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Who will the Giants take at 6?
Of all of the teams in the NFL Draft tonight, the focus seems to be heavily on what the New York Giants are going to do at No. 6. Here’s a look at the odds for who New York is going to take.
According to the latest oddsmakers, Josh Allen is the favorite to go to the Giants, as he is listed with +225 odds. Other short odds are Daniel Jones (+250), Ed Oliver (+300) and Dwayne Haskins (+450). The first round of the NFL Draft takes place tonight at 8PM ET and will air live on ABC, ESPN and the NFL Network.
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The Giants had the No. 2 pick in last year’s draft and opted to not go with a quarterback, taking eventual NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, Saquon Barkley. They passed on Sam Darnold, who went No. 3 to the Jets. This past season, the Giants struggled to a 5-11 record, with Eli Manning throwing for 4,299 yards with 21 touchdowns and 11 interceptions while being sacked 11 times. In the offseason, the Giants have traded away some of their top players, including Odell Beckham Jr. However, the organization has stayed with Manning, who received a large roster bonus.
When it comes to the draft, many think the Giants could be focusing on a quarterback of the future, which is why Jones and Haskins are among the short odds. Jones, a QB from Duke, feels like a reach, as he isn’t in the top 5 of some analysts quarterback rankings. However, the Giants seem to really like him and also could be in position to trade back and take him later in the first round. Haskins is considered the second-best QB prospect by many, so if the Giants remain at 6, we could see the Ohio State QB taken there.
Currently at No. 6, the Giants won’t be in complete control of what they are able to do tonight. Allen and Oliver are listed with short odds to go to New York, but both could be gone by the time New York is on the clock. Oliver is a dominant defensive tackle from Houston and Allen is a do-everything linebacker from Kentucky. Given the Giants traded top linebacker Olivier Vernon and top defensive tackle Snacks Harrison over the last year, they are thin at those positions now. If going with the “best available” option, Allen and Oliver are likely better picks than a QB.
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Brit ski instructors blamed for Covid outbreak in the Alps after having non-stop parties even when catching virus
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A GROUP of British ski instructors have been blamed for an outbreak of coronavirus in the Austrian Alps following weeks of non-stop partying.
The group of 60 arrived just before Christmas to train as instructors in the resort and travelled just as details of the mutant UK strain emerged.
The group of British ski instructors at the Tyrolean Ski School in Austria were blamed for the outbreakCredit: Alamy
Officials said the cluster had emerged in the town of Jochberg in the Tyrol and the town was being placed into a strict lockdown with all 1500 residents ordered to be tested.
But one Brit instructor there told The Sun: ''It's been a non stop party since this lot arrived.
"There has been lots of mixing between households and you can forget any social distancing.
''The Brits are all in three houses and it is spreading like wildfire between all of them as they are not sticking to isolation rules.
''Some people have been quite ill but most even though they have symptoms aren't suffering too badly and are still partying.''
Austria banned all flights from the UK on December 22 in a bid to control the spread of the virus and the British group arrived four days earlier.
They were there to train at the Tyrolean Ski Instructor School in the town but because of the virus no classes have been taking place.
Locals expressed outrage that the group were even allowed to travel to Austria and are furious they have breached isolation regulations.
Florian Klenk said: ''Workers from eastern Europe have not been allowed to go home for weeks - or only under the strictest conditions - but ski teachers from around Europe are allowed to come to Tyrol for training and get infected? This just beggars belief.''
Ski resorts were allowed to open as of Christmas Eve but hotels remain closed to all but business travel, meaning only people who live close enough to a resort can go for the day.
Austria also introduced a quarantine rule for arrivals from almost every European country over the holiday period, at least partly to put off skiers from neighbouring countries who might have been tempted by the open lifts.
In a statement Elmar Rizzoli, head of Austria's coronavirus task force said:''The first slight symptoms in this connection were recorded in the majority of the affected people on January 3rd.
"As a result of these and subsequent positive antigen test results, further investigations were initiated after the abnormalities in the PCR test were known.
''It then turned out that they were people of different origins - mostly British citizens. They are staying in Tyrol for professional purposes as part of a ski instructor training or further education - the last travellers arrived in Tyrol on December 18th.''
The managing director of the Tyrolean Ski Instructors Association, Christian Abenthung, said the infected Brits had not taken part in any training course run by the Tyrolean Ski Instructors Association or registered for a training course.
Ski lessons are currently severely restricted (only for people from one household) and, for professional purposes, only permitted for people who have completed a ski instructor's training, underlined the withdrawal.
Austria has had 382,000 cases of Covid with 6,747 deaths and the ski resort of Ischgl has been pinpointed as one of the main sources for the spread of the bug last winter due to its popularity with skiers from all over Europe.
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Best The Used Songs
1 The Bird and the Worm
A truly amazing song, fantastic vocals truly great instrumental and just an all round creepy but great feel to it. The lyrics are great and the music fits in perfectly. This is a truly perfectly amazing song. Five Star.
This song is the best explanation for schizofrenia. I've been suffering from schizofrenia for a year now, and this song has been my friend and comfort in a hard and ongoing dark period of my life. Thank you, the used, for the bird and the worm.
Probably the only band I've heard that knows their sound, and shows it by keeping true to that while still applying it to different situational bits.
The Bird And The Worm is so awesome. its strange how their music goes. The Used are the coolest band ever. aka punk boy.
2 The Taste of Ink
The Taste of Ink is definitely the best used song, it has awesome verses and an amazing chorus!
This is how the List should Be:
1. The taste of ink
2. All that I've got
3. The bird and the worm
4. Buried myself alive
5. I caught fire
6. On my own
7. Liar liar (burn in hell)
8. Pretty handsome awkward
9. Blue and yellow
10. Blood and my hands
And that's how the top ten songs by the used should be!
Out of the already top ten, and most of their songs, this is my favorite. The longing to get out of a close-minded town and get OUT there and see the world and DO something and being free! Born to Quit, Sold My Soul, Meant To Die, The Best Of Me, basically anything off of Artwork is my favorite!
I bought the CD with my EX and once he put this song on it just sounded amazing. I love listening to it! Its one of the best songs I've heard in a long time
This song is one of my person favorites, it talks about how Bert doesn't agree with the U.S. society. No wonder why he lives in Australia.
3 All That I've Got
This song trumps all others! How is this not #1?
"I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not. I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got. "
To me this song is saying he is okay, with pretending he isn't. "I'm far from lonely.. " meaning, he isn't lonely but it's all that he has, etc. Bad analysis, but whatever. This song should be #1!
Sorry but The Bird And Worm is nothing in comparison to this.. This song is just everything in life, everyone can relate to this.
I personally love this song. Listen carefully to the lyrics.
Totally outranks bird and the worm
4 Pretty Handsome Awkward
The first time I heard this song was in transformers as well! I've only just listened to the actual song but the second I heard it I knew it was the song from the bumblebee and barricade chase scene. This was my first the used song and its awesome
This song is the first song I've heard from the used
This song is energetic, progressive. The song guided me to the used
This should be higher up, in my opinion. It's so catchy and energizing and the raw emotional content of it is great.
First time I heard this song in Transformers. I love this song! The Used is the coolest Rock band ever!
5 Blue and Yellow
Simply a great song! Really says how you miss someone and how you would do anything to be with that special someone. One of their slowest songs, but also one of the best. This song is filled with themes and symbols, makes me tear up every time I listen to it.
Should be higher. Might be not an aggressive song, but it showed the high level skill for drummer. I always let my felling flowing while I am listening this Blue & Yellow
This should be higher than this. The song is filled with sadness. I feel really sad just by listening to this song. It's the song for SADNESS and WEAKNESS caused by love.
Definitely should be higher! Their best slow song off their older album. It's so captivating and catchy.
6 Liar Liar (Burn in Hell)
I love just screaming to this song. One of the best, In my opinion. Great lyrics. And great guitar. The Used
FoREVer!
7 A Box Full of Sharp Objects
Where is "Poetic Tragedy" on this list? I'm really doubting the credibility of this website are there any Legit Websites on the internet?
How could this song not make it to the top 10, It, s a screamo song by the Used and it's absolutely awesome.
The lyrics are really something else, and that chaotic guitar just makes the song
This is one of my favorite screamo songs by them. I LOVE ITTT! WHY IS THIS NOT #1
8 I Caught Fire
This is a great song, I really adore the lyrics and the all out awesomeness of the song, it is one of my favorite songs by the used and I strongly recommend it for anyone who has not yet heard this amazing song.
I remember first listening to the song. I was in the 6th or 7th grade when I first listen to this and to this day its still one of my favorites
The song is very romantic but not overdone. 10/10 Perfect for young love.
Insane song. One of my favourites. I put this song up on a loop and write articles.
9 Buried Myself Alive
I voted for All That I've Got but I would vote this song if I could pick 2!
I relate to few things like I do to the first verse of this song
One of the greatest songs of all time!
This should be first. Without a doubt.
10 Blood on My Hands
Well, this is the most heaviest song from The Used
This heavier song should be everyone's favorite.
11 I'm a Fake
I'm actually shocked that this is so far down the list, it is my absolute favourite song by the used.
Deeply relates to me so it's the best song by the best band in the world
Underrated, it's a great song.
12 I Come Alive
Just awesome! The video is good too! Great song. The used
It's new song but it is a classic already I love THE USED
This should be the #1 fking love it
13 Take It Away
This song is one of The Used best. So catchy and energizing. Take It Away should deferentially be higher on the list. (song this song while in the shower )
This song is what introduced me to this band when I was younger. Their best title and was amazing in a live show when they were touring on the Taste of Chaos tour every year :D
14 Empty with You
This song gives me so many feels
Should be wayy higher
15 Men Are All the Same
16 On My Own
One of the mostemotional songs ever!
17 Paralyzed
I really like the rhythm and melody in this one.
The most impressive and dynamic song!
Absolute BEST song by The Used
18 Sold My Soul
The Best Song in their 2009 album. and one of their top 5 songs in my opinion. great intro, lyrics bridge and riffs.
And a lot of heart went into making this song. definitely my favorite.
19 Smother Me
This should be number 2 at least! The song is just so catchy and sad and it makes you want to sing along and cry. Love this song! But my favorite is Liar Liar (Burn In Hell)
This is by far their cutest song. It should definitely be in the top 5
This is an absolutely beautiful song.
Love this song, beautiful
20 Iddy Biddy
21 Lunacy Fringe
So catchy. Easily one of the best.
22 Cut Up Angels
Catchy tune, and the contrast between the music and the lyrics is great.
Their most underrated song
23 Let It Bleed
Can't believe this is not on here already. It is hands down my favorite song by The Used. The first time I heard the part with those 16th and 32nd note rests I rewound that puppy about a half million times. It's was all done in post production I imagine but it's still bad as all unholy fudge.
Crazy this is not higher.
24 Bulimic
Come on guys... This song is great
25 Thought Criminal
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Consumption and trade of wildlife in Vietnam is at an alarming level. Every day, hundreds of wild animals are killed and traded illegally to meet the needs of people. This is the main threat to many wildlife species on the brink of extinction.
The Javan Rhino became extinct in 2010 in Vietnam. The remaining tiger population in the wild is estimated to be less than 30 individuals; the number of elephants has decreased by 90% in the last 20 years or tens of tons of pangolins have been killed and shipped to Vietnam every year.
As of December 2019, ENV Wildlife Protection Department has received over 13,766 wildlife-related violations through hotlines and other sources. ENV works closely with the relevant authorities to track and handle cases. As a result, thousands of wildlife have been rescued and released to the wild; Thousands of restaurants removed their advertisement of wildlife, ...
Journey to protect wildlife is a long way and it is necessary to join hands with community and volunteers to protect wildlife of ENV.
1. Introduction to Volunteer Network (Volunteers)
To mobilize the participation of the community, in 2008 ENV established a Network of volunteers protecting wildlife in the country. As of November 2015, nearly 8,000 volunteers from 36 provinces and cities nationwide joined the Network.
In the overall development of the Network, ENV has established ENV membership clubs in 17 provinces from North to South to diversify wildlife protection activities in localities, encouraging more active participation. of the community.
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2.1. Independent volunteers
a. Notify cases of violations of wildlife protection laws
Unauthorized wildlife advertising
Illegally rearing, storing and displaying wildlife and products derived from wildlife
Trading wildlife and products made from wildlife
b. Check the businesses that have previously committed violations
The inspection of these establishments to verify violations or to ensure that business owners comply with the law and not recidivism after the authorities have handled the violations.
Documentation of volunteers here.
c. Communication support
Encourage individuals and collectives to join the wildlife protection network: immediately call the hotline 1800 1522 when detecting wildlife violations or send information via email.: hotline@fpt.vn
Participate in local community awareness raising activities: exhibitions on wildlife protection, training to raise awareness about wildlife protection, competitions launched by ENV nationwide
2.2. ENV TNV Club protects wildlife
As of December 2019, ENV has established 17 ENV Volunteers clubs in 15 provinces: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen and TP. Ho Chi Minh City, Nghe An, Hue, Ha Tinh, Da Nang, Khanh Hoa, Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Quang Binh, Con Dao, Binh Duong, Can Tho, Vung Tau and Dong Nai.
The ENV Volunteers Clubs operate under close guidance and coordination from ENV.
a. Check out the violating facilities monthly, by campaign
Regularly checking these facilities to verify violations, ensuring that these owners strictly abide by the laws on wildlife protection;
Conducting surveys focused on finding new violations in the area of residence;
Participate in intensive wildlife surveillance campaigns (focusing on a specific wildlife species)
b. Organizing wildlife protection exhibition
Act as a local ENV representative to organize wildlife protection exhibitions in public places.
c. Implementing the program "Safe area for wildlife"
The club will carry out the program "Safe area for wildlife" on behalf of ENV at local departments, agencies and markets through the placement and replacement of information boards on wildlife at these locations in 2 once a month.
d. Support ENV communication campaigns
ENV regularly organizes media campaigns such as competitions: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen, TP. Ho Chi Minh City, Nghe An, Hue, Ha Tinh, Da Nang, Khanh Hoa, Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Quang Binh, Con Dao, Binh Duong, Can Tho, Vung Tau and Dong Nai.
3. Benefits when joining the Network to protect wildlife
Member of the Network of wildlife protection in Vietnam;
Regularly updated information on hot wildlife protection issues;
Attending wildlife protection exhibitions, training courses on species identification skills, skills to investigate wildlife violations, communication skills, and talking about wildlife;
To be granted a certificate when making outstanding contributions to wildlife protection activities;
Member clubs receive technical assistance to carry out activities set by ENV.
Join to protect the wildlife of Vietnam!
How to join the Volunteer Network
Register at the link: http://bit.ly/ThamgiaMangluoiTNV_ENV
Volunteer Network Coordinator
Center for Nature Education (ENV)
Room 1701 (17th Floor), 17T5 Building, Hoang Dao Thuy Street, Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay District, Hanoi
Phone: 04 6 28 15424
Email: envvolunteers@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ENVvolunteers
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The Scotsman hotel warns staff they may not be paid on time
06 March 2015 by Hannah Thompson
The Scotsman hotel in Edinburgh has reportedly sent a letter to its staff warning them that they may not be paid on time because of a "challenging trading period".
Around 160 staff work at the hotel and all have been promised that they would be paid eventually, according to the http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotsman-hotel-warn-staff-they-may-not-be-paid-1-3710979" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Edinburgh Evening News.
The 68-bedroom hotel is owned by JJW Hotels Resorts, which is part of the MBI International group owned by Saudi businessman Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber.
The letter to employees reportedly thanked them for their loyalty and support, and said that the "challenging trading period throughout the group" would change within the "next three months", allowing the hotel to "return to our regular payment cycles".
At the time of writing no-one from the hotel or JJW was available to comment.
Opened in 2001 by the newly formed Scotsman Hotel Group in the building which was once occupied by the Scotsman newspaper group, the hotel was bought by JJW in 2006 for more than £60m. It went into administration in 2011, but was rescued by Sheikh Al Jabar soon after.
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December 23, 2020 Food + Drink » Food + Drink Feature
An ode to 25+ Halifax businesses that closed in 2020
Remembering the restaurants and shops knocked down by the pandemic, big box stores, reno-victions and circumstance.
By Victoria Walton @victorialwalton
It’s been a tough year for us all. A year with fewer outings and more take-out. You haven’t put on real pants since at least October (since July, if you’re being more honest). You haven’t met up with your friends for brunch since the summer, and you probably didn’t hit up Argyle Street and waterfront patios nearly as much this year. You hardly browsed shops on Spring Garden Road spent too few Sunday mornings at the Seaport Market.
While we were all at home trying to feed sourdough starters and making dalgona coffee, local businesses were mourning the loss of our patronage. Some of them applied for federal government aid, like the CEBA account and CEWS grant. But that financial drop in the bucket couldn’t prevent a tidal wave of forced closures and its devastating effects.
Many have managed to switch their business models to take-out and quickly create online shops to stay afloat against all odds—and many more are staggering on their last legs—there are dozens of restaurants and businesses that have closed their doors permanently this year.
So pour one out for them. Reminisce about the time you went to Humani-T Cafe on South Park Street on a busy summer day and waited in line for two hours to order oreo vegan gelato, even though you weren't actually vegan. Or the time you walked by Bramoso Pizza on Quinpool Road and went inside on a whim, only to discover what was possibly the best pizza of your life.
And don’t forget to patronize the small businesses that are still out there, treading water in this vast sea of unknown, waiting for their customers to return.
Restaurants that closed permanently
Ethiopian meat and chickpea stews atop injera bread.
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Ali's Place Ethiopian Cuisine
The pandemic was the straw that broke the camel's back for Ali’s Place. The owner posted on Facebook in June that “financially I just cannot build from the bottom up again.” Originally open since June 2019, Ali’s Place served dishes like doro wat (chicken strew), injera (flatbread), and shiro (chickpea stew).
RCR's Shannon Bruhm said in 2011 that Bistro le Coq would be like "an American in Paris" but we prefer a "Haligonian in Paris," thank you very much.
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Bistro le Coq
When the French-themed Bistro le Coq opened in 2011, it was the sixth addition at the time to the RCR group of restaurants. The group (which also owns the Agricola Street Brasserie, CUT Steakhouse, Shuck Seafood Bar, East of Grafton, the Waterfront Warehouse, The Arms Pub in the Lord Nelson Hotel, and the newly opened Bianca Aperitivo Bar) has seen a lot of changes since then, and when times got tough due to the pandemic, Bistro le Coq closed indefinitely in August, replaced by Bianca. Now, it delicious weekend brunch and duck confit only exist in our collective memories.
Beaver Sailor's seafood oil-sprinkled noodles (left) and hot and sour soup (right).
Beaver Sailor Diner
Opening in late 2015, Beaver Sailor Diner was a hidden gem of a spot for dishes like hot and sour soup and handmade noodles, as well as bubble tea. In March 2016, Melissa Buote wrote for The Coast that the small Hollis Street spot was uncomplicated but busy. “When the server pops out of the kitchen with our neighbours' order, his tray is crowded with deep bowls, wisps of steam rising from the starchy mountains, noodles switchbacking against one another until they peek over the lip of the bowls.”
Bramoso Pizzeria
This Quinpool Road pizza spot won bronze in The Coast’s Best Of Awards Best Pizza Pie back in 2012 and 2013. Its brick ovens and toppings like artichoke and sundried tomato made for delicious ’za, but the small location declined in popularity over the years, and it closed in February 2020. The location will now be the new home of 7 Peppers Grill.
Chives Bistro's latest renovation before it closed saw antique mirrors cover the walls.
Lenny Mullins
Chives Bistro
This favourite originally opened in 2001, a lifetime ago in terms of Halifax restaurants. Over the years it saw many renovations, including most recently in 2017 when owner Craig Flynn told The Coast that he was obsessed with mirrored walls: "I started to go around to antique stores and collect them.” But in 2020, Flynn stepped down, and now the Barrington Street location is occupied by former Chives chef Stephanie Ogilvie and partner Brock Unger’s Hopscotch Dinner Club.
Picnic at Dart Gallery
Chef Allan McPherson made food imitate art in the Dart Gallery’s unique dining experience, where, like The Coast wrote in 2017 “the menu changes often, to coincide with the gallery's changing installations.” From slow-braised beef to marinated mussels and weekend brunch, Dartmouthians and Haligonians alike will fondly remember what it was like to dine together in a public space. The room will soon be used for Dart at Night.
Red Stag's rooftop patio had some great views of the waterfront.
Riley Smith
Red Stag Tavern
Since opening in 2007, the Red Stag has been situated inside the brewery market, with a larger-than-it-looks space that boasts a private dining room and spacious rooftop patio. The owners of the Red Stag, who also run The Lower Deck, closed it permanently in August 2020, owner Mike Condy telling suppliers “this year the restaurant and hospitality industry has received an insurmountable and devastating blow.” Going forward, The Brewery Market will soon be home to The Black Sheep’s new location.
Rockbottom Brewery was one of few remaining weekly trivia spots.
Rockbottom Brewpub
The basement bar won both best brewpub and best open mic back in The Coast’s Best Of Awards in 2014, and its trivia nights were legendary, but Rockbottom Brewpub had its final last call in March 2020. In its place, at 5686 Spring Garden, a new Nine Locks taproom opened in early November. No change of hands though, as both are owned by cousins Shaun and Danny O’Hearn, who also head up Your Father’s Moustache.
Close your eyes and picture a breezy spring evening sipping broth on Water & Bone's busy back terrace, splitting an order of karaage with your dinner date and reminiscing about the first time you tried ramen.
Water & Bone
Owner Jamie MacAulay closed shop at Water & Bone during the height of the pandemic’s first wave—and the Charles Street noodle spot never re-opened. When it first opened in 2017, MacAulay told The Coast he wanted to “respect the tradition” of ramen while using ingredients from Nova Scotia. Thankfully, he’s secured a new space on Gottingen Street, which opened in late October. Now, Coda Ramen is where MacAulay's serving up take-out tonkatsu, bao, karaage and more.
Restaurants that are closed indefinitely
Efendy Turkish and Mediterranean Grill
Efendy says on its website it's temporarily closed with no re-opening date. Since opening in 2013, Efendy had changed the way we think about Turkish food. Its kafta is made “the traditional Mediterranean way” on a charcoal grill, owner Altin Begolli told The Coast back in April 2017. We hope it's back, better than ever, in the new year. In the meantime, Smyrna Restaurant has taken its place on Dresden Row (owned by chef Michael Toker from former Turkish Delight resto and Troy in Wolfville).
Improv Café took over the empty space at the back of Ratinaud where The Kitchen Table once was.
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Improv Cafe
Ratinaud French Cuisine is known for its imported cheeses, cured meats, and patés. But hidden away in the back of the building is the simple and laid-back Improv Cafe. In January, chef Christopher Campbell told The Coast that "simplicity doesn't mean you're restricted to certain things. You can do improv on stage, but also in the kitchen." For now, it’s closed its doors to the public, but may return with some “yes and” magic once sharing a room with strangers can be safely done once again.
Let's Ko's beef dolsot bibimbap.
Let's Ko Facebook
Let's Ko
Since 2017, Let’s Ko was serving up bi bim bap, dukbokki, ramen and bulgogi from its strip mall location along the Bedford Highway. In May, owners announced on Facebook that they were closing permanently. However, in late November Let’s Ko said they will be moving to a new location at 30 Damascus Road in the Bedford Commons, and adding sushi to its menu. (Note: the new location opened on December 22!)
Mabata's steak frites have been unavailable since March. RIP.
Mabata Instagram
Mabata Glocal Eatery
This Bedford Highway eatery was home to menu items from oysters to falafel and steak frites to Maritime chowder, and since opening in February 2019 was the flagship location for food importer Mabata Inc.’s farm-to-table restaurants. Due to Covid, the resto shut its doors on March 18, and Mabata’s website says it is permanently closed but working on finding a new location. In the meantime, Mabata has opened an online store selling PPE.
Maxwell's Plum
Signs appeared on the doors of Maxwell’s Plum in August saying it was ‘temporarily closed,’ but four months later nothing has changed. The bar’s website says it will return soon and its Instagram page has had no updates, so it’s goodbye to the Plum and its legendary Brewtenders for now, but we’re sure something will occupy the Grafton Street joint pretty soon.
The Submarine
The hole-in-the-wall sub sandwich shop has been open as long as most Haligonians can remember, rivalling long-time haunts like Kaisers. But as of October 2020, The Submarine is no more. A post on Facebook says something "new and exciting" will replace it soon. Whatever it is, hopefully owner Laba Zibara's cold cuts and Lebanese dishes like falafel, shawarma and kafta will be involved.
Townsend and Lavalee are the husband and wife team behind The Canteen and Little C.
Town's End Tavern
The brainchild of Canteen owners Renée Lavalée and Doug Townsend is yet another victim of the pandemic’s downturn in business. The couple told The Coast they were calling quits on the project in March, just days before renovations to the Portland Street location were supposed to begin. Instead, that space, which is directly across from The Canteen and sister take-out joint Little C, will now become the Tare Shop’s Dartmouth location.
Restaurants that closed a location
Burrito Jax, Burnside
Burrito Jax is a locally owned chain that has expanded to five locations. Wait, make that four, as their Burnside location closed in March and never re-opened. The burrito biz has grown a lot since 2010, when Melissa Buote wrote that the “gentle grilling of the burritos has left them all warm, without resulting in soggy lettuce or tomato.” Thankfully, you can still grab a 2012, 2013 and 2015 The Coast Best of Awards Best Burrito at its other locations in Clayton Park, Sackville, downtown and on Kempt Road.
Gelato worth the adventure to the Hydrostone, and now Humani-T's only locaiton.
Melissa Buote
Humani-T Cafe, South Park Street
When Humani-T Cafe opened its downtown location in 2012 the Trillium building was new at the time. Nine years later it was a one-stop-shop for delicious tea, baked goods, and even vegan gelato. But in fall 2019 a crane collapse during Hurricane Dorian closed businesses on South Park Street for almost six months. Nemat Sobhani, who had sold the south end location to a new owner about a year and a half ago says the pandemic doubled down on the new owner’s misfortune, and the temporary Covid closure became permanent. Fortunately, you can still pick up treats from Sobhani’s north end location at 5755 Young Street.
Pavia Gallery-Espresso Bar & Café, Halifax Central Library
After first opening in Herring Cove in 2011, Pavia expanded to a location at the Halifax Central Library in 2014. At the time, co-owner Victoria Fougler said “from the beginning we wanted to be special regardless of where we were.” But Covid means food and drink are a no-go in the library right now, and the drop in business saw Pavia permanently leave the spot in September. If you need a latte or some imported Italian ingredients, the drive to 995 Herring Cove Road is well worth it.
Shivani Dhamija is “always ready to share the secrets of garam masala with you.”
MEGHAN TANSEY WHITTON
Shivani's Kitchen, Seaport Market
The pandemic has meant a lot of changes for vendors at the Seaport Market, including the closure of Shivani’s Kitchen, which has served up biryani and curries since 2018, and before that was a home delivery business for tiffins full of Indian food. But don’t fret, Shivani Dhamija has transformed her Windsor-area location into a wholesale business, offering samosas, custom spice mixes and butter chicken sauce via her website. Dhamija also scored a deal with Sobeys this summer which means you can pick up her spices while doing your next big grocery shop.
Small businesses that closed storefronts
Marianne Thomson and Lauren Wambolt in their Lower Water Street store in 2019.
Alexa Pope
In August 2020, local clothing retailer Alexa Pope closed its storefront on Lower Water Street permanently after seven years, switching to an online-only shopping experience. “It has been a tough few months for everyone but we feel like this is the right choice for us to make,” said the store’s Instagram page. In 2019, co-owner Marianne Thomson told The Coast “The biggest thing we get for feedback is 'I have nowhere to wear this,’” and we’re sure the pandemic didn’t help that cause.
Granite Brewery
First created by Kevin Keefe as Ginger’s taproom, which closed in 2009, the English style brewery originally opened in 1985. Since then, the Stairs Street microbrewery has been passed down to Keefe’s daughter Mary Beth, who continued producing small-batch ales until Covid forced Granite out of business once and for all in May 2020. But, if you’re ever in the Six, Granite’s Toronto location is apparently bigger and better than ever.
The building has been sold to a developer and will be torn down.
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McLellan's Antiques
Jim McLellan’s antique shop stood on Agricola Street for 25 years, but told The Coast in August that the customer base wasn’t what it used to be: “Fifteen years ago people stopped largely buying antiques, especially furniture, especially Victorian furniture.” Closing the shop at the end of August, McLellan is continuing to do antique restoration on a part-time basis, but will no longer have a storefront.
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Harbourview Weekend Market
The Canal Street market in Dartmouth was one of few traditional Maritime flea markets still running on a weekly basis, offering handmade goods, video games, locally butchered meats, and virtually anything under the sun if you woke up at 7am on a weekend score a deal. But in August 2020, the market posted on its Facebook page that the upcoming weekend would be its last, since the “building won't be available” to host it going forward. The post hints the market could come back in the future, but would likely be under a new name.
Newfoundland Club Facebook
Newfoundland Social Club
For over 40 years, this Burnside spot was a watering hole and gathering place for dart players and those who attended the popular dance nights. But in June 2020, it shut its doors for the last time, meaning those who want something to remind them of the Rock may have to cook up jigg’s dinner at home. “Covid in our midst was the final straw. With the numbers going down over the years and the uncertainty of what the future will bring, the new normal, social distancing, wearing masks, the new protocols put in place, we had to make a tough decision,” reads a post the club’s Facebook page.
Stark white shelves line the walls inside the Newfoundland Store; they’ve carried essential household staples for over 50 years.
Shelagh Duffett
Newfoundland Store
An iconic shop and must-visit for Newfoundlanders in Halifax looking for everything from salt cod to pineapple Crush to jam jams, the Newfoundland Store closed in January 2020 after a five-and-a-half decade long run, allowing 85-year-old owned Pat Yarn to finally retire. At the time, Jane Kansas wrote that “the thing about shopping at the Newfoundland Store is that it was a bit of time travel, back to days of more order and the simplicity of fewer choices. No dozens of choices of dish-washing soap or tinned soup or peanut butter.”
Penelope's Boutique Facebook
Penelope's Boutique
When it opened in 2011, Penelope’s brought a new style to Cunard Street, one that took vintage consignments but also carried the work of local designers. Owner Penny McAuley stayed afloat through construction woes and a changing Agricola streetscape, but the pandemic was the final blow. A closing sale occurred in October, and now, the store exists online only.
The Last Word Bookstore
In May, when signs appeared in the window of the Windsor Street bookstore saying it was having a closing out sale, Haligonians mourned the loss of one of their last local used bookstores. Owner Wayne Greene was known for his love of small talk and knowledge of obscure books. “Wayne is like the O.G. classic Canadian bookseller,” said one former employee. Added a customer, "I don’t think he did this for the money, he did it for the love.”
Small businesses that had big changes
Cafe Good Luck says bye to brunch
We all miss brunch, but no one more than Emma Adamski and the crew at Cafe Good Luck. Adamski told The Coast that at Cafe Good Luck, which opened on Portland Street in 2018, the food wasn’t fussy or pretentious. “I think people are really drawn to humble food.” But in March 2020, the pandemic meant no more indoor dining, and with an unclear path, Good Luck switched to a pantry item model of business, offering things like coffee beans, various non-dairy milks, dry pasta and sauces. Maybe one day brunch will return, but for now, we’ll buy the tote bag.
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Fickle Frog becomes Kai Brady's Fancy Dive Bar
We must admit we don’t know what Kai Brady’s is, or who Kai Brady is. But the longstanding Spring Garden Road institution The Fickle Frog was always a go-to place for cheap, greasy eats. We’re excited to see what the next iteration of the bar becomes, and hope it keeps the comedy, karaoke, and 2 pickles.
One of many booths at the Lion's Head adorned with memorabilia of days gone by.
Lion's Head Tavern gets a makeover
For nearly five decades, the Lion’s Head saw Halifax grow and change, and this year made changes of its own, moving into a new, three-storey space next door, which opened in October 2020. The crew and customers brought years of memories with them to the new build, but don’t expect the same old Lion’s Head when you walk through the doors. When The Coast spoke with general manager Gerry Duffy in September, he said “Some people, at first sight, might think well, it’s not their Lion’s Head.” But once they realize “it’s still a comfortable place, it’s still a good place to come out and have something to eat and have a drink,” they’ll keep coming back.
Aside from having possibly the sweatiest dance floor in town, Menz also hosted open mics, comedy nights, theatre shows, live music and the lion's share of drag shows in Halifax.
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Menz & Mollyz has new owners
In April 2020, a Facebook post from Menz and Mollyz said after 15 years, it was shutting its doors. With queer Haligonians fearing the worst, we mourned and remembered what Menz meant to us over the years. "It helped shaped my twenties into what your twenties should be: Chaotic, regrettable, fun, emotional, miserable, and (looking back) enormously enjoyable," one reader told The Coast. But no sooner than you could say "shantay you stay," a Facebook post in August confirmed the resurgence of the bar, under new management. It's yet to be seen what the new iteration of Menz will truly feel like—both due to the pandemic and the change of hands—but we can't wait to don our fishnets and heels and get in line.
Editor's Note: While this list is extensive, it is by no means exhaustive, and we regret any oversights or omissions.
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Success of 24hr 220 bus route shows room to expand other services
By TheCork.ie on 5th February, 2020 Comments Off on Success of 24hr 220 bus route shows room to expand other services
Statistics recently released by Bus Éireann show that the 220 route, which runs from Carrigaline through Douglas and the city centre out towards Ballincollig, had an increase in passenger numbers of over 70% since the introduction of the 24hr bus route, as well as more frequent services during peak hours.
Speaking today, Green Party candidate in Cork South Central, Cllr. Lorna Bogue, said this shows that Bus Éireann & the NTA must now look to expand other services in Cork:
“Just from talking to people you know that the expanded service has been a huge success, but to hear that, officially, it’s been such a tremendous success, is really amazing. It shows that Cork people, when given a quality service, and the option, will choose to use public transport.
“Now the NTA have to look at expanding other services,” Councillor Bogue continued. “I think the 208 that goes from Mayfield through the city to Wilton, or the 215 from Mahon out to Blarney, with the option of making them 24 hour services, look like really sensible suggestions now, given today’s news.
“In just one year an already busy service saw a 70% increase in passenger numbers. Who knows how much our existing services could improve if we gave them the same treatment?”
Recently the Green Party launched its election manifesto, a manifesto that promised – among other things – the introduction of free bus services for students, trialling a €365 annual bus pass for the general public, and supporting the proposals for light railway systems for Cork & Galway.
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Worst TV Show Turned Movie List
I'm not going to add much commentary, I think these movies speak for themselves.
Miami Vice: I really don't expect much plot from a Michael Mann movie. In fact I expect mostly action. But Colin Farrell's greasy hair, and shitty acting was just wrong. Was this supposed to be an action flick, a thriller, or a comedy? Maybe if Mann had picked one it would have been a better movie, instead of just bad.
Starsky and Hutch: The show was a little before my time but watching Ben Stiller act like Ben Stiller in another Ben Stiller movie wasn't that interesting.
Dukes of Hazard: I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either.
Lost in Space: Yes, this movie sucked. But honestly, the TV show kind of sucked as well.
Thunderbirds: I have intentionally avoided cartoons turned movies, such as Scooby Doo , GI Joe, and the Flintstones, as they pretty much always turn bad. But I have to mention the Thunderbirds, since it was puppets instead. So if you can't take a kids TV show involving puppets and make it a decent movie, you shouldn't be making movies.
I know there are more movies that should be on this list, and as I watch them, I will add them, so check back.
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ARPANETTA
From the number of instruments surviving in museums today, and from baroque dictionary definitions, it would seem that the arpanetta was wide-spread across Europe and frequently played during the 17th and 18th centuries. We see more arpanette than baroque harps.
But the arpanetta is hardly ever heard in today's Early Music.
The Arpanetta is essentially a large, double-sided,, chromatic psaltery. Imagine a harpsichord standing on its keyboard, vertically upright. But there's no keyboard, you just pluck the strings with your right-hand fingernails. And the instrument is double, with another set of strings for the left hand, on the other side.
On each side, the strings are arranged in two parallel rows, like the white and black keys on a keyboard. The first row has the diatonic (white) notes; you poke a finger through between two diatonic strings to reach the chromatic (black note) row inside. For the player, this arrangement of diatonic and chromatic strings feels similar to a baroque harp. But there is an important difference - you can't look through the solid body of the arpanetta, so that you cannot watch both hands at once.
On the Right Hand (treble) side, the diatonic strings are double-courses. Each note has a pair of strings, tuned in unison. The fingernail strikes both strings simultaneously, just as on a lute or baroque guitar.
Whereas baroque harps had gut strings, and early Irish harps had thick brass strings, the arpanetta was strung (rather like a harpsichord) with thin brass and/or iron. Typically, the left (bass) side was strung in brass, the right (treble) side in iron.
There are many more Arpanettas surviving in museums today than there are baroque harps or early Irish harps, even though we hardly ever hear them in concerts or CDs.
The large number of surviving instruments probably reflects the historical situation. The arpanetta was a much-loved domestic instrument. You can think of it as the "upright piano of the baroque" - a domestic instrument that many people owned, but for which there is no specific repertoire. After all, who composes for upright piano? No-one. But on the other hand, what do people play on upright pianos? Everything, especially their favourite, most well-known pieces (whether originally songs, or orchestral symphonies). So with the arpanetta: although there is little written for it, it's historical repertoire is almost unlimited.
DISCOGRAPHY 1994
Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach
Co-directed by Headley, Lawrence-King & Stubbs
Program devised by Andrew Lawrence-King
Andrew Lawrence-King - arpanetta solo
Monteverdi Ballo delle Ingrate
Featuring Andrew Lawrence-King - arpanetta continuo
These recordings were made using an instrument built by Roger Rose at West Dean College in the 1990s, based on the surviving arpanetta in the Victoria & Albert museum, London
MICHAELSTEIN 2014
The Museum at Kloster Michaelstein displays a surviving original arpanetta. As part of the project to provide recorded audio examples for each instrument in the collection, the Michaelstein Music Institute for Performance Studies funded a concert and recording with Ensemble Bell' Arte Salzburg directed by Annegret Siedel and Andrew Lawrence-King (baroque harp, arpanetta).
For these performances, Katerina Antonenko restored, adjusted and restrung the instrument constructed by Roger Rose. As part of this work, a new lower bridge was made for the Right Hand side, so that the string spacing could be adjusted to bring the unison strings within each course closer together, and each double course further apart from the neighbouring course on the next diatonic note. On both sides, the diatonic and chromatic rows were also moved further apart.
These adjustments made it easier to play both strings of each double course simultaneously, while avoiding the neighbouring courses and the chromatic row. They also facilitated a better sound from the chromatic row by creating more space for the fingers to move.
Andrew Lawrence-King revised his playing technique in line with newly-available information from Johann Philipp Eisel's Musicus αυτοδιδακτος (Erfurt, 1738). In particular, he adopted Eisel's Good-Bad fingering with index and middle fingers, and 7-note chords for continuo-playing. He also brought the hands lower down, close to the bridge, as suggested by Adlung's comparison to a harpsichord's spinet stop, in Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit (Erfurt, 1758). This position is supported by period techniques for harp and lute-family instruments.
Adlung's book also hinted at an explanation for a strange mechanism on the V&A arpanetta. Roger and Andrew were unable to understand the function of this felt-covered roll-bar in the 1990s, although they speculated that it might work to damp the strings after playing. But by analogy with a harpsichord's buff-stop, Andrew and Katerina now consider that the felt bar rolls up against the strings to alter the sound whilst playing.
This revelation came too late to construct a roll-bar mechanism in time for the Michaelstein performances, but a low-tech version (a band of felt stretched tightly against the strings) worked well, encouraging further work in this direction. For the Michaelstein recording, the instrument was played both with and without this "buff-stop" effect.
MICHAELSTEIN CONCERT
Wenn das Glücke wetterwendig
Domestic Music from the time of Erlebach, Bach & Telemann
Ensemble Bell' Arte Salzburg directed by Annegret Siedel
Andrew Lawrence-King (baroque harp, arpanetta).
The performance included Erlebach's Ich stehe fest with arpanetta playing continuo and in the opening ritornello; Bach's Aria from the Goldberg Variations (arpanetta solo); and Telemann's cantata Die Liebe with arpanetta continuo.
MICHAELSTEIN RECORDING
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach Ich stehe fest
Britta Schwarz - Alto,
featuring Andrew Lawrence-King - Arpanetta
Arpanetta by Roger Rose, restored by Katerina Antonenko
The recording will be presented in the Museum at Kloster Michaelstein, accompanying the exhibit of a surviving arpanetta.
The recording will be included on a CD of audio examples of surviving instruments for future release.
Read more about the arpanetta and the sources mentioned here on Simon Chadwick's Spitzharfe pages here
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Forager is one of those games which blurs the line a little bit. Specifically, between a survival RPG… And an idle game. I’ve actually had some arguments, over the past month, as to whether this label really applies. “But Jamie, you do things. You walk around.”
I’m pretty much getting the obvious screenshot out of the way here. And it’s not hard to see why it’s an obvious choice.
Yes. And a lot of that walking around is so you can find the thing that popped up. To hit the thing. To get more of a thing. So you can make more of the other thing to get more things overall. Everything in Forager is in service to opening up more Forager. And a lot of that time is either clicking on things (To mine them, to kill them, or to solve the odd puzzle), or waiting for things.
Like I said, it blurs the line, because while other survival games and RPGs have precisely this… Even the skill tree is basically “Unlock more things to do.” Ah, now you can mine this metal. Now you can make better mining things. Now you can get more gold when you make gold.
NEED MORE GOLD. AND WHEAT. AND COAL. (But not really food. I’m good there, that’s just to kill time.)
Does that make Forager unenjoyable? Not precisely, it definitely does interesting things. But it really does seem to be enjoyed more if you approach it from an idle-game viewpoint than an RPG viewpoint. Exploration? Well, occasionally you get that, but more often, it’s bam, one puzzle or NPC fetch quest chain, and what’s left is farming, mining, and harvesting. Story? Again, somewhat, but it’s relatively minimal, and in service to… Opening up more mining, farming, and harvesting. It has a hunger meter, it’s true, and a health meter, but rarely are either threatened. The real threat, honestly, is that you hit a progression lull.
See, there’s never a lack of things to do, or things to watch. In fact, quite the opposite, as, quickly, you have inventory management, and meters to watch, and things to make, and things to harvest, and now, because you want to make this special thing, you have more things to harvest, and make, and… It can get overwhelming, with the feeling that you’re running in place while not doing very much (Much like a lull in… An idle game.)
This, by the way, is about the point I gave up on my completionist dreams. NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE.
Still, the rate of progression, to an extent, depends on how you want it to progress. I’ve seen folks try single island challenges, and others (like me) try desperately to see everything there is in the game, buying islands as soon as they can, levelling as best they can (Levelling is done by just doing things, but, as you might expect, it gets slower the further you go), and that self goal setting is a nice way to approach this.
Anyway, as noted, Forager seems to be most enjoyable when played from an idle, as opposed to RPG perspective, and that’s just fine. I am a little annoyed that the option to quit is hidden in options, but other reviewers have noted this, and it hasn’t changed, so I guess it stays.
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@RTNBA THE ENDING OF MIAMI-DUKE 😳 pic.twitter.com/LVnzexHwMx
— Abdul Memon (@abdulamemon) November 1, 2015
That really just happened. After a lengthy review, and a review of the review, the Hurricanes beat Duke 30-27 when Corn Elder took the eighth lateral on a kickoff return to the end zone with time expired in Durham on Saturday night.
The game appeared over when Thomas Sirk ran in a one-yard touchdown to put Duke up by three with six seconds left. How could this team, after this week, be on the receiving end of a miracle? After the worst defeat in school history last Saturday that sidelined Brad Kaaya with a concussion for the matchup against the Blue Devils, the firing of Head Coach Al Golden on Sunday, the death of a player’s mother on Tuesday and the arrest of a player on Wednesday, Miami beat No. 22 Duke on one of the greatest plays in the history of college football.
The play started with a Dallas Crawford lateral to Elder at the 20-yard line. Elder then bounced the ball to Ja’Quan Johnson, who flipped it to Mark Walton and then quickly got it back from Walton. The fifth lateral went to Tyre Brady, who pitched it to Elder at the 10-yard line. With a defender closing in, Elder threw the ball to Crawford near the right corner of the goal line. Crawford advanced to the 15-yard line and then reversed the field with the final lateral to Elder, who was waiting near the 10-yard line with three blockers in front of him. Elder cut past the final Duke defender 40 yards from the end zone, and ran the rest of the way untouched into the end zone, and into college football lore.
“It’s never over. It’s never over,” Interim Head Coach Larry Scott said after the game, his first in charge of the Hurricanes. “I don’t know what to say.”
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The Canes were in control for most of the night and never trailed until the final seconds when Sirk punched it in.
Duke (6-2, 3-1) made it a one-possession game on a 14-play, 75-yard drive with 2:40 remaining. Sirk converted a critical fourth down from Miami’s 40 on a 13-yard pass to senior receiver Max McCaffrey. Five plays later, Sirk connected with junior receiver Johnell Barnes on a 19-yard strike for a touchdown, cutting Miami’s lead to 24-19.
Miami (5-3, 2-2) recovered the ensuing onside kick, but then went three-and-out after two runs and a short pass. Duke took over at their own 20 with no timeouts and 1:50 remaining. The Hurricanes were called for defensive pass interference three times as the Blue Devils marched down the field to take the lead.
Miami survived a disastrous start to the game. Duke started the game at Miami’s 15 after Walton, a freshman running back fumbled the opening kickoff on a huge hit. Duke moved down to the three-yard line after one play, but that’s when Miami’s defense kicked into gear. The Canes stuffed the Blue Devils on the next four plays, and Miami took over at the one-yard line.
Redshirt freshman Malik Rosier opened his first career start with a quarterback sneak up the middle for a short gain. Facing third-and-five from the six-yard line, Rosier delivered a perfect pass to senior receiver Herb Waters on the left sideline for the first down. Rosier was shaken up after the throw and had to leave the game for one play.
The defenses owned the first quarter as the teams headed to the second tied 0-0. Sophomore running back Joseph Yearby was impressive in the opening quarter, carrying the ball eight times for 46 yards.
Duke opened the second quarter on the move and quickly advanced inside Miami territory. Sirk connected with McCaffrey at Miami’s 18, but junior linebacker Jermaine Grace managed to strip the ball away and the Canes recovered the fumble. Grace finished the half with a career-high 12 tackles.
Rosier came out firing on the ensuing possession, hitting Waters with a beauty down the right sideline for 23 yards on the first play. Rosier followed that up with a 26-yard completion over the middle to redshirt freshman tight end David Njoku two plays later on third-and-five. On the very next snap, the backup quarterback from Alabama threw his first career touchdown pass on a 33-yard lob to the end zone for Waters. The touchdown grab was Waters’ fifth touchdown against Duke in his career for the Canes.
Miami took over after a quick three-and-out on Duke’s next drive, and the Canes started at the Blue Devils’ 35 thanks to a shanked punt that went all of 11 yards. Two screen passes to junior receiver Stacy Coley and a Walton run set Miami up at the one-yard line. The Canes brought in junior fullback Walter Tucker to finish the job, but he fumbled the handoff from Rosier. Fortunately for the Canes, redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Sunny Odogwu fell on top of the loose ball in the end zone, and Miami took a 14-0 lead.
Duke responded with a 15-play, 69-yard drive that resulted in a 27-yard field goal by senior Ross Martin. The Blue Devils were down inside the five-yard line at one point, but false starts cost Duke precious yards.
Miami had its own struggles with yellow flags in the first game under Scott. The Canes racked up 11 penalties for 104 yards in the first half alone. Miami finished the game with a school-record 23 penalties for 194 yards.
Duke had one last chance to score before the end of the half, but Martin missed a 38-yard field goal with nine seconds left. The Blue Devils failed to score a touchdown in the first half despite three trips inside the red zone.
The Blue Devils marched down the field with ease to start the third quarter. A 24-yard touchdown run by redshirt junior Jela Duncan capped off a seven-play, 75-yard drive that only took 2:09 off the clock.
After throwing for 157 yards and one touchdown on 13-of-17 passing in the first half, Rosier had his share of struggles in the third quarter. Rosier was picked off on Miami’s first drive when he underthrew his intended target, and took a safety on the team’s last possession of the quarter. Rosier scrambled back to the end zone and threw the ball straight into the ground for an intentional grounding call, gifting two points to Duke.
Walton made up for his poor play in the first half with some hard running to open the fourth quarter. The freshman broke a 27-yard run to put the Canes down near midfield. Walton followed that up with runs of nine and seven yards and then a crucial four-yard gain on third-and-three from Duke’s 24. Rosier finished off the drive with a 19-yard lob to Coley in the right corner of the end zone for his second touchdown pass of the game. Rosier ended the night with 272 yards and two touchdowns on 20-of-29 passing.
Down two scores, the Blue Devils desperately needed to come away with points on the next drive. Junior defensive back Artie Burns, whose mother passed away Tuesday from a heart attack, was determined to give the ball back to Miami’s offense. Burns forced Duke to turn the ball over on downs with fantastic coverage on third and fourth down throws by Sirk.
Miami took over at its own 49 and moved inside the red zone on a 31-yard catch by redshirt senior receiver Rashawn Scott. Rosier hit Scott with a perfect back-shoulder pass on the left sideline, one of several impressive throws on the night by the redshirt freshman. The Canes settled for a 37-yard field goal by sophomore Michael Badgley to double Duke’s score and take a 24-12 lead with 5:54 remaining.
Duke outgained Miami 440-391 in total yards and finished with 34 first downs to Miami’s 21. The Canes still have a chance to win the ACC Coastal division after the miracle win.
The Hurricanes next face Virginia at 3 p.m. Saturday at Sun Life Stadium.
Feature photo courtesy HurricaneSports.com.
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With traditions, records, and Fighting Irish lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Notre Dame fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. This guide to all things Notre Dame covers the game day walk from the Basilica to the Stadium, Joe Montana's legendary comeback performance in the 1979 Cotton Bowl, and the history of the green jersey tradition.
By Dave Buscema
With traditions, records, and New York football history, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Giants fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. This guide to all things New York Giants covers the transition of leadership through the Mara family, league championships, the first NFL title game, and the move to the Meadowlands.
100 Things Patriots Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Donald Hubbard
With pep talks, records, and Patriots lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every New England fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. This guide to all things Patriots covers the team's improbable run to Super Bowl XX, the origins of the Pat Patriot mascot, and the best Pats bar in the Boston area.
100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Jon Weisman
With traditions, records, and team lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Dodgers fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. This guide to all things Dodgers covers the team's history in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, the incredible legacy of Jackie Robinson, memories from Ebbets Field, Dodger Adult Baseball Camp, and why fans think the Dodgers invented the high-five.
100 Things Lakers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Steve Springer, Foreword by Bill Sharman
This is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of the Los Angeles Lakers. Most fans have taken in a game or two at the Staples Center, have seen highlights of a young Magic Johnson, and remember the epic battles with the Celtics in the 1980s. But only real fans know how the Lakers acquired Hot Rod Hundley, which hobby fascinated both Chick Hearn and Elgin Baylor, or the best place to grab a bite in Los Angeles before the game. Every essential piece of Lakers knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, is ranked from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for those on their way to Laker fan superstardom.
Published Feb 2012
100 Things Michigan Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Angelique Chengelis, Foreword by Lloyd Carr
With traditions, records, and Wolverines lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Michigan fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. This guide to all things Michigan covers the story behind the Wolverine's winged helmets, the history of the team's colors, the 1997 undefeated and national championship season, and how to properly tailgate in Ann Arbor. This revised edition includes Brady Hoke's first season as head coach in Ann Arbor, featuring quarterback Denard Robinson, and the Wolverines' 2012 Sugar Bowl triumph.
100 Things Crimson Tide Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Christopher Walsh
The Crimson Tide is one of the most storied and decorated football programs in NCAA history—since its inception in 1892, the program has claimed 14 National Championship titles, all of which are explored in this essential guide, along with the personalities, events, and facts that any and every Tide fan should know. The book zeros in on critical moments, such as when running back Mark Ingram became the first Alabama player to win the Heisman Trophy in 2009, despite the team being led to six championships from 1958 to 1982 by the celebrated coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, as well as key figures from the college's history that include coaches Gene Stallings and Nick Saban and players Joe Namath, Ozzie Newsome, and Derrick Thomas. More than a century of team history is distilled to highlight the absolute best and most compelling moments, identifying in an informative and lively way the personalities, events, and facts that have all come together to make Crimson Tide the powerhouse that it is. This updated version includes highlights from the 2009 and 2011 championship seasons and features key players from the past four years.
100 Things Auburn Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Evan Woodbery
Drawing insight from many former players, coaches, and others directly tied to the storied and revered football program of Auburn University, this resource for fans places firsthand accounts alongside essential team history for a one-of-a-kind guide to Tigers football. With more than a century of history, two National Championship victories, and three Heisman Trophy winners distilled into the greatest highlights, the book serves as the ultimate compendium of everything that is special about the football program and includes the stories and memories of everyone from Ralph “Shug” Jordan and Pat Dye to Bo Jackson and Tracy Rocker. Taking Tigers fandom outside of Jordan-Hare stadium and into everyday life, the book also includes beloved landmarks and top hangouts on the Auburn campus and in the Montgomery area. Updated to include the 2011 season, this revised edition includes Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton and the 2010 National Championship team coached by Gene Chizik.
100 Things Sabres Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Sal Maiorana
Covering the entire 30 year history of the Sabres, author Sal Maiorana has collected every essential piece of Sabres knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100. Most Sabres fans have taken in a game or two at the First Niagara Center, have seen highlights of a young Pat Lafontaine, and are aware that the Blizzard of 1977 caused the team’s first weather-related cancelation. But only real fans know who scored the first goal in franchise history, can name every member of the Sabres Hall of Fame, or can tell you the best place to grab a bite in Buffalo before the game. 100 Things Sabres Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the definitive resource guide for both seasoned and new fans of the Buffalo Sabres.
100 Things Broncos Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Brian Howell
Pulling from 42 years of Broncos history, this directory offers dedicated information to fans of Denver’s beloved team. Thanks to the arrival of Peyton Manning, the Broncos are definitely more visible than ever, but it is the real fans that know who scored the first touchdown in franchise history, can name all the members of the team’s Ring of Fame, and can even share where to grab a bite in Denver before the game. It is the ultimate resource guide that contains every essential piece of Broncos knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities. All these gems are presented in an easy-to-follow checklist that is ranked from 1 to 100, making it a must-have for any Broncos fan, new or old.
100 Things Falcons Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Ray Glier, By Knox Bardeen
From their humble start in the NFL as an expansion team to their current journey toward becoming one of the hottest teams in the NFL, this handbook spotlights the most compelling and truly great moments in the 46 years of the Atlanta Falcons. Scattered throughout the pages are pep talks, records, and Falcons lore, including the origins of the famous Freddie Falcon mascot, the best place to grab a meal before or after a game, and which famous quarterback the Falcons drafted in 1991 and quietly traded a year later. Some the most critical moments and important facts about past and present players, coaches, and teams that are part of the storied history that is Falcons football are also shared. Fans who bleed red, black, and silver will particularly enjoy reading about some of the more colorful and unique personalities such as Deion Sanders, Jamal Anderson, Eric Dickerson, Dan Reeves, and Michael Vick. Whether a die-hard from the Norm Van Brocklin era or a new supporter of Mike Smith and Matt Ryan, any fan will value this collection of all of the things Atlanta fans should actually see and do in their lifetime.
100 Things Hoosiers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Stan Sutton
This guide to all things Hoosiers tells the history of Indiana University basketball across several decades and covers anything and everything a fan should know. It takes years of Hoosiers history and distills it to the absolute best and most compelling, identifying the personalities, events, and facts that every living and breathing fan should know without hesitation. Numbers, nicknames, memorable moments, singular achievements, and signature plays all highlight the list of 100. Stan Sutton, a longtime IU beat writer, has assembled all the information and achievements that are sure to educate and entertain new and old fans alike. In its century-plus of college basketball, Indiana University has established a winning tradition that includes five NCAA championships and 20 Big Ten conference championships, all of which is celebrated in this entertaining resource.
100 Things Bills Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Jeff Miller, Foreword by Marv Levy
Filled with details on the rich history of the Buffalo Bills, this lively, detailed book explores the most critical moments and important facts about past and present players, coaches, and teams that are part of the storied history that is Bills football. This guide to all things Buffalo Bills covers the franchise's historic four consecutive AFC championships, the origins of the famous Billy Buffalo mascot, and the best place to grab a meal or drink before or after a game. Scattered throughout the pages are pep talks, records, and Bills lore, ensuring that readers are certain in their knowledge of the most important facts about the team, the traditions, and what being a Bills fan is all about.
The team that ranks third in the National Football League with eight NFL titles and 15 players in the NFL Hall of Fame is featured in this one-of-a-kind handbook for fans. Essential information on the New York Giants is compiled in a direct and accessible format, including pep talks, statistics, critical moments, and important facts about past and present players, coaches, and teams. Answers to questions such as Why was Ahmad Bradshaw trying not to score a touchdown at the end of Super Bowl XLIX? What were the Giants thinking when Tom Brady laughed at Plaxico Burress' prediction before Super Bowl XLII? and Why did Bill Parcells quit his dream job as a Giants assistant coach to become a realtor in 1979? are also included. Fans that bleed blue, red, white, and gray will enjoy reading about some of the more colorful and unique personalities that include Eli Manning, Mario Manningham, Jeff Hostetler, Joe Morris, Jeremy Shockey, and Brad Van Pelt. This updated edition includes entries about the Giants' surprising 2011 championship season and their Super Bowl XLIX triumph over the Patriots.
100 Things Lions Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Paula Pasche
Whether it’s for a die-hard booster from the days of Dick Lane or a new supporter of Matthew Stafford, the top facts and activities concerning the Detroit Lions that all fans need to know and do in their lifetime can be found here. Culled by an area journalist of team history from eight decades, the book collects every essential piece of Lions knowledge and trivia, including must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100. Topics cover everything from who scored the first touchdown in franchise history to the members of the Lions Hall of Fame, and even includes the best place to grab a bite in Detroit before the game. This is a treasury of information that true fans might know about their beloved Lions but will love to reminisce over and a guide that will help new fans get up to snuff.
100 Things Rangers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Rusty Burson
Being a Rangers fan is about more than watching the team win the big game, and this book helps fans get the most out of it. Taking 40 years of Rangers history, the book distills it to the absolute best and most compelling moments, identifying the personalities, events, and facts every Rangers fan should know without hesitation. Numbers with huge import, such as 8, 34, and 1972; nicknames such as Pudge, Juan Gone, and Ryan Express; plus memorable moments, singular achievements, and signature calls all highlight the list. Experiences are another important part of the fabric of being a fan, so the book also includes things Rangers fans should actually see and do before they join Billy Martin and others at the Pearly Gates. From having a brew at the best Rangers bars in Texas to discovering the boyhood home of Nolan Ryan and finding the best food at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, this book contains numerous tips and suggestions for enjoying all aspects of Rangers fandom.
100 Things Canadiens Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Pat Hickey, Foreword by Jacques Demers
Perfect for Canadiens fans who think they already know everything Whether you're a lifetime fan from the days of Scotty Bowman or a new supporter of Michel Therrien, these are the 100 things all Montreal Canadiens fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Author Pat Hickey has collected every essential piece of Canadiens knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranked them, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom. From trivia on legendary players such as Guy Lafleur, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Maurice Richard, and Jean Beliveau or famous comedic references to the Canadiens made in movies and television, to knowing the best places to catch a game, 100 Things Canadiens Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of the Canadiens.
By Jon Weisman, Foreword by Peter O'Malley
With traditions, records, and team lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Dodgers fan should know. This guide to all things Dodgers covers the team’s history in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, the incredible legacy of Jackie Robinson, memories from Ebbets Field, Dodger Adult Baseball Camp, and why fans think the Dodgers invented the high-five. This revised and updated edition also features new entries on the team’s ownership change; manager Don Mattingly; and young stars Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, and Clayton Kershaw. Lifelong Dodgers fan and author Jon Weisman has collected every essential piece of Dodgers knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for fans of all ages.
100 Things Tigers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Terry Foster, Foreword by Willie Horton
One of the most storied and fascinating histories in all of Major League Baseball, the Detroit Tigers—an American League charter franchise in 1901—have survived some of the most intense highs and lows of any team in professional sports, and this lively and detailed book explores it all. This guide to all things Tigers covers the 1984 World Series championship and the riots it sparked; controversial “Georgia Peach” Ty Cobb; and crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, singular achievements, and signature calls. This fully updated edition, which includes details on the Tigers’ exciting 2011 playoff run and Miguel Cabrera’s historic season as well as the Tigers’ acquisition of Prince Fielder, guides fans on numerous of activities to help them celebrate their team in new and deeper ways.
100 Things Angels Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Joe Haakenson, Foreword by Tim Salmon
Inspired by and written for the devout Angels fan, this lively and detailed book explores important facts and figures from the baseball team's storied history. Decades of tradition, victories and defeats, name revisions, and Hall of Fame inductions are distilled into an entertaining list that journeys from one to 100 into what makes a true fan of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. From the essentials, such as the Nolan Ryan era, to the lesser-known tidbits, including the team's origin and what started the Rally Monkey, this book is the ultimate resource to Angels knowledge and trivia and even suggests the best places to eat and drink before a game.
100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Joel Luckhaupt
In this ultimate resource guide for true fans of baseball’s first professional team, author Joel Luckhaupt has collected every essential piece of Cincinnati Reds trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranked them from one to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for fans to complete in their lifetime. Most Reds fans have taken in a game or two at the Great American Ball Park, have seen highlights of the Big Red Machine, and remember the team’s surprising triumph in the 1990 World Series. But only real fans know which 15-year-old took the mound for the Reds in 1944, can name the pitcher who gave up Pete Rose’s 4,192nd hit, or remember how many dogs owner Marge Schott owned. 100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the perfect book for any fan of Reds baseball, whether a die-hard booster from the days of Ted Kluszewski or a new supporter of Joey Votto, Johnny Cueto, and Aroldis Chapman.
By Ryan Clark, By Joe Cox
The University of Kentucky mens basketball program is the winningest in the history of the sport, and this book explores those wins along with the personalities, events, and facts that any and every Wildcats fan should know. Wildcats stars from more than a century of success are highlighted, including Louie Dampier, Pat Riley, Sam Bowie, Jamal Mashburn, Antoine Walker, Walter McCarty, Travis Ford, and Brandon Knight. The teams colorful coaches are also profiled, including championship winners Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, and Tubby Smith. It takes years of franchise history and highlights the absolute best and most compelling moments, identifying the personalities, events, and facts that have all come together to make Kentucky the powerhouse that it is. Wildcats fans will read about all of this and more, including some of the long-standing traditions that surround this storied club and the necessary mainstays to participate in, making this something that any Wildcats fan will enjoy.
100 Things Beatles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die ›
By Gillian G. Gaar
Published Jun 2013
Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base over half a century that is as significant and devoted as those of the Beatles, and this entertaining guide to all things Fab Four rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band in a one-of-a-kind format. Packed with history, trivia, lists, little-known facts, and must-do adventures that every Beatles fan should undertake, it ranks each item from one to 100. Fans of any generation will appreciate the songs, albums, places, personalities, and events that are relived and revealed from five decades of Beatles lore.
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A continuation in tourism growth and a significant increase in passenger traffic to Antalya over the last decade has led to the start of works on it´s new airport which is due to be completed by 2022. Already with two airports, Antalya & Gazipasa, this new ´West Antalya´ will provide improved travelling conditions for visitors and will ease the flow of traffic through the existing terminals.
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Weldability of materials - copper and copper alloys - Job Knowledge 23
Weldability of materials - copper and copper alloys
Job Knowledge 23
Copper and copper alloys are chosen because of their corrosion resistance and electrical and thermal conductivity.
The various types of copper alloys are identified and guidance is given on processes and techniques which can be used in fabricating copper alloy components with a view to maintaining their corrosion or mechanical properties whilst avoiding the introduction of defects into the welds.
Alloy types
The main categories of copper and copper alloy are listed below:
Table 1. Frequently used copper alloys and recommended filler metals
Alloy type
Recommended filler
Coppers (tough pitch, phosphorus deoxidised) Cu 1897, Cu 1898
Brasses (low Zinc) Cu 6328, Cu 6560
Nickel Silvers (20%Zn/15%Ni type) Cu 6328, Cu 6560
Silicon Bronze (3%Si) Cu 6560
Phosphor Bronze (4.5% to 6%Sn/0.4%P) Cu 5180
Aluminium Bronze (<7.8%Al) Cu 6240, Cu 6100
Aluminium Bronze (>7.8%Al) Cu 6180, Cu 6328
Aluminium Bronze (6%Al/2%Si) Cu 6100
Gunmetal (low lead) Cu 5180, Cu 6560, Cu 6180
Cupro-Nickel (10%Ni) Cu 7061, Cu 7158
Cupro-Nickel (30%Ni) Cu 7158
Copper with small alloy additions (less than 5% in total)
Brasses e.g. copper-zinc (Cu-Zn)
Nickel silvers e.g. copper-zinc-nickel (Cu-Zn-Ni)
Bronzes e.g. copper-tin (Cu-Sn) (phosphor bronze alloys also contain phosphorus)
Gunmetals e.g. copper-tin-zinc (Cu-Sn-Zn) (some alloys may contain lead)
Aluminium bronze e.g. copper-aluminium (Cu-Al) (most alloys also contain iron and many nickel)
Cupro-nickels e.g. copper-nickel (Cu-Ni)
The most frequently used copper alloys are listed in Table 1, together with a range of welding electrodes for fusion welding as per BS EN 14640:2005. Similar filler wire compositions are given in AWS A5.7/A5.7M:2008 and covered electrodes are specified in A5.6/A5.6M:2007.
It should be mentioned that welding of Nickel Silvers (45%Zn/10%Ni), leaded Gunmetal and high Zinc Brasses (40%Zn) is not recommended.
Copper alloys have quite different welding characteristics due to differences in thermal conductivity. For example copper, due to its high thermal conductivity, may require substantial preheat to counteract the very high heat sink. However, some of the alloys which have a thermal conductivity similar to low carbon steel, such as cupro-nickel alloys, can normally be fusion welded without a preheat.
Copper is normally supplied in the form of
oxygen bearing, tough pitch copper
phosphorus deoxidised copper
oxygen-free copper
Tough pitch copper contains stringers of copper oxide (<0.1% oxygen as Cu2O) which does not impair the mechanical properties of wrought material and it has high electrical conductivity.Oxygen-free and phosphorus deoxidised copper are more easily welded.
TIG and MIG are the preferred welding processes but oxyacetylene and MMA welding can be also used in the repair of tough pitch copper components. Helium and nitrogen-based shielding gases, which have higher arc voltages, can be used as an alternative to argon to counteract the high thermal conductivity of coppers.
Avoiding weld imperfections
During fusion welding of tough pitch copper, the high oxygen content of the alloy often leads to embrittlement in the heat affected zone (HAZ) and weld metal porosity. Phosphorus deoxidised copper is more weldable but residual oxygen can result in porosity in autogenous welds especially in the presence of hydrogen. Porosity can be avoided by using appropriate filler wire containing deoxidants (Al, Mn, Si, P and Ti).
Thin section material can be welded without preheat. However, over 5mm thickness all grades need preheat to produce a fluid weld pool and avoid fusion defects. Thick section components may need a preheat temperature as high as 600 deg.C.
Copper with small alloying additions
Low amounts of sulphur or tellurium can be added to improve machining. However, these grades are normally considered to be unweldable.
Precipitation hardened alloys contain small additions of chromium, zirconium or beryllium. and have superior mechanical properties. Chromium and beryllium coppers may suffer from HAZ cracking unless they are heat treated before welding. When welding beryllium copper, care should be taken to avoid inhaling the welding fumes, which are poisonous.
Brasses (copper-zinc alloys) and nickel silvers
When considering weldability, brasses can be separated into two groups viz. low zinc (up to 20% Zn) and high zinc (30 to 40% Zn). Nickel silvers contain 20 to 45% zinc and nickel to improve strength. The main problem in fusion welding these alloys is the volatilisation of the zinc which results in white fumes of zinc oxide and weld metal porosity. Only low zinc brasses are weldable using fusion welding processes such as TIG and MIG.
To minimise porosity, a zinc-free filler wire should be used, either silicon bronze (Cu 6560) or an aluminium bronze (Cu 6180). High welding speeds will reduce pore size.
TIG and MIG processes are used with argon or an argon-helium mixture but not with nitrogen. Preheat is normally used for low zinc (<20% Zn) to avoid fusion defects due to the high thermal conductivity,. Although preheat is not needed for higher zinc content alloys, slow cooling reduces cracking risk. Post weld heat treatment also helps to reduce the risk of stress corrosion cracking in areas where restraint is high.
Bronzes (tin bronze, phosphor bronze, silicon bronze and gunmetal)
Tin bronzes typically contain between 1% to 10% tin. Phosphor bronze contains up to 0.4% phosphorus. Gunmetal is essentially a tin bronze with up to 5% zinc and it may have lead additions up to 5%. Silicon bronze contains 3% silicon and 1% manganese approximately and it is probably the easiest of the bronzes to weld.
Matching filler compositions are normally employed for welding bronzes. Autogenous welding of phosphor bronzes is not recommended due to weld metal porosity. However, this risk can be reduced by using a filler wire with a higher level of deoxidants. Gunmetal is not considered weldable since it is susceptible to hot cracking.
Aluminium bronze
There are essentially two types of aluminium bronzes; single phase alloys containing between 5 to 10% aluminium, with a small amount of iron or nickel, and more complex, two phase alloys containing up to 12% aluminium and about 5%of iron with specific alloys also containing nickel, manganese and silicon. Gas shielded welding processes are preferred for welding this group of alloys. In TIG welding, the presence of a tenacious, refractory oxide film requires AC(argon), or DC with a helium shielding gas. Due to its low thermal conductivity, a preheat is not normally required except when welding thick section components.
Rigorous cleaning of the material surface is essential, both before and after deposition of each welding pass, to avoid porosity. Single phase alloys can be susceptible to weld metal and HAZ cracking under highly restrained conditions. It is often necessary to use matching filler metals to maintain corrosion resistance but a non-matching, two phase, filler can also reduce the risk of cracking. Two phase alloys are easier to weld. For both types, preheat and interpass temperatures should be controlled carefully to prevent cracking.
Cupro-nickels
Cupro-nickel alloys contain 5 to 30% nickel with specific alloys having additions of iron and manganese; 90/10 and 70/30 (Cu/Ni) alloys are commonly welded grades. These alloys are single phase and generally considered to be weldable using inert gas processes and, to a lesser extent, MMA. A matching filler is normally used. 70/30 (Cu 7158) is often regarded as a 'universal' filler for these alloys. The thermal conductivity of cupro-nickel alloys is similarto low carbon steels, and therefore preheating is not required.
Cupro-nickels do not contain deoxidants, and therefore, autogenous welding is not recommended due to the risk of porosity. Filler metal compositions contain typically 0.2 to 0.5% titanium, to minimise weld metal porosity. Argon shielding gas is normally used for both TIG and MIG but in TIG welding, an argon-hydrogen mixture, with appropriate filler, improves weld pool fluidity and produces a cleaner weld bead. Gas backing (usually argon) is recommended, especially in pipe welding, to produce an oxide-free underbead.
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Demonstration of In-Situ Weld Repair to a FPSO Hull
Demonstration of in-situ weld repair to a FPSO hull (August 2004)
D J Abson and H G Pisarski
Paper presented at Proceedings of OMAE-FPSO 2004, OMAE Specialty Symposium on FPSO Integrity, Houston, USA, 30 Aug - 2 Sept 2004.
If repair to the underside of an FPSO becomes necessary, economic considerations require that, if at all possible, repair be carried out with the FPSO remaining on station. Any repair of defects in the bottom of an FPSO must therefore be effected underwater. The preferred approach is to attach an enclosed dam to the underside of the vessel, pump out the water and then complete the repair from the inside. However, where the risk of fire or explosion orballast considerations require, it may be necessary to complete the welded repair from inside the vessel by wet underwater welding.
This paper describes how weld repairs can be effected by the attachment of such a dam, and grinding, to simulate the removal and welded repair of a through-wall fatigue crack by wet underwater welding. The integrity and mechanical properties of these welds are discussed.
In view of the interruption to supply that would accompany taking an FPSO off-station, and moving it to a dry dock, a repair will normally be carried out with the vessel on-station. For a repair to the bottom of an FPSO, the preferred approach will generally be to attach an enclosed dam to the underside of the vessel, drain it from inside, so that the damaged region can be repaired in the dry, prior to removing the dam. Where circumstances permit, the repair from the inside can be effected by welding in air. However, for safety or ballast considerations, it may be necessary to carry out the repair by welding under water from inside the hull.
This paper describes a demonstration of single-sided repair, appropriate to a repair following gouging and grinding to remove a through-wall crack in the bottom of an FPSO. The repair welds were made both by welding in air and bywet underwater welding. The paper also considers their inspection and mechanical testing. Also included is a demonstration of the attachment of an enclosed dam to the underside of a plate that simulated the bottom of an FPSO. In this case, a butt weld was deposited, simulating the repair of a gouged through-thickness crack.
Experimental approach
Parent Steels
The 20mm thick steel plate met the requirements of DNV 27S and LRS Grade D. This plate will be referred to as 'ship plate' in this paper. Parallel to the rolling direction, it had a yield strength of 293MPa and tensile strength of458MPa. An additional 20mm thick plate, to ASTM A516 Grade I, was also used. The chemical composition of these plates is given in Table 1.
Table 1 Chemical analysis of the parent steels and backing bars
Element, wt%
Ship plate DNV 27S 0.15 0.21 0.96 0.019 0.006 0.018 <0.004 0.021 0.033 0.010 ≤0.002 0.001 ≤0.002
A516 grade 65 0.16 0.29 1.10 0.016 <0.002 0.030 <0.005 0.030 0.034 0.005 0.014 0.009 <0.002
BS EN 10025 S275 JR 0.18 0.23 0.59 0.010 0.030 0.051 0.005 0.042 0.010 0.065 <0.002 0.001 <0.001
Mild steel 0.05 0.11 0.41 0.015 0.032 0.080 0.017 0.091 <0.003 0.24 <0.002 0.001 <0.001
The A516 plate was also used to simulate the bottom of an FPSO in an exercise to attach an enclosed dam underwater to its underside. A simple 'dam' was fabricated from 460mm diameter API 5L X65 steel pipe, that was closed at one end with a disc of steel of similar strength. A flange, 15mm thick, was flame-cut and then welded in place so that it left a rim approximately 30mm wide on the outside. Four screw dogs were also fabricated, by cutting out L-shaped pieces of steel plate, each from a plate approximately 150 x 175 x 15mm, and welding M16 nuts down one edge, with a bolt threaded through them; the deployment of these screw dogs is discussed in the section on wet underwater welding.
Preparation of panels for welding
Two 'composite' butt weld panels were assembled with the ship plate constituting one side of the panel, and the ASTM A516 Grade 65 steel, for the opposite side; one of these was destined for welding in air, and the other for wet underwater welding. A further panel, 600mm long, was welded entirely in ASTM A516 Grade 65. In order to reduce distortion during welding, an end bar was welded to each end of both of the composite panels, and strong-backs were welded on to the panels that were welded in air.
Grooves were air carbon arc gouged and ground in the three panels. A U-groove with a root gap of approximately 4mm and an included angle of 50 ±10 degrees was prepared for the panel that was to be welded in air with an open root. The groove length was approximately 375mm long in the root, and approximately 475mm long at the 'cap' side. A further panel was prepared with the same preparation, except that the root gap was opened up to 8mm, and a backing bar was introduced. The backing strip was 12.5mm wide and approximately 3.5mm thick; it was held in place by wires that were threaded through predrilled holes, and tied to temporary supports that straddled the groove. The chemical composition of this backing bar is given in Table 1.
The preparation employed for the panel destined for wet underwater welding was a V-groove, with an included angle of approximately 30 degrees, and a root gap of approximately 10mm. The groove length was again approximately 375mmlong in the root, and approximately 475mm long at the 'cap' side. A backing bar was prepared from 25mm wide, 6mm thick mild steel, supplied to BS EN 10025 S275JR, Table 1; it was introduced from the 'cap' side of the weld, and held in place by wire loops passed through predrilled holes and then through washers that straddled the groove, and nuts; the wires were then tightened by twisting the nuts. (This preparation was done before the panel was inserted into the welding tank, but could have been carried out underwater.)
Welding in Air
A summary of all the welds is given in Table 2. All welding was carried out in the flat position. The U-groove in the composite panel, W02, was welded with an open root. The heat input values for the TIG root and hot pass, deposited with BS 2901 Part 1; 1983 A18wire, were 1.4 and 2.0 kJ/mm. The heat input for the third and fourth passes, deposited with 3.2mm diameter Eland 7018 MMA electrodes, and for the remaining passes with 4mm diameter Elga PSI 7018 MMA electrodes, was between 1.2 and 1.5kJ/mm. Welding was carried out without preheat.
Table 2 Summary of welds
Consumable used for root and hot pass
Consumable used for fill and cap
W01 V-groove Hydroweld FS Hydroweld FS
W02 U-groove A18 TIG rod 3.2mm Eland 7018 & 4mm diameter
Elga P51 7018
W03 U-groove 3.2mm Eland 7018 & 4mm diameter
Elga P51 7018 4mm diameter Elga P51 7018
W04 3-pass fillet Hydroweld FS Hydroweld FS
For the gouged and ground groove in weld W03, the root pass was deposited against a backing bar using 3.2mm diameter Eland 7018 MMA electrodes; the heat input was 1.3kJ/mm. For the remaining passes, deposited with 4mm diameter ElgaPSI 7018 MMA electrodes, the heat input was in the range 1.3 to 1.5kJ/mm. Again, no preheating was employed.
Wet Underwater Welding
The electrodes used for the wet underwater weld, W01, were 3.2mm diameter Hydroweld FS electrodes. All welding was carried out in a flat position, except that the fillet welding to attach the screw dogs to the underside of the plate was carried out overhead.
Two exercises were carried out. The first exercise consisted of a simple demonstration of the attachment of an enclosed dam to the underside of a plate underwater, simulating the attachment of such a structure to the underside of an FPSO. A gasket cut from closed cell polymer foam was adhesively bonded to the welded flange of the enclosed dam; see Fig.1. The attachment of the dam was effected by welding each of four screw dogs to a flat plate, representing the hull, with a three-pass fillet weld. The screw dogs were arranged radially, such that each bolt impinged on the flange of the enclosed dam. Whilst a flotation device would normally be used in practice, it was not employed in this instance. Instead, the enclosed dam was supported from above, through a hole cut in the centre of the plate to which it was being attached, thereby simplifying positioning of the assembly underwater. However, in other respects the activity was a simulation of the attachment of an enclosed dam.
Fig.1. Enclosed dam attached to the plate that simulated the bottom of the hull of an FPSO. Each of the four screw dogs shown was attached by depositing a three-pass fillet weld on one side in the overhead position.
The second exercise consisted of depositing a butt weld, W01, in the prepared V-groove, in the flat position.
A separate piece of the plate from which the screw dogs were cut was similarly fillet welded on to the ship plate, so that HAZ hardness could be measured. (This welding was actually carried out in the flat position, rather than overhead.)
Examination and Testing
The panels were examined visually, radiographed, and examined ultrasonically, using P-scan, with both 60 and 70 degree probes, to generate a three-dimensional representation of any defects present.
Following visual examination and NDE, the panels were sectioned, as required in BS EN 288:Part 3 [1] . Samples for metallographic examination, chemical analysis and mechanical testing were prepared. These included cross-weld tensile, hardness and fracture toughness tests. Transverse weld tensile specimens were machined and tested according to BS EN895:1995 [2] . Fracture toughness specimens were prepared and tested in accordance with BS 7448: Parts 1 and 2 [3, 4] . These were all notched in the through-thickness direction, (NP direction according to BS 7448:Part 2). Specimens were notched along the weld centre line, and in the HAZ (with the notch intersecting the weld fusion boundary at mid-thickness). The primary rolling direction in the Grade 'A' ship plate, which contained the test HAZ, was parallel to the welding direction (BS 7448:Part 2 crack plane orientation N x P).
After notching, the ligament below the notch was locally compressed, in accordance with BS 7448:Part 2 [4] , in order to reduce residual stresses to low and uniform levels, and so promote the growth of straight fatigue cracks.
The specimens were instrumented with a double clip gauge arrangement, in order to estimate crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD). This arrangement enabled CTOD and J to be estimated in accordance with the BS 7448:Parts 1 and 2,and also J to be estimated from CMOD. The equations for estimating J from CMOD are given in Ref. [7] .
The fracture toughness tests were conducted according to the requirements of BS 7448:Parts 1 and 2 [3, 4] at 0°C; this is intended to represent a typical minimum sea water temperature.
Welding proceeded satisfactorily, with no serious problems being encountered, except for slight burn-through of the 3.5mm thick backing bar, which indicates that the use of a slightly thicker backing bar is preferable.
Deposition of the wet underwater weld, W01, proceeded smoothly, with no major problems, and with only occasional grinding, particularly of weld finish regions, being required. The welder diver generally has only limited scope for varying the heat input. The reported range of heat input values was from approximately 1.5 to 1.8 kJ/mm. Short lengths of tack weld in the root, that joined the backing bars to the panels, prior to removal of the wires supporting the backing bar, were blended into the root weld beads.
Similarly, the deposition overhead of the four three-pass fillet welds to attach the screw dogs did not give any welding problems. For each of the welds, the first pass was deposited at a heat input of approximately 2.5kJ/mm, and the two subsequent passes at a heat input of approximately 1.2kJ/mm.
Visual Appearance of the Panels
Photographs of two of the butt welded panels are shown in Fig.2 and 3. The visual appearance of all the welds, including W01 deposited underwater, was good, as expected for MMA welds deposited in the flat position.
Fig.2. Weld W02, deposited in air, with an open root
Fig.3. Weld W01, deposited under water employing a backing bar
X-Radiography
W01, the wet underwater weld, met the radiographic requirements of AWS D3.6 [5] Class A, which is the quality that is required of welds deposited in air. Welds W02 and W03 contained no significant defects, and were acceptable to BS EN 25817:1992 [6] Level B.
The P-scan images of the three butt welds were obtained using a 70 degree probe. The 60 degree probe picked up spurious images from the backing bar for welds W01 and W02. The interface between the two parts of the composite panel, beyond the end of the weld, was picked up for welds W01 and W02, and the edges of the backing bar were detected in weld W01. For the latter, two indications, that were 6 and 28mm long, respectively, were found in the root of W01. These root features were investigated by metallographic sectioning through the appropriate location.
Weld metal chemical analyses, Table 3, show the expected leaner composition, and a normal comparatively high oxygen level, for the wet underwater weld, W01.
Table 3 Chemical analysis of welds W01 (wet underwater weld) and W02 (welded in air)
W01 0.082 0.32 0.43 0.023 0.007 0.024 0.004 0.036 <0.003 0.018 0.004 0.012 0.011 0.0067 0.100
W02 0.053 0.55 0.99 0.010 0.050 0.050 0.027 0.047 0.010 0.013 0.003 0.025 0.016 - -
Metallographic Examination
Photomacrographs of two of the three butt-welds are shown in Fig.4(a), and 5(a). The generally good profile of all the welds is noted, particularly that of the TIG root bead that was deposited in the open root of weld W02, Fig.4(b).
4a) Overall view 4b) Root Detail
Fig.4. Transverse section through weld W02. The nominal magnification is indicated by the millimeter scale
5a) Overall view 5b) Root detail, showing a small crack in the weld metal
Fig.5. Transverse section through weld W01. The nominal magnifications are indicated by the millimeter scale and by the micron bar.
he features detected by ultrasonic testing at two locations along weld W01 were investigated by metallographic sectioning, which revealed, in each case, a shallow crack in the weld root, approximately 1mm deep. One of these features is shown in Fig.5(b).
The section through the three-pass weld, simulating the weld that attached the screw dog plate to the ship plate revealed adequate penetration on both legs of the fillet weld, but some undercut in the weld that impinges on the screwdog plate. However, this is of little consequence, as such welds are intended as temporary attachments, and the weld in these trials was deposited solely to permit measurement of HAZ hardness in the underlying plate.
Cross-Weld Tensile Tests
The cross-weld tensile tests revealed that fracture occurred in the ship plate parent steel, with a tensile strength of > 475MPa. This is just above the ultimate tensile strength determined for this material (458MPa).
Hardness Tests
The Vickers hardness test results, reported in Table 4, reveal that mean weld metal hardness for the butt-welds ranged from 173HV10 to 220HV10. Mean hardness values for the ship plate showed some variability, with a range of 154HV10 to 174HV10. Maximum HAZ hardness values in this plate ranged from 177HV10 to 207HV10 for weld W02, deposited in air, and from 215HV10 to 336HV10 for weld W01, deposited underwater.
Table 4 Vickers hardness data
Parent steel
HAZ in
W01 cap
W01 root
W04 'cap' - -
W04 'root' - -
The cap and root mean weld metal hardness values for the three-pass underwater fillet weld, W04, were 173 HV10 and 220HV10, respectively, which is a little higher than for the butt weld deposited underwater, possibly reflecting a faster cooling rate. Parent steel mean hardness values were surprisingly low at 134HV10, while the maximum HAZ hardness was 345HV10, which is marginally higher than the maximum value for the wet underwater butt-weld.
Fracture Toughness Tests
The fracture toughness test results are summarised in Table 5. Since the weld metal yield strength was not determined, an estimated room temperature yield strength of 390MPa was calculated from the hardness results given in Table 4, using an equation given in BS 7448:Part 2 [4] . The weld metal overmatched the yield strength of the parent plate by about 33%.
Table 5 Fracture toughness results on weld metal and HAZ at 0°C
Notch location
Specimen No
CTOD (1)
Type of result
J CMOD, (2)
N/mm
Wet underwater V-weld, weld metal W01-1 0.085 δ m 67.8
Wet underwater V-weld, HAZ W01-4 0.093 δ m 70.4
Wet underwater V-weld, HAZ W01-6 0.142 δ m 116.5
U-weld made in air, weld metal W02-1 0.438 δ u 415.3
U-weld made in air, weld metal W02-2 0.258 δ c 275.9
U-weld made in air, weld metal W02-3 0.734 δ m 711.7
U-weld made in air, HAZ W02-4 0.401 δ m 346.1
(1) CTOD estimated according to BS 7448:Parts 1 and 2 [3, 4]
(2) J estimated from CMOD according to Ref [7]
The CTOD results for the HAZ in the ship plate tend to reflect the trends observed in the weld metal tests. Namely, lower values (in the range 0.093 to 0.142mm) were obtained from the underwater weld W01 compared with the weld made in air, W02 (where the CTOD values were in the range 0.385 to 0.418mm). None of the specimens fractured by cleavage, and all gave maximum load behaviour ( δm). Given that in welds W01 and W02 the line of the notch in the test specimens contains HAZs made in the same parent plate, made at similar heat inputs and the weld metal hardness/estimated yield strengths were the same, the CTOD values would be expected to be similar. The difference is attributed to the way the HAZ fracture toughness specimens were notched. The HAZ was intersected at mid-thickness, so that approximately half the front was in weld metal. It is therefore likely that the CTOD values are dominated by the fracture behaviour of the weld metal. This means that in these welds, fracture behaviour of the joint is controlled by the weld metal rather than the HAZ.
Estimates of fracture toughness based on J reflect CTOD performance.
A satisfactory approach for the repair of a fatigue crack in the bottom of the hull of an FPSO has been demonstrated. The attachment of the enclosed dam to the underside of a plate underwater provided a simple demonstration of the approach adopted prior to removal of a crack or damaged material in the bottom of the hull of an FPSO. The closed cell polymer gasket was used to provide a seal against the uneven bottom of a hull. In a real repair situation, a perforation would be made in the FPSO hull into the region enclosed by the dam, and the space drained and dried, if appropriate. The repair region would be excavated, and the repair effected from inside the vessel. In addition, upon completion of the repair, the screw dogs would be broken off, the residual parts of the attachment fillet welds ground flush with the bottom of the FPSO, and freedom from defects established by non-destructive examination. The check carried out on the HAZ hardness of the weld attaching the screw dog plate to the ship plate revealed a satisfactory level of hardness.
The wet underwater weld, deposited in the flat position, simulated the repair of a fatigue crack, the removal of which (by gouging and grinding to create a V-groove) was simulated. The groove had a root gap that was closed attaching a backing bar to the under-side. The exercise proceeded satisfactorily, giving a weld of good integrity, with only minor defects in the root. In practice, such defects would have been detected by inspection after grinding to remove the backing bar, and removed by further grinding. It should be noted that the quality of weld achieved, which met the AWS D 3.6 Class A inspection requirements, was of appreciably higher quality than would have been achieved if a weld had been attempted in the overhead position from below the hull of the vessel.
Of the two welds deposited in air, the preferred approach for the root pass was to deposit the bead by TIG welding, without a backing bar. The weld deposited using this procedure was subjected to the more detailed examination and testing.
The fracture toughness results indicate that at 0°C the fracture performance of both the wet underwater weld and the weld made in air is controlled by the fracture behaviour of the weld metal rather than the HAZ in the ship plate. In this particular case, the fracture toughness of the HAZ is not considered to be limiting. The apparently low HAZ fracture toughness values recorded for the wet underwater weld are considered to reflect the toughness of the weld metal rather than the HAZ, as approximately half the crack front was located in weld metal. Thus, the fracture toughness of the HAZ is expected to be higher than the weld metal.
The observation that HAZ fracture toughness is not limiting the fracture behaviour of the weld at 0°C is supported by previous work on the same ship plate. That investigation was conducted on the HAZ of a submerged arc weld made at a heat inputs in the range 2.7 to 3.6kJ/mm. Nine fracture toughness tests were performed at -50°C, and the lowest result was a CTOD of 0.092mm. Typically, CTOD values were above 0.4mm.
The fracture toughness of the wet underwater weld metal in the present programme was low (CTOD in the range 0.085 to 0.104mm), but not as a result of fracture by cleavage. It appears that the weld has poor resistance to ductile tearing, which has limited the CTOD at maximum load. This behaviour is expected for a wet underwater weld, as a consequence of the (normal) comparatively high weld metal oxygen content.
The fracture toughness of the weld metal made in air (W02) was relatively high, although initiation by cleavage was observed in two tests. The lowest CTOD was a δc value of 0.258 at 0°C. Cleavage could be avoided by changing the consumables employed. It is assumed that there is more scope for changing consumables for welding in air compared with those designed for wet underwater welding, where the range of appropriate consumables is limited.
From an exercise that involved the deposition of welds both in air and underwater and subsequent non-destructive and mechanical testing of the welds, the following conclusions have been drawn.
In a simple demonstration exercise, an enclosed dam was attached successfully to the underside of a plate by fillet welding screw dogs in place, simulating the attachment to the underside of an FPSO.
Single-sided butt welds were deposited both in air and underwater in the flat position, simulating a repair of a gouged groove in the bottom of an FPSO.
The visual appearance of the butt welds was satisfactory, and X-radiography revealed no reportable defects.
Ultrasonic examination of the butt-weld deposited in air with an open root revealed no reportable defects. However, root defects (that were revealed as small cracks 1mm deep by subsequent metallographic examination) were found in the root of the wet underwater weld.
Cross weld tensile tests were satisfactory, as failure occurred in parent plate, remote from the weld, and the tensile strength was ≥475MPa.
Fracture toughness testing of the weld metal deposited in air and underwater revealed that the minimum CTOD in the wet underwater weld was 0.085mm (at 0°C), whilst the minimum CTOD in the weld made in air was 0.258mm. The difference is attributed to the poor tearing resistance of the wet underwater weld.
Fracture toughness testing of the HAZ of the underwater weld and of the weld deposited in air indicated that HAZ fracture toughness was higher than the weld metal in each weld.
The wet underwater welding was carried out, under contract, by Hydroweld. The authors would like to thank the other participants of Phase II of the FPSO Fatigue Capacity JIP for making this work possible: Hyundai Heavy Industries(HHI), Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), Bluewater, Total, ConocoPhillips, Shell Deepwater Develop. Systems, Statoil, BP Exploration Operating Company Limited, Petrobras, Navion, Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas,Health and Safety Executive (HSE), MARIN, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, National University of Singapore, NTNU and Shanghai Jiaotong University.
BS EN 288:Part 3: 'Specification and approval of welding procedures for metallic materials - Welding procedure tests for the arc welding of steels'
BS EN 895:1995 'Destructive tests on welds in metallic materials. Transverse tensile test'
BS 7448:Part 1: 1991: 'Fracture mechanics toughness tests, Part 1. Method for the determination of K Ic Ic, critical CTOD and critical J values of metallic materials'
BS 7448:Part 2: 1997: 'Fracture mechanics toughness tests - Method for the determination of K Ic ' critical CTOD and critical J values of welds in metallic materials'
AWS D3.6: 1999: 'Specification for underwater welding'
BS EN 25817:1992: '(ISO 5817) Arc welded joints in steel - Guidance on quality levels for imperfections'
DNV OS-F101, 2000, 'Submarine Pipeline Systems', Det Norske Veritas, Hovik, Norway, 2000.
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Urban students, teachers watch Egypt events unfold
A big banner saying “Go On Young People” in reference to the leading role played by the youth in the uprising. Photo by Essam Sharaf, http://www.flickr.com/photos/essamsharaf/5409842361/.
Adrienne von Schulthess, Staff writer
For days now, Urban students and teachers have watched Egypt, wondering how the mass protests would end.
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down on Feb. 11, giving the military control of the country, according to The New York Times. Upon hearing of his resignation, “(t)ens of thousands who had bowed down for evening prayers leapt to their feet, bouncing and dancing in joy,” reported The New York Times.
Mubarak’s resignation came after a Feb. 10 address in which he said, “I will hold steadfast to continue to take on my responsibility to protect the constitution and the rights of people until power is transferred to whomever the people choose during September.”
In a Feb. 10 forum at Urban, Clarke Weatherspoon, a history teacher who used to live in Egypt, talked about the roots of the uprising. He mentioned the video of Asmaa Mahfouz, an Egyptian activist, who helped inspire people to protest in Tahrir Square beginning on Jan. 25.
Weatherspoon said that Mafouz asked them to come out and “demand their country.”
Yet, “I do not want what happened in Iran to happen to Egypt” said Weatherspoon, in a reference to the 1979 revolution in Iran, in which an oppressive theocracy replaced an oppressive monarchy, deepening the lack of personal and political freedom.
“You take away this guy (Mubarak), and then what?” asked Weatherspoon.
President Barack Obama addressed this question in a speech in the Grand Foyer at the White House on Feb. 11. “Egypt will never be the same,” Obama said, “but this is not the end of Egypt’s transition, it’s a beginning. I am sure there will be difficult days ahead and many questions remain unanswered, but I am confident the people of Egypt can find the answers and do so peacefully.”
“Nothing less than genuine democracy will take the day,” said Obama.
At present the military holds power in Egypt, but it is still unknown what shape the next government in Egypt will take.
Urban students appeared to agree. “Democratic change should be fostered no matter the views of the people who want it,” said Virgil Taylor (’11).
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One Response to “Urban students, teachers watch Egypt events unfold”
Scott Scheer on February 15th, 2011 9:32 am
Great article. Really captures the international impact, the drama of it all and gives a nice local tie-in with the history teacher’s perspective. It also lets the reader ponder what the future will hold for Egypt and its people, just as President Obama and Urban students do in the last couple of paragraphs. Well-written!
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Esquimalt council uneasy with new sewage plan
It’s a road Esquimalt council has been down before.
Pamela Roth
Apr. 6, 2016 11:00 a.m.
So when representatives with the Capital Regional District (CRD) presented the new plan for a two-plant sewage treatment system with facilities at Clover Point in Victoria and McLoughlin or Macaulay points in Esquimalt, several councillors couldn’t help but vent their frustration and concern.
During a lengthy discussion on the matter Monday night, Coun. Tim Morrison said he doesn’t believe Victoria will ever allow a large sewage treatment plant at Clover Point, and he’s not alone. Fearing everything would be dumped on Esquimalt again, some councillors want to see what happens with Victoria before anything is approved in principle.
Other councillors believe the technology should be chosen before a site is selected, and want assurances from the CRD that a centralized sewage treatment plant will never be put on McLoughlin Point — the CRD pushed to do before the township rejected the plan two years ago.
“We have been down this road before. This is deja vu. The Township of Esquimalt has made a decision,” said Coun. Lynda Hundleby. “Why did we do all this other work and a consultation to know that it will just come back to this?”
CRD spokesperson Andy Orr told council the two sites are a base case to help the process move forward and stay in the funding game with the federal and provincial government. The CRD has until the end of September to submit its plan on wastewater treatment or risk losing $83 million in funding. Approval is needed from both councils in order to move forward, otherwise the CRD will have to go back to the drawing board.
Reviewing the history of the ongoing sewage saga, Morrison noted the relationship between Esquimalt and the CRD a few years ago was one of severe distrust. But that relationship was remediated in 2014 thanks to an election, prompting the region to move forward and work towards a new sewage treatment plan, along with a process that allowed municipalities to bring their own sites forward.
Morrison said that process, however, was recently thwarted when Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen brought McLoughlin back to the table due to the cost, allowing for a campaign to be reinstated against Esquimalt.
“It’s time to stop moving back and stop this obsession with McLoughlin and stop this obsession with dumping all the region’s sewage problems back on Esquimalt,” said Morrison. “I will not be giving license to the CRD to continue misinforming the public that it was Esquimalt that is voluntarily putting forward McLoughlin Point…No means no. Get over it and move forward.”
Mayor Barb Desjardins is also chair of the CRD and told her fellow councillors that experts said the estimated $1-billion cost of the current plan could come down. She also said CRD staff followed the process, but it was a political decision that changed everything. The only reason she supported the motion was to hear from the private sector about innovative solutions that may be available.
“I’m trying really hard to move forward. This committee has been frustrating because of the politics. I don’t know how to discontinue that politics,” she said.
Several members of the public also spoke to council, urging them to be cautious about heading down the same road with McLoughlin Point. The matter will be brought back to council April 18 for further discussion. Senior CRD staff and Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps have been invited to attend.
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The Duchess of Cambridge greets Monique Girard and her six month old daughter Scarlett.
William and Kate greet Canadians at the B.C. Legislature lawn
Duchess of Cambridge offers parenting tips to one fan with six-month-old girl
Christine van Reeuwyk
Sep. 24, 2016 12:00 p.m.
Little Scarlett Girard didn’t need the red carpet for her first meeting with royalty.
The six-month-old needed only her snuggly and mom’s warmth as Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, rounded the path to an awaiting car after she and Prince William were officially welcomed to Canada, and her Brentwood Bay mom, Monique Girard, stood.
“I just thought that was so awesome. I didn’t expect to be starstruck,” Monique said. “She asked how old (Scarlett is) and said ‘After this stage, it only gets better.’ Parenting tips? Sure, I’ll take that.”
William, meanwhile, greeted enthusiastic guests at the end of their red carpet welcome at the BC Legislature that included a 21-gun salute, the breaking of His Royal Highness’s Canadian Standard, and an inspection of the Guard of Honour.
“It was amazing. I can’t stop shaking,” said Loreen Topping of Saanich. “(Kate) said she was happy to visit B.C. She says it’s a beautiful place. She wished she’d brought the kids, especially George who would have loved the lights. It was amazing.”
Royal fans had filled the front rows of the seats along the red carpet on by noon on Saturday.
Eileen McCormack of Seattle said she knew the moment a Canadian Royal Tour was announced she wanted to take the trip no matter where they went.
“My husband thinks I’m absolutely insane,” McCormack said with a laugh. “Sitting here for five hours to maybe get a glimpse of the royals. He left a pair of binoculars on the table this morning.”
After the legislature event, the couple left for Government House, the family’s home base for the royal tour that will see them five communities in British Columbia – Victoria, Vancouver, Haida Gwai, Bella Bella, and Kelowna as well as two Whitehorse and Carcross, Yukon.
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Vintage Motorsport’s 2020 May-June Issue is Now Available
We know you have been waiting patiently for the May/June issue and we can’t wait to get it into your hands. Subscriber copies should be landing in mailboxes soon so be on the look out. The cover and 7-page Salon features Bobby Unser’s 1981 Penske PC9B, the actual winning car of the ’81 Indianapolis 500.
We also dive into Dan Gurney’s Eagle “Boundary Layer Adhesion Technology” Indy cars of the early 1980s, which established a groundbreaking alternative to the growing movement toward ground effects in racing, and reflected the unique spirit of All American Racers.
We also look back on the career of Sir Stirling Moss, who racing lost on Easter Sunday, our remembrance of a remarkable man and racer.
Remember “Million Dollar Bill”? Yes, Bill Elliott tells us about his favorite race, the 1985 Darlington 500 when he won that Winston million-dollar prize for winning three of the NASCAR’s four “Crown Jewel” contests that season.
We cover events that got in under the pandemic wire — the Amelia Island Concours, vintage drag racing’s March Meet, HMSA’s Laguna Seca and the Phillip Island Classic in Australia.
Our staff are spread out, staying safe and working from home offices and we hope our readers are staying healthy as well. We’re all in this together, and are excited about races getting the green flag, with events and auctions going live once again. We remain cautiously optimistic about the near future of the sport.
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Avoid the afternoon crowds by heading straight to Oxford Street after breakfast. The famous shopping road is home to a huge variety of popular fashion and lifestyle chains. Fashion-savvy shoppers will be drawn to the giant flagship Topshop store, located opposite Oxford Circus station, while the upscale Selfridges department store is a destination in itself, housed in an impressive grade II-listed building. The quieter mornings are also a good time to explore nearby Bond Street and its designer clothing and luxury jewellery boutiques.
Spend the afternoon exploring London’s quirky shopping avenues. Start at Carnaby Street, located just behind renowned department store, Liberty. Carnaby Street was the fashion heart of the city for many decades, particularly during the swinging sixties and rocking eighties. Nowadays, shoppers can discover over 100 shops ranging from trendy fashion boutiques to quirky vintage stores. There are also plenty of dining outlets at which to refuel, such as Kingly Court, a former shopping mall that’s now packed full of restaurants and bars. Next, make your way to nearby Savile Row, London’s historic tailoring street, where stylish London gents commission bespoke handmade suits.
When the sun sets, head to Harrods, the largest and most famous luxury department store in the country. The place to go for designer labels and high-end goods, Harrods displays everything from clothing, accessories and homeware, to beauty, gifts and food items. Almost every brand you can think of is available on the fashion floors, while the Harrods Food Hall is a favourite of visiting foodies. The store is open until 9pm Monday to Saturday and 6pm on Sundays, so there’s plenty of time to shop before you drop.
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‘You know why you come here,’ goes the latest Las Vegas motto, and we couldn’t agree more. Whether it’s the glorious spectacle of the Strip that tempts you, the bumping nightclubs, the high-end shops, or the eye-popping Cirque du Soleil theatrics, the city’s over-the-top reputation certainly precedes it. On your next trip to Sin City, make sure these must-do sights and experiences are right at the top of your list.
Though Cirque du Soleil hails originally from Montreal, the circus — famous for its magical themes, colourful staging, and jaw-dropping feats of athleticism — is now a bona fide Las Vegas institution, with upwards of eight different shows held across the city at any one time. From tributes to the music of The Beatles and Michael Jackson to original stories like Zumanity and Mystère, these performances are sure to leave you utterly beguiled.
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Las Vegas truly is a 24-hour city, with no shortage of things to see and do throughout the day. But Sin City really comes into its own after dark, thanks in part to its lavish, hedonistic nightclubs. From the exclusive Bank Nightclub at the Bellagio to Hakkasan at the MGM Grand and its stable of world-famous DJs (think Steve Aoki, The Chainsmokers, and Calvin Harris), this is a town that knows how to let loose.
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In Las Vegas, shopping isn’t just a casual weekend pursuit — it’s a way of life. And it behooves you to do some serious strategising before you head out, credit card in hand. How else can you be expected to browse it all, from the posh designer outlets on Via Bellagio to the lavish Forum Shops at Caesars Palace to Fashion Show, one of the biggest malls in America? And we haven’t even gotten to the city’s designer outlets…
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Luckily, not all the city’s must-dos are on the spendy side. In fact, the Bellagio Fountains - one of the icons of the Strip - are completely free to view. Every half hour between 3-8pm, and every 15 minutes between 8pm-midnight, you can linger outside of the Bellagio to take in the spectacular aquatic show. More than 1,200 jets of water dance in sync; the best time to view is after dark, when they’re illuminated by glowing lights.
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Hit the casinos
The colossal casinos in Vegas promise far more than just gambling - as hosts of some of the city’s top restaurants, bars, nightclubs, shops, and live entertainment, each one is a thematic universe unto itself. That said: if you do want to call on Lady Luck, you’ll have ample chance to sidle up to a table and put your card sharking skills to the test.
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Ghanaian Doctor Says Vaccine Will Be Made Affordable
By Akwei Thompson
This year's World Malaria Day marks a critical moment in time as the international malaria community has less than a year to meet the 2010 targets of delivering effective and affordable protection and treatment to all people at risk of malaria.
Experts say a safe and effective vaccine is an important component of a comprehensive malaria control program.
The RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate was created in 1987 and is said to be the most clinically advanced in the world.
In clinical trials, scientists say, it was the first to demonstrate that it can protect young children and infants in malaria-endemic areas against infection and clinical disease caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly species of the malaria parasite.
It is also the first vaccine designed primarily for use in Africa and is now undergoing Phase III trials in various countries on the continent
Infrastructure for vaccine research
Dr. Tsiri Agbenyega, a professor of Physiology and a medical doctor at the Komfo-Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi Ghana said the Phase III trials are very essential.
?Phase III is the phase you go through before you present your data to regulatory authorities for its licensing, he said.?
The Ghanaian doctor said running the trials have helped a lot in creating the infrastructure for further work in vaccine research.
He said when the vaccine finally reaches the market it will be made affordable for those who need it most.
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Millions of mosquito nets are being distributed further increase access to malaria prevention
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Endeavour Astronauts Cut Short Third Spacewalk
Two astronauts from the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour have conducted a successful spacewalk Wednesday. NASA engineers on the ground are finishing up tests to decide whether a fourth spacewalk might have to be devoted to repairing damage to the spaceship's heat-shield tiles. VOA's Cindy Saine reports from Washington.
Spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson ventured outside the International Space Station to prepare the orbital laboratory for future construction. The astronauts successfully moved two equipment carts to the starboard side of the space station's railcar-like Mobile Transporter.
NASA cut the spacewalk short after Matracchio noticed a hole in the outer layer of his glove. Mission Control stressed that the astronaut was in no danger, and that the hole did not penetrate all the layers of his glove. But he was ordered back into the airlock as a precaution, as his partner Anderson wrapped up the work outside.
On the ground, NASA experts were evaluating whether astronauts should fix a deep gash on the underside of the spaceship. Agency officials say a piece of foam insulation broke off the fuel tank and struck the shuttle during launch, causing the damage.
John Shannon, the chairman of the mission management team, said the gouge does not present any threat to the crew's safety. He said tests are still continuing, but preliminary results indicate the Endeavour will be safe to fly back home next week without repairs.
"We are cautiously optimistic that we can fly as is," he said.
Shannon said he is confident crewmembers can perform any necessary repairs, since they have trained extensively for such missions.
NASA Weighs Whether to Repair Shuttle Tile Damage
NASA engineers are trying to decide whether astronauts on board the space shuttle Endeavour will have to repair a gouge in the underside of the spaceship before they return to Earth next week. Up in orbit, three members of Endeavour's crew talked to reporters, and teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan took questions from school children. VOA's Cindy Saine reports from Washington. Astronauts used a robotic arm Tuesday to pick up a spare parts platform…
Astronauts Inspect Space Shuttle's Heat Shield
U.S. astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour are examining damage to the shuttle's heat shield. The crew is using a camera and laser on a robotic arm to check out the heat shield, which NASA officials say was likely hit by a piece of ice during launch Wednesday. Engineers back on Earth have been analyzing photographs of a gouge or scratch on the underside of the shuttle, measuring about seven and one-half centimeters square (7.5cm x 7.5cm). Results of…
Shuttle Launch Draws Enthusiasts to Kennedy Space Center
Thousands of people traveled to Kennedy Space Center for the recent launch of the shuttle Endeavour, and many more watched on television. VOA's Brian Wagner visited the launch complex to talk with space enthusiasts and some aspiring astronauts about their hopes for the future of the space program. As NASA engineers made their final preparations for launch, thousands of viewers gathered 10 kilometers away to see the shuttle Endeavour take flight. Space…
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Marc Jacobs Is Having the Best Vacation Ever at Paris Fashion Week
Don’t listen to those blasé jaded folk who say Paris Fashion Week is très exhausting! It appears to be the most exciting event of the year, well at least if you are Marc Jacobs. The elated American designer showed up today at the forest-theme Chanel show with his beau, Char DeFrancesco. Not only did he Boomerang his personalized invitation but also a sleek Chanel bag. According to the caption, it was Jacobs’s first Chanel show and a “dream come true.”
That wasn’t his last stop, either. Soon after, Jacobs headed to Miu Miu, congratulating Miuccia Prada after the show with the loving caption: “A perfectly fun, sexy, cool way to end my incredible time here in Paris. By now, you all know that for me, it all starts and ends with the magnificent Mrs. Prada.” We couldn’t agree more. And a few days before that? In addition to hitting up the Margiela retrospective at the Palais Galliera, Jacobs also went to the Balenciaga show, where he wore a full Balenciaga look—Triple S trainers included. He even personally congratulated Demna Gvasalia after the finale.
This is hardly the first time that a designer has attended another designer’s show. In the past, Stefano Pilati has attended Céline; Alber Elbaz, Giambattista Valli, and Pierpaolo Piccioli all watched Maria Grazia Chiuri’s debut at Dior; Gosha Rubchinskiy has walked for Vetements; and this season, Donatella Versace sat front row at Gucci. But Jacobs seems to be truly loving his Parisian trip and sharing every moment of it on Instagram. So why the mini working vacation? Is he planning to leave his native New York to show in Paris next season? (Who knows!) One thing is for certain: Mr. Jacobs definitely enjoyed his front row seat.
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Like many young musicians, Matt Patterson participated in the high school music program including the marching band, and drumline, and was even selected as Band President his senior year. A lifelong drummer, Matt has been playing drums since about the age of 7, and continues to enjoy drumming to this very day.
An avid, and curious tinkerer, Matt took wood shop, metal shop, and mechanical drawing classes in middle school developing his creative skills along with art, photography, and foreign language studies; including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and others.
Matt studied film and television production at the University of Southern California graduating in 1986 with a B.A. in film and television production. Matt has been working in post production sound for over thirty years at facilites like Skywalker Sound South, Todd AO, Sony Pictures, and currently 20th Century Fox, while pursuing the Walkabout project in his spare time, completely self funded.
All of these creative and technical skills led to the "Eureka!" moment nearly thirty years ago, when the proverbial light bulb lit up and Matt realized, electronic musical instruments don't have to remain on a stationary stand, plugged into the wall socket, and cabled up to the P.A. system. Why not wear it?
Three decades later, Matt Patterson continues to pursue his passion for Walkabout Carriers. While the original concept was to replicate a full drum kit in a wearable electronic kit, Matt has continued to refine the Walkabout into the totally original, battery powered and wireless carrier harness it is today.
Matt is the sole inventor and designer of the Walkabout Carrier, and President of Walkabout Carriers, Incorporated, attaining U.S.patents 5.076,131, D388246, with additional patents pending.
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Our sleek, industrial design is simple yet elegant with both straight lines and sexy curves. Our carriers have all the hardware and fasteners are turned inward toward to the body, providing a more aesthetically pleasing appearance.
Walkabout Carriers are incredibly comfortable with generous 3/4” neoprene foam padding, and an optional hip belt for added comfort and security in live performance, and are available with optional stick caddies for electronic percussionist performing with sticks or mallets. Walkabout Carriers uses the highest quality parts and components for durability, and added value. www.mcmaster.com
Our modular design of interfacing parts allows for total customization for your carrier, with numerous options. For example, our shoulder harness is available in three sizes to accomodate all body types because we know, one size does NOT fit all. We want you to be as comfortable as possible so your performance brings out the best in you.
Walkabout Carriers are available in two standard models, with or without a battery supply.
The Walkabout "PATHFINDER" is our basic carrier, without a battery supply, for use when your electronic musical instrument has its own internal battery supply. The Pathfinder weighs approximately 4 lbs. or 1.8 kg.
The Walkabout "TRAILBLAZER' is our proprietary battery powered carrier, to supply consistent, regulated current to your electronic musical instrument that has no internal battery supply. The Trailblazer weighs approximately 12 lbs or 5.4 kg. We provide TWO rechargeable 12 volt, 6ah batteries, so while one is in use, the back up is either charging, or standing by ready to change out. Depending upon the amperage your device draws, our batteries provide hours of actual playtime, long enough for a standard set, or an extended jam.
Walkabout Carriers are available in two standard 'on the shelf' colors - matte black with a slight textured surface, and gloss white with a shiney, smooth surface. Over 6,000 custom colors are available for an additional cost. We can match your school, or organizations color scheme for the ultimate customized carrier.
Our Carriers are painted using the powder coating process which offers greater durability, and scratch resistance that sprayed on lacquer. We believe powder coating is the highest quality paint protection available as the paint is literally baked into the surface of the aluminum. As mentioned above, there are thousands of colors available!
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Here are 10 things you didn't know about the movie 'Groundhog Day'
Beth Hutson, Fayetteville Observer
"Then put your little hand in mine. There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb. Babe. I got you babe."
Happy Groundhog Day, y'all! In honor of the day when a large rodent tells us how much longer we have to suffer through winter, we bring you 10 things you didn't know about "Groundhog Day," the 1992 comedy classic starring Bill Murray.
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1. The movie wasn't filmed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
"Groundhog Day" is set in Punxsutawney, but most of it was filmed in Woodstock, Illinois.
2. That first step is still a doozy.
There's a plaque on a sidewalk in Woodstock to commemorate the place where Murray's character, Phil Connors, steps in a puddle. The plaque reads "Bill Murray stepped here."
3. Bill Murray wasn't the first choice for the role of Phil Connors.
Bill Murray and director Harold Ramis (you might remember him as Egon in "Ghostbusters") had worked together frequently, but Tom Hanks was Ramis' first choice. Hanks was unavailable for the role because he was filming "Sleepless in Seattle." Hanks later said it was a good call to go with Murray because he was better suited for the part. Hanks, after all, tends to play the nice guy.
4. Andie McDowell wasn't the only person up for the role of Rita.
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos was under consideration for the role of Rita, Frank's producer and love interest in the movie.
5. The script originally explained how and why Phil was trapped in the time loop.
Phil's angry ex-girlfriend Stephanie caused the time loop by cursing him. Eh, good call by Ramis to leave that out.
6. Murray and the groundhog didn't exactly get along.
The groundhog bit Murray twice during filming. Murray even had to have anti-rabies shots.
7. Phil was stuck in the time loop for 12,395 days.
That's according to whatculture.com. That link is worth checking out -- they really did their homework. Ramis initially said it was 10 years, then backtracked and said that seemed like too short of a time and that it must be more like 30 or 40 years.
8. Murray threw those snowballs really hard
Ramis told the kids in the scene to throw the snowballs really hard, so they did. And Bill Murray threw them back just as hard.
9. Andie McDowell's accent caused a line change.
The part where Rita says to Frank, "Oh, let's not spoil it," was originally, "Oh, let's not ruin it." The line was changed because Ramis thought McDowell's South Carolina accent made it too difficult for her to say "ruin" properly.
10. It's a classic.
Time magazine has named it one of its ALL-TIME 100 Movies. Rolling Stone named it No. 11 on its 100 Greatest Movies of the Nineties.
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Rick and Morty(2013-)
| 22min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
4.4/5 (with 1,935 votes)
Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically-gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compounded with Morty's already unstable family life, these events cause Morty much distress at home and school.
Vikings(2013-2020)
| 44min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Directed by Johan Renck, Ciaran Donnelly, Ken Girotti, Jeff Woolnough, Kari Skogland, Kelly Makin, ... - With Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Clive Standen, Jessalyn Gilsig, George Blagden, Gabriel Byrne, ...
Attack on Titan(2013-)
| 25min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics, Mystery
Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by Titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest Titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a Titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a Colossal Titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller Titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single Titan and take revenge for all of mankind.
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.(2013-2020)
| 43min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
With Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, ...
Under the Dome(2013-2015)
| 42min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 983 votes)
A small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. While military forces, the government and the media positioned outside of this surrounding barrier attempt to break it down, a small group of people inside attempt to figure out what the dome is, where it came from, and when (and if) it will go away.
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, Jack Bender, Roxann Dawson, Paul A. Edwards, Kari Skogland, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, ... - With Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Natalie Martinez, Alexander Koch, Colin Ford, Britt Robertson, ...
The Originals(2013-2018)
| 45min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his protégé, Marcel, who is now in charge of New Orleans, in order to re-take his city, as he originally built New Orleans. Klaus departed from the city after being chased down by his father Mikael, while it was being constructed and Marcel took charge. As Klaus has returned after many years, his ego has provoked him to become the king of the city. "Every King needs an heir" says Klaus, accepting the unborn child. The child is a first to be born to a hybrid and a werewolf.
With Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Leah Pipes, ...
Peaky Blinders(2013-)
| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
With Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Iddo Goldberg, Annabelle Wallis, ...
The Blacklist(2013-)
| 43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
With James Spader, Megan Boone, Harry Lennix, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Parminder Nagra, ...
House of Cards(2013-2018)
| 50min per episode | Drama
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.
Directed by David Fincher - With Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara, Corey Stoll, Michael Kelly, Sakina Jaffrey, ...
Brooklyn Nine-Nine(2013-)
| 21min per episode | Comedy, Crime
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
With Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea Peretti, ...
Orange Is the New Black(2013-2019)
| 1h per episode | Comedy, Drama
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
With Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Michael Harney, Michelle Hurst, ...
Hannibal(2013-2015)
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
With Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne, Hettienne Park, Gillian Anderson, ...
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Bates Motel(2013-2017)
| 43min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Crime
A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.
Directed by Tucker Gates, Ed Bianchi, Roxann Dawson, Christopher Nelson - With Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Nestor Carbonell, ...
Orphan Black(2013-2017)
| 43min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
Directed by John Fawcett, David Frazee, T. J. Scott, Ken Girotti, Brett Sullivan, Helen Shaver, ... - With Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce, Michael Bobby Man, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Evelyne Brochu, ...
Sleepy Hollow(2013-2017)
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The Bible(2013)
| 2h per episode | Drama, Action
The story of God's creation of the Earth and the landmark events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Banshee(2013-2016)
| 50min per episode | Crime, Drama
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.
Directed by Greg Yaitanes - With Antony Starr, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Matt Servitto, Frankie Faison, Ulrich Thomsen, Ivana Miličević, ...
The Americans(2013-2018)
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Maximiliano Hernández, Holly Taylor, Noah Emmerich, Annet Mahendru, ...
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Ray Donovan(2013-2020)
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
With Liev Schreiber, Paula Malcomson, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Pooch Hall, Steven Bauer, ...
What Life Took From Me(2013-2014)
45min per episode | Drama
"What Life Took From Me" is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. It is a remake of Bodas de odio, produced by Ernesto Alonso in 1983. In 2003, "True Love", the first remake, was produced by Carla Estrada. Unlike Bodas de odio and "True Love", "What Life Took From Me" has been adapted to the present time.
With Angelique Boyer
My Love From Another Star(2013-2014)
1h per episode | Comedy, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
Do Min Joon is an otherworldly beauty, literally. After crash landing on Earth 400 years ago, Min Joon has diligently observed humans for centuries, ultimately coming to cynical conclusions. On top of being a super babe, Min Joon's got enhanced vision, hearing and agility — all the more reason to believe he's superior to everyone on Earth. That is, until he pursues the beautiful actress Cheon Song Yi for a romance out of this world.
Directed by Jang Tae-yoo - With Kim Soo-hyun, Jeon Ji-hyeon, Park Hae-jin, Yoo In-na, Hwang Hyun-Jin, Shin Sung-rok, ...
The Fall(2013-2016)
57min per episode | Drama, Crime
When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
Directed by Jakob Verbruggen - With Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Laura Donnelly, Bronagh Waugh, Niamh McGrady, Michael McElhatton, ...
Broadchurch(2013-2017)
| 46min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Directed by James Strong, Euros Lyn - With David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Vicky McClure, Arthur Darvill, David Bradley, ...
Marvel's Avengers Assemble(2013-2019)
| 22min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation
The further adventures of the Marvel Universe's mightiest general membership superhero team. With an all-star roster consisting of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Falcon and, occasionally--when she feels like it and only when she feels like it--Black Widow, the Avengers are a team in the truest sense. The Avengers save the world from the biggest threats imaginable--threats no single super hero could withstand.
Steven Universe(2013-2019)
| 11min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
A young boy takes his mother's place in a group of gemstone-based beings, and must learn to control his powers.
Reign(2013-2017)
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
With Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Toby Regbo, Caitlin Stasey, Anna Popplewell, ...
Defiance(2013-2015)
In the near future, planet Earth is permanently altered following the sudden—and tumultuous—arrival of seven unique alien races. In the boom-town of Defiance, the newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully.
With Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene, ...
Mom(2013-)
| 23min per episode | Comedy, Drama
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.
With Anna Faris, Allison Janney, Sadie Calvano, Nate Corddry, Matt L. Jones, French Stewart, ...
Almost Human(2013-2014)
| 43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.
With Karl Urban, Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Crook, Michael Ealy, Michael Irby, Minka Kelly, ...
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU(2013-2020)
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
So exactly what’s going to happen when Hachiman Hikigaya, an isolated high school student with no friends, no interest in making any and a belief that everyone else’s supposedly great high school experiences are either delusions or outright lies, is coerced by a well meaning faculty member into joining the one member “Volunteer Services Club” run by Yukino Yukinoshita, who’s smart, attractive and generally considers everyone in her school to be her complete inferior?
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Research & Action Annual Report 2020
Tracy Gladstone Takes on New Position of Research Director
Tracy R.G. Gladstone, Ph.D., is taking on a new role in addition to those of WCW senior research scientist, associate director, and inaugural director of the Robert S. and Grace W. Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives. As of November 1, she is serving as research director at the Centers.
In her new role, Gladstone will support the success of WCW’s research scientists through peer review of proposals, thought partnership in mapping research trajectories, and mentorship. In the coming months, she will meet with research scientists and project directors at the Centers to discuss how best she can help bolster their work. The goal of the position is to provide advice both proactively and as needed.
“I’m delighted that Tracy has agreed to take on this position,” said Executive Director Layli Maparyan, Ph.D. “She has a wealth of knowledge about grant proposals and publishing, a true talent for guiding others, demonstrated leadership of a team, and a desire to be of even greater service to WCW.”
For her part, Gladstone is excited to have the opportunity to view the work of colleagues up close and to think together with others at WCW about how to optimize funding and publishing opportunities for the benefit of the entire organization.
“I love working with my colleagues to find new approaches and come up with solutions to tricky problems,” she said. “Now I’ll have a formalized way to do that on a regular basis. It’s incredibly fulfilling, and hopefully will help further WCW’s mission of advancing gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing through research and action.”
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You may not heard of Anthony Morrow, if his starting debut game is any indication of what's to come you will hear a lot more of him in the future.
He was born on 27 September 1985 and is 6-5 or 1,96.
He weighs in at 210 lbs / 95.
Morrow plays for the Golden State Warriors and he made his starting debut against the LA Clippers on Saturday 15 November.
The result was a 37-point game, this set the NBA record for points by an undrafted rookie making his first start.
This effort came out of the blue.
Morrow from Georgia Tech came in under the radar to stun the Clippers.
He played 42 minutes and shot 15-20 from the field including 4-5 from behind the three point line.
Morrow followed up this outstanding effort with 25 points against Portland.
In that game he shot 8-12 with 4-5 three point attempts.
Morrow almost did not make it into the NBA.
Just a few weeks ago he was thinking he could be playing in Ukraine and he had his agent making contingency plans to that effect.
In his days at Georgia Tech Morrow was a solid player.
He lead the ACC in 3-point shooting as a senior and setting a school record for career free-throw percentage.
Morrow was little more than a perimeter player and that was not enough to draw much attention from the NBA.
This low profile has been an advantage in his NBA career's earliest stages.
Now that people have stood up and taken notice the pressure is on for Morrow to perform under the glare of the NBA spotlight.
Before last weekend Morrow could walk without incident from his downtown hotel to the BART trains that sometimes take him to the Golden State Warriors' arena.
His 37-point game has now shone the spotlight on this previously unheralded player.
"He's the real deal, and we haven't even learned how to play with him yet," Warriors coach Nelson said.
"I told the team that we'd better know where this guy is at all times.
We'd better get him open, because he looks like the real deal.
" Don Nelson first thought he had someone special when he saw Morrow playing for the Golden State's summer league team.
Despite this he was still the last man to make it onto the Golden State's roster in October.
Morrow started his rookie season in the NBA on the bench for the Warriors on November 9 against the Sacramento Kings.
He played 12 minutes and scored seven points.
It was not until his fourth game that Nelson unleashed Morrow on the NBA making him a starter for the game against the LA Clippers.
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'Missing' Stevens Juror Skipped Deliberations For Horse Race
Sara K. Smith
The jury deliberating over Ted Stevens' corruption trial consisted exclusively of angry cat ladies and addled kooks, one of whom wasso disruptive she almost caused a mistrial. But then there was this OTHER juror, Juror No. 4, who ALSO messed things up by disappearing, mysteriously, to "go to her father's funeral in California" over the weekend and never turned up again. (She was replaced at the last minute and bam, the alternate and the old jurors quickly reached a verdict.) But HMMMM has anyone ever been to a funeral on a racetrack where they race horses, for sport and money?
This gal, Marian Hinnant, apparently does not have a dead dad. She just had a jones to go to the Breeders' Cup at the Santa Anita racetrack. Also? This woman is clearly out of her mind.
Her lawyer, federal public defender A.J. Kramer, tried to keep her from saying much in court, telling the judge only that "her state of mind was such that she had to go to California."
"She apologizes to the court. In fact, her father did not die," Kramer said. "The story about her father was just one that popped into her head."
Hinnant cut in, however, and in a thick drawl gave a rambling, incoherent and baffling monologue about her former employers in the horse-racing industry in Kentucky. She mentioned drugs, wiretaps and horse racing, but it was impossible to tell what connected them.
"I'm not the one who was selling the drugs; I'm not the one who was doing the drugs," she said, a comment that left the courtroom baffled.
Wow! So that is how the "jury selection process" works in DC: you find a human who kind of speaks English, confirm that they were not the ones doing or selling the drugs for the wiretapped horses, and then you let them fuck off to wherever because why not, there are more kooks where that one came from.
Stevens juror admits lying about funeral [Anchorage Daily News]
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Published: January 4, 2021, 7:04 pm Updated: January 4, 2021, 7:39 pm
Tags: Government, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, John Barrasso, Ted Cruz, politics, Election, Mike Enzi, Cynthia Lummis, Mitt Romney, Richard Cheney, Chris Stewart, Mark Gordon, Liz Cheney
GOP split over Trump, election runs across deep-red Wyoming
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FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington. A deepening divide among Republicans over President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election runs prominently through Wyoming, the state that delivered Trump's widest prevailing margin by far. Eleven Republican senators saying they will not be voting Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory include Wyoming's newly sworn in Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Cheyenne-area rancher and former congresswoman. Vocal opponents of any such move include Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, leader of GOP messaging in the House as its third-ranking Republican (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A deepening divide among Republicans over President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election runs prominently through Wyoming, the state that delivered Trump's widest prevailing margin by far.
Eleven Republican senators saying they will not be voting Wednesday to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory include Wyoming's newly sworn in Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Cheyenne-area rancher and former congresswoman.
Vocal opponents of any such move include Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, leader of GOP messaging in the House as its third-ranking Republican.
Cheney's father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, joined the nine other living former U.S. defense secretaries in a Washington Post opinion piece Sunday saying the time for questioning the election was over.
The split in this reddest of states — while Trump continues to make baseless and unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud and voting irregularities — hints at possible trouble ahead for Republican unity once Biden is sworn in as president Jan. 20.
Trump will continue to hold sway over millions of people who voted for him. Through a new political action committee, he will be able to use much of the at least $170 million he has raised since the election to help or hinder the political fortunes of perceived allies or enemies for years to come.
In Wyoming, where Trump beat Biden by carrying a whopping 70% of votes cast, questions about political loyalty have riven Republican politics in recent years as it is. The Wyoming Republican Party has made party fealty a core issue and punished state party officials seen as disloyal.
“This is not about winning and losing. This is about being on the right side of history,” Wyoming GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne wrote in a letter urging Wyoming's all-Republican congressional delegation to reject the electoral votes of states including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The 2020 election “featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities” wrote Lummis and 10 other senators led by Ted Cruz of Texas in a joint statement Saturday. They cited no evidence of those claims.
Liz Cheney over the weekend wrote a memo urging colleagues not to reject Biden’s win. Overturning state presidential election results would steal power from states and voters and establish a “tyranny of Congress,” Cheney added in a Facebook post Monday.
Cheney didn't respond to questions about her political differences with Lummis, who downplayed their significance.
“Republicans are the party of free and open debate and while we disagree from time to time, we will always come together to fight for the needs of Americans across the country," Lummis spokesman Darin Miller said by email.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and Gov. Mark Gordon, both Republicans, have shied away from commenting on the election. A Barrasso spokeswoman declined comment.
The full Wyoming delegation including Lummis recognized Biden as president-elect after the Electoral College certified the election results Dec. 15.
“It’s unfortunate that dishonest attacks on the integrity of the election process have created this rift in the Republican Party, nationally and in Wyoming,” said Chris Merrill, director of the Equality State Policy Center government watchdog group which advocates for a state income tax and other left-leaning issues.
"It’s hard to know if we’re hearing from a very loud and visible fringe who don’t represent rank and file members, or if we’re witnessing the result of some sort of true shift and true new movement in the Republican Party,” Merrill added.
A political analyst, however, doubted that Wyoming's top Republicans ultimately have much at stake with loyalty to Trump.
"Cheney and Lummis and Barrasso all have solid political bases in the state. It's very difficult for anybody to challenge any of the three. I just don't think that's going to play out in Wyoming," University of Wyoming political science professor Jim King said.
Wyoming isn't the only red state with deep divisions about contesting the election. In Utah, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is part of a bipartisan group of senators condemning the efforts to overturn the election. Meanwhile, newly elected Rep. Burgess Owens and Rep. Chris Stewart are among the House members planning to challenge the electoral college vote.
The proceedings are typically a formality and Democrats have lodged their own objections to the Electoral College results in the past but nothing on this scale, with over 100 Republicans in the House joining Trump’s supporters in the Senate.
Though Wyoming voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2020 and 2016, the state embraced Trump reluctantly. In 2016, Republicans in Wyoming initially backed Cruz over Trump almost unanimously for the GOP presidential nomination.
Lummis, then Wyoming's lone U.S. congressperson, said that year she would be “holding her nose" when she voted for Trump. She has since become an outspoken supporter who once interviewed to be Trump's Interior secretary. She won the president's endorsement last year.
Lummis beat a little-known Democrat to win election with almost 73% of the vote Nov. 3. She succeeded four-term Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, who was known for focusing on areas where politicians from both parties can agree and has not commented on Trump's effort to contest the presidential election.
Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
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The liver and the heart
Rabbi Shimon says that the heart (God) takes from the liver only that which is pure and clean, leaving all the foulness for Samael, who distributes it to the idol worshipping nations.
Once again, we discover how the spiritual worlds mirror the function of the physical body, shedding further light on the ultimate origins of disease. In essence, when we listen to and respond to selfish impulses (reactive behavior), we succumb to the prodding of our evil adversaries - the angels Satan/Samael and Lilit. Each time we're responsive to their provocations - the rush to judgment, the urge to scream, the need to mistreat another person, the impulse to lie and deceive - their strength and hold over our body and our life increases. Their stronghold, the Zohar tells us, is the liver. Physically, the liver filters our blood and then sends it, cleaned and purified, to the heart. This medical truth is revealed by the Zohar in this way: "...everything that the liver is holding it sacrifices to the heart, which is the King, to nourish him... He takes everything that is clear and pure, NAMELY all the merits and the good deeds..." That last statement alludes to the relationship among a good liver, purified blood, a healthy heart, and our positive behavior. The bile of the liver absorbs fat as well as waste and toxic matter from the blood. This function is encoded into the following text of Zohar: "...all the foulness, the filth and the dirt, which are the bad deeds, He leaves for the liver, WHICH IS SAMAEL."
Our selfish impulses come from Samael. If we allow our selfish impulses to guide us in life, then SAMAEL has the power to send impurities of the blood from the liver to the heart. In other words, our reactive, stress-induced behavior creates negative energy that manifests physically in our body as heart disease. This truth is found in the following verse: "And the iniquities of His people are in the arteries AND SINEWS that pulsate in the heart."
Research shows that heart disease kills twice as many people as cancer and is one of the leading causes of death. The Zohar passage that we are now discussing provides us with spiritual Light that removes stress and anxiety from our being. We are imbued with the strength to resist reactive emotions and desires - and with the ability to resist heart disease. Our blood is cleansed. Fatty deposits, also called plaque, are extracted from the walls of our arteries and dissolved away. The entire cardiovascular system is cleared and regenerated. Heart- related illnesses and diseases are treated and cured as the Light extinguishes the dark influences of the negative adversaries.
In verse 375, the Zohar explains that skin sores, boils, and leprosy are rooted in the liver and toxins that remain in our body. In addition to heart disease, these Zohar verses also heal all skin-related diseases.
Deeds Esau Goats Heart Jacob Judgment Liver Sacrifice Samael Sinew
374. With T'ruah, T'kiah and Sh'varim, everything is perfumed, one with the other, FOR ALL OF THE JUDGMENTS ARE MITIGATED, and everything that the liver is holding it sacrifices to the heart, which is the king, to nourish it. And it is neither the way of the heart, nor does it desire, the foulness of the deeds of its people, rather it takes everything that is clear and pure, NAMELY all the merits and the good deeds, while all the foulness, the filth and the dirt, which are the bad deeds it leaves for the liver, WHICH IS SAMAEL, about whom it is said: "Esau...is a hairy (Heb. sair) man" (Beresheet 27:11). And all its arteries, which are the other idol-worshipping peoples, are as it is written: "And the goat (Heb. seir) shall bear upon him all their iniquities" (Vayikra 16:22). What is meant by "their iniquities" (Heb. avonotam)? avonot tam, namely the iniquities of a tam, a complete man, the reference being to the same one about whom it is said: "And Jacob was a plain (Heb. tam) man" (Beresheet 25:27). And the iniquities of its people are in the arteries AND SINEWS that pulsate in the heart.
374. בִּתְרוּעָה וּתְקִיעָה וּשְׁבָרִים, אִתְבְּסַם כֹּלָּא דָּא בְּדָא. וְכָל מַה דְּהַהוּא כָּבֵד נָקִיט, אַקְרִיב לְגַבֵּי לֵב, דְּאִיהוּ מַלְכָּא, לְזַיְינָא. וְהַהוּא לֵב, לָאו אוֹרְחֵיהּ, וְלָאו תִּיאוּבְתֵּיהּ, בַּעֲכִירוּ דְּעוֹבָדִין דְּעַמֵּיהּ. אֶלָּא נָקִיט כָּל בְּרִירוּ, וְכָל צָחוּתָא, וְכָל זַכְיָין, וְכָל עוֹבָדִין טָבִין. וְכָל הַהוּא עָכִירוּ וְטִנוּפִין וְלִכְלוּכָא דְּאִינּוּן עוֹבָדִין בִּישִׁין, אֲנָח לְכָבֵד. דְּאִתְּמַר בֵּיהּ, עֵשָׂו אִישׁ שָׂעִיר. וְכָל עַרְקִין דִּילֵיהּ , דְּאִינּוּן שְׁאַר עַמִּין עכו"ם. הה"ד, וְנָשָׂא הַשָּׂעִיר עָלָיו אֶת כָּל עֲוֹנוֹתָם. מַאי עֲוֹנוֹתָם. עֲוֹנוֹת תָּם. דְּאִתְּמַר בֵּיהּ, וְיַעֲקֹב אִישׁ תָּם. וְחוֹבִין דְּעַמֵּיהּ דְּאִינּוּן עַרְקִין וְדַפְקִין דְּלִבָּא.
Creation Curse Health Heart Idolatry Leprosy Lights Lilit Liver Shepherd Skin Spleen Wicked Wickedness
375. And this is why boils and leprosy and skin sores of all the limbs are form the liver, deriving from the filth that remains there. From the heart comes health for all the limbs, for that is how it is: since the heart took all that is pure, clean, and bright, the liver takes what is left of the dirt and the filth and distributes it to all the other limbs, which are the other idol worshipping nations, against their will. And from the refuse of, the refuse of the liver, the spleen, WHICH IS LILIT, takes, about whom it is said: "Let there be lights (Heb. me'orot)" (Beresheet 1:14), WHERE THE WORD 'ME'OROT' IS SPELLED WITHOUT VAV, WHICH CAN ALSO BE READ AS M'ERAT, 'THE CURSE OF,' BECAUSE LILIT WAS CREATED, as in the verse: "The curse (Heb. m'erat) of Hashem is in the house of the wicked" (Mishlei 3:33).
375. ובג"ד, שְׁחִין וְצָרַעַת וְסַפַּחַת, לְכָל אִינּוּן אֵבָרִין, מִכָּבֵד אִשְׁתְּכָחוּ, מֵאִילֵּין לִכְלוּכִין דְּאִשְׁתָּאָרוּ בֵּיהּ. מִלִּבָּא אָתֵי כָּל בְּרִיאוּתָא, לְכָל אֵבָרִין. דְּהָכִי הוּא, כֵּיוָן דְּלִבָּא נָטִיל כָּל זְכִיכוּ וּבְרִירָא וְצָחוּתָא. כָּבֵד נָטִיל כָּל מַה דְּאִשְׁתְּכַח וְאִשְׁתְּאַר מִן לִכְלוּכָא וְטִנּוּפָא. וְזָרִיק לְכָל שְׁאַר שַׁיְיפִין, דְּאִינּוּן שְׁאַר עַמִּין עכו"ם אַחֲרָנִין, בַּעַל כָּרְחַיְיהוּ. וּמִפְּסוֹלוֹת דִּפְסּוֹלוֹת דְּכָבֵד, נָטַל טְחוֹל, דְּאִתְּמַר בֵּיהּ יְהִי מְאֹרֹת. מְאֵרַת יְיָ' בְּבֵית רָשָׁע.
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American adult animated comedy series starring the voice talents of Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris and Alison Brie. BoJack Horseman (Arnett) was a successful sitcom star in the 1990s but since then his career has faltered and his dependence on alcohol has led to him becoming bitter and depressed. In this season, BoJack sets about writing his memoirs with the help of his agent Princess Carolyn (Sedaris) who hires ghost writer Diane Nguyen (Brie), and BoJack also comes into conflict with his long-time rival Mr Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins). The episodes are: 'BoJack Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One', 'BoJack Hates the Troops', 'Prickly-Muffin', 'Zoës and Zeldas', 'Live Fast, Diane Nguyen', 'Our A-Story Is a 'D' Story', 'Say Anything', 'The Telescope', 'Horse Majeure', 'One Trick Pony', 'Downer Ending' and 'Later'.
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For European Delivery, we can offer you a standard 3-6 day delivery window, starting from the very moment that the goods are despatched.
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Please be aware that, due to closures and changes caused by COVID-19, we are expecting to see heavy delays to orders placed to Italy, but we are doing everything we can to continue operating in Italy.
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Writing on Cézanne, D.H. Lawrence noted that, “After a fight tooth-and-nail for forty years, he did succeed in knowing an apple, fully; and, not quite as fully, a jug or two. That was all he achieved. It seems little […] But it is the first step that counts, and Cézanne’s apple is a great deal, more than Plato’s Idea.”1 How exactly does a painting enact its own becoming, attain an imagined state that is also a solid thing, obliterate the virtual distance between form and idea, attain its givenness?
Lawrence Power, Paul’s Studio, 2015. Oil and collage on canvas. 62 × 62 inches. Courtesy Pablo’s Birthday.
Pablo’S Birthday
Such questions arise when confronted with the grouping of works Arne Zimmerman has assembled for Informed Painting. His concept for the show proposes that these artists might be raising the specter of “aura” in a non-traditional fashion, as something that can be considered a painter’s task: to reanimate a haptic presence even without any consideration for a rational progression from primary origin to a copy. It’s a twist on Benjamin’s concept (articulated in “The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction”) of an original aura being transformed by its copied proliferation. What this group show effectively sets up is a problematized path toward aura, a circuitous kind of apostate pilgrimage towards the achievement of these paintings’ “reality.” Perhaps this is as good an approach as any on the road toward a painterly Platonic inversion (stripping away the Janus-masked argument between reality and its shadow): in passing the milestone of Cézanne’s apples, one might be less inclined to take them for ideal forms and perhaps attempt to take an actual bite for sustenance.
Laurence Egloff gains her particular sustenance by optically processing 17th-century Flemish paintings in works such as ohne Titel (Jordaens) (2013). Her desultory brush strokes capture the liquid essence of a work by Jacob Jordaens: they evoke his Baroque compositional twists and turns and dramatic lighting, yet at an unfocused remove. Or perhaps Egloff is simply refocused on mapping the phenomenology of the paintings’ optical effects, while obliterating their historical significance and narrative context. There is something breathless yet stilted in these diminutive paintings, lending them an amiable tension that relieves the copy of its burden of fidelity to the original.
Graham Macbeth has developed his work in relation to a pre-copied world, in the virtual space of computer gaming. His small and poetically gestural paintings remind one in some respects of the casual realism of Fairfield Porter or the similarly delicate brushwork of Maureen Gallace. Macbeth’s paintings, however, have been pre-composed by programs from which they are derived. He favors nondescript corners of the screen, landscapes, or backdrops in which the action takes place but from which the active agent seems to be missing. The harsh scopic regime of virtual space is softened by the artist’s delicate gestures and brushwork, yet the works emit the mysteries of a slippery non-place, still alloyed to their origins in virtual reality, as in Untitled (2015). These works raise the interesting thought of how one’s projection of intentionality may get immersed in the technological game and simultaneously, metabolically, recoil from its circumscribed limits, as one might with any modernist gesture. An aura may give off a universal glow yet be highly conditional, both attracting and deflecting organic sense.
At first glance Adriana Atema’s paintings rely on process as image: in Empyrien (2013) she drips an oddly specific array of colors upwards from an underlying portrait outline, while in Untitled Diptych (2016) she paints again with a quirky palette, this time onto an inkjet-printed canvas. In both instances one gets the impression of surface color in the process of detaching from given armature and then reforming into a mutated version of the original. Hers are image-in-process pictures.
In a similar vein, Niels Shoe Meulman’s painting Enter the exit (2016) appears at first to be clearly gestural, but then a paradoxical photo-process focus bleeds across its more bravura strokes. This interaction suspends one’s reflexive response to either the spills or their manipulation, creating what could be considered an intentionally diluted “picturehood.”
Smaller and much more dense, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s paintings reference vernacular architecture in profile. The hues here are of middle to high saturation; in one work, Untitled (2016) the colors contrast in yellow and dark violet. Her work is quite sculptural in its feel, and recall the similarly shape-oriented paintings of Robert Moskowitz. The works’ virtual physicality is how they are in-formed.
Also architecturally inspired are Lawrence Power’s group of paintings. In Corner and Paul’s Studio (both 2015) the artist minimally indicates vertical, horizontal, and diagonal supports in relation to the “room” of each painting, often with a heavily loaded brush. These reticent gestures compose barely-there soliloquies of space in wan grays, pinks, and blues. They are nevertheless quite insistent on a tactile level. The paintings present as sculptural planes suggesting the memory of spaces and the artist’s attempt to reconstruct those memories partially by hand, rather than solely by eye.
In his Homer Advert (2016) trio of paintings, Jesse Willenbring repeats a Matisse-like frond in rotating patterns and pastel hues. The paintings are as lightweight as wallpaper, yet also exude an organic jouissance, like Minoan dolphins in fresco.
In a more hard-edged format, Michael Zahn’s Ever Get The Feeling (2016) riffs on social-media culture. Three bright yellow, indistinct emoji faces are placed in round canvases opposite a fourth green one, which seems to respond to their mute chorus. All are on a wall-painted chat bubble. Pop figuration gets shorn of its friendly mask here to reveal the blankness of its repetitious smile.
Each artist’s work is informed by a subjective slant on the myriad possible atmospheres that might be extrapolated from sense perception, be it physically palpable or at a mediated remove. What seems central to the concept of the show is that either way, it doesn’t matter. What does is the quality of aesthetic intention to suspend the debate between the copy and its other, so that aura happens, anyway.
D. H. Lawrence, “Introduction to These Paintings,” from Late Essays and Articles (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 202-203.
Tom McGlynn
TOM MCGLYNN is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in the N.Y.C. area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian. He is the director of Beautiful Fields, an organization dedicated to socially- engaged curatorial projects, and is also currently a visiting lecturer at Parsons/the New School.
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Case round-up: employment status in race equality cases and unfair dismissal awards
Dunnachie v Kingston Upon Hull City Council [2004] IRLR 287 CA (3 other reports)
Unfair dismissal: Tribunals empowered to make awards for non-economic loss
In Dunnachie v Kingston upon Hull City Council, the Court of Appeal holds that the comments by Lord Hoffmann in Johnson v Unisys, to the effect that the interpretation of (what is now) s.123 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 given in Norton Tool Co Ltd v Tewson was too narrow in limiting unfair dismissal compensation to economic losses, were obiter and did not bind the Court in the present case.
Ruling may open floodgate for bullied staff
A local government worker has won compensation for psychological damage he claimed he suffered at the hands of his manager in a ruling that could entitle thousands to more compensation for unfair dismissal.
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Mingeley v Pennock and Ivory t/a Amber Cars [2004] IRLR 373 CA (1 other report)
Race discrimination: Taxi driver not employee within meaning of RRA
In Mingeley v Pennock and Ivory t/a Amber Cars, the Court of Appeal held that a taxi driver was not in an employment relationship with the proprietors of the taxi firm for which he worked for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976.
This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: employment status in race equality cases; and unfair dismissal awards.
Personnel Today
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What language do they speak in Turkmenistan?
There are two main answers: Turkmen and of course, Russian, and it can be hard to know when to use each one. As a general rule everyone does speak Russian, but most people do appreciate the effort if you’re able to throw in some Turkmen, even just as a gesture. This is a common theme throughout Central Asia, though it has manifested slightly differently in each country.
The first official language of Turkmenistan is Turkmen, which is written in Latin letters (usually, although there are still some remnants of the modified Cyrillic script that was in use until 1992), and is a Turkic language, very similar to Turkish and Azeri. This is the language that is encouraged by the government and society in general, and to try and use a few basic words or phrases of Turkmen is a nod to their heritage and separate identity to that of their recent Soviet past.
Here are a few basic words that will get for sure get you a few smiles and might even come in handy:
Thankyou: Sagbol or Rakhmet
Hello: Salam
Shop: Dükan
Road/street: Ýol/Köçe
Pharmacy: Dermanhana
Restaurant: Restoran
Toilet: Hajathana
Beer: Piwo (taken from the Russian)
Numbers:
One: Bir
Two: Iki
Three: Üç
Four: Dört
Five: Bäş
Six: Alty
Seven: Ýedi
Eight: Sekiz
Nine: Dokuz
Ten: On
What is the English level in Turkmenistan?
You’ll actually probably be surprised at the level of English spoken in such a closed-off and un-international country. Especially in Ashgabat you’ll find plenty of people that speak at least a little bit of English. This is certainly not to say that it’s everyone, just that you might have been expecting it to be very few. It can be difficult to find opportunities to speak to locals, but occasionally you will come across someone who speaks English well. For the most part though, the people you’ll be interacting with are either staff at your accommodation who will speak reasonably good English, and servers at restaurants/cafes/bars, who will usually speak basically no English.
Read more about language in the region here.
Eilidh Crowley
YPT’s Central Asia Manager, Eilidh’s favourite passtimes include schmoozing with Turkmen officials and exploring abandoned buildings (preferably Soviet). When not on tour she’s been known to play jazz piano and collect the worst postcards she can find from some of the most interesting places that exist.
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Zebra Introduces Flagship MC9300 Mobile Computer Ideal for On-Demand Economy
Expanded portfolio takes productivity and efficiency to the next level in industrial environments
Chicago – April 8, 2019 – Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the edge of the enterprise with solutions and partners that enable businesses to gain a performance edge, today announced the ultra-rugged Android™-based MC9300 mobile computer and TC8300 touch computer. As the next evolution of the MC9000 series, the world’s best-selling enterprise-class mobile computer, the MC9300 enables businesses to modernize their mobile solutions to keep up with the growing demands of e-commerce while shortening training time, improving fulfillment speed and accuracy and increasing productivity by as much as 10 percent compared to competing devices.
Designed to give a performance edge to those on the front lines of business in warehouses, manufacturing, logistics and back-of-store retail environments, the MC9300 is ideal for inventory management, receiving/put-away, returns processing, cross-docking, quality control, parts tracking and price audit applications. Its advanced scanning technology can read direct part marks (DPM), dot peen and laser-etched barcodes and quickly capture 1D or 2D barcodes in virtually any condition and from three inches to as far as 70 feet, providing the flexibility to scan items in small bins or pallets on the uppermost warehouse racks. In addition, the MC9300’s PowerPrecision™+ 7000mAh battery delivers the most battery power in its class, maximizing worker efficiency and productivity by reducing downtime.
The MC9300 is Zebra’s most powerful handheld platform and the most rugged device in its class. It is also virtually water-, drop-, dust- and tumble-proof. For challenging cold-storage environments, one MC9300 model features a system of heaters and a freezer-rated battery for frost-free operations. A Class 1 Division 2 (C1D2) model for use in hazardous locations is also available.
“With more than 3.2 million MC9000 mobile computers sold since 2003, Zebra took its best-selling and most trusted enterprise-class mobile computer and made it better by providing businesses with an easy migration path from Windows to Android,” said Joe White, Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Mobile Computing, Zebra Technologies. “We improved the ergonomics and added more than 20 new features to enhance application and accessory performance, user comfort, ease of use, ruggedness, data capture flexibility and device management.”
BUILDING ON THE HERITAGE OF THE MC9000 SERIES
The MC9300 has a familiar and well-recognized design, improved performance supported by the Android operating system (OS), physical keyboards and a full touch screen. The MC9300 mobile computer features a 4.3-inch touch screen protected by ultra-strong Gorilla Glass™ and a choice of six keypads offering flexibility to run a diverse set of business applications that leverage both input methods. The device includes the latest Qualcomm™ chipset that supports an extensible platform for application development and assures a minimum of two Android OS upgrades for a significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO). It also has an optional front and back camera to capture highly detailed photos and videos to document proof of condition and proof of compliance.
As Microsoft prepares to end support for existing Windows® Embedded Handheld/CE 7 devices in 2020 and 2021 respectively, the MC9300 provides the best path to transition from legacy Windows OS to Android. The MC9300 also comes pre-loaded with a Terminal Emulation (TE) application designed to take advantage of the graphical capabilities of the device while easily supporting traditional “green screen” use for seamless migration and reduced deployment times.
The MC9300 is available with Zebra’s Mobility DNA™ suite of end-user applications, application development tools and utilities that transform Android into an enterprise-ready OS. This allows businesses to maximize the return on investment of their Zebra mobile devices by increasing worker productivity, simplifying management, strengthening security and reducing training and adoption time. With a Zebra OneCare® contract, businesses can leverage Zebra’s LifeGuard™ for Android software security solution that provides predictable security/patch updates that match enterprise hardware lifecycles, simplifies OS transitions and extends the life of mobile investments.
Based on Zebra’s commitment to sustainability, the rugged MC9300 was designed to maintain its reliability through longer component lifecycles, longer lasting batteries as well as its survivability, availability, and support over many years. With the objective to re-use rather than to replace, the MC9300 is backward-compatible with existing charging infrastructure via an adapter reducing electronic waste.
ALSO ANNOUNCING THE NEW TC8300 TOUCH COMPUTER
Leveraging the same innovative design and form factor as the TC8000 to reduce muscle effort and increase productivity, the TC8300 is optimized for picking and new augmented reality (AR)-based applications. It also uses the same Qualcomm chipset as the MC9300 for an extended lifecycle and is available with the Mobility DNA software suite and LifeGuard for Android support as well as DPM capabilities.
The new MC9300 is an evolution of the world’s best-selling enterprise-class mobile computer enabling businesses to modernize their mobile solutions to deliver on the growing demands of e-commerce while reducing training, improving fulfillment accuracy and increasing productivity by 10 percent compared to competitive devices.
The MC9300 provides the best path to transition from legacy Windows OS to Android offering the Mobility DNA software suite, LifeGuard for Android for extended security support and a pre-loaded TE app to support “green screen” apps for seamless migration and reduced deployment times.
Zebra also announced the new TC8300 touch computer providing companies with a performance edge through improved worker productivity and increased real-time visibility into business operations in industrial environments.
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Exposed: Top doctor feeds raging pill addiction
A world-leading Queensland doctor has been caught bogusly prescribing himself powerful painkillers to feed a secret raging drug addiction while caring for the sickest kids in the state.
The Sunday Mail can reveal an extraordinary scandal unfolding around renowned paediatric intensive care specialist Andreas Schibler, which has engulfed the Queensland Children's Hospital, high-ranking colleagues who he claims also prescribed him drugs, and the University of Queensland.
Dr Schibler, also a pioneering researcher whose work has attracted tens of millions of dollars in funding to the university, had his medical licence quietly suspended in August with authorities declaring he "poses a serious risk" to patient safety while alleging actions were dishonest and covert.
Dr Andreas Schibler
Dr Schibler and UQ’s Geoff McColl.
However he has launched legal action to save his career - with the support of the university's Faculty of Medicine.
The top doctor, a father of three, has admitted writing himself prescriptions for thousands of prescription pills including Oxycodone - dubbed Hillbilly heroin - in the names of his wife, young kids, adult son and in-laws over three years, while treating the most desperately sick kids at the nation's largest paediatric intensive care unit.
The 56-year-old said he used the drugs to give him the "energy and motivation" to tackle his academic research work, but he says he never took them during his shifts in the intensive care unit.
QCH insists there is no evidence patient safety had been compromised by Dr Schibler.
Dr Schibler was busted when pharmacists became suspicious when he became a regular visitor at a dozen different chemists around Brisbane's inner southern suburbs where he picked up strong painkillers prescribed to other people.
He was spotted at chemists in Annerley, Moorooka, Red Hill, Woolloongabba, Holland Park, Yeronga, South Bank, Salisbury, Coopers Plains and Rocklea, with some chemists capturing him on security cameras in the pharmacies, sometimes wearing his hospital scrubs.
In suspending his licence the Medical Board said it believes Dr Schibler has a longstanding health condition of "opioid and benzodiazepines misuse" … "that may not be adequately managed, which may impact on his ability to practise safely" and could increase errors, slips and lapses in treating patients and compromise his professional judgment.
CCTV footage of Dr Schibler.
He has also been forced to halt his pioneering medical research to help cure sick kids which has $21m in funding, tribunal documents state.
He claims the suspension is also threatening the livelihoods of 27 staff who work on his research projects.
A world-leader in paediatric critical respiratory care he claims he is so important that his suspension has "compromised" the Paediatric Critical Care Research Groups future.
His medical licence suspension came one month after his licence to prescribe drugs was cancelled on July 17 after an audit of 3 ½ years of his prescribing history.
Details of the saga were revealed in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal where Dr Schibler is fighting two legal battles with medical authorities to salvage his career.
Powerful medical figure Geoff McColl - the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland - wrote a letter, tendered in court, outlining the possible loss of research funding if Schibler is unable to work.
Dr Schibler fought to keep his medical licence by making a "voluntary notification" to the Medical Board of Australia on June 25 and his lawyers writing to them arguing he would agree not to see patients for six months.
But this was rejected.
He admits that at his peak in January he was popping 16 Oxycodone pills a day.
According to the tribunal documents, one colleague who allegedly wrote Schibler a prescription was Christian Stocker, the highest-ranked doctor in the paediatric intensive care unit at QCH.
Dr Christian Stocker.
A prescription allegedly written for Dr Schibler.
Dr Stocker has told authorities he can't recall writing Dr Schibler a script for oxycodone in 2018, he agrees the handwriting in the prescriber details is his, but says other handwriting is not. Dr Stocker is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Dr Schibler argues the number of unlawfully prescribed drugs he is alleged to have consumed has been overstated by medical watchdogs.
His career hit the skids in June when a Queensland pharmacy contacted a medicines watchdog about Dr Schibler picking up drugs prescribed to a 55 year old on his Children's Hospital stationery.
When confronted with more than 100 prescriptions he had written for family members for thousands of pills, Schibler said he was seeking treatment for his drug abuse, and has taken personal leave from his job.
Schibler says he started taking over-the-counter Nurofen Plus and used Oxycodone for the first time in mid-2017 after back pain from an old injury caused by falling over in the snow while pushing a car in 1992.
He initially got prescriptions for Oxycodone from his colleagues, then started giving himself prescriptions, he told authorities.
He has agreed to submit to random drug testing, including hair testing, and says his addiction is not so bad that he needs to be admitted to a rehab clinic, and argues he is not a current risk to the public.
Schibler has submitted reports from his own doctors, but the Medical Board has demanded he be examined by an independent health assessment.
Schibler's treating psychiatrist told the QCAT that Schibler was "self medicating" for undiagnosed depression and anxiety, the medical board says Dr Schibler may suffer from "substance abuse disorder".
Schibler's psychiatrist told QCAT that Schibler's oxycodone addiction has never "negatively impacted" his ability to practice and that there "would be other" doctors treating patients "whilst using either similar or higher doses" of Oxycodone each day.
"There is no history. which suggests Dr Schibler ever practiced in an intoxicated state", the psychiatrist told QCAT.
A UQ spokesperson said Dr Schibler was seconded to the university for specific research and the letter from Prof McColl "was not intended as a reference or endorsement".
Repeated attempts were made to contact Dr Schibler and his lawyer.
His QCAT fight returns to court on Friday.
In a statement, QCH said it had launched an immediate investigation to ensure patient safety had not been compromised in any way by Dr Schibler's actions, after it was alerted by the state's Chief Medical Officer.
"There is no evidence that it was," the statement said.
"Children's Health Queensland has clear policies and procedures in place prohibiting the prescription of medication outside of a normal therapeutic relationship, in line with the Medical Board of Australia Code of Conduct for Doctors.
"CHQ was made aware and took immediate and appropriate action in relation to the prescribing practice."
Dr Schibler is on extended leave, the statement said.
"Children's Health Queensland expects the highest level of professional conduct of its staff and will respond appropriately to any findings or outcomes regarding this matter," it said.
SCHIBLER BLAMES WORKPLACE BULLYING, STRESS FOR HABIT
Dr Schibler blames bullying, overwork and back pain for his abuse of powerful painkillers.
Dr Schibler has told a tribunal that whenever his job became stressful, he swallowed a few more restricted opioids he had obtained from unwitting colleagues or by filling scripts in family members' names.
"I recognise now that I used opiated medications to reduce my academic work-related stress and treat the symptoms of my familial depression," Dr Schibler told the tribunal.
"I found that paracetamol, codeine or oxycodone helped me cope with my depression and the stressors of academic work, and gave me the energy and motivation I needed to get through each research day."
Dr Schibler says he felt “bullied” at Queensland Children's Hospital.
He said he was "constantly under significant stress" due to feeling "bullied at QCH" and the long work hours in the paediatric intensive care unit where he was often on call.
"I was exposed to bullying behaviour by one of our group's researchers and sidelined by a university department director in new research projects that I had significantly conceptualised," Dr Schibler said in relation to his research work.
Dr Schibler says he was stressed because he perceived his job was under threat in 2018 when he was told to shift his research group from the Mater Research Institute to the Children's Health Research Centre.
Dr Schibler told the tribunal that seeing the dozens of pages of unlawful drug prescriptions he had filled had been "deeply confronting and highly embarrassing".
"My conduct has caused me and my family deep embarrassment," Dr Schibler states in his affidavit.
WORLD-RENOWNED RESEARCHER IN PAEDIATRIC MEDICINE
Swiss-born Dr Schibler was one of the most senior clinicians within the nation's largest paediatric intensive care unit, at Queensland Children's Hospital in South Brisbane.
On shift, he was responsible for the medical care of all the children in the 36-bed unit and supervising doctors, including training young registrars.
His seniority means he leads the end-of-life conversations with patients' families and performs central line insertions, intubations, chest drainage and resuscitation of patients.
Dr Schibler is regularly on call to advise on evacuating critically ill children from around the state and northern NSW to hospital.
Dr Schibler was one of the most senior clinicians at the Queensland Children’s Hospital’s paediatric intensive care unit.
He is an eminent staff specialist, a title awarded by Queensland Health as recognition for his experience and it is the second highest classification for senior medical officers.
Dr Schibler has been a doctor for 31 years and has worked in paediatrics and paediatric intensive care for over 25 years. He splits his time between QCH and in research, with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and frequent appearances at international conferences.
He is currently on leave but remains employed by QCH.
He is also on leave from the University of Queensland "due to illness".
If he gets his suspension from practising lifted, he will need to reapply for accreditation by the department of health, he says in court documents.
Dr Schibler established the Paediatric Critical Care Research Group, which he claims is "the major driving force for intensive care research" in the Australian paediatric community.
Last year he was appointed a full Professor at UQ, where he holds fellowships in paediatrics, paediatric medicine and paediatric intensive care
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Whitmer Extends Stay Home Order To 28th; Restarts Manufacturing
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday that auto and other manufacturing workers can return to the job next week, further easing her stay-at-home order while extending it through May 28 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
She said that although the state is “not out of the woods yet,” reopening factories that have been closed since mid-March is an important step to gradually reopening the economy.
Manufacturers can resume operations on Monday, which is key for auto parts makers a week ahead of automakers’ planned May 18 restart. Plants must adopt measures to protect their workers, including daily entry screening and, once they are available, the use of no-touch thermometers.
Manufacturing will be the second major industry to fully reopen in the span of five days. Construction restarted on Thursday.
The Democratic governor, whose emergency powers are being challenged in court by the Republican-led Legislature, lengthened the shelter-in-place order to last nearly two more weeks in a state where more than 4,200 people have died from COVID-19 complications. The restrictions had been scheduled to expire May 15.
Michigan, which is home to the Detroit Three carmakers, has about 630,000 manufacturing workers who make up 13% of the state’s workforce. John Walsh, president and CEO of the Michigan Manufacturers Association, estimated that more than half were temporarily laid off because of the pandemic and the moves taken to slow the virus’s spread.
He credited Whitmer for bringing together business and labor leaders “to ensure our workers can return to the job safely. The safety of our workers is our top priority, and I am confident that Michigan manufacturers are prepared to deliver on the worker protections included in today’s order,” he said.
The measure requires businesses to train their employees on using personal protective equipment, including wearing masks when they cannot consistently stay 6 feet from others. Face shields should be considered for those who are closer than 3 feet apart.
Fiat Chrysler and General Motors have said they will reopen plants starting May 18, while Ford has not officially announced a date.
The Original Equipment Suppliers Association, a large parts manufacturer supplier trade group, said its members asked Whitmer to let them restart operations at least five days ahead of when the carmakers planned to restart factories.
At least 25 employees at auto facilities represented by the United Auto Workers have died as a result of COVID-19, although it is not known if they were infected at work. The union said it wants as much testing as possible and a commitment to the full testing of workers as soon as it is available.
The plant closures have cut off almost all revenue for the automakers, which count the money when vehicles are shipped to dealers.
Although case numbers are improving, the Governor commented everyone is still safer at home. Statewide, there are 45,646 confirmed cases and 4,343 deaths. In Livingston County, there are 368 confirmed cases, 87 probable cases and 20 deaths. 284 people have recovered and there have been 71 hospitalizations. That marked an increase of 2 cases since Wednesday.
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Full Windows 10 ARM on Lumia phones is taking shape quite nicely
Image Courtesy: Ben
Microsoft is not developing Windows Phone platform anymore and the company a while ago confirmed there’ll be no miraculous Windows 10 Mobile revivals. Needless to say, you might be already tired of hearing again and again that Windows 10 Mobile is dead. While Microsoft is no longer interested in its own mobile platform, the developers and enthusiasts don’t want to give up on Lumia phones just yet.
If you don’t want to give up on your Lumia phones just yet, but you’re willing to experiment, then we have a good news for you. Skilled developers in the Windows Phone community have successfully ported the Windows 10 on ARM project to the Microsoft’s Lumia 950 XL, after testing it on an unreleased Lumia Hapanero.
It’s been a while since the developers started searching for a way to install full Windows 10 ARM on Lumia phones and it appears that development is finally advancing. A video posted by Ben shows the first setup experience screen of Windows 10 running on a Lumia 950 XL.
It’s worth noting that Microsoft hasn’t optimized the Windows 10 on ARM operating system for small screen devices such as the Lumia 950, the company’s last Windows 10 Mobile flagship that launched in late 2015.
While the project sounds interesting, it’s not feasible in the long term as full Windows 10 on Lumia has several limitations. Windows 10 ARM on a Lumia phone is certainly not a feasible project due to lack of drivers and Microsoft’s involvement. In the long run, it’s nearly impossible to make Lumia 950 with full Windows 10 a daily driver.
The developers are trying to run the operating system with supported or ported drivers, and they might be also planning for active development of new features. Ben has confirmed that the Windows 10 ARM is limited to select phones, it won’t work on Windows Phones like Lumia 650.
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A couple of months ago, the developers also managed to run Windows RT on some Lumia phones with support for most of the necessary features. The developers are also experimenting with Android on Lumia project and a new update is expected in the coming months.
While Windows 10 Mobile is heading towards its last months of support and phones will stop receiving security patches in late 2019, Microsoft is believed to be working on a new mobile device that would run Windows Core OS on ARM architecture out of the box. Such a device is currently referred to as Andromeda and launch might take place later this year.
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Riding the business wave
By DAVID CARR
Inside Victoria’s picturesque harbour, work has begun upgrading an aging floatplane terminal.
Inside Victoria’s picturesque harbour, work has begun upgrading an aging floatplane terminal. When it reopens later this year, it will be home to owner Seair Seaplanes and the terminus for new scheduled services between the British Columbia capital and Vancouver.
Seair started operations in 1980 with a single Cessna 185, serving the sport fishing market. The airline now operates a mixed fleet of 185 Skywagons, de Havilland Beavers, Turbo Beavers and the company’s flagship aircraft, five Wipline 8000 float-equipped Cessna 208 Caravans. Photo: Paul Dixon
The face of the B.C. floatplane industry is changing. Fishing and recreational charters to remote areas on the B.C. coast remain an important market for most operators. But briefcases are overtaking fishing tackle, especially out of Vancouver, where the convenience of 13-minute flights from Vancouver to Nanaimo, for example, are helping to drain commuters away from the spectacular but tired BC Ferries network.
“Scheduled services have become the mainstay of the business. Victoria and Nanaimo have almost become suburbs of Vancouver,” said Terry Hiebert, a director of the newly established Floatplane Operators Association and operations manager of Seair, the province’s second largest floatplane operator. “Passengers use our service as a bus ride to work, arriving in Vancouver on the Monday morning and flying home Friday.”
The growth of scheduled floatplane traffic over the past 15 years has helped fill a gap left by the dwindling forestry-based sector. At Seair, traffic on scheduled routes grew between 15 and 20 per cent last year. The airline expects similar growth in 2012.
Based at the Vancouver International Seaplane Base, Seair started operations in 1980 with a single Cessna 185, serving the sport fishing market. The airline now operates a mixed fleet of 185 Skywagons, de Havilland Beavers, Turbo Beavers and the company’s flagship aircraft, five Wipline 8000 float-equipped Cessna 208 Caravans.
At Seair, traffic on scheduled routes grew between 15 and 20 per cent last year. The airline expects similar growth in 2012. Photo: Paul Dixon
The strong push into scheduled service is the fourth time the operator has successfully caught the wave of a growing market, said Peter Clarke, Seair’s president and founder. “We have moved from strictly sport fishing to commercial fishing and to forestry. We are still busy with recreational charters, but now we are growing into the scheduled business by adding more frequencies and routes.”
Scheduled flights now account for approximately 50 per cent of Seair’s business. The airline shares a slip at the Vancouver International Seaplane base but owns its terminal building, one of three the company owns and operates, including the Victoria terminal.
“We like to own our buildings,” said Clarke. “By owning our infrastructure we control our destiny. We can do what we want at our own place without interference from the landlord.”
Ownership also delivers an added revenue stream from other user airlines such as Seattle-based Kenmore Air (the largest seaplane operator in the U.S.) that regularly fly into Seair facilities in Vancouver and Nanaimo for customs-clearance and refuelling as they travel northward.
Although Seair will only begin scheduled service to Victoria later this year, the company is no stranger to the capital. It has been operating charters since 1980 and once occupied the passenger terminal it now owns. As is the practice with the other two terminals, Clarke will rent space to other operators.
Seair plans to serve Victoria from two Vancouver hubs: its home base, and the new Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre (VHFC), a privately owned and operated passenger terminal located behind the Trade and Convention Centre at the Vancouver Harbour Waterfront Airport. The $22-million facility opened in May 2011, and primarily serves commuters travelling between the Pacific Northwest’s coastal communities.
Vancouver Harbour Waterfront Airport is one of the world’s busiest seaplane airports, handling approximately 132,000 aircraft movements and 300,000 passengers annually. VHFC is B.C.’s first for-profit floatplane base, something that has not gone over well with the bulk of operators flying from the harbour.
Harbour Air, the province’s largest floatplane operator, accounting for an estimated 85 per cent of harbour traffic, is one of several companies who have refused to move to the VHFC from the temporary facility the new terminal was built to replace.
At the heart of the dispute is the cost of operating from the new building, which Harbour Air estimates will add $3 million to $4 million a year and which will have to be passed onto passengers in new user fees.
“We move hundreds of people and thousands of pounds of luggage and freight every day,” says Seair president and founder Peter Clarke. Photo: Paul Dixon
“This is the highest passenger fee ever charged in the history of the B.C. floatplane industry. In fact, it’s a radical departure for our industry, which has traditionally kept airport costs rock bottom by operating such passenger terminals on a not-for-profit basis,” wrote Greg McDougall, Harbour Air chief executive in The Tyee, a popular B.C. daily online magazine.
As one of only two operators leasing space at the VHFC, Seair has almost free run of the airport’s plush passenger lounge and 18 floatplane slips. (The other tenant, Tofino Air, is largely a charter operator with limited scheduled service.) But for how long?
The harbour’s seven-year-old temporary base was scheduled for demolition one month after the VHFC opened and appears to be operating on borrowed time. A campaign to turn the VHFC into a not-for-profit has fizzled and plans for an alternative floatplane terminal are going nowhere, suggesting that something is going to have to give between the holdouts and terminal owner.
Competition at the VHFC will eventually heat up and Clarke is ready, noting that the Caravan’s commercial airliner-style cabin, low cabin noise levels compared with the Beaver and the Twin Otter, and speed, are all competitive advantages. “It’s a fast machine,” Clarke said. “You fly the Caravan beside a turbine Otter and it looks like it is standing still.”
The first Caravan entered the Seair fleet in 2001. The airline now has five of the type, making it the largest operator of float-equipped Caravans in the world. Clarke is impressed with the versatility of the aircraft and hopes to add two more Caravan’s by 2013, as the company looks to retire its aging Beavers.
“We move hundreds of people and thousands of pounds of luggage and freight every day,” he told Cessna’s in-house publication, Caravan Chronicles. “We can quickly take the seats in and out for cargo or passengers. Our business model is flexibility, and the Caravan’s great for that.”
Clarke also likes to point to the safety features of the Caravan, including its terrain avoidance, synthetic vision and moving map features that help pilots operate in low-visibility conditions in remote areas. The Caravan’s Garmin G1000 glass panel is popular with Seair pilots even though the airline only operates in VFR conditions. Each Seair pilot has an average of 10,500 hours of float time on the B.C. coast. Behind the flight deck, the cabin door is unobstructed, meaning passengers do not have to scrabble over seats to exit the aircraft, a longtime safety concern of the floatplane industry.
The aircraft also has appeal for the charter market, which according to Hiebert, has also evolved over the past 20 years from Dad flying out to the fishing lodge for the weekend to whole families travelling to coastal resorts for kayaking and whale watching.
British Columbia is home to approximately 20 per cent of Canada’s commercial floatplane operators and it is every bit as competitive as the country’s mainline air transport industry. Scheduled traffic is up, but there is concern that the market could become saturated by new entrants, especially on established routes. When it launches scheduled service to Victoria, for example, Seair will be breaking a virtual monopoly held by Harbour Air and its West Coast Air subsidiary. Clarke waved away the concern. “All the routes we are flying are growing,” he countered.
In some cases, airlines are serving different market segments on identical routes. Seair’s Nanaimo terminal, adjacent to the BC Ferries dock, is farther north than the Harbour Air base, splitting the market along geographic lines. Clarke likens it to Billy Bishop Airport, Toronto’s own harbour facility, where Porter Airlines has carved out a convenient alternative to Pearson International Airport for customers living and working in the city core.
As scheduled services increase, the floatplane industry is gradually moving away from its bush plane roots, although upgraded Beavers and Twin Otters will continue to dominate the airways. Despite growth opportunities, Seair continues to plot a cautious course. New airplanes are only bought when there is money in the bank and are used to upgrade rather than swell the fleet.
“We are into slow, steady growth,” Clarke pointed out. “But we are adding frequencies to our existing routes, buying terminal buildings and factory-new airplanes. There are not too many in the floatplane business that can say that.”
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Brief Guide to Working on the Road
I very clearly remember my first day to work on the road, a short 18 months ago. We were in the middle of the desert outside of Albuquerque at the Enchanted Trails RV Park and, despite it being the middle of June, we opened our windows to let the breeze blow in. I sprawled out on the couch, laptop resting on my knees, and plucked away at the keys writing about my first few days as Mrs. Padgett, the RVer (That's my proposed superhero name).
Writing on the road is easy. You don't need Internet. You don't even necessarily need electricity or a computer. Just a pen and some paper. But our other work--film and consulting clients--you know, the kind of work that actually pays, requires tangled cables, expensive equipment, a powerful computer, and high speed Internet.
If you've spent any time RVing, you know good Wi-Fi is difficult to come by, which makes real work nearly impossible.
Plus, to top it all off, if you're RVing full-time, you're probably spending most of your time in places that don't make you want to work, like national and states parks or like this one time in Wisconsin when we stayed at campground complete with a waterpark and free ice cream. I accomplished nothing that week.
As I've learned, the best way to get some work done is to set a time for work and a time for play. For Heath and I, that usually means searching for a nearby coffee shop, a place where we can't be distracted by a hike, or by a couch that really wants me to kick back and take a nap, or by getting up and staring into the fridge every five seconds hoping for a good snack to appear.
Remember: Working on the road isn't sexy. But it is a way to fund your adventures and keep you traveling! So if you're going to travel full-time and you're not retired, you'll need to learn how to work on the road without being distracted by views like this:
Here's what we use to get some real work done:
The Starbucks App Starbucks is our most useful asset for getting work done on the road. (I wish I were paid to endorse Starbucks.) They have reliable Google Wi-Fi that we need for Skype calls and downloading files. We usually choose Starbucks over other coffee shops because we know we can trust the Internet speed and security, plus the app can give us exact locations of nearby stores, and we're gold card members so we get free refills on drinks. It's win-win-win! Also, unlike local coffee shops, Starbucks baristas never give you mean looks for using the Internet, asking for a glass of water, and not actually buying anything.
Laptop and charger Odds are you probably don't cart around a desktop computer in your RV. But you might use an iPad or a tablet, which isn't ideal for working on the road. You'll need a laptop (I use a MacBook Pro, since I mostly do film work) that's easy to cart around. Like I said, we usually work at Starbucks since they typically have plenty of outlets for charging. We like to dry camp, so we learned early on to maximize utilizing coffee shop electricity when we can. (Although our new Winnebago can charge my computer without running the generator, which blows. My. Mind!)
Headphones Personally, I don't like wearing headphones while I work. But Heath can't work without them. He says it's something to do with how I won't stop talking to him while he works and causing a "distraction." So if you have a talkative spouse or just want to tune out the world to get your work done, be sure to have a pair of headphones on you. More than once we've forgotten headphones and driven back to our RV to retrieve them. (I now keep spares in our car).
Verizon Jetpack (or other hotspot device) If working in coffee shops isn't your style, or if you're camping out in the mountains at Glacier National Park, or somewhere off the beaten path, you'll need a hotspot. We use the Verizon Jetpack, which costs us about $20 a month, plus our data plan.
Side note: A lot of people ask us what the best service for Internet on the road is. After traveling to all 50 states, I can say with certainty that Verizon really does have coverage everywhere, excluding parts of west Texas off I-10, parts of Alaska, and Signal Mountain Campground at Grand Teton National Park (we got service throughout the park except at this particular campground). That's pretty amazing, if you ask me. When RV park Wi-Fi won't cut it and you don't want to or can't visit a coffee shop, the jetpack is exactly what you'll need.
Heath taking his daily nap in our hammock
When we're working from parks or on particularly beautiful days, we make a point to take a walk in the middle of the workday. It gets our blood flowing, wakes us up, and always makes us more grateful that we can live and work on the road full-time. What good is the RV life if you don't take time to enjoy it?
Hopefully these tips will help you figure out how to work better on the road. It wasn't easy to learn and took us visiting a dozen states before we got the hang of it. But now Heath and I have worked from our RV for 18 months and we don't plan on stopping any time soon. It's too much fun.
*Bonus tip: When working at a coffee shop, always bring snacks with you. Otherwise you'll be there for ten minutes before someone complains that they're hungry and someone else says there's no way you're spending $7 on a prepackaged sandwich. Trust me.
Alyssa Padgett
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Defending Newsweek
Jay Tea May 16, 2005 Media 35 Comments
As noted below and elsewhere, there is a lot of heat going around right now about Newsweek and its erroneous story about a Koran being flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo. And while I agree with a lot of it, I have to argue against the most severe sanctions people are proposing against Newsweek — in particular, lawsuits for the deaths of those killed in the ensuing riots.
The purpose of such lawsuits is to hold people liable for reasonable and predictable reactions to their actions, and I don’t think the riots and deaths fall into that category.
I willingly grant the “predictable” element, but I draw the line at “reasonable.” The use of that is to justify the unjustifiable. The riots were a completely irrational and wrong response, and Newsweek should not be held responsible for what a bunch of religious, West-hating whackos do. Those lunatics are simply atrocities waiting to happen, and anything — anything — can be the trigger. One might as well find the woman who rejected Ted Bundy and blame her for all the women he subsequently murdered.
So, bring on the abuse, the sanctions, the penalties for Newsweek. Ban their reporters from covering events. Contact and boycott their advertisers. Pillory them in public. Blame them for the damage to our diplomatic efforts. Mock them. Deride them. Taunt them. Make them stand in the corner at press events while wearing silly hats. Use back issues as toilet paper.
But don’t hold them liable for the deaths. To do that is to excuse the real people to blame — the rioters themselves.
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Jeff May 16, 2005
Jay, I disagree. Newsweek needs to be held accountable for their journalism ethics and procedures. They were reporting on an incident, desicrating a Koran, that carries the death penalty in Afganistan and Pakistan. Considering the hypersenitivity surrounding the treatment of muslim prisoners, they just needed to whisper fire in a crowded theater to start a rampage.
They should have used more caution when reporting on a story with such a potentially volital reactions.
Jim May 16, 2005
I agree, Jay. But I have an idea: The radical Islamofascists are demanding that the US turn over those responsible to desecrating the Koran at Gitmo. Why don’t we grab up Michael Isikoff and the editor of Newsweek and turn them over to the Radical clerics? LOL. Oh, what a sweet fantasy! LOL.
Bob May 16, 2005
Jay, You’re wrong. If Newsweek handed a jug of kerosene and a match to a known arsonist, would you not hold them responsible for any deaths that resulted?
Well, that’s just what Newsweek did. They knew what they were doing…
Jim in Cleveland May 16, 2005
I agree with Jay. While I think Newsweek is somewhat culpable for what happened, and their “apology” ranks up there with Rather’s over Memogate in terms of self-serving insincerity, I don’t think riots were a reasonable reaction to the story. Media coverage of The DaVinci Code, which trashes the Catholic Church, has been inaccurate at best, but hasn’t led to rioting at the Vatican. Certainly, the deaths underscore the importance of checking sources when one is to run another story on how evil America is. But the Newsweek story doesn’t exist in a vaccuum. If media coverage as a whole wasn’t already catering to anti-Americanism, riots don’t take place because of a irresponsible blurb in Newsweek.
Mike May 16, 2005
No one can predict with certainty what these Islamic religious nutjobs are going to do in the Middle East. Their religious tendencies are extreme and their reactions the same. But you can’t hold Newsweek responsible for deaths resulting from riots. The crazed clerics calling for a jihad are the ones to blame for that. Many at Newsweek deserve to lose their job and not work in the industry again, but wrongful death lawsuits are ridiculous.
Macker May 16, 2005
It was William Randolph Hearst who quipped, “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” I rest my case.
Sorry, I should have added that those at Newsweek who were responsible not only should lose their job, but should be publicly scorned and shamed, and essentially everything JayTea said in his post.
I am outraged by Newsweek’s obvious Anti-Americanism. I’m sure they were delirious with joy as they watched those wackos in Afghanistan burning the American flag. By the way, I’ve always felt Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff is a punk and a skunk. A punk skunk. A pompous punk-skunk. That little weasel would sh*t in his pants if he ever met an Islamic terrorists.
VA Jim May 16, 2005
The riots were a completely irrational and wrong response, and the university should not be held responsible for what a bunch of sports-crazed, business-hating whackos do. Those lunatics are simply atrocities waiting to happen, and anything — anything — can be the trigger. –JT paraphrased
So what’s happened to “the progress” we’re making in Afghanistan? Did you mean progress, or did you mean taming the dumb animals? Jay Tea, I don’t always agree with you, but this time you’re way out of line.
Normal Afghans appear to be more balanced: “… the demonstration was like a car and some people who are the enemies of Afghanistan took the steering wheel and turned it in the wrong direction.” -Del Agha
Ghazni governor Asadullah Khaled said he spent much of Saturday smoothing things over with mullahs whose intentions were originally peaceful and issuing search warrants for those he believes may have had ulterior motives for organizing the protest.
“There was one mullah who was saying, ‘You should defend your Holy Koran, and even if you lose your life you should be proud of this,’ ” Khaled said.
If the desecration had been by the Saudi (Yemen, Iranian…) government to the Bible, there’d be demonstrations here. No sweat. If some violence-minded minority started to smash windows, set fires, or loot; our cops would bust it up. That’s what appears to have happened, just that the Afghans are a bit rougher in breaking crowds up. It is a rougher world than ours.
Note that the Afghans are not making blanket statements about Americans. They sound more reasonable and civilized, even if rougher, than many American commentors. Newsweak was irresponsible and needs to be held accountable for their lies, not for deaths.
Lanceredstaterant May 16, 2005
I agree with a good deal of Jay’s comments, the actions of the rioters were unreasonable by American Standards but not by the standards of many people in that region. One of the largest problems is that this is not over, not by a long shot. the consequences ae not just for those that rioted but also future riotiers. Most in Afghanistan are illiterate so somebody is going to have to tell them that NEWSWEEK retracted it’s story but let’s face reality here anti American sentiment is the lifeblood of so many people in the Arab world. The Koran flushing incident reinforces what many already believe, so a retraction will just be what they think is some sort of “Zionist” cover up. Then of course we have the heightened hostility towards US troops in the region. How many homicide bombers will this article produce and how many more people will die as a result of this irresponsibility. I dont propose to know the answer, I only know that this goes way beyond words on a page. A slap on the wrist will not suffice. Maybe the end of Newsweek would be the only justification. sounds harsh but how often does irresponsibility get people killed in this country. These reporters know the climate in the Arab World and they know that stories this blasphemous to Muslims would at the very least create a deeper hatred for America. Plausible Deniability? Strikes me as similar to a bartender tanking someone up with drinks and then acting surprised when he runs into a school bus.
Francis May 16, 2005
I also proposed a boycott of the mag as well as a renaming since it doesn’t seem to actually report any News
http://www.di2.nu/blog.htm?20050516
Cousin Dave May 16, 2005
Jay, I respectfully disagree. In any profession other than journalism, professional are held to standards of negligence, and grossly negligent behavior is often prosecuted. (And indeed, journalists are often responsible for pushing such prosecutions.) My problem here is not just that a riot resulted, but that said riot directly placed American servicemen in harm’s way. And, given that the reaction, although not rational, was predictable, I claim that the standard of gross negligence should apply. And furthermore: when a journalist takes action that they know will harm Americans in uniform in wartime, and they proceed with such actions anyway, they have crossed the line over into Lord Haw Haw / Tokyo Rose territory.
My fear is, that now that they’ve been shown how to do it, the MSM will began taking more such actions and will succeed in turning the course of the war to the enemy’s advantage. (Because it’s more important for them to be right than to be American.) And if this happens, a future President will be forced to sharply curtail First Amendment rights for everyone. Indeed, it might lead to an overwhelming national consensus to repeal the First Amendment (a proposition that has enjoyed support from at least 50% of all Americans for decades now). And if that day comes, we’ll all be sorry.
Let’s not let that day come. Let’s make examples out of these Newsweek clowns. Throw the books at them. Make them reveal not only all of their sources, but all of their editorial decision making process — emails, newsroom conversations, everything. If they refuse, find them in contempt of court and let them spend the rest of their lives rotting in jail. That’s what would happen to any ordinary American whose irresponsible actions got American servicemen in wartime killed. Why should laws be different for journalists?
Palmateer May 16, 2005
Imagine if these Newsweek boobs had been around in the summer of 1945. The A-bombs have been dropped, and US troops are about to come ashore in Japan and are expecting a subdued welcome. However, Newsweek has just published a story, widely curculated among the Japanese, that US soldiers have been known to treat Japanese prisoners roughly. Imagine the reception that would await the US forces.
jacckofhearts May 16, 2005
This will help demonstrate the actual feelings of Muslims toward America. Perhaps now many Americans will understand the need to subdue and control these out of control humans. Hate is a scary thing and they hate us. I support George W in his war against the hate and violence of the Muslim world.
Just Me May 16, 2005
I agree with Jay.
There is reason to maybe be upset over how a Holy book is treated, and it is certainly disrespectful, but these rioters/murderers wouldn’t be justified in what they did, even if the report from Newsweek waw 100% factual.
Killing and rioting over a Holy book is insane, and it also turns the Holy book itself into an item of worship, rather than the God the book is about.
The people ultimately responsible here aren’t the editors/reporters of at Newsweek, but the people who would feel justified in murdering others over a book (and murdering those who didn’t actually do it at that).
reelcobra May 16, 2005
Sorry, but this type of behavior is accountable in American Jourisprudence.
Shouting “Fire” in a movie theater is actionable if it results in harm.
This is exactly what Newsweak did.
And Karzai saw the potential for the use of this article from the get go
BorgQueen May 16, 2005
“Those lunatics are simply atrocities waiting to happen, and anything — anything — can be the trigger.”
That’s the point….it’s not the first time these lunatics have gone on rampages, not the second, not the tenth, and certainly won’t be the last. How could Newsweek NOT anticipate the likelihood that this is exactly what would happen?
Reporting an incident that actually happened is one thing.
Reporting something that is so potentially explosive on the “I think I read somewhere” word of an anonymous source with no other corroberation at all is another.
John Adams must be spinning in his grave!
Why would you apply American Jurisprudence to something that happened in Afghanistan?
Michael Williams May 16, 2005
I think it’s important to remember that the riots weren’t just “predictable”, they were intended.
Mike, the initiating action didn’t happen in Afghanistan; it happened in America. Let me see if I can draw an analogy.
I work in the aerospace field. A scenario: let’s say that, for some reason, I have an irrational, all-consuming hatred of General Electric, and I’m constantly on the lookout for information that I can publicize that would be harmful to GE. (Which I don’t, for the record; this is a hypothetical.)
Now, one day, an anonymous GE employee phones me to say that every F-100 engine (used in the F-16) ever manufacturered has a faulty part, made from substandard metal or some such. The part in question is buried deep within the bowels of the engine, and requires many hours of tear-down to get at for inspection. Without doing any further checking, I use whatever connections I can muster, including muckraking military Web sites, to publicize this information. The story manages to catch public interest, and Congress gets involved.
As a result, the Air Force is compelled to ground all F-16s worldwide for engine inspections. While this is taking place, Syria launches a ground/air invasion of northern Iraq. They succeed in taking several Kurdish-majority cities. American troops are unsuccessful in defending the areas due to lack of air support caused by the F-16 stand-down. 27 Americans in uniform die in battle, and three more are taken hostage, tortured, and beheaded, with videos winding up on the Internet. U.S. troop morale in the Mideast plunges, and recruiting all but dries up.
Am I responsible for this? Damn straight I am. As a professional in the field, I know, or should have known, that my unsubstianted charges would result in something like what happened. I have directly aided and abetted the enemy, and my ass deserves to be thrown in the klink for a long, long time. This is true even though none of the bad stuff took place in America. It doesn’t matter because I am an American and my actions did take place in America, and I an responsible for the direct consequences no matter where they take place.
(Of course, there is one aspect in which this scenario differs from the Newsweek scenario: my changes are falsifiable. If inspection of all of the F-100 engines subsequently reveals no faulty parts, then my charges have been conclusively refuted; my credibility is destroyed and even after I get out of jail, I’ll never be able to find a job in the industry again, and rightly so. On the other hand, Newsweek’s charges are non-falsifiable; the Pentagon cannot prove that nothing remotely resembling the incident ever happened at any place or any time. So even if the journalists in question do wind up doing jail time, they will emerge with their credibility intact, if not enhanced.)
Zsa Zsa May 16, 2005
It is just so Rathergate-ish!…I have to say that when you are dealing with the Mideast anything is possible! Peace in that region is going to take much time and much eggshell walking! Any time we are dealing with religion it is going to be very touchy! It really is so necessary to not report things such as that unless your sources are very accurate and can be divulged!…
Jeff Harrell May 16, 2005
Hear hear. What Newsweek did was stupid and wrong. But the response from the Muslim world was way beyond what any reasonable person could have expected. The analogy I used on my blog was this: If I stood up and said “I don’t like vanilla” and a thousand people trashed a Baskin Robbins, I would not be held liable for inciting them to riot.
Insomniac May 16, 2005
But the response from the Muslim world was way beyond what any reasonable person could have expected.
Absolutely incorrect. The violent, irrational, animalian behavior from Islamofascist thugs is well-documented and well-known, as well as them waiting on any and all excuse to erupt into violence because of the “Great Satan.” It would have been entirely unreasonable NOT to expect some type of violence over this story.
Cousin Dave,
That analogy is absurd. These were idiotic Afghan religious zealots reacting to a 2 line bit from a magazine. They incited the riot, the story didn’t. The riot was in Afghanistan and resulted in the innocent death of Afghanistanis. How can you apply American Jourisprudence to something that didn’t even involve Americans?
McGehee May 16, 2005
VA Jim, when I read “those lunatics,” I understand it to mean “those who rioted,” not “everybody in Afghanistan.”
But if you’re going to go around looking for things that offend you, you’re going to find them whether they exist or not.
Mike, I disagree with your conclusion. I do agree that the riot was irrational by Western standards. However, it was predictable given the recent past history of the region. And — and this is the key point — it placed American soldiers in harm’s way It appears now that no Americans were actually harmed (the first news reports I heard said differnt), but it could have easily gone some other way. This is wartime, and it isn’t expected that the enemy will react in a way that we consider logical. The “loose lips sink ships” rule still applies.
I can appreciate that people who think the way the rioters do will look for any excuse. But Newsweek provided them with a whopper of an excuse, one that made their cause look reasonable to their less combustible countrymen, and that made the scope of the action worse than it might have been otherwise. And the damage goes way beyond the riot itself, because if the later news reports are to be believed (which I admit has to be taken with a grain of salt), then America’s reputation and interests in the region have suffered considerable harm from this. So the direct and slightly-less-direct consequences go far beyond the deaths of a handful of Afghan citizens. Are innocent Afghan lives worth less than American lives? Let’s not tell them that.
And you haven’t answered my original point about criminally gross negligence. The First Amendment is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for journalists.
Did I miss something? What innocents died? Murdered? Huh?
The demonstrations were against Newsweak’s reporting about official US government policy to insult Islam by flushing korans in toilets. Demonstrations are fair enough. Karzi himself very properly asked “If it is true that it happened,” he said, “we will ask the U.S. that the perpetrator be punished.”
It doesn’t take any genius to see that Newsweak’s ‘article’ gave a great tool to ex-Taliban and others dissatisfied with the new Afghan government. The rioters were a minority of the crowds using the demonstrations as cover; and local cops dispersed them with the Afghan version of tear-gas: Bullets. Who’s the innocents here?
“We are really angry that the principles of journalism have not been followed correctly and the report they published was apparently not according to the truth. On the one hand, the acceptance of their mistake is right, of course, because it was an important issue and it removes the problem, but it is totally regrettable that the journalistic standard has been [so low] that this very sensitive issue has been dealt with irresponsibly,” said Karzai’s spokeman.
•Not all Afghans demonstrated.
•Not all Afghans in the demonstrations (not even very many) rioted. Will people stop labeling all Afghans based on the actions of a few?
•Nobody’s been murdered. Those who rioted and refused to disperse got Afghan justice.
On the plus side:
•Local cops, local decisions; they most probably nailed the exact ones who needed it most.
•US assets weren’t targeted; mostly Afghani and UN NGO stuff. The destruction of locally owned buildings is a shame, but it’s telling that US property was left alone.
•It looks like everyday Afghan citizens can tell who manipulated the crowds.
•It looks like everyday Afghan citizens are learning about the MSM. Have we learned as much?
bullwinkle May 16, 2005
Newsweek has rung a bell that cannot be unrung. You’d be about as successful in attempting to remove the idea that this happened from the Muslims that believed it as you would be at convincing moonbats that Bush won the election legally in spite of the democrats’ illegal actions to steal it. Ain’t gonna happen. Newsweek should be well aware of the possible consequences of printing inflammatory lies and should have held their story to higher scrutiny, but I’m guessing that the chance to print such a juicy anti-American story was just too good to pass up, ala TANG at CBS. I’ve read plenty of complaints posted here about others inciting violence, why not hold Newsweek to the same standards? I seem to remember one the contributors on Wizbang even speculating that some government’s actions like printing comic books and possibly coming to the aid of one their citizens in a legal situation might be a precursor to war. When a story published in Newsweek rekindles idea of war it’s not unreasonable to think they should be held fully accountable.
CBS just announced another major demonstration taking place across the Arab world right now…
They’re all apologizing for believing Newsweek!
firstbrokenangel May 16, 2005
But don’t hold them liable for the deaths. To do that is to excuse the real people to blame–the rioters themselves.”
I could not agree more. Newsweek didn’t start the riots; they didn’t cause the riots or the destruction or those thousands of people destroying their own property, causing fires and more, totally out of control, ending up killing 17 of their own people, injuring many more – is NOT the responsibility of Newsweek. It is the responsibility of the rioters, no question about it.
Actually this situation pisses me off anyway – after all, it’s only a friggin book, just like the bible is a book. Go buy another one is you need to but to protest as these countries have is just unreasonable in every sense of the word. And it turns out the story isn’t even true – some Gitmo detainee ripped the pages of the Koran out and flushed them down the toilet trying to plug up the system. That’s not Newsweeks responsibility either; they just should have been careful of what they wrote during wartime.
Saying that Newsweek didn’t start the riots leads to one question. Were they rioting before Newsweek ran the story? The riots may have been an unintended result of reckless reporting, but they were the result.
FloridaOyster May 16, 2005
Have they gone on record yet to say the Koran in question was created in MS Word by a disgruntled guard and was fake, but accurate?
BR May 16, 2005
So many good posts above, Jeff, JimK, Bob, Macker, Lance, CousinDavex3, Reelcobra, BorgQueen, Michael W, ZsaZsa, Insomniac, VAJim, Bullwinkle – the bell that cannot be unrung.
FloridayOyster, I share your sentiment.
Surgeon General’s warning: Inhaling Newsweek [or any MSM] can be dangerous to your health.
Or: blind faith can be dangerous to everyone’s survival.
And: Why is the US even providing flushing toilets at all. Let them dig a hole in the ground like they’re used to. Let’s riot against the desecration of Western technology.
Phil Wolff May 17, 2005
The sad part is that the wrong statement was so believable, both by those who started the riots, and by the millions of Americans who read it too. What have we come to when we find it so easy to believe our troops abuse prisoners, insulting their religions?
Yes, the consequences were horrible. But they only happened because all the rumor and news that came before set the expectations right.
Marc May 18, 2005
Newsweek is just as guilty for the deaths as those who killed them! They lit the fuse! Michael Isikoff and his superiors at Newsweek are as culpable in these deaths as the terrorist leaders who send out the human bombs! The same people who make derogatory pictures of President Bush, blaming him for Iraqi deaths, are same ones who are defending Newsweek. This article caused their deaths! Where are the protests? The calls to action? There won’t be any!!! These people, their cut lives short, their families, don’t fit their political agenda! That’s why pics of Military & civilian deaths are used, to promote dem/lib politics! Dems/Libs don’t care about these people unless they can twist it to promote their agenda! These are REAL people, for God’s sake! They had dreams, ambitions, families!!! They are not a statistic or a pic to PS! Newsweek KILLED these people then nonchalantly sweeps it under the rug! I’m sure they appreciate your support!!! You ought to be proud!
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Brainsport Times Jan. 23, 2019
Runners registering for any Saskatchewan Marathon event this year will once again have the option of adding a donation to their race fee to support the Meewasin Valley Authority (MVA).
The MVA is a non-profit organization that does conservation work along the South Saskatchewan River Basin and maintains and upgrades of the Meewasin Valley trail system.
“We’re using it so much. Let’s put back, let’s give back,” says Peter Goode, president of the Saskatoon Road Runners Association (SRRA), which organizes the Saskatchewan Marathon.
SRRA President Peter Goode with dog Willie on a run along the Meewasin Valley trails.
The MVA has been the Saskatchewan Marathon’s charity of choice since 2010.
In the past, the MVA has netted between $7,000 and $10,000 each year from runners who donate while registering for Saskatchewan Marathon events.
Last year, people gave roughly $7,500 to the organization when registering and the SRRA matched that amount, for a total gift of $15,000 to the MVA.
Through naming the MVA the Saskatchewan Marathon charity of choice and by supporting the organization in other ways, the SRRA has directed more than $280,000 in donations to the MVA since 2010.
One of the SRRA’s first donations to the organization was in support of the water fountain and seating area on the MVA trail near the Diefenbaker Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. Some of the bricks there are used to display the names of the winners of the Saskatchewan Marathon.
Bricks on the MVA trail near the Diefenbaker Centre display the names of Saskatchewan Marathon winners. Photo: SRRA Facebook page
Goode says he can’t count how many times he has run along the Meewasin Valley trails, but knows it numbers in the thousands. He tries to show off the trail to runners from outside the city as much as possible and many of the SRRA’s races — including the Saskatchewan Marathon — are run along the trail.
“We have people come in to a lot of our races and they come to our races from Edmonton or wherever and they all say ‘You guys have the best trail system ever,’" he said.
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Why is Ground Beef Red on the Outside but Brown on the Inside and What does it mean?
July 16, 2020 by Karen Hill
The brown-meat syndrome has been a concern of consumers ever since the neighborhood butcher, who ground the meat before our very eyes, went the way of his sawdust-covered floors.
In today’s supermarkets, the meat is ground somewhere “in the back,” or even at another location, and then packed into plastic trays and covered with plastic film. In some markets, it may languish in the cooler for a day or two, then sit even longer in your refrigerator before you get around to opening it and discovering that the inner meat is an unappetizing gray-brown.
Are they spraying the top meat with some sort of red dye? No. Is the brownish meat spoiled? No, not unless it smells bad, which indicates either spoilage by microbes or that the fat is becoming rancid. So brownish meat is okay to eat unless it smells bad.
The chemistry of meat color, any meat, is a bit complicated, and what we call “red meat” could give a chameleon a run for its money. But in a nutshell, the color of meat depends largely on the relative amounts of three colored proteins, just as when an artist mixes three pigments on the palette to achieve a desired hue. The three proteins are deoxymyoglobin, the deep purplish-red color of freshly cut beef; oxymyoglobin, a bright pinkish-red; and metmyoglobin, a grayish brown color. (There are other forms of myoglobin, but these are the main ones.)
These three pigmented chemicals are in dynamic equilibrium with one another, meaning that they are all interconvertible. Their relative amounts at any given time depend on the availability of oxygen, enzymes, and antioxidants. But none of these three colored compounds has any effect on flavor or wholesomeness. It’s purely a matter of cosmetics.
Pork and veal don’t contain much myoglobin in any form, but beef contains much more, and the markets struggle to keep it for as long as possible in the consumer-friendly, bright-red oxymyoglobin form. But how?
First of all, there must be oxygen available to convert the fresh meat’s purple deoxymyoglobin into either red oxymyoglobin or brown metmyoglobin. Which of these two will predominate depends mainly on the amount of oxygen available to the meat. When there is virtually no oxygen at all, as in vacuum packaging, the meat retains its purple deoxymyoglobin color. You’d think that would solve the brown-meat problem, but unfortunately, consumers don’t like purple; they want red. Vacuum packaging therefore has only limited uses in retail sales of fresh (not cured) meats.
When only small amounts of oxygen are available to the meat, brown metmyoglobin is the chemically favored form. That’s why the surface of beef exposed to the open air may exhibit bright red oxymyoglobin, while the oxygen deprived meat underneath will slowly turn brown. At most retail markets, meat is packaged in rigid plastic trays over-wrapped with an oxygen-permeable plastic film, usually polyvinyl chloride. The surface gets plenty of oxygen and is nice and red, but the oxygen can diffuse only so far down. The deeper you go, the browner the meat is.
And by the way, have you noticed those juice-soaked absorbent pads beneath the meat in some of those trays? They’re not just mattresses to keep the meat comfy. They’re there to absorb wetness, known in butcherese as weep or purge. Obviously, it consists of juices that have “wept” out of the meat while standing, carrying along some of its water-soluble proteins and nutrients and thereby compromising its flavor and nutritional value. You don’t want that. So choose packages whose mattresses are dry, not red with juices. A dry mattress means that the juices are still in the meat, where you want them.
There is some truth to your supermarket’s claim that the brown interior meat will turn red again when exposed to air at room temperature (refrigeration slows the transformation down). The metmyoglobin may indeed react with oxygen and revert to oxymyoglobin, but that’s a slow and incomplete process, even if you spread the meat out in a thin layer for maximum oxygen contact, and that’s obviously not a good idea on sanitation grounds. Remember, though, that you’re going to make the meat even browner when you cook it, so why bother? The heat of cooking not only browns the meat by Maillard reactions but encourages the conversion of oxymyoglobin to metmyoglobin.
A second major factor in the red-to-brown conversion of beef is that both the deoxymyoglobin and oxymyoglobin proteins contain a lone iron atom buried deep within each of their large, globular molecules. The iron atom is normally in what chemists call the reduced, or ferrous, form. But if the iron atom is changed into its oxidized or, form, the molecules lose their purple or red colors and turn brown. Antioxidant enzymes in the meat normally keep this change from happening, but if the meat is stored too long, even at refrigerator temperatures, the enzymes’ activity diminishes and browning is facilitated.
This “old-age” browning, often accompanied by an off flavor, is what people think of when they see meat that isn’t red. But as we’ve seen, browning can come also from a harmless deficiency of oxygen in fresh meat. The meat isn’t really bad until bacteria get hold of it, in which case it will probably also have an off odor. So let your nose be your umbrella. (No offense, Cyrano.)
When bacteria do take up residence on the meat’s surface either before, during, or after it has been ground, other browning, and decaying, reactions take place. Spoilage bacteria not only can turn red oxymyoglobin into brown metmyoglobin, but they can then turn the metmyoglobin into green choleglobin and sulfmyoglobin. And you already know that when you see green, your feet should beat a fleet retreat from the meat. Morever, in producing sulfmyoglobin from metmyoglobin the bacteria release hydrogen sulfide, a notoriously smelly gas.
If you’re a suspicious type, poke a hole in the meat package as soon as you leave the market. Take a sniff through the hole while you can still storm back into the market in high dudgeon. (Is there a low dudgeon?)
A quality market will watch its ground-beef supply lines carefully, grinding and putting out just enough to keep up with sales. That way, it will always be oxymyoglobinred at the time of sale. If the meat is allowed to begin losing its bright red color, shoppers tend to reject it even if it is not old-age brownness but merely lack-of-oxygen brownness. The retailer still has to mark it down in order to move it. That can be a boon to savvy or budget-conscious consumers.
The meat industry, of course, wants to minimize these color related losses of revenue. One oft-used preemptive tactic has been to feed the cattle vitamin E, an antioxidant, before sending them off to meet their maker. Antioxidants prevent the iron atoms in the myoglobin molecules from becoming oxidized to the ferric form.
But the industry has yet to work out what is to them a vexing economic problem: The feedlot operators have to bear the cost of the vitamin E-laced feed, while it’s the retailers who benefit from increased sales. In my opinion that’s just too bad, and I refuse to lose any sleep over it. The way things have been going, it will probably be solved when a single, huge agribusiness conglomerate owns everything from the cattle ranch to the meat cases in your supermarket. From cradle to beyond the grave, so to speak.
Or, in an alternative universe, small, local meat farmers will increase in number, so that all our meat will be fresh and look fresh, without having been shipped thousands of miles and having its colors manipulated at the marketplace.
We can dream, can’t we?
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The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats
Source: The Unz Review
A talk with Oleg Tsarev reveals the alleged identity of the "Trump/Ukraine Whistleblower"
ISRAEL SHAMIR • OCTOBER 25, 2019 • 39 COMMENTS
Top Dems are involved in the plundering of the Ukraine: new names, mind-boggling accounts. The mysterious 'whistleblower' whose report had unleashed the impeachment is named in the exclusive interview given to the Unz Review by a prominent Ukrainian politician, an ex-Member of Parliament of four terms, a candidate for Ukraine's presidency, Oleg Tsarev.
Mr Tsarev, a tall, agile and graceful man, a good speaker and a prolific writer, had been a leading and popular Ukrainian politician before the 2014 putsch; he stayed in the Ukraine after President Yanukovych's flight; ran for the Presidency against Mr Poroshenko, and eventually had to go to exile due to multiple threats to his life. During the failed attempt to secede, he was elected the speaker of the Parliament of Novorossia (South-Eastern Ukraine). I spoke to him in Crimea, where he lives in the pleasant seaside town of Yalta. Tsarev still has many supporters in the Ukraine, and is a leader of the opposition to the Kiev regime.
Oleg, you followed Biden story from its very inception. Biden is not the only Dem politician involved in the Ukrainian corruption schemes, is he?
Indeed, John Kerry, the Secretary of State in Obama's administration, was his partner-in-crime. But Joe Biden was number one. During the Obama presidency, Biden was the US proconsul for Ukraine, and he was involved in many corruption schemes. He authorised transfer of three billion dollars of the US taxpayers' money to the post-coup government of the Ukraine; the money was stolen, and Biden took a big share of the spoils.
It is a story of ripping the US taxpayer and the Ukrainian customer off for the benefit of a few corruptioners, American and Ukrainian. And it is a story of Kiev regime and its dependence on the US and IMF. The Ukraine has a few midsize deposits of natural gas, sufficient for domestic household consumption. The cost of its production was quite low; and the Ukrainians got used to pay pennies for their gas. Actually, it was so cheap to produce that the Ukraine could provide all its households with free gas for heating and cooking, just like Libya did. Despite low consumer price, the gas companies (like Burisma) had very high profits and very little expenditure.
After the 2014 coup, IMF demanded to raise the price of gas for the domestic consumer to European levels, and the new president Petro Poroshenko obliged them. The prices went sky-high. The Ukrainians were forced to pay many times more for their cooking and heating; and huge profits went to coffers of the gas companies. Instead of raising taxes or lowering prices, President Poroshenko demanded the gas companies to pay him or subsidise his projects. He said that he arranged the price hike; it means he should be considered a partner.
Burisma Gas company had to pay extortion money to the president Poroshenko. Eventually its founder and owner Mr Nicolai Zlochevsky decided to invite some important Westerners into the company's board of directors hoping it would moderate Poroshenko's appetites. He had brought in Biden's son Hunter, John Kerry, Polish ex-President Kwasniewski; but it didn't help him.
Poroshenko became furious that the fattened calf may escape him, and asked the Attorney General Shokin to investigate Burisma trusting some irregularities would emerge. AG Shokin immediately discovered that Burisma had paid these 'stars' between 50 and 150 thousand dollar per month each just for being on the list of directors. This is illegal by the Ukrainian tax code; it can’t be recognised as legitimate expenditure.
At that time Biden the father entered the fray. He called Poroshenko and gave him six hours to close the case against his son. Otherwise, one billion dollars of the US taxpayers' funds won't pass to the Ukrainian corruptioners. Zlochevsky, the Burisma owner, paid Biden well for this conversation: he received between three and ten million dollars, according to different sources.
AG Shokin said he can't close the case within six hours; Poroshenko sacked him and installed Mr Lutsenko in his stead. Lutsenko was willing to dismiss the case of Burisma, but he also could not do it in a day, or even in a week. Biden, as we know, could not keep his trap shut: by talking about the pressure he put on Poroshenko, he incriminated himself. Meanwhile Mr Shokin gave evidence that Biden put pressure on Poroshenko to fire him, and now it was confirmed. The evidence was given to the US lawyers in connection with another case, Firtash case.
Please go to The Unz Review to read the entire article.
Source: Fort Russ
Confessions Of Maidan Snipers
By Darrol | October 27, 2019
By Darrol – Some historical facts emerge sooner than others. The snipers who started the final stage of the coup in Kiev, Feb. 18-20, 2014, by shooting 210 police officers and 70 demonstrators (though the article says only "dozens"), have come forth and given testimony in court. In neutral Belarus. The snipers came from the Georgian Republic, brought in by Saakashvili, they did their dirty work and were then whisked out of Ukraine. The snipers were not paid for their dirty work, but more importantly for them, 'It is the death of six of their colleagues in mysterious circumstances, who was involved in the events of February 2014. Thus, the remaining witnesses are going to protect themselves." This is from https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/5375611.html
Yandex translation URL.
An American military officer supervised the snipers. "…snipers were instructed by a former American soldier Christopher Brian." A pseudonym, no doubt.
Mikheil Saakashvili is still living in Kiev. He was created by George Soros for the 2003 "Rose Revolution" which brought Saakashvili to power in Georgia. Wikipedia claims the Rose Revolution was "bloodless", but I know he murdered opposition politicians and journalists alike, after getting into office. So this mass murder put Soros fingerprints on the Maidan coup. We can leave aside the famous attack on South Ossetia of 8-08-2008, which many people say marked the turning point of the conflict between the Empire and Russia. The Georgian army started the war; the Russians ended it in 3 days. It took years to get the murderous Saakashvili out of the presidential office and then this supposed "Georgian nationalist" trudged off to Ukraine for his next Soros assignment.
The snipers pointed fingers at Andriy Parubiy as also responsible. He is the top Ukrainian Nazi since 1991. 2016-2019, he was Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. A very big fish! When I say Nazi, that is precise. His National-Socialist Party (later rebranded as Svoboda Party) was the same old OUN-B from the days of Nazi occupation, having a short line of succession from Stepan Bandera to Yaroslav Stetsko, and then his widow, Slava Stetsko.
For details proving Parubiy's party is exactly Nazi, no more and no less, here's a very good link. It also details how the US protected these Nazis even though the OUN-OPA murdered millions of people – Jews, Poles and Russians: https://slavyangrad.org/2015/08/10/americas-dark-history-of-supporting-ukrainian-fascists-and-war-criminals/
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Reflecting on Indigenous superheroes, Indigenous Futurisms and the future of diversity in literature - guest post by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Reflecting on Indigenous superheroes, Indigenous Futurisms and the future of diversity in literature
I cannot count the number of time I’ve been told it’s unusual to be an Indigenous speculative fiction writer who tells a story about an Indigenous superhero. But Indigenous superheroes are nothing new – at least, not to Indigenous peoples. We have always had stories of the Ancestor heroes, and through the long violence of colonialism, we’ve had other heroes too. These heroes include the resistance fighters of the frontier period; the undercover operatives of the protection era where intense government surveillance required Indigenous peoples to engage in a thousand hidden acts of defiance; and the child heroes who survived being members of the Stolen Generations. In Australia and elsewhere, Indigenous peoples have also long been able to interact with the world in ways that the West might label as ‘magic’, but this is because the West often defines the real (and hence the possible) differently to the Indigenous cultures of the earth. There are many aspects of Indigenous realities that might be called ‘speculative’ by the West (such as communicating with animals and time travel). There is also much in Western literature that Indigenous peoples regard as fantasy even though it is labeled as fact, including the numerous negative stereotypes and denigrations of Indigenous peoples and culture contained within settler literature. In this context, speculative fiction has told many a colonial tale whereby Indigenous peoples become the ‘primitive’ populations of alien worlds, overcome by the equivalent of the colonial nation-states enacting their so-called manifest destiny across the stars. Spec fic has also told yet more iterations of the ‘white saviour story’ whereby it is only a white hero (and never an Indigenous one) who can ‘save’ the Indigenous peoples from their terrible plight (a plight that was itself created by white invaders). And it is a genre which has continuously engaged in the appropriation of Indigenous and other non-Western cultures, thereby causing much distress to the marginalised peoples of the earth.
But there is a growing Indigenous presence in speculative fiction. Indigenous Australian Young Adult and Children’s writers who write spec fic include myself, Teagan Chilcott, Tristan Michael Savage, graphic novelist Brenton McKenna, and the group of young Aboriginal people responsible for the NEOMAD comics. In the US, Anishinaabe academic Grace Dillon has coined the term ‘Indigenous Futurisms’ to describe a form of storytelling whereby Indigenous peoples use the speculative fiction genre to challenge colonialism and envision Indigenous futures. Since Indigenous cultures (and peoples) have long been relegated to the past in the mythos of colonial settler states, the very act of imagining Indigenous futures is one of resistance. There is therefore a degree to which being an Indigenous spec fic writer is to be part of what might be called, in Star Wars parlance, a ‘rebel alliance’, and it is an alliance that fights – of course – against the forces of Empire.
Indigenous superheroes are nothing new. Nor are Indigenous stories. But since colonisation began, our voices have been silenced and our knowledges and cultures appropriated. So what is new are the existence of spaces where Indigenous peoples can tell and control our own stories. This is not to say the battle to protect our cultural expressions is over. It most definitely is not, and here in Australia, we don’t yet have what could well be the single most effective measure of protection – a National Indigenous Cultural Authority. But there is a greater awareness of the need to deal respectfully and ethically with Indigenous peoples than once there was. There is also an ever-growing cyber-space presence of many diverse voices who are challenging misrepresentations and drawing attention to the need to read the authors who are writing to their own worlds. In 2015, spec fic author Corinne Duyvis – a writer with autism and one of the founders of Disability in Kidlit – invented the hashtag #OwnVoices, to promote books with a marginalised protagonist written by someone from the same group. Websites such as Disability in Kidlit and, in an Indigenous context, American Indians in Children’s Literature, provide a source of critiques that interrogate (mis)representations in literature in way that is still generally not done by mainstream reviewers and award judges. So do ally websites such as Reading While White, which is run by a group of White librarians to support the struggles of people of colour and Indigenous peoples in literature. There isn’t an equivalent to these websites in Australia … yet. But questions of authority, legitimacy, appropriateness, privilege and power are increasingly being asked of literature and of the Arts more generally.
The way is gradually opening for Indigenous peoples to speak our truths, whether alone or in equitable partnerships with non-Indigenous peoples. We don’t yet live in a world where all voices have an equal opportunity to be heard, and where all voices are heard equally. But we are on our way to it, and therefore on a journey to the stories that will exist when we do.
Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer, illustrator and academic who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She works at the Law School at the University of Western Australia and is the author of a number of picture books as well as the YA speculative fiction series, The Tribe.
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My events at Melbourne Writers Festival 2016
Hello Darling Readers,
Long time no see! I am still in the thick of deadline-itis, but thought I'd interrupt my Blog of Solitude to *squeeeeee* a little, and say how excited I am to be back at Melbourne Writers Festival this year!
I'm going to be involved in two Schools sessions:
How To Review → Tue 30 Aug, 11.15am, VENUE: ACMI Cinema 2
What are the ingredients of a review that does all the right things? Film reviewer Myke Bartlett and YA book blogger Danielle Binks take students through the craft of reviewing, with special tips for reviewing the page and the screen. Learn from the professionals!
More info here: http://www.mwf.com.au/session/how-to-review-2/
Opinion Writing → Thu 1 Sep, 12.30pm, VENUE: ACMI Cinema 2
How do you write a killer opinion piece, making your voice heard and maybe even changing minds? Opinion queen Clementine Ford and fellow feminist Amy Gray will open their toolkits and teach you about voice, structure, argument and more.
More info here: http://www.mwf.com.au/session/opinion-writing-2/
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#LoveOzYA Committee and Community response to: Productivity Commission’s Report on Australia’s intellectual property arrangements
I've been a bit incommunicado lately, and I do apologise! It's also that I've been in a bit of a reading slump and haven't been reading enough (or fast enough) to post reviews. Freelance writing, creative writing, and letter-writing having taken up all my brain power, and unfortunately the blog has laid dormant .... and the crickets will probably continue to chirp until I've got a few deadlines out of the way. Apologies again - I shall get back into the swing of things soon!
But one of those other writing projects that's been occupying my time is this - #LoveOzYA Committee & Community response to: Productivity Commission’s Report on Australia’s intellectual property arrangements.
I sit on the #LoveOzYA committee, and last week we on the committee decided to speak up and oppose copyright proposals and parallel importation (for all the reasons why, you may want to do some additional reading up here).
This is something I feel really passionately about, and if you #LoveOzYA and want to show your support for the Australian youth literature sector - and Australian publishing in general - then you are welcome to add your name to this submission as a co-signatory (and if you feel so inclined, a paragraph or two response too!):
#LoveOzYA Committee & Community response to: Productivity Commission’s Report on Australia’s intellectual property arrangements
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'Night Shift' Midnight, Texas #3 by Charlaine Harris
Received via NetGalley
Welcome to the most intriguing mystery you'll read this year.
Welcome to Midnight, Texas.
At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves-only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town.
Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is. There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place.
And now they must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight. For if all hell breaks loose-which just might happen-it will put the secretive town on the map, where no one wants it to be...
‘Night Shift’ is the third book in Charlaine Harris’ ‘Midnight, Texas’ urban fantasy series.
I must admit that I went into ‘Night Shift’ a little bit wary. I really, really disliked Harris’ sophomore effort in a series that brings minor and beloved characters from all her other series together … But second book ‘Day Shift’ lacked emotional heart for me, and largely because two of my favourite characters established in book #1 were inexplicably cut down. But I was quickly buoyed by ‘Night Shift’, because those two favourites – Fiji and Bobo – and their unrequited love affair was touched upon quickly, hinting that it’d be a lodestone for this instalment. And lo and behold, it was;
Bobo had seemed a little broody for days, though no one was sure why. Fiji who was always aware of Bobo, was a little hyped by the fact that she was almost certain that he was staring at her even when she wasn’t speaking. She didn’t know why; she sadly suspected it was not for the same reason she liked to look at him. In fact, looking at Bobo was one of her favourite things to do.
Something is stirring underneath the town of Midnight, Texas. Strangers are being pulled to the town to commit suicide at the crossroads, and everyone in town is aware that this is just the prelude to a bigger bad waking … The best way to describe the action of ‘Night Shift’ is with this exchange between witch Fiji and psychic Manfred, which I loved because it speaks to a more menacing and intriguing “big bad” that’s plaguing the town of Midnight, and just because I love how meta it is that Charlaine Harris gives some love to ‘Buffy’ when she herself is the creator of what has become another iconic vampire series (there’s also mention of Fiji reading some Anne Rice, which also tickled my meta);
“Maybe you’re right, Manfred. Did you ever watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer?”
The change of subject left him teetering.
“Ah … sure. My grandmother loved it.”
“Do you ever wonder if Midnight’s on the Hellmouth? Like Sunnydale?”
Manfred laughed. “That’s exactly what it feels like,” he said. “You must be Willow, and Olivia must be Buffy. And Lemuel is Angel.”
That brought a smile to Fiji’s face, too. “I would classify Olivia more as Faith,” she said. “Bobo can be Xander.”
“So Diedrik would be Oz.”
For a reason Manfred couldn’t fathom, Fiji flushed.
I loved the mystery at the heart of ‘Night Shift’, both because it’s more satisfying than the more human mysteries of the past two books and because Fiji very much gets to be at the centre of things. For this reason also, Bobo doesn’t get a lot of page time which I didn’t love … but I can appreciate this book being more Fiji’s show, Bobo had to remain a bit of a mystery to her (and therefore, to readers). I adore Fiji and any time Charlaine Harris chooses her as the series focus, the plot is vastly improved.
I also appreciated that Harris at least touched on a little mystery for Manfred, by mentioning the young woman he crushed on in book #1, but who has all but vanished from the series since;
Manfred wondered how Creek Lovell was faring. He’d had a crush on her the size of a boulder, and he’d never figured out if it was returned.
I can’t find anything on the internet about whether or not ‘Midnight, Texas’ will continue beyond ‘Night Shift’ – but I sure hope so, for this little emotional nugget about Manfred and Creek, and also because my old favourite from Sookie’s world – Quinn, the weretiger – has hope in his heart by the end of ‘Night Shift’, and I’d love to see how it works out for him.
I really, really loved ‘Night Shift’ – even as things got a little ridiculous towards the end, I just found it great fun and really thought Harris hit her stride juggling all these characters and their relations against a menacing big bad. ‘Midnight, Texas’ is currently filming as a TV-movie, which I’m also ridiculously excited about (not least because Dylan Bruce – who played Paul in ‘Orphan Black’ is onboard to play Bobo!), and the IMDB description has it billed as “Twin Peaks meets True Blood” which is just so on-the-money I can’t stand it, and my hopes are up high.
‘Night Shift’ is Charlaine Harris at her tangled, paranormal-noir best – with beloved witch Fiji as the emotional centre of this instalment, plus a good subplot about Olivia and Lemuel and enough kernels of complication to leave fans hoping for more instalments … ‘Night Shift’ is the high of this series so far, and I want more.
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AMMAN — Teachers, parents and economic sectors’ representatives on Tuesday welcomed His Majesty King Abdullah’s directives to the government to reopen schools and sectors in a manner that protects public health and the national economy.
Rola Shalabi, a mother who spent her entire day helping her children access online platforms and keeping up with their lessons, said that His Majesty’s decision will help her return to her normal life when her children go to school.
“I had to teach both my daughters how to use the Education Ministry’s platforms simultaneously with several WhatsApp groups, making it very difficult to have time for anything else,” Shalabi said.
She noted that many of her neighbours complained about how much time they spent supporting their children’s education online compared to when they only had to follow-up with them after school.
“I am with reopening schools but under strict protective measures,” Amal Abu Harb, a teacher at a school in Amman, told The Jordan Times on Tuesday.
Abu Harb said that she benefitted from distance education and developed new technical skills, but said she preferred face-to-face interaction in the classroom.
“Returning to schools will allow students to rely more on themselves rather than on their parents as was the case with distance learning,” Abu Harb said.
She concluded that it is the duty of teachers, families and the students themselves to have sufficient awareness upon return to in-class education.
Ibrahim Zalloum, who is also a teacher in Amman, said that His Majesty’s directives to reopen schools will ease the burden on many teachers and families who found it difficult to cope with remote education.
“While remote education worked for some people, many families and teachers suffered from technological issues and many students did not attend regularly, which could have increased drop-out cases. Now under the King’s directives, we hope things will return to how they used to be,” Zalloum said.
In regard to the commercial sector, Amman Chamber of Commerce President Khalil Hajj Tawfiq told The Jordan Times over the phone that “His Majesty’s directives have soothed the economic sectors and provided hope, as they come at a time when the commercial and service sectors have suffered gravely due to lengthy closures and lockdowns”.
“There is great commitment among citizens and the private sector to wearing face masks. The arrival of vaccines also brings hope,” Tawfiq said, voicing appreciation of His Majesty for rekindling hope of a better future for the economic sectors.
Economist Husam Ayesh said that His Majesty’s directives consider the facts and the needs of society.
“The directives should push the government to create programmes and plans that allow for a safe and gradual return of the educational and economic sectors, ensuring the highest levels of public health and safety,” Ayesh said.
Ayesh further noted that the committees that will implement the Royal directives must balance between the economy on one side and public health on the other.
The directives align with the fact that vaccines have become available and they have started arriving to the Kingdom, the economist noted.
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VARNA REGION
SMOLYAN REGION
BOLYAROVO REGION
Within the activities planned for project Creating a Model for Safeguarding, Socialization and Promoting of Christian Orthodox Monuments in Bulgaria ДН 15/4 of 11.12.2017, project team members visited Bolyarovo Municipality and were able to get acquainted with the various activities in safeguarding of Christian cultural heritage. A meeting was held with the management of the municipality - Mr. Hristo Hristov – Mayor and Mrs. Nina Terziiska – Deputy Mayor, as well as Mrs. Lora Velichkova – editor of the Kraygranichna Iskra newspaper. The meeting discussed the modern state of the temples on the territory of their municipality.
The population in the villages of the border municipality is aging and the settlements are constantly depopulated. The care for churches is almost entirely a commitment of local authorities. Initiatives for repairs and for activities aimed at preserving the temples and building new ones are entirely local. There is still the attitude of the BOC and the local population being a passive observer and only active in pointing to the need for repairs. Projects are being prepared and sponsors are sought for. The property owners - in this case – the church trustees – have the right to apply for projects for the renovation of churches. The following temples were restored and repaired with funding under the RDP: the temple St. Dimitar, Bolyarovo; the temple Nativity of the Holy Mother of God in Mamarchevo; Temple Ascension of the Virgin Mary in Sharkovo village; Ascension of Mother Mary in Golyamo Krushevo village; St. St. Cyril and Methodius Church in Strandja village; St. John the Baptist Church in Malko Sharkovo village.
According to the local authorities, there is still much to be done to protect the Christian temples, although a lot has been done. There is an urgent need for repairs for 9 church temples out of a total of 21 temples, of which 2 in larger settlements and 7 in small settlements. These are the temples: St. Prophet Elijah in Dabovo; St. St. Constantine and Helena in Zlatinitsa village; St. Ascension of the Lord in Oman village; St. Constantine and Helena in Ruzhitsa; St. Prophet Elijah in Dennitsa, etc.
The BOC coordinates intentions and initiatives for church repairs. There are partial cases, in the temples recovered by donations and funds from the municipality budget, the Sliven Metropolis to participate with certain sums as donations.
In Bolyarovo Municipality there donation is also in the name of God and faith. Both individuals and representatives of the local business donate, most often connected to a specific settlement. The Ascension church in the village of Iglika was entirely built with donations. In addition, the Ascension Church in the village of Stefan Karadjovo was completely renovated with funds from a donation campaign organized by the municipality of Bolyarovo. The church in the village of Gorska Polyana was restored with funds from donors. The chapel in the village of Kraynovo was built entirely with funds from donors. The chapels in the village of Valchi izvor and near the village of Stefan Karadjovo were built mainly with funds from the budget of the municipality of Bolyarovo.
The municipality and the business mainly provide funds for festive events, including priests' reward, traditional ‘kurban’ and others.
Cooperation with cultural institutions in the region - with the Historical Museum in Yambol and the Ethnographic Museum in the town of Elhovo – takes place in the municipality. At different times, Bolyarovo provides workers from the Temporary Employment Programs of the Historical Museum in carrying out archaeological excavations on the territory of Bolyarovo Municipality. They are mutually supportive in implementing projects – with letters of partnership, taking part in forums. The representatives of The Historical Museum in Yambol also cooperated in the process of acquiring the status of cultural monuments of national significance to sites near the village of Voden. The Municipality of Bolyarovo and the cultural institutions traditionally interact in the implementation of various projects related to the preservation and promotion of the cultural heritage, including the Orthodox temples.
Church temples on the territory of the municipality of Bolyarovo are included in short-term tourist destinations developed under a project funded by OPRD 2007-2013, a partnership project of the municipalities of Yambol District.
Cultural and historical interest is the church in the village of Stefan Karadjovo, built in 1763, which was named after the national hero Stefan Karadzha. Due to its different architecture, the church in the village of Voden is also of interest as it is among the most frequently visited churches in the municipality of Bolyarovo because of its proximity to architectural sites near the village of Voden.
In conclusion, the field research on the territory of Bolyarovo Municipality has proved our hypothesis that even in small municipalities the population, the business, the local authorities and the representatives of the BOC do everything possible to preserve and socialize the Orthodox temples. They are restored, built anew and kept for generations.
With the editor-in-chief of Kraygranichna Iskra Newspaper Mrs. Lora Velichkova
With the Deputy-Mayor of Bolyarovo Ms. Nina Terzieva
Project team members with the mayor of Bolyarovo Municipality Mr. Hristo Hristov
Team members in front of the Bulgarian Church in Edirne St. St. Konstantin and Elena
Team members in front of the church in Elhovo
Temple St. Joan Christener in Malko Sharkovo village
Newly-built chapel in Stefan karadjovo village
A chapel in Kraynovo village, entirely built on donations
Ascension of Holy Mother chapel in Iglika village
A newly-built chapel in Vulchi Izvor village
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RESULTS - SMOLYAN REGION
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Community-owned green energy projects helping to drive new business across the GTA
Tuesday, April 21st 2015 4:41:41pm
Save the earth - and the economy
(April 21, 2015) This Earth Day marks a major turning point for both our planet and our global economy, with a surge in the use of zero emissions renewable energy.
According to a new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), there was a 31% jump in renewable energy sector investment across Canada in 2014 with $8 billion spent on developing green energy projects. Locally, community co-ops have developed over 75 projects in the Greater Toronto Area, including on rooftops in Toronto, Hamilton, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham and Mississauga, with many more to come.
“These are very exciting times for renewable energy. Costs have dropped significantly, technology has improved, and electricity system managers have made the leap on integrating these new energy sources. The result is a big upswing in jobs and investment in this sector, exactly what our country needs right now with our oil sector stalling out and the threat of climate change growing,” says Judith Lipp, President of the Federation of Community Power Cooperatives (FCPC).
An important part of the renewable energy growth story is the role of community-owned energy projects. Solar, wind, biogas and biomass projects owned by community co-ops, public institutions and municipalities are delivering triple bottom line returns for communities, including jobs and revenue, environmental benefits, and more resilient local energy systems.
“Renewable energy co-operatives like ZooShare have seen enthusiastic support from the community. Last month we met our goal of raising $2.2 million through community bonds, and our members are now looking forward to seeing what their dollars will build and the impact it will have. The community power sector as a whole has raised over $27 million from community bonds and shares - it is clear there is a growing market for investment opportunities that make money and do good at the same time,” says Daniel Bida, Executive Director of ZooShare.
The UNEP report makes it clear how a combination of falling costs and improving technology is making green energy the “go to” source of energy worldwide, with 30% more power being put online per dollar invested today compared to 2011. The UNEP report estimates that 2014’s record amount of global renewable energy investment will provide enough zero emission energy to displace 1.3 gigatonnes of CO2 worldwide, the equivalent of eliminating almost all of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions twice over.
“Ontario made a smart decision to take a leadership role in what is now a booming worldwide industry,” points out Lipp. “Our U.S. neighbours are now installing a solar system every two minutes. Here in Ontario, wind power is already cheaper than new nuclear reactors and we will certainly see even lower prices for all renewable sources in the next round of project procurement.”
Lipp acknowledges that renewable energy development has not been without controversy in Ontario, which is why she believes that community involvement is invaluable. “Studies and real-life experience have both shown that where community members are part of a project, concern about renewable energy largely vanishes,” she points out. “Community ownership can really take wind and solar projects further by involving the community in selecting locations, raising investment dollars, and keeping jobs and investment returns in the local area.”
“The community power sector is, in many ways, the untold success story of Ontario’s green energy efforts,” adds Marc van Beusekom of Queen Street Solar, which is developing projects in Durham Region. “We are making renewable energy work for local communities while also making sure our communities benefit from being a part of one of the world’s fastest growing industries.”
Judith Lipp, President
Federation of Community Power Co-ops
jlipp@fcpcoops.ca
fcpcoops.ca
Daniel Bida, Executive Director
ZooShare
daniel@zooshare.ca
zooshare.ca
Marc van Beusekom, Senior Consultant
Queen St. Solar
marcvanb@optionsforhomes.ca
Community Power Backgrounder
There are approximately 60 renewable energy cooperatives in Ontario.
Community ownership and municipal approval both give green energy projects priority points under Ontario’s new Feed In Tariff program rules. Virtually every project approved in the latest round of Feed-In Tariff contract awards had municipal approval, co-op participation or Aboriginal ownership.
Community co-ops use funds raised from members to leverage private financing for projects. To date, the FCPC’s 20-plus member co-ops have made over $100 million in capital investments in renewable energy projects across Ontario, with many more projects in the pipeline.
FCPC member co-ops have been collectively awarded more than 1,200 FIT contracts.
Co-ops essentially “recycle” revenues earned through FIT contracts back to community investors through investment returns ranging (on average) from 5-7% per year.
One out of six Ontario farmers has an ownership stake in a renewable energy project. Many of these farmers are members of community co-ops, such as Agris Solar. Nine thousand Ontario farms have solar panels and 3,000 have a stake in wind energy projects.
Solar energy production peaks on hot summer days when power demand peaks in Ontario.
Wind production peaks in winter and can reduce the need for gas-fired generation during cold snaps.
Biogas operations often use farm and livestock waste to produce power and heat on a steady basis. The Zooshare co-op will combine animal waste from the Toronto Zoo and grocery store discards to produce power 24/7.
More Canadians are now employed in the green energy sector than in the oil sands with employment in the Canadian green energy sector growing 37% in the past five years. Worldwide, 6.5 million people are now employed in the sector.
Local green energy co-ops in the GTA
Beach Community Energy Co-operative
Website: http://beachenergy.ca
Projects built or contracts awarded: 1
E-mail: BCECInc@gmail.com
Green Energy Co-operative of Ontario
Website: http://geco.coop
Projects built or contracts awarded: 18
Contact: Kevin Epp, VP - Business Development
Phone: (888) 908-GECO
E-mail: info@geco.coop
Green Life Co-operative
Website: http://greenlifecommunity.ca
E-mail: info@greenlifecommunity.ca
Queen St. Solar Co-operative
Website: https://www.optionsforgreenenergy.ca
E-mail: info@optionsforgreenenergy.ca
RECC Hamilton
Contact: Ingrid Bos-Stosic
E-mail: ibos@qpasolar.com
SolarShare Co-operative
Website: http://www.solarbonds.ca
Contact: Julie Leach
E-mail: info@solarbonds.ca
ZooShare Biogas Co-operative
Website: http://zooshare.ca
E-mail: info@zooshare.ca
1 http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/ontarios-quiet-energy-revolution-has-lessons-/blog/51036/
2 http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/24/2988171/rooftop-solar-cut-peak-demand/
3 Wind energy saves consumers money during the Polar Vortex - available at awea.org
4 Tracking the Energy Revolution: 2014 - available at http://cleanenergycanada.org/works/trackingtherevolution2014
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D:create’s body of work includes the following shows that can be remounted. Commissioned developments are also accepted.
The Green-Nosed Clown
Telling the story of reduce, reuse, recycle through the eyes of a clown waiting at a bus stop.
Many Coloured Glasses
A children’s theatre piece about diversity and multiculturalism.
Behind the Glass: Shopfront Performances
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Audience Interaction Features
A show controlled by the audience through a video controller. Each audience dictates how much is revealed about “The Incident”. The show incorporates technology and explores the consequences of war. Premiered at Contact Theatre in Manchester, UK.
All that Lies Below with Granny
Featuring Doris and Betty, who take intimate stories from the audience and weave them into their nattering. This show is rated PG.
The Sounds of Little St
A performance about life in a share house that is controlled by the audience with musical instruments.
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Four killed in Bihar boat capsize
By IANS-CT / July 6, 2010
Patna, July 2 (Calcutta Tube) Four people drowned and around 40 were missing after a boat capsized in Gandak river in Bihar’s Bettiah district Friday morning, an official said.
Local people have recovered four bodies from the river and district administration officials have begun rescue operations, an official said.
Bettiah district is around 280 km from state capital Patna.
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Malawi seeks Indian help in ‘greenbelt initiative’
By IANS-CT / November 10, 2010
New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Inspired by India’s ‘Green Revolution’, Malawi has sought Indian assistance in its ‘Greenbelt initiative’ aimed at raising agricultural output. The southeast African nation is looking to India to tap its huge uranium deposits.
Malawi is also negotiating to sign Double Taxation as well as Investment Promotion and Protection agreements with India.
‘Our main aim is to get India’s participation in our Greenbelt initiative to increase our farming capacity,’ visiting Malawian Trade and Industry Minister Eunice Kazembe told IANS in an interview.
Malawi, a country of 14 million people, one of the world’s most densely populated nations, is mainly dependent on rain-fed agriculture but the recent climatic changes has affected its production. The ‘Greenbelt initiative’ has been brought about by the Malawian government to counter climatic unpredictabilities.
‘Our president decided to change Malawi into an irrigated agriculture and therefore we came to India bearing in mind that India underwent a green revolution years ago and that you have built and managed huge irrigation facilities, technologies, tools etc so we like to tap from this knowledge and skill base,’ Kazembe said.
Describing the Greenbelt initiative as a multi-faceted project and inviting Indian investors in it, she said: ‘I am very sure that a month from now there will be investments in many areas and not just in agriculture like irrigation, farming technologies, but in transportation, logistics, agro-processing units, tourism etc.’
India and US joint projects discussed during US President Obama’s visit also sees great agricultural opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Addressing the media Monday after his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Obama said India and US will launch new initiatives that will mutually benefit both the countries through joint projects in regions like Africa.
‘Building on Indian and American agriculture collaboration, like that of the Green Revolution, we are launching a new partnership for an Evergreen Revolution that improves food security around the world,’ he said Monday addressing the media.
Also speaking at the venue, Prime Minister Singh said: ‘We have agreed to broaden our strategic dialogues to cover other regions and areas and initiate joint projects in Africa and Afghanistan.’
Kazembe said Malawi is currently discussing Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement and Double Taxation Agreement with India and that ‘these are two instruments that are crucial to investors for investment in Malawi’.
Kazembe was here as part of the Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika’s delegation on a five-day trip which left for home Nov 6. The delegation invited the Indian business community to invest in sectors like energy, health and education apart from its Greenbelt initiative.
Kazembe said: ‘We are here to solicit investment from India to Malawi bearing in mind that India now is one of the most significant economic power in the world.’
Kazembe said Malawi has discovered huge deposits of uranium and wants to work with India to explore more uranium sites.
She said: ‘We are still negotiating uranium exploration with India. These things tend to have a significant lead time because we are talking about minerals so there are many areas that has to be looked into.’
Kazembe also said that India and Malawi will exceed the two-way trade target of $300 million within three years. India-Malawi bilateral trade at present is $185 million.
‘We are absolutely sure that we’ll exceed the target for a number of reasons like Malawi has exported for many years to India different types of grains. I am pleased to note that India has invited us to clinch a long term contract with its government agency.
‘On the Indian side we buy equipment for SME. There was an announcement of an SME incubator by India. So in two years we will be talking about a lot more than $300 million,’ she said.
On a lighter note Kazembe said she enjoyed her stay in India particularly Indian President Pratibha Patil’s banquet to the visiting delegation.
‘I congratulate India for having a female president. It is very refreshing. There aren’t many female presidents in the world so to be one among the few it is very refreshing.
‘The dinner was sumptuous and the ambience of the place was so very nice, flowers, decor, all so good. We enjoyed ourselves,’ she said.
(Lakshmi Krishnakumar can be contacted at lakshmi.k@ians.in)
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Manish Malhotra outfits Kareena for IIFA performance-Movie Snippets
By IANS-CT / May 20, 2010
Mumbai, May 20 (Calcutta Tube) Manish Malhotra says he has designed Kareena Kapoor‘s costumes for her stage performance at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards 2010 in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo next month.
‘I am doing the finale fashion show there and also designing Kareena Kapoor’s costumes for her performance,’ Malhotra told IANS in an interview.
Aamir Khan-starrer ‘3 Idiots’ has bagged the maximum number of nominations at the IIFA. It has received 14 nominations, including best film, best actor, best director and best actress among others.
Malhotra believes that director Rajkumar Hirani’s film deserves all the awards.
‘I think ‘3 Idiots’ deserves all the awards. I loved the film. It’s a huge hit. It should sweep all the awards,’ said Malhotra.
The IIFA awards are being held June 3-5.
Tusshar Kapoor does a Saif in Rajshri’s next
Saif Ali Khan sketched cartoons in ‘Hum Tum’, and following in his footsteps is actor Tusshar Kapoor who will play a cartoonist in Rajsrhi Productions’ next ‘Love U…Mr. Kalakaar!’.
Tusshar plays an artist called Sahil who derives his inspiration from everything, including nature, a scrap of paper or even a spider’s web.
Featured alongside him is Amrita Rao as Ritu, a management trainee whose world revolves around debits, credits, turnovers, profits and deadlines.
She falls in love with Sahil and helps him sketch new rules of business and what comes forth is an artist’s simplicity amidst the corporate world.
Directed by debutant S. Manasvi, who has also penned the story, screenplay and dialogues, ‘Love U…Mr. Kalakaar’ is being produced by Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Rajkumar Barjatya and Ajit Kumar Barjatya.
Sooraj R. Barjatya and Rajjat A. Barjatya are working as as associate producers on the film. The movie will go on floors early July 2010.
Chunky Pandey names dish on his ‘Housefull’ character
Actor Chunky Pandey has taken a novel road to make his screen name more popular – he played Aakhri Pasta in the recently released comedy ‘Housefull’ and has launched a dish of the same name in his restaurant Elbo Room.
To make the addition more experimental, the 49-year-old announced that whoever will be the first to order the dish, will get a chance to meet him.
‘Housefull’, a full on comedy, also stars Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone and Riteish Deshmukh among others.
Kunal Kapoor taking parkour lessons
Kunal Kapoor is busy with something else other than acting – the actor is taking parkour lessons.
‘Off to learn parkour.. The art of jumping over stuff, tumbling, falling, etc…basically, the quest to find the monkey gene withi,’ Kunal posted on his Twitter page.
Parkour is a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible.
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Software Company TVS Infotech to finalise South African foray
By IANS-CT / September 10, 2010
Chennai, Sep 10 (Calcutta Tube) TVS Infotech Ltd, a software solutions company, expects to finalize its South African foray strategy by the end of this year, a company official said here.
‘By December, we will decide whether to have a joint venture with a local partner or operate on our own in South Africa. We are also setting up an office in Dubai to serve members of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman,’ Vinod Krishnan, managing director of TVS Infotech Ltd, told IANS.
According to him, venturing overseas is part of the derisking strategy – operating in diverse markets so that the company is not affected by slump in the domestic market.
[ReviewAZON asin=”B002DHLUWK” display=”inlinepost”]’In Saudi Arabia, there are a lot of mid-sized engineering, construction and trading companies having legacy systems. We expect big growth from the Middle East market,’ he said.
In the Indian market, TVS Infotech — an associate company of Sundram Fasteners — is focused on manufacturing (auto, sugar, engineering), trading, construction companies with a turnover between Rs.100 crore and Rs.1,000 crore.
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The Vietnam War: The Contrasting Politics of Representations & History
Posted on May 6, 2019 by taship
The most accessible narrative of the Vietnam War portrays the American solider heroically fighting the communist super powers of Northern Vietnam. These depictions are drawn predominantly from perspectives of American soldiers and circulate within American popular culture. The Vietnam War, which lasted from 1957 through 1975, followed the aftermath of World War II (Ferry 2). In this period, the French reestablished colonialism in southern Vietnam while communist leader Ho Chi Minh established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in the north (Ferry 2). Meanwhile 1960s McCarthy age of postwar America sustained a culture of conformity and anxiety towards communism in the United States. In this age of McCarthyism, the U.S. government deemed any act which challenged the preservation of American culture as untrustworthy or inherently communist. Fear in the spread of communism from Southeast Asia prompted U.S. military involvement (Ferry 3). Antiwar movements followed in the late 1960s when a recorded 500,000 plus American soldiers were documented fighting in Vietnam (Ferry 3).
Cartoonist Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do (2017), is a 329 page graphic memoir which documents the detailed history of her family’s escape from Southern Vietnam in the 1970s to their new lives in America. Published by Abrams ComicArt in New York City, Bui narrates the text of the graphic memoir in a poetic fashion alongside engaging illustration. Bui titled the memoir The Best We Could Do, from her perspective as an aging mother and in recognition of the two paternal generations which the timeline of her memoir follows. The structure of the memoir begins from the birth of her first born son, backwards through memories of the war. These memories are shared through the eyes of her siblings being raised in the United States, temporarily displaced in a refugee camp off the shores of Pulau Besar, to Bui’s birthplace in Vietnam. In this timeless story of immigration and the Vietnamese diaspora, Thi Bui examines the importance of identity and the meaning of home.
On the theme of representation, NPR host Mallory Yu’s article “Cartoonist Thi Bui Weaves Together Personal and Political History” (2018) offers a biographical framework for examining how the personal, historical, and political amplify the significance in representation of various Vietnam War narratives. Yu’s report which was aired on All Things Considered offers insight into how Bui found closure in her traumatic past after realizing that she is not responsible for representing all Vietnamese diasporic voices of the war. Published by World Literature Today, scholar and professor Alison Mandaville offers a similar framework for examining the politics of representation within American popular culture in her review of “The Best We Could Do/Saigon Calling: London 1963-75” (2018). Mandaville offers the underrepresented narratives of Vietnamese Americans Thi Bui and Marcelino Truong, who share intimate family and political histories which contrast stereotypes of Vietnamese people illustrated in film, pop culture, and American scholarship. By acknowledging the difference between Bui and Truong’s stories, Mandaville demonstrates the politics behind the absence of contrasting representations of the Vietnam War.
In “Chapter 2: Refugees from War” of the book Vietnamese Immigration (2003), Joe Ferry provides a comprehensive political history of the Vietnam War starting at the end of World War II in the 1940s through the 1990s. In doing so, Ferry successfully outlines and draws connections between the politics of how dominant portrayals of the Vietnam war has potentially impacted U.S. immigration policy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Ferry’s book was published by Mason Crest Publishers in 2003. Mandaville’s analysis of how Bui and Truong’s distinct and intimate narrations of the Vietnam war illuminates the erasure of Vietnamese diasporic voices and histories in mainstream media. Yu’s interview with Bui, which argues that a singular perspective can never accurately reveal the entire truth of the Vietnam War overlaps with Mandaville’s argument of representation politics. Both of these points inform Joe Ferry’s argument of how poor depictions of Vietnamese people in mass media predicted bias immigration policy of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Throughout her graphic memoir, Bui weaves U.S. anti-immigration rhetoric in scenes of tension to highlight the influence in which discriminatory language inhibits freedom of cultural expression and racial, ethnic, and minority acceptance in the United States. After hastily escaping Sai Gon in an evening on the March of 1987, Bui’s family meets a refugee boat docked in Can Tho. After landing on the shores of Pulau Besar, Bui’s family joins a refugee camp holding “hundreds of thousands…flooding into neighboring countries, seeking asylum” (283). Bui’s family waits in line for their name and picture identification to be registered into the refugee camp before Bui’s mother, who is pregnant, returns from the local Hospital Kuala Terengganu. Central to page 267, Bui inserts photocopied passport-sized images of herself and each of her family members holding plaques which function to generically identify her family among thousands of others by “name, boat number, date of birth, and date of access” (267). While Bui is depicted unintrigued, staring blankly beyond the focus of the camera, Bui’s father also appears unamused with a weathered look in his eyes. Bui’s mother is captured supporting the weight of the youngest of Bui’s sisters on her hip. Surrounding the four images, Bui illustrates rough, impersonal sketches of nineteen other Vietnamese refugees also holding their identity plaques which detail their significance. In cursive print, the center of page 267 reads “We were now BOAT PEOPLE-” with an undertone of defeat simultaneous with acceptance and solidarity (267). Although the text is presented in a style similar to a handwritten letter, the font is in fact computer generated. The personalized appearance of this text resembles traces of official documentation through Bui’s artistic choice to present the text deceivingly hand-written. Bui’s unclear presentation of how she wants this page to be observed is constructed intentionally to provoke the audience to inquire their understanding of what “boat people” connotes. Additionally, which context and sources have informed their preconceived notion of “boat people”.
Located in the bottom right corner of the page, is a textbox which reads “—five among hundreds of refugees flooding into neighboring countries seeking asylum.” (267). The sketches of these faces in the background of the text further suggest how policy and news coverage mutes these individual stories. The most easily accessible narratives of the Vietnam War often portray from the American perspective. These perspectives, which circulate within American popular culture insufficiently document the Vietnamese diaspora. Similarly to the discourse which supports anti-immigration policy, Bui argues even the resources of authority such as the news also part takes in minimizing detailed family histories into simple numbered statistics.
The intimate photographs of Bui’s family in contrast to the rough outlines of other underrepresented Vietnamese personal and political histories work to exemplify the subtle ways in which cultural outlets, such as the news, promote and sustain the dehumanization of immigrant and diasporic communities. In critique of the function of anti-immigration rhetoric, which is to dehumanize, Bui intentionally utilizes the common metaphor of refugees ‘flooding’ into the United States. Similar to the language surrounding disease control and epidemics, ‘flooding’ suggests threatening undertones of what can not be contained and is therefore negative or deviant. In the context of the Vietnamese refugee crisis, ‘flooding’ also works to create an effect of negating the human experience while emphasizing the animalistic. Finally, Bui purposefully juxtaposes the individual portraits of Bui and her family to a common example of anti-immigration terminology such as ‘flooding’ to reveal the ruthless way in which anti-immigration language disregards the countless, undocumented voices within Vietnamese diasporic communities. Through this work, Yu’s argument emphasizes the significance inherent within how representation is narrated. While she asserts that Bui’s voice should not forcefully bear the responsibility of retelling the entire Vietnamese diasporic narrative, the intimate photographs Bui shares at this point on her memoir validates the individual in each recount of their lived experience in the diaspora (2). The narration of Bui’s family properly exemplifies how the voices and lived experiences anyone within the diaspora should have been depicted.
Mandaville’s critique of the media’s role in supporting the erasure of the voices directly relates to Yu’s report, which criticizes the lack of recognition which mainstream American cultures gives to the muted voices of Vietnamese diasporic communities. Before beginning her talk at the San Diego Comic-Con convention, Bui shares with her audience that her narrative represents a singular representation of a national narrative which extends beyond herself (Yu 1-2). Until recognizing this truth, Bui was unable to begin the process towards reconciliation of her family’s traumatic past (2). Both of these scholars indirectly acknowledge the damaging ways in which media simplifies the histories surrounding the Vietnam war. Ferry’s critique in the lack of footage documenting the destruction of “once-lush green countryside” now damaged with “land mines; chemical sprays [which] stripped foliage and vegetation” diverges from the fabricated narrative of the American soldier sacrificing himself for the betterment of Vietnam’s deeply entrenched communist society (4). The enhanced representation of the heroic American soldier in the wake of the degradation of Vietnamese ecology validates Bui’s frustration with the political bias inherent within media representations.
Toward the end of her memoir, Bui introduces a painful memory exemplifying how anti-immigration rhetoric has effectively manifested within the Vietnamese diasporic communities into a dangerous competition of who can deviate farthest from their cultural baggage. Upon arrival into the United States, Bui’s family moves into a two bedroom house with her aunt, her husband, their five children and one dog in Hammond, Indiana. From an impressionable age, Bui sensed the societal pressure to assimilate into American culture. Bui’s older cousins, who “had been in America for three years already”, often scolded Bui for behaving like “such a REFUGEE!” when, for example, she ate cereal out of the box (285). In response, Bui blamed herself for “probably embarrassing” her cousins for their “fresh-off-the-boat appearance” (285). Bui illustrates this page into a set of two larger frames stacked on top of one another. The top half of the page distinctly separates into two smaller frames which portray, Bui and her siblings in contrast to her more experienced and assimilated “American” cousins. Bui and her siblings are illustrated barefoot, in simplistic clothing which does not serve beyond the functional use as a protective layer. In contrast, Bui portrays her older cousins, aunt, and uncle, standing confidently united in the aesthetic appearance of 1970s American fashion.
The metaphor of appearing “fresh-off-the-boat” threatens Bui’s cousin, who has already gauged the sacrifice she is expected to make in order to find comfort in the contrasting binds of American culture. Vietnamese people have historically named themselvesat people”. This title reclaims aspects of the shared refugees experience of escaping Vietnam in boats. The boats provided the Vietnamese refugees a means of survival and an opportunity for escape. Floating for weeks at a time in a wide expanse of ocean water, most families were split apart or never had the opportunity to reach land. Bui foreshadows themes of assimilation and the model minority in this scene when her cousin threatens her for her dress and mannerisms which don’t align with American culture. Boats which were once sought-after for protecting refugees, now represent a discarded narrative as an foreigner subject to alienation. Assimilation now dictates how Bui will craft a home for herself in the United States. Although the boat represents a concrete Vietnamese identity distinguished through war history, the drifting boat also connotes an emotional and physical sense of unidentifiable weightlessness. Despite actions of assimilation, the boat in “boat people” is symbolic of the American identity which Vietnamese refugees will never claim.
While the parallel alignment of these frames appear to highlight difference between Bui and her cousins, the arrangement also foreshadows the insecurity which Bui’s cousin feels towards her threatened “American” identity. After dismissing Bui, Bui’s cousin asks, “at least don’t eat like that in front of my house where everyone can see you!” (285). In this bottom frame, Bui’s cousin projects her insecurities onto Bui in the form of unwarranted aggression. The words of her cousin invoke the fragility in their identities as Vietnamese-American immigrants (285). Similar interactions at school inform self-consciousness in her identity. Bui’s cousin reveals the precarious nature of her American identity when she reprimands Bui for harmless mannerisms such as eating cereal out of the box.
In connection to the work of Bui’s memoir, Mandaville’s critique of the media’s role in supporting the erasure of the voices directly relates to Yu’s report, which criticizes the lack of recognition which mainstream American cultures gives to the muted voices of Vietnamese diasporic communities. Before beginning her talk at the San Diego Comic-Con convention, Bui shares with her audience that her narrative represents a singular representation of a national narrative which extends beyond herself (Yu 1-2). Until recognizing this truth, Bui was unable to begin the process towards reconciliation of her family’s traumatic past (2). Both of these scholars indirectly acknowledge the damaging ways in which media simplifies the histories surrounding the Vietnam war. Ferry’s critique in the lack of footage documenting the destruction of “once-lush green countryside” now damaged with “land mines; chemical sprays [which] stripped foliage and vegetation” diverges from the fabricated narrative of the American soldier sacrificing himself for the betterment of Vietnam’s deeply entrenched communist society (4). The enhanced representation of the heroic American soldier in the wake of the degradation of Vietnamese ecology validates Bui’s frustration with the political bias inherent within media representations.
In reflection of how poor depictions of Vietnamese people in mass media influenced bias immigration policy, Ferry demonstrates the influence of pop culture and wider socio-political movements on U.S. policy. He acknowledges President Lyndon Johnson’s conscious shift to “not seek re-election as president” in response to U.S. antiwar campaigns (3). Ferry’s critique of how poor documentation, or a lack thereof, overlaps with Yu’s critique of how an absence in representation obscures some parts of history while exaggerating others. In the latter half of chapter 2, Ferry recounts the suffering which refugees experienced through generations following the war (5-7). Although Ferry does not outright state how mass media has directly influenced the discriminatory immigration laws of the late 1970s and early 80s, he point out the revealing significance and politics of not documenting history of the “bombs [which] destroyed infrastructure that had delivered electricity, clean drinking water, and sanitary sewage disposal to the population” following the aftermath of the Vietnam war (4). Through this point, Ferry correlates how the removal or leaving out of certain histories reflects a stylized prejudice in documentation.
Through his book, Ferry’s analysis of documentation aligns with Mandaville and Yu’s arguments which highlight the politics and responsibility of representation. Through entertaining Bui’s personal inflictions and “academic grumpiness” toward deconstructing offensive and stereotypical cultural representations of Vietnamese people in graduate school at NYU, Yu discusses how Bui intentionally “weaves the personal, historical, and political” in form of a graphic memoir (4). Yu discusses how Bui consciously decided to promote her voice through the frame work of a graphic memoir, which is the most accessible to a wide audience. The singular narrative of the Vietnam War which the Vietnamese people are bound to by Hollywood blockbusters consistently document the Vietnamese in stigmatized representations. The demonization of the Vietnamese aligns symbolically to the negligence of their continued suffering following the aftermath of the war.
The context of Bui’s memoir in conjunction with the connections between Yu, Ferry, and Mandaville arguments advocate and pioneer for the significance and politics of representation within the sphere of multiculturalism. The connection between how Yu illustrates the specific biographical context of how the process of writing this novel while raising her child supported Bui’s reconciliation of her layered identity relationship with her parents, Ferry, outlines the objective political history of the Vietnam War in contrast to mainstream documentation, and Mandaville outlines major debates of how blind American patriotism sustains ignorant representation of non-American perspectives, provides access points of deeper analysis into the role and responsibility of media in representing history. Points of overlap between Yu and Ferry’s arguments have had the effect of further illustrate the extent to which mass media can impact culture and history. Drawing from the overlap in these three source, the essence of how, which, and what narratives are portrayed in the media carries importance. Mandaville’s point of distributing the knowledge of oral histories draws stronger ties of connection between Yu and Ferry’s argument which both indirectly highlight the importance of documenting history in accessible modes of communication. These congruent points of connection broaden the definition of “false representation” to include also a lack in representation. Additionally, on the point of representation, these sources raise the question of how will media continue to impact history moving forward. How will this influx in influence be monitored? Should it be monitored?
Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. Abrams ComicArts, 2018.
Ferry, Joe. “Chapter 2: Refugees from War.” Vietnamese Immigration, Mason Crest Publishers, 2003, pp. 8-14.
Mandaville, Alison. “The Best We Could Do/Saigon Calling: London 1963-75.” Review of The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui. World Literature Today, March-April 2018.
Yu, Mallory. “Cartoonist Thi Bui Weaves Together Personal and Political History.” All Things Considered from NPR, 1 August 2018, http://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634606313/cartoonist-thi-bui-weaves-together-personal- and-political-history
Posted in OpEd | Tagged #anti-immigration, #boatpeople, #GBtran, #graphicmemoir, #refugeecrisis, #representation, #TheBestWeCouldDo, #thibui, #Vietnam, #VietnamWar, multiculturalism, vietnamerica
OpEd: First Draft
Posted on April 20, 2019 by taship
Cartoonist Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do (2017), is a 329 paged graphic memoir which documents the detailed history of her family’s escape from Southern Vietnam in the 1970s to their new lives in America. Published by Abrams ComicArt in New York City, Bui narrates the text of the graphic memoir in a poetic fashion alongside engaging illustration. Bui titled the memoir The Best We Could Do, from her perspective as an aging mother and in recognition of the two paternal generations which the timeline of her memoir follows. The structure of the memoir begins from the birth of her first born son, backwards through memories of the war in the eyes of her siblings in the United States, in a refugee camp, to Bui’s birthplace in Vietnam. In this timeless story of immigration and the Vietnamese diaspora, Thi Bui examines the importance of identity and the meaning of home.
Thi Bui, NPR interview
The most accessible narrative of the Vietnam War portrays the American solider heroically fighting the communist super powers of Northern Vietnam. These depictions are drawn predominantly from perspectives of American soldiers and circulate within American popular culture. 1960s McCarthy age of postwar America sustained a culture of conformity and anxiety towards communism in the United States. In this age of McCarthyism, the U.S. government deemed any act which challenged the preservation of American culture as untrustworthy or inherently communist. Fear in the spread of communism from Southeast Asia prompted U.S. military involvement. Antiwar movements followed in the late 1960s when a recorded 500,000 plus American soldiers were documented fighting in Vietnam.
The Bui’s Graphic Memoir
Upon arrival into the United States, Bui’s family moves into a two bedroom house with her aunt, her husband, their five children and one dog in Hammond, Indiana. From an impressionable age, Bui sensed the societal pressure to assimilate into American culture. Bui’s older cousins, who immigrated three years earlier, often scolded Bui for behaving like “such a REFUGEE!” when for example she ate cereal out of the box (285). In response, Bui blamed herself for “probably embarrassing” her cousins for appearing “fresh-off-the-boat” (285). The words of her cousin invoke the fragility in their identities as Vietnamese-American immigrants (285). Similar interactions at school inform self-consciousness in her identity. Bui’s cousin reveals the precarious nature of her American identity when she reprimands Bui for harmless mannerisms such as eating cereal out of the box.
The metaphor of appearing “fresh-off-the-boat” threatens Bui’s cousin, who has already gauged the sacrifice she is expected to make in order to find comfort in the contrasting binds of American culture. Vietnamese people have historically named themselves “boat people”. This title reclaims aspects of the shared refugees experience of escaping Vietnam in boats. The boats provided the Vietnamese refugees a means of survival and an opportunity for escape. Floating for weeks at a time in a wide expanse of ocean water, most families were split apart or never had the opportunity to reach land. Bui foreshadows themes of assimilation and the model minority in this scene when her cousin threatens her for her dress and mannerisms which don’t align with American culture. Boats which were once sought-after for protecting refugees, now represent a discarded narrative as an foreigner subject to alienation. Assimilation now dictates how Bui will craft a home for herself in the United States. The although the boat represents a concrete Vietnamese identity distinguished through war history, the drifting boat also connotes an emotional and physical sense of unidentifiable weightlessness. Despite actions of assimilation, the boat in “boat people” is symbolic of the American identity which Vietnamese refugees will never claim.
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Posted in OpEd: First Draft | Tagged #boatpeople, #diaspora, #graphicmemoir, #immigrant, #thibui, #Vietnam, #VietnamWar
Shouty Words B4
Posted on March 22, 2019 by stringfm
In Vietnamerica the author GB Tran uses dramatic words to illustrate when Tri Huu Tran was arrested and held in a jail cell, until he revealed where his father was. Tri Huu Tran could not tell them where his father was hiding because he was not in contact with him. His father left him and his mother when he was a kid and ever since he has not seen him. Regardless of this, he was held there against his will.
On pages 69-70 GB Tran uses words that are not part of the text bubbles to set the scene. Such as, “chuga, chuga, chuga,” to illustrate the car transporting Tri Huu Tran to the jail. The words are huge white block letters that do not have a straight line edge to them instead it is slightly crooked, demonstrating the momentum of the vehicle, these words also get covered up by the cars engine that’s blowing out smoke. There is also the expression, “CCREE,” it has all capital letters and its font is slightly italicized and regular but the size of it is also slightly small. This makes me feel wary of what’s going to happen next because the format of that expression seems to be eerily.
The word, “Shove,” is in all capital letters and there is a symbol that demonstrates the force of the shove the officer enacts on Tri Huu Tran. The other expression is, “Chk, Chk,” which was the sound of one of the officers lighting his cigarette. I noticed that each of these words and expressions was the recollection of what Tri Huu Tran remembered and the dramatic way it is written and formatted in the book is to demonstrate the way GB Tran’s father felt in that moment, he was frightened and confused, he was innocent but accused of being guilty for not revealing the location of where his father was hiding.
The words on page 70 were made bigger and because of that it was cut off. Also, a thought bubble is shown but with no words, it was just dots and that was a demonstration of an officer that spoke but was not heard by Tri Huu Tran. With all the commotion and interrogation being thrown at him these words on Page 70 depict Tri Huu Tran not hearing everything clearly. Everything in his past life that was bad was because of his father.
Tran, Gia-Boa. Vietnamerica. Villard Books, 2010.
Posted in Unit III: The United States (Part II) | Tagged #GBtran, #VietnamWar, Memory, vietnamerica
Vietnamerica & The Artistry of Graphic Memoirs
Posted on March 20, 2019 by taship
In my experience, graphic memoirs are some of the most informative mediums of cultural text. The illustration, dialogue, framing and colors within a graphic memoir work in cohesive fashion to intensify patterns, emotions, and narrative themes. I find the artistry of how an author uses these creative tools entertaining and at times more helpful than a traditional novel to read from
In Vietnamerica, GB Tran’s use of color, shading, and spacing within his illustrations work successfully to exaggerate the frustrations GB feels after arriving in Vietnam with his family. On page 49, GB Tran depicts himself annoyed at his mother for coddling him over what to pack for their family trip to Vietnam. The neutral shading in this set of frames consists of neutral blues, blacks and whites. Pacing around his home in New York GB disregards his mother’s sentiments.
In the last frame of the page, GB paints himself engulfed in a chaotic blend of orange and black smoke. Suggesting an out of body experience, GB looks as if he is in an illusion where his head is floating into thin air, above his body. The frame transports the audience in an unfamiliar place which one could assume is Vietnam. Given the expression of his face, it is clear GB recognizes he should have listened to the wisdom of his mother.
On the following page, GB is depicted with spinning wheels for eyes, going mad. The unfamiliar streets of Vietnam are now roaring with trucks, food vendors, children, families, store fronts and exhaust. Within these frames, distinct hues of red and orange direct the gaze of the audience to the communist star depicted near the center of the illustration. Through the overt application of bright orange and reds hues covering communist symbolism, GB suggests the disruptive nature of these frames as resultative of the destructive aftermath of communism.
In these frames GB is stripped of his Western comforts and familiarity back in New York. He is framed in harsh juxtaposition against aspects of the Vietnamese culture he is one generation removed from.
All of his interactions within these frames are short,and dismissive. While trying to purchase Pho from a street vendor, his language capabilities are shattered. Nothing he says or does seems to resonate within this space which his family nostalgically roots themselves. GB depicts himself almost escaping the 2-dimensionality if the page to exaggerate the alienation he feels. There is simply no space for him. The singular illustration symbolic of the American culture he grew up around is the red and yellow McDonalds brand presented in the background of a smaller frame. Even this is drowned out behind an excess collection of dust and exhaust.
Tran, Gia-Bao. Vietnamerica. New York, Random House Inc, 2011.
Posted in Unit II: The United Kingdom | Tagged #asianamerican, #bicultural, #communism, #GBtran, #graphicmemoir, #representation, #Vietnam, #Vietnamese, #VietnamWar
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I know I’ve spoken about this before; how games of yore focused on a simple gameplay mechanic, yet were addictive beyond compare. There’s not many games these days that can claim that, and it’s a damn shame…some of the simplest ideas turn out to be phenomenal games.
Consider the much-loved puzzle game, Tetris, as an example. Creator Alexey Pajitnov came up with the idea after playing Pentominos, a wooden puzzle game where you had to fit a series of shapes into a box. Just like the name “Pentominos” came from the Greek term penta (meaning “five”), Pajitnov used the Greek term tetra (meaning “four”) as the basis for his game’s name, Tetris. The main problem was that the “box” would fill up too quickly, so he devised a system where once a line was full, that line would disappear. The rest is history, and the Tetris legacy of games remains one of the most popular puzzle titles of all time. And look at how simple the gameplay is! Rotate a piece, then drop it! But it works.
This isn’t limited to just puzzle games. What about something like Pac-Man, where you just had to avoid ghosts and clear out dots? Or Space Invaders…just shoot everything on the screen. Or the recent Space Channel 5 series…at its core, it’s nothing more than a game of “Simon Says”!
Games get more and more complex these days, and it’s often just a result of developers cramming in more useless drivel just to make a game seem more deep than it actually is. RPGs are generally exempt from this rule, as the whole point of an RPG is to be complex, but even they cross the line at times. Take Xenosaga, for example. Yes, I loved the game, but holy f*cking pretentious. Monolith Studios went way overboard with the complex philosophy, leaving most players with a single question at the the game’s end. Not “what happened to this character,” or “when will such-and-such event take place”…the question was simply “What the FUCK?!” That’s not to say that the ending sucked, which it did not…but many plot threads were left unresolved and others were just downright confusing.
I understand that not all games, and not even a majority, can use simple gameplay to get by. Today’s casual consumers are too picky for that; if it’s not ultra-violent or loaded with sex, then they’re not going to want it, complex or simple gameplay nonwithstanding. Luckily, we are seeing a bit of a comeback of the simple games. There’s the ever-popular anthology series, but we’ve also got the bestselling EyeToy games, which are about as simple as it gets. The same could also be said for the Mario Party games, which are nothing but board games loaded with simple minigames. Let’s hope they keep comin’!
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People always say it’s what’s on the inside that matters. If that’s the case, I’m screwed. On the outside, everything looks put together — blonde hair, blue eyes, tall and lean. By society’s standards, I’d be considered attractive. But f*ck society, I know what I am. I know what I’m made of. The recessive genes that reared their heads and created a decent looking package on the outside don’t make me who I am. What about all the evil lurking inside? What about all the other parts of me that aren’t so easy to see? Some of the most beautiful animals are also the deadliest. Take the polar bear, for example. Cute and cuddly on the outside, but it’s really a predator that will bite your f*cking head off. That’s a dangerous combination. And that’s exactly like me, exactly who I am. Bad — and once you go bad, you can never go back.
WARNING: This book deals with the harsh reality of rape that could be upsetting for some readers.
I am a very big fan of Prescott Lane’s work and have been so ready to read this emotional book. This book Prescott is donating her profits from the month of April to charity to spread awareness about sexual assault. Reading her letter to the readers spoke to me in many ways that told me this would be a work of heart, and a dedication to a cause I wanted to help. Campbell is a woman with a past you first get a reality shock in the prologue to what the book will be like and it just makes you take a quick intake of breath. I knew what this book would be about but the way Prescott gave you everything you needed to understand the setting and Campbell’s frame of mind throughout the book, which spoke volume. Campbell was raised by her aunt and grew up without her mom and dad to guide her throughout her life. When you read her story you find out that at the age of sixteen Campbell’s life changed completely your heart will tighten at the knowledge of how that change effected her.
Stone has a past of his own that carries some baggage I was completely shocked to find out. Although I was surprised by his baggage I feel it made him the incredibly sexy man he has become. He also didn’t have the parents love growing up either, which in some ways I think connected Campbell and Stone together during his classes he taught her, even completely unaware of the fact. Stone knew something about Campbell was different than any woman he has seen but he also could see something in her that he has seen during his years of classes of woman.
I understand the decisions Campbell made during this book but I also was scared she would regret them like Stone was afraid. I love when a book makes me cry because then that means this author spoke to my heart and soul, and I am never disappointed by a Prescott Lane read! I praise this author in many ways for this book but her words will speak for themselves. I not only hope many of you read this book but I also hope you take something inspiring away from Layers of Her. Reading the amount of pain, abuse, and disappointment that these characters went through was such a powerful read in itself and then add the reality to that book that many women have gone through the same things, it takes it to a completely different level than I ever expected.
A powerfully indescribable 5 star read from Prescott Lane of Layers of Her.
Jagger (Caldwell Brothers #3) by Chelsea Camaron, M.J. Fields
Full of swagger and sensuality, the Caldwell Brothers series—perfect for fans of Katy Evans and Emma Chase—packs an emotional punch as the last bachelor standing fights for a woman who’s worth every ounce of trouble.
Jagger Caldwell is no one’s hero. With a reputation busting heads and breaking hearts on the underground MMA circuit, he lives for easy cash and easier women. But when he stumbles upon an all-too-familiar scene, painful memories awaken Jagger’s sensitive side and compel him to act. As a kid, he stood by helplessly as his old man beat his mom. Now, Jagger won’t let seventeen-year-old Tatiana Rand suffer the same fate. Nothing matters except saving her.
Tatiana is a prisoner in her own home, at the mercy of her violent father—until an unlikely savior bursts through her door and into her life. Six-feet-plus of tattooed muscle and raw power, Jagger is no prince charming—but Tatiana stopped believing in fairy tales long ago. Despite their differences in age and, well, everything else, the sexy bad boy sparks a fire that Tatiana never knew she had—and desires that only Jagger can quench.
Praise for Hendrix by Chelsea Camaron and MJ Fields
“This book is full of laughs, a lot of love, and will leave you feeling drained, but in a good way. If you haven’t got your copy yet, I definitely recommend it! You’ll be just as anxious as I am for another Caldwell brother.”—Book Boyfriend Hangover (five stars)
“What happens when two worlds collide not once, but twice? Wow. There are so many books I want from this series.”—Reading Renee
“I loved seeing the family dynamics and bond these three brothers have.”—Twinsie Talk
“I can’t wait to dive into more of the Caldwell brothers’ stories.”—The Book Enthusiast
Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title.
M.J. Fields
This book was awfully heartbreaking for most of the beginning and I found myself craving a happy ending. Jagger is the youngest of the Caldwell brothers. He has so much anger he hold onto because of his dad and the abuse he went through as a kid. Jagger now uses that anger and strength he has gained into winning his fights.
Jagger heard cries and the voice of an angry man at night through the walls of his apartment that brought back his own pain from his past. Tatiana is a young girl who moved to America with her dad to find a different life. A life she once had hopes and dreams quickly turned into nightmares. One night changed the course of many lives, some for the better and some for the worst.
Jagger is a man that has an extraordinary heart and determination to fix a broken girl who he desperately wants to keep at a distance, for now… Jagger has been my favorite Caldwell brother for many reasons, but I think his beautiful heart pulls me in the most. Jagger is trying to do all he can to make things right but somehow something keeps putting him on the police radar.
Can Jagger make things right or have his past interfere too much? Don’t miss the chance to see the sexy side of Jagger in this steamy and suspenseful book by Chelsea Camaron and MJ Fields' Jagger: A Caldwell Brothers Novel.
Fearless (Broken Love Book 5) by B. B. Reid
Take one last ride with Keiran and Lake and the rest of the Broken Love gang in this fifth and final installment as they face stronger enemies and bigger obstacles while fighting to hold tight to the tattered existence of their love.
When faced with broken love…
Have you ever had the feeling you were a stranger?
Out of reach, I watched and mourned me.
Nothing moved. Breathed. Nothing lived.
I was in an alternate universe.
No longer an innocent.
I had blood on my hands, and I wasn’t even sorry for it.
I was only afraid for Keiran.
Of his reaction when the shock wore off.
It would be an explosion.
Of hurt, anger, and mistrust.
He’d know I lied.
And to him…
The betrayal born of my good intentions is worse than the act of murder.
…will you succumb to fear…
She was supposed to be my light.
The one who saved me from the monster.
But when I looked in her eyes that day, I didn’t see her.
I only saw my father’s killer.
Her love saved me from the monster.
Mine turned her into one.
…or will you be fearless?
Kim's Review
Lake and Keiran had such a violent relationship. They were very close with their friends. I had to continue this book so i could figure out what Keiran had done to Lake to make her fear him, and why they were so close to their friends and what they were hiding.
Lake lives in fear from her past, she was abused by Keiran from the time she was 8 years old. Keiran plays on this fear using it to control her.
Keiran has many secrets and monsters from his past that he fights everyday. Their relationship is explosive, but they love each other very much. Lake tries to help Keiran forgive the past and face his monsters.
The author kept me interested with all the twists and turns in this book.
LOVED THIS BOOK!
One Hour Girl (Lost Series book 1) LeTeisha Newton
He thinks I’m his forever girl, I saw it in his eyes. I wished I could have slapped the look off his face and hit him with the same jarring finality I’d learned I didn’t mean shit.
I’m not a forever sort of girl.
I’m not even his for the night.
He’ll be lucky if I’m his for the next hour if he doesn’t pay me for it.
And then Royce Mattherson stormed my defenses. Took all the poison inside of me and pushed it out through my pores. He tasted the taint on my skin and still decided to love me. He terrifies me. Exhilarates me. Frustrates me.
And he always gets what he wants
Celeste isn’t the average girl; she’s been hurt, torn down, and only thought of herself good enough for one thing. She was excited by the dangers of what she was doing and she didn’t really care so long as it too her away from her reality. She never believed in love and never thought she deserved anyone’s love. My heart hurt for this woman because you could feel the emotions she was trying to hide. You could feel she thought she deserved whatever happened to her because of what she put her family through.
Royce was a man she met at a party she was to be a part of for an hour, at least that’s what, was recommended of her. Royce was a man with money who you could tell was more than his money but he also believed he didn’t have love to give. He was steamy and he had this demanding way about him that was SO sexy!
One Hour Girl was hot, steamy, and exciting all the way through! Celeste went through some awful things, as did Royce, and for them finding happiness seemed impossible. I felt their pain as the book went on and I felt pride in Celeste during a certain part with her sister you definitely need to read! One Hour Girl had very difficult topics to read about but in the end I was overwhelmed with the joy of reading this book! An awesome 5 star read, One Hour Girl by LeTeisha Newton!
Divided (Unguarded #2) by Ivy Stone
We were strangers.
Two people on different paths that were never meant to cross.
He saved me.
I ruined her.
We had no control.
We were powerless against fate.
It wasn’t wrong, it wasn’t right, but it was real.
Ours was a toxic love. So lethal it was destined to ruin us both, and it did. In the end, everything went wrong for all the right reasons.
Our lives divided. But our love would be infinite.
A forbidden crush.
A destructive romance.
A fierce love.
Roamyn & Alison
An Unguarded Novel
Before I read Divided I had just finished Exposed and I am so glad I did not have to wait to continue reading because I needed to know more about Roamyn and Ali’s relationship!! I am extremely happy I was given the change to read this series and fall in love with another author. Ivy Stone wrote an incredible book about a woman who had a mother as an addict and who herself became an addict, and boy was it a powerful book! Ivy had already pulled me in with Exposed but after I read Divided I was in love with these characters! Be prepared to be shocked from some awful things that happen to Ali and her sister, along with a very upsetting childhood that Roamyn survived.
I had my breathe taken away at the cliffhanger of Exposed, but when reading Divided you get all your pieces put together, with a few more questions that seems to lead into book 3. This book was an experience I very much appreciated reading! Ali and Lindsey went through some pretty crazy things in this book that left my mouth wide open after reading and not to mention this CLIFFHANGER!!! WOW!! I am ready to read book 3! 5 Stars to Divided by Ivy Stone for my favorite read of 2016, so far.
STRONGER (Runaway series Book 1) by Lexie Ray
Jasmine had all but given up on life after a rough period of time defined by a string of physical and sexual abuse. Drugged. Sold. Betrayed. It’s at rock bottom when she meets the man who might be able to save her from everything — including herself.
Nate King is a writer, young, compassionate, and good-looking. He’s drawn to Jasmine immediately, offering her a place in his home — and heart. He makes it his mission to take care of Jasmine and help her let go of the pain from her past.
But what Jasmine doesn’t know is that Nate is living in his own private hell. When his secret is revealed, will their love be strong enough to survive it all?
*Adult content warning. This story is not suitable for readers 18yo and below.
Amy M's Review
This book honestly pulled me in by the title alone; I didn’t even read the synopsis. After the first chapter I was more than hooked I had to find out how this book was going to end. Stronger by Lexie Ray was a tough read for me in the beginning, I felt guilty being excited to read such dark and painful words about a young woman. After deciding I could not pass up finishing this book I was overwhelmed by the experiences and how Jasmine’s life turned out.
Jasmine is a young woman, 18 years old and already has lived such a rough life when she finds herself living off the streets. Jasmine as a young girl lived from place to place with her mom until her mom met a man she thought was going to be a good change for the girls. She was wrong. Jasmine’s mother became an alcoholic, abandoning her daughter to be assaulted by her boyfriend after she left. Soon after Jasmine found the strength to leave house of her mother’s boyfriend to live off the street not know what the world had in store for her. Jasmine quickly met “Mama” during this time who renamed her Jazz to fit the new lifestyle Jazz would be living.
I will not tell you everything this poor young woman went through because it is absolutely worth the read!! She has so much pain from her past that I truly didn’t know how the book would end. But don’t worry; Jasmine also met a very compassionate young man to try to help heal that pain. Although I would have liked to know a little more of what happened to Jasmine, I was greatly happy to read about Cocoa, another young lady Jazz had to pleasure to meet through all the pain in the epilogue, which gives more detail to Jasmine’s life as well. Stronger by Lexie Ray has received 5 stars for the shockingly painful story of Jasmine.
Absolution by LP Lovell and Stevie J. Cole
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I pray to be forgiven for my sins, but the prayers of someone like me won't dare breach the edge of heaven.
Sins. All sins are equal in the eyes of God, but I'm not God. Some sins are far more wretched than others. And those sinners should pay, Evelyn. One sinner made me his sin, and I can't let men like him live. They must face their judgement, Evelyn. I want to kill them. Every. Last. One.
Ezra James is no different, and I wanted to kill him, I needed to kill him, I'm was going to kill him...And then I found myself fascinated by him, obsessed and possessed in the most reverent of ways. I became his sinner, and he became my sin, but the wages of sin is death, so I must kill him.
The son of a whore, raised by gangsters, moulded into a key player in a corrupt world ruled by money and completely without morals.
This world can break a person. I’ve seen it time and time again. I never gave a shit, until the night I watched a man drop dead at the feet of a woman so broken she made even me feel whole. My little killer called to my depravity and everything in me demanded that I take her, possess her, own her.
Some monsters hide behind the faces of angels, where others stand in plain sight.
Damned. Broken. Irredeemable.
Through blood, absolution shall be found.
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Stevie J. Cole is a secret rock star. Sex, drugs and, oh wait, no, just sex. She’s a whore for a British accent and has an unhealthy obsession with Russell Brand. She and LP plan to elope in Vegas and breed the world’s most epic child.
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Same book - two reviews!! Both give it 5 Stars!
Donya's Review
*I was given an Author's Copy for an honest review.
Have you every had one of those reads where you couldn't wait to read it, and while you were reading it, you couldn't look away even though you knew - you just knew - it was going to mess with your mind, and then, when it was finished, you just shut down - completely shut down. Well, that is what Absolution is!
I'm still trying to process everything. It was SO GOOD and yet it was so DARK and WRONG that I am having a hard time putting into words what I read. The authors warn the reader that this is only fiction, and even going into this book knowing that, I still need to decompress.
Both characters, Evelyn and Ezra, totally consumed me. I can't say I was rooting for either one of them or that I even understood them. They were two evils who were perfect for each other - and yet there was an innocence they both shared that had me transfixed on finding out if they could be "happy".
This was one of my most anticipated reads for 2016 and it did not disappoint. It is early in the year, but I can already say that this will be one of my Top Reads for the year. 5 terrifyingly captivating stars!
Mel's Review
Absolution by LP Lovell and Stevie J. Cole is a heck of a ride. I want to put it right out there that I feel like a twisted and sick person because I loved it so much. I even had to talk to my friend, who also read and loved, just to make sure that I am still of sound mind. I feel like I need Absolution after reading this jewel.
I am putting it out there.. YOU NEED TO READ THE WARNING ON THIS BOOK!! I am a woman of Faith but this book deals with some really, twisted and gritty circumstances and throws in a religious aspect and I know there will be haters. I really did not even think it could be a love story but somehow this duo of a team made me believe that these two dark, and I would say, sick-in-the-head characters found love. How? I do not know. I mean seriously, there are dead bodies everywhere. However, I still had moments of laughter when these two characters related.
Great Read if you can handle it! The darkness is real, twisted, and BLOODY!!
5 Bloody stars!!! TEXAS HUGS AND HAPPY READING!!!
Monster by Jessica Gadziala
Alex has had one mission since she was sixteen:
destroy the man who destroyed her life.
And all was going to plan until one night, a huge
mammoth of a man breaks into her apartment and kidnaps her,
holding her hostage for the very man she was bent on bringing down.
Breaker has one rule: he doesn't deal in women.
But when he's conned into a job for the city's most ruthless
crime lord, he finds himself in charge of a fiery-tempered
hacker who he can't seem to keep his hands off of.
When passions ignite and feelings emerge, will Breaker be
able to reconcile his loyalties before it is too late or
will their shaky foundation of trust start crumbling beneath
their feet?
This is a stand alone with a HEA.
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Freaking AWESOME!! This book had it all - it was dark, sensual, romantic, comedic - and SEXY. This book was suggested to me and after reading the synopsis, I was hooked. There was no way I wasn't going to read it. What surprised me is that it was good - like really, really good. I couldn't put it down good.
First, the story - Breaker (don't you just love his name?!), hired killer/hit-man with one rule is forced to kidnap a person for a ruthless kingpin. The target - a woman - which goes against the one rule his has in place.
Second, the heroine of the story - Alex! She's smart (like wickedly smart), she's got a major temper, and a very smart mouth.
Third, Shooter - oh, he's Breaker's brother/friend. He's young, cocky, a smart mouth, and lethal.
Fourth - the whole story! I love the way Alex combats the bad and evil in her life with her wit. I found myself laughing at some parts at the way she would deflect the situation.
This is the first book by this author that I've read. I loved the way the characters were introduced, and the writing style of the author. This was the kind of dark read that I needed. I'm giving Monster 5 stars; and Jessica Gadziala - I need Shooter's story out - ASAP!!
Seizing Control (Black Shamrocks MC #1) by Kylie Hillman
Only daughter of the volatile President of the Black Shamrocks MC and long-suffering sister to four overprotective brothers, Madelaine O'Brien has survived circumstances that would have broken a lesser woman.
Mik 'Mad Dog' Kennedy is her salvation, her reward for continuing to fight, and the matching piece of her soul.
With her life finally happy and on track, will the reappearance of the monster from her past be the event that finally breaks her? Or will he be the catalyst she needs to put it all behind her, once and for all?
They say when life gives you lemons; make lemonade. What happens when life keeps sending you demons who refuse to stay buried? Do you lie down and accept defeat or rise to the seemingly unwinnable challenge, and start SEIZING CONTROL?
DISCLAIMER: Contains graphic situations that may not be suitable for all readers.
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Maddie is the daughter of the VP of the Black Shamrocks MC. She has grown up surrounded by strong women and protective men. Mik "Mad Dog" Kennedy, has always been her best friend. She's used to the protection everyone gives her, but needing her freedom, she accepts a date with Brendan that turns into something more. And when Mik makes his feelings known, Brendan's true colors come out, almost taking Maddie's life.
This is Kylie Hillman's debut book and it was great. I was surprised by the way the story was told. Kylie is able to effectively draw me in to a cautionary tale, not just a love story, told from Madeline's perspective. How does a strong independent woman loose herself when she has a solid support system? It doesn't happen overnight. The book the relationship between Maddie and Mik now, as it recalls the volatile relationship four years earlier between her and Brendan.
This was a different kind of MC book, and WOW! It is hard to believe this is Kylie's first book. It was sexy, raw, brutal, and compassionate all rolled into one. I can not wait to read the second book she has planned for this new series. I'm giving this debut book - and this is something I never do with a new author - 5 STARS.
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Deerfield Academy
Iodice Freezes Foes
ryan logie 13 senior staff writer
On the bus to a game, you can find new sophomore Maryanne Iodice ’14 mentally preparing or reading on her Kindle. On the ice in a hockey game, however, her intensity shows.
Iodice (pronounced E-OH-DEE-CHEE) hails from Montreal, Canada, and her vicious slap shot has created a buzz on campus.
This new addition to the girls’ varsity hockey team is the fear of female hockey goalies throughout the NEPSAC. Her confidence with the puck and absolute bullet of a shot, thanks to years of dedication and practice, make her a standout on a team that has been successful thus far this season.
“I started playing hockey when I was eight years old because I wanted to be like my brothers,” shared Iodice. Eight years later she ended up at Deerfield.
Even though Iodice is new to New England, hockey here seems to be pretty much the same. “My favorite part of the team so far is just being able to do what I love all of the time,” she said.
Her slap shot could be labeled the “shot heard round the world.” When asked how her shot is humanly possible, Iodice answered, “My father made me shoot buckets of pucks in the garage. If I didn’t shoot properly, he would make me redo it. He is the one that made my shot what it is today.”
Though her shot is feared, most survive it. “I gave my goalie a concussion last year, but other than that I think a lot of girls just have bruises,” Iodice laughed.
All laughing aside, Iodice has high goals for her career. “My dream is to play at a Division One college and make the Canadian national team.”
In the meantime, you can look for her working on her stick skills outside of Mac or indulging in another one of her hobbies, reading hockey stories. With a ferocious shot and a kind heart, Iodice could have her own great story here at Deerfield.
The Deerfield Scroll, established in 1925, is the official student newspaper of Deerfield Academy. The Scroll encourages informed discussion of pertinent issues that concern the Academy and the world. Signed letters to the editor that express legitimate opinions are welcomed. We hold the right to edit for brevity.
Copyright © The Deerfield Scroll 2021. All rights reserved. Made by Jong Won Park '21.
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Agriculture secretary appointed Irrawaddy Region’s new chief minister
New chief minister of Irrawaddy region, Hla Moe Aung, pictured 18 January 2018. (PHOTO: DVB)
By DVB
Hla Moe Aung, the secretary of Irrawaddy’s Agriculture, Livestock, Irrigation and Natural Resources Committee, has been appointed the region’s new chief minister.
An elected National League for Democracy MP representing Constituency No. 1 of Myan Aung Township in Irrawaddy Region, the 53-year-old told DVB earlier today that the news of his appointment came as a complete surprise.
“I did not expect to be appointed chief minister,” he said. “If anything, I thought I might one day become a minister for agriculture, since I am one of only two lawmakers in the regional parliament with a degree in agriculture.”
Hla Moe Aung said that he would commit his term as chief minister to the economic development of Irrawaddy region and advancement in the agricultural sector through the use of modern technology.
Meeting to confirm new Irrawaddy Region chief minister postponed
Rakhine minister ousted for ‘failing to perform his duties’
Mission to restore mangroves in Irrawaddy Delta
Hla Moe Aung replaces former chief minister Mahn Johnny, who tendered his resignation earlier this month, reportedly for health reasons. President Htin Kyaw accepted his resignation in an official announcement dated 9 January that said he had been “permitted to resign of his own volition.”
The appointment also comes just two weeks after Irrawaddy’s Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources Ba Hein resigned, also citing ill health.
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Tokyo, July 26, 2017 - Rakuten, Inc. and Dentsu Inc. today announced that the two companies will establish “Rakuten Data Marketing, Inc.” a new company that will offer marketing solutions integrating Rakuten Group’s big data and Dentsu Group’s data and mass media expertise. The company will begin operations in October 2017. The agreement related to this matter was concluded today. Rakuten, Inc. Group Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) Makoto Arima will be the new company’s President and Representative Director.
Makoto Arima joined Rakuten in July 2017 to take up a newly created position as Group Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and head up the expansion of the data marketing business. Arima has made major contributions to the development of the domestic online advertising industry, through leadership roles at Google, Yahoo, Recruit and, most recently, Adroll.
Rakuten Data Marketing, Inc. will harness the Rakuten Group’s broad membership base and big data, combining this with the Dentsu Group’s data and insights relevant to mass media and consumers and its strategy-building knowhow, in order to provide comprehensive digital marketing solutions that will allow optimization and maximize the effectiveness of marketing activities.
The new company will also further enhance the offering of brand partnership opportunities on Rakuten Ichiba, and utilize Rakuten Group’s big data to develop more personalized advertising products based on customer analysis. In addition, the company plans to support the development of customer strategies for brands and offer integrated media planning services beyond the digital field.
To date, Rakuten and Dentsu have collaborated to provide marketing support to companies through the use of the Rakuten Group’s membership base and related media. With the establishment of this new company, Rakuten and Dentsu will develop comprehensive marketing solutions fully utilizing the resources of both companies and breaking new ground in marketing techniques.
Overview of the new company
Name: Rakuten Data Marketing, Inc.
Address: 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Capital: 100 million yen
Investment ratio: 51% Rakuten, Inc., 49% Dentsu Inc.
Representative: President and Representative Director Makoto Arima (Rakuten, Inc. Group Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO))
Date of Establishment: Mid-August 2017 (planned)
Start of operations: October 1, 2017
Business line: Offering new marketing solutions through the use of big data
Rakuten, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to more than 1 billion members around the world. Since 2012, Rakuten has ranked in the top 20 of Forbes Magazine's annual "World's Most Innovative Companies" list. The Rakuten Group has over 14,000 employees, and operations in 29 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.
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097 · Yojigen Poketto
eliiHouseMadridRenovationInterior2017
“4D Pocket”
Complete refurbishment of an apartment in Madrid
Refurbishment of an apartment in Madrid
Complete refurbishment of an apartment in an old building in downtown Madrid.
A dual strategy is applied to this project:
Firstly, the floor plan arrangement is based on an L-shaped service band that integrates the access, wet areas, storage areas and leisure spaces. This frees up the main area, which opens up to the windows and balconies to create a brightly lit atmosphere. The intimate areas are therefore secluded and sheltered from view from the entrance.
On the other hand, the apartment is arranged into two levels: the level at the elevation of the entrance and the main room, plus a second level, 90 centimetres higher up, extending beyond the kitchen surface, where the leisure area and the bathroom are located. The two elevations not only allow different atmospheres to be arranged, but also integrate ‘additional’ functions in the house, such as a deep bathtub in the bathroom, a storage area under the bed, part of the facilities, etc, thus optimising every cubit metre of the house. Secret trapdoors extend the storage space in the overhead areas. A portable stepladder/furniture item is used to overcome the difference in elevation, add storage spaces and double as small grandstands in the living room.
All in all, the proposal gains the corner of the building, floods it with natural lighting and views to the street, both the deep horizon and the street-level perspective, from the overhead areas. Openings in the furniture extend the indoor cross views from the upper area.
The various elevations sport different finishes that produce specific atmospheres. Light colours are used on the walls of the main area to provide as much light as possible. The floor is made of linoleum. The bedroom area has wood finishes and includes a projector on the roof that projects onto a screen from the bed. The bathroom walls, floor and bathtub have a mirror finish to fill this indoor area with light and to augment the feeling of depth.
Architects: elii – Uriel Fogué, Eva Gil, Carlos Palacios
Architect coordinating the project: elii – Ana López
Team: elii – Eduardo Castillo, Lucía Fernández
Joinery: Alfredo Merino Caldas
Construction: Aniceto Jiménez
Developers: Diana Díaz, Luis Arenas
Models: Carlos Cañete, Ana López, Lucía Fernández
Photography: ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero) www.imagensubliminal.com
Architects: elii
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info@elii.es
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elii carries out its professional activity in the following fields: Infrastructures, Urban Development, Public Spaces, Individual and Collective housing, Offices and Work Centres, Industrial Buildings, Ephemeral Architecture and Design of Museum Exhibitions and collaboration with artists. Elii covers all stages of the project, from the design phase to project management, working both in the public and private sectors, in Spain and Abroad. Founded in 2006 and based in the centre of Madrid, its founding partners and current directors are the architects Uriel Fogué Herreros, Eva Gil Lopesino and Carlos Palacios Rodriguez, all of whom have previously worked in architectural firms of international renown. They currently combine their work at elii with teaching (in several Spanish universities of international renown) and editorial work (UHF magazine). Their work and articles have appeared in specialized publications and exhibitions, having obtained recognition and awards for outstanding performance, amongst which are the FAD Opinion Award (2005), or the awards received from the Official College of Architects of Madrid “a la Obra Bien Hecha”(2006), “a la Obra de los Arquitectos” (2011), and “COAM Award” (2013) or the JustMad Award to Emergent Creativity (2013). They have been amongst those selected to appear in the “Arquia Próxima” catalogue (also issued by the Official College of Architects of Madrid) in its 2006-207, 2008-2009, 2010-2011 issues, having been recognized in this last one as one of the 10 most relevant teams of young architects in the region. They have also taken part in the “Madrid 100% Arquitectura II” (2011), catalogue and Itinerant International Exhibition, where one of their works was considered one of the top 100 by the Official College of Architects of Madrid. They were also similarly distinguished in the XII Buenos Aires International Biennial Architecture Exhibition (2011), recently selected as one of the “100 architects of the year 2012” in the exhibition for the KIA Korean Institute of Architects and the UIA International Union of Architects in Seoul (2012) and as a part of the exhibition FreshLatino 2 (2013). Elii is a member of the “Creadores de Madrid” and “FreshMadrid” archives.
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The Sun: Former Victorville councilwoman sues employer, alleges retaliation
Angela Valles
By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 11/12/15, 10:22 AM PST |
Outspoken former Victorville Councilwoman Angela Valles is suing her employer, the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority, alleging her colleagues have retaliated against her and demoted her because of her continued efforts to expose government corruption.
Filed under: Cities, Courts, In the News, Legal, Local Government, U.S. District Court, Victorville
Daily Bulletin: Parents sue San Bernardino County in jail beating death of their son
Posted: 11/12/15 – 12:34 PM PST |
The parents of a developmentally disabled Ontario man, beaten to death by his cell mate at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against San Bernardino County and the captain of the jail.
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Samuel Clauder sues county after being cleared of child porn charge.
By Shea Johnson
Posted Nov 12, 2015 at 5:25 PM
Updated Nov 12, 2015 at 6:11 PM
SAN BERNARDINO — A former Congressional staffer exonerated of possessing child pornography will speak to reporters Friday outside sheriff’s headquarters here as he recovers property seized by authorities from his home during the criminal investigation.
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The Union Democrat: Ballot proposal would divert high-speed rail money to water
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Nov 12, 2015 – 6:57 PM EST
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two well-known Republican state lawmakers submitted language Thursday for a ballot initiative that would ask California voters to redirect about $8 billion in bond money from the state’s high-speed rail project to build water storage.
Filed under: Campaigns, Elections, In the News, State of California, Transportation, Water Resources
The Union Democrat (AP): Appeals court rejects challenge to California death penalty
By Brian Melley
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s death penalty survived a legal challenge Thursday when a federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had found it was unconstitutional because of excessive delays.
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Los Angeles Daily News (AP): Owner of LA Times, Chicago Tribune expects to cut jobs 7 percent
Tribune Publishing, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, said Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, it expects a buyout offer to cut its staff by 7 percent. Chicago-based Tribune Publishing Co. owns 11 major daily newspapers.
By Tali Arbel, AP Business Writer
Posted: 11/12/15 – 10:03 AM PST |
The owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers says it expects a buyout offer to cut its staff by 7 percent.
Filed under: Business, Finance, In the News, Los Angeles Times, Media
San Jose Mercury News: El Niño still on track to deliver deluges, new report says
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Posted: 11/13/2015 – 05:17:09 AM PST
Updated: 11/13/2015 – 05:17:20 AM PST
Bone-dry California remains on track to get a drenching this winter from the weather phenomenon known as El Niño, federal scientists said in new projections released Thursday.
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The Washington Post: Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win
The presidential candidate and billionaire businessman leads the field of candidates in the Republican race.
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa
Trump captures the nation’s attention as he campaigns
Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
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Hawaii Five-O (1968-80) -- Season 3 Episode Reviews
INCLUDING ODDITIES, GOOFS AND TRIVIA
Copyright ©1994-2019 by Mike Quigley. No reproduction of any kind without permission.
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SEASON THREE (1970-1971) - QUICK INDEX
S03E01 (49) - And A Time To Die... (Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Donald Moffat, Khigh Dhiegh)
S03E02 (50) - Trouble In Mind (Nancy Wilson, Milton Selzer, Harry Guardino)
S03E03 (51) - The Second Shot (John Marley, Eric Braeden)
S03E04 (52) - Time And Memories (Diana Muldaur, Martin Sheen, Edward Andrews, Kathy Cannon)
S03E05 (53) - The Guarnerius Caper (Albert Paulsen, Anthony James, Kenneth O'Brien, Ed Flanders)
S03E06 (54) - The Ransom (Andrew Duggan, Lloyd Gough, Ron Hayes, Peter Bonerz)
S03E07 (55) - Force Of Waves (John Vernon, Dewey Martin, Linda Marsh)
S03E08 (56) - The Reunion (Simon Oakland, Barry Atwater, Joe Maross, Teru Shimada)
S03E09 (57) - The Late John Louisiana (Don Stroud, Marianne McAndrew, Alfred Ryder)
S03E10 (58) - The Last Eden (Ray Danton, Paul Stevens)
S03E11 (59) - Over Fifty? Steal! (Hume Cronyn)
S03E12 (60) - Beautiful Screamer (Lloyd Bochner, Laraine Stephens, Anne Archer)
S03E13 (61) - The Payoff (Albert Salmi, Joyce Van Patten, Madlyn Rhue, Warren Vanders, Paul Carr)
S03E14 (62) - The Double Wall (Monte Markham, William Schallert, Joan van Ark, Sorrell Booke, R.G. Armstrong)
S03E15 (63) - Paniolo (Frank Silvera, Royal Dano)
S03E16 (64) - Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart (Tim O'Connor, Paul Stewart, Logan Ramsey)
S03E17 (65) - To Kill Or Be Killed (John Anderson, Michael Anderson, Jr., Peter Jason)
S03E18 & S03E19 (66 & 67) - F.O.B. Honolulu (John McMartin, Sabrina Scharf, Roger C. Carmel, Khigh Dhiegh, Joseph Sirola, Monty Landis, Howard Gottschalk)
S03E20 (68) - The Gunrunner (Paul Burke, Marian McCargo, George Murdock, Arthur Batanides)
S03E21 (69) - Dear Enemy (Vera Miles, Gary Collins, John Lupton, Dub Taylor)
S03E22 (70) - The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney (Mark Jenkins, Hope Summers)
S03E23 & S03E24 (71 & 72) - The Grandstand Play (Pernell Roberts, Don Chastain, Barry Atwater, Elliott Street)
Previous Season (Two) • Next Season (Four) • Season Index • Main Page
The numbering system in (parentheses) above follows that in Karen Rhodes' Booking Hawaii Five-O. It also uses Season/Episode numbers, i.e., S01E01 = Season One, Episode One.
★★★★ = One of the very best episodes, a must-see.
★★★ = Better than average, worthy of attention.
★★ = Average, perhaps with a few moments of interest.
★ = Below average, a show to avoid.
49. (S03E01) “And A Time To Die...” ★★½
Original air date: 9/16/70 -- Opening Credits -- End Credits
Director: Charles Dubin; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Ken Pettus; Music: Richard Shores
Timings: Teaser: 3:46; Main Titles: 0:59; Act One: 8:02; Act Two: 10:43; Act Three: 13:39; Act Four: 12:38; End Credits: 0:54; Total Time: 50:41.
QUICK PLOT:
Five-O must overcome hassles from U.S. federal agents and move swiftly to stop a threat by Wo Fat against the kidnapped daughter of a surgeon who is to operate on a wounded undercover operative.
Click here to read Full Plot. Thanks to Bobbi for her help with the plots in this season!
McGarrett is very annoyed in this show. When he shows up at a crime scene where an "intelligence" agent has been shot, he is stonewalled by a security guard. McGarrett knows where to find the man in charge, Sam Kavanaugh (Gerald S. O'Loughlin, who was seen in season one's "The Box" and "Six Kilos"). McGarrett tells him,"Since you're still a little new out here, Mr. Kavanaugh, maybe nobody has told you ... [t]hat not even United States intelligence can cover up a shoot-out and tell me it's none of my business."
The crime in question is the attempted assassination of Kyle Shepard (Chuck Couch), a British subject, and freelance newspaper reporter who has "spent the last ten years in Red China." According to Kavanaugh, "He dug us up a map showing the exact location of every missile silo Red China has built or is planning on building."
The assassination has been orchestrated by Wo Fat, who gets his stooge Chung (Danny Kamekona) to kill Shepard using a high-powered rifle from a room up in the Hilton Hotel Rainbow Tower. Shepard had arrived at Honolulu Airport and is ferried by helicopter to the Ala Wai Heliport near the Tower. This whole procedure seems very peculiar, however. Why didn't they just pick up Shepard at the airport and take him to the intelligence office, wherever that might be? Of course, then the show would likely be a lot shorter.
When Shepard gets off the helicopter, he freaks out and starts running, which ruins Chung's aim. What is supposed to be a fatal shot is off, the result being Shepard ends up in the Honolulu General Hospital in a coma. It is suspected that "while the bullet didn't actually penetrate the skull, it did crease it, causing a severe lineal fracture, possibly resulting in a brain contusion, which is causing intracranial hemorrhaging." This is not the first time one of Wo's henchmen bungles an assassination in the series, by the way. In S05E05, "The Jinn Who Clears The Way," Carl Tu (also played by Danny Kamekona) is equally inept.
As far as Kavanaugh is concerned, it is critical that Shepard survive, because the map of the missile silos is "memorized ... all in his head." Knowing ahead of time that Dr. David Forbes (Donald Moffat), "the top neurosurgeon in Hawaii," will likely be the one to perform the very delicate operation to bring Shepard back to consciousness, Wo kidnaps Forbes' young daughter Ellen (Sherry Plep), who is taking a sailing lesson, and then gets the doctor to return home at the beckoning of his wife Janet (Linda Ryan) to face a very stern demand from Wo: "I want Mr. Shepard dead. If Mr. Shepard dies without regaining consciousness, your child will be returned to you, unharmed. On the other hand, if you don't agree with the terms, won't pay the ransom so to speak, well, then..."
The doctor and his wife are appalled, but Wo tells them, "I'm not interested in winning your approval, doctor -- only your co-operation. I'm just as much a victim of this situation as you, your husband and the child. … Mr. Shepard is not to regain consciousness. … I would genuinely hate to harm your child. But more important, in my profession, a man cannot afford a credibility gap. He must keep his promises if he wants anybody to believe his threats."
Kavanaugh checks with Jonathan Kaye in Washington, who orders the operation on Shepard to proceed. McGarrett reconstructs what happened when Shepard arrived by helicopter, that he "panicked" when he saw someone who he recognized as a Red Agent who had betrayed him. (This is the usual McGarrett brainstorm, trying to deal with this rationally is difficult.) When McGarrett suggests this is Ralston (Norman Dupont), one of the men on Kavanaugh's team who was "working both sides of the street," Kavanaugh tells him, "You've really gone into orbit, haven't you, McGarrett?"
Kavanaugh warms to McGarrett's suggestion when faced with a process of elimination as to who knows what is going on in the hospital and could be feeding information back to Wo (who was obviously identified for McGarrett by Dr. Forbes). Kavanaugh says he will put Ralston "on ice," but McGarrett says to let him loose, and maybe he will provide a lead to Forbes' kidnapped daughter. Kavanaugh tells Ralston to keep his eye on Tyler, another member of their staff.
Danno and Kono tail Ralston when he leaves the hospital and from a distance see him making an operator-assisted call at a public telephone. They speculate that this is long distance, but Kono investigates and finds there is no record of this at the phone company. The clever McGarrett then suggests that the call was to "a mobile unit or a marine call to a boat."
This, of course, is true. On a yacht, Wo is holed up with Chung as well as Oren (the Elvis Presley-imitator-like Nick Nickolas, who was seen at the beginning of the show tipping off Wo that Shepard had left Honolulu Airport by helicopter). We get a brief glimpse of Wo's "human side" when he reminisces about an incident which presumably happened during the Chinese Revolution. He plays chess with the doctor's daughter, saying "I knew a little girl once," and nearly lapses into sentimentality when he describes how this little girl was killed. He goes on, "So few women play chess ... they seem to have no grasp for it." He says, almost with some bitterness, "I don't always enjoy [winning]."
Forbes operates on Shepard, who dies, but not because of anything the doctor did. Kavanaugh wants to pretend that Shepard lived and is now "talking his head off," and he will get news of this to Wo Fat through Ralston. About the doctor's daughter's fate, Kavanaugh is cold-blooded, saying, "There's not one chance in a thousand that child is still alive," .
McGarrett gets a message that the phone company checked their records again, which reveals that Ralston's call was made "to a boat owned by the Island Marine Sales and Rental Company ... called the Sea Gypsy."
McGarrett asks for a couple of additional hours (equivalent to how long the operation would have taken if Shepard survived). When Kavanaugh says no, McGarrett tells him, "If you feed Wo Fat the word that Shepard talked, I'm gonna feed him the word that you lied. And if you don't think I will, you just try me." McGarrett gets his two hours.
Armed with a picture of the Sea Gypsy (where he got this from is a good question), McGarrett and Danno scour the local marinas by helicopter trying to find it. He has until 5 p.m. before the deadline runs out, and we see time ticking down to 4:25, 4:44, 4:52 and 4:58. Of course, they manage to locate the boat in time, but not before 5:00 rolls around and Kavanagh tells Ralston that Shepard survived.
Ralston passes along the word to Wo about Shepard and Wo leaves, instructing Chung and Bates to take care of the child. Kavanaugh and Forbes are driven to the marina by Chin Ho almost immediately as Wo is chauffeured away to go back to China to deal with the silos because of the information to be revealed by the supposedly now-recovered Shepard.
Overall, the acting for this show has been very good, and the script up to this point has made sense. Unfortunately, there is a totally stupid ending.
With the 5 p.m. deadline well passed (probably several minutes more) and no consideration for whether Forbes' daughter is going to be killed immediately, McGarrett and Danno, who were only seconds before flying over the yacht, as well as Kono, all appear on a Coast Guard patrol boat beside it, dressed in well-fitting Coast Guard uniforms, as if there was some floating Coast Guard haberdashery nearby, pretending to be "examining vessels to determine compliance with federal boating laws." Lucky for them, the kid is still alive, and Chung hides with her on the yacht, which is quickly uncovered, and Chung is taken out of action. Ellen is rescued and reunited with her father.
There is kind of a lame, feel-good ending with Kavanaugh telling McGarrett, "Maybe we can get along together from now on," to which McGarrett responds, "Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that."
WHAT DOES THE TITLE MEAN?
It is taken from a Biblical quotation (Ecclesiastes chapter 3) which begins "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die..."
CASUALTY LIST:
Thanks to Bobbi for help with the Casualty Lists in this season. Where someone is injured seriously and they are not confirmed dead, a "best guess" may be made that they died from their injuries.
Injury: Shepard is shot by Chung.
Death: Shepard dies on operating table. Sanders tells Kavanaugh on the phone, "He's dead."
MORE TRIVIA:
The pay phone Ralston uses to tip off Wo Fat has the number 819-855.
The helicopter used at the beginning to transport Shepard from the airport to the Ala Wai Heliport by the Ilikai Hotel is the same one used at the end by McGarrett to search for Wo Fat's hideway. Supposedly owned by Helicopters Pacific Ltd., it is number N9016F (a Hughes 500 according to its side, actually a Hughes 369HS). It is also seen in "The Late John Louisiana" and "Paniolo" this season.
Why does the security guard at the heliport salute both Kavanaugh and McGarrett?
There are the sounds of tires squealing as cars brake and speed away (on gravel!) from this location.
One of the views of Chung's rifle scope at the beginning of the show is totally wrong -- it's from ground level instead of up in the Rainbow Tower, from where Chung is aiming.
Washington big shot Jonathan Kaye is described as "Chief of the Pacific Area."
A good Wo Fat line: "You're being deliberately obtuse, doctor."
At the beginning of the show, a Japan Airlines plane is seen with "Official airline for Japan World Exposition" (Expo '70, held in Suita, Osaka, Japan, between March 15 and September 13, 1970) on its side.
The room in the Rainbow Tower Chung uses for the assassination is #702.
Stock shot with McGarrett arriving at the hospital. The crudely-made sign showing visiting hours is seen.
McGarrett snaps his fingers multiple times during his brainstorm about the possibility Ralston's call was to a marine unit.
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50. (S03E02) “Trouble In Mind” ★★★½ BOOK HIM (4)
Director: Danny Arnold; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Mel Goldberg & Sascha Gilien; Music: Morton Stevens
Timings: Teaser: 7:02; Main Titles: 0:59; Act One: 7:19; Act Two: 13:44; Act Three: 10:33; Act Four: 9:48; End Credits: 0:53; Total Time: 50:18.
Five-O attempts to track down a strain of heroin contaminated with arsenic as singer Eadie Jordan becomes more and more desperate to feed her addiction.
Click here to read Full Plot.
This is an above-average episode with singer Nancy Wilson guest starring as Eadie Jordan, who is scheduled to give a jazz concert at the Waikiki Shell. Her pianist and friend Mike Martin (Harry Guardino) is a former drug addict who served 6 months for possession and use of heroin on the mainland.
At the beginning of the show, the two of them are seen jamming at a Honolulu jazz club named Kiley's where they have come to see Rags (Robert Gibbons), an old friend from Chicago. Kono performs a one-man raid on the place, frisking Harry Partch (Dave Burton), a known dope dealer who complains about being forced to strip in the washroom.
After Martin and Eadie leave the club, they pass Kono at high speed, forcing him off the road. When Kono follows them and pulls them over and then checks their car, almost finding some heroin which Hank, the drummer in the club, slipped to Mike earlier, Martin hits Kono on the head with a rock. The next day, Kono tells Danno he feels "lousy."
When subsequently grilled by McGarrett, Martin gives an excuse that, despite the fact Kono identified himself as a cop, Mike says that he didn't know that Kono was police, and instead was threatened by a "big guy." McGarrett doesn't seem to be as concerned about the damage to one of his men as when Chin Ho was bonked on the head in S01E06, "24 Karat Kill."
Hank the drummer is played by series composer Morton Stevens. He becomes the victim of the arsenic-contaminated heroin he is using that has already taken the lives of five other people on Oahu: a seaman, a prostitute, a shoe salesman, an ex-pug and a 17-year-old girl, a high-school dropout.
Because he is a big fan of Eadie's, McGarrett is much kinder towards her than he probably should be, basically warning her about the poisoned dope, since he thinks that the one who is looking to buy it is Martin. But it is Eadie herself who is the junkie, and she is becoming more and more unhinged as rehearsals for concert proceed.
Martin wants her to get off the stuff, but after she insists that she only needs it "one more time" to get her through the concert scheduled for the next evening, he goes in search of drugs, having little luck until some old Chinese man (uncredited actor) gives him Harry Partch's address.
Martin arrives at this place just as McGarrett and Chin bust Partch for possession, though his heroin later turns out to be just cut with milk sugar. A very creepy scene follows where a young kid who claims to be a heroin addict (Remi Abellira) offers to sell Mike some smack, which later also turns out to be cut with sugar. When Mike berates the kid for his habit, the kid says he is talking "fuzz jive." Abellira was about 13 years old when this show was made; he looks much younger.
Danno and Kono suddenly show up at the boy's place. Martin is busted and thrown in jail, but after McGarrett goes to see him, the top cop finally clues in that Mike is clean and it is Eadie who needs the dope. In desperation, she has gone to the fleabag apartment of Ron (Milton Selzer), a former bass player who is the one supplying his "friends" with smack. The desperate Eadie visited the jazz club earlier where Rags gave her Ron's address.
McGarrett and Martin, acting on a tip from Rags, go to Ron's, where the sugar that is mixed with the heroin is found to be mixed up with Toxa-Quick rat poison which has accidentally leaked into the sugar's container. Eadie and Ron did drugs together, but Ron, a former addict, only took some speed. Eadie has left; Ron says she has gone to a "rehearsal."
The two men head to the empty Shell, but it is too late. Eadie, who is there, suffers convulsions just as they arrive and dies a painful death.
The script for this show, for the most part, is pretty good and the acting from all concerned, especially the principals, is excellent. The score is by Morton Stevens, and I would suspect that so are the arrangements for Wilson. Stevens had plenty of experience in this regard as the arranger and musical director for such stars as Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Liza Minnelli. There are also some creepy musical moments when Martin buys dope from the kid and when he and McGarrett arrive at Ron's place near the end of the show.
There is one big question, though. Ron's supply of dope, the poisoned stuff, was for his "friends," so who gave or sold Hank the drummer the drugs which killed him and which also narrowly missed killing Eadie at the beginning of the show? (Mike tells McGarrett he bought heroin from Hank for her which Kono found in their car before he was knocked out.) It is suspected that the pusher was Partch, who was in the club when Kono frisked him at the beginning of the show. But after Che Fong analyzed the drugs seized from Partch's place, Che says they were "strictly bottom of the barrel, thinned down like I've never seen [with] the usual milk sugar." Most likely the bad drugs were from Ron, who was seen hanging around the club at the beginning of the show. But if the heroin containing rat poison were only for Ron's "friends," how did the five people who died get hold of it? It's not like they were all jazz fans who were hanging out at Ron's place.
"Trouble in Mind," a vaudeville blues-style song written by jazz pianist Richard M. Jones and first recorded in 1924, is one of the songs which Eadie sings in the show. There are different versions of the lyrics, which, according to Wikipedia, deal with suicide. The ones heard in the show are: "I'm gonna lay / Lay my head / On some lonesome railroad line / Let the 2: 19 train / Ease my worried mind / Trouble in mind / Up here / My poor heart is beating slow / Never had no trouble / In my life before / No, no, no."
Injury: Mike Martin hits Kono on the head with a rock.
Death: Hank, the band's drummer, dies of bad heroin.
Death: Eadie Jordan dies of bad heroin.
Wilson sings part of at least four different songs. One of these, Honeysuckle Rose by Fats Waller, is not included in the Season 3 DVD box set, probably because of music rights. From the time McGarrett leaves his office at the beginning of the show to when Wilson says "Maybe it's me..." is cut out (approximately 24 seconds). Click here to see the missing material. The songs she sings are as follows (these times are what is actually on the DVDs, not taking the missing music into consideration):
Stormy Monday (T-Bone Walker) -- 2:57 (starts at 0:08)
Trouble in Mind (Richard M. Jones) -- 1:30 (starts at 9:07)
Spinning Wheel (David Clayton-Thomas) -- 1:02 (on reel-to-reel tape, starts at 15:21)
Trouble in Mind ("I'm blue, but I won't be blue", with piano solo) -- 0:08 (starts at 17:57)
Spinning Wheel (performed with band) -- 0:30 (starts at 20:22)
Trouble in Mind (with solo piano at end) -- 0:33 (starts at 47:03)
In the omitted section before she starts singing, Eadie is holding sheet music with her right hand and snapping fingers of her left hand. In the next shot, she is holding a microphone with her right hand. Then, in the next shot, she is holding the mike with her right hand and the sheet music with her left hand.
As they perform "Trouble in Mind" at the Shell at the beginning of the show, Martin tells the brass section, "You can cool it, take five," but the opening of the song right after this includes the brass. This intro to the song accompanies a very cool sequence of McGarrett driving to the Shell after passing the Dillingham Fountain (stock shot). The title song gets mentioned in the end credits.
While they are rehearsing, Martin has a lit cigarette in an ashtray on his piano, but he isn't smoking it.
When he confronts Martin in jail, McGarrett doesn't find any needle marks on his arms. He asks Mike, "Where do you take it? Behind the knees? In the eyebrows? Between the toes?" "Behind the knees" echoes what McGarrett asked Nicole Wylie in S02E09, "The Singapore File."
McGarrett tells Eadie he has "just about every side you ever cut, including your tapes and cassettes [which he pronounces "case-sette"] ... even the Funky Blues 45." Reel-to-reel recorders are seen in the show; Hank is listening to music on one just before he croaks.
McGarrett also mispronounces the word "autopsy" with the emphasis on the second syllable.
When McGarrett wants Chin to book dope dealer Harry Partch, he uses the expression "Book him" four times: "Book him," "Book him," "Book him!", and "Book him for receiving, pushing and possession." Partch lives at 2124 Kaluaha Drive. This character has the same name as an American composer who lived from 1901 to 1974.
McGarrett looks at a bunch of information in a folder about Hank after the drummer's death including Hank's photo. There is some paperwork which is supposedly Hank's musicians' union contract -- but close examination reveals it to be concerned with oil drilling rights!
Ron tells Eadie, "I sat in with [legendary tenor saxophonist] Coleman Hawkins once. You know what the Hawk said about me? He said if he closed his eyes, he'd swear I was a black man [!]."
The dope-selling kid keeps his drug paraphernalia in a box of Ohio Blue Tip matches.
There is some inter-racial embracing between Mike and Eadie which probably raised eyebrows way back then.
Koko Head is identified in the subtitles as "Coco Head."
The one line of the old Chinese man -- "Ten dollar, please" -- sounds dubbed.
On the wall in Ron's place is a poster with a heading "Hawaii Salutes Arthur Godfrey."
The two musicians who have speaking parts during rehearsals are Red Callendar, the bass player who tells Eadie she is "the queen," and trombonist Trummy Young, who tells Martin he can't play any quieter (Young actually lived in Hawaii).
51. (S03E03) “The Second Shot” ★★★
Director: Michael O'Herlihy; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Eric Bercovici; Music: Richard Shores
Timings: Teaser: 5:31; Main Titles: 0:58; Act One: 11:20; Act Two: 11:25; Act Three: 8:20; Act Four: 12:15; End Credits: 0:54; Total Time: 50:43.
Five-O must thwart an elaborate assassination attempt on the life of a self-exiled Greek politician.
John Marley is Dr. Gregorios Lemira, a former physician and parliamentary deputy from Greece, who is living in exile in Hawaii. This reflects true events of the time, because from 1967 to 1974, Greece was ruled by far-right military juntas who feared the country would be taken over by leftists and communists. Lemira is described by Samuel Hammock from the US State Department (Walter Brooke) as "the symbol of freedom that all the opposition parties have clustered around." Lemira has been holed up for four months in a fortress-like estate surrounded by bodyguards and armed men with dogs, which is about as far away from his homeland as possible. (This location is the Anderson Estate, well-known for its use on Magnum, P.I. and other Five-O episodes like "Forty Feet High And It Kills.")
Lemira is not popular back in Greece, because a Greek Colonel (Henry Woltag) and doctor (Wright Esser) are seen in Athens planning his assassination. Eric Braeden is to impersonate Klaus Marburg, correspondent for Tage (meaning "Day"), "probably the most influential news magazine in West Germany," according to the Governor. Marburg, who wrote unsympathetic articles about Lemira in the magazine, will journey to Hawaii to interview him. A professional hit man named Achmet Schwed (identified in the end credits only as "Dark Man" (Ronald Kent)) will precede him there.
When Marburg arrives at the Honolulu Airport, Schwed shoots Marburg in his chest in a very precise manner which does not kill him, and causes the least damage possible. The whole point of this is to ingratiate Marburg with Lemira, which is exactly what happens. Lemira convinces Marburg to stay at his well-guarded compound, where he hangs out with not only Lemira but Lemira's niece Anna (Charlene Polite). Lemira ironically tells one of his personal guards, who is worried about Marburg's presence, "This man was almost murdered coming here to see me. What better credentials could he have?"
McGarrett is puzzled by aspects of the hit on Marburg, and isn't happy when Marburg becomes Lemira's guest. Considering Schwed missed Marburg's heart by only a fraction of an inch as planned, McGarrett is suspicious, saying "Pros don't get paid for missing." Other things also don't add up, such as the fact that the bullet was some custom-made job which went right through Marburg. The fancy rifle that Schwed used is later found in a locker (#472) at the airport in a manner which is much too obvious. McGarrett says everything that has happened with Marburg "just doesn't sit right."
After Schwed tries to shoot Marburg and Anna outside the hospital where Marburg is being taken for an X-ray, Schwed is killed by McGarrett after Marburg recognizes him, making Schwed's role in this conspiracy a suicide mission. However, Schwed, when he was getting an X-ray taken himself in the hospital prior to this, has left a gun under a table in the X-ray room which Marburg picks up, intending to use it to kill Lemira.
Unfortunately, handling a gun is Marburg's downfall, because after Schwed was shot, Marburg picked up Schwed's gun from the ground and gave it to McGarrett. Sending the prints to Interpol not only confirmed Schwed's identity, but confirmed that "Marburg" was an imposter.
As the show reaches its conclusion, Marburg manages to convince Lemira to get a "change of scenery" on a nearby beach where he draws the doctor out of sight of his two bodyguards Andreas (Nick Georgiade) and Paulos (Antonios Karidimas) over their objections. Marburg is just about to shoot Lemira point-blank when he himself is shot by McGarrett who, amazingly, has managed to figure out exactly where the two of them are alone on the beach. McGarrett is using the high-powered rifle which was recovered from the airport locker.
Where Marburg gets his gun during this scene is a good question, considering it is not a small gun and it has a silencer. It is not in his right front pocket, because he puts his hand in that pocket at one point. He doesn't have a right rear pocket. So it must be tucked in behind his belt in the back, where it seems odd that neither of the two guards noticed it.
The music is by Shores. It contains some interesting electronic-like sounds reminiscent of the composer's dopey hypnotic music in "A Bullet For McGarrett." Some of the orchestration of the "normal" music in the episode suggests the bouzouki, a Greek plucked stringed instrument similar to a mandolin.
A killer named Marburg is part of an intricate plan where he is targeted by a sharpshooter named Schwed to give the appearance of being the object of a professional hit in order to ingratiate himself with Gregorios Lemira, an exiled Greek politician living in Hawaii. In the episode promo, Jack Lord describes Lemira as "target for the second shot," but in the show, McGarrett wonders why Schwed didn't "get off a second shot at the airport."
Injury: "Klaus Marburg" shot by assassin Schwed, a.k.a. "Dark Man," at airport.
Death: Schwed is shot by McGarrett at hospital entrance. McGarrett confirms he is dead.
Death: "Marburg" shot on beach by McGarrett. Lemira declares him dead.
At the beginning of the show, the doctor tells Schwed that the bullet has to enter Marburg's chest "just above the left auricle and below the subclavian artery; precisely 1 centimeter from the heart." But the point he is illustrating with the tip of his pencil on Marburg's chest seems quite high up, well above the heart.
In a test run for his shooting, Marburg puts on a jacket so Schwed can use the scope which will be on the gun to see how easy it is to hit the exact spot on his chest. Schwed looks through the scope, and there is nothing on the jacket's lapel. But in the next shot, after the Colonel gives Schwed what looks like a lens which will presumably make the shot more accurate, there is a black dot on the jacket lapel which was not there before which is over the point of entry. Eric Braeden's forehead is really covered with sweat during this sequence.
Later when Marburg arrives in Honolulu, his jacket lapel does not have a black dot on it as he descends the stairs from the United Airlines plane, but seconds later as he is seen in the crosshairs of the scope, the black dot is there. It is still there as he is shot and falls to the ground.
Marburg is taken away from the airport in a Physician's Ambulance, license number 3C-2606.
On the background balcony in scenes at the airport, there are quite a few people, probably watching the filming.
The Governor tells McGarrett after the assassination attempt on Marburg, that, according to a cable from the State Department, he "isn't scheduled to arrive until day after tomorrow," but nothing seems to come of this.
When he talks to McGarrett in the hospital, Marburg remarks: "When it comes to Dr. Lemira, they send only the very, very best," making a play on the famous advertising slogan for Hallmark Cards. He seems to be suggesting that the assassin, who Five-O has not yet caught, really intended to kill Lemira.
McGarrett tells Marburg in the hospital that he is from Five-O, but how would Marburg know what this is?
The assassin Schwed has no dialogue in the show at all. After he gets his X-ray taken at the hospital, he is revealed to be a very hairy-chested individual.
Outside the hospital after McGarrett talks to Kono who says the Governor wants to see him, there is a closeup of McGarrett's car door which is covered with rain.
When McGarrett tells Chin Ho to find the bullet which went through Marburg, Chin protests, "How come I always get stuck with these jobs?" McGarrett replies, "Because you're good at it."
McGarrett wears some cool sunglasses near the beginning of the second act.
A phone at Lemira's house has the number 287-1299. Considering the obsessive security in the house, one wonders how Marburg can use a phone in the place where he is recovering from his wound to pass a message to Schwed, his outside contact.
As McGarrett is driving Marburg to the hospital, his car is seen driving on the wrong side of the road in a scene lifted from S01E23, the previous episode which starred John Marley, "The Big Kahuna," and prior to that, S01E14, "Up Tight."
We get a quick closeup of McGarrett's desk phone, which has two vertical rows of extensions, both on the right side. The left row of numbers go from local 22 to 26, with "Hold" on the bottom; the right row goes from 27 to 31 with what looks like "Conf. Call" on the bottom. Interestingly, when McGarrett calls Lemira to warn him that Marburg is not who he seems to be, McGarrett punches seven buttons (as if dialing a local number) on the right side of the phone, but the actual keypad for dialing is on the left side of the phone. Anna's voice is heard by Danno and Chin Ho on the speaker.
When Schwed's rifle is found in the locker, McGarrett is annoyed that an airport employee (John Henry Russell) touched it. But then McGarrett touches the case containing the rifle himself, and so does Kono. Earlier on at the airport, when Five-O is in the room Schwed hid in while shooting at Marburg, McGarrett says "Seal this area and dust it," but he is touching metal shelving -- not that this means anything, since Schwed was wearing gloves.
McGarrett calls Che Fong by his full name in the show, rather than just "Che."
Why does Lemira allow himself to go to the beach with Marburg at the end of the show? This is not the beach close to his compound, but a "private beach near Lanikai, about a half an hour drive," according to Anna talking to McGarrett on the phone.
At the end of the show after Marburg is killed, Lemira says, if the shot was "perhaps a quarter of an inch higher, he might have lived." This is obviously a parallel reference to the precise measurements surrounding the "shot" on Marburg at the beginning of the show, but it is unlikely that Lemira would have seen the bullet enter Marburg's chest (Marburg twists and falls away after it hits him), and it doesn't look like Lemira turned the body over to examine it before McGarrett and Danno arrive.
McGarrett snaps his fingers once.
Stock shot of McGarrett driving by the Ali Wai Cancel from the right to left.
Lemira is seen smoking a pipe.
McGarrett's car makes screeching noises as it brakes on sand by the beach at the end of the show.
Writer Eric Bercovici is mentioned by Jack Lord in the episode promo on the DVD (see above), something unusual.
52. (S03E04) “Time And Memories” ★★★
Original air date: 10/7/70 -- Opening Credits -- End Credits
Director: John Moxey; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Jerry Ludwig; Music: Harry Geller
Timings: Teaser: 2:21; Main Titles: 0:59; Act One: 11:49; Act Two: 7:33; Act Three: 16:20; Act Four: 10:48; End Credits: 0:53; Total Time: 50:43.
McGarrett becomes personally involved in a murder case when a former girl friend of his becomes the prime suspect.
This murder mystery featuring Diana Muldaur as Cathy Wallis, an old girl friend of McGarrett's, is, for the most part, cleverly written, but it falls down badly at the end with a large goof. There is an effective near-symphonic musical score by Harry Geller which is not what we usually expect to hear on the show as well as above-average acting by all concerned.
Cathy is in Honolulu with her lawyer husband Frank, who is on business. She calls McGarrett at 3:00 in the morning as she is walking on the beach, having left her rental house which she returned to after having a very public fight with Frank at a party earlier. Leaving the house around midnight, Cathy just misses Frank when he also returns there, having been driven home by Roswell Borden (Edward Andrews), one of his clients and the host of the party, who did not come into the house.
Cathy's call brings on the first of several flashbacks to when she and McGarrett were a "number" years before when she literally picked him up on the street while driving to the Arizona Memorial. McGarrett was wearing his Navy outfit at the time. Neither of the two look a day younger.
Cathy returns to the house, but finds Frank dead on the floor. He is first thought to be the victim of a robber who was surprised in the act. But as Five-O investigates, it seems more and more like Cathy is the one who killed her husband, especially after hearing that their marriage was rocky, aside from the argument they just had at the party where she slapped him. Frank died of multiple contusions from a blunt object.
Considering there was a time frame of around two and a half hours when Cathy might have killed Frank, evidence suggesting she is involved is uncovered on the nearby beach, like her wrap containing her husband's blood, as well as a hairdryer with her fingerprints all over it which contains samples of Frank's hair and scalp tissue.
McGarrett, who did not realize that Cathy had married Wallis, is often totally tongue-tied when questioning her during the show. Saying this is "no ordinary case, not for you," Danno gingerly suggests that McGarrett should withdraw and let the other members of the Five-O team handle the investigation, a suggestion which McGarrett ignores.
Borden also falls under suspicion, because Frank was going to make a proxy vote against him in the upcoming election of directors for Borden's company, Aurora Enterprises, which would have put him out of a job. After Frank's death, McGarrett catches Borden snooping around the rental house looking for this proxy to destroy it, but after he is hauled down to the Five-O office, Borden is eliminated as a suspect after he tells McGarrett, "If I had did all of that [the complicated plan surrounding Frank's death] to get that proxy, do you think I would have walked out of there that night without it?"
Much against his revived feelings for Cathy while confronted with what seems like a rock-solid case, McGarrett eventually arrests her for murder, but then Cathy begins to suspect that her stepdaughter Joan (Kathy Cannon) had something to do with it.
Joan was also at the party and witnessed the fight between her parents. She received a call at the party from her fiancé Arthur Dixon (Martin Sheen) seemingly calling on the "tie line" from her father's legal office in San Francisco which a trace later reveals started at 12:22 a.m. and ended 15 minutes later.
Joan was in love with Arthur, a partner in her father's legal firm, but both Frank and Cathy were opposed to the idea of the two of them getting married. Arthur was in fact giving notice to leave the company after his boss gave him an ultimatum over this matter.
After the call from Arthur, Joan went to the rental house to talk to her father about "the marriage idea," but she chickened out when she got to the front door and went back to the party. Her arrival and departure were witnessed by Ramiro (Jose Mordeno), the houseboy from the place next door, confusing Joan with Cathy herself.
As Cathy languishes in jail, McGarrett has a brainstorm when listening to something that was taped during a visit to his office by Arthur and Joan. Joan said, "I remember I said to Arthur, 'This must be costing a fortune, this call [that Joan received during the party], across the Pacific and all.' But he said that he was on the tie line from the office."
McGarrett tells Chin Ho to get the phone company to check for calls, without mentioning any further details. The actual definition of "tie line" is somewhat vague: a telephone line between two private branch exchanges or private exchanges that may or may not pass through a main exchange.
What happened with Arthur was like this: Unknown to anyone, Dixon was in Honolulu on the evening of the murder. He arrived at 10 p.m. He killed Frank, then returned to the airport where he placed a call from a pay phone there to San Francisco which was then rerouted back to Honolulu via this tie line to Joan at the party. (It is interesting that Arthur knew that she was at the party.) With only minutes to spare, Dixon boarded the 12:45 a.m. flight back to San Francisco.
The next day, after the murder, Arthur showed up at Honolulu Airport again where he met Joan, who was accompanied there by McGarrett.
There is only one problem. To demonstrate how this tie line business works, McGarrett phones Frank's office in San Francisco, which has the phone number WAymont 2-3299 and asks to use the line to call Dixon's Honolulu hotel room. The number there is 734-2211, suite 53, where Danno just happens to be visiting Dixon under some bogus pretext. McGarrett puts Joan on the phone, and when Dixon answers it, his "foolproof alibi" is exposed. Danno busts him and Arthur says, "I was so close. I guess I wanted it all."
However, the problem is, the phone number 922-3299 (WA meaning "92") is the same phone number as the pay phone at the airport that Dixon used to call Joan at the party via the tie line! It is highly unlikely that these two phone numbers in different exchanges in different states would be exactly the same.
Kono and Chin Ho tracked down the phone at the airport after their investigation with the phone company, and Dixon was also noticed by an observant airline stewardess (Kathleen O'Rourke), who saw that he returned to San Francisco only a couple of hours after arriving in Honolulu.
The dialogue at the end of the show is kind of dopey as McGarrett says goodbye to Cathy at the airport, calling her "pretty girl." He holds her hand and they gaze into each others' eyes as the camera gets closer to each of them in successive shots. While you think that he might kiss her goodbye, finally, he just tells her "Aloha, Cathy."
Death: Cathy Wallis finds her husband Frank on the floor of their rental house, dead from several blows to the back of the head.
These are the flashbacks, which take about 8:09 of the show's running time:
1:21-1:30 – McGarrett recognizes Cathy's voice on the phone during the late night call. Montage of various scenes in the past: smooching, dancing, frolicking at the beach.
5:00-5:09 – McGarrett meets Cathy for the first time in the present, he didn't know she was married. Kissing in the past, McGarrett tells her "I'm falling in love with you."
9:00-10:06 – In the present, McGarrett sees a soldier kissing a girl which reminds him of when he was with Cathy. In the past, they get together over coffee, she has something to tell him, he says that she lied to him.
26:23-27:16 – Their first meeting: Cathy, who is driving a 1958 Jaguar XK 150 roadster, picks up McGarrett to show her how to get to the Arizona Memorial.
27:50-31:08 – In the past, McGarrett borrows the admiral's launch to take her to the memorial; she comes there because her brother lost his life on the ship.
31:26-34:00 – McGarrett says he is falling in love, but she can't commit herself to him, she is going to marry someone else. He tells her "You have a right to change your mind," that she is old enough to make her own decisions. She leaves Honolulu.
When Dixon returns to Hawaii the day after committing the murder and hugs Joan at the airport, he says "It's all right, baby," but his mouth isn't saying any words. (The voice doesn't sound like Sheen's.)
McGarrett plays his guitar briefly.
Kathy (later Katherine) Cannon, Cathy's stepdaughter, plays an old girl friend of Danno in the eleventh season episode "A Long Time Ago."
Dolphins are seen jumping in a pool, but they are not at Sea Life Park, but seemingly in a pool at some hotel in Honolulu. McGarrett and Cathy also seem to be outside some hotel when they are talking, watching the two "kids" down below.
McGarrett uses a Uher Report reel-to-reel tape recorder in his office to record Joan's statement, but when he turns the machine off, notice that the entire image is flopped -- the depressed button is now on the other side and the name of the machine is on the right, reversed. It is hard to imagine how, in this flopped state, McGarrett can turn the recorder off. As usual, McGarrett rewinds the tape several times and it stops at exactly the place he wants to start listening.
Cathy was born around 1940, making her theoretically somewhat younger than McGarrett.
The dialogue of Ramiro the houseboy which is bad English is very badly written.
I don't know how they found only Cathy's prints on the hair dryer, because when Kono finds it on the beach, his hands are all over it.
McGarrett arrives at HPD -- is this a stock shot?
A fragment of the music from the episode promo seems to be taken from the pilot episode.
When McGarrett looks at his watch during the show, it is not the Tissot seen in this season's opener.
53. (S03E05) “The Guarnerius Caper” ★★★½
Original air date: 10/14/70 -- Opening Credits -- End Credits
Director: Tony Leader; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Ken Pettus; Music: Don B. Ray [and Johannes Brahms]
The disappearance of a priceless violin belonging to a Russian musician threatens to explode into an international incident.
The teaser from this show is a study in contrasts.
It begins with Soviet violinist Dmitri Rostov (Ed Flanders) playing an arrangement of the final movement from Brahms' Violin Concerto accompanied by a piano before a small audience invited by industrialist Jared Gifford (Larry Ronson), head of the committee sponsoring a concert which Rostov will give on Saturday, July 29th at the Waikiki Shell.
This is interspersed with shots of two hyperactive white trash morons, Hutch (Anthony James) and Norman Dekoven a.k.a. Duke (Kenneth O'Brien), who are creating havoc on the streets of Honolulu, slapping a woman on the ass, pushing people off the sidewalk, stealing another woman's purse and jumping on the hood of a car which almost runs them over. The "crappy rock music" accompanying their antics is totally erratic, sounding improvised.
After Rostov finishes his recital, a boorish member of the audience, Babbitt (Jim Demarest) asks him how much his violin is worth: "How much do you suppose you could get for it? Fifty thousand? Seventy-five? Hundred thousand?" Rostov is at a loss for words, commenting, "It would be impossible to say."
Following Rostov meeting with other members of the audience, his KGB-like "handler" Josef Sarpa (Albert Paulsen) takes the violin and puts it in the trunk of Gifford's Lincoln Continental which has been loaned to the two Russians and which is parked in the basement of the building. Hutch and Deke are watching this, though not paying attention specifically to the violin. Hutch hotwires the car, which is not locked, and they take it to Sherwood Forest, another name for Waimanalo Bay Beach Park, where one finds stripped cars and appliances.
The theft of the car is soon discovered, and Five-O is quick to respond, especially since the Governor is freaking out. He is getting major pressure from the U.S. State Department, that "the Russians ... obviously see an excuse to embarrass this country in the eyes of the world. Washington's even worried that Moscow may use this incident as an excuse to cancel the cultural exchange program." Sarpa has contacted the Soviet Embassy in Washington who leak the story to the Associated Press with the angle that "the violin was stolen by American fascists as an act of political vengeance against the Soviet Union." (McGarrett comments, "They never change their tune, do they?")
When Sarpa tells Rostov to cancel his concert, scheduled for the following evening, Rostov replies, "I will not be party to turning this unfortunate business into an ugly political issue." Sarpa coldly tells him, "Very well, Rostov. I cannot force you to cancel the concert, but I caution you to be prepared to explain your lack of cooperation when we return home."
At Sherwood Forest, Tojo ([Gary] Ah Vah), an acquaintance of Hutch and Deke, shows up, saying about the car, "Who did you lift this from, some undertaker?" Popping the trunk, they find the violin, and Hutch and Deke use it like a baseball bat, trying to hit a beer bottle which they find on the ground. Fortunately, the violin does not make contact. Five-O has Chin Ho flying over the area in a helicopter, and when the three see this, they split.
Dropped off by Tojo in their part of town, Hutch and Deke wonder if they can get some cash for the "fiddle." Hutch remembers there is a blind "old coot" violinist named Gino Mazzini (Wright Esser, sporting heavy "old man" makeup) who gives music lessons who might give them a few bucks for it. When they take it to Mazzini's, he realizes that this is a quality instrument, and pays them $15, which is all the money he has. (I don't know how he knows he has $15 in his pocket, since he is blind.)
Later, Hutch hears a broadcast on the radio that, of course, is exactly what he and Deke need to hear to advance the plot, which says, "The violin, considered a national treasure of the Soviet Union, was reportedly insured for a quarter of a million dollars against theft or damage during the month-long goodwill concert tour of the United States by the Russian violinist." Hutch says that "The Russkie fiddler" is "offering 10 thou for it and no questions asked." He tells Deke and Tojo, "if that Russkie wants that fiddle that bad, then why don't we stick him good? I mean really shaft him. Like ask for 30 thou, that's 10 apiece."
They return to Mazzini's place and steal the violin back, with Hutch murdering the old man, stabbing him in the back. Luanna (Susan Stewart) the woman who lives across the hall from Mazzini, who got her to confirm it was a Guarnerius as per the label inside, discovers his body and calls Five-O.
McGarrett cautions Sarpa, who is offering the ransom for the violin, "If you arrange to meet [Mazzini’s killers] alone, you could end up in a basket," but Sarpa tells him, "Our offer for the return of the violin stands, Mr. McGarrett. I shall take immediate steps to see you do nothing to compromise it." When McGarrett appeals to the Governor for help, he is told, "Rostov and Sarpa are not to be kept under surveillance. You're to stay as far away from them as you can get ... You're not to do anything, one thing, to jeopardize Rostov's chances of recovering his violin." McGarrett is frustrated: "What about jeopardizing our case against Mazzini's killers? ... The Guarnerius is the only link we have. If we don't nail them with the violin, we may not have a chance to prove anything." All the Governor can say is, "Then that's how it will have to be. If anything happens to Rostov's violin, Washington's going to come looking for scalps. And there won't be a thing I can do for you when they start to lift yours."
Sarpa is contacted by the three men and he gets the Embassy to wire him the money. Despite what the Governor told him, McGarrett asks Rostov for his help to establish a connection between the stolen violin and the killers. Rostov tells him, "I am not a political man. I am a musician. My music is the only thing in the world that matters to me. I detest men like Sarpa, but they are the kind I must live with, must go home to. The kind who can tell me where and when and what I can play. " But he changes his mind after McGarrett tells him, "I want Mazzini's killers so badly that I'm willing to put my neck on the chopping block" and says, "If there's any heat, any heat at all, I give you my word, I'll take it."
Sarpa goes by taxi to meet the violin-nappers in Sherwood Forest, but he uses the cab's radio to contact Rostov and tells him to also come there, where he orders Rostov to deliver the money, with the implication that if anyone gets killed during the exchange, it will be Rostov. Rostov is fatalistic, saying, "I should be the one to run the risk of reclaiming it. And then too if I'm killed, there would be that much more propaganda value than if something happened to you, huh?"
McGarrett has been tailing Sarpa after Rostov told him the location of the Bank of Hawaii where the money was wired and at Sherwood Forest, sneaks up behind the three men as Rostov gives them the money, hoping to get his violin back, though Hutch starts to pull the strings off the instrument. McGarrett knocks Tojo out, shoots Deke dead with blood squirting out his back, and wounds Hutch in the leg. Hutch throws the violin into a field nearby, but aside from the broken strings, it is "not harmed," according to Rostov.
This show is interesting the way it depicts the "minder" Sarpa, who is not specifically connected with the KGB, but described by Rostov as "a highly trained intelligence agent." Albert Paulsen as Sarpa, with his mysterious Eastern European accent (though he was actually born in Ecuador) gives a very nasty performance, a big contrast to Ed Flanders' Rostov, who is very submissive by comparison.
During the Cold War, supervision of Soviet classical and other musical artists like this was very typical when they toured outside their home country. Exactly how Ken Pettus, the writer for this show, picked up on this is a good question, because this almost ventures into "sensitive issue" territory.
To compare with real life, one web page talks about the famous Soviet pianist Emil Gilels, whose life was constantly interfered with by Soviet bureaucracy: "It is clear the regime's paranoia was making his life miserable -- there are many accounts of him being humiliated by the intrusive KGB agents who accompanied him on tours abroad." There are rumours that Gilels, who died in 1985, was murdered as a result of a botched injection at an exclusive yet substandard Kremlin hospital.
Death: In Mazzini's apartment, Hutch stabs the old man in the back.
Death: Deke is shot by McGarrett and blood squirts out his back; assuming dead because he doesn't move.
Injury: Hutch is shot by McGarrett in the leg.
Guarnerius violins were made by members of a family from Cremona, Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, the most famous of which was Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri (1698-1744). As explained by Rostov at the beginning of the show, Giuseppe is known as del Gesù ("of Jesus") because his labels always incorporated the characters I.H.S. (a Greek acronym known as the Christogram), which in the show is identified inside the violin by Luanna. Whether these violins are "better" than the well-known instruments made by the Stradivari families is a matter of debate. There are numerous famous violinists who have expressed a preference for one or the other.
The Shell concert is slated for Saturday, July 29th, but in 1970, the year this show was broadcast, July 29th was on a Wednesday. This date was not on Saturday until 1972. This is the second show this season after S03E02, "Trouble in Mind," involving a concert at the Waikiki Shell.
The word "man" is used almost 60 times in conversations between Hutch and Deke.
The teaser is fairly long before the main titles kick in -- about 7 and a half minutes.
A real phone number -- 732-5577 -- is seen on the side of Tojo’s Ikeda Pool Service truck. This number is used numerous times throughout the series, particularly by the Five-O office.
When Hutch and Deke are on the beach prior to hearing the news about the stolen violin, their radio is playing the selection "Operation Smash" from the Five-O soundtrack album. The announcer on the radio says that Gifford's first name is "Jack," but when he first meets McGarrett after his car is stolen, he introduces himself as "Jared."
Why doesn't Sarpa recognize McGarrett driving by the ransom site near the end of the show? It's not like there are a lot of cars on the road.
This is the first show featuring Honolulu used car dealer "Lippy" Espinda, identified in the credits along with his first name of David. He plays a taxi driver for Bernie's Cabs.
Sarpa is contacted by Hutch and Deke via a pay phone at the corner of Kanaina (3700 block) and Monsarrat (3100 block). This is an actual location, though it is unlikely the Dairy Queen seen at the corner of this five-way intersection is still there.
After the recital at the beginning of the show, Gifford addresses Rostov as "maestro." This is a term normally used for conductors, not soloists.
During the opening recital, there are two closeup shots of the violinist's fingers which seem to be playing accurately. Either Ed Flanders did a very good job or they hired some real violinist to perform in these shots. In a scene like this, a violinist might wrap his arms around the actor to play the instrument with the camera doing a tight shot to disguise this.
When McGarrett visits Rostov and Sarpa in their hotel room, a phone call is received for McGarrett. In the background is a musical score which is the third movement of the Brahms violin concerto (arranged for violin and piano) which Rostov is playing at the beginning of the show. (Thanks to my brother, the Brahms expert.)
A poster on the wall at Mazzini's place says that he played a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York on October 13, 1930. There seems to be a suggestion that Mazzini is remembered as a violinist of distinction by the fact that Rostov wants to dedicate the now-rescheduled concert to him at the end of the show.
After Luanna identifies Deke from a mug book, there is concern that this would not be enough to make a case against him for the theft of the violin and murder of Mazzini. Chin says that this is "One pake's [Chinese person's] opinion."
When Tojo drops off Hutch and Deke after they leave the forest, they are on 12th Street, just south of Harding Avenue. There's still a 76 station at that corner, but white building behind it is the same and helps to identify the location. Just a block up is the First Hawaiian Bank building where the two men first harass people and steal the woman's purse. Thanks to Fred Helfing.
The three crooks issue instructions to Sarpa from Fat Daddy's Pizza restaurant, where a pizza costs $3.99 and a hot dog is 45 cents. McGarrett, who is tailing Sarpa, drives right in front of this place and parks nearby to do surveillance of the scene behind him. It is surprising that the three do not spot McGarrett, especially since his car looks like a cop car with its radio antenna on the roof.
When McGarrett is sneaking up behind the money exchange at the end of the show, running up to a station wagon with "car in tow" spray-painted on its back door and also after Deke says "Beautiful, man," there is a funny noise on the soundtrack -- maybe the sound of a bird?
Deke lives at 6552 Kalanianaole Highway. His number on a mug shot which was taken 7-30-70 is A11535.
I would like to see the follow-up to this show and witness the political heat which ensues!
54. (S03E06) “The Ransom” ★★★
Director: Michael O'Herlihy; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Eric Bercovici & Jerry Ludwig; Music: Stock
Timings: Teaser: 2:42; Main Titles: 0:58; Act One: 14:13; Act Two: 8:16; Act Three: 8:50; Act Four: 14:51; End Credits: 0:54; Total Time: 50:44.
Efforts by Five-O to rescue an abducted young boy backfire when Kono becomes a prisoner of the kidnappers.
This show about a kidnapping has parallels to S02E12, "The Devil And Mr. Frog" (DMF).
A young boy, Timmy Blake, is abducted, this time for $250,000 ransom (previous show, $300,000, equivalent to around $2 million today). The boy is played by Geoffrey Thorpe, who also played the kidnap victim in the second season episode. Timmy's father Nelson (Lloyd Gough, around 63 years old when the show was filmed) looks very old (as did the father in DMF, William Zuckert (54)) and the mother is nowhere to be seen.
As in DMF, we aren't given any details about what the father does for a living. Blake lives in a nice property with a security-controlled gate, but not secure enough to prevent the three kidnappers – Obie O'Brien (Andrew Duggan), Roy (Ron Hayes) and Earl (Peter Bonerz) -- from easily getting through it. Blake must be in a profession which makes a lot of money, because at the beginning of the show, he tells McGarrett "I've handled bigger deals before," and of the ransom amount, "two hundred and fifty thousand dollars means nothing to me."
Five-O is tipped off about what is going on when Honolulu Savings and Trust notifies them that Blake withdrew $250,000 cash that morning "in 10s and 20s, unmarked, unconsecutively numbered." Blake is very annoyed about this invasion of his privacy, telling McGarrett, "If anything goes wrong, if you interfere and harm comes to Timmy, I'll hold you personally responsible." McGarrett unsuccessfully harangues the father with the usual mantra about how "kidnapping is a crime, whether you report it or not," and how Blake should not attempt to deal with this himself, despite whatever the kidnappers threatened.
The money drop is arranged (and overheard by a quickly-arranged wiretap which "the attorney general was very upset about") for Sea Life Park. Blake goes there along with, unknown to him, the entire Five-O team including McGarrett and Danno, which is kind of dumb, since it is quite likely Blake would recognize the two of them who came to his place earlier that day. At the park, Blake ends up sitting between kidnapper Roy and Chin Ho prior to leaving an attaché case with the cash by a public phone.
Unfortunately, some good Samaritan picks up the case and returns it to Blake, who drops it on the ground and all the money falls out, the bills looking like play money. Kono, seeing suspicious activity with the kidnappers trying to flee, attempts to stop them, but they force him into their van, which is driven to the out-of-the-way location where Timmy is being held.
There, Kono is tied up, but he manages to help Timmy escape through the ceiling of the room, which seems to be in a bunker of some kind. In fact, it later appears outside to be the same bunker used in episodes like "To Hell With Babe Ruth." The grill in the ceiling that Timmy pries open looks like it is very high up, and it seems unlikely that the kid would reach it, even by standing on Kono's head.
Of course, the kidnappers are not happy after Timmy escapes, and Roy beats Kono, who is sweating something fierce because of the heat in his prison room, very badly. At least Kono lets fly with a good head butt while fighting back.
Timmy, dressed in his pyjamas from when he was kidnapped, runs away and is found sleeping beside Makapu‘u Road by a delivery truck driver. This narrow street seems to be more like a driveway; I first thought that this was the road which led up the hill to the kidnappers' hideout!
Things are starting to unravel for Roy and Earl, who are both concerned because Kono saw their faces, unlike that of Obie, who later tells them he had "everything designed right, except McGarrett." Roy sarcastically tells Obie to his face: "The old pro with the perfect plans. Foolproof. 'Enough money for the rest of our lives'." Obie later tells the two of them about McGarrett: "We've got him psyched."
After McGarrett sees a Polaroid picture of the badly-beaten Kono sent to the Five-O office, he turns around, withdrawing by the window of his room like he did in "Once Upon A Time" (and later, "A Death In The Family") and is very upset, vowing to get the kidnappers, in an intense scene: "Danno, I swear, that if they kill that big Hawaiian, I'm gonna get them. No matter where they go, no matter how long it takes, I'm gonna get them." (This outburst seems rather ironic considering what happened to the "big Hawaiian" at the end of season four, where he was fired from the show, something which was reportedly influenced by Jack Lord's behind-the-scenes manoeuvering.)
Blake says that Kono wouldn't be in a pickle if McGarrett had listened to him earlier when he told Five-O not to interfere. But because Blake is overjoyed to have Timmy back, he offers to pay the ransom for Kono.
Knowing that the kidnappers will contact him on a pay phone with the number 732-9196, McGarrett has contacted Chief Special Agent Memms of the phone company who arranges for Chin Ho to work with Harris (Winston Char) in tracing the call he will soon receive. (This will become a stock sequence used in other shows.) McGarrett first tells kidnapper Roy that he is not paying any money unless he talks to Kono first, and when he finally talks to him, with Chin and Harris tracing the call, Kono drags out the conversation as long as possible, despite the fact that Roy punches him even more and clubs him with the phone receiver.
The second money drop to be done by Blake takes place in the Oahu Cemetery on Nuuano, where there is a military funeral taking place. When he leaves the attaché case there, it looks like another Samaritan tries to give it back to him, but it is actually Obie, dressed up in a major's uniform (thanks to Bobbi), who switches the money from the case into another bag right in front of Blake. After Obie splits, Blake yells to Danno nearby. Danno plugs Obie dead, which is unfortunate, because that also kills off a potential lead to find Kono (shades of the new Five-0).
However, the call tracing at the phone company has been successful to a marine gas station where Roy and Earl are working and where Kono is now being kept in a coffin-like box that doesn't seem to have any purpose other than hiding kidnap victims. McGarrett, looking like a geeky Sunday afternoon boater, borrows a motorboat and pulls up to get some fuel, but when he says he is a cop, Earl showers him with Kraig Royal (leaded) gasoline. Despite this, McGarrett is able to knock off Earl, who is fleeing in the boat very far away. Close by, Roy tries to kill Kono, but McGarrett shoots him dead as well.
Kono, whose face resembles raw hamburger meat, is taken away in an ambulance, but not before McGarrett asks him, "How do you feel, you big Kanaka?" Kono can barely reply, "Starved." McGarrett tells Kono he is "gonna be okay."
The stock score for the show is a real compendium of well-known themes and motifs. There are odd camera angles when Roy beats Kono at the hideout as well as at Sea Life Park.
At the 1996 Five-O convention, Zoulou (Kono) said that during the final scene, it was him -- not a stunt man -- in the box suspended above the ocean. If someone had screwed up and the box fallen into the water, Zoulou would have drowned!
Injury: Kono is gut punched and hit in the back so the kidnappers can take him.
Injury: Kono is beaten by Roy at hideout.
Injury: Kono kicks Roy when he fights back.
Injury: Roy beats Kono with the phone when he refuses to speak to McGarrett.
Death: Obie is shot by Danno in Oahu Cemetery.
Injury: McGarrett has gasoline (leaded) sprayed in his face.
Death: Earl is shot by McGarrett when trying to flee in boat.
Death: Roy is shot by McGarrett when trying to shoot Kono.
There is no promo for this episode on the third season DVD set. Whether one exists is not known.
The mini tape recorder used by the kidnappers seemingly can record at half speed so when the tape is played back at normal speed, the voice is sped up and distorted. This recorder uses small reels (about 3" in size). They use this machine to record messages which are played over the phone to Blake. One of the tapes is sent to Five-O with instructions for ransoming Kono. This tape is on a small reel, and when Danno goes to put it on McGarrett's tape recorder, he removes a large reel from the right, and then takes the large empty reel on the left as if to place it on the right. But in the next shot, the small reel is on the right, and the large reel is on the left. When McGarrett turns off the machine after they listen to the tape, it is seen from the opposite side and there are two large reels on the machine, possibly BASF tape, with the tape about halfway through on each.
The pay phone with the number of 732-9196 is at the corner of 1145 12th at Waialae in Kaimuki. The kidnappers' waterfront marine gas station hideout is in Kaneohe. They are kind of dumb, because McGarrett tells them that Blake is going to the cemetery right then and will deliver the money only when it's confirmed that Kono is OK. Obviously there will have to be some way McGarrett communicates with Blake (via Danno, who drives Blake there, unknown to the kidnappers) ... meaning there will be cops at the cemetery, contrary to the kidnappers' instructions. Duh!
The kids' song from S02E25, "Kiss the Queen Goodbye," is heard in the background at Sea Life Park. McGarrett, Kono and Chin Ho wear Hawaiian shirts while they are doing surveillance.
The kidnappers use a Polaroid camera to send black and white pictures of Timmy and Kono to the father and Five-O.
In the scene where McGarrett looks at Kono's picture, you can briefly see the shadow of the microphone on the wall behind Danno just before Danno says "They really did a job on him."
When McGarrett calls Chin at the phone company to get him ready to trace the call, he dials 1231239 (6 numbers). When Hayes calls the pay phone back to let McGarrett talk to Kono, he dials only 5 numbers.
A copy of the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, used to prove that Kono is still alive, has various headlines with lower case type as usual: "cease-fire violation seen," "missiles at Suez," "school, housing bills vetoed," "now you see it, now you don't," "search on for ecology chief here" (thanks to Fred), and "pay hikes fall short of request." After Obie buys this paper from a street box and walks away, you can see the Queen movie theatre in the distance, which is showing Walt Disney's The Boatniks. On the right is a Thrifty Drugstore.
McGarrett wears his mysterious holster.
Doug Mossman plays a detective at the cemetery with Danno near the end of the show.
55. (S03E07) “Force Of Waves” ★★
Director: Paul Krasny; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Mark Rodgers & Eric Bercovici (teleplay), Mark Rodgers (story); Music: Stock
Five-O investigates the murder of a wealthy businessman in a boat explosion.
When Clark Sloan (Thomas Norton), a ruthless businessman, wants to talk to McGarrett during a yacht club party about something to do with "gambling," the two of them board a tender to go out to Sloan's boat. On the way there, there is an explosion which kills Sloan and seriously injures McGarrett, who winds up incapacitated for a while with a concussion and a broken hand.
There are plenty of suspects for Danno, who is now in charge, to consider, among them Sloan's young wife Maria (Linda Marsh), who only married him five weeks before in Las Vegas and Maria's ex-husband Neal Porter (James Daris), who had introduced her to Sloan while they were still married.
Before he was killed, the wealthy Sloan -- with nudging from his new wife, no doubt -- promised Neal $10,000 in cash to help clean up his gambling debts. Neal, with the help of both Maria and her (and her late husband's) lawyer Richard Fairbirne (Dewey Martin), breaks into Sloan's office to get into the safe where there is not only money but a letter from Maria renouncing any claims to his estate for five years which she obviously wants destroyed, since she stands to inherit about $7 million despite their short marriage. Unfortunately, Neal gets caught in the act.
After Danno finds Maria hiding in Neal's car as Neal tries to escape from Sloan's office building, he hauls her back to the office where he starts grilling her. Fairbirne, who quickly shows up, tells her to keep her mouth shut. Danno later turns the tables on Fairbirne when he proves that the lawyer had given a piece of paper with the safe's combination to Porter; Danno busts Fairbirne for "conspiracy to defraud, accomplice to breaking and entering, just for openers," sarcastically adding, "Wanna call a good lawyer?" (Nothing seemingly comes of this in the show, though.)
McGarrett is far too clever in this episode. He becomes very suspicious of Cal Anderson (John Vernon), a local handyman who is helping him work on a dilapidated boat which some "old Chinese gentleman" who McGarrett had helped out once had left him in his will. (Danno and Chin Ho ridicule this boat when they see it.) It turns out that Cal's father left his mother for a younger woman years before and the mother later turned up dead. (This was all related by Cal to McGarrett, apparently.)
McGarrett researches a similar case on Maui in 1967 where a man with a new, young wife similar to Sloan was also blown up in an explosion. And there was yet another case like this near Singapore in 1966. Cal was in the vicinity of all three explosions, a very far-fetched coincidence. Cal seems to be very forgetful about not only a speeding ticket that he recently received (verified by HPD Officer John Onoe (William Keoho), who gave it to him) but particularly the fact that he was on Maui when the explosion there took place.
McGarrett and Danno talk to Dr. Landis (Grace Albertson) at the Oahu State Hospital, who confirms McGarrett's suspicions that Cal is likely schizophrenic and motivated by being abandoned by his father in a sequence full of psychological mumbo-jumbo which rivals season two's "Killer Bee."
If one can buy this clap-trap, then the episode is enjoyable, despite red herrings all over the place, such as Porter getting all nervous about climbing up a boat's mast at the beginning of the show. There is plenty of snappy dialogue from Danno who turns up the heat during the investigation. He is very adept at getting Maria to answer his questions, especially when Fairbirne is cautioning her not to do so as per her legal rights. As well, he overcomes Fairbirne's do-everything-by-the-book attitude like when he makes the lawyer open Sloan's safe after saying "I will get a court order and we'll all sit here for as long as it takes."
As Cal, Vernon, a veteran of Canadian TV and frequent portrayer of film heavies, gives a relatively subdued performance and the nighttime photography near the end of the show is outstanding.
McGarrett seems to be taking a pretty big chance during his final conversation with Cal, where he is dropping all sorts of hints about Cal's involvement in the three explosions, especially considering Cal's supposedly precarious mental condition. Cal finally snaps and attacks McGarrett, who is pretty agile during their fight despite his injured hand. Fortunately, the other members of Five-O are nearby to help out.
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Death: Clark Sloan is killed when his tender taking McGarrett to his yacht explodes.
Injury: McGarrett is thrown into the water face down due to the explosion, resulting in concussion and broken hand.
Injury: Neal Porter hits guard in the head when caught breaking into Sloan's office safe.
Injury: McGarrett punches Cal Anderson during fistfight, eventually tossing him off the boat and knocking him out.
To try and rattle Cal, McGarrett leaves a copy of the speeding ticket which he received on Cal's workbench. The number for this ticket is 5977. But later, when there is a closeup of the ticket which Cal crumples in his hand, the number is 5979. It was issued on June 1, 1970, with an expected court date of July 20. The license number of Cal's MG sports car on the ticket is 4C1953. Cal was driving 85 miles an hour, 35 over the legal limit on the Lunelilo Freeway.
The special effects for the boat explosion are much better than normal. McGarrett is taken away in a City and County Ambulance. As the ambulance arrives at the yacht club, the camera seems to be mounted on top of it.
Sloan's ex-wife Grace (Ann McCormack), who returns to Hawaii for the funeral, doesn't seem terribly shaken up by her former husband's demise: "Ex-wives don't have to mourn." Their son, Clark Sloan Jr., is played, uncredited, by Joel Berliner in a very brief scene. (Berliner played Hank in the banned second-season episode "Bored She Hung Herself.")
"Dr. Freeman" is paged in the hospital, though the DVD subtitles say "Dr. Freedland."
McGarrett says he checked on some telephone calls made by Cal at the yacht club around the time of the explosion. Would this have been possible in Honolulu for local calls?
The combination to Sloan's safe is 38-12-57. Danno says that the lab compared the handwriting of these numbers with a writ of habeas corpus which Fairbirne filed (was this also hand-written?) on April 16th, 1967. Danno doesn't go into details about this writ. When a closeup of Neal opening the safe is seen, though, it shows two numbers which look like 46 and 65!
At the end of the show as Cal is put into the cop car, Chin Ho is standing right beside him, but when Cal turns to look back at McGarrett and Danno, Chin is nowhere to be seen.
A Uher tape recorder, model Report 4000-S, is seen recording the conversation as Danno asks Neal questions.
Carole Kai plays a sexy nurse who wants McGarrett to use a wheelchair as he prepares to leave the hospital.
In Sloan's safe, there are several $1,000 bills, which were discontinued in 1969 (but still legal currency). Danno puts his fingerprints all over the safe and the stuff inside it when he and Chin Ho are looking in it.
The place where McGarrett is working on his boat is Lauhala Boat Repair, phone number 732-2144.
Good quote from McGarrett to Danno, after the latter does some above-average investigating: "You're a pretty good cop."
56. (S03E08) “The Reunion” ★★½
Director: Michael O'Herlihy; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Paul Playdon; Music: George Romanis
Timings: Teaser: 2:06; Main Titles: 0:58; Act One: 10:12; Act Two: 12:23; Act Three: 13:21; Act Four: 10:38; End Credits: 0:55; Total Time: 50:43.
A Japanese businessman is accused by three former prisoners of war of being the officer responsible for torturing them during World War II.
Hatsuo Shigato (Teru Shimada), president of Teletex Corporation, a Japanese computer research company, is in Honolulu for business. At the house (110 Wahani Drive) where he is staying, he receives several photos taken the previous day during a Trade Winds sightseeing tour showing him in the crosshairs of a rifle. Ordered by the Governor to handle the case and give Shigato "VIP treatment," Five-O begins their investigation.
When Shigato insists on going to the Ilikai Hotel for a business meeting to discuss a loan for his failing company over McGarrett's objections, his car explodes from a bomb and Shigato is almost trapped in the car by the seat belt which has been tampered with.
The scene switches to the Ilikai, where the 15th Airborne Division is having a reunion on the Luahala Terrace. As Danno escorts Shigato into the hotel, one of the men from this group, Frank Epstein (Simon Oakland) is convinced Shigato is Kim Rashiri, brutal commandant of the Lo Tang prison, a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines during World War II. Epstein, who is crippled, attacks Shigato with his crutches.
There are two other men from the veterans who also encountered the sadistic Rashiri in the camp during the war also at the gathering in addition to Epstein, who hoped to be a football player, and had one of his legs cut off: Mitch Bradley (Joe Maross) and Michael Holt (Barry Atwater). Bradley, who had a "brilliant mind" and it sounds like was destined to be an architect, was tortured by Rashiri which left him devastated, ending up as the owner of a gas station. Holt, on the other hand, collaborated with Rashiri, giving him part of a secret code which the three men had memorized. This has not endeared Holt, a business executive from the mainland who owns multiple corporations, to the other two.
When brought to confront Shigato by Five-O, Epstein can't understand why McGarrett can't believe his claim that the two men are the same person. Shigato denies that this is the case. Bradley is very edgy, and only admits they are the same after considerable pressure. Holt, on the other hand, says, "There is a slight resemblance. Very slight. But there's no way he can be Rashiri. Rashiri's dead. He committed suicide." The hotheaded Epstein flies off the handle, saying that this is because "[Holt] spilled his guts to save his lousy life. Rashiri didn't even have to lay a finger on him."
As the story develops, it turns out that Shigato is Rashiri, setting up the three vets in an elaborate scheme ... a bit too elaborate for one man, though Shigato is revealed to be a very slippery character in his interviews with McGarrett. McGarrett knows from his "cop instinct" that "something's strange" about this case.
The plot is interesting with several red herrings, but becomes illogical when Shigato's hired gun, Charlie Llacuna (Daws Dawson), a local "paid killer," not only manages to put darkroom equipment in Bradley's hotel room closet to give the impression that it was Bradley who took the threatening pictures which were sent to Shigato earlier, but also shoots Holt, who is talking to Shigato on a bridge connected with the hotel, from Bradley's balcony as Holt is telling Shigato (who he knows is Rashiri) that "I own you and your Teletex Corporation. I don't want you dead. I wanna see you bleed. I wanna see you broken and crawling in the gutter."
Llacuna then slips inside Bradley's room, places the rifle in a rack in front of the seemingly catatonic soldier, somehow getting Bradley's fingerprints all over it, and finally escapes, perhaps via the balcony.
All of this happens almost instantaneously as Kono breaks into the room after the fatal shot killing Holt is fired. After Holt later dies, Bradley is charged with first degree murder.
Shigato, who rigged his own car with the bomb earlier, soon kills Llacuna -- who also took and sent the threatening pictures -- with another explosive device which narrowly misses blowing up McGarrett and Danno.
Shigato lures Epstein to the house where he is staying where he tells the anguished vet that Holt had made his life a living hell by rising to a position of prominence in the business world and driving his company to near-bankruptcy.
Fortunately, McGarrett, who arrives on the scene with Danno, is able to convince Epstein, who has gotten hold of Shigato's gun, not to kill his former tormenter despite Shigato haranguing Epstein, blaming the vet for making him lose face during the war and turning into a "coward."
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy, this episode's photography uses some weird camera angles, and has an O.K. score by George Romanis, one of three he did for the show. But there are some questions as to how Shigato could have pulled off such an elaborate scheme.
For example, it is obvious that Shigato intended to kill Holt (via Llacuna) because of the financial sword which was held over his head, but did Shigato know that the three veterans would all be at the reunion and he intended to deal with all three of them?
Injury: Hatsuo Shigato/Kim Rashiri hit from behind by Frank Epstein with his crutches. Shigato/Rashiri is knocked out momentarily, but only "shaken up."
Death: Michael Holt shot "badly" by Charley Liacuna from Mitch Bradley's room. Holt dies from his wounds.
Death: Liacuna dies in explosion after bomb is delivered to his place.
Injury: McGarrett and Danno are thrown over the bridge as Liacuna's place explodes.
Injury: Shigato/Rashiri hits Chin Ho in the back of the head, knocking him out.
Despite the title being listed on the DVD case and the title card for the second DVD as "Reunion," as well as Jack Lord saying this is the title in the episode promo, the actual title as seen in the main credits is "The Reunion."
At the show's beginning, we should already have a clue that it is not Bradley who was taking the photos of Shigato.
After Holt is shot, the way he falls is not logical, especially considering he is fatally wounded.
Llacuna has what looks like a "real" phone number -- 277-9277.
When Epstein takes Llacuna's call at the Ilikai's outdoor bar, the children's song from Kiss the Queen Goodbye is heard in the background.
In a shot seen when McGarrett and Danno are on their way to Llacuna's place, the right side of McGarrett's car seems unusually dirty.
Jack Lord's hair has kind of a reddish tinge in this show, and in several shots, he is filmed in soft-focus. When McGarrett and Danno are thrown back by the explosion in front of Llacuna's house, it is obvious that it is two stunt men. James MacArthur's stunt man's hair is totally different than MacArthur's curly locks and Lord's hair is very red, in comparison with a shot shortly after the explosion when he is examining the damage in Llacuna's place.
While he is doing surveillance, Chin Ho picks up a copy of This Week magazine.
As in S01E04, "Samurai," the word "bushido" (the Japanese samurai code of chivalry) is misused. Holt says of Rashiri, "He was a Bushido. He was found dead in his ceremoniaI robes. He'd failed. He was disgraced. Suicide was the only way out."
One of the tourists at the beginning of the show takes a picture with a Canon FT QL camera.
McGarrett describes Shigato as a "precisionist."
There are a couple of stock shots, including one of McGarrett's car driving from right to left along the Ala Wai Canal.
When Epstein sees Bradley's camera, he sarcastically says, "Made in Japan."
Epstein recalls the last day he spent in the prison camp: February 17, 1945.
When McGarrett and Danno (or their stunt doubles) are thrown backwards over the bridge after the explosion at Llacuna's, this doesn't make sense, because McGarrett has already moved off the bridge and Danno would also have likely moved off it before the explosion.
Stuntman Beau Van Den Ecker plays Shigato when Epstein attacks him with his crutches from behind.
While Teru Shimada is a major character in the show with a lot of screen time, his name appears in the supporting player credits in smaller type.
57. (S03E09) “The Late John Louisiana” ★★★★
Director: Paul Stanley; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Jerry Ludwig & Eric Bercovici (teleplay), Lionel E. Siegel (story); Music: Don B. Ray
A contract killer's past catches up with him when he is ordered to kill a woman he was supposed to murder but instead fell in love with.
Two years before the show, John Louisiana (Walter P. Young, Sr.), the title character, cleaned up (i.e., made a lot of money) in a backroom gambling den. This did not endear him to the owner of the place, Harry Quon (Alfred Ryder), later described by McGarrett as connected with "gambling, prostitution, smack, shakedowns." For his luck, Louisiana ended up getting stabbed to death in the back by Quon as two of Quon's thugs -- Charlie Cayliss (Al Harrington, pre-Five-O team) and Tigner (John LaBrecque) -- held him down. Working for Quon, Julie Grant (Marianne McAndrew), dressed in a geisha costume and acting as a waitress, witnessed this murder and fled the scene. (In a dream sequence recalling this in the present later, Julie runs into the camera's fish-eye lens, as does Tigner, who is pursuing her.)
Quon sent his stone-cold killer Nick Pierson (Don Stroud) after Julie, and he found her on Maui. However, he didn't knock her off, but fell in love with her and murdered some other woman who physically resembled Julie. That woman's body was found by the cops.
As the show begins in the present, Tigner is at Kahului Airport on Maui where he sees Pierson met by Julie as he arrives on Aloha Airlines from Honolulu. Whether Tigner was intentionally following either of the couple or this was just a coincidence is not specified. That evening, Tigner tracks the couple down to the place where they have been living as "Mr. and Mrs. Hollander." Pierson sees Tigner snooping around and shoots him dead in their yard. Seeing his body, Julie tells Nick, "They found me."
The next day, their next-door neighbor Mrs. Pruitt (Hilo Hattie) calls the cops when she thinks that Mrs. Hollander, who was supposed to visit her for coffee, has been kidnapped. Nothing is mentioned about the sound of Pierson's gun the night before, which was very loud. McGarrett and Danno soon arrive, likely because of the Tigner connection, and Mrs. Pruitt tells them that "Mr. Hollander ... works in Honolulu" and his wife "never goes anywhere. She said she didn't like to leave Maui ever. You know, Maui nō ka ‘oi ['Maui is the best']." (McGarrett smiles.)
The Maui coroner (Kwan Hi Lim) has dug up Tigner's body from where it was buried in the front yard, but there are no prints anywhere in the house or on Pierson's Mustang. Danno suggests they get Che Fong to check out the place, and when he arrives, he finds ONE fingerprint -- which he says "looks like a lady's thumbprint." (This is baloney, it was not possible to determine gender from a fingerprint for about another 40 years, and that was not based on appearance.)
Meanwhile, Nick and Julie flee to Honolulu, where she sublets an apartment in the same building as him. When McGarrett returns to Honolulu, he goes to see Quon, telling him, "I'm gonna get you. Two years ago, when John Louisiana got hit ... I almost had you then." Quon tells him, "You know the old saying. Almost don't count." When McGarrett mentions that Tigner was just found dead, Quon plays dumb.
Summoned to Quon's place, Pierson is contracted to find out who "nailed" Tigner on Maui and then take care of them. Nick soon reports back: "Tigner was fooling around with some broad on Maui. Her husband wasn't around much. I guess the husband came home early one night, goodbye, Tigner." But Quon doesn't buy this explanation. He wants Nick to eliminate loose ends, because someone may be trying to muscle in on his business and maybe even knock him off. Quon shows Nick a letter that he received (which was actually mailed to him by Pierson): "Tigner was just to tell you that we're moving into the action."
Five-O is stumped by the "Hollanders": "They sure didn't want anybody to know who they are." This changes when a report from the FBI is received that identifies the one print from Maui as that of Julie. The ID of her body two years ago was made by an aunt based on Julie's wristwatch, but the body itself was too decomposed.
When McGarrett returns to Maui with Danno again, he runs into Pierson at the airport. Nick is there with Charlie on Quon's orders to further investigate what happened to whoever knocked off Tigner. McGarrett and Nick have a terse conversation. Danno later comments on Nick's reaction when McGarrett mentioned Julie. When the two of them go to see Mrs. Pruitt again, she identifies photos of Julie and Nick as "Mr. and Mrs. Hollander": "I never saw two people so much in love."
Pierson is starting to get edgy, and he tells Julie that they should go away, presumably to the Mainland. She could leave on a plane that evening, and he will follow in a couple of days. But she says she's not going anywhere without him. Hoping it will convince her to leave, Nick tells her everything -- that Quon sent him to Maui to kill her, how he murdered a look-alike to produce "a body," and how everybody believed that he had fulfilled his contract. Interestingly, Julie is not horrified, as we might expect. She puts her head on Pierson's shoulder, saying "It's going to be all right, Nicky. I'm never going to leave you."
Back in Honolulu, McGarrett goes to Pierson's apartment building. The landlord tells him that a young woman rented a room recently, and when the landlord opens the door, McGarrett finds Julie. As they leave the building, Charlie just happens to pull up outside and sees the two of them.
When Nick goes to report to Quon, Charlie has obviously spilled the beans. Pierson is told he has to take care of Julie for good now: "You didn't kill her before, so you're gonna kill her now ... because that's the only way you are going to go on living." There is a big problem, however, because Julie is at the cop shop being grilled, but not saying anything, despite McGarrett showing Julie some photos of Nick's "handiwork," and even when McGarrett drags Quon down to the station to confront her.
As Danno escorts Julie in the police station soon after this, she is grabbed by Nick, who is disguised as a cop. When they attempt to escape, Charlie pops up in the back seat of Nick's car. They all take a trip to the usual middle of nowhere location where Charlie orders Nick to finally kill Julie. Nick shoots Charlie dead, but is himself seriously wounded by Charlie. He and Julie drive away towards a radar station, again in the middle of nowhere, pursued by McGarrett and Danno who have incongruously brought Quon along with them. Nick finally cannot go any further, and he dies at the side of the road. When McGarrett asks Julie is she is willing to testify against Quon, she nods, and he tells Quon, "The party is over."
This is a fantastic episode, definitely in my top five. In this show we have two people who are probably the most intensely in love in the entire series. As well, I kept thinking, unlike most characters in the show who are "in love," "These people actually have sex!" Both Don Stroud and Marianne McAndrew are perfect in their roles, as is Alfred Ryder, who identifies himself as being "a poor hapa-haole saloonkeeper," hapa-haole meaning any person of mixed ethnic heritage, regardless of the specific mixture. McAndrew, who previously appeared in the mediocre "A Bullet for McGarrett" in season two, is gorgeous!
The color photography in the show is outstanding, especially during the teaser. The score is attributed to Ray, despite the presence multiple times of the "memories" theme and the bonging bell sound, both of which are associated with Morton Stevens.
The murder of John Louisiana set the events in the show in motion two years ago. When Harry Quon finally tells Nick Pierson that he knows the deception that Nick has been playing by not killing Julie Grant, Quon says that Julie "won't testify ... for the late John Louisiana."
Death: After Tigner tracks Nick Pierson to Julie Grant's place on Maui, Pierson shoots him dead.
Death: In flashback, John Louisiana stabbed by Harry Quon, witnessed by Julie Grant.
Injury: Nick hits Danno with a nightstick, knocking him out so Nick can take Julie out of HPD headquarters
Death: Nick shoots Charlie Cayliss in firefight.
Death: Charlie shoots Nick in firefight but Nick dies after he and Julie start driving on the road toward the radar station.
Pierson gets Grant to sub-let the apartment (#512) next to his (#510) in the Pagoda Terrace. Pierson says her apartment is "right across the hall from mine," but it is actually the next one to the left of his when viewed from the front.
At the end when he is pursuing Pierson, Julie and Charlie, McGarrett is seen driving on a narrow, one-lane road, then on a two-lane highway, and again on the one-lane road.
Pierson uses the expression "baby" 20 times to Julie during the show.
A copy of the Honolulu Advertiser has the usual headlines in lower case type: "police probe killing on Maui" and "body found in Kihei backyard; tie to Oahu syndicate seen." Other headlines on the page include "Nixon assures NATO," "milk fight here may go to courts" and "Cambodia, Saigon air accord."
As Pierson and Charlie are about to leave Maui, Charlie goes to buy some candy from a vending machine, which includes several packages of M&M's.
Kono uses the antiquated expression "gunsel" (a criminal carrying a gun), referring to Pierson.
I like the fly on the dead Tigner's face near the beginning.
There is mention of Maui police Chief Kubota, who is seen later this season in the episode "Paniolo."
Pierson's apartment phone has the number 555-9834.
The letter that Pierson sends to Quon is addressed to "Harry Quon, c/o Harry's Cafe, Honolulu."
The house on Maui where the "Hollanders" live doesn't seem to have a driveway, but a gate in the fence which opens up to admit a car. As Pierson brings Julie home, a bag of groceries shows a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes in a variety pack.
The badge number of the cop Pierson is impersonating is 199.
58. (S03E10) “The Last Eden” ★★½ BOOK HIM BOOK THEM
Director: Paul Stanley; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Jerry Ludwig & Eric Bercovici; Music: Stock
Businessmen who have a solution to Oahu's sewage problem attempt to frame a nightclub star who is outspoken against pollution after a disposal plant is demolished in an explosion.
Ray Danton stars as singer Jimmy Nuanu who performs at the Canoe House in the Ilikai Hotel, often haranguing the audience with ecological issues. Despite his feelings for the environment, the outspoken Jimmy, described by McGarrett as a "hotheaded Hawaiian," is apparently well-to-do, since he drives a white Rolls-Royce.
Jimmy is set up as a patsy by a company headed by sleazy entrepreneur Walter Colfax (Paul Stevens), who wants to get control over the disposal of the island's garbage (seemingly a euphemism for "sewage" ... see below). Colfax gets help in this frame-up from Jimmy's pal Eddie Kamoko (Tom Fujiwara) in exchange for paying off $10,000 that Eddie owes to the Syndicate for gambling debts, though this is not explained very well.
Near the end of the show, McGarrett speculates that Eddie brought the seemingly very drunk Jimmy close to a local sewage disposal plant and left him almost passed out next to his car. The plant was totally destroyed in an explosion which not only caused $2 million in damage but also the death of a night watchman. Replacing this plant has been a subject of debate in the Hawaiian legislature for some time, but all this has resulted in is "surveys and double talk" according to Colfax. (The special effects for the explosion, using miniatures, are not bad.)
In the trunk of Jimmy's car some detonator caps were later found, and, as well, Jimmy had experience in dealing with explosives when he was in the army in Korea. The presence of some tire tracks that don't match Jimmy's car at the scene, discovered by Che Fong, however, raises some questions.
This show has an interesting premise, which was kind of ahead of its time, but there are quite a few issues.
It begins with Jimmy beating the crap out of a heckling patron named Zane (Robert Luck), who actually works for Colfax. This seems kind of odd, even though when interviewed by McGarrett later, Jimmy says he doesn't know Colfax. Colfax does greet Jimmy by name at the show's end where the singer goes to the developer's office to avenge the death of Eddie, who was getting too close to blabbing about how he set up his friend. As well, during the initial altercation with Zane, both Colfax and his stooge Sutton (Steve Merrick) are seen close by.
After this dust-up outside the Canoe House, Jimmy specifically says that he has to do a "second show," and he is seen sitting in his dressing room talking to his son Joey (Dan Jacques Kaleikini) and Kamoko. Eddie presumably spikes Jimmy's drink so Jimmy can be later planted at the site of the explosion, but the scene cuts directly to Jimmy stumbling around his car, incapacitated by the knockout drops (or whatever). If he did a second show, would the knockout drops have taken so long to take effect?
Colfax says that "16 million [the DVD subtitles translate this as billion] gallons of garbage go into the ocean every day," but he really means "sewage." Colfax's company has developed some process which will remove 90% of the impurities before the sewage is discharged into the ocean. When McGarrett grills Colfax in his office, he knows that a lot of small competing corporations were forced into bankruptcy or compelled to merge with Colfax's company on their terms, thus leaving Colfax's company as a monopoly dealing with the Hawaiian government who have been humming and hawing about dealing with the "pollution" issue for "years."
Bruce Wilson plays Captain Lyons, formerly a demolitions expert from the British Royal Navy who now runs a charter fishing business. While McGarrett asks his team to make inquiries of "other places using explosives on these islands," how does Five-O know that Lyons had experience with explosives, specifically tetrytol (a real product, a mixture of tetryl and TNT), which was used to blow up the sewage plant? Did Lyons have to register as a munitions expert or something when he came to the islands?
When Lyons is interviewed at Five-O, McGarrett tells Lyons that he knows the captain started out on a three-day charter recently (the boat was hired by a Colfax executive), but then checked in to Honolulu the next day (i.e., he was only gone for one day). Isn't there something inherently suspicious about this? The charter was supposed to be to Hanalei Bay on Kauai, but the logs for the harbormaster there do not match what Lyons reported (he went to the Nawiliwili on Kauai instead). This information is used to prove -- not in a very convincing way -- that Lyons was involved with the destruction of the sewage plant. These facts are sprung on Lyons, a slippery character, at the end of the show, when he is busted for the explosion along with Army Sergeant Dobbs (Robert Harker) who stole the tetrytol from a barracks (the same one seen at the beginning of S02E02, "To Hell With Babe Ruth").
When McGarrett asks Jimmy if he has ever heard of Colfax, Jimmy denies this. But even Professor Hale (Richard Morrison), who is an expert on ecology interviewed in McGarrett's office, knows that if anyone wants to make money out of the situation treating the sewage, it is Colfax. Does it make sense that Jimmy would not know about him? Hale has a rather cynical view: "Greed and money ... that's what ecology's all about."
At the show's finale, Jimmy goes to Colfax's office with a gun, but he is punched out and going to be "taken care of." Five-O arrive quickly and a gun battle ensues in the building's garage. After a bizarre chase up a down escalator, Jimmy grabs Colfax and almost pushes him over a railing several stories up, similar to what happened to Eddie.
McGarrett persuades Jimmy to let the law takes its course, and Jimmy, who earlier on told McGarrett "We Hawaiians always trusted you because you were always on our side," ends the show philosophically, saying, "You saved my life. But as far as the islands are concerned, nothing's really changed, has it? I mean, who's gonna save everybody else's life?"
Jimmy Nuanu's friend Eddie Kamoko tells him: "You gotta shoot your big mouth off about how this [Hawaii] being the last Eden and how everything is getting ruined."
Injury: Jimmy Nuanu drugged so he can be framed for sewage plant explosion.
Death: Harmon, the night watchman, killed in sewage plant explosion (not seen by us).
Death: Eddie Kamoko thrown out the window by Sutton and Zane.
Injury: Hughes knocked out by Jimmy when he goes to Colfax's office.
Injury: Jimmy knocked out by Zane in Colfax's office.
Death: Sutton shot by Danno during firefight in parking garage.
Death: Zane shot three times by McGarrett to end firefight in parking garage.
Injury: Colfax choked by Jimmy in final confrontation in stairwell.
This show was co-written by Jerry Ludwig and Eric Bercovici, who wrote over 10 Five-O episodes in total. Prior to this episode, which aired on November 18, 1970, they had written a Mission: Impossible episode called Butterfly (broadcast October 30th of that year) which starred Khigh Dhiegh as well as other actors who appeared on Five-O such as James Shigeta and Helen Funai. Two of the characters in the Five-O show are named Phelps (played by Mitch Mitchel [sic]) and Briggs (played by Wallace Landford), the same as the "bosses" of Mission: Impossible. Also, in the underground parking lot of the building which contains the Colfax Corporation, there is a directory which lists information about which floor it is on and two of the company employees are identified as David Sutt and Seward Roll, perhaps an in-joke relating to Sutton Roley, who directed all five of the shows Ludwig and Bercovici wrote for Mission: Impossible, as well as three Five-O episodes from 1976 and 1977: "Double Exposure," "Elegy in a Rain Forest" and "A Capitol Crime."
On the walls of Jimmy's dressing room are posters for Arthur Lyman and Beverlee & Sidro with the Sneakers (actual 1970's performers on the Waikiki strip).
After Kamoko is thrown out of his apartment window and killed, there is a hair in the picture when the Beacon Ambulance team prepares to transport his body.
While pursuing Jimmy at a party, McGarrett encounters a blonde babe who offers him her services for free. McGarrett's classic response: "It's never free, honey." During the show, McGarrett refuses a drink twice. He also calls Jimmy by his Hawaiian name "Kimo."
During the teaser, Jimmy uses the popular phrase "Ain't no big thing" when he tells Eddie, "I hit the guy once or twice."
The kids' chorus from "Kiss The Queen Goodbye" is heard in the Muzak-like background at the beginning of the show. When Kamoko is talking to Jimmy in his dressing room, there is a simple tune heard which recalls one heard in S01E02, "Strangers In Our Own Land." The bonging bell sound is heard around the time of the explosion and the "pursuit" theme from "The Ways Of Love" is heard briefly during the episode promo.
The "bookings" are one for Jimmy and one for Lyons and Dobbs.
A stock shot shows an explosion on the side of a mountain; in front of this is a railway track. Although there was a railway on Oahu which opened in 1889, it was used mostly for transporting pineapples and sugar. It was taken over by the Navy and abandoned in 1970, around the time of this show.
59. (S03E11) “Over Fifty? Steal!” ★★★½
Director: Bob Sweeney; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: E. Arthur Kean; Music: Morton Stevens
An aggrieved senior who is a master burglar plays cat and mouse with Five-O in a series of publicity-grabbing thefts.
This is considered by many to be a classic show, and on IMDb is currently the highest-rated episode by users, though the Vashon Trilogy is edging towards it as I am writing this (September 2019).
Hume Cronyn stars as Lewis Avery Filer, a former insurance investigator who plays a game of cat-and-mouse with McGarrett and Five-O, using disguises and trickery during his robberies which net him over $200,000. He leaves Monopoly cards where he commits crimes to further taunt his pursuers. (Parker Brothers, the creators of Monopoly, get a credit at the end of the show.) After robbing a jewellry store at the beginning of the episode, he says "I've got two more jobs scheduled. Just two. Then I retire for good."
McGarrett, the Five-O team and even the Governor have a good laugh at Filer's smart-aleckiness, but they draw on a wide variety of resources to crack the case, one they haven't had anything like in years, according to McGarrett. This includes Che Fong's forensics plus computer analysis and even an opinion from psychiatrist Wally Emerson (John Hunt) who says that Filer is likely suffering from some kind of an identity crisis: "He has to label every crime. He behaves like a guy who has been kicked around all his life. Trodden on, shoved aside. And now, he's kicking back."
McGarrett points out patterns in computer printouts which Danno is "going blind" reading: "First hit, almost a year ago. Hundred and fifty, 250, 350, a couple of thousand here. The robberies are in groups of three. Then he lays off for two months. [Then he] sets up the next three. All the places he hit are commercial establishments. All insured."
Five-O determines that Filer was fired from his job at Island Home and Life around the time that he turned 50 and was having to contend with large hospital bills for his wife, who passed away from a heart condition. His company was taken over by a conglomerate named Mid-Pacific Industries (MPI), and he is only striking back at places that are connected to them.
At an extraordinary press conference, ordered by the Governor because MPI have "done a great deal for this island," Perstin Franklin (Les Keiter), one of their executives, tells reporters, "Every firm struck by this thief does business with us. We either insure it, own it outright, or we participate in some way in its profits." Filer himself interrupts this press conference, daring McGarrett in front of the assembled press to book him, which McGarrett has so far been reluctant to do without hard evidence, or he will sue the Five-O chief personally for libel.
Even more unusual than this press conference is the scene which follows in McGarrett's office, where Filer and McGarrett engage in a battle of wits. McGarrett tells Filer: "You wanna force me into court before I have a case. That way you can get an acquittal and live for the rest of your life on what you've stolen, with the blessings of the court. No chance. I'll book you when I have a case." Filer responds by saying, "You know, McGarrett, you're too smart to be a cop." McGarrett comes back with, "And you're too smart to be a thief. That's the one thing I regret about you, Mr. Filer. You are a thief." While they are talking, McGarrett suddenly grabs one of Filer's shoes and scrapes a soil sample from it. Given the lack of a warrant, I doubt if this evidence could be used. McGarrett says, "I'll apologize in court."
The clincher in the case is when McGarrett has a brainstorm remembering a previous similar case. He checks out one of the cars that Filer was using and discovers mileage information in an odometer-like device called a Hubodometer in one of the car's hubcaps which enables him to figure out where Filer is hiding the proceeds of his robberies. That such a gizmo even existed was news to me, and while this is sort of convincing, I seriously doubt that most people would be aware of such a thing.
The location where Filer has buried the money is Paradise Park, which features various varieties of flora and fauna which Che Fong has already identified. Filer is pretending to be someone working for the Water and Power Department, and takes a golf cart-like vehicle quite a ways into the park. McGarrett, who is hot on Filer's trail, can seemingly get to the location inside the park's "jungle" very quickly and surprise Filer when he is digging up the loot.
The episode is relatively light-hearted and, atypically, no one is the victim of violence; Filer treats some of his victims in a very "gentlemanly" way. As well, the show deals with issues of age discrimination which are still around today. The best part of the show is the jaunty music by Morton Stevens, who exceeded himself in writing a theme for Filer featuring a harpsichord which goes through several amusing variations.
None. The second time that’s happened –- the first was S02E08, "The King Kamehameha Blues."
McGarrett receives a registered parcel from Filer while he is at Che Fong's lab which contains some diamonds from the first robbery, perhaps because they "trace too easily." He opens the package in a rather cavalier fashion, obviously not concerned that it might contain a bomb! Considering he has to sign for the parcel, McGarrett wonders how someone knew he would be at the lab to receive it. However, the address on the parcel is to McGarrett at the Palace, not the lab specifically. There are three stamps on this parcel which are upside down. These are not real postage stamps, but "poster stamps" connected with the Los Angeles 1932 Olympics which cannot be used as postage, since they have no denomination. The parcel was mailed at the Punahou post office.
As Galen Kam shuts the blind on the front door window of his jewelry store (Kam's Jewelry) at the beginning of the show, we can see that across the hall is an office for Dr. D. Forbes, who is the neurosurgeon who operates in the third season opener, "And A Time to Die..." There is a calendar on the wall inside the store for "Kam Mau Co." The clock in the office is a Seth Thomas model. Why are there oxygen cylinders in the back room at this store? Also, how can Filer lock Kam and the employees in the back room? We see him lock the door from the outside, but the place where you can insert the key in the door is visible from the outside. It's not like you can lock the door from the outside to keep people in the back room.
Filer adopts the following personas:
1) Older man with a beard, hat, pipe and sunglasses (at Kam's Jewelry);
2) Guy wearing a plastic clown-like mask with bushy red eyebrows and moustache (as he calls McGarrett from a public phone after the jewelry store robbery);
3) Old man, the owner or person in charge of stock at Rupert and Whitmore Importers, doddering, says he is sick (this company is on the 7th floor at 1420 Ala Moana);
4) This old man changes to a cop who talks to McGarrett in the hallway and ignores Danno's instructions outside;
5) Asian armored car guard at KashKart, his makeup is really bad! (KashKart)
Filer leaves the following Monopoly cards:
1) Chance: Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200 (at Kam's)
2) Community Chest: Bank error in your favor, collect $200 (with the parcel of diamonds)
3) Chance: Go to jail card again (taped to safe at Rupert and Whitmore)
4) Chance: Bank pays you dividend of $500 (at KashKart)
5) Chance: Go to jail card again (McGarrett gives to Filer at the end of show)
The Oahu Railroad is mentioned as having a depot in Honolulu. There was an Oahu Railway and Land Company which operated from 1889 to 1971. According to Wikipedia, it served several sugar mills and plantations and also hauled end products, equipment and workers. The sugarcane plantations sometimes had their own lines. As a common carrier, the OR&L carried freight, passengers, mail and parcels. Besides sugar and pineapples, the railroad hauled garbage from Honolulu to a dump on the Wai‘anae Coast, sand from Wai‘anae to Honolulu during the development of Waikiki, and served the major military bases. The Honolulu harbor branch, renamed the Oahu Railway, was used until December 31, 1971 for industrial operations.
The reels on the large video tape machine used to view Filer's robbery are turning at a rather fast speed.
Filer makes a getaway from Five-O and cops who are tailing him in a Mach I Ford Mustang (license N3-625).
The gemstone Tanzanite, stolen from Rupert and Whitmore, was discovered in 1967, as mentioned in the show. In the back room at this company is a box containing 50 army gas masks.
A car air filter in Che Fong's lab has a tag with a date on it -- 2/16/70. Che uses a Swift microscope.
During the press conference, McGarrett makes a big noise about how he doesn't want Filer's name revealed despite that fact that there are movie cameras there recording every word, and Filer's name is mentioned several times.
The HPD impound lot is across the street from the Johnson and Buscher building. Only a few minutes earlier, we saw Danno and other cops participating in a stakeout drive right past this building.
A cartoon in the newspaper ridiculing McGarrett and Five-O's attempts to catch Filer has an accompanying article written by Louis M. Diuguid, who works for the Washington Post news service!
McGarrett is reading a paperback book called Bachelor's Hawaii, perhaps the one by Boye Lafayette De Mente and published in the 1960s. One of the subjects of this book, according to worldcat.org, is "sex customs."
The phone on McGarrett's desk has the number 287-1299. There are several extensions, including 32, 33, 34, 35, 19, 20, 21, 22, 1299, 1298 plus two HOLD keys. The six extensions on the right are all blank.
On the bottom of a monitor in Five-O office used to view the KashKart surveillance tapes is the word "HENSHAW," perhaps it belongs to Set Director Buck?
McGarrett is seen putting Visine-like drops in his eyes after pulling an all-nighter.
In August of 2015, Chad Engler contacted me regarding the Hubodometer featured in this show. He told me that his family's company made this device. He wrote: "They used an Engler Hubodometer, made by Engler Instruments from the 1940's to the 1980's when it was sold. These are odometers usually used on trucks and trailers. They simply can't be tampered with or broken. The company used to have a contest where people could hit them with sledge hammers and they never broke. In college I challenged my whole dorm floor to break one. 30 people taking turns with hammers, throwing it from the 4th floor onto a paved driveway, it never broke. Inside it is insidiously simple. There is no cable or anything like you would expect with an odometer."
When I asked him for more details, he elaborated: "The gauge inside of the acrylic case can rotate but doesn't because it has a lead weight that keeps it upright. So, the wheel and tire rotate but the gauge doesn't. Each hubodometer is geared for a particular tire diameter, using little gears translates each rotation into the right amount of distance. These things would go for millions of miles. Others were made to count acres for farming, or anything like that. This shows the inside. Here you can see the lead weight, crescent shaped. Here's the company and some boxes the products were shipped in."
When I came to revise my review of the show in 2019, I had some further questions for Chad, who replied:
MQ: What was the purpose of Hubodometers?
Chad: Hubodometers were invented to solve two problems:
1) To keep track of maintenance intervals on vehicles that didn't have odometers, such as the trailers that large trucks pull. Tractor-trailers were the largest market. Example: If you owned trailers that needed maintenance every 10,000 miles, you had no way to know when it was time. Eventually this would be a safety problem if the maintenance was missed for long enough.
Hubodometers were also used on many other vehicles such as golf carts, farm equipment, rental trailers, buses, even just machines that had a major revolving component would have one that counted revolutions instead of miles. They could be calibrated for any vehicle by using different gearing inside of the hubodometer. On farm equipment for instance instead of reading miles they would read in acres.
2) To keep track of miles driven in a way that was tamper-proof. Many trailers are leased with mileage restrictions or paid by the mile. In the old days regular odometers could be tampered with and that could reduce what the leasing company was paid and also wear out their equipment before they received their return on investment.
You might think they could just look at the odometer that is in the truck itself. The trailers would usually be attached to different trucks all the time so this wasn't a solution. The leasing companies wanted to be sure they were properly paid. Engler Hubodometers could be beaten with a sledge hammer and they could not be opened. The mechanism that drives them is so simple that it cannot be tampered with. Everything is internal, there is no cable leading to anything else that the driver could disconnect. You can't drive in reverse and remove miles from a Hubodometers either, they still count the miles in reverse.
The concept that rental car companies would want to prevent people from tampering with the car's odometer was a real concern for them and tests were done to see if Hubodometers could solve this problem. No Hubodometers were ever really sold for that purpose. The idea was tested, though, on the personal vehicles of some employees.
MQ: How hard was it to tamper with an odometer in the era of this episode?
Chad: In the old days you could jack up the rear end and run the car in reverse to remove miles from the odometer, so it was pretty easy to tamper. It was also possible to remove the cable from the back of the odometer and prevent miles from going on the odometer. Of course the speedometer would not have worked while it was disconnected but that's a small price to pay for a crime like this.
MQ: Was the way the Hubodometer was shown in the episode correct?
Chad: The way the Hubodometer was mounted in the show is completely unrealistic, it would never be mounted to the hub cap. On any vehicle they are mounted to the hub using two of the lug nuts and a bracket. The hub cap would almost certainly have come off the car with all that mass mounted to it if it were driven. I'm sure for TV it had to be this way so it could be turned and shown to the camera or maybe they just didn't know how to properly mount them.
MQ: Was the company contacted about the use of their product in the show?
Chad: Engler Instruments was started by Cliff and Howard Engler, brothers who were President and CEO and best friends. Both Cliff and Howard have passed away but I e-mailed their children to see if they remembered anything about this. I also talked to my father, Charles Engler, who was VP at Engler Instruments.
The best I can find out is that none of them knew this product was going to be used before the episode came out. They were not asked to consult on how the Hubodometer was used nor asked permission. That said, memory is a tricky thing and it has been a very long time. If they had been asked they would have been thrilled to say yes. They were all very excited and happy to have their product on display, even if the way it was used was unrealistic.
On a side note I discovered that some of the children of the company founders were not aware at all that the Hubodometer was ever in the show. I only learned about it myself a few years ago. I can't explain how we didn't know about it, you would have thought that our fathers would have told us all about it having something from work that we could relate to -- to share, like that.
MQ: Do you think the average person would have understood what the Hubodometer's function was in the show and how it helped solve the crime?
Chad: I thought it was clear enough that there was some kind of a backup odometer on the car and that the difference between the main odometer and the backup odometer provided the data that solved the case. Of course I have had Hubodometers and instruments like that around me my whole life.
MQ: In the pictures you sent me, one of the Hubodometers has "REVO-COUNT" on it, what was that used for?
Chad: I don't know why this is, but revo counts were used on golf carts sometimes. I don't know why they would want revolutions instead of miles but underneath it's really all the same thing -- just a way to keep track as to when it's time to do maintenance. I'm sure revo counts were used on other machines too, but I don't know any actual examples.
MQ: On the front of two of the units you sent me pictures of is a message about how you shouldn't use cleaning solvents on them. Why was that warning there?
Chad: The reason people were warned about solvents is that the front half of all of these hubodometers was made out acrylic plastic. It is very strong but solvents can make it cloudy and that would make it hard to read the numbers.
MQ: Thank you, Chad!
60. (S03E12) “Beautiful Screamer” ★★★½
Director: Tony Leader; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Stephen Kandel; Music: Stock
Timings: Teaser: 4:25; Main Titles: 0:58; Act One: 12:29; Act Two: 8:45; Act Three: 13:54; Act Four: 9:20; End Credits: 0:54; Total Time: 50:45.
A strangler writes poetry by Byron in lipstick on the legs of two victims he murdered, one of whom is Danno's girl friend.
Walter Gregson (Lloyd Bochner) is a self-made man who owns a construction company. He is worth about $1.5 million, but has overextended himself with loans totalling some $2 million. To cover himself, he has put up collateral in the form of stock which he would receive from the inheritance of his wife Sally (Laraine Stephens) -- if she dies. (This seems peculiar, can a man put up things his wife owns like this, just because they are married?)
During a wedding rehearsal for some friends of the couple at the beginning of the show, we see that relations between Gregson and his wife are far from amicable. In fact, they are chilly, and the wife wants a divorce, telling her husband by the time she gets home that day, she wants him to have totally cleared out of their house.
A desperate man, Gregson has formulated a complicated plan to kill his wife and inherit her fortune and thus solve his financial dilemma. Thinking in advance to throw the cops off the track by confusing them, he murders two of his wife's friends, Linda Marsh (Valerie Holmes) and Jane Michaels (Anne Archer). Sally and these two women were part a group of five life-long girl friends, neglected by rich parents. The girls called themselves "The Orphans." Their finishing school teacher, Miss Hawthorne, used to read them a poem by Byron called The Giaour. After murdering the two women, Gregson writes lines from this poem on their legs with lipstick.
This just demonstrates how stupid he is, because this would make it more likely that there was some connection between the two women and his wife, if he managed to knock her off as well -- which he does not. Gregson further demonstrates his stupidity, because he strangles Linda on a tennis court at the Makaha Inn where she is taking lessons, and Jane in the office at this resort where she is involved with a charity auction for the Junior Blind, both locations where he could have been interrupted at any time.
There is a major complication with Five-O during this investigation, because Jane was Danno's girl friend which produces a heart-rending reaction from him when he finds out she is dead. McGarrett wants Danno to take time off, but Danno refuses, saying "I've gotta work on this case." The investigation leads him to Pete King, who works washing dishes in the Makaha Inn, but also is a painter, some of whose works were featured at the auction. Having Danno talk to King, who had received a few hundred dollars cash from Jane to help him out, is a very bad idea, because Danno attacks King violently when he says that he and Jane had a "good relationship" and Danno should not "make it dirty ... Maybe you don't care, but don't smear mud on her." As Chin Ho and Kono leap on to Danno to stop him, everything goes into slow motion.
Back at the office, Danno offers to resign, but McGarrett says no, just to take some vacation time (but Danno again doesn't do this). Shortly after, King comes to Danno's place to apologize, because he didn't realize that Danno and Jane were close. King is instrumental in letting Danno know about the Byron poem and Miss Hawthorne, which moves the case towards resolution, along with Che Fong's finding that the writing on the women's legs resembles that of Gregson, despite the fact that "it's difficult to make identification on this ... because it's lipstick on skin."
At the end of the show, Gregson's wife Sally is taking some blind kids to various places on the island as part of her volunteer work. Meanwhile, Gregson, disguising himself as one of his construction workers, sneaks out of his portable office at a work site and follows her. He knocks out a cop who has been assigned to protect Sally, and he and his wife plus the kids eventually end up at Hanauma Bay.
Danno arrives there soon and finds Gregson has gotten his wife away from the kids and is trying to strangle her like the other two women and throw her off a cliff. For some reason, Sally does not just run away in the opposite direction. A melodramatic fight ensues, with Gregson flying over the edge and hanging on by his fingertips. Danno pulls him back up. The end of the show has McGarrett radioing Danno to make sure he is OK, and as the end credit rolls, the focus is on Danno for a change.
Considering this is the major "Danno has a life" episode of the series, James MacArthur does an exceptionally good acting job. The way they figure out that Gregson was not at the wedding rehearsal at the beginning of the show by the way that times on a clock on the wall do not add up should not be thought about too hard, though.
The score is another stock music mish-mash with themes coming from all over the place, especially the series' first episode, "Full Fathom Five." There are also excerpts from the "memories" theme and the bonging bell sound, among many other cues.
This is a pun on the title of the famous 19th century parlor song Beautiful Dreamer written by Stephen Foster. Both Linda and Jane attempt to scream when they are being strangled. Sally, Gregson's wife, screams very loudly, because he doesn't have his hand over her mouth.
Death: Linda Marsh strangled by Walter Gregson.
Death: Jane Michaels strangled by Walter.
Injury: Pete King beaten up by Danno during questioning at Pete's apartment.
Injury: Officer Fujiwara hit over the head by Walter (there is blood on the left side of his head).
Injury: Walter attempts to strangle his wife Sally.
Injury: Danno jumps Walter as he's attacking Sally and fistfight ensues. Danno eventually subdues Walter with several punches, a flip and letting Walter hang onto cliff.
Injury: Walter punches Danno during fistfight.
When Gregson sneaks out of his trailer, he goes through a trap door in the floor. Why this door is there doesn't make sense. In the twelfth season show "School For Assassins," Lloyd Bochner also goes out a trap door in a scene which makes even less sense. When Kono comes a-knocking on the trailer's door which is locked from the inside, a worker who says he was sitting in front of this door did not see Gregson escape. Kono finally opens the door with a crowbar. When Gregson is escaping, this worker's feet are not seen.
Was Five-O again being ahead of its time in terms of dealing with handicapped issues when it features the blind kids that Sally takes on an "expedition"? A couple of the shots of her driving in a station wagon with the kids looks like a process shot, but then the camera pulls back to reveal that it is not. The kids, all standing in front of a wall at Hanauma Bay, suddenly jump around in unison as Danno's car squeals up beside them -- a cute moment.
The cop who is supposed to be providing surveillance for Sally is named Fujiwara, but I don't think it is actor Tommy. The shot of the radio handset on the dashboard in Danno's car near the end is the same as the one seen earlier in Fujiwara's car when McGarrett tries to contact him (he is already incapacitated at that point). At the very end, when Danno gets in the car and uses this handset, it is not seen on the dashboard even though that's where he picks it up. This handset is also seen in "The Reunion."
McGarrett quickly figures out where the quotes from Byron originate (in pre-Google days!). How Gregson himself knows about this poem is a mystery. What Gregson writes on the women is not exactly the same as Byron's poem. "And every death a tear can claim / except the sinning sisters' shame" in the original is "And every woe a tear can claim / Except an erring Sister's shame." The other quote is "She was a form of life and light / that, seen, enters into night," which, in the original, is "She was a form of Life and Light, / That, seen, became a part of sight...."
After Linda is murdered, Danno tells his girlfriend, "She wasn't assaulted sexually." Linda's full name is Linda Marsh, same as the actress who was seen in "Sweet Terror" and this season's "Force of Waves," as well as the twelfth season episode "Image of Fear."
The show has some interesting photography and editing the way the two murders at the beginning of the show are intercut with other activities going on at the same time like the wedding rehearsal. Near the end, as McGarrett rushes down the palace steps and gets in his car, there is a helicopter shot (it looks too high for a crane) which goes up very high above the palace as McGarrett drives away. McGarrett drives past the Dillingham Fountain (stock shot).
Danno is seen reading a copy of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser which has a feature on the two murders: "Mystery Killer Still At Large." There are other headlines, which are not in the usual lower case type: Diplomats Feted as Important Issues Go By the Board, Raises Urged in Bay Car Insurance, Transit Problems Given Airing at B-M-R Convention, Need for SST Explained, and President Proposes Plan to Extend Space Launch. The feature article is written by William Bailey and Paul Crumbine, the same journalistic team whose articles are also seen in Ironside episode S04E01, "A Killing Will Occur" and in Kojak episodes S02E03, "Hush Now, Don't You Die," and S05E15, "Chain of Custody"!
A shot where Gregson gets out of his truck to look at his wife as she buys ice cream cones from a Mr. Softee truck for the blind kids and Fujiwara at some pullout on the highway is flopped later (horizontally reversed) at the Hanauma Bay parking lot. If you look carefully, you can see the license number of 50-143 is backwards, and the steering wheel is now on the right side of the truck. As well, the rocks in the background are the same. This second shot does not make sense, because as Sally parks her car, you can see her husband's truck far behind her in the parking lot with the wooden frame in the back. The truck is parked at 180 degrees to her car, so Gregson would not have been able to look at her car from the front of his truck like this shot suggests.
Three checks written to Pete King by Jane are seen. They have dates of 8-1-70, 8-31-70 and 10-1-70.
The brief musical cue which opens acts 2 and 3 is the same.
The Makaha Inn seen at the beginning of the show is featured in season two's finale, "Kiss The Queen Goodbye."
A "Drink Ours" pop machine on the tennis courts features orange juice and guava nectar, plus one other drink.
Two ambulance services are used in the show. A Beacon Ambulance takes away Linda's body, while and City and County Ambulance is used for Fujiwara.
When McGarrett consoles Danno after Jane's murder, he refers to how Danno consoled him in season one's "Once Upon A Time."
McGarrett describes Gregson's murders as a "pattern killing."
61. (S03E13) “The Payoff” ★★★½
Director: John Moxey; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Ken Pettus; Music: Stock
After two people involved in a mainland kidnapping for ransom several years ago attempt to frame one of their accomplices, Five-O races to capture the entire gang when two more of them show up to take revenge for being screwed out of the money.
Six years before this episode, a gang of five people kidnapped the son of Washington state's Governor Bannister for ransom (the son died during the kidnapping): Vince Ryan (Albert Salmi), Madge (Madlyn Rhue), Jase Gorman (Warren Vanders), Toomey Walsh (Paul Carr) and Lew Kelso (Richard Brady, Vincent from "The Singapore File"). Jase and Madge, who was Jase's girl friend at the time, wanted to double cross the other gang members, but Jase was played for a patsy by Madge, who ran off with Vince and the money, which totalled $500,000.
Following this, Jase returned to his home state of Hawaii, where he had been jailed for manslaughter in the early 1960s. Given a pardon after three years for saving the life of a prison guard during a hostage situation, Jase had moved to Seattle as soon as he was released.
Before this show begins, Vince and Madge are visiting Hawaii, preferring "a nice warm part of the world" to Seattle which is having "a bad winter." Vince recognizes Jase on the street and decides to frame him to make it look like Jase was the one who double-crossed everyone.
At the beginning of the show, Vince tracks Jase down to his flophouse room. He shoots Jase and leaves a bunch of the ransom money stuffed in Jase's mattress. Although Jase is bleeding from somewhere in several scenes after this and it appears he has lost "a lot of blood" from its appearance on the floor of his room, it is not very convincing when he is shot, since there is little blood on and no damage to Jase's shirt, despite being shot at almost point-blank range.
Vince doesn't stick around to make sure that Jase is dead, which is unfortunate for him, because the wounded Jase manages to make his way to the house of his girlfriend Lila Daniels (Joyce Van Patten). From there, Jase phones Walsh and Kelso, still in Seattle, and lets them know what Vince has done.
The two men waste no time in coming to Hawaii to take care of "some unfinished business." They know where Vince is likely hanging out, since he "always liked to keep in touch" and recently sent them a postcard of the Hawaiian Village Hotel where he and Madge are staying which dissolves into the actual building.
Five-O gets interested in all of this in several ways. The first is because after Jase was shot, he attempted to call Five-O from the pay phone in his building, but abandoned the call after McGarrett answered. Then he tried to call Seattle long distance to talk to Toomey, but abandoned that call as well when his landlord Bemis (Robert Edwards) got too nosy. Finally, the money which Vince stuffed in the mattress contained silver certificates which were part of the ransom money from the kidnapping six years before. I'm quite surprised that neither Vince nor Madge were aware of the status of these certificates which were similar to regular bills in design. They were discontinued in 1964 but redeemable in silver coins or raw silver bullion up to 1968. They are still legal tender today. Danno comes up with a lengthy list of the ransom bills including those from the mattress.
The finale of the show is like a well-oiled machine. Walsh and Kelso arrive at the hotel and register under the names of A. Morgan and M. Hollister. They phone Vince, who is surprised about them being in Hawaii, to have a drink, which motivates Vince and Madge to split as fast as possible. Walsh and Kelso go up to Vince's floor, but a family using the elevator while changing rooms delays things. Madge scoops up all the cash and puts it in a suitcase and leaves her room just as the two men from Seattle show up in the hallway. She shoots at them and goes back into her room. Meanwhile, Five-O has arrived at the hotel, having been tipped off that someone tried to spend silver certificates in the place's gift shop. Five-O arrives on Vince's floor and a gun battle ensues with Vince shot, Walsh and Kelso busted, and Madge discovered whimpering in her room clutching the cash which has spilled out of the suitcase.
There is excellent acting in this show from the relatively large cast, even in the minor roles like Bemis the landlord and Oliver (Alan Naluai), the bartender at the place where Lila works. The script by Ken Pettus is very tight, with not a syllable wasted. The photography is also excellent, especially the color, as well a couple of interesting shots, one when the Five-O team enters Jase's room and the camera is above and the previously-mentioned one with the dissolving postcard.
Injury: Jace Gorman shot by Vince Ryan in flophouse room.
Death: Jace dies from being shot after telling McGarrett about the rest of the gang in the Bannister case.
Injury: Toomey Walsh shot in shoulder by McGarrett in hotel hallway.
Injury: Vince Ryan shot by McGarrett after he aims at Danno. Fate unknown.
Madge has a good line. She finds $40 in silver certificates in Vince's jacket before she sends it to the cleaners, money he picked off the floor that he dropped at Jase's place. She pockets this cash and uses it to buy some earrings in the gift shop, one of the things which leads to their undoing. When Vince finds out about this and is annoyed, she tells him, "The money's cold. It's been over six years. You told me that yourself. Now stop worrying. Look, if you're gonna have a nervous breakdown every time we spend some of this money, let's just forget it. Tell you what, we'll paste it end to end, roll it up and use it in the bathroom."
McGarrett tells Kono to "get on the phone to every bank in Oahu." Kono looks pretty annoyed in this show -- not surprising, considering McGarrett is constantly barking "do this/do that" to him and Chin Ho. Kono has only a few lines, one of which -- "On my way, Steve" -- is said in kind of a high-pitched voice. At least Kono gets to break down a door.
There is an establishing shot of Seattle seen which shows the city's iconic Space Needle. But this picture has been vertically stretched so the shape of the structure is ridiculous as is that of Mount Rainier, seen in the background, which has a very pointy top. This is what it really looks like.
Some of the music in the teaser was previously heard in S01E10, "Yesterday Died And Tomorrow Won't Be Born."
During the investigation, Danno asks if Lila is a "B-girl."
I like the bobble-head Asian dolls by Lila's phone (see screen shot below). Lila's address is 3334 Maile Street.
In Jace's room, there is a bottle of some rotgut identified as "Pebble Ames." The sign at the entrance to the building, which advertises rooms for 50 cents a day, is the same as seen in "Dear Enemy" later this season.
One of the silver certificates is shown with the serial number A11956964A.
Jace's mug shot from his manslaughter bust has the number A21403. It was taken on 9-28-60.
The Hawaiian Village Hotel on the postcard has the address of 1136 Ala Wai. This is close to the actual address, which is 2005 Kalia Road.
When Walsh and Kelso register at the hotel, they say they are from 1046 Green Valley Circle, Seattle. The date they register is 9/18/70. Their room is 319. Ryan's room is 1031.
There is a stock shot of the Five-O team running down the Iolani Palace steps.
Vincent is smoking some cigarettes which say "NIVAL" on the package; maybe this is "CARNIVAL," but there is no sign of an "R."
Jace's body is removed in a City and County Ambulance.
62. (S03E14) “The Double Wall” ★★★½ BOOK HIM, DANNO
Director: Michael O'Herlihy; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Jerry Ludwig & Eric Bercovici; Music: Stock
When a real estate developer convicted of murdering his partner three years before and sentenced to life in prison hears a dying fellow convict confess to the murder, he takes the prison doctor hostage and demands McGarrett reopen the case and prove his innocence.
Three years before the show, Harry Kellam (Monte Markham) was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his partner, Tom Chaney. Both men were real estate developers, and their business prospered until financial troubles developed, with Chaney reportedly using company funds to pay off his gambling debts.
Kellam is now in Oahu State Prison where he is working as an orderly in the infirmary. When hitman Frank Ritchie (Morgan Sha'an) is seriously stabbed in an altercation in the prison yard, he is brought there. Before he croaks, Kellam is shocked to hear Ritchie admit that he was the one who killed Chaney. Because there are no witnesses to this confession, Kellam becomes more and more agitated, grabbing a shotgun from Bates, one of the guards (Al Harrington, who appeared in the previous prison episode "The Box" as a convict). He then takes the prison doctor Sam Berman (Sorrell Booke) hostage and tapes the gun to the doctor's neck, requesting to see McGarrett, who he considers "the smartest cop on this rock." McGarrett comes to the prison and meets with Kellam who tells him to reopen the case and exonerate him, or the doctor will die.
With the clock ticking and Kellam in bad shape because he has been awake for almost two days, McGarrett has no time to waste. He goes to visit Kellam's lawyer Craig Wilkie (William Schallert), who has little to offer but mentions Ted Cowan (Richard Roat), who witnessed the murder and "looked like Harry's salvation for a while, but at the trial, his testimony was of no value." Wilkie is immediately depicted as a very fishy character, and when McGarrett leaves his office, starts to make some phone calls.
Barney Banyan, a "torpedo" who was an associate of Ritchie, is hauled into the Five-O office, but he just gives McGarrett some mouth, telling him to "get off my back." Danno is investigating what happened to Kellam and Chaney's assets and controlling interests after their company went into receivership, but the trail is mired in a bunch of legalese in different jurisdictions.
Subsequent scenes with Wilkie suggest that he was seriously involved in getting Kellam sent to jail, though we don't find out to what extent for a while. He talks to Bedford (Peter Whitney), who has a connection to Banyan and assures him that Cowan, who apparently knows more than was heard in court, will not say anything because he will be charged with perjury. There are alternating scenes with Kellam and Dr. Berman at the prison where things are becoming more desperate as the sleep-deprived Kellam is on the verge of passing out.
McGarrett goes to see Cowan, who says he "didn't see anything," and the car that drove away from the murder scene "was too far away for me to see much." He recalls finding Chaney's body, saying, "You read about things happening ... Terrible things. But you never think it will happen to you."
McGarrett erupts in a huge speech to Cowan: "Violence is frightening, Mr. Cowan. It frightens all of us even if we deal with it every day. But it's nothing to be ashamed of if you feel fear. There's a man in prison who says he doesn't belong there. That he was framed. If an innocent man is imprisoned, Mr. Cowan, it has something to do with all of us, particularly if we can help. If you know anything about the Chaney case that you haven't told already for whatever reason, now is the time to speak up. I don't have much time. Neither do those two men at the prison. I don't have anything to tell you. Just think about Kellam. If he is innocent, just think what he's been through already. Look, for God's sake, don't be sorry. You can't appease violence and brutality. Either you take a stand against it and fight it, or it'll kill you. Now, think about it. Think about it while there's still time. Four hours have elapsed since convict Harry Kellam took Dr. Sam Berman hostage in the prison hospital. Dr. Samuel T. Berman, a dedicated physician, whose life is now in the hands of a desperate man already convicted of one murder."
At the prison, the stern warden (R.G. Armstrong) says if Kellam tries to make a break for it using the doctor as a shield, the guards have orders to "shoot to kill." Kellam is fading fast, and the doctor is desperate to keep him awake and talking. Eventually Kellam passes out and the doctor, having convinced Kellam to remove the tape holding the gun to his neck, manages to cut the gun completely loose. However, the doctor does not leave Kellam alone in the room, but stays there, obviously believing in Kellam's innocence, a nice touch.
Pieces solving the case to vindicate Kellam are falling into place, with McGarrett going to visit Man Fook-Low (Arthur Hee), a gambler who was connected with Chaney. The two of them have a beating-around-the-bush philosophical discussion which reveals that Chaney made more money than he lost. An accountant named Rycourt (Bill Bigelow wearing a wig) tells McGarrett that the books for the Kellam-Chaney land development company were intentionally cooked to make it look like the business was the victim of "a massive embezzlement," which was totally untrue. And Danno finally tracks down who benefited from the dissolution of the company: "[He u]sed every legal trick in the book. Interlocking corporations, withholding companies, the whole bag. The one who picked up all the marbles when Kellam and Chaney went out of business was Wilkie."
McGarrett's rant to Cowan has finally sunk in, and Cowan phones Wilkie that he wants to set things straight. Wilkie tells Cowan to come to his office, but on the way there, Cowan is shot dead by Banyan. When McGarrett goes to see Cowan's wife Freda (Joan Van Ark), she tells him that she knows what her husband really saw when Chaney was killed, but her testimony is useless, since it is all hearsay. One thing is certain, Wilkie frightened Cowan into not telling the truth about what happened.
Freda later goes to Wilkie's office and threatens to shoot him with a revolver, but she is overpowered by Banyan and Bedford, who intend to shut her up. Banyan tells Wilkie, "No extra charge. Knocking off Tom Chaney and her husband, that cost you, so this one's free." McGarrett and Danno arrive just in the nick of time. Bedford is wounded and Wilkie shoots the armed Banyan dead, thinking that will earn him brownie points with McGarrett.
Telling Wilkie "no deals," McGarrett tells him "I'll listen to [Freda] and so will the judge and jury," because, as she says, "I just heard it all." The charge against Wilkie is murder one.
Returning to the prison, McGarrett wakes up the sleeping Kellam, telling him "It's all over now … all over."
This is an excellent episode, with Monte Markham's best performance of his four in the series (two of those -- "Here Today … Gone Tonight" and "School for Assassins" – have terrible scripts). Sorrell Booke, pre-Dukes of Hazzard, is also noteworthy. In fact, all of the acting is well above average.
One thing that bothers me is the way that Cowan is killed by Banyan. As he approaches an intersection (see More Trivia section below for more details), there is only one car beside Cowan, a Volkswagen bug. Another car, which looks like a blue Datsun, passes him on his left before this, but if Cowan was shot from someone in this car (and he is fatally shot in his left temple), then it is unlikely he would have stopped behind the white car in front of him, he would have just run into it.The only other explanation is that Banyan is on the other side of the intersection somewhere, perhaps with a silencer. But then how would Banyan have known the exact route that Cowan was taking to Wilkie's office?
However, whatever explanation you come up with for Cowan's death, at least it is not totally implausible.
Bobbi suggests "because Kellam was wrongly convicted, he's behind the physical prison wall and the "double wall' can be considered the frame-up by his sleazy lawyer" or "the double wall can be thought of as the doctor's office and he would have to get through both walls of the prison [not to mention the outside wall] or 'the double wall."
Death: Frank Ritchie dies in infirmary after being stabbed in prison yard.
Death: Ted Cowan is shot in the head by Barney Banyan in traffic.
Injury: Trying to escape with Banyan and Freda Cowan, Bedford is shot by McGarrett .
Death: Banyan is shot dead by Craig Wilkie in hallway outside his office.
Fred Helfing tracked down the location where Cowan gets shot in the head: it's at at the intersection of Date Street and Kapahulu Avenue. Cowan is driving east. You can see the drive-in restaurant from the show in the background, and if you swing around to the right, you can see the building directly in front of Cowan's car. Both of these buildings are very similar today. The one in front of the car at the corner has some business called "Yoko's." This location with the sign about how you can turn right on a red light is also used in the fourth season episode "Nine, Ten, You're Dead," where a car containing Albert Paulsen and a hitman named Duke gets abandoned and Kono, who is following, gets out of his car to see what happened.
The guy in the car behind Cowan's is Walter Omori, the "mysterious actor" who appeared in other shows like "The Singapore File" and "No Bottles...No Cans...No People." His car, which has an unusual license plate with a very short "number," has a bumper sticker for Joe Kuroda, who was a United States senator for Hawaii. As Walter gets out of his car, you can see what looks like plastic sheeting on the outside of Cowan's Mustang behind the driver's door.
McGarrett's arrival by car at the prison originally appeared in S01E16, "The Box." Bob Sevey and another reporter from KGMB named Beldock (Bob Jones) is on the scene, covering the hostage drama live.
Danno talks to HPD Officer Spivack (Terry Plunkett), who interviewed Cowan shortly after the murder. When Danno leaves him, the subtitles say he says "Thanks, Sarge," but Danno actually says "Thanks, Terry."
Cowan's body is taken away in a City and County Ambulance.
According to Karen Rhodes' book, Monte Markham was tapped to replace Jack Lord, who threatened to quit the show during a dispute during the seventh season. Markham's character would be chief of State Department Security for the Far East, not the head of Five-O. Lord was eventually persuaded to stay on by the Governor of Hawaii.
63. (S03E15) “Paniolo” ★★★
Director: Michael O'Herlihy; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Ed Adamson; Music: Don B. Ray
A old cowboy rancher and his connection to the death of a real estate agent brings Five-O to the island of Maui.
In this slow-paced episode, the title of which is the Hawaiian word for "cowboy," Maui cattleman Frank Kuakua, whose land has been his family's for multiple generations, is up against developers who want to buy his property. His hired hand Hody Lindquist (Royal Dano) dealt with similar encroachments in Texas and Wyoming before he moved to Hawaii.
One persistent developer is Lester Cronin (Bill Bigelow), who purchased an IOU for money that Frank borrowed from local bar owner Harry Pawai (Robert Luck). Cronin threatens Frank, saying with this IOU, which demonstrates Frank's inability to pay off his debts, he can "get a lien and a public auction."
When Lester gets a bit too pushy, Frank says "Don't you 'bruddah' me" and shoves him backwards, causing Lester to strike his head on a tree, killing him. This is totally unrealistic, unless Lester is suffering from some pre-existing condition which the fall might have exacerbated. Nothing like this is mentioned by the Maui coroner Dr. Woodrow (Albert Harris) later.
Ironically, Lester was just indicted by a grand jury on the mainland for fraud and bribery, which requires his extradition. This prompts Five-O to try and track him down on Maui. After his death, Lester was propped up in his rented car which was pushed over a cliff by Frank. Danno, who is scouring the island in a helicopter, manages to locate the wrecked vehicle. An autopsy reveals slivers of wood in Cronin's head wound where he struck his head on the tree and Five-O steps up the investigation.
After disposing of Lester's body, Frank goes to Honolulu to visit his daughter to give himself an alibi. He is estranged from his daughter Dorothy Owens (Marilyn Chris) because she "married a haole" who later deserted her. Frank does bond with his grandson Bud (George "Keoki" Awai), talking of hanging out at ka palekana wahi (the "safe place") on his ranch.
After he returns to Maui, Frank talks to Five-O, telling them that he wasn't present around the time Lester died and Hody also has excuses. When they get back to Honolulu, McGarrett and Danno interview Dorothy, whose alibi story does not match her employment records at the Ilikai Hotel coffee shop where she worked on the day her father was supposedly visiting. Her son, who overheard the conversation with his grandfather when he was there, confirms this.
Knowing that the jig is up, Frank mounts his favorite horse which he has been riding for 17 years and heads off into the back country of Maui. Jack Lord, who played a rodeo rider in his previous series Stoney Burke, gets a chance to ride a horse along with a posse of local men including tracker Charlie Latea (stuntman Beau Van Den Ecker). Danno helps to track with the helicopter and he is finally cornered soon after he puts his trusty horse, who has fallen lame, out of its misery.
McGarrett tries to reason with Frank, but Frank shoots him in the arm, prompting the posse to fire back, killing Frank, despite McGarrett telling the men earlier that he wanted him taken alive.
Overall, this episode is good, having the same theme as season one's "Strangers In Our Own Land," where the people of Hawaii are being exploited in the name of progress. But the presence of Bill Bigelow as the sleazy real estate developer Cronin is not believable, because this actor is far too "nice" a guy.
The final big confrontation, despite the aspect of Frank dying from "suicide by cop" is also hard to take, because McGarrett's pleading speech, not helped by the very haole outfit including a colorful neckerchief that he is wearing, almost comes across as patronizing, when he says stuff like "I'm not speaking to you as a cop. I'm not just looking to take you in. I understand how it is with you. I understand how it is with your people. Now, I know it's your land. I feel ashamed of what's being done here in the name of progress, but we can't turn back the clock." Considering how wired up Frank is, even having hallucinated about hanging out with his grandson the night before, there is probably no easy solution to resolving this case.
Although he does mention Frank's daughter and grandson as "reasons to live," McGarrett doesn't say anything at all about the fact that Cronin's death would likely be classified as an accident, which seems kind of important in the scheme of things, other than "I can promise you a fair trial and a recommendation for leniency."
There are no complaints about Frank Silvera's acting in the role of Kuakua. Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent much of his film career playing "foreigners," including the occasional South Seas role like in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) where he played the obligatory native who just happens to speak English for the convenience of the story. Five-O's "Paniolo" was one of his last acting jobs -- he died on June 11, 1970, over 6 months before the episode aired.
WHAT DOES THE TITLE MEAN:
"Paniolo" is the Hawaiian word for "cowboy." According to Karen Rhodes' book, "Since most of the original cowboys on Hawaiian soil were Mexican immigrants who spoke Spanish, the word originated in the Hawaiian pronunciation of "Español."
Death: Lester Cronin is pushed backwards by Frank Kuakua, striking his head on a tree. Hody Linquist confirms that Lester is dead.
Death: Frank shoots his horse.
Injury: McGarrett gets shot in the arm by Frank.
Death: Frank is shot dead by the posse.
The episode promo says "Kuakua [is] a man trying to hold back time with murder." I don't think so. If this case went to court, I think the charge would more likely be manslaughter.
One sequence after Frank shoots his horse and another after the posse finds the dead horse, where McGarrett makes a face, are the same. On the DVD third season set, after McGarrett tells the posse he wants Frank brought in alive, the voice of the cop who says "He's got a rifle with him, right? What if he starts shooting? What are we supposed to do?" sounds like it is looped with that of Moe Keale. After McGarrett says "OK, Charlie," and the posse rides off, the English audio cuts out for a few seconds; there is no dropout in the Spanish audio track.
When the posse first starts out, there are five cops including Charlie the tracker. But at the end there are only four including Charlie. Prior to this, McGarrett tells one of them, "Joe, stick with the horses. We'll go on foot from here."
How can Frank can go to Oahu to visit his daughter Dorothy in Honolulu, since he tells her he is very short of money? Furthermore, when he later tells McGarrett he was visiting her, why doesn't Five-O just check the airline passenger list for confirmation?
When Frank arrives at his daughter's house, the music accompanying what sounds like a cop or cowboy show on TV in the background is the same as the perky music heard at the end of "Bored She Hung Herself." Later, when Danno goes to Harry's Corral, the bar operated by Harry Pawai, the music heard playing is the children's song from "Kiss the Queen Goodbye." The "memories" theme is heard in the bar later when Hody talks to Harry, then McGarrett and Maui police chief Ben Kubota (Michael Morgan). At the beginning of the show, there is a vague "western" tinge to the music as Frank is seen rounding up cattle. The score is by Don Ray.
When Dorothy phones Frank in Maui from Honolulu, she only dials seven numbers. Was this possible because both numbers were in the same area code?
The helicopter Danno is using is the same one seen in "And A Time To Die," supposedly owned by Helicopters Pacific Ltd., number N9016F (a Hughes 500 according to its side, actually a Hughes 369HS). Not only is the helicopter the same as in the earlier episode, but so is the pilot! In one scene in "Paniolo," the helicopter parks dangerously on a hill at an angle and Danno leaps out and then back in (see screen shot below).
Several Hawaiian expressions in the show do not appear in the DVD subtitles, whereas most individual words do -- for example, makua kane (father, used reluctantly by Dorothy) and mo'opuna (grandson, Frank asks his daughter about Bud).
When Danno is at the airport expecting to see Cronin returning to Oahu, the plane is an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-200 "Funbird," number N73712.
As the car containing the dead Cronin's body plunges down the cliff, the music accompanying this is usually heard during a pre-commercial "wave."
While in Maui, Danno stays at the Sonesta Beach Hotel in Kaanapali.
Near the beginning of the episode, Chin Ho is seen smoking a pipe in McGarrett's office when he and Kono are discussing some operation with McGarrett not related to the episode's main story.
64. (S03E16) “Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart” ★★★
Original air date: 1/6/71 -- Opening Credits -- End Credits
Director: Paul Stanley; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: E. Arthur Kean; Music: Don B. Ray
An electronics genius is sprung from police custody by a wealthy gangster to mastermind a $10 million robbery of the Honolulu Diamond Exchange.
Master criminal Sheldon Orwell (Tim O'Connor), described by McGarrett as an "electronic genius" and "expert on burglar alarms, chemistry, explosives [and] police techniques" is in court as a witness to a prison killing. As he leaves the building, likely returning to jail since he is handcuffed and accompanied by policemen, he is sprung from the cops' protection by three men -- Murray (Ward Bensen), a driver (Beau Van Den Ecker, uncredited) and Sturgis (uncredited actor) -- who throw smoke bombs into the vicinity of the cops' car. As Orwell is hustled away from the confusion, Sturgis is shot dead as several other cops quickly come out of the building holding rifles.
Presumably clued in on why he has been kidnapped during the drive, Orwell is taken to the roof of a parking garage near the J.H. Schnack Building at 922 Maunakea St. where he meets Willard Lennox (Paul Stewart), later described by Chin Ho as a "dinosaur ... who goes back to Capone" who lives "like a baron over on Maui [with] cars, airplanes [and] the big estate." Lennox is not happy that grabbing Orwell didn't go off problem-free, and he shoots both Murray and the driver dead, saying, "I never spent a day in jail myself. Maybe now you know why."
Lennox tells Orwell, "From now on I own you," but Orwell replies, "You don't own me, and I don't own you. We just need each other. Ten million dollars' worth," setting up the adversarial relationship between the two men that is one of the highlights of this episode.
Shortly after this, Orwell and members of a team that Lennox has assembled to steal $10 million worth of jewels from the Honolulu Diamond Exchange meet for a brainstorming session at an apartment that Lennox uses as a "love nest." When Lennox finds out that Orwell has a heart condition, he wonders if the plan is going to work. Orwell tells him, "You're just the banker, I'm the one with the brain." Members of the team include:
Potter (Norman Dupont), an electronics geek who can look at circuit diagrams and complex wiring which resembles "spaghetti" and immediately figure out which wires have to be cut or tapped into;
Harding (John McCormick) and Meade (Bruce Stillians), two ambulance attendants;
Edmund Putney (Logan Ramsey), the "inside man" of the group who has been a member of the exchange for two years and has access to its fortress-like 20th floor in a downtown building. Entrance to the exchange is controlled by tight security with strict ID checks.
In this episode Che Fong works overtime helping Five-O.
A cigar ash that Lennox dropped on Murray's jacket in the opening scene where Murray was killed gives Che problems, and he has to send the ash to Washington, where it is identified as coming a specific brand of cigars -- Kamal from Turkey, which is linked to a store in the Kahala mall where one of the customers is Roxie Newton, who is buying the cigars for her boyfriend, Lennox. This to me is far-fetched, because while it is possible to identify the brand of cigars through trace metals in the soil where the tobacco is grown, I doubt if this kind of forensic technology was available in the early 1970s. (McGarrett comments "Either she's got a boyfriend or women's liberation is working overtime.")
In the dead Murray's cerumen (ear wax), Che finds traces of marble dust. This later connects Murray to Orwell and Lennox, because in the same building where Lennox's girl friend Newton lives (the above-mentioned "love nest," tracked down by Five-O via the cigar connection), there is a sculptor named Zeibach and the dust from his projects is a major annoyance.
In Newton's apartment, Che also finds hair samples which are from Newton, Orwell and Lennox which even identify the sex of the person they came from, which is very far-fetched. This is possible with DNA analysis, but that did not happen until the 1980s.
Another major clue relates to the gun used by Lennox at the beginning of the show to knock off the two men. Ballistics records show that it is a Luger nicknamed "Brunnhilde" used in at least four killings over the last 10 years which has a connection to Lennox (exactly how is not specified).
Meanwhile, Lennox's team manages to construct a plan which will overcome the obstacles the well-fortified diamond exchange puts in their way.
Using an ID card which looks totally phony, Potter gains access to the electrical room on the same floor as the exchange. He taps into the closed circuit TV camera and, using a small VCR, records stock footage of activity in the exchange room. Later this will be played back for the benefit of the guard in the building's lobby to make him think that nothing unusual is happening upstairs.
Because there is only one elevator which goes directly to the exchange, and any attempt to rob the place will cause it to be locked up, Putney and Potter have to rappel down one of the other two elevator shafts, a drop of about 200 feet, which gives the overweight Putney something to get concerned about. He is told to get "out on the Pali" and get some practice.
Five-O accumulates a lot of clues as to what might happen with the big caper, but they don't know exactly which of several possible locations will be the one that Lennox and Orwell hit. Finally, the big day comes, and everything goes off like clockwork as far as the robber is concerned ... almost too well.
Using some thylacine stearate (a bogus drug) which he obtained at a medical supply house which is supposed to produce conditions similar to having a heart attack, Orwell causes a major distraction in one of the other two elevators in the exchange building. Harding and Meade quickly show up with their ambulance to help him, and all of them, including Lennox, who is pretending to be Orwell's "friend," go into the elevator and the doors are closed. Having robbed the place upstairs, Potter and Putney rappel down into the car, and put on ambulance attendant uniforms. When everything is ready, the elevator doors are opened, and the supposedly near-death Orwell is driven away.
Only problem is, Orwell, who has a history of heart issues which required him to use nitroglycerin, seems to be really having a heart attack as the ambulance goes to a pre-arranged location where the team will switch cars and head to a plane waiting to take them to the mainland and then Brazil. But Orwell is just pretending, and switches the bag containing the diamonds from the robbery with another containing what look like a bunch of plastic beads.
The team abandons the ambulance and gets in the other car, supposedly leaving Orwell to die, and they are nabbed by McGarrett thanks to help from an HPD helicopter who has been following them. Their car has two tires shot out; Lennox and the others are in a daze when they are arrested.
Orwell thinks he has the last laugh, getting to a boat in the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor from which he intends to sail away to a nice retirement. (Earlier on, Orwell was identified as someone who crossed the Atlantic alone in a 21-foot boat "just to prove a point.") Unknown to him, Five-O is aware of this "option" and Danno, who is at the marina, alerts McGarrett who soon shows up to the dismay of the incredulous Orwell.
This show has a very tight script which requires attention. The first time I re-watched it in 2019, I found quite a few things which were odd, but a subsequent viewing answered a lot of questions about things which I had misinterpreted or overlooked.
For example, the scale model of the exchange and the building lobby looks like it is one piece, but it is actually two pieces, one for each location, which are placed together.
The cigar ash is found on what looks like a piece of plaid cloth, and Murray's jacket is more of a solid color. But in a closeup, you can see the plaid design.
However, there are still some things that left me scratching my head:
In the teaser, Orwell has the chain connecting his handcuffs separated in the middle with a heavy duty cutter. But a few seconds later he gets out of the car with no handcuffs. If he had a key, why didn't he just use that in the first place?
The access card that Potter uses to gain access to the diamond exchange is peculiar -- on the bottom line are three entries for Room, Rate and Clerk. The guard beside the exchange elevator seems to have to check off Potter on a list, just like the other men who are going up. Was Potter, who is from Honolulu Power and Light according to the sign on the back of his coveralls, pre-approved to access the top floor?
Where do Putney and Potter get the ropes they use to rappel 200 feet down the elevator shaft? Putney has a pretty normal-looking attaché case with him, and Potter has a large metal toolbox. Neither of these to me suggest they can carry 400 feet of rope; in Potter's case, he also has a revolver, another gun which looks like the Luger that is supposed to belong to Lennox. In Potter's case you can see there are also some binoculars -- no rope! In Putney's case there is a book: Hawaii Buyer's Guide. In addition to the ropes, there also has to be dynamite or some explosive in these which is used to blow a hole in one of the other elevator shafts.
When Orwell fakes his heart attack and is taken inside the elevator, they close the doors which allows Potter and Putney to rappel down inside the elevator shaft into the car without being seen. All four men, other than Lennox, then don ambulance attendant uniforms, which is double the number of attendants who went into the elevator in the first place. Doesn't anyone consider this odd when they finally emerge?
Aside from this, though, the show is enjoyable for the way the case is solved by Five-O and Che Fong and the conflict between Orwell and Lennox, especially Orwell, who knows he is the best at what he does. Stewart, a veteran character actor whose career began in the 40's with films like Citizen Kane, gives a great performance as the irascible Lennox.
Ten thousand diamonds = the booty from the robbery; a heart = Orwell's "thumper."
Injury (x2): HPD officers escorting Sheldon Orwell from court hit in head with saps.
Death: Sturgis shot by HPD officer who runs out of courthouse. He is taken to the hospital but "never made it into surgery."
Death (x2): Murray and the driver are shot by Willard Lennox.
Injury: Orwell takes drug to give heart attack symptoms; Lennox tells McGarrett he is dead.
Phosphorus pentoxide, tracked down by Chin Ho, is supposedly the chemical used to make the smoke bombs which cover Orwell's abduction at the beginning of the show. Chin says this is used in skywriting. But a look at the Wikipedia entry for this chemical suggests this is all bogus; it is a "potent dehydrating agent." As the cannisters of this stuff are thrown at the beginning, a parking space with a name crudely printed on it -- "Bishop" -- is seen.
McGarrett looks at some paperwork connected with Orwell with a moustache which has an address of 14921 Kingsdale, Los Angeles on it. There is a name below this under "Disbursing Officer's Payment Data" (thanks to Fred): Ralph Hernandez.
On a flyer which is created to distribute to pharmacies and medical-supply houses and which prompts a guy named Ogdon (Mark Sebastian) from one of these places where Orwell bought the heart-attack-symptoms-inducing drug to come to the H50 office, there are pictures of Orwell with and without his moustache. But in both of these pictures, Orwell is standing in exactly the same position in front of the height indicators at the police station where mug shots are taken. This flyer says: "The below described male is wanted in connection with a Murder which occurred on 10-21-70, at 1338 hours, at Maunakea and [Pauehi?] Streets. This individual is an expert on burglar alarms, chemistry and explosives. USE CAUTION IF SEEN. Arrest and contact the Criminal Investigation Division, Homicide Detail. [Signed] FRANCIS KEALA, Chief of Police" (Keala was the real chief of HPD from December 24, 1969 to April 1, 1983; but his signature on this flyer does not look like "Keala.") The flyer gives details about Orwell: he is 55 years old, DOB 5-19-15, 6'0", 160 lbs., has a ruddy compexion, light grey hair, blue eyes, and a tattoo on his upper left arm: spider, John John.
The ambulance used to transport Orwell is from the Clark Ambulance Company, but one of the shots of it fleeing the robbery on the Pali Highway (a long way from downtown Honolulu) is from "King of the Hill," and is a City and County Ambulance. Lennox refers to the vehicle as a "meat wagon."
The HPD cop in the helicopter following the ambulance is addressed as "Blake" by McGarrett, but the tag on the cop's shirt says his name is W. Monteilh.
Michael Morgan, who plays the Exchange Room Guard, appeared in the previous episode as Maui Police Chief Ben Kubota.
A bottle of nicroglycerin pills which Orwell loses is from the Oahu Pharmacy, phone number 732-0340.
When McGarrett finds marble dust in the "love nest," he tastes it -- does he think it is heroin or something?
At the beginning, Orwell is driving a white Rolls-Royce convertible.
McGarrett snaps his fingers twice in this show.
Fred Helfing has tracked down the location where the robbers abandon the ambulance and switch to another vehicle.
65. (S03E17) “To Kill Or Be Killed” ★★★★
Director: Paul Stanley; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Anthony Lawrence; Music: Don B. Ray
Five-O meets resistance from Army intelligence after a Vietnam combat hero is found dead under mysterious circumstances.
A very short yet effective teaser kicks off this episode, which ranks with the best of them for its fourth act, one of the most emotionally intense and gruelling of the entire series.
Five-O investigates the suspicious death of Vietnam war hero Lieutenant Jack Rigney (Peter Jason), who fell six stories from his apartment balcony. His father is an old-school soldier, Brigadier General Earl Rigney (John Anderson), whose other son Michael (Michael Anderson, Jr.) is thinking of skipping the country to avoid the draft.
Michael, who is supposed to report for military service the following Monday, visits the offices of the Hawaii Committee to Aid Draft Resistance, where Al "Doc" Eben is Max Heller, a counsellor. Heller peppers Michael with questions the draft board might ask him, but Michael says "I'll never get past the shanghai brigade. It's Canada or jail." ("Shanghai" refers to the way that men were gathered to sail ships in the 19th century, even if that meant resorting to kidnapping by physical force or with the help of liquor or drugs.)
Posters like "War is not healthy for children and other living things," "What we are saying is give peace a chance in 1970," "Fight for peace," "Thou shalt not kill," and "What if they gave a war and nobody came" are seen.
When Michael visits an underground newspaper and tells one of the hippie-like workers there he is going to flee to Canada, he is cautioned: "Don't get the idea that Trudeau-turf is a pacifist's Eden." (Pierre Trudeau, the father of Justin Trudeau, was the prime minister of Canada in the early 1970s.)
To help solve the case, the clean-cut Danno goes underground as a potential deserter, not very convincingly. When McGarrett grills Danno about his beliefs, Danno replies, "Like I'm splitting for Canada ... you know, Trudeau-turf, where it's cold and it snows eight months of the year ... and if I never feel the heat again, or hear the buzzing of flies, smell the stench of rotting bodies, it'll be too soon -- dig?" McGarrett says, "Danno, you should pass easily."
Anne James (Brooks Almy), the sister of one deserter who's already in Canada, supposedly an old friend of Danno, tells him, "Don't tell me you're gonna be inducted ... you look too old to be a draftee." But Danno is not supposed to be a new recruit; instead, he is someone who has already been to Vietnam and now wants out.
His back story says he graduated from the University of Hawaii in June of the previous year and enlisted in the army in April of the current year. Now he is on R&R in Hawaii with six days left, then he has to return to combat. He is currently AWOL. This would probably make him about 23 or 24 years old, whereas James MacArthur was around 33 at the time the show was broadcast.
In the scene with Ann, MacArthur seems to be forgetting his lines: "Yeah, but, uh, [pause] Canada's [a very long pause] opening up to all kinds of protestors." At least he doesn't mention Trudeau again (twice is more than enough).
Danno ends up at a hideout outside of town with several draft-dodging hippie types. His cover is almost blown when one of them named Kit (Paul Mickelsen, uncredited) recognizes him as having visited the resisters' office as a cop where he talked to Heller earlier. In fact, Kit scowled at Danno when he was there. In e-mail to me many years ago, Mickelsen said his fondest memory of the show was "the famous line (at least to my kids) of 'He's fuzz man, fuzz!'," which he says to Matthews, their leader, just as the hideaway is suddenly raided by the cops and military types. As they are escaping, Danno grabs the arm of Matthews in a cop-like move as they run outside the place, then lets go.
Matthews was played by Honolulu journalist Dave Donnelly, sporting a beard and sunglasses and spouting New Age dialogue like "Sure you kids don't want some soup? It's really groovy. Meat, bananas and a little Asiatic ginseng. Guaranteed to blow your stomach ... Did you ever wonder why bananas grow here and not in Alaska? It's because they contain one part sodium to every 850 parts potassium." He contacted me in the late nineties, saying, "The scene was filmed in a shack in Kalama Valley which today is a thriving community, Hawaii Kai, complete with golf course."
Chin Ho has a good line in McGarrett's office earlier as the facts of the case become more and more prevalent: "How do you like them pineapples?" There is some interesting trivia behind this comment, according to Mickelsen: "The 'nice pineapples' line was a result of an extra who was one of the hippies at the house. She was braless, wearing a see through blouse and had a body that demanded attention. The cast and crew were very entertained by her running from the house, so much so that about 15 takes ensued, most with no film in the camera." (This scene does not seem to have made it into the final print.)
As he tries to find out whether Jack Rigney was killed (Michael, who took his brother's gun, is suspected) or he killed himself, McGarrett finds himself stonewalled by the military, who tell him, "Cool your investigation." His response: "I'm not about to be pressured into cooling any or all of my investigation in this case. I work for the State of Hawaii, not the federal government."
Glenn Cannon plays Colonel Franklin, who throws obstacles in McGarrett's path. Finally, General Rigney gets on the phone (202-545-6700) to Jonathan Kay [sic in the credits] (not identified by name in the show, but played by Robert Dixon) in Washington to complain about the "electronic eavesdropping" in his son's apartment "like he was some Commie spy."
The final scene, where the surveillance tape made of Jack's final moments with Michael first telling his brother to get help and Jack leaping from the balcony after Michael leaves is finally played while his mother, father, brother, Colonel Franklin, and Michael's girl friend Gail Howard (Joy Bang) along with McGarrett and Danno listen, is outstanding -- this should get five stars out of four!
Jack's death is revealed to be suicide, a reaction to his having participated in a My Lai-like massacre under orders: "We didn't care what we killed ... peasants ... gooks ... anything. We only cared about our body count, about our high-kill ratio." When the General tries to reconcile with his remaining son, Michael says "It's not over, I've made my decision. I'll have to go to jail." The father says, "Then I've got two dead sons."
The score by music supervisor Don B. Ray introduces us to the "military theme," which will make repeat appearances in future episodes. There are also variations on the "memories" theme.
Michael Anderson, in an interview posted elsewhere on the site, said of this episode, "That never aired when it was supposed to. Jack told me later that the network had decided it was -- I don’t know, I was never given the whole, exact story -- but it was very sensitive. The military didn’t like the idea that we would do a movie on draft dodging in the first place. Or that -- I think somebody felt it was sensitive. I think somebody leaned on somebody at CBS. I don’t know, but that’s what I think … I think that somebody felt they had gone too far. I know that first episode [I did] never aired until later. Many years later, in fact. The reason I know this is that I never got a residual for it! … [It] was ‘69 I did it ... I think Jack liked the idea that they were doing something cutting-edge, taking on difficult issues, and stuff.
(Note, this does not jibe with the production date for this show being in the third season. "To Kill Or Be Killed" was twelfth in production order for the season, but it was eventually broadcast as the 17th show.)
When he is talking to Danno, Max Heller, the counsellor with the draft resisters, says "It isn't easy for a 20-year-old to decide between going to jail, leaving his country, to kill or to be killed."
Death: Jack Rigney falls to his death after leaping from his apartment six floors up.
Five-O is still at Jack's apartment when Danno gives McGarrett some paperwork connected with Jack, which he seems to have obtained very quickly. The first piece of paper has white type on a black background, as if it came from microfilm or microfiche. This paper is also seen in the episode "Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart." There is something paper-clipped to the top of this black background paper when McGarrett opens the folder, but when we see it in closeup later, the paper-clipped material isn't there. Under this, there is some other paperwork which looks like an academic article. It has normal typewriter type on white paper. Neither of these two pieces of paperwork has anything to do with the Rigney boys. There is also a black and white picture of Michael.
Michael took Jack's gun away after it looked like Jack was going to shoot himself in the head. Michael then dumped the gun in a trash can in the back of the building, which was witnessed by Mrs. Jessup (Frida May Bird), the housekeeper. This gun is later found by Kono, who shows it to McGarrett. He says that it is a "Russian-made nine-shot Tucard" which "lots of the boys smuggle back" as souvenirs from Vietnam. The gun's name ("Tucard") in the English subtitles is wrong, though; the Spanish and Portuguese subtitles correctly identify it as a "Tokarev." An article about this gun on Wikipedia has further information.
When he is intentionally harassing Michael at the draft-dodgers' center, Heller uses the expression "Bull!", followed by "All this bunk about conscience. I think you're just being arbitrary to suit your own inconvenience."
Michael's girl friend Gail raises five hundred dollars to help the two of them get to Canada. When he asks her how she did this, she tells him, "Well, seven professors and 22 students, man. I started a kind of sympathy fund. … They know you. That seemed to be enough." I think this is sort of like the early 70's equivalent of a GoFundMe campaign.
When McGarrett and Chin go to the university dormitory where Gail lives, the street is all wet as if it has just been raining.
The general refers to Jack as a hero who fought at "Dak To," site of a real Vietnamese battle in 1967 and "Ben Cat," another area of military significance.
Allen Croyden (Thomas McWilliams), the guy who is bugging Jack's room, works for the FBI Army Criminal Investigation Division. Croyden is using a Nagra recorder for surveillance; the tape reels have large "spokes," similar to Scotch brand tape. When the recording is played back later, the copy is on a Sony reel-to-reel tape.
When Jack jumps from the balcony at the beginning of the show, it looks like it is a real person, not a dummy.
After Danno arrives at the hangout in the valley, a blonde woman gives him a joint. He tries to give it to Michael and Gail, but they refuse to take it.
A copy of the Honolulu Advertiser is seen, with a large headline: "Vietnam hero falls to death; brother sought for questioning." A second heading says "upholds [Honolulu mayor Frank] Fasi veto" and a third refers to "troop reduction."
When Michael and Gail travel around town on a motorcycle, they are wearing helmets.
General Rigney says that he participated in "three wars," but when Michael is talking to his brother, Jack says, "I don't even want him [his father] to know … He never fought in a war like this. He never had to become an animal." If this is suggesting the father never fought in Vietnam, what is the other war is he referring to?
One of the characters in the show, played by Donald Weller, is named "Rafe Bellamy." Is this a joke referring to the American actor Ralph Bellamy?
66 & 67. (S03E18 & S03E19) “F.O.B. Honolulu” ★★½
Timings: Teaser: 4:48; Main Titles: 0:59; Act One: 7:28; Act Two: 13:16; Act Three: 8:04; Act Four: 15:14; End Credits: 0:55; Total Time: 50:44.
Original air date: 2/3/71-- Opening Credits -- End Credits
Director: Michael O'Herlihy; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Eric Bercovici & Jerry Ludwig; Music: Don B. Ray
Timings: Teaser: 5:32; Main Titles: 0:59; Act One: 12:15; Act Two: 11:18; Act Three: 11:29; Act Four: 7:47; End Credits: 0:54; Total Time: 50:14.
Counterfeit plates for U.S. twenty-dollar bills which will create havoc in the world of finance are sought by various international agents as Five-O must deal with murder, treason and double cross, some of which involves a former friend of McGarrett.
"Economic warfare" is the theme of this two-parter.
The Chinese, emulating the Nazis during World War II who duplicated English currency to the extent that it would have thoroughly disrupted the worldwide financial system (it did not, since their plot failed), have produced a set of $20 dollar plates which are so perfect that even David Carter of the US Treasury Department (Howard Gottschalk) says they match the "minute difference between the vertical lines and the horizontal lines" behind Andrew Jackson's portrait, "72 eighty-eight hundreths of an inch, compared to 70 eighty-eight hundreths of an inch for the horizontal lines."
These plates were stolen in Nanking and have left a disturbing trail of death across Asia. Commander Ron Nicholson from US Army intelligence (John McMartin), an old pal of McGarrett, has been assigned to track these plates down. Jonathan Kaye (Joseph Sirola) has arrived from Washington to announce the US government will pay a $1 million ransom for the plates. He says "The future of the free world depends on what we do here in Hawaii within the next 24 hours.
Of course, other countries are also interested in the plates. The intrigue begins in Honolulu when Corporal Robert L. Kurtz (Tim Tindall) is found murdered by two Asian assassins in the Ilikai elevator. Kurtz appears to be returning from Saigon on R&R, but there is no such record of anyone by this name in Army records. Kurtz is actually Leo Price, wanted by Interpol for murder. A Buddha that "Kurtz" was bringing home contained what seemed to be the plates, but it turns out they are blank. When his killers take these plates to Wo Fat, who is holed up in some installation on top of a mountain nearby, he is furious. (One wonders why Wo's hangout is so secret; it's not that far from downtown Honolulu!).
In addition to Wo Fat, obviously representing China in the bidding war for the plates to get them back, the other major player is the Russian Mikhail Ivanovich Toptygin (Roger Carmel), known as Misha. There is also Nicole Fleming (Sabrina Scharf), described by Nicholson as "Born in Manchukuo, mother, Russian, father, British businessman, supposedly. Too many aliases to trace. Speaks five languages with absolute fluency. Interpol has a file linking her to everything from espionage to blackmail. Make no mistake, she's as deadly as she is female."
Fleming shows up to claim the "personal effects" of her "brother" Kurtz/Price, who she was working with, wearing a mourning black cap and veils, but McGarrett almost immediately addresses her by her real name. She says she has nothing to hide and gives him the key to her room at the Kahala (suite 84). Five-O searches through the place but they indeed find nothing.
Fleming's other partner with Price is the "little ferret of a man," Anthony Cameron Madrid (Monty Landis) who is also nearby. Wo Fat, who contracted the three of them to deliver the plates, is not happy, despite Madrid's claim that "Price double-crossed me in Penang." Madrid is just an pouty irritation throughout the show, and it's unfortunate that Wo doesn't knock him off during their first encounter, despite Madrid claiming that "We know they're [the plates] due to arrive here."
Fleming spends much of her time in the show sitting around the pool at her hotel while being surveilled by Kono and Beau Van Den Ecker. Considering she is wearing a bikini, it is easy to forgive some of the plot stupidities which ensue. Madrid tries to suck up to her after his rejection by Wo, but she tells him if Wo doesn't need him any more, then neither does she.
Five-O is kind of short on coming up with clues until Lieutenant Hinano from Army intelligence tells them he's "picked up some signals that don't fit into the FCC ham-operator's schedule" that just happen to be emanating from Wo Fat's hideout. This gives McGarrett and Danno an excuse to fly over the place and drill the henchman there (Wo having fled the scene) with machine gun fire.
One of these stooges attempts to burn incriminating evidence before he is killed, but Danno manages to recover a tiny piece of reel-to-reel tape from a garbage can which was set on fire. Despite being recorded at a speed which makes it sound like The Chipmunks, Five-O manages to decipher this at TV station KGMB where they have had similar technical help before. All that is on this tape, which is only a few seconds long, is some Chinese dialog which is the letters "ZIL MA," translated by Chin Ho.
This is where the show gets kind of stupid, because using this tiny fragment of dialog, taken from a tape which is either 1200 or 1800 feet long, Five-O can begin to crack the case, figuring out that the plates are arriving on a ship the BRAZIL MARU. When they go to investigate, they find the plates were obtained from a crew member, "Zagor, the third engineer," who was murdered by McGarrett's pal Nicholson! DUH! This bit of detective work hearkens back to the pilot, where the name of another ship, the S.S. ARCTURUS, was determined by examining scraps of paper taken from a burned notebook.
It turns out that Nicholson is in cahoots with Fleming. He contacts Jonathan Kaye and says he wants $2 million for the plates plus amnesty. Of course, this just ups the amount the Russians and Wo Fat are willing to pay, to $2.5 million and $3 million respectively. Fleming meets Nicholson on some deserted beach where he has parked a rented camping car, and between smooches talks about how she wants "to be somebody" and the two of them will run away together. When she mentions the amounts the Russians and Wo have offered to pay, presumably with her as a broker, Nicholson gets a bit nervous. Moments later, she shoots him dead, with four shots to the abdomen.
Nicholson had only one of the two plates on him, but he told her the other one is "safe and sound just the way we set it up." At Fleming's hotel room, Toptygin finds an impression in a notepad which looks like a map, which he later turns over to Five-O, after McGarrett meets with him saying "You can't win, but you don't have to lose," considering Wo is going to get the plates and because earlier he was rebuffed by Wo when offering to team up with him. McGarrett can compare this map to the transparent one in his office, and using mileage statistics from Nicholson's camping car and the fact that his shoes contained tar from a road which was being repaired, they narrow down the location of the other plate to the Byodo-In Temple.
Fleming meets with Wo, but only gives him one of the plates and instructions on where to find the second one. He doesn't trust her, and insists that she accompany him to the temple where there doesn't seem to be anyone around, and we hear the familiar "bonging bell" sound. When they get there, they find the weaselly Madrid, who has been rebuffed by both of them. In a confrontation accompanied by music from the end of "A Thousand Pardons," Wo gets shot, but when Five-O shows up seconds later, he is nowhere to be seen. There is a considerable amount of blood lost from Wo, and Fleming is busted.
The plates are returned to Kaye, who doesn't even tell McGarrett "thank you"!
According to one WWW page, F.O.B. stands for “free on board” or “freight on board” and is a designation that is used to indicate when liability and ownership of goods is transferred from a seller to a buyer. "Free on board" indicates whether the seller or the buyer is liable for goods that are damaged or destroyed during shipping. When used with an identified physical location, the designation determines which party has responsibility for the payment of the freight charges and at what point title for the shipment passes from the seller to the buyer. In international shipping, for example, “FOB [name of originating port]” means that the seller (consignor) is responsible for transportation of the goods to the port of shipment and the cost of loading. The buyer (consignee) pays the costs of ocean freight, insurance, unloading, and transportation from the arrival port to the final destination. The seller passes the risk to the buyer when the goods are loaded at the originating port.
Death: Lance Corporal Kurtz/Leo Price shot in head in Ilikai Hotel elevator by Wo Fat's men.
Death (x3): Wo Fat's men shot by Danno from second helicopter.
Death: Wo Fat's man shot at top of tower by McGarrett from helicopter.
Death: Wo Fat's man shot by McGarrett inside building after he starts fire.
Injury: Carter hit in head in police laboratory to steal the bill.
Death: 3rd Engineer Zagore shot by Commander Ron Nicholson.
Death: Nicholson shot four times by Nicole.
Death: Wo Fat's guard, accompanying him and Nicole to the temple, killed by Madrid and put into koi pond.
Injury: Wo Fat shot by Madrid but all that's left is a blood trail at the temple.
Death: Madrid shot by McGarrett and falls from bridge.
There is no promo for this two-part episode on the second season DVD set. Whether one exists is not known.
Footage of the plane with Jonathan Kaye landing at the beginning of the show and a Cadillac limousine approaching the plane has been seen before in the series' pilot and also the episode "Three Dead Cows at Makapu‘u."
An old lady, listed as "Mrs. Spencer" in the end credits, is played by Peggy Oumansky. She is seen knitting by the Kahala pool, obviously spying on Fleming for Toptygen, because near the end of the show, she is found tied up in Fleming's room where she was attempting to spy on her. The actress only appeared in Five-O, her other shows were Retire in Sunny Hawaii... Forever and Though the Heavens Fall.
There is a huge amount of yellow leader put on the tiny fragment of tape which is recovered from Wo Fat's hideout.
Kurtz eschews travelling to Honolulu on a Trade Wind Tours bus and instead takes a Bernie's Cab. Later, another cab has the familiar number 732-5577 on its roof.
Default Hawaiian music is heard in the background on several occasions, including the kids' song from Kiss The Queen Goodbye. Military themes and the "marimba theme" are also heard. The first part of the show has stock music, the second part is credited to Don Ray.
When Kurtz goes up in the elevator at the Ilikai, we see from the panel in the lobby that it stopped at the 12th floor, then the 18th. But when the doors open and we see Kurtz with a bullet in his head, it is seemingly back at the lobby (and there is no woman screaming as the doors open, as usual). The elevator we see during the main credits is the one which goes up and down to the hotel's restaurant, not the one which goes to rooms within the hotel.
Corey e-mailed me about this episode: "At the end of part one, there is a close up of the sought-after $20 bill plates. The problem is that the close-up shows that the plates have a serial number. Real plates don't have the number. Earlier in the episode, they refer to the counterfeit sample bill having zeros as serial numbers, which couldn't be the case if the plates had actual numbers. What good is a bunch of counterfeit dollars all with the same serial number?"
Toptygin meets Wo at the Makai Research Pier in Waimanlo where Wo's boat is tied up (site of the post-Five-O Jack Lord-directed production M Station Hawaii).
As McGarrett talks to Captain DeJongh of the Brazil Maru (Ed Fernandez), there is a rainbow in the background.
It is interesting the way that when Wo shows Toptygen a sample of the bill printed by the plates, there are starbusts coming off the bill.
At the end of the show, one of Wo's bodyguards is shot dead by Madrid and ends up in a pool full of koi fish. We don't hear the shot, though they don't seem to be that far away from Wo and Fleming, and there is no silencer on Madrid's gun.
McGarrett misprounounces the name of the Byodo-In Temple featured in the show's climax as "Bye-oh-do-in" rather than "Be-o-do-in".
Karen Rhodes in her book about Five-O suggests that Roger Carmel's character is identified in the end credits as "Misha the Bear" because the actor used to do the voice of Smokey the Bear in public service announcements. However, according to Wikipedia, this nickname "in any of its forms, is a common colloquialism in Russian for a bear [and] most anthropomorphic bears in Russian fairy tales have this name." Misha was also the name of the Russian Bear mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.
68. (S03E20) “The Gunrunner” ★★½
Original air date: 2/10/71-- Opening Credits -- End Credits
Director: Tony Leader; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: James D. Buchanan & Ronald Austin; Music: Stock
After a munitions dealer makes a deal with revolutionaries to kidnap his wife so the government the separatists are fighting against will compensate him for her death, his plot backfires.
This show is sort of OK, but if you think hard about it, there are quite a few questions. I think the creators of this show started to write themselves into a corner at more than one point, or maybe the script was just too long for an hour, and stuff started getting left on the floor.
Claire Cunningham (Marian McCargo), the wife of arms dealer Ben (Paul Burke) is kidnapped by separatist revolutionaries from the island of Arasunda. Cunningham had negotiated a shipment of arms and munitions to the Republic of Malanesia, the country from which Arasunda is trying to separate. The kidnappers want this shipment diverted from its intended destination to them.
Cunningham is having major money problems, primarily because of a recent Central American deal where the transaction went sideways and everything was confiscated, so anything interfering with his business, aside from damaging his reputation, could push him over the edge financially, according to his friend Hank Merrill (George Murdock).
After the abduction of Claire, one of the kidnappers is found dead on the lawn outside Cunningham's place, seemingly killed by a bullet from Cunningham's rifle. He was twenty-five-year-old Kemal Rojani, who arrived in Hawaii three weeks ago from Arasunda.
McGarrett goes to see Sangree, the obsequious Malanesian Consul in Honolulu (Arthur Batanides), who says that Lieutenant Emir Kanjil (Daws Dawson), an agent of the Arasunda Separatist Party who has also come to Honolulu, is the leader of a group trying to secure arms for an illegal uprising. Rojani was a member of Kanjil's group.
The kidnappers' van is located in the middle of nowhere after it broke down with transmission problems, and traces of blood inside are noted. The van belongs to a man named Bajano, a resident alien in the export/import business who originally was from Arasunda, but has been in Hawaii for 10 years. Bajano is played by Philip Pine, who had experience in S02E14, "Which Way Did They Go," playing another "Asian" (as in this episode, not particularly well).
McGarrett goes to see Bajano, who says his "cousin," who was Rojani, the dead man on the lawn, used the van, after threatening him at gunpoint, as well as his family back in Arasunda, who "would be considered the family of a traitor." Bajano tells McGarrett, "I'm not political, Mr. McGarrett. I'm a businessman."
The kidnappers phone Cunningham at home. Their conversation is recorded on a wiretap which McGarrett has set up. They want the shipment to leave as expected the next day, but when it gets to Hong Kong, it will be redirected to the revolutionaries in Arasunda. Cunningham tells them, "I can't do that. The weapons are sold. I have a contract [with the Malanesians]." The kidnappers reply, "You have a contract, with a corrupt government of traitors and exploiters. You will arrange to deliver the shipment as instructed. That is the only way you will see your wife again."
Cunningham goes to see McGarrett, who insists that the guns not be redirected to the revolutionaries. McGarrett wants more time, and Cunningham gets another 36 hours from the consul, whose country needs the armaments desperately. When he goes to the consulate, Cunningham tells the people there about the threat against his wife. They offer him $500,000 more if the guns will leave Honolulu that day: "You will receive payment the moment the airplane leaves Honolulu airport."
There is a mole in the consulate who, as soon as Cunningham leaves, calls Kanjil and blabs about this deal which has just been made. Five-O has figured out where the guns are being stored -- at Pier 39. The separatists quickly go to the pier and attempt to stop the guns from leaving to the airport, but there are only three of them and despite knocking off the people driving one of the trucks, there are a lot of well-armed men working in the warehouse there, as well as Cunningham, who is also armed. All three separatists, including Kanjil, are killed. McGarrett, who shows up at the pier with other members of the Five-O team, tries to get information about where Claire Cunningham is being held before Kanjil kicks the bucket, but learns nothing.
McGarrett pays a visit to the HPD forensics lab, where Doc (Robert Costa) has some interesting news: the blood in the van, suspected of being that of Claire, was AB negative, whereas her blood type is actually O. AB negative matches the blood type of Bajano's cousin, who was killed on the lawn. McGarrett speculates, "He was found on the lawn. He never got back to the van. So the bleeding had to take place on the way to the kidnapping." When Doc says, "Why would they take a wounded man on an operation like that? It's crazy," McGarrett replies, "They didn't. They didn't take a wounded man. They took a dead man." WHAT?!? #1.
McGarrett goes to talk to Merrill, who says he never actually saw Cunningham shoot the cousin. Merrill also identifies Bajano as the middleman between Cunningham and the separatists "when they first tried to make a deal for the guns." In other words, Kanjil tried to get the guns through Bajano, which failed because the asking price was too high. Finally, Danno finds out that everything Bajano told them about the cousin was a lie; Bajano also has no living relatives on Arasunda and was once indicted for smuggling.
McGarrett then has a huge brainstorm to Danno: "I think Bajano has Mrs. Cunningham. And I think he took her with the help and connivance of her own husband. Cunningham had his own wife kidnapped? That's the way I see it. I think he set us up from the very outset. Even the phone calls. He knew that we'd tap the line if he didn't cooperate. He had Hank there to support his story. But the dead man was killed by Cunningham's gun. Hours before the kidnapping. And that's what ties Bajano and Cunningham together. Well, you can forget self-defense. That's conspiracy and murder one. Right. And we're gonna get Mr. Cunningham on exactly those charges after we find his wife." WHAT?!? #2.
Of course, all the above is true!
Cunningham phones Bajano at his hideout and says to let his wife go: "All you have to do is let her think she escaped. Once she gets home safe, my lawyer said he's sure he can get the guns released [McGarrett had the guns confiscated after the shootout as evidence], but it's gotta be done now."
Bajano says, "When you have paid the agreed $50,000, then we will let your wife go." (Huh? When was this amount "agreed" on? WHAT?!? #3.)
When Cunningham says, "I don't get a penny until the guns are shipped," Bajano replies, "I suggest you ask the Malanesian consulate to advance you the money.Tell them $50,000 now and you can ship them the arms. They are reasonable gentlemen. Also, they need the guns very badly."
While all this is going on, Claire tries to escape, but when Bajano and his two stooges investigate and catch her in the act, she sees their faces, so they realize they will have to kill her.
Cunningham goes to the consulate and gets the $50,000. McGarrett goes to the consulate and has harsh words with the consul, who wants to keep his mouth shut about what is happening. McGarrett threatens to make a huge stink about all this in "the international press." The consul tells McGarrett that the $50,000 they just gave Cunningham was "an advance." (Does this mean he would get the other $450,000 to compensate him for his wife as well?)
When Cunningham gets to the hideout, Bajano says he told the wife (who he intends to kill anyway) that he is her husband's employee. Cunningham tells her, "I had to do it this way to make an extra half a million dollars." What a sleazebag! But Bajano is equally sleazy, having murdered the man described as his cousin seemingly just for the sake of getting the $50,000 -- which is to be used for what purpose? Who was this guy? A martyr for the cause?
After Cunningham and Bajano squabble over the money, Cunningham is shot dead by one of the stooges. Five-O shows up, there is a gun battle. Bajano and this stooge are shot dead; the other stooge is captured by Chin and Kono.
It is possible that this show was inspired by real events.
According to Wikipedia: On July 4, 1957, U.S. rifle manufacturer Fairchild ArmaLite sold a five-year manufacturing license for the AR-10 to the Dutch arms manufacturer, Artillerie Inrichtingen (A.I.). With its large factory and production facilities, A.I. could produce the ArmaLite rifle in the large quantities that Fairchild expected would be forthcoming. (The guns in the show are identified as AR-10s, and they come from Holland.)
In 1957 Samuel Cummings, "a famous international arms dealer," secured a order of 7,500 AR-10 rifles from Nicaragua, with an initial delivery of 1,000 rifles to be delivered before January 1958. The order was contingent on a successful completion of a 7,500-round endurance test.
With the AR-10 in short supply, Cummings left his personal demonstrator rifle with Nicaragua's chief military commander, General Anastasio Somoza, who would personally conduct the endurance test trial. While General Somoza was firing this rifle for the trial, the bolt lug over the ejector sheared off and flew past Somoza's head. The general angrily returned Cumming's AR-10 and canceled the entire Nicaraguan order. The remaining rifles were inspected and refitted as necessary with new parts to prevent reoccurrence of the bolt lug failure, but the Nicaraguan order was lost for good.
In the show, according to Merrill, Cunningham (note the similarity of the name to "Cummings") "made a deal in Central America six months ago. It went sour. Everything was confiscated. It nearly wiped him out." As well, Cunningham is dealing with a Dutch arms manufacturer; Hank is talking to a guy at the company named VanDroot.
Injury: Claire Cunningham chloroformed when she is kidnapped.
Injury: Hank hit in the head with sap by one of the kidnappers.
Death: One of the kidnappers is found dead in Ben Cunningham's yard; later determined he was killed before the kidnapping.
Death: Guard dog is killed; fate of guard unknown.
Death (x2): Driver and ‘shotgun' of first truck loaded with guns shot by revolutionary.
Death: Revolutionary by crane shot by Ben.
Death: "1st Separatist" shot by men behind trucks who loaded guns.
Death: Kanjil shot by Ben. Injured at first but dies after talking to McGarrett.
Death: Ben shot by "1st Kidnapper"
Death: "1st Kidnapper" shot by Danno.
Death: Bajano shot by McGarrett.
There are parallels between this episode and S02E05, "Savage Sunday," another show where revolutionaries from a mysteriously-named foreign country come to Hawaii in search of armaments.
When Kanjil is at the pier, he pulls the pin on a grenade. The typical time for a grenade to explode is from 3-5 seconds, sometimes up to 7 seconds. The one in the show takes about 40 seconds to detonate after it is then hurled at one of the trucks after Kanjil runs almost up to the door of the warehouse.
Robert Luck is seen on a photo as one of the revolutionary suspects, and Beau Van Den Ecker plays "1st Separatist," on screen for about 15 seconds. Daniel Kamekona is a slimy general from Malanesia wearing sunglasses.
There are several stock shots: above the Iolani Palace as Five-O cars pull out onto the street, McGarrett running up the palace steps, McGarrett arriving at HPD headquarters, Winston Char and Kam Fong tracing a phone call. The last of these was first seen earlier this season in S03E06, "The Ransom."
Why the guns are at Pier 39 is difficult to understand. At the airport, Kono talks to Kwan Him Lim who plays a shipping clerk. He tells Kono that the guns have arrived from Holland and have gone to the pier. But then they are going to be brought back to the airport almost immediately to be shipped on another plane!
During his visit to Doc, McGarrett is wearing a grey suit. In the next scene he is going up the Iolani Palace steps (seen as a camera pans past columns at the front of the palace) in a blue suit (or maybe it is a black suit, hard to tell). In his office, his suit is blue.
During a chase near the end, where Five-O is following Cunningham around Honolulu to be led to the hideout where Claire is being held, Kono radios to McGarrett, but his voice seems altered. During this chase, McGarrett and Danno are using a map. Why? Don't they know their own town?
When the Malanesian consul is abusing McGarrett for his interference in the country's internal affairs near the end of the show, you can see him literally spitting at McGarrett.
Cars from Five-O and HPD approaching Bajano's hideout, which is in the middle of nowhere, are very noisy on the gravel.
The marimba theme is heard multiple times in this show; the "Pursuit" theme heard in S01E07, "The Ways of Love" is also heard when Claire is being grabbed.
Cunningham's house is again the Anderson Estate, seen in numerous other episodes. It seems odd that there is an armed guard with a dog outside; is Cunningham that paranoid?
At the beginning of the show, Cunningham tells his wife that if the current deal does not go through, "Hank and I will go back to flying charters, I promise you."
In response to a suggestion that the kidnapping was not particularly well-planned, Danno suggests that the kidnappers "could have been hopped up."
Doc says that they got Claire Cunningham's blood type from "Iolani Hospital," but the subtitles say that it was "Waianae Hospital."
69. (S03E21) “Dear Enemy” ★ DANNO, BOOK HIM
Director: Murray Golden; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Jackson Gillis; Music: Richard Shores
A woman fakes evidence to link two murders in an attempt to trick McGarrett into reinvestigating the homicide charge for which her husband was convicted.
No Full Plot for this show; see review below where I did a major "anal-ysis" of it! - MQ
This is more of a plot anal-ysis, which hopefully will help others to understand this talky and confusing story. Aside from the usual quality production values and excellent photography, about the only thing worth watching is guest star Vera Miles, but even her presence isn't enough to raise the rating from one star.
Ray Tobias (the very irritating Dub Taylor) returns from Australia, where he has been living for a year after leaving Hawaii. Described as "unreliable and opportunistic," he was formerly the manager of an apartment house where Betty Anders, the mistress of Fred Whiting (John Lipton), an aspiring politician, was murdered. Tobias makes a phone call, which we later discover was to lawyer Henry Lockman (Gary Collins).
After Tobias spends some time in the Pantheon Bar where the bartender is Lippy Espinda and Tobias runs up a hefty tab, he goes to the docks to meet someone (presumably Lockman), but he trips on a broken step, is knocked unconscious in the fall, and then murdered by drowning. McGarrett of course is suspicious, but Che Fong says there is nothing fishy about Tobias' end.
McGarrett meets with state senator Amos Bolin (William O'Donnell), a friend of Whiting's, after the newspapers run muckracking stories trying to connect the murdered Tobias with the sensational trial after Anders' murder, which resulted in Whiting being convicted. Bolin says that there is no connection at all, because Tobias was an "inconsequential witness." While Tobias -- who was on the witness stand for only a few minutes -- saw Whiting and Anders going into her apartment on occasion, he was not present when the murder took place.
Lockman, Whiting's tax counsellor, political advisor and business partner, co-owned Anders' apartment building with Whiting, and is now backing Bolin in the upcoming senatorial elections.
McGarrett gets a call from Lockman to meet with Whiting's wife Flora (Vera Miles) who everyone thought was in a hospital on the mainland after having a nervous breakdown. She has returned to Hawaii ostensibly to meet with Tobias, having received a letter from him saying that he had information about other people seen with Anders which could clear her husband. However, when McGarrett asks to see the letter, she says it was lost in the hospital on the mainland.
Flora says when she returned to Hawaii a few days before, she went to the beach house where she and her husband formerly lived and went into her husband's room where she found a broken cuff link under a piece of furniture, which she gives to McGarrett. It turns out that a cuff link which was found under Anders' murdered body and traced back to her husband was a vital piece of evidence which helped to convict him. According to McGarrett, that cuff link is in "the attorney general's files."
There was another cuff link which the police subpoenaed from Flora to compare to the one under the body ... which was returned to her and is now in her safety deposit box. When McGarrett asks to have this cuff link, Flora says that she will go to the bank with Lockman to get it.
McGarrett meets with Whiting, who is in Oahu State Prison. Whiting says he left his job at the university to run for the state legislature. He says he met Betty when she walked into his office "by mistake." Whiting says that when he got home to the beach house on the night when Betty was murdered (he and Betty had a fight prior to this, but he swears he did not kill her), he noticed that one of his cuff links was missing. Whiting says Betty threatened to expose their relationship, but he was primarily concerned with confessing everything to his wife.
After this, Flora meets with McGarrett in his office, and she has suddenly got one page of Tobias' missing letter, but not another which gives more details about why Tobias wanted to meet her in Hawaii. When questioned about the second page, Flora can't remember what was on it, then says that it was of such a sensitive nature that Tobias had to come to Hawaii to talk to her about it.
While she is talking with McGarrett, Danno comes in with the other part of the broken cuff link that the cops have just found after a search in Whiting's beach house room (strange that no one found it a year before!). Flora tells McGarrett "You thought the broken link was the one I had in the safety deposit box."
Five-O later tracks down an associate of a jeweller who made the original cufflinks named Bill Makoto (Ah Vah), and in a surprise confrontation with him in McGarrett's office, Flora admits that she had the duplicate (broken) cuff link made up and planted the evidence to try and spring her husband from jail. McGarrett is very annoyed, saying that Flora will likely be charged with manufacturing evidence, among other things. He sends Flora back to her hotel room to be put under a doctor's care.
Following this, Lockman is in the outer Five-O office and overhears Danno saying in a really obvious way that Five-O is closing in on the person who broke into the flophouse room where Tobias was staying and ransacked the place earlier (it was Lockman). Lockman actually lifts up the phone to hear Danno talking to Kono!
At Flora's hotel room, Lockman drugs her drink. He tells her that he broke into Tobias' room because he wanted "her story to look better." He also admits that he set up her husband with Betty and walked in on Betty after she had the fight with Flora's husband. When Betty said that she was going to expose Lockman, he had to kill her. Lockman is just about to dump Flora's near-comatose body over the hotel room's balcony when McGarrett and Danno burst in.
I swore I would not watch this episode again, having just rearranged the original review which was one long paragraph into a bunch of shorter paragraphs.
But, of course, I could not resist watching and soon grabbed my clipboard I use to take notes.
While the show started out OK, it didn't take long for things to get complicated.
Tobias is supposed to meet someone at Pier 5A after his evening of heavy drinking. Rather than just stay on the dock by this warehouse, he goes down these steps, one of which is rotten, and he trips and falls on the floating dock. Someone unseen hits him on the back of his head and then holds him underwater, drowning him. First, I'm surprised that Che Fong never saw a bruise on the back of Tobias' head, and secondly, how does Che know that Tobias' blood type, found on the dock, is type AB? It would take at least 20 or 30 minutes to identify this in a lab, aside from the time it took to transport the sample to the lab. Whether Tobias would fall down in such a way that only his head was under water (you can see the typical crime lab outline of his body on the dock) is debatable, because probably the lower half of his body would have to be on the dock, if he completely didn't slip into the water.
Later, Danno manages to figure out that a phone call that Tobias made from a pay phone at the dock after he got off the boat from Australia was made to Lockman's office. This is very suspect -- did the phone company at the time have the ability to track calls in such a precise manner? Perhaps they are just bluffing when they confront Lockman with this fact later, because Lockman doesn't dispute it.
Lockman manages to figure out where the flophouse Tobias was staying in is located. How did he do this? Did Tobias tell him where it was during their phone conversation? Tobias isn't even using his real name to stay at the place. He is "Stanley Jefferson." When Lockman goes and tosses the place, he knocks out the woman caretaker. But after Five-O gets a call from her and goes there, how do they connect the place with Tobias? Didn't Lockman take Tobias's passport which he found? (Lockman seems quite surprised to see this.) When Kono gets there, he knows that Tobias was using the room, but says that it just contains "dirty laundry."
One of the major problems with the script has to do with cufflinks which were evidence that was used to send Fred Whiting to jail a year before, after his mistress Betty Anders was found murdered.
When McGarrett goes to visit Flora Whiting, Fred's wife, who has returned to Hawaii after spending time in a hospital on the mainland because she could not deal with her husband going to jail, among other things, she gives him a piece of a cufflink which is broken. She says she found this when she "moved a piece of furniture" at the beach house owned by her and her husband when she visited the place a couple of days before (on "Wednesday").
After Anders' murder over a year ago, a cufflink was found under her body at the beach house, which connected Fred to the murder for which he was convicted and went to jail. Back then, Fred Whiting had "lost [the cufflink] days before." According to Lockman, the couple's lawyer, that cufflink is likely "in the attorney general's files" (which it is). The matching link from the pair was subpoenaed for evidence in the trial and was returned to Flora later. She says it is now in her safety deposit box (which it seemingly was, she gives it to McGarrett later). The other part of the broken cufflink is located in Whiting's beach house room after another sweep of the place. It seems very odd that this was not found there before.
Later it is revealed that "four days ago," Flora went to Makoto, who created the original custom-made cufflinks, and got him to make another one in the same style. So what was the point of this? Did she find the broken cufflink after when she went to the beach house? Or did she break this new cufflink and leave part of it at the beach house where it would be found later and then give the other part to McGarrett? The whole business with the cufflinks is VERY confusing.
At the end of the show, Flora is taken back to her hotel room after freaking out in McGarrett's office. Her doctor, Wurderman (Bob Gleason), gives her a sedative and she goes to sleep. Lockman goes to the room after the doctor and Chin Ho leave and lets himself in with Flora's keys which she gave him earlier. Flora is awakened by a ringing phone (which is McGarrett phoning; Lockman does not answer it). Lockman offers to give her some more medication, but Flora wants a drink; this is a very bad idea to mix these two things. In addition to giving her a pill, Lockman dumps more of the medicine into the drink, unseen by her (I think).
On the verge of passing out, Flora suddenly starts blabbing away, asking Lockman if he ransacked Tobias' room (does she know about this?) and killed Tobias. She also knows that the doctor didn't let Lockman into the room, despite being asleep when Lockman entered. She knows more plot details as well, like the fact Tobias knew Lockman killed Anders, who then "blamed it" (???) on her husband. Lockman starts blabbing away too, telling how he set up her husband with Anders. (The explanation for what happened, like most of this, is not particularly clear.) But he really doesn't care, because he intends to dump Flora's nearly-comatose body over the balcony to the street below.
In the nick of time, McGarrett and Danno show up and stop him from doing this, but then McGarrett says, "We found out who rented the green sedan [seen leaving Tobias' motel after the room was tossed]. But you had to stop her from telling us you took the car, didn't you, Lockman? You borrowed it to get to Tobias' motel and ransack his room." Who is "her" that he borrowed the car from?
There are a lot more unanswered questions when this show is over, like why did Lockman set up his friend Whiting in the first place? And what will happen to Whiting now? Will he be released from jail? Unlikely, considering that Lockman is a sleazy lawyer who will probably find further ways to obstruct justice. He will no doubt say that when he was trying to dump Flora's body over the balcony that he was just taking her outside for some fresh air. And her testimony about anything that he confessed just before this is unreliable because of the stupor-like state she was in from the medication and booze!
When Flora Whiting first meets McGarrett in the show, she says, "I greet the enemy." McGarrett says, "The enemy?" to which she replies, "Oh, yes, of course. But thank you for coming so quickly. " Later, McGarrett tells Flora, "I'm a cop. I work on facts. Doesn't make any difference now what anybody thought, myself included. You see, Mrs. Whiting, I am not the enemy." At the end of the show, when everything is resolved, Flora calls McGarrett "My dear enemy," and hugs him.
Injury: Ray Tobias falls down the stairs at Pier 5A.
Death: Tobias hit in the head and held under water.
Injury: Landlady hit in head, knocked unconscious by Lockman.
Injury: Flora Whiting overdosed by Lockman.
There are some good quotes from McGarrett: "My job is to dig out the truth ... wherever it lies, wherever it's buried"; :I'm a cop. I work on facts. Doesn't make any difference now what anybody thought, myself included"; "You've gotta be a lawyer to be a cop today, Danno."
Some of the minor character names in the end titles are arranged like the guest stars.
The shot where McGarrett arrives and enters the prison is from the first season episode, "The Box." The sequence where McGarrett walks across the prison yard looking up is from "The Double Wall."
The song heard at the pier at the beginning is the one sung by children in "Kiss the Queen Goodbye."
McGarrett and Danno get to Flora's apartment very fast at the end of the show after getting no response from phoning her.
Danno shows McGarrett a photocopy of a check from Lockman made out to Tobias drawn on the Central Pacific Bank. Danno says the check was made out "a year ago," but it is dated October 8, 1960. The bank has stamped the check, "1970" can be seen.
The prison shirt worn by Whiting has the number 18790. This is the same number on the California prison shirts worn by McGarrett and Barca in first season episode, "The Ways of Love."
The Honolulu Advertiser with a date which seems like Tuesday, October 13, 1970 is seen. The headline on the paper is "Whiting case mystery death," with heads on other articles: "CR timing disputed," and "milk fight here may go to courts."
The rent for Tobias' flophouse room is 50 cents a day.
On the phone that Lockman uses to snoop on Danno's conversation in the middle of the rotary dial where the phone number should be, it says "Someone's Hoping You'll Call Long Distance." The phone has a hold button, plus four numbers: 732-5577, 732-5589, 732-5579 and 732-5500, and one other button.
As Lockman leaves the Five-O office after listening to the call, there is weird electronic-sounding music.
At the end of the show, Lockman tells Flora her husband was "Simon-pure." This obscure expression, according to one web page, is from from the phrase "the real Simon Pure," name of a character in the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717) by Susannah Centlivre (1669–1723) who is impersonated by another character in some scenes. It means "real, genuine," or "authentic."
70. (S03E22) “The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney” ★★½
Director: Paul Stanley; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Eric Bercovici & Jerry Ludwig; Music: Stock
When Marty Collins comes to the Five-O office to avenge his brother's killing by Danno and finds Danno is not there, he takes people hostage.
This episode would have been a lot better if it weren't for one huge goof. The brother of Thad Vaughn, who Danno accidentally killed in S01E05, "....And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin," takes people hostage in the Five-O offices, demanding that Danno show up so he can avenge Thad's death. But in this show, Thad's name has been changed to Joey Collins, and his brother, the hostage taker, is Marty Collins (played by Mark Jenkins)!
There are various hostage taking complications such as one might expect. The people in the office who are rounded up are Jenny, a cop named Officer Kyle (Vernie Hoke), Chin Ho and an elderly woman Chin is interviewing, Minnie Leona Moroney (Hope Summers). Danno is out of the building, but soon shows up, despite Kono trying to get more time by saying that Danno is returning from Maui and won't be back for a couple of hours.
McGarrett is out of town in Chicago, and offers advice to Danno, Kono and others on the phone. The time difference between the two cities is 5 hours, suggesting that Chicago is currently on Central Daylight Time.
Marty was serving a prison term for armed robbery, with a sentence of two-to-ten years. Having become an "ideal prisoner," he was released on parole only five days before, yet he has already assembled an arsenal of weapons: a gun, several sticks of dynamite and a grenade which is blue in color and looks like it is made out of plastic. Marty says that he picked up knowledge on how to assemble all of this stuff in prison, "practical electronics."
Some of the dynamite and the grenade are put on the door to McGarrett's office after everyone is forced inside there. To further emphasize he means business, Marty makes Kyle go out on to the palace balcony, where he shoots him in the back, causing him to fall to the ground below. A report from the hospital later says that Kyle will survive.
What's going on in the office can be monitored through the phone system, because Chin Ho took the phone on McGarrett's desk off the hook and dialed through to the information desk in the Palace before he was blinded from the flash of Marty's gun during an altercation after Kyle was shot.
Mrs. Moroney, who came to the Five-O office to complain that her children want her to come back to Wisconsin because she is too old to be on her own, is the loose cannon among the hostages. She is a "take no crap" kind of old biddy who does not hesitate in speaking her mind to Marty. Although he is very agitated, Marty does not just shoot her, instead telling her that she is "nasty." Minnie seems to have the attitude that "if you shoot me, it doesn't matter, because I am old," and Marty is equally determined to blow himself up with the others if he doesn't get what he wants.
Having arrived, Danno takes charge of the situation in a manner similar to S01E10, "Yesterday Died And Tomorrow Won't Be Born," where McGarrett was out of action after a failed assassination attempt. HPD SWAT team members are shown running up the inside stairs of the real Iolani Palace, but they are prevented from storming the office because Marty has rigged the door from the inside with explosives.
A sharpshooter named Olena (Roland Naauao) is stationed 214 yards across the street, but he can't get a clear shot because Marty rarely approaches a window and if he does, there is usually someone else in the way. Olena is not the same actor playing the character with this name, a close friend of Danno, who appears in S05E04, "Pig in a Blanket." There he is played by Frank Atienza, who has already been seen in S02E05, Savage Sunday, as Cooper.
Danno is run off his feet, taking charge both in the Palace and also across the street, conferring with Olena and other cops. To me, rushing back and forth seems not like a particularly good move, because Marty could look out the window and see this activity. Danno tries to get to McGarrett's office through the air conditioning system, but it is too narrow.
With time running out, Danno finally surrenders, going into the office where Marty puts on a vest containing some of the dynamite and activates a timer on a detonator also on the vest which is set to go off in half an hour. Of course, Marty does not just shoot Danno, though we have already seen Danno getting shot three times in a dream-like sequence in Marty's mind.
Danno tells Marty that the killing of Joey (Thad) was an accident, and he "grieved" for his brother, which doesn't evoke any sympathy. Excerpts from the season one episode are seen, showing the chase which led up to Danno firing through the door of Thad's apartment and fatally wounding him, as well as the discussion that Danno and McGarrett had afterwards about how police work was "a stinking job."
Prompted by Minnie telling Marty that he is "a common hooligan" and "a little coward," Danno taunts Marty big time, saying his brother was "yellow and snivelling" and "a no-good punk," daring Marty to shoot him dead while looking him in the eye, while at the same time maneuvering Marty to appear in Olena's sights.
Olena finally takes Marty out, but the timer on the dynamite is still ticking. Through the door, Danno takes nail-biting instructions from the HPD bomb expert Mossman (Doug Mossman). (Danno will later show expertise as someone dealing with bombs in S05E12, "The Clock Struck Twelve.") Though the time frame for the detonator to go off seems to have been exceeded, Danno manages to take care of things using a knife which he just happens to have on him and some wire from the telephone which Marty tore out of the wall, though further details like how the grenade and dynamite on the door are dealt with are not shown.
Considering McGarrett is only seen in the show for just over 4 minutes, he almost has the last word, though Danno at the end tells Minnie "I don't think anyone [like her relatives trying to get her to come home] can force you to do anything you don't want to." As Jenny gives Danno a hug, the phone rings and she answers it. In other words, it's "back to business as usual," a nice touch.
It's too bad that the IDs of the two brothers were screwed up, because otherwise this could have been a top episode, despite the contrived finale with the deactivating of the bomb. James MacArthur gives an excellent performance to rival the one he gave earlier this season in "Beautiful Screamer," especially from about 31:30 where Marty's identity and reason for the hostage taking are finally revealed. Aside from the big goof, the episode is well-written and well-acted by others as well.
Injury: Officer Kyle is shot by Marty and falls over railing onto ground.
Injury: Chin Ho has Marty's gun flare in face, blinding him.
Death: Officer Olena shoots Marty in the head.
The shot near the beginning showing three men walking across the prison yard is from the first season episode "The Box." R.G. Armstrong is no longer the prison warden.
The phone number of the reception desk in the Palace is 555-2368, extension 15, but the area code is 311, not 808. A large sign in the entrance to the Palace says there is an ongoing restoration project sponsored by the Friends of the Iolani Palace.
The opening stock shot, taken from high above, shows McGarrett -- who is in Chicago -- running down the Palace steps and getting in his car.
The two excerpts from the first season show take up just over 2 minutes.
As Danno is defusing the bomb at the end of the show, the marbima theme is heard.
When Olena finally takes out Marty, can the shot be heard by the cops and Five-O team members inside the palace waiting to get into the office?
In attempt to get through to Marty, his mother (Bea Barrett-Davis) is brought to the Palace in record time. (She must live just a few blocks away.) Unfortunately, her presence just seems to agitate him more. Earlier on, he told Minnie that she reminded him of his mother, "The way she used to yell at me and Joey when we were little kids."
71 & 72. (S03E23 & S03E24) “The Grandstand Play” ★★★★
Director: Paul Stanley; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writer: Adrian Spies; Music: Stock
Director: Paul Stanley; Producer: Robert Stambler; Writers: Adrian Spies, Eric Bercovici and Jerry Ludwig (teleplay), Adrian Spies (story); Music: Richard Shores
Timings: Teaser: 9:03; Main Titles: 1:00; Act One: 8:29; Act Two: 8:03; Act Three: 10:37; Act Four: 12:37; End Credits: 0:53; Total Time: 50:42.
When the developmentally challenged son of a professional baseball player witnesses a murder at the ballpark, he is reluctant to tell his father or the authorities.
After the death of his wife and with only a couple of years left in his career, American League baseball star Lon Phillips (Pernell Roberts) comes with his son Gary (Elliott Street) to Hawaii to play in the Hawaii Islanders minor league team. Gary is developmentally challenged, and Lon finds himself frustrated in bringing the kid up himself. Lon's friend in the majors for ten years, Coley Bennett (Jock Mahoney), also in Hawaii now, tells McGarrett that Gary is a "sweet kid" who Lon figures it's "easier out here" to raise "away from the big cities." Lon tells his son, "We're gonna make it."
On the first night when Lon appears at a game for his new team, Gary finds himself enmeshed in a mess of trouble. He leaves his seat in the stands to get a hot dog and runs into a drunken older woman, Emily Workman (Electra Galias Fair), who he helps when she starts to fall to the ground. She rewards him with a kiss, then wipes off her lipstick with an embroidered handkerchief. Shortly after this encounter, Emily is strangled to death nearby under the stadium bleachers. The man who kills her, Lou Horton (Don Chastain), a security guard at the stadium, bumps into Gary when he is fleeing from the scene.
Grilled by members of Five-O, including McGarrett, Gary doesn't want to admit witnessing anything, since he was not supposed to leave his house seat, where his father was keeping his eye on him. Emily's husband, Lester Workman (Barry Atwater) is also present at the game, along with the Governor. He tells Five-O that his wife, from whom he has been legally separated for a year, approached him "lushed up" earlier and proceeded to embarrass him and publicly humiliate him as was her wont.
Five-O's questioning of Gary is strictly with kid gloves, not so much because of his condition but because of his father's celebrity status. In fact, the show is quite remarkable for the way that Five-O bends over backwards to interview and deal with Gary and try and get his co-operation, which is not forthcoming.
McGarrett talks to Holbrook (Tim Tindall), a tennis pro at a club where Workman and his wife used to hang out. Holbrook says that Emily had "style and class in everything she did ... or almost did." Holbrook says that one day when her husband wasn't around at the court, she showed up and started "throwing her body around" at him, but they later avoided having an affair, because she was scared of losing her kids and all the alimony she was getting.
McGarrett goes to see Workman, who is very reluctant to tell him anything. He says that contrary to local rumours, he was not having his wife watched. His children are currently living with him, and he is taking great care to protect them, like hiding the day's newspaper which has a front-page story about his wife's murder. (The children are not seen in the show.)
This issue of the paper -- the Honolulu Advertiser -- has the usual lower case headlines on the front page: "woman socialite is slain at stadium"; "body found beneath bleachers"; "danger of super war"; "scientist reports moon rock missing"; "serious peace effort signaled"; and "City remap plan could be voided -- see page A-12." There is a picture of Lon and Gary with a caption: "Tragedy mars Island debut of Lon Phillips."
Meanwhile, Lou Horton is becoming unhinged, knowing that he bumped into Gary -- who he also saw in the newspaper photo -- at the stadium. He is drinking from a bottle of Golden Delight bourbon whiskey, and his partner in crime, identified in the credits only as "Horton's Girl" (Josie Over) is smoking. Horton wants to "take care" of Gary, calling him a "dumb little fat slob" and that he will "shut him up for good."
Horton goes to Lon and Gary's apartment, where he is seen snooping through the window by the place's manager (Ed Fernandez). He tells the manager that he is looking for someone named "Johnson," but the manager says the tenants there are named "Phillips." Gary is not there, because his father, in frustration, screamed at him earlier and Gary is taking a tour of the downtown area on a bus where the guide (Laola Ohai) has taken a liking to him. Lon, who found a handkerchief at their place that Emily Workman dropped at the stadium which Gary obviously picked up and McGarrett told him about earlier, has been out trying to find his son. When Lon comes home, the apartment manager starts addressing him as "Mr. Johnson," as if he is trying to be funny.
Around this time, Five-O learns of several large withdrawals from Emily Workman's bank account: $1,500, then $2,000 and then $3,000.
When Gary's city tour is over, he makes his way home. Horton has been watching their place from a bar across the street where he rebuffed the advances of a hooker.
Lon has gone to the Five-O office to see McGarrett. After McGarrett tells him "Your son's life might be in danger," and a great deal of hesitation, Lon shows McGarrett the handkerchief. Interestingly, the embroidery of E.W., which was originally in a script type, is now in a large, sans-serif font. McGarrett immediately contacts Kono and tells him to head to the Phillips' apartment.
Kono arrives there just as Gary is about to walk in the door, closely followed by Horton, but when Kono yells at Gary, he freaks out, runs away and hides. Kono is oblivious to Horton, who sees Gary then get on a bus. Horton follows the bus until Gary gets off and starts to cross the street, at which point Horton tries to run him over with his car.
(This is where part one of this two-parter ends.)
Horton doesn't run over Gary because another car suddenly pulls out from behind the kid and Horton has to swerve to avoid an accident.
Chin Ho goes and sees Emily Workman's maid Lily Ahn (Sod Yong), who originally put the handkerchief in Emily's pocketbook. (Emily must have been getting a lot of alimony to afford this kind of help.) The maid is distraught, not wanting any more dirt to besmirch her former employer, but Chin is persistent (Kam Fong is excellent in this scene). He shows her the hanky -- the original one with the script type!
Chin wonders, "Can you tell me why Mrs. Workman went to the stadium so often? Was she seeing someone there?" Ahn explains: "She had met him [she doesn't say specifically who this is, presumably it is Horton]. Then there was something terrible, pictures of them together that he had. And she had to give him money. But the other night, the last night, she'd decided no more. No more money. No more blackmail or she was going to call the police ... She never said his name. But that's where she met him, at the stadium." This refusal to engage in any more blackmail is the motivation for Horton's killing Emily.
McGarrett goes to see Workman again, offering his theory that his wife was being blackmailed because of the photos that Chin was told about. Workman is still unco-operative, but McGarrett tells him they can't let things rest as long as Gary's life is in danger. Workman still denies he had his wife followed, saying again, "I didn't hate my wife." When McGarrett leaves, Workman makes a call ... to Josie ("Horton's Girl"), saying they have to get together "right away."
McGarrett is convinced that Workman was having his wife tailed, and orders the Five-O team to check with all the local private investigators, of which there are only 14 (not very many, in my opinion). These guys are not enthusiastic about opening their case books to people like Chin and Danno until they are threatened with a warrant.
One of these PIs named Galvin (Tom Fujiwara) was hired by Workman, but summarily dismissed a couple of weeks later. This just motivated Galvin, a self-described "snoop," to keep digging and he found out that Workman obtained the services of a woman who looked like "a girl friend" (Josie) but their relationship was "Strictly business ... Cash on the line. He gives, she takes." In other words, she was blackmailing Workman. Instead of helping to produce an artist's sketch of this "knockout ... Eurasian, real cute ... maybe a little frayed around the edges," the "snoopy" Galvin has photos of her which he took with a telephoto lens.
Workman meets with Josie, who is driving a Datsun Sports 1600, so the blackmail business must pay off. Josie originally came to Workman about her "friend" Horton meeting Emily at the stadium club bar and that how, because of this, she and Horton might be able to do him some good, keeping an eye on his wife. Workman says that their efforts exceeded his expectations: "In fact, I think you've even done me a big favor … With Emily dead, all my problems are solved." He tells her to burn the negatives from the pictures (we already saw Josie doing this early on in the show) and "Forget that you ever knew me. And I'll forget that I ever knew you." He tells her to also forget about any money which might still be owing: "The bank just closed." Workman finishes their conversation by telling her, "Remember this, I've got far more on you than you ever had on my wife. I've got you for murder."
When Josie returns home, Horton is even more agitated than before. Although she says she told Workman nothing, he told her that she and Horton should both "get out, go away." Horton tells her "The kid saw me and Workman knows. [This is two separate things, not that Workman knows Gary saw him.] Now, that's the same thing. We'll get away, but first there's loose ends and I'm gonna take care of them." McGarrett and Danno, armed with the further evidence from Galvin, go to Workman's place, but when they arrive, Horton has beaten them there and murdered Workman by strangulation. Workman's body is found floating in the water in front of his oceanfront property.
Meanwhile, Gary is wandering around town, and befriends a bunch of kids who are playing baseball, impressing them with the fact that he is Lon Phillips' son. He leads this gang to the stadium where he says he can get them in for free, but is discouraged when he sees the place is crawling with cops who are actually looking for him, because he is expected to show up for the game that evening, just like every game where his father plays. The kids know a secret way to get into the stadium for free, but once inside, Gary gets spotted by Josie (who works in the stadium's concession stand!) and Horton.
Horton confronts Gary and tries to strangle him, but McGarrett steps in, punches out Horton and busts him and Josie. Gary tells McGarrett, "He's the man that hurt that lady, mister." Gary is reunited with his father, who has been climbing the walls all day wondering what has happened to his son.
This is a leisurely-paced show, which might almost have been compressed enough to fit in a single hour. (I'm sure the new Five-Zero could have done this.) The acting is excellent throughout. Pernell Roberts is particularly good expressing the frustration he feels with Gary, who it sounds like had some episodes of troublesome behavior before: "He was doing all right, he liked it here." Some of the filming, like the finale, was done at an actual ball game in Honolulu.
There are several instances of the "memories" musical theme throughout, as well as the marimba theme. Interestingly, the first part is stock music, but the second part is scored by Richard Shores. Similarly, the first half was written by just Adrian Spies, but the second half has Spies down for the story, whereas the teleplay is by Eric Bercovici, Jerry Ludwig and Spies.
Death: Emily Workman strangled under ballpark grandstand by Lou Horton.
Death: Lester Workman strangled by Lou Horton.
Injury: Horton attempts to strangle Gary under the bleachers before McGarrett and Danno arrive.
Injury: Horton punches McGarrett and attempts to strangle him.
Injury: McGarrett throws Horton into metal wall during fistfight. Horton is punched multiple times before being subdued.
Lon Phillips' number with the team is #2. As the show begins, we see #26 at the plate, then #20. Lon is next, and he hits a double, later making it to home plate. But then #20 is at bat again, followed by #26.
Gary's seat at the stadium is number B8, 1-3, which is on the right side of the aisle looking up from the playing field, but he says that it is "B8, 1-1 on the aisle." When he shows Five-O the location on a floor plan of the stadium later, this seat is on the left of the aisle (it is just called "B8"). As well, there is no seat in front of the one on the floor plan, whereas there is a seat there when we see the shot of the crowd, which looks like the number might start with B4.
The establishing shot from above the tennis court in this show is taken from "Beautiful Screamer" earlier this season.
According to Gary, the address where he and his father are living is "142 Ocean Boulevard," but it is actually across from the Ambassador Hotel on Namahana Street.
When Lon comes home from the store with groceries, a container of orange/passion juice is visible in the bag. Gary is eating corn flakes from a box on the kitchen table where the brand name, Kellogg's, is covered with a label. A tin of butter cookies is also seen at their place. A copy of Life Magazine is on a table in their living room.
In the bar across the street from the Philips' place, there is promotion for Primo Beer on the wall, and the bartender is seen carrying a case with Primo on it. As Horton is waiting in the bar, he looks outside and sees a couple crossing in the crosswalk and a white car pulling up to the intersection. Virtually the same shot is repeated at the beginning of Act Four. Later, on the back of the bus which Gary takes and Horton tails, there is an ad for Primo Beer. (This bus is spewing a lot of pollution as it is driving!)
Both McGarrett and Kono get in their cars from the passenger side.
Near the end of the show, McGarrett says there are five entrances plus the players' gate to the stadium, but when he enumerates them with his finger on the map in his office, there are seven entrances.
At the stadium, there are various large advertising signs for companies like BP, Seiko, Sony, Zippy's, Sanyo, etc. There are also signs above particular sections of the stadium as if they are intended for employees of specific companies.
Under Emily Workman's bank book on McGarrett's desk is a bunch of paperwork (not specified) which is signed by Elmer B. Senner on March 1, 1962.
A good line from McGarrett to Workman in this show: "Nobody can keep things hidden forever."
Workman's address is 1343 Pualei, phone number 841-1851
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The Happy Hour #353: Amy Ford
by jamieivey | Jan 6, 2021 | Podcast | 0 comments
My guest for The Happy Hour #353 is Amy Ford. Amy Ford is the President of Embrace Grace, Inc., a non-profit organization formed for the purpose of providing curriculum and leadership support for churches nationwide to open their arms to young women with unplanned pregnancies. Embrace Grace is utilized by over 700 churches across the nation and world. She is also the author of Help Her Be Brave: Discover Your Place in the Pro-Life Movement.
My friend, Bri, connected Amy and I a few months ago and I am so happy she did! In today’s episode, we talk about our new goals for 2021, the work that Embrace Grace is doing to empower women with resources, and her own story on going through an unplanned pregnancy. Amy also tells so many incredible stories about encountering women with unplanned pregnancies in the most unlikely places, and the importance of pro-love action beyond the pro-life stance. She worded it so perfectly when she said “You can’t just vote a certain way. You have to be able to walk alongside her and put our actions to our beliefs. If you’re pro-life, where’s the action behind it? Because that’s where the radical change is going to happen.” Oof. That has been really profound for me as I’ve been learning how to better love and support women by being the church. Our prayer is that we would put in the work to make the church the first place women turn to in these difficult and often lonely situations, walking alongside them through it all. I’m so thankful for Amy’s voice in this conversation and her commitment to protect life and support women. Check out her new book Help Her Be Brave!
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“I also particularly enjoyed Jane Quinn’s Jennyanydots. Cats have nine lives – but these ones will surely live forever.”
Cats – London Palladium, 28/10/15, The Telegraph, Rupert Christiansen.
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Jane will be touring the UK with Theatre Royal Bath’s production of “God of Carnage” directed by Lindsay Posner, until 15th February 2020.
Jane will be playing the role of Anna in Rags at the Hope Mill Theatre from 2nd March – 6th April 2019.
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The Nightingales
This exciting new play by William Gaminara, directed by Chris Luscombe will open at The Theatre Royal Bath on 7th November 2018 ahead of a UK tour. Jane will be covering the lead roles of Connie and Diane.
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Jeffrey Mosser – Theatre Maker
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Jeffrey Mosser is a director and champion of devised and ensemble-based work. He hosts the From the Ground Up podcast interviewing members of collaboratively creative companies from around the country about how they sustain their work artistically, financially, and socially.
He has trained with Augusto Boal, Liz Lerman, Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, ImprovBoston, Dominique Serrand, Giovanni Fusetti, Double Edge Theater, and the inmates from Shakespeare Behind Bars located within a medium-security prison. As a Co-Founder of Project: Project Theatre Ensemble — a devising theatre ensemble that blended scripted material with improvisation in site-specific/non-traditional spaces — he put this training directly into practice. Preferring generating to interpreting, Project: Project explored theatrical form, aesthetics, and the role of the audience.
He has contributed to new play development at Lookingglass Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, O’Neill Theater Center, and Actors Theatre of Louisville with directors and playwrights including Anne Bogart, Jamie Castañeda, David Catlin, Trip Cullman, Sean Daniels, Michael Friedman, Lauren Gunderson, Israel Hicks, Mike Lew, Kirk Lynn, Mark Masterson, Aaron Posner, Jessica Thebus, and, Mary Zimmerman.
Previously as Social Media and Community Outreach Director for the Plays for Presidents Festival, Jeff was a key member in the coordination of the largest election-year theatrical event in the United States since the Federal Theatre Project’s It Can’t Happen Here. He organized, recruited, and connected 46 productions of 44 Plays for 44 Presidents which all performed on/around election night 2012.
Favorite directing credits include Shiver: A Fairytale of Anxious Proportions1 1. A Phobic Folklorist Fugues the Fuck Out, How May I Connect You? (Or, Scenes in the Key of D:\), and What Are You Doing Here? with Project: Project Theatre Ensemble, bobraushenbergamerica and Secret in the Wings at the National High School Institute, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents at Bad Habit Productions, T: An MBTA Musical (Broadway World Best Musical, Best Director 2011, 2012) at American Repertory Theatre’s Club Oberon, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (DASH: Best Director Nominee) at the Footlight Club, and Imagination and A Threepenny Space Opera at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Jeffrey is a proud member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters, board member of Quasimondo Physical Theatre, Associate Lecturer at UW-Milwaukee, the Education Manager at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and a hobbyist pumpkin carver — which is not on his CV.
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AKOYA - WaterA new generation of seaplanes
The AKOYA is the most aquatic of all amphibious planes; the aircraft’s shape, giving it the appearance of a marine mammal, amply attests to its aquatic capacities. We have not transformed an aircraft to create one that floats on water—we have created an aquatic aircraft. Its fins, called “Seafoils,” are a distinguishing feature, both in terms of the aircraft’s appearance and performance.
The revolutionary “seafoils”
The AKOYA has completely revolutionized seaplanes, thanks to LISA’s patented “Seafoils” technology.
Unlike other seaplanes, the AKOYA has neither a conventional hull nor step. There are no break lines, no joints in its aerodynamic fuselage, enabling it to achieve flight performances that are unprecedented in the seaplane industry, while giving it an eye-catching design.
Like a fish in water
Designed like “aquatic fins,” the “Seafoils,” like hydrofoils used on boats, raise the fuselage above the water at very low speeds, enabling take-off over short distances.
When the aircraft is taking off from the water, the “Seafoils” buffer the effect of the lapping waves, providing unrivalled comfort and giving the plane a high degree of stability, even on rough seas. The AKOYA can therefore take off in much more varied sea conditions than amphibious planes fitted with standard floats or hulls.
Everything, including the cockpit, is aquatic
Boarding the aircraft after a swim, facilitated by the step integrated into the “Seafoils,” and the seats, which are made from materials that are traditionally used in the nautical industry, make it possible to fully enjoy the pleasures of diving in the middle of a lagoon.
Inversely, it is quite possible to berth the plane without getting your feet wet and to move your AKOYA from the shore into the water, thanks to its retractable landing gear, which is treated against corrosion and can be operated in water.
AKOYA - A YACHT TENDER
The AKOYA can be transformed into an amazing tender
AKOYA - LAND AND SNOW
A versatile aircraft: on dry land and snow
LISA - SEAFOILS
Small ailerons that make a big difference
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Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective > Columns & Features > Guest Voz > Guest Voz: Climate Change is Impacting Migrant Farm Workers
Guest Voz: Climate Change is Impacting Migrant Farm Workers
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By Osvaldo Lopez
Rio Grande Guardian
The rhythm of the crunching dry soil slowed and eventually came to a halt with a big crash.
The girl’s uncle heard and crossed through three rows to find her motionless body face-up. It was a calm day, and the air could not have been any more still, but panic surged through the workers as the girl’s uncle cried for help.
At the sound of his desperate voice, several workers began rushing and swatting through the corn plants where the uncle was holding the girl up on his knees. Every worker took a limb, and they carried her body out of the corn field. Once away from the tall corn plants co-workers swayed their sombreros across her face hoping she would regain consciousness. Her closed eyes and her head hanging with no support instilled fear in her uncle and every worker.
That morning she went to the field calm, sleepy, and ready to work but left with sirens wailing.
Data collected from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that heat-related deaths among migrant farm workers may be increasing. Instances of migrant workers fainting and dying from heat stroke have been more frequent in recent years.
I have been a migrant farm worker for eight years. I first started when I was 11 years old. I remember working the fields and being able to finish what the company planned for the day. We began at six in the morning while the crops wore fog as a blanket, and we usually finished tired, sore, and hungry at around 4 or 5 p.m.
Now, the story is different. Hotter temperatures force my co-workers to quit by noon, many of them by 10 a.m.
The reason why fellow workers are no longer able to continue working throughout the day can be linked to the increase in temperatures which we acquired through polluting our earth. Some stop performing their field work by choice and others are forced to stop by the heat (i.e. faint, heat stroke, heat cramps, and heat exhaustion).
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, field labor is ranked among the top three most dangerous occupations. The factors that make field labor dangerous are pesticides, pollen, cancer, and now intolerable heat.
In my experience, the fields were not being processed by workers on schedule. It was obvious why. By noon everyone murmured “Esta muy caliente,” meaning it was too hot.
Climate change fueled by carbon pollution and other gasses is what causes heat temperatures to rise according to NASA. Now with bodies dropping and others dying from heat, what awaits in the future?
Who will be willing to risk their lives to tend the fields and make it possible for stores to fill their shelves? Who will make it easier for you to have produce on your plate at dinner time?
We have bigger issues though.
Rising temperatures also diminish the amount of produce farmers are able to harvest. With droughts, the dry soil isn’t fertile enough to sustain sufficient crops. The prices for agricultural produce doubled from 2005 to 2007 due to droughts, according to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development.
People in our society who live in poverty are only going to struggle more if we do not develop a plan to deal with climate change. With continuing droughts that affect production, the number of migrant workers in Hidalgo County living in poverty will only grow, making it difficult for Hidalgo County to prosper.
I have recently seen many workers faint. I have developed a fever with throbbing headaches while working in the fields in the summers of 2009 and 2010. I have felt the panic when trying to help a co-worker whose body no longer withstood the heat. The fields sometimes seemed like a battlefield where at times two people fainted around the same time.
There are many obstacles migrant workers face all over the U.S. and factors that accompany climate change are slowly but surely rising to the top of the list.
Not everyone feels the effect of climate change as migrant field workers do. It’s hard to feel temperatures rising when the AC in your room or office is running all day. It’s hard to see a decrease in production when all your produce is acquired through your local grocery store. Migrants know firsthand the effects of climate change more than others. To me, that is environmental injustice.
We need to change the path that we are on as a society. We need to stop living in the moment and switch to the mitigation lane and prepare for the future. In our capitalist system, people tend to follow the same patterns they always have — to seek profit for their benefit only.
We need a change.
We are traveling down a deadend road, and there are not many exits left that we can take. From now on, let’s make brighter choices, and bold moves that will benefit us all.
Osvaldo Lopez’s experiences as a migrant farm worker pushed him to pursue his education. He is currently enrolled at the University of Texas-Pan American studying criminal justice. After getting his bachelor’s, he plans to attend law school and become an attorney in order to fight for social and environmental justice for all.
The above guest column is part of a series on environmental issues the Rio Grande Guardian is running in association with UTPA.
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Embryo Research
December 17, 1999 • Volume 9, Issue 47
Should stem cells be used in medical research?
By Adriel Bettelheim
Culture dishes containing human embryonic stem cells are examined at the Universtiy of Wisconsin-Madison, where biologist James A. Thomson first isolated stem cells and used them to grow heart tissues. (Photo Credit: Jeff Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The use of embryos and aborted fetuses in scientific research is again under scrutiny, thanks to last year's landmark isolation of primordial human embryonic stem cells. These “master cells” are capable of evolving into virtually every kind of tissue in the body and could be the key to cures for conditions such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. They also offer a never-before-seen glimpse into the earliest stages of human development. But anti-abortion groups and other critics contend the privately funded work runs counter to a 1995 congressional ban on embryo research and want to bar taxpayer money from subsidizing the research, regardless of the potential benefits. Congress and the National Institutes of Health are trying to devise new guidelines, and sidestep political minefields.education boosts academic achievement.
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Jun. 19, 2015 Manipulating the Human Genome
May 31, 2013 Patenting Human Genes
Jan. 21, 2011 Genes and Health
May 15, 2009 Reproductive Ethics
Oct. 22, 2004 Cloning Debate
May 18, 2001 Designer Humans
May 12, 2000 Human Genome Research
Dec. 17, 1999 Embryo Research
May 28, 1999 DNA Databases
Apr. 03, 1998 Biology and Behavior
May 09, 1997 The Cloning Controversy
Dec. 08, 1995 Gene Therapy's Future
Apr. 08, 1994 Reproductive Ethics
Oct. 18, 1991 Gene Therapy
Aug. 16, 1991 Fetal Tissue Research
Jun. 30, 1989 Solving Crimes with Genetic Fingerprinting
Apr. 03, 1987 Biotechnology Developments
Jan. 10, 1986 Genetic Breakthroughs
Dec. 26, 1980 Genetic Business
Mar. 25, 1977 Genetic Research
May 19, 1971 Human Engineering
Aug. 20, 1969 Human Intelligence
Dec. 13, 1967 Genetics and the Life Process
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INMATE INGENUITY: The Cell Solace Collection
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A Violence Transformed Exhibition
Containers made in U.S. Prisons
We are pleased to present this exhibition featuring more than twenty exquisitely crafted containers made by inmates in American prisons and jails over the second and third quarters of the twentieth century.
Inmate Ingenuity is a Violence Transformed exhibition continuing the decade long collaboration between the NCAAA and the Violence Transformed project. It is partially is supported by the Mayor’s Office for Arts and Culture, Josephine and Louise Crane Family Foundation and Violence Transformed.
Inmate Ingenuity presents a jewelry box, and many purses, hand and shoulder bags all completely made of folded woven cigarette cartons and paper. Surprising design sensitivities and remarkable artisan skills are evident in the sophisticated and well-crafted containers many of which eventually found their way to specialized markets.
The aggregation of these works make up the Cell Solace Collection. Others were gifted by the inmates to sweethearts, wives, family and friends on the outside. Many viewers, in addition to being awed by the beauty of the bags and boxes, will also recall the once universally familiar motifs on cigarette packaging, such as the familiar camel associated with that brand name, or the prancing lion and crown on Pall Mall boxes. Works on display evoke an era when smoking was widely accepted as a social norm, and before smoking was banned in US prisons.
At that time, cigarettes were prized commodities behind bars. The availability of cigarette containers and endless time, combined with the introduction of purse weaving as a craft into the prisons allowed inmates a new arena of creativity and a humanizing opportunity to connect to the world beyond the incarceration.
The Cell Solace Collection was assembled by Antonio N. Innis who grew up in Roxbury and spent his formative in Boston and Los Angeles pursuing an interest in music. His father, whose friend Terrence was incarcerated at New York’s Rikers Island, unintentionally planted the seed for the collection when he received two of Terrence’s purses: One for Inniss’ mother and the other for Terrence’s girlfriend. They fascinated young Inniss who shared his enthusiasm for them and eventually found his family and friends giving him new bags that they encountered. He thus became a collector and the bags and purses became his passion.
He increased his collecting activity during a period when he worked for Amtrak and traveled widely. Innis appreciated the discipline, hard work, creativity and inventiveness invested by inmates in producing the bags. He said that “sometimes beautiful things come out of the worst conditions.”
In the end, the bags and purses are evidence of the prisoner’s humanity and desire to retain relation-ships in the outside world. The bags and boxes constitute a specialized form of communication, of expression, that could quiet and calm the soul, thus the title “Cell Solace”.
Incarceration remains a major issue for black and brown communities all across America. It disrupts families, feeds social collapse, poverty and fragmented social relationships. Increasingly, it targets women girls as it always has men and boys.
Since the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, public policy has victimized and dehumanized black communities. A prime expression of the abusive and unjust legal system has been the oppressive operation of prisons and jails. The Cell Solace Collection evinces that despite jails and prisons, the flicker of love, family and hope was not extinguished
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Popular Self-Care Podcast Gets Picked-up by iHeartRadio
Host Candy Washington Shares 3 Self-Care Ideas for the New Year
January 5, 2021 – Los Angeles, CA – The popular weekly podcast, Sugar Pills: A Practical Guide to Self-Care, is hosted by wellness entrepreneur, author, and executive producer, Candy Washington, has officially been selected by iHeartRadio for distribution.
Her podcast empowers the listener with easy to implement tools to reclaim their self-worth and step into the highest version of themselves with practical self-care insights, expert interviews, and personal stories.
Candy is the founder of 1214 Media Productions where they create inspiring content across film, TV, digital, and publishing platforms. She’s the executive producer, writer, and star of the psychological thriller, Narcissist, which explores the effects that social media has on the mental health of influencers and their followers, which is now available on Amazon Prime Video and SofyTV.
“Self-love isn’t selfish, it’s the highest expression of gratitude to this one unique and precious life that we have been given,” says Candy. She goes on to explain that this was this sentiment that inspired her to start the self-care podcast and to executive produce the influential film.
Candy also provides three self-care tips for a more joyful and empowered New Year:
Self-Care Tip #1: Prioritize your well-being before there’s a breakdown
Don’t overextend yourself by making too many New Year’s resolutions and goals. Yes, have a vision for the New Year, but also incorporate self-care practices into your plan like taking meaningful time off, asking for support, and having healthy boundaries.
Self-Care Tip #2: Implement a morning routine
Being intentional about how you start your day sets the tone for your week, month, year, and life. Have a set time and morning routine that could include journaling, meditating, and drinking water.
Self-Care Tip #3:
Take inventory of who you have in your life from romantic partnerships, friendships, and family, and ensure that you are only taking healthy relationships into the New Year. Cut ties with people who do not add value to your life. Do the same with your habits, take an inventory of your daily, weekly, and monthly habits, and only take into the New Year those habits that serve the highest version of yourself.
Lastly, Candy was the keynote speaker at WellnessCon and has written four books, with her latest being Triggered., a thriller about when codependency turns deadly, (think: Gone Girl meets The Devil Wears Prada), which is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and wherever books are sold.
About Candy Washington
Candy Washington is a writer, content creator, executive producer, and Georgetown alumna. Her personal and professional purpose is to add value to the lives of others through storytelling. She creates inspiring content across film, TV, digital, and publishing platforms that are rooted in wellness and self-care.
She’s published four books, executive produced, starred in, and wrote the film, ‘Narcissist,’ which is now available on Amazon Prime Video and SofyTV. The wellness entrepreneur also hosts a weekly podcast, ‘Sugar Pills Self-Care Podcast,’ and she recently launched an interactive self-love course.
Candy was also the keynote speaker for WellnessCon and played a lead role in a digital series produced by Kelsey Grammer and Tom Russo. She’s the former host of Disney Style and has appeared on The Doctors on CBS as a lifestyle expert.
She’s been published and featured in Teen Vogue, LA Style Magazine, and more. Up next for Candy is hosting a self-care virtual hub during the PTAFF Arts & Film Festival.
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I am the Founder & CEO of Doing Business in Asia Alliance (DBiAA). The idea of which was developed when I was working with my batchmate Masahiro Kawakami on a year-long Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) to produce policy recommendations for the Australian government on supporting Australian SMEs to expand their presence in the Southeast Asia, as requested by their client organisation Australian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.
During this project, I was fascinated by the fact that SMEs, all across the region, were faced with similar challenges to enter and/or expand in new markets, regardless of their origin. As a public policy student, I wanted to find an innovative and customised way to assist and guide the Asia-based SMEs, which are the real backbone of any economy, particularly in Asia, and it was logical for me to leverage the network I had built at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP).
David Wilks (Public Policy '16), from Australia, was the first one to encourage me to set up the DBiAA, which now has presence in Mongolia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Nepal and Hong Kong, within mere two years of establishment. My batchmate, Prashanta Pradhan, from Nepal, was one of the first believers of the alliance, and now the alliance is gradually becoming a strategic point of unity for other LKYSPP current and past students, many of whom (would like to) contribute to and increase their socio-economic impacts at home and abroad, through collective efforts.
The team is very enthusiastic about expanding our outreach and maximising our impacts even further. For instance, during its recent annual meeting, held in Phnom Penh, DBiAA and the Committee of the LKYSPP Alumni Chapter in Cambodia, under the leadership of Mr Hor Serey Vath (Public Policy '12), signed an MoU. The LKYSPP brand has provided us with a strong trust and credibility with our current and potential collaborators and potential beneficiaries; therefore, the hope is that more LKYSPP alumni and alumni chapters will join DBiAA and harness the LKYSPP networks and capabilities in advancing inclusive economic policy and sustainable business practice - focused collaborations regionally and even globally.
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A view from the FAI Environmental Commission
Writing about environment in a huge, desert city born out of oil and gas history can be a challenging task - if you only look backwards.
There is no doubt that the level of comfort and the fantastic infrastructures here come at a price. The high level of fossil energy needed to start the process and run the day-to-day operations cannot be viewed lightly.
But just like when an airplane takes off, the sheer power needed during the initial acceleration phase and the climb to altitude should throttle down for long-distance cruising.
There is no doubt that Dubai is looking to base its future growth on other pillars than its current oil and gas production. Tourism and aviation is fully part of the plan, and it shows.
These FAI World Air Games 2015 in Dubai give us the opportunity to explore another side of what we previously called the FAI Environmental Commission missions: how can our activities better integrate into our environment, and how do we respect and attract our non-flying neighbours?
First, let us consider the settings. The Palm Dropzone is a uniquely positioned runway in front of one of Dubai's most spectacular skylines, and easily accessible by metro and bus from anywhere in the city - even if locals may currently prefer to use their private cars.
Helicopters and turbine-powered aircraft climb to jumping altitude over water circuits, without interfering with urban life.
The Beach Dropzone demonstrates how we can integrate our smallest footprint activities like precision paragliding (where pilots are towed to an altitude of about 300ft for a brief flight to the landing area) on a "normal" beach and without causing any nuisance to neighbours.
The Desert Dropzone and remote-controlled aircraft Zone are situated much farther into the wild. The former provides a runway, hangars, parachutes and teams preparation rooms, landing zone, wind tunnel and more - to please the parachutists and aviators alike.
With green pasture and running water in the desert sands, it may not be the clearest example of natural resources protection. But on the trip to go there, past the camel market and racetrack, you can see the absence of locals necessary for high frequency flights and training.
The latter, although nicely arranged for WAG 2015, is a more basic facility with a 300m runway where you can hardly be heard by anybody when flying over the sand. Just watch out for the power lines nearby if you really fly low with your ultralight or big R/C model.
So, are these games a model in term of compliance with the new rules of a warming world? They cannot be, simply because all geographical areas do not have the same characteristics and history.
But do these games demonstrate how to develop our activities in peace with our neighbours while showing the best of us? You bet!
Let us hope that when WAG is back in the region we can make the most of the bright, local sun to power some of our flying equipment!
By Pierre Duval, President of the FAI Environmental Commission
Photo: Marcus King/FAI Media Team
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Police acquitted of rights abuses in Papua
Last Update: Saturday, September 10, 2005. 9:21pm (AEST)
An Indonesian human rights court has acquitted two senior police officers accused of rights abuses in Papua Province five years ago.
The judges ruled a that senior commissioner was not guilty of allowing his subordinates to torture and kill civilians during a raid on student dormitories in December 2000.
The same court earlier cleared a local military commander of similar charges.
One of five judges who presided over the case gave a dissenting opinion.
He said he believed it was clear that the two defendants were guilty, either by commission or through omission.
Amnesty International has said the acquittals demonstrated the failure of Indonesia's justice system.
Sumber : http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1457604.htm
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An Indonesian human rights court has acquitted two senior police officers accused of rights abuses in the easternmost province of Papua five years ago.
Judges ruled the Senior Commissioner not guilty of allowing his subordinates to torture and kill civilians during a raid on student dormitories at Abepura in December 2000.
The same court also cleared the then local commander of the paramilitary police, of similar charges.
One of five judges, Kabul Supriyadi, says he is the only dissenting opinions on the verdicts.
He says he believes the two defendants are guilty, either by commission or through omission.
Amnesty International says the acquittals demonstrate the failure of Indonesia's justice system.
Sumber : http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1457585.htm
very good om jack, banyak kemajuan yach..!!
so pulang papua kah?
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Nest Kemana aja, selama ini, aku dr dulu ngari loe tp menghilang trus, aku masih di Bgr, byk hal yang sedang menghambat saya utk pulang ?
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To get into college, Harvard report advocates for kindness instead of overachieving
Posted on January 21, 2016 by David Olson
By Lisa Heffernan and Jennifer Wallace January 20
As your oldest child begins to fill out her college application, it is hard not to feel a rising panic. For the last four years she has thrown herself into her school work, taken AP classes, studied for the SAT, worked on the school paper, played on the field hockey team and tutored elementary school children.
Yet as she methodically records her activities on the application, it becomes clear that this was simply not enough. There are 10 looming blank spaces and although her days have been overflowing with homework, activities and volunteering, she has only five activities to report. There are 15 spaces to record the four AP classes she was so proud of taking.
You wonder who the kid is who can complete all of these blank spaces, and what has gone wrong that this is what applying to college now means.
A new report released today by Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, takes a major step in trying to change the college admissions process to make it more humane, less super-human.
Parents, educators and college administrators have long wrestled with the unintended negative side effects of the admissions process, like the intense focus on personal achievement and the unfair advantages of more affluent students. The report, entitled Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good Through College Admissions, aims to tackle these complex issues. It lays out a blueprint for addressing three of the most intractable challenges facing college applicants today: excessive academic performance pressure, the emphasis on personal achievement over good citizenship, and the uneven opportunities available to students of varying income levels and backgrounds.
Many colleges have tried to address these concerns over the years but it takes a unified effort to make a big impact, says lead author Richard Weissbourd. More than 80 stakeholders, including admissions officers (like Harvard’s), deans, professors and high school counselors have endorsed the report.
“It’s the first time in history that I’m aware of” that a group of colleges is coming together to lay out what is and what isn’t valued in the admissions process, says Weissbourd.
“Yes, we want students who have achieved in and out of the classroom, but we are also looking for things that are harder to quantify, [like] authentic intellectual engagement and a concern for others and the common good,” explains Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale University, one of the report’s endorsers.
In response to the report, Yale will be adding an essay question on next year’s application that asks applicants “to reflect on engagement with and contribution to their family, community and/or the public good,” Quinlan says. Yale will also “advocate for more flexibility in the extracurricular sections on both the Common Application and Coalition Application, so that colleges can more easily control how they ask students to list and reflect on their extracurricular involvement.”
The University of Virginia is also in agreement with the report. “We supportTurning the Tide because we philosophically agree with many of the principal points in the document, [like] promoting, encouraging, and developing good citizenship, strong character, personal responsibility, [and] civic engagement in high school students,” says Gregory Roberts, the school’s dean of admissions.
Like Yale, several of the report’s endorsers have already modified their admissions efforts or practices as a result of these findings. Weissbourd said that over the next two years, Making Caring Common will work with college admissions officers, parents, high school guidance counselors and others to further implement the report’s recommendations. He hopes that many of these points will eventually be incorporated into the Common, Coalition and Universal applications as well.
Here are five highlights from the report, along with tips from Making Caring Common for how parents can help turn the tide:
1. Reduce stress by limiting course loads and extracurricular activities. Admissions offices can reduce undue pressure by sending a clear message that “long brag sheets do not increase students’ chances of admission.” To make this point, the authors recommend applications provide room for only two to four activities or ask students to describe two to three meaningful activities in an essay. Tallying up a lengthy listing of AP credits should be discouraged in favor of more sustained effort in areas of genuine interest.
Parent tip: Help your teens by encouraging them to find activities, classes and volunteer experiences that are meaningful to them, but that do not create undue stress.
2. Value the different ways students make contributions to their families and communities. Current applications often disadvantage students from less affluent backgrounds who may make important but overlooked contributions, such as working part-time to help support their families or taking care of a family member, leaving them no time for extracurricular activities or community service. Colleges need to clearly communicate the high value they place on family contributions and give ample opportunity for applicants to explain their role. By doing so, the authors hope to redefine achievement in broader terms.
Parent tip: If your teens help to run the household, babysit a younger sibling after school, or make other significant family contributions, make sure they write about it on their applications.
3. Stress the importance of authenticity. At the heart the report is the notion that admissions committees are looking for students who are authentic and honest about their interests and accomplishments. Students are encouraged to find the right college fit by remaining true to themselves, keeping an open mind about their options and examining a broad range of colleges. It should also be made clear that over-coached applications can jeopardize admission. Confidence and integrity are best reflected in the student’s own voice.
Parent tip: College admissions officers can sense when an application is not authentic or trumped up. Help teens present themselves in their best light, while still staying true to who they really are.
4. Alleviate Test Pressure. Some colleges have already taken steps to de-emphasize the weight of the SATs and ACTs by making these tests optional. Admissions offices can reduce the pressure surrounding standardized tests by doing this or clearly explaining the test’s weight in the admissions process.
Parent tip: Try to discourage students from taking the same standardized test more than twice, as it rarely results in a meaningfully higher score. Remind your children of that.
5. Engage in meaningful community service. The report highlights a common misconception that volunteering for certain high-profile causes or traveling to exotic countries will make an application stand out. It will, but for the wrong reasons: namely that it looks inauthentic.
Parent tip: Help your teens find sustained community service opportunities that extend for a year or more where the student can be fully engaged in something that is important to them and, in turn, have a meaningful impact. Community engagement can take many different forms, from addressing local needs to serving in a soup kitchen to volunteering on a political campaign or making meaningful contributions at home. Look for opportunities where teens can work side by side with the people they are helping, instead of for them, which can sometimes feel patronizing and may not create as rich an experience.
There will be some applicants who will try to game these new recommendations by engaging in community service in which they have no real interest and later writing insincerely about their experience. However, Weissbourd notes, even students who engage in community service with misplaced motivation may have a powerful learning experience. Research shows that for many students service activities are an opportunity for maturity and growth, even when they are mandatory or driven by the college application process.
Lisa Heffernan writes about parenting during the high school and college years at Grown and Flown. You can follow her on Twitter and Grown and Flown on Facebook.
Jennifer Wallace is a freelance writer based in New York, where she lives with her husband and their three children. Twitter: @wallacejennieb.
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Posted on May 8, 2012 by David Olson
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The Campus Tsunami
By DAVID BROOKS
Josh Haner/The New York Times
Online education is not new. The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989. Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007.
But, over the past few months, something has changed. The elite, pace-setting universities have embraced the Internet. Not long ago, online courses were interesting experiments. Now online activity is at the core of how these schools envision their futures.
This week, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology committed $60 million to offer free online courses from both universities. Two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, have formed a company, Coursera, which offers interactive courses in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and engineering. Their partners include Stanford, Michigan, Penn and Princeton. Many other elite universities, including Yale and Carnegie Mellon, are moving aggressively online. President John Hennessy of Stanford summed up the emerging view in an article by Ken Auletta in The New Yorker, “There’s a tsunami coming.”
What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web.
Many of us view the coming change with trepidation. Will online learning diminish the face-to-face community that is the heart of the college experience? Will it elevate functional courses in business and marginalize subjects that are harder to digest in an online format, like philosophy? Will fast online browsing replace deep reading?
If a few star professors can lecture to millions, what happens to the rest of the faculty? Will academic standards be as rigorous? What happens to the students who don’t have enough intrinsic motivation to stay glued to their laptop hour after hour? How much communication is lost — gesture, mood, eye contact — when you are not actually in a room with a passionate teacher and students?
The doubts are justified, but there are more reasons to feel optimistic. In the first place, online learning will give millions of students access to the world’s best teachers. Already, hundreds of thousands of students have taken accounting classes from Norman Nemrow of Brigham Young University, robotics classes from Sebastian Thrun of Stanford and physics from Walter Lewin of M.I.T.
Online learning could extend the influence of American universities around the world. India alone hopes to build tens of thousands of colleges over the next decade. Curricula from American schools could permeate those institutions.
Research into online learning suggests that it is roughly as effective as classroom learning. It’s easier to tailor a learning experience to an individual student’s pace and preferences. Online learning seems especially useful in language and remedial education.
The most important and paradoxical fact shaping the future of online learning is this: A brain is not a computer. We are not blank hard drives waiting to be filled with data. People learn from people they love and remember the things that arouse emotion. If you think about how learning actually happens, you can discern many different processes. There is absorbing information. There is reflecting upon information as you reread it and think about it. There is scrambling information as you test it in discussion or try to mesh it with contradictory information. Finally there is synthesis, as you try to organize what you have learned into an argument or a paper.
Online education mostly helps students with Step 1. As Richard A. DeMillo of Georgia Tech has argued, it turns transmitting knowledge into a commodity that is cheap and globally available. But it also compels colleges to focus on the rest of the learning process, which is where the real value lies. In an online world, colleges have to think hard about how they are going to take communication, which comes over the Web, and turn it into learning, which is a complex social and emotional process.
How are they going to blend online information with face-to-face discussion, tutoring, debate, coaching, writing and projects? How are they going to build the social capital that leads to vibrant learning communities? Online education could potentially push colleges up the value chain — away from information transmission and up to higher things.
In a blended online world, a local professor could select not only the reading material, but do so from an array of different lecturers, who would provide different perspectives from around the world. The local professor would do more tutoring and conversing and less lecturing. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School notes it will be easier to break academic silos, combining calculus and chemistry lectures or literature and history presentations in a single course.
The early Web radically democratized culture, but now in the media and elsewhere you’re seeing a flight to quality. The best American colleges should be able to establish a magnetic authoritative presence online.
My guess is it will be easier to be a terrible university on the wide-open Web, but it will also be possible for the most committed schools and students to be better than ever.
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“Insights From the Youngest Minds”
An interesting New York Times article about early learning:
By NATALIE ANGIER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Seated in a cheerfully cramped monitoring room at the Harvard University Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Elizabeth S. Spelke, a professor of psychology and a pre-eminent researcher of the basic ingredient list from which all human knowledge is constructed, looked on expectantly as her students prepared a boisterous 8-month-old girl with dark curly hair for the onerous task of watching cartoons. The video clips featured simple Keith Haring-type characters jumping, sliding and dancing from one group to another. The researchers’ objective, as with half a dozen similar projects under way in the lab, was to explore what infants understand about social groups and social expectations.
Yet even before the recording began, the 15-pound research subject made plain the scope of her social brain. She tracked conversations, stared at newcomers and burned off adult corneas with the brilliance of her smile. Dr. Spelke, who first came to prominence by delineating how infants learn about objects, numbers, the lay of the land, shook her head in self-mocking astonishment.
“Why did it take me 30 years to start studying this?” she said. “All this time I’ve been giving infants objects to hold, or spinning them around in a room to see how they navigate, when what they really wanted to do was engage with other people!”
Dr. Spelke, 62, is tall and slim, and parts her long hair down the middle, like a college student. She dresses casually, in a corduroy jumper or a cardigan and slacks, and when she talks, she pitches forward and plants forearms on thighs, hands clasped, seeming both deeply engaged and ready to bolt. The lab she founded with her colleague Susan Carey is strewed with toys and festooned with children’s T-shirts, but the Elmo atmospherics belie both the lab’s seriousness of purpose and Dr. Spelke’s towering reputation among her peers in cognitive psychology.
“When people ask Liz, ‘What do you do?’ she tells them, ‘I study babies,’ ” said Steven Pinker, a fellow Harvard professor and the author of “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” among other books. “That’s endearingly self-deprecating, but she sells herself short.”
What Dr. Spelke is really doing, he said, is what Descartes, Kant and Locke tried to do. “She is trying to identify the bedrock categories of human knowledge. She is asking, ‘What is number, space, agency, and how does knowledge in each category develop from its minimal state?’ ”
Dr. Spelke studies babies not because they’re cute but because they’re root. “I’ve always been fascinated by questions about human cognition and the organization of the human mind,” she said, “and why we’re good at some tasks and bad at others.”
But the adult mind is far too complicated, Dr. Spelke said, “too stuffed full of facts” to make sense of it. In her view, the best way to determine what, if anything, humans are born knowing, is to go straight to the source, and consult the recently born.
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Necessity of Legislative Measures for Relieving the Distress of the Labouring Classes.
Salus populi suprema lex.
T here wasa time when it was held pure factiousness to doubt whether the prosperity we enjoyed during the first ten or twelve years of the late war, was perfectly sound and natural, and whether it would not ultimately entail upon us a corresponding share of future calamity. But the most gloomy anticipations of those who were most inclined to view the picture on the dark side have certainly come infinitely short of the full measure of distress and misery which have at length fallen upon the country. It would be unjust to charge the Government with any more of these evils than might have been foreseen ; but now that they force themselves on the attention on all sides, it is perfectly fair to hold the Government accountable for all that it can remove or prevent, and yet suffers to exist. This is the first time, we believe, in modern history, when the evil of an excess, of population has come so distinctly under the notice of a Government as to call for a legislative remedy. The case is therefore new, and the course to be pursued is the less obvious ; but the war was a season of bold experiments, in which we surmounted many difficulties once deemed insuperable : and if timidity tie up our hands now, when humanity calls upon us to move, the world may well say, that the boasted energy of the Government has been entirely reserved for the supply of its own wants out of the pockets of the people, but that, when a period of public calamity requiress exertions of a more painful kind, it is startled by the smallest difficulty, and will not even make such a slight effort as might evince its sympathy with the sufferers.
During the late war, the industry of the country was stimulated into a state of unprecedented activity, by the monopoly we obtained of the commerce of the world–by thirty or forty millions of the capital of the country being annually melted down and consumed–and by the continual rise of prices produced by the depreciation of the currency. The great demand for labour, arising out of this state of things, with the consequent increase of wages, caused a rapid augmentation in the numbers of the people. In the ten years ending 1811, the rate of increase in Britain was such as would have doubled the population in fifty-two years; and in the great manufacturing districts it probably equalled what takes place in a new colony. When the peace came, and was followed by the destruction of our commercial monopoly, the cessation of the annual loans, and the diminuition of the paper issues, the sources of our fictitious prosperity were dried up at once : a vast reduction took place in the demand for labour ; profits and wages fell with prices ; while the pressure of the taxes were doubled, and onethird added to their real amount by the rise in the value of money. The laws, however, which regulate the multiplication of human beings, cannot instantly bend to circumstances : a long period necessarily elapses before the population accommodates itself to the diminished demand for labour, and during this period the labouring classes must suffe extreme misery. In this state we are at present, and time, from which we hoped relief, has only aggravated the evil. There are but three remedies upon which any dependence can be placed – a reduction of taxation – a change in our commercial system – and emigration. We have little hopes as to the first, since this would require a sacrifice on the part of the Government of its own interest, real or supposed, which we see no disposition to make. A relaxation in our restrictive commercial system has not the same obstacles to encounter, and we have repeated shewn that it would be highly beneficial. The reluctance of Ministers to attempt a change that may prejudice the interest of some particular classes, might be considered as a prudent caution, were it not observed, that when, instead of relieving the distress of the people, the object is to suppy the necessities of the Treasury, none of this caution appears, but the complaints of the sufferers are disregarded as vulgar clamour. But the crisis is now such, that tenderness to the interests of a few individuals may be cruelty to the public at large. Though we shall preach free trade to other nations rather with a bad grace, when we can no longer hold our monopoly, it is so far well that our misfortunes are at last likely to open our eyes to truths whch were familiar to philosophers half a century ago. In our present circumstances, we may perhaps almost be thankful, that a systematic error, which has impeded our career, has kept this one resource open to us.
Emigration suggests itself so naturally as a remedy for a redundant population, that we are rather surprised there should be much reluctance to have recourse to it. We need not be afraid that the practise will continue longer than the necessity which produces it. ” The vis intertiae of people in general, says Malthus, and their attachment to their homes, are qualities so strong and general, that we may rest assured they will not emigrate, unless, from political discontents or extreme poverty, they are in such a state, as will make it as much for the advantages of their country as of themselves that they should go out of it. ” We by no means underrate the difficulties that attend emigration upon a large scale, but these are partly occasioned by the absurd practise of directing it exclusively to our own colonies. We have vast multitudes, whom we can neither feed nor employ ; and surely the first and most pressing object is to send them where they will find the means of subsistence. There are many parts of the world besides our own colonies open to receive them. And whether they go to the United States, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, or to Canada, New Holland, or the Cape of Good Hope, the advantage to this country will be nearly the same. Among so many countries of such extent, it would not be very difficult to dispose of half a million of persons (young and old) within the course perhaps of two years. But upon whatever scale emigration is conducted it must be gradual; and this renders it the more important to fix upon a plan early. Ministers have lately announced that Canada cannot receive more emigrants at present without inconvenience. But had the intention of sending great numbers to that colony been made public two years ago, corn would have been raised for them, and men of some capital, assured of finding abundance of labourers, would have gone out and settled, and provided employment for those who have not the means to establish themselves as farmers. The alarm we feel of seeing manufactures raised up in other countries by the skill of our expatriated artisans is very ill founded. Many other advantges must be combined with the possession of mechanical skill to make manufactures flourish ; and when the former are found, able workmen will not be long wanting. Our capital, our improved means of internal communication, our coal fields, our laws for the protection of industry and property, the free, enlightened and active spirit of our people, with the powers of combination resulting from the union of so many advantages within so small a space, are better securities for our superiority in manufactures, than attempts, which must be nugatory, to retain a monopoly of operative skill and talent. But the opinion which exists in foreign countries, as to the superiority of our people in every branch of industry, will have this good effect, that it will secure out emigrants a favourable reception. Though the emigration, to afford any sensible relief to the whole country, would require to be upon an extensive scale, it is yet obvious, that even upon the smallest scale it is beneficial. If six labourers are withdrawn from a small village, or fifty from a country town, the situation of either will be improved. The plan hitherto acted on by Government of givingassistance to those only who could raise ten on fifteen pounds, is chiefly objectionable, because it must restrict the emigration within very narrow limits. If by sending away men who are still able to subsist by their labour, others now living on charity get employment, we are in effect relieved of so many paupers. But the former are less disposed to leave the country ; and with regard to those who are or must soon become paupers, it will certainly be found more economical to pay ten or fiften pounds each to send them abroad, than to maintain them permanently home. It is in vain, however, to look to private charity for the funds necessary for such an undertaking. These must be raised by the country at large ; and whether a tax be imposed for the special purpose, or money destined for other objects be applied to this, the country, we have no doubt, is ready to make the sacrifice. Suppose that even so great a sum as five millions were required, this is but the half of what England alone pays every year for poor rates ; and what is such a sum, if it were to afford certain relief on an emergency lke the present? If the French and Dutch should again disagree about the navigation of the Scheldt, or if we should quarrel with the French or Americans about the traffic in a few hundred wild cat-skins on the other side of the globe, how easily would a sum ten times as large be found? Nothing more is requisite than to take on half of the sum for two years, which Mr Vansittart allots for paying off the national debt. We not only conceive that it would be wise and creditable to divert a part, or the whole of the actual Sinking Fund to this purpose ; but we go so far as to think, that it is little less than disgraceful to pay off any debt at all at this crisis with funds wrung from the earnings of a starving population. Whatever is done, it is of vast importance to understand, that the most pressing evil, though not absolutely permanent in its nature, cannot be expected to subside of itself for many years. We have not only an excess of population to dispose of, but we have to check the principle of increase, which is rapidly aggravating the evil. In the five years ending 1810, the population of England added one-seventieth part to its numbers annually ; and if we suppose the ratio to have been the same for the whole empire, each year must have had 250,000 individuals more to provide for than the preceding. Till the whole of this vast annual inrease is got rid of, the present excess of numbers will not diminish but augment. And how is it to be got rid of? Either the annual births must diminish more than one-third, or famine and disease must destroy a quarter of a million of human beings annually beyond the usual rate of mortality, or these two causes must operate together. Notwithstanding, therefore, the misery of the labouring classes at this moment, we doubt whether the population is not still on the increase, and whether still more afflicting scenes are not awaiting us. Indeed, unless measures are taken to do away the factitious stimulus which the English poorlaws give to the increase of population, the most abundant emigration will prove but a feeble palliative. These are rather discouraging circumstances ; but the evil must be dealt with in some way, or it will ultimately overwhelm us. It has now become rather a question of humanitiy than of policy. One or two millions of human beings have been suddenly deprived of their means of subsistence by events over which they had no control. With such a mass of individuals goaded to desperation by want–a deficient crop,–a sudden revulsion in trade– a more general exclusion of our manufactures by the Americans,–any of those numerous casualties, in short to which every nation is exposed, would place us in a situation frightful to contemplate. Plots and insurrections will keep up a continual alarm. Neither persons nor property will be safe, and capital will gradually leave the country. If theory were silent, experience must now convince us, that time alone will produce no material amelioration in our circumstances ; and the relief which is may ultimately bring, will be obtained only through the destruction of vast multitudes by famine and disease. In the fifth year of peace, it is now time to look the evil in the face, and either to make some great sacrifices for its removal, or to brace our minds to bear the dreadful alternative. It is in vain to disguise the matter to our own consciences. Those who propose to leave things to what they call the course of nature, are in substance recommending that thousands of their fellow-creatures should be suffered to rot away from the effect of absolute want. That such a thing should take place in the
Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 20 May 1820, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/164.
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Bird-rich Fife holiday park soars in green awards
Sitting pretty: Douglas Baillie (right) with staff members Robert and Lynda White on the award-winning park
Birds, butterflies and honey bees have helped a family-owned holiday park on the Fife coast to wing its way to a major environmental award.
Tayport Links Caravan Park, between Dundee and St Andrews, has been named as a winner of the prestigious David Bellamy Conservation Award at its top gold level.
Professor Bellamy said the park’s caring owners had shown themselves to be true friends of the countryside through a raft of different activities to help wildlife.
David Bellamy also went on to designate Tayport Links as an official “Honey Bee Friendly” park as part of his new initiative to help protect the threatened insects.
This status, he said, was thoroughly deserved thanks to the large number of high nectar-bearing flowers at Tayport Links, providing valuable foraging for bees and butterflies.
The nine-acre park, on the edge of the historic fishing town of Tayport, accommodates just over 100 caravan holiday homes and lodges owned by mainly Scottish families.
The park attracts many species of resident and visiting birds
The business was acquired by Bruce Baillie in 2000, and when Bruce passed away just over a year ago, his son Douglas and wife Sonia – who have two young sons – took over the reins.
Both father and son have invested much time and effort into creating a holiday environment which, says Douglas, aims to give VIP treatment both to wildlife and holidaymakers.
The park’s gold David Bellamy award was given after assessors appointed by the scheme carried out a thorough audit of Tayport Links’ conservation policies.
They said that the park was clearly being run along sustainable lines, and with proper regard for the superb natural surroundings.
The park sits on the banks of the Firth of Tay where thousands of birds gather daily at low tide, and enjoys sweeping views of the picture-postcard Fife coast.
David Bellamy’s award assessors noted no fewer than 28 species of birds during his inspection.
Professor Bellamy praised the excellent work carried out by the park to create wildlife habitats in the grounds, and its care of the banks of the burn which borders Tayport Links.
The burn, he said, had itself become a magnet for many different resident and visiting bird types – including kingfishers – as well as many other aquatic species.
David Bellamy also said that Tayport Links was proving itself to be a good neighbour to the local community with its previous sponsorship of the local youth football team, and current support of the amateur music society and community garden in the town.
According to Douglas, credit for the award should also be shared with holidaymakers:
“Our holiday home owners are very supportive of our work, and many also play their part by erecting bird boxes and growing flowers in tubs and baskets,” said Douglas.
“These provide additional food for pollinating insects, and attract a fascinating array of different butterflies as well as honey bees.
“There is a great community atmosphere on the park, and we’re all delighted that our wildlife conservation efforts are being supported by someone like David Bellamy,” he added.
Douglas is helped in the running of the park by his two members of staff, Robert and Lynda White. There is more information about Tayport Links at www.tayportlinkscaravanpark.co.uk
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Review: SKYLIGHT
by Lynn on June 20, 2016
At the Berkeley Street Theatre, Downstairs.
Written by David Hare
Directed by Larry Moss
Designed by Debra Hanson
Lighting by Davida Tkach
Sound by Emily Porter
Cast: Tim Dowler-Coltman
Sara Topham
Lindsay G. Merrithew
An obvious vanity production for Lindsay G. Merrithew with a standout performance by Sara Topham of David Hare’s deeply thought play.
The Story. Kyra Hollis is a schoolteacher living in a flat with little heating in London, on the other side of the cityr from her school. She loves it.
She is visited one cold evening by Edward Sergeant, the 18 year old son of Tom Sergeant, a successful business man and Kyra’s former lover. Kyra and Tom had a six year affair while he was married. Kyra worked for Tom in his restaurant business and was considered a member of the family.
Now Edward comes to say that his mother died the year before and his father and he don’t get along. Edward wants Kyra to talk to his father. This is startling news and it does not have the effect that Edward expected and he leaves. A bit later Tom arrives out of the blue.
He’s successful, confident, controlling, bullying, and knows the weaknesses of his opponents. That’s how he has succeeded. He chips away at Kyra, noting her weaknesses and how she would be better off with him. It’s a rocky night and truths are told.
David Hare has created three fully-developed, complex characters each with their secrets and strengths. It’s interesting to note that Kyra has moved on in those three years and Tom seems to have continued on exactly as he was. He brings her a bottle of whiskey, but she doesn’t drink it—he does because that’s his drink.
He appears to be knowledgeable about Kyra, but is he? Or is he merely self-absorbed. It’s so tempting to dismiss Tom as just a self-centred control freak. It’s to the testament of Hare’s writing that we don’t dismiss Tom. Tom has charm and finesse and he’s a character we like to watch.
The Production. Designer Debra Hanson has created Kyra’s well-worn flat with little heat. A floor heater is downstage right in the corner. Kyra is neat. Things are in their place.
Director Larry Moss negotiates his actors around the space with a lot of care. Kyra especially must carry on a conversation and make a spaghetti dinner from scratch. She’s really cooking. You can hear the onions frying and smell the fragrance as it wafts over the audience. I do wonder why she doesn’t use the bulb of garlic on the counter with the other fixings for the spaghetti.
But Larry Moss should spend more effort in helping two of the three actors capture their characters.
As Edward the son, Tim Dowler-Coltman is so agitate and angry for most of the first scene, I think he would do either himself or Kyra damage. That performance has to be taken down considerably and controlled. Edward is not a hot-head but he is an 18 year old teenager with bubbling emotions. It doesn’t mean he is apoplectic.
As Tom, Lindsay G. Merrithew has the confidence and swagger of Tom but not enough depth, nuance or the many layers of the man. I can appreciate that Mr. Merrithew would want to do this part in this play and so formed a company that would produce it. He needs to go deeper to find Tom’s vulnerability. We should see how wounded he is besides his arrogance and I think that’s missing here.
But Sara Topham as Kyra is the saving grace. This is a character who listens; is smart and knows how to hold her ground. She is in the moment. We can see how she would have fallen in love with that whole family and they with her, until the wife found out about the affair and that’s because Tom was deliberately careless. But we also get the sense of how much she has grown since being away from Tom, and we sense that she realizes how destructive that relationship was.
I like the play a lot. Hare writes so deeply about thorny relationships, controlling situations and those that are loving and carrying.
Comment. Skylight is a watershed in the career of David Hare. Pop psychology here.
In 1992 David Hare married the love of his life, Nicole Fahri, the noted fashion designer.
Skylight was published and produced in 1995 and it’s markedly different from his plays before that time because it’s about relationships and human stories. Up till then Hare wrote about issues—war, the judiciary; the banking system; the muck-racking newspaper business. When he married Fahri his plays changed and Skylight is the first to show that change.
Hare did have relationships before then—muses—Canadian Kate Nelligan was one and he dedicated a play to her, (Plenty) that she starred in. Blair Brown was also a muse. But Fahri and Hare have been married for 24 years and that has affected, enlivened, influenced his plays.
Hidden Cove Productions presents:
Plays until July 9, 2016.
Cast: 3; 2 men, 1 woman.
Running Time: 2 hours.
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Note #6 Portrait of John Lavranos, Pelargonium Plantsman
If interested in Pelargonium, there are pretty good odds that you are growing a species found by John Lavranos. One in ten, to be exact, if specializing in the section Hoarea: he collected P. aestivale, P. connivens, P. curviandrum, P. githagineum, P. luteopetalum, P. vinaceum and P. xanthopetalum before their formal description. Sarcocaulon growers know where the epithet of S. lavrani comes from. Yet, unless generally interested in succulents (the Cactus and Succulent Journal dedicated an issue to John in 2006 [1]), few Pelargonium enthusiasts are well acquainted with his lifetime’s-worth of botanical discovery and plantsmanship.
At 91, John is as passionate, generous and sharing as ever: “My enthusiasm for Pelargonium species dates back to my childhood when my mother grew a variety of ‘geraniums’ in our garden in Corfu. When, in 1952, I moved to South Africa, the variety of pelargoniums in the botanical garden of ‘The Wilds’ in Johannesburg, further excited my fancy, as did the large array of other indigenous plants.” Having spent a number of years in the navy, John’s only desire then was to move out of postwar Europe. After the move to Johannesburg with his first wife Helen, they never looked back.
Once in Joburg, John found the time to study towards a degree in botany and geography at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, while already engaging in fieldwork from around 1960 onwards. After the move in 1990, to Portugal with wife Mireille, journeys took him to Namibia, Madagascar, Somalia (Fig. 1) and Yemen, where pelargoniums are less common. His interest in languages served him well on trips: John speaks nine! Collecting continued until 2012, after half a century of continuous discovery. Funding for local trips came out of his own pocket, while trips abroad were paid by personal or institutional contributions and donations. John’s field collections extend to 32,000 specimens, all duly and thoroughly documented, as testified by the comprehensive list of collection data that was recently compiled and published by Roy Mottram [2].
Fig. 1: On the road down from the Mait Escarpment with the tools of the trade, N of Erigaabo (Erigavo), Somalia, 1969. Credit: John Lavranos.
This was the golden era of plant hunting, continuing the tradition of botanical exploration that started in earnest in the late 18th Century, often funded by nurseries and patrons. The comparison with another expat living in Portugal, Friderik Welwitsch (Velbič) of Austrian-Slovenian origin comes to mind: following a botany expedition to Angola funded by the King of Portugal, Welwitsch returned to Europe in October 1863 with 42 boxes of about 10,000 specimens. The first collections of pelargoniums were even earlier than that: the Dutchman Paul Hermann was probably the first to collect pelargoniums in southern Africa in the second half of the 17th Century. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of these explorations to horticulture: the market for pelargonium cultivars has a lot to be thankful for to these intrepid explorers. It’s a big market as well, e.g. in Sweden, one pelargonium plant and a half was sold per inhabitant in 2008 only, 12 million in total [3]!
Back in the 1960s-80s, travelling to exotic places was still prohibitively expensive for most, and local regulations were lenient. John collected plants, bulbs, seeds and herbarium specimens, which he simply laid out in sheets of newspaper and pressed them by sitting on the lot. This seemed to have worked quite well – his many Pelargonium collections are now part of Stellenbosch, Pretoria and other herbaria. “I usually ended up with six or seven heavy cartons of material but I somehow managed not to lose anything by sending them home individually by mail, or together by airfreight,” tells John, who also keenly collected sea and land-shells, fossils and geological specimens. This worked until the demand for wild plants (and especially animals) increased so much that the pressure to collect led to CITES regulations having been accepted in 1973. Since then, local regulations have additionally reduced the pressure on natural populations, especially after air travel became cheaper and many species became significantly depleted in their natural habitats.
John’s interest then turned to countries that were less explored: East Africa, Madagascar and Arabia, where local experts continued to be welcoming. “It was a wonderful surprise when I found P. cristophoranum at its type locality and at another site,” John tells us – his photo clearly depicting this extraordinary species (Fig. 2). John also collected P. multibracteatum on both sides of the Gulf of Aden as well as P. luridum. Between 1968 and 1989 John made at least 10 trips to Somalia (where now, plant populations remain safe due to civil unrest).
Fig. 2: P. christophoranum, growing at the type locality on the gypsum/anhydrite hill of Kuruwadne, approximately 12 km NE of Erigaabo (Erigavo), Somalia, 1971. Credit: John Lavranos.
Throughout, John remained close to pelargoniums. Piet Vorster, whose work defined our views of the section Otidia, has been a close friend for some 50 years, sharing not only the love for Pelargonium species but also for classical music, particularly Beethoven. Piet and John made a number of field trips together, exchanged visits and met several times in the UK. John holds Piet in high regard: “He is an accomplished scientist but has very much his own mind.” Many of us who have studied Bettie Marais’s PhD Thesis in detail, noticed that John’s herbarium specimens are often cited – John and Bettie probably never met but he certainly made his mark on the section.
The exquisitely produced book on bushman candles was co-authored with Charles Craib, Pelargonium nurseryman, collector and scholar: “The book is the only one in the writing of which I had a part that I am really proud of! It is as close to perfect (at least to my eyes) as any book can be,” affirms John.
To my mind, this book comes as close to ideal as it gets: beautifully illustrated, evidently based on ample experience, with plenty of information on ecology and habitats, and clearly a labour of love. John holds the late Charles Craib in high regard: “Charles was a very gifted man who had a sense of artistry that leaves me feeling like a talentless idiot. At the same time he was often moody and changed his mind about people and subjects, as often as I (with apologies for the expression) change my underpants”. John’s quote illustrates both candour and wit of the kind that come with experience and wisdom. Extensive joint travels across South Africa and Namibia from about 1985 were prematurely discontinued with Charles’s tragic passing at the age of 56.
The Madagascan P. caylae is another part of John’s heritage. Of this species there exists only the type collection at Masiro, at the eastern base of the Andohahelo Range, on a granite outcrop. The original plant was sent to John by Professor Millot in about 1955, when he was the Director of ORSTOM in Madagascar (Office De La Recherche Scientifique Et Technique Outre-Mer). John tells us that cuttings were forwarded to America and what of it is at present in circulation stems from Dr Gary James, of Costa Mesa, in California, who has been very successful with the propagation of this and other rare species.
Fig. 3: P. caylae was also introduced to cultivation by John Lavranos. With its meters tall stalks, this is a curious Madagascan species, now grown by many. Few know that all of the plants in horticulture originate from a single collection.
Of altogether 12 trips to Madagascar, John was frequently accompanied by Jean-André Audissou, himself an experienced nurseryman and explorer from Fouras, France, in 2005. The two came into contact after Jean-André published an article [4] on Caralluma mireillae, which John named to honour his wife. Jean-André vividly describes a typical day in the bush: “After a frugal breakfast, we leave Toliara at 6am, northwards towards Andavadoaka, following a sandy coastal track accessible to all-terrain vehicles only. We looked for Pachypodium mikea described earlier that year, saw Didiera madagascariensis in flower, Oeceoclades and Stapelianthus species, and finally the ultimate goal for the day: several hundred years old specimens of Adansonia rubrostipa. We would stop at midday to eat bananas and a few slices of a sausage brought from Portugal, in the shade of Euphorbia plagiantha. After arrival in Andavadoaka in mid-afternoon, we settled down in a palm-roofed bungalow and before nightfall, we walked the beach in search of exotic seashells on the Mozambique Strait beach. The dinner consisted of crayfish – for the cost of a couple of euros. The dinnertime was an opportunity for John to tell a thousand and one anecdotes about his travels over the last 60 years.”
Fig. 4: Jean-André Audissou, Zakamisy – local guide, and John Lavranos at Windsor Castle, near Antsiranana, Madagascar, 2005. Credit: Jean-André Audissou.
Asked about growing pelargoniums, John enthusiastically responds: “Most certainly I would like to have a Pelargonium collection, if my advancing years allowed such a luxury! All I keep now is a plant of P. pachypodium, from Loeriesfontein and one of P. cotyledonis, both in pots, and things like P. quercifolium, P. fulgidum, P. abrotanifolium, P. triste and a couple of others in the garden here.” By ‘here’, John means Loulé, a small town near Faro in south Portugal.
Fig. 5: If John Lavranos’s contribution to the knowledge of succulent plants were to be compared to a plant, a baobab would come to mind. Credit: Jean-André Audissou.
John has had 17 taxa named after him, of which 8 are asclepiads and 5 are Aloe species. He published about 180 taxa himself, and brought countless more to cultivation. As habitat loss accelerates due to agricultural and developmental pressures, John’s extraordinary work is becoming more and more valuable and may well become the only testament to the existence of some of the most bizarre, rare and fascinating plant species that evolution has ever had to offer.
By Matija Strlic, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
[1] Cactus and Succulent Journal, 78 (2006) no. 2.
[2] John Lavranos, Roy Mottram: “The plant gatherings and other vouchers of John J Lavranos. An interpreted checklist from 1954 to 2016 in numerical order. Part 1: List in numerical order.” The Cactician 10 (2017) 1-1193.
[3] John Lavranos, Roy Mottram: “The plant gatherings and other vouchers of John J Lavranos. An interpreted checklist from 1954 to 2016 in numerical order. Part 2: List in alphabetic order.” The Cactician 11 (2017) 1-883.
[4] Anna-Karin Johansson: “A history of geranium culture.” Floraculture International, 25 Mar 2008.
[5] Jean-Andre Audissou: The genus Caudanthera Plowes, Asklepios 80 (2000) 12-13.
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Cite as: M. Strlič: Portrait of John Lavranos, a Pelargonium plantsman, Pelargonium Notes, #6 (2017).
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2 thoughts on “Note #6 Portrait of John Lavranos, Pelargonium Plantsman”
Countess Helena VonDrakenstein says:
September 12, 2018 · 12:09 am #346
wonderful to read……thank you
Tone Dahl says:
February 16, 2019 · 11:50 am #474
What a beautiful portrait of a pelargonium plantsman…..thank you
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Ender vs Bean
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Re: Ender vs Bean
Postby UnnDunn » Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:58 am
I agree that Ender's abilities were natural and borne of his environment and training while Bean's abilities were the result of laboratory fabrication, not natural at all.
Really wigginboy? Do you forget certain passages from ES that easily? Note here my quotations might not be accurate because I'm drawing from memory and not relistening to the book.
Graff said: "Some day he [Nicolei] will be ready for command school"
Sister Carlota thought: "Of course any true sibling of Bean's would have exactly those abilities that would attract the attention of the IF. Bean's alteration simply gave him a far sharper intelligence to bear on abilities he already had".
So Bean was smarter for his genetic alteration yes but his abilities weren't part of that. If Nicolei could go to command school without the alteration then so could have Bean. Bean's abilities are just as natural as Ender's, only his intelligence is enhanced.
I have great admiration for Bean and to hell with the fact that he was genetically altered. I love and look up to him because his intelligence far outstrips mine whereas, however arrogant this might sound, I believe that Ender and I are on nearly equal ground.
Except Nikolai, by his own admission, couldn't go to Command School. He wasn't smart enough, and he knew it. Graff saw what he saw only because Nikolai was getting lots of help from Bean.
Nikolai definitely had the traits to get into Battle School, but then so did a lot of other kids including dolts like Bonzo Madrid.
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Postby Tiny genius » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:04 pm
Nikolai BELIEVED that he wasn't ready for CS. Graff no doubt knew of Bean's help and factored it in. The Fantasy Game was a much better analyst of a kid's personality than the kid and the teachers had access to the results even though they were unclear at times.
Plus Bean only helped with classwork, he couldn't help (or couldn't help much) in the development of Nikolai's personality that would make him suitable for CS. And I think that Bean would be smart enough to only help in ways that wouldn't drastically affect the way the teacher saw the student. He's a good enough analyst for that.
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Postby darth_ender » Sat May 26, 2012 8:55 am
So I posted this at my Star Wars website, and I just can't get enough of a discussion going on the topic. I'm posting it almost word-for-word, with some alteration for clarity (mostly with relation to popular abbreviations). Just be aware that the culture of that forum is part of my comment, so portions of that post reveal that Star Wars fans were the intended audience. Forgive the style, and it isn't meant to be harsh or critical of anyone else's opinion. It's just my take.
"So as I mentioned elsewhere, I've been reading the Ender's Game series again. I finished Game for the fourth time, the short story precursor to the novel for the second time, I read A War of Gifts for the first time, and now I'm about halfway through Ender's Shadow [for the third time]. Here are my thoughts on the latter, and it will make sense why I posted it in this thread in the end instead of the "What are you reading?" thread.
*Warning, there are spoilers ahead: proceed at your own peril*
Orson Scott Card did an excellent job blending this story into the mesh of the other. He wrote Ender's Game in 1985, and Ender's Shadow, a parallel story in 1999. Shadow centered around mostly the same events and the same timeframe, but from a different character's perspective. The reader is supposed to be able to read either story first or second and gain just as much enjoyment either way, as they are independent tales, and his experiment worked! I can't imagine the limits one imposes on oneself when writing stories in this manner. We see how it limited [George Lucas] when creating the Star Wars [Prequel Trilogy]. But Card deftly pulled the whole thing off.
And while it's a good story, I have to hold it to a lower level of canonicity in my mind, much as I do with [Star Wars Expanded Universe] lore. You see, I read Ender's Game in 2000, and I'd heard of Shadow, but instead followed the Ender storyline (which admittedly got pretty weird by the third and fourth books). I loved Ender's character, as is obvious by my handle. I was much younger then, and I related well to Ender, who is an extremely intelligent boy, far brighter than the other characters, and of the sort I hoped to be (I now find myself falling only slightly short of that mark . During that story, there is a character named Bean, and if you read only that story, you gain a perception of Bean, even with two brief portions where the third-person narrative follows his train of thought, though only briefly. But the glimpse you get of him is that he is bright, similar to Ender, but not quite as bright. He tells Ender, "You're the best." He reveals that he is still a child, though the story puts children in very adult situations... He gets excited about things in a childlike manner. He gets emotional in parts. He shows some shortcomings in his estimation and perception. He shows limits to his creativity.
In 2002 I read Ender's Shadow for the first time. Suddenly, Bean is actually smarter than Ender, though it turns out he's been genetically manipulated to achieve this. In fact, he blows Ender's superhuman abilities away. Ender, who was manipulated by adults into doing things he did not wish to, who revealed self-perceptions of doubt and weakness, who felt the torture of adult-imposed social isolation, who did not even hold any ambition for greatness, but only the good of humanity, is topped by Bean who is calculating, limited in emotion (clearly not emotionless, but more controlled), rather being led by more pure logic, embracing social isolation, holding few weakness and therefore few self-doubts, and is actually ambitious to an extreme. Though perhaps his motives are also for the good of humanity, he aggressively sets out for leadership. Many of Ender's manipulations by the adults, it turns out in the end are manipulations by Bean. Many of Bean's comments of supposed adulation such as, "You're the best," turn out to be patronizing, as Bean knows he's the best. Much of the perspective we get of Bean before feels out of character, such as the childish side of Bean. And Bean's intelligence completely undercuts Ender's, as Ender foolishly believes Bean when he says, "You're the best," instead of recognizing that Bean is a faker. He recognizes Bean's creativity (which is actually de-emphasized, IMO, in favor of his calculative abilities in Shadow), but doesn't see him as hyperintelligent. He misses out on all of Bean's manipulations, and in the end, if you accept that version of Ender, you don't really believe he is so smart after all.
In the beginning Ender was selected because of his emotion, his ability to empathize, along with his mental capabilities. He is approximately equal in intelligence to his brother and sister, but his brother lacked the empathy to relate to his enemies and therefore was cruel, while his sister was too empathetic and therefore too soft. Those who recruited Ender found him to be the perfect medium. OSC missed the mark, I think, in Shadow, because at the end of the book, Bean admits that Ender is the right man (boy, really) for the job of Bombad General because of his empathy, his ability to persuade and create loyalty, his ability to truly lead, which Bean lacked. He had the brains, but not the leadership. But Ender's Game made a particular point to mention that Ender was also selected because his empathy allowed him to reach into the hearts of his enemies and anticipate their moves. Bean lacks this ability, but apparently, if memory serves (remember, I'm only halfway through and going just by my last reading on this point) doesn't recognize its value in Ender's perceptiveness. I guess I just feel that Card made a very intelligent character, and then made him look kinda dim in another book.
Characters who are vulnerable are most interesting. Bean is too invulnerable. He is too smart. Throughout the whole book, I want Ender to still prove that in some ways at least he is smarter than Bean, much as we hope that our Kasparovs of the world will outsmart the Deep Blues in spite of the superior processing power [of the latter]. More intuition. More empathy. More something. Ender is now weak. And I don't buy it. I read Ender's Shadow, enjoy in for its own story, and continue to call myself darth_ender, knowing that Ender is really the smartest and Bean is just a smart but obnoxious turd in the "real" Ender universe.
What does this all have to do with the film? OSC has apparently pushed for Bean's inclusion as much as possible in the actual film. The movie Ender's Game is actually somewhat of a hybrid, drawing some elements of Ender's Shadow into the script. I don't want Bean to undercut Ender. Ender is the better character, the vulnerable character, the character you want to win, but who really faces the overwhelming odds and still manages to come out on top. I hope there is moderation in this, as there are good qualities to the expanded Bean story, but if Bean starts making Ender look like a twit, I swear I'm gonna...start pulling weeds in my front yard or something.
Anyway, that's my rant. Go Ender!"
So that was my original post. I wanted to add to the original, but I forgot to mention that Bean has a more prominent role in the short story version of Ender's Game as Ender's confidant, somewhat in place of Alai. Though I know this isn't the canonical version of the story, it again reveals a weaker, more childlike Bean, gives you a sample of a different character. I know Shadow was written much later with a different version in mind, but considering what was revealed to us already, I don't feel the new Bean is the same guy as the old one. Retcons aren't always a bad thing, but in this case I do prefer the original perception better. That's not to say that Ender's Shadow is a bad story. On the contrary, in many ways it's better, considering the more mature style of writing, and the story is very interesting and surprisingly unique given it's nature as a parallax. But I prefer the view of the characters from the original story.
Sorry so long. Hope it's an enjoyable read for it's own merits.
Postby Gravity Defier » Wed May 30, 2012 2:11 pm
I wanted to add to the original, but I forgot to mention that Bean has a more prominent role in the short story version of Ender's Game as Ender's confidant, somewhat in place of Alai. Though I know this isn't the canonical version of the story, it again reveals a weaker, more childlike Bean, gives you a sample of a different character. I know Shadow was written much later with a different version in mind, but considering what was revealed to us already, I don't feel the new Bean is the same guy as the old one. Retcons aren't always a bad thing, but in this case I do prefer the original perception better.
And I think this gets to the heart of my issue with the Ender vs Bean argument. Bean changed for me entirely in the Shadow series, in a way I found harder to appreciate and respect because he went from human, vulnerable, but clever to unnaturally intelligent and emotionally cold. They're not the same person from EG to ES.
Dave/Taal did a really interesting review on the Shadow series not too long ago that would, if anything could, make me see the new Bean as something more than how he came across to me but my memory of who he became in ES is enough to make me not rush to re-read the Shadow series to see if Dave had a point.
Postby darth_ender » Wed May 30, 2012 4:32 pm
And the sad thing is that I really do like Ender's Shadow, just not the portrayal of Bean. I almost have to think of it as an alternate reality, not a parallax as OSC suggests. The Star Wars site I refer to is http://www.originaltrilogy.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Nearly everyone there detests the prequel trilogy. I enjoy them, though not nearly as well as the originals, and I certainly don't hate them despite their many flaws. There are times when I watch them and consider them part of my personal Star Wars canon. And there are times where the original films are all there is to Star Wars for me. While I'm reading Ender's Shadow, it can be a good story and part of the Ender lore. But when reading Ender's Game, Shadow is a completely different series.
Postby Tiny genius » Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:11 am
D_e, you have presented some good points but I'm going to disagree with you.
First of all, I'd like to say that I'm either handicapped or helped in my opinion of Bean because I read the EG novel and never actually read the short story, so my view of Bean is based on EG and the Shadow series only.
You described Ender as being "smarter than Bean" while this is obviously not true. While Bean's intelligence was created by the turning of Anton's Key, he still has them and that makes him smarter than Ender, I've not read EiE either but I am given to understand that Ender even says that Bean's smarter at one point. You said Bean was too cold and calculating. Well he didn't have a real family until Poke and she died, of course he's a little emotionally messed up. He even thinks to himself that he feels the same emotions as humans (and I'm going to keep saying that because it's faster than saying 'ordinary humans') but doesn't let them interfere with his decisions. It is a survival mechanism for him. For all Leguminotes really because his kids were much the same. The last thing you say about Bean is that he's obnoxious. He isn't. My signature when I first signed up was a quote of sister Carlotta's. "When you're as gifted as Bean accurate self assessment looks like vanity" and this is what has apparently confused you. He acts the way he does because he knows that he knows things that he knows the others don't know or know that he knows.
Go Bean!
P.S. Ender isn't revealed as weak in ES, he is simply revealed in greater depth, some of his actions and circumstances more deeply explained or seen from another angle. Bean is also not patronising Ender when he says "you're the best", he's gibbering because he just had a very bad experience and believes that he betrayed Ender.
Postby darth_ender » Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:45 pm
Oh no! Better not disagree with me!
Before taking on your argument, I want to point out that we are approaching the stories from slightly different angles. You see both books as complementary, almost as if OSC had Bean's story planned out in the beginning (at least that's my impression, forgive me if I'm wrong). I see the first book as creating a particular character, deliberately portraying Bean in a certain manner. Then when Ender's Shadow came out, a different sort of character is portrayed. OSC realized he could create a more complex and original character, he altered Bean, and using internal dialogue provided justification for some of Bean's out-of-character behaviors.
When I said Ender is smarter, I am referring to the natural interpretation of anyone whose only exposure to the Ender universe is Ender's Game, where Ender was clearly originally intended to be the smarter boy.
You're right about Bean's cold and emotionless nature--it is understandable, given his experiences and his mental capacity. However, given that he is not portrayed as cold and emotionless in EG, this is what bothers me. He lets pride cloud his judgment when Ender belittles him. He gets smug when he knows he gets under Ender's skin. He becomes emotional when Ender gets transferred. He acknowledges Ender's abilities more than once with awe. In ES, many of his words are patronizing: rather than mean, "You're the best, Ender," he means, "Ender, you're great, not as great as me, but why trifle with details since this is what you want to hear?" BTW, I mean when Ender asks him to lead the special squad, prior to Ender's traumatic experience.
Referring to Bean being obnoxious, I again mean his portrayal in EG. If you only knew of Ender's Game and not Ender's Shadow, you'd think bean was just an arrogant little pinprick, smart, clever, almost as much as Ender, but also obnoxiously conceited and overly ambitious. Once you read Ender's Shadow where Bean's nature is fleshed out and greatly altered, you realize only then that Bean is simply giving "accurate self-assessment."
And to me, Ender truly is undercut. Ender is supposed to be extremely perceptive, capable of predicting an enemy he has never met face-to-face, hardly receives any education about, and what he does know is only from limited sources in and of themselves. Ender can reach into hearts, get anyone to love him, understands motives and struggles, etc. (see A War of Gifts, for example). But with Bean, he didn't even bother to research his new Dragon Army, misunderstood 90% of Bean's comments (according to ES), couldn't even pick up on Bean's abilities as exceeding his own after spending a month with him, etc. While Bean's test scores are only slightly higher than Ender's, Bean states that this small gap only shows the limitations of the tests. While Ender doesn't realize how the adults manipulate him, Bean sees through everything...everything! How could Ender be so blind?
Two things could have greatly remedied these discrepancies to me: 1) Make Bean more emotional from the beginning. Most people become more reasonable and less emotional as they mature, but Bean goes the opposite way, and far too drastically and suddenly. Most unreasonable is his excitement when the deadline changes his direction for the first time. "Did you see that?" he shouts with child-like enthusiasm. I find it hard to believe that someone of Bean's mental capacity did not anticipate something just like this. And I find it unlikely that someone of such maturity throughout the whole book, containing so many other emotions that would naturally "leak out" with less self-controlled individuals, would simply unleash such childlike excitement at this point without shame. 2) Ender should still be the smarter in at least one or two ways. His only superiority over Bean is his ability to garner loyalty. OSC completely forgot about the importance of Ender's abilities with ES. Ender can read even the Buggers' minds through his empathetic nature, a trait that Bean lacks, but that OSC never capitalizes on.
Let me add that since I'm now farther in the book (almost done), and my last write-up was based on when I read the book six or seven years ago, many details had been forgotten that I now am aware of. Once Bean and Ender begin interacting and we see the emotional side of Bean, that he's not just a biological computer, I like it much better. It is definitely a well-written story, and were it the original tale, I'm sure I'd like it even better. But as I fell in love with Ender first, and then reading a book written several years later that alters the intent of the original story, I don't like how things mesh. The character I love is drastically undercut in my mind by a character that I found "obnoxious" and "arrogant" in the first place.
It's just my take. In truth, I am impressed with Card's experimental parallel novel and how well he pulled it off, yet maintained an interesting and independent story. I just am saddened by the changes to my perception of Ender.
But hey, that's my view, and I have no qualms if you prefer Bean. I love discussion and debate, so feel free to rebut these thoughts. Sorry again that it's so long.
Postby Tiny genius » Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:44 pm
What the heck do you mean "before Ender's traumatic experience"? There's no such thing. From the time he was taken away from Val and the rest of his family and put into BS he was having traumatic experiences. You keep describing Bean's words "you're the best Ender" as patronising. It is explained why he says them, he's being ironic and Ender is the best in Bean's opinion. The best at command. Bean is assessing his overall abilities, not just his intelligence.
Also, Bean no doubt anticipated his change in motion. What he was excited about was showing it to the rest of the group and hoping that they understood its tactical significance.
Also, in my view, Bean hasn't changed, he's just been explained. I was also irritated, originally, when Bean was shown to be smarter than Ender. I read EG first and loved Ender and along comes this other kid who is immeasurably smarter. My science teacher said he preferred the Shadow books because Bean was smarter (this was before I'd read Shadow) and my original reaction was "How the hell's that possible?". In a little time though, I realised that Ender wasn't shown to be a fool, he was just shown from Bean's perspective. We now understand that Bean's "didn't find the paper until you got back from the shower, right?" is not criticism but accurate assessment of the teachers' intentions.
And that's one more thing. EG states that Ender knows he's being manipulated, he isn't blind to it. Bean only sees through everything because he's got unnatural intelligence and also inside information courtesy of his little air-duct adventure. No-one else couldv'e done it because Bean was a 5 year old who was the size of a 2 1/2 year old. Everyone else was 6 or 7 at least and not drastically small for their age.
Postby darth_ender » Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:49 pm
Tiny genius said:
What the heck do you mean "before Ender's traumatic experience"?
I was responding to your comment here:
Bean is also not patronising Ender when he says "you're the best", he's gibbering because he just had a very bad experience and believes that he betrayed Ender.
Bean later comes to truly adore Ender, but at that point, he had not quite come to love him and acknowledge him IMO. I admit that when I first wrote the comment, I hadn't arrive at that point in the book yet, and that I have since read it and might believe that he acknowledges Ender is the best commander. But he clearly sees himself as the better general, and the nature of the conversation refers to Ender's strategic and tactical abilities, not his ability to garner loyalty and lead an army.
No, if Wiggin thought Bean needed to have this explained to him, he did not understand who Bean really was….
[Ender said,] "No one has ever destroyed so many enemies and kept so many of his own soldiers whole in the history of the game."
What was this, brag? Bean answered as brag was meant to be answered. “You’re the best, Ender.”
Wiggin shook his head. If he heard the irony in Bean’s voice, he didn’t respond to it.
Sounds very patronizing to me.
I said in my last post:
I don't read Ender's Shadow as an explanation for Bean. I see it as a retcon. And as such, I feel it undercuts the character I grew to love first. I don't fault you for loving Bean. If I'd read the books in the reverse order, I believe my opinion could potentially be very different. But as it is, I feel that I fell in love with a very fascinating character, who then is shown to be a weaker character in spite of OSC's efforts, because he made Bean so much more interesting. If he had implemented the two points I'd wished for (and maybe toned down Bean's intelligence just a tad as a third point), I could find a happy medium between the two books: I could still love Ender more, but acknowledge Bean's synthesized superior intelligence. As it stands now, I just can't enjoy Ender's Shadow as much as Ender's Game, or view it as "equally true" in my personal canon of the Enderverse.
FlyBy
Postby FlyBy » Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:57 pm
Both Ender and Bean are intellectually different. While Bean is very cold and analytical, Ender understands the human mind. Bean could dissect the psychological structure of a complex individual, Ender would know him as if he is his own self.
I believe Bean is superior when it comes to strategy and quick thinking. I would say he would more likely win in a chess match with Ender.
But if I were to pick which one I would rather stay in a room with, I would choose Bean. Simply because Bean won't care about me and leave me alone. But Ender would sit there and ask questions. Who is she, and what is her story? She is this, she is this. I would be terrified of how much he would find out about me because knowing is power. It's just one more thing someone has over me. Just having my inner most thoughts scrutinized is terrifying. I wouldn't like it.
It's like you took the thoughts out of my head, darth_Ender -Cool name, by the way-. I agree with everything you said above that Bean started out a different character and was then recreated into another one. The one thing that cements this to me is the scene after Graff announced that Ender was graduating.
Bean wandered about it as he walked back down the corridor to his own bed, The lights went out as he reached his bunk. He undressed in darkness fumbling to put his clothing to a locker he couldn't see. He felt terrible. At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold him down. He bit his hand to stop the feeling to replace it with pain. It didn't help. He would never see Ender again.
He would never see Ender again, thought Old-Bean. In contrast New-Bean knew that he WOULD meet Ender again. He wasn't homesick at all. It was the scene when I realized how much I cared about this character. While I think the more mature New-Bean is interesting, I miss the Old-Bean who I sympathized and fell in love with.
I struggled to put these too Beans together. All I kept thinking was does the writer think I can believe this? Imagine how disappointed I was. I reconciled this conflict in my head by thinking of the Bean Series as an alternate universe, and simply began to see New-Bean as a different character. Still, I'm very sad. Will I ever know Old-Bean's story?
Not likely.
Postby darth_ender » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:36 pm
I just completed ES today, and to make sure there is no misunderstanding, in its own right it is a good book. But you said everything perfectly, from your distinction between Old-Bean and New-Bean and the EG quote to the alternate universe. In fact, that quote is the perfect example of my thoughts. Thanks for providing it. And as for alternate universes, that's exactly how I feel I need to read the two series: alternate takes, not just alternate POVs.
I do need to give OSC a bit more credit now that I completed the book, since it had been so long since the last time. Ender did come up with the final plan while Bean was completely stumped, and Bean did start to see that Ender was able to perceive the Formics' hearts. Still, he did not touch on Ender's perceptibility nearly enough, and Bean still continued to completely blow Ender's intelligence away, such as his guess with the ansible and the reality of the "simulated" attacks against the Buggers. I can accept a Bean of superior intellect, but I wish they were closer to each other than is portrayed.
When I say I completed ES today, I actually didn't "read" most of it; I listened by audiobook, as my job requires a lot of driving. At the end of the book was a 12 minute discussion by OSC himself about the struggle to create a script, and how Ender's Shadow and the expanded character of Bean better allow for a screenplay adaptation since it is difficult to portray the story sufficiently when just based on Ender. While I already commented that I hope there is not too much Bean in the film, after listening to OSC today, I have changed my mind. And I in fact have hopes that the limitations of film and the focus primarily on Ender will allow for a character much closer to the Old-Bean. I have my hopes.
And finally, thanks for the compliment on my name. I came up with it years ago, and it's the handle that has stuck with me the longest. Some imposter on the Net calls himself DarthEnder, but I am the real darth_ender
This is the picture I use as my avatar on the Star Wars site, and I should use it here. Here it is:
I believe it is from the show "Merlin," but I've never seen it. It just looks like it could be Ender as a Sith Lord I don't intend to change it for a while, it's just so perfect!
Postby Tiny genius » Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:03 pm
Darth Ender,
I do wish you'd stop refering to Bean's intelligence as 'synthesised' or the like. It seems like a petty attempt to devalue Bean's intellect. Yes his mind's behaviour was caused by genetic manipulation but none-the-less it is Bean's mind and it interacts with his emotional side just like normal humans. It's not mechanical, it's made of the same stuff as your's or mine, just grows differently.
If a person happens to be taller than someone else, no one would say that his height was 'synthesised'. This is genetic and the only difference is that Bean's alteration was deliberate, but his parents didn't ask for it, Volescu did it illegally and in secret, not wanting Bean's intelligence for it's own sake but to study as an experiment. So yes, Bean was deliberately made smarter but not through the will of anyone but Volescu and his plans didn't work out anyway.
Postby darth_ender » Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:42 pm
I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend. We are still talking about fictional characters in a book. I could say with equal legitimacy that your response to my word choice is a petty attempt to rebut my comments without addressing most of what I say. Let me restate my opinion and offer some clarification.
I like Bean. I like Ender's Shadow. I like the story, the style, the character development, the idea of a parallel novel. I really enjoyed it.
What I don't like is that I read Ender's Game first. I came to see Bean as a certain character, even from the perspective provided within that first book, as FlyBy pointed out.
That's from Ender's Game, and that's clearly not the same Bean we get to know in Shadow. The point is that I don't necessarily much care for the departure from the original storyline, and how in my perspective (and all of us have unique but valid perspectives), Bean's story and character undercut Ender's. I still prefer the story of Ender, his deep perception, his huge heart, his supreme intelligence. When I read Ender's Game, I read it as one potential storyline. When I read Ender's Shadow, I read that as a different potential storyline. I derive enjoyment from both, but prefer one over the other. Perfectly legitimate and compatible with your different opinion as to which character is better and how you view the Enderverse.
As a final note, I believe I only used "synthesized" once, and not in a way that was meant to devalue Bean's mind. Rereading my comment, I was merely attempting to compare Ender's naturally occurring vs. Bean's artificially created mind. I'm reading Ender in Exile and I'm nearly done, and Ender even points out that in a way, his mind was artificially created as well, as two intelligent people chose to have children together. It was never meant to be demeaning. It was merely a statement.
Postby Gravity Defier » Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:06 pm
That's from Ender's Game, and that's clearly not the same Bean we get to know in Shadow. The point is that I don't necessarily much care for the departure from the original storyline, and how in my perspective (and all of us have unique but valid perspectives), Bean's story and character undercut Ender's. I still prefer the story of Ender, his deep perception, his huge heart, his supreme intelligence.
(Sorry for the lack of quality to my post but I've already expressed my opinion on this countless times over the years and just wanted to voice my agreement with and support of this statement.)
Postby Tiny genius » Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:42 pm
I wasn't trying in any way to argue against you without addressing main points when I asked you not to call Bean's mind "synthesized". In fact that type of specious argumentative style gets on my nerves so much I'd never dream of engaging in it deliberately myself.
You did only refer to Bean's mind as "synthesized" once but the word "artificial" and others have been used more than once, I did say "synthesized and the like".
As for the reference to homesickness, you do have a point. I read EG first and was struck by the discrepency when I read ES, "'They've never been away from mummy and daddy before, and it's getting to them.' Bean had no such feelings..." - my memory of a line from ES. So yes, the two books could be viewed as different potential probabilities or universes and I think I like the Shadow Bean better than the Game Bean or the Game Ender.
"'Are you sure you're not just picking the kind of commander you'd like to serve under?'
'That's exactly what I'm doing. Can you think of a better selection criteria?'" - from my memory of ES.
So yes, I'd prefer to serve under Bean but I was rated in a mind test as thinking 80% like a machine. I don't think it was too accurate but maybe that's why I relate to Bean more, because he's got emotions but doesn't let them run him, he's human (or near enough) but thinks more like a machine. And yes, Ender's mind was almost as planned as Bean's because as far as I can remember, the IF arranged the meeting of Jon-Paul and Teresa.
Postby darth_ender » Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:27 pm
Sounds good. To each his own. As I've been moving along in the series (reading Investment Counselor today), it occurs to me just how guilty Ender feels for his supposed crime. He holds himself responsible for the xenocide of the Formics, though he was an unwitting pawn. But interestingly, if any Battleschool child deserves to be accused of being a xenocide, it would be Bean. He consciously chose to destroy an entire sentient species. He knew exactly what he was doing, what the repercussions would be, and his role was only slightly less direct in their deaths than Ender's. Julian, the Xenocide. Bean the Xenocide. Too bad he doesn't even have to bear the weight of his crime as Ender does. As far as I can recollect (I've yet to continue the Shadow series since '06), he holds no guilt over what he has done. Another way to me in which Ender is superior. His empathy allows him to sorrow for what he has done, to bear the weight of humanity's hatred and the Buggers' deaths. And if anyone truly deserved to bear that weight (outside of the manipulative adults, of course), it was truly Bean. But Bean is either incapable of such remorse for his actions, or simply truly believed, in spite of all his perception, that the Formics deserved to die.
Postby Tiny genius » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:23 pm
There is something in that. Bean does ruminate on his own lack of remorse though and arrives at the conclusion that he's just not as empathic as Ender so he can't feel guilty about killing a race he didn't know except as vicious murderers. He is perceptive, but the only input he had was knowledge that the buggers had attacked twice and were fighting now to stop humans at the expense of human life. All he saw was that they didn't mind killing humans in offensive or defensive situations. It doesn't matter how much you can analyse, how fast you can think, it does you no good without appropriate input."The buggers attacked first, they aren't surrendering now therefore they want to kill us therefore it is us or them therefore we are justified in destroying them."
So yes, I respect and admire Ender's superior empathic abilities just as I respect and admire Bean's superior intellect. I also think there is something in the fact that Bean truly looked up to Ender and tried to be like him. He succeeded a little too, because he managed to lead the Thai assault force well enough.
So yes, Bean knew what he was doing and Ender didn't. Yes Bean doesn't feel as much guilt as Ender despite this. Yes Ender dedicated his life to the Buggers and Bean didn't but their situations and reasons were different. Bean saw the Buggers a different way (worthy of destruction) when they died, Ender's empathy saw things differently. Yes, Ender saw them more accurately but Bean would've too if he'd had the right info.
Postby darth_ender » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:44 pm
So I read through the Ender books, and now I'm returning to the Shadow books. Just finished Shadow of the Hegemon, which I feel portrayed Bean far better in so many ways. Instead of being older and therefore even more rational like the rest of us, we actually see far more of his humanity, his subjection to his passions and his subsequently irrational decisions, his personal loyalties, his clouded judgment, his guilt for past mistakes, and yet his ongoing intelligence. This is the kind of Bean I would have much preferred to read about in Ender's Shadow. I know Card was trying to make a distinctive character, but I think he made me like Bean less, and my views were more in line with Graff's: Bean wasn't human. Now I'm happy to see that OSC changed course and showed me I was wrong. I liked this book much better.
PS I still like Ender better But Bean is much closer in my mind now.
TerresaWiggin
Location: diagonally parked in a parallel universe
Postby TerresaWiggin » Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:02 pm
I would say Ender but Bean married Petra....
"when a school counselor called her in to tell her that the school administration was growing concerned about the fact that Petra seemed to be associating with the antisocial element in the school, she knew that she was truly at home in Maralik."
Postby Color09 » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:49 pm
Personally, Ender is my favorite, even to the point that every time in the Shadow series Bean is made to be better than Ender or Bean is criticizing Ender's action i felt offended. That's not very rational, but that's just my loyalty to Ender. I think its mainly because I identify with Ender so much and just "get" him more. Don't get me wrong, Bean is awesome, very awesome, but Ender is and always will be my favorite.
M.Aaron
Postby M.Aaron » Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:57 pm
I have to go with Ender all the way, he's an actual character, all Bean is anymore is Card's attempt to move on from the original Ender series. I point out these little clues.
1 In the Shadow series and Ender in Exile we find out Bean won the war NOT Ender, stated several times by Graff, Bean, Petra, Peter, Mazer and Ender himself.
2 Bean had the fantasy game reprogramed to evolve and manage Ender's financing and keep an eye on him so Bean created Jane not Ender.
3 Bean's missing son created the religious following for The Hive Queen and The Hedgemon and he also vilified Ender and created the "Ender Zenocide" name in Ender in Exile.
4 In Ender's Shadow we find out Ender didn't know faster than light communication existed only Bean did and Bean took control of the final battle at the last moment because of this, ignoring the fact that Graff explained it to Ender when the were going to Eros.
5 The IF (Graff, Mazer and the other adults) put their faith in Bean not Ender as they all turn to him in the final battles in Ender's Shadow.
6 Finally in Shadows in Flight we see Bean learn everything about the buggers from a couple male drones and doing so he finds out that the Hive Queen is lying to Ender the entire time and Ender doesn't actually know any facts about the Formics instead he knows the elaborate story they made for him so they could use him for their own purposes.
These are only the biggest changes Card made to destroy everything Ender ever accomplished,to be honest the extent this is going is getting quite ridiculous. I'm half expecting a new novel where Bean's three kids from Shadows in Flight to discover faster than light travel, the Piggies and the Descoladores. At first I liked Bean as a character but as time and novels go by I'm starting to loath him for the reasons listed above.
Samsonovich
Postby Samsonovich » Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:27 pm
Though it can be argued that Ender is far smarter and real than bean, I disagree.
Bean was manufactured, yes, but he is, in my opinion, the most human character in the book.
He has a constant internal moral struggle, and if that's not human, I dont know what is.
Don't get me wrong, Ender did as well, but it was not more powerful than Bean's. Bean and ender are almost the same character, in that they regard other people's lives over others.
And I do believe Bean is smarter than Ender. Ender is only more likable and respectable than Bean, but Bean is up in the clouds while Ender is still on Earth. He's simply genetically smarter.
Postby darth_ender » Wed Aug 13, 2014 12:30 am
You know, I'm glad you pointed this out. Ender was a character with depth, a man torn by convictions and mistakes. His accomplishments were so amazing and vast and I love his character. Bean is not nearly so deep. I like the Shadow books, but only as an alternate universe. Ender books are tales of moral dilemmas and tests of human strength. Shadow books are action, politics, and sci-fi. Not bad topics at all, I love them, but simply not rich tales of human character. It makes me sad now that you've pointed out how OSC and the Shadow series has undermined my favorite character of all time.
mywildimagination
Postby mywildimagination » Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:25 pm
I'm just going to point out some issues with the above.
2 Redirecting the program Jane got her personality from is not the same as "creating her." Regardless of whether the Formics had called an aiua to reach Ender, Bean could have used the fantasy game that way.
3 The Hive Queen and the Hegemon were already big, Arkanian just directed the intensity of it. Really the only difference he made was the vilification of Ender, which Ender never purported to have a direct hand in.
4 Actually in Ender's Shadow it said Ender DID know about faster than light communication. Bean wasn't supposed to but he figured it out anyway.
6 Ender was talking to the Queen and Bean was talking to drones. The queen is going to hide the fact that her workers do have minds of their own and the drones have no reason to hide it. It has way more to do with who they talked to and not Bean stealing Ender's spotlight.
Personally, I'm in the camp of not pitting these two against each other. And since Ender/Novinha vs. Bean/Petra has been brought up, I just don't think Card writes romance very well. I think he likes the idea of certain characters getting together and having babies rather than the relationship itself. He does great at individual characterizations but once people get together it's more by-the-numbers and more procreation-directed. The pairings he writes best are the ones where he only spends time with one character instead of both because then the other character is just part of the focused one's characterization. And that's honestly fine with me. It's not like we read him for the romance. And when it comes to shipping, I think the same way. The more likely a couple is to have interesting babies, the more likely I'm going to ship it. Who cares about all that pesky "are their personalities right for each other" nonsense.
Henry Varro
Postby Henry Varro » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:01 am
I think Bean is better because
+He has his Anton's Key turn on, so he smarter than Ender
+In BS, albeit Bean not have full trust from other (the reason has been told in SotG) but in Earth, where not soldiers too smart and never smart like in BS, so they willing to take order from the one they knew will do all the best for them (like Bean with the Thai's soldiers) so the charisma of Ender not help much there, win or lose will depend on the tatics of the commander - which i think Bean is better, because he smarter than Ender and he dont let much emotion affect to his decide. Ender is good too, but he have too much emotion may affect his dicide, like he think he can do the same in the last battle with the Bugger if he know the truth of the "game", his heart may not think like that (i more certain when i read EiE, near end of the chapter 3:
"But Ender doesn't need us. He's thirteen. He's becoming a man. He's done brilliantly since he left us, but he also went through terrible things, and we weren't there. I'm not sure he'll ever forgive us for letting him go."
"You had no choice," said Valentine. "They would have taken him to Battle School whether you liked it or not."
"I'm sure he knows that in his head," said Mother. "But in his heart?"
Not the same thing but i think it more close than anything, we all know how he depress after Bonzo case, if he know he has and will be the one responsible for all death of people in all games, i'm sure he cant do what he has done, like Bean said:
"No! Are you insane? If he's this upset when the knowledge is unconscious, what do you think would happen if he *knew* that he knew? He'd freeze up."
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More or less created weblogging
In a recent response to my contention that Jorn Barger conceived and built the weblog community, Mark Bernstein notes that “Barger seems an unlikely, even preposterous, candidate to build a community” and goes on to list a number of questions that my paper fails to address. I hope to be able to answer all of these questions eventually, but this will take some time to do thoroughly.
Meanwhile, let me simply point to a CNET poll in early 1999 that invited readers to “vote for the 1998 Web innovators”.
Never mind who won. Here’s a partial list of the nominees for the title Web Innovator of the Year , sorted in no particular order:
Pierre Omidyar, chairman and founder of eBay, and Meg Whitman, CEO, winner of a CNET Class of ’98 People Award, have succeeded in creating an e-commerce site that has become a community.
Tim Bray is an independent software developer and co-editor of XML 1.0, which has the potential to reshape the way data is exchanged over the Internet.
Tim O’Reilly, is an open-source advocate and a leading publisher of independently developed software for the Web.
David Winer is the driving force behind Scripting News, an Internet community.
David Winer and the UserLand team developed Frontier, a cross-platform content management system that is rapidly maturing as an authoring and development framework.
Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded The Web Standards Project, whose mission is to halt the fragmentation of the Web by campaigning for browser standards.
Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom inspired the Web Log community.
Brad Graham, early blogger and author of a widely read piece on weblogging knew who should win the poll and wrote about his choice:
Jorn more or less created weblogging and then defined it by his excellent example. His Robot Wisdom Weblog is a glimpse of the future of web publishing, a personal, edited-with-an-attitude “portal” that separates the webwheat from the webchaff and, thankfully, posts the wheat.
Clearly, I’m not going to attempt an argument from authority, as neither Brad Graham nor CNET can decide the question by their say-so. But here’s a piece of evidence suggesting that reasonable people in 1999 could look back on 1998 and observe that Jorn Barger didn’t just coin the term “weblog” in December 1997 and then left it at that.
I’m planning to revise my paper and I’m currently looking a bit more closely into how connections between the earliest weblogs were established. I’ve come to suspect this: when Barger urged in July 1998 that “crediting links borrowed from other weblogs is good etiquette,” he was in fact pursuing and advocating a community building strategy, which, I think, Michal Wallace acknowledged when he observed in response that “a credited link can do good. It’s cross-pollination”. Blogrolls came later.
If you had a weblog in 1998 and received an e-mail at the time from Jorn Barger suggesting you should attribute the source of the link you’d just borrowed from Robot Wisdom Weblog, I would like to hear from you.
5 thoughts on “More or less created weblogging”
Mark Bernstein says:
Was asking (in practice,
Was asking (in practice, demanding) credit for his own weblog a community-building strategy, or a credit-building strategy?
More to the point, how many people who received these emails looked forward to receiving more? (My guess: plenty of people carefully linked to Jorn, or found a new source, to avoid getting more demand notes from Barger)
My point when I wrote that “Barger seems an unlikely, even preposterous, candidate to build a community” was that Barger was almost always combative and often bitter. Contrast his persona — even back in 1999, before Barger wore his anti-Semitism so openly — with some of the others on the list. They’re fun, friendly people with lots to offer. (It’s also worth noting that, of the names on the list, only Barger and O’Reilly lack a major technical accomplishment, and O’Reilly published the books that everyone, literally, everyone, depended on.)
You wanted email from O’Reilly. It might contain an book contract, or an invitation to a cool new conference.
You wanted email from Bray; it might contain the key to a new standard.
You wanted email from Winer; it might contain a dinner invitation, or a new software release, or damn near anything. At the very least, it might contain a link from Scripting News.
You wanted email from Zeldman; he was the prince of SXSW and his web magazine was held the key to the Web design audience.
You wanted email from the eBay crowd; it might contain a zillion dollar job offer, or a Pez dispenser.
One got email (and usenet battles) from Barger, but did one look forward to it? When you think of “community builder”, you generally think of someone like these other innovators — smart, likable, gregarious, well-liked.
Rudolf Ammann says:
Thanks for your thoughts,
Thanks for your thoughts, Mark. I’m aware that you and alt.hypertext at large didn’t get along with Jorn Barger, and that reservations about his temperament and his ideas are widely shared.
In what I do, however, I’m not prepared to make deductions from an unproven premise such as all community builders are personable . I prefer an empirical approach that looks at the archival data and makes its inferences from those.
According to my data, the handful of sites that embraced Barger’s site model, starting with Raphael Carter‘s smart and excellent Honeyguide Web Log in May 1998 (as well as Avram Grumer’s smart and excellent Pigs and Fishes and Bill Humphrey’s equally smart and excellent Whump, both of which came shortly after), were remarkably uniform in their observance of the principle that link sources ought to be attributed. I haven’t found out yet if these early webloggers simply imitated Robot Wisdom Weblog’s meticulous and painstaking attributions or if they acquiesced to Barger’s personal and privately communicated wishes. Either way, between Raphael Carter’s arrival as a weblogger and Barger’s first statement of his weblogging principles on the Web in July 1998, link annotating via reverse-chronologically sorted personal Web sites became a shared activity among a small group of people. The practice of attributing borrowed links to other news pages dates back to the summer of 1997, as Chris Gulker acknowledged Phil Suh in two or three instances when reposting links he’d found on Suh’s news page. But it was only Barger who promoted link attribution deliberately and systematically in order to raise the visibility of a few kindred projects that were engaged in the same practice of aggregating the best links they found.
Personally I don’t have any great investment in the term “community” — or “community building”, for that matter. Maybe called the group a “network”. In November 1998, when Raphael Carter launched the Web_log directory, Bill Humphries had yet another name: “It’s Official — Web Logs are a Movement”. In my data I haven’t found an earlier instance of the term “weblog community” than Barger’s use of it on 17 January 1999, but as a matter of demonstrable fact, it’s the term that came to stick shortly after and that remained the preferred term at least until Barger’s Weblog eGroup broke up in April 2000. Given the archival evidence, it seems disingenious to deny that the weblog community, conventionally assumed to have emerged out of the blue in the first quarter of 1999, was not a direct consequence of Barger’s activities throughout 1998. Should “networking” (or any plausible synonym) turn out to be a better description of those activities than “community building”, I don’t think I’d have any objections. But to dismiss them as mere “credit-building” disregards Bargers genuine enthusiasm for the idea of a group effort, which was in evidence before he discovered Gulker’s NewsPage network in January 1998, and it gratuitously belittles his sincere desire to praise and promote excellence wherever on the Web he found it.
Mark — you’ve called my paper “convincing,” so I’m not sure where you’re trying to go with your arguments from probability and analogy, unless — which I assume — it’s all about overcoming your understandably strong emotional resistance to findings that you’ve already accepted intellectually. If it helps you overcome that resistance: Barger used to have many admirers other than Brad Graham, and some of them were saying very nice things about his work at the time. Maybe I should gather and collate those testimonials for your perusal…
P.S. Who won the Web
P.S. Who won the Web Innovator of the Year award for 1998? None of the above did. Mozilla did. Runner-up? Linus Torvalds. Richard Stallman wasn’t nominated, and neither was Eric Raymond.
First, I’ve found in
First, I’ve found in historical discussion that it is customary — and often correct — to assume good faith and intelligence with those with whom one disagrees. Different historians draw different conclusions from the same facts. I grant the contribution of your archival research, but have great doubts that you have drawn the appropriate conclusion. Your “assumption” of my motivation is insulting, and happens to be incorrect. I proceed here from the hypothesis that you probably did not intend to express yourself in precisely these terms
What your archival research demonstrates is, necessarily, archival. You have shown that one document, which many believe to have been influential, may in fact depend on an earlier document which Jorn Barger published. This is an intrinsic limit of archives; we learn about documents, but must draw conclusions from those documents about events, and people.
Other explanations may be offered that fit the data. MANY other explanations; that’s what historians do. (Did Athens or Sparta cause the war? Why did Rome decline? Who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? Was Japan’s Edo-period technological isolationism a wise policy? I’m sure you can argue two, or five, sides to each of these. What makes your topic different?)
Did Barger play a the central role in building the weblog community? You have adduced some documentary evidence that argues for the possibility. But other evidence argues that others played a greater role. We might also consider arguments that the weblog community had no builder, that its shape and properties were technologically determined. We might consider arguments that the weblog community is not what we imagine, but something else entirely — a social circle of young designers linked by business and romantic partnerships, perhaps, or a brief publicity campaign. Perhaps there never was a weblog community.
Think for a moment of some communities where we can point to a reasonably well-established builder. St. Francis and the Franciscans. Pepys and the Royal Society. Winthrop and the Massachusetts colony. Tecumseh and his confederacy. George Ripley and Brook Farm. Randolph and he Pullman Porters. Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee. Jane Addams and Hull House. W. E. B. DuBois and the NAACP. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. Step back: do these remind you of Jorn Barger and the Blogosphere? I’m trying not to load the dice here — hence the long and varied list. Take any pair: Pepys and Addams make an odd couple, but sure — you can see lots of things in common. Modest affluence, a generous temperament, the shadow of serious illness in young adulthood, eagerness to engage the ideas of humble and grand alike, remembered as gracious and hospitable hosts, ardent committee-politicians who coped with disabilities of birth and were willing to fight hard behind closed doors, convinced idealists who enjoyed comfortable surroundings.
Pepys and Barger?
Surely, you can see the documentary weaknesses here. You observe that your narrative does not coincide with other, contemporary explanations. Why were they wrong? Why were they not immediately seen to be wrong? Note that you’re not simply fighting one early account, since there seem to be several early, competing stories in play here. Explanations can be adduced, but need to be weighed and judged.
I meant to tease rather than
I meant to tease rather than offend, while also expressing my puzzlement at your continued demand for an analogy whose intuitively felt adequacy would validate my work, and whose absence would somehow reflect negatively on it. That mixed bag of motives came out wrong. Sorry.
Your mention of John Winthrop made me sit up a little straighter, as, I believe, it suddenly explained our disconnect. It’s a cultural disconnect and, possibly, it’s a consequence of me pushing a few of the wrong buttons across a cultural divide, to wit:
In the US, you’ve got Founding Fathers. You’re heir to a civic tradition in which the title blog father , which has variously been accorded to both Dave Winer and Glenn Reynolds by their respective followers, resonates culturally and implies a high degree of veneration.
Where I’m from, founding fathers primarily evoke suspicion rather than veneration. My namesake (no relation, most likely) Jakob Ammann, the founding father after whom the Amish are named, didn’t leave the country entirely of his own accord; the authorities strongly encouraged him to take his heresies and his followers elsewhere, and good riddance to that rabble rouser, too!
Here’s the disconnect, I believe: I never intended to make Jorn Barger into a founding father, or a counter-cultural variation on the theme of the iconic leader. I never meant to suggest that a self-respecting blogger ought to wear a t-shirt with Barger’s portrait on it.
Maybe I sleep-walked into this. I should have known better than to do whatever I did to suggest Barger was a founding father — or The Founding Father — or even that any credit for his work would need to be deducted from anyone else’s credit for theirs. Interestingly, Scott appears to be on completely safe and unobjectionable ground invoking another great American archetype — the pioneer: according to his book, there were three great pioneers in the history of blogging: Justin Hall, Dave Winer, and Jorn Barger. I don’t see him catching much criticism from you for that particular choice of metaphor, probably because the pioneer is a far less problematic figure than the founding father and, of course, is a lot closer to the regular blogger: you could have a beer and a chat with the prospecting pioneer down at the local saloon, but social relations with the founding father were likely to be trickier and likely to involve a lot more social protocol: “Excuse me, Father Winthrop, could we discuss the sermon you delivered yesterday? About that City on the Hill?” Good job Scott never appeared to be saying Justin Hall was a founding father.
My conference paper is a conference paper. Obviously it’s got its shortcomings. I’ve learned a lot from you about what those shortcomings are, where I need to dig deeper, and where I need to avoid cultural archetypes that convey the wrong idea about what it’s supposed to explain. Thanks!
Give me some time to revise that thing and I’ll make it into something better.
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The Lost Issues of...
(cover art by GortAGoGo)
Article by Steve Johnson
Alan Moore is always a few steps ahead.
That's certainly true of his work with Awesome Comics. Although Awesome recently suspended publication of Supreme and Youngblood, Moore had both titles written for about a year past their sudden, unexpected end dates.
Issue 56, the last published issue of Supreme, shows the escape of Supreme's old foes from his Hell of Mirrors and the havoc they wreak on the world. Issue 57 would have shown the defeat of the Shadow Supreme (who didn't really kill Radar; that was just a Suprematon we saw at the end of issue 56) and the comeuppance of Optilux and Korgo, the Space Tyrant.
Issue 57: The Showdown
"Optilux has transformed about 200 members of a Bon Jovi audience into coherent light," Moore said. "Then he's captured them in the prism-world of Amalynth, and nobody cares."
"And we would have seen Korgo beating up Bill Clinton, because that's how space tyrants run things; he beats up Clinton, so he gets to be President. And he claims Hilary Clinton as his first wife, as part of the spoils. She changes her name to Hilary Rodham Space Tyrant.
"By the end of the issue, Korgo is begging Supreme to put him back in the Hell of Mirrors to get him away from this woman! 'I thought MY evil, unspeakable ambitions knew no bounds, but ...!' And by the end of 57, all the villains except the Slaver Ant are recaptured and returned to the Hell of Mirrors."
Issue 58: "A World of His Own" Darius Dax, Supreme's arch-nemesis who fell through time in issue 52B, is back. As Dax falls back toward Littlehaven, merging with the supremium meteor that ultimately wound up giving Supreme his powers, he feels himself fade out and merge with a blinding light.
When he wakes up, he's in a wonderful city, "wonderful from his point of view, that is," says Moore. "It's all dark, dirty, dangerous and disgusting." A group of people are trying to mug him, and each of them is a version of himself!
There's the bearded 1930s Darius Dax, dressed in gangster clothes, and the 1970s black pimp version called Delroy Dax, the Daxman, Darius Duck, the archenemy of Squeak the Supremouse, and a cyborg and plenty of other Daxes. They're inhabitants of Daxia, the place where all the versions of Darius Dax who have been revised out of the continuity end up. It's sort of a twisted mirror of the Supremacy, where all the old Supremes dwell, except that both Supreme and Dax are so egotistical, neither suspects the other place even exists.
The issue ends with Dax (our version) trying to return to Earth.
"Although this is against all the laws of space and time, and might well lead to the collapse of all reality for a Dax to return from Daxia, they all think that sounds pretty good. Universal chaos and armageddon. So he goes back, and takes up his old hideout in the Omegapolis Museum."
This is part one of a two-part article. Unfortuntely, it appears that archive.org does not have a copy of part two. Originally published on mania.com.
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Home YOLO 20 Games To Play Over Video Conference
Kajol Agarwal
Games to play over video conference
Just like Cousin Ambrose, we all are under house arrest right now. Even though we hate to admit, we are missing those miscreants we call friends. In the past month, we have already gone through all the mainstream activities. We have taken the quiz to see how much we know our friends, asked them everything, filled all digital slam books, accepted every Whatsapp challenge, and cast our vote to every Instagram story. What else is new? Online Housie? “Been there, done that.” Video calls? “We do that every single day!” How about Games To Play Over Video Conference with our friends? I got you. Didn’t I?
So, what are the games that we can play over video conference? Enumerated below are a few options:
Name, Place, Animal, Thing
Starting with the very basic one, the first game that we can play is Name, Place, Animal, and Thing.
Remember how we used to sit with pen and paper, making four columns? We can do the same while talking to our friends over a video conference.
We all can keep a pen and a paper ready with four columns drawn on it. Then, we all agree upon an alphabet (say E). After that, we all write Name, Place, Animal, and Thing starting with the letter E.
The person having all the four categories different from everyone else gets full 40 points. If two or more people write the same name (say, Elijah) or any other category (say Egypt or Elephant or Egg), they lose points for that particular category.
Truth/Dare
Want to get ‘em talking truth? Want to see them doing weird shite?
Well, play Truth/Dare! You can ask any question you want. You can watch them flip that bottle or do 20 squats.
This is like a free ticket in the form of a fun game. Nobody will get offended if you ask them if they ever stole a spoon cause “It’s just a game”.
This is a good time to see how much we know about our surroundings. This is a very simple game. One person makes a factual statement.
The remaining participants yell True or False. The ones with the correct answer gain a point.
For example, I say, “Sun rises in the East.” The ones saying “True” will get a point and the remaining people get nothing.
In this game, we ask a participant a question which they can only answer with Yes or No.
Now, it can be as simple as “Are you an Indian citizen?” or a bit twisted like “Do you have a crush on your friend’s girlfriend?”
This is a fun drinking game. Drinking orange juice and yoo-hoo! One participant starts with something they have done.
For example, “Never have I ever been arrested.” Now, among the rest of the participants, the one who has been arrested takes a sip. Things can be spiced up by using Bitter gourd juice.
This way, we play an interesting game, get to know each other, and stay healthy at the same time. Just kidding, take out your favorite booze, you deserve a good high with friends.
This is a situational game where we give our friends a situation.
Suppose, “What if you open your favourite book and land into that book’s world?” Then, the participants answer what they would do in such a situation.
This improves imagination skills, creativity, and the art of expression through words. It’s a decent game with a touch of communication practice.
In this game, the participants face a choice between two options. They must choose between the given two options.
Would you rather die instantly or live for the next 1000 years? Would you rather be married to a very wealthy person but have no love or be married to a financially challenged person with abundant love?
Questions like these are thought-provoking and they help us find out what we would do when putting in difficult situations.
These also help the players understand each other better.
Similar to “Would you rather”, this game places two options in front of the players. However, these options are shorter and rather quick. Kind of like a rapid-fire round.
Books or Movies
Mountains or Beaches
Cakes or Ice-cream
Elijah or Niklaus (wink, wink)
Rock, Paper, Scissors
We have been playing this since we were kids. We can easily play this over video conferencing.
The rules are pretty simple.
3 parties play this game.
Each one of them shows the sign of either Rock, or Paper, or Scissor at the same time.
For showing rock, we form a fist.
To show paper, we show a plain open palm.
For showing scissors, we use the peace sign.
Rock beats Scissors. Scissors beat Paper. Paper beats Rock.
As the name suggests, we draw a picture as close as the name of the movie given. Suppose one person draws round glasses and a broomstick.
Another person guesses Harry Potter. The latter gets a point (100 points to Gryffindor!)
The first person to guess the movie gets the points.
Dumb Charades
We act in a way that the other participants can guess the name of the movie from our acting.
In charades, we can hint at anything. We can act, we can dance.
The only thing that we can’t do is SPEAK. And that’s why- Dumb Charades. Again, the first one to guess gets a point.
We move our lips in a way that it forms a word or a sentence. However, we cannot speak (or just mute that zoom call).
The other people have to read the lips and guess the word or sentence we tried to form. Winner takes it all.
Killer-Detective
We have one Killer and one Detective. The killer is supposed to look at everyone and try to wink.
If someone sees the killer wink, they die. If the detective catches the killer wink, the killer dies.
It is the detective’s job to find the killer. A bit obvious, isn’t it?
Word-Links
True to its name, this game is all about creating word-links. We select a category (Say, places).
Someone starts with a place (Say, New Orleans). Now, the next person says the name of the place that starts with the last letter of the last said place. In this case, S.
So, the next person says Scotland. Now, the third person says Delhi. Then Inverness then so on.
This way, we learn the names of new places and exercise our brains with quick thinking.
Here, we simply name 5 of whatever asked.
It could be 5 names of countries, flowers, animals, fruits, veggies, GOT swords, witchy spells, Mikaelson brothers, Presidents, celebrities of 2020.
Like the game show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’? Well, play it away. Instead of asking questions from one person, involve all the participants.
The first one to answer wins it all. It’s time to brush up on some general knowledge.
If you’re in a charitable mood, feel free to Paytm the cash prize to the winner. Well, not 7 Crores. But maybe 10 bucks?
Repeat the Sentence
Remember Chinese Whispers? This is similar to that game. Here, we polish our memorising skills.
Suppose player 1 says “My name is”
Now, player 2 repeats what player 1 said and adds their own words. This makes it, “My name is Sabrina Spellman”
Now, player 3 repeats what player 2 said and adds their own words. This becomes, “My name is Sabrina Spellman and I will not”
Player 4 finishes the sentence with, “My name is Sabrina Spellman and I will not sign it away”
The one to miss a word loses. Let’s sharpen those nerve cells.
Skip the Number
The name says it all. Everyone says numbers one by one. However, here’s the catch.
Let’s say we decide to skin all the multiples of 3. So, player 1 says 1. Player 2 says to. But player 3 says 4. Ones to forget get discarded from the game.
Math Calculations
It’s time to go a bit old-school. Ok, Boomer!
Who doesn’t like a little bit of mind-boggling every now and then? Ask quick Math questions.
What’s 2+2?
Can you divide 25 by 5?
What’s the square root of 144?
What’s a square of 19?
Solve 24 + (40-20)
Go sharpen your mind with your friends.
I know, hardly 2-3 people are actually going to play this hideous game. It’s Mathematics. Ugh! Cringe level – 1000
Good Quality-Bad Quality
In this game, everyone says 3 things they like about others and 3 things they feel that the others could improve.
I know other people’s opinion doesn’t really matter. But they’re our friends. They know parts of us that even our parents and even we don’t know. This might create huge havoc.
But this might also help us understand each other better. We can know what they think about us.
They can know how we feel about them. It’s an even exchange. Try not to be hurtful, though. That’s the key.
Address the Issue
This is a pretend game where players build a situation (Preferably, a criminal one).
Now, they keep the issue in front of the appointed judge. The judge analyses the issue and declares an order.
These are for the geeks aspiring to be Detectives and Lawyers.
Alternatively, the judge can also solve an actual ongoing issue between two friends.
Find Me Something
Kind of like a treasure hunt, a player is asked to find an object from their house within a decided period of time. Upon failure to produce the object, the player who gives the task to find the object wins points.
Hindi Song in English
The lyrics of Hindi songs will be translated in English and everyone has to guess the actual Hindi song. Seems easy but isn’t quite. We know the rules. The first one to guess gets the points.
For example – Translate “Just like the need to breathe, just like the need to breathe. For your life, all you need is a darling to love.”
That’s right. Keep scratching your head.
Which Song Am I Humming
The name itself describes the whole game. You just gotta hum a song, mate! Your fellow players guess the song you are humming. The first one to guess is the winner winner, chicken dinner.
Guess the Movie from the Dialogue
Another idea for Games To Play Over Video Conference, say a dialogue from a movie and let those crackheads guess the name of the movie.
I’m not even going to repeat what happens to the first one to guess.
“The things you own end up owning you.”
Guess the movie, you little elves!!
Guess the Movie from Song
Sing a song and the other players will guess the movie.
Guess the Character from Acting
Pick up your favourite character. Bow down a little. Jump here and there. Open a book. Pull out a sock. Jump with happiness. If they don’t recognize this movie, get into the phone and hit them with the same sock.
You got the idea. Act like a character and your friends will guess the character and the movie it’s from.
Which Book is this Line from?
Now, my boomers, my geeks, my nerds, gather ‘round. I’ve got something in store for y’all, too. Did you really think I’d forget our lifeline – Books?! No, hon! As the name suggests, pick your favourite line and let those knuckleheads guess the book.
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
Well, since you have stayed with us so far till the end, that song was,
“Saanson ki zaroorat hai jaise, saason ki zaroorat hai jaise, Zindagi ke liye. Bas ek sanam chaahiye, Aashiqui ke liye.”
Go ahead with these Games To Play Over Video Conference. Play all your worries away with your friends. Also, make sure to live each and every single moment while you’re at it.
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There is an alternate universe somewhere, where in addition to all the nice people glowering from behind their dark goatee beards, the principle guest star in Star Trek IV was Eddie Murphy.
It seems insane, but after the dour Search for Spock, Paramount was keen to make the fourth instalment a little lighter in tone and a little easier for newbies to get on board with. Murphy had made a boat-load of money for Paramount in Beverly Hills Cop and Trading Places and Superman III had done well with comedian Richard Pryor only a couple of years before. With the contemporary San Francisco setting which Nimoy and Harve Bennett were considering, Murphy would work well. No?
Eddie Murphy turned them down.
Who can say how much money the Star Trek IV: The Eddie Murphy Show would have made, or how well-received it might have been by fans? In our universe, despite (or maybe because of) sitting very oddly in the rest of the canon, it was the highest regarded since Khan, and remained so probably until First Contact, or possibly forever. It also made more money than Khan, in fact its box office haul wasn’t bettered until First Contact, ten years later.
And yet, it isn’t really a Star Trek film at all.
It kinda-sorta looks like a Star Trek film for the first twenty minutes or so, picking up where III left off (again, for no particular reason, except that that seems to be the form now), with the ramshackle crew of the Enterprise limping home in their stolen Klingon ship to face the music. But – whaddyaknow! – another Mysterious Alien Probe is attacking Earth and playing whale song at it. Whales having long gone extinct in the 23rd century, Kirk announces that this beaten up and very unfamiliar ship is capable of time travel (who knew it was so easy?) and they nip back to 1986 to scoop some up.
When they arrive in then-contemporary San Francisco, the movie’s tone changes completely. The epic space opera of the previous two movies gives way to a breezy, eighties whale-out-of-water comedy, with the Eddie Murphy role blandly but ably fulfilled by Catherine Hicks as whale-ologist Gillian Taylor. The huge success of this very enjoyable movie is to avoid the baggage of Treks past, and to treat the ensemble cast as an ensemble, instead of three lead guys and a bunch of red shirts.
Kirk splits his crew up so he and Spock go find the whales; Scottie, McCoy and Sulu build a tank to put them in; and Uhuru and Chekhov go and find a nuclear reactor so… so Chekhov can say “nook-ular wessels” I think. Everyone seizes the opportunity to have fun with these parts, and William Shatner seems far more comfortable playing this easy going time traveller, even with his rival Nimoy behind the camera once more. Their crackerjack timing in this little exchange is just delightful.
If I have a criticism, it’s when all the other characters are getting such good scenes to play, Spock seems a little absent. Possibly this is due to Nimoy’s duties behind the camera, possibly it’s that dying and being resurrected just takes it out of even the hardiest half-Vulcan, but he seems a shadow of his former self for much of the movie.
Needless to say, in its cheerful what-the-hell way, returning to the future presents no new problems and the whales are presented to the space probe which obediently buggers off and leaves our heroes to it. They are rewarded with a spanking new Enterprise-A, Kirk is demoted back to Captain where he belongs and we have come full circle.
What a perfect place to stop.
Budget: $21m
Box office: $133m
Writers: Harve Bennett, Nicholas Meyer (plus Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes who mainly worked on the Eddie Murphy version)
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Producer: Harve Bennett
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Remembering World War Two Airmen
The Plane that Flew for 62 Days and the T-Bird that Saved the Day
When I was in the Las Vegas Airport, they had an old Cessna 172 hanging from the ceiling over the baggage claim area, so I had to check it out. Amazing. The Cessna, carrying two men, stayed in flight for an astounding 64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and five seconds!! Also in the terminal was a beautiful Ford T-Bird that was used as a rescue car in the fifties, and also assisted in the endurance record. You just never know what you're going to find that's interesting during an eight-hour overnight layover in an airport terminal.
Air and Space Magazine's Roger Mola wrote in an article in July 2006:
"On December 4, 1958, Bob Timm and John Cook set out from Las Vegas’ McCarran Field in a (Cessna 172) Skyhawk painted in the neon logo of the Hacienda Hotel to raise money for cancer research. The pair set an endurance record that still stands, staying aloft for 64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes, and five seconds. The pilots flew in four-hour shifts and once a day descended to 20 feet above the desert highway to receive 95 gallons of fuel from a tanker or, occasionally, a classic Thunderbird. In 1959, the Hacienda Skyhawk landed in the Guinness Book of World Records, and now hangs above the baggage claim at what is now McCarran Airport."
Photo by me.
Bob Shane wrote the following article about the classic Thunderbird that served as the unlikely rescue car at Las Vegas Airport in the fifties. This lovely T-Bird is also on display in the airport.
"Thunderbird Once Owned by Howard Hughes Sold at Barrett-Jackson
By Bob Shane
Aviation buffs attending the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction viewed a beautifully restored, fiesta red 1956 Ford Thunderbird convertible with a most unusual career in aviation. Not only was it once owned by aviation legend Howard Hughes, but it also served as an airport crash wagon and was used to refuel the Cessna 172 that holds the world's longest flight duration record.
Photo By Bob Shane
The T-Bird helped refuel a Cessna 172 during a record-setting endurance flight.
"Mr. & Mrs. Aviation," George and Peg Crockett, originally owned the T-Bird. In 1941, George Crockett, a native of Missouri and descendent of Davy Crockett, founded Alamo Airport, a private airport on Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas. In 1948, Clark County bought the airport, and its name was changed to McCarran Field. That was the beginning of the current McCarran International Airport.The Crocketts owned and operated the airport FBO, Alamo Airways. The 1956 T-Bird was used to supplement the airport's fire rescue truck. It was outfitted with a two-way radio, first aid kit, folding stretcher, spotlights and two fire extinguishers. Two large, red and white checkered flags were mounted on the rear bumpers.
Darrell Bradford, the assistant manager of Alamo Airways, recalled one airport incident where the T-Bird saved the day."A TWA Martin 404 had just departed Las Vegas for San Francisco International, when the pilot declared an emergency and asked permission to return to McCarran immediately," Bradford said. "The pilot shut down the left engine and had been cleared to land on Runway 7. With me riding as passenger, George positioned the T-Bird about 3,000 feet down the 12,500 foot runway." The aircraft made a single-engine approach, flared out high, then bounced three times before the pilot firewalled the right engine and started to retract the landing gear. "The aircraft started to climb out with only the right engine producing power," Bradford said. "It started to the left, right across from us. George said, 'We'd better try to keep with the Martin; he'll run out of runway.'" About that time, approximately 100 feet above the ground, the right wing lost its lift, and the aircraft settled to earth in a cloud of dust.
"The T-Bird was traveling about 70 mph when George left the taxiway and drove onto the desert," Bradford said. "We saw nothing until the T-Bird bogged down in the sand. When the dust settled, we found we were about 50 feet from the left rear of the aircraft. Per Mr. Crockett's instructions, I went around to the right side and George took the left. When I arrived at the right wing, everything was OK. When George arrived at the left wing, he found a small fuel fire, being fed by a ruptured fuel cell."The fire was rapidly approaching the fuselage, which contained 44 passengers. "George extinguished the small fire, thus averting a disaster," Bradford said. "The passengers started pouring out of the aircraft. A full five minutes later, an off-field fire truck arrived on the scene and promptly became stuck in the sand."By the time the proper fire equipment arrived, the fire was out and all of the passengers had been evacuated. "The passengers moved away from the crash scene, leaving the T-Bird the hero of the day," Bradford said. "There were broken bones, sprained arms and ankles. If the T-Bird hadn't taken us to the scene, there might possibly have been 44 charred bodies. All in all, the T-Bird more than paid for itself on that one occasion."
The Cessna endurance flight
On Dec. 4, 1958, a Cessna 172 took off from McCarran Field on a nonstop endurance flight. On Feb. 7, 1959, 64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and 5 seconds later, it landed in the Guinness Book of World Records. The nonstop flight record remains unbroken. The pilots, Bob Timm and John Cook, took turns at the controls of the Cessna, flying it in four-hour shifts. Except for the pilot's seat, everything was removed from the interior. A 95-gallon fuel tank was added, along with a mattress and internal access to both fuel and oil lines.With 47 gallons of fuel in the wings and 95 gallons in the belly tank, the 172 had to be refueled only once a day. The ground crew, Norbie Prada, Doyl Hickman, Roy Young and Bill Marhold, supervised that portion of the refueling. Once each day, the Cessna was flown 20 feet above a desert road. A line dropped to the fuel truck raised a hose up to the aircraft so that 95 gallons of fuel could be pumped into the belly tank. The process took three minutes.When the fuel truck malfunctioned during the marathon flight, Alamo Airway's '56 T-Bird again came to the rescue. While the Cessna flew above the convertible, five-gallon fuel cans were hauled by rope from the car to the plane. The Cessna was able to remain airborne.For the Cessna pilots, sleeping had become a problem. They couldn't sleep on a regular schedule and often drifted off while flying the airplane. Bob Timm admitted that he had dozed off at 2:55 one morning, while flying over Blythe, Calif. Waking up 20 minutes later, he saw the lights of Yuma, Ariz., and realized they had crossed over a range of mountains. Without an autopilot, they may not have made it."Doc" Bayley and the Hacienda Hotel sponsored the flight. Called the "Flight against Cancer," it served as a fundraiser for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. Today, the restored Cessna 172 is suspended above the baggage claim area at McCarran International Airport as part of the Howard Cannon Aviation Museum. A replica of the '56 T-Bird is also on display.In 1967, Crockett sold Alamo Airways, and the '56 T-Bird, to his longtime friend, Howard Hughes. The Hughes Tool Company property tag is still attached to the car's firewall. In the mid-1970s, Hughes sold the T-Bird to his personal pilot, John Seymore. In 1981, Seymore sold the car to a boat dealer, who in turn used it as a trade in on a new car from Sunland Motors in Las Vegas. In 1983, John and Marian Vetterli, from Wisconsin, acquired the car. They began restoration work in 1989. The couple sold the T-Bird at the 35th Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction for $86,400.
Posted by r morris at 7:29 AM
Labels: Alamo Airways, Cessna 172, Flight Record, Ford Thunderbird, Las Vegas, McCarran Airport, Nevada
jams o donnell said...
One word... Wow!
r morris said...
Hi Jams. I quite agree. :)
I should have taken a photo of their little portable toilet. Why anyone would put themself through 62 days of air travel is beyond me.
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