad to find this blog dedicated to the rich arts and culture of the Caribbean. I’m a student finishing a BFA in Photography at the Savannah College of Arts & Design, and being Puerto Rican I feel I have the need to network and connect with people that also share this kinds of colors and “montuno” that sets us apart. Realizing the rich culture that raised me, I started doing the Mancha de Plátano project, an experimental printing project exploring the idea of the “mancha de plátano” with subjects that left the island because of different reasons and their handwritten input is printed big and showcased by theit portrait that is printed on plantain leaves. I am starting to get this project out and I am also looking forward to expand this project with subjects that stayed in Puerto Rico and not limiting my other countries (where Puerto Ricans fly) to the United States.
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CODE RED for gender justice hosted a month-long Blog Carnival under the theme “To the Caribbean, With Love” in which nearly 20 bloggers from the across the region and diaspora participated. You can view all of the entries in the order in which they were submitted here http://redforgender.wordpress.com/e-mas-caribbean-blog-carnival/
We recommend taking the guided tour through the reflections, poetry, photography, videos, interviews and art from Caribbean women and men on a range of themes including: regional integration, identity, home and belonging, feminisms, race, sexuality. http://redforgender.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/dearcaribbean-blog-carnival-guide-review/
Global Voices did a review of the collection showcasing the diversity of the submissions. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/04/blog-carnival-shows-the-caribbean-some-love/
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Hola, We certainly will. Thanks for sharing. IR
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Hello, An interesting play about the life of Virgin Islander Hubert Harrison is opening this weekend. Please contact me at carol.mitchell@caribbeanreads.com. We’d love to let your readers know more.
The Department of Literatures in English of The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica, the Gloria Lyn Memorial Fund, and the Two Seasons Guest House in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, are partnering to host the fourth staging of the Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta on Saturday, May 23, 2015 on the grounds of Two Seasons Guest House (www.2seasonsguesthouse.com).
Lovers of literature will be treated to a relaxing and uplifting day listening to readings by established and emerging writers, featuring multi-award winning poet and author Lorna Goodison, and Jamaica’s third poet laureate, Mervyn Morris among others. There will also be a children’s programme. For the line-up and further information, visit http://www.2seasonsguesthouse.com/blog.
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Could we promote the new call for artists for the 4th Ghetto Biennale 2015? The website with the call is here http://www.ghettobiennale.org/project/4th-gb-2015—calls/ but we would love to send you the text and some images. We have the call in French, Spanish and English.
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I wanted to let you guys know about a new podcast channel: New Books in Caribbean Studies. the inaugural interview with Ada Ferrer has just been posted: http://newbooksincaribbeanstudies.com/
Samina Ali says:
Hello, I tried finding an email contact in order to share an event, but I could not–so I decided to post my inquiry here. I would like to share information about an upcoming symposium at the University of Miami (entitled _The Jamaican 1960s_). Who do I contact to have a flyer and relevant info posted on this page? Thanks!
The e-vite for the event is http://www.jamaican1960s.eventbrite.com
Leonard Dabydeen -New Book: Searching for You, A Collection of Tetractys & Fibonacci Poems, September 24, 2015
In this book, Searching for You: A Collection of Tetractys and Fibonacci poems, author Leonard Dabydeen explodes with full intuition in exploring the complex constraints of short form poetry, sensitized with mathematical gestures.
Leonard Dabydeen is a Guyanese-born Canadian from the county of Berbice, Guyana, South America. He was formerly a teacher, headmaster, and a lecturer at the Government Teachers’ Training College in Industrial Arts Education. He holds a bachelor of education degree from the University of Guyana and currently a licensed paralegal and member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He began creative poetry writing in the sugar plantation of Rose Hall, Canje, Berbice, Guyana, during the hiatus of British colonial rule prior to Independence in 1966. He contributed poems in the local Berbice Tmes newspaper in the early 1960s and later won the Freedom House Poetry Prize sponsored by the People’s Progressive Party under the pen name Leovski Donov. In Canada, his fi rst published poem was in the Indo Caribbean World newspaper, titled “Not Wanting to Be a Refugee” (1984). Online, namely, Helium.com, Poemhunter.com, Poetfreak.com and Inspirationpeak.com, he contributed over six hundred poems to date and counting. On Facebook he is a prolifi c contributor of poems, with connections in American Life in Poetry and Indian Poetry Society. He has published several book reviews in the online SouthAsian magazine. He has a WordPress blog entitled Poems Jogging in the Mind. He is the author of Watching You: A Collection of Tetractys Poems, Xlibris Publication (2012).
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As usual, personal feelings are fully expressed as he explores and explodes on events past and present as they involve and affect people from one city, one country to another, and with forethoughts of a non-dictatorial, non-demanding future, not pressured on us by those assuming to be more knowledgeable and, of course, more powerful. But, perhaps we lesser ones, being imposed upon, become gullible and trusting.
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Shaunn Casselle says:
Spotlight Gallery to Host “Arte!” During Hispanic Heritage Month
Richmond, VA – The City’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities will host “Arte!” in celebration of Hispanic Heritage month at Pine Camp Arts and Community Center, 4901 Old Brook Road. The exhibit will open on Friday, September 16 with a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit will be on display until Friday, October 21.
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Anthony R. Stevens says:
Dear colleagues of “Repeating Islands”
Finally we at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute have been able to wrap up and publish the first phase of the new bilingual platform “First Blacks in the Americas” / “Los Primeros Negros en las Américas.” You may find it at http://www.firstblacks.org in English and at http://www.primerosnegros.org in Spanish. We thought your office might be interested in learning about this new educational resource.
Altogether, the platform includes 383 pages of manuscripts, 379 pages of transcriptions, 291 bibliographic entries, 131 glossary definitions, 111 embedded images, 98 pages of translations, 76 pages of English comments, 75 pages of Spanish comments, 53 old maps, 28 links to other entities on blackness, 20 pages of summaries and 10 pages of description of the website.
Constructing the platform has been a lot of work and we would like to count on your assistance in disseminating it. We are also opened to your suggestions as to the many ways in which we certainly could improve and expand it in the future.
The press release from The City College of New York about the platform is available at https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-based-dsi-launches-unique-site-early-blacks-americas
The website has begun to be disseminated by some important institutions as the Redial Network of Latinamericanists in Western Europe (http://www.red-redial.net/pt/america-actualidade-12667.html ), the Hispanic American Historical Review’s Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/HispanicAmericanHistoricalReview/posts/1620485487976999 ) and Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla, España (https://www.facebook.com/ahp.sevilla/posts/1376728862337657 ). There is also a short interview by New York 1 about the platform available at http://www.ny1noticias.com/nyc/twc-ny1-noticias/noticias/2016/12/10/los-primeros-negros-en-las-am-ricas.html . On the other hand, the online Atlanta Black Star published a story/interview about the website on December 28 that may be viewed at: http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/12/28/first-blacks-in-the-americas-new-educational-website-touches-on-untold-history-of-dominican-republics-earliest-black-africans/
A collection of images about the launching event of December 2nd is available at
The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute is also the author of a pioneering, NEH funded online platform launched three years ago for the learning of the deciphering and reading of the often cumbersome early modern Spanish scripts, the “Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool,” available at http://www.spanishpaleographytool.org
Respectfully
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Sarah Aponte
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The Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta returns to the grounds of the Two Seasons Guest House in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica on Saturday, May 27, 2017. Presented in collaboration with the Department of Literatures in English at the Mona Campus of The University of the West Indies and the Gloria Lyn Memorial Fund, Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta will envelope patrons Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta is a family oriented day, providing a pou pourri of literary works, interspersed with music and fashion. There will be a children’s programme running simultaneously with the main stage. The children will make a presentation on the main stage. For more information, email info@2seasonsguesthouse.com. Plan to be there!
The latest volume of Social and Economic Studies – the flagship Journal of the University of the West Indies (SALISES), Mona Campus, is dedicated to the Caribbean Sea – entitled ‘Linking Ocean Governance in the Caribbea. The journal is timely, as it brings focus to a valuable yet oft forgotten marker of the region. Contributions come from a cross-section of experts in the region and beyond – with perspectives from Martinique and the Pacific Islands. Given the growing attention to climate issues, and given the importance of the Caribbean sea to Caribbean people, Caribbean culture, Caribbean geography and Caribbean development, the journal is a timely addition to Caribbean epistemology and so, well worth the read. It is available for purchase here: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/ses/
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Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Caribbean and its Diaspora
This anthology aims to cultivate and create a space for exploring the history and current state of children’s literature and culture in the Caribbean and its diaspora. The editors invite scholars, teachers, creative writers, online journalists, and activists to consider how literature and the creative arts written or produced for young audiences contribute to the identity of the Caribbean and function as an integral part of its history, culture, and educational system. Caribbean children’s literature is largely under-represented in curriculums and under-theorized in literary scholarship. The limited availability of trade books, the challenges of publishing primarily through houses based in Europe and the United States, and the current turn towards self-publishing have all influenced the direction of the field. This anthology aims to foreground analyses of children’s literature and culture, educational curriculums, and island literary and cultural histories in addition to highlighting recent efforts to improve the availability of literature (including trade books, e-books, or other forms of literacy) for young audiences. Contributors are encouraged to explore the evolution of such literature, the content of literary curriculums for students and/or educators, and the current pressures that limit the publication and production of books and other materials for children and young adults. Especially welcome are interpretations of recently published books, films, or creative projects that target these populations.
The University of Mississippi Press, an academic press with extensive publications in Caribbean Studies and Children’s Literature, has expressed interest in this project. Contributors are encouraged to develop academically grounded material that will document and support the growth and availability of children’s literature in the region.
Various topics might include but are not limited to the following:
Pedagogy and Literature in the primary, secondary, and postsecondary curriculums: What literature is currently taught in schools at all levels? What should educators do differently? What do pre-service teachers need to understand to teach literature in ways that speaks to their student populations?
History: How has the history of a particular island—its educational system and its history of colonization—influenced the development of children’s literature? How has the concept or image of the child evolved across time?
Theory: How might theoretical perspectives inform a reading of children’s literature? Approaches might include eco-criticism, feminist studies, Caribbean studies, post-colonialism, diaspora studies, mythological criticism, emancipatory pedagogy theory, and children’s literary theory.
Technology and Literacy
Literacy: In what ways is Caribbean children’s literature and culture defined by using alternative methods of storytelling to reach young audiences—whether through chants, rhymes, theater, or spoken word?
Technology: What contemporary innovations are currently taking place in other mediums besides books (e-books, film, live theater, etc.) that are transforming the landscape of literacy? How is storytelling finding expression through new mediums? How are communities responding to and building avenues to engage children in literature?
Contemporary Writers: How are contemporary writers and illustrators changing the field of children’s and young adult literature? What publishing pathways have brought their work to the public? Marysé Conde, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Beryl Gilroy, and M. NourbeSe Philip all began writing for adults and then shifted to writing for children. In what ways do these authors transform their themes or alter their ideological ground to write for a new audience?
Please send abstracts of 500 words and a brief biography by June 1, 2017 to Betsy Nies (bnies@unf.edu) and Melissa Garcia Vega (melissa.garcia4@upr.edu). If accepted, complete rough drafts of 5000 to 7000 words will be due by November 1, 2017.
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Press release photo exhibition Surinamese ancestors in the picture
Wedding portraits: Surinamese Ancestors in the (the?) Picture 1868 – 1950
‘Grandma, who is that bride in this photo? Is that you,, together with Grandpa?’
How often does one hear that question when seeing a somewhat yellowed wedding photo in a frame on the wall, in an album, on a sideboard, or on an i-phone.
Photos bring the world from the past to the present, and that is certainly the case with the photographs in the exhibition ‘Wedding Portraits, Surinamese Ancestors in the Picture before 1950′, in the public library at Javaplein. This is where Surinamese couples are in the center, or couples whose partners have a Surinamese background. The photographs not only show a striking picture of the period in which the marriage took place, but also make it clear how much Surinamese people have travelled to all corners of the world whilst under Dutch rule. There are also wedding photos of Surinamese-Dutch, Surinamese-Indian and Surinamese-American couples.
Photography was introduced in Suriname around 1860. Since then it was common for couples to be photographed in the first photo studios in Paramaribo or in their parents’ courtyard. Occasionally, the marriage was performed in the Netherlands. The oldest photograph in the exhibition dates back to 1868, and some stories are even older.
This is the first time that the cultural diversity of the Surinamese society been shown in this way using photographs and the stories of descendants.
The exhibition is an initiative of Lucia Nankoe, who is a specialist in Caribbean literature.
On view:
From 14 September to 14 November 2018 Javaplein 2, 1094 HW Amsterdam
Opening hours: Sunday: 13- 16.30 hours; Monday: 14-17.30; Tuesday 9:30 am – 8:00 pm; Wednesday 9.30 am – 8 pm; Thursday 9.30 am – 8.00 pm; Friday 9.30 am – 5.30 pm; Saturday 9.30 am – 5.30 pm. Free access
On 11 and 25 October, there will be public meetings with experts who will shed light on the theme.
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Published on December 3, 2016 in Sports/Top Headlines by Bob Sparks
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The Temple Owls fell behind by 18 points, but came back to stun the Central Florida Knights, 26-25 Saturday night at Bright House Networks Stadium. An improbable Temple victory does not seem to describe what happened. UCF ran out to a 25-7 lead in the second quarter and took a 25-14 lead into the halftime locker room. The Owls dominated the second half. The Knights had the ball five time after halftime. Three of those possessions resulted in three-and-out punts,…
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Poetry Friday: Song
I envision heaven in a selfish manner. I don't care which cloud you stick me on as long as I'm in possession of an honest-to-God, otherworldly singing voice. I've always felt broken because I can't keep a tune. What's in my head and my heart never matches up (not even a little) with what croaks out of my mouth. So being able to hang in there with the archangels is this tone-deaf girl's idea of being healed and whole.
In this season of using light to defend against darkness, music is one of our strongest weapons. I give you two examples: this poem, Song, which illuminates a lone singer, and the following video, which captures a flash mob of singers in a food court as they help the weary world rejoice.
by Eamon Grennan
At her Junior High School graduation,
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in front of the lot of us--
her voice soprano, surprising,
almost a woman's. It is
the Our Father in French,
the new language
making her strange, out there,
fully fledged and
Poetry Friday is hosted today at The Poem Farm.
Poetry Friday: Hyper
I don't know how much time you have today. Enough for both a math doodle video and an exquisite poem about ADHD?
The video captures the quicksilver leaps of the human mind when it's chased by boredom into a world of knots and snakes and other satisfyingly twisty and mysterious doodle patterns. The poem, in a similar vein, ponders stillness and speed and perception. Each asks us: what's the rush? And I don't mean that in the standard "stop and smell the roses" way. I mean it as: what's the joy? What's the reason? Why do we bother to look?
Doodling in Math Class: Snakes and Graphs (with thanks to James Gurney, for posting this.) A commenter on his site says "The creator of this amazing clip is Vi Hart. Her website has many more such treats. She is the daughter of a creative math teacher and sculptor, George Hart, who also has good things to see at his website."
an excerpt from the middle of
by David Baker
Let me put it another way. After
twenty-four math problems, the twenty-fifth
still baffles her, pencil gnawed, eraser-
scuff-shadows like black veins on her homework.
It's not just the theory of division
she no longer gets, it's her hot clothes, her
itchy ear, the ruby-throated hummingbird's
picture on the fridge, what's in the fridge, whose
socks these are, why, until I'm exhausted
and yell again. Until she's gone away
to her room, lights off, to sulk, read, cry, draw.
No longer trusting to memory, she
writes everything in her journal now, then
ties it with a broken strand of necklace.
Of her friends: I am the funny one. Mom:
She has red hair and freckles to. Under Dad:
I have his bad temper. I know. I looked.
In one sketch she finished, just before we
learned what was wrong—I mean, before we knew
what to call what was wrong, how to treat it,
how to treat her—she captured her favorite
cat with a skill that skips across my chest.
read the entire poem here
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The resort of Puerto de Santiago has developed from a small fishing village into a bustling resort on the west coast of Tenerife. With the southern resort of Playa la Arena, Puerto Santiago is part of the area known by many as Los Gigantes, as these three towns’ boarders seem to have merged. Puerto de Santiago is more traditional than the other two resorts and smaller. Playa la Arena is only about five minutes away (500m) which is where many head to from Puerto de Santiago for its Blue Flag beach, beach facilities and activities.
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‘Trickle of food’ helped deep sea creatures survive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs
A team led by experts at Cardiff University has provided new evidence to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago.
Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after the catastrophic asteroid impact in an immense upheaval of the world’s oceans, yet deep sea creatures managed to survive.
This has puzzled researchers as it is widely believed that the asteroid impact cut off the food supply in the oceans by destroying free-floating algae and bacteria.
However, in a study published in the April issue of the journal Geology, a team led by researchers from Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences provides strong evidence suggesting that some forms of algae and bacteria were actually living in the aftermath of the asteroid disaster, and that they acted as a constant, sinking, slow trickle of food for creatures living near the seafloor.
The team were able to draw these conclusions by analysing new data from the chemical composition of the fossilised shells of sea surface and seafloor organisms from that period, taken from drilling cores from the ocean floor in the South Atlantic.
This gave the researchers an idea of the flux, or movement, of organic matter from the sea surface to the seafloor in the aftermath of the asteroid strike, and led them to conclude that a slow trickle of food was constantly being delivered to the deep ocean.
Furthermore, the team were able to calculate that the food supply in the ocean was fully restored around 1.7m years after the asteroid strike, which is almost half the original estimates, showing that marine food chains bounced back quicker than originally thought.
Heather Birch, a Cardiff University PhD from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences who led the study, said: “The global catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also devastated ocean ecosystems. Giant marine reptiles met their end as did various types of invertebrates such as the iconic ammonites.
“Our results show that despite a wave of massive and virtually instantaneous extinctions among the plankton, some types of photosynthesising organisms, such as algae and bacteria, were living in the aftermath of the asteroid strike.
“This provided a slow trickle of food for organisms living near the ocean floor which enabled them to survive the mass extinction, answering one of the outstanding questions that still remained regarding this period of history.
“Even so, it took almost two million years before the deep sea food supply was fully restored as new species evolved to occupy ecological niches vacated by extinct forms.”
Many scientists currently believe that the mass extinction of life on Earth around 65m years ago was caused by a 110km-wide asteroid that hit Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It is believed the debris from impact starved Earth of the Sun’s energy and, once settled, led to greenhouse gases locking in the Sun’s heat and causing temperatures to rise drastically.
This period of darkness followed by soaring heat, known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, was thought to obliterate almost half of the world’s species.
Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth’s atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.
This article originally appeared at Cardiff University.
Journal Reference:
Heather S. Birch, Helen K. Coxall, Paul N. Pearson, Dick Kroon, Daniela N. Schmidt. Partial collapse of the marine carbon pump after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Geology, 2016; 44 (4): 287 DOI:10.1130/G37581.1
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Despite the blessings, information and communications technology (ICT) has led to expectations that we stay available for tasks after working hours. The barrier between working hours and leisure time has been severely ruptured. (Photo: Maksim Kostenko, Microstock)
Why new technology makes us work more
New technology has yet to make the commute to work superfluous, but it has allowed jobs to encroach on our leisure time.
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Why hasn’t new technology shortened working hours and moved jobs out of offices and into our homes? Despite how easy it has become to work from home, many of us continue to spend hours in traffic to sit in front of a computer, just like the one we have a few strides from bed.
Not that we don’t work from home – we work more now during off-hours, without any pay. Swedish researchers have glimpsed part of the reason.
In a study they have found that the shackles that tie us to the office are strong social norms.
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Sharing ideas, avoiding misunderstandings
It’s not considered working when you are absent from the office. Social interaction and cooperation with colleagues under the same roof is viewed as essential too. The Swedish study looked at ways employees and management in various knowledge-intensive trades evaluate work in a time-space context.
Face-to-face meetings are especially important when establishing and nurturing relationships to colleagues and customers, assert employees and their bosses in jobs in the fields of management, PR and communications, government and research.
Key reasons given for a physical presence at the place of work include the opportunity to exchange ideas and avert the misunderstandings which could crop up in our physical absence.
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“There is also the matter of expectations from workmates, bosses and customers that they remain accessible outside of working hours. This involves perceived expectations as well as real expectations,” says Trygg.
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5 Minutes in Church History
03:52 min | Last week
The Birthplace of Saint Augustine
"World of augustine encircled the mediterranean sea spain and portugal. To the west france switzerland and the british isles to the north greece turkey israel to the north and to the east. Of course italy extending right into the sea the boot poised to kick a soccer ball also known as sicily and stretching all along the south egypt in the coast of africa. Agusan is from africa. Now that's the modern designation as are all of those country names. I just listed for you and the three hundred and four hundred. This was all rome. All of these peoples were roman or were to be considered roman and all of these places were part of the far flung roman empire augusta was born specifically in what was called new media the roman province of namibia. It is modern day algeria. His hometown was aghast. It was originally a village of nomadic. Berbers and back in the two hundred and one hundred species does the punic. Wars rome took control of this vast area as guston was born. Rome reached its zenith as augusta and lived roman declined and as guston died. Rome fell well. The gas was two thousand feet above sea level. It was surrounded by mountains that were another thousand feet or so and it was a very fertile plain. In fact the most fertile land in north africa it was a great place to settle and farm. Corn olives were mostly harvested and had a great economy one. A story noted how it became a retirement destination spot for roman soldiers. Did you ever wonder where the lions and bears and tigers in the roman amphitheatres came from. Will they were caught in the mountains and in the plains around agustin's hometown of the gas one hundred and seventy miles away to the east was the massive city of carthage. It was bustling with people and trade. It was second city only to rome and sixty miles or so to the northwest hippo regis. That city would come to play a significant role in the life of augustine. Near the end. Agustin's father was patricia. S a roman pagan. His mother was monica and devout and sometimes mystical christian much much more on her later as our book unfolds. Augustine had siblings. But we know very little about them he had at least one brother navigate. Send at least one sister and he likely had more brothers and sisters. But we just don't know that much about them at all. He was born on november thirteen. Three fifty four. This was a full generation of post. Constantine rome one. After constantine's conversion did you see the air quotes there. i put around network. that's important. This was the christian era at the end of the roman empire of course alongside of christianity. Plato's philosophy and the schools that followed him ruled the roost. That's important. It was a time of doctrinal advance. Augusta lived right in between the nineteen creed three twenty five and the cow sedonia creed of 451 that's important. He also lived during the time of heresies. They were springing up all over the place. Will that too is important if you were to ask a young augusta playing in the streets of the gassed. What do you want to do when you grow up. He would answer with one word. I wanna be
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The Von Haessler Doctrine
Masters Tournament Will Allow Limited Number of Fans to Attend
"To actually have fans for the tournament this spring, Augusta National says in a statement. It will quote have limited attendants provided it can be done safely. But it's not clear how many or what percentage of fans will be allowed in. Club also plans to hold the women's amateur and drive chip and putt competitions The weekend before Augusta says it will contact patrons not selected and refunds will be issued. W S. B. J. Black says the
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Anything But Idle
Best Productivity and Technology Stories 2020
"I'm recieving smith immigrants and we're your hosts for anything but idle this is episode thirty five And we are going to be covering productivity and technology news in review twenty twenty hour recording on december twenty first twenty twenty and each week we cover the productivity news headlines of the week and to do that we usually bring on some panelists and today we have one panelist to help us talk about all things in the personal productivity in technology space So today we're bringing j miller onto the show. Jay is a developer advocate at elastic in san diego. California a multi potential potential light. I'm hoping i'm getting that right. Jay enjoys finding unique ways to merge his fascination with productivity automation and development to creek tools and content to serve the tech community. Welcome to anything but idle j. Glad to be here. Glad to have you got to have you wonderful and so with that. This week's theme. What i thought we would do stone. I thought we would do is to walk us. Through the the stories of the year as many can kind of figure out twenty twenty was a little bit unusual. It was a it was a challenging year for a lot of us and it was unusual in many regards but we've had a lot of productivity and technology news. That's happened a lot of things of have occurred this year and so augusta you wanna kick us off with. What you believe is kind of the biggest story this year. The virtual shows you know as as a person who is star his life doing sales deny remember the big shows and and i remember the apple event and events in big deals when the beginning of twenty twentieth star. And we got covid on all this. What is going to happen with this shows and we saw apple with google sampson with microsoft going into this virtual events from good to better because really there was just there was but but we're going to remember only the good ones that got better There were some that. Were not that way what happened but but even we were able to experience. How apple did the first one you know. Then it gets better and better event to wonder because and google did there and samson need an incredible job was there events too so that was something that i don't think any of us will have considered before twenty twenty that it was going to be an option to watch this event. Live this way everybody live instead of having some people who is going to be there and we were really jealous about it. I mean as a someone who like my job as a developer advocate. Is that go to shows like this. Go to conferences. Go to all the types of meet ups and things like that. I think we look at the larger shows for inspiration on how we can do things and this was like the hardest one because at the end of the day like no one's got the production budget of apple google and samsung so for us. It's like okay. How can we take these massive productions that they're doing in downscale them for the local know. Meet up or you know the online conference that you know for a lot of these companies a lot of these foundations and organizations. They rely on these events to stay afloat until the next year. And so it's like super important but yet we're all like rolling with the punches and doing some crazy stuff and honestly that's kind of been like the coolest thing for me to notice. Is that presentations change. I saw developer conferences where people were doing like scripted. Talks in law muslim Full featured production sets. And they look like you know everyone's favourite high school musical play but like at the same time it was it was causing us to think differently and to do things completely unheard of in terms presenting Whether you were presenting you know for your favorite programming language your favourite productivity tool a meet up or whether you're introducing a brand new chip architecture as in the case of apple
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Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
Jon Ossoff and the movement energy hes tapping in Georgia
"John asa. Thanks so much. For coming on the podcast. Thank you so much. Jonathan grade the bigger right so you just started a bus tour a six day bus tour. If i remember right where are you going. And what kind of reception have you been. Been getting because it's been a one day already so far. Yesterday we were out in in madison and augusta and we will be hitting not just every major city but Several dozen small towns will be very visible in rural georgia. And this is the health jobs and justice bus tour across the state in the program that we are encouraging folks to get out and vote to support is one that ensures every georgian has great healthcare that we invest in economic recovery and job creation infrastructure clean energy and that we passed major criminal justice reform at a new civil rights act and that is galvanizing our coalition. There is movement like energy in georgia. Right now and as. You've heard me talk about jonathan. The situation in georgia is unusual. Because you've got a young jewish son of an immigrant running alongside a black preacher. This is not how democrats have been running in the south for the last couple of decades of talk more about that. Because i've heard you say that in television interviews Mostly in television interviews. And you know you both. You and reverend warnock who. You're talking about another person. Who's been on the podcast of your both sons of the south but for you in particular you were born and raised in georgia. As you just said you jewish-american and for a lot of people. The south has not been hospitable to african americans or jewish-americans. Talk talk about your your Your childhood your upbringing a did you endure wild antisemitism there in georgia not wild anti semitism up but it's something that pops up from time to time in the life of any jewish person. I think that. Because i don't wear a keep up right a yarmulke because i'm not outwardly. Observant I would not attract the same sort of over a of anti-semitism might who's judaism is more apparent externally or as a black person might in the south. But i think that when i inflict on my childhood so i was bar mitzvah at the temple which is a a reform synagogue in atlanta and one of the interesting things about the history of the temple is that it was nineteen fifty seven when dr king established the elsie in atlanta and it was nineteen fifty eight when the temple was bombed and from the late nineteen fifties through the civil rights movement of the early and mid nineteen sixties and all the way through the present day there has been an alliance between blacks and jews in georgia and when i first sat down to have a meal with congressman john lewis because my first ever exposure to anything like public service was working as a very very young man in his office where he wanted to talk to me. You were in high school. That's why it's had very very young man that exactly. I mean we ever had for about ninety minutes. He wanted to talk about that alliance. He wanted to talk about how he marched. Alongside rabbis and jewish activists. Here was a young jewish man in his office. He wanted to talk about the necessity of nurturing and strengthening that alliance and not taking for granted that that would happen on. Its own and so i- i reflect often as you've heard me reflect about how he is looking down on us right now in georgia smiling.
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KCBS Radio Morning News
Major League Baseball issues invites for minor-league affiliates; here are teams that didn't make cut
"Officially reducing its affiliated minor league teams from 160 to 120. Meaning each major league club now has four minor league teams. Most of them had five before with the elimination of one short season Rookie league team per major league club. Along with some significant restructuring the giant today's tripling of double a clubs remains same Sacramento in Richmond, Virginia, for the Giants, Vegas and Midland, Texas. For the A's. The giant's new high A affiliate is in Eugene, Oregon, replacing San Jose. While San Jose is now the low a replacing Augusta, Georgia. The A's new high
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The Art Newspaper Weekly
Contemporary public art: who is it for?
"Louisa. When i look back over the newspaper dot com archive in in relation to christoph boucle. What i found was a lot of fierce debates mentioned in the articles about him often involving authorities as well as art world people. He wants to create this kind of control. He doesn't need so so tell us about this latest controversy. Why is it such conservancy. It starts off by the venice biennale in two thousand nine hundred nineteen when we will all of us walking through the arsenal and that was a vast rusting boat on the key side. Not in water. That's not an unusual thing to see. It looked kind of weirdly home amongst the other sort of naval paraphernalia around in the snarly but then of course there was no notice nothing to identify it. If diligent you look up in the catalog but unite was very mysterious but of course word of mouth soon came through this was indeed a work and art not a piece of rusting boatlift over by the navy it was balkan nostra it was cooled and it was actually the very boat which had been leaving libya for its louis laden with excess. Don't know how many of the thousands immigrants trying to get it collided with portuguese freighter. Got into trouble and sunk killing everybody. Pretty much on board. I mean it was an absolute atrocity slash disaster. The boat was then taken by the italian navy to sicily where there was an incredible detailed forensic investigation on all of the bodies of the victims many of whom were trapped in the hall of the boat. They'd be impacting. It was it was a trafficking boats. It was a horrific horrific scenario There was a forensic detailed investigations to who the identity of these people were many of their families traced and so they learn to the terrible fate of relatives now. I didn't quite know how this happened. But then time passes from two thousand fifteen. Somehow a deal is struck with the sicilian town of augusta where this both ended up in the naval base to bring it to the venice biennale as an exhibit. Christopher cal had signed a contract with the town of augusta that he could borrow the boat for yeah it would be exhibited has been and then he would return it a year later so the boats there everybody feels extremely conflicted about some people said it was a brilliant idea that shows how decadent the art world is how decadent our world is how uncaring we are. It was kind of appalling. I felt the boat was parked right by the cafe. So you start swinging europe roles and your and your cappuccinos. Perhaps not knowing there was in effect the site of mass atrocity a mass grave. Right beside you. So was it makes us think about our place. In the world on carrying thought about crises unfolding very close to us or was it. An exploitative opportunistic attention seeking Profile raising artwork by christopher. Koop and as you say he does have form in this respect. He's done other things. He's crushed landed a mosque in venice inside the catholic church for another being all for the icelandic pavilion. Several years ago he also set up community centers on controversial other things in tasmania. We'll probably talk about in a minute. So but this was a big one and yes it's very raw and the debate in the controversy still rages but the latest part of. This debate is a year on from the being ali. The boat is still. There is a dispute between the being early organization and bianco and he's gallery well absolutely yes. Because as i said he signed a deal with the city in town of augusta. Maybe you know. Maybe money exchanged hands. I don't know but anyway but the deal was that the boat would then come back to augusta where apparently it was intended to be the centerpiece for memorial park with the consent of the relatives. Also in all kinds of rumblings around the time in the been on it was stated apparently the families had given their permission for this boats to be used or some families are given their permission. I mean gardeners specific. But that will talk of permission. But now there's the boat the biennale a now say they have been hassling buco since november last year to bring this boat back to honor his agreement to honor the contract with cillian town of august. Gustave saying they want the boat back as well now sources close to buco say that because he never talks to the press which is another thing we can talk about minute They say apparently the boat was damaged in transit coming venice so it's going to be impossible until the cradle support is fixed for it to come back again to augusta so buco is now trying to get insurance to pay for this either from the benaroya. Who said no go away or probably problem rudely or indeed from the shipping company. But i mean. I would say that you know only ethics about whether you actually share bin ali or not. I felt squeamish. I think we're dead. People are concerned it starts to get very problematic. Any put all those ethics to one side. You honor the agreement to the families you on the agreement to the place from whence you lent it and if and if the cradle got caught up and pay for it or you make your gary who house involved not show for penny or two to cough up and pay for it you know. I draw lines more lines in the sand. Whatever want feels about artworks raising profile of terrible crises. Apparently there's talk about taking the boat to brussels to show how come the the eu have been ignoring the immigration crisis. I mean lofty motives. But you know this is a place where over thousand people died.
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Your Brain on Facts
Thanks-myth-ing
"Most without equal for this recipe you will need one each skylark thrush quayle ortolan lapping. Golden plover partridge woodcock. -til guinea hen guinea fowl. Wild duck red pheasant. Wild goose boostered and fake pecker pluck and got the birds then stuff the smallest bird into the next smallest birds cavity and so on until you have one neutron star of bird meet paraphrased from seventeenth century cookbook and you thought her duck in was a new thing. My name's moxy. And this is your brain on facts. Two days after this episode drops. It is thanksgiving in the united states and the supporters at patriot. Dot com slash. Your brain on facts voted to go. Turkey talk today. So let's go through the myths and misconceptions by working our way through a painting an odd choice as this is an audio only medium. Certainly luckily we don't have to pick just one painting. Most paintings depicting the first thanksgiving in giant air quotes of sixteen twenty. One contain the same things about of puritan settlers dressed in austere black clothing. With bright metal buckles gathered around a table laden with food. Maybe the family patriarch is offering a prayer and a small group of native americans can be seen in the background. Maybe one or two in the foreground. If i were to show you jennie. Augusta browns combs. The first thanksgiving or the first thanksgiving by louise jerome farris painted within a year of each other in the early twentieth century. Incidentally you'd say oh. Yeah that was in my history book which year all of them probably. That's how we've been taught to think of historical thanksgiving's but we're not school kids anymore. So it's time to update that image paintings of the first thanksgiving referred to that feast in sixteen twenty one in plymouth massachusetts. What we actually know about the feast. Concretely is very limited. It mostly comes from a single letter. Written by a communist named edward winslow two hundred and twenty years later in eighteen forty one. His letter was published in chronicles. Of the pilgrim fathers by boston writer and publisher alexander young and it was young. Who called the gathering. The first thanksgiving even though the word thanksgiving doesn't appear anywhere in winslow's letter that feast wouldn't have been thanksgiving to the pilgrims. Puritans did observe thanksgiving days after fortunate events like a good harvest. The were religious observances. People spent the day in church often in silent prayer and they fasted rather than feasted. It's almost the polar opposite of the way we celebrate thanksgiving today. So that day wasn't thanksgiving and it wasn't even the first for a few reasons for starters. It didn't happen a second time. Let alone annually. So it can hardly be said to be the first of anything it would take more than two hundred years for an autumn. Feast referred to as thanksgiving too widely proliferate second. It wasn't the first meal shared by europeans and native americans in the new world. A reasonable drive from my home here in. Virginia is the berkeley plantation where a thanksgiving feast was held this one by the europeans alone. Three dozen settlers arrived in the chesapeake bay in sixteen nineteen on a ship. Captain by a man who had survived the winter of sixteen o nine in the jamestown colony a winter referred to as the starving time after a rough two and a half months at sea and another week on inland waterways. They finally arrived at berkeley hundred later called berkeley plantation on december fourth. They disembarked assembled a meal. From what shifts rations. They still had ham and wasters probably and said prayers of thanksgiving. It was declared that their arrival must be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to almighty god end so it was for two whole years in march of sixteen twenty two. The poyton having noticed that the settlers weren't leaving and in fact were expanding their territory and kept trying to convert and civilize them attacked berkeley and other settlements killing over three hundred fair playboys if you ask historians in maine they'll tell you the first. Such meal happened not in sixteen twenty one in massachusetts but in sixteen. O seven in papa main. The popham colony barely lasted a year. Thanks to a fire in their storehouse during the particularly harsh winter and miscalculations like staying in a four right on the shore rather than moving inland where the forest could provide a windbreak. They arrived in the
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Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
Perus procession of presidents
"Even by the extraordinary standards of peruvian presidential turnover. It has been quite a week. The government palace in lima rotated through three tenants. In a matter of days president martin vs kara was removed via impeachment. His replacement manuel marino resigned following violent protests. He was succeeded. By francisco's sagacity. Who appears to remain incumbent. This recording serving as peru's head of state seems not to bring out the best in people of peru's six presidents prior to martin viscaya four are in prison and awaiting trial and one shot himself while being presented with an arrest warrant. This circus would be dysfunctional enough. Were it not for the fact that peru's presidential intrigue is presently teetering with problems other than those caused by the people supposed to be running the place. The country has one of the world's worst covid nineteen outbreaks and its economy has been accordingly battered. Is it possible that francisco's augusta represents an end to peruse lousy luck with its leaders. How has the country's politics becomes so chronically chaotic. And where does anyone even start cleaning up a mess like this. This is the foreign desk. The massive demonstrations that we have seen in the past few days in response to the latest political turmoil exposed deep discontent with the political class falling in several years of institutional clashes of corruption scandals. So reese an anger are much higher now. Five of the law six presidents not including the skara that post pregnancies have been dominated by corruption. Accusations one is in jail setting a twenty five year sentence. Another shot himself dead last year. I think most peruvians. They understand that the corruption just fades the state. The real moment of change has come now when the youths in the street and the people all over round peru have began to say we want to change the structure of the state that for humanity left us it will really be the end of human. He's more if that constitution is brought down. New one is put forward.
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Severe thunderstorm warning issued for parts of NJ, New York
"We had quite an evening filled with severe weather. During the height of the storm, the National Weather Service issued at least three tornado warnings for our area that covered the five boroughs Long Island, Westchester, Rockland, northeastern New Jersey and southern Connecticut. They're also severe weather. Severe thunderstorm warning Watch and watches and wind advisories will go live now to ask you whether meteorologist Carl Verbinski to see where we're at now. Whether wise Well, Monica. Obviously, those wind gusts were very intense. Some of them exceeded 60 MPH roughly three hours ago. But now that a cold front has managed to push through the tri state area, those peak winds have subsided. At least The winds were getting now we're only gusting to near 35 MPH. It's not a tremendous amount of improvement. And we still expect that wind Augusta near 35 MPH overnight. But obviously these winds, not the kind that will lead to the damage and power outages. We're not going to see those returning. Still a lot of cleanup to do, though, and tomorrow while it'll be bright and sunny highs will be in mostly in the mid fifties, acting with a real field temperatures, though in the thirties because of winds gusting near 35 MPH, Monique. Relevance Key. Thank you very much. Now in the storm's wake, we've been left with power outages. P s e g Long Island over 8900 At this hour P s e g New Jersey 18,000 content just over 4500 That's in all five boroughs. And in Westchester, Orange and Rockland just over 2000 without power. JCP n L almost 13,000 ever soars over 34,000 without power
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Dustin Johnson buries some major memories, wins the Masters
"Johnson has posted a record twenty under par total to win the masters by commanding five shots Johnson overcame two early bogeys to cruise to victory on the back nine with a final round sixty eight to secure the win over Australia's cam Smith and south Korea's phone J. M. who tied for second at fifteen under the thirty six year old Johnson died claim to the tournament with a first a sixty five and dominated from there on the rain softened full Augusta national course it was his second major win ending a long white after winning the U. S. I've been back in two thousand and sixteen I'm Graham like us
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Saturday at the 2020 Masters
"Saturday at the masters in dustin. Johnson is running away. He carries a four shot lead into the final round sunday. Following a seven under sixty five saturday he was masterful tying jordan speiss fifty four hole record chasing johnson on the leaderboard are sung j. M abraham answer and cameron smith all four shots back while justin thomas and dylan 'fratelli sit five shots back following his round saturday. I called up with dustin johnson. Seven hundred sixty five news. Dustin johnson to sixteen under through three rounds. What did you do well saturday. And what if anything would you like to do. Better sunday I did everything while today. Adrover very nicely head. A bunch of fairways Hit a lot of greens and felt like i. I gave myself good chances on your on almost every hole. and so. that's kind of what you gotta do here. In the conditions. Not a lot of wind you know. Courses is fairly soft so you can be aggressive and Strike in a very nicely today And so you know tomorrow. We'll have to go out and do a lot of the same if i to win. Tied jordan speeds fifty four hole record. What's the balance between staying aggressive and not being dumb Well for me. It all depends on you know. Flag positions numbers Forgot a good number. And and i like the flag is a play aggressive but Like i said the course right now is is very receptive so you know i know the guys behind me are going to be trying to chase down south. You know you can't play you know there's a there's definitely a fine line of being too conservative and too aggressive but you just have to pick and choose my spots second last year. How did that impact your motivation. This time around. I mean yeah it was. I've played well last year. I played while the last couple years so obviously this one tournament that that i definitely want to win and you know. It means a lot to me. A- grew up so close to here and so it is something that i really look forward to until tomorrow is going to be a. It's gonna be a lot of funding. I'm gonna try to enjoy myself as much as i can and Hopefully hopefully outcomes good tomorrow afternoon. You heard dustin johnson say right there how badly he wants to win the masters. It's the dream of every player in the field in this eighty. Four th edition for more analysis on the third round and what to expect sunday. Let's bring in the voice of masters digital jimmy roberts. Dustin carries a four shot lead into sunday following a seven hundred sixty five saturday. He was masterful. Tying jordan speiss fifty four hole record assess his performance on saturday. A great it was basically as good as you could get You know you said it. He tied the fifty four hole scoring record. It is a different time of year. But i don't think it really matters. I mean the thing that sticks out to me is that you know through fifty four holes. He's got two bogeys which is unimaginable. On this golf course and they were in consecutive holes. Fourteen and fifteen in the second round. And when you stop to think about it he bogeyed the second easiest hole on the course which means that by all rights. He should probably expect to birdie the fifteen th hole. You give him two more strokes and he's just farther ahead of the pack. But i will just say this. I was here in nineteen ninety six and i covered that masters where greg norman had six stroke lead and nick faldo came back to win it so i mean this course can do things to you i mean. I think that there were extenuating circumstances that year. Norman had some physical difficulties. That didn't manifest until the final day and faldo played effortlessly. I think he shot sixty seven It's gonna take that for somebody to beat him tomorrow Somebody's going to have to play really really well. And he's going to have to stumble. What is it about this golf. Course that suits his game so well. Well i mean at this point really. He's the number one player in the world and he's as they like to say in europe he's on form so you know. He's a finely tuned engine right now and He's not even close to the red line. So i mean he is just got it all going on right now. I mean he's you know. I always say that you know. These are the best golfers in the world on on a week to week basis. You know you shouldn't be surprised if somebody you've never heard of comes up and wins a tournament because they are all remarkably talented. But he's the best of all of them right now and he is playing really well You know we've talked about this over the last couple of days. He you know he's long and straight which is tough to beat and then a couple of years ago. He decided that in order to get better you had to work on his wedge game so he went and did that he's become a terrific putter and he's completely unflappable. He i think. And i think that's the most important thing i think he's a guy who just does not get undone by much. I just asked him a few moments ago. what's the balance between maintaining the aggression. That got you here without going too far. Yeah i'd i'd be curious to know what he said but in all honesty. I've never seen him loses. Temper made him. I've never seen him hot. I've never seen him running hot. I'd seen him disappointed disappointed. And you're not going to be able to see this on the podcasts. But you know it's just kind of an shucks wish i hadn't tripled that whole crazy when i do. Something you know like that He's really he's a talented man. Who's in stride right now and You know he's done a lot He's one everything but tons of majors. I mean he's tiger tiger woods. He's one in to start his career. He's won thirteen consecutive seasons to start his career. Only tiger woods is done that and he tied him tiger actually one in his first fourteen seasons. But i mean he just consistently wins you know and it's hard to beat talent you know and worth work ethic when you match those two things together. It's very difficult. Let's look at the leaderboard. That is chasing dustin johnson song j. m. abraham answer cameron smith all four shots back. Justin thomas and dylan for tally. Five shots back if you were going to pick one to catch him. I don't think there's any question. The person who watches is Is justin thomas. But the way sunday m is playing and things are different now than they used to be. You know it's been forty one years since a first timer has one here that was fuzzy zeller nineteen seventy-nine. You know i was with the jack nicklaus this morning doing something and He talks. Jack came here and he didn't win for the first five times that he played here. But this is a course more than any other course were experiences necessary. But look you've got answer and in two players who were here for the first time in their you know right nipping at his heels Sebastian munoz too. So i i do think that must not be worth as much as it has been in the past given the level of talent and work of these guys but you know you give me a guy who has the experience and a guy who doesn't of equal talent and at the same spot in their game. I'm gonna take the guy with experience at this place every single time. Rory mcilroy and brooks koepka. Both superstars both at eight. Under after three rounds. How plausible is it that they might contend on sunday. I think it's entirely plausible. I mean i think that you know mcelroy's trending in the right direction after that seventy five in the first round which was disastrous for him. Just can't seem to get out of his own way sometimes but he's got a game. That's ideally suited for this place. He hits it high far and straight. His natural shot is right to left You know he's been number one in the world he's not undone by these big situations. Generally i think he's going to be a very interesting guy to watch tomorrow. But in all honesty there's so much daylight between dustin johnson and the rest of the field at this point and it's not the daylight of four strokes. It's the daylight of four strokes with the number one player on the one side of that daylight. Who's playing well. And i mean. I think it's gonna take dustin johnson shooting seventy two or three tomorrow. I mean i suppose it could happen. You know greg. Norman shot seventy six. Nick faldo shot sixty seven That lead had evaporated by the tenth. Tentpole the eleventh hole So you never know. But i would be. I would be shocked. But i remember being augusta national in in One thousand nine hundred ninety six and remember all the stories that we were doing. And i did a story for. Espn that night. And i said you know it would be shocking if greg norman didn't win but if he doesn't it will be one of the biggest stories and we won't soon forget it and here. We are all these years later. Talking about it at augusta national right now.
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The Latest: Johnson ties Masters' 54-hole record at 16 under
"Dustin Johnson has secured a commanding full shot played after three rounds of the masters the world number one equal the totemic fifty four hole scoring record of sixteen under by posting his second round of sixty five for the week and unprecedented feat at Augusta national the thirty six year old leads by the fall from the international trio of Abraham answers from J. M. and Cameron Smith Dylan Frittelli is next at eleven under and Justin Thomas rounds out the leader board at ten under six behind the runaway leader Dustin Johnson I'm grand like us
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Johnson, Thomas part of 4-way share atop Masters leaderboard
"There is a four way tie on top of the clubhouse leader board after two days plant the monsters Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas I'm joined by Abraham ancer and Cameron Smith in at nine under and I had just one clear of a group that includes Patrick Cantlay Justin rose's among those in at seven under after another day of birdies on the rain softened Augusta national course he'll commit sixty percent but you know I know how to manage my way around his so if that's the case can still maybe do something this weekend even at that but I'm hoping you know each day I can get a bit but I'm not the tournament still playing catch up after a lengthy day one weather delay Tiger Woods among those needing to wrap up a second round Hillary start on day three at four under I'm Graham like us
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The Latest: Johnson shares Masters lead, play suspended
"There is a four way tie on top of the clubhouse leader board after two days plant the monsters Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas I'm joined by Abraham ancer and Cameron Smith in at nine under and I had just one clear of a group that includes Patrick Cantlay Justin rose's among those in at seven under after another day of birdies on the rain softened Augusta national calls but the tournament is still playing catch up after a lengthy day one weather delay Tiger Woods among those needing to wrap up a second round Hillary start on day three at four under I'm Graham like us
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Dustin Johnson, Dylan Frittelli join Paul Casey atop Masters leaderboard after first round
"Masters is not starting right now. It is going to start about forty minutes but they got to pick up the end of the first round. They didn't get everybody in now. Paul casey did finish. She shot a seven hundred sixty five couple of shots. Better than zander. Shroff lay and webb simpson. Here was paul. Casey happy to play not have to play. If you remember. Yesterday you had that weather delay. He didn't have to deal with. That was not relishing. The challenge ahead warming up in the rain this morning. No one wanted that. He says no fans and still amazing so many people like myself. You just excited to play this you just you know this is a. This is a treat. Good old augusta national. Now why better today. He has struggled all year long. I don't know why it was rubbish. I know rubbish. Sounds like nick faldo. Guess talking about guy shots and stuff and no one running around nude your boy. What's his name and one on the the eleventh. All that was pretty funny. Actually he also had some drives at just came up. Short of the green pretty impressive here is tiger woods. Four hundred sixty eight. He says could have been better only thing. I can say that I which would make a few more putts on mr everything on the high side. Pots are moving. This is so different than slows yard and then with a weather delay amount of rain. They've had another opportunity today. Justin thomas has a chance to take the lead five under through ten when play was suspended. Forty four golfers still needs to go out and five hundred ten. Yeah
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2020 Masters: Tiger Woods Is 3 Shots Off Paul Casey's Lead
"The masters is not starting right now but it is gonna start about forty minutes but they got to pick up the end of the first round. They didn't get everybody in now. Paul casey did finish. She shot a seven hundred. Sixty five couple of shots better than zander and webb simpson. Here was paul. Casey happy to play and not have to play. If you remember yesterday you had that weather delay. He didn't have to deal with that. I was not relishing. The challenge ahead warming up in the rain this morning. No one wanted that He says no fans and still amazing. So many people i myself. You just excited to play this you just you know this is. This is a treat. Good old augusta national now. Why better today because he has struggled all year long. I don't know why it was rubbish. Rubbish sounds like nick. Faldo right i guess talking about guy shots and stuff and no one run around. Nude your boy. What's his name price and one on the the eleventh. All that was pretty funny. Actually he also had some drives that just came up. Short of the green. Pretty impressive here is tiger woods. Four hundred sixty eight. He says better than i can say. That I wish i would have made a few more putts on mr verney on the high side. Pots are moving. This is so different than slows. Er and then with the weather delay amount of rain. They've had another opportunity today. Justin thomas has a chance to take the lead five under through ten when play was suspended. Forty four golfers still need to go out and go five hundred through ten ya weather today. Nice must be gorgeous. I believe so. The golf course will be a little bit faster. Putz he'll be a little bit faster and as tiger was saying. You know they'll be breaking more on these greens. And yesterday. i thought the pin placements were were relatively easy. And i think the scores and the the weather reflected that pretty
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Masters leaderboard 2020: Highlights from Tiger Woods' strong first round
"ESPN he has encouraged after that strong first round at the Masters. Uh, he asked what he liked about that first round, Tiger said. Everything does that grab Paul Casey's attention? It's got a great everybody. He is the defending champion of golf Tell you wanna do it five times. I think over the years, and he tied his best first round ever with a 400 par yesterday's around the course again this morning. And Paul Casey. The Englishman does have two shot lead over three Americans. Simpson sharply and Justin Thomas. But it's tough for these early stars is the sun isn't fully up already in Augusta, Georgia. Of God to find out how tough it is on a very difficult 12th hole. That part three. Ricky follow. Just love walked out to green with a triple bogey six. So some guys aren't gusto. Guys have terrible finishing today. The 42 guys
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Casey leads Masters with best major start
"But let's start today with a golfer. Taking aim at his first exits the course on thursday. Paul casey is the leader at the master's granted. There's plenty of players yet to finish but it must feel really nice to start as well as you did at seven hundred. How would you assess your performance on thursday Thank you yeah i played. I would assess it as really good. That's a fine assessment. Thank you very much I've been looking forward to this for a long time You know it's been a strange years. Everybody knows and For me this is being. This is gonna be like a highlight honestly. Just come in and being able to play the moss's back at augusta national. I'm as much of a goal fan as anybody else. So it's just a joy to be out there. And and i'm gonna shut it down after this week so to me. It was got there. Enjoy it big smile on the face. Go out the gulf coast. Pretty hot Hit a couple of shots maybe with bit more aggression than i would normally connect maybe lines might be a little bit more aggressive normal and look what happened. You know some good stuff you know shot sixty five around here before. So it's not. It's not a fluke but it's not often the opening round so Yeah i enjoyed every moment of that today. And hopefully that that kind of form continues this week
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"Guests there november Michael the fairways usually november a very Wet and soft the ball. Go anywhere the joys hit and flyers. But i can't imagine that that's what they're trying to grow and establish their ryegrass by guesses of they probably i. I don't overseas it. But i imagine they probably overseas a couple of weeks early. Maybe did i. Don't know i'm just guessing and i really haven't even ask anybody and But they'll have they'll have the golf course as dry as yet I guess You know if a guess is dry Of course i you know i'm not a fan of the roughly and all other places have russell and augusta. They didn't have it. I thought that was one of the beauties of augusta. You could take the ball hill. Hooker little faded would run off the trees and now the rough stop symbol and the roughest no is no factor to those guys So i wish they would cut the rough and have occurred fairways fast and then then they see some scores. Go up because they won't be able to. You're going to play the ball out of the trees all day long if if you hit an errant shot now. They don't allow the trees. But you know it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. What they do augusta's augusta. It's a great place a great place for tournament. They'll have another great. They'll have a great masters in the fall and miss his areas but You know rains will be the same as your position. Never changed in the idea. Augusta national giving the giving the competitors a golf ball to play. I don't think they started golf. Ball to play could. And i think the i guess a thought about and considered it for a while but i think they felt like that would put them above the rules of the game of golf and i don't think it was a proper position to take and so i think that they would like to see the gulf war combat a little bit as with our address as with most most. Actually i think most of the players really would like to see a golf ball. Come back They all you you ask all any of the players. They give you an honest answer. They say well no. It's a joke and but you know a lot of the not to say that Supper because they're manufacturers are all say they say that said. I'm sorry you're out of here and so anyway that's I think the players would like to see the gave. Come back to a little bit more. Do you think gyger a narrow of steel shafts laudable persimmon head forty three inch driver. Do you think he would have won. More than did probably yeah. I think tiger. I tiger was magnificent. Player he won a lot and the percentage wise. You one more than i did.
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"That's what i'm out there for sir. Plus effect why do i wanted to have somebody. Tell me how to play golf. I think it's fun to learn how to play golf even in the moment of the master. That's what is fun figuring it out yourself. I mean that's why. Why would i want somebody else to figure out what i enjoy doing. Yeah check do you. Do you feel like some of these young players on tour today or or to rely on on the. I think so i think the to reliance on a lot of things and you know the one thing that bobby jones still in me. I used to go down to his cabin every year at augusta my father and i invited by this down the was it you know. He said the had his seventeen. Lean years of between fourteen and twenty one but still there to him his lean years and he says until he stopped running back to stirling maiden Who was teacher. He says once i once i could get incorrect myself on a golf course once. I fixed problems as going. That's when i became a golfer Well jag grout started me that way and you know. I never saw jackpot that office of two or three times a year. what i was playing and We really didn't say much. You just sir. We just sorta talk. Look at it if he saw something. Say something but he wanted me to figure out how to play what to do and how to do it and that's why i relied on now. I think that the players today would be. I'm not saying this wrong. What they do. Because that's the way they've been they've been sort taught to do it that way but i think that they would be a better player the more they rely on themselves than they don't have any question in their mind when they pick up that club the hit us. This is a seven iron and a good seven. I gotta cut it slightly. That's their their decision. And there i think if they have their own conviction of what to do that i think they probably would do better in the long run I think that You know. I'm sure there's some i'm.
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"Folks we have a dandy of an episode today. No big intro no hype track. Just this golf's greatest major champion. Six time masters winner. Jack nicklaus the golden bear joined us for nearly an hour. Long conversation on the masters augusta national. How gulf the game is changing everything. We sat down two weeks ago in his game room in southern florida overlooking his backyard his who his boats. It was quite the scene in this room and jack was great. He didn't pull any punches. He did not hold back. We dove into what he remembered about. Last year's master's tiger worn Some of the favorite memories that he has from the six times that he won the green jacket we talked about ways that he would put his designer hat on and change augusta national the things that he likes some few things he doesn't like about the property. He talked about how he learned to win. At augusta in how arnold palmer taught him a lesson early on about the place. Jackie shirts thoughts on what bryson's gonna do to that course when he hits it maybe four hundred yards. Especially if it's playing firm. Jack even thinks that. Hey phil mickelson at fifty. He can still win this thing but only in a certain way. Things like that are littered throughout this episode. Jack and i were joined by michael bamberger. He's a senior writer for us gulf magazine. He knows jack nicholas and his family. Well so let's get to it. We started rolling right as michael asked this question about herbert warren wind. And if you don't know who. Herb wind is former sports illustrated writer. He's the man who nicknamed the now a piece of property. Amen corner so. Enjoy the combo with jack here. He is talking.
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"augusta" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Like this. If we're depending on Bo Knicks if he's are. Leading. Ground Gainer. of course, he picked up seven yards a carry. But thirty four yards. It's still just thirty four yards Paul Hey wait wait. Did you become an oddsmaker James? I've never I don't remember you'd being into the. Game Selections every Friday. Well I'm Michael. Leaks weeks, brother. Okay. Compared to some of the topics we've discussed it's a little. It's a little bit lighter. I mean we could. We could go back to some Some Some some of those topics if you'd. I think I heard I think I have a pretty good idea where you are on most topics. Hook. Okay Paul. All right. Well, you have a nice day. Thank. You. James was definitely into the politics a few weeks ago. Let's continue with more calls, cody. is on the air. Hey, cody. Good afternoon. Hi. Paul how you doing first time caller love the show. Thank you. I just wanted to get your opinion on how you think of all. They're gonNA, do zoo tomorrow and. They might have a shot on taken out maybe Georgia or Florida in each this year. Thank you Paul. Thank you. Yeah. I. I like Tennessee Chances Tomorrow I'm. Very. Is Not quite there yet. And I think Tennessee's close. So I'm I would probably rank Tennessee behind Georgia and Florida but. I do think they are moving up into the upper echelon of the yeast, which is Great. Hey thank you for the call. Let's move along and. How about Sam. WHO IS UP NEXT SAM go right ahead you're on the air. All our you we will. Part question the Mike Leach performance. I, don't know how you give me as the head coach under the radar. But this does this performance one.
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"While now of in the future I would love to just stay on college football beat. This is this is my passion. This is my joy. So whoever wants to employ me I do a great job and I would love every second of it. So that's what I'm hoping for. We'll see what happens. I'm not an editor on this a lowly talk show host here but but I will tell you listening to you talking to you. I've read your articles If someone doesn't hire you they're making a a major critical mistake. You've got it all and we hope you'll come back to the program and all the best with your career. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Paul this has been great. Thank you very much. Augusta stone the editor in chief of the red and black in. Yeah. I I love to hear the passion there. You know when when you when you have that drive and she has credibility as well and the credentials. It is you are halfway there. You just need a job. We'll take a break more of your phone calls eight, five, five, two, four, two, seven, two, eight, five will work around the SEC and couple of other places as well over the next three and a half hours we hope you'll stick around. Listening to the Paul Finebaum show podcast. We welcome you back here. Go to are coming up here in a couple of moments. Let's check in with Jacob. Of Next. Hey Jay. Paul How's it going? We are doing wonderful. All, right. Yeah. The main concern I have coming up with his Georgia Auburn game is Auburn's running game. It seems like we have just completely given up on the run and you know in the Kentucky Game You saw run a few times. You know we let shoppers run and he had a really good run their rebounds it out and broke a tackles. But after that, we just kind of gave up on the run completely like. Well. I. Don't think that's I. Think you're going to need to be changed tomorrow but you're absolutely right about that Jacob. Sometimes. The offensive line plays a critical role in that as well. Yeah that is so often.
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"Was the Guy Against Arkansas but they're in my perspective, there's no way source of doesn't go with JT Daniels now that they're expecting him to be cleared I, just see him. You know when you think of this feelings of Georgia quarterbacks, I think jt Daniels and even do I mathis. Once he once he gets his feet under him. I think he had both of them have a higher ceiling than specified I I think there's no way. Georgia, doesn't go with JT against Auburn. Back Dry you said something interesting there and in covering the game last week what I know you've covered a lot of games before under normal circumstances. What was it like covering a Georgia road game under? were. In the. World of covert. Oh it was very strange I refer the walk from the parking lot to the stadium and every away game I I've covered and every home game is covered. You know you walked to the stadiums be tailgaters fan. You see people everywhere and I saw a couple of people walking around I saw some cars, but it was pretty much just like almost any other. Saturday at Arkansas when you enter the stadium they had. A few fans socially descent and the pump in crowd noise was surprisingly loud. I. Will Say got. So in terms of noise itself pretty normal but you look around and you just see all these people distant and it just feels very empty. You don't see you know the band come out at halftime or the cheerleaders on the sideline. So it was very strange just being around you know you could tell something different foreshore. Augusta back to this week I don't want to. Sound like all the coaches who drive me crazy and everyone crazy with the cliches. But how critical a game is is for Georgia. That's absolutely critical I. Think you know I said last week that I wanNA poke to some of my questions answered about this offense, and if anything I just have more questions going into this week you know who's going to be the quarterback will the offensive line looks better Georgia run this year I so many questions and I think that against Auburn a very worthy opponent compared to Arkansas some curve even. Sort of referenced in one of his press conferences this week. I think this is extremely critical to see really what can this team do year you know with all the uncertainty on offense we kind of.
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"Big game on tap. We'll talk more about Alabama hosting am But when we come back, we're heading to Athens were a lot of a lot of action going on and we will we will spend considerable time in that town. Today, we'll talk to the editor of the school newspaper. Augusta stone good name for somebody who lives in Georgia we'll be listening to Paul Finebaum show podcast. and. We welcome you back here on a Friday afternoon. Biggest game in the country is in Athens and we are delighted to welcome Augusta Stone to the program. She's the editor in chief of the red and black the highly regarded school newspaper and not only that Augusta is the winner recently of the sportswriter in the south by the Sigma Delta Chi. Journalism. Fraternity and Augusta. Thank you very much. Congratulations on your career you. Know, it's not over yet but you have accomplished a great deal good afternoon and thank you so much for joining us. Of course, call. Thank you so much for all the kind words I'm super excited to be here. We didn't want to tell anyone but I won the Sigma Delta Chi Award many years ago and I the night I received it in Atlanta for journalism is one of the proudest moments of my career. So I know how difficult? An important. That is especially to young reporter and I did so much with it. I got into broadcasting but I hope you'll do better. Let's talk about first of all the campus. What's it been like leading up to the season and what's it like right now with everybody in the world. That can show up for a football game parked in Athens right now. Yeah you know surprisingly enough. I. I took a drive around one PM today and it's Pretty Normal I. least of early, this afternoon notice a little bit more traffic you know trying to get onto campus around Baxter Street but in general, it looked pretty normal. I was I was surprised by I. Guess How little you're right now I think the campus looks very different I. I've been here for four years now and you always Mark Game Day with you know the port-a-potties on campus while the tailgaters be they're not there because I think they fans tailgating on campus for the most part. So it different for sure like very different from last year but tomorrow I think we'll see the day where we'll see if people come they'll. They'll be here tomorrow in close I'm sure. It show interesting Augusta having been there many many times for huge games You can't walk anywhere We've done our program. So many times from the quad and from in front of different buildings in I was just curious about today because it's the biggest game, the country but. You described a little bit what what has it been like Not. So much this week but just as a student. Especially in the editor of the school paper, just covering the build up to the season whether there would be a season and just also. In terms of classes on you know in person classes remote classes gives the story from the summer to right now. Quite yeah. I think I can speak for everyone who.
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"One touchdown pass or fewer in each of his last six games. We have a five star quarterback in Haines king waiting in the ways I, know he's a freshman. But it's it's getting a little in we're quarterback away we have the talent. And the coach to compete for a national championship but our quarterback, what's holding us back? Well I think that's GonNa be a big topic of conversation tomorrow I I don't think you ever should say When you're going to play Alabama. It's a must win. It's not but it's a must show up game for Jimbo Fisher and. I am really interested in seeing what the reaction of this one is Tom in. Florida, and you are next up. Hey, Tom. Hey. How's it going? Paul Tom. Brady since last year I tried earlier that day you were talking about going to led Zeppelin concert iphone divorce on old. First thing. Selena tag available. Where's he at just watched a rerun of the Alabama game he's in he's in Miami. Oh. Okay. So he transferred. Now hold on now or are you talking about Tila you said to to Louis Autonomy I thought you said to to Lewis is in Maryland right now he transferred there to play for for Michael Oxley. Okay. Okay. Okay. probably a good move for him. number two, you got ric flair on later today we do I love them all time. Favorite wrestler I was watching wrestling point was black and white with grill monsoon chief Jay strongbow. On Your Age. Another thing make sure you don't put. You don't put the mask on your to do much of a handsome devil covered up for. Any reason, the season cancelled to the covid I got the answer. Bringing I man. and. He'll he'll. Give into national champion. Well we are we are. We are not going to let this season be cancelled I. Promise you. That's not happening. PAT is up next in. Georgia. Hey Pat. Hey Paul thanks I've about made up my mind on the Auburn Georgia game. Listen to what's his face in your five o'clock hour yesterday. In. Yeah he didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Game Day's going to be in Athens. Tomorrow and we do not do well when Game.
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"Did not have to look very far today to see some criticism of Jimbo, Fisher? Dan. Woken. In USA Today Pete sample in Yahoo and they're all asking the same questions Jimbo Fisher heads. To Tuscaloosa to meet his mentor Nick Saban. When is it going to turn around? Some might take exception to that. But with a seventy, five, million dollars contract. The media lease is ready for it to happen. Now, this is Jimbo Fisher against ranked opponents, these three and seven road games versus rank Oh and four against the top five in the country Oh and six pretty much one signature win to his credit, and that was the seven overtime or against Lsu and a strange game. He has lost in these key games by an average of eight. Points and I will tell you in in the national media interviews that I do every week this week in particular that question was asked and it is incumbent not necessarily for Jimbo Fisher to win this game I think that would be a very difficult task, but to be competitive otherwise I think some of that heat will continue meanwhile There are other stories making the rounds in the SEC and an interesting memo today from the Commissioner. And the players. Don't forget to wear your mass. Not, a bad admonition for all of us. Might just go put mine on right now and Hide behind that the rest of the ship. We have a big show on tap and it's going to be a long afternoon because we have a lot of guests Augusta stone. She's the editor of the red and black. She'll give us take on what's happening in Athens Joe Tests. He's been in the SEC for a couple of weeks we'll get his. Thoughts, Chris Fowler is in the SEC this week. He's doing the Georgia game at Auburn. Always, great to catch up with him inch comb on the call for the Ole Miss Kentucky. Game Cube look on the sideline for Lsu. Vandy. Shockley Missouri. And Tennessee we're not even halfway there yet. Rick flair but games he covering the Georgia game. Of course, we'll talk to the. The nature boy in about two hours Marty, Smith is in Gainesville. Roy Philpott returns to the show on the call for Arkansas and Mississippi State? That is quite a lineup. Ted has an amazing lineup anyway can't wait to dock all those people including ric Flair, your phone calls, or now at eight, five, five, two, four, two, seven, two, eight, five, and tanner starts it off in Texas Hello Tanner. How's it going Paul we're doing great. Thank you. How long do you think we're not to put up with killing monarch quarterback for the Yankees. Give me a call. Tomorrow. Okay. Every single year we Jimbo. Fisher, say he's taking the next step. He's taking the next step. He's understanding the offense. But yet. Every single year? He can't complete it past ten yards further downfield. I think he was three of eleven last week. He's thrown.
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"Continuing coverage of the masters from Augusta National Golf club. More to come to. We're back in New York with the NBA exit interviews for the Lakers on Wednesday. They looked to pick up the pieces after the shocking departure of Magic Johnson Tuesday night. Lebron James not on hand yesterday. And neither Luke Walton or rob linka spoke. So ask for the players who did they were all caught off guard just like all of us. To be on the house a little bit shocked. Just like everybody else was it wasn't no predicted or nobody had you know that on their minds. But you know, we say it all the time with the players is no different from front office or anybody. You know, the one thing you can do in life is to do his best for you. And for magic. He's Magic Johnson. He doesn't need. No proved anybody anything, and you know, he just made the the best decision for him shock me. Like it did the rest of the world. But you know, what's best for him. You know? I wish him the best, you know, draft me. Yeah. This is better for life in. That's what he wants to do. You know support hundred percent. Okay. Let's welcome in NBA insider Adrian word you now. Ski would it's been about thirty six hours since magic abruptly walked off as the president of the Lakers. What are people saying about the atmosphere over there right now? Well, the word I heard yesterday around that facility was awkward you had rob Pelinka who's who's the general manager of the team in exit meetings with Luke Walton and Luke Walton knew very well that Magic Johnson rob Pelinka or planning to fire him yesterday. And that all changed Luke Walton went from not even being scheduled to be a part of the exit conversations with players to sitting in there with his general manager and still trying to figure out what's his future with the organization. There were reports that the Lakers were shocked by the move. Do. You have any sense as you mentioned, Luke Walton once they've regained their footing. If they put together any kind of plan to move forward. And what that looks like. They're still trying to formulate that Laura that Luke Walton has next year on his contract, and then a team option for two thousand twenty one and they've got a decided to as an organization how they're gonna go Ford who's going to really be making the basketball. The citizens is going to be rob Pelinka, the general manager are they going to go out of the marketplace and looked to hire a sitting general manager somewhere else in a league or somebody else who's not working who's available. Those are the questions facing Jeanie Buss here and Luke wall in future is going to be dependent a lot. I will kind of management decision..
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"Yeah which is a very good stat very good factor coming into augusta augusta likes guys that have won in recent time right house who's the top calloway golfer that could win this i mean phil mickelson is sitting right now god so i think well what does best means fifty one he's fifteen to one yeah he is the number one these slalom i fallaway guy sergio is probably you know right there with fill in terms of ability to win i love sergio and his ball striking is terrific all the metrics that that reflect you know his his were his game is at at the moment are very positive the problem i have with sergio and i talked about this on shack house yesterday it's impossible to be a repeat winner at the masters yeah the last one to do it was was tiger and there are not many repeat winners who's the most boring person that could win the masters this year out of everybody because that's another factor talking about professional golfers boring but there's always like the one guy they're like oh no that guy's gonna win come on i adam scott's pretty boring yeah not baby doll though right he'd be the most exciting he was somehow to get on the floors we could figure that out well let me go over these real quick now these are the odds of the top ten tiger and speed and the one dj and justin thomas twelve to one rory twelve to one bubba watson fifteen to one rose fifteen phil fifteen justin jason day twenty and fowler twenty two to one by the way simmons have you it seems like a column you would have written about golfers and the first names how many golfers go by first names that was it just four we down to tiger rory bubba and phil this is just those are that's interesting yeah because jordan speeds will always be jordan speeds it's like you get two together speed is too much fun to say yeah but i think it's just four i wonder who can anyone breakthrough.
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"What are you expect him now you've got are you going to overstate the you expect tiger but i'm going to say this what the question was what would happen if he actually did win if he actually did win augusta is completely in play i never thought i would say this sense i'm going to say now he could win a major this year he came off the golf course yesterday and i watched him to be interviewed i'm this is a direct quote i am happy with every aspect says liking on while it he would win majors and would not be happy with every aspect of this game bar he's grading himself differently and you said you weren't going to be overly excited i answered the question you want to augusta all how great look don't you think a tiger late rate of i want to gusted tiger looked at bill and said if he can win of forty seven said he did i can win at two wasn't rate fired by fills week last week where one you'll be if on the back nine on sunday at augusta was tiger and feel go in for the masters which watch do you think i might inch to watching might be there yeah how about that so this is tiger this was a great thing this is a great story this is gough needed this i mean just how long ago was at a year or so ago we're nike had to say we're not while the office rather than what and now tiger comes back and does less i got back in the business lulu the other thing is when he's interviewed he seemed happy he never seemed happy he's like you seems hackett undientified with that i kappel who in tiger can't be happy the golden state warriors won a tight game at home last night against the spurs but that result is secondary to steph curry injuring his right ankle once again is the fourth time in the last two and a half months curry's role that already problematic i think that's a lot the dubs say this time is not serious but he does have a.
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"Net is supported by usual wines. Usual Lines are wines for the modern drinker because of the single serve format and bottle design usual is always fresh and now introducing usual reserve a special wine just in time for the holidays this Cabernet Sauvignon hails from one of the most celebrated plots of land in all of Napa, gift it to someone special or keep it all for yourself. Checkout all their winds at usual winds, Dot com, and use the discount code depth for eight dollars off your first order. What do you WanNa talk about it when it comes to this year's election like what? What makes this year standout you? I think this is the first time in a while that people for whom it is usually pretty easy to vote are having to really think about how they're going to do it. How am I going to? Cast my ballot this year and everyone feels a little iffy of GonNa. Make sure it counts especially if I vote by mail. and. So I think. The best thing that we can do thinking from an individual boaters perspective. What they need to think about is help people create a voting plan boat early if they can, and then if they are voting by mail, just stress the importance of. Beating the deadlines by as many days as you possibly can turning in your ballot yourself in person if possible and just following the directions typically because with mail-in ballots. The top two reasons that an individual ballot might be thrown out might not count is if it gets there late or if there's a signature problem either people forget to sign dumble where they're supposed to sign more, their signature doesn't match and the earlier you do that if something is wrong with it and you're tracking your ballot or the board of elections reaches out to, you might actually have a chance to correct that problem. Yeah. So. That's really huge and that's I needed the one thing keeping me up at night the most. On the tier of things keeping you up at night. Is that S- will lose too many mail in ballots because of. Some minor mistake. By people who are doing it for the first time anytime anyone's doing anything for the first time there's a higher likelihood of mistakes. And obviously this is. Big. Election that we want everyone's vote to. Yeah. So. I wonder Aaron as a person who is passionate about voting. What do you say to somebody who? Who maybe votes maybe hasn't all the time maybe is kind of jaded. You know somebody who looks at our our representatives. And who sees that you know our governing bodies in the United States do not reflect. What America looks like, right? How what do you say to encourage somebody may be to to to keep participating even if if things don't feel as representative as they may be should be right. The first thing I say is I get that. I understand how a person can feel that way but that nothing will ever change those in the minority. Voting Group will never be in the majority voting group if they don't all band together and show up. I think it also helps to. Broaden the outlook little bit in think certainly, not just about the president but about your governor and your mayor in your city? Council people we've learned so much during the coronavirus that those people on in the local government. Impact our lives so much I mean before we just point out well, it impacts traffic in your city. Impacts education and holes right economy and our health. So I think. Even if you hate politics in the truth is I, don't really love politics. I. The back and forth of it, I really do not But politics is your education and your health, and it's climate change and its gun safety in schools and I haven't ever met a person who didn't care about those things. and. It's just important to show up. And vote what your values are and there are many other ways to be active. But. If a person doesn't vote for people who they think can do the best job in steering their city. State and country in the direction they want it to go than it's just really giving up a huge opportunity and I don't think people really want to give up that chance when it comes down to it and fully understanding that maybe you have two people. Who neither are your absolute top choice but one of them is probably going to be a little closer and the closer you get. The. Better off it. And then hopefully more people who look like you think like you will run for office. Politicians, serve the people who vote period, and so if you don't vote, they're never gonNA listen to you and I just think the more of us who show up the more represented. It can be and we want it to be right what we want our world to represent what's Yeah. I think you do a really good job of balancing reality and optimism and I appreciate that very much. Thank you. It is the best we can do in these trying times but you know it's important to vote boating makes you feel good. One of the only things that if you do it and especially if you convince some prince to do as well, it's really a lost situation. While Aaron Geiger Sma thank you so much for for doing the deep dive in and telling us a little bit about your research. It was really interesting. Thanks for having fun and. Everybody vote. CanNot say that enough times. That was Aaron, Geiger, Smith, journalist, and the author of thank you for voting the maddening enlightening inspiring truth about loading in America. and. Now about elections, it is also all Wean Week you WANNA share your costume with us. You totally could. He protagonists on twitter or maybe in her awesome new facebook group will do a thread about it. You can find our facebook group by going to facebook dot com slash net h q i am actually not much of a costumes person, but I did keep Two sets of banana costumes in the trunk of My car for just in case for approximately five years so Also something else that is very halloween. We recap to the Blair witch project with Peter Saville and that is coming out first thing tomorrow so. Recap you totally can. Okay. Show is produced by me and just bowl our interns Isabel Carter executive producer is branded banner beat. We'll see you on Friday for Book Club. We're GONNA talk all about out and I hope it's actually Kinda Fun. Even you know burn up. I WANNA. Tell you about a podcast that's going to help you be an adult from why our media NPR X.'s Radio Tovia fish is a mix of storytelling and hilarious no filter advice with guests like call your girlfriend hosts I not too. 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When I talked to Mary, I couldn't not ask about how she found out that she was a macarthur genius because I love story about complete stunned surprise and I gotta say. Mary did not disappoint. So they'd sent me an and said, we'd like to set up some time to talk with you confidentially about and athropologists that we're considering for Macarthur. Do. I know and I literally I'm like, okay I can fit this in that's. Like me. I genuinely was. On. The so-called my colleague getting this, and this is kind of like that. Yeah I'm sure there's a German term for that. So I got on the call and I was thinking like there's some really great people during this work I wonder who they're considering and I don't even remember what the person said after the first two minutes like this is a ruse, your actually the recipient, and then after that I literally was like swearing for about ten minutes and laughing uncontrollably. That's what my partner told me. I literally was just up here going shit. Doe. L. No you know and just laughing. I still actually can't believe it to be honest I. It's very where. I also had the pleasure of talking to another MacArthur winner earlier this week Dr Damian Fair he's the director of the University of Minnesota's May Sonic Institute for the developing brain and he's asking big questions about how early brain development can lead to know divergent conditions like autism or Adhd or even schizophrenia. What we're trying to do is A. Trying to bridge the type of basic science work that I do with the educators with policymakers with the community wants so that it has been impacts on folks everyday lives in two so that we're communicating with folks on the ground so to speak so that were the types of questions that were asking answering are relevant to the people. Unlike Mary Damian did not get an e mail. He got like a gazillion phone calls. Yeah. About a month ago. Okay and I was just very long workshop had given a talk and there was a bunch of others about challenges in our science and was the. Zoom or whatever. Zoom, a marathon meeting about eight hours Oh God, and I kept getting this call from Chicago and I kept hanging. Because I. Didn't recognize the number of spam. Did it start to annoy you were you like who is this was? It was very annoying and then. At at the end of the meeting the time and I I don't wouldn't normally do this I. Don't recognize my tip you don't answer. I answered in they they said. Congratulations. You. Know what that is. What? I was just shocked. It took me a second to calibrates brain. These people at exactly. Embarrassing at the time it was like Oh man. I'm going to hang up on you guys all day. Long with being called genius and being surprised apparently a major perk of the MacArthur fellowship is that comes with a no strings attached prize of six hundred, twenty, five, thousand dollars that is paid out over five years and I know I know it is extremely rude to talk to people about money especially when they are guests on your podcast, but I just had to ask. So, there's there's a cash prize with with the Macarthur Fellowship. Are you gonNa like buy a pony or anything? Well my daughter has already asked me if I could my point. Good. So. We probably won't be buying any ponies but the My wife and I have been talking about a little bit. My wife is a very successful physician scientists in their own, right. And she's now is has become the director of women's Global Health at the University of Minnesota Oh my gosh that's amazing and she's been developing some programs that she calls global local, which is. Trying to in essence build capacity in underresourced environments, including overseas to essentially spread the kind of work that we do out to folks that are often marginalized, and so we've been trying to brainstorm through a few ways that we may be able to leverage some of this money towards that effort. We haven't nailed down exactly what that might look like but that's just one one idea in the hopper that is much more virtuous than pony. It's funny. I feel like I have a completely unsophisticated sense of like hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I just tend to think of it as like well, yeah you could buy like ten thousand Corgis with that. Amazingly, getting opponent was also not part of Mary's plan for the prize money I. Mean I confess that my favorite MacArthur award winners in the past have been the writer. So Jasmine Ward I, mean you know just thinking all of these people who and even in your class we have nor K. Jemison Jacqueline Woodson who are like to amazes, ciders? Oh. My Gosh, I mean it in for writers I again, like being surrounded by people who are not in academe but right for a living and freelance it's like that. That is that that's liberation I mean that is the freedom to do your work and pursue your interests. So I feel incredibly. Lucky and and privileged in all senses of the word that I have this, and so mostly, I'm trying to think like how do I get this out in the world in a way that will support other people's work. so you're not going to buy a pony. I'm not going to buy a pony although we did get more daycare for our dog so that he's not a background with him on calls. 'cause it's a little kooky making to have a dog barking while you're trying to give public talk quote unquote on. I mean, that is an animal related expenditure did do a little math. You got a super fancy Corgi and you one, six, hundred, thousand dollars I mean he could get like eight hundred, thousand quarries which lake now that I'm thinking of all of those mortgages in my two bedroom apartment, it's a bad idea. It's a really bad idea. That's it for today tune in Friday for Book Club we're GonNa chat with an Helen Peterson she's the author of can't even how millennials became the burnout generation. The show is produced by me and Justin Bull, our interns, Isabel Carter, and our executive producer is brandon.
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"This is Stephen Jackson. One of the curious city producers. We're back with another episode of life interrupted Audio Snapshots of daily life under Illinois. Stay at home order. Today we meet Kate. Huffman a six generation farmer weathering the pandemic in Kiani Illinois. My parents built a house on the home farm. And that's the farmhouse. I actually grew up in. I now live across the street in the house. My Dad grew up in in my grandparents. House my dad worked fulltime on the farm side by side with his dad. The legacy is a really big part of who I am and the character behind me. I can remember all the way back. My grandfather was out doing some tillage and I ran over to. What was the big tractor at that time? A John Deere Forty two thirty and I jumped up in there and I sat on the window sill next to him and just going down the field together. One of my favorite things about the farm is as funny as it sounds is just that the smell of the fresh turn dirt just hard work knowing how many people before me as a six generation farmer have done exactly what. I'm doing today in just a little different manner. Farming isn't just a job. You can't clock in and Clock Out. It's really a livelihood you know it gets ingrained in your blood and system It's definitely a hard time. We're going on six years of a downturn economy for the egg industry last year twenty nineteen mother nature wreak havoc across the entire countryside. Had this trade war going on now. We have an oil war going on. The demand is declining quickly for crap. That's going in the ground right now so as Cova nineteen enters the picture. There's a lot dimmer light right now. It's very hard as a farmer to put crap in the ground knowing that you're going to have a loss there's the question of consolidation. There's the question of do I just retired. They're really affects mental health. When you talk about hanging up farming it's not like hanging up a job in changing careers. It's not easy to just hang something up and watch someone else farmer ground. It can get difficult but I guess as in with life you put a smile on your face and give try to remember why you're doing what you're doing. Why am I forming? I'm trying to keep a legacy in my own family. For Generations to come farmers they do have a sense of resiliency kind of built into their blood. Because you know we have a business model based on multiple variables outside of our control you take Mother Nature. We sell a commodity. We don't control that price. We do all of this and so we make a comeback. Every single time the question becomes. How do we make the comeback? Our farmers will find a way. They always do that. Was Kate. Huffman for our series life interrupted. This story was produced by Isabel. Carter and Joe so and that was the last of the series that you'll be hearing in the curious city feed this week. Governor Pritzker announced that all regions of Illinois are on track to enter phase three of reopening and the mayor announced to plan for Chicago which is expected to take more time but things are slowly beginning to change. And we're going to focus on what we do best answering your questions about anything and everything Chicago and of course covid nineteen if you have a question for us you know what to do get in touch at WBZ DOT org..
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"Life during covid nineteen. The stay at home. Order has changed just about every aspect of our lives including the way we worship and today we meet the woman who is experiencing a very unusual Ramadan this year. I'm Dan Osman. This might not interrupted. Ramadan is a month where Muslims fast from dawn until sunset and the month is centered around spirituality prayer renewing your faith and your connection with God and your connection to our holy book the Koran. It is a month that you feel the blessings and and you really feel those bussing centered around community a lot of the time because it is a month where we engage in communal prayer every night one of the memorable experiences we have. I've read on. Madan is going to the Players in the evening after we break our fast and depending on the night of the month you may see hundreds or thousands of people alot pitch dark outside and seeing the building and the minaret and dome illuminated by the lights around. The mosque against the sky is just a beautiful sight. Honestly I was very concerned about how we would still make it feel special how we would still maintain that sense of community and spirituality. Even though we're not seeing anyone as the month kind of move don I came to appreciate the way that I am experiencing it because there is more focused on your children? We can pray at home as a family. We can have our three-year-old just sitting on the floor next to US playing with his blocks and he can also see us praying so I do appreciate that. And I appreciate sort of pairing things down to the essentials and realizing that's kind of what Madonna's more about my husband grew up in Gaza and Palestine. He did go through school during the Intifada enduring other events in Gaza where they were not able to go out or go to school or go to the mosque or or go anywhere so he very much so appreciates the fact that we are able to do that here and he's tries to communicate that to the kids night. You know kids. They don't they don't get it. They don't realize the difference in their situation and others by. I think it's still good for them to realize onto here that not everyone has the same experience may seem like a difficult situation and it is a difficult situation. There's no denying that but there are. I think levels of difficulty. Ooh It's GonNa be a challenge to see when things can kind of resume the way that we're used to and I don't know how soon that will actually happen. Because our prayers specifically put people in close proximity with one another standing shoulder to shoulder when we kneel and put our faces on the ground. It's like everyone. Is you know touching the same carpet and is a very close to one another and so I am concerned about that but at the same time in a SNAM worship is anywhere so you don't have to necessarily worship in a mosque. There's a verse in the Pura on that says say to my servant that I'm near I hear the prayers of those who call on me so basically saying that all you have to do as Colin Gotten. He will answer you in one way or another. When you really think about the fact that you know God is the one who's in control of all of it and you surrender yourself to that fact. I feel it's a little bit easier to cut through it and to do your part in order to stay sane and stay healthy and take care of yourself in those around you and just realized that whatever's going to happen is GonNa Happen and that hopefully he will take care of you. That was Deanna of Mon- for our series life interrupted this story was produced by Isabel Carter and Joe so with help from me Stephen Jackson. We want to hear from you too. How has your life been interrupted? And how are you getting through it? If you have a story to tell get in touch find us on facebook and twitter or send us an email at life interrupted at wbz Dot Org..
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"Is What Chinese? Cities usually looked like this time of year. Thick smog blanketing the skyline. But this year. There's something different in the air. You may have heard stories about how cities across the globe. Shutdown Dudakovic are experiencing less air pollution. Beijing residents have been enjoying some unusually fresh spring air. This mall scorn the he's disposed. India's extended lockdown has turned skies over New Delhi a shade of blue from the Italian city of Milan and unusually clear view of the Alps. This is the impact of six weeks of lockdown. Ova Finish Dan. We heard these stories and seen photos of the vivid blue skies in Beijing or Los Angeles. He says it might be his imagination but in the last several weeks the Chicago air has looked clear smelled better. It struck me that you know the last time when the skies would smell Swedish they do could have been from way before height of the industrial era of Chicago. So he wanted to know is the air infect cleaner due to reduce traffic and industrial activity under Illinois? Stay at home order. And if so how far back in history would you have to go to find air this clean? We'll get to the second part of the question about history in a minute. But the first part how clean the air now is extra Because Cove nineteen is a respiratory disease and air pollution affects respiratory health so first off scientists. Do CONFIRM THAT. Chicago in general is experiencing cleaner air due to the stay at home order. Here's Scott Collis and atmospheric scientist at Argonne National Laboratory the measurements between taking from space. Tell us that there is at the moment less pollution less Gases in the atmosphere that we not want that are coming out of the industries around Chicago. This gets complicated for one thing. There are different kinds of pollution and well. Some are clearly down. There's not enough data yet to say all types of pollution or showing a significant drop. But it's very clear that nitrogen dioxide which is strongly correlated to smog is quite a bit lower from where it's been in. March and April in recent years however since a whole slew of environmental protections went into place in the nineteen seventies including the Clean Air Act and do to the efforts of activists. Chicago's air quality has improved steadily for the last four decades so even if it weren't for covered Nineteen Kala suspects twenty twenty would've been Chicago's cleanest year in decades still need to crush the numbers. But definitely that's that's a definite possibility so this sounds great but some neighborhoods that historically experienced high levels of pollution due to industry and transportation aren't seeing much of a reduction while some industry is not operating. You still have what has been considered essential which is building buildings and roads and things like that which requires at Fox it requires concrete and those range of things that emit quite a bit this is Suzanne Malik McKenna. Chicago's former commissioner of the environment. She also points out. The definition of essential industries is broad and many industrial companies in these areas have the discretion to continue to operate so at density of pollution and certain communities still pretty densely polluted which again is particularly concerning since Cova text the respiratory system. All that said scientists agree that air for most chicagoans cleaner than it's been in decades remember. This was a two part question. Our Question Asker Dan. We also wondered if you'd have to go back before industrialization to find air this clean and historians say that's exactly right in fact one early Chicago settler Juliette Kinzie documented a transformation of Chicago's Aaron Skies. Over just a few decades Juliette kinzie indeed uses the word pristine to describe her first encounter with a coastline along Lake Michigan. This is historian and Keating. She says Kinzie grew up in Connecticut. Among noisy dirty textile mills. She was taken with the beauty of Chicago when she moved here in eighteen. Thirty four with her husband. Shortly after arriving she wrote about a trip to the forest little north of Chicago maybe Evanston will met. Today she was blown away by the clean air in the vivid green of the trees and spring. The trees which near the lake had owing to the coldness and tardiness of the season presented the Pale yellow appearance of UN fledged goslings here bursting into fully. The ground. Around was carpeted with flowers. The bird sent forth there sweetest notes. In the warm lingering sunshine and opening buds of the young Hickory and Sassafras filled the air with perfume but in the eighteen forties and fifties early. American settlers began trying to get rich off this land. Newly acquired by the US government coursing the POT AMEE and other native Americans to leave one of the first examples. Was William OGDEN'S GALENA CHICAGO RAILROAD? Which went right downtown in eighteen forty eight so the GALENA and Chicago Railroad? Steam engine belching smoke. It's only GONNA BE ONE. Engine could be a big deal at the outset but very quickly you had a twelve lines with dozens and dozens of trains coming out every day at the same time. Chicago got steamboats that produce smoke grain elevators that spilled dust and chaff full of early factories along the river so the by the late eighteen fifties before the civil war. They're going to be parts of Chicago. Particularly those humping the river. You're GONNA have a both air and water pollution. It was somewhere in this period. The eighteen fifties when historians believe air pollution in Chicago actually became worse than it is today getting dirtier in Dirtier up into the twentieth century and starting to improve by the nineteen seventies when regulation takes off so to find air as clean as the air. We've had in recent years and especially the last few weeks you would likely have to go back to the early eighteen fifties in Chicago. As far as Juliette Kinzie. She couldn't stand the air pollution in eighteen. Sixty eight just thirty four years. After arriving her family moved to the edge of the city to escape what she called quote the soot and grind of the Michigan Street House. This episode was reported by me with Isabel. Carter Linear Dominic and Mackenzie crossing production by Stephen Jackson Katherine Nagasawa was the Voice of Juliette Kinzie Music. Courtesy of big lazy support for curious city comes from the Conan Family Foundation. I'm Jesse Dukes..
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"This is Stephen Jackson one of the curious city producers. Today we're back with another episode of life interrupted personally dispatches from everyday folks living through in nineteen think of them as little sonic lifelines during this strange strange time in this second installment we meet. Susie in Bob sheer proud parents of an ICU nurse on the front line of the pandemic at an early age we recognize something special in Aley. She has a big heart. She's very determined and she decided she wanted to go ahead and pursue nursing give that ago she started in the Level one trauma center where she would meet the helicopters coming in from accidents. She seemed to be happier with sicker people. Who can say that she? She really likes. Those challenges are just to give you a little insight into maybe. Her personality talked to a really good friend of ours. Who's known Haley her entire life? She said how's Hayley doing and I said well I said most of our patients now are cove patients. She said. I knew she'd be in the thick of it. I knew she'd be was kind of thinking. This must be the way parents feel when their children sign up for the armed forces I mean I know that it's not the same but she wanted to go where she was needed. What I worry about most with her is the psychological impact up it. She said every day in treating these patients. It's like Russia Roulette. The nurses can't even touch their skin without patients being draped and gowned and masked and she has talked about the fact that she has helped several of her patients before they go on the ventilator. Call their families to say goodbye and she said mom I know they're talking to their families for the last time. She's used to twelve hour day but I don't think twelve hour days are like this day after day after day. Once a week we spend the entire day gathering groceries and cooking for her and trying to align up meals for her I smoked beef brisket for her and her fiance the day and made a batch of Chili Forum and bigger put in the seasoning near just things that we can make in quantity and they can eat some now. Put it in the fridge and have a little later so we loaded up more in Naperville and we drive it into the city. The first time we did it she saw and we just said it inside the gate and she would just wave to us out the window but then after that once she got a little more accustomed to what was going on and how to deal with the virus she would come outside. Stand Ten fifteen feet away and we talked for a little bit. I three funded squashes. Are they getting better? One was activated. Oh that's good so he's doing better down okay. Caesar Salad few salad than there. I'm just really proud that she's there on the front lines. Oh chilling thank more proud of her now being a nurse than ever before by so. We're not the hug you guys that was Susie and Bob Pa- sheer for our series. Life interrupted this story was produced by Isabel. Carter and Joe with some help from me Stephen Jackson. Also we want to hear from you. How has your life been interrupted? We're especially interested in hearing from people who had a milestone birthday during the pandemic or have one coming up sometime soon. Have you turned sixteen or sixty? Are You Planning Kierra? If you have a story to tell get in touch find us on facebook and twitter at wbz curious city or US an email at life interrupted at wbz Dot Org?.
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"Hey this is Steven Jackson. One of the curious city producers. I'M GONNA START WITH A bold statement here so bear with me. Corona virus has changed our lives. We're all living through the same historical moment sharing the same anxiety uncertainty and `isolation and lots of US. Just want to know. How is everyone getting by? We've set out to answer that question in a new series. We're calling life interrupted and each week will bring you snapshots of daily life during cove in nineteen. We're going to put it here in the curious city podcast. So you'll hear between the weekly episodes of curious city in this first installment we meet Lucy Keady. He's found a new use for an old hobby in the room. Where I'm doing. This is an ancient singer sewing machine. This machine belonged to my grandmother. This is actually the machine that I learned how to sell on and the fun thing about this old sewing machine. Is it still works? I don't use it but it could pinch actually work. I started sewing when I was about. Ten years of age. Started with Dow Close Barbie. Close that sort of thing. I've made all sorts of things over the years ordinary things and then fun whimsical things. I made a lot of Halloween costumes. My daughter Claire. When you're for Halloween wanted to be reponsible but repulsed will in the tower so with that up it was all one piece reserve address Slash Tower Husson. Actually pretty comfortable as it turned out when all of this panda stuff started to happen. I think all of us felt a high sense of helplessness. So when a friend of mine from my knitting group told me about a woman that she knew who was organizing people making mask. I thought this is a real way that I could contribute to the greater good. It's a way of freeing up the massive. They're using in hospitals for medical professionals and providing cloth mask to people that might be afraid or endanger of being infected. I have used fabric. That goes back and choose baby clothes that I made my children. I have made a mess out of a blue daisy pattern that I used for a bridal shower for my daughter. It's just kind of fun to revisit some of these fabrics that I have not used or seen from years. I feel that it is. It's just good for when I look at the staunching especially in these difficult days. I think what does sewing machine what it kind of live through. It was there during World War One. It was there during the flu of nineteen eighteen. It was there during the depression. So this soya machine has gone through a lot of history and without learning how to sew on that old machine. I won't be able to use my current machine to make these mask so it all sort of goes around that was lucy. Keating for our series interrupted this story was produced by Isabel Carter and JOE DE. So we want to hear from you too. How has your life been interrupted? And how are you getting through it? If you have a story to tell get in touch find us on facebook and twitter or send us an email at life interrupted at wbz Dot Org..
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"Another one of our team members Isabel. Carter has been chatting with some of the people who reached out to us about their dating habits. So we're going to check in with them right now. He is he. How's it going great? So what do you have for me as he? Who's up I well? Let's first talk about. Sarah McCall Sarah Story is about making new connections in quarantine and not knowing what the boundaries might be and needing to sort of reinvent those for this new moment. Okay so tell me about what? Sarah's dating habits were like before Yeah Sarah. It loves today. She is a person who likes making those connections. It's kind of an activity. Almost a hobby for her to go out and meet with people. Girl for drinks taxed be in touch on and she likes to keep a casual highway message someone on tinder or like instagram deums or honestly like just text someone like. Hey Wanna get a drink Saturday and it would be that simple and those relationships honestly were like could be pretty physical pretty serious just like kind of little things that were in fast and intense and no longer than four or five months so what's changed since Kobe. Nineteen hit. Yeah well as with everyone. Meeting in person is no longer in options. So she's having to move all of that activity online into these virtual spaces She told me that she has been flirting with someone on an APP called. Draw something which is sort of like a pictionary style game She's been making new matches on dating apps and she even send someone a letter l. An actual letter a handwritten letter. Yes a handwritten letter. She sent it out the the postal service and she's waiting to hear back so she's communicating and reaching out to people and making these connections in a new way this these sort of various forms of remote connections either virtual or letter writing. How is that working for her? The rules of this quarantine. Dating story are very unclear right now and it's almost like a space outside of Reality Blake. Everything is out the window and the normal rules. Don't apply anymore. Is it a kind of what happens? During quarantine stays in quarantine kind of a scenario like none of this is GonNa Count. Time is suspended and get a free pass kind of thing. Yeah I think that she is not expecting things to necessarily become long-term relationships but it's very possible that other people could breed more into that a lot of us are making a lot of connections and I at least four. See for me that I'm GonNa have to do a lot of apologising not like because I'm like a player have game or anything but because it's kind of like this grey area where someone definitely could call your office like double down on their feelings at the end of this. Yeah and I just don't know I feel like really prepared for that. Coveted has obviously disrupted every part of life and dating as no different. We're in a space where the rules. The boundaries aren't as clear as maybe they once were and I think that can be a prompt for people to start exploring many connections more widely and freely. But there's also the flip side where that can maybe lead to some hurt feelings on the other side of this. Okay so maybe pay a little closer attention to that. So it's not an unintended consequence but also you know how fun and get that human interaction. You've talked to a couple of other people including a former curious city in turn Allen Mayor who reached out to us. Tell us about what Alan is experiencing right. Now Yeah Ellen has had a really interesting time in quarantine Her story is about being prompted by this moment to reevaluate some of her priorities. And maybe give lost love and other shot lost love like X. that's right Ellen. Made a connection a few years ago when she was just looking to date casually That exceeded her. Expectations might have been the third day he took me to a poetry nights at the hideout and he read a poem. That really kind of knock me off my feet and I started falling in love with him. Then and you know it took us probably another month or so CEOS to each other's faces I love you but we did that. Pretty quick to and we had like a really blissful first half of a year together but as it does life gets in the way things got more difficult about six months in and they eventually decided to pump the brakes and go their separate ways but they stayed in connection and they always kind of had each other in the back of their minds then right before. Kovin head they had actually decided to end things completely but once everyone was in quarantine. She couldn't stop thinking about whether or not. That was the right decision. She decided to reach out to him but before she could she got a call from him actually decided to give it another go. Oh they got back together. I like this story. I like stories of people getting back together. So how are they doing? How are things going? I have to know? Well they're still remote which is difficult but they're trying to keep building their relationship or as she calls at rekindling so they've been doing things like ordering pizza from the same place and then eating together cooking the same meals at the same time. They've started a two percent book club and they're also doing the famous or infamous depending on who you are thirty. Six questions lead to love by The New York Times and Ellen says it's been going a lot better than she would have expected. I'm not glad for these circumstances at all but I do think that because we've had to be so creative in so intentional that it's possible we've actually covered more ground and like made more progress than maybe we would have otherwise because we're getting into some pretty meaty questions and we're doing it in a way. That's very generous. And kind of safe. Feeling okay so it sounds like she feels good about the direction things are going. How did the pandemic clarify her thinking about her relationship? Cova nineteen is definitely been a challenge. But I think it has prompted her to take a risk living through a global pandemic kind of puts things in perspective in a different way. And they're certainly I think a piece of it emotionally. That's kind of Lake. It's the end of the world like the one you love. Thanks to see. Those stories actually really cheered me up and I'm going to spend the rest of my day thinking about love. Yeah for sure so everyone. We hope finding love or at least tonight's connection and good conversation. Just be aware of other people's feelings and remember you're not going to be isolated forever. What happens in quarantine is actually real? Curious is supported by the Conan Family Foundation. Reporting this week from Isabel Carter Mackenzie Cross in linnea Dominic Jesse dukes and Catherine Nagasawa. I'm Alexandra Solomon and one more thing. I really agree with Alan Mayor. Being with the person you love is really helpful to get through the pandemic and I feel really lucky to have my husband to ride this out with even though his timing isn't always greet. Oh what get out. I told you a recording. Better go tell him. It was sweet to offer to make me an espresso hanging there curious citizens..
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"So all of that was from a recent episode of Nur debt and after hearing it started wondering about Greta and her animals. I've met her core D. Scout and I know that scout can be a little anxious and you know a couple of vets did say our cats and dogs might be picking up on their humans anxieties so I wanted to ask Greta if that was happening with her animals as she worked from home. So we chatted and of course record ourselves remotely so Greta Terminology do you use. Are you a dog and cat mom? A pet owner I appreciate that question very much. I don't really like the mom thing I don't think of them as my children. They did not come out of my body. Didn't grow them inside of me There I don't know I guess they're almost closer to like roommates or like just buddies I think maybe my favorite terminology is actually just that. I'm their person you are the person. Yeah I'm totally their person. Yeah like a thousand percent. That is correct. So one thing I know about scout is that I don't know if you would agree with this. But even in normal circumstances she might have like many of us some anxiety that she's dealing with do you think that's a fair assessment. Yeah I mean. I have her on instagram. Under the handle anxious corgi. So you're not the first person to say it She's scared of a lot of stuff like kids in strollers and basketballs and ruling suitcases Anyone who's extremely overeager to like meet and touch hers. You super wary of that so yeah. She's very well behaved but she's pretty high strung. I would say and do you feel like she is picking up any of the anxiety of the moment right now. I think she is not at all no like I think if anything she's like. Oh how great that. You're just you're all the time and we can go on more walks and we're hanging out you know like she's taking a sitting under the desk where. I work all day which has been real awful and yeah I mean I think I think that's kind of like the amazing Solis of having pets right now. In addition to just having the company if you live on like I do but it's the fact that they have no clue that there's a global pandemic you know like she still needs to eat two meals a day and go out several times and have a nice walk and like that's it. Do you think that helps you You know be socially distant and working from home absolutely yeah. I mean they're still company you know and like I still wouldn't mind a hug now. And then but like there it's really. They're really wonderful creatures. Got Probably well. I don't know if you can train either of your animals to hug. That's yeah I mean. The CORGI legs are not optimized talking a great Dane. It'd be a better hunger or a journalist. Yeah Yeah you need something with sort of similar proportions to humans. I think so. Tell me about your other animal. My other animal is I have a cat named seth and I like to describe him as a monster. He's lake super aggressive. Like I can't really touch him most of the time or he'll try to scratcher by me. I like to describe him as a Greif Luff. He's like sort of medium hair. He's not like Sumer puffy and yeah he's like a he's a scrappy cat. I got him when he was a kitten from a trailer in this town called North Pole which is Thirteen miles south of my hometown of Fairbanks Alaska. There's like actually a place called North Pole butts rebel letters to Santa Ago and And Yeah that's where. Seth is from so he's like a scrappy. Alaska like trash cat. Essentially how's he doing in terms of the Cova crisis? He is fine. I do think there have been a couple times since I've been working from home. Were all like turnaround. And he'll just be staring at me from a couple of away Which is a little unsettling and I'm sorta like dude. Are you like plotting against me right now and I was joking with a friend that he's like deeply skeptical that I'm actually working and he's concerned about paying rent. He's like seriously though like. Shouldn't you be gone by now? But but yeah I mean honestly. I think it's actually going to be really hard for them. When I go back to work. How do you think you'd be doing if it weren't for the pets right now? I think it would be a lot harder And I hate to like have a lot of friends who don't have pets and who kind of wish their life. Circumstances were different that they could have pets. And so I you know I try not to be like I. I tried to acknowledge my own privilege. And the fact that I do have these animals in my life But yeah I mean. They're always like the fact that I live alone but I still have someone to come home to you. Know is just like has always been really helpful. But I think now especially when it's so easy to feel so isolated it's just really wonderful to have like two distinct strange personalities around who don't worry about keeping their distance you know. Yeah one of the things I noted. It's not at all scientific. But in a relatively small sample of voices there are two people who seem to have been prompted by this crisis to acquire animal including Tricia. Yeah That seems like you know. Maybe that's a thing right now. Maybe maybe people are feeling that loneliness and making the choice to adopt a animal friend Yeah well I think. In both cases at least the anecdotes of the people who called Internet I mean both of them are friends of mine. They had always been thinking about it But I think there are a lot of extra good reasons to Blake. Maybe become a pet owner now And one of them is the company. The other is like if you're home all day. What a great time to train a puppy you know or to like figure like get to know a dog before just like having to leave them at home for hours on end while you're at work you know and so yeah. I think to like this is also anecdotal. But I've also had to. Co Workers asked me if I wanted to be if I was able to be a reference for them Filling out applications to foster pets which I think is another really lovely thing like especially you know if you've never had a pet before and you're not necessarily in a position you know you work too much normally but now that you are home you're like in a new space where you could try that out just kind of see if it's a good fit like. I think that also is just super cool and like what a great way to sort of volunteer your help. During like such an UN- Mooring and strange time. You know maybe I should do that. feeling the way you said I was like I bet Jesse dukes is about to do this. Got Me thinking I mean. I don't know there's just like I definitely think I derive lake enhanced meaning from life because I am taking care of something that isn't me and my needs you know And they totally like provide for me to in different ways but yeah I think they're extremely helpful and it's just like helping get me out of myself. I know yeah well Greta. Thank you for joining us today. On the curious city podcast. It's been great talking with you. Hey thank you Jesse the nerd it. Podcast responded to the Cova crisis an ongoing series of episodes. They're calling the introverts guide to the good life as Greta puts it. It's all about helping people. Make the best of this very strange very indoor situation so there are interviews and recommendations about enriching things to do at home checkout near dead at WBZ DOT org slash podcast or wherever you get. Your podcasts. Curious city is supported by the Family Foundation. Thanks to Joe to so and Isabel Carter for help this week. 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"Hillary. Right. Happy animal house here. I am Hillary. Oh, this animal house where we discuss all sorts of different political scandals throughout Massachusetts history. Now this week we are going to be meeting a new a new political candidate who has really nothing to do with any sort of scandal. But. He came in following one of the biggest art heist it really in recent history at the Bill Stewart Gardner museum. And so we're going to talk to him about his his candidacy about what he is focused on. And also talk to him a little bit about the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, heist because you know, looking through all sorts of different old articles and Anthony Amaury is quoted a lot in in these articles. So first of all want to welcome him. He is a swamp Scott Republican and you'll have to make tell me if I'm pronouncing your name incorrectly. Anthony more is that right? Perfect. Thanks, great. Anthony so much for joining us. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me over so talk to me. I mean, this sounds to me just sort of looking at your job descriptions that you are called in after maybe a security breach has happened to help people shore up their security is that a correct. Description. I think it's fair. I've done a lot of that in my career, most notably was. One of the first homeland security officials in Massachusetts. After nine eleven helping to rebuild security at Logan airport. Tomorrow. It's something that's been on my mind a lot lately. Sure. I mean, I think about the work. We did at Logan. Was. Back on the threats. We were hearing right after nine eleven. Logan airport were affected by nine eleven nine eleven. Pretty much all set. I think that I worry sometimes that people will forget. What happened on the coke? Sometimes that people remember the unity. We felt in the country following nine eleven. Give me for jumping in. But what were some of the threats that you're hearing? Well, you know, some kids just start. I would say is that it was almost every day. We were hearing about corruption possible plot against. United States that would make your hair curl when it was really scary stuff. I remember they were times when we'd be on coke calls with headquarters in Washington in people on the calls, which are sound. We'll be down in worried and concerned despondent. But very very concerned that something was coming. And when you're faced with that sort of pressure. It's motivating. But it it really seasons. You. In a quick way. Wouldn't trade the experience for anything? But obviously, we should have. And you're saying, you know, talking a little bit about your concerned that people will forget what happened. Yeah. You know? I mean, I'll give you a great example. I know there are a lot of complaints about. I understand myself. But I often when people that know days after nine eleven. After they were polls throughout the country. National polls asking the public. Do you believe we will be struck again? Using hijacked in such in in the ninety percents. How people of course, are we were gonna get hit again hundred days after nine eleven I responded to the shoe bomber. Okay. So it's a lead security agents that responded to that. But no successful attacks against aviation is seventeen years. And I honestly believe that nobody would have bet their money on that in the days after nine. So there are successes to be point Connecticut. But I am going to be clear there were things about TSA. I think they should definitely be doing differently. But overall, the travelling public has been secure is there anything else just sort of considering obviously that day. Diversity will be tomorrow? You know that anything else that you took away from your experience. They're following what had happened when you talk about the the threats that you're hearing where did they involve Logan specifically. I mean, you talked about Asian. Were they more closer to home? Yes. They were threats in Boston. Twitchy robbie. Major cities. Name it quickly. When you're a member of the public you can disregard, but when you're charged with being part of the security apparatus, you can't in you worry about never forget them. And you got the public doesn't become complacent because they don't know what the intelligence community is hearing any given moment. Yeah. And so how long do you sort of how long do that? And what exactly? Was your role. You're you're just sort of helping identify security, maybe issues in tweaking the system or. Well, I was part of a team there was three three or four specifically. But we if you remember right after nine eleven in lightning speed by November. There is a New York about security in it that the federal government we would be taking over major new roles passengers but screening every checked bag that flies in the United States. Check. None. They all had to be screened by electric moons within a very short window. I oversaw the team that put those screeners out there that train the people use the new technology. The cat scans technology worked with mass port mass did this incredible project where they built this in line baggage system in two thousand eighteen commonplace in two thousand one in two thousand two that was a miracle. And local was I I was in charge of screening that we said, we deployed. Twelve hundred students. Essentially overnight. We have this massive federal workforce that worked for me. And that's why when I talk to campaign overseeing lodge, organizations and. Responsive backward. So interesting just to hear. The response, especially when it's. When when the situation is so overwhelming. And so sort of horrific that. You need to do something you feel overwhelmed with just the amount you need to do. And so hearing that I turned into nuts and bolts action is really interesting to you to hear from you. So talk to me about when you were brought on at the Isabel Carter museum. I joined the garden museum a two thousand five days that was just getting years down the road after the heist. Right. But the museum. Was looking for someone like me because I had done charity work, specifically what I just mentioned to you. Logan. But also, I have a background investigations. The museum unique. Unfortunately, in in the sense that it needed somebody who could secure the art that's in the building. And we have thousands of pieces a lot once billions of dollars. But also can do the best education looking into the thirteen pieces in nine hundred ninety. So I assume this dual. First quarter business was modernizing security at the Gardner. We've done that with great success in the second step was. Beginning this investigation. So I've had this more than fulltime job for the last thirteen years. That I love. But I I'm looking to take these skills they have acquired Trump Graham, bring them back into a public sector. Now. Unfortunately, are you ready for the not everybody is going to know that you were hired on course. Many many years more than a decade after this heist happened in they're gonna. Maybe connect to this the security idea. With course, this infamous heist is that that happened. So far are you able to roll with with sort of with a joke? Adopt lean or. That's true. I mean, that's an excellent point Hillary. But I think, you know, I'm fifty one, and I know. Young. After it was twenty years ago. They realized. Director just out of college at the museum and people do understand quickly that always done years after the fact. Reputation for myself institution as as being a trendsetter into security in place. Poor security. Well, I want to make sure that we get a chance to sort of hear how you want or why you feel like your background is uniquely suited for the security estate office. Can you can you give us a quick sort of sense of how why you think it's important for somebody with your background to to take over in the secretary of state's office. I can you know, what you and I have discussed is that my career has been marked by taking a major security challenges. You know, as we said it was there. I worked at the site of the biggest terrorist attack the United States in history. Charity at the place where the largest property in world history took place, and I see the next big security challenges election security. From the state house. You talk about ten point plan. Ensuring that security for our elections as robust, you know, you talked about lessons from nine eleven to one of the lessons that we can never be complacent in. We can't. So you say you. We have to make sure that we're always one step or two or three steps ahead of the game. And that's what I think I'm the way Christians to take this experience doing balancing security with public access. That's that's been the hallmark of my career. And they want to bring that to the secretary of state's office. Okay. And so what's your sense of Z? Cam was seen as as potentially a pretty viable challenger. You know, Winkelmann has has not had a serious challenger, especially when it comes to Republicans and even independence candidates in a while. How do you plan to sorta change Scott? Well, shirley. Galvin is a formidable opponent. He's outstanding in terms of politics. I think I offer something different. Josh, they did I have a lot more. Tool set in my background of managing people in terms of knowing how to improve security programs. I'm also very committed to transparency, and I think I'm gonna work hard to get those messages across. I think it's fair to say without. Either either of the democratic candidates. But I think it was a lot of acrimony. And I think I think the public will see a different tone for me where I really wanna keep things on the civil level. But just explain why I think I am the person that's best suited to the secretary of state's office will bring them into the future. So talk to me, if you could I mean, it is really it was really interesting to go through the archives and. See your name. And and see you talking a little bit about investigating this crime. You're brought on. Fifteen years after the fact, and I'm trying to remember was that around the time when this fellow William the third or whatever. Yes. Yes. No. That was after he his episode the Gardner took place. Nineteen ninety seven. He was affiliated with. Connor. Claim to have access to. But I don't believe that was the case look into that very deeply no miles calmer. Very very well. That was Michigan. We're trying to make some sort of. Barden to to quell mister Connors dissatisfaction with with the fact that he had sold a great number of his misconduct. Taking. So it was really between. You can never Hillary. You can never count anything out an open case you have to keep every avenue open. So we work really hard working with the FBI. We're working hard yet. These back by my daughter's always give me a hard time because I haven't found them yet. I had a fifteen year start. Me. So. I'm working. I'm doing my best to find him. I firmly believe we will get the back. Now, the other interesting thing is that the fellow who really with the FBI who had really done. Most of this case recently retired. Correct. This is John. Gene, kelly. Agent. Kelly has did not retire. He works. I know. I know the one of the prosecutors work on the case with us by. Brian Calvin he's the one who prosecuted Bolger. He retired. He just left to go to the public sector. Yes. Yeah. So but Jeff Kelly is the Boston. So there's Kelly's Kelly's. Yeah. The FBI agent. He's very much active. So talk to me about about then. Sort of the vulgar. There's so many conspiracy theories. And while you say, you want to keep them all open, and I know, for example, that the FBI most recently in twenty thirteen I think came out and said that they know who these two guys are yet really focused is now on recovering recovering this artwork. There is conspiracy theories abound, of course, involving like the IRA involving Whitey Bulger. Can we put those too bad considering that way balls has now actually been caught which is insane? And the IRA doesn't seem like considering that there's that you know, it seems to me. Or the official word was that the artwork hasn't left the country. Well, that's a really good question. I I'd say that, you know, without closing doors anything if there is a door can it's yes. Yes. That's that's never been good angle that talk in the city. Yeah. Can say everybody affiliated with him has essentially cooperated with the government on on horrific crimes. You can ask me about this homicide or these other ten homicides. But don't ask you about that. Geico sketch. Yes. In terms of the IRA that comes up often often to in. I would say that there has never been one scintilla of evidence points to the island nothing zero evidence in terms of history. What happens with these sorts of heist? Wouldn't be the IRA that this would be in the stuff is probably hitting pretty close to where you at high and in Massachusetts or thereabouts. So those are interesting theories they make for good movies in books, but they're not they're nowhere near the top. Kerry. Unfortunately, discuss what we think is is the most likely scenario. What's can you expand upon why that is because it seems to me like if it no longer matters first of all if they're dead, then in and just listeners know. I believe when the FBI announced that they knew who these people were that they said they were dead. If that's the if that's the case..
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"Boston Herald radio. That. Ilori? Right. Happy animal house here. I am Hillary Chicago. This is animal house where we discuss all sorts of different political scandals throughout Massachusetts history. Now this week we are going to be meeting a new candidate a new political candidate who has really nothing to do with any sort of scandal. But. He came in following one of the biggest art heist it really in recent history at the isabela's Stewart Gardner museum. And so we're going to talk to him about his his candidacy about what he is focused on. And also talked to him a little bit about the Isabela Stewart Gardner museum, heist because you know, looking through all sorts of different articles and Anthony Amaury is quoted a lot in in these articles. So first of all one and welcome him. He is a swamp Scott Republican and you'll have to make tell me if I'm pronouncing your name incorrectly. Anthony mores that right? Perfect. Thanks, great. Well, Anthony, thanks so much for joining us. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me Hillary, so talk to me. I mean this. It sounds to me just sort of looking at your job descriptions that you are called in after maybe a security breach has happened to help people shore up their security is that an correct. Description. I think it's fair. I've done a lot of that in my career, most notably was. Who's one of the first homeland security officials in Massachusetts after nine eleven helping to rebuild security at Logan airport, and you know, with university tomorrow, it's something that's been on my mind a lot lately. Yeah. Sure. I mean, I think about the work. We did at Logan and it was. I think back on the threats. We were hearing right after nine eleven. Logan airport respected by nine eleven nine eleven including myself. I think that I worry sometimes that people will forget. What happened on the hoax? Sometimes people remember the unity. We felt in the country following nine eleven and. Forgive me for jumping in. But what were some of this Gretz that you were hearing? Well, you know, some I can't discuss I would say is that it was almost every day. We're hearing. About threats in possible plots against aviation. Let's United States that would make your hair curl. And it was really scary stuff. I remember there were times where we'd be on conference calls with headquarters in Washington in people on the calls, which sound we'll be down in worried and concerned. I don't want to say despondent, but very very concerned that something imminent was coming. And when you're faced with that sort of pressure. It's motivating it's daunting. But it it really seasons. You. In in a quick way. And I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. But obviously, we didn't have to happen. And you're saying, you know, talking a little bit about you're concerned that people will forget what happened. Yeah. You know? I mean, I'll give you a great example. I know there are a lot of complaints about the TSA ports, and I understand myself. But I offered remind people that in the days after nine eleven reactor there were polls throughout the country. National polls asking the public. Do you believe we will be struck again are using? Do you think that'd be hijacking in such in in the ninety? How people were certain we were gonna get hit again on planes and one hundred days after nine eleven I responded to the shoe bomber case. I was the lead security issues that responsive to that. But but no successful attacks against aviation in seventeen years. And I honestly believe that nobody would have bet their money on that in the days after nine eleven. So there are successes to be point Connecticut. But I'm going to be clear there are things about TSA that I don't agree with everything. I think they should definitely be doing differently. But overall, the traveling public has been secure is there anything else just sort of considering obviously that day that anniversary will be tomorrow. You know that anything else that you took away from your experience. They're following what had happened when you talk about the the threats that you were hearing were did they involve Logan specifically. I mean, you talked about Asian. Were they more closer to home? Yes. There were threats involving Boston threats involving many major cities. Name it frankly coming in about it. And when when you're a member of the public you can disregard, but when you're charged with being part of the security apparatus, you can't you and you worry about them, and you hope that the public doesn't become complacent because they don't know what the intelligence community is hearing at any given moment. Yeah. Yeah. And so how long did you sort of how long did you do that? And what exactly? Was your role. You're you're just sort of helping identify security, maybe issues and tweaking the system or. Well, I was part of a team there was three three or four specifically. But we if you remember right after nine eleven in lightning speed by November about aviation security, and it meant that the federal government, we would be taking over major new role of screening passengers but screening every checked bag that flies in the United States. And previous to that check. None. They all had to be screened by electronic means within a very short window. And I oversaw the teams that put the screeners out there that train the people to use the new technology. The cat scans type technology worked with mass port Massport did this incredible project where they built this in line baggage system in two thousand eighteen that's commonplace in two thousand one in two thousand and two that was a miracle and local was first, but we deployed I was in charge of screening. So we deployed over twelve. Hundred screeners essentially overnight. We have this massive federal workforce that worked for me. And that's why when I talk to campaign about overseeing large organizations in limbo in responsive. I have that right? So interesting just to here. The response, especially when it's when when the situation is so overwhelming. And so sort of horrific that. You know, you need to do something you feel overwhelmed with just the amount you need to do. And so hearing that I turned into nuts and bolts action is really interesting to you to hear from you. So talk to me about when you were brought on at the Isabel Carter museum. I I joined the the in two thousand five and that was just getting years down the road after the heist rank, but the museum was looking for someone like me because I had done security work. Specifically what I just mentioned to you about Logan. But also, I have a background in investigations and the Gardner museum unique. Unfortunately, in in the sense that it needed somebody who could secure. The arts in the building. And we have thousands of pieces a lot worse billions of dollars. But also can do investigation looking into the theft of the thirteen piece in one thousand nine hundred ninety. So I assume this dual. And I order business was modernizing security at the Gardner and we've done that with great success in the second step was beginning this investigation. So I've had this more than fulltime job for the last thirteen years now that I love. But I I'm looking to take these skills they have acquired throughout my career in putting it back into a public sector. Now. Unfortunately, are you ready for the not everybody is going to know that you were hired on, of course. Many many years more than a decade after this highest happened and they're going to. Mating connect this the security idea. With course, this infamous heist is that his that happened. So far are you able to roll with the with the sort of with a joke? It up Wayne or what are your thoughts? That's true. I mean, that's an excellent point Hillary. But I think, you know, I'm fifty one, and I know when we consider young when When you. you think that was twenty eight years ago, they realized. Director just out of college at the garden museum and people do understand quickly that always brought on years after the fact you understand that I've made a reputation for myself India's toossion as as being a trend setter in terms of security rather than a place. With poor security. Well, I want to make sure that we get a chance to thirty here. How you want or why you feel like your background is uniquely suited for security estates office. Can you can you give us a quick sort of a sense of how why you think it's important for somebody with your background to to take over in the secretary of state's office. I can you know, what you and I have discussed is that my career has been marked by taking on these major security challenges. You know, as we said, it was I worked at the site of the biggest terrorist attack the United States in history. Then security at the place with the largest property theft in world history took place, and I see the next big security challenges election security. They held a press conference last week in front of the state house to talk about my ten point plan for. Ensuring that security for our elections as robust, you know, you talk about lessons from nine eleven to one of the lessons is that we can never be complacent, and we can't. A failure to plan is a plan to fail. We have to we can't rest on laurels. We have to make sure that we're always one step or two or three steps ahead of the game. And that's why I think Christians to take this experience doing balancing security with public access. That's that's been the hallmark of my career. And I want to bring that to the secretary of state's office. Okay. And so what's your sense of you know, Kim was seen as as potentially a pretty viable challenger? You know, William Galvin has has not had a has serious challenger, especially when it comes to Republicans and even independence candidates in a while. How do you plan to start a change that? Well, shirley. Mr. Galvin is a formidable opponent record show is that he's outstanding in terms of politics. I think I offer something different than Josh. They can have a lot more experience. A great tool set in my background in terms of managing people in terms of knowing how to implement security programs. I'm also very committed to transparency, and I think I'm going to work hard to get those messages across it. I think it's fair to say without this isn't casting aspersions, either either of the democratic candidates, but I think there was a lot of acrimony in that. And I think I think the public will see a different tone for me where I really wanted to keep things on the civil level. But just explain why I think I am at the person that's best suited to next kick. The helmet the secretary of state's office and bring it into the future. Right. So talk to me, if you could I mean, it is really it was for me really interesting to go through the archives and. See your name. And and see you talking a little bit about investigating this crime. You're brought on fifteen years after the fact, and I'm trying to remember was that around the time when this fellow William the third or whatever. Yes. No. That was after he his episode took place. Nineteen ninety seven. He was -ffiliated with an art house. Connor. And worth claimed to have access to our. But I don't believe that was the case look into that very deeply, I know miles Connor very very well. And I think that was Mr. young we're trying to sort of bargain to to quell Mr. congers dissatisfaction with with the fact that he had sold a great number of his peaks while so it was really between those two could never Hillary. You can never count anything out an open case. It's just all you have to keep every avenue open. So we work really hard working with the FBI and. We're working hard yet these back. My my daughter's always giving me a hard time because I haven't found to be he's had a fifteen year. Head start on yourself. I'm working. I'm doing my best to find him. I firmly believe we will get them back. Well, now, the other interesting thing is that the fellow who really with the FBI who had really done. Most of this case recently retired. Correct. This is. John kelly. Agent. Kelly has did not retire. No, he works. I know I know the confusion one of the prosecutors worked on the case with us. Crab work was Brian Kelly, and he's the one who prosecuted Bolger and flooding in the restaurant. He retired. He just left to go to the public. Yes. Yeah. So, but Jeff Kelly is the this is Boston sorters Kelly Kelly's. Yeah. Jeff Kelly is the FBI agent. He's very much active in the morning. So talk to me about about that. Sort of the balls are there's so many conspiracy theories. And while you say, you want to keep them all open, and I know, for example, that the FBI most recently in twenty thirteen I think came out and said that they know who these two guys are yet really their focus is now on recovering. Recovering this artwork. There is conspiracy theories abound, of course, involving like the IRA involving Whitey Bolger. Can we put those too bad considering that way boulder has now actually been caught which is insane? And the IRA doesn't seem like considering that there's that. You know, it seems to me a word the official word was that the artwork hasn't left the country. Well, that's a really good question. I I'd say that you know, without closing doors. If there is a door that we can close it's the ball, Jerry. Yes. That's that's never been a good angle talk in the city. But yeah. I often say everybody affiliated with him as essentially cooperated with the government on on horrific crimes act hard to believe that any of them would say, you can ask me about this homicide or these other ten homicides. But don't ask you about that big you right now. Yes. In terms of the IRA that comes up often in I would say that there has never been one scintilla of evidence that points to the IRA nothing zero evidence in terms of history. What happens with these sorts of heist? This wouldn't be the IRA that this would be local peeves, and the stuff is probably shouldn't pretty close to where you and high and in Massachusetts or or thereabouts. So those are interesting theories they make for good movies and books, but they're not they're nowhere near the top Kerry. Unfortunately to discuss what we think is is the.
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Infiniti unveils F1 inspired Project Black S Hybrid prototype
Infiniti has drawn up a road-map to electrify its portfolio from 2021 onward. A major milestone on this journey is the new Project Black S prototype which was unveiled in Paris on October 1, 2018. The prototype, drawing on expertise from across the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, demonstrates the brand’s commitment to developing high-performance electrified powertrains that fuse the Formula One dual-hybrid electric powertrain technology with Infiniti’s award-winning VR30 3.0-liter V6 twin-turbo engine.
The ‘Black S’ designation represents the highest level of performance, dynamic capability, effective aerodynamics and intelligent energy management offered by Infiniti. The prototype is based on the Q60 red S sports coupe and has been developed together with the Renault Sport Formula One Team.
“Infiniti has reached another milestone on its road to electrification. Building on the strength and success of the electric vehicle expertise of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, Infiniti is showing the Project Black S, a high-performance prototype with F1 technology resulting from collaboration within the Alliance.” – Roland Krueger, Chairman and Global President at Infiniti.
The dual-hybrid powertrain’s unique ‘energy recovery system’ (ERS) contributes to higher power and torque than the engine upon which it is based. It generates 563 hp, whereas the conventional VR30 engine produces 400 hp. The power to weight ratio is estimated to be 235W/kg, achieving 0-100 km acceleration in below four seconds.
Infiniti Project Black S prototype
The prototype’s powertrain uniquely employs three motor generator units (MGU). A single MGU-K unit harvests kinetic energy from braking while the engine’s twin electric turbochargers are fitted with two MGU-H units, to harvest heat energy from exhaust gases. This enables the powertrain to generate electrical power under both braking and acceleration.
The development prototype balances the organic, artistic design of the Q60 sports coupe with greater aerodynamic efficiency and high levels of downforce with a functional motorsport-inspired performance aesthetic. Partnering with the Renault Sport Formula One Team has given Infiniti access to more specialist development technologies, including advanced digital validation tools for optimising the car’s aerodynamics.
This expertise is evident on the high-tech design of the rear wing, validated by the Renault Formula One Team’s aerodynamicists and finished in carbon fibre. The wing has a similar aerodynamic profile to the Formula One Team’s ‘Monza’ wing, which provides a relatively low level of downforce for a Formula One car around one of the faster circuits in the sport’s calendar. For a development vehicle based on a homologated road car, the impact is significant. The digital modelling technology allowed for subtle changes to the shape and proportions of the wing, which now offers a fine-tuned compromise between maximum straight-line stability and high-traction under cornering.
“The Project Black S represents the very top end of electrification in the Alliance portfolio and is another example of Infiniti’s entrepreneurial spirit on its journey to electrification from 2021 onward. ‘Project Black S’ utilises high power and smart energy management from advanced powertrains, a thrilling dynamic capability on road and track, and a performance-oriented aesthetic. A collaborative venture between Infiniti and the Renault Sport Formula One Team, the Project Black S prototype is a test-bed for new ideas and technologies, demonstrating how our Alliance partnerships could make our ambitious visions a reality,” added Krueger.
Since the 2016 season, Infiniti has been a technical partner of the Renault Sport Formula One team, contributing its expertise in hybrid performance.
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ICB overtaxes Blair's resources
Nov. 15, 2004, midnight | By John Silberholz | 16 years, 2 months ago
Interagency coordinating board doesn't support school
Blair, already a seriously overcrowded high school, is seeing its scheduling problems compounded thanks to the Interagency Coordinating Board (ICB), a 12-member committee that schedules all events taking place in any County-owned building. Despite their authoritative positions, this group of County officials is out of touch with school communities and affairs and thereby creates, not solves, problems in school scheduling.
According to MCPS regulations, the ICB pledges to "maximize the community use of public schools.” It accomplishes this mission well with complete disregard for Blair's overuse: The school already must support the newly-imported Night School program and Adult Education classes, both of which draw hundreds of students and adults from across the County to Blair. Though these programs provide necessary community educational support, the Board forces Blair to house multiple additional activities each week, including church services every Sunday, according to Blair secretary Carrie Addison. These activities, some of which run as late as midnight, leave little time for custodians to clean the school; groups with as many as 2,000 members stay late into the night, sometimes causing messes that force custodians to clean as late as 2:30 a.m.
However, according to Business Manager Laurie Checco, Blair building services received less than $30 weekly during the 2003-2004 school year to cover all ICB activities, a woefully insufficient amount considering the work required to clean up after Blair's visitors. According to former Business Manager Anne Alban, Blair spends an additional $10,000 annually to provide for supplies, equipment and repairs that the ICB does not cover—money that shouldn't be leaving Blair's pockets because of the oversight of a distant committee.
In a June 8 Board of Education Meeting, MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast admitted that buildings wear out more quickly than they can be repaired with the amount of use they receive. The ICB must set a limit on school usage to relieve Blair's overused building and compensate for its overworked building services staff.
Furthermore, the ICB upholds a ridiculous policy that requires Blair students, teachers and the PTSA to request building space as much as six months in advance in order to be granted priority. The ICB must realize the Blair community's stake in using its own building and give students priority throughout the school year accordingly.
When Blair organizations are able to reserve building space, they must then pay exorbitant fees to the ICB. According to band parent Susan Crawford, SAC rental for Blair's annual three-hour jazz band Spring Fling planned for May 2005 would have cost about $450. The ensemble was forced to abandon plans of a Blair performance and book their concert at a nearby community center at a more reasonable price. Though student events, PTSA activities and non-profit organization meetings receive lower rental rates from the ICB than outside groups, they still have to dish out hundreds of dollars for merely a couple hours of school usage—an impossibility for many cash-strapped student organizations.
The ICB cannot meet basic student needs because it doesn't allow for sufficient school representation. Despite the fact that the ICB mainly impacts County schools, only two of the 12 board members are principals, and they are left powerless in their minority. Ironically, the Board's voting members are mostly citizen representatives appointed by the County Executive or County Council who are not at all affected by the ICB's decisions. The Board must modify their composition, providing the most voice for those most affected by usage: County schools.
In addition to the lack of school voices on the ICB, the Board lacks proper priorities. Over $1.7 million of the $5.7 million collected from ICB facility usage fees this year will be expended for the 2004 salaries and benefit packages of the Board's 27 support staffers, according to the Board budget summary. When combined with the $250,000 annual overhead paid to the County government for personnel costs, nearly one-third of the ICB expenditures support its office staff instead of County schools. Instead of giving back extra funding to schools worn out by the ICB's overscheduling, the Board chooses to fund an inflated support staff that provides little aid to the community. The ICB must not only cut back on its support staff to ensure that more of its revenues are channeled to building service workers, but it must also raise rates for outside organizations so that more money is available for maintenance.
In order to achieve its purpose of truly aiding the community, the ICB must start supporting students instead of other school users. Until the Board starts holding up its end of the bargain, it will remain as it is—an enemy to students countywide.
To advocate students' right to use their own school, call Community Use of Public Facilities Director Ginny Gong at (240) 777-2722.
John Silberholz. The Chips PRODMAN (and editoral board member), John enjoys basketball, tennis and biking, looks forward to yet another year on Chips. Among other things, he enjoys climbing trees (even though he has a weird tendancy of falling off of them), biking like crazy, playing basketball, … More »
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YouTube takes off
Feb. 2, 2007, midnight | By Cassie Cummins | 13 years, 11 months ago
Andy Warhol once said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." For some, even a mere 15 seconds on the World Wide Web is enough.
YouTube is the popular online video entertainment company that allows users to post and view original videos on the Internet. Since the official launch of the site in 2005, the small start-up has become a media empire in its own right - over 100 million videos are viewed daily and more than 65,000 videos are uploaded each day. Many students surf the site, browsing other users' uploads for particularly amusing clips. Some Blazers, however, post their own videos, whether as a creative outlet or just for laughs.
Numa Numa dance
When Gary Brolsma first filmed himself lip-syncing to the Moldovan pop song "Dragostea Din Tei" in 2004, the video quickly became the stuff of an Internet legend. The "Numa Numa video" was a huge underground hit. And so, in the spirit of silliness, senior Maura Druhan and her friends decided to record themselves doing their own interpretation of the Numa Numa dance. In her video, Druhan and two friends stand outside, humming "Dragostea Din Tei," mimicking the goofy expressions and spastic dance moves immortalized by Brolsma. It's just one of Druhan's many posts. "They're all quite embarrassing," she says.
The urge to Herbal
Herbal Essences might be better known for its commercials than for its hair products. The scandalous advertisements, featuring young women moaning in the shower while washing their hair with the product, are famous for being highly suggestive.
Now, Herbal Essences is back and just as outrageous as ever in senior Ele Rubenstein's YouTube video. Rubenstein and a friend decided to tape a commercial of their own, mocking the risqu" dialogue and suggestive noises of the original ads. In their video, Rubenstein stands in the shower wearing a pair of swim trunks, washing his hair and gyrating.
Sleazy '70s music plays in the background of the short film clip for comedic effect. Rubenstein says that he and his friend didn't intend to post the video on YouTube, but it was too easy to resist. "When we filmed it, it seemed like the obvious thing to do," he says. Rubenstein has since taken the video off YouTube because he did not want people watching it after reading this article.
An online r"sum"
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For senior Robert Garner, YouTube isn't just a means of posting mock videos and silly skits. Garner, who hopes to pursue a career in videography, says that he uses YouTube to showcase work that he has done on his own and for school projects. One of Garner's videos currently posted on the site is for the Postal Service's song "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight." It tells the story of two strangers whose lives revolve around each other and inevitably collide, only to be yanked apart in the end. Garner says that he recieves helpful feedback on his work from viewers through YouTube. This video has drawn some especially interesting comments because the story behind the music video was left open-ended. 'I asked a few different people what they thought the storyline was, and I've gotten a lot of different responses," he says.
Backstreet's back, alright!
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The Backstreet Boys were once hot stuff. There was a period of time when Nick, AJ and all the rest were such a hit with the pre-teen set that whenever a Backstreet single would play on the radio, every 10-year-old girl in the general vicinity would stop in her tracks to perform a full choreographed routine, just the way the Boys did it in their videos. But now it seems that BSB is on an indefinite hiatus, and that's where Matt McClain and his brother Ron come in. Earlier this year, senior Matt McClain and his brother recorded their own music video for the Backstreet Boys' "I Want it that Way and posted it on YouTube. In their video, the two lip-sync and bop along to the song, exaggerating gestures and staring soulfully into the camera for effect.
McClain finds the entire experience a little embarrassing. "Random kids came up to me in the hallways and said they saw my video," he says.
Cassie Cummins. Cassie Cummins is an 11th grade CAP student whose life is made complete with a hot cup of coffee and a long nap- preferably with Abe Lincoln by her side. When she's not doing homework or pining over her loss of sleep, she enjoys watching … More »
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She is a Nordhavn 47, registered in New Zealand, we are returning with her, slowly, back home.
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Corinth to Corfu
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After transiting the Corinth Canal we continued our journey west arriving at Ormiskos Andreaas, it was a long day we didn’t drop anchor until 6:00pm, but wow it was a beautiful bay, crystal clear water and there were only 2 deserted houses in the bay. We all had a swim and a good relax.
The next morning a 6:30am start for Trizonia. A small island very close to the mainland. Not such a long passage today, we arrived at 11:00am, stern tied to an outside concrete jetty, which was almost exposed aggregate, except that it wasn’t meant to be like that. I think they forgot to put enough cement in the concrete mixer! However, it was a no charge marina and that is a nice change. We went for a stroll as on our reconnaissance of the marina we notice a large sunken yacht right in the middle of one of the marina arms. Apparently it has been there for 5 years! Unfortunately there are a lot of ageing yachts and boats in the marina that no one cares about.
At first glance we thought there wasn’t much in Trizonia, but we discovered a small walkway and 300 metres away was the most beautiful little harbour, full of Greek Tavernas and Restaurants and a lovely swimming beach. We had lunch on the waterfront, Robbie had fried Calamari, which came kind of whole and looked like an alien, and Peter had grilled Calamari which didn’t look so bad. Heidi and I had Moussaka and mine was really good, it’s like lasagne we had a swim and a walk around the bay, past a beautiful old church with the nicest view in the world I think, for a church. We saw our first Pomegranate tree, full with fruit, very pretty. We had dinner and a game of 500 with Peter and Heidi at one of the Tavernas and I had stuffed tomatoes which actually came with a stuffed aubergine also and it was the best. We are really enjoying the Greek food, it is very home style but really nice and tasty.
We departed at 6:30am and headed through the Gulf of Corinth, where we had to navigate under the Rio-Antirrio bridge, (Its official name is the Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge) one of the world’s longest multi-span cable stayed bridges, and the longest of the fully suspended type. It is near Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsular to mainland Greece. It is 2,880 metres long, 28 metres wide and is widely considered to be an engineering masterpiece, owing to several solutions applied to span the difficult site. These difficulties include deep water, insecure materials for foundations, seismic activity, the probability of tsunamis, and the expansion of the Gulf of Corinth due to plate tectonics.
Not long after this we separated from Stormvogel, they diverted to Mesolongi and we continued onto the island of Nsis Oxeia, as we wanted to get to a C-Map agent on the island of Lefkas the following day and he shut at 2:00pm so we needed to make good distance.
***8167Oxeia is a tiny uninhabited island (except for the wild goats of course!) with an unmanned fish farm in the bay where we stern tied. We really enjoyed private swimming in the crystal clear water. Amazing when you snorkel to see the drop off of the land under the water, it just goes straight down. We were joined by another small motor boat later in the afternoon and they stern tied in the next little cove to ours, so not too close which was nice.
The wind came up quite viciously later in the afternoon, after dinner the wind died right off and we had a very calm night. Except that we had set the anchor alarm in case the wind came up again and the #$@%^&* thing went off 3 times in the night but we hadn’t moved, so in the end we turned it off. It is quite un-nerving when you are stern tied so close to the land and especially when the terrain is very rocky!
Another 6:15am early start, yes Jessie we still have to set the alarm for a 6:00am wake up!! (She finds this hilarious as we used to wake up around 4:30am every morning without an alarm in our working lives) Our passage to Lefkas was very pleasant, there was a large cruise ship anchored on the Southern end of the island, ferrying the thousands to shore. We headed to the Northern end of the island and dropped anchor outside Ligia, a small fishing harbour where there were already a number of yachts anchored. We secured the boat and took the duck into the harbour where space was really limited. A local fishing boat let us tie up to him and we jumped in a taxi and headed to the C-Map agent. It was only a 10 minute trip and we were there around 1.15pm. But, no joy he had never seen our type of card before, this was extremely frustrating as Robbie had rung and explained what we had and what we needed and he had confirmed that yes he could do it. So we wandered into the town, I went to the post office while Robbie went to the hardware. The Post Office is like something out of the past, I had to queue for 30 minutes, and it is all manual i.e. actual big folders of postage stamps like I haven’t seen for years, and the staff are very relaxed, no hurry and bustle like a normal post office. Then we had lunch (local Pita stuffed with chicken Souvlaki, Tzsaki & tomato very good and only 2.50 Euro’s) and then Robbie got a haircut. We just got in before the barber closed for his afternoon siesta! 10 Euro’s, good price and he did a good job! (not as good as Maree though!!)
It is now remarkably warmer, up to 39 degrees. All the shops and businesses now close around 2:00pm to 6:00pm for a siesta and reopen again in the cool of the evening. We got a taxi to Lidl, an Aldi type supermarket and got a few provisions including a few different bottles of wine, averaging 3.50 Euro each. Fingers crossed they are drinkable!!
We had a quiet night on the boat and we got to have a bit of a sleep in as we were meeting Stormvogel around 8:00am in the morning to continue on towards Corfu to meet Lisa, their daughter from Germany. We had another canal to go through but this time only a small one, but with a floating swing bridge at the end that we had to wait and queue with other yachts. It opens on the hour every hour. We arrived at Preveza, at 10.45am and were assisted by the Harbour Master to stern tie in the marina. Stormvogel were 3 berths down from us. Not really sure I should call it a berth as it is not a marina as we know it in New Zealand or Australia. There are no “fingers” or small docks coming off the main dock, every boat stern ties (or in some cases bow ties) to the dock, puts heaps of fenders on both sides of your boat, and the next boat is right next to you with nothing in-between. It works well, although at times with wind, swell and wash from other boats passing by, the boats all rock and roll but don’t seem to suffer any damage.
Waiting on the dock to meet us was Frank, a German guy who had met our old travelling Buddies Per and Elisabeth from SV “Oda” in Athens and was keen to meet Peter and Heidi, as Per had told them about the adventures we all had in the Coral Sea and the rescue mission with the Container ship. We were invited to Frank and Tina’s Yacht “ Frati” for a delicious cold Frappe. Both Frank and Tina were trained as high class chefs in their younger days.
Heidi and I walked into town to get more phone credit and stopped and had a Pita for lunch, an older gentleman got up and gave us his table and seats, and as we sat down he collapsed on the road. We and some others rushed to help him, the other people seemed to be medically trained so we let them take over. It was really hot and we think he fainted. An ambulance was called and took him to hospital so hopefully he made a full recovery.
That night we all went out to a local Pizza place that Frank & Tina knew about, it was up in the backstreets of the town. Tina warned us it’s nothing flash but the Pizzas are the best in Greece, and wow they were! Antonio is Italian and his wife is Greek but speaks German. It’s a tiny little place with only 2 tables, they mostly do takeaways. We had 3 large pizzas that we all shared and it fed the 6 of us, no problem. We liked them that much we brought some to freeze. Walking back to the boat we came across a little fruit and vege shop operated by Mama and Papa and we had a few laughs with them Robbie was trying to swap a pizza for some fruit.
We departed Preveza at 6:30am and after an uneventful passage arrived at Lakka, on the island of Paxoi 6 hours later. WOW! This is one of the nicest anchorages we have been to. It’s a small harbour with white sandy bottom and absolutely crystal clear water – my kind of swimming you can see the bottom so clearly in 10 metres of water. And, it was a nice temperature too. The anchorage was REALLY busy with many boats already anchored and stern tied. There was a bit of argy bargy when we first arrived, as Peter was manoeuvring Stormvogel into position to back in and stern tie, and we were standing off waiting to go beside him, a very large (maybe 120’) Superyacht muscled in and tried to take the spot. Peter just ignored him and carried on with his manoeuvres and then the superyacht moved away, and rightly so. We had a few swims and then around 6pm went into the small village for dinner and a game of 500 with Peter and Heidi. We were approached by an old gentleman selling his home grown Oregano, it was dried and like a head of Broccoli, we liked him too much to say no so Heidi brought some.
Really nice little shops, tavernas and Bars, right on the waterfront, very picturesque indeed. On our walk back to the duck there were some very talented gymnast/musicians which was very entertaining.
Bit of a later start this morning at 7am to head to Corfu, we had a very pleasant passage it was glassed out for most of the way. There were lots of boats passing, including a Cruise ship that passed very close to us, and a Hydrofoil. They are a spectacular vehicle on the water! We had to wait for half an hour to get a berth in the Mandrakai Marina, its small –maybe 50 boats – and is located right under the old Fortress and a 5 minute walk into Old Corfu town. Lisa, was waiting to meet Stormvogel and she very kindkly had a part for us for our generator that we had delivered to her. Now Robbie has a long list of maintenance jobs to do including servicing the engine, and the Yamaha outboard on the duck, replacing the main seal on the crankshaft on the generator and a number of other service/maintenance jobs. It was 50 degrees in the engine room when we stopped today, and although we ran the fans and got as much air in there as possible it is still 42 degrees in there as he is working now. The outside temperature is around 32 degrees at the moment, (5.45pm 1st August)
HAERE MAI AOTEAROA – WELCOME HOME TO NEW ZEALAND
Saying Good bye-Final trip north in the US
Virginia Home Base- Our summer home and hurricane hole.
Journey down memory creek
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