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Page 3, 25th November 1983
Page 3, 25th November 1983 — Cruise and Kent a Herald special on the words behind the row and debate on deterrence
Politics, Religion / Belief, War / Conflict
Organisations: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Pax Christi, Congress, Foreign Office, Heythrop College, Bradford University, Justice and Peace Commission
People: Reagan, Gerry Hughes, Paul Rogers, Roger Ruston, Thatcher, Fr Gerard Hughes Si, Fr Ruston, Francis Pym, Bruce Kent
Locations: Geneva, London, Oxford
Cardinal Has Stern Words For Pym
A Stockpile Of Problems For Mr Pym
The Bomb
Cardinal Calms Irish Storm
Page 1 from 8th December 1978
Persecution: Protest In Commons
Cruise and Kent a Herald special on the words behind the row and debate on deterrence
Keywords: British People, Peace, United Kingdom, Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament, Glastonbury Festival, Bruce Kent, Basil Hume, Peace Movement, Politics, Religion / Belief
Bishops put a cat among the pigeons
IT IS almost a year since Cardinal Hume led a delegation of five bishops to the Foreign Office to see Mr Francis Pym, then Foreign Secretary, about the state of the arms race, and to present him with a 14-page document expressing their fears for the way things were going.
The English and Welsh hierarchy has a tendency to caution on nearly all issues, and the disarmament question has been no exception. Yet a great deal of water has gone under the bridge in the year spanning the Iwo November meetings of the Bishops' Conference, and even staunch Catholic supporters of the peace movement have been surprised at how far the bishops have changed their attitude in that year.
Even last December, when they approached Mr Pym, the bishops had reservations about the Government's policy of deterrence as a defence system. Now, with the advent of cruise missiles, they have said the "new situation would appear to make it more difficult for the Government to demonstrate convincingly its commitment to a policy of progressive and mutual disarmament".
The fact is, that during the past year Cardinal Hume and the bishops have been lobbied repeatedly to take a firmer line on disarmament, especially by the Catholic peace movement, who have been trying to convince them that deterrence is, effectively, dead.
Another considerable influence was a confidential meeting of the hierarchy early in the new year at New Hall, near Chelmsford, when they listened to experts, both theological and strategic, on the whole question of the morality and 'practicality of deterrence.
The theological advisers were Fr Gerard Hughes Si, head of Philosophy at Heythrop College, London, and Fr Roger Ruston OP, of Blackfriars, Oxford. A strategic, expert, Mr Paul Rogers was also called in.
Fr Hughes is'known to be a supporter of the morality of deterrence. The nub of his view could be summed up in a chapter he contributed to a recently published book, The Cross and the Bomb.
"I should have thought it a reasonable view that the avoidance of nuclear war was of overriding moral importance. In that case, the possession of the deterrent, even though it involves the intention to wage nuclear war, is not merely not wrong, it might be argued to be obligatory."
His views apparently differ considerably from those of Fr Ruston, who has argued (in a Justice and Peace Commission booklet): "Anyone who looks squarely at the evidence must sec that it (deterrence) has been a complete failure on all essential matters", and pointed to the coming of cruise as evidence of this failure.
Paul Rogers is p lecturer in peace studies at Bradford University and was a prominent delegate at the 1980 National Pastoral Congress. He has written extensively on nuclear weapons and generally supports CND.
Since then the attitude of various hierarchies, especially the Americans, has had an impact, as has the powerful rhetoric of Mgr Bruce Kent. Mgr Kent is believed to have both enemies and supporters among the hierarchy. But whatever their individual feelings, the bishops cannot ignore him.
But the biggest impact on the bishops has undoubtedly resulted from the bellicose attitude of Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan, backed up by the "we-told-you-so" stance of the Catholic peace movement. Sources say that Mrs Thatcher has been prevailed upon by senior advisers to modify her warmongering attitude to the Soviet Union, because of its counter-productive effect on opinion leaders like Cardinal Hume.
Various Catholic peace supporters, notably members of Pax Christi, have expressed such strong opposition to the arms race, and especially to cruise, that they have become involved with law-breaking nonviolent direct action.
Pax Christi has made its position on cruise abundantly clear. At a conference two weekends ago it stated its opposition to the missiles because, it said: "As nuclear weapons with indiscriminate effects, they can have no moral use; as war fighting weapons ready for use early in war, they lower the threshold with conventional weapons; the Geneva talks are not really for disarmament but for arms control and do not include thousands of cruise missiles elsewhere; cruise missiles, planned and designed well before SS20 Soviet missiles, constitute a unilateral increase in Nato weapons".
This has been the sort of line adopted by other people in the Catholic peace lobby, including Roger Ruston and Paul Rogers. Even Gerry Hughes told me "If they destabilise, they arc a bad thing" and admitted " the level of deterrence is far too high. But how to get it down is a political issue, not a moral one."
Roger Ruston said "I do not think thc cardinal's statement can be taken as simply an endorsement of present policy on nuclear deterrence."
Paul Rogers, who was surprised at the bishops' "antagonism" said "We are many years beyond the stage of minimal deterrence. That is why the bishops' statement tends to put the cat among the pigeons."
There are many who still have reservations about Cardinal Hume's Times article as being too soft on the Government. They would like to have seen a complete condemnation of cruise by the cardinal and the bishops. But the underlying shift in the cardinal's thinking has been recognised, and there is warm support for his initiative in writing the article at all.
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Press Releases, 1969-1970
File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
AFSCME Career Development Program Records
Series IV: Publicity, 1967-1974
From the Collection: This collection documents the planning, execution, and evaluation of the AFSCME Career Development Program, 1966-1975, which primarily involved the Hospital Career Development Program (HCDP). HCDP developed and implemented career ladders and training curricula for hospital employees. The records are comprised of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, curricula, job descriptions, organizational charts, contracts, press releases, news clippings, lesson plans, course schedules, graduation invitations and announcements, recruitment material, newsletters, and a small number of photographs.
Important Subjects: Career Development Hospitals—Employees Occupational training United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare United States. Dept. of Labor
Important Names: Miller, Betty Lucy, William Wurf, Jerry, 1919-
Series Description: Series 1: General Files, 1969-1975 Series 2: Reports and Meeting Minutes, 1967-1975 Series 3: Correspondence, 1967-1975 Series 4: Publicity, 1967-1974 Series 5: Contract Proposals and Contracts, 1968-1974 Series 5 contains information related to contracts between AFSCME and various governmental funding agencies such as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and the Department of Labor, to conduct career development training for its members.
Series 6: Job Descriptions and Career Ladders Series 7: Curricula, 1967-1974 Series 8: Alphabetical Files, 1966-1975 Series 8 contains files related to organizations, healthcare, laws, and governmental funding agencies related to the AFSCME Career Development Program.
Series 9: Boston, 1968-1972 Series 10: Cleveland, 1969-1974 Series 11: Detroit, 1970-1974 Series 12: District of Columbia, 1968-1974 Series 13: Houston, 1973-1975 Series 14: Maryland, 1970-1975 Series 15: Memphis, 1971-1975 Series 16: Milwaukee, 1967-1975 Series 17: New York, 1966-1974 Series 18: St. Paul, 1971-1973 Series 19: Photographs
From the Collection: Material entirely in English.
From the Collection: 24 Linear Feet (24 SB)
From the Collection: AFSCME (Organization)
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Mixed Materials)
Press Releases, 1969-1970, Box: 3, Folder: 18. AFSCME Career Development Program Records, LR002369. Walter P. Reuther Library. http://as.reuther.wayne.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/509168 Accessed January 20, 2021.
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Soccer Shut Out at Emmanuel (Mass.), 2-0
Emmanuel (Mass.)
Simmons (8-7-1, 6-5-1 GNAC) 0 0 0
Emmanuel (Mass.) (12-5, 8-3 GNAC) 1 1 2
1st - 18:00 - Kayla Generis (Emmanuel (Mass.))
2nd - 78:00 - Kaylin Deschenes (Emmanuel (Mass.))
G: N/A
Sh: 2 Players (#3, #17) - 1
Sv: Lauren Williams - 7
G: 2 Players (#10, #13) - 1
Sh: Kaylin Deschenes - 4
Sv: Lexi Gawron - 2
BOSTON, Mass. -- The Emmanuel College (Mass.) women's soccer team scored a goal in each half to defeat visiting Simmons University, 2-0, in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference contest at Roberto Clemente Field in Boston, Mass. The Sharks fall to 8-7-1 overall and 6-5-1 in league play, while the Saints win their third straight match to improve to 12-5-0 and 8-3-0.
The Emmanuel defense held Simmons to just two shots for the game with both coming in the first half, while the Saints offense fired 11 shots. Emmanuel held a 7-2 margin on corner kicks as well.
The Saints scored 18 minutes into the match when junior forward Natalie Dash (East Hampton, Conn.) threaded a well-placed through ball to the feet of junior forward Kayla Generis (Wethersfield, Conn.) who took two touches before finishing the semi-breakaway with her ninth goal of the year.
The Sharks received a shot on goal from senior midfielder Cíara Forde (Quincy, Mass.), less than three minutes into the match and classmate Mikayla Elliott (Lowell, Mass.) also put a hard shot on frame to try and tie the match with less than eight minutes remaining in the opening half off of a corner kick.
The scored remained at 1-0 until the 78th minute when Emmanuel took advantage on a foul in the Sharks defensive third of the pitch. On the ensuing direct-kick, freshman back Kennedy Davingnon (Woodstock, Conn.) found the head of Deschenes who netted her fifth goal of the campaign to bump the lead to 2-0 with just 12 minutes to play.
Senior keeper Lauren Williams (Bowdoinham, Maine) registered seven saves for Simmons, while junior goalie Lexi Gawron (South Hadley, Mass.) turned away both shots she faced to record her ninth career shutout for the Saints.
The Sharks return to action on Tuesday, October 23 when they host Brandeis University at Daly Field at 7:00 p.m. in their regular-season finale, while Emmanuel hosts GNAC foe Lasell College on October 24 at 7:00 p.m.
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Category: Start / International Food Laws (IFL)
This section relates to international food laws and regulations with a general list of laws and regulations for a selected number of regions and countries of the world.
CFR: FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food
Code of Federal Regulations: Good Manufacturing Practice: Title 21, Food and Drugs, Chapter I. Foods and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, PART 110: Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food. (English)
Diritto Interno Svizzero: Polizia degli alimenti e degli oggetti d'uso e consumo (817)
Leggi e Ordinanze Federali Svizzere concernenti la polizia degli alimenti e degli oggetti d'uso e consumo: raccolta completa delle Leggi, dei Decreti e delle Ordinanze Svizzere riguardanti l' alimentazione (Italiano).
Droit Interne Suisse: Police des denrées alimentaires et de divers objets usuels (817)
Lois et Ordonnances Suisses concernant la police des denrées alimentaires et de divers objets usuels (Français).
Food Law Organization
This site's mission is to encourage and facilitate education and research on food law and policy. This site is maintained by the Law Office of Neal D. Fortin. Mr. Fortin is a visiting associate professor at Michigan State University's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, lead instructor for food regulation in United States for the Institute of Food Laws & Regulations, and adjunct professor at the Michigan State University College of Law (English).
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Indice del Diritto Svizzero Interno (Italiano)
Raccolta sistematica del diritto federale: indice del diritto interno: le Leggi, i Decreti e le Ordinanze Svizzere (Italiano, Français, Deutsch).
Search the European Laws (SEL)
The multilingual searchable database of the European Laws. Multilingual site: (20 EC languages).
Table des Matières du Droit Suisse Interne (Français)
Recueil systématique du droit fédéral: Table des matières du droit interne (Français)
US National Archives & Records Administration
NARA is an independent Federal agency. NARA is America's national recordkeeper. Their mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience. (English). We strive to make it easy for citizens to access these records anywhere at anytime, and we hope that by providing electronic public access to more and more of our records and services, we will better meet your records and information needs.
The official site of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the site is a valuable resource in responding to your intellectual property (IP) queries and presenting the wide range of activities undertaken by the Organization. (English, Français, Español, Russian, Arabic, Chinese).
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The British public 20 years UFO files Aliens who married a girl with the earth (FIG.)
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Your West Chesire
Calling all carers
Groups that support carers in west Cheshire are coming together to ask, ‘What’s it like to be an unpaid carer in 2020?’
This year, because of Coronavirus, people across the area are continuing to face new challenges and carers are under more pressure than ever.
If you are a carer living in the borough the Council and Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group wants to hear from you as part of a consultation to inform the next strategy for carers in west Cheshire.
Councillor Val Armstrong, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health at Cheshire West and Chester Council, said: “By working with carers we have identified what we think is important in this strategy, but we want to know if we’re getting it right. Are these the same issues that matter to you? If you’re a carer, parent or are involved in providing services or support in this sector, we want to hear from you.
“We want carers of all ages in Cheshire West and Chester to feel valued, empowered and have access to the right support at the right time. The only way we can really achieve this is to have carers closely involved in writing the carers strategy before it is finalised and goes on to inform future services.”
Clare Watson, Accountable Officer of NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “The role of carers in supporting not only their loved ones, but the Cheshire NHS, should not be understated. Without the, often unseen, support of Cheshire’s carers, it would be extremely difficult to provide the level of care and support required to enable vulnerable people to continue living in their own homes and communities.
“This includes many young carers who either support a family member who is ill or help by looking after other members of the family while they can’t."
The draft strategy identifies five key priorities to help support all age carers in Cheshire West and Chester.
The early identification of carers. This is important to make sure that all carers are aware of the current support available to them at the earliest opportunity.
Supporting carers to achieve their personal potential. This relates to ensuring that carers in education, training and employment are not disadvantaged or prevented from having individual aspirations or goals due to their caring role.
Making sure carers get the right support at the right time to avoid them reaching crisis point. Ensuring it is easy for them to make the most of appropriate support networks and enable carers to continue in their caring role. This includes making sure the short break respite services on offer meets the needs of all carers
Improving the health and wellbeing of carers through better access to support groups, financial advice, health checks, exercise and social contact and befriending services. We would like to see more carers registered with their GP so that a person need only tell their story once and we can build up a profile of our carer population that really reflects local need.
Creating services and systems that work for carers throughout social care and health.
Because of COVID-19 traditional methods of consultation will not be possible. The Council and CCG will be writing to carers, running focus groups on the phone and online.
All Age Carers Strategy 2020 - 2025 consultation
You can request a paper copy of the consultation via email from: CarersStrategyConsultation@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk or by telephone on: 0300 123 8123. The consultation will run until 18 October 2020.
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The Basics of Scripting
by alexp
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Overview & Prerequisites
This article will introduce you to the concept and basics of Scripting, a tool available in the Advanced Editor that allows you, as an author, to have more precise control over what happens in your storygames. In order to use Scripting, you will need to know how to use the Advanced Editor and be familiar with Variables.
Scripting Defined
The first thing to keep in mind about scripting is that, virtually everything you can do with a script you can do with other things in the editor, such as Variable Changes and Item Drops. The key difference is that, in some circumstances, scripting can make these things much easier to do. In this article, we will focus on only one thing -- Variable Changes -- something you should already be familiar with doing.
Enabling Scripting in the Advanced Editor
Before getting started, you'll want to make sure that you have enabled Scripting in your storygame. To do this, go to the Properties page in the Advanced Editor, and scroll down to the "Editor Features" heading. Click on the [change editor features] link and, on that page, change Scripting to Basic. As you get more familiar with Scripting, you can increase the level to Advanced.
Once Scripting has been set to Basic on your storygame, you'll notice a few new things:
A "Scripts" navigation item appears
Numbers appear next to Items and Pages
A new button ( ) will appear next to each link
A new option ([Edit Item Script]) will appear on the Edit Item page
These new options will allow you to create Link Scripts and Item Scripts within your storygames.
Link Scripts
Changing A Variable
Similar to Variable Changes and Item Drops, a Link Script is processed whenever the player clicks on its corresponding link. The global link script is simply a link script that processes on every link. Since you're already familiar with Variable Changes, we'll start by doing that: changing variables. Consider, for example, if you wanted to add 10 to the value of POINTS when the player clicked on a link. Using Variable Changes, you would follow a process like this:
Open the Page with the Link that will cause this change to occur
Click on the Variable Changes ( ) icon
Enter "10" in the text box associated with the POINTS variable
Using a Link Script, the process is similar:
Enter the following in the Text Box: %POINTS := %POINTS + 10
In both cases, when the player clicks on the link, 10 is added to the value of POINTS. Note, however, in the script how this is achieved. The above script consists of two different parts:
%POINTS := -- this translates in English to, "set the value of POINTS to." Note that the variable is prefixed with a percent symbol (%). In Script Code, all variables must be prefixed with this symbol.
%POINTS + 10 -- this translates in English to, "the value of POINTS plus 10."
When the two parts are combined, we are left with the following English translation: "set the value of POINTS to / the value of POINTS plus 10" A bit more awkward and confusing than "Add 10 to POINTS", but so is common with Script Code. This is why that, if all you want to do is increase the value of variables, you should stick with Variable Changes. They are much easier to use.
Changing Multiple Variables
As with Variable Changes, you can change the value of multiple variables with one click. If, for example, you wanted to Add 10 to POINTS, Add 100 to MONEY, and Subtract 1 from HEALTH, you would use the following script:
%POINTS := %POINTS + 10
%MONEY := %MONEY + 100
%HEALTH := %HEALTH - 1
Beyond Basic Variable Changes
Of course, Scripting is not designed to do things so simple as the examples presented above. With Scripting, you can do things otherwise impossible, such as add the value of one variable to the value of another variable. Consider, for example, if you wanted set the value of DAMAGE equal to the value of STRENGTH plus the value of WEAPON:
%DAMAGE := %STRENGTH + %WEAPON
It doesn't stop there, either. You can make the expressions as complex as needed, using any combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and parenthesis. You can also use Random Expressions if you'd like, too. Here's a fairly complex script using all of these concepts:
%ATTACK := (%WEAPON + %STRENGTH) * 1D4 #note: 1D4 is a random number between 1 and 4
%DAMAGE := 20 - (%DEFENSE / 2) - %ATTACK
If you're having a hard time following the script, don't worry; you can break it down into its components. Just as they do in arithmetic: evaluate parenthesis first, then multiplication/division, then addition/subtraction.
Item Scripts
Now that you've got a good idea on how to change variables using Script, let's take a look at how you can use Item Scripts to do the same. Without using scripting, if you wanted to change a variable when an item was used, you'd have to create a page that had a Previous Page link that changed the variable for you. There's nothing wrong with that approach; in fact, it may be preferred simply so that the player may see a detailed explanation of what happens. However, it's not the only way.
Item Scripts work very similarly as Link Scripts: they are evaluated every single time an item is used. Keep that "every single time" in mind as you use them: even if the item does not have an effect defined on the page, the Item Script is still evaluated. To edit an item script, simply edit that item and click on the [edit link script] button.
To give you an idea of what you might use an item script for, consider that the item "MAG Clip" is an item that can be used on any page. You could have the item script work as follows:
%MAGBULLETS := %MAGBULLETS + 25
Item Scripts, however, are most useful when combined with more advanced scripting techniques that you can learn about by reading further articles on the topic. For now, we'll just leave it at that.
Conditional Statements
One of the most powerful aspects of Scripting is the ability to conditionally evaluate a statement. For example, consider the example script from way about that sets the value of DAMAGE. If, for whatever reason, the variable DEFENSE or ATTACK were too high, DAMAGE could be set to a negative number. To make sure that this doesn't happen, you can use a simple IF-THEN statement:
IF %DAMAGE < 0 THEN %DAMAGE := 0
The first line sets the value of DAMAGE: nothing too new there. The second line checks to see if DAMAGE is less than (<) zero and, if it is, sets it to 0.
One popular scenario is the need to "flip" a "switch" variable (i.e., a variable that you only give a value of 0 or 1). What used to take two Links, two Link Restrictions, and two Variable Changes can now be done with a single link and a single link script using an IF-THEN-ELSE statement:
IF %FLASHLITE = 1 THEN %FLASHLITE := 0 ELSE %FLASHLITE = 1
So, in the above statement, if FLASHLITE represents whether the player's flashlite is on (1) or not (0), this would "flip" the flashlite's state.
Of course, you could use the IF-THEN or IF-THEN-ELSE statement for anything else you'd like to do. One thing to keep in mind is that if you want to have several statements evaluated by the same condition, you can use a BEGIN-END block, as follows:
IF %DICEROLL = 7 THEN
%MONEY := %MONEY + 10
%TURN := %TURN + 1
In the above script, MONEY and TURN are set a value only if DICEROLL is equal to (=) 7.
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Three More Kassams as Sderot Prepares for Funeral
No damage in latest attack... 100 educators visit besieged city... Poll results show support for more military force against Gaza...
Woman Killed by Kassam Rocket in Sderot
Ambassador Apologizes, But Storm Just Increases
Calls to Re-settle Gush Katif
Lebanese Cut Power and Water, Then Shell 'Palestinian Camp'
Clear Message from Israel, Mixed Messages from Gaza
College and University Students End 5-Week Strike
Fatal attack in Sderot
Rabbis ascend to Temple Mount
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1. Three More Kassams as Sderot Prepares for Funeral
by Hillel Fendel
With Kassams continuing to rain down upon Sderot and environs - three more were fired Tuesday morning, causing no damage - it appears that the public is just as confused about what to do as the government is.
In a poll taken this week for the Knesset TV Channel, 78% of the public opined that the government was not responding forcefully enough to the Kassam-firing terrorists in Gaza. However, at the same time, a majority of the respondents still feel that ground forces should not be sent in.
It should be noted that the poll was carried out before the Kassam-caused death of Shir'el Friedman of Sderot Monday night.
Kassam Victim's Funeral at Noon
Shir'el, who was born in Sderot and is survived by her parents and two older brothers, is to be laid to rest in the Sderot cemetery at noon today (Tuesday).
Shir'el was Israel's ninth fatal casualty of a Kassam rocket. Mordechai Yosifov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, a 3.5 year old on his way to nursery, were killed in June 2004. Three months later, two young cousins - Dorit Aniso, 2, and Yuval Abebeh, 4 - were killed just before the onset of the Sukkot holiday. Four months later, Ella Abukasis, 17, was killed by a Kassam rocket as she was walking home; she jumped to protect her brother when the Red Dawn rocket warning alert sounded. In July 2005, Dana Gelkowitz, 22, was killed in a Kassam attack at Netiv HaAsarah - the only non-Sderot Kassam casualty among Israelis. Last summer, in July 2006, Moshe Shlomo, 52, died of a heart attack he suffered after a Kassam rocket landed near his home a few days earlier. Last November, Fatima Slutzker, a Moslem woman married to a Russian Jew, was killed by a Kassam that landed in downtown Sderot.
In addition, three foreign workers were killed in a Kassam attack in Gush Katif in 2005, and two Bedouin were killed when they moved a previously-unexploded Kassam in a field.
Hear two hours of LIVE broadcast from Sderot, with Yishai Fleisher and Tamar Yonah:
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Wheat Fields About to be Harvested Go Up in Flames
In terms of monetary damage caused by the rockets, it is not limited to an apartment or a car here and there. Wheat fields in at least two agricultural communities in the western Negev, nearly ready for harvest after months of work, have gone up in flames when rockets hit them. "I sat and cried this morning when I saw it," said one member of Kibbutz Nir-Am, just outside Sderot.
"This is our harvest season," Betty Gavri of Nir-Am told Ynet. "When you hear on the radio 'no one was hurt and there was no damage' - when our wheat fields go up in flames on the eve of Shavuot, that's not damage?"
The holiday of Shavuot, which begins tonight (Tuesday night and Wednesday), is known as the Festival of Harvest (Exodus 23,16).
As opposed to the city of Sderot, the nearby agricultural communities have a more earthy connection to the land; barely any of the 350 residents of Kibbutz Nir-Am, for instance, have left. "Our imbibed values are that our very presence here determines the State's borders. This is an agricultural tradition, that says that the land is our roots and our sustenance. If everyone would get up and leave, we could just close the entire country."
Rabbis and Educators Call for Social, Military Help
A group of some 100 rabbis and educators, many of them representing hesder yeshivot and yeshiva high schools around the country, descended upon the Yeshivat Hesder of Sderot on Monday to show their solidarity with the city residents.
Among the participants were Rabbis Chaim Druckman, Chanan Porat, Tsomet Institute head Yisrael Rosenne, Yigal Kaminetzky of Gush Katif, Elisha Vishlitzky, David Fendel of Sderot, and Eliezer Sheinvald of Modiin, as well as Col. (ret.) Geva Rapp of the 'Face to Face' outreach organization.
The rabbis resolved to continue activities such as hosting Sderot residents in their towns and schools, further visits to Sderot, offering economic and social help to needy families, special Sabbath and other events around the country dedicated to Sderot, and more.
In addition, the educators called "upon the Government of Israel to end this national disgrace of the abandonment of Jewish lives in Sderot and the area, by embarking on another Operation Defensive Shield [i.e., a massive military anti-terror offensive] in order to restore the self-respect and the security of the residents of Sderot.
To this end, the group resolved to embark on a campaign, including billboards, bumper stickers, rallies, and the like to garner public support for the cause.
Other visitors to Sderot on Monday included Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzippy Livny, the European Union's Javier Solana, and Britain's Ambassador to Israel Tom Phillips.
The Home Front Command distributed pamphlets to many communities in the Sderot-Ashkelon area, advising the residents how to protect themselves during Kassam attacks. Among those who received them were 500 expellee families from Gush Katif, currently living in Nitzan, just north of Ashkelon.
For more information on Sderot, see the Yeshivat Sderot and Sderotmedia websites.
2. Woman Killed by Kassam Rocket in Sderot
Palestinian Authority terrorists murdered 32-year-old Shirel Feldman in Sderot Monday night with a Kassam rocket attack that scored a direct hit on her car as she stood next to it near a bakery in the center of town. Ms. Feldman was pronounced dead on arrival at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon after suffering severe injuries to her chest and stomach. She bled to death as Magen David Adom paramedics raced to the hospital in a desperate attempt to save her life. One man suffered shrapnel wounds and was listed in fair condition, another suffered light injuries and 12 people were treated for shock in the same attack.
The rocket, one of a barrage of five aimed at the western Negev, slammed into the commercial shopping area in the center of town shortly before 8:00 p.m. while business owners were meeting to discuss the situation. Most businesses were closed as a result, minimizing what might otherwise have become a mammoth disaster.
The Color Red missile alert system failed to sound the warning that rockets were on the way.
Two other Kassams landed south of Ashkelon and the other two exploded in open areas the western Negev. By 10:30 p.m., another five rockets had been fired. Two slammed into an area next to a western Negev kibbut. The others fell in various open areas around the region.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana were meeting in Sderot at the time of the attack. Neither one was hurt. Ms. Livni told reporters at a news conference in the besieged town that a ceasefire with Hamas is not an option, as far as Israel is concerned. The foreign minister noted that Hamas considers a ceasefire an opportunity to rearm and upgrade weapons supplies and terrorists training in anticipation of the next conflict.
Three terror organizations rushed to take the credit for this attack: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Salah al-Din Brigades terror group, part of the Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had harsh words in a statement issued following the attack. "We will take whatever steps are necessary to stop the Kassam attacks," he warned, but did not elaborate on what those steps might be. The security cabinet gave a green light yesterday for the IDF to resume targeted assassinations, and government officials warned that Hamas Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, and Hamas politburo chief and arch-terrorist Khaled Mashaal would not be immune from the attacks.
By midnight, a total of 25 rockets had rained down on the western Negev. Two more Kassams had exploded in Sderot, one in the industrial area and the other in the center of town, causing some damage but no injuries. Earlier in the evening, a rocket exploded among the fields near several farms in the region. The explosion ignited a pile of weeds and started a fire, but no damage or injuries were reported. A rocket landed near a gas station, another hit a greenhouse, setting it ablaze. Another slammed into a kibbutz south of Sderot.
3. Ambassador Apologizes, But Storm Just Increases
US Ambassador Richard Jones has apologized for his statements about Jonathan Pollard. Pollard supporters, however, have a series of demands: They want a full retraction from Jones, as well as immediate action by Prime Minister Olmert to demand a pardon from US President Bush. They also say they won't let Israel get away with low-level Foreign Ministry talk of a release on "humanitarian" grounds.
The story began at Bar Ilan University on Monday morning, when Ambassador Jones told an audience that Pollard "took money for what he did [and] sold out his country." Even more controversial was his comment, "The fact that [Pollard] wasn't executed is the mercy that Jonathan Pollard will receive."
Pollard's wife Esther called the remarks "malicious incitement" in that they implied that Jonathan had committed treason. Later in the day, Jones apologized, saying his words reflected neither his personal views nor those of the Bush administration. Saying his remarks were "misinformed and misleading," Jones added, "I certainly do not personally believe that Mr. Pollard should have received capital punishment and I was appalled to learn that I had given that impression."
The statement of apology was emailed by Stewart Tuttle, the press attaché of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to, among others, Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice-Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. The email included the comment, "I personally thank you for helping us through this difficulty."
Esther Pollard said that without a full retraction, Jones's apology is inadequate: "Ambassador Jones falsely accused my husband of treason, falsely accused my husband of spying for money, and falsely accused him of harming the United States. He suggested that Jonathan ought to have been executed, reinforcing the false charge of treason. All of these false charges made by Richard Jones against Jonathan Pollard are still out in the public domain and doing damage. Unless and until Jones takes retracts these egregious lies and corrects the record, his apology is at best incomplete, and at worst insincere."
MK Uri Ariel, head of the Knesset Lobby for Pollard, said, "It's nice that [Jones] said he's sorry, but now the time has come to release Pollard, not just to apologize. The Prime Minister must turn immediately to US President Bush, demand an end to this disgrace, and have Pollard freed immediately."
Esther Pollard on Foreign Ministry Position
It was widely reported that after Jones's original speech, the Foreign Ministry had asked him for Pollard's release for "humanitarian reasons." Arutz-7 has learned, however, that what actually occurred was that Foreign Ministry official Yoram Ben-Ze'ev spoke with Jones and "reiterated the Ministry's well-known position on Pollard." Asked to explain what this "well-known" position actually includes, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mark Regev told Arutz-7, "Israel has apologized for its mistakes in the Pollard affair and believes that he should be released on humanitarian grounds."
It could not be ascertained what Ben-Ze'ev actually told Jones - but Mrs. Pollard said it doesn't matter: "The whole thing just shows how not seriously Israel is taking this issue. It is not the place of a minor Foreign Ministry official to tell the Ambassador that it 'believes Pollard should be released'; this is something the Prime Minister of Israel must bring up directly with the President of the United States, who is the only one who can pardon Pollard. The Prime Minister is in constant contact with the White House. Official agents are not released just as a 'favor' on humanitarian grounds."
4. Calls to Re-settle Gush Katif
With every crash of a Kassam rocket in the Negev, increasingly more voices are calling for a return to Gaza - for different reasons.
Respected journalists from Yediot Acharonot and Haaretz have written that re-occupying Gaza is the only solution - lending an air of "political correctness" to the simultaneous ideological call by settlement leaders and Gush Katif expellees to return to Gush Katif.
The reasons advanced for reoccupation by the various elements are, to be sure, not identical. Military affairs correspondent Ron Ben-Yishai, writing for Yediot Acharonot last week (May 17), explained that it is based solely on security considerations:
"Israel's key problem at this point in time is the violent anarchy reigning in the Palestinian arena," Ben-Yishai wrote. "Even if Israel chooses to undertake drastic measures such as cutting off electricity and water from Gaza residents, while indiscriminately bombing launch sites, there would still be no one on the Palestinian side able to stop the Kassam attacks. The only thing that will happen is that Israel will face condemnation and be isolated in international public opinion."
"Under current circumstances," Ben-Yishai continued, "one consideration must guide the Israeli government: How do we prevent casualties among western Negev residents as a result of Kassam attacks, and how do we thwart the digging of tunnels by the Palestinians and a worse situation in the future as a result of Hamas' rapid strengthening? The most effective and virtually only modus operandi to achieve these objectives is an occupation of wide sections of the Gaza Strip."
"Once the IDF controls most Gaza territory, it will be able, in conjunction with the General Security Service (Shabak), to gather intelligence information and apply it in anti-terror operations while proceeding to destroy terror infrastructures. Meanwhile, the digging of a seawater tunnel would curb the smuggling through Gaza's Philadelphi route."
Ben-Yishai added that limited aerial and ground operations would not curb Kassam rockets, would draw terrorist fire and endanger Israeli troops, and would end with international pressure upon Israel. Instead, "a very large military force [is] required to stay in the Strip for many months... The question is whether the Olmert government will continue to deal with political survival and endless 'assessment sessions,' or whether it will finally start to act practically."
Similarly, on the same day, correspondent Avi Issacharoff penned a piece for Haaretz entitled, "No Other Solution For Gazans But Israeli Occupation." Explaining that Fatah has been left without strong leadership and is headed for a military defeat at the hands of Hamas, "the Gazans are repeating one clear message: only Israeli occupation will save them. There is no other solution on the horizon."
These calls were somewhat encouraging to people like Adi Mintz, a former Director of the Yesha Council [Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza], who was in the midst of publicizing his own call for a return to Gaza.
Mintz, a resident of Dolev in the Binyamin region of the Shomron, wrote in the most recent edition of B'Sheva:
"...Jacob was unable to be comforted for the loss of his son Joseph, because one cannot be comforted for the loss of someone who is actually alive... We, too, are unable to be comforted over the loss of Gush Katif for two reasons: Because we know that we will return, and also - just like in the case of Jacob and Joseph - because the crime was committed against us by our own brothers.
"For 19 years, the survivors of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion [destroyed and captured by the Jordanians in 1948 - ed.] would go up to a hilltop overlooking Gush Etzion, and see the lone oak tree there. That tree became a symbol of the longed-for return... and Kfar Etzion became the first town to be rebuilt by Israel after the liberation of Judea and Samaria during the Six Day War...
"More and more journalists and former IDF generals who supported the Disengagement now regret it, and admit that it was a strategic mistake - the rotten fruits of which we ate in the war in Gaza and in Lebanon. A strategic mistake can be rectified only by another strategic move: Returning to Gush Katif.
"Such a move might seem, at present, detached from reality. However, with the IDF apparently preparing for a major offensive in Gaza, and with the government seemingly waiting only for Kassam deaths before acting, the return to Gush Katif is the only answer."
This will show the Arabs, Mintz explained, that "they cannot defeat us, that this is our land, and that only we have the rights to it."
Mintz emphasized the fact that the Jewish towns in Gush Katif and northern Gaza were not built on Arab land, and that the State of Israel's "terrible act of throwing out its sons" can still be rectified:
"The public is still in the throes of the earthquake of last summer's war, and is open to new conceptions. The call and demand to return to Gush Katif is moral and just, on the one hand, and is a strategic necessity, on the other hand...
"Together with the 'Homesh First' people [who are leading a campaign to return to the Disengagement-destroyed town of Homesh in the Shomron - ed.], we must broaden the scope of the struggle to include also a struggle to win over the public's soul. This is the time to join forces and to wage a campaign that will keep the idea of a return to both Homesh and Gush Katif in the public consciousness. Even if we don't succeed in the short run, this type of struggle has supreme importance for the long run."
5. Lebanese Cut Power and Water, Then Shell 'Palestinian Camp'
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
In the wake of clashes with a Syrian-affiliated terrorist organization operating in Lebanon, Fatah Al-Islam, the Lebanese government ordered services cut to the northern town the terrorists are using as their base of operations. The Lebanese army also shelled the town, which is designated by Lebanon as a "Palestinian refugee camp."
Residents of the camp told reporters that many homes have been demolished and bodies were strewn in the streets.
By Monday morning, the clashes between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese military had led to the deaths of at least 22 soldiers, 25 Islamist terrorists and uncounted numbers of non-combatants in Nahr Al-Bard and Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city, as well as in Beirut. Some estimates put the total death toll at 65.
The clashes between Lebanese security forces and the Fatah Al-Islam terrorists erupted in Tripoli, when soldiers raided a terrorist safe-house in pursuit of bank robbers on Sunday. "We traced them to an apartment in Tripoli, which turned out to be an office for Fatah Al-Islam," Interior Security Forces chief Ashraf Rifi said. The government troops were met by armed resistance, which quickly led to fierce clashes in Tripoli and in the Fatah Al-Islam home base of Nahr Al-Bard.
As an early tactic in their war against the Islamist group, the Lebanese authorities cut off electricity, water and communications in the Nahr Al-Bard camp. In response to a successful Fatah Al-Islam assault on nearby military outposts on Sunday, army tanks shelled the camp intermittently throughout the day. Army sources claimed the shells were aimed at Fatah Al-Islam headquarters, while residents of the camp told reporters that many homes in the camp have been randomly demolished and bodies were strewn in the streets. The shelling continued on Monday.
Within hours of the worst of Sunday's clashes, a car bomb exploded outside a shopping mall in a central-eastern Beirut neighborhood. One woman was killed and dozens were injured when a bomb placed under a car in the mall parking lot was detonated by unknown terrorists. The neighborhood is known to be majority Christian.
The Lebanese cabinet is meeting Monday to decide whether or not to send troops into Nahr Al-Bard.
Reactions Among Lebanese and in the Palestinian Authority
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said the fighting was a "dangerous attempt at harming Lebanese security."
Lebanese civilians have expressed to various media outlets their strong support for their military's assault against the Islamists in the Nahr Al-Bard camp. Pictures in several on-line newspapers show Lebanese citizens in the streets cheering on soldiers making their way through the streets of Tripoli.
Elias Bejjani, chairman of a Lebanese expatriate coalition in Canada, the Lebanese -Canadian Coordinating Council (LCCC), issued a press release calling for the Lebanese military "to deal decisively and with military means with the situation in the Nahr El-Bared Camp once and for all, because not doing so will weaken the army and give the Lebanese opposition and those behind them in the Syrian regime a new impetus to repeat what happened several times in the past."
The LCCC further claimed, "The rulers in Damascus had brought in its mercenary fighters several months ago to the Palestinian Camps in Lebanon with the objective of stirring strife, creating an anarchy situation, obstructing the creation of the International Tribunal [on the assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri -ed.] and, most importantly, prevent the rise of a strong self-reliant Lebanese State and institutions that would spread its control over every inch of Lebanese soil and disarm the militias and impose the rule of law."
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah organization denied any connection with Fatah Al-Islam and has condemned the current clashes in Lebanon. However, Fatah Al-Islam is an offshoot of factions that split with Yasser Arafat's Fatah in the 1980s. Lebanese security officials have linked Fatah Al-Islam variously to Al-Qaeda and to Syrian intelligence.
6. Clear Message from Israel, Mixed Messages from Gaza
Israeli missiles destroyed a Hamas weapons storage facility and an operations center of the Popular Resistance Committee in the hours before dawn Tuesday.
The sorties followed a day in which 25 rockets were fired at the western Negev, particularly at the town of Sderot. A 32-year-old woman was killed, several other people were wounded and more than a dozen suffered shock in attacks throughout the day.
Exploding rockets also ignited fires around the region, damaged numerous structures and again prevented children from going to school and enjoying end-of-year activities.
Hamas Prime Minister Offers Ceasefire, Promises Annihilation
The ruling Palestinian Authority Hamas terror organization, which began the intense rocket barrages against Israel a week ago, is now offering to temporarily halt its attacks in return for a promise by Israel to stop counter-terrorism operations in Judea and Samaria.
We live in a world where when Christians kill Muslims, it's a crusade. When Jews kill Muslims, it's a massacre. When Muslims kill Muslims, it's the weather channel. Nobody cares.
This is not a new deal; the same terms were offered months ago while rockets continued to fly in violation of the first supposed ceasefire that was to end those attacks in return for an IDF withdrawal from Gaza. More than 350 rockets were fired and dozens of bombs planted along the Gaza separation barrier since that first “ceasefire” was negotiated.
Now, even as Hamas PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is trying to negotiate a ceasefire with one side of his mouth, he has been vowing with the other to continue the battles until the state of Israel is wiped off the map.
“We will keep to the same path until we achieve one of two goals,” Haniyeh announced Monday, “victory or martyrdom.” Abu Obeida, a spokesman for one of the Hamas terrorist gangs, promised to continue striking “the enemy anywhere in Palestine, whether with suicide attacks or operations against soldiers.”
Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh commented on Israel Radio Tuesday morning that offers by Hamas to negotiate a ceasefire were empty words. He said it was important to pay attention to everything that is said - to the Arab population as well as to the Jews.
“When someone preaches that the State of Israel should be destroyed, he is not in the political echelon; he is a terrorist in a suit,” he pointed out. What does the political Hamas body do? It gives operational approval, if not actual ratification to those who are doing the fighting.”
Mr. Sneh warned that Israel is returning to its former policy of targeted assassinations, minus the kid gloves. “I’ll put it like this,” he told the interviewer. “There is no one who is in the circle of commanders and leaders in Hamas who is immune from a strike.”
Gillerman Insists IDF Withdrawal Was ‘Right Thing to Do’
This week’s intense attacks by Hamas are actually a sign of weakness, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman explained to pro-Israel advocates in New York on Monday.
"I really think that what we're seeing today is a weak Hamas," Gillerman said, postulating that Israel forced Hamas to join the Fatah faction by isolating it. He added, "Israel stands behind the fact that a withdrawal from Gaza was the right thing to do in spite of the consequences we see today."
Gillerman also accused moderate Muslims of an "eerie silence" by not trying to stop other Muslims from escalating terrorism around the world. He also charged world leaders with holding a double standard when judging Israel’s actions to defend itself.
"We live in a world where when Christians kill Muslims, it's a crusade. When Jews kill Muslims, it's a massacre. When Muslims kill Muslims, it's the weather channel. Nobody cares," Gillerman said.
7. College and University Students End 5-Week Strike
College and university students will be returning to their classrooms Thursday after the holiday of Shavuot.
The National Union of Israeli Students approved a compromise deal with the Prime Minister’s Office in a 62 percent majority vote.
Tuition fees will be frozen for one year and the findings of the Shochat Committee will not be presented to the government for approval until first being discussed with representatives of the student union. In addition, the government will return billions of shekels to higher education institutions over a four-year period in what is tantamount to restoration of budget cuts over the past several years.
The leaders of the student union were forced to meet under tight security to review the proposal. Hundreds of their constituents were chanting outside the building, urging the union to continue the strike. Student leader Etai Shonstein had to be escorted under heavy guard after the students accepted the accord. Some students said they would not accept the agreement.
Other students have been calling for an end to the strike in scattered protests around the country, usually small and quiet. Tel Aviv University students decided several days ago they would end their participation in the demonstrations, saying the ongoing walkout was no longer serving its purpose.
The semester will be extended by one month in order to allow the students to make up the studies they missed.
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The Palestinian Revolution's Vision of Darkness
By Avi Davis August 6, 2002
It should have been no surprise to anyone that among the victims in Sunday's bus bombing in the Galilee were Arabs. The Galilee's population is 52% Arab and it is inevitable that any attack on a bus in that region would have an impact on that population. So too the destruction in Hebrew University's cafeteria last Wednesday. A university that proudly boasts a population 15% Arab should statistically have expected to find Arabs among the dead. It certainly shouldn't have surprised most Israelis who can now finally appreciate the true nature of the terrorist campaign they are facing: any Israeli institution, including the ones that service or care for Arabs, is a potential target. This would seem to include hospitals, day care centers, fire stations and welfare organizations. It goes a long way to answering the question posed by Alistair Goldrein, a British student studying at the Hebrew University when he asked: "Why would someone target this university - it is what was best about Israel."
Why, indeed. The good intentions of liberal institutions or service organizations are largely irrelevant to the master planners of Palestinian terrorism. For them the secular education offered by the Israelis is a trap, designed to goad Arabs from their culture and shatter Palestinian unity. So too are the hospitals where world class physicians often sweat to save Arab life. So are the Israeli human rights groups who actively lobby for their interests and protection. All of these well intentioned people are regarded as indistinguishable from other Zionists "occupying" Palestinian land - a land categorically defined by Hamas as stretching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan.
The spiral of self deception into which the Palestinians are rapidly spinning has as its practical source the acceptance by the international media and European governments that Palestinian terrorists are freedom fighters no different in nature than the French resistance during Second World War. But a poorer analogy could not be imagined. The French resistance, which eventually unified communists, socialists and nationalists under the banner of the Forces Francaises de l'interiuer, not only had as its goals the liberation of German-occupied French territory, but the restoration of a French democratic republic and the reinstitution of French law.
Furious debate was entered by members of the resistance on the nature of that renewed French republic, giving rise to the ideological rifts that characterize French society to this day. But the important point is that debate ensued and the unifying theme of that debate was that only a vigorous democracy could save France from a decent into renewed authoritarianism or even civil war.
The Palestinians have no such mechanism vouchsafing the progress and prosperity of their in choate state. There is no visible debate on the nature of such a state (although there is considerable tension between the religious and secular in that society); there are no intellectuals or statesmen who feel free to talk openly about the challenges of democracy; there is no room for moderates whose voices are silenced in the popular call for jihad. No, the Palestinian state-in-making speaks only in the language of hatred. Today the target is Israel but with the increasingly apparent failure to achieve any concrete political objective, the rancor and hatred unleashed by their venomous campaign is likely to turn inward. The most probable outcome is therefore not victory but civil war.
But an even graver malady afflicts the Palestinian people. Their cause has been hi-jacked, not by a resistance front but by revolutionaries. Hamas, which has stepped into the vacuum left by Arafat's corrupt Palestinian Authority, does not merely seek to eject what it perceives as foreign occupation of its land. It seeks no less than the total transformation of Palestinian society. Its militant Islamist message resonates as prescriptive change reminiscent of many other historical revolutionary movements - conceived in high ideals, reverting to violence and ending in butchery.
So those looking for historical analogies should not waste time examining France of the 1940s. They should recall France of the 1790s when another revolution, conceived with noble aspirations reverted to carnage and destroyed itself in a frenzy of blood letting. That cynical Frenchman Albert Camus once commented that "every revolutionary ends either as an oppressor or as a heretic." He might have also added that most die at the hand of their own people. The leaders of the Palestinian Revolution, wading knee deep in blood and accustomed only to the language of hate, should now be put on notice that history is unlikely to make an exception for any of them. Born in blood, they will likely die in blood.
And no one should be surprised when this revolution begins to devour its own children.
Avi Davis is a senior editorial columnist for Jewsweek.com and the author of The Crucible of Conflict: Jews, Arabs and the West Bank Dilemma, to be published in the Fall.
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14 teachers, including 10 Doctors and Ph.D.
The department teaches the following faculties: Road Construction, Management, Road Transport, Environmental and Energy, Economic and Correspondence faculty.
The department teaches the following disciplines: Road survey and design, Transport planning of cities, the Basics of surveying bridge and tunnel crossings, the Basics of road designing, Vertical layout of streets and roads, Automated design of roads, Road conditions and traffic safety, Environmental aspects of road design, Industry technology - automobile roads, Access roads to airports, Transport infrastructure, Transport routes - technological constructions, Transport and operational qualities of automobile roads and city streets.
Science Achievements
The department work is widely used for the design of roads and city streets, bridge crossings, for the development of measures improving traffic safety and environmental protection. A significant number of regulatory documents on road design were developed with the participation of the department teachers. In 2017, they obtained the patent for invention No. 2638202 "The device for measuring the strength of pavement by dynamic loading”.
Famous scientists worked at the department: the Professor D.P. Krynin, P.N. Shestakov, G.D. Dubelir, V.F. Babkov, O.V. Andreev, and E.M. Lobanov.
The department students participate in international student olympiads for the following field: 08.03.01 "Construction profile "Roads", and in republican competitions of graduate qualification works.
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Four americans added to cast of Made in Chelsea: New York to spice things up
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Made in Chelsea is about to hit your screen again next month and new cast members have just been revealed for the upcoming season which will be set in New York City. 4 Americans have been added to the cast to spice things up a little and provide the gang with allies that will have the scoop on how things work locally.
Stunning Billie Carroll is the daughter of the owners of a sweet shop chain which includes outlets named Sugar Happens and Oh Sugar. Born in the Bahamas, Carroll now resides in New York where she works at a fashion house called Kings of Cole located in Manhattan. Billie even finds the time to maintain and updates her own fashion blog.
Close friend of Billie's Carson Eisenhart will also appear in this season. Eisenhart is currently working his way up in the real estate business and is hoping to make his fortune there. Carson and Billie are almost inseparable on nights out in Manhattan and have been ever since meeting in college where Eisenhart studied anthropology.
For the ladies to salivate over, male model Jules Hamilton also joins the cast this season. Another New Yorker, Jules is currently cashing in on his natural good looks by working as an international model while his passion lies in shooting and producing movies.
And last, but not least, Alik Alfus is another outgoing New Yorker that will definitely be entertaining. Alik is big into competitive sports like tennis and baseball while also a huge music fan. For work, he is the vice president of his parent's leather company Libra Leathers which is a major player in the fashion industry.
Made in Chelsea: New York will air on E4 in August and fans can expect the behaviour on show to be even wilder than before. You will be able to catch favourites Jamie Laing, Spencer Matthews, Rosie Fortescue, Cheska Hull, Mark Francis Vandelli, Louise Thompson, Lucy Watson, Alex Mytton and Stevie Johnson in action over the course of 6 episodes in the Big Apple.
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Board index Comments World Politics
Elections America.
Discuss world politics in relation to Islam and Muslims.
Re: Elections America.
Post by Ariel » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:46 pm
Hombre wrote: ↑
You are right gorgeous
A very powerful speech. "My father voted for trump" & "The only per-existing condition my father had - trusting trump & he paid for it with his life"
My dear...I am sure if this man really died and if he really voted for Trump, that if he could have heard his daughter speak those words, He would turn around in his grave. Not ones, but twice.
I can't wait for another day of the Democratic National Convention, and a new video.
I hope it will be as much fun as the first video.
I will keep you posted.
The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.
Takeiteasynow
Post by Takeiteasynow » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:53 pm
Çhief White House doctor: 'Biden is Lost as something is not right'
Ronnie Jackson, former doctor of Joe Biden, Obama and Trump
The chief White House doctor to former President Barack Obama is worried about the mental health and stamina of former Vice President Joe Biden, suggesting that “something is not right” with the Democratic presidential nominee.
“The best way I can describe him every time I see him is that he’s just lost,” said Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician to Obama and President Trump.
“I won’t make any particular diagnosis about dementia. ... But what I will say is that something is not right,” added the retired Navy rear admiral who recently won a House GOP primary in Texas.
And it is getting so bad that he is “not comfortable” with Biden being commander in chief. “I’m not,” he said of the top Democrat, set to be nominated by the Democratic Party for president on Thursday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... use-doctor
Abraham= H'ammu'rab(b)i, Historical Muhammad=Benjamin of Tiberias. Islam: Syncretic Israelite Yahwishm Deity: nameless, epithets Dsr, El Qutbay, ʼAlâhâ, Allāh. Ka'ba: Kutha => Samaria => Petra=> Makkah. Hijrah 622: Petra => Kerak
Post by Hombre » Thu Aug 20, 2020 10:12 pm
Takeiteasynow wrote: ↑
WOW!!!! Even as a doctor -he is not a dully trained psychiatrist -- nor ever examined Biden. Moreover, he is a Republican.
Too rich!!!
Post by Ariel » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:47 am
Every one can see something is wrong with Biden Hombre. For a long time I worked with elderly people with dementia, and it would not surprise me if shortly, Biden ( who looks to me as an affectionate sweet old man) asks people ...."Where is my mother ? She has not visit me for a long time"
Poor man. He should not be used by the democrates.
Post by pr126 » Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:12 am
Hombre, stop drinking the Kool aid!
Islam: an idea to kill and die for.
Post by Ariel » Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:50 pm
Elections in the US are dirty.
DNC Used Deported Woman To Attack Trump. She Was Deported Under Clinton, Flagged Under Obama.
The deported illegal alien that the Democrat National Convention used this week to attack President Donald Trump was previously deported under Democrat President Bill Clinton and was flagged under former Democrat President Barack Obama to be deported after she illegally re-entered the United States.
“Alejandra Juarez first sneaked into the U.S. in 1998. She was caught at the border and deported back to Mexico,” The Washington Times reported. “She quickly sneaked back into the U.S. — a ‘felony act’ — and remained in the shadows until a traffic stop in 2013 when she appeared on the radar of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
“Experts said an Obama-era initiative expanding the use of local police fingerprint checks to aid deportations likely flagged Mrs. Juarez for ICE,” The Washington Times added. “At that point, the Obama Homeland Security Department had a choice. It could have shown leniency but instead reinstated her deportation order from 1998, putting her on the path to deportation that the Trump Homeland Security Department carried out in 2018.”
Democrats used Alejandra Juarez’s daughter, 11-year-old Estela Juarez, as a weapon against the president during the DNC this week when she read an emotional letter that tried to portray the president as a cold person who was ripping families apart.
The ad video in which Democrats featured Estela Juarez also falsely misrepresented comments that Trump has made during his presidency.
The video shows Trump making four comments on four separate occasions, and makes it seem as though he was talking about illegal aliens. The four comments were:
“We will begin moving them out day one.”
“These aren’t people.”
“I don’t want them in our country.”
“They’re animals.”
In each of those statements, Trump was referring to violent criminals, including the hyper-violent MS-13 street gang, not people who were simply in the U.S. illegally.
Trump said during a 2016 campaign event: “According to federal data, there are at least two million, two million, think of it, criminal aliens now inside of our country, two million people criminal aliens. We will begin moving them out day one. As soon as I take office. Day one. In joint operation with local, state, and federal law enforcement.” (Source)
Trump made his “these aren’t people” remark in response to a comment from a sheriff at a White House round table event on May 16, 2018, who said: “There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.” Trump responded by saying: “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.”
Trump said on November 1, 2018: “There’s nothing political about a caravan of thousands of people, and now others forming, pouring up into our country. We have no idea who they are. All we know is they’re pretty tough people when they can blast through the Mexican military and Mexican police. They’re pretty tough people. Even Mexico said, ‘Wow, these are tough people.’ I don’t want them in our country. And women don’t want them in our country. Women want security. Men don’t want them in our country. But the women do not want them. Women want security. You look at what the women are looking for. They want to have security. They don’t want to have these people in our country. And they’re not going to be in our country. It’s a very big thing.”
Trump said during an August 2018 rally: “Anything I want, they want to oppose. You know, I just figured out how to do the wall: I’ll say I don’t want to build the wall and they’ll insist on building it. I just figured that out right now. So Bob Casey doesn’t mind MS-13 coming in. These are the slicers. They slice people up and they’re – and remember I called them animal and Nancy Pelosi scolded me, ‘How dare he call another human being an animal?’ They’re animals.“
Below is the transcript and the video that the DNC used to attack Trump:
Dear Donald Trump,
My name is Estella. I am 11-years-old.
My mom is my best friend. She came to America as a teenager over 20 years ago without papers in search of a better life. She married my dad, who served our country as a Marine in South America, Africa, and Iraq.
My mom worked hard and paid taxes, and the Obama administration told her she could stay.
My dad thought you would protect military families, so he voted for you in 2016, Mr. President. He says he won’t vote for you again after what you did to our family. Instead of protecting us, you tore our world apart. Now, my mom is gone, and she’s been taken from us for no reason at all. Every day that passes, you deport more moms and dads and take them away from kids like me.
You separated thousands of children from their parents, and you put them in cages. Some of those kids are now orphans because of you.
Mr. President, my mom is the wife of a proud American Marine and a mother of two American children. We are American families. We need a president who will bring people together, not tear them apart.
Post by Takeiteasynow » Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:21 pm
DC Convention and Joe Biden boost Trump's approval ratings
'Fact check: True': Trump’s approval rating surges during Biden’s convention. his wasn’t supposed to happen.
During this week’s Democratic National Convention, which was supposed to launch Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's ticket into the fall election with good feelings and high poll numbers, President Trump’s approval rating surged.
The Rasmussen Reports daily average for Trump, which is spread over three days, hit 51% this week — and has stayed there. On the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Trump's approval rating was 47%.
In a reaction to Rasmussen’s poll, which was looked at over 250,000 times, a commenter wrote, “It’s not uncommon for candidates to receive a bump after a national political convention. It’s just that usually the convention is their own and not their opponents.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... convention
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public ... rack_aug21
For those doubting Rasmussen: this agency had the best predictions in 2016 and 2018. Trump's surge ain't that surprising knowing that no new policies or initiatives were presented at the DNC. The DP is like Biden: clueless and corrupted.
Post by manfred » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:49 pm
Apparently Joe Biden and Bill Clinton will go onto the campaign trail together... Will the be known as the fondling fathers?
Jesus: "Ask and you will receive." Mohammed: "Take and give me 20%"
Post by Takeiteasynow » Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:51 pm
Hmm, more like Bonnie and Clyde I guess.
Post by Hombre » Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:47 pm
Ariel wrote: ↑
Biden had admitted publicly that he had a stuttering problem in the past.
Yeah you mean like this:
This idiot can't even read the text in front of him. Most likely he was reading the white stuff.
Speak of Dementia. WWI or WWII? which is which? (I don't even bother to fact check this bizzar comment)
manfred wrote: ↑
Whatever it takes to win the election. Nothing wrong with wanting to help a fellow countryman to win this upcoming election.
Despite pundits virulent hatred of Hillary Clinton - even today she is still respected by majority of Americans & for that matter - the rest of the world.
Post by Hombre » Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:02 am
How unpopular is Donald Trump?
Approval - 41.8%
Disapproval - 54.1%
An updating calculation of the president's approval rating, accounting for each poll's quality, recency, sample size and partisan lean.
Rasmussen is only ONE of 70 other polling groups. Here https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/tr ... id=rrpromo is a more complete & accurate reading of trump approval ratings.
Post by pr126 » Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:18 pm
DNC LGBTQ Caucus meeting.
The Democratic National Convention on Tuesday featured a panelist who identifies as a “nonbinary/gender transcendent mermaid Queen-King” and who called for the abolition of the police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and prisons.
How much people pay the universities to produce such idiocy?
Post by Takeiteasynow » Sun Aug 23, 2020 2:05 pm
DNC LGBTQ
Aha, an encrypted Semitic phrase. Let's see....
DN: root dn is Egypto-Semitic, ’il dn, el the judge, DN'/s/ judgemental
L: the
GBT: from West-Semitic/Hebrew root gbt, meaning 'to press down', depressing, lowering
Q: single consonant, added as radical.
Translation of DNC LGBTQ: 'The Radical Depressing/Lowering Judgement', probably referring to an extremist movement.
Post by Ariel » Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:52 pm
Who is it going to be. Trump, or Biden.
Post by pr126 » Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:30 pm
70 days to go. Get ready.
antineoETC
Post by antineoETC » Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:37 pm
My prediction if Biden beats Trump and the latter doesn't shout 'fraud' is that Biden will be in office for maybe a year before being put in a care home, wozhername will become top dog and Ilhan Omar will be brought in as vice president, which will be her springboard to run as pres in 2024.
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"Muhammad is considered to be a perfect model" SOURCE: BBC website
Post by Hombre » Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:39 pm
Yeah. I just read that recent polls by Shish-kabab show even better outcome for trump.
trump: 500
Biden 1500 electoral.
Any schmuck can conduct polls - including an obscure organization or individual named Helmut Norpath
Post by manfred » Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:06 pm
Goodness... why not just wait and see....
Post by Hombre » Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:52 pm
If we Compare the conditions in 2016 & now , the gap is a wide as the size of the English Channel .
This page is not long enough to enumerate them. Just few teed-bids. The most obvious is - than no known republicans came out & declared his opposition. Today there is a whole cadre of prominent & respected Republicans are ACTIVELY supporting Biden - only to defeat trump. Today we know more about his shady past from credible people then we knew then.
Most important - No President EVER won re-election with consistent low approval rating as trump has been "enjoying" for past 4 years.
The TV Media: It was this Media with their intense coverage which gave him more exposure then his opponents. They did it for their own selfish economic interest & the enormous rating he generated. Today he is not generating those ratings - coupled with his effort to discredit them ("fake News") & the TV networks are not providing him the coverage as they did back then.
Finally. the only way trump can win is - through dirty tricks (to which he is known for) or help from Russia. last week the Republican Controlled Senate had issued a 1000 page report damning trump's contact & connection with Russian Intelligence people to help him win.
The timing & the message to rump is very clear - "don't even think of soliciting foreign governments to help him in this upcoming election. Moreover, US's entire intelligence & counter-intelligence service along with Social Media are gearing up to blunt any Russian attempt to repeat their interference in the election.
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The scenery series ‘Historic’ for Microsoft Flight Simulator X ® offers a new approach to the flight simulation hobby by providing a photorealistic ground texture cover based on real photographs from the Second World War (1946/1947). The resulting view of the countryside will not only provide a new basis for the implementation of future historical scenery titles, but also allows you to discover the landscape of the era and the all the history of the region.
The product ‘Normandy 1944’ allows you to specifically discover the theater of the Allied landing operations back in 1944, Operation Neptune!
To achieve the maximum immersion in ‘Normandy 1944’ it comes complete with no less than four vintage aircraft and a steerable landing craft.
Many add-ons and other free and/or commercial bonuses will be offered later through our sites and forums. It is our goal to (help) create a real community around this range of new and original products …
You can find more details about the contents of each of the various products in this series and their compatibility at the web site FS Historic and on the VFR Network forum .
And on our ‘Normandy’ and ‘Downloads’ tabs there is more to discover, now and in the future !
The initial package contains:
– original B&W aerial photos of the 1946 situation
– full mesh for the Normandy region
– 4 ‘light’ versions of airplanes of that era courtesy of FSAddon Publishing
– a steerable FREE landing craft (Higgins Boat) courtesy of Bruce Fitzgerald
– initial sound/visual AA (FLAK) effects courtesy of James De Burghe
Now also available from simMarket.com and from Simware.com (i.e. Aerosoft)
High resolution photoreal scenery covering the ‘Manche’ (50) & ‘Calvados’ (14) French departments of the Normandy region with black & white photos from 1946/1947.
1 meter resolution ground texture (black & white) made from vintage aerial photography (IGN) adapted for an optimal visual rendition in Flight Simulator X®.
High resolution real 4.75 meter (LOD13) optimized custom mesh incuded.
4 vintage aircraft provided (GFA Super Cub, Cessna Bobcat Military, Lysander et Fieseler Storch) and a Steerable landing craft including vintage black & white repaints.
Special waterclass customized to specific vintage textures.
Coastline (and parts of lakes and rivers) waterbodies fitting the texture.
Extremely precise geo-referenced texture positionning is carried out in order to ensure a maximal compatibility with scenery add-ons for this region.
Process development is fully conform to the Microsoft Flight Simulator X® SDK, ensuring a maximal compatibility with future versions of Flight Simulator.
Open scenery concept allows an easy integration of scenery add-ons from other editors.
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Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era 2012 (Contract)
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1 Background and Overview
2 Expected results
The project was born as a joint initiative between the Future Worlds Center, the Digital Futures and the Cyprus Youth Council and it is a part of the activities carried out under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency. It aims to bring together 24 young people from all across Europe in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance that capitalize on the possibilities offered by contemporary as well as emerging digital technologies. The two-day event will be organized as an interactive co-laboratory, fully utilizing up-to-date methodologies and technologies of the science of structured democratic dialogue. The co-laboratory will take place back-to-back with the Cyprus EU Youth Conference (Cyprus Presidency event) to enable the participation of up to 8 delegates from this youth conference. This builds on the priority of the Cypriot Presidency to address the topic of Youth Participation in democrtic life in Europe as a main priority of the trio PL-DK-CY, adopted by the ministers' meeting in the Council of Education, Youth, Culture and Sport. The results of the co-laboratory will be widely disseminated with the support of the Cyprus Community Media Center, using video clips and modern digital technologies. They will inform the parallel and complimentary efforts of the Cyprus EU Youth Conference, the Digital Futures Task Force and Future Worlds Center to come up with innovative new ideas for reforms and policies that will guarantee authentic youth participation and capitalize on the diverse capabilities offered by emerging future technologies.
Formal Project Description
Contract Title Reinventing Democracy In the Digital Era
Lead Partner Future Worlds Center
Partners Digital Futures
Cyprus Youth Council
Grant Digital Futures Task Force covering 4 participants
EYF covering 8 participants
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Website http://reinventdemocracyindigitalera.wikispaces.com/
About Project Reinventing Democracy in the Digital-Era
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The project aims to bring together young people in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance that capitalize on the possibilities offered by contemporary as well as emerging digital technologies.
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Promote reforms of current systems of governance in their own ideal socio-political-economic environments.
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Inhibition of cholinesterases by fluoride in vitro.
Author: Cimasoni G.
Journal Name: The Biochemical Journal
Publish Date: April 1966
Volume/Page: 99(1):133-7.
Categories: Brain, Brain Cellular/Tissue Effects
1. Series of colorimetric dynamic assays allowed the study of the inhibition of cholinesterases by F(-) ions in vitro, by using, as sources of enzyme, whole human blood, human serum, homogenized rat brain and two preparations of red blood cells (human and bovine) whose enzymic purity was ascertained.
2. The first evidence of inhibition of human serum pseudocholinesterase by fluoride was noticed at 15-25 µm-fluoride. Ten times as much fluoride was needed to start inhibition of acetylcholinesterase of the red blood cells.
3. The action of fluoride on the enzymic reaction was immediate. The reversibility of the inhibition was shown by dialysis and dilution.
4. Kinetic measurements showed that the inhibition under study was not dependent on the substrate concentration and was of the uncompetitive type, similar to that observed in the presence of a heavy metal (cadmium).
5. The activity of serum cholinesterase did not change in the absence of Mg(2+) and Ca(2+) ions. Fluoride was shown to inhibit the enzyme in the absence of these ions as well as of phosphate.
6. Fluoride could inhibit cholinesterases in the presence of three different substrates and had no action on the non-enzymic hydrolysis.
7. It is thought that the halide is bound reversibly to the enzyme molecule, with the probable exclusion of the active site, but no firm conclusion could be reached on this point.
Fluoride-induced brain damages in suckling mice
In order to reveal mechanisms of brain damages resulted from fluoride toxicity, we treated adult female mice of Swiss Albinos strain by 500 ppm NaF (226 ppm F?) in their drinking water from the 15th day of pregnancy until the day 14 after delivery. All mice were sacrificed on day 14 after
Effects of the Fas/Fas-L pathway on fluoride-induced apoptosis in SH-SY5Y cells.
The mechanisms underlying fluoride-induced apoptosis in neurons still remain unknown. To investigate apoptosis, caspase-3 activity, and mRNA expression of Fas, Fas-L, and caspases (-3 and -8) induced by fluoride, human neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cells were incubated with 0, 20, 40, and 80 mg/L sodium fluoride (NaF) for 24 h in vitro.
Protective effect of resveratrol on fluoride induced alteration in protein and nucleic acid metabolism, DNA damage and biogenic amines in rat brain
Fluoride, a well-established environmental carcinogen, has been found to cause various neurodegenerative diseases in human. Sub-acute exposure to fluoride at a dose of 20mg/kgb.w./day for 30 days caused significant alteration in pro-oxidant/anti-oxidant status of brain tissue as reflected by perturbation of reduced glutathione content, increased lipid peroxidation, protein carbonylation, nitric
Actions of sodium fluoride on acetylcholinesterase activities in rats
This study was carried out to observe the effects of sodium fluoride on acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activities in the cerebral synaptic membranes (SPM) and the peripheral red blood cells (RBC) of rats by in vivo and in vitro experiments. In the in vivo study, pregnant rats ingested ad libitum fluorinated drinking
Evaluation of the toxicity of fluorine in Antarctic krill on soft tissues of Wistar rats
Antarctic krill are a potential food source for humans and animals, but krill are known to contain high levels of fluorine (F). In this study, we investigated the toxicity of F in Antarctic krill using Wistar rats. There were three experimental groups: The control group were fed a basal diet,
NRC (2006): Fluoride's Neurotoxicity and Neurobehavioral Effects
The NRC's analysis on fluoride and the brain.
Fluoride's Direct Effects on Brain: Animal Studies
The possibility that fluoride ingestion may impair intelligence and other indices of neurological function is supported by a vast body of animal research, including over 40 studies that have investigated fluoride's effects on brain quality in animals. As discussed by the National Research Council, the studies have consistently demonstrated that fluoride, at widely varying concentrations, is toxic to the brain.
Fluoride Affects Learning & Memory in Animals
An association between elevated fluoride exposure and reduced intelligence has now been observed in 65 IQ studies. Although a link between fluoride and intelligence might initially seem surprising or random, it is actually consistent with a large body of animal research. This animal research includes the following 45 studies (out
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THE POSSESSION & FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE: CFQ Spotlight Podcast 3:35
Little Girls Should Not Be Dipping into Daddy's Humidor: Natasha Calis regrets her curiosity in THE POSSESSION.
You were at the beach. You were visiting relatives. You had friends over for one, last barbecue. You were scrubbing down the altar for the midnight sacrifice to the Great Old Ones (special for Providence only). Whatever you were doing, it was something you felt was more important than being in the theater this past Labor Day weekend.
And why not? While nowhere near a transcendent filmgoing experience, director Ole Bornedal’s dip into THE EXORCIST well, THE POSSESSION, mustered up enough atmosphere, dramatic tension, and credible performances — including Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick as divorced parents trying to cope with a young daughter infested with an evil demon — to merit it more attention than is usually given to films shoveled into the traditional Labor Day dumping bin. Cinefantastique Online’s Steve Biodrowski and Dan Persons take a few minutes to explore the film’s assorted pleasures and discuss the elements that made it a candidate for summary dismissal. Then Dan gives his capsule opinion of Tsui Hark’s Imax 3D spectacular, FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE and runs down what’s coming the theaters next week.
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FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE Director Tsui Hark: Fantasy Film Interview Podcast
Look, Can't We Just Exchange Insurance Info and Leave It at That?: Jet Li (right) faces off against Chen Kun in FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE.
FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE is the first Tsui Hark film to be shot in Imax 3D, starring Jet Li. Okay, stop salivating and sit back down, we’ve got work to do.
Granted, your enthusiasm is understandable. Hark — master of such deliriously epic action films as PEKING OPERA BLUES and ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA — came roaring back to prominence last year with DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, and now returns with an ambitious adventure that’s actually a continuation of a film series that started in 1967, about a desert inn where both the noble and the infamous rub elbows and clash swords. In addition to all the expected Hark trappings, such as inventive battle scenes, sharp comedy, and women characters who can stand their own against their male counterparts — including a mysterious swordswoman, played by Zhou Xun, and a lusty barbarian princess, played by Lunmei Kwai (because would you want any other kind?) — the increased palette of China’s first Imax 3D film gives the director a whole new way to mess with your mind. Trust me, Hark takes generous advantage of the opportunity.
This is Hark’s return to MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST, and we’re glad to have him back; less glad that it had to be via a not-quite-Dolby-grade phone connection. We’ve done our best to smooth out the audio — hopefully you’ll find the discussion well-worth the effort.
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3D, FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE, IMAX, Jet Li, Tsui Hark
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Hydroplanes tested new technology on the Columbia River
H1 Unlimited boats tested a new GPS unit on the Columbia River in Pasco, WA. The U-11 Peters and May & U-88 Degree Men had first crack at the Columbia River.
The GPS unit was in the boat and the base unit was on land for H1 officials. They use it to track boat speed. They want to keep the boats from driving up to the starting line slowly and waiting until the flag drops. The U-11 and Craig Kairis of GPS Flight helped to develop the new program.
"This is just a device that will transmit to the race officials what the speed of the boats are, the speed they're traveling at. There's been a trend developing where the boats are getting slower and slower as they jockey for position, which isn't really exciting for the fans. So with this device we're going to determine a minimum speed limit," U-11 driver JW Myers said.
Posted by HydroInsider.com at 6:23 PM
Unlimited Hydroplane are headed back to Couer d'Alene, Idaho after a long absence. H1 Unlimited announced they will bring five boats for an exhibition Labor Day weekend in September this year.
Longtime fans will remember the Diamond Cup, which ran at Lake CDA for years. They will bring back the Diamond Cup name and make it an H1 Unlimited and APBA (American Power Boat Association) sanctioned event. Sources report that next year the Diamond Cup will be a full race.
HYDROINSIDER ARCHIVE VIDEO: For your enjoyment, the 1959 Diamond Cup race!
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Michelle Wallace and
Rus VanWestervelt
Alice Flows
By Rus VanWestervelt
Sunset nears. The rocks are glazed with ice that traps daylight’s last few hues, and the water of Little Hunting Creek that flowed through here just weeks ago now remains frozen as if caught in midthought.
This is just not the way it was supposed to turn out for Alice and Jared.
“What now?” he asks. But she does not answer. How can she?
The ice beneath his boots melts from the warmth and the weight they bear upon the time smoothed stone, and he feels as if they have thwarted winter’s call- if but for this moment spent in foolish desperation.
Jared and Alice never thought that death would come so soon, nor did he ever imagine that this creek might be frozen when the day arrived to carry out her wishes. Alice wanted to be returned to these waters within two sunsets of her passing; how were they to know that winter, too, would arrive so early?
“We were not yet done with autumn,” he whispers to her in his arms.
“But autumn, she seems to be done with us.”
If you’ve been to Cunningham Falls State Park between Frederick and Hagerstown, you know all about the William Houck Area. Its beauty is adorned with Maryland’s highest waterfall- 78 feet to be exact- and the very popular 42-acre lake that is frequented by anglers, boaters, swimmers, and even scuba divers. Alice and Jared had known this section of the park quite well; since in their twenties when they first married, they had visited Houck several times a year, getting to know some Thurmont folks who opted for this smaller tourist attraction in lieu of the more commercialized Ocean City and Deep Creek Lake resorts several hours east or west, respectively.
It wasn’t until their drive to the park just six weeks ago that Alice wanted to go to Houck’s oft unmentioned sibling, the Manor Area, before succumbing to the cancer that had taken a disturbingly silent-yet-terminal residence within her.
For years, Alice and Jared had joked that the Manor Area seemed like an afterthought. Without the diva attraction that the falls provided Houck, Manor was destined to be seldom more than a hangout for local teens or a scant celebratory meeting place at its shelter for birthdays, anniversaries, or reunions.
So Manor remained, without Alice and Jared, until this past October when they approached its entrance, and Jared felt Alice’s faint pulse as she squeezed his hand weakly.
“Jared,” she said. “The crowds might cheapen this somehow for us at Houck, you know?” Her soft-spoken words flowed from still softer lips, seemingly untouched by the death swirling within her. As much as the cancer had stolen from her, she held on tightly to the inner peace that radiated such kindness and gentle ways. Her grace saddened him that much more, knowing what was to come.
Alice was right about the crowds. They had had plenty of social moments in their 30 years of marriage. They grew up together in these Maryland woods, keeping just fit enough to handle the challenges of the soft-soiled, sometimes rocky trails, the shallow rivers, and the temperamental Chesapeake- good times always enjoyed with even better friends. But when the cancer hit Alice a brief 7 months ago, they had pared down their social circle, and Jared understood that even strangers at the falls would somehow dilute the reason they had come.
They entered Manor and scanned the lot for others; autumn had bloomed brilliantly in a cacophonic canvas canopy of browns and oranges, reds and greens. Jared parked along the northern bank of Little Hunting Creek and turned off the car. The area seemed abandoned, left alone by the masses who went elsewhere to gather their rosebuds or swim deep in other waters. Alice was happy.
“No wonder William Houck’s been treated like an only child all these years,” Jared remarked.
Manor just wasn’t that kind of tourist trap; it certainly wasn’t awe-inspiring, and it wasn’t on the map as a Kodak moment.
Alice ignored Jared- or perhaps never even heard him speak, as she left him in the car and headed to the water. Seventeen soft steps, and she was past the picnic bench and at the bank, looking west, then east, then west again. In both directions, the creek veered to the left and rolled out of sight around a bend.
He gave her a moment at the water’s edge. There wasn’t much to look at. Having visited Houck for so long, Jared couldn’t help but think that Little Hunting Creek-maybe 15 feet wide where Alice stood- was blushing, the runty kid sister of the Homecoming Queen. It was hardly more pronounced than the small spring from which it originated in the Catoctin Mountains; little fanfare could be made of it further downstream as well, even where it joined Big Hunting Creek and then, eventually, the Monocacy River.
This absence of pomp and circumstance freed the sounds of the crisp water churning over rocks and dipping in and out of stone-bed pools; winds whistled through leaves and broken bark and brought to them the fragrances of wild sarsaparilla, spice bush, and even pine sap. They stood there for several more minutes, as if in a decompression chamber, acclimating themselves to the richer sounds of squirrels scurrying for winter’s keep and the softer sights of sunlight sifting through leaves like light through stained glass.
This is why we are here, he thought; we have come to touch the sun before it comes to touch us.
With a firm patch of earth now under his feet, Jared stands without sound as the sporadic road traffic close by hums a sing-song of comings and goings. Very, very close, he thinks; a poor musical substitute for the water that once rushed over these rocks that run east to west, around the bend, no end in sight.
The unadorned, brown urn he carries with Alice’s ashes is heavy, but the weight does not bother him. It is the weight of ever-present thoughts, more than anything, reminding him that her remains are in his arms, cradled with the same fragility of a newborn life, a compact world of endless possibilities unexplored, unrealized.
He leaves the bank and joins the creek’s bed of iced-over rocks, where a smaller stream trickles quickly from under a pool of frozen water, escaping winter’s fate. He holds Alice close as he chooses carefully each rock, working his way closer to the little stream. But even with his strongest effort, his greatest care for Alice in his arms, he cannot help but slip on a small, flat rock that sends him- and Alice- into the air…
Alice removed her sandals and walked effortlessly to a shallow pool formed by some of the larger rocks. From this pool flowed a tiny, constant stream of water that rambled over smaller pebbles, a miniature Cunningham Falls gleaming with promise.
There stood Alice, centered, visibly at peace. On the ride up, she had talked with Jared about meditation and transcendentalism and all that Buddha stuff that helped her focus, maybe even live a little longer. Here she stood now in front of him, focusing, perhaps hoping for a few extra days. She had said that meditation made her cancer seem nonexistent, suspended. There was an abeyance about it, she had said, where as long as she stayed centered, as she clearly was now, life would never cease flowing through her. Death, she had stated plainly, would come only in the most physical of senses.
Just flow, she would always tell him. Let the world carry you along, on and on. Simple, huh?
Just flow.
Jared had never been so deep to meditate and see things that way. He had always spent his time turning rocks (not flowing over them), looking for a marbled salamander, finding perhaps an eastern newt. Other times he searched for things that didn’t seem to belong; maybe they had a greater glow, a greater effervescence about them. They stood out, caught his attention, begged him to be taken. Or so he believed. He could never leave without some tangible treasure.
Alice stood there in that pool, her arms open wide, her face to the sky. Leaves dropped, some on her, some in the water, and away they were swept, down the river, around the bend.
She looked down, kneeled into the water, cupping her hands as she dipped them and pulled up a pool filled with her reflection. She brought the water to her shoulders and arms till beads ran off her fingertips and back into the pool and down the little falls.
With her hands still wet, Alice pressed them against her neck where she had first found the cancer. She held her hands there, as if somehow cleansing the area, purifying it, making it innocent once again.
Alice nodded briefly, barely acknowledging Jared’s concern. To him, she seemed too focused- if not too weak- to do much more.
Alice scooped up half a palm of ground stone that formed a miniature cairn in her hand and knelt down into the pond. She looked at the tiny pile of sand, then to the water that surrounded her waist. She brought her hand down to the pond and let the water flow, a swirling fluidity that broke the cairn down, tiny grain of sand by tiny grain of sand, carrying each through the gate, over the rocks, beyond the bend, and on and on.
Jared was now downstream of her. Painful as it was, he decided to remain, to stand his ground and not battle the waters coming down to him. To walk upstream at this point seemed to go against some natural force of what was to be, and so he waited.
He marveled at her beauty in solitude. It was difficult for him to see any clear distinction between the life within her and the life that surrounded them: paralleled beauty enveloped in the mingling, nurturing solace of primitive spirits.
She stood up and began walking toward him, doing her best to stay immersed in water, as deeply as possible, even if only being wet to her ankles at times.
When Alice reached Jared, She kissed him gently on the cheek and rested her head on his shoulder.
“I’m ready,” she whispered.
He wrapped his arms around her and held her close, but after a moment she gently pushed away, turned, and walked out of the water and toward the picnic bench.
Jared took one more glimpse of the river upstream where it turned to the left, bending then disappearing into an unknown eternity. His eyes drifted down to the pool where Alice had immersed herself. Just below the pond were two flat rocks leaning against and supporting each other, framing an area where some of the water was running through.
He looked over at the bench where Alice sat, staring at her hands, brushing the few remaining granules of sand from her hands.
I was the one who did more of the leaning, he thought, and it was true. He had spent much of their 30 years together feeding off of her strength.
This is our closest moment, frozen and immortalized. yet here we remain, never farther apart.
He could not have felt more ashamed and proud at the same time to be her soul mate.
Jared catches his fall with one hand, blood suddenly flowing from it as he balances the delicate urn in his other hand. He pushes his hand against his navy blue coat, his pulse, warm, wet with each beat.
He thinks only of Alice, though, close to him, as he continues on until he reaches the pool of icy water.
He crouches, precariously perched between the obscure, trickling falls and two supporting rocks, comrades leaning more or less on each other.
They never considered how this part was to be done. Just dumping her ashes into this scaled down stream would choke its flow, and stagnant water would most certainly freeze with these temperatures.
He recalls Alice’s last moments here, bending down and allowing the small pile of ground stone in her palm to be lifted by the water’s rush and carried away. It had been at that moment that she had made up her mind how to proceed with all of this. The solution, however tough until that moment, seemed natural and almost relieving to her, as if this were the last great decision she would have to make.
Jared cannot believe that this is it. He pulls the urn closer, tighter, the pulse of warm blood still flowing from his hand. He remembers the first time they had touched in a late October so long ago, that lingering feel of her smooth hand on his, and then the smile, the blush, the unmistakable, embarrassing laugh. How he then leaned in to her, and when they kissed, time ceased and he wished his lips would never leave hers, the moist, tentative breath of love, the slow and inevitable sigh and then the slide of his body into hers.
I now know Love, he had whispered to her. And when she melted into him a second time, he vowed that he would never let her go.
He stands in the water, holding her one last time, fighting the urge to forget her final wishes and turn around, back over the icy rocks, into the warmth of the car, and return home.
I’m ready. . . .
Jared cannot stop the tears. He knows what he must do. He brings his quivering lips to the top of Alice’s urn and kisses her one more time.
“Flow, Alice. Flow,” he whispers.
He turns the urn on its side and immerses it into the small stream, slowly removing the brown, pottered top with his bleeding hand.
The urn swallows the water, and a wisp of air- much like a sigh- escapes as Alice’s ashes flow downstream, as does Jared’s blood: joining, mingling, journeying as one with his Alice, over the rocks, beyond the bend, on and on and on.
Flow, my lovely Alice. Flow, he thinks.
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Last Men Standing: Lancashire Soldiers in the Wars in France
By Michael Bennett
Edited by Linda Clark, Peter Fleming
Book: The Fifteenth Century XVIII
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication: 20 November 2020, pp 151-164
In 1436 Duke Philip of Burgundy was advised by Hue de Lannoy that, after heavy expenditure and loss of life over twenty years, the entire community of the realm in England was so weary of the war that they had lost all hope in it. This appraisal appears in a preamble to proposals for Burgundian diplomatic initiatives in September, but it almost certainly informed the duke's decision earlier in the year to launch an attack on Calais. The English response to the siege of Calais, however, was neither lethargic nor half-hearted. In spring 1436 the government issued proclamations warning of the attack and preparing the ground for the mobilisation of the nation in defence of its honour and interests. When the siege began, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, was appointed to command the relief expedition and soon found himself at the head of the largest army assembled in England since 1385. Many lords and knights raised companies and Londoners volunteered for service. Although there are few surviving records of the men who served in 1436, it cannot be doubted that Lancashire was well represented. Sir John Radcliffe, a native of Lancashire, was sent ahead to organise the defence of Calais. By chance, too, it is known that Thomas Harrington, a Lancashire squire, raised, at his own expense, a company of six men-at-arms and 120 archers. Even before Gloucester's expedition crossed the Channel, the duke of Burgundy's Flemish army decided to abandon the siege. After disembarking in Calais, the expeditioners joined in the rout of the Flemings and the rapine in Flanders. In England the relief of Calais, along with the defeat of a Scots incursion, was celebrated as a great victory. In addition to triumphalist poems and ballads, a Latin poem crowed the nation's chauvinism: ‘England crushes realms, Burgundy buys dishonour / Fractured France trembles, conquered Scotland groans.’
While acknowledging the bombast in 1436, historians would probably agree with Lannoy's appraisal of English attitudes to the war. They have observed a decline in the readiness of the political nation to support the war through taxation, military service and even prayer. In explaining parliament's reluctance to fund the war in France, they have clarified the sheer intractability of the fiscal problem. The decline in participation by noble and gentle families between 1415 and 1450 has been documented in some detail.
An Epistemic Argument for an Egalitarian Public Sphere
Journal: Episteme , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2020, pp. 1-18
The public sphere should be regulated so the distribution of political speech does not correlate with the distribution of income or wealth. A public sphere where people can fund any political speech from their private holdings is epistemically defective. The argument has four steps. First, if political speech is unregulated, the rich predictably contribute a disproportionate share. Second, wealth tends to correlate with substantive political perspectives. Third, greater quantities of speech by the rich can “drown out” the speech of the poor, because of citizens’ limited attention span for politics. Finally, the normative problem with all this is that it reduces the diversity of arguments and evidence citizens become familiar with, reducing the quality of their political knowledge. The clearest implication of the argument is in favour of strict contribution limits and/or public funding for formal political campaigns, but it also has implications for more informal aspects of the public sphere.
Theatre & Knowledge. By David Kornhaber. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 78. £6.99/$17.99 Pb.
Michael Y. Bennett
Journal: Theatre Research International / Volume 45 / Issue 3 / October 2020
Implementation of Antibiotic Time Outs Using Quality Improvement Methodology
Zachary Willis, May-Britt Sten, Lindsay Daniels, Jonathan Juliano, Michael Swartwood, Ronald Davis, Donna Krzastek, Clare Mock, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, David Jay Weber
Journal: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 41 / Issue S1 / October 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2020, pp. s275-s276
Background: Antibiotic time outs (ABTOs), formal reassessments of all new antimicrobial regimens by the care team, can optimize antimicrobial regimens, reducing antimicrobial overuse and potentially improving outcomes. Implementation of ABTOs is a substantial challenge. We used quality improvement methods to implement robust, meaningful, team-driven ABTOs in general medicine ward services. Methods: We identified and engaged stakeholders to serve as champions for the quality improvement initiative. On October 1, 2018, 2 internal medicine teaching services (services A and B), began conducting ABTOs on all patients admitted to their services receiving systemic antimicrobials for at least 36 hours. Eligible patients were usually identified by the team pharmacist. ABTOs were completed within 72 hours of antibiotic initiation and were documented in the electronic medical record (EMR) by providers using a template. The process was modified as necessary in response to feedback from frontline clinicians using plan-do-study-act (PDSA) methods. We subsequently spread the project to 2 additional internal medicine services (services C and D); 2 family medicine teams (services E and F); and 1 general pediatric service (service G). The project is ongoing. We collected data for the following metrics: (1) proportion of ABTO-eligible patients with an ABTO; (2) proportion of ABTOs conducted within the recommended time frame; (3) documented plan changes as a result of ABTO (eg, change IV antibiotics to PO); (4) proportion of documented plan changes actually completed within 24 hours. Results: Within 12 weeks, services A and B were successfully completing time outs in >80% of their patients. This target was consistently reached by services C, D, E, F, and G almost immediately following launch on those services. As of June 29, 2019, >80% of eligible patients across all participating services have had a time out conducted for 16 consecutive weeks. ABTOs have resulted in a change in management in 35% of cases, including IV-to-PO change in 19% of cases and discontinuation in 5%. Overall, 77% of time outs occurred during the 36–72-hour window. Ultimately, 95% of documented plan changes were completed within 24 hours. Conclusions: ABTOs are effective but implementation is challenging. We achieved high compliance with ABTOs without using electronic reminders. Our results suggest that ABTOs were impactful in the non–critical-care general medicine setting. Next steps include (1) development of EMR-based tools to facilitate identifying eligible patients and ABTO documentation; (2) continued spread through our health care system; and (3) analysis of ABTO impact using ABTO-unexposed patients as a control group.
Disclosures: None
Is hospitalization a risk factor for cognitive decline in older age adults?
Lucia Chinnappa-Quinn, Steve Robert Makkar, Michael Bennett, Ben C. P. Lam, Jessica W. Lo, Nicole A. Kochan, John D. Crawford, Perminder S. Sachdev
Journal: International Psychogeriatrics , First View
Many studies document cognitive decline following specific types of acute illness hospitalizations (AIH) such as surgery, critical care, or those complicated by delirium. However, cognitive decline may be a complication following all types of AIH. This systematic review will summarize longitudinal observational studies documenting cognitive changes following AIH in the majority admitted population and conduct meta-analysis (MA) to assess the quantitative effect of AIH on post-hospitalization cognitive decline (PHCD).
We followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Selection criteria were defined to identify studies of older age adults exposed to AIH with cognitive measures. 6566 titles were screened. 46 reports were reviewed qualitatively, of which seven contributed data to the MA. Risk of bias was assessed using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale.
The qualitative review suggested increased cognitive decline following AIH, but several reports were particularly vulnerable to bias. Domain-specific outcomes following AIH included declines in memory and processing speed. Increasing age and the severity of illness were the most consistent risk factors for PHCD. PHCD was supported by MA of seven eligible studies with 41,453 participants (Cohen’s d = −0.25, 95% CI [−0.02, −0.49] I2 35%).
There is preliminary evidence that AIH exposure accelerates or triggers cognitive decline in the elderly patient. PHCD reported in specific contexts could be subsets of a larger phenomenon and caused by overlapping mechanisms. Future research must clarify the trajectory, clinical significance, and etiology of PHCD: a priority in the face of an aging population with increasing rates of both cognitive impairment and hospitalization.
Evaluation of an ensemble-based distance statistic for clustering MLST datasets using epidemiologically defined clusters of cyclosporiasis
Fernanda S. Nascimento, Joel Barratt, Katelyn Houghton, Mateusz Plucinski, Julia Kelley, Shannon Casillas, Carolyne (Cody) Bennett, Cathy Snider, Rashmi Tuladhar, Jenny Zhang, Brooke Clemons, Susan Madison-Antenucci, Alexis Russell, Elizabeth Cebelinski, Jisun Haan, Trisha Robinson, Michael J. Arrowood, Eldin Talundzic, Richard S. Bradbury, Yvonne Qvarnstrom
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 148 / 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2020, e172
Outbreaks of cyclosporiasis, a food-borne illness caused by the coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis have increased in the USA in recent years, with approximately 2300 laboratory-confirmed cases reported in 2018. Genotyping tools are needed to inform epidemiological investigations, yet genotyping Cyclospora has proven challenging due to its sexual reproductive cycle which produces complex infections characterized by high genetic heterogeneity. We used targeted amplicon deep sequencing and a recently described ensemble-based distance statistic that accommodates heterogeneous (mixed) genotypes and specimens with partial genotyping data, to genotype and cluster 648 C. cayetanensis samples submitted to CDC in 2018. The performance of the ensemble was assessed by comparing ensemble-identified genetic clusters to analogous clusters identified independently based on common food exposures. Using these epidemiologic clusters as a gold standard, the ensemble facilitated genetic clustering with 93.8% sensitivity and 99.7% specificity. Hence, we anticipate that this procedure will greatly complement epidemiologic investigations of cyclosporiasis.
5 - Vaccine Diaspora
Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania
Book: War Against Smallpox
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp 122-148
Chapter 5 explores the early spread of vaccination in continental Europe. If news of Jenner’s discovery quickly spread abroad, the delivery of vaccine in a viable state proved a major challenge. Diplomatic and medical networks explain its early arrival in Germany and Austria. From 1799, Dr De Carro made Vienna a major centre for the spread of the practice, with the samples sent to Lord Elgin in Istanbul seeding the practice in Greece. The British military build-up in the Mediterranean opened new channels for the dissemination of English cowpox. By vaccinating sailors aboard ship, Drs Marshall and Walker brought fresh vaccine to Gibraltar and Malta and Marshall established vaccination in Sicily and southern Italy early in 1801. Dr Sacco’s discovery of a local source of cowpox in cattle in Lombardy in late 1800 led to important trials and, over the following decade, an impressive vaccination programme in northern Italy. In the interstices of war in Europe, the practice developed as an international enterprise with several important new hubs.
3 - Good Tidings from the Farm
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp 65-93
Chapter 3 focuses on Jenner and the discovery of vaccination, specifically his translation of the vague notion that cowpox prevented smallpox into a more precise body of knowledge which could distinguish between varieties of cowpox and be the basis for the development of protocols for its effective use. Given the rarity of cowpox, his use of humanised cowpox (vaccine), propagated on children, was to prove critical to the success and viability of the practice. Publishing his findings in 1798, Jenner had to wait a year for his new mode of prophylaxis to gain acceptance. Initially, London-based physicians – Woodville conducting clinical trials and Pearson distributing vaccine – made much of the running. Jenner, however, reasserted his leadership in the field and made championship of vaccination his principal occupation. After considering reports on Jenner’s discovering of cowpox inoculation and making it available to the world, the British parliament granted him a premium in 1802. The Royal Jennerian Society was established in 1803 to promote and support the practice.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp ix-xi
8 - Across the Pyrenees
Chapter 8 discusses the arrival of vaccination in Portugal and Spain. An early recipient of cowpox, Portugal proved barren ground until the Prince Regent promoted the practice. Given its long rejection of smallpox inoculation, Spain moved surprisingly rapidly to embrace the new prophylaxis, with the first vaccination at the end of 1800, with vaccine sent from Paris. During 1801, vaccination was established in Madrid and other major centres and there was a flurry of publications on the procedure, some original, others customised translations. Grandees patronised vaccination in the provinces and local initiatives led to good coverage in Barcelona and Navarra. In 1803, the Royal and Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition was organised to extend the practice through the Spanish empire, beginning in the Canary Islands. War and political upheaval frustrated measures to consolidate vaccination in Spain and Portugal, but the authorities, political and medical, and some communities retained their commitment to the practice.
9 - Romanovs and Vaktsinovs
Chapter 9 charts the fortunes of vaccination in the Russian empire. Emulating Catherine the Great’s patronage of inoculation, Dowager Empress Maria sponsored its introduction and establishment in the Foundling Houses in Moscow and St Petersburg in 1801. Early in 1802, Tsar Alexander commended the practice and supported a plan for a vaccine expedition through the empire, using children under vaccination to deliver vaccine from one district to the next. Projecting an image of paternalism and philanthropy, the expedition required local notables and medical men to assist in extending and embedding the practice. The Russian embassy to China in 1805–6 included a vaccination arm that helped to consolidate and further extend the practice in Siberia. By a variety of means, including promotional prints (lubki) addressed to the peasantry, pressure from the nobility and direct coercion in 1811, large numbers of vaccinations were achieved. The French invasion of Russia only briefly halted the progress of the practice. After the defeat of Napoleon, Tsar Alexander visited London, congratulating Jenner in person.
2 - Fire with Fire
Chapter 2 discusses smallpox inoculation (variolation) in the late eighteenth century. The development of a light form of the procedure, which reduced its risks and costs, made it increasingly familiar in Britain and the English-speaking world from the 1760s. The practice likewise gained new credit, as a calculated risk, in elite and enlightened circles in continental Europe. Rulers like Catherine the Great promoted the practice, recognising its potential value to the state as well as the individual. In England, the emergence of specialist inoculators seeking the commercial edge, the practice of ‘general inoculations’ in villages, and the public health risks of popular recourse to the practice in urban settings brought to light cases of individuals previously infected with cowpox being resistant to smallpox and provided the technology and incentive to explore the possible advantages of inoculating cowpox as a safe alternative. In the meantime, the rapid expansion of smallpox inoculation, not least in European colonies, provided a launching pad for the global spread of vaccination in the decade after 1800.
4 - National Mobilisation
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp 94-121
Chapter 4 discusses the expansion of vaccination in the British Isles during the Napoleonic Wars. The rapid extension of the practice from 1800, involving hundreds of thousands of people, represented a mobilisation of opinion and action that paralleled the mobilisation of the nation for war. Medical men took up vaccination with alacrity, seeking to make their name and serve their communities. Members of the aristocracy and gentry, with women often in the lead, accepted it in their families and supported it in their spheres of influence. Clergymen promoted it from the pulpit. Reckless practice led to adverse outcomes that encouraged anxieties about inoculating cowpox and provided ammunition for an anti-vaccination movement in London in 1805–7. Instructed to conduct an enquiry, the College of Physicians fully endorsed vaccination in 1807. After receiving the report, Parliament broke new ground in health provision by funding a National Vaccine Establishment to distribute vaccine and have oversight of the practice.
7 - The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe
Chapter 7 discusses the spread of vaccination in northern Europe. Familiarity with smallpox inoculation, its disadvantages as well as its advantages, assured a strong constituency of interest in the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia and a generally positive response to the potential of the new prophylaxis. Medical men in Germany, well-networked professionally, conducted trials of the new prophylaxis, rapidly achieved consensus as to its value and collaborated in extending it nationally. They invested culturally in vaccination, celebrating the ‘guardian pox’ in festivals and promoting a cult of Jenner. In the Netherlands, most German states and in the kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden, rulers acted on the advice of their physicians to endorse and support vaccination. Government officials and the clergy, Catholic as well as Lutheran, needed little prompting to assist in establishing it in their spheres of influence. Vaccination put down strong roots across northern Europe, becoming compulsory in Bavaria in 1805, Denmark in 1810–11 and Sweden in 1816.
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp v-vi
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp vii-vii
12 - A New Pox for the New World
Chapter 12 discusses the severity of smallpox in the New World and the use of smallpox inoculation to control smallpox in the West Indies and suppress epidemics in Spanish America. Early attempts to introduce cowpox in Jamaica and elsewhere led to disappointment, but local initiatives began to bear fruit prior to the arrival of the Spanish Royal and Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition in 1804. This well documented expedition, in which children under vaccination were escorted to go arm-to-arm with others along the way, naturally commands centre stage. Projecting an image of professional expertise and imperial benevolence, Dr Balmis and his assistants brought vaccination to Venezuela and helped to set the practice on a firmer organisational footing in Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico. In the meantime, Salvany, his deputy, headed south through Colombia and Peru, vaccinating on an epic scale. Although Lima was already supplied with vaccine from Brazil by way of Buenos Aires, Salvany continued his work in the remote districts of Peru until his death in 1810. His assistant, Grajales, remained in harness in Chile until 1812.
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp viii-viii
13 - Oceanic Vaccine
Chapter 13 completes the study of vaccine’s encirclement of the globe by examining its introduction in Mauritius, Cape Colony and New South Wales in 1804, Indonesia in 1804–5 and the Philippines and Canton (Guangzhou) in 1805. The seeding of vaccination around the Indian Ocean, in the southern latitudes and around the South China Sea reveals a complex pattern of movements, with vaccine from India brought to Mauritius and Cape Town, with carefully packed cowpox sent directly from London to Sydney and with Mexican boys going arm-to-arm with Filipinos. The spread of vaccination around this vast region rarely led to continuity of practice, except in European enclaves, in Mauritius and parts of the Indonesia and the Philippines, where enslaved or subject populations were available to maintain the vaccine supply. Vaccination nonetheless saved lives, helped to suppress smallpox in gateway cities, laid foundations on which the practice could be rebuilt and extended and show-cased the benefits and costs of colonial medicine.
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total fat, calcium and sodium (2). The study, done by researchers at NPD Group, found that each of the last four years has shown a decline in commercial foodservice traffic among all people over the age of 18. 7th Century A.D.. – The earliest cookie-style cakes are thought to date back to 7th century Persia A.D. (now Iran), one of the first countries to cultivate sugar (luxurious cakes and pastries in large and small versions were well known in the Persian empire). By the time they’re 60 and over, however, that percentage plunges to 24.1%. Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest people, says he “eats like a 6-year-old,” meaning lots of Oreos and Cokes every day (he invests like one too). Most eaten types of ready-to-eat cookies in the U.S. 2020 Amount of ready-to-eat cookies eaten within 30 days in the U.S. 2020 Consumption of ready-to-eat cookies in the U.S. 2020 Young people ages 18 to 34 are most likely to spend more money on vacations than other age group. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European law that governs all collection and processing of personal data from individuals inside the EU.. This infographic from Bundle pinpoints what cities and states consume the most ice cream and frozen yogurt per capita. Luckily, we looked into the best chocolate chip cookie brands to see what's on the market that you'll love—and that people are already talking about. It's also found in a small number of foods including oily fish, eggs, margarine, yoghurt and fortified breakfast cereals. https://www.thespruceeats.com/alltime-favorite-cookie-recipes-304900 The National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) found that women in this age band fail to meet the recommended daily intake for several key nutrients, including calcium, folic acid and iron. 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For example, a home and garden website will typically have older users and a technology website will typically have more male users. Millennials – Demographics and Characteristics; Centennials – Newer Term. They have crisp edges, big chunks of melty chocolate, and a rich, toffee-like flavor thanks to brown butter. The survey of 1,000 Americans also revealed that 21 per cent of people say they eat upwards of 10 cookies per week, while 31 per cent of millennials say they love cookies more than alcohol. The only developing BRIC market in the top 20 is Russia, but it eats its fair share and on 5.9 kg per capita, the Russians ate more chocolate than the average American (5.5 kg) last year. As consumers age, they retire and eat at home more often. Poll finds that the average 16 to 24-year-old knows how to cook only four recipes. At least it's good for the nation's waistline… Our body makes most of our vitamin D in reaction to sunlight on our skin. So who eats the most ice cream in America? We've rounded up the most popular store-bought chocolate chip cookies and ranked them based on … It’s a good idea to have images representing your most important demographic in terms of volume and/or conversions. GDPR cookie consent in brief. Almost 10% of pizza consumption occurred at a … In Asia, chocolate hasn't traditionally been the sweet of choice, market analysis firm Euromonitor International reports. Learn how to make delicious meals that satisfy the whole family. WGB and BrandSpark collaborated for the third annual Most Trusted U.S. Food Retailers market study to identify the retailers that are capturing the highest affinity among shoppers from coast to coast. Ice cream consumption in Finland is estimated at 14.2 liters per capita annually. This age group can usually work independently in the kitchen. The point of gathering multiple focus group participants is to get as many different perspectives as possible. The percentage of senior adults over the age of 60 who will eat at least once slice of pizza today: less than 6%. The most populace nation to feature in the top 20 was the US followed by Russia, Germany and France. Thirty-three percent of polled millennials are willing to spend $5,000 or more on vacation. Published Wed, Sep 13 2017 11:31 AM EDT Updated Wed, … Age UK Advice Line 0800 678 1602. Every year, the average Swiss person eats just under 20 lbs of chocolate. Depending on the age group, pizza ranks as one of the top three leading contributors of sodium to the American diet (3,4). Conclusion I predict that 10-20 year old's will eat the Finland is known as a cold region, and most of the ice cream consumption takes place during the short summer. Make sure they have learned basic kitchen skills and moved on up on skill level … Free to call 8am – 7pm 365 days a year Find out more. For consumers of … Getting Started with Low-Fat Cooking Low-fat cooking doesn't have to skimp on flavor. 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Men's love of chocolate is on par with women's preference for the treat: A UK study by research group Mintel revealed 91% of all women admit to eating chocolate – with the men not far behind at more than 87%. Dallas came in second while the Philadelphia ranked third. Lactose is added to some boxed, canned, frozen, and prepared foods like bread, cereal, lunchmeats, salad dressings, mixes for cakes and cookies, and coffee creamers. However, people over the age of 65 are at risk of not getting enough … Young people spend more on takeaways than any other age group because they don't know how to cook. Dinner is the most popular time in the US to eat pizza. Cookies are small files which are stored on a user's computer. Please do not attempt this record unless you are above the age of 18 and trained as a professional speed eater. Nearly 45% of Americans age 20 to 39 eat fast food on any given day. Age 19-38 (in 2019) 27.48% of population 89 Million. 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Philomena Morrissey Satre Director of Diversity and Inclusion and External Strategic Partnerships, Land O'Lakes, Inc.
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Philomena serves as Director of Diversity & Inclusion and External Strategic Partnerships. She joined Land O’Lakes in June 2017, bringing more than 30 years of human resource experience in diversity and inclusion, community relations, work life and wellbeing. Before joining Land O’Lakes, she worked at Wells Fargo & Company. Her previous roles included VP of Organizational Effectiveness Development, Diversity and Inclusion; Community Outreach Consultant; and Senior HR Consultant.
Philomena has extensive experience in developing and implementing diversity strategies, including internal initiatives and community-focused pipelines. Previously, Philomena participated in a Middle East Fellows project, in partnership with Hamline University and the U.S. State Department, and traveled to the Middle East as a part of the peace and economic development project.
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Daily Jive
Interesting findings in art, technology, culture, and the ever-astonishing strangeness of the human condition. Updated (mostly) daily for years and years and years from in and around Philadelphia, PA.
Canadians are A-OK in my book. They're like Americans, but with sense and long vowels. Ever get sucker punched by a Canadian? I didn't think so. They also made this cool skateboardish segway.
Onemansafari: a nice photoblog with old found pictures.
Given enough time, anything can be made available in kit form. Here's absinthe. The professionally made stuff is supposed to taste downright nasty. I can't imaging how the bagged-specimen variety goes down.
Hey Kids: Philly Rock! A couple of unreleased studio tracks my band Puddle recorded a whiiiiile ago (early '95).
Puddle - Instant.mp3
Puddle - SorryGuys.mp3
Chris on vocals+guitar, me on bass, and a really cool guy named Rob who I've lost touch with on drums.
Treewave is a couple of musicians who uses old 8-bit computers for their backing band.
"We use two C64s live that run synthesizer software off a custom cartridge I programmed. That piano keyboard overlay that you see is an original C64 accessory. Commodore's SID sound chip is similar to an analog synthesizer and even includes a real analog filter. My software has several sound settings and includes an LFO, portamento, and filter control using paddle controllers."
May Banners: mp3
Virtual Beer Goggles (Nature)
But scientists now say that whatever effect someone expects from alcohol can be produced by simple exposure to flashes of alcohol-related words on a computer screen.
University of California researchers calculate that in large urban areas, children riding in school buses with diesel engines collectively inhale more school bus exhaust than everyone else in the city combined. (NYTimes)
Call me cynical, but I'm watching for an administration-sponsored bill attempting to declare bus exhaust as a vegatable.
Mary appears in a freeway salt stain.
The Shouting Men of Finland (utterly perplexing video)
Today is pants day. I've chosen sides, and I'm anti this guy, who features nothing, and pro this guy, who features some cool amateur bigfoot sketches.
Underpants by way of Toast
I'm always amazed at what people try to represent graphically with /,_,\, and .
How'd I miss Blogshares? How the hell is the Jive flatlining like a beached whale?
The Deliberately Concealed Garments Project. What the?! (from the ever-astounding Bifurcated Rivets)
ePodunk.com: Get the facts on any jerkwater cow-crossing you can curse through yer crooked teeth.
Ice Cream Truck Sound System Tech. "Turkey in the Straw" in screaming 8-bit digital; Repeat. All. Day. Long. Mister Softee got sick of it long ago and wrote their own tune.
(kinda related: Popsicle battle)
uppers.org: Providing a mod angle on the contemporary world since 1997
[Put your Rock Foot Forward] When you've got a camera and front row tickets, you wind up with excellent photos of musicians feet. This gallery, comprising 20 years of A-List boots, proves it.
200 Free, DRM-less mp3 downloads from Amazon!
A free selection of 80's-00's punk and new wave videos available for download at ScreenEdge Music (no pops, bothers, or registration) (courtesy of RnYxR0)
The radical right seems to be inventing their own dictionary. When I first heard about the economic 'Bush Boom', I thought it was a lefty, sarcastic indictment of the worst economic handling in modern history, but it turns out the corporate GOP power-base believes we're living in a economic Eden. Paul Krugman (NYTimes) today on how when you're talking to your friends in the hammer business, there seems to be a big future in nails.
The story is very different for the great majority of Americans, who live off their wages, not dividends or capital gains, and aren't doing well at all. Over the past three years, wage and salary income grew less than in any other postwar recovery - less than a tenth as fast as profits. But wage-earning Americans aren't part of the base.
However, if you're not part of the 'base', and want to take advantage of government initiatives, this administration may penalize you for your endorsement habits.
At least four of the two dozen or so U.S. delegates selected forthe [Inter-American Telecom Commission] meeting, sources tell TIME, have been bumped by the White Housebecause they supported John Kerry's 2004 campaign.
There's another word for this: "bribery".
Some nice free fonts at Chank!
"Where the hell is Australia anyway?"- Britney Spears, Pop Singer
A long, entertaining list of stupid quotes.
[Processing programming language] (w/ free download)
Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an open-source alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain.
Check out the exhibition of sample programs (w/code). This is especially cool.
'K' Records' Calvin Johnson, and how his label managed to avoid the corporate ogre for 25 years. (PopMatters)
Often, when a band breaks up, songwriters will reach deep into their vaults in an attempt to scratch a few more bucks out of fans who never got enough. Robert Pollard, from Guided By Voices reached even deeper, and released an album of drunken stage banter. No music necessary.
You knew it was going to happen sooner or later (cnn). Now, apparently according to neofascist Republicans such as Tom Delay, the internet is a den of sin to be shunned by law and policy researchers. I wonder if Mr. Delay's outrage extends to such other atrocities of Christian thought as "books" and "academic research"? Approaching information published anywhere, the internet included, with a critical eye is certainly wise, but Delay's attack clearly goes beyond a "don't believe everything you read" warning. His message is clear: "modern" is "evil". Free information is heresy, and tools that can't be explicitly controlled by cash-wielding special interests and their administration pawns is a moral outrage. For all of their genuflecting to "freedom" as a partisan prop for ultraconservative submission, people like Mr. Delay often have a difficult time concealing their hatred of true freedom. Thank you again, Texas, for unleashing yet another villian on the rest of us.
"And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."
Popesquatter! http://www.benedictxvi.com
Time to get that benediction shopping cart online, Rog... There are legions of guilty Catholics out there with money to burn.
The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here": A brilliant article I received in email. Thom Hartmann compares today's corporate-interest fueled policy machine with classical fascism. (Common Dreams)
Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.
Emitt Rhodes still doesn’t know what hit him. Thirty years ago, he was the new Paul McCartney, an ambitious kid who craved the perfect pop song. Then he got blindsided into submission by the heartless business of music. Now he’s just another sad guy with a boatload of talent that got buried in a black hole of depression.
6 Live Bloc Party radio sessions.
Listen to Beck's new album "Guero" (legal, streaming, entire album, NME)
(requires a reg. to Universal. they may spam you)
Kiddie Records Weekly Great Kids-themed vinyl archive
For the entire 2005 year, Basic Hip Digital Oddio will be featuring weekly stories and songs from the golden age of children's records, a period which ran from the mid 1940s into the early 1950s. This era produced a wealth of classics, headed by Capitol's Record-Readers and the RCA Victor Little Nipper series. Each one of these recordings has been carefully transferred from the original 78s (plus a few 45s) and encoded to MP3 format for you to download and enjoy.
Keroac poetry mp3s
One Brief, Scuzzy Moment - The East Villiage Art Scene in the mid 80's
Get a jump on the new White Stripes album with their first single "Blue Orchid".
A collection of Olivia Tremor Control Live, Demo, and boot recordings.
Punk Rock Picture Sleeves
As long as the music industry stays stocked with complete idiots, they'll never, ever get it. Now they're pissed off at Apple for daring to run a profitable business model with iTunes/iPod. For the past decade they've been walking around with huge targets on their heads screaming 'Pay the Middleman': just the kind of thing that technology was designed to irradicate. They can't go away soon enough.
These fundy maniacs are getting bothersome. Now they're planning an overt faith-based attack on Dems. Isn't it time to start fighting fire with fire? Why are Democrats so meek when it comes to self-defense? (NYtimes, pwd reqd)
Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.
P2P traffic is causing a global bandwidth shortage with estimates of 60-80% of packets going to swapping. Impressive.
If scientific papers sound like random techno-babble, it may be because that's exactly what they are. Two MIT students got a randomly generated piece of nonsense excepted for presentation at the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
Whoops! U.S. Corporations may have inadvertantly released a deadly flu strain.
Beans Around the World (as in a single can of globetrotting beans)
These people travel the world with a can of beans and take pictures of it at various points of interest (and non-interest)
These beans have been more places than you.
Don't get me wrong... I'm all for artistic freedom. Still, these guys had to expect that the SS would show up with notepads.
I just saw something really strange - a snow white whale swimming up the Delaware river between Trenton, NJ and Morrisville PA. It was identified as a Beluga, which is even more strange, given its Arctic habitat. First spotted in the early afternoon, it's been swimming around the same area all day. I saw it at 7, and it came up several times for a really nice view.
Found a mention here.
A Realistic Assessment of How Many 12 Year Olds I could Beat Up Before They Overtook Me (McSweeneys)
Which online music service is best? (ExtremeTech)
Intrade lets you bet on pretty much anything, including papacy elections (Italy enjoys a huge lead), the American Idol winner, Olympic hosting (Paris out front), or even the weather.
In the pope-a-thon, speculation is so intense that some watchers are attempting to gain unfair advantage in predicting the outcome.
A spy could import a listening device, or even signal people outside the Vatican by a color-coded message. Atkinson suggested using colored smoke or by flushing dye down a toilet with a discharge pipe that could be monitored elsewhere.
"Are they going to search all the cardinals to see whether someone bugged their spectacles or crucifixes?" asked Giles Ebbut, a surveillance expert with the London consultancy Jane's. "The imagination can run riot."
Jeffords: The war was about oil. Iran is teed up next.
Mother Jones has a deeper analysis.
"So, even while publicly focusing on Iran's weapons of mass destruction, key administration figures are certainly thinking in geopolitical terms about Iran's role in the global energy equation and its capacity to obstruct the global flow of petroleum. As was the case with Iraq, the White House is determined to eliminate this threat once and for all. And so, while oil may not be the administration's sole reason for going to war with Iran, it is an essential factor in the overall strategic calculation that makes war likely."
Scientists are seeking the elusive 'Moho'. Hey, who isn't?
XBox2 is going to be announced May 12.
The Pitchman, Ron Popeil (New Yorker, a few years old, but a good read)
The Pope's CIA files
Large pen spinning video collection. Can't remember if I linked this before, but it's worth checking out again. I'm working on the leigun, which would probably be most useful in a pinch.
"The Democrats invented the game, and Republicans perfected it."
Mother Jones on pork and special interest pandering
"The corporate income tax bears no relation to income—it's a bunch of special-interest provisions," says Gary Hufbauer, a fellow at the Institute for International Economics and a former tax policy analyst in the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Corporate America, he says, has gotten the message: Taxation is little more than punishment for not promoting your interests on Capitol Hill. "If you do not lobby," says Hufbauer, "you are going to get taxed."
Sony patent looks to real-life Matrix (NewScientist) Yahoo on the same.
[Cynicism-a-Go-Go!] Project Censored 2005: The top censored stories.
More jive from the Christian Taliban under the auspices of the "Constitution Restoration Act" which is anything but. (from znet)
In the worshipful words of the Conservative Caucus, this historic legislation will "RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION!", mainly by barring ANY federal court or judge from ever again reviewing "any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State, or local government, or against an officer or agent of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official or personal capacity), concerning that entity's, officer's, or agent's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government."
In other words, the bill ensures that God's divine word (and our infallible leaders' interpretation thereof) will hereafter trump all our pathetic democratic notions about freedom, law and rights -- and our courts can't say a thing. This, of course, will take "In God We Trust" to an entirely new level, because soon He (and His personally anointed political elite) will be all the legal recourse we have left.
The Republican fraud machine is in high gear this spring, mailing tens of thousands of "Physician of the Year" award solicitations to doctors who write checks for $1250 to the Republican National Committiee. Republicans confer this award with no assessment of work quality, no peer review, no patient, association, or community feedback. It is not buttressed by adherance to any empirical standard of treatment effectiveness whatsoever. It's simply bought.
In addition to the obvious ethical breach, and betrays patient trust by implying a standard of care that's entirely undeserved. Solicitations are distributed by the U.S. Postal Service, so it's quite possibly mail fraud as well.
"To actually buy your award and it's not from your peers or from your patients or from the community that you serve, it's really deceptive," said Mueller, author of "As Sick As It Gets: The Shocking Reality of America's Healthcare, A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan." "It's not being honest, it's just not right."
To see what the award process was all about, Mueller sent in his $1,250 contribution and ABC News paid for his travel to Washington for the scheduled events March 14-15, which included a tax-reform workshop as well as appearances by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and President Bush.
I wonder if they'll get "Hannitized" for outright dishonesty and breach of patient trust?
"It's like the old diploma mills," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a government watchdog group. "It's the kind of scam that we've seen congressional investigations look at when they take place in the private sector. But here, since members of Congress are doing it, we're not going to see any investigation."
Swiss Watchers (Guardian, UK) Defending the pope til death. If you want to be a member of the Swiss Guard, here's what you've need. Joining a Faction is encouraged. (from vaticanengarde)
[We're the RIAA and you're wrong] If you had fun getting lectured on morality by the GOP over the past few years, you're going to love what's coming up next: Free Ethics 101 courtesy of the music industry!
The World is Flat (NYTimes)
[Good help is getting hard to find] Watch as this inept waiter screws up Pat Buchannan's salad order. It also appears that no ground pepper was offered. (vid)
The curious case of Sidd Finch (NYTimes)
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Institutional Recognition and Beyond: IPO Edge Presents 2nd SPAC Roundtable
Full Article 30 minutes read
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Chris Weekes, Tim Manning, and Zach Fisher of Cowen Inc.
By John Jannarone
Not long ago, the special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, was a fledgling vehicle considered a second-rate path to the public markets. But in the last several years, issuance of SPAC IPOs has exploded, rivaling major asset classes and accounting for a quarter of U.S. IPO volume. SPACs, also known as “blank check” companies because they raise cash to find targets, have also completed deals with dozens of large, high-quality companies and traded very well upon listing.
For many private-equity firms in particular, a SPAC transaction is frequently more appealing than a regular-way IPO or a private sale. SPACs have become part of the conversation among bankers with clients who want to sell or go public.
In short, SPACs have become a recognized institutional product.
What makes a good SPAC sponsor? What does an investment bank need to do to ensure success? And what are the limitations on SPACs in terms of size and target companies?
IPO Edge addressed these questions at its second SPAC Roundtable, Institutional Recognition and Beyond, featuring three senior professionals from Cowen Inc., all of whom specialize in SPACs. They include Tim Manning, Managing Director, Special Situations; Christopher Weekes, Managing Director, Capital Markets; and Zach Fisher, Managing Director, Investment Banking.
Cowen has worked on SPAC transactions including the following recent deals:
Monocle Acquisition Corp. (tickers: MNCL, MNCLU, MNCLW)
Cowen Lead Bookrunner on $175 million IPO in February 2019. Announced business combination with AerSale Corp, a leading integrated, global provider of aviation aftermarket products and services, on December 9, 2019, with an enterprise value of $430 million. The transaction is expected to close in Q1 2020.
VectoIQ Acquisition Corp. (tickers: VTIQ, VTIQU, VTIQW)
Cowen Lead Bookrunner on $230 million IPO in May 2018. VectoIQ is focused on automotive mobility and technology. VectoIQ is currently seeking a business combination target.
Constellation Alpha Capital Corp. (tickers: CNAC, CNACU, CNACW, CNACR)
Cowen Lead Bookrunner for $145 million IPO in 2017. Constellation closed its business combination with DermTech, Inc. (DMTK), a molecular genomics company with a focus on non-invasive diagnostic tests for skin disease, in August 2019 and concurrently raised a $25 million PIPE with high-quality healthcare investors. The stock is currently trading at ~$14.00.
ConvergeOne (tickers: CVON, CVONU, CVONW)
Cowen served as financial advisor to Forum Merger Corporation, as placement agent on a $144 million PIPE and as dealer manager to ConvergeOne on a post-close warrant tender offer. ConvergeOne is a leading global IT services provider of collaboration and technology solutions who completed a merger with Forum Merger Corporation (Nasdaq: FMCI) on February 20, 2018, at an enterprise value of $1.2 billion, resulting in Nasdaq-listed public company ConvergeOne.
The complete interviews with each of the roundtable participants can be found below.
Chris Weekes, Managing Director, Capital Markets
Much of the success of SPAC transactions is due to a watershed structural change: the separation of the vote and the ability to redeem shares for cash, which allows virtually all deals to be approved. However, it remains critical to raise enough capital for a business to achieve a significant free float, be attractive to investors and meet various exchange requirements. Often times, that requires sponsors and their advisors to succeed in retaining or replacing certain investors with other longer-term holders who want to own the target company. That undertaking, known as the de-SPAC process, is the most critical part of a SPAC’s lifecycle, according to Chris Weekes, a Managing Director in Cowen’s Capital Markets Group. Mr. Weekes added that as SPACs continue to evolve, they have become part of the conversation with most investment bankers with clients who want to sell or go public. He also said that sponsors should look for investment banks, like Cowen, that offer value throughout the process, from the IPO to the search for a target to post-deal support with knowledgeable research analysts. The full interview is below:
IPO Edge: SPACs have come a long way, especially in the last couple of years. What has led to the recent success?
Mr. Weekes: A few things in my opinion: The quality of the sponsors has improved, the average enterprise value of SPAC mergers has increased, recent strong stock performance and some other structural elements that have changed.
The most notable structural change has been the bifurcation of the vote and the redemption right. In the earlier SPACs, the vote and the redemption right were tied to each other so many deals struggled to receive approval. Before they were separated, investors could amass large positions and impact the outcome of a potential merger. This doesn’t exist anymore.
Now, you can vote “yes” to approve a deal even if you want to redeem your shares for cash. You can also hold onto your warrant, which will only have value if a deal closes. As a result, the vote has become perfunctory. Virtually everyone votes “yes.” Most mergers go forward.
IPO Edge: Is the bifurcated structure healthy for the market?
Mr. Weekes: Yes, but it doesn’t solve everything. While deals almost always get approved, there is still the need to retain, replace or raise additional capital for the business – this is called the de-SPAC process. The investors in the SPAC IPO don’t always end up being natural holders of the equity in the pro-forma business. It all depends on what the SPAC ends up acquiring and if that company fits the investment thesis of the SPAC investor. If there isn’t alignment, the SPAC and the target will need to market the transaction similarly to a regular way IPO. In order to raise equity capital and to solve for appropriate free float and other exchange-related requirements, the company will market the transaction to equity investors. They will go on a roadshow, market the story and sell stock.
IPO Edge: Are higher-quality participants part of the story?
Mr. Weekes: The entire ecosystem has matured. On the sell-side, there are more underwriters and more advisors resulting in more developed sell-side support. SPAC mergers have become a regular part of the discussion for most investment bankers looking to advise clients on selling or going public. SPACs seem to have become part of the fabric of many institutions.
On the sponsor side, the quality has improved for a number of reasons. One, the amount of assets held in private equity today has exploded beyond what we’ve ever seen. They need multiple exit or liquidity vehicles. A sale to a strategic buyer is one. A traditional IPO is another. A private equity trade or recap is a third. But the private equity market has a finite life for each portfolio company they own. SPACs have become the fourth normal course opportunity for an exit or alternative path to future liquidity.
If you peel back the onion on the regular-way IPO market, there are really only two sectors that have consistently had access to the public markets: TMT, specifically software, and healthcare, specifically life-sciences. In 2019, there were 70 healthcare IPOs, 42 TMT IPOs and 59 SPAC IPOs. That is really incredible when you think about it.
IPO Edge: Should we look at success on the front and back end as connected or separate processes?
Mr. Weekes: The front end has become somewhat commoditized. After all, the SPAC unit is just a bond-like security with a low-risk return over a certain period. When considering sponsoring a SPAC though, sponsors should be critiquing the capabilities of their underwriter. Hiring an underwriter that has capabilities that apply to all stages in the life of the SPAC from formation to post-close public company is important with regard to maximizing return on gross-spread dollars. There can be a disservice to issuers when the underwriter isn’t aligned with all facets of the organization from investment banking, capital markets, research, sales and trading. Candidly, there are too many underwriters today that raise the IPO money and simply walk away because they have a contract and no ability to continue to support the sponsor.
IPO Edge: What’s the right amount of cash to raise in a SPAC IPO?
Mr. Weekes: When sponsors look to determine what size SPAC they want to issue, we advise to reverse into what we think the size of the target universe is. These days, the average enterprise value to SPAC IPO proceeds is about 3.5 times. It’s simply an exercise in determining the dilutive impact of the sponsor shares to the merger. If you have a $200 million SPAC and you find a business to buy that is $200 million of enterprise value, your $50 million of sponsor shares will be quite dilutive. Of course, there are ways in which SPAC sponsor can mitigate this issue.
On size, one of the challenges with the very large SPAC IPOs is that the universe of targets shrinks as you get larger. That said, we have witnessed an increase in the size of the mergers in recent deals.
The average SPAC size is approximately $225 million. A $200 million SPAC can merge with a $750 million company with ease, but it can also merge with a $2 billion company because you can always flex up with more capital through a PIPE (private investment in public equity), as we’ve seen many times in recent deals.
IPO Edge: What’s the major risk to the SPAC market remaining robust?
Mr. Weekes: The biggest risk to the SPAC issuance market is the market itself – as in the stock market. We’ve had consistent gains for the last 10 years in a very low interest-rate environment.
Where SPACs play a really important role is between two goal posts of private-market multiples and public-market multiples. Take the defense sector for example: Private multiples have been trading in the high single-digits while the public-market multiples are closer to 12x to 13x range. The opportunity is somewhere in the middle. You offer a higher multiple than a private trade but a discount to the public market, so it looks like an IPO priced to trade higher.
To the extent that there’s a contraction in that arbitrage, it could impact SPACs negatively.
IPO Edge: What kind of SPACs have performed best? Is there any common denominator?
Mr. Weekes: Size matters. Many small or microcap companies, both via SPAC merger and regular-way IPO, have struggled in the aftermarket. They’re not indexed, there’s little research, and minimal float.
The ability to properly capitalize companies so they can come out of the gate on the right footing is incredibly important.
At Cowen, we focus intensely on optimizing the de-SPAC process. We help our clients market the story to investors, we deploy the relevant industry bankers, capital markets personnel and salesforce early in the process to help clients both institutional and corporate form a view. Research analysts conduct independent due diligence and are available for investor education. This advice is critical in the de-SPAC process.
IPO Edge: Is there a limit on how big a SPAC IPO can get?
Mr. Weekes: There’s likely a limit to the size of the SPAC itself because the dilution from the founder shares is based on the size of the SPAC IPO.
Let’s assume a $1 billion enterprise value for the target. A $200 million SPAC with 20% founder shares results in $50 million of equity to the sponsor. If you did the same deal with a $400 million SPAC, the dilution would be ~$100 million.
It’s a balance between capital and associated dilution. There is absolutely a place in the world for SPACs of either size, largely driven by the relative size of the target company.
If you’re a $400 million IPO or greater, you’re either a proven team that’s done it before or you are affiliated with a large asset manager who is part of your sponsor group. Those $400+ million SPACs are likely targeting a $2+ billion deal. There are simply fewer companies in the world with that size.
IPO Edge: What are some of the hang-ups that caused problems for SPAC deals?
Mr. Weekes: Size, sector, comps etc. all impact the success of a deal. For example, if you don’t have a clear comparable in the public market, investors might have a tough time analyzing the company. If you fall in between sectors, it can take more time explaining the story to the market. The performance of the comps and of the company itself during the de-SPAC process is critical too. Just like a regular-way IPO, if your closest comparable stock price declines 25% that doesn’t help. If the company you’re merging with comes up short on projections that’s not good.
IPO Edge: What role does sell-side research play and how does Cowen look at it?
Mr. Weekes: Most banks have pulled away from stock picking and a thoughtful approach to research and it’s become commoditized. This is not new – small cap stocks haven’t garnered the right attention in the market dating back to earlier in the decade with Sarbanes Oxley, Dodd Frank and other market structure changes (e.g. decimalization). Despite some limitations, we can have research analysts in conversations with our sponsors. At Cowen, research analysts conduct independent due diligence early in the process. We use capital markets people, bankers and research analysts to help analyze and shape a company’s story to apply to the public markets. The analysts still can’t go on the road, but they are available to educate investors.
Cowen has been investing significantly in our research platform while many banks have been pulling back. We have more than 50 senior publishing analysts covering more than 900 stocks.
IPO Edge: Does research become a big selling point when you talk to IPO sponsors about becoming their advisors? What else is important?
Mr. Weekes: Our clients that look across the Cowen platform can readily see where the value is. Is there value in having an institutionally relevant analyst? Is there value in trading very large secondary-market trading volume? Of course. We have built our SPAC business with the client in mind. We have a partnership model where we take a holistic approach to everything we do and that must include alignment in the industry and the people.
As a SPAC underwriter and advisor, we’re not a high-volume shop because we’ve elected not to be a high-volume shop. If you come to us and you’re looking for targets that are outside of the industries where we focus, we may not be your best partner.
We think about the sector of the target universe. Then we think about whether that universe is ripe with opportunity. And we also want to make sure a client is the right sponsor – a sponsor who has the ability to source deals, has deep networks, and experience either in a C-suite or as an asset manager with plenty of exposure to transactions. We also want to partner with good people. Our view is that we will be partners for the long-term and we want to enjoy the relationship. That is a key part of our sustainability.
IPO Edge: Are there any specific advantages to a SPAC versus a regular-way IPO you’d highlight?
Mr. Weekes: One is disclosure. A SPAC transaction allows for forward-looking projections to be publicly disclosed by the target. This is a differentiator since traditional IPOs typically rely on LTM (last twelve months trailing) and analyst estimates. It’s not always easy to factor in future performance in regular-way IPOs
If a company is acquisitive, the forward-looking projections give you the chance to include the pro forma numbers in the forecasts.
Additionally, SPACs have offered the ability for sellers to take more secondary capital off the table.
Another unique feature of a SPAC transaction is that valuation is fixed. The SPAC is not terribly sensitive to what the valuation is as long as it clears the public market. Ultimately, the seller (the target) and the buyer (the SPAC) are both looking for the highest valuation possible. You have to sell as much stock as you can to the market and ultimately, it’s the market that will determine what the right valuation is.
IPO Edge: How do SPAC IPOs fit into the broader IPO market?
Mr. Weekes: SPACs now represent a large percentage of the overall IPO market. More than 20% in the last three years running. It’s staggering. At the same time, we have seen a significant increase in the number and the size of SPAC mergers so the whole market has really evolved.
Mr. Weekes is a Managing Director in the Capital Markets Group, based in New York. He has over 18 years of experience in investment banking, primarily in equity capital markets. Mr. Weekes focuses on capital solutions for public and private companies and has worked on a broad range of private and public equity and equity-linked transactions including IPOs, follow-ons, private placements and convertibles. He also manages relationships with a wide group of equity and equity-linked investors globally. Mr. Weekes is also Co-Head of Cowen’s Specialty Purpose Acquisition (“SPAC”) business. In this capacity, he focuses on underwriting SPAC IPOs as well as advising SPAC sponsors and target companies on merging with a SPAC.
Mr. Weekes joined Cowen in 2013 as part of the acquisition of Dahlman Rose & Company. Prior to Dahlman Rose, he was a Managing Director in the Equites Group at Madison Williams & Co., a boutique investment bank. Before joining Madison Williams, Mr. Weekes worked in the US Equities Group for CIBC World Markets which was acquired by Oppenheimer in 2007. Contact: info@cowen.com
Tim Manning, Managing Director, Special Situations
Cowen is far and away the leader in secondary-market trading of SPAC shares, giving it a unique window into the so-called de-SPAC process. That is a critical advantage to both investors and sponsors alike. That’s according to Tim Manning, Managing Director in the Special Situations Group at Cowen. He also explained that SPAC IPOs have become highly popular among fixed-income and risk-arbitrage investors, especially as more banks offer leverage to investors buying SPACs. He ultimately sees SPACs continuing to thrive as more fundamental investors take interest in the product – not only as sellers of companies but as investors in various stages of the SPAC process. The full interview is below:
IPO Edge: We’ve generally seen companies that are profitable go public with a SPAC. Can a growth company that’s loss-making use a SPAC?
Mr. Manning: Absolutely. With an IPO you can’t use forward projections. With a SPAC, you can because it’s a merger. The use of forward projections helps tell a trickier story, so it can help. You can’t publish 2023 forecasts with an IPO. In fact, there are instances of companies that won’t be profitable for a couple of years and have gone the SPAC route. Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a good example. That’s a story based on 2023 forecasts that has traded very well in the public markets.
It can also allow you to take a more highly-levered company public than you could with an IPO.
IPO Edge: Who are the natural buyers of SPAC IPOs?
Mr. Manning: The amount of capital that’s chasing yield above risk-free treasuries is enormous. A lot of investors look at SPACs as a cash-management tool to find yield on a risk-free basis.
Since SPACs hold cash in a trust and investors always have the option to redeem, you’re introducing a risk-free rate of return. That brings in a lot of credit and risk-arbitrage investors, who make up the lion’s share of the front end (the SPAC IPO itself). The back end, the de-SPAC component I mentioned earlier, becomes the most critical part of the process. Additionally, more traditional equity investors have started to invest in SPACs based on a few reasons: (a) it’s a cash management tool and (b) there is a pre-existing relationship with the sponsor team, or they like to optionality to see a deal earlier than they might otherwise.
IPO Edge: What kind of role does Cowen play in the market for SPACs after they begin trading?
Mr. Manning: Cowen is a very large part of the secondary market in SPACs. Our team has averaged more than 30% market share in secondary-market trading for a long time.
IPO Edge: What has prompted such an interest in SPAC trading?
Mr. Manning: We’ve been in a low interest-rate environment for a long time, fueling a demand for yield. SPACs are a yield-oriented product that includes equity upside that can be levered. As this space has gotten bigger – 4 years ago there was $5+ billion outstanding in SPACs, now we’re north of $20 billion – funds can put real money to work.
Something very appealing about SPACs is the ability to be paid to own an equity option via the warrant when you buy units at a discount to NAV. You get equity upside and a risk-free return.
It’s the only market like that. With a convertible bond or an option you pay a premium.
IPO Edge: What are the advantages of a SPAC vs. a regular-way IPO?
Mr. Manning: As an asset owner, you can take more money off the table in a SPAC merger. We’ve seen examples where a company looked at a regular-way IPO and they could only take $50 million off the table but with a SPAC they could take $200 million off the table and return that to their LPs.
There’s also more pricing certainty. If you know you may have to raise money in a PIPE, you can have that priced before announcing publicly. With an IPO, the price can change dramatically in the last few days.
Another advantage is speed to market. From the time a company talks to a SPAC, a deal can be done in as little as three or four months. It’s six to eight months for regular-way IPOs.
IPO Edge: What’s driving the expansion of the SPAC market and how big can it get?
Mr. Manning: It remains to be seen how big SPACs can get, but there are plenty of investors looking for low risk/high return ideas. Plenty of private equity or family-owned companies would prefer a faster way to come public, more price certainty, and the ability to take more cash off the table upfront. Especially for any company with a story that needs to be told, SPACs are the ideal option. We’re also seeing more and more top-tier sponsors entering the space so I think we will see significant growth in SPACs in the coming years.
We’ve seen private equity-type firms come in on the investor side, not just selling companies to SPACs. More blue-chip investors have come into provide cash through PIPEs.
If you go back 10 years ago, the long-only investor base did not buy SPACs until after the deal closed. That has now changed, where they will come in and buy in the secondary or structure PIPEs. We’ve seen large family offices enter the space as well.
IPO Edge: Are institutional investors able to buy SPACs with leverage to amplify returns?
Mr. Manning: Yes. At this point the European banks are the largest providers of margin on SPACs, but we’re starting to see the U.S. banks getting involved and I expect that trend to continue as they realize the safety in lending on this product. Cowen also provides a swap product to provide leverage to institutional investors.
IPO Edge: What do investors like most about SPAC IPOs?
Mr. Manning: In the current bull market, 90%+ of SPACs are completing acquisitions. When you include the warrant coverage, it’s not uncommon to have deals that trade up 15-20%+. Through SPAC IPOs, investors can achieve equity like upside with T-bill like risk to the downside.
Mr. Manning joined Cowen in 2016, serving as a Managing Director, helping spearhead Cowen’s best-in-class Special Situations business as well as working as a liaison to ECM/Banking on the SPAC product. Mr. Manning spent over 14 years at CRT Capital Group LLC, helping to build their Special Situation and Reorg Equity business. Mr. Manning served in various senior roles at CRT, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Equity Sales-Trading for the NYC region. Mr. Manning holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Western Connecticut State University. Contact: info@cowen.com
Zach Fisher, Managing Director, TMT Investment Banking
SPACs now account for approximately one fourth of the entire U.S. IPO market, a result of higher-quality participants, from investment banks to private-equity firms, giving the product validation. A growing percentage of these SPACs have affiliation with an alternative asset manager. Zach Fisher, a Managing Director in the TMT Investment Banking Group at Cowen explained why that may be. Mr. Fisher also pointed out that SPACs allow owners of the selling company to take a significant amount of cash off the table, which can have appeal in a decade-old bull market. The full interview is below:
IPO Edge: What makes a good target?
Mr. Fisher: Being public company-ready, having audited financials, being of the appropriate size, having a clear comp set, having a good management team, and a clear use of proceeds.
IPO Edge: What’s driving the success of SPACs?
Mr. Fisher: First, high-quality targets are going public through SPAC mergers. In addition, you’ve had an increase in the quality and quantity of all other market participants: investment banks, SPAC sponsors, PE sellers and fundamental equity institutions who invest in the pro forma public companies.
More private company owners have become comfortable with a SPAC merger as a way to access public markets. If your company is in an industry where public valuation multiples are attractive relative to other alternatives, then SPACs can be a very attractive way to access those multiples.
IPO Edge: What should a SPAC sponsor look for in an investment bank?
Mr. Fisher: We put ourselves in a SPAC sponsor’s shoes and attempt to assess the total return provided to the sponsor throughout the life of the SPAC for the gross spread dollars. Although the term of the SPAC is limited, a SPAC goes through many different phases from IPO to the closing of a business combination … and beyond. At Cowen, we try to take a holistic approach to the value we provide to our sponsor partners throughout the life of the SPAC.
Following the IPO, the sole mission of the SPAC sponsor is to source the best merger target possible. At Cowen, we have over 200 investment bankers across five industry verticals: healthcare, technology, consumer, industrial, and energy. In addition, we have a meaningful private equity and family office coverage practice. We deploy all of our bankers – and the entire firm really – to help source that target.
Additionally, we deploy our capital markets team to evaluate the public market viability of a target. Research analysts conduct independent due diligence on target companies. Our equity research team, now over 50 publishing analysts covering over 900 public companies, can also help educate from fundamental investors during the de-SPAC roadshow process.
As a leading IPO bookrunner, generating new fundamental equity demand from new investors where we have longstanding relationships is something we do as part of our everyday business. We apply the same playbook and commitment from capital markets, sales distribution and research to our SPAC merger engagements.
Post-close, we can continue to support the company in the public markets via research coverage, corporate access, trading / market making, as well as ongoing M&A and capital markets advisory services. In totality, we hope that’s how we earn our gross spread.
IPO Edge: Are you selective in the clients you choose?
Mr. Fisher: Yes. There’s a reason why we aren’t the highest-volume underwriter. We never have been and I don’t believe we ever want to be. There are underwriters who collect the 2% upfront gross spread on the IPO and hope for the best on the back-end with little support or engagement along the way. That approach is conducive to leading the league tables in SPAC IPO issuance, but that’s not our focus here at Cowen. A traditional IPO consists of an offering and then the transaction is complete. Our view is that while the SPAC IPO gets you through the first inning of the game, you still have eight more innings to play. Some firms who underwrite SPACs just don’t have the infrastructure to be as supportive during the “middle innings” and back-end.
Cowen also doesn’t cover all industries. If we don’t line up well from an investment banking, research and capital markets perspective with the industry focus of the SPAC, Cowen is likely not the best underwriting partner. Our focus continues to be on achieving successful merger outcomes for our SPAC sponsor partners who line up with Cowen’s industry DNA.
IPO Edge: What else is important to know about a SPAC vs. a regular-way IPO?
Mr. Fisher: In a regular-way IPO, it’s very often 100% primary. SPAC mergers can have a significant secondary percentage.
That’s important if you think about what inning we are in of this bull market. For an issuer to achieve secondary liquidity on the traditional IPO path, it’s typically a two-step process: IPO, all primary, followed by a secondary at some point down the road. In a SPAC merger, you can condense this two-step process into one. In this market, partial de-risking on the first transaction rather than waiting for a secondary offering is currently attractive to private company shareholders.
IPO Edge: How do you feel about helping SPACs find targets when you weren’t already with them at the IPO?
Mr. Fisher: SPACs who have completed an IPO with another underwriter do approach us seeking assistance on deal sourcing, which is completely natural. Once a SPAC completes its IPO, the sponsor team can and should reach out to every potential deal source seeking a merger target. Cowen, as I’m sure other SPAC underwriters do, prioritizes its deal flow for those SPAC partners for whom it has been IPO underwriter.
As previously mentioned, we are selective on the total number of sponsor teams we underwrite, especially in any one particular sector. Each SPAC process from IPO to completion is very consuming. To give each SPAC sponsor team the attention they deserve, it takes a village. We have to be thoughtful about how we commit that village.
IPO Edge: Warrants are dilutive. Do you see a trend of warrants being redeemed early to reduce dilution?
Mr. Fisher: There are differing views in the market regarding the perceived overhang of those warrants. In some cases, you’ll have PIPE investors require the warrants to be fully or partially tendered at the close of the merger with some of the cash proceeds raised in the transaction.
IPO Edge: Occasionally SPACs have affiliations with asset managers. Why is that a smart strategy?
Mr. Fisher: Roughly one in five SPACs issued last year has been affiliated with an alternative asset manager. We certainly understand the appeal to potential targets, as a SPAC with a connection to a committed capital source can increase perceived certainty on the back-end.
You might ask, why are funds that are historically structured to be private investors sponsoring these vehicles?
Answer #1 is speed to market / raise capital: When compared to a traditional committed capital raise, a SPAC can be raised in just three months versus what could be a year plus in traditional committed capital raise.
Answer #2 is time to realization: A SPAC sponsor closes one deal and receives equity, before any capital appreciation, equal to 20% of the SPAC’s shares outstanding with an illustrative 36-month realization timeframe from SPAC IPO to lock-up expiration. If you compare that with a carried interest model and European waterfall economics in a traditional committed PE fund, it’s relatively attractive.
Mr. Fisher is a Managing Director in Cowen’s TMT investment banking team and is also Co-Head of Cowen’s SPAC business. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Fisher joined Cowen from Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, where he was a Managing Director focused on the technology and media sectors. Previously, he worked at ABN AMRO in the mergers and acquisitions group and ING Barings Furman Selz in the media & entertainment investment banking group. Mr. Fisher holds a BS in finance from Lehigh University. Contact: info@cowen.com
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With the election of President Trump in November 2016, the fate of a 2012 Obama administration immigration program known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) hangs in limbo. DACA allows a particular group of undocumented minor immigrants, the Dreamers, to obtain a two-year renewable period of deferred action from deportation. DACA also allows Dreamers to get a work permit during the two-year period or attend school. Eligibility for DACA requires that the recipient meets certain conditions outlined in DACA and completes the DACA application process.
One of Trump’s highly popular campaign promises was to “‘immediately terminate’” DACA, which would impact over 750,000 DACA recipients. However, once in office, Trump announced he was leaving DACA in place, pending review. This move by Trump disappointed many of his supporters who trusted him to honor his immigration campaign pledge to eliminate DACA.
As the destiny of DACA remains unclear, on June 29, 2017, a group of 10 state attorneys general sent a letter to Trump demanding he rescinds DACA and stops renewing or issuing new DACA permits. The 10-state coalition includes attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and the governor of Idaho.
If Trump does not comply with the request by Sept. 5, the attorney generals will amend an ongoing lawsuit in Texas District Court to include the DACA program in its entirety. The Trump administration would then be forced to either defend or abandon DACA.
The 10 attorneys general argue that the Obama administration exceeded its legal authority when enacting DACA, effectively usurping congressional authority, Texas Attorney Ken Paxton, leader of the 10-state coalition, stated in a letter to foxnews.com that Obama enacted DACA after repeatedly failing to get Congress to pass the DREAM Act. “President Obama bypassed Congress and unilaterally hatched DACA,” wrote Paxton in his letter. Paxton said that bypass violated the separation of powers inherent in our constitutional system.
In response, on July 21, 2017, a group of 20 state attorneys general, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, sent a letter to Trump urging him to keep DACA in place. The letter disputes the legal challenges of the DACA program relied on by the opposition. The attorneys general also cite the family ties the DACA recipients maintain and the contributions they have made to their local communities and economies.
The 20 attorneys general who signed the pro-DACA letter includes those from California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington state.
The letter appeals to a sentiment expressed by Trump that Dreamers should feel safe. “They shouldn’t be very worried. I do have a very big heart. We are going to take care of everybody,” he stated at a Feb. 16 Presidential news conference.
Trump’s mixed messages about DACA have confused both supporters and opponents of DACA. On June 15, 2017, John Kelly, then Homeland Security Secretary, in conjunction with a memorandum revoking DAPA, another Obama immigration program, specifically noted that DACA “will remain in effect.” That statement gave immigrants hope that Trump was going to maintain DACA as a viable immigration program. However, after making that pronouncement, Homeland Security officials backtracked and said the statement was not an indication DACA was a secure program.
With the Sept. 5 deadline looming, on July 20, 2017, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, held a joint press conference expressing their support of DACA. Graham defended DACA based on the hard work and contributions the Dreamers bring to the United States. Graham urged Trump and the Republican Party to take those factors into consideration when deciding the fate of DACA. “The moment of reckoning coming. When they right the history of these times I am going to be with these kids,” said Graham.
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The Night I Beat Up Johnny Polovoy
There was a popular song by Jimmy Dean in the early 60s named "Big John." We had a "Big John" in our neighborhood: Johnny Polovoy. He wasn't six foot six. But he surely weighed 245. And it was all muscle.
One night Dennis Werner and I went to the ball field by 159th Street looking for the rest of our friends. We found Tony Induisi laying on the infield between home plate and the pitcher's mound. I should say we "heard" Tony. Johnny Polovoy was sitting on top of him. Tony was screaming bloody murder.
Dennis yelled, "leave him alone!"
Johnny just laughed and seemed to be contemplating which hand to hit Tony with first. He never got the chance. I pushed him off of Tony.
Johnny rolled over on his back and promptly passed out. He was so drunk I could have pushed him off Tony with one finger.
After I got home that night, my brother Joe gave me a look I had never seen before and said, "I heard you beat up Johnny Polovoy."
I didn't know what to say. I briefly basked in the glory of the new-found respect my older brother had for me. But then I got to thinking: Johnny is gonna want a rematch!
I stayed home for three days feigning the stomach ache I knew I would have after Johnny got through with me. Finally, I ventured outside. And who was the first person I ran into? Johnny Polovoy!
"Hail Mary, full of grace..." –– that's Catholic lingo for "Help me, Mary!"
My mind says "run!" But my feet won't move. Johnny draws closer to me.
"Our Father who art in heaven..." –– that's Catholic lingo for "Extreme Unction!"
I don't remember much after that. I may have pleaded for mercy, cried, begged, crawled –– I don't know.
But I know Johnny never laid a hand on me. He just smiled and walked right past me. I could have hugged him. But then he surely would have hit me! Big Bad John!
Helenisready said...
I love this story. I wonder why Johnny was beating up on Tony.
Jerry Morris said...
Johnny Polovoy was drunk. He was just having some fun.
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ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: TEDxBeirut – Gilbert Doumit – Political Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneur, consultant and civil society activist
Gilbert is an entrepreneur, management consultant, reformist, and a civil society activist with a vision to influence the Arab World towards more innovative, inclusive and participatory governance systems and communities.
Gilbert is a founder and Managing Partner of BRD/I Group; an Arab social business assisting government institutions, political parties, civil society and international organizations in policy innovation, management reform and leadership development.
Gilbert has left his mark on a number of reform issues including education, elections, youth policies, women empowerment, decentralization, and illicit wealth reform in the last decade…
He is also a founding member of Injaz — Lebanon, Nahwa el Muwatiniya, Khalass! Anti-civil war campaign, and the Lebanese Network for Access to information. In the same spirit of his vision, Gilbert is the founder or a founding member of many associations, NGOs, or groups: Beyond Consulting and Training, Injaz Lebanon, Nahwa Al-Muwatiniya.
In 2009, Gilbert was the General Coordinator of the Lebanese Parliamentary Elections Monitoring Operation.
A Founding Partner and a Management Consultant at Beyond Consulting and Training, Gilbert facilitates the organizational and cultural development of local and multinational companies throughout Lebanon and the Middle East. Beyond is a sister company of Effiqual/Designed Learning Canada. (www.beyondct.com).
Gilbert holds a BS. in Business Administration, a BA. in Social Community Organization and an MBA from ESA. He is a 2008 Yale World Fellow and a member of the Yale Arab Alumni.
He has been a presenter at a number of conferences with the Yale University, World Bank, ESCWA, UNESCO, Aspen Institute, BRISMES, European University Institute and universities around the world. Gilbert has also designed Lebanon’s first university course on “Active Citizenship” and “Social Entrepreneurship.”
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Allyson Ezell is relatively new to the music scene and has never been one for linear progressions. Originally born in the heart of the American Midwest, Iowa, Ezell spent most of her time zigzagging through cities, jobs, love and loss. Her road to music making hasn’t been a direct one.
Having spent several years in Paris perfecting her brand of aerodynamic pop, 2014 marks the creation of a new EP, elaborated together with American producer Brandon Darner (Imagine Dragons) and to be released early 2015.
The first single from her forthcoming EP is Landmine, which sees Ezell’s harmonic-filled style bear the influence of Jazz (she picked up a lot of her signature tricks from her father, a blues guitarist) and prog rock, two genres known to embrace sprawl.
Allyson Ezell is a musician and songwriter in total command of her powers. Think Annie Lennox and Shakespeares Sister meets St Vincent and Paloma Faith but in a 21st century blend of optimism, nostalgia and vintage beats.
Landmine is a spacious track allowing room for synthesizers and alluring vocals to contain more than regular accompaniment – where the voice is used as an instrument. Defining percussion, synths and drumbeat are both stark and open and create an eclectic backdrop to Ezell’s vocals.
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Home » Africa » Cuban worker in Guinea, Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, dies from cerebral malaria
Cuban worker in Guinea, Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, dies from cerebral malaria
by Robert Herriman
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
A member of the Medical Brigade team from Cuba who went to West Africa to fight Ebola, died from complications of cerebral malaria, according to a Cuban News Agency report today.
60-year-old economist, Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, died Monday from the serious parasitic disease, cerebral malaria from a Plasmodium falciparum infection. Rodriguez arrived in Guinea on Oct. 6 as part of a vanguard team of the medical brigade sent to battle Ebola.
The report states, as an economist with the medical brigade, Rodriguez never had any contacts with any Ebola treatment centers or with patients of that disease; however, he was submitted to two Ebola diagnostic tests whose results were negative.
Malaria is considered the most important parasitic disease affecting humans. The female Anopheles mosquito serves as the vector for the parasite.
The protozoan parasite belongs from the genus Plasmodium. There are many species of Plasmodium that infect vertebrates, but only 4 that are important to humans. The four species are: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale.
In addition, there has been some documented cases of people getting simian malaria (P. knowlesi).
The disease may manifest itself after an incubation of days to months. Once the parasites build up in the blood, symptoms are non-specific; fever, chills, body aches, diarrhea and vomiting. At this point the only way to confirm is finding the parasites in blood. These early stages resemble many other febrile diseases.
Paroxysms (due to rupture and release of the parasite and metabolic products into the system), happen every 48-72 hours depending on the species.
There is a cold stage which leads to teeth chattering, shaking chills followed by a hot stage (fever) where temperatures may reach 106°F. Convulsions may develop particularly in children.
Untreated P. falciparum (the life-threatening species) can lead to severe malaria. Severe malaria is characterized by cerebral malaria, severe anemia, renal filure (black water fever), respiratory distress and bleeding disorders and shock.
Prompt treatment for falciparum malaria is essential cause death from cerebral complications may occur.
Cerebral malaria is the most severe neurological complication of infection with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. It is a clinical syndrome characterized by coma ( This is thought to be causes by parasitized red blood cells (pRBCs) sequestered in cerebral micro-circulation) and asexual forms of the parasite on peripheral blood smears. Mortality is high and some surviving patients sustain brain injury which manifest as long-term neuro-cognitive impairments.
In adults, cerebral malaria is part of a multi-organ disease.
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Shared Values: Israel and Canadian Apartheid
Semantics and Apartheid
by Kim Petersen
In Canada, support for Zionism and Israeli oppression of Palestinians is deeply entrenched in the political duopoly. Liberal prime minister Paul Martin even proclaimed, “Israel’s values are Canada’s values,” as if Canada had to look elsewhere to determine its own values.
Layton also has problems with IAW.
Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper tried to one-up his predecessor by boasting that only his party was a “steadfast friend” of Israel. Consequently, some advocates of social justice for Palestinians have pinned their hopes on Canada’s “third” party, the social-capitalist New Democratic Party (NDP).
In the build up to Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), many parliamentarians strode forward to denounce IAW. Yesterday, I received a formulaic response from Jack Layton – leader of the NDP.
Of Palestine-Israel, he wrote,
New Democrats have long been vocal and passionate advocates for a peaceful end to the Israel-Palestine conflict. We have consistently said that Canada can play a positive role in bringing Israeli and Palestinian representatives to the negotiating table in order to chart a path towards a negotiated peace, which ensures Israelis and Palestinians can live safely, side by side, in independent states with secure borders. [italics added]
[For complete article reference links, please see original at Dissident Voice here.]
Layton’s positive role is a pre-judged one. He and the NDP have determined that the solution is a two-state one.
Layton’s missive continued,
We [the NDP] know that extraordinary goodwill is required to achieve such peace. We deeply yearn for such a result and that is just one reason why ‘apartheid’ is not a word I use when talking about this complex and difficult issue. …
We invite Canadians of all political and religious stripes to join us in strongly condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and intolerance in all its ugly forms.
Layton has netted himself in contradictions of his own spinning.
In advocating a two-state solution, Layton’s party is advocating a separation — a separation of Jews and Palestinians. Apartheid, etymologically, means “apart, separate,” and it refers to a “policy of racial separation.” Apartheid is defined as a crime against humanity by the International Criminal Court. Layton does not want to use the word, but the party-he-leads advocates the policy.
Another contradiction stems from Layton and his party’s “invite” to strong condemnation of racism. Yet, using the word “apartheid” is not something Layton would do in talking about a difficult issue. It becomes more difficult to condemn the racism inherent to “apartheid” when the word itself becomes verboten. One wonders: was “apartheid” a verboten word for Layton before Nelson Mandela’s release from prison? Or was that a simple issue?
Regarding the taciturnity of Layton on apartheid, the Nobel acceptance speech of one laureate applies, “I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
As stipulated by the Nobel laureate’s words, Layton’s silence to the apartheid Palestinians endure places him on the side of helping the oppressor and encouraging the tormentor.
The speech was by Elie Wiesel, a man who also stands silent to the suffering and humiliation endured by Palestinians. In this case, Wiesel also sides with the oppressor.
Layton is likeliest calculating the political consequences of taking a moral stand on apartheid practiced by Israeli Jews. The cognitive dissonance created about morals and consequences manifests itself in the form of contradictions. Layton’s political calculation has deemed avoidance on the matter of apartheid to be necessary political calculation.
Sitting by is not new for politicians. It is something many citizens complain about.
However, people should not rely on politicians or dubious Nobel laureates. People must critically contemplate and decide for themselves what is right or wrong. Morality should be derived through one’s own evaluations; it should not be imposed by others. Citizens of conscience who abhor all forms of racism, who abhor injustice against any and all members of humanity have a duty to speak and a duty to act — and they have a duty not to play semantics while other people suffer.
Kim Petersen is co-editor of Dissident Voice.
He can be reached at:
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Life & Vision of Paulos Gregorios / P. Govindapillai
March 22, 2018 - Gregorian Vision, Life of Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios
പി. ഗോവിന്ദപിള്ള രചിച്ച പൗലോസ് മാര് ഗ്രീഗോറിയോസിന്റെ മതവും മാര്ക്സിസവും എന്ന ഗ്രന്ഥ പ്രകാശന ചടങ്ങില് നടത്തിയ പ്രഭാഷണം.
Tribute with a difference a red salute to the `Red Bishop’
C. Gouridasan Nair
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An important strand of political and academic discourse in Kerala has been on the relationship between religion and Marxism. In a State where Marxism has cohabited with deep-rooted religiosity, the dialogue between the two had brought together theologians and Marxists, Dr. Paulose Mar Gregorios and E.M.S. Namboodiripad being two important names that come to mind. Of no less importance were the dialogues between the former and thinker and litterateur P. Govinda Pillai.
As all those who treasure inspiring memories of the `Red Metropolitan’ observe the tenth anniversary of his death in 1996, on Friday, Govinda Pillai pays his tributes to his long-time argumentative companion with a book titled `Mar Gregoriosinte Mathavum Marxisavum’ (Gregorios’ Religion and Marxism). The book would be released here on Friday.
Mar Gregorios was one of the global Indians of the last century. Fr. Paul Varghese, who was later consecrated as Metropolitan Paulose Mar Gregorios, was an adviser to the Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie and functioned for long as the Delhi Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. He used to be called the `Red Bishop’ by many both within and outside India. In his own words, his was `qualified’ support for socialism and he could not accept dialectical materialism or historical materialism, two of the main concepts underpinning the socialist ideology.
But, on the international stage, he stood shoulder to shoulder with the liberation forces and the socialist camp along with two other famous Malayalis, M.M. Thomas and Bishop Paulose Mar Paulose of the Chaldean Church.
Govinda Pillai’s attempt is to survey Mar Gregorios’ life and work against the backdrop of the times in which he lived and to elucidate how he was in solidarity with Marxist-Leftist position on questions such as anti-colonial movements, globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation. He was opposed to secularism as a concept and even entered into a public dialogue with EMS on the subject in the late Eighties and early Nineties.
His intellect traversed a great distance from linguistics to theology and from metaphysics to Marxism.
Govinda Pillai himself admits as much in his foreword in the book: “I realised when I finished this book that I cannot cross this ocean of knowledge in my humble country craft.”
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Ambassador Munir Akram censures Modi for his silence on ‘international issues’ in UN
September 27, 2020 September 27, 2020 admin 0 Comments
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram slammed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the United Nations UN General Assembly, saying that the Indian premier was silent on critical international issues
Commenting on the Indian premier’s speech, he said it was divorced from the reality of an intolerant, divided, brutal and economically failing India, engaged in disputes with all its neighbours.
He criticised Modi for speaking about his reforms during the speech, adding that the world was not concerned with the Indian premier’s claims of freeing 600 million people from openly defecating.
The world is not interested in how many Indians defecate in public, he said. He slammed Modi for skipping important topics such as climate change and the plight of the people of occupied Kashmir and Palestine.
Since August 5, 2019, India has come under heavy criticism from the UN and other international human rights organisations, as well as the media for its oppressive occupation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, its gross human rights violations of the Kashmir people, and marginalization of its minorities, including millions of Muslims.
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Saudi Arabia to allow only 10,000 pilgrims to perform hajj
RIYADH (Dunya News) – In an effort to prevent the deadly coronavirus from spreading, Saudi Arabia will limit the number of pilgrims attending the hajj to around 10,000 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after barring Muslims abroad from the rite for the first year in modern times.
Saudi Arabia will enforce several strict health measures and protocols for the upcoming Hajj pilgrimage, Minister of Health Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah said. He said the decision is in line with the keenness of kingdom’s leadership to ensure the public safety amid the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr Muhammad Saleh Benten and Dr. Al-Rabiah were addressing a joint virtual press conference. Minister of Hajj expected that number of domestic pilgrims performing the pilgrimage this year will not be more than 10,000.
He also confirmed that no pilgrims from outside the Kingdom will be allowed to perform Hajj this year. Dr. Al-Rabiah said pilgrims should be less than 65 years of age and not suffering from any chronic diseases.
The Hajj pilgrimage, which is one of the five pillars of Islam and a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetime, will this year only welcome a “limited number” of people from inside the Kingdom, authorities had said on Monday.
Every year, about 2.5 million pilgrims visit the holiest sites of Islam in Makkah and Madinah, which could make it a possible breeding ground for the disease.
To prevent COVID-19 from spreading among pilgrims, the health ministry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, has developed the plan to ensure the safety of all visitors.
“We have worked with the Ministry of Health to develop preventative and precautionary measures and protocols that are needed to ensure a safe Hajj season,” the minister said.
Below are the protocols:
No more than 10,000 people will be allowed to perform the Hajj pilgrimage.
All pilgrims will be tested before they reach the holy sites.
Only those under the age of 65 will be allowed to perform Hajj this year.
All pilgrims will be asked to self-quarantine after they complete the Hajj rituals.
All workers and volunteers will be tested before the Hajj pilgrimage begins.
The health status of all pilgrims will be monitored daily.
A hospital has been prepared for any emergency that occurs during the pilgrimage.
Social distancing measures will be enforced.
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Jordan Brand and Paris Saint-Germain Combine for a Football First’.
Jordan Brand launches first collection with a soccer club
Free Content available here including IV Larry Miller (Jordan President), Nasser El Khelaifi (Paris Saint-Germain CEO and President), .PSG Team Training, IVs Kylian Mbappe and Daniel Alves (English Transcription below),
In the last few years, Jordan Brand has been a growing presence in Paris. A Jordan-only store — Jordan Bastille— opened in 2016, and in 2017 the brand announced a partnership with the French Basketball Federation. These examples buttress a long-standing, organic relationship between brand and city, which began with Michael Jordan’s first visit in 1985. That connection has been retained through the decades, highlighted by continued support of the Quai 54 World Streetball Championship.
All of which make today’s announcement — Jordan Brand will have its first collection with a football club, Paris Saint-Germain — feel entirely appropriate.
“Jordan Brand and Paris Saint-Germain share a distinct position in sport and style, so to partner with the club is a natural fit,” says Michael Jordan.
Jordan’s thoughts are echoed by PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi who notes, “The partnership between Paris Saint-Germain and Jordan Brand reflects the ambition of both brands to combine style, performance and innovation. We share many values with Jordan Brand, which is known worldwide for its sporting heritage and exciting contemporary designs. We believe it is a partnership which will excite our fans, help us to reach new audiences and enhance our global reach.”
Parisians also carry a unique affection for the brand. “In the United States, if you hear Jordan you probably think it’s a basketball or hip-hop event. No, in Paris right away ‘it’s Jordan’ — it’s not just for basketball players or the hip-hop community,” says Laurent Nicolas Bourgeois, one half of the acclaimed dance group, Les Twins, along with twin brother Larry Nicolas. “We are one of the biggest fans of Jordan in the world. We are super fans.”
Fittingly, the Jordan Brand x Paris Saint-Germain collection delivers holistic performance and lifestyle offerings, including two special edition match kits, footwear and apparel. The kits are built on a Nike Vaporknit Match chassis and feature clean black and white colorways with red accents that will be used as the club’s third and fourth kits. The goalkeeper kit comes in bold Infrared, a nod to one of Jordan Brand’s heritage colors. “We’re excited to unite these two passionate communities by putting the Jumpman on the chest of Paris Saint-Germain to continue fueling the energy for sport and style globally,” says Jordan.
The footwear and apparel collection channels the predominately black-and-white look of the kits, but also adds a strategic use of red, another Jordan Brand heritage color and prominent color on Paris Saint-Germain kits. Additionally, each product features a unique remix of the two iconic logos, placing the Jumpman in the Paris Saint-Germain crest.
This mix of energy gives the product a transcendent flourish; from a fan perspective that excitement is already palpable. "Jordan is adding that special touch to PSG," says Larry Nicolas. His twin brother defines that magic more directly: "It’s the swag,” says Laurent Nicolas. “Jordan belongs with PSG.”
The Jordan Brand x Paris Saint-Germain collection releases on September 14. The club will debut its Jordan Brand kit on September 18 during European competition.
Mbappe and Alves Interview Transcription:
Mbappe interview
As a player it is easy. He is a living legend who left his mark on his sport. There is no much to say, everyone can only agree with that.
The brand is more of my time. All the sneakers, the product, the clothing. Those are things which resonate with me and with which I identify for long time. It’s a pleasure.
If I had three words to describe Jordan: Legendary, Elegance and Businessman.
On Tuesday we’re going to play our first game in Jordan jersey. I think we have to keep our spirit, which is to always improve. We have a difficult group, but it is what it is. If we want to progress in the competition we’ll have to go through this, give everything and get through the group.
It is going to be an honor to represent Jordan in Europe and in the world, it is a responsibility to assume on the pitch.
Alves Interview
When we talk about Jordan we use bolder words
Not only because everything he did for basketball
But mainly because of the legacy that he left behind for people
The message he brings of never giving up and going after what you want
Is super real to me and reinforces my beliefs
When you hear this coming from somebody as great as Jordan
These are words for you to take it, embrace it and apply it in your life
And also to help you to leave a legacy for other people around you
There are a lot of dreamers out there thinking about giving up
Because of lack of motivation and inspiration to fight for their dreams
So, I believe what Jordan left behind for us and for his sport
Is the same kind of legacy I want to bring for other dreamers
When you are afraid of failure you don’t say out loud what you really want
And what I want is to win a Champions League with PSG
To take this club to higher standards as one of the best in the world
PSG is already there when it comes to structure
But we are missing this title on pitch
I believe this partnership with such a champion-mindset brand
is as life is sending us a message
That this is the moment we need to jump to the next level
And in this case, there is no better reference than Jordan
So, I truly believe we should chase our biggest dream
and use his strength as an inspiration to get there
We cannot hide our efforts and wishes to put PSG in the history of football once for all
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Prairie Rose Training Center Dressage is a full-service equine facility in Bismarck, ND. While dressage is our passion, we have extensive experience in hunter/jumper and Western as well. We breed, train and show nationally competitive Arabian Sport Horses (Arabians or Arab crosses utilized for dressage or jumping) and embrace all breeds of horses. Stock breeds, Thoroughbreds, warmbloods, ponies and draft crosses are all valuable members of the PRTC horse family. We give lessons to riders of all skill levels and in a variety of disciplines.
Karla Stanley
Owner Karla Stanley is a highly respected breeder, trainer, instructor and rider. She has received her USDF Bronze medal, a Training Level Rider Performance Award and a First Level Rider Performance award, along with numerous awards and championships in Arabian breed events.
Mimi Stanley
Owner Mimi Stanley (Karla’s daughter) has her sights set on the US International Equestrian Team. She received her USDF Bronze Medal in 2005, her USDF Silver Medal in 2006 and her USDF Gold Medal in 2008. In 2012, she was awarded the USDF Freestyle Gold Bar. She received her Training Level Rider Performance Award in 2005, First Level Rider Performance Award in 2005, and her Second Level Rider Performance Award in 2005. In 2008 she was a working student at Tempel Lipizzan Farms for the spring and had the opportunity to ride in performances.
Mimi has earned 17 USDF All Breeds Championships or Reserve Championships, including the USDF Young Rider Grand Prix. In 2010, she was one of only four young riders from the US chosen by the Dressage Foundation to experience international-level dressage in Europe on the Olympic Dream Team. In 2014, she was selected to attend the USDF/USEF Young Rider Graduate Program. To date, she has earned 28 National Championships and 15 Reserve National Championships at Arabian Sport Horse National competitions. Mimi continues her regular training with German Dressage Master Conrad Schumacher.
Mimi & EA Cygnus
Mimi’s Grand Prix dressage horse, EA Cygnus, was the only Arabian to be awarded the Adequan/USDF Jr/Young Rider Grand Prix Horse of the Year. Cygnus was also the first Arabian and second horse of any breed to earn a prestigious USDF Horse Performance Certificate at EVERY level of dressage – Training through Grand Prix – a feat requiring more than 90 qualifying scores.
PRTC is a family business. Each of us plays an important role in the daily operation of the farm and the success of our clients.
In addition to helping manage PRTC, Curt Stanley served as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot in the ND National Guard and was deployed to Kosovo in 2011. He continues to pilot helicopters, raise goats and teaches at Bismarck State College.
Curt, Karla, Mimi and Ross Stanley with a Black Hawk helicopter.
Ross Stanley – Natl Guard
Growing up, Ross Stanley helped run PRTC, raised and showed champion sheep and goats and was active in 4-H. In 2013, he joined the ND National Guard. In 2014, he graduated from Advanced Individual Training and was awarded the Army Achievement Medal for distinguished honor graduate.
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DF15 - the 6th International Dietary Fibre Conference 2015 - a landmark in Dietary Fibre research
DF15 - a really stimulating event – this was the main opinion of the over 250 participants from all over the globe from industry, academia and regulatory bodies.
The 6th International Dietary Fibre Conference (DF15), organised in Paris in Les Salons de l'Aveyron from 1-3 June 2015 by INRA - the French National Institute for Agricultural Research – and ICC – the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology – highlighted in 8 sessions a range of new developments in fibre research, including the role of fibres, in:
modulating the human gut microbiome and its impact on health, going far beyond the old notions of just lactobacilli and bifidobacteria as beneficial species and selected fibres as prebiotics;
influencing cognitive functions and mental well-being, where recent research confirms earlier work on beneficial effects of cereal fibres and where mechanistic insights are emerging;
and reducing constipation - dietary changes towards a higher intake of fibre may result here in considerable health care costs savings (for the UK ~ GBP 125 million per year).
The final Round Table discussion brought up a series of remarks and recommendations:
Fibre is not fibre – the properties and physiological impact of fibres varies widely, even within a single type of fibre, such as pectin. Therefore a full description of the source, composition and further relevant physical and chemical properties of the fibres studied is essential.
Priority for research on fibre, the human microbiome and health – preferably in multi-disciplinary consortia of science and industry
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Whole Grain Press Release
The Best Dietary Change According to Experts? Switching to Whole Grains
Vienna, 18.12.2017. New data on the links between diet and health show that replacing refined grains with whole grains globally could reduce the burden of chronic disease more than any other change – including better-known approaches such as reducing sodium, eliminating trans fats or even cutting sugar-sweetened beverages.
This eye-opening data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation was revealed during the keynote address at the recent Whole Grain Summit in Vienna. In response to the urgent public health challenge documented by experts speaking at this event, more than 200 scientists from 36 countries participating in the Whole Grain Summit worked to craft a two-year global action plan to increase whole grain consumption.
“Worldwide, cereals provide nearly 50% of energy intake,” said Prof Dr Fred Brouns, Scientific Chair of the Whole Grain Summit. “Yet the vast majority of these foods are composed of refined grains and flours. Research shows that health benefits from whole grains are associated with replacing as little as two servings of refined grain/flour foods with whole grain foods.” More than two decades of studies indicate that consuming whole grain foods, instead of refined grains and foods made from white flour, is directly related to a lower mortality risk and reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and obesity, and bowel cancer.
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Scientists leverage smart technology to support farmers and improve food safety: globally every year there are several billion Euro losses to cereals and other crops through fungal infection, which also causes harm to human health from toxins (mycotoxins) produced by these moulds. In a new initiative that is being funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme, a group of scientists, engineers and IT specialists have teamed up to provide knowledge transfer to farmers and other decision makers in the food and feed chains. Using smart technology available on phones and tablets, decision-making tools will be made available to the agricultural and food communities to guide them in taking the most cost-effective actions to minimise fungal infection and mycotoxin formation. Advice will be given in real-time and customised to the individual situation taking into account numerous factors including climatic conditions as a means of forecasting potential fungal infection.
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Peshitta Forum › New Testament › General
The Strong Possibility That Lazar Wrote the Fourth Gospel
gregglaser
Here is an Aramaic bible study I'd like to share: The Strong Possibility That Lazar Wrote the Fourth Gospel -- Aramaic Peshitta Analysis
And here is my introduction to the paper...
Who wrote the fourth gospel? Christian tradition says it was the apostle John, who was a fisherman from Galilee. But if John was really the author, then why did he omit every event to which he is referred by name in the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke)? And why is the author uniquely named while in same boat with the “sons of Zebedee” in John 21?
Questions like these have naturally prompted scholars to wonder ‘who else other than John’ is a candidate for authorship of the fourth gospel. And Lazarus has always been the number one ‘runner-up’.
The fourth gospel explicitly states (in John 21:20) that it was written by:
ܠܬܠܡܝܕܐ ܗܘ ܕܪܚܡ ܗܘܐ ܝܫܘܥ
(“the disciple whom Yahshua loved/befriended”)
This is an interesting description because ܠܥܙܪ (“Lazar” aka “Lazarus”) is uniquely singled out as ‘loved/befriended by Yahshua’ three times in John 11. By contrast, the apostle John is not uniquely singled out with that description.
The problem though with claiming that Lazar was uniquely “loved/befriended” is that Yahshua clearly “loved/befriended” all of his disciples. See e.g. John 13:1
ܘܐܚܒ ܠܕܝܠܗ ܕܒܗܢܐ ܥܠܡܐ ܘܥܕܡܐ ܠܚܪܬܐ ܐܚܒ ܐܢܘܢ
(“And he loved his own who were in this world, even until the end he loved them.”)
So the term “beloved disciple” is not sufficient by itself to identify Lazar.
Fortunately, the fourth gospel gives another important clue (many scholars even find this clue downright obvious to show Lazar wrote the fourth gospel) – it explicitly states about its author in John 21:23:
ܢܦܩܬ ܗܕܐ ܡܠܬܐ ܒܝܬ ܐܚܐ ܕܗܘ ܬܠܡܝܕܐ ܠܐ ܡܐܬ
(“a rumor went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die.”)
That’s a very helpful clue because Lazar was unique among the disciples in this one regard – only Lazar had been raised from the dead – so it makes sense that such a rumor (not dying again) would naturally spread about him uniquely (that is, how many times will Lazar die on earth? Once, twice?). By contrast, there is no foundational background in the gospel that a rumor could begin that the apostle John would not die, or any other disciple other than Lazar.
And there’s more evidence too. This paper will cover the following seven key points that suggest the fourth gospel was in fact written by Lazar:
1. The Fourth Gospel explicitly identifies the author is “the disciple whom Yahshua loved/befriended”; and that Lazar is “loved/befriended” by Yahshua.
2. The Banquet -- once the name Lazar exits the scene, curiously the title “the disciple whom Yahshua loved/befriended” appears on the scene
3. Special focus on Bethany, the hometown of Lazar
4. Temple connections
5. Lazar at the cross
6. Lazar in the Boat
7. Lazar returns to a tomb, but hesitates to enter
Even the alleged ‘problem’ with the theory of Lazar authorship ultimately helps prove Lazar authorship. That ‘problem’ is simply a curious question – why is Lazar identified by name in the beginning of the gospel, but identified as ‘the disciple whom Yahshua loved/befriended’ later in the gospel? What major event happened to Lazar that would justify a name change? We cannot assume the obvious answer: his resurrection from the dead, because Lazar is still called Lazar in John 12:3 (after he had been resurrected). So, what happened between John 12:3 and John 13:23? The answer appears to be the foot washing where Lazar was made a new man of the “cloth” (ܣܕܘܢܐ), the same word for “burial cloth” used in the fourth gospel to describe both Lazar’s own death (John 11:44) and the very moment (John 20:8) that Lazar first believed in Yahshua’s resurrection to life.
The conclusion of this paper is that Lazar probably wrote the fourth gospel. And ultimately, the text alone allows debate, which is exactly the point – our calling as Christians is to enjoy the process of studying the gospel and asking thoughtful questions. I think the Father routinely invites us to understand Him better through logic & study. Isaiah 1:18, “’Come now, and let us reason together’, says Yahweh, ‘If your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be.’” And when those methods bring us closer to Yahshua, mission accomplished.
sestir
I miss an answer to the obvious question though: Was Lazarus present at The Lord's Supper?
Quote: And when it was evening, he came with his twelve. And as they reclined and ate, Jesus said: Verily I say to you, That one of you that eateth with me, will betray me... — Mark 14:17.
... but ...
Quote: And Simon turned himself, and saw coming after him, that disciple whom Jesus loved, who fell on the breast of Jesus at the supper, and said, My Lord, who is it will betray thee? ... This is the disciple who hath testified of all these things, and hath written them: and we know, that his testimony is true. — John 21:20,24.
(09-25-2016, 09:14 PM)sestir Wrote: Wow!
Excellent question, Sestir, thank you; I should have included a section on this in my study. For now, I’ll just summarize the answer of Jim Phillips on the question – I’ll summarize his argument though from the Aramaic perspective:
Bible Answer
Technically, the gospel of Mark never states “the twelve” were the only ones present at the last supper; it just states they were present. The gospel overflows with examples where others are present at an event even though they are not separately identified in one of the gospels. See e.g., John 19:39-40 (Nicodemus anoints the body).
And here, the Messiah says in Matthew 26:18, “I will keep the passover at your house with my disciples.”
The fourth gospel is unique in its special insights. For example, if we only read the synoptics, we would assume Simon Peter was the only disciple on the night he followed Yahshua into the palace of the high priest, because only Peter is named and no other disciple is named in Matthew, Mark, or Luke. Yet we know from the fourth gospel that Peter was not alone when he entered the palace of the high priest that night, because the other disciple helped him gain access.
And the converse is also true -- the gospel writers frequently used specific language to identify a limited attendance (i.e., the transfiguration where only Peter, John, and Jacob were allowed to witness the event). Examples: Mt. 14:23, Mk. 5:37 & 9:8, Lu. 8:5.
So, in the absence of specific limiting language for the last supper, there’s no need to assume limited attendance. Indeed, in the gospel, the Messiah routinely dines with his disciples and others, especially the host of the house. See e.g., Mark 2:15, Luke 7:36, 10:38-40, 11:37, 24:29-30, John 12:2.
I think you’ll also like this logical point -- in Mark 14:20, the Messiah identifies the traitor, “It is one of the twelve that dips with me in the dish”.
ܚܕ ܡܢ ܬܪܥܣܪ ܕܨܒܥ ܥܡܝ ܒܠܓܬܐ
Logically, if “the twelve” were the only ones with the Messiah, then why would he need to use the limiting expression “one of the twelve”? If no one else was there, wouldn’t he have said, ܚܕ ܡܢܟܘܢ
(“one of you”)? In fact the only other time the Messiah used the term “the twelve”, he said that same expression “one of you” -- it was when “the twelve” affirmed their commitment after many “disciples” forsook the Messiah and he responded, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a satan?” John 6:70.
ܠܐ ܗܘܐ ܐܢܐ ܓܒܝܬܟܘܢ ܠܬܪܥܣܪ ܘܡܢܟܘܢ ܚܕ ܣܜܢܐ ܗܘ
Moreover, the Messiah used the term ܚܕ ܡܢܟܘܢ (“one of you”) earlier at the supper (Matthew 26:21, Mark 14:18). So when he went on to caveat that his betrayer would be “one of the twelve” (Mark 14:20), that crucial detail would have been superfluous if there were only 12 present. And incidentally, it would have brought relief (so it had purpose) to those disciples who were not part of “the twelve,” and it also set the stage for the next event where Simon Peter asks Lazar “who is it?”
Here’s another logical point -- the Bible tells us the Messiah washed the feet of “the disciples” (John 13:5). Then, after the Messiah sat down again, he said, “I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen”(John 13:18). Here he contrasts a larger group (“you all”), with a subset (“chosen”). We know “the twelve” were “chosen” (John 6:70, Luke 6:13). However, if “the twelve” were the only ones who were present, then what distinction was the Messiah making here? We are tempted to assume these words were meant to exclude Judas Iscariot. Yet Luke 6:13 tells us the Messiah, “called to his disciples: and chose from them twelve, those he named apostles” and it goes on to list Judas by name (Luke 6:16); see also John 6:70 above. Therefore, Judas was plainly “chosen”. So who was the Messiah referring to when he said, “you all”? His words here are one more indication that he and “the twelve” were not alone during that supper, as here again he refers to more than just “the twelve” whom he had “chosen”.
In any case, there is also a possibility that the Messiah sat down to supper first with “the twelve”, and then the beloved disciple joined them later after the supper. The sequence of events in the fourth gospel seems to indicate that is what occurred. See e.g., “And the supper being ended...” (John 13:2).
It’s fun to wonder
Recognizing Lazar outside the 12 is probably important to understanding his purpose in the body of the Messiah. For example, Lazar was not apostolized to preach from place to place like the twelve were sent to preach, but rather he was a wanted man. As for himself, Lazar wanted to remain as close to the Messiah as possible. So, the fact that Yahshua invited him into family fellowship with his mother Maryam at the crucifixion is quite telling of Yahshua’s close relationship with his mother.
09-27-2016, 06:09 PM (This post was last modified: 09-27-2016, 07:07 PM by sestir.)
Quote: Technically, the gospel of Mark never states “the twelve” were the only ones present at the last supper; it just states they were present.
Good reasoning.
Quote: Logically, if “the twelve” were the only ones with the Messiah, then why would he need to use the limiting expression “one of the twelve”?
This is less convincing because scribes had a tendency to replace pronouns with proper names in order to make the text more informative and help the reader remember who was who. It still supports your point though.
Comparison of Mark 14:20b with John 13:26b:
Mark: "One of the twelve who dips with me in the dish."
John: "It is he for whom I dip the bread and give it to him."
Quote: Here’s another logical point -- the Bible tells us the Messiah washed the feet of “the disciples” (John 13:5). Then, after the Messiah sat down again, he said, “I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen”(John 13:18). Here he contrasts a larger group (“you all”), with a subset (“chosen”). We know “the twelve” were “chosen” (John 6:70, Luke 6:13). However, if “the twelve” were the only ones who were present, then what distinction was the Messiah making here? We are tempted to assume these words were meant to exclude Judas Iscariot.
To get some context — John 13:17-19a:
"If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."
ܐܢ ܗܠܝܢ ܬܕܥܘܢ ܛܘܒܢܐ ܐܢܬܘܢ ܐܢ ܬܥܒܕܘܢ ܐܢܝܢ ܀
"I have not spoken about all of you, for I know those whom I have chosen,
ܠܐ ܗܘܐ ܥܠ ܟܠܟܘܢ ܐܡܪ ܐܢܐ ܝܕܥ ܐܢܐ ܓܝܪ ܠܐܝܠܝܢ ܕܓܒܝܬ
but that the scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.' ",
ܐܠܐ ܕܟܬܒܐ ܢܫܠܡ ܕܗܘ ܕܐܟܠ ܥܡܝ ܠܚܡܐ ܐܪܝܡ ܥܠܝ ܥܩܒܗ ܀
"Now I am telling you before it happens ..."
...ܡܢ ܗܫܐ ܐܡܪ ܐܢܐ ܠܟܘܢ ܡܢ ܩܕܡ ܕܢܗܘܐ
I would expect two statements that are contrasted to come immediately before and after a contrasting conjunction. In this case it is "but/ܐܠܐ" isn't it? So he doesn't contrast you all with the chosen but rather equals them and contrasts his ability to know people with the tendency of scripture to be fulfilled.
It seems the paper is better off without this argument.
Page 8, paragraph 3 "John 19:15" should read "John 18:15".
What would you say about the possibility that John son of Sebedee wrote most of the gospel book but Lazarus wrote 18:14-23?
Thank you, Sestir, you’re right – that’s a key clarification in the Aramaic of John 13:18 regarding the word ܐܠܐ (“except/but”). It is curious though that John 13:16 sets the original context of the verse to include workers and apostles:
ܐܡܝܢ ܐܡܝܢ ܐܡܪ ܐܢܐ ܠܟܘܢ ܕܠܝܬ ܥܒܕܐ ܕܪܒ ܡܢ ܡܪܗ ܘܠܐ ܫܠܝܚܐ ܕܪܒ ܡܢ ܡܢ ܕܫܕܪܗ
In any case, I agree with you about John 13:18 – it isn’t dispositive one way or another on the question of who was present.
I think the reason the gospels focused on “the twelve” was to emphasize that the traitor came from within the 12 tribes of Israel, or something along those lines -- the inner circle of 12, the immediate family....
Following that line of thought, I like this wordplay for “Jacob” that the Aramaic retains in John 13:18 when identifying the traitor:
ܕܟܬܒܐ ܢܫܠܡ ܕܗܘ ܕܐܟܠ ܥܡܝ ܠܚܡܐ ܐܪܝܡ ܥܠܝ ܥܩܒܗ
The story of Jacob's son Joseph and his 12 brothers reminds me of Matthew 10:36, "The adversaries of a man are in his own house."
It's interesting to wonder too how the Messiah's house on earth may be constructed in some way with 12 pillars/apostles.
Bringing this back full circle, I think Lazar was something other than a pillar. He was "outside" (commanded to come "outside" in John 11:43 ܠܥܙܪ ܬܐ ܠܒܪ; he lived outside Jerusalem in Bethany; there's more).
The sacrifice altar, for example, was outside the temple. So I think that could be the spot for him, at the feet in the body of the Messiah. And when the smoke from the altar rises, it goes through the Messiah's nose (the ark), and into his lungs, which is close to his heart, Lazar's resting place.
And then with regard to the suggestion that 'John 18:14-23 could be a later addition?', I would consider that quite unlikely. For example, notice the ܕܝܢ (“and”) in John 18:24. In Aramaic we don’t write ܕܝܢ in the second word position for a title or headline. Rather, that grammar is for the continuation of sentences, which is why John 18:24 fits perfectly as written, the continuation of John 18:23.
And then as for the dangerous notion of cutting and pasting different verses of the gospel into different locations, I think that sort of thing is simply not done by the faithful. The Father knows every yod and stroke. He knows every stain on the parchment and every hair on a man’s head. Not only does the Father know the handful of scribal errors that snuck into the ancient codices, but He is the One who set them down as punishments to us. Every word and every sequence and every stain is precisely where it is meant to be in our time because it fulfills the Father’s purpose for our time. Consider the example that the Crawford Codex of Revelation 10:4 (instructing John to seal what the 7 thunders said) is almost entirely illegible today. Or the example below with Revelation 2:5.
The religious academics who cut & paste from manuscripts in the medieval and pre-medieval period are a punishment upon the faithful. Their works are the kind of inheritance one receives in a corrupt world. Faith will triumph though.
In the Crawford Codex of Revelation 2:5, we read an admonishment:
ܐܬܕܟܪ ܡܢ ܐܝܟܐ ܢܦܩܬ ܘܥܒܕ ܥܒܕܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܘܐܢܕܝܢ ܠܐ ܐܬܐ ܐܢܐ ܥܠܝܟ ܘܡܙܝܥ ܐܢܐ ܡܢܪܬܟ ܐܠܐ ܬܬܘܒ
“Remember from where you departed and work the works former. And now if not, I come upon you and I am moving your lampstand unless you repent.”
Considering the verb tense of the phrase here in Rev 2:5 (present tense or past tense), I've wondered if this text may have an error with one letter? The conventional translation of ܡܙܝܥ in Revelation 2:5 is "will remove" or “am removing”, from the root word ܙܘܥ ("shake"). However, if the word were supposed to be translated "will shake", the text would perhaps be phrased similarly to Matthew 24:29 ܢܬܬܙܝܥ . A better translation might be found in John 5:4, but the problem remains that the ܡܙܝܥ ("moved") is potentially stated in the past tense. And even if a lampstand were moved, it would presumably still be a lampstand. So the conventional translation of Revelation 2:6 is not certain. The Crawford codex does indeed have an ayin at the end of the word here. But there is also an alternative theory -- this ܥ(ayin) may have actually been a ܓ(gimmel) on the codex from which Crawford was copied? The Aramaic letters are scribed very similarly, and if a gimmel's tail fades over years the character will look like an ܥ (ayin). If so (ܓ mistaken for ܥ), then the word here would be ܡܙܝܓ , which is relevant because its root ܡܙܓ means "mix, mingle, or dilute". ܡܙܝܓ is also stated in the present tense as required by Revelation 2:5. To dilute a lamp’s strength is different and more logical in this context than to remove it entirely. For example, Revelation 2:7 prophesies that at least some of Ephesus will not fail ("To him who overcomes..."), so the lampstand does not appear to be 'removed', only at most 'diluted' ܡܙܓ.
Thirdwoe
The Apostle John wrote the 4th Gospel, as well as the Apostolic Letter of John, both of them are very similar in wording.
People like to speculate about many things, but, it has always been known who wrote that Gospel and that Letter.
Quote: And then with regard to the suggestion that 'John 18:14-23 could be a later addition?', I would consider that quite unlikely. For example, notice the ܕܝܢ (“and”) in John 18:24. In Aramaic we don’t write ܕܝܢ in the second word position for a title or headline.
Thanks Greg! Ουν in the Greek texts has the same function and it is indeed a negative indicium. Did you find any more examples?
However, your suggestion that "the Father" would have corrupted the holy scriptures of the Christians in order to punish us, makes me feel like you and I are probably not on the same team. :/
(10-03-2016, 09:20 PM)sestir Wrote:
Sorry, I didn’t mean any disrespect to the Father in any way. I should have clarified what I was saying, and thank you for this opportunity to do just that - I was just trying to emphasize that the Father is the Creator of saga – He empowers not only the faithful but also the enemies of the faith in order to test the faithful.
John 19:11, “Yahshua said to him, ‘You have no power at all over me unless it has been given to you from above; therefore, whoever has delivered me to you has greater sin than yours.’”
Isaiah 45:7, “Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Yahweh, doing all these things.”
When an animal breaks into an orchard and eats a tree branch and roughs up the tree: is it a corruption of the tree in an otherwise perfect world?, or a new perspective/pruning that the Father has allowed to happen so the farmer will learn something and act?
When the Father punished the Israelites by allowing their captivity in Babylon, this resulted in an immense loss of Hebrew writings, and even the Hebrew language itself never recovered.
When a chef breaks an egg, does he corrupt the egg, or prepare a meal?
1 Peter 1:6-7, “...at this time you are a bit weary with various temptations which suddenly come upon you, so that the proof of your faith may appear, which is worth more than refined gold tried in the fire, for glory and honor and praise at the revelation of Yahshua the Messiah.”
The bible warns of “the false pen of the scribes.” Jeremiah 8:8. See also Isaiah 10:1; Ezekiel 20:25 (“Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord”); Ezekiel 14:9 (”And if the prophet, when he is deluded, and words a word, I Yahweh delude that prophet, and I spread my hand on him, and desolate him from midst my people Israel.”) Jeremiah 5:31 (”the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests subjugate by their hands”); Jeremiah 8:8 (false pen of the scribes); Jeremiah 14:14-16 (”The prophets prophesy falsehoods in my name: I neither sent them nor misvahed them nor worded to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination and worthlessness and the deceit of their heart…. the sword and famine consumes those prophets: and the people to whom they prophesy are cast out in the outways of Jerusalem at the face of the famine and the sword: and there is no one to entomb them — them, their women, their sons and their daughters:”); 1 Kings 22:23 (a false spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets); Isaiah 10:1; Isa. 28:7 (priest and prophet err inadvertently through intoxicants); Lamentations 2:14 (prophets see vain burdens and seductions); Hosea 9:7-8 (”the prophet is a fool: the man of the spirit is insane, because of the abundance of your perversity and the great enmity… the prophet is a snare of the snarer in all his ways;”); Jonah 3:4-10 (false 40 day prophecy); Micah 3:5-11 (prophesying for money); Matt. 16:22 (even after following him for sometime, Peter continued to falsely believe the Messiah would never die); Matt. 22:29 and John 5:42 (on the teachings of the Pharisees); Matthew 7:15-20 (”beware of false prophets…by their fruits you know them.”); Revelation 22:18-19, “I testify to everyone who hears the word of the prophecy of this book: Whoever will place upon these things, Alha shall place upon him plagues that are written in this book. And whoever subtracts from the words of the writing of this prophecy, Alha shall subtract his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, those things which are written in this book.”
(10-02-2016, 11:31 PM)Thirdwoe Wrote: The Apostle John wrote the 4th Gospel, as well as the Apostolic Letter of John, both of them are very similar in wording.
Thank you for your comment, Chuck. History is on your side.
I do have some new insights though in this post that you may find interesting.
I like to read the fourth gospel with my daughter to help her practice Aramaic. I’ve found the grammar and conjugations are so consistent, they’re great for study.
It would be fun to do an Aramaic word study on the epistles of John to test whether they carry the same grammar as the fourth gospel. I don’t know the answer, but it would be fun to explore and gain new insights.
The early writers of Christian history tell us (in a nutshell) that a disciple named John, who walked with Yahshua, wrote the fourth gospel, and that he lived in Ephesus later in his life.
There has been debate throughout the centuries whether that is John of Zebedee. For example, R. Alan Culpepper recently wrote an interesting summary in The Gospel and Letters of John: Interpreting Biblical Texts Series (2011):
Quote: “John’s popularity among the Gnostics (along with its differences from the Synoptics) may explain, in part at least, why it was slow in being accepted by the church… those closest to John and to Ephesus during the early part of the second century are silent regarding John. Irenaeus is the first writer to connect John with Ephesus. Irenaeus also said that Papias had heard John (Adv. Haer. 5.33.4, cited by Eusebius Eccl. Hist. 3.39.1), but Papias himself, as we have seen, made no claims to having heard the apostle. His information was secondhand at best. The claims of apostolic authorship surface at just the time the Gospel was beginning to be cited by orthodox Christians, and in all likelihood the argument that it was written by the apostle John was important in securing its acceptance by the church. ”
I think it's interesting to consider that Lazar may have lived in Ephesus after Jerusalem and been called John because...
The grammar of John 19:26-27 contains a key clue that the name/title of the beloved disciple was purposefully absent because that name was in some form of transition. First, notice the grammar in John 19:26 as Yahshua calls his mother Maryam “woman”:
ܘܐܡܪ ܠܐܡܗ ܐܢܬܬܐ ܗܐ ܒܪܟܝ
“And he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold your son’”
And then, notice how the very next line in John 19:27 uses the exact same grammar, but conspicuously without stating a name/title for the beloved disciple:
ܘܐܡܪ ܠܬܠܡܝܕܐ ܗܘ ܗܐ ܐܡܟ
“And he said to that disciple, ‘Behold your mother’”
Scholars of ancient Judaism have written at length about grown men receiving a new name, and many consider it to be the last step of a man’s transformation after a life-changing event. See e.g., Grey, M., Becoming as a Little Child: Elements of Ritual Rebirth in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, Studia Antiqua, Vol 1, No 1, Fall 2001, pp. 71-72.
So the absence of a name/title in John 19:27 is circumstantial evidence that (1) the beloved disciple had just undergone a major life transformation, and (2) he was without a new name.
According to scholar Grey, the four steps are as follows: (1) Washing, (2) Anointing, (3) Coddling, and (4) Naming. Applying these to Lazar is interesting:
(1) Washing – Lazar was raised from the dead in John 11, and then Yahshua washed his feet in John 13
(2) Anointing – Maryam anointed Yahshua’s feet in John 12; I think feet symbolize Lazar in the body of the Messiah
(3) Coddling - Lazar’s name means “coddling” in Hebrew; Lazar may be the young man who loses his robe in Mark 14:51
(4) Naming – Lazar was given the new name “the disciple whom Yahshua loved/befriended,” and he may have also been given the name ܝܘܚܢܢ (“John”)
Regarding the reference in John 19:26 toܐܢܬܬܐ (“woman”), that is a matriarchal title that Yahshua also used in John 2:4 and 4:21. The title carries extensive duties and sometimes complex inheritance rules in Judaism, including for widows. Incidentally, the word ܐܪܡܠܬܐ (“widow”) is not utilized in the fourth gospel.
In first century Israel, a woman could not usually inherit property. Only a daughter could inherit from her father if there were no son (Numbers 27: 1-11; 36:1-9). A girl depended on her dad first, then she married and depended on her husband. Then when she became a widow (like Yahshua’s mother Maryam) she depended on her eldest son (or on her father again if she had no son). In the Book of Ruth, for example, we see this with Naomi.
Ultimately, we’re invited to appreciate the fourth gospel (written by the disciple whom Yahshua ܪܚܡ (“loved/befriended”)) with respect for women and ܪܚܡ (“the womb”).
There has been a lot of interesting discussion regarding which women were present at the cross, and what was the exact relationship of the (half) brothers & sisters of the Messiah. And then there are also Jewish rules to consider regarding adoption and stewardship between eldest son and mother. For example, consider the ancient Jewish tablets featuring adoption language that is strikingly similar to the language in John 19:27:
By the adoptee, with the words, “You are my father, and you are my mother.”
By the adopter, with the words, “You are my son.”
So the key for Lazar is heirship. That was the meaning of Lazar resting on Yahshua's chest after the last supper. As I cited in my paper, scholars have explained that connection from the Genesis 15 & 24 story of Abraham and his servant Alazar.
I don't find speculations interesting. You can go to all corners of the earth, and no matter what part of the ancient Church that has survived down to this day, and no matter how little they have been in contact with each other through the centuries, they all say the same thing...and they have said it from the beginning.
John The Apostle of Christ wrote The Gospel that bares his name.
But, of course it is God's Words that inspired and moved him to write.
Speculation doesn't interest me, Gregg.
distazo
Hi Gregg,
I do agree with Thirdwoe.
On the separation of Yeshu and Maryam. He declared in fact, that Maryam was 'woman' and that John became her son. Maryam was no longer 'mother of the One' (not Mother of God) but a faithful woman playing an important role in the 1st century.
Other letters, also are anonymous, such as Hebrews. The reason is known, Yeshu was the center, not the apostle or disciple. Tradition is not wrong on this, who were the writers, is best given by the most ancient records.
Another issue, there is not just 'one person', loved by Yeshu, but many were loved. This is the character of His Love.
There is another case where Yeshu expressed love in Marc 10:21. ܝܶܫܽܘܥ ܕ݁ܶܝܢ ܚܳܪ ܒ݁ܶܗ ܘܰܐܚܒ݂ܶܗ
Should we then conclude this must have been Laazar?
Does anyone here know where to find a good online text of the Peshitta OT in Estrangela, from the Ambrosianas manuscript preferably, if not a printed text of the Peshitta OT text that can be copied line by line, verse by verse, not just an image of each photo copied page?
(10-25-2016, 12:27 AM)Thirdwoe Wrote: ... You can go to all corners of the earth, and no matter what part of the ancient Church that has survived down to this day, and no matter how little they have been in contact with each other through the centuries, they all say the same thing...and they have said it from the beginning.
Thank you for this reply, Chuck. I respect your traditional position immensely. Likewise, I think there is a wonderful value in the perspective Distazo highlighted:
(10-25-2016, 07:15 AM)distazo Wrote: ...The reason is known, Yeshu was the center, not the apostle or disciple. Tradition is not wrong on this, who were the writers, is best given by the most ancient records.
We are blessed to have the Peshitta text of the fourth gospel.
One of my favorite traditions is Christmas, even though logically (and through research) I've found December 25 itself is not the most likely date for the Messiah’s birth. Still, I’ve observed the consensus on December 25 has created one of the most wonderful things on this planet, as happy children and families come together on a special day to sing the gospel. It’s an experience of peace and joy, born from consensus.
Now, I’m aware of course that Christmas can get misused (i.e., over-consumerism, mistranslations of the gospel), but I see the holiday can also be experienced positively too. So the key, I think, is what we actually accomplish with our consensus, rather than tradition/consensus for its own sake.
Indeed, I think that was a key part of the Messiah's message on earth in the first century, during a time in Jerusalem when traditions had power outside their rightful place.
In a world of uncertainty about Christian traditions, I’m reminded of Matthew 18:18-20
ܘܐܡܝܢ ܐܡܪ ܐܢܐ ܠܟܘܢ ܕܟܠ ܡܐ ܕܬܐܣܪܘܢ ܒܐܪܥܐ ܢܗܘܐ ܐܣܝܪ ܒܫܡܝܐ ܘܡܕܡ ܕܬܫܪܘܢ ܒܐܪܥܐ ܢܗܘܐ ܫܪܐ ܒܫܡܝܐ ܬܘܒ ܐܡܪܢܐ ܠܟܘܢ ܕܐܢ ܬܪܝܢ ܡܢܟܘܢ ܢܫܬܘܘܢ ܒܐܪܥܐ ܥܠ ܟܠ ܨܒܘ ܕܢܫܐܠܘܢ ܢܗܘܐ ܠܗܘܢ ܡܢ ܠܘܬ ܐܒܝ ܕܒܫܡܝܐ ܐܝܟܐ ܓܝܪ ܕܬܪܝܢ ܐܘ ܬܠܬܐ ܟܢܝܫܝܢ ܒܫܡܝ ܬܡܢ ܐܢܐ ܒܝܢܬܗܘܢ
(“And truly I say to you, that anything that you are binding in the earth will be bound in heaven. And anything that you are releasing in the earth will be released in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two from you will be agreeing in the earth about any will, that they request, will be to them from toward my Father, He in heaven. For where two or three are assembled in my name, there I am between them.")
I think one of the key historical points on the fourth gospel's journey to acceptance is that it helped unite the Orthodox Christians with Gnostic Christians. They united in Yahshua.
Many scholars have written papers trying to piece together that relationship among 1st Century Christian communities. Probably the most famous of those scholars was a Catholic named Raymond E. Brown. Here is a brief historical summary I found online about his work and the context of the fourth gospel:
Quote: The oldest known commentary on the Fourth Gospel is that of the Gnostic Heracleon (d. 180). The Valentinian Gnostics appropriated the Fourth Gospel to such an extent that Irenaeus of Lyons (d. 202) had to refute their exegesis of it. [Raymond] Brown well notes the relationship between the Fourth Gospel and the early Christian Gnostics when he writes that there is "abundant evidence of familiarity with Johannine ideas in the...gnostic library from Nag Hammadi" (1979: 147). In contrast to this, Brown points out that clear use of the Fourth Gospel in the early church by "orthodox" sources is difficult to prove (1979: 148). This would seem to suggest that the contents of the Fourth Gospel, at one point, were not attractive to "orthodox" Christians yet very attractive to Gnostic Christians for some reason. In fact, the earliest indisputable "orthodox" use of the Fourth Gospel was by Theophilus of Antioch, c. 180 A.D., in his Apology to Autolycus.
The popularity of the Fourth Gospel among Gnostics made it important for the early church to pursue the question of its apostolic authorship (Perkins: 946). It was Irenaeus who defended the apostolicity of the Fourth Gospel by appealing to a tradition circulating in Asia Minor which, he claimed, linked John of Zebedee to the Fourth Gospel. The testimony of Irenaeus, however, makes for very tenuous evidence establishing John of Zebedee as the Fourth Gospel's author. First of all, it turned out that Irenaeus confused John of Zebedee with a presbyter from Asia Minor who was also named John. Secondly, Irenaeus claimed that he got his information about Johannine authorship of the Fourth Gospel when he was a child from Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (d. 156) (Perkins: 946). The church tradition that established John as the author of the Fourth Gospel was based, primarily, on Irenaeus' childhood recollections!
I would love to read additional reference points from the Church of the East that can help put the fourth gospel authorship into perspective. Indeed, the western scholars relying on Greek will naturally be limited in their consideration of the Aramaic source text.
(10-25-2016, 07:15 AM)distazo Wrote: ...there is not just 'one person', loved by Yeshu, but many were loved. This is the character of His Love.
Thank you for emphasizing this point, Distazo, I agree - many were loved by the Messiah, and that is indeed the character of His love.
I think Mark 10:21 can be a wonderful mystery in its context, as the young man is anonymous. I've read some scholars who have made a case that this young man was Lazar, as was the (also anonymous) young man in Mark 14:51. Perhaps. I don't see any clear way to answer these questions one way or the other. I do like your answer though, "there is not just 'one person', loved by Yeshu, but many were loved. This is the character of His Love."
I feel that really gets to the heart of the matter. I might even say it is the reconciliation of brothers by their consensus on the chosen one, the Messiah.
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Embracing Our Differences & the Coronavirus
Posted by Roger Ralph on Apr 21, 2020 in BLOG
In these times especially, the opportunity to see something truly original, consciously inclusive, and obviously impactful is tremendously up-lifting. Embracing our Differences is an organization founded by two modest and humble Sarasota philantrophists, Dennis and Grace McGillicuddy. Pictured above is one of the fifty 16 feet wide by 12.5 feet high billboards I saw in Sarasota, Florida’s beautiful Bayfront Park in late March before driving to Md. Remarkably, since 2004 nearly 3 million have toured this annual event including 218,000 last year. For the 2020 exhibit there were 16,000 submissions, from 127 countries, 389 schools, and all fifty states. I don’t know but I imagine this result might have started years ago as a husband/wife conversation coffee cups in hand between two good hearted and capable people at a kitchen table.*. Just now, as I am writing this, I glanced up at the tv and saw we’re now at 1,123,024 confirmed COVID-19 cases world wide with 228,006 in the US. Florida has 10,268 cases/170 deaths and here in Maryland 1985 cases/31 deaths. There were far less just a few days ago before driving back from Fl. With the ever spreading COVID-19 you know millions of folk around our connected world are asking the same question: How do we cope and what can we do? I do not know anyone left untouched. Do you?
As my eyes leave the tv and return to my iPad my mind comes back to the straightforward mission of Embracing Our Differences:
“Through the power of the arts we educate and inspire to create a better world. We envision a world that respects differences and actively rejects hatred and prejudice”. As someone with a business background and an interest in exceptionally performing for profit and non-profit organizations, I wondered how this one has become so unique and successful. Sometimes, as I think is the case here, the brilliance and impact of an extraordinary simple tactical decision by an individual, company, or organization is the difference maker. Go back and look at the Billboard pictured above and the quote on the lower left: “When you find your voice, use it to be a force for change”. This was not a quote by the artist but rather one of thousands of different quotes submitted in 2019. Submission rules are straight forward. Quotes must be original and limited to 20 words. Once the fifty art winners are chosen, staff and volunteers collectively determine which quote should be with which painting or photograph. Titled Come Together here is my granddaughter’s pick as her favorite of the 50 Art Billboards. Kaitlin loves art, animals, playing video games, (eg: Minecraft, Super Smash Bros., Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing…) far more than talking. Yesterday we set a record with a sixty minute phone call.
I credit this to the Embracing Our Differences web site. It includes every years’ art selections & related quotes. With our cell phones on speaker and using an iPad we each went to www.embracingourdifferences.org, tapped the Galleries bar; and selected the 2020 Gallery. If you tap on any of the fifty winners chosen from 11,000 entries you will see the painting; the artist’s own description; and the quote assigned by a sixteen person volunteer committee. I asked Kaitlin to start at the beginning and scroll through but stop and we’d share our reactions whenever a particular piece grabbed her attention. She stopped at eight. Interestingly – at least for me – four were ones I had also liked doing my homework before calling her.
Kaitlin’s first stop was the painting by New Jersey artist, Ash DiCristofalo titled “Come Together” which had this assigned quote: “In a world full of talk, be the action that everyone so desperately wants.”
“I had asked Kaitlin why she liked it and wrote this: “Kaitlin said she liked the colors the artist used; that it included many different animals and kids connected and working all together to put out the fire.” I emailed this to Kaitlin and asked her to be my editor. Here’s what she sent back:
“Everything seems really good. Though the reason why I liked it was because of the style of the art. Art style is very important to every artist and can sometimes help portray what the artist is saying depending on what they do like heavy line art or unique colors, or if the style is realistic, cartoon-ish, or somewhere in between. I also liked the diversity in the piece, it wasn’t just one set of animals or humans. It was a large variety including everyone, which I think speaks something.”
At the risk of boring the reader with too many words and risk not seeing the forest from the trees here is DiCristofalo’s own statement about his creation: Not including it here would diminish its importance and impact.
“Inspired by the fires in the Amazon and the brave young people who speak out on behalf of the environment, I painted this to suggest that even when we are afraid of climate change and uncertain as to what will become of our Earth, we can still join one another in working to build a better world. Even though all the figures in the scene are feeling discouraged, scared and nervous about the future and they are all different from one another they have come together to put out the fires on Earth as a team.
The little girl leading the way is smiling slightly because, even though she’s frightened too, she knows that there is hope if we join others. With all of our diverse strengths combined we can achieve miracles.”
My own favorite was “Each Drop Counts”. It was done by fifth grader, Sakina Mandsaurwalla from Mumbai, India. It grabbed my heart. Think about this: A nine or ten year old girl 8000 miles away is able to impact the viewer instantly because of how vividly, simply, and clearly she captures two of the three greatest problems our world faces todayincome inequality and climate change. The differences between living on one side of the red line and being aware could not be clearer. If it doesn’t speak to adults in India or here in the United States now will it ever?
Here is Sakina’s statement about her painting: “This topic highlights the growing scarcity of water in rural India. I hope to inspire people in urban India to become aware of how easily resources are available to them- and to think twice before wasting precious resources. I think it is time for us to open our eyes to the suffering of those around us and value what is available to us. A little caution everyday will go a long way in quenching the thirst of all human beings.”
Sakina’s painting, the statement she wrote about it, perhaps with a little help from Ms. Arwa Udaipurwala her fifth grade teacher, and this selected quote by American Melanie Way from Wheatfield, Indiana:
“It isn’t about whether or not you CAN change the world; it’s whether or not you WILL”
brings me back full circle to the coronavirus and initial question for all of us: How do we cope? What do we do”.
Here’s my own answer and hope: I am acutely aware that I am blessed to have the luxury to have seen Sarasota’s Embracing Our Diversity exhibit; talk with the organization’s extremely knowledgable Executive Director, Sarah Wertheimer; the time to write; and many friends over many years with whom to share these musings. For me writing is a way to cope, deal with, and learn, especially in difficult hard to understand times, I hope it might help others a bit. But beyond that, my bigger hope is that the Boards and staff of organizations like the Boys & Girls Clubs find something herein or via the Embracing Our Differences exceptional web site to stimulate new ideas and actions. Actions that bring some joy, knowledge, and fun for our members and their families at home during this unique difficult, complicated, and scary time. It is America’s World War III. GO DO.
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Ibrahim Gambari: The Trails Of Treachery By Remi Oyeyemi
Prof. Gambari, like Salih Janta, also known as Shehu Alimi, his ancestor who murdered the Yorùbá owners of Ìlorin, uses subtlety, intricate relationship to gain your trust and put in the dagger when you're not expecting. The Gambaris of this world are the reasons for the aphorismic sobriquet "Ìlorin mèsú jàmbá." Literally, it means "Ìlorin, the treacherous."
by Remi Oyeyemi May 14, 2020
"Treacherous people do not last, only memories of their treason last."
- Amit Abraham, the founding Deputy Vice Chancellor at the Mount Zion International University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
In 1984, when Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi was first nominated as the Minister of External Affairs by General Ibrahim Babangida who was then the Chief of Army Staff under the regime of Muhammadu Buhari, General Tunde Idiagbon, who was Second-In-Command as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, and was from Kwara State had also nominated Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, a fellow Kwaran, for the same position.
Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi would be coming off as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in 1983. For whatever reasons, Prof. Gambari did not like the competition and the competitor. He went to works. He manufactured fatuous tall tales to malign the person and character of Prof. Akinyemi. He lied against him unabashedly. His fictitious stories were so powerful that Prof. Akinyemi was subjected to very serious interrogations and he was almost clamped into the gulag.
Prof. Gambari was successful in his campaign of calumny against Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi. He, Gambari, was eventually appointed by Mohammadu Buhari as Minister of External Affairs in 1984. He was in that office until 1985 when Buhari was overthrown by General Ibrahim Babangida for his tyranny as Head of State. Babangida finally replaced Prof. Gambari with Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi in that position. Prof. Akinyemi was there from 1985 to 1987 when he was succeeded by General Ike Nwachukwu. Remi Oyeyemi
That was not Prof. Gambari's first venomous act as a snake. And it was not his last. As I write this, three incumbent Ministers in the cabinet of Mohammed Buhari are trying to contain their disgust about his appointment. Two of them are Northerners and one of them, Southwesterner. They are all previous victims of perfidious venoms of Ibrahim Gambari, the man who goes about using a middle name, "Agboola", to suck in unsuspecting victims of Yorùbá stock as their fellow traveler before devouring them.
Prof. Ishaya Audu was the Minister of External Affairs under President Shehu Shagari, 1979 - 1983. How much he knew Prof. Gambari in 1981 was the basis on which he had warned Ambassador Oladapo Fafowora to beware of his new protégé "Agboolá" Gambari. Amb. Fafowora at that time, was holding fort as Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, in New York.
For those who have read Amb. Fafowora's comments on Prof. Gambari which had gone viral, what Amb. Fafowora did not disclose in those comments are legion. They are too personal and private and should be left out for the sake of Prof. Gambari's wife. The point is that Prof. Gambari has compiled a resume of treachery against several of his benefactors, friends, colleagues and mere acquaintances who might have come within his range.
Amb. Fafowora who himself has an intimidating resume, had been impressed with the accomplishments of a young lecturer who needed help. As a distinguished man of excellence himself and a product of Oxford as well as University of London, Amb. Fafowora was attracted to the brilliance of Prof. Gambari. I expected that to be natural for and to all brilliant minds unconsumed and uncontaminated with morbid ambition and subversive selfishness and egoism.
But unfortunately, for Amb. Fafowora and many of his ilk whose paths have crossed that of Prof. Gambari, his kind-hearted act towards the new Chief of Staff to President Buhari was what led to his early retirement from the service where he had for several decades, put in excellent and unblemished service. It is this kind of snakish and rankish acts of ingratitude propelled by unmitigatable ego and ambition that have robbed many innocent others of help that they might have received.
I met Prof. Gambari in New York in 1996. He was the Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations. We met for the first time in the evening of the day I had gone to testify at the Kansas' Senator Nancy Kassenbaum's inspired Senate Hearings on General Sani Abacha regime asking for sanctions. During our meeting, it was obvious what his mission was. But we could not click for obvious reasons. He was defending the Abacha Regime and I was against Abacha Regime on the account of which I had escaped Nigeria, a week after the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Since, I had watched Prof. Gambari from distance. He, like Abba Kyari, is a very brilliant mind. But his brilliance have been more often deployed to dastardly acts. What is the use of a brilliance deployed to inflict misery on others? What is the value of the brilliance deployed to the destruction of others? What is the use of a brilliance only handy for the subversion of others? What is the race of life about that it would inform one's brilliance not to help others, but to destroy them?
His public statements, to me, are the definitions of his character and philosophy. His education have not rubbed off on him. Prof. Gambari and his immediate predecessor as the Chief of Staff to President Buhari have shown that going to great and famous schools are not determinants of great character. Living a life of subterfuge and subversion of others evidently are flagships of their characters. Prof. Gambari is dirty and dingy. It is unfortunate that his kind of character is the type who get to lead in this contraption called Nigeria.
He defended Abacha Regime very truculently. He made it clear in his utterances and statements that he was anti - people. He, without remorse and for his own selfish ends, edified tyranny and the destruction of democracy. This obviously was easier for him as a Fulani hegemonist. As a scion of a feudalist institution already percolating as rulers over another man's land that doesn't belong to them in whatever fashion, his acts of treacheries are not out of character.
To someone like Prof. Gambari, fairness has no meaning. Justice is an anathema. Balance is a pariah. Equity is an enemy. Gratitude is an abomination, because they feel entitled even to things that are not theirs. For Prof. Gambari whose forefathers betrayed Afonja and took over Ìlorin by murdering him and members of his household, being grateful is a taboo. They are emotional, economic, political and intellectual predators.
Prof. Gambari, like Salih Janta, also known as Shehu Alimi, his ancestor who murdered the Yorùbá owners of Ìlorin, uses subtlety, intricate relationship to gain your trust and put in the dagger when you're not expecting. The Gambaris of this world are the reasons for the aphorismic sobriquet "Ìlorin mèsú jàmbá." Literally, it means "Ìlorin, the treacherous." Though, this is often trivialised as jokes and used as banters nowadays, it is not a compliment by any means.
The beauty of History is that it is a wonderful guide for future events. Every treachery in History always had expiry dates. The Ìlorin treachery would expire at the appropriate time. It would not be the first and it won't be the last. No matter how long it lasts, it would expire. No amount of instruments of power of the Nigeria State would suffice. In fact, Nigeria itself is on the fast pace down the drain and it might not even subsist by the time History comes.
As the new Chief of Staff to the President, millions like me have no expectations from Ibrahim Gambari. He is a perfect choice for a regime of hegemonic zealots. Himself, a Yoru - phobic fanatic, a scion of feudalism and heir of serfdom, he had once said that Nigerians needed not democracy but food. It could be inferred that the pseudo democracy in operation under this Buhari's Presidency would suffer more. And hopefully, now that he is back in government, we wait to see how he makes food available to Nigerians.
For those who would be dealing with him in this dispensation, it is important that they stay alert and tread very carefully. With smiles that do not go beyond the lips, any of them could be sucked into their political demise. It was Emily Thorne, a fictional character and the main protagonist of the ABC television series "Revenge" that once insisted, "For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve." Over and over, time has proved her right.
©Remi Oyeyemi.
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Sorry Fox News, the War on Christmas Began a Long Time Ago
Jason Micheli — December 5, 2013 — 4 Comments
What’s become more traditional this time of year than tree-trimming, shitty Rod Stewart Christmas albums and the Christmas Story marathon on TNT?
Fox News’ War on Christmas.
Like the ability of a fat dead ancient slave elf-holding saint to squeeze down my chimney unnoticed in the night, the “War on Christmas” is
A) mostly make believe and
B) a crass, gift-wrapped excuse to turn a profit.
In this case, Fox’s.
As Gail Collins writes in the NY Times:
Some social conservatives embrace a seasonal victimhood this time of year, complaining that Christians are continually being mugged by anti-Christmas atheists bearing court orders.
In its ongoing effort to protect the American public from the War on Christmas, Fox News has a special online map highlighting current reported atrocities. I am looking at it now, and the message is clear: as problems go, this one is imaginary.
Or as Sarah Palin (I wish she’d poke her eye out moose hunting) puts it in her new-straight-to-the-discount-bin book, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas:
[The War on Christmas is] “the tip of the spear in a larger battle to secularize our culture and make true religious freedom a thing of America’s past.”
Let me be clear, this isn’t cheap Fox News or Sarah Palin bashing.
Like Palin- if one can suspend disbelief and judge her alarm-sounding to be motivated by sincerity instead of sales- I believe secularism is rapidly advancing threat to orthodox Christian belief.
I believe secularism will prove to be the greatest and perhaps gravest challenge the Christian Church has faced in her 2 millennia of Jesus-following.
But the hyperbole and sloganeering around a “War on Christmas” obscures the fact that secularism is not a new phenomenon.
Cultural shifts and rival world views do not appear overnight or even in a generation.
Fox’s obsession with the “War on Christmas” (and the liberals waging it) misleads its (conservative) audience into believing that they too are not happy warriors for the advancing secularist front.
In fact, the secularization decried by Palin et al is at least 300 years old. It began not with the election of Bill Clinton but with the Enlightenment.
How old is America again?
And therein lies the bitter irony about Fox News’ obsession with the “War on Christmas” because the Enlightenment’s vaunting of the individual, personal liberty and the supremacy of reason, its consignment of religion to the private interior of the believer and its resultant eviction of God from the public square not only gave birth to secular modernity but to America as well.
More to the point, America would not have been possible without the very same paradigm-shift that made secularism possible.
The worldview otherwise promoted wholeheartedly by Fox News had as its inevitable outcome the secularism seasonally scorned by Fox News.
Taking Christ out of Xmas began when the Founders put him in believers’ individual hearts where he couldn’t mess anything too important in the real world.
The “religious freedom” Palin rhapsodizes is in fact the first-born love baby of the secular Enlightenment.
What the “War on Christmas” provocateurs seem not to understand is that secularism is a much bigger enemy to Christianity than Fox News imagines.
And its one both (political) conservatives and liberals are fighting for.
Liberals fight for it when they insist that Christians remain in the closet.
Conservatives fight for it when they insist on the primacy of laissez faire- even if they use the veneer of religiosity to do it.
If you think I’m wrong, look no further than the way in which American (political) conservatives have reacted to a non-American conservative:
Pope Francis.
When conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are given to calling Pope Francis a ‘Marxist’ you can be sure the “Christmas” they wish to defend has little to do with Christ and more to do with their version of ‘America.’
Of course, when liberals assume a (conservative) Christian like Pope Francis is actually one of them- simply because he cares about the poor and critiques callous capitalism- you can be sure they’re every bit as secular as their conservative counterparts.
In Postings Enlightenment, Fox News, Pope Francis, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Secularism, War on Christmas
Fox News’ Reza Aslan Interview (The Parody)
Jason Micheli — August 25, 2013 — 1 Comment
Starting after Labor Day, we’re doing a sermon series that will address some of the questions and claims of Reza Aslan’s meteoric (thanks to Fox News’ embarrassing prejudiced interview) book, Zealot.
You can read some of my reactions to the book, here and here.
Here’s a clever send-up of the interview. It’s funny, though, I don’t know if anything can quite match how ridiculous was the actual interview itself.
In Postings Fox News, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Reza Aslan, Zealot
Fox News and Glenn Beck are Right (as in correct)! Christianity is Under Attack!
In Egypt, that is.
For the Gospel announcement to be both intelligible and credible in the world, Christians must exist in fellowship and solidarity with one another as one, global Body of Christ for whom Cross and Empty Tomb are more determinative for our identity than flags, tribes, languages or markets.
This is all just empty bible-speak unless Christians in one part of the world know and pray for Christians in another part of the world.
Sadly, many Christians in America do not think Christians exist in parts of the world other than the ones to which they’ve sent missionaries.
Even more would answer ‘No’ if you asked them if there were Christian communities in the Middle East. And still more have never heard of a ‘Coptic’ (as in way, way, way older than any version of Christianity American Catholics or Protestants have ever run across) Church.
Meanwhile many liberal Christians think it unseemly to show concern for brothers and sisters in Christ in other corners of the globe- favoritism and all.
Lost in much of the news of Egypt (and the rest of the news in the Middle East) is how the Christians there are weathering the tumult. Which, to my mind, makes it all the more loathsome how pols in the US consistently present American Christianity as a besieged, persecuted minority within an unholy Empire.
There are real Christians out there dying for or at least because of their faith. But most often they’re in places we’re too busy for and in contexts that don’t fit into cute soundbites.
This from the Daily Beast:
During these volatile and violent days in Egypt, Coptic Christians have found themselves increasingly under threat. Some Morsi supporters blame the Christians for their downfall because Christians backed the army and participated in the mass protests that sparked Morsi’s overthrow. The attack on the church in Hakim was one of several that reportedly took place following the army’s brutal crackdown on Islamist protesters Wednesday.
The exact number of attacks across the country is still unclear. But on Thursday, Egypt’s interior ministry said that seven churches had been burned while a Christian activist group, the Maspero Youth Union, put the number at 17. “This is a reaction,” said Saad.
On Wednesday, Egyptian security forces cleared a central square in Cairo where Morsi supporters had been staging a weeks-long protest. Ensuing violent clashes reportedly cost the lives of at least 525 people and injured 3,700 others.
In response to the bloodshed, President Barack Obama warned that Egypt was on a “dangerous path,” as he criticized both the crackdowns in Cairo and the church attacks in a speech on Thursday. “The cycle of violence and escalation needs to stop,” Obama said.
Obama also canceled an upcoming joint military exercise with Egypt and suggested that more changes could be in store. “While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back,” he said.
Officials from Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood told the Daily Beast that the group and its allies were not to blame for any church burnings or aggression. “Let me put it this way: the Muslim Brotherhood is completely against violence,” said Ahmed Aref, an official spokesman for the group. Instead, he suggested that security forces might be behind the attacks as part of a ploy to turn public opinion further against the Islamists. He conceded, though, that some hardcore Morsi supporters could have been involved. “This might be a reaction from some people who are angry, but that doesn’t mean that we agree at all,” he said.
“It is not Christians against Muslims. It’s Christians and Muslims against extremists who are taking down the country.”
In Postings Coptic Christians, Egypt, Fox News, Glenn Beck
§11.1: Karl Barth vs. Reza Aslan & Fox News
Jason Micheli — August 9, 2013 — 4 Comments
Like the Almighty Narnian lion that bears his name, the arrival Reza Aslan’s new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth has been felt across the cultural landscape.
Thanks to (possibly in reaction against?) a prejudice-confirming, cringe-inducing interview on Fox News Aslan’s book has ascended to the top of bestseller lists, which are usually less interested in Jesus than they are in life lessons gleaned from dogs.
If not for the viral Fox News interview and the author’s own Muslim biography, Aslan’s book might have disappeared with nary a notice like the many that have come and gone before it.
I think this most certainly would’ve been its fate. I say this because, unlike the Fox ‘journalist’ who interviewed Reza Aslan, I’ve actually read his book.
And while his arguments may be challenging for Christians and the questions raised by them good ones,
Aslan essentially regurgitates 19th century German historical-biblical criticism that first posited and then went down the rabbit-hole searching for the ‘real’ Jesus of history behind the propagandized Jesus of faith put forward by the authors of the New Testament.
It’s a happy coincidence that Karl Barth can enter this conversation through 2 different doorways- 3 if you want to talk about how Barth, author or the Barmen Declaration, would feel about the jingoism frequently on display on Fox News.
Door #1:
Karl Barth’s theological program, first in his commentary on Romans and later in the CD, was an explicit attempt to disavow the 19th century German theological and biblical scholarship mentioned above, which Barth had inherited as a student near the turn of the century.
Barth had seen firsthand, in the capitulation of the Church to the Kaiser in WWI and in the horrors committed by German ‘Christians’ in WWII, the devastating effects of searching for a Jesus of history rather than submitting to the Jesus of faith. If the root sin beneath all sins is idolatry- our wishing to fashion a god in our image- then Barth believed constructing a portrait of the ‘historical Jesus’ had proved a fatal temptation.
Before anyone gets too excited about Zealot, I think Barth would caution that historical Jesus conjectures made possible the Nazis’ de-judaizing Jesus which made possible their dehumanizing of Jews.
One of arguments- asides really- in Aslan’s book is that the New Testament’s portrayal of Jesus as possessing the power to perform miracles is hardly a novel conceit. Jesus of Nazareth was certainly not the only miracle worker in 1st century Palestine, Aslan argues. Jesus’ ability to perform miracles, he says, does not prove or even imply his divinity, a status later believers attributed to Jesus.
Aslan is correct in his assessment that Jesus was only one among many miracle-workers in Palestine.
In his suggestion that the New Testament does not present Jesus as uniquely singular miracle worker, Aslan is not only wrong he proves to be a shabby read of scripture.
Illustrating the adage that there’s nothing new under the sun, Karl Barth in §11.1 serves up a solid rejoinder to arguments like Aslan’s.
Just think, Barth writes, that the oldest Christian confession- older even than any part of the NT- is ‘Jesus is Kyrios.’
Consider that Jews, for whom the first commandment was sacrosanct and the reason behind centuries of suffering, would, within the first generation of disciples, call anyone but God ‘Lord.’
Jews had routinely irked Caesar’s ire for refusing to call him ‘lord.’
But quickly after Good Friday many took to calling Jesus ‘Lord.’
As Barth writes:
‘…it cannot possibly have happened unawares and unintentionally that this word (kyrios) used to translate the name of God Yahweh-Adonai was then applied to Jesus.’
Aslan notes that later believers attributed to Jesus claims Jesus himself did not make for himself; however, Aslan fails to mention that those believers would’ve been breaking the first and overarching commandment by doing so…unless something (like a Resurrection) had convinced them that this Jesus and Yahweh were one and the same.
Barth then turns to a miracle stories to illustrate this point.
The Gospels’ miracles stories do not suggest Jesus’ divinity by pointing to his ability to perform miracles. They do so by what is said in the miracles stories.
Take the healing of the paralytic in Mark. The story turns not on Jesus’ wonder-working but on a dispute about who has the power (ie, authority) to forgive sins.
To the Pharisees’ consternation, Jesus claims authority that belongs to God alone. The Pharisees, it should be pointed out to Aslan, accuse Jesus of what?
Blasphemy.
Ignoring their outrage, Jesus forgives the paralytic and heals him. The actual miracle here, Barth notes, is a secondary feature to the story.
The act of the miracle, Barth writes, is meant by the author as a visible confirmation that ‘the word spoken is God’s Word’ and, I would continue the logic, that the one who spoke that word is God.
Barth:
“This is the meaning of the miracles ascribed to Jesus (and expressly to his apostles too…) and it marks off these miracles, however we assess them materially, as at any rate something very distinct amid the plethora miracle stories in that whole period.”
In Postings Barmen Declaration, Church Dogmatics, Fox News, Karl Barth, Miracles, Reading Barth with Me, Reza Aslan, Zealot
The Zealotry Towards Reza Aslan’s Zealot Book
Was Jesus a zealot, a political revolutionary who died on the cross because he resisted the government?
Or was Jesus the Jewish Messiah who died on the cross for Sin?
Which is the real Jesus and, more importantly, how can we know?
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan, is currently a #1New York Times Best-Selling Book in large part due to an interview with the author that went viral on the internet.
Aslan, a Muslim who emigrated from Iran USA when he was 7, is a professor at the University of California-Riverside. His book became an Internet sensation after a July 26 interview on Fox News, which a reported repeatedly asked Aslan why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus.
In the book, Zealot, Aslan argues that the Jesus of history was not the Christ of faith.
The ‘real’ Jesus, Aslan writes, was a political revolutionary whose preaching about the Kingdom of God was a call to rebel against the Roman Empire.
According to Aslan, dogma about Jesus being the Christ and the Son of God was attributed to Jesus much later by the Church.
While Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth has shot to the top of the best seller lists, the arguments in it are not new ones for the Church.
Several of you have asked me my thoughts on both the Fox interview and the claims in the book.
My irate reactions to former however make me hesitant to offer my more sober reactions to the latter.
Fortunately Ross Douthat, a writer for the NY Times and occupant on Jason’s Man-Crush Top Ten List, says it far better than I could:
BEFORE “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Gospel of Judas,” before Mel Gibson’s “Passion” and Martin Scorsese’s “Last Temptation,” before the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed and the Gnostic gospels rediscovered, there was a German scholar named Hermann Samuel Reimarus.
It was Reimarus, writing in the 18th century, who basically invented the modern Jesus wars, by postulating a gulf between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith. The real Jesus of Nazareth, he argued, was a political revolutionary who died disappointed, and whose disciples invented a resurrection — and with it, a religion — to make sense of his failure.
In Reimarus’s lifetime these were dangerous ideas, and his argument was published posthumously. But within a few generations, historical-Jesus controversies inspired publicity rather than persecution. By the Victorian era, when the Earl of Shaftesbury attacked David Friedrich Strauss’s “Life of Jesus, Critically Examined” as “the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell,” he was just contributing to the book’s success.
Today there are enough competing “real Jesuses” that it’s hard for a would-be Strauss to find his Shaftesbury. Which is why every reinterpreter of Jesus not named Dan Brown is probably envious of Reza Aslan, the Iranian-born academic and author of “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,” who achieved Strauss-style liftoff thanks to 10 painful minutes on Fox News.
Those minutes were spent with the interviewer, Lauren Green, asking Aslan to explain why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus — with Aslan coolly emphasizing his credentials and the non-Islamic nature of his argument — and then with Green asking variations on the Muslim question, to increasing offense and diminishing returns.
The video quickly went viral, turning Aslan into a culture-war icon, a martyr to Fox’s biases … and soon enough (as these things tend to go) a martyr with a No. 1 best seller.
The irony is that Aslan’s succès de scandale would be more deserved if he had actually written in defense of the Islamic view of Jesus. That would have been something provocative and — to Western readers — relatively new.
Instead, Aslan’s book offers a more engaging version of the argument Reimarus made 250 years ago. His Jesus is an essentially political figure, a revolutionary killed because he challenged Roman rule, who was then mysticized by his disciples and divinized by Paul of Tarsus.
The fact that Aslan’s take on Jesus is not original doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong. But it has the same problem that bedevils most of his competitors in the “real Jesus” industry. In the quest to make Jesus more comprehensible, it makes Christianity’s origins more mysterious.
Part of the lure of the New Testament is the complexity of its central character — the mix of gentleness and zeal, strident moralism and extraordinary compassion, the down-to-earth and the supernatural.
Most “real Jesus” efforts, though, assume that these complexities are accretions, to be whittled away to reach the historical core. Thus instead of a Jesus who contains multitudes, we get Jesus the nationalist or Jesus the apocalyptic prophet or Jesus the sage or Jesus the philosopher and so on down the list.
There’s enough gospel material to make any of these portraits credible. But they also tend to be rather, well, boring, and to raise the question of how a pedestrian figure — one zealot among many, one mystic in a Mediterranean full of them — inspired a global faith.
That’s not a question such books are usually designed to answer. They’re better seen as laments for paths not taken, Christianities that might have been. The mystical Jesus is for readers who wish we had the parables without the creeds, the philosophical Jesus for readers who wish Christianity had developed like the Ethical Culture movement. And a political Jesus like Aslan’s is for readers who feel, as one of his reviewers put it, that “Jesus’ usefulness as a challenge to power was lost the moment Christians first believed he rose from the dead.”
This means that the best companion reading for “Zealot” probably isn’t an alternative portrayal of Jesus’s life and times. Rather, it’s a recent book like the classicist Sarah Ruden’s “Paul Among the People” or the theologian David Bentley Hart’s “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies.”
Coming from different vantage points — Ruden is more theologically liberal, Hart more conservative — both authors explore just how radical the actual Christian revolution was, how it upended the ancient world’s violent, patriarchal, hierarchical norms, and how many liberal, modern and egalitarian attitudes are indebted to early Christian zeal.
Theirs aren’t arguments on behalf of a particular vision of who Jesus really was. They’re briefs against the assumption that some other interpretation of his life would have necessarily had more dramatic, congenial or significant results.
And they’re reminders that every modern account of how an alternative Christianity might have changed the world is itself indebted to the many ways the historical Christianity actually did.
In Postings Christ of Faith, Fox News, Jesus of History, Jesus Wars, Reza Aslan, Ross Douthat, Zealot Book
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physical picture, infant water striders cannot swim, an inference referred to as Denny’s paradox [4].
The Reynolds number characterizing the adult leg stroke is Re
The Reynolds number characterizing the adult leg stroke is Re = UL<sub>2</sub>/υ ~ 10<sup>3</sup>; where U ~ 100 cm/s is the peak leg speed and L<sub>2</sub> < 0.3 cm is the length of the rowing leg’s tarsal segment, which prescribes the size of the dynamic meniscus forced by the leg stroke. For the 0.01-s duration of the stroke, the driving legs apply a total force F < 50 dynes, the magnitude of which was deduced independently by measuring the strider’s acceleration and leaping height. The applied force per unit length along its driving legs is thus approximately 50/0.6 < 80 dynes/cm. An applied force per unit length in excess of 2σ < 140 dynes/cm will result in the strider penetrating the free surface. The water strider is thus ideally tuned to life at the water surface: it applies as great a force as possible without jeopardizing its status as a water-walker.
UL2=n<103; where U < 100 cm s21 is the peak leg speed and
L2 < 0.3 cm is the length of the rowing leg’s tarsal segment (see
The propulsion of a one-day-old first-instar is shown in Fig. 2. Particle tracking revealed that the infant strider transfers momentum to the fluid through dipolar vortices shed by its rowing motion. Video images captured from a side view indicated that the dipolar vortices were roughly hemispherical, with a characteristic radius R < 0.4 cm. The vertical extent of the hemispherical vortices greatly exceeds the static meniscus depth, 120 um, but is comparable to the maximum penetration depth of
Figs 1b and 2), which prescribes the size of the dynamic meniscus
the meniscus adjoining the driving leg, 0.1 cm. A strider of mass M ~ 0.01 g achieves a characteristic speed V ~ 100 cm/s and
forced by the leg stroke23. For the 0.01-s duration of the stroke, the
so has a momentum P = MV ~ 1 g cm/s. The total momentum in the pair of dipolar vortices of mass M<sub>v</sub> ~ 2πR<sup>3</sup>/3 is P<sub>v</sub> = 2M<sub>v</sub>V<sub>v</sub> ~ 1 gcm/s, and so comparable to that of the strider. The leg stroke may also produce a capillary wave packet, whose contribution to the momentum transfer may be calculated. According to the author's calculation from measurements, the net momentum carried by the capillary wave packet thus has a maximum value
driving legs apply a total force F < 50 dynes, the magnitude of
P<sub>w</sub> ~ 0.05 g cm/s, an order of magnitude less than the momentum of the strider.
which was deduced independently by measuring the strider’s acceleration
and leaping height. The applied force per unit length along
its driving legs is thus approximately 50/0.6 < 80 dynes cm21. An
applied force per unit length in excess of 2j < 140 dynes cm21 will
result in the strider penetrating the free surface. The water strider is
thus ideally tuned to life at the water surface: it applies as great a
force as possible without jeopardizing its status as a water-walker.
The leg stroke may also produce a capillary wave packet, whose
contribution to the momentum transfer may be calculated. We
consider linear monochromatic deep-water capillary waves with
surface deflection z(x,t) aei(kx2qt) propagating in the x-direction
with a group speed c g dq/dk, phase speed c q/k, amplitude a,
wavelength l 2p/k and lateral extent W. The time-averaged
horizontal momentum associated with a single wavelength,
Pw pjka2Wc21, may be computed from the velocity field and
relations between wave kinetic energy and momentum21,25. Our
measurements indicate that the leg stroke typically generates a wave
train consisting of three waves with characteristic wavelength
l < 1 cm, phase speed c < 30 cm s21, amplitude a < 0.01–
0.05 cm, and width L2 < 0.3 cm (see Fig. 3c). The net momentum
carried by the capillary wave packet thus has a maximum value
Pw < 0.05 g cms21, an order of magnitude less than the momentum
of the strider.
The momentum transported by vortices in the wake of the water
By Sung Hoon Kang
Title: The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion
Reference: David L. Hu, Brian Chan and John W. M. Bush, Nature 424, 663 (2003).
1 Soft matter keywords
2 Abstract from the original paper
3 Soft matter example
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surface tension, hydrophobic, capillary
Abstract from the original paper
Water striders Gerridae are insects of characteristic length 1 cm and weight 10 dynes that reside on the surface of ponds, rivers, and the open ocean. Their weight is supported by the surface tension force generated by curvature of the free surface, and they propel themselves by driving their central pair of hydrophobic legs in a sculling motion. Previous investigators have assumed that the hydrodynamic propulsion of the water strider relies on momentum transfer by surface waves. This assumption leads to Denny’s paradox: infant water striders, whose legs are too slow to generate waves, should be incapable of propelling themselves along the surface. We here resolve this paradox through reporting the results of high-speed video and particle tracking studies. Experiments reveal that the strider transfers momentum to the underlying fluid not primarily through capillary waves, but rather through hemispherical vortices shed by its driving legs. This insight guided us in constructing a self-contained mechanical water strider whose means of propulsion is analogous to that of its natural counterpart.
Soft matter example
Hydronamics of the surface locomotion of semiaquatic insects is an interesting subject which is not well understood. In general, there are two ways of walking on water depending on the relative magnitudes of the body weight (Mg) and the maximum curvature force (σP), where M is the body mass, g is the gravitational acceleration,σ is the surface tension and the P is the contract perimeter of the water-walker [1].
Water-walkers with Mc = Mg/σP > 1, such as the basilisk lizard, uses the force generated by their feet slapping the surface and propelling water downward, whereas creatures with Mc = Mg/σP < 1, such as the wter strider rely on the curvature force by distortion of the free surface as shown in Fig. 1. They have non-wetting body and legs covered by thousands of hairs [2-3].
Fig. 1. Natural and mechanical water striders. a, An adult water strider Gerris remigis. b, The static strider on the free surface, distortion of which generates the curvature force per unit leg length 2σ sin θ that supports the strider’s weight. c, An adult water strider facing its mechanical counterpart. Robostrider is 9 cm long, weighs 0.35 g, and has proportions consistent with those of its natural counterpart. Its legs, composed of 0.2-mm. gauge stainless steel wire, are hydrophobic and its body was fashioned from lightweight aluminium. Robostrider is powered by an elastic thread (spring constant 310 dynes cm-1) running the length of its body and coupled to its driving legs through a pulley. The resulting force per unit length along the driving legs is 55 dynes cm-1. Scale bars, 1 cm.
The force balance on a stationary water strider can be written as Mg = Fb + Fc, where Fb is the buoyancy force and Fc is the curvature force. Fb is obtained by integrating the hydrostatic pressure over the body area in contact with the water, while Fc is deduced by integrating the curvature pressure over this area, or equivalently the vetical component of the surface tension, σ sin θ, along the contact perimeter (Fig. 1b). For a long thin water-strider leg, this ratio is Fb/Fc ~ w/Lc <<1, where the leg radius, w ~ 40 um, the capillary length, Lc = (σ/ρg)1/2 ~ 2 mm, and ρ, the density of water. The strider's weight is supported almost by surface tension.
For the water strider to move, it should transfer momentum to the underlying fluid. It has been previously assumed that capillary waves are the sole means to accomplish this momentum transfer. Denny suggested that the leg speed of the infant water strider is less than the minimum phase speed of surface waves, cm =
(4gσ/ρ) ~ 23.2 cm/s [4-5]; consequently, the infants are incapable of generating waves and so transferring momentum to the underlying fluid. According to this physical picture, infant water striders cannot swim, an inference referred to as Denny’s paradox [4].
The Reynolds number characterizing the adult leg stroke is Re = UL2/υ ~ 103; where U ~ 100 cm/s is the peak leg speed and L2 < 0.3 cm is the length of the rowing leg’s tarsal segment, which prescribes the size of the dynamic meniscus forced by the leg stroke. For the 0.01-s duration of the stroke, the driving legs apply a total force F < 50 dynes, the magnitude of which was deduced independently by measuring the strider’s acceleration and leaping height. The applied force per unit length along its driving legs is thus approximately 50/0.6 < 80 dynes/cm. An applied force per unit length in excess of 2σ < 140 dynes/cm will result in the strider penetrating the free surface. The water strider is thus ideally tuned to life at the water surface: it applies as great a force as possible without jeopardizing its status as a water-walker.
The propulsion of a one-day-old first-instar is shown in Fig. 2. Particle tracking revealed that the infant strider transfers momentum to the fluid through dipolar vortices shed by its rowing motion. Video images captured from a side view indicated that the dipolar vortices were roughly hemispherical, with a characteristic radius R < 0.4 cm. The vertical extent of the hemispherical vortices greatly exceeds the static meniscus depth, 120 um, but is comparable to the maximum penetration depth of the meniscus adjoining the driving leg, 0.1 cm. A strider of mass M ~ 0.01 g achieves a characteristic speed V ~ 100 cm/s and so has a momentum P = MV ~ 1 g cm/s. The total momentum in the pair of dipolar vortices of mass Mv ~ 2πR3/3 is Pv = 2MvVv ~ 1 gcm/s, and so comparable to that of the strider. The leg stroke may also produce a capillary wave packet, whose contribution to the momentum transfer may be calculated. According to the author's calculation from measurements, the net momentum carried by the capillary wave packet thus has a maximum value Pw ~ 0.05 g cm/s, an order of magnitude less than the momentum of the strider.
The momentum transported by vortices in the wake of the water strider is comparable to that of the strider, and greatly in excess of that transported in the capillary wave field; moreover, the striders are capable of propelling themselves without generating discernible capillary waves. We thus conclude that capillary waves do not play an essential role in the propulsion of Gerridae, and thereby circumvent Denny’s paradox. The strider generates its thrust by rowing, using its legs as oars and its menisci as blades. As in the case of rowing boats, while waves are an inevitable consequence of the rowing action, they do not play a significant role in themomentumtransfer necessary for propulsion. We note that their mode of propulsion relies on the Reynolds number exceeding a critical value of approximately 100, suggesting a bound on the minimum size of water striders. Our continuing studies ofwater strider dynamics will followthose of birds, insects and fish11,15,16 in characterizing the hydrodynamic forces acting on the body through detailed examination of the flows generated during the propulsive stroke.
[1] Vogel, S. Life in Moving Fluids (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1994).
[2] Andersen, N. M. A comparative study of locomotion on the water surface in semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Vidensk. Meddr. Dansk. Naturh. Foren. 139, 337–396 (1976).
[3] de Gennes, P.-G., Brochard-Wyart, F. & Quere, D. Gouttes, Boules, Perles et Ondes (Belin, Collection Echelles, Paris, 2002).
[4] Denny, M.W. Air andWater: The Biology and Physics of Life’sMedia (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1993).
[5] Lamb, H. Hydrodynamics, 6th edn (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1932).
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The rashes and bruises had still not gone. Her shoulder was wounded. The blouse torn. I could see the birthmark on her right shoulder clearly through the blouse. She wept. Wept, sobbed and wailed like a small child. Tears were rolling down her cheek. ” I am tired, Madhi. Let me sleep.” I remember the…
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Prediction of soil salinity spatial distribution and its management implications for rice production in Magozi Irrigation Scheme, Iringa, Tanzania
Department of Soil and Geological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations Collection
Isdory, D. P.
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) plays an important role in improving household food security and national economies in Sub-Saharan Africa including Tanzania. There is an increase in annual per capita consumption of rice in Tanzania from 20.5 in 2001 to about 25 - 30 kg year -1 in 2011 coupled with an increase in population. Despite the increase in rice consumption, the current rice production in Tanzania is still as low as 2.3 t ha -1 while the potential rice yields are 4 to 10 t ha -1 in the country. Reasons for low rice production include poor agronomic practices and land degradation. Soil salinity which refers to the content of soluble salts in the soil is one of the main land degradation problems in many rice growing irrigation schemes in Tanzania. Managing soil salinity in irrigated agriculture is crucial for minimizing its negative effects and for ensuring the long-term sustainability of irrigated agriculture. To achieve this, adequate and accurate information on the magnitude and spatial distribution of soil salinity is required. The knowledge on the nature and properties of soils from pedological characterization studies is also vital in planning the best use and management of soils in crop production. Magozi Irrigation Scheme is one of the rice producing irrigation schemes with an area of 1300 ha in Iringa, Tanzania. The farmers of Magozi depend on rice production from this scheme as their main economic activity. Despite the importance of rice production in this irrigation scheme, the production yields are generally low where the average rice yields have been reported to be 3.05 t ha -1 while the potential yield in the area is 4.06 t ha -1 . There is no detailed study that has focused on addressing soil salinity problem in this irrigation scheme to understand the magnitude and its spatial distribution. This research assessed soil salinity and used GIS-based approach to predict spatial distribution of soil salinity. The study further recommends the soil, crop and irrigation management options that will contribute enhancement of sustainable rice production at Magozi Irrigation Scheme. In order to understand the nature and properties of soils in this irrigation scheme, the first specific objective was a study on pedological characterization whereby three (3) representative soil profiles namely MAG-P1, MAG-P2 and MAG-P3 were opened and characterized for their soil morphological, physical and chemical properties. The soils were then classified to the family level using USDA Soil Taxonomy and to the Tier 2 in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB). The second specific objective focused on a study to develop a linear regression model that can be used to predict electrical conductivity of the saturated paste extract (EC e ) from values of electrical conductivity measured in soil to water suspension (EC 1:2.5 ). The EC e is a globally used soil salinity index for assessing plant response to salinity. A total of 60 soil samples (45 samples for model training and 15 samples for model validation) were collected and analyzed for soil EC 1:2.5 , EC e and soil texture. A linear regression model relating EC e and EC 1:2.5 was developed and validated for use in the next study. Lastly, the study assessed soil salinity and used GIS-based approach to predict spatial distribution of soil salinity in Magozi Irrigation Scheme. A total of 81 geo-referenced soil samples at a depth of 0 - 30 cm collected from the scheme were analyzed for soil physical and chemical properties where EC e was used as the main soil salinity index. The soil salinity spatial distribution map of the scheme based on EC e was generated using Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) interpolation method in Geographic Information System (GIS). The results on pedological characterization showed that the soils were moderately deep to very deep with vertic characteristics varying in degree of expression. Based on silt/clay ratios, the soils of Magozi Irrigation Scheme are relatively young with high degree of weathering potential. According to the USDA Soil Taxonomy, the soils were classified as Typic Haplusterts (MAG-P1), Vertic Endoaquepts (MAG-P3) and Vertic Epiaquepts (MAG-P3) while in WRB for Soil Resources they were classified as Haplic Vertisols, Eutric Vertic Cambisols and Eutric Vertic Stagnic Cambisols for MAG-P1, MAG-P2 and MAG-P3 respectively. The information from this study is crucial in planning the best use and management options of the soils of Magozi Irrigation Scheme. The linear regression model EC e = 3.4954*EC 1:2.5 (R 2 = 0.956) was developed from the study which focused on relating EC e with EC 1:2.5 to facilitate accurate soil salinity assessment in this area through predicting EC e from EC 1:2.5 values. The results on soil salinity assessment study indicated that soil salinity in terms of EC e ranged from non- saline (0.24 dS m -1 ) to extremely saline (33.3 dS m -1 ) with an EC e mean of 2.5 dS m -1 being slightly saline. The mean EC e value of 2.5 dS m -1 recorded in this area is high enough to cause 10 to 25 % crop yield reduction from the total yield. In terms of rice response to salinity and effects in its production, the mean EC e value of 2.5 dS m -1 is very close to 3 dS m -1 which is the EC e threshold for rice crop. The EC e showed positive significant correlation at p≤0.05 significance level with soil Cl - (r = 0.459), exchangeable Na (r = 0.341), ESP (r = 0.302) and SAR (r = 0.320). The soil salinity spatial distribution map indicated that out of 1300 ha of the cultivated land, about 622.21 ha (47.86%) were slightly saline to extremely saline soils. This research work found that soil salinity is a growing land degradation problem in Magozi Irrigation Scheme. This may be due to poor soil and irrigation management practices as well as poor drainage structures leading to waterlogging problems which promote salt accumulation in the soil. Therefore, suitable irrigation, crop and soil management practices must be adopted by the farmers to reduce soil salinity development for sustainable rice production in the scheme. It is recommended that the farmers should be encouraged to adopt efficient rice farming technologies such as the system of rice intensification (SRI), improve irrigation drainage channels and adopt growing of salt tolerant rice varieties such as SATO 1 as well as use of inorganic and organic fertilizers.
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Churches in West Yorkshire
St Matthew (Allerton)
Weekday: Monday, Thursday 9.00am
Saturday: 12.00pm(2nd & 4th Saturday)
Sunday: 9.15am;
+ 6.00pm(1st & 3rd Saturday ONLY, Saturday vigil)
Confessions: 2nd & 4th Saturdays
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Saffron Drive, Allerton, Bradford, BD15 7NQ
Latest information provided directly by email from website user.
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-matthew-bradford
Last updated on Sunday, 8th December 2019 Report Corrections
Holy Family (Armley)
Weekday: 9.30am
Saturday: 9.30am
Sunday: 6.30pm (vigil), 10.00am
Holyday of Obligation: 9.30am, 7.30pm
Confessions: Saturday 11.00-11.45am
Green Lane, Armley, Leeds, LS12 1HU
Link to church website: http://www.holyfamilyls12.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/holy-family-parish-of-st-gianna-beretta-molla-leeds
Last updated on Thursday, 20th December 2018 Report Corrections
St Aidan (Baildon)
Weekday:
Tuesday 7.00pm
Friday 12.00pm
Sunday: 11.00am
Confessions: Tuesday 6.45-7.00pm
Baildon Road, Baildon, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD17 6AQ
Link to church website: http://www.stteresabenedicta.org
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-aidan-parish-of-st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-shipley
Last updated on Tuesday, 23rd April 2019 Report Corrections
St Mary of the Angels (Batley)
Weekday: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9.30am
Saturday: 10.00am
Confessions: Saturday after Mass until 10.45am, 5.15-5.45pm
Upton Street, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 8PQ
Link to church website: http://www.stmarybatley.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-mary-of-the-angels-batley
Junctions: M62 J28 (4.16 miles)
Last updated on Monday, 8th January 2018 Report Corrections
St Joseph (Batley Carr)
Sunday: 9.30am
Naylor Street, Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, WF13 2DF
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-batley-carr
Last updated on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020 Report Corrections
St Anthony of Padua (Beeston Leeds)
Sunday: 6.00pm (vigil), 9.00am
Holyday of Obligation: 10.00am, 7.00pm
Old Lane, Beeston, Leeds, LS11 7AA
parish of St Maximillian Kolbe
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-anthony-of-padua-parish-of-maximilian-kolbe-leeds
Last updated on Monday, 22nd April 2019 Report Corrections
Sacred Heart (Bingley)
Weekday: Friday 9.30am
Confessions: Saturday 5.15-5.45pm
Nethermoor View, Bingley, West Yorkshire, BD16 4HG
served from St Mary & St Monica, Cottingley
Link to church website: http://ourladyandstjoseph.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/sacred-heart-parish-of-our-lady-and-st-joseph-in-the-aire-valley-bingley
Last updated on Saturday, 6th April 2019 Report Corrections
St Patrick (Birtsall)
Low Lane, Birstall, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 9HD
Link to church website: http://www.birstallstpatrick.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-patrick-birstall
Last updated on Friday, 17th May 2019 Report Corrections
First Martyrs of Rome (Bradford)
Monday 12.00pm;
Tuesday 6.00pm;
Wednesday 10.00am;
Thursday 11.30am
Sunday: 10.30am, 6.00pm
Holyday of Obligation: 10.30am
Confessions: Monday-Thursday after Mass
Heights Lane, Heaton, Bradford, BD9 6HZ
Link to church website: http://scfm.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/first-martyrs-of-rome-parish-of-st-cuthbert-and-first-martyrs-of-rome-bradford
Last updated on Sunday, 26th May 2019 Report Corrections
Our Lady & St Peter (Bradford)
Thursday 9.30am
Leeds Road, Bradford, BD3 8EL
served from St Columba, Bradford under the joint parish name of St Mary, Bradford
Link to church website: http://www.parishofstmarybradford.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-peter-parish-of-st-mary-bradford
Last updated on Saturday, 25th May 2019 Report Corrections
Our Lady of Lourdes & St William (Bradford)
Sunday: 11.30am;
+ 6.00pm(2nd & 4th Saturday ONLY, Saturday vigil)
Ingleby Road, Bradford, BD8 9AJ
parish of St Blaise; Latest information provided directly by email from website user.
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-lourdes-st-williams-parish-of-st-blaise-bradford
St Columba (Bradford)
Weekday: Wednesday, Friday 9.30am
Confessions: Saturday 4.30pm
Tong Street, Dudley Hill, Bradford, BD4 9PY
parish of St Mary
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-columba-parish-of-st-mary-bradford
St Cuthbert (Bradford)
Weekday: Friday 12.00pm
Sunday: Saturday vigil 5.30pm
Holyday of Obligation: 12.00pm
Wilmer Road, Bradford, BD9 4RU
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-cuthbert-parish-of-st-cuthbert-and-first-martyrs-of-rome-bradford
Last updated on Saturday, 14th December 2019 Report Corrections
St John the Evangelist (Bradford)
Holyday of Obligation: 11.00am(in school); 7.00pm
Cooper Lane, Buttershaw, Bradford, BD6 3NS
parish of Mary, Mother of God, Bradford
Link to church website: https://www.marymotherofgod.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-john-the-evangelist-parish-of-mary-mother-of-god-bradford
St Patrick (Bradford Central)
Weekday: 12.15pm
Saturday: 12.15pm
Confessions: Monday-Saturday 11am-12 noon (during exposition)
1 Sedgefield Terrace, Bradford, BD1 2RU
Station: Bradford Forster
Link to church website: https://www.stpatricksmission.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-patricks-mission-bradford/
Last updated on Tuesday, 16th October 2018 Report Corrections
Immaculate Conception (Bradford NW)
Weekday: Tuesday, Thursday 9.30am
Leeds Road, Idle, Bradford, BD10 9SS
served from St Francis, Bradford
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/immaculate-conception-parish-of-st-francis-of-assisi-and-immaculate-conception-bradford
Last updated on Friday, 17th January 2020 Report Corrections
Our Lady of Czestochowa (Bradford Polish church)
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10.00am;
Wednesday, Friday 10.00am, 7.00pm
Sunday: 6.00pm (vigil), 10.00am, 11.15am
Confessions: before all Masses
29 Edmund Street, Bradford, BD5 0BH
All Masses in Polish language
Link to church website: https://parafiabradford.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-czestochowa-bradford
St Joseph (Bradford SW)
Monday 10.00am;
Wednesday, Thursday 9.15am;
Sunday: 5.00pm(Saturday vigil); 10.00am, 12.30pm(extraordinary form), 6.00pm
Holyday of Obligation: 9.15am, 12.00pm, 5.00pm(Latin, extraordinary form), 6.30pm
Confessions: Saturday 9.45-10.30am, 4.00-4.50pm and also on request and by appointment
Pakington Street, Bradford, BD5 7LD
Link to church website: http://stjosephschurchbradford.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-bradford
Junctions: M606 J3 (1.68 miles)
St Winefride (Bradford SW)
Monday 8.00am;
Wednesday 12.30pm;
Friday 9.00am(church) or 9.15am(school)
Holyday of Obligation: 7.00pm(vigil); 7.00am; 9.15am(in school)
St Paul's Avenue, Wibsey, Bradford, BD6 1ST
parish of Mary, Mother of God
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-winefride-parish-of-mary-mother-of-god-bradford
Christ the King (Bramley)
Confessions:
Friday after morning Mass;
Kings Approach, Bramley, Leeds, LS13 2DX
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/christ-the-king-leeds
St Joseph (Brighouse)
Wednesday, Thursday 9.30am
Holyday of Obligation: 9.30am (term time); 7.30pm
Martin Street, Brighouse, West Yorkshire, HD6 1DA
Link to church website: https://www.stjosephschurchbrighouse.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-brighouse
Junctions: M62 J25 (1.8 miles)
Chapel of Sacred Heart (Broughton Hall)
Usually 10.00am(Latin, extraordinary form)
Please check on 01756 793794
Sunday: 8.30am, 11.00am(Latin, extraordinary form)
Broughton Hall, Broughton, West Yorkshire, BD23 3AE
served from St Stephen, Skipton
Link to church website: http://www.ststephenskipton.org.uk/our-churches/sacred-heart
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/the-catholic-chapel-sacred-heart-broughton-hall
Last updated on Wednesday, 18th September 2019 Report Corrections
Ss John Fisher & Thomas More (Burley-in-Wharfedale)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10.00am
Sunday: 6.00pm(vigil); 9.00am(NOT Aug), 10.30am(Aug ONLY), 11.00am(NOT Aug)
Bradford Road, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 7PX
Station: Burley-in-Wharfedale
Link to church website: http://www.ssfishermore.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/ss-john-fisher-and-thomas-more
Last updated on Wednesday, 15th January 2020 Report Corrections
St Joseph (Castleford)
Tuesday, Friday 9.15am;
Thursday 7.00pm
Sunday: 6.00pm (vigil), 10.00am, 6.00pm
Pontefract Road, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 4JB
Station: Castleford
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-castleford
St Anthony of Padua (Clayton)
Confessions: Saturday 10.30-11.00am, 5.45-6.15pm
20 Bradford Road, Clayton, Bradford, BD14 6HW
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-anthony-of-padua-bradford
Our Lady of Unfailing Help & St Paul of The Cross (Cleckheaton)
Weekday: Wednesday, Thursday: 10.15am;
(+ 1st Wednesday 12.00pm)
Sunday: 6.30pm (vigil), 9.00am, 11.15am
Holyday of Obligation: 12.00pm, 7.00pm
Confessions: Saturday 11.30am-12 noon
57 Dewsbury Road, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, BD19 5BT
Link to church website: https://stpaulscleckheaton.wordpress.com
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-unfailing-help-and-st-paul-of-the-cross-cleckheaton
St Edward King & Confessor (Clifford)
Weekday: 9.30am [1st May-31st August 9.00am]
Chapel Lane, Clifford, West Yorkshire, LS23 6HU
Link to church website: https://www.stedwardsclifford.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-edward-clifford
Ss Mary & Monica (Cottingley)
Bradford Old Road, Cottingley, Bingley, West Yorkshire, BD16 1SA
Link to church website: http://www.ourladyandstjoseph.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-mary-and-st-monica-parish-of-our-lady-and-st-joseph-in-the-aire-valley-bingley
Our Lady & St Paulinus (Dewsbury)
Confessions: Saturday 5.45-6.15pm or by appointment
Cemetery Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, WF13 2SE
served from St Joseph, Batley Carr
Station: Dewsbury
Link to church website: http://www.olasp.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-paulinus-dewsbury-served-from-st-joseph-batley-carr
Last updated on Monday, 13th April 2020 Report Corrections
Our Lady & St Francis of Assisi (Eccleshill)
Monday, Wednesday 9.30am;
Friday 7.30pm
Norman Lane, Eccleshill, BD2 2JU
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-francis-of-assisi-parish-of-st-francis-of-assisi-and-immaculate-conception-bradford
St Patrick (Elland)
Holyday of Obligation: 7.30pm (vigil), 10.00am
Victoria Road, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 0PU
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-patrick-elland
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour & St Clare (Fagley)
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9.15am
Holyday of Obligation: 7.00pm (vigil), 9.00am
Confessions: Saturday 4.45-5.15pm and on request
Moorside Road, Fagley, Bradford, BD2 3JE
Link to church website: https://www.stclaresfagley.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-clare-bradford
St Benedict (Garforth)
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9.10am;
Wednesday 7.30pm
Confessions: Saturday 10.30-11.00am, 5.15-5.45pm or at any time
Aberford Road, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 1PX
Station: Garforth
Link to church website: http://www.stbenedicts-garforth.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-benedict-garforth
Junctions: M1 J47 (2.59 miles)
Last updated on Sunday, 19th February 2017 Report Corrections
St Nicholas (Gipton)
Weekday: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9.00am
Oakwood Lane, Gipton, Leeds, LS9 6QY
Link to church website: http://www.blessededmundsykes.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-nicholas-parish-of-blessed-edmund-sykes-leeds
Last updated on Thursday, 29th November 2018 Report Corrections
Our Lady of Lourdes & St Malachy (Halifax)
Nursery Lane, Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 5NS
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-malachy-halifax
Sacred Heart & St Bernard (Halifax)
Weekday: Tuesday, Thursday 10.00am
Range Lane, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 6DL
Link to church website: http://www.stbernardshalifax.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-bernard-halifax
Last updated on Wednesday, 22nd May 2019 Report Corrections
St Alban (Halifax)
Weekday: Tuesday 7.00pm
Sunday: 9.30am, 6.00pm
Holyday of Obligation: 7.30pm
Saturday after 10am Mass;
Sunday 5.15-5.45pm
Huddersfield Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 0AZ
served from St Mary, Halifax
Link to church website: http://www.stmaryshalifax.com
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-alban-parish-of-st-mary-halifax
Last updated on Saturday, 6th July 2019 Report Corrections
St Columba (Halifax)
Weekday: Wednesday 12.00pm
Wednesday 11.30-11.55am;
Saturday 10.30-10.55am
Highroad, Well Lane, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX2 0QF
Link to church website: https://stcolumbascatholicchurch.com
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-columba-halifax
St Mary (Halifax)
Weekday: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9.00am
Sunday: 11.00am, 1.00pm(Polski)
Holyday of Obligation: 10.00am(term time ONLY), 12.15pm
Confessions: Saturday 11am-12 noon
Gibbet Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX1 5DH
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-mary-parish-of-st-mary-halifax
Our Lady of Lourdes (Haworth)
Friday 9.30am
Confessions: Saturday 9.30am
Ebor Lane, Haworth, Nr Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 6ES
car park of presbytery is available for parking (on uphill side of church)
Link to church website: http://www.ourlady-stjoseph.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-lourdes-haworth
Last updated on Friday, 3rd January 2020 Report Corrections
Our Lady & the First Martyrs of Rome (Heaton)
65 Heights Lane, Heaton, Bradford, BD9 6HZ
Link to church website: http://www.scfm.org.uk
Holy Spirit (Heckmondwike)
Wednesday 6.30am;
Holyday of Obligation: 9.30am
Confessions: Saturday 4pm
Bath Road, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 9EB
Link to church website: http://www.holyspiritchurch.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/holy-spirit-heckmondwike
Last updated on Friday, 30th November 2018 Report Corrections
Sacred Heart (Hemsworth)
Tuesday 7.30am;
Wednesday 7.00pm;
Confessions: 2nd & 4th Saturday 10am
Market Street, Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, WF9 4LB
Link to church website: http://www.hemsthorpe.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/sacred-heart-parish-of-sacred-heart-and-st-joseph-hemsworth
St Francis of Assisi (Holbeck)
Bismarck Street, Holbeck, Leeds, LS11 6TN
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-francis-of-assisi-parish-of-maximilian-kolbe-leeds
St Mary (Horsforth)
Sunday: 8.15am, 11.15am
Broadgate Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4AG
Station: Horsforth
Link to church website: http://www.ourladyofkirkstall.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-mary-parish-of-our-lady-of-kirkstall-leeds
Trinity & All Saints College (Horsforth)
Weekday: Term time only:
Thursday 8.15am;
Sunday: 6.00pm(term time ONLY)
Confessions: Friday 12.30-1.00pm
Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5HD
Link to church website: http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/about-us/the-chaplaincy
Last updated on Sunday, 18th January 2015 Report Corrections
English Martyrs (Huddersfield)
Wednesday, Friday 9.10am
Teddington Avenue, Dalton, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD5 9HS
parish of Immaculate Heart of Mary
Link to church website: https://www.immaculateheartofmary.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/english-martyrs-parish-of-immaculate-heart-of-mary-huddersfield
Our Lady of Czestochowa (Huddersfield)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10.00am;
Sunday: 9.30am, 11.15am, 7.00pm
Monday-Thursday 9.30am;
Friday 7pm;
Sunday 9am
Fitzwilliam Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 5BB
Polish language parish
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-czestochowa-huddersfield
St Joseph (Huddersfield)
Monday, Tuesday 9.30am;
Somerset Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD5 9AT
Link to church website: http://www.ihom.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-parish-of-immaculate-heart-of-mary-huddersfield
St Patrick (Huddersfield)
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9.30am;
Sunday: 6.00pm (vigil), 9.00am, 11.00am, 5.00pm
Holyday of Obligation: 9.30am, 12.15pm, 7.00pm
34 New North Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 5JY
served from Holy Redeemer
Station: Huddersfield
Link to church website: http://www.holyredeemerparish.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-patrick-parish-of-holy-redeemer-huddersfield
Sacred Heart (Ilkley)
Weekday: Tuesday 9.30am
Sunday: 6.30pm(Saturday vigil), 8.30am (NOT August), 10.30am
Confessions: Saturday after morning Mass, 5.00-5.30pm
Stockeld Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 9HD
Link to church website: https://www.sacredheartilkley.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/sacred-heart-ilkley
St Anne (Keighley)
Tuesday 10.00am;
North Street, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD21 3AD
use church side entrance through school gate for weekday Masses
Station: Keighley
Link to church website: http://www.stanneskeighley.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-victories-and-st-anne-keighley
Last updated on Wednesday, 11th March 2020 Report Corrections
St Joseph (Keighley)
Confessions: Saturday 11.00am-12 noon, 4.00-4.45pm
Queen's Road, Ingrow, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD21 1AT
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-keighley
Last updated on Thursday, 9th January 2020 Report Corrections
St Michael (Knottingley)
+ 4.00pm(3rd Sunday, Syro-Malabar Rite)
Hill Top, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, WF11 9AQ
served from St Joseph, Pontefract
Link to church website: http://www.parishofstjoseph.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-michael-knottingley
Assumption of Our Lady (Leeds)
Spen Hill, Spen Lane, Leeds, LS16 5EL
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/the-assumption-of-our-lady-parish-of-our-lady-of-kirkstall-leeds
Cathedral of St Anne (Leeds)
Weekday: 12.30pm, 5.30pm
Holyday of Obligation: 5.30pm (vigil), 8.00am, 12.30pm, 5.30pm
Weekdays 11.00am-12.15pm, 4.30-5.00pm;
Saturday 10.30-11.45am, 4.30-5.30pm
Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE
Station: Leeds
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/cathedral/cathedral-service-times
Hinsley Hall (Leeds)
62 Headingley Lane, Leeds, LS6 2BX
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/hinsley-hall
Last updated on Monday, 7th September 2020 Report Corrections
Holy Name of Jesus (Leeds)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9.30am;
Thursday 12.00pm
52 Otley Old Road, Leeds, LS16 6HW
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/holy-name-of-jesus-parish-of-our-lady-of-kirkstall-leeds
Last updated on Wednesday, 12th June 2019 Report Corrections
Holy Rosary (Leeds)
Sunday: 10.30am, 1.00pm(NOT 2nd Sunday, Ge’ez, Eritrean rite)
+ 3.00pm(2nd Sunday ONLY, faith & light Mass)
Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 4BZ
served from Mother of Unfailing Help Parish, Leeds
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/cathedral/holy-rosary
Our Lady of Czestochowa & St Stanislaw Kostka (Leeds)
Saturday 6pm;
Weekdays before Mass
Newton Hill Road, Leeds, LS7 4EY
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-czestochowa-and-st-stanislaw-kostka-leeds/
Our Lady of Lourdes (Leeds)
130 Cardigan Road, Leeds, LS6 3BJ
served from St Jeanne Jugan, Leeds
Station: Burley Park
Link to church website: http://jeannejuganleeds.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-lourdes-parish-of-st-jeanne-jugan-leeds
St Augustine of Canterbury (Leeds)
Monday, Thursday, Friday 9.00am;
Tuesday, Wednesday 7.30pm
Sunday: 6.30pm(Saturday vigil); 10.30am;
+ 2.00pm(2nd Saturday ONLY, Saturday vigil, Zimbabwe)
+ 4.00pm(4th Saturday ONLY, Saturday vigil, Malayalam);
+ 2.00pm(2nd Sunday ONLY, Ukranian)
+ 5.00pm(3rd Sunday ONLY, Latin)
Confessions: Saturday 9.30am, 6.00-6.20pm or by personal request at any time
Harehills Road, Leeds, LS8 5HR
Link to church website: http://www.st-aug-leeds.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-augustine-of-canterbury-leeds
Email: st.aug_of_cant@btopenworld.com
Last updated on Thursday, 13th June 2019 Report Corrections
St Gregory the Great (Leeds)
Weekday: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9.30am
Swarcliffe Drive, Leeds, LS14 5AW
parish of Blessed John Henry Newman
Link to church website: https://www.newmanparish.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-gregory-the-great-parish-of-blessed-john-henry-newman-leeds
St Patrick (Leeds)
Weekday: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 9.00am
Torre Road, Leeds, LS9 7QL
Link to church website: https://www.stpatrickschurchleeds.org.uk
St Paul the Apostle (Leeds)
Tuesday, Wednesday 9.30am;
Buckstone Crescent, Leeds, LS17 5ES
served from St John Vianney, Leeds
Link to church website: http://www.stjohnvianneyleeds.org.uk/wp/
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-paul-the-apostle-parish-of-st-john-mary-vianney-leeds
St Peter (Leeds)
Petersfield Avenue, Belle Isle Road, Leeds, LS10 3QN
parish of St Margaret Clitherow
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-peter-parish-of-st-margaret-clitherow-leeds
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-peter-parish-of-st-margaret-clitherow-leeds
Junctions: M621 J5 (1.8 miles)
St Theresa of the Child Jesus (Leeds)
Monday 1.15pm;
Confessions: Saturday 11.00-12 noon
Station Road, Cross Gates, Leeds, LS15 7JY
Station: Cross Gates
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-theresa-of-the-child-jesus-parish-of-blessed-john-henry-newman-leeds
St Urban (Leeds)
Grove Lane, Leeds, LS6 4AQ
parish of St Jeanne Jugan
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-urban-parish-of-st-jeanne-jugan-leeds
Last updated on Tuesday, 23rd July 2019 Report Corrections
Wood Hall Monastery (Linton)
Linton, Wetherby, North Yorkshire, LS22 4HZ
Link to church website: http://www.carmelnuns.org.uk/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=30
Last updated on Tuesday, 23rd December 2014 Report Corrections
English Martyrs (Lupset)
Weekday: Tuesday, Friday 12.00pm
Holyday of Obligation: 11.00am(term time ONLY), 12.00pm(outside term time)
Dewsbury Road, Lupset, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 9AX
Link to church website: http://catholicchurchwakefield.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/english-martyrs-parish-of-st-martin-de-porres-wakefield
Last updated on Saturday, 11th January 2020 Report Corrections
St Philip (Middleton Leeds)
St. Philip's Close, Middleton, Leeds, LS10 3TR
served from St Margaret Clitherow parish, Leeds
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-philip-parish-of-st-margaret-clitherow-leeds
St Aidan (Mirfield)
Fenton Street, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, WF14 8DG
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-aidan-mirfield
St Joseph (Moorthorpe)
Confessions: 1st & 3rd Saturday 10am
Barnsley Road, Moorthorpe, West Yorkshire, WF9 2BP
served from Sacred Heart, Hemsworth
Station: Moorthorpe
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-parish-of-sacred-heart-and-st-joseph-pontefract
Last updated on Monday, 20th January 2020 Report Corrections
Immaculate Heart of Mary (Moortown)
Tuesday 9.15am, 7.00pm
Sunday: 8.00am, 9.30am, 11.00am, 6.30pm
294 Harrogate Road, Moortown, Leeds, LS17 6LE
Link to church website: http://www.stjohnvianneyleeds.org.uk/wp
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/immaculate-heart-of-mary-parish-of-st-john-mary-vianney-leeds
Last updated on Sunday, 9th February 2020 Report Corrections
St Francis (Morley)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00am
Sunday: 6.30pm(Saturday vigil); 9.30am, 11.15am (10.00am in school holidays)
Holyday of Obligation: 9.10am (in School, term time ONLY), 12.00pm, 7.00pm
Confessions: Saturday 10.30am and on request
Corporation Street, Morley, Leeds, LS27 9NF
parish of St William of York
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-francis-parish-of-st-william-of-york-morley
Junctions: M62 J2 (2.04 miles)
Good Shepherd (Mytholmroyd)
New Road, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, HX7 5EA
Station: Mytholmroyd
Link to church website: http://www.thegoodshepherd.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/the-good-shepherd-mytholmroyd
Last updated on Monday, 7th May 2018 Report Corrections
St John the Baptist (Normanton)
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 9.30am
Wednesday 12.00pm
Holyday of Obligation: 9.15am, 7.00pm(school as announced)
Newland Lane, Normanton, West Yorkshire, WF6 1BA
Link to church website: http://www.stjohnthebaptistinnormanton.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-john-the-baptist-normanton
Last updated on Thursday, 23rd January 2020 Report Corrections
Corpus Christi (Osmondthorpe)
Weekday: Wednesday 9.30am
Neville Road, Osmondthorpe, Leeds, LS9 0HD
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/corpus-christi-parish-of-blessed-john-henry-newman-leeds
Last updated on Wednesday, 4th December 2019 Report Corrections
St Ignatius (Ossett)
Tuesday 8.30am(Latin, extraordinary form);
Storrs Hill Road, Ossett, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, WF5 0DQ
Link to church website: https://takenupingrace.wordpress.com
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-ignatius-ossett
Junctions: M1 J40 (2.3 miles)
Last updated on Sunday, 28th July 2019 Report Corrections
Our Lady & All Saints (Otley)
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 8.30am;
Friday 8.30am, 6.30pm
Holyday of Obligation: 8.00am, 9.15am(term time ONLY), 7.30pm
Confessions: Saturday 10.30-11.00am, 5.30-6.15pm or by appointment
4 Bridge Street, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AZ
Link to church website: http://www.olasotley.org
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-and-all-saints-otley
Last updated on Friday, 5th July 2019 Report Corrections
St Joseph (Pontefract)
Sunday: 11.00am, 6.00pm;
+ 4.15pm(2nd 3rd Sunday ONLY, Polski)
Confessions: Sunday 10.45-11.15am
Back Street, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 1NL
Station: Pontefract Tanshelf / Pontefract Baghill
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-pontefract
Last updated on Tuesday, 9th July 2019 Report Corrections
St Joseph (Pudsey)
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9.15am;
Sunday: 6.30pm(Saturday vigil); 9.30am(NOT Aug), 10.00am(Aug ONLY), 11.15am(NOT Aug)
Confessions: Saturday after morning Mass
The Lanes, Mount Pleasant Road, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7AZ
Link to church website: http://www.stjosephpudsey.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-pudsey/
St Theresa of the Child Jesus (Queensbury)
Russell Road, Queensbury, West Yorkshire, BD13 2AN
served from St Bernard, Halifax
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-theresa-of-the-child-jesus-served-from-st-bernard-halifax-queensbury
St Mary (Rothwell Leeds)
Weekday: 10.00am
40 Park Lane, Rothwell, Leeds, LS26 0ES
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-mary-rothwell
Our Lady of Good Counsel (Seacroft)
Kentmere Avenue, Seacroft, Leeds, LS14 6QY
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-good-counsel-parish-of-blessed-edmund-sykes-leeds
Last updated on Saturday, 8th February 2020 Report Corrections
Our Lady of Lourdes (Sheepridge)
Sheepridge Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD2 1HF
parish of the Holy Redeemer
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-lourdes-parish-of-holy-redeemer-huddersfield
Ss Mary & Walburga (Shipley)
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9.10am
Kirkgate, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3LU
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-walburga-parish-of-st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-shipley
Email: st.walburgas@leeds-dioces.org.uk
Last updated on Friday, 6th December 2019 Report Corrections
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Silsden)
Weekday: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00am
7 Wesley Place, Silsden, West Yorkshire, BD20 0PH
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/our-lady-of-mount-carmel-silsden
Alternative website: http://www.mountcarmel-silsden.org.uk
Holy Family (Slaithwaite)
Holyday of Obligation: 6.30pm (vigil)
Confessions: Friday 6.30-6.45pm
60 Commercial Street, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD7 5JZ
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/holy-family-parish-of-holy-redeemer-huddersfield
Last updated on Thursday, 12th March 2020 Report Corrections
Sacred Heart & St Patrick (Sowerby Bridge)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9.30am;
Thursday 7.00-7.30pm;
Bolton Brow, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX6 2BA
Station: Sowerby Bridge
Link to church website: http://www.sacredheartandstpatrickschurch.co.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/sacred-heart-and-st-patrick-sowerby-bridge
St Mary's Syro-Malabar Chaplaincy (St Wilfrid)
Sunday: Holy Qurbana 10.00am
Whincover Drive, Leeds, LS12 5JW
Link to church website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-marys-syro-malabar-chaplaincy-st-wilfrids-church-leeds
St Joseph (Todmorden)
Weekday: 9.15am(summer)/10.15am(winter)
Wellington Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, OL14 5HL
Station: Todmorden
Link to church website: http://www.todmorden.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk/directory
Ss Peter & Paul (Wakefield)
Tuesday, Thursday 9.00am;
St George's Walk, Standbridge Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 7NR
Link to church website: http://www.peterpaul.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/ss-peter-and-paul-wakefield
St Austin (Wakefield)
Thursday 12.00pm;
+ 1st Friday 7.30pm(Latin)
Sunday: 6.15pm(vigil); 8.15am, 11.00am, 3.30pm(Polski), 6.00pm
Holyday of Obligation: 9.30am, 7.30pm (check bulletin)
1st Friday 7.00pm
6 Wentworth Terrace, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 3QN
Station: Wakefield Westgate
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-austin-parish-of-st-martin-de-porres-wakefield
St Joseph (Wetherby)
Westgate, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS22 6LL
Link to church website: http://www.stjosephs-wetherby.org.uk
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/st-joseph-wetherby
Last updated on Tuesday, 16th July 2019 Report Corrections
Ss Peter & Paul (Yeadon)
Friday 6.30-7.00pm;
Saturday 9.00-9.30am
New Road, Yeadon, West Yorkshire, LS19 7HW
Link to church website: https://www.sspeterandpauls.com
Alternative website: https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/directory-parishes/listing/ss-peter-and-paul-yeadon
Last updated on Friday, 28th June 2019 Report Corrections
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MISSING MACAWS OF THE WEST INDIES – Part 2: A MULTICOLOURED MULTITUDE OF MYSTERY MACAWS
by admin on Dec.31, 2020, under Syndicated from the Web
Reposted from ShukerNature | Go to Original Post
Dominican green and yellow macaw statuette, its colouring digitally created to match Atwood’s description (© Dr Karl Shuker)
In Part 1 of this 2-part ShukerNature blog article (click hereto access it), I surveyed an array of mysterious, seemingly-vanished or even still-undiscovered types of macaw with either predominantly blue or predominantly red plumage. Now, in Part 2, I am reviewing a number of varicoloured lost macaws, sporting plumages that were either green and yellow or blue and yellow, and will then be assessing the entire spectrum of Caribbean mystery macaws whose histories I have documented in Parts 1 and 2.
ENIGMAS IN GREEN AND YELLOW
Although there is no species of macaw with almost exclusively green and yellow plumage alive today, two so-called green and yellow macaws, both now extinct, have been described and named from the West Indies. Having said that, one of these, the Jamaican green and yellow macaw Ara erythrocephala, which became extinct around 1842 and was formally named by Lord Walter Rothschild in a 1905 scientific paper, also had a red head, blue wings, and a red-and-blue tail! Only its neck, shoulders, and underparts were green, and only the under plumage of its wings and tail was yellow. Consequently, it is also known as the red-headed green macaw.
Jamaican green and yellow macaw Ara erythrocephala, painted by Dutch wildlife artist John Gerrard Keulemans for Lord Walter Rothschild’s book Extinct Birds, 1907 (public domain)
According to Jamaican resident Richard Hill (who assisted naturalist Philip H. Gosse in preparing his book The Birds of Jamaica – see Part 1 of my article), this species could be found in a very remote mountain district between Trelawney and St Anne’s, and also in the southern part of Jamaica’s Cockpit region. Interestingly, Hill did not consider it to be resident in Jamaica, because he claimed that it could only be found there during the winter period, and he assumed that it bred in Mexico instead.
Hill also deemed it to be one and the same as the military (aka great green) macaw A. militaris. Yet a red head is conspicuous only by its absence in that principally all-green species.
Military or great green macaws Ara militaris(public domain)
Unlike the Jamaican green and yellow macaw, the other one, the Dominican green and yellow macaw Ara atwoodi, believed to have died out around 1800, was indeed principally green and yellow. Today, it is known directly only from a short description penned by British colonial judge Thomas Atwood (after whom it was named) in his book The History of the Island of Dominica (1791). This is what he wrote:
The mackaw [sic] is of the parrot kind, but larger than the common parrot [a species of amazon parrot, much smaller than any macaw], and makes a more disagreeable, harsh noise. They are in great plenty, as are also parrots in this island; have both of them a delightful green and yellow plumage, with a scarlet-coloured fleshy substance from the ears to the root of the bill, of which colour is likewise the chief feathers of their wings and tails. They breed on the tops of the highest trees, where they feed on the berries in great numbers together; and are easily discovered by their loud chattering noise, which at a distance resembles human voices. The mackaws cannot be taught to articulate words; but the parrots of this country may, by taking pains with them when caught young. The flesh of both is eat[en], but being very fat, it wastes in roasting, and eats dry and insipid; for which reason, they are chiefly used to make soup of, which is accounted very nutritive.
Originally categorised as conspecific with the long-extinct Guadeloupe red macaw Ara guadeloupensis, after reading Atwood’s account Austin Hobart Clark reclassified it as a separate species in 1908.
Dominican green and yellow macaw Ara atwoodi, painted by Rafael Nascimento (© Rafael Nascimento)
Tantalisingly, moreover, there is a version of a famous painting that actually depicts a principally green and yellow macaw. The painting in question is the spectacular dodo portrait prepared in 1626 by Flemish artist Roelandt Savery, which I previously referred to in Part 1 of this article, in relation to the mysterious, predominantly all-red macaw depicted by Savery to the immediate left of the dodo and which readily recalls descriptions of the vanished Guadeloupe red macaw.
However, this painting also contains a second macaw, depicted to the right of the dodo. On first sight, it looks very like the familiar blue and yellow macaw (aka blue and gold macaw) Ara ararauna from the South American mainland. Yet a closer look reveals that its under-tail coverts are yellow, whereas those of A. ararauna are blue. Nor is that all.
Dodo with two mystery macaws in Roelandt Savery’s famous dodo painting, 1626 (public domain)
As I noted in Part 1, Japan’s dodo expert Masauji Hachisuka owned a copy of Savery’s painting, which had been specially prepared for him by another famous but much later bird artist, John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912). It is a near-identical reproduction of Savery’s original, except that the colours of the macaws in it are more distinct (also, the dodo itself is more brown than grey).
Of particular interest, the plumage of the right-hand macaw is not blue and yellow but is instead green and yellow. What, I wonder, is the significance of this notable colour discrepancy between Savery’s original painting and Hachisuka’s version of it?
Dodo with two mystery macaws in Keulemans’s copy of Savery’s original painting, in the frontispiece of Hachisuka book (public domain)
Might it be that Hachisuka believed that down through the centuries the colours in Savery’s painting had faded, and therefore when Hachisuka commissioned his version of it he had attempted to re-create its original appearance? If so, this meant that unless constituting a freak colour variety of it, the right-hand macaw may not have been a specimen of Ara ararauna at all (as already implied anyway by virtue of its yellow under-tail coverts?), but was conceivably an entirely different, seemingly now-extinct green and yellow species instead.
More conservative, alternative options include the prospect that it was an entirely non-existent, fictitious bird, ‘invented’ by Savery purely as colourful support for the more prosaic plumage of the dodo. Or perhaps it had once existed but Savery’s depiction of it was based not upon any physical specimens but instead upon inaccurate verbal descriptions of a known species.
Blue and yellow macaw statuette (left), and the same statuette but now photoshopped into a green and yellow macaw (right) in order to simulate the right-hand macaw present in Savery’s dodo painting (© Dr Karl Shuker)
But what if Savery’s right-hand macaw had been real, had been depicted accurately by Savery, and before fading during subsequent centuries had genuinely been green and yellow, and not blue and yellow? Might it therefore be a representation of the Dominican green and yellow macaw, thereby indicating that at least one specimen of this now-lost form had been brought back to Holland prior to its species’ extinction?
Needless to say, this is all very speculative, but in view of the presence in the same painting of a second mysterious macaw that also just so happens to resemble accounts of another now-vanished West Indian macaw, it is nothing if not a most intriguing coincidence, to say the very least.
Bartholomeus van Bassen’s painting ‘Renaissance Interior With Banqueters’, 1618-1620 – please click to enlarge for viewing purposes (public domain)
No less interesting, moreover, is the equally mystifying macaw depicted in a second very noteworthy painting, this time prepared by Bartholomeus van Bassen (1590-1652), a celebrated Dutch architect and artist. Perhaps his most famous painting was ‘Renaissance Interior With Banqueters’ – an extremely detailed, sophisticated work of art that took from 1618 to 1620 to complete. Notwithstanding the architectural splendours and opulence that it depicts, the most fascinating aspect of it for me, however, is the parrot perching upon a chair in this painting’s bottom left-hand corner, because it does not appear to correspond with any species known to be living today.
As noted earlier, artists have often included much-modified or even entirely fictitious examples of birds in their works, simply to enhance their visual appeal. In this particular case, conversely, van Bassen’s painting is so meticulously executed and so accurate in all other details, including those of other creatures included in it, that it seems highly unlikely that he would have added a made-up bird.
Close-up of the mystery parrot in Bartholomeus van Bassen’s painting ‘Renaissance Interior With Banqueters’, 1618-1620 (public domain)
This case was brought to my attention some years ago by pets specialist and author David Alderton, who shares my view that the bird is unlikely to be an ornithological invention on van Bassen’s part. In an email to me, David stated:
What I would say is that the other animals in the scene are very clearly recognisable. Based on its position in the painting, and its perch on rare/expensive material, this tends to suggest that this parrot is significant. It would have been rare and exotic of course – representing a flamboyant display of wealth in a very clear visual way, and I can’t see it would have been a “fictional” bird.
So if we assume that the parrot represents a bona fide species, are there any that resemble it in some way?
Carolina parakeets, painted by John James Audubon (public domain)
On first glance, it recalls the Carolina parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis, a predominantly green-plumaged species with a bright yellow head marked with red. Once common in North America, it suffered greatly from habitat destruction, from being captured for the pet trade, and by being heavily persecuted due to its fondness for farmers’ crops, until the last confirmed specimen died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1918. Closer observation, however, reveals a number of marked differences between this now-demised species and van Bassen’s painted parrot.
Van Bassen’s parrot has golden-yellow underparts, whereas the Carolina parakeet’s were green; it also has yellow lateral tail feathers whereas all of the Carolina’s tail feathers were green; its wing primaries are red, not green like the Carolina’s; the red markings on its head are more extensive than the Carolina’s; and its relative proportions are very different from the Carolina’s. Van Bassen’s parrot has a much longer tail, a more powerful beak, and, judging scale from the chair upon which it is perched, a much larger overall body size. Indeed, in general appearance, the category of parrots that it most closely agrees with is the macaws.
Sun conure (© H. Zell/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 3.0 licence)
Consequently, attempts to liken it to various small species of South American conure parakeet, such as the sun conure Aratinga solstitialis and the jenday conure A. jandaya, are not satisfactory either, unless of course the bird has been badly painted, with incorrect plumage and/or dimensions.
For all of the reasons already discussed with regard to the prospect of its being a fictitious species, however, this notion seems untenable.
Jenday conure (public domain)
However closely one studies images of a painting, even close-up ones of a specific section of it, there can be no substitute for viewing the painting itself directly. Happily, David Alderton was able to do precisely this, when ‘Renaissance Interior With Banqueters’ was on display several years ago at the National Gallery in London. As a result, he noticed various features of the parrot not readily visible even in close-up images of it. These include the presence of a white brow line above its eye, and, of particular interest, the extensive amount of bare white facial skin – a feature characterising macaws. Usually this area is limited to the sides of the face around the eyes, and at the beak’s base, but in van Bassen’s bird it also extends onto the top of the head.
After viewing the bird directly in the painting, David wondered whether it may be a Cuban red macaw Ara tricolor, whose last confirmed wild specimen was shot in 1864, since when this species has been deemed to be extinct (click here to access my coverage of this species in Part 1 of the present ShukerNature article). However, he conceded that the Cuban red macaw’s plumage exhibited certain noticeable differences from van Bassen’s. The most significant of these are the Cuban’s blue wing primaries, its red cheeks, neck, and underparts, its red and blue tail feathers, and the much less extensive area of white facial skin.
Cuban red macaw Ara tricolor, by Keulemans, from Rothschild’s Extinct Birds, 1907 (public domain)
Conversely, Thomas Atwood’s above-quoted description of the Dominican green and yellow macaw accords well with van Bassen’s portrayed parrot – the precise configuration of its head’s red colouration, its red wing feathers, and obviously its predominantly green and yellow plumage. True, Atwood did not mention any area of white on the Dominican macaws’ faces, but in some species of macaw this region turns red if the bird becomes excited, so perhaps he simply didn’t observe any macaws when in a quiescent state, only when they were squawking animatedly while feeding.
The only inconsistency in appearance between van Bassen’s bird and Atwood’s Dominican macaws is the mention of red tail feathers in his description, whereas the central tail feathers of van Bassen’s parrot are green and the lateral ones are yellow. Perhaps, however, there was a slight degree of variation in the Dominican macaw’s plumage colouration (sexual dimorphism, for instance?) that could account for this discrepancy? In all other respects, the match is much closer than for any other species, living or extinct.
A representation of the Dominican green and yellow macaw, created by A.C. Tatarinov by modifying Keulemans’s original painting of a blue and yellow macaw Ara ararauna, but not including the red tail and red wing feathers mentioned for the former species by Atwood (public domain)
So, as already suggested for Savery’s mystery right-hand macaw, could it be that the enigmatic parrot perched in this other highly-renowned Dutch artist’s early 17th-Century painting was a living Dominican green and yellow macaw, brought back to Europe as an eyecatching pet by (or for) a wealthy Dutch citizen?
During that period, all manner of rare and extremely exotic fauna were being transported here from every known corner of the globe, many of which had never before been seen in Europe. Consequently, a colourful macaw would be nothing special or unexpected on that score.
Keulemans’s original blue and yellow macaw Ara ararauna painting (public domain)
What wouldbe very special, and extremely unexpected, however, is if the macaw species in question subsequently became extinct but its exquisite appearance was preserved under the very nose of every art-lover in an extremely famous, spectacular painting, yet without its identity or zoological significance being recognised – until now?
If true, this is a great tragedy. After all, to paraphrase a certain classic comedy sketch from the golden age of British television, it may be an ex-parrot, but it had lovely plumage…
BEWILDERMENT IN BLUE AND YELLOW
The last two Caribbean mystery macaws to be documented here have separate taxonomic binomial names but only a shared common name – the Martinique macaw. This because these blue and yellow species may well have been one and the same species, yet there is no guarantee that even a single species existed. Bewildered? Then read on.
The Martinique macaw proper, as it were, is A. martinicus, which like so many other mystery macaws of the West Indies was formally named by Rothschild in his 1905 paper, although he originally assigned it not to the genus Ara but rather to the blue macaw genus Anodorhynchus(reclassifying it as an Ara species two years later in his book Extinct Birds). Rothschild based his description of it (as did Keulemans when preparing a full-colour painting of it for Extinct Birds) upon a brief account penned by French Jesuit priest Père Jacques Bouton during the 1630s. Bouton stated that the macaws of Martinique were two or three times as large as this island’s other parrots, with blue and saffron plumage and a good body, and could be taught to talk.
Martinique macaw Ara martinicus, painted by Keulemans (public domain)
At least two early paintings exist that may depict the Martinique macaw, one of which is none other than the previously-mentioned dodo painting by Savery, if we assume that the right-hand macaw really was blue and yellow, rather than green and yellow that through time has faded to blue and yellow. Of particular interest at the time was an announcement by Cuban scientist Mario Sánchez y Roig in early 1936 that he had uncovered a taxiderm specimen of this species, which had supposedly been collected in 1845 and mounted a year later. When fellow scientist J.T. Zimmer examined it just a short time after its discovery, however, it was swiftly exposed as a hoax, created by person(s) unknown.
It proved to be a composite specimen, in which the tail of an Old World Streptopeliadove had been combined with the head, body, and wings of a Chilean burrowing parrot Cyanoliseus patagonus byroni [now renamed bloxami]. Bearing in mind, however, that this parrot is small and predominantly green, it is difficult to comprehend how it could possibly have been intended or expected to impersonate with any prospect of success a large blue and yellow macaw.
Chilean burrowing parrot Cyanoliseus patagonus bloxami, painted by Edward Lear during the 1800s (public domain)
Tainting the taxonomic waters even further: in his 1907 book Extinct Birds, Rothschild described a second, ostensibly distinct but equally lost species of Caribbean blue and yellow macaw that he formally dubbed A. erythrura, and he also included a full-colour painting of it once again prepared specially by Keulemans.
Rothschild had based this species upon a description in Charles de Rochefort’s work Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Îles Antilles de l’Amerique (1658) of a type of macaw of unknown provenance within the West Indies, although both Martinique and Jamaica have been offered as possibilities by researchers.
Mysterious macaw Ara erythrura, aka satin macaw or red-tailed blue and yellow macaw, painted by Keulemans, (public domain)
According to de Rochefort, its head, back, and the upper side of its neck were satiny sky blue, its belly, the underside of its neck, and its wings’ underparts were yellow, and its tail was entirely red. Accordingly, it has since been dubbed variously as the red-tailed blue and yellow macaw, the satin macaw, the mysterious macaw, and, confusingly, the Martinique macaw.
American ornithologist James C. Greenway viewed this description with grave reservations, noting that de Rochefort had never even visited Jamaica, and suspecting instead that he had based it upon an earlier account written by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. Today, most ornithologists consider A. martinicus and A. erythrura as merely synonyms for the same single species, the Martinique macaw.
Psittacus alux maximus, a mystery blue macaw with yellow wing tips and red under-tail feathers, depicted in an early painting by an unknown artist (public domain)
Tantalisingly, however, in December 2012 Brazil-based mystery parrot enthusiast Rafael Nascimento drew my attention to a published but hitherto-obscure early painting entitled Psittacus alux maximus, and of currently-undetermined origin and painter. It depicts a predominantly blue macaw but with golden-yellow wing tips and red under-tail feathers that is somewhat reminiscent of A. erythrura except for lacking the latter’s yellow underside.
Rafael had discovered the painting online on Facebook’s ‘Sixth Extinction Forum’, which stated that it had been found in the central library of Paris’s National Museum of Natural History but offered no additional information concerning it or the macaw that it depicts. Consequently, Rafael contacted the museum for details, but did not receive any reply.
Mystery blue and yellow macaw painted by Eleazar Albin in mid-1700s, possibly Ara martinicus (public domain)
Also worthy of note is a painting produced during the mid-1700s by English naturalist and watercolour artist Eleazar Albin depicting an unidentified blue and yellow macaw said to have originated in Jamaica but which may be Ara martinicus.
Moreover, in 1740 Albin painted a striking red and blue macaw that again was supposedly of Jamaican provenance but is known only from this single illustration, and hence is referred to nowadays as Albin’s macaw.
Albin’s Macaw, painted by Eleazar Albin in 1740 (public domain)
KNOWN MACAWS OF UNKNOWN APPEARANCE
Irrespective of these contentious (albeit scientifically-named) macaw forms documented by me in Parts 1 and 2 of this ShukerNature article, moreover, there is also the intriguing possibility that there were others that unquestionably existed but died out before their physical appearance had been documented. Two such macaws are certainly known, being represented by physical evidence.
One of these is A. autocthones, the enigmatic macaw of St Croix (one of the American Virgin Islands), which has never been reported in the living state. It was long known only from a single leg bone obtained there, but is now also known from some skeletal material described in 2008 from Puerto Rico. The other is the currently-unnamed Montserrat macaw, presently known from just a single coracoid bone, and again of entirely unknown visual appearance.
IN SEARCH OF ORIGINS AND IDENTITIES
As noted earlier, because almost all of the ostensibly vanished Caribbean macaws documented by me in this 2-part article are known only from descriptions and paintings, not from any physical remains (the Cuban red macaw remaining the lone major exception to date), many ornithologists have discounted them as hypothetical species that may never have existed.
Instead, they suggest, these intangible birds may have been based solely upon misidentified or inaccurately-described known species (possibly even escapee pets belonging to certain mainland South American species) or hybrids of known species. It is certainly well-established that mainland South American species of parrot, including the large showy macaws, have frequently been imported into the West Indies from the mainland, and not only by Europeans and indigenous peoples during historic times but also by Palaeoamericans during prehistoric times.
A hybrid macaw with predominantly blue, green, and yellow plumage (public domain)
However, as seen here, descriptions of the lost, mystery macaws reported from various of the Caribbean islands do not correspond with known mainland species. So unless their chroniclers’ descriptions were invariably inaccurate, at least some such macaws may well have represented bona fide species distinct from mainland ones rather than merely escapee non-native pets belonging to various mainland species.
This discrepancy between descriptions of mystery macaws reported in the West Indies and known mainland species also provides problems when attempting to identify Caribbean macaws as native West Indian representatives of various mainland species (as James C. Greenway unconvincingly sought to do, for instance, with Jamaica’s green and yellow macaw in relation to the mainland’s military macaw A. militaris). Having said that, it may be that while still conspecific with their respective mainland counterparts the Caribbean mystery macaws had nonetheless diverged from them morphologically, perhaps even to the point of constituting valid island subspecies of the latter species. Yet if this were the case, i.e. that although conspecific with various mainland species the Caribbean macaws were native, island-indigenous representatives of them, they would surely be present in these islands’ subfossil fauna. Yet no such subfossils have ever been found on any of the main Caribbean islands.
Hybrid macaw with green and yellow plumage (© Justin Henry/Wikipedia – CC BY 2.0 licence)
As for hybrids: macaws are famous for being able to yield an astonishing array and diversity of crossbred varieties, including many F1, F2, and even F3-generation hybrids – and of such dazzling polychromatic splendour, far exceeding in multicoloured resplendence any of the many pure-bred macaw species, that I have no doubt that in terms of plumage colour any of the Caribbean mystery macaws documented here could conceivably result from hybridisation between various known species.
However, for such crossbreeding to occur there would need to be progenitor species here to begin with, which in turn hearkens back to the problems highlighted above in relation to such a prospect.
Might a green and yellow strain of hybrid macaw, like this exquisite individual specifically photographed for me by Facebook friend Michael Andrew Leigh at Singapore’s famous Bird Gardens in April 2014, explain some of the earlier-documented historical reports of green and yellow macaws on Jamaica and Dominica? (© Michael Andrew Leigh)
How about mutations? Both Tony Pittman and Brazil-based mystery parrot enthusiast Rafael Nascimento have informed me that a very beautiful mutation of the blue and yellow macaw occurs naturally in Brazil, whose aviculturalists refer to it as ‘A. mosaica’, on account of the eyecatching blue-mosaic pattern decorating the golden-yellow portions of its plumage. This in turn provides a precedent for other mutations similarly occurring in the wild state and thereby possibly even explaining some of the Caribbean’s mysterious lost macaws, but all of this is pure speculation, with no physical evidence whatsoever to substantiate any of it.
The same applies to a fifth option that certain ornithologists have favoured – namely, that some Caribbean mystery macaws may actually have been tapiré artefacts, i.e. specimens whose normal, natural colouration has been artificially altered by Amerindians.
Might some Caribbean mystery macaws have been based upon nothing more than escaped pet specimens of known mainland species, such as South America’s familiar blue and yellow macaw? (copyright-free)
My own notion is that quite possibly a combination of all of these suggestions may collectively explain the Caribbean’s controversial diversity of lost macaws. In other words: some of these mystery macaws might indeed be based upon nothing more than escapee non-native (i.e. mainland-derived) pets and/or inaccurate descriptions; whereas certain others could have genuinely constituted native island-specific subspecies of known mainland species (a very common occurrence in evolution across the entire zoological spectrum) or even distinct species. Also, a few may have been exotic escapee/released hybrids originally bred from mainland species imported in certain Caribbean islands; and there might even have been occasional spontaneous mutations arising on these islands, originating again from imported mainland species; plus one or two cases of tapiré macaws may possibly having been produced by natives here to sell as high-priced curiosities to visitors.
Personally speaking, I consider the first two of these five options to be much more likely than the others, but without physical evidence to examine we can never know for certain what any of these fascinating but irretrievably lost West Indian macaws truly were.
A gorgeous multicoloured hybrid macaw (public domain)
Finally: for more mystery blue macaws documented on ShukerNature, not to mention turquoise, glaucous, purple, and even black forms, please click hereand here.
I wish to offer my sincere thanks to Rafael Nascimento for bringing several hitherto obscure mystery macaws to my attention and which I have thereby been able to document in this present 2-part ShukerNature article, and also for so generously permitting me to include some of his beautiful paintings of various mystery macaws in it. Thanks also go to David Alderton for kindly alerting me to van Bassen’s painting and its perplexing parrot, and to Michael Andrew Leigh for kindly photographing for me the green and yellow hybrid macaw at Singapore Bird Gardens (I wonder which specific type of hybrid macaw this bird is?).
A very handsome pair of blue and yellow macaws – representing one of the many macaw species that definitely do exist! (public domain)
This 2-part ShukerNature article is excerpted from a work-in-progress book of mine, Mystery Birds of the World – look out for it in due course.
And finally: does anyone happen to know which precise type of hybrid macaw the following beautiful individual is, which I encountered with its handler while visiting Mandalay Bay Hotel, on the Strip in Las Vegas, during a Stateside holiday in 2004? All suggestions would be greatly welcomed – thanks very much!
A beautiful hybrid macaw of currently-undetermined identity on display with its handler at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, which I visited in 2004 (© Dr Karl Shuker)
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Mystical beauty spot, with ruins and sitting stones, in South of France
The nun's ruined abbey
Sitting stones for meditation, prayer and teaching
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At last, there's time to blog. I'll catch up a bit more later after my lecture about angelic souls...
Years ago, Kathy, one of students, was so grateful I'd helped her resolve her abusive relationship, she offered me her house, tennis courts and pool in the South of France to stay in each summer she was away. I never could. But this year, when Kathy asked me to lecture in her home in the South of France, I said yes.
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Kathy's 'house' is like a very long two-story farmhouse, set by itself in a green valley near wooded mountains. It's said to have the purest air in Europe. To give an idea how remote it is, it's 32 kilometres from the nearest McDonalds. Hooray!
Kathy's home is also her dream. She intends to run it as a healing and therapy retreat centre, cooking traditional local dishes from foods from local earth. She wants to show guests how to live off the land, and use local plants to heal themselves too.
Perhaps she's unconsciously helping her land prolong its history. Ruins in the grounds are where a previous order of nuns lived. Apparently they also used their (now ruined) building as a healing centre, and taught visitors how to use herbs to heal!
A circle of "sitting stones" by the ruins adds to the mystical air. One could easily imagine nuns and their converts sitting to meditate or pray in a circle! In fact, judging from the atmospheric feelings, they might still... :-)
If you know anyone who feels like a healing retreat at this mystical beauty spot in the South of France, let me know soon. Kathy is about to advertise...
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What can be learned from the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The country lost an amazing force when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday. How meaningful it was that this, small in stature but mighty in character woman, passed away on one of the holiest days of her religion.
Affectionately known as RBG, Justice Ginsberg, was indeed a person of great righteousness. I personally admired and respected her even though I sometimes disagreed with her legal opinions. I was not alone in that regard. “What’s not to like?” Scalia said of Ginsburg at that joint appearance six years ago. “Except her views on the law.” Thus did the two ideological opposites attract for what became from that day on a close friendship – one their families, friends and colleagues recalled affectionately after Scalia’s death at a Texas ranch in 2016 and again following Ginsburg’s death Friday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.” (from USA Today article) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/20/supreme-friends-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-antonin-scalia/5844533002/
I don’t know about you but I am tired of the rancor and divisiveness in our society these days. Why does it feel so much worse than in years past? Could it be that it isn’t but social media is making us feel that way. A Netflix documentary, “Social Dilemna”makes this very point. The way the apps are set up cause us to be pulled one way or another making us feel like there is no middle any more. The relationship between Scalia and Ginsberg begs to differ. Judge Scalia was known to say, “We agree on a whole lot of stuff,” Ruth is really bad only on the knee-jerk stuff.” Ruth Bader Ginsberg exemplified the words of David in Psalm 90:10 “Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom as each day takes us one day closer to eternity.
Her life and the relationship she had with one, so diametrically opposed to some of her views, support what I have been writing here for the last few weeks. Like the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37, when faced with opposition, we need to STUDY the issue, seek to UNDERSTAND, and then allow ourselves to be VULNERABLE enough to listen to another point of view. The Samaritan had a choice. Instead of crossing the road to avoid the man who was robbed and beaten, He got close enough to SEE he was alive, FEEL his pain, so that he could be SHAKEN into action. Where do you need to do the same? Will you cross the road or meet the challenge head on?
The USA Today article goes on to say, “In an era of increasingly bitter partisan enmity, the odd coupling of Ginsburg – petite, serious, seemingly shy – and Scalia – rotund, garrulous, overtly opinionated – may be viewed as an anachronism. But many cited it over the weekend as a signal of hope.” Who with opposite view points is God asking you to build this same kind of friendship?
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BROOKLYN DECKER – Living With Authenticity
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Brooklyn Decker is a powerhouse. As a former model, actress, philanthropist, entrepreneur, mom of two and wife, she has no shortage of talent or drive.
As a model she graced the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2010. As an actress she is currently playing Mallory on the hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie, which is the longest running show on Netflix.
In 2017 she added tech entrepreneur to her resume starting the company Finery, a brilliant app to help people manage their wardrobes, which she’s since sold. And she is the loving mother of a 4-year-old son Hank and a 2-year-old daughter Stevie.
As a philanthropist she is passionate about so many causes. During this pandemic she has been giving out gift certificates to help feed people, supporting and promoting small businesses and the Andy Roddick Foundation is raising money through its Family Emergency Fund to support families in need in Austin, Texas. I’ll link to that in the show notes if you want to donate.
She’s hilarious, down to earth and a genuinely compassionate person. As a new mom myself, I’m even more amazed by how she manages to fit so much onto her plate with two kids.
How does she do it??
In Today’s show we explore:
Life during the quarantine
Challenges and fears that come up being a parent during this pandemic
Brook’s journey in her professional career
What it’s like working alongside icons like Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin
What it looks like being a working mom
How being a parent has changed her
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A Digital Nomad Family – Raising Global Citizens
Go Nomad
Paradise or Pair O’ Dice?
Finding Quality Remote Work
Nomad Family Reboot 2020
Nomadic Lifestyle
Mazatlan: Love in the Time of Coronavirus
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By Sarah B Go Nomad, Nomadic Lifestyle December 29, 2019
It’s hard to believe that we haven’t posted to our blog in over two years, but then again time flies when you’re making babies. Ha. Ha. Hahahahasob. Let’s get you up to speed on our next nomad family adventure.
Our last post was in August of 2017 while we were living in Guanajuato, Mexico, just after our second son Cormoran was born. We ended up staying in Guanajuato for another year, with a short visa run to Costa Rica in March of 2018. This was around the time that we found out we were pregnant with our third child. While we were used to navigating a birth abroad after our first two, we were ready for a change and the easy button option was to return to Spokane to stay with family for a bit. We wouldn’t have to speak French or Spanish at check-ups or the birth, the paperwork for registering our new chunky monkey would be in English and completed mostly by hospital staff, and we’d have family around to help manage the chaos that comes with two babies and a 5-year-old. Guanajuato, its people and our two lovely babysitters will always have a place in our hearts. It’s a city full of spirit and we hope to visit again in the near future.
We returned to the U.S. in the summer of 2018. David accepted an offer from Blackbird (Uber for private jets), and focused on scaling their customer service team and systems. Sarah continued her work with The Spun Yarn and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer. Both of our companies were based in San Francisco, so we made a few trips out to the Bay area to connect with teams and also to explore the city. San Francisco is beautiful, but a bit too career and material-focused for our liking. There was a time in our lives when 60-hour weeks, late night website releases and even a little office politicking was enjoyable. Without kids, that life (and of course all the travel) is exciting, but we’ve reached a stage where we can focus more on the bigger picture. In our marriage, we’ve learned what each partner needs to be happy, the value of our time, and where best to invest our energy to achieve our goals. Delivering our “Best” in our careers is no longer tied to long hours or clever tactical solutions, but to leveraging our experience to guide solutions that impact the company as a whole. It’s a fun stage to be in. We have much to learn, but our successes and failures allow us to look to the future with fewer distractions.
Summer time with Piper and Spencer
In December, our daughter Piper was born (finally, a girl!). It was a natural birth, no epidural, and Sarah’s mom got to join us! Sarah gave birth with an epidural for our first two boys, so this was new territory for us. Watching Sarah adjust her body, describe what she’s feeling to the staff, and manage her breathing with each push was just incredible. One of the midwives actually said, “Wow, I can tell you’ve done this a few times. You make it look so easy!” Piper’s birth experience was a gift we weren’t expecting. Sarah had read Ina May Gaskin‘s books about natural birth beforehand, and wished she’d known about them with the first two babies.
In March, Blackbird wasn’t working out, and David decided to leave the company in search of a better fit. We have a follow up post where we discuss delaying employment in favor of company fit and the details of David’s search!
David ultimately found the perfect fit with Willow, and joined their team as an Operations Analyst in June. Willow is a femtech leader located in Mountain View, California. They produce a silent cordless breast pump that fits in a bra and is perfect for return-to-work moms, long commutes or moms who just want a little more freedom. It was great timing, since Sarah was breastfeeding Piper when David joined Willow! David’s focus is on developing the Customer Care team’s reporting suite while optimizing their systems for contact reduction. The team and challenge is everything David had hoped for and more.
Around the time that David left Blackbird we purchased one way tickets to Tirana, Albania. Another nomad family we met in Guanajuato had moved there and had great things to say about the school their two boys were attending. It also had great weather and lax immigration requirements, but we ultimately decided to forego the move as Piper was still very small, and searching for a remote position from abroad might present additional challenges.
Still wanting to live abroad, we began researching new locations and set a new timeframe for the move based on Spencer’s schooling. We’ve covered our destination decision rubric in past posts and podcasts, but here’s a brief overview of our process.
Build a matrix listing potential cities against our deciding factors
Deciding factors:
Culture (for instance, we’d like to continue our journey to Spanish fluency)
Internet speeds & co-working options
Timezone (David works for a company based on the West Coast, and with the small kids we’re not open to doing swing shift)
Cost and journey time to visit family
Convenience (with two huge babies, a city like Guanajuato would be hard to pull off this time)
Immigration requirements
Parks and other nearby activities
Forget everything and buy tickets to Cape Town. 😉 (just kidding! Still our favorite city in the world, but the timing isn’t right to go back)
Reach out to expat groups, other nomads and schools in each area.
Discuss our findings and choose a destination.
We’ve yet to go as far as visiting a location for a “test run,” which some nomad families seem to prefer. We do take a lot of long virtual Google walks around the city though!
Our search for a home base led us to Mazatlan, Mexico: the pearl of the pacific.
What David loves about Mazatlan: A big factor in our decision was David having an old friend who’s lived there for 9 years. He married a Mexican woman and has kids attending a school that they highly recommend. The city hosts the world’s third largest carnival festival, and is flush with international cuisine due to it being a major stop for cruise ships. The temperature in the 80s (F) year-round, and they have only 2-3 months a year of rain. There are three co-working spaces that we’re aware of with internet speeds of 100 mbps.
What Sarah loves about Mazatlan: I’m not going to lie, I’m not as geeked about moving as I have been in the past. Having one kid is one thing. Having three under the age of six is … just plain hard to survive. I’ve loved being close to my family, without whose support I would have gone insane. When David and I talked about moving abroad again, we knew that our family was different now, and we had different needs. I preferred to stay in Mexico because it was closer to family, and because we love Spanish and the Mexican family culture. We knew that we needed an English-speaking primary school for Spencer, who has some auditory processing difficulties that make it difficult for him to learn. After Guanajuato, I was worn out from carrying children, groceries, and huge water jugs up steep hillsides. With two toddlers, I wanted a stroller-friendly city, with enough creature comforts and parks to make life a little easier on us during these early years with the kids. Mazatlan ticks all of these boxes without being as touristy as other destinations. So, Mazatlan here we come!
Thank you so much for following our journey. We’re excited to share more with you as our next chapter begins.
Sarah B
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Tayo says:
I got so excited at option 3!
Hahaha! Seriously, we will when the time is right and it works with our schedules. We miss Cape Town, and YOU, so much!
Ashley (Ellerd) Hersey says:
I had this moment just now where I was thinking “I wonder what Sarah is up to?”, as I find myself dreaming of living elsewhere, and I see that we’ve passed each other on the night it seems. We moved to Spo Halloween of 2018 while pregnant with our first son, to be closer to my family. Only to find that maybe my family isn’t the kind of family we’d like to spend time with. I love that you guys are still making this work, though I know the struggle of wanting easy, esp with kiddos. Any time I think of moving to Mexico, I think of you guys. Also, super cool that David is at Willow. I purchased one after Luca was born and can’t imagine going back if we ever have #2. Looking forward to reading about your new family adventures!
We’re Sarah and David, a digital nomad family of five with a passion for helping families live a richer, more fulfilling, life through travel. In 2015 we resigned from our traditional 9-5's, sold everything & went nomad. We created this blog to share the nomad reality: good, bad, and always exciting.
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PWDs face human rights limitations
By Karen Mkwate
Director of Young Voices Disabilities of Zimbabwe and Ambassador of Ivory Coast, Nyasha Mahwende has said people living with disabilities face life challenges because of limitations in realizing their constitutional rights.
Mahwende said people with disabilities (PWD) face discrimination, segregation and are often neglected and as a marginalized group they are rarely considered in development activities.
“We have a lot of needs and desires for our life to flow but we find out that we are being deprived of our rights because of the limitations that comes with the constitutional rights,’ she said.
“The government is supposed help the disabled to give them access to medical, psychological and functional treatment but many children that need wheelchairs are crawling to school.”
Director of Young Voices Disabilities of Zimbabwe and Ambassador of Ivory Coast, Nyasha Mahwende
She said council should take into consideration the needs of the crippled and blind before approving plans for public buildings because they cannot climb upstairs on their own.
“As people with disabilities we are not being considered when buildings are being constructed especially those of government are actually written “If Resources Permit” meaning it only accommodates those that can climb stairs,’ she said.
“Sometimes the ministers’ offices will be upstairs yet I have private and confidential information that I need to take it to him myself, but because I am disabled I can’t whereas sending someone he or she might deliver the information distorted.”
Experts have said consideration of people living with disabilities is key as it creates inclusivity and removal of barriers which is key to development.
Rotary club pledges wheelchairs to persons living with disabilities
Thousands hectrage destroyed by informal mining
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PETER VITERITTI
Peter Viteritti is a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians who maintains private practices in two multidisciplinary centers. As a sports chiropractic consultant to several collegiate athletic programs, he integrates patient centered, functional examinations and advanced manual procedures with traditional medical care.
He has been privileged to serve on the sports medicine staff at various national and international sporting events. In addition, he instructed on the post-graduate faculty of five chiropractic colleges throughout the country and has been a featured speaker at both national and international sports medicine symposiums.
www.chirosportsmed.net
STUART MCGILL
Stuart McGill is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo. He has been the author of over 200 scientific publications that address the issues of low back function, injury mechanisms, development of evidence-based rehabilitation and performance exercise, diagnosis, and the formulation of injury avoidance strategies.
As a consultant, he has provided low back expertise to various government agencies, many corporations, elite athletes and teams from many countries, and legal firms. Working at the interface between basic foundational science and clinical practice, he is one of the few scientists who is regularly asked for consult by the medical community regarding particularly difficult back cases, and by world-class athletes from around the world.
www.backfitpro.com
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/kin/people/SpineBiomechanicsLab.html
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CRAIG LIEBENSON
LA Sports and Spine
Dr. Liebenson is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Chiropractic, Division of Health Sciences at Murdoch University, Perth Australia and consultant for the Murdoch University and the Anglo-European Chiropratic College M.Sc. program in Chiropractic Rehabilitation. The first ever chiropractic member of the McKenzie Institute (U.S.) Board of Directors, he serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation; the PM&R Journal of Injury, Function and Rehabilitation; the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapy; and Journal of Manual Therapy.
Dr. Liebenson is the first health care provider to receive a Certification of Recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) on Achievement of Recognition for Delivery of Quality Back Pain Care. He is actively engaged in ongoing research on the spinal stabilization system as a Visiting Scholar at Pr. Stuart McGill’s Spine Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Waterloo. He regularly assists Pavel Kolar in his courses and has worked with both Dr. Karel Lewit and Pr Vladimir Janda beginning in 1987. Dr. Liebenson publishes extensively and is the editor of the book/DVD Rehabilitation of the Spine: A Practioner's Manual (2nd ed), 2007.
He has had books published into Spanish, Greek, Korean and Japanese. He was the team chiropractor for the N.B.A. Los Angeles Clippers from the 2006-2007 season until 2009-2010 seasons and is currently a consultant for the M.L.B. Arizona Diamondbacks and Athletes Performance International.
http://www.lasportsandspine.com/
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The Maze Runner - DVD Review
'has to bumble through thirty minutes or so of the worst sort of 'we call this that' and 'we call those this' and 'there are only three rules here' setup. It is both not good and an immediate turn off'
The latest in the recent long, long line of Young Adult dystopian literature to be adapted onto film, The Maze Runner suffers the initial problem of nearly all of its bedfellows: there is so, so much exposition in the film's setup that it cannot help but sound twee, conceited and slightly annoying. Wes Ball's film wants to convince you that it is worthy, but before it can do that it has to bumble through thirty minutes or so of the worst sort of 'we call this that' and 'we call those this' and 'there are only three rules here' setup. It is both not good and an immediate turn off.
Fortunately, there is something behind the opening and The Maze Runner grows as its protagonist, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) does also. Thrust into The Glade at the centre of a maze for reasons he is unaware of, Thomas must negotiate a group paranoid of their existence, uncertain of their escape and, in some cases, entrenched in their ways.
Some parts of that equation feel superfluous. Although it would have taken a brave person to cut what is no doubt a large part of the novel, Will Poulter as internal antagonist Gally just isn't needed. Thomas hardly ever reacts to him, he ultimately does practically nothing to shape the plot and his role has already been filled: the maze and some late reveals are this film's drivers.
Hampered by the exposition, the performances waver drastically, but O'Brien at the centre is impressive. He is, for both better and worse, very much like a young Chris Pine and like him, he can largely carry the Action content off in his sleep. The midway-through support from Kaya Scodelario gives him something needed to work with.
The second half of the film though, beyond the performances, is driven and supported by the mystery. Ball picks the right moments for reveals, holds the ultimate outcome close to his chest for an extremely long time and then manages a final ten minutes or so that feel both satisfying, closed enough to round the film off and effective enough for the sequel set up. Oh yes, a sequel, due later in 2015. Was there ever any doubt?
The Maze Runner is released on UK Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 9th February.
Film Intel article for Thursday, February 05, 2015
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Volkswagen Chattanooga completes 100,000th Passat
9:35 PM PST - 5/31/2012 Written By: Volkswagen of America, Inc
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Joanne Benante with her new 2012 Passat TDI SEL Source Volkswagen
Volkswagen Chattanooga has achieved another significant production milestone – the completion of its 100,000th Passat, just nine months after the car went on sale in the U.S. The milestone Passat was handed over to its new owner in a ceremony held today with hundreds of Volkswagen employees at the Chattanooga factory.
The Passat was driven off the line by employees from the factory and into the Conference Center where an all-employee meeting was being held this morning. The keys were then handed to Volkswagen Chattanooga CEO and Chairman Frank Fischer who presented them to owner Joanne Benante, who had come from Atlanta, Georgia, to take delivery at the factory. To the cheers of the employees, she then drove her new car through the middle of the gathering and out the front doors on her way back to I-75 and south to Atlanta.
“We have built each and every one of those 100,000 Passats with a passion for detail that sets the standard for safety and reliability for the mid-size sedan market,” Fischer said. “I’m so proud of our team for reaching this milestone so quickly while maintaining the superior quality that earned the Passat the Motor Trend 2012 Car of the Year award,” Fischer said.
The 100,000th Passat built at the LEED Platinum Certified Chattanooga factory was a Night Blue Metallic 2.0-liter TDI SEL Premium with six-speed DSG® dual-clutch automatic transmission and Moonrock leather interior.
“Producing 100,000 Passats so soon after the vehicle went on sale in September 2011 is a testament to all the hard work that has gone into making our LEED-certified Chattanooga plant and the Passat such a success, both here and abroad,”said Jonathan Browning, President and CEO, Volkswagen of America. “It is further evidence that our momentum in the U.S. market is continuing and we are appreciative of our growing customer base, which has been drawn to the Passat’s outstanding fuel economy, German engineering and value,” Browning said.
The Volkswagen Chattanooga team celebrated completion of the first customer car on April 18, 2011, the 10,000th Passat on Sept. 8, 2011 and the 50,000th Passat on Feb. 7, 2012.
The 100,000 vehicles include pre-series cars, technical training cars, dealer experience cars, U.S. customer cars and export cars to Mexico, Canada, South Korea and the Middle East.
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Welcome to the Worldwide Greathead family my One-Name Study
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Sarah Verrill
#926, b. 16 February 1866
Last Edited=1 Dec 2010
Sarah Verrill was born on 16 February 1866.1 She was the daughter of John Verrill and Sarah Ann Verrill. She was baptised on 11 March 1866 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.2 She married Charles William Royall on 18 December 1894 in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England.3
Child of Sarah Verrill and Charles William Royall
Alice Maud Royall+ b. 1906
[S20] Letters between Eileen Huby and Jan Cooper from 14 February 2001.
[S10] Family Record Family Search - On IGI from Joan Jemson.
[S3] GRO Indexes - 1894/Q4 Guisbro Volume 9d Page 997.
Charles William Royall
Charles William Royall married Sarah Verrill, daughter of John Verrill and Sarah Ann Verrill, on 18 December 1894 in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England.1
Child of Charles William Royall and Sarah Verrill
Edward Verrill
#928, b. 1869, d. 1910
Edward Verrill was born in 1869. He was the son of John Verrill and Sarah Ann Verrill. He married Elizabeth Ann Dunn on 23 December 1899 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England.1,2 Edward died in 1910 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.3,4
Children of Edward Verrill and Elizabeth Ann Dunn
Edward Verrill3 b. 1901, d. 1902
John Verrill+ b. 30 Mar 1903, d. 1968
Elsie Verrill+ b. 15 Oct 1905, d. 1956
[S3] GRO Indexes - 1899/Q4 Whitby Volume 9d Page 1038.
[S4] Jan's thoughts based on information from census enumeration sheets.
[S3] GRO Indexes - 1910/Q1 Middlesborough Volume 9d Page 376 age 41.
Elizabeth Ann Dunn
#929, b. about 1876
Elizabeth Ann Dunn was born about 1876 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1 She married Edward Verrill, son of John Verrill and Sarah Ann Verrill, on 23 December 1899 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England.2,3 Her husband Edward died on 1910 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.1,4 Elizabeth was listed as head of household in the census of 2 April 1911 in Seaton Garth, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, Eliza Hannah, as she signed herself was living with her two children John and Elsie in their five roomed home. She stated that she had a son Edward who had died.5
Children of Elizabeth Ann Dunn and Edward Verrill
[S41911] UK Census 1911 (RG14) - 2 April 1911 RG14 Piece 29150 RG78 Piece 1688 Registration District 533 Sub District 3 Enumeration District 7 Schedule Number 210.
Sarah Ann Crispin
#930, b. 1839
Sarah Ann Crispin was born in 1839 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Crispin and Mary Jefferson.3 She was baptised on 7 February 1839 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.3 In the census of 7 April 1861 in May Crispin Street?, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Mary Crispin Sarah was a house servant living with her mother. It appears that she is married.4 She married Thomas Verrill, son of Isaac Verrill and Susannah Verrill, on 26 September 1865 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.5 In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the wife of Thomas Verrill.6 In the census of 5 April 1891 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the wife of Thomas Verrill.7,8,9 In the census of 31 March 1901 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the wife of Thomas Verrill.10 Sarah was buried in Eston and Normanby Cemetery, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.1
Children of Sarah Ann Crispin and Thomas Verrill
Mary Jane Verrill+ b. 30 Jan 1868
Thomas Verrill b. 1870
George Daliver Verrill+ b. 1872
Isaac Verrill b. 1874
Sarah Ann Verrill+ b. 1877, d. 1939
Susannah Verrill+ b. 20 Aug 1878, d. May 1974
Alice Verrill b. 26 Oct 1880
[S3] GRO Indexes - 1839/Q1 Whitby Volume 24 Page 471.
[S4500] Emails between Tony Goggins and Jan Cooper from 11 March 2003 IGI - 0550531 Film 6909951.
[S41861] UK Census 1861 (RG9) - 7 April 1861 RG9 Piece 3650 Folio 64 Page 15.
[S20] Letters between Eileen Huby and Jan Cooper from 14 February 2001 Appears on IGI as sent by Joan Jemson.
[S41881] UK Census 1881 (RG11) - 3 April 1881 RG11 Piece 4837 Folio 126 Page 8.
[S41891] UK Census 1891 (RG12) - 5 April 1891 RG12 Piece 4016 Folio 96 Page 13.
[S20] Letters between Eileen Huby and Jan Cooper from 14 February 2001 Tom was a fishmonger.
[S805] Letters between Robin Verrill and Jan Cooper from 30 December 2000 Tom was a fishmonger.
[S41901] UK Census 1901 (RG13) - 31 March 1901 RG13 Piece 4586 Folio 63 Page 5.
Susannah Verrill
Susannah Verrill was born in 1845.1 She was the daughter of Isaac Verrill and Susannah Verrill. She was baptised on 29 March 1845 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.2 In the census of 30 March 1851 at Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Isaac Verrill Susan was a scholar.3 In the census of 7 April 1861 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Isaac Verrill Susannah was a house servant.4 She married Robert Batty on 13 August 1868 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.2
Child of Susannah Verrill and Robert Batty
Isaac Verrill Batty1 b. 1874
[S41851] UK Census 1851 (HO107) - 30 March 1851 HO107 Piece 2374 Folio 764 Page 48.
Alice Verrill
Alice Verrill was born in 1847.1 She was the daughter of Isaac Verrill and Susannah Verrill. She was baptised on 23 October 1847 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.2 In the census of 30 March 1851 at Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Isaac Verrill Alice was a scholar.3 In the census of 7 April 1861 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Isaac Verrill Alice was a house servant.4 She married John Seymour on 24 July 1866 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.2
[S20] Letters between Eileen Huby and Jan Cooper from 14 February 2001 On IGI from Joan Jemson.
Eleanor Verrill
#933, b. 29 March 1850
Eleanor Verrill was born on 29 March 1850.1 She was the daughter of Isaac Verrill and Susannah Verrill. She was baptised on 21 April 1850.1 In the census of 30 March 1851 at Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Isaac Verrill.2 In the census of 7 April 1861 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Isaac Verrill Ellen was a scholar.3 She married Robert Porritt Atkinson on 11 September 1873.1
Child of Eleanor Verrill and Robert Porritt Atkinson
Robert Porritt Atkinson b. 19 Jul 1874, d. 7 Aug 1952
Mary Jefferson
Mary Jefferson was born in 1803 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England. She married Thomas Crispin on 11 February 1828 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.1 Her husband Thomas died on before 1861.2 Mary was listed as the head of the family on the census of 7 April 1861 in May Crispin Street?, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, Mary was a fisherman's widow. She was living with her daughter Sarah Ann who was married, son Thomas who is also married, is this son-in law abd Sarah had married a Verrill. Many Verrills did seem to marry other Verrills? There was also a grandson called Thomas Jefferson aged seven and a grandaughter Matjorie Crispin aged three, both scholars.3 In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the mother in law of Thomas Verrill.4
Children of Mary Jefferson and Thomas Crispin
Jane Crispin5 b. 23 Nov 1828
Sarah Ann Crispin+ b. 1839
Thomas Crispin5 b. 5 Sep 1841
[S4500] Emails between Tony Goggins and Jan Cooper from 11 March 2003 IGI - M040483 Film 6909952.
[S4500] Emails between Tony Goggins and Jan Cooper from 11 March 2003 IGI - C040481 Film 6909951.
Mary Jane Verrill
#935, b. 30 January 1868
Mary Jane Verrill was born on 30 January 1868 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Verrill and Sarah Ann Crispin. She was baptised on 23 February 1868 in Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England.2 In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Thomas Verrill Mary Jane was a scholar.3 She married John Thomas Verrill, son of John Verrill and Lavinia ..., on 15 May 1887. In the census of 5 April 1891 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as a visitor of Thomas Verrill Mary was living with her parents, her siblings, her husband and two children.4,5,6 In the census of 31 March 1901 in High Street, Hinderwell, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the wife of John Thomas Verrill.7 Mary was buried on 8 September 1949.1
Children of Mary Jane Verrill and John Thomas Verrill
Sarah Ann Verrill+ b. 26 Aug 1886
Lavinia Verrill b. 11 Aug 1889
Mary Jane Verrill b. 13 Jun 1892
Hilda Verrill b. 1896, d. 27 Jan 1973
John Thomas Verrill b. a 1899
[S3] GRO Indexes - RG13 Piece 4563 Folio 31 Page 6.
Thomas Verrill
Thomas Verrill was born in 1870 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1 He was the son of Thomas Verrill and Sarah Ann Crispin. In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill Tom was a scholar.2 In the census of 5 April 1891 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill Tom was a fishmonger.3,4,5 Thomas was buried on 28 September 1932 in Eston and Normanby Cemetery, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.1
George Daliver Verrill
George Daliver Verrill was born in 1872 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1 He was the son of Thomas Verrill and Sarah Ann Crispin. In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill George was a scholar.2 In the census of 5 April 1891 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill George was a fishmonger.3,4,5 In the census of 31 March 1901 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill George was a fish dealer.6 He was a fish merchant. He married Emily Jane Medd, daughter of George Medd and Ellen Smith, in 1904 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.7
Children of George Daliver Verrill and Emily Jane Medd
George Daliver Verrill b. 27 Apr 1905
Mary Verrill b. 15 Sep 1907
Susannah Verrill8 b. 1911
[S3] GRO Indexes - 1904/Q4 Middlesbro Volume 9d Page 1110.
Isaac Verrill
Isaac Verrill was born in 1874 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1 He was the son of Thomas Verrill and Sarah Ann Crispin. In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill Isaac was a scholar.2 In the census of 5 April 1891 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill Isaac was a fishmonger.3,4,5 In the census of 31 March 1901 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, he was listed as the son of Thomas Verrill Isaac was a fish dealer.6
Sarah Ann Verrill
Sarah Ann Verrill was born in 1877 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Verrill and Sarah Ann Crispin. In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Thomas Verrill.2 In the census of 5 April 1891 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Thomas Verrill.3,4,5 In the census of 31 March 1901 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Thomas Verrill.6 She married Edward Dibley in 1907 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.7,8 Sarah died in 1939 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England.7
Children of Sarah Ann Verrill and Edward Dibley
Marjorie Dibley7 b. 1908
Mary Crispin Dibley+9 b. 1910, d. 1990
Elsie C Dibley7 b. 1912
Edward H Dibley7 b. 1914
[S11256] Emails between Christa Curchin and Jan Cooper from 17 March 2004.
[S11256] Emails between Christa Curchin and Jan Cooper from 17 March 2004 Information from Rosemary Goodwin.
#940, b. 26 October 1880
Alice Verrill was born on 26 October 1880 in Staithes, Yorkshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Verrill and Sarah Ann Crispin. She was baptised on 6 November 1880. In the census of 3 April 1881 in Hinderwell, Staithes, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Thomas Verrill.2 In the census of 5 April 1891 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Thomas Verrill Alice was a scholar.3,4,5 In the census of 31 March 1901 in 93 Nelson Street, Normanby, Yorkshire, England, she was listed as the daughter of Thomas Verrill.6
John Thomas Tennent Rock
#943, b. 30 December 1924, d. 1 January 2011
John Thomas Tennent Rock was born on 30 December 1924 in Silver Hills, Ontario, Canada.1 He was the son of Thomas Dennis Rock and Mary Elizabeth Schilz. He married Catherine Joyce Sterne, daughter of Henry William Sterne and Mary Jane Glenn, on 4 December 1949 in Sydenham United Church, Brantford, Brantford County, Ontario, Canada.1 His wife Catherine died on 14 May 1982 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, aged 53.1 He married Shirley Hoffman on 12 September 1987 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.1 John died on 1 January 2011 in Canada aged 86.2
Children of John Thomas Tennent Rock and Catherine Joyce Sterne
Catherine Joyce Rock b. 24 May 1950, d. 24 May 1950
David John Rock
Douglas William Rock+ b. 13 Apr 1953, d. Jun 2006
Jeffrey Richard Rock
Andrew James Rock
Margaret Anne Rock b. 26 Aug 1962, d. 26 Aug 1962
Peter Michael Rock
[S378] E-mails between Hugh Reginald Birks and Jan Cooper from 16 January 2001.
[S952] E-mails between Andrew James Rock and Jan Cooper from 17 January 2012 title.
Catherine Joyce Sterne1
#944, b. 14 May 1929, d. 14 May 1982
Catherine Joyce Sterne was born on 14 May 1929 in Brantford, Brantford County, Ontario, Canada.2 She was the daughter of Henry William Sterne and Mary Jane Glenn. She married John Thomas Tennent Rock, son of Thomas Dennis Rock and Mary Elizabeth Schilz, on 4 December 1949 in Sydenham United Church, Brantford, Brantford County, Ontario, Canada.2 Catherine died on 14 May 1982 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, aged 53.2
Children of Catherine Joyce Sterne and John Thomas Tennent Rock
Henry William Sterne
Henry William Sterne was born in 1878 in Canada. He was the son of George Francis Sterne and Elizabeth Morris Green. He married Mary Elizabeth Collens. Henry married Mary Jane Glenn. Henry died in 1940 in Canada.
Children of Henry William Sterne and Mary Elizabeth Collens
Lotta Marion Sterne+ b. 1902, d. 1968
Charles Francis Sterne+ b. 1904, d. 1948
Lilian Doris Sterne+ b. 1907
Children of Henry William Sterne and Mary Jane Glenn
May Jeanne Sterne+ b. 1917
Mary Elizabeth Sterne
Catherine Joyce Sterne+ b. 14 May 1929, d. 14 May 1982
Mary Jane Glenn
Mary Jane Glenn was born in 1888 in Canada. Mary married Henry William Sterne, son of George Francis Sterne and Elizabeth Morris Green. Mary died in 1971 in Canada.
Children of Mary Jane Glenn and Henry William Sterne
Thomas Dennis Rock
#947, b. 27 October 1889, d. 17 May 1958
Thomas Dennis Rock was born on 27 October 1889 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.1 He was the son of Thomas Dennis Rock and Agnes Helen Tennent. He married Mary Elizabeth Schilz on 27 October 1923 in Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada.1 Thomas died on 17 May 1958 in St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, aged 68.1 Thomas was buried in 1958 in Port Dover Cemetery, Canada.1
Children of Thomas Dennis Rock and Mary Elizabeth Schilz
John Thomas Tennent Rock+ b. 30 Dec 1924, d. 1 Jan 2011
Evelyn Mary Helen Rock
Elizabeth Jane Rock
Mary Elizabeth Schilz
#948, b. 26 September 1894, d. 12 January 1978
Mary Elizabeth Schilz was born on 26 September 1894 in Victoria, Ontario, Canada.1 She married Thomas Dennis Rock, son of Thomas Dennis Rock and Agnes Helen Tennent, on 27 October 1923 in Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada.1 Mary died on 12 January 1978 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, aged 83.1 Mary was buried in 1978 in Port Dover Cemetery, Canada.1
Children of Mary Elizabeth Schilz and Thomas Dennis Rock
Catherine Joyce Rock
Catherine died on 24 May 1950 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.1 She was born on 24 May 1950 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.1 She was the daughter of John Thomas Tennent Rock and Catherine Joyce Sterne.
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Releases > July 2009
LÚNASA & FRIENDS
The Leitrim Equation
No label at all!
21 tracks, 73 minutes
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Spread across two CD’s and well over an hour, we find one of the world’s finest Irish quintets mingled with a generous double dozen Leitrim musicians. The Leitrim Equation resulted from Lúnasa’s year as resident musicians, and Leitrim County Council’s far-sighted funding. Only the poteen drinkers or similarly numbed souls can have missed the recent rise of Leitrim music: the McNamara family, the Lennon family, fluters Dave Sheridan and Noel Sweeney, fiddlers Brian Rooney and the Morrow brothers. Not that Leitrim music hasn’t previously been an important part of the Irish tradition; John McKenna, Charlie Lennon, Joe Liddy, Stockton’s Wing and Dervish are among the respected names with strong connections to this county, but their Midlands heritage has often been obscured by allegiances to musical styles such as South Sligo or East Galway. Here these masks are discarded, and Leitrim musicians step proudly forward: Liam Kelly, Ben Lennon, Mary McPartlan, Oliver Loughlin, Eleanor Shanley, Damian O’Brien, Tom Morrow, and many new names.
So what does this greatly extended Lúnasa sound like? In a word, brilliant. Just a touch of Paul Meehan’s magic lifts The Concert Reel, Kevin Crawford joins the McNamaras for The Edenderry and Maggie on the Shore, Sean Smyth follows three Lennon fiddlers on The Road to Garrison. Leitrim men (and women) can manage very well on their own too, as the McGoverns and McCartins show with a lovely lilting version of The Battering Ram, while Tom and Mossie Martin romp through a couple of Charlie Lennon reels on fiddle and moothie. There’s an occasional rough edge - Kilty Town and Maguire’s Welcome for example - but that just adds to the authenticity of these recordings. For seekers after new material, there are five tracks of fresh compositions forged in the furnaces of informal workshops: from the simplicity of Courthouse Reel, through the twists of In Walked Dalai, to the beautifully turned Stig Jig.
Lúnasa have resisted the lure of lyrics for a long time now, but I’m afraid there are two songs on this double CD. Not, I hasten to add, from messrs Vallely, Smyth, Meehan, Hutchinson and Crawford: thankfully they restrict themselves to the occasional “Hup!” as ever, and there aren’t even any of Kevin’s famous monologues here. No, the singing duties fall once again to the ladies, in the formidable shape of Eleanor Shanley and Mary McPartlan. My Only Trombone is delicately arranged for flute, guitars and bass, while Generous Lover stands well as a solo session ballad. I suppose two vocal tracks in twenty-one is acceptable, especially given the quality of all the music on The Leitrim Equation: top notch to the very end, appropriately wrapped up by a warm double pipes version of Snug in a Blanket. So with dozens more counties to choose from, and many more years left in the lads, I’m now dreaming of localised Lúnasa recordings for decades to come. Thank goodness the Chieftains never thought of this!
RTE Lyric FM
Double CD, 42 Tracks
www.rte.ie/lyricfm/lyricreleases
This is a compilation of 42 tracks recorded in Bantry House, Co Cork, between 2003 and 2007. It’s a fine and very representative illustration of the many facets of the music, as played for an audience of listeners - not always easy to obtain.
Lyric is still mainly a classical/jazz radio station, and at the very least the punters here would be expected to care about the music and how it’s played.
Outstanding is the track with Frank Harte singing Mickey McConnell’s song about The Lambeg Drummer. Tony MacMahon has a stalwart version of The Wounded Hussar. With some of the livelier tunes, you’d almost miss the buzz of the talk. But the compensation is that you really get to hear the softer instruments, like Cormac Breathnach’s low whistle. There are two tracks featuring the singing of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, and Gerry (Banjo) O’Connor shows why he’s justly famed for fabulous flat-picking - and good humour.
There’s a fine and unusual version of Roisín Dubh; more’s the pity that they don’t follow the lead of Cló Iar-Chonnachta and supply the words. The same is true for the fine macaronic song from Iarla Ó Lionáird. Other songs, like Andy Irivine’s My Heart’s Tonight in Ireland stand on their own merits - the tradition is alive and it will absorb and winnow what each generation brings.
And yet it keeps its head: Steve Cooney sets a lovely pace with Tony Mac Mahon on The Humours of Drinagh - classic steady jig-time. Jackie Daly, too, provides classic polka time.
No offence to the many I haven’t mentioned. They all have a secure place in what will probably be a milestone - or rather a pair - in the progress of our music as a cultured and enjoyable listening activity.
ROBBIE HANNON
The Tempest, uileann pipes
Na Piobraí Uilleann: The ace and deuce of piping, Vol. 3
It’s a feature of the music that its players take pride in transmitting it accurately and unchanged over generations. It’s not a restriction on self-expression: quite the opposite, and there’s real pride in being acknowledged as providing the Pure Drop. The difference from former times is that much of the music is learned from recordings, but they’re only part of the story.
Robbie Hannon, who deservedly features in this third volume in the NPU series, started learning from recordings, but progressed to having lessons with Liam O’Flynn and Ronan Browne at the Willie Clancy summer school. The first collection of the series was Eliot Grasso from Baltimore, Maryland, Up against the Flatirons; the second collection was from Emmett Gill from London, The Mountain Groves.
Even the choice of tunes in this Volume 3 reflects the importance of passing on the tradition. Most of them are classics recorded long before this by Seamus Ennis and Willie Clancy: The Flax in Bloom, Sergeant Early’s, Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races, Old Hag You Have Killed Me; you get the idea.
The title track is a reel which features close playing and fine ornamentation. Robbie also has a deft wrist on the regulators - listen to The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
For those of you who want to learn the tunes from this album, be warned - Robbie’s playing a Kenna set in B, with the chanter made by Andreas Rogge. Fancy playing in five sharps? One result from this is that pipers play solo. In some of the tunes there’s a feeling of haste due to nerves. It can happen with any musician - but if you play for dancers, they’ll soon cure you of it.
A fine and very classic collection. If this were the French Academy, Robbie would now be classed as one of the Immortals. With us, he’s known as a fierce handy piper. Congratulations all round.
DAN MILNER
Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the Sea
40 page booklet, 13 tracks, 58 Minutes
www.myspace.com/geomusicology
Dan specialises in songs of the sea but he doesn’t restrict himself to that narrow genre; thus he is respected by the balladeers as much as the maritime music community. Readers of this magazine will know him for his series on the Story Behind the Song, where he gives us succinctly written introductions to many classic ballads. Others know him from his long time partnership with banjo player, Bob Conroy, or his regular visits to Inishowen for their winter singer’s weekends and summer trips to the Cork Maritime Festival. New York’s Time Out got it right when they called Dan Milner “a folksinger’s folksinger”.
What we have here is a tour de force from the boy from Birmingham via Ballybunion and Brooklyn. That journey is told in the excellent liner notes which places Dan in his adopted milieu of New York City and finds him always at the epicentre of folk music, as collector, writer, teacher, singer and club organiser. Those liner notes deserve a special mention; where else would you get a bibliography encouraging a trip to the library to hunt out printed source material? You can read those liner notes for free on the Smithsonian website? Five stars for that one Dan.
Supporting him on this album are some of the best Irish musicians and singers currently working stateside, Susan McKeown, Joanie Madden, Mick Moloney, Brian Conway, Robbie O’Connell, Tim Collins, Bob Conroy, The Johnson Girls and Gabriel Donohue (who also recorded the album with Dan Milner).
The music is first class, the choice of material varied from the jaunty piano-backed Get Up Jack John Sit Down, to the sombre Flying Cloud (the words of which we reprint in this issue). I’ve been a long-time fan of Alba’s rendition of Ward the Pirate but I loved Dan’s stripped down version which he calls Saucy Ward (the accompaniment is modally menacing from John Doyle here). Tim Collins adds a sprightly concertina to Larry Marr and Joanie Madden’s atmospheric whistle soars on the jig Out on the Ocean, which closes the Ballad of Ó Bruadiar. The guitar backing and the melodic treatment on Captain Coulston is far more lyrical than the one popularised by Andy Irvine.
If I had to pick a favourite track it would be a toss-up between the big ballad The Flying Cloud, which Dan sings a capella, or P.J. McCall’s Lowlands Low, (one I played with Tony Canniffe and John Wall when we supported Dan Milner and Bob Conroy at the Brest Maritime Festival some years ago. Maybe that’s because the song holds memories of a mad weekend in Brittany with the two groups packed like sardines in the one car as we hunted for a late lunch. Oh the joy of ham and frites in a restaurant with Formica tables - but that’s another story).
In short, this is intelligent, accessible, impeccably researched folk music with a big Irish heart, but what else would you expect from Dan Milner? A classic in the makin, and a real legacy recording.
DEREK WARFIELD AND THE YOUNG WOLFE TONES
On the One Road
Ceol music
Double CD, 74 minutes each
www.theyoungwolfetones.com
Ireland has lately been full of compliments to our Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday. Lyric poetry is a grace, said Famous Seamus, who hails from Derry. Quite so. But there are other kinds of poetry and when a national identity is challenged, all poetry becomes political. As you might expect, there’s no lack of it here, and since Derek has got this fine professional group together, it’s proof there’s no lack of an audience.
An interesting audience too: very few of them drink lattes round Grafton Street, or talk post-modernism. The only deconstruction is with a Kango hammer, and since the depression hit, many are unemployed and facing emigration - except there isn’t anywhere to go. That’s one good reason why the first song, Over Here, Over There, is a campaigning one on behalf of the undocumented Irish in America.
There is no doubt that the history of the past 30 years must include a chapter on censorship. From the time that Maggie Thatcher said she would deprive terrorists of “the oxygen of publicity”, songs like those in this collection faced a thin time on official airwaves. Singers like Derek were portrayed by the chattering classes as some sort of Celtic neo-Nazis, stirring up hatreds and motivating young men to committing atrocities, all the while making a fat whack for themselves.
Having interviewed Derek myself, I can only say that I found him very well read in history and very clear about the English colonial project of the past four centuries. It’s an unrevised version, which mightn’t please those in centres of power, but it certainly resonates with those who have family memories of eviction and emigration. There was little to choose between slave ships and coffin ships. And as he said, when we had nothing else, we had the songs of Thomas Davis and his companions, and they sustained Irish nationalism for a century.
Musically, this is a very tight outfit. I was particularly enthused by the banjo playing of Damaris Woods. She comes from Luton and, with her brother Jim on accordion, they certainly provide an edge; I’d love to hear an instrumental CD from them. (There’s one in my collection - Ed). The same goes for Padraig McGovern on pipes and whistle.
Padraig Allen is singer-songwriter and a nephew of Tony (of Foster and Allen fame). There’s no use complaining that the material lacks subtlety (or apostrophes), that it aboundeth in cliché and sudden key-changes or that some rhymes are crimes against poesy - it goes with the territory and nobody became poor though underestimating the good taste of Joe Public. Equally, not everyone will cavil at the exploitation of the memory of dead patriots and poets.
Then again, there are other songs that came from the Music Hall/ Stage Irish tradition of shillelagh and begorrah, but now they’re accepted. Interestingly, the Irish language is conspicuous by its absence (except tabhair dom do lámh). The heartland of support seems to be counties Cavan and Leitrim, with a bit of Sligo and Westmeath included.
SEAMUS CREAGH (RIP)
Tunes for Practice
2 CD’s, Own label, 38 tracks
www.tunesforpractice.com
A double album, this recording was issued by the late and highly esteemed fiddler, Seamus Creagh - Mullingar by birth, Cork by inclination. What makes this CD so unique is that it is acts as a tutor for learners to pick up a tune by outlining the basic tune firstly at a slow speed, before increasing the tempo, ornamentation and delivery of the tune in a typical traditional manner. Cork-based academic and performer, Tomás Ó Canainn, gives a glowing account of the project in his introduction to the album. The idea is a wonderful concept which allows learners to return to the CD’s over and over again in order to absorb and embrace the subtle nuances that make Irish Traditional Music so distinct. The album is not unlike the project delivered by Ossian publications a few years back entitled Irish Session Tunes, featuring fiddler, Sheila Garry accompanied by Bríd Cranitch.
The introductions provided by Seamus himself on each track adds a personal touch to the tunes and the sets will help learners to group the tunes together in sets. A wide variety of tunes and tune types are in abundance on both CD’s, ranging from jigs, reels and hornpipes to slides, polkas and set dances, as well as a beautiful O’Carolan piece. Seamus introduces each tune, allowing listeners to become familiar with the personality behind the music. In addition to many standard tunes such as The Ships are Sailing, there are many other tunes from known composers such as Junior Crehan, Sean Ryan, Finbarr Dwyer and Hammy Hamilton. On a more poignant note, I was shocked and saddened to hear that Seamus passed away on Sunday, the 15th March. His passing marks the loss of one of the great Cork fiddlers and torchbearers of the tradition. His music, however, lives on and will continue to inspire many musicians to come via this excellent contribution to the body of recorded traditional music.
Edel Mc Laughlin
EWAN WILKINSON
Lost in the Day
CDBAR004
www.myspace.com/ewanwilkinson
Singer, songwriter and guitar player, Ewan Wilkinson, is from Peebles in the Scottish Borders and has performed widely on the British Folk Club and Festival scene. On his new CD, Lost in the Day, he is accompanied mainly by Sandy Brechin, with a help-out here and there from Alison Smith, fiddle, Wendy Wheatherby, cello, John Currie, whistle, and Ronan Martin, fiddle. Sandy is also the recording’s publisher, and John did the engineering. I don’t know who made the tea, but I’ll bet he/she offered a choice between something like Scottish oatcakes or that country’s famous shortbread.
Ewan is deeply rooted in the Scottish folk tradition and in his performances presents a mixture of traditional and contemporary folk songs. The title track, Lost in the Day, is one of four songs he composed; there are eleven tracks altogether, and include a Robert Burns love song, Ay Waulkin O, a homesick lament poem called Borderland by the Border poet Roger Quinn, music for it composed by Archie Fisher, and Beeswing, the saga of a love affair by Richard Thompson. That song has the girl give a grrofff retort to the lad’s suggestion that “we might settle down, Get a few acres dug, Fire burning in the hearth, Babies on the rug.” She said, “Young man, you’re a foolish man, It surely sounds like hell, You might be lord of half the world, You’ll not own me as well.” So much for romance!
One song Ewan performs is not likely to be included in too many folkies’ repertoires; it’s called Pills of White Mercury, which he says is, “A Traditional song for a traditional remedy,” nudge-nudge, wink-wink! It’s a more explicit version of the better-known The Streets of Laredo, and compared with Ewan’s version, almost tender and charming in its more familiar variant. The last verse in Pills… invites six lads to carry his coffin, six lassies to pray for his soul, “And give each of them a bunch of red roses, So when they pass by me they won’t know the smell.” Pungent lyrics, too, eh?
Another trad number is the well-known The Broom O’ the Cowdenowes, yet another Border ballad and one of the first traditional songs Ewan learned. He rounds off his selection with a ‘Sailor and Nancy’ ballad, a variant of the many such songs entitled Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy. Sandy Brechin is one of the greatest exponents of the Scottish accordion. He toured far and wide with Burach, Seelyhoo, The Sandy Brechin Band and his popular ceilidh band, “The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience” - once heard never forgotten.
Aidan O’Hara
Live at the Stoneyfell Winery Eric Bogle
DVTRAX 2022 2009
www.ericbogle.net
Eric Bogle is a singer ideally suited to the live show and to the DVD market. His show is not all ‘bells and whistles’, needing forty camera angles and state of the art surround sound to enjoy it. He stands, he sings, he plays, he chats and he has a brilliant team of musicians backing him.
Add to this the stature as one of the finest songwriters of modern times - people all too often forget this attribute, thinking his songs are traditional - and that his repertoire spans comic through historical and personal to tragic and you have the ingredients for a great show. On the DVD he performs 21 songs and gives a running commentary on the back-story for each. He runs through his back catalogue and gives us new arrangements on some of his classics like Leaving Nancy, a song few people realise is about a mother rather than a lover, Shelter, a hymn to Australia, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, not a traditional song from the Great War and ‘No Man’s Land’ probably one of the most recorded and sung folk songs of the 20th century.
He also reminds us of a lifetime in music and of being capable of more than the genre most associated with him on a funny track, Them Old Song Writing Blues. His song writing skills are most evident in the simple songs like The Dalai Lama’s Candle, where his thoughts flood out and connect diverse subjects into a coherent whole that is a lovely song with great sentiment, never mawkish, but often unheard.
Few can listen to the beautiful Rosie without have a tear trickle and fall, or hear If Wishes Were Fishes without humming or singing along to the infectious chorus.
The backing is superb almost without being noticed, a true sign of greatness. We hear the gushing reviews and plaudits for Christy Moore, Bob Dylan etc but very few for Bogle who just gets out there, does the business and uses words and music to make us think more than any other performer but in a much more subtle fashion.
NOEL BATTLE
Music from the reeds, mouth organ
15 tracks CCE - M - 001
www.ablowforpeace.com
In the kingdom of Oriel around Dundalk they sometimes speak of a strange instrument call the French fiddle. Most places, it’s known as a mouth organ, and this is the first album of a most accomplished exponent. Noel Battle is long-time chairman of the Mullingar branch of Comhaltas and he has 11 All-Ireland medals on his chosen instrument.
It’s delightful playing - rhythmic, sparkling and light, and not a hint of the difficulties which ordinary players have with things like triplets. Listen to the Greencastle Hornpipe, and weep with envy. And remember, this isn’t a light-toned accordion; the breath here is from well-tutored human lungs.
The accompaniments are on piano and guitar, and are credited to Brian McGrath, Shauna Davey and Joe Meehan. Oh the joyful luxury of having a piano in tune with good fresh tone in the bass. (Like mouth organs, pianos wear out - sadly, unlike mouth organs, they don’t get replaced half often enough.) What comes across from Noel himself is that he really knows his music and enjoys playing it. For any beginner, listen to the Three Sea Captains Elegant and unrushed, it a model of good taste and control.
The country around Mullingar has a reputation for Ceol Tire is Iarthair (Country and Western). It’s an extra plus to find proof that the trad is in such excellent hands there.
GERALDINE BRADLEY
From the rising spring: Cloch Fhuarain
Coolnacran Records 13 tracks
www.geraldinebradley.com
Geraldine come from Bessbrook in Co Armagh - not the first place you’d associate with the Irish language but, as she says, her father played cornet in a local band and knew every townland in South Armagh. And there are a lot of us who know her brother, Paul Bradley of fiddling fame. So, as they say in Irish language, heredity will show, even in the eyes of a cat.
The recording was made in Hollywood, Co. Down, so it’s an Ulster production, but the songs are from all over, especially from Bess Cronin of Ballyvourney.
Geraldine has a fine voice, true and unaffected, and the diction is excellent. All the song words are on the sleeve notes, so it’s ideal for anyone learning songs in Irish. What’s interesting is that she has, for me, a new take on two songs. Na Gamhna Geala she says, is about herding geese, not calves. And I’m wondering about A Bhean Udai Thall. Is it a separate song, or a variant about the song of the curse and the changeling, A Bhean Úd Thíos? With the song tradition, you learn to take nothing for granted. Is the Lisburn Lass just a song of a lover boy enlisting, or could it refer to the ‘98 rising? The accounts of that were heavily censored for years afterwards.
Anyhow, it’s a fine collection and special thanks to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for support. This is a happy part of the peace dividend and long may we enjoy it.
LÍADAN
Casadh Na Taoide
Own label LN002, 12 tracks, www.liadan.ie
Líadan is Irish for Grey lady. Whether we take this to be a ghostly spirit or a girl of a certain age is unclear, but she has a poetical nature. On this the second album by the ladies called Líadan I can assure you they are lyrical, far from grey and they make spirited music.
As I listened to the album I began scribbling on day-glow post it notes, one circled word that is looking at me is ‘Presence’. What does that imply? Well it’s in the recording, the delivery, the impeccable choice of tunes, the making of sets and the fill of new compositions between older melodies. There’s something really remarkable about this album, it has an ambition, clarity of purpose and an ambiance that exudes confidence.
The band has large palette of vocal and instrumental sounds to play with, but chooses them wisely, often sparingly, it’s not a headlong rush where everyone lashes away at the same time, it is more disciplined. The girls realise that certain tunes work better on some instruments then others, slower airs lend themselves to the vibrato and legato only the flute and fiddle can deliver, whereas if you need a bit of deep resonance then the ringing strings of the harp are the tones to paint with.
Líadan have produced an album that is far from a high octane in your face drag race fuelled by some rhythm doctor injecting nitro to go faster at every turn of a reel. Neither is it a warm lazy day in hammock. Like the baby bear’s porridge this is just right.
A few details: I loved the a cappella Ócum an Phríosúin, steadily upbeat, something which the purgatory of picking the rope to bits mustn’t have been at all. I can also recommend the tune selection, much of which comes from Munster, with Limerick naturally featuring as a source of the big numbers. Track four begins with Bualadh an Chasúir a darkly modal pulsating reel composed by the by the band’s fiddler Valerie Casey. The tune moves lightly into a major keyed concertina led number before rounding out with The Eel in the Sink/The High Road to Glin, where Brian Morrissey’s bodhrán anchors the work with a fluid bass. Catherine Clohessy does a wonderful job on Samuel Lover’s The Angels Whisper; this has every right to filter into singings sessions up and down the country within the next two years.
There are new tunes too, including the Trip to Blackpool from IMM’s Donegal correspondent Edel McLaughlin. Modern slants on the music in Claire Dolan’s Bold Atlantic Ocean, a song which reminded me of Solas at their best. They close the album with The Mist Covered Mountain, I wrote on the post it note, “a bit safe” (having been weaned on De Dannan’s wildness) then I had to cross that out as the final selection in is the Shetland tune Da Lass Dat Made Da Bed for Me. Only one word for that: Wow!
In Juliet Marilliers’s Celtic fantasy novel, ‘Son of the Shadows’, Líadan is the young woman who discovers that fate cannot be planned, but is a gift of magic, as the tide turns in this band’s favour look out for Líadan, the magical daughters of the light.
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December 24, 2020 monica lala
The Gillard government has sought to create small company policy an integral quality of its remaining term in office.
As a minority government as well as all the surveys suggesting that re-election in 2013 could be challenging, Federal Labor is eager to come across areas of coverage which may win popular support.
Small companies generally evoke the exact same kind of affection from politicians since motherhood.
Few politicians will say anything negative regarding motherhood, and many will agree that more must be done in order to help moms. But, finding powerful policies which produce a substantial difference could be elusive.
Progress In The COAG Meeting In Combating Red Tape
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting held on April 12 has been an chance for the Federal Government to increase the amount of federal reform over matters which are important to small companies.
These include the coordination of national and state government agencies to decrease compliance costs known as “red tape”, and steps to improve skills training.
Under the banner “assembly the red tape challenge”, it had been agreed that COSBOA would function together with the Federal Minister for Small Business Brendan O’Connor, also appropriate State and Territory ministers to examine the issue.
Originally, there’ll be an assessment of regulations regarded as unnecessary or burdensome.
These can be reported back to the Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers and input from business to identify areas requiring attention. However, since COSBOA mentioned in their response to the COAG meeting, there’s much work to perform.
The broader schedule below this “Seamless Economy” reform plan would be to make sure that Australia’s business community, especially small to medium businesses (SMEs), can function effectively.
But, the truth of the struggle confronting Federal Labor within their pursuit of improving the small company sector came quickly on Friday when the ANZ Bank declared a rise in interest prices.
Though this speed rise by one of Australia’s major banks might not include greater than $1.50 a week on a small business loan of $130,000, it’s emblematic from a political standpoint.
SMEs include 99 percent of all companies in Australia and they use around 65 percent of their workforce. Many businesses like retailing, tourism, production and global schooling are doing it hard recently. The large dollar and competition from foreign suppliers have impacted on company.
Small business tax relief could be fraught with issues There’s a proposal to permit modest companies the capability to cancel tax paid on past business profits against potential losses.
This strategy is called “reduction carry-back”. Deductions of around $1 million in the past two decades are suggested by the company Tax Working Group.
But, there are numerous problems concerning this proposal which have worried taxation advisers to business. One of these are the beginning date of 2013-2014.
This can be too late for several companies that have endured since the effect of this Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. While the GFC affected Australia less than Europe or the USA, its effect was felt here.
At the surface of this GFC many of the significant mining and tools companies placed their surgeries on hold or cancelled jobs. There was also a serious downturn in the formerly robust property and building industry across Australia.
I know personally of many tiny companies which were pressured into bankruptcy or acute restructuring because of those conclusions by the larger companies.
Another concern within the Federal Government’s tax reform is related to the provision called the”same-business evaluation”.
This requires the company owner to demonstrate the losses they’re working to offset are in exactly the exact same small business operations that generated the profits upon the initial tax has been paid.
While this evaluation is geared toward preventing tax rorting from the unscrupulous, it dismisses the often highly dynamic and adaptive character of small business business models.
Most SMEs are entrepreneurial and might try to participate in new business opportunities by leveraging existing company operations. This will create additional levels of complexity to the complex taxation system.
He had been substituted by Senator Christine Milne who promptly announced her unwillingness to take tax cuts for big business. Big companies were to find the tax reduction from 2013, but tiny companies with less than $2 million yearly turnover, would get it in 1 July, 2012.
Let’s hope that this tax relief for small business isn’t scuppered by political brawling. Yet the way the Federal Government deals with all these intricate problems will be a crucial evaluation of its authenticity because the friend of small business.
December 24, 2020 lala clarisa
Who hasn’t experienced the scam telephone call from a person purporting to need to correct a issue using Windows on your PC, or assist you recover a huge amount of cash being stored in a hope only waiting for one to maintain it?
This kind of scam is a worldwide problem of outbreak proportions.
Small companies will also be targeted by scammers. however, it’s uncertain if they get scammed up to less or more than individual customers.
International study suggests that the vast majority of small businesses will sooner or later lose time and money to scammers.
What About Small Businesses?
A 2008 analysis performed by the Federation of Small Business at the UK suggested that 54 percent of small businesses were a victim of some type of internet fraud or crime.
Yes, that is correct, over half! By “significant”, we imply a fourfold growth between 2009 and 2011 from 20,554 into 83,150 scam associated connections.
An important percentage of those reports come from small companies but no particular small company data is accessible from present Scamwatch reports. “We will need to understand this happening, why companies fall prey, and what we can do to assist them.”
To start addressing this knowledge gap we added some short questions on scam incidence within our everyday small company benchmarking program. The results were intriguing really.
Whilst quite exploratory at this stage, the rate of reduction from companies seems to be possibly five times a lot of customers. Additionally, we were amazed to discover one in eight small business owners had been not able to ascertain if they were tricked or not.
Results from the preliminary research and our overview of the current literature point to many characteristics of the particular company and of the proprietor which may well play a part in the chance of scam reduction.
Expertise: Many owners recounted tales of losses incurred if they started in company but they know what to look for as a way to prevent this type of scam.
Instruction: Our pilot sample had fewer scam sufferers with postsecondary schooling. surewin365.net
Age and gender: it’s very likely that era has some predictive capacity that’s interrelated with the sort of scam strategy.
By way of instance, in 2011 that the ACCC reported that a change back into telephone-based scam action which will have a subsequent influence upon particular age profiles. Investment scams like Ponzi schemes are proven to be especially appealing to middle aged men from specific social websites.
Risk propensity: Calculated risk-taking is a traditional feature of entrepreneurs which we anticipate will associate with the high stakes gaming behavior that a number of scams want to evoke.
Online trade behavior (unguarded exposure): Many owners are most likely to become more trusting of their motives of businesses that they deal with. In an internet world which may be insecure.
Regular actions (online and offline): There’s evidence that running business online as a person or as a company will increase the danger of scam vulnerability. From the pilot study there has been a substantial growth in scam incidence among companies which have an e-commerce existence.
Self-control: There’s probably a subgroup of company owners who don’t have adequate self-control mechanics.
These owners are applicants for several losses and consequently deserved of particular attention. The customer evidence proves there are particular people who are more prone to offers that seem “too good to be true”.
The question is if these excessively trusting individuals have a tendency to pertain to particular kinds of business.
Dr Schaper said study in this area can help protect modest companies in the long run.
“If investigators can construct a profile of vulnerable companies, or suggest the “warning signals” of a company that’s prone to being attacked, then it’ll go a long way towards protecting our entrepreneurs and clipping hackers out,” he explained.
These indicative WA-based outcome and research are presently being elaborated upon through a nationwide study running from May till September 2012.
The main point is that we know very little about the incidence of scams which are targeted at small company in Australia.
We all know much less about the motives and terms under which a few owners fall prey to a scam and many others don’t. That which we have inferred so far in the WA research has to be enlarged and analyzed empirically in a nationwide level.
We’ve undertaken to perform this scoping work together with the collaboration of the ACCC’s SCAM watch.
If our suspicions within the pervading character of the problem are shown right that is forming as a substantial economic and operational burden on Australian small company which will require deeper and more continuing investigation.
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What's fueling the recent rise in jury awards?
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By Sylvia Hsieh
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BOSTON — The past year saw some of the highest Top Ten Jury Verdicts in recent years, exceeding the previous two years. Are jury verdicts trending higher?
How is the prolonged economic downturn affecting juror attitudes, and has any of the public frustration displayed in anti-corporate protests like the Occupy Wall St. movement seeped into jury deliberations?
We talked to several experts who spend a lot of time in the courtroom to get their opinions about what juries are responding to. Here are three views of jury trends from a plaintiffs’ personal injury attorney, an employment defense lawyer and a senior jury consultant.
Veteran New York plaintiffs’ personal injury attorney Bendict Morelli won one of the largest verdicts this past year in a sex harassment case brought by a 20-year-old store clerk who alleged her employer, national furniture chain Aaron’s, ignored her complaints about harassing behavior by her manager that culminated in a sexual assault that supplied the plaintiff with DNA evidence.
Despite the $95 million verdict, Morelli denies jury verdicts are trending upwards.
“Damages in cases have not gone up. Everything else has gone up, but we’re getting the same damages and settlements as we did in the ‘80s,” said Morelli, who has represented plaintiffs in a range of civil cases over the years, including medical malpractice, defective drug and employment discrimination matters.
In fact, he says juries are more difficult to convince than ever.
“Jurors are tougher now. They are reluctant to give away money. Everybody’s talking about cutting the deficit, how every city is bankrupt,” he said.
His explanation for the apparently larger and larger verdicts is that defendants are taking more cases to trial.
“In the last two to three years I see a trend toward defendants playing hardball, whether it’s a big corporation or an insurance company. They want to force plaintiffs to take a very low number,” said Morelli, a partner at the New York firm Morelli Ratner.
But once in front of a jury, any whiff of corporate arrogance will cook a defendant.
“If you have a jury and you lie to them and they smell it, you’re dead,” he said.
In the sex harassment case he handled, for example, the defendant told the EEOC the plaintiff never called the complaint hotline, but phone records proved otherwise.
Then at trial, a corporate representative made a u-turn on his story, saying first that the incident never happened, then saying it happened but was consensual.
“It’s not that [defendants] are stupid. It’s arrogance. That’s why they get crushed. They start believing their own story,” said Morelli. “The jury said, ‘OK, we’ll give them some humility.’”
Defense perspective
Portia R. Moore, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle, who defends companies in employment lawsuits, says in this economy if a defendant loses on liability, “they’re going to be hit big.”
“Jurors are generally pissed off, but particularly at big corporations and big government. They take it out on them,” she said. Moore knows that if a jury goes back to the deliberations room talking about her client — as opposed to the plaintiff — she’s in trouble.
She recently won a defense verdict in a difficult employment discrimination trial for Kaiser Permanente, which was sued by a female employee for gender, disability and sexual orientation discrimination.
The plaintiff had stellar evaluations for 10 years before she was fired.
But Moore said she succeeded because she wasn’t afraid to take on the plaintiff in an aggressive but fair way, portraying her as a self-promoter who believed she was better than she was and would not listen to others. Moore stayed away from damaging evidence that didn’t pertain to her work record, such as evidence of child abuse.
She thinks defendants often mistakenly shy away from putting a harsh light on the plaintiff for fear that it will create sympathy.
In another recent win, she got a defense verdict for BOSE Corp. against an African- American plaintiff who alleged his supervisor made racial jokes and used the n-word in front of him.
“You can’t be afraid to take a plaintiff on,” she said. In that case, Moore pointed out that the supervisor used the n-word in a role-playing incident and another time in a racial joke, but as soon as the plaintiff complained, the supervisor was disciplined and never did it again.
“I told the jury this was a teachable moment,” said Moore, who is African American. “The manager admitted he used the word. Was it wrong? Absolutely. But look at the context. There’s a difference between calling somebody the n-word and [a company] finding out about it and taking action.”
Moore works closely with corporate witnesses to correct what she sees as a mistake: thinking they always have to be right.
“If you get up there and lie, and say you didn’t do anything wrong, that’s where you get into trouble,” said Moore. “But if you get up on the stand and say, ‘I didn’t handle this as well as I should have, but here’s why I did what I did,’ any jury will accept that.”
As vice president of Tsongas Litigation Consulting in Seattle, Theodore S. Prosise says that if there’s one thing juries want to see, it’s accountability.
Prosise has his finger to the wind to see if growing public dissatisfaction carries over into jury rooms.
“We’re taking into consideration the 99 percent movement because it’s an energetic expression of an underlying concern about the lack of accountability,” said Prosise, who primarily advises corporate defendants.
While jurors don’t expect corporate defendants to be perfect, they do respond to evidence of systemic failure, he said.
“There’s a very strong notion that, ‘Yeah, there are bad apples everywhere,’ but what’s more egregious is a lack of concern or allowing a bad act to continue. It’s accountability people want to see,” Prosise said.
A corporate witness who appears dismissive of the case and gives the jury the impression that he or she would rather be somewhere else only reinforces a common stereotype of the greedy corporation, Prosise said.
“A trial is small group democracy. A dismissive approach is a constant reminder that you’re not paying attention to the 99 percent. Jurors will find a way to send the proverbial message to a defendant if they don’t feel it is taking the underlying facts, as well as the trial itself, seriously,” he said.
But accountablilty is a two-way street that defendants can also capitalize on by focusing on the plaintiff’s own personal responsibility.
“There are people … that do complain too much, that aren’t accountable for their actions and blame others and nothing is their fault. If [a defendant] can get the jury talking about that [type of] plaintiff, you are really a step ahead of the game,” Prosise said.
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Guitarist Michael Trudgen perform an acoustic set with his unforgettable creativity
lifoti November 08, 2019 POP CULTURE
This southern Ontario artist born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, lived his childhood in small rural area of Ridgetown, and a family rich in music. His great uncle was a one man band, and showcased on an old 1940s news reel for movie theaters; which you can find him performing Amazing Grace on YouTube. His grandfather Andy Trudgen was a multi-instrument musician, and played piano, guitar, Ukulele, and accordion for big bands at dance halls along Lake Erie and Lake Huron. His Father also a pianist and vocalist had a love for choral, classical and opera music, but also great bands of the 60s & 70s primarily The Beatles. Getting Michael involved in music was no different for the next generation of the Trudgen family, and begun lessons at 6 on the piano.
Now living in London, Ontario, Michael's older brother who was also involved in music lessons began instructions on classical guitar; and once he brought home his guitar for practices, Michael picked it up and couldn't let it go. He started guitar instructions at 14. Creativity was never ending for Michael, and he annoyed his instructors by not practicing his lessons but continuously creating his own music pieces. He left his instruction and continued learning all he could about the guitar, and still learning to this day.
Performing in front of an audience was not easy for Michael, and rather shy and inverted, he had a serious case of stage fright. It was until he performed at a family's anniversary party for his Uncle and Aunt, he was able to overcome the anxiety of performing live. This was the turning point, and he applied for a Busker Festival in Grand Bend, Ontario, which he was invited to participate in 2012 and again in 2013. By 2013 Michael also applied to be rhythm guitar for a local act in London, Ontario called Messes and Miracles, fronted by seasoned vocalist Justin Den Bok, who toured Canada for a near decade in the 2000s in several bands. Justin and Michael hit it off from the start, and enjoying Micheal's 20yrs of musical creations on the acoustic guitar, they set forth on two new adventures With a Fox and yet to be released The Bully Club.
With A Fox, is a 5 piece indie rock concept band, with leaning of punk music, but maintaining the indie rock feel, and powerful vocals. Produced their first 5 song EP "Songs From the Den" in 2016, was well-received from the London music community. The EP has been awarded "Best of Rock on internet radio's Ourstage.com. The band won Classic Rock 98.1FM "Made in London" competition in April 2017, and awarded $6000 in recording at EMAC Studios, which lead to their second EP "Walk into the Fire." Sadly the band had suffered through a progressing illness and folded up upon the EPs release. At this point Michael was just starting out as a finger style guitarist, and was asked to participate in a local "Battle of the Bands" and to Michael's astonishment, he placed 2nd overall of 16 bands and soloist, doing only original instrumentals he had written. Michael reached out to Stone bridge Guitars, associated with popular finger style Furch Guitars, and applied for an endorsement, and through several talks with their local representative, Michael was accepted into their Emerging Artists Program. That lead the purchase of Michael's favourite G25 Stone bridge Guitar, and later purchase of his D22 Furch guitar.
Encouraged by his friend Darren Morrison, a recording engineer, Michael laid down his first self titled album in 2017. The album was reviewed and given a score of 4/5 by "Divide and Conquer Magazine." At this same time, Michael applied and was accepted for London Arts Live, a community lead initiative to support local artist, and commission them for performance opportunities around London. This lead to the opportunity to perform at several high profile venues, Wolf Performance Hall, The Aeolian Hall, and London Music Hall, and collaborate with local dancers Hanna Elias and Connor McPhail, spoken word artist Sile Englert for an art performance piece "Cycles." Through this funded initiative, Michael set out to write and record his next album "All the Pretty Things," another 12 song album for 2018, with a backing band, full of colour and textures, all instrumental finger style guitar. The album was top the top 5 at 4th on the local CHRW 94.9FM indie station that year.
Michael is still writing and currently working on his 3rd album, due for 2020. That is not Michael's only project as Justin Den Bok, and he are writing a new moody art project "The Bully Club," which is due to release their first single soon; at this same time the two are bringing With A Fox back to the stage with a new rhythm section and new songs for 2020. Michael joined forces with local vocalist and ukulele artist "Forest City Music Award" 2019 winner Leanne Mayer, as a support guitarist, adding guitar, mandolin, banjo, and backing vocals, with her band Leanne Mayer and The Renegades.
At the end of the day Michael is humbled by the successes and opportunities, the venues and fellow music community support, local showcases and festivals, performing from Windsor to Ottawa, he is still just a guy who loves to play guitar.
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NewsStand - Big John Games Partners with Lionel for Lionel City Builder 3d: Rise of the Rails
Imagine it. Build it. Drive your train through it in this all-new city builder game for Nintendo 3DS.
Create your own world and drive your custom-built train right through it in Lionel City Builder 3D: Rise of the Rails which is due for release in early December in the Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo 3DS™ handheld system. Choose from Creative Mode, where you’ll create your own landscapes and cities to drive your custom trains through, or from Story Mode, where you’ll learn to drive trains, repair tracks, and help keep the rail system alive and well. Unlock amazing achievements along the way, and share your creations with friends via QR codes. The game’s innovative design and 3D display are perfect for train-lovers and gamers alike, providing a creative and strategic game play with a dose of Lionel fun that is guaranteed to be off the tracks.
Lionel City Builder 3D: Rise of the Rails includes the following modes and features:
Creative Mode:
Select from hundreds of objects to build amazing and unique environments via the world builder tool in sandbox mode. Assemble and customize your train and take it through diverse, user-created landscapes. Finally, drive your custom train on the tailored track in the unique environment you created, and switch between the many different camera views.
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The story begins in a train yard, where Vin and his dog Jasper are determined to repair the rail system and bring it back from the brink of obscurity. Help Vin and Jasper reconnect communities and restore prosperity through various missions. You’ll learn to drive numerous trains, and pick up and deliver cargo efficiently. Conduct passenger trains and transport passengers to their subsequent destinations quickly while avoiding other trains. Precisely restore train tracks to ensure effective delivery. You’ll even embark on a mission clearing the train tracks of pesky gophers!
In addition to the different modes, Lionel City Builder 3D features Stereoscopic 3D gameplay graphics, enabling you to view your worlds from many wide-ranging camera perspectives. You’ll also be able to share your creative worlds with friends via QR Codes, and unlock various exciting achievements for more action-packed train track building and world creation.
The game will be available in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS for $4.99 and is rated ‘E’ for everyone.
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Kongu Traditional Recipes
Exploring yummy, highly nutritional, instant and easy cooking methods of Kongu Cuisine.
AVAL VEG UPMA (MAPPILLAI CHAMBA AVAL)
This is a traditional kind of food that fills the stomach and very delicious and nutritious meal.
This kind of rice is packed with iron and other nutrients.
We are going to make this upma for today's breakfast!😃😊😍😄
Red maappillai chamba poha flattened rice/ aval 250 gms
Shallots 12 nos
Green chilies 4
Curry leaves 10 nos
Ginger and garlic gratings one spoon
Bush beans 10 nos
Medium size carrots 2 nos
Lemon juice one spoon
Sesame oil one tablespoon
Mustard seeds one spoon
Turmeric half spoon
Water as required
Bring to boil 4 cups of water.
Pour few drops of sesame oil and one spoon of salt.
Wait for a while until the salt dissolves.
Add aval/ poha/flattened rice.
Set aside until the aval/poha gets soft texture.
Peel off the carrots. Remove the fibre along the sides of the bush beans.
Chop them. Grate the carrots.
Chop the shallots and gree chillies.
Grate the ginger and garlic
Squeeze the poha through a siever.
Let all the water drain away from poha/aval.
Heat the wok with oil.
Add mustard seeds to splutter.
Add shallots, green chilies, curry leaves and ginger garlic gratings. Saute gor few seconds until the shallots turn translucent.
Add carrots and beans, half a spoon of salt and turmeric.
Add little water and cook for two minutes over low flame and absorbs entire water.
Now transfer the drained aval and incorporate everything by mixing well.
Garnish with coriander leaves (optional).
The delicious aval veg upma is ready to serve.
Serve hot!
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I like science fiction.
More than the usual number of characters called Rachel is reason enough to read the latest issue of Ticonderoga Online.
Three solid SF stories, a sample story from Troy and interviews with Alisa Krasnostein and Angela Challis.
Although I have to add my voice to those wondering why Doctorow's column has been included, right on the heels of it being available at Locus Online and linked there through Boing Boing, guaranteeing that it has already reached its target audience.
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Wired: Free brevity laden science fiction
Dozens of authors, six word sci-fi.
Horror Day - Things to read and do.
Today has been declared Horror Day by, umm, some people (possibly zombies), and there are loads of things to read, events to go to, signings, prizes. It's all about the prizes today.
The fastest anthology in the West has been assembled over the last 36 hours or so by Martin Livings and is available online only for the next 24, so get in there and read some short Australian horror fiction.
http://horrorday.martinlivings.com
The Ticonderoga/ASiF Donation Drive is ending on 15 October, so if you want to support more reading, writing and discussion of Australian genre fiction please donate. You'll get a free ebook if you do and go into the draw for some dead tree books as well.
While you're there, Ticonderoga is hosting the first Australian survey of genre reading habits, so now that you've read some, go and help them out with some free data (prizes there too!)
A shared opinion of Frank Miller
Another comics link for today -- Karen Healey's new column, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed). I haven't found many people who share my so-low-I-nearly-stormed-out-of-the-cinema opinion of Sin City, so this is a joy to read. Healey's writing is perceptive, funny, educated and educational.
I'm angry that Stephanie Brown gets a sexualised torture and no memorial. I'm angry that the default costume for women is to show as much tits and ass as possible. I'm angry that a talented artist like Greg Land stoops to using porn stills to depict a teenage superheroine or that the women he draws are so airbrushed and glossy that they're facially indistinguishable. And Frank Miller? Oh, don't get me started on Miller. Or rather, do, but only if you don't mind the phrase "weasel-fucking rat-man".
Reading a comic should not make me want to cross my arms over my chest and lean away. I shouldn't have to struggle to come up with female superheroes who are strong and capable without being objectified. I demand from superhero comics what I demand from every other medium of cultural expression: women who are subjects, not objects. Women who have agency. Regardless of whether women are or are not readers, we deserve better than the depiction of our gender in those comics. (more)
(later)
Note that this is not a column about hating skimpy costumes in comics, but a column about the varied and sickeningly common instances of sexist tropes in superhero comics, superhero comics fandom, and the industry of superhero comics. (more)
Abbey reads seminal book on nanotechnology.
I was recently (gently) berated for not writing more about Abbey on this weblog. That's my excuse for the following tale.
Abbey picks up a book I've just borrowed from the library. She opens it up.
"No pictures. Just words," she observes. "I'll read it to you." Abbey makes herself comfortable while I thaw something vaguely resembling bolognese sauce for dinner.
"One morning," she begins, "Dad went to a meeting." Turns the page. "To see some friends and play games." Turns page. "One morning she woke up!" Abbey gasps, "And she turned into a beautiful butterfly." Closes book. "That's the end of the story."
If you would like to independently verify the text of Engines of Creation it is now available to read online.
Science Verse
Twinkle-less, twinkle-less
Spot of black,
In the starry
Sucking in all
Matter and light.
Turning sunshine
Into night.
Twinkle-less, twinkle-less,
LOST CONTROL!
Now we're trapped in
the black hole.
from Science Verse by Jon Scieska and Lane Smith.
Fri, 24 Mar 2006
Sex and Books and Quoting Neil
Naomi Wolf wrote an essay last week damning "pink books" for teens - glamourous looking YA novels aimed at girls. I haven't read any of the series she's critiquing ("Gossip Girl," "A-List" and "Clique") or even any "Babysitter's Club", so I can't comment directly. She answered some readers questions this week, so now I'll state my piece.
When I was in year nine I inhaled Virginia Andrew's Flowers in the Attic series. Maree and I would meet at the back of the Number 314 bus after school. She would lend me the next book and we'd compare notes. Notes on incest, miscarriage, more incest, kidnapping, murder by arsenic, shallow graves, more incest and cute boys. (The boys might not have been in the novels; year nine remains thankfully blurry for me.)
I knew at the time that these were not works of high literature. I read them half-shamefully but, to their credit, my parents did not try to stop me reading them, although they did raise all four eyebrows. As a disclaimer - I come from an almost impossibly highly literate household (and am now cultivating my own).
When the Australian soapie A Country Practice included a school reading controversy in one of their episodes, around the teen-sex surfie novel Puberty Blues, Mum showed me where it was on the shelf in the hallway. It was around this time that Dad handed me a copy of The Iron Heel. Which I read, but didn't really "get" until I read it again last year.
It doesn't matter what teenagers read. Books are fashion items. When you're fourteen sex is cool (talking about it - not doing it), politics not so much. And by twelve or fourteen there's probably very few ideas that kids need to be protected from. It's also a matter of need. At fourteen I needed to know what different experiences of sex could be. I didn't need to know about politics (at least, it didn't have any immediate resonance with me). Wolf says:
They [the "pink books'] may not change the girl's behavior; but they do posit a model of what the dominant culture says holds value. I know from the girls in my own life that they often feel quite alone these days when they do hold out for kindness or integrity in a social setting. Is this a new problem? No, but in past generations the dominant culture of teen fiction did not make this behavior seem so geeky and aberrant.
The point she's missing is that while, yes, the girls in her own life are feeling maligned, and this is awful, they need to read about the same things happening to other girls. It's a way of play-acting the scenes. If a girl can see in some way that being a teenager is survivable, then she is more likely to attempt to survive it rather than bow her head and accept her aloneness.
If a girl were to read the book Wolf is dreaming of, the one where the good girl is good and the bad girls get their comeupance, she is more than likely to dismiss it as unrealistic, or even boring. I'm not saying that Virginia Andrew's reflected my life (far, far from it) but it wasn't boring and it is a tale of survival. Ditto Puberty Blues.
I would like to quote Neil Gaiman at this point, lest anyone suggest I'm promoting trashy and/or sex-filled novels to kids of all ages. (Actually I can't find the quote I had in mind, which is something along the lines of "generally kids will choose to read books that they are ready for and won't read ones that they're not". But this quote is kind of relevant too.)
The enemy is the fact that most people don't buy books. Most people don't read for pleasure. It's like the teachers who proudly stop kids reading R.L. Stine or Enid Blyton or comics or whatever, proud that they've stopped them reading the Wrong Things, without noticing that they've also stopped them reading for pleasure, reducing the chances that the kids will ever go on to read things that the teachers think of as the Right Things...
- Neil Gaiman, 11 September, 2003
I can't change what the dominant culture says holds value, but I'm not letting my daughter into it unarmed.
Australian Novels are Dying. Again.
I've been sitting on a couple of reading related articles for a few days hoping to come up with something profound or even just well thought out to say about them. However, I have had a rotten cold and it's not happening, so here are the incomplete thoughts.
Rosemary Neill in The Australian is tolling the bell for Australian literary novels. This is something we see every few years. Each time the publishing figures get dragged out and are largely inconclusive, (12 published novels in 1996, and 7 scheduled for 2006 is not a pattern - it's two numbers) yet hair is rent because of them. Literature is like anything else. It goes in cycles. Sometimes writing for young adults is the flavour (thanks to a Harry Potteresque hit), sometimes it's mysteries, (are tv shows like CSI et al responsible for, or following on from this?) hell, sometimes it's blogs, sometimes it's slash fiction.
The thing to remember is that human beings will always need stories. The form they arrive in is merely a fashion. Does anyone weep when high-rise pants are brought back into the stores? (Well, yes, but that's another blog entry.) If individuals are going to remain attached to the idea of the Australian literary novel, then they're going to have to keep writing them and keep reading them. They might be hard to come by for a while, and you won't be able to make a living from them, but they'll be back in the limelight eventually. (A hundred years eventually, but I don't know what to say to that. Take your vitamins?)
And trying to blame Bookscan as a quantum observer is just silly.
Wed, 08 Mar 2006
Roman Women's History Month
Tansy Rayner Roberts is celebrating her own Roman Women's History Month during March by blogging 50 notable women from Ancient Rome. It's fascinating reading.
Part one - The Wife of Romulus and Lucretia
Part two - Cornelia Mother of the Gracchi and Aurelia
Haussegger's Wonder Woman
I was going to write a review of Virginia Haussegger's Wonder Woman; The myth of having it all, but it turns out Leslie Cannold already wrote one and there isn't much to add.
Wonder Woman is the follow-on from that infamous article Haussegger wrote in 2002 lamenting her own unanticipated childlessness. In the book she further explores the "creeping non-choice" of post-Baby Boom women and how the loud voices of career-promoting feminists of the 70s and 80s drowned out that other "choice" of personal relationships and children to the point of firm exclusion. The stories of many middle-to-upper class women are related throughout the easy-to-read book and, as is to be expected, they are engaging and wildly varied.
Haussegger has another article in today's Age commenting on the truth that Australian women dislike debating feminism (I would extend that to say Australian women won't debate feminism), but again she has the problem that Cannold has pointed out; that
Haussegger lacks the tools to extricate herself from the circular path of self-blame and DIY solutions that have characterised her journey, and to cut a clear path forward for her female readers.
Today, amongst her "Me too!" cries in defense of Maureen Dowd, Haussegger's less than helpful comment is
...the women of Australia need a lot more petrol, and a lot more grunt, to move the lead in our boots.
I will say though, that the best part of reading the copy of Wonder Woman I borrowed from my local Liberal-voting-heartland library is that it is worn out. Cracked spine and thumbed, yellow pages. Clearly it has been very well read, despite its being less than a year old. Heartening indeed, perhaps we will debate yet.
10 1/2 Inclinations
The Royal Society of Literature asked authors to nominate ten books they think children should read before they leave school. This is part of an ongoing quest to find a universal list; "a children's canon on which people might like to draw".
Many authors declined to take part, pointing out that the task was impossible or problematic. Other authors seem to have declared an unfamiliarity with children, recommending Ulysses and Don Quixote as candidates.
I suppose the question is, should the included books encourage reluctant readers, challenge experienced readers, reflect a child's world back to them, introduce new worlds, or encompass the whole of human history? Because no list of ten anything could achieve that.
Ben Okri offered the best suggestion, with 10 1/2 inclinations:
There is a secret trail of books meant to inspire and enlighten you. Find that trail.
Read outside your own nation, colour, class, gender.
Read the books your parents hate.
Read the books your parents love.
Have one or two authors that are important, that speak to you; and make their works your secret passion.
Read widely, for fun, stimulation, escape.
Don�t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
Read what you�re not supposed to read.
Read for your own liberation and mental freedom.
Books are like mirrors. Don�t just read the words. Go into the mirror. That is where the real secrets are. Inside. Behind. That�s where the gods dream, where our realities are born.
10�) Read the world. It is the most mysterious book of all.
Six other lists, including those by J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, can be found at Read Alert.
Recommended Reading: 2005 or 100
Locus Magazine have announced their recommended reading list of 2005, which should keep us busy for the next couple of years at least.
If that's too much of a commitment, try this list of 100 best first lines complied by American Book Review. All the usual suspects are there, but some seem to be more exercises in punctuation or breath-holding than anything. My favourite is number 47.
(via Coode Street and docbrite)
Sat, 14 Jan 2006
Warren Ellis' Fell
You can download issue 1 here. While you're there you can also see an example of the typical crap that demonstrates the comic industry's continuing hostility to women (the sidebar ad for Silver Bullet Comics - just try to ignore it).
A Study in Emerald, The Poster
If you're still looking around for an end-of-year-spectacular-event gift for li'l ol' me, then this wouldn't be off the mark at all. In fact you'd pretty much hit a bullseye with this poster of Neil Gaiman's story, A Study in Emerald.
It'd look great on the back of the bathroom door, just about where my defunct Astor calendar still resides.
And now I will stop blogging today. Any minute. Here I go...
Mighty Gift
I think this is the best story I have ever read on the internet. (Scroll down to 10.21.05)
Also - jealous!
Sat, 15 Oct 2005
Black Juice
I'm reading Margo Lanagan's Black Juice very slowly because I don't want it to end. I reached the half way mark today with a story about a ... well I won't tell you. Just read the book.
Wine with Comics
The one thing Maddie Green doesn't venture to investigate in this summary of the favourite wines of comic book creators is which wine to drink while reading which comic. Are comics really a medium suited to the consumption of wine? Oh, yes.
Given that I am probably at least as badly educated about wine as I am about comic books, although I love them both, I should leave it to you to offer suggestions. Grange with Sandman? Dom Perignon with an Eisner? Chardonnay with Alias. Vodka (of course) with Transmetropolitan. A very cheap red indeed for Batman. OK I'll stop now.
Fifty spec fic books to read.
China Mieville's list of Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read seems as good a launching place as any. The never ending quest to become familiar with genre fiction (in accordance with Orson Scott Card's advice) is somewhat intimidating. So - new project! But no deadline on this one.
Edit to add: Here's a short hand version of the list with those I have read in bold all meme-like.
Double Positive
A linguistics lecturer was explaining double negatives to his students, and he told them, "In English a double negative always means a positive, but there is no case where a double positive means a negative."
A voice from the back of the room said, "Yeah, right."
(Ruthlessly nicked from 'Needs a good edit', Write On, Feb 2005, the newsletter of the Victorian Writers' Centre.)
It's the first of November, so I must be procrastinating already. No really, it was research, but I thought that you might find it useful to know How to Address Clergy.
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1 Introduction Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. Oxford, UK: At the University Press, 1881.
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. ISBN: 013846295X.
2-3 Unit One
Film Viewing and Discussion of Robert Siodmak's The Killers. Maupassant's "A Piece of String"; and Ernest Heningway's "The Killers" Siodmak, Robert. The Killers. 1946.
De Maupassant, Guy. "A Piece of String." In Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2003. ISBN: 1592245668.
Heningway, Ernest. "The Killers." In Men Without Women. New York, NY: Scribner, 1927.
4-5 Unit Two
Film Viewing and Discussion of The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote Film Showing: Andy and Larry Wachowski. The Matrix. 1999.
Excerpts from: Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York, NY: Ecco, 2003. ISBN: 0060188707.
6-7 Unit Three
Film Viewing and Discussion of Akira Kurosawa's, Seven Samurai and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote Kurosawa, Akira. Seven Samurai. 1954.
8-10 Unit Four
Film Viewing and Discussion of John Ford's My Darling Clementine and Aeschylus, Agamemnon Ford, John. My Darling Clementine. 1946.
Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0521010756.
11-13 Unit Five
Film Viewing and Discussion of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Sophocles, Antigone Eastwood, Clint. Unforgiven. 1992.
Sophocles. Antigone. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195143108.
14-15 Unit Six
Film Viewing and Discussion of Chris Marker's La Jetée and Sophocles, Oedipus Rex Marker, Chris. La Jetée. 1962.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Edited by Shomit Dutta. Greek Tragedy. London, UK: Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 014143936X.
16-17 Unit Seven
Film Viewing and Discussion of Francis Ford Coppolla's The Godfather and Shakespeare, Macbeth Coppolla, Francis Ford. The Godfather. 1972.
Shakespeare. Macbeth. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0300106548.
18-20 Unit Eight
Film Viewing and Discussion of Laura Cavani's Ripley's Game. Reading: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot Cavani, Liliana. Ripley's Game. 2002.
Balzac, Honoré de. Père Goriot. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0192835696.
21-22 Unit Nine
Film Viewing and Discussion of Jonathan Glazer's Birth and Henry James, Turn of the Screw Glazer, Jonathan. Birth. 2004.
James, Henry. Turn of the Screw. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. ISBN: 0312080832.
23 Unit Ten
Film Viewing and Discussion of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevar Wilder, Billy. Sunset Boulevard. 1950.
24-25 Unit Eleven
Film Viewing and Discussion of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Welles, Orson. Citizen Kane. 1941.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London, UK: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 0141182636.
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• 2005 begin as girl image P.R for the place ''SKY'' to I Bring Round.
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It will celebrate its 20th birthday next year but Simon Rogerson, co-founder of one of Britain’s fastest growing private companies, says that the financial services group Octopus has its work cut out for years to come. Its bread and butter is investing in small and medium-sized companies but the diverse group has six divisions including Octopus Energy, a rapidly expanding renewable power supplier, as well as a venture capital arm and a healthcare unit that invests in care homes and retirement villages. Octopus picks areas of expansion based on where it believes customers are poorly served. “Financial services and energy are the least two trusted sectors in the world so they’re ripe for disruption,” Mr Rogerson says. The company is making a concerted effort to try to attract more institutions such as pension funds to invest in areas such as venture capital and renewable energy infrastructure. However, there are no plans for Octopus to grow more limbs. “These are giant sectors,” Mr Hulatt says.
Times 20th March 2019 read more »
Green energy supplier Octopus has this week announced a new partnership with Amazon’s Alexa device, which will provide consumers with the chance to take advantage of time of use energy tariffs using voice automation. In what the companies describe as a first of a kind service, consumers will be able to use the Alexa hub to adjust energy usage based on half-hourly price changes offered by Octopus’ recently launched time of use tariff.
Business Green 19th March 2019 read more »
Oil companies want to become power utilities to meet rising demand from electricity in transport and from growing populations. The strategy makes perfect sense but could be risky for regulators and consumers if it results in a new breed of gigantic energy-controlling monopolies. On one hand, watchdogs in developed markets such as the UK should welcome the introduction of relatively new players such as Shell and BP to challenge the Big Six conventional utilities. On the other, electricity markets are politically sensitive and oil majors would make easy targets for politicians keen to look like they are protecting consumers if profits become too inflated. The Labour Party has threatened to nationalise parts of the electricity industry if it gains power in Britain. Meanwhile, regulator Ofgem was forced last year to introduce price caps to reduce household energy costs in response to political pressure. Introducing big oil into the debate could further fan the flames. There is also the question of shareholder value for oil industry leaders to consider. Can Shell and other oil majors afford to lift spending in their embryonic electricity businesses and still maintain adequate levels of expenditure on their conventional oil and gas divisions, which remain the main drivers of profits and investor returns?
Telegraph 19th March 2019 read more »
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"I Like Natural Looking Girls"
It's no secret that I love makeup. It was a crutch as a teenager with terribly bad acne and it has blossomed into a hobby, a pastime, and an enjoyable routine as an adult. Back in August last year, I shared a wee post all about why I like to wear makeup and it was just a genuine ramble and explanation of my relationship and history with the broad label "makeup" and what it all means to me. I shared how I was feeling towards my change into a foundation-free way of life and how I was becoming comfortable with my imperfections and believe it or not - it's almost a year since I stopped wearing foundation and boy oh boy, I still feel incredibly good for it. However my evolution with makeup and beauty in general got me thinking... I started to think about the opinions people seem to have on makeup, the opinions individuals have had on what I choose to wear and how I choose to wear it and how damaging those opinions can be. All that:
"you look better without all that makeup"
"I like natural girls" *sees picture of woman with body hair, acne, greasy hair etc.* "Girls should make an effort with their appearance and groom themselves"
"take a girl swimming on your first date because those bitches lie"
Yeah... all that bullshit? I want to challenge it and explain why that sort of shit needs to stop. I've spoken before about the damage in shaming bodies of all shapes and sizes and I think shaming those who do or don't wear makeup in varying degrees is just as harmful. In a world when it seems to be becoming more and more prevalent and weirdly accepted to have an opinion on people's appearances, I believe we should be aiming to try and stamp it out not see it as a norm and some odd shift in culture that we just accept. I'm a very firm advocate of makeup being an art form and something people can revel and excel in, so why is it always criticised, questioned and outright blacklisted at times?
Although there has always been a part of me who has worn makeup because I've been insecure, it's also been something I've enjoyed the process of. However I feel from a really young age, it is almost instilled in girls that makeup can "enhance your features" and is something you're expected to wear (I mean come on, I can remember my monthly subscription to Sabrina the Teenage Witch mag when I was little and it was 90% fashion and makeup and 10% Sabrina). But on the other hand, do a lot young girls just have a natural interest in it? I can remember watching my mam do face masks, watching my youngest Aunty getting ready for her weekend nights out with her friends and spending hours perfecting her makeup and hair - is it just something we're so surrounded by it nutures us to take part in it one day?
Who knows but I think it is something that should be seen as an art form that anyone can be involved in if they want to be - no matter their gender and no matter their "talent" or natural flair for it. I wouldn't say I am amazing at it, but it's something I like to think I've perfected - at least to my own standards and talents - over the years and I love to recognise that journey I have made. What I don't like to see is that a lot of people seem to think they have the right to bring down those who do enjoy using and wearing makeup and also those who don't. It will always stick with me the first time my first serious boyfriend saw me without makeup on and he responded with "Oh god, don't you look really different?" with zero attempt to hide his disappointment/horror/disapproval. Because of this, I'm still nervous for people to see me without any makeup on at all - I'm over my teenage fear of "oh no, people will see my gross acne, eye bags, freckles etc." but that fear that he created still lingers in me with a lot of people whether that be strangers, friends or even some family members.
What I hate to see is this seems to be becoming the norm for a lot of young girls in particular. With the growth of social media and more and more of our lives published for the world to scrutinise, we see some celebrities being praised for posting their no makeup selfies yet the young girls those people may influence are bullied and torn down. People make assumptions that if you spend all of your money on makeup or show an interest in it, that somehow reflects a lack of intelligence and depth. Dammit, if I want to spend money on makeup every month, that doesn't mean I'm not also going to spend some money of books, art, and music. People seem to see makeup first and the individual wearing it after and that's just such a shame. But in the same measure, I've seen plenty of people try to "encourage" more natural aficionados to wear makeup to hide imperfections or because they apparently "look prettier" and that's so disappointing to see too.
There's so many reasons individuals choose to wear or not wear makeup and those reasons shouldn't be anyone else's damn business unless the individual voluntarily wishes to share. We need to stop saying negative things about people who choose to express themselves and their individuality through this medium as again - it's art, it's their style, it's them. Everyone wants to be themselves and hopefully, happy and content with that and makeup certainly seems to please a lot of us and give us another outlet for that unique expression. Next time you see someone who's foundation is a little too dark or maybe they're not the best at perfecting the strong bold brow, just step back and think "they're doing them and that's just fine. In fact, that's just great" because negative thoughts and opinions are not needed and surprise surprise they do nothing but harm. Also think about how to tackle others who express this negativity freely - challenge them if you're comfortable with that - if you see someone being vile about a man wearing makeup, speak up! Defend their right to do whatever they want because makeup doesn't have a gender. It doesn't *need* a gender. The more of us who stand up to the bullies, the men who think they have a valid say in what women choose to do with their faces (I mean honestly), and the women who are catty about something so personal and subjective, the nicer the world - especially the worldwide web one we all so know and love - would be.
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Market Size, Epidemiology, Leading Companies, Drugs and Competitive Analysis by DelveInsight
Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Market
(Albany, US) DelveInsight has launched a new report on “Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) – Market Insights, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast-2030“
DelveInsight’s “Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) – Market Insights, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast-2030“ report delivers an in-depth understanding of the Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), historical and forecasted epidemiology as well as the Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) market trends in the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and United Kingdom) and Japan.
Market Size of TNBC in the 7MM was found to be 438 Million in 2017.
As per breastcancer.org, about 70% of breast cancers diagnosed in people with an inherited BRCA mutation, particularly BRCA1, are triple-negative.
As per several secondary sources, it can be concluded that TNBCs are significantly larger and of higher grade, but less likely to have lymph node metastases than non-TNBCs.
Total Diagnosed Incident cases of Triple Negative Breast Cancer in the 7MM countries was 99,380 in 2017.
DelveInsight has also estimated the Sub-type specific cases of TNBC, which are ER-, PR- and HER2- .
In the United States, there were 4,793 cases of HER2-TNBC, followed by PR- and ER- sub-types.
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The report covers the descriptive overview of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), explaining its causes, signs and symptoms, pathophysiology, diagnosis and currently available therapies
Comprehensive insight has been provided into the Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) epidemiology and treatment in the 7MM
Additionally, an all-inclusive account of both the current and emerging therapies for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) are provided, along with the assessment of new therapies, which will have an impact on the current treatment landscape
A detailed review of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) market; historical and forecasted is included in the report, covering drug outreach in the 7MM
The report provides an edge while developing business strategies, by understanding trends shaping and driving the global Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) market
Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is defined as the heterogeneous breast cancer phenotype where the estrogen and progesterone receptor are negative, as assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC), and there is a lack of overexpression of HER2, as assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC), or the absence of its gene amplification, as assessed by fluorescence in situ hybridization technique. The epidemiological risk factor profiles also vary between TNBC (ER-PR-HER2-) and other breast cancers.
TNBCs are frequently identified as hyper dense masses without associated calcifications. The majority of TNBCs are histologically classified as high-grade, invasive, ductal carcinomas of no special type with basal-like features. Central necrosis, pushing tumor borders, a conspicuous lymphocytic infiltrate, and fibrosis are common histologic features.
TNBC is characterized by various aggressive clinical pathologic features including onset at a younger age, higher mean tumor size, higher-grade tumors, and a higher rate of node positivity. Overall, TNBCs show an aggressive phenotype with a shorter time to relapse and metastatic disease than the more common hormone-receptorepositive invasive ductal carcinomas.
TNBC frequently metastasizes to the viscera, liver, lung or brain. However, this is not always the case as it may also have an oligometastatic phenotype closer to ER+ BC, with only lymph node and bone disease. TNBC is also heterogeneous in terms of time of recurrence. TNBC has a higher rate of recurrence in the first 5 years and a lower rate of recurrence afterwards. The pattern of late recurrence is generally associated with less aggressive disease, frequently with bone metastases.
Some of the TNBC Companies:
Infinity Pharmaceuticals
CytoDyn
Treadwell Therapeutics
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Drugs Covered:
Ipatasertib
IPI-549
Leronlimab (PRO 140)
CFI-400945
2. Executive Summary of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
3. Competitive Intelligence Analysis for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
4. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC): Market Overview at a Glance
4.1. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Total Market Share (%) Distribution in 2017
5. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC): Disease Background and Overview
6. Patient Journey
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8. Treatment Algorithm, Current Treatment, and Medical Practices
8.1. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Treatment and Management
8.2. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Treatment Algorithm
9. Unmet Needs
10. Key Endpoints of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Treatment
11. Marketed Products
List to be continued in report
12. Emerging Therapies
13. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC): Seven Major Market Analysis
13.1. Key Findings
13.2. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Market Size in 7MM
13.3. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Market Size by Therapies in the 7MM
15. 7MM: Market Outlook
16. Access and Reimbursement Overview of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
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18. Market Drivers
19. Market Barriers
20.1. Bibliography
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Tag: social accounts
In Manchester yesterday to meet with DNV GL – the assurance firm that works with the Co-op Group on our annual Sustainability report.
Social reporting at Traidcraft
I am a fan of such reports as a way of encouraging companies to take more action about their impacts on society and the environment and as an important form of transparency. At Traidcraft we were an early pioneer of social reporting and won many prizes for initiatives in this area. I found producing social accounts a really effective way of keeping the organisation focused on our wider mission goals and non-financial impacts. I learned that social and sustainability reports need to be set up in a way that will be effective as a real business tool and a force for change and improvement – rather than being seen as a public relations vehicle addressed largely to an audience of sustainability experts as is too often the case.
Co-op sustainability reports
Co-op’s reports have over the years been seen as leading the way in good practice reporting, and they certainly make very interesting reading (see https://www.co-operative.coop/ethics/sustainability-report to read the 2015 report, published in the autumn of 2016).
Lots of evidence in here of the Co-op putting its ethical principles into practice across our engagement with supply chains, local communities, environmental impact and colleagues/members. Really encouraging to see the data set out clearly, some really impressive examples of what we have been delivering, and it’s good to be able to identify areas where we could still do better too.
Revitalising the Co-op Way
However, even at the Co-op there is scope to make improvements to our approach, if we want sustainability targets and reporting to be truly as embedded in the organisation as our financial and commercial goals. And although we have continued to place a lot of emphasis on sustaining our ethical trading principles, as you would expect, we have to recognise that improving our reporting and systems has not been a major focus of attention during the Rescue and Rebuild phases of the Co-op’s turnaround, when we have (rightly) had to focus on restoring our basic viability as a business that can serve its members well.
But we are now in a position to move on from that stage. So it is great that we have been putting a lot of effort over the past year into revitalising our ethical principles through the work of the Coop Way Policy working groups, where senior colleagues and Council members have worked together to review and update our ethical policies across the board. We have also identified the key strategic areas on which the Group Board needs to be held to account by the Members’ Council in the work on setting a “Co-op Compass”, and these include demonstrating leadership in delivering social impact. These welcome initiatives now need to be worked through into our business planning prepare for our Renewal phase from 2018-2020.
Sustainability reports and targets
As a member of the Board’s Risk and Audit Committee I am encouraging work to improve the profile of our Sustainability Report and ensure it gets the in-depth attention it deserves. I would like to see us setting a smaller number of longer-term (say 3 to 5 year) targets focusing on those areas where we think we can make a big difference and that are core to the nature of our work. Of course we would still need to monitor, track and improve many other social and environmental indicators as well, to ensure we are delivering good practice across the board in line with our values and principles. But by setting longer-term plans and targets in a number of key areas we are more likely to be able to integrate our aspirations more fully into our resource allocation and planning. And that will be the key to making real change happen.
I am encouraged that the Co-op’s team is also beginning to develop new systems to measure our impact as well as our activity, which is an area in which most sustainability reports are relatively weak: if we get this right we will reinforce our reputation as a trail blazer in sustainability reporting.
Author adminPosted on January 13, 2017 March 30, 2017 Categories Co-op, Co-op Way, sustainability, TraidcraftTags Co-op, Co-op Compass, Coop way, Council, social accounts, sustainability, TraidcraftLeave a comment on Sustainability reporting
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A Hovercraft is a vehicle that flies like a plane but can float like a boat, can drive like a car but will traverse ditches and gullies as it is a flat terrain. A Hovercraft also sometimes called an air cushion vehicle because it can hover over or move across land or water surfaces while being held off from the surfaces by a cushion of air.
A Hovercraft can travel over all types of surfaces including grass, mud, muskeg, sand, quicksand, water and ice .Hovercraft prefer gentle terrain although they are capable of climbing slopes up to 20%, depending upon surface characteristics.
Modern Hovercrafts are used for many applications where people and equipment need to travel at speed over water but be able load and unload on land. For example they are used as passenger or freight carriers, as recreational machines and even use as warships. Hovercrafts are very exciting to fly and feeling of effortlessly traveling from land to water and back again is unique.
Hovercraft as we know them today started life as an experimental design to reduce the drag that was placed on boats and ships as they ploughed through water. The first recorded design for an air cushion vehicle was put forwarded by Swedish designer and philosopher Emmanuel Swedenborg in 1716. The craft resembled an upturned dinghy with a cockpit in the centre.
Apertures on either side of this allowed the operator to raise or lower a pair of oar-like air scoops, which on downward strokes would force compressed air beneath the hull, thus raising it above the surface. The project was short-lived because it was never built, for soon Swedenborg soon realized that to operate such a machine required a source of energy far greater than that could be supplied by single human equipment. Not until the early20th century was a Hovercraft practically possible, because only the internal combustion engine had the very high power to weight ratio suitable for Hover flight.
In the mid 1950s Christopher Cockrell, a brilliant British radio engineer and French engineer John Bertin, worked along with similar line of research, although they used different approaches to the problem of maintaining the air cushion. Cockrell while running a small boatyard in Norfolk Boards in the early 1950s began by exploring the use of air lubrication to reduce the hydrodynamic drag, first by employing a punt, then a 20 knot ex-naval launch as a test craft.
PRINCIPLE OF WORKING
The principle of working of a Hovercraft is to lift the craft by a cushion of air to propel it using propellers. The idea of supporting the vehicle on a cushion of air developed from the idea to increase the speed of boat by feeding air beneath them. The air beneath the hull would lubricate the surface and reduce the water drag on boat and so increasing its speed through water.
The air sucked in through a port by large lifting fans which are fitted to the primary structure of the craft. They are powered by gas turbine or diesel engine. The air is pushed to the under side of the craft. On the way apportion of air from the lift fan is used to inflate the skirt and rest is ducted down under the craft to fill area enclosed by the skirt.
At the point when the pressure equals the weight of the craft, the craft lifts up and air is escaped around the edges of the skirt. So a constant feed of air is needed to lift the craft and compensate for the losses.
Thus craft is lifted up. After the propulsion is provided by the propellers mounted on the Hovercraft. The airs from the propellers are passed over rudders, which are used to steer the craft similar to an aircraft. Hovercraft is thus propelled and controlled and its powerful engine makes it to fly.
MAIN PARTS
Lower hull- It is the basic structure on which the Hovercraft floats when the engine is stopped while moving over water. It supports the whole weight of the craft.
Skirts- They are air bags inflated by air are fitted around the perimeter of the craft hold air under the craft and thus upon a cushion of air. It enables to obtain greater Hover height. The material used is rib stop nylon or Terylene.
Lift fan-It is fitted to the primary structure of the Hovercraft. The air is pumped under the craft between the skirt space to produce a cushion of air.
Propeller-It is used to obtain the forward motion of the craft. It is fitted to the top of the craft and is powered by a powerful gas turbine or diesel engine.
Rudders-They are similar to that used in an aircraft. Rudders are moved by hydraulic systems. By moving the rudders we can change the direction of the craft.
DEVELOPMENT OF AIR CUSHION BY MOMENTUM CURTAIN EFFECT
Stability of the Hovercraft on its cushion of air remained a real problem despite some design efforts and new approach was needed. To solve these problems, plenum chamber with a momentum curtain was developed by Sir Christopher Cockrell.
His first experiments were conducted with the aid of two cans and a vacuum cleaner (with blower end). The cans were drilled and bolted so that one can was inside the other with open ends facing down to some weighing scales, the top of the larger can was open and had a tube connected to it so that air could be forced in to the top can and around the smaller can inside.
The air traveled around between the inside of the bigger can and outside of the smaller can and was then let out towards the scales in a narrow ring of air, the cans were mad4e so that it was possible to remove inner can so the air could be directed in two ways.
The experiment was conducted in two steps. First the smaller can was removed and blower switched on. The scales measured the amount of thrust the air from the one can produced down onto the scales. The smaller can was now replaced inside the larger can so that the ring of air was produced. Again the blower was switched on and the scales measured amount of thrust the ring of air produced down onto the scales. Here is the key discovery because Cockrell observed that the two cans nested inside each other produced more thrust onto the scales than the simple open can or plenum chamber did, he had discovered the momentum curtain effect and this was the key ingredient that he patented.
In the full size craft the plenum chamber was also filled in so that a slot round the bottom edge of plenum chamber wall was former where the air fed in at the top. The slot produced a curtain of flowing air that was inclined. The high pressure air from the slot angled inwards towards the centre of the craft helped to contains and sustains the air cushion. Using this method a stable air cushion could be created. The craft was still riding on a plenum chamber of sorts but it was created and maintained by the high pressure ring of air surrounding the lower pressure air in the center.
The momentum curtain arrangement achieved higher hover heights with less power. It also solved some of the stability problems. The box structure in the center of the craft around which air escaped was closed to form a buoyancy tank to enable the craft to float on water when it came to rest. The design was exactly what was used in first publicly demonstrated Hovercraft the SRN1, built by Saunders Roe in the United Kingdom it served as a test bed for many years during Hovercraft development.
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Honey Flavor
4 4. Need to Take Action
Author :kookieelor
Joe exhales and said, "I want to end the engagement with the Su's." Everyone was shocked. His grandfather asks, "Cancel the engagement? Why?" Joe confidently said, "Stella does not fit the role of Mrs. Chen. Also, I'm in love with someone else which Stella hired some thugs to harm her."
Helen was shocked. James asks, "How is she? Is she alright?" Joe lowers his gaze. "...I don't know."
He looks up and said, "Jordy is in the hospital on my behalf and Amy is now in the ER with her." Grandfather nods. "I understand. Will cancel the engagement." He looks at his grandfather. "Grandfather, I.." Grandfather cuts in, "Go. Go see how she is. If you need anything, we're always here for you, Joe." Joe nods and quickly head back to the hospital. Grandfather then asks them, "Who is this woman that Joe is in love with?" All of them shrugs. "Hmm."
[Hospital]
Joe arrives at the hospital. Jordy was stilling waiting on the results. "Anything yet?" "No." Joe sits down and sighs. Minutes turns to hours. Dani was still in surgery, Joe gets up and walks back and forth in front of the ER. He sighs repeatedly. Soon Amy, a doctor and a friend of Joe and a wife of Jordy, comes out of the ER. "Amy. How is she?" "She is fine. She needs a lot of rest." "Thank you." The nurses transfer Dani into her assigned room. Joe stays next to her all night.
It's been a couple days that Joe hasn't gone to work, he stayed next to Dani without any sleep or eat. Jordy arrives and said, "Joe, as the CEO, you shouldn't miss work." Joe remain silent. Jordy sighs. "Amy is here. She will take care of her. No need to worry. Also, you have things that needs to be taking care of." "...Alright." Joe kiss Dani's hand and put her hand down. (I'll be back. Wait for me.)
Joe and Jordy heads to the company. Joe then told Jordy, "Terminate the contract with the Su Corp." "Understood." Jordy left the room. Joe grabs his cellphone and text James.
Joe: Can you go to the Su residence and deliver the news of the engagement for me? Got too much on my end.
James replies, "Leave it to me." Joe sighs as he sits down on the chair. He then get back to work mode.
[Su Corp]
Joey Su was told that Joe Chen has terminate the contract with them. "What?" He pick the phone and dials Joe's number but it went through voicemail. "What is going on?" "I can answer to that." Joey looks up and sees James at the doorway. "Ah. Mr. Chen. Did we have an appointment?" "I need to book an appointment?"
"No. Please sit." James walks in and continues to stand. "I have personal and important matter to discuss with you." Joey looks at his employees and nod. They left them alone. "You receive the news that my brother has terminate the contract with your company, yes?" "Yes. I'm a bit confused of why he--" "He wants to end the engagement with your daughter, Stella." "Cancel the engagement?!"
"Your daughter, Stella, isn't the great fit of Mrs. Chen that we are hoping for." "I apologize if Stella has offend any of you." "Sir, are you still in touch with your daughter, Dani?" Joey froze. "D-Dani...? What does this have to do with Dani?" "Stella hired some thugs to harm Dani." Joey was completely shocked. (James: He didn't even know?) "D-Dani. Is she alright? She's not hurt, is she?"
"She was strike on the back of her head. She's still haven't regain her consciousness yet." James notices Joey's hands are trembling. Joey takes a seat on the chair and said, After they left the house, I wanted to hire someone to look after those two but...I'm afraid she's going to hate me even more." Joey let out a sigh. "My brother wants me to pass a message to you." Joey looks up at James. "He said, 'It is your mess, clean it up. You will hold full consequences of Stella's actions towards Dani.'" Joey nods. "I understand."
As soon as James left, Joey let out another sigh. "It's my fault. It's my fault. Oh, Dani. I hope you are alright."
[Su residence]
Stella was in her bedroom, brushing her hair, humming as if she's in a good mood. She stops brushing her hair and grab her phone. "How come I haven't heard anything from them? Is the job done?" She decides to call the person who was in charge of harming Dani. It leads to voicemail.
She got irritated. "Damn it." She puts her phone down and brush her hair again. She looks herself in the mirror.
[Flashback]
Stella was hanging with her friends the other night. One of her friends said, "Stella, you're engaged to Joe Chen, right?" "Yeah. We're engaged." Stella noticed her friend is making a weird expression. "What is it?" Her friend puts out her cellphone and show her a photo. Stella takes it and looks at it.
Her eyes widened as she sees Dani was in Joe's embrace. (Dani?! They know each other?! How?!) Her friend said, "You sure you're going to marry him? I think you should have a second option." Stella ignores her friend and send a text to someone.
<Let's meet immediately.>
[Present]
Stella jolts and return to reality. She looks through the mirror and sees her father. She puts her brush down on her vanity. She turns around and stands up. "Daddy. Wel-" Joey walk towards her and SLAP! Her left hand on her left cheek. (Stella: W-what?) She looks at him. "Dad--" "Why did you do it?" "Daddy, I don't un--"
He grabs both of her arms and pulls her close to him. "Why did you hired some thugs to harm Dani?!" Stella's expression change. She push Joey off of her. "So what?" Joey was shocked. Stella said, "She should know what she is getting into when she seduce the man who is going to be my husband." Joey said, "You're no longer getting engaged to Joe." "Dad!" "Joe wants to break the engagement with you and I totally support that decision."
"Ha! You're going to support that useless dog than me?" Joey turns his heels and exit the room. He then puts Stella in a house arrest. Stella grabs her phone and begins to call those poeple but no luck. She throws her cellphone on the floor. "You useless bastards!" Clenching her hands into fists. "Dani, there's no way you're going to the future Mrs. Chen. If I can't be the future Mrs. Chen, either can you."
Joe rush to the hospital as soon as he heard from Amy about Dani's condition got weaken. As soon as he reach the room, he sees Jordy with Amy. It wasn't looking too good. "Amy." She let out a sigh. "Joe. I don't think she ever woken up again." Joe's eyes widened. "W-what?" "Her body is rejecting the fluids which I put in. If this goes on, I hope you prepare for it." Amy pats Joe's shoulder and left. Jordy stays behind with Joe and stand next to him as he looks at Dani through the window. Dani has an oxygen mask on her.
"Jordy, as a friend, what do you think I should do?" Jordy pats Joe's back. "No matter what happens, you should not give her up. As a friend, you should take action towards Stella or else, she would find a way to harm Dani." Joe nods in agreement.
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2 2 I Will Take Care of I
3 3 Trap
3 3. End the Engagement with the Su's
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Beyonce & Jay Z Enjoy Hawaii for Seventh Anniversary
Photo: Francis Specker/CBSLooks like Beyonce did more than just gift Jay Z with a new song, “Die with You,” for their wedding seventh anniversary. The couple is celebrating their love at a resort on Hawaii’s Big Island.
How do we know? Bey and Jay were snapped by James Brennan, co-founder of Suja Juice and fellow vacationer, who captured his 9-year-old daughter and her friend politely interrupting the pair during their lunch.
In the Instagram photo, Beyonce wears a crown of flowers as she offers advice to Brennan’s daughter, who is preparing to perform during a school talent show. “Stay focused and don’t get nervous. There’s no need to be,” she said, according to the Huffington Post.
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Le Minh Chau, the documentary's protagonist, is a painter living on his own in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo courtesy of the film's Facebook page
Documentary about Vietnamese Agent Orange victim nominated for Oscar
Documentary about Vietnam Agent Orange victim shortlisted for Oscar
An Oscar-nominated documentary about a Vietnamese victim of Agent Orange will be screened at the United Nations headquarters in New York next week.
Director Courtney Marsh said in a Facebook post that “Chau, Beyond the Lines” would be shown on June 15, when she and the film’s protagonist, Le Minh Chau, 25, would also speak with the audience.
The 33-minute documentary shows the effects of Agent Orange, a defoliant sprayed by the US over Vietnam’s jungles during the war to deprive Vietnamese soldiers of cover, on Chau.
He suffers from a rare disability in his arms and legs caused by his mother drinking water from a dioxin-contaminated river before he was born.
He grew up in a peace camp until 17 and is now an artist in Ho Chi Minh City, living on his own.
The documentary, produced by Jerry Franck and Marsh and filmed over eight years, won the Best Documentary Short Film at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival in the US last November and was among the nominees for the latest Academy Awards.
The documentary had its first public screening in Vietnam on April 19 at the US Embassy in Hanoi and the American Center in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Legends of Classic Soul
Sony GETTV
PBS TV On Tour Concerts
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DARRYL PAYNE CEO
StreamNet , is a Nevada based music and entertainment technology company whose primary business is the providing of streaming entertainment content. The Company’s goal is to create a conglomerate in many facets. The Company is preparing to become a major entertainment content provider.
The Company’s business plan is to seek to acquire many rights for ownership including:
Music Audio Rights
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Representation Of Celebrities Estates
New Releases Of Urban & Dance Music Artist
TV Show Rights
Concert Connection App.
As we plan for and prepare live events in Las Vegas and other cities, we will be providing advance information and ticketing sales through our online booking facilities. Not only will this app provide a gateway for fans to plan for the participation in concerts and shows, it will also serve to connect our artists with their venues.
Create Your Muse App.
If the whole world is a stage then the streets and neighborhoods are a studio. It is one of our goals to apply the reach of Cloud services to the tunes and moves of the individual or group practicing their art. Technology has unleashed us with its portability and flexibility, the capabilities once reserved for the studio are now reduced to the power of the device in your hand.
Music Channel App.
Through our online distribution system and partnerships with other well known platforms, StreamNet expects to build several music channels focusing on the legends of soul, rock, hip hop, gospel, country and more. We shall also be opening up channels to support new artists and those looking to break through.
The TV App.
That ole box in the living room has become much more thanks to the power of connected devices and smart television sets. As we build out channels and distribution partnerships with radio and TV stations, present new live events and recorded ones, StreamNet will connect the living room with our world through this app.
Video Stream App.
The camera in the phone, the GoPro camera, your parents video camera or our studio camera, StreamNet will connect it all in unique channels of video streamed from our own global Cloud based systems. Our artists will also be able to "plug in" and provide interviews or "just because i feel like it" video segments, imagine that!
Web Connect App.
We are entering the age of the Internet of Everything, or IoT, and World Nation Live Entertainment is going to be there with new distribution models. Social media shall play a role with us as we introduce the excitement of the contest to the creation of new content and promotion of new stars, you will join us on the world wide stage.
It was all started by Darryl Payne under the Classic World Productions Label, it was the mission to preserve and deliver the works of legendary artists for generations of music lovers. Beginning with the production and recording of renown artists from the soul music genre, concert performances were recorded and produced for distribution on DVD.
The popular ‘Legends of Classic Soul’ collection on DVD brought the excitement of the ultimate concert experience to the home, and has now become a sought. after collectable set presenting fans with a front seat and an insider’s look behind the concert stage.
We will introduce new operations that build upon niche opportunities. Artistic relationships and media distribution acquisitions are routinely sought. StreamNet HD Media Pay Per View Streaming Platform is developed. All of our video content will be available for consumers to stream.
50 concerts were recorded for this series, StreamNet is planning to launch each of these concerts as part of our video streaming network programming.
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Please contact us if you have a question or concern about what we offer.
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Current Updates on COVID-19 in Malaysia [14 August 2020]
Nadia Razak August 14, 2020 News
The Ministry of Health (MOH) would like to inform that seven (7) cases have fully recovered and discharged today. Cumulatively, 8,828 co...
The Ministry of Health (MOH) would like to inform that seven (7) cases have fully recovered and discharged today. Cumulatively, 8,828 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been discharged (96.5% of total cumulative cases).
A total of 20 additional confirmed COVID-19 case were reported to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) MOH today. Cumulatively there are now 9,149 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Malaysia. Therefore, there are currently 196 active and infective COVID-19 cases. They have all been isolated and given treatment.
Of the 20 additional cases reported today, seven (7) are imported cases who were infected overseas, involving six (6) Malaysians and one (1) non-Malaysian.
All 13 local transmission cases are among Malaysians.
Currently, four (4) confirmed COVID-19 cases are receiving treatment in the intensive care units (ICUs), and one (1) patient is on ventilation support.
No additional COVID-19 death was reported to the National CPRC MOH today. Cumulatively, there remains 125 COVID-19 deaths in Malaysia (1.37% of total cumulative cases).
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January 19, 2021 jackComments Off on Quick facts on metastatic breast cancer
Metastatic breast cancer starts in the breast but then spreads to other parts of the body. For example, it could spread to the bones or the lungs. It’s also referred to as stage 4 or advanced breast cancer. It is the most severe form of the disease.
Although rates of recovery from metastatic breast cancer are lower than for other forms of cancer, the number of U.S. women living with the disease is growing. New treatments can lessen symptoms and keep the cancer from spreading further, helping women live longer.
A recent study from the National Cancer Institute found:
In 2020, an estimated 168,000 women in the U.S. are living with metastatic breast cancer.
The five-year survival rate of women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer is increasing, especially among women aged 15 to 39.
About one-third of women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer have lived with it for five or more years.
Some women may live 10 or more years after being diagnosed.
More research is needed to address the health care needs of women who live with this condition, according to the study.
Source: National Cancer Institute
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Personal story: Selene Suarez | NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
January 18, 2021 jackComments Off on Personal story: Selene Suarez | NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects 1.5 million people in the U.S. One of those people is Selene Suarez.
Life with lupus: Selene, who lives just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, has had lupus for 10 years. She has been dealing with symptoms like swollen joints, severe fatigue, and general inflammation and pain in her body while raising two young children and trying to take care of her family.
“My main problem is I have lupus, so it leads to arthritis and swelling and hurts pretty much my whole body,” she says. To help with the pain, Selene’s doctor prescribed opioid medication, strong drugs that help some people reduce severe pain but that can be very addictive. Though opioids helped with her pain, Selene didn’t quite feel like herself when taking them and was open to other ways of feeling better.
“Instead, you’re changing your pain into something else, a good thought or a good memory.”
– Selene Suarez
Trying mindfulness: Selene had never heard of mindfulness before her doctor mentioned a local study, which was led by National Institutes of Health-supported researcher Eric Garland, Ph.D., LCSW. “That was the very first time I heard about it. The first time you go, you think it is not going to work, but something told me, just finish it, we’ll see what happens,” Selene says.
“I had a really, really good experience.” Selene went to a local health clinic every Saturday for mindfulness treatment for two months. “First [the social worker] would talk and say to close your eyes and breathe, go here and go there, and when everything was done, she would ask, ‘How was this for you and your experience? How do you feel?’ and we would talk about it.” Selene’s provider gave her homework and different mindfulness strategies
Vaping: What you need to know
January 17, 2021 January 17, 2021 jackComments Off on Vaping: What you need to know
Vapes are battery-operated devices that heat liquid with nicotine, marijuana, or flavorings. Some vapes contain other unknown substances or chemicals. When heated, the liquid turns into aerosol, which people inhale or puff.
What are other common names for vapes?
Common names include electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), e-cigarettes, e-cigs, electronic cigarettes, e-hookahs, vape pens, and mods.
What drugs are in vapes?
Common drugs include nicotine, a highly addictive drug found in tobacco products including cigarettes, and THC, the main mind-altering component of marijuana. Both can impact how a person’s lungs and brain work, especially the developing brains of teenagers. Both drugs can put teens at risk for other drug use.
Are vapes tested for safety?
Companies that sell vapes in the U.S. must apply to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for authorization. The FDA reviews the products to see if they meet regulatory guidelines. Because these products are new, the FDA is still in the process of determining which ones may continue to be sold. Another challenge is that some vaping products that can be purchased online are not regulated. This means they may contain dangerous ingredients or defective parts.
Vapes vs. cigarettes
Some studies suggest that vaping nicotine may be less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes and could be a way to wean adults off smoking. However, vapes are not currently an FDA-approved quit-aid. More research is needed to further test vape safety and effectiveness for this potential use.
What are some of the dangers of e-cigarettes?
In mid-2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began reporting on cases of e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury, including deaths. These lung injuries are linked to vitamin E acetate, which is mostly found in vaping products containing THC, but some patients reported using a mixture of THC and
Cold-weather wellness: Tips for staying healthy this season
January 16, 2021 jackComments Off on Cold-weather wellness: Tips for staying healthy this season
Staying healthy during colder months is the first step in making sure you can enjoy all the activities the season brings.
When you are indoors more during the fall and winter, you may be closer to other people. This can increase your chances of catching viruses that cause colds, the flu, or COVID-19. Dry winter air can also weaken natural mucus barriers in the nose, mouth, and lungs, where viruses can enter the body.
Get a flu shot
Each year, the seasonal flu sickens millions and causes thousands of hospitalizations and flu-related deaths in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a yearly flu vaccine for everyone 6 months of age and older. Flu vaccines are updated each year to best protect against new strains of the flu virus.
Reduce the spread
To help reduce the spread of the flu, colds, and other viruses, including COVID-19, you should:
Wash your hands frequently. It is the best way to protect yourself from catching illnesses.
Wipe down surfaces around you with a sanitizing cleaner.
Keep a distance from those who are sick.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Stay hydrated, so you can flush toxins out of your system.
Get enough sleep to keep your immune system strong.
Make nutritious choices
Eating a diet full of vegetables, fruits, lean protein, and whole grains can also help you stay healthy during the colder months. Consider treats that will satisfy cravings but have less fat and added sugar, and also keep an eye on portion size. When making your food shopping list during the holidays, think about healthier alternatives to traditional comfort foods.
Shorter days and colder weather may lead you to exercise less. But even moderate exercise, like a brisk walk, raking leaves, or climbing stairs, can
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Review: Kipp X – cross of cubes
familyfor beginnersreview
· 1. 4. 2019 ·3 min read
What is the moment, when a flat cross enters a three-dimensional world of cubes? It has no protrusions or nothing to declare its membership in the Z-axis. It is then quite understandable, that all the bones will gather and want also to have a look.
And many of them fell for this trap and right into a box titled Kipp X. Here, for all players, Torsten Marold prepared the evolution of his original Kippit game under the auspices of Franjos Spieleverlag. The game dates back to 2012.
Box is large in flat dimensions, but relatively low. That’s because under the lid, you’ll find exactly, what’s on it. Large wooden cross glued together from several parts. Each of the four legs has a number of protrusions, that serve as stops. Players will appreciate them at the moment, when they start using one or more colored cubes and place them. There is 72 of them in the box and differ not only in color, but also in size.
Players prepare a wooden cross and place it, so that the center bullet is turned towards the table. This creates a four-way swing. Players then split cubes of different colors, so that everyone has the same set. This corresponds to a total of eighteen cubes – six smallest green, five yellow, four large blue and three largest red.
But from that moment on, the game is starting. The opponents alternate in turn, where they can put one cube on the swing. However, it is always only allowed on one of the arms, that are currently in the air. Players can choose to lay any of cubes, that he still has in front of him. Their numbers, of course, diminish over time.
The player is not limited to one move. If he can place a cube, that swing shoulder with new cube does not fall to table, he can continue with another placement. Thus, several cubes can be attached in one go. However, when a new part of the structure touches the table, then there is another of the opponents. An exception is the situation, when (as a result of placement) some of the previously attached cubes fall. All of them must be taken back by active player to his stock regardless of who originally placed them.
The game proceeds by placing the cubes in any spot, until one of the players fails to get rid of the last one. Once the player has nothing to do in his turn, then he immediately becomes the winner of the game.
Kipp X is a game of strategy and skillful fingers. But skill is more important, because the cubes can be placed in many different places and it is not easy to let them fall. On the other hand, swinging occurs only if the player misconceived the situation. Apart from tactics, of course, it is also about having a good estimate.
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The placement of each stone is thrilling and the match makes sense. The game is fun and the opponents are very fast on the turn. It is not easy to place most of the stones on the cross without weighing it over and returning action to the players. Therefore, it is also the art to be the first to put them all out of your stock. The game is challenging, but it retains a perfect quarter-hour length.
Based on four rays of the swing, it is clear, that the four players will also be the best. And that’s true. The game is fun in the family circle, where children enjoy exciting docking. It also has surprising success in a group of more demanding players, who want to test their good eye and laugh over easy fun. But when you have in the kids, this box is great with its woody concept, and it even invites the smallest players to play.
Kipp X is a game we like to play at any time, if there’s just a moment for some fast entertainment. It is pleasantly tactical, but at the same time retains the lightness, that will make a smile on the face during the course. Kipp X is a game, that combines the tension and lightness as it should be with this type of game.
Designer Torsten Marold
Artist Bernd Märtens
Publisher franjos Spieleverlag, SimplyFun
Mfg Suggested Ages 5 and up
User Suggested Ages 5 and up
Category Action / Dexterity
Primary Name KIPP X
Alternate Names Kilter
Kipp X definitely does not disappoint as a family game. It offers a wooden breeze, where everything is like a swing. This time literally. Players put their cubes on a joint board and try to play more times per round. Only in this way can they outrun their opponents. However, they must avoid making any unnecessary mistakes, when the cubes could fall down on the table. Kipp X is a game, that finds fans among children, parents, but also players.
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Happy Birthday Vincent Price - May 27 13 Greatest Vincent Price Movies
13 Greatest Vincent Price Movies
After an early Broadway debut, the late great Vincent Price (1911-1993) toiled in Hollywood films for over 50 years and appeared on countless TV shows (including everything from The Carol Burnett Show to The Brady Bunch). But, of course, the actor will always be remembered for his horror and villainous roles by generations of monster kids (whose ranks include director Tim Burton, who cast Price in one of his last—and best—screen assignments, 1990’s Edward Scissorhands). Chiller’s latest edition of The Friday 13 salutes the career of this scream legend on the occasion of his upcoming birthday (May 27). Helping us celebrate: Price’s own daughter and official biographer, Victoria. (Titles arranged according to year of release.)
1. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The Invisible Man Returns Trailer
At age 28, stage-trained thespian Vincent Price joined Universal Studios’ classic monsters bullpen in this sequel to the James Whale/Claude Raines hit. Price stars as a man scheduled to hang for a murder he didn’t commit who takes an invisibility serum to apprehend the real killer. “The first ‘glimpse’ (!) of what Vincent Price could do with just his voice,” recalls daughter Victoria Price. The mellifluous actor disappeared into the role again with an amusing voiceover cameo for 1948’s hilarious Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
2. Dragonwyck (1946)
Dragonwyck scene
In one of the parts dearest to his heart, Price portrays Nicholas Van Ryn, drug-addicted/wife murdering aristocrat, who lords over a gloomy mansion. “This movie meant a great deal to my father,” Victoria recalls. “He was playing a portly priest in Keys to the Kingdom, and he approached [director] Joe Mankiewicz with his desire to play the lead in Dragonwyck. The director basically said that he was totally the wrong type for the role. So my dad lost a lot of weight and really prepared for the audition—and got the role. It was his first leading film role in a genre that would become so important to him.”
3. House of Wax (1953)
House of Wax (1953) -- Unmasked
As the hideously scarred sculptor Henry Jarrod, who uses real human bodies as his museum wax figures, the art-loving actor cemented his reputation as a monstrous screen villain in this 3-D smash. “House of Wax came at a very important juncture in my father’s life,” reveals Victoria. “He had just been cleared from one of [Red Scare instigator] Joe McCarthy’s lists and allowed to work again in Hollywood. He was offered two roles—one on Broadway and one for a film about an artist incorporating an interesting new technology [3-D]. The rest, as they say, is history!”
4. House on Haunted Hill (1958)
Vincent Price - House On Haunted Hill - Trailer
In this wickedly scary gimmick film from producer/director William Castle, Price stars as a sarcastic millionaire who offers five strangers $10,000 a piece if they survive the night in the titular ghost hangout. This hit film garnered Price even more fans in the genre he would call home. Says Victoria, “Who doesn’t love Vincent Price as the elegantly evil Frederick Loren in House on Haunted Hill?”
5. House of Usher (1960)
The House of Usher (1960). The family, explained
Price’s career continued to ascend in horror circles when he top-lined this classy Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, scripted by Richard (Twilight Zone) Matheson and directed with stylish efficiency by B-movie king Roger Corman. “Roderick Usher was one of my dad’s great roles, in my opinion,” says Victoria of the tragic, hypersensitive Usher, a man with, let’s say, family issues. “As the tortured aesthete, he was so handsome in that film!”
6. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) - The Pendulum Swings
The popularity of House of Usher for independent studio American International Pictures spawned a whole series of Poe flicks, most starring Price as equally troubled characters and bad guys. In Corman’s Pit and the Pendulum, Price limns Nicholas Medina, beleaguered son of a notorious Spanish Inquisition torturer who dusts off Pop’s ancient playthings thanks to his scheming wife (Barbara Steele). Shudders Victoria, “Pit and the Pendulum scared me to death when we had to watch it in school!”
7. The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
The Comedy of Terrors - Vincent Price (1/1) Not Quite Dead Enough (1963) HD
The horror celebrity always enjoyed sending up his image in both film and television, and in this hoot, directed by Cat People’s Jacques Tourneau, he’s a boozy undertaker who’ll literally murder for customers. “My dad loved getting to work with his dear friend Boris Karloff and the legendary Peter Lorre, whose eulogy he gave just a few years later,” remembers Victoria. “And boy did they have fun!” And we can tell!
8. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Theatrical Trailer - The Masque of the Red Death (Vincent Price)
In this masterpiece of Corman/AIP’s Poe cycle, Price essays the diabolical Prince Prospero, who throws a decadent bash while plague decimates those outside his castle walls. “A few years ago,Masque of the Red Death was shown at three straight events I attended,” Victoria notes of Masque’s enduring appeal amongst cinema scholars. “The movie is so surreal and ’60s. And Nic Roeg’s saturated cinematography is iconic.”
9. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Last Man on Earth - Vincent Price (1/1) The Living Dead Attack (1964) HD
Tinseltown raided Richard Matheson’s excellent novel I Am Legend (about a vampire-plagued world) three times, beginning with this low-budget effort. Price’s version stands as the most faithful to Matheson, and the Rome-lensed movie also proved even more significant to Victoria. Sshe explains, “I owe my existence to Last Man on Earth! My parents moved to Italy for an extended period of time. Let’s just say that ‘La Dolce Vita’ worked its magic on 44-year-old Mary Grant Price and 50-year-old Vincent Price. When my mother started craving Chinese food in Europe, they had no idea I was the cause. But I ended up being a very happy surprise for them both…all because ofLast Man on Earth!”
10. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia - Vincent Price (1/1) A Prophecy of Ligeia’s Return (1964) HD
With a literate script by future Chinatown scribe Robert Towne, Corman and Price ended their Poe run with a fiery finish. As the downcast Verden Fell, Price suffers at the hands—and possessed feline claws—of his jealous deceased wife, who stalks her man when he remarries. As the haunted husband, Price contributes a subdued and nuanced performance, never upstaged by the movie’s killer cat or impressive English locations. “Tomb of Ligeia was Vincent’s personal favorite Poe film,” his offspring reveals.
11. Witchfinder General (1968)
The Mark of Satan Is Upon Them - Witchfinder General (Vincent Price)
In this intense film (released in the U.S. as Conqueror Worm), St. Louis-born Price tackles real-life 17th century British witch hunter Matthew Hopkins, who traveled the English countryside persecuting innocent people for practicing witchcraft. As the despicable Hopkins, Price abandoned the flamboyance of some of his previous dastardly turns. “Working with [director] Michael Reeves was very, very difficult for my father,” admits Victoria. “He understood what Reeves wanted, but his methods and his youthful arrogance were difficult for my dad—who was about the nicest man on the planet. Ultimately, however, the malevolence which my father achieved made the part one of his most memorable.”
12. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The flying unicorn Abominable Dr Phibes
In this art-deco tour de force, Price has a campy field day as the revenge-minded disfigured doctor who unleashes his own translation of the biblical plagues on the men who failed to save his wife’s life. Price returned as the noble madman in the equally entertaining Dr. Phibes Rises Again a year later. “Classic, stylistic and quirky, Dr. Phibes reteamed Vincent with his dear old friend of 40 years, Joseph Cotton,” says Victoria of the two actors who met while performing with Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. “And I am still struck by how expressive he was in that film of few words.”
13. Theater of Blood (1973)
Theatre of Blood (1973): A pound of flesh
An even blacker comedic twist on the Phibes pictures, Theater of Blood rates as Price’s cinematic triumph, and one that encapsulates his entire oeuvre. This occasion he’s failed Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart who, believed dead, elaborately murders the stuffy British reviewers responsible for his worst notices. Victoria catalogues how much Theater of Blood meant to dear Dad: “When you get to: a) fall in love with your future wife [Coral Browne] in a graveyard; b) electrocute her while playing a gay hairdresser; c) kill off all the critics; d) work with Diana Rigg and so many other great British actors; and e) recite Shakespearean verse while doing all of the above—how could it not be one of my father’s favorite films?”
We could easily list another 13 petrifying Price pictures on this list, so if you have the desire to learn more about the man and his movies, go to www.vincentprice.com, check out Shout Factory’s definitive two volume Vincent Price Collection on disc and pick up Victoria’s wonderful book Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography, as well as Lucy Chase Williams’ The Complete Films of Vincent Price.
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Published On: Mon, Jan 27th, 2014
Health / Hometown News / Infectious Disease Q&A by Robert Herriman / Outbreak News | By Robert Herriman
Red Flannel Cat Food recalled due to salmonella risk
Arden Hills, Minnesota pet food company, PMI Nutrition, LLC (PMI), initiated a voluntary recall Saturdayof its 20 lb. bags of Red Flannel® Cat Formula cat food for possible Salmonella contamination.
Although there has been no illnesses associated with this product to date, the recall was initiated out of an abundance of caution after routine testing by the FDA Detroit District Office identified possible Salmonella contamination.
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According to the company release, Red Flannel® Cat Food was manufactured by a third-party manufacturer for PMI. The product was sold through dealers to customers distributed in the following states: Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
The lot number is printed on the lower back side of the bag in a white box on the right-hand side. The lot number will be preceded by a time stamp that will be unique to each bag. (Example 14:32) The lot number and best-by date impacted by this recall are as follows:
Best by 05 06 14 096 13 SM L2 1A (lot number)
The UPC code for the recalled product is: 7 42869 00058 5.
No other products/lot numbers are affected by this recall.
Salmonella is a pathogen to both humans and animals. There is a risk for humans handling the contaminated pet food if poor hand washing techniques are not performed or surfaces in contact with the pet food are not properly cleaned.
In humans, Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
Pets, including cats, with Salmonella can become lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever and vomiting.
Some pets will have only decreased appetite, fever and abdominal pain. Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, please contact your veterinarian.
Customers should immediately discontinue use of and return impacted product to their dealer for a full refund or replacement. We continue to work with impacted dealers and distributors to trace the bags.
For more information on the recall, customers can contact the customer service line for PMI products at 1-800-332-4738. Customer service representatives will be available Sunday, Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST and Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CST.
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Introducing My Child ;) "A Mother For The Seasonings"
For a long time I have told you all about my book, "A Mother For The Seasonings" and have promised to post some of it. The problem is, I began to realize that it was not at all in a state to be shared....the writing has a lot of flaws...so I began what I never expected I'd have to do much of: rewriting. :D I don't know why I didn't expect it, but there it is! :) Any way, I finally have the first chapter down in a presentable form. Still not amazing or great literature, but pretty nearly my best for now. So without further ado, I present to you: "A Mother For The Seasonings" by your's truly!
A Mother for the Seasonings © 2010
By Rachel H.
Chapter One: “The Beginning of Things”
It all started in a rather silly way I suppose. You know how we children will get an idea and stick to it through thick and thin. At the very beginning of things, we were all gathered in the parlor, listening to Rosemary tell one of her stories about the “Queen”. The younger children were scattered about her feet, and I was standing in front of the fireplace with hands clasped behind my back, which is a favorite position of mine.
This evening, Rosemary was in the midst of spinning an especially exciting tale: “The orphans heard a knock upon their rickety door: Rap-rap-tap-tap-tap-tap; quietly at first, then growing louder.” She tapped her hand on the floor. “Who would come to the old shack at night? Unless they were—“
“OUTLAWS!” Dill suggested, rather too loudly. Angelica hushed him and gripped the ear of the tiger rug tightly.
“…Unless they were coming for something or someone in particular.” Rosemary continued. “The oldest orphan grabbed the heavy iron poker and crept toward the door, pledged by honor to save the others or die in the attempt. He crept ever nearer the door, and all at once, threw it open and shouted in a loud voice, “WHO GOES THERE? WHAT ARE YOU?”
Dill jumped and stared with round eyes at Rosemary, who held an imaginary poker above her head, her eyes sparkling with excitement. She looked so like Mama at the moment, when she used to tell stories that a lump came into my throat. “Who was at the door?” Fennel whispered. Rosemary smiled mysteriously at Fennel’s wide-eyed expression. “No answer came, but a dark form glided into the room, and stood before the orphans.”
Angelica shivered.
“All at once the dark form threw back her hood, revealing none other than the beautiful Queen! The firelight shone on her golden coronet of hair and-“
“Whass a golden cor’net of hair?” Fennel interrupted.
“Well it’s…well, I’m not exactly sure but it sounds regal! Anyway, the Queen bade the children flee with her, for 3-and-twenty horsemen were just then on their way to do mischief to the orphans! Outside, the Queen had gathered five horses besides her own beautiful white steed. The children mounted the creatures and, as quickly and quietly as a spring breeze, they left the shack and the clearing behind in darkness. They rode all night long, ever dreading to hear the 3-and-twenty sets of hooves in pursuit. But at last, as the morning dawned, they entered the Queen’s own land, and were in real safety at last!”
“Oh Rosie, that’s the best one yet!” Angelica exclaimed.
“It was pretty good, but I still say the 23 horsemen should have tied the children up at stake and started a fire around them, and then the Queen could rescue them!” Dill said.
“I don’t see how the Queen could have put out a fire and killed 23 knights by herself Dill. It works so much better this way!” Rosemary answered.
“I suppose you’re right. But it’s much more exciting my way!” he persisted.
Fenny scooted over to Rosemary and said in a wistful tone, “I wish the queen would come and get us.”
Rosemary smiled, then winked at me. “But then who would take care of Papa?” Fennel bit her lip and was silent for a moment. Then she replied with confidence, “Sali can marry him, and then he will always have someone to cook for him!”
Dill and I hooted at the thought, for Sali was a native woman who was employed as our cook. She was as wide as she was tall, and grouchy, but she was the most talented cook in the Cape so we didn’t mind much.
“Don’t laugh at me. Why wouldn’t it work? We could have a wedding, and I could be a flower girl, and then we could live with the Queen!”
Rosemary wiped her eyes with the hem of the pinafore and said, “Oh Fenny dear, Father would miss us too much. We’ll just have to wait and hope that someday a Queen will come and marry Father.” But she finished the words with a soft sigh.
“Well, Queen Victoria is already married, and I daresay she wouldn’t have Papa if he asked her!” Dill stated frankly. “Besides, I wouldn’t want to live in a castle.” He frowned.
“Why ever not, Dill?” Angie touched a spider’s web in the corner.
“Well, for one thing, castles are too safe! There’s no adventure at a castle!”
“Except in the Wars,…and down in the dungeon where all the desperate criminals are kept! And they are constantly having banquets: miles of tables groaning with food; potatoes and hams, fowl and vegetables, soups and bread, pastries, pies….” As Angie said this, she plucked the little spider from its web, and threw it out the window. Rosemary shuddered and tucked her skirt tightly around her feet.
“And roasts, and trifles, and mulled cider, and mountains of fluffy white rolls…” she continued. Dill appeared more transported by Angie’s description of banquets than he had at any part of the Queen story. “Well,” he conceded at last, “Perhaps I could stand being a King or something like that!”
The others burst into laughter. “You’d be Old King Cole!” Angie remarked, and she began the rhyme.
“Old King Cole
Was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he!
He called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three!”
Dill did look like the illustration in Fennel’s nursery rhyme book, and I had a hard time keeping a straight face. Indeed, he already possessed the rounded figure and the rosy cheeks of the character, so that if he only were wearing a white periwig, it would have been perfect. Far from vexed at the comparison, Dill merely spread the lace antimacassar of his chair regally over his shoulders and drawled, “It would depend entirely, Miss Angelica, on what the bowl contained!”
We all burst into laughter at the splendid finish to the joke. I dethroned Dill with a good-natured shove, and we all returned to our former positions. “When will Papa be home?” Fennel hopped off of Rosemary’s lap and ran to the window. The great, red, Indian sun set late this time of year, so there was no need for street lamps.
“Papa’s working late again this evening, remember?” Dill replied. Fennel gazed out the window through the hibiscus bush, trying to catch a glimpse of Papa.
“It seems like we never get time with Papa anymore!” Angie bounced one foot upon the other, and shook her blond head.
“Well, he’s so busy at the camp!” I said.
“Why don’t we go down tomorrow and surprise him with a visit? We can walk down the railroad tracks and bring a picnic!” Angelica suggested. The others jumped at the idea, but I wasn’t so sure. “It’s a good idea, Angie, but…what would the OLAF say?”
Angelica scoffed.
“Aw! They always stop all our good ideas!” Dill complained. “Last time we wanted to play in the river, Mrs. Humphreys told us we’d drown, and Mrs. Major Warner said we’d be `et by piranhas!’ Those were her very words!”
I laughed. “Well Dill, at least that proves the OLAF doesn’t hate us! Besides, we really don’t know what is swimming in the river! There very well could be piranhas!”
“But Basil, piranhas live in the Amazon River in South America! Papa told me! This is India!” Dill pained expression was quite comical to behold.
“Now Dill,” Rosemary said, “we mustn’t blame Mrs. Major Warner for not having a handsome, clever, Papa to explain things to her!”
“Well, neither do we… anymore.” Dill said.
“Dill! Don’t talk that way! Papa doesn’t like having to work so late, but he has to do as the Colonel says!” Rosemary remonstrated. “He hates not being able to spend time with us!”
“Well. That all may be good and well! I believe Papa loves us dearly! And we love him! But the OLAF are always talking about it!” Angie said.
I groaned and passed a hand over my eyes. The OLAF was the name we had given to the women of our settlement. It was an acronym for Old Ladies Against Fun. If the title seems disrespectful, I do apologize, but even after things changed, it had become too natural to lay aside. Papa wasn’t able to spend as much time with us as he used to, but still, we loved him more than anyone we can think of. He is the best father in Cape Farsight, and even in the whole of India, or maybe the whole world.
The conversation lagged for a bit after we decided against visiting Papa at work. The dusk of the room deepened, and since Sali had not come in to light the candles, we sat in the half-light, each busy with our own thoughts. Ever so faintly through the window, we could hear a parrot screaming in the jungle.
All at once Angie sat up from where she lay stroking the tiger rug’s head and said, “Why can’t Papa get a new wife? I heard Major Warner’s wife say that he was a good `catch’ whatever that means.”
And she returned to her position on the rug, tracing the stripes on the fur.
“Well…it might seem strange. He just can’t!” I answered.
“But…why not?” Dill asked, looking at me keenly.
Rosemary lifted hopeful eyes to me, and even Fenny followed her example.
I began to feel decidedly uncomfortable. The idea was new, and I was not sure I liked it. For so long it had just been us children and Papa. It seemed that a new wife for Papa might feel out of place and foreign. Besides, hadn’t we been getting along just fine? True, Papa was so busy we seldom saw him outside of the evenings, but would a stranger in the house be worth the awkwardness of change? I had grown to accept the fact that our family consisted of a Papa, and five children. The memory of Mama ruled in my mind; the faint portrait of another parent, now forever silent, but still present.
“The reason Father can’t get married is because… well… you know… “ I stammered.
“Yes, why not Basil?” Angie asked. “We haven’t had a mother for so long!”
“Mother.” The word rang in my head like a pleasant song. I had thought of Papa having another wife, but I had overlooked the fact that we’d have a new mother. Faint remembrances of perfumed hugs and soft kisses, of winsome songs and silver laughter flooded my mind. A “mother” seemed quite different than a “wife”. A sudden eager ache gripped my heart, and I longed for a mother with a frightening intensity.
“Oh. I don’t see why Papa can’t get married if he wants to. Though he won’t get a real live Queen, I’ll warrant.” I finally admitted, trying to speak lightly so as not to sound too changeable.
Angie stood up. “All right! All we need to do is find a match for Father! Let’s see… there is Lieutenant Sander’s daughter Lily…”
Rosemary interrupted. “Father still loves Mama even though she’s gone. It wouldn’t seem disloyal would it?” and I could tell by her anxious look that the suggestion was a difficult sacrifice of this new hope.
“Do you think a new Mama would make us spice cookies?” Dill asked hopefully.
“Would our new Mama sing me to sleep?” asked Fennel.
“Would she brush my hair without pulling it?” Angie added, grinning at Rosemary.
It was my turn to speak now. “Mama has been gone ever since Fenny was born. And Fennel’s a big girl now! I think Mama would want Papa to be happy. We have to remember that. We’ve been motherless for long enough! The OLAF says you girls are mad as March hares, and they say that we boys need a `gentle, firm hand in our lives’. I think it’s high time that we have a mother. Now, I propose a plan…”
The next morning we waved goodbye to Angie from the gate of our little cottage on Barholt Lane. She wore her best Sunday dress, and a great big white hat. Her curls showed softly beneath the brim, and over all she looked just like a china doll I had seen in one of Fennel’s books. Dill thumped me on the back and congratulated me on coming with the splendid idea in the first place.
I knew that Angie is capable of very charming manners, so I suggested we dress her up, and send her off to the Ladies’ Club where the OLAF meets. I thought that if she could listen to enough gossip, she might hear of any ladies that were single or widowed or looking to be married.
Anyway, we waved goodbye to our little sister, and she grinned and stuck her tongue out, before turning back to the road and curtseying to Major Warner just as he passed. As I’ve told you, she could have good manners if she had a mind to.
That same afternoon Angie came tearing into the yard, waving a piece of paper.
She paused to catch her breath and straighten her hat that sat askew on her curls. “I have a whole list of eligible ladies!” She pranced around like a peacock. Dill grabbed it and proceeded to read off a lengthy list of names.
Rosemary and Fenny joined us in the yard, and we all sat along the fence listening to Dill. “But not all of these women can marry Papa!” Rosemary reminded us.
“Of course not goose. But I don’t think all of them would want to!” I took the list from Dill and studied it. “Angie, this is your handwriting. However did you get a chance to write the names down if you were sitting in the middle of the meeting?”
She only grinned more broadly than ever and said, “I wasn’t.”
Now I was confused. “If you didn’t sit in the meeting, then how did you find out about all these people?” I waved the piece of paper in her face.
“I sat behind that group of potted palms. Ram Nokis knew I was there, and he slipped me three cookies. He really is a very nice waiter. Too bad we don’t have a mother that needs to get married. He is so nice and has a funny little parrot that rides around on his shoulder and squawks rude things at the ladies. Then Ram Nokis has to lock him up in the larder until he stops.”
“But you still haven’t told us how you got the names.” I pressed. Angie gave me a withering glance. “As I said before, I was sitting behind the palms, and I found an old receipt from someone’s bill, and you know what they bought? Three dozen tarts and a bottle of champagne! Think of all that rich food. Whoever ate all that must have felt sick!”
I was about to pinch Angie to help her stay focused, but she saw me and continued with the story. “Anyway, I asked Ram Nokis for a pencil, and he gave it to me, and I listened to the OLAF and wrote every name down. Well, at least the ones that they said were unmarried or widowed or that sort of thing.”
I read the remaining names scrawled on the paper. “Widow Tabythuh Micklurrin, Miss Sinthyuh Lowell, Miss Jone Preengul…. And Dill read you the rest. Eleven in all. “I propose that we go about this in a reasonable way. We’ll pick a name every day and visit that lady. If she isn’t the right one, then we’ll visit another the next day. That way we might find a mother before too long!”
All the others agreed with my idea.
“Capital logic Basil- I should have suggested just that sort of thing!” Dill agreed.
I should explain that these were the summer holidays, and I knew we would have many a long, empty week to go “mother-hunting” That evening when Papa came in to kiss us goodnight, we all feared Fennel would give the secret away. I was sitting near the hearth whittling a piece of wood into an elephant for her. She was looking on as Dill began talking about the OLAF. “The women there eat so much, it’s a wonder they aren’t all as fat as…as monkeys!” he finished, for lack of a better comparison.
“They sure do! They ate hundreds a’ tarts!” Fennel spoke up. We all froze, hoping against hope that Fennel would stop speaking. Rosemary’s hands trembled as she continued to knit, and Dill’s face had assumed a threatening expression. Angie was the only one who could gather her wits about her. “You’re right Fennel! The OLAF does eat a lot of tarts! You know, if you and I stacked up all the tarts they ate in a month, I bet it would reach all the way to the tippy-top of the church steeple! Or we could make a whole castle out of tarts for your dolls! Wouldn’t that be charming?” she asked, thereby diverting the conversation into safer waters. She grabbed Fennel by the pinafore and marched her behind the sofa under pretence of drawing plans for a tart-castle. Once out of sight, I could hear their whispered conversation.
“Fennel Seasoning! Don’t you dare say another word about the tarts! You’ll end up spoiling our secret!”
“What secret?” Fennel asked eagerly.
“The secret about finding a mother! Remember Basil told us not to speak of it?”
“Ohhh…. I’m sorry Angie! Did I spoil it?” she asked, a note of panic in her voice.
“No silly. Not yet, but you almost did. Just be quiet for pity’s sake, and only talk about the weather or the garden or something!”
I tried to stifle a laugh. We had decided it would be no good to tell Papa our plan. Rosemary thought that he might get sad and remember Mama and not want to get married and then all our plans would be spoiled.
Angelica and Fennel returned to the group, and sat down.
“The weather was real pretty today wasn’t it?” Fennel immediately began.
“Yes it was Fenny.” Papa agreed.
“No rain, or thunder, or lightening, or anything!” she continued.
“No Fennel, you’re quite right. The weather is usually perfect this time of year.”
“Yep. Just perfect. I didn’t even need my stockings! And Rosemary let me play in the garden barefoot!” Fennel said.
“Yes! But I think rain would be good for the garden! But the weather is so pretty! Don’t you like this weather? I like this weather!”
Angelica poked her hard in the ribs, and frowned.
“What? You said I should talk `bout the—“
“Papa!” I interrupted just in time.
I grabbed mentally for any topic that would divert the subject. “Wasn’t the roast extra good tonight?”
Angie rolled her eyes at the weak attempt. Papa smiled faintly. “Yes, it was very good. But Sali always cooks the meat to perfection.”
We were silent for some time. The knowledge that we could not talk about the one all-consuming subject of finding a mother had put a damper on our ability to make conversation.
At last, Papa roused himself with a sad smile. “I’m sorry to be so dull tonight. It is—was—you mother’s birthday…But she would want us to be cheerful tonight. Come, tell me about your day!” So he took Fennel upon his knee, and examined the grubby bouquet of flowers Angie offered with assumed cheerfulness. Rosemary leaned over the back of his chair and stroked his head while Dill chattered away about a huge fish that we had found washed up on the sand. “How was your day at camp? I finally asked, for he was in charge of training new recruits for the British Army. As if glad for a new topic, he smiled and charged bravely forward with a report of the entire goings on.
After Papa had prayed with us and tucked each one of us in own beds, I lay awake, watching the shadows of the mango tree wave and flutter on the wall.
I wondered if our plan would succeed, and if we ever would have a real mother again. It was late when at last I heard Papa go into his bedroom. Not long after I succumbed to my own weariness, and fell asleep, the day’s distractions slipping peacefully away.
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Labels: stories, The Seasonings
Abigail said...
Wow! It is so alive! Wonderful, Rachie!
This is a *very* original story, Rachel!!! :)
It's About Time! :)
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Marietta Season 2 Episode 12 - Thelma & Louise Died, Mom! (Writer’s Pick)
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Marietta Season 2, Episode 12
Thelma & Louise Died, Mom!
Marietta is on the phone with Patty Lynn.
Marietta: How’s it going mom? Still recovering from the excitement of Uncle Marvin’s visit?
Patty Lynn: It was a great week once we got by that mess from that second day. Alicia drove me crazy sometimes but it was still nice to see her again.
Marietta: That’s good. I was busy for more of it than I hoped for, but I enjoyed the time I got to spend with them.
Patty Lynn: Yeah, it was nice. Speaking of you being busy, how’s work?
Marietta: Things are good. I forgot to look over some of the council’s proposals that they sent to me when I was supposed to and Tammy yelled at me, but other than that it’s good. None of their demands were too insane so I signed off on all of them only a day late and all was right with the world again.
Patty Lynn: Have your mayoral duties taken you anywhere fun lately?
Marietta: As if you wouldn’t know.
Patty Lynn: That is true. I don’t let you do very much without knowing.
Marietta: Hey, did I tell you that Danny’s coming home for Kyle and Maria’s wedding?
Patty Lynn: He is? That’s great! When’s that again?
Marietta: Mom! How could you forget that? It’s, uh… March 7th!
Patty Lynn: Ha! You forgot it, too!
Marietta: In my defense, I’ve been very busy. You haven’t been. You don’t have a job.
Patty Lynn: I’m busy too! In fact, I have some very big news to share.
Marietta: Oh boy. Did you apply for Survivor again? I told you, let the dream die. You’re seventy-seven years old and you weight ninety-six pounds! I don’t think you’d survive a week out there. Those people are scary.
Patty Lynn: No, not that.
Marietta: Are you going to start volunteering for Eileen Birkman’s campaign? Mom, the crazy author lady got 2% less than her in New Hampshire. I don’t think it’s her year.
Patty Lynn: I’m not giving up on her just because the media decided that Tammy Koobach is the token female candidate right now. But that’s not what I’m busy with.
Marietta: Are you running for city council again? We need a new candidate to run since Milton is a little preoccupied.
Patty Lynn: No. Kathleen and I decided we’re going to go on a little adventure.
Marietta: Oh no. You’re both gonna die.
Patty Lynn: It’s gonna be fun! We decided to do it earlier in the week when Marvin was down and he talked about all the adventures him and Alicia were on. Your father didn’t want to come with so Kathleen and I are heading off on our own. It’s gonna be great! We’re gonna do a Thelma and Louise-style road trip!
Marietta: Thelma and Louise died, mom!
Patty Lynn: That was only implied.
Marietta: They drove into the Grand Canyon.
Patty Lynn: We won’t do that.
Marietta: I would hope not!
Patty Lynn: I’ll call you and give you updates along the way. We’ll only be gone for a week, it’s going to be fun!
Marietta: Where are you going?
Patty Lynn: Arizona.
Marietta: So you really are pulling a Thelma and Louise.
Patty Lynn: Don’t be silly. They were from Arkansas.
Marietta: Aunt Kathleen is from Arkansas. I’d say there’s a bigger difference.
Patty Lynn: We don’t plan to drive off a cliff.
Marietta: So, when are you leaving?
Patty Lynn: It’s Saturday, so, I guess that means we’re leaving tomorrow.
Marietta: Tomorrow? How have you had time to get ready?
Patty Lynn: I told you I was busy!
Marietta: Is this the last time I’m going to talk to you before you leave?
Patty Lynn: We’re leaving early tomorrow morning, so that’s pretty likely.
Marietta: You’re really only going to be gone a week?
Patty Lynn: That’s the plan for now.
Marietta: Well, good luck, and stay safe.
Patty Lynn: Thank you. I love you and I‘m going to miss you.
Marietta: I love you, too.
Patty Lynn: Martin! Can you help me with this suitcase? I can’t pick it up to get it in the car.
Martin: How are you going to pick it up when I’m not there?
Patty Lynn: I’m not worrying about that until I need to.
Martin: I think you probably should.
Patty Lynn: I’m sure I’ll find someone help me out if I need the help.
Kathleen: Hey Patty Lynn, do you have room for this bag?
Patty Lynn: Oh my god, what is that?
Kathleen: My bag? I know it looks weird because it’s rectangular but it has my hair curler and my combs and my scarves everything I need to look pretty in it.
Patty Lynn: No, not that. Why are you dressed like you’re about to go on a safari?
Kathleen: No I don’t!
Patty Lynn: You’re wearing khaki pants, and one of those weird tan hats, and you have a backpack. You look like a character in Jumanji.
Kathleen: I’m dressing comfortably.
Patty Lynn: You’re dressing like we’re going to Africa.
Kathleen: Should I change?
Patty Lynn: You’re kinda killing the Thelma & Louise vibe with that outfit, but it would take you too long to change so just wear it. You can change when we get to the hotel in Amarillo.
Kathleen: Are you sure? I can-
Patty Lynn: Yes, now let’s go!
Martin: Bye girls. Have fun. Call often.
Patty Lynn: We will.
Martin: Kathleen, you have your driver’s license now, right?
Kathleen: Yes.
Martin: Patty Lynn, you have your wallet, right?
Kathleen: She better! I’m not paying!
Patty Lynn: I do.
Martin: Alright then. I love you guys.
Patty Lynn: Come here, give me a kiss.
Kathleen: Get a room, you two.
Two hours later…
Kathleen: Where are we now?
Patty Lynn: About a half hour past Baton Rouge.
Kathleen: Okay, good. Can you find a place we can stop? I have to use the bathroom.
Patty Lynn: It’s almost eight, anyway. We can stop, go to the bathroom and get something to eat.
Kathleen: Sounds good. I’m pretty hungry myself.
Five minutes later…
Kathleen: Where the hell are we?
Patty Lynn: I don’t now this area or what’s around here. I just stopped at the first place I saw.
Kathleen: This place looks like it’s falling apart but the sign says they’re still open. Are there not any health inspectors here or what?
Patty Lynn: It’s not that bad.
Kathleen: It looks like a place you’d find out is a meth lab on the news.
Patty Lynn: Do you want me to look up a McDonald’s on a GPS?
Kathleen: Could you? That would be lovely.
Twenty minutes later…
McDonald’s Employee: Hello my name is Verctoria, how may I help you today?
Kathleen: Did you mean to say Victoria, or…?
Verctoria: No, my name is Verctoria.
Kathleen: What’s the story behind that? Did one parent want to name you Veronica and the other want you to be named Victoria?
Verctoria: How may I help you today?
Kathleen: I’ll gave a bacon, egg and cheese bagel and a hash brown. And the biggest coffee imaginable.
Verctoria: We only have small, medium and large sized coffee cups.
Kathleen: Then I’ll have a large. My sister-in-law is in the bathroom right now but she -
Verctoria: Is that all?
Kathleen: - said she’d like two McGriddles, a fruit parfait, a has brown and a medium orange juice. She’s watching her figure.
Verctoria: What kind of McGriddle?
Kathleen: There’s multiple kinds of McGriddle?
Verctoria: We have a Sausage McGriddle, a Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddle, a -
Kathleen: One of both of those.
Verctoria: Will that be all?
Kathleen: Thankfully, yes.
Patty Lynn: Kathleen! Did you give my order.
Kathleen: Yes, now let’s go find a table.
Patty Lynn: Why?
Kathleen: Come on, let’s just go sit down.
Patty Lynn: Jeez, you’re pushy today. Need a Snickers?
Patty Lynn and Kathleen sit down at a table.
Patty Lynn: What was so important about sitting down?
Kathleen: Oh my god, the lady that waited on me drove me crazy!
Patty Lynn: What did she do?
Kathleen: She was so short and annoyed at everything I said. Clearly she didn’t appreciate my jokes and my not knowing that they don’t have coffee cups bigger than large or that there’s more than one McGriddle. She was so annoying. She couldn’t even play along with my joking about her name. Her name was a real doozy, too. Verctoria. I’ve heard some pretty strange names in my day, but -
Patty Lynn: Kathleen…
Kathleen: What?
Patty Lynn: Look behind you.
Kathleen: Ah! I’m so sorry, I didn- hey, there’s nobody behind me.
Patty Lynn: I got you good!
Kathleen: You sure did, my heart almost exploded.
Five hours later…
Patty Lynn: Were you not paying attention when I screamed out “Welcome to Texas!” an hour ago?
Kathleen: I was listening to my audiobook.
Patty Lynn: What audiobook?
Kathleen: It’s on my phone. It’s Tammy Koobach’s book, Marvin suggested it to me.
Patty Lynn: Why do you hate me?
Kathleen: I know, I know. You hate Tammy Koobach. I’m not voting for her, don’t worry. I just wanted to see if the book was good.
Patty Lynn: Is it?
Kathleen: It’s interesting enough for a book clearly made to promote her campaign.
Patty Lynn: That’s good, I guess. Now let’s just enjoy the view.
Kathleen: What view? The street?
Patty Lynn: There’s beautiful sights out here.
Kathleen: Such as?
Patty Lynn: Nature!
Kathleen: I don’t think the Ford Focus in front of us with a license place that says “Chick magnet” really counts as “nature.”
Patty Lynn: I’m just glad we’re finally in Texas, I guess. It felt like we were driving through Louisiana for an eternity.
Six hours later…
Kathleen: It’s almost seven and it’s dark out. How much longer do we have?
Patty Lynn: Two more hours until Amarillo.
Kathleen: Why did we choose to stay overnight in a place that’s thirteen hours away? We’ve already been riding in the car for eleven hours, we’ve spent another two hours at various restaurants and/or bathrooms, and I’m tired. I’ve had like six Starbucks drinks, I think I’m about to enter a sugar coma. I’ve already watched three Bette Midler movies, read to a book, and listen to the entire discography of the Eagles.
Patty Lynn: I know, it hasn’t been a great ride. Thelma and Louise made this look like so much fun.
Kathleen: Did they? Thelma almost gets raped, they killed people, there’s a robbery, and then to top it all off, they died.
Patty Lynn: You know, everyone keeps saying that but I think they left it open to interpretation.
Kathleen: They drove into the Grand Canyon.
Patty Lynn: I had this same argument with Marietta. You guys are wrong. I’ll prove it! Call Milton.
Kathleen: Fine.
Kathleen calls Milton.
Milton: Aunt Kathleen! What’s up?
Kathleen: Your mother and I have a question for you.
Milton: I just got out of a nine hour Senate confirmation hearing, but I always have time for you guys. What’s the question?
Kathleen: Okay, so… Thelma & Louise. Did they die?
Milton: Obviously.
Patty Lynn: You’re so wrong!
Milton: Kate and Ellie are right here, care to ask them as well?
Patty Lynn: Sure.
Milton: Okay, you’re on speaker phone.
Ellie: Does that mean we’re on with the Speaker of the House right now? Where are you, Carolyn?
Kathleen: No Carolyn here, just Milton’s aunt and mom.
Ellie: Oh, hi guys!
Kate: Hey there! How are you? I heard you’re on a road trip.
Kathleen: Yes, we’re on a big road trip. We’re going all the way to the Grand Canyon, with a brief stop in Amarillo tonight. We just have a quick question for you. Did Thelma and Louise die at the end of the movie?
Kate: I am close personal friends with Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon.
Ellie: Of course you are.
Kate: Yes, Thelma and Louise died. The movie was so much more meaningful because they died.
Ellie: You’re wrong. They’re alive, movie magic saved them. There’s gonna be a sequel one of these days.
Patty Lynn: Thank you! It’s so obvious.
Kathleen: Patty Lynn! Wake up!
Patty Lynn: What’s going on?
Kathleen: It’s six o’clock! We have to get out of here!
Patty Lynn: What? Why?
Kathleen: We’re running a half hour late! Get up!
Patty Lynn: Ten more minutes.
Kathleen: No! Get up!
Kathleen: I can’t believe it’s eight o’clock and we’re only now leaving Amarillo.
Patty Lynn: You’re the one that wanted to eat at Cracker Barrel.
Kathleen: We had to eat at some point. Rather here than at some fast food place again. Let’s just get on the road. I’m driving today. You scared me yesterday.
Patty Lynn: I wasn’t bad!
Kathleen: It wasn’t great. We almost got hit three times. I don’t want to die today.
Patty Lynn: You drive today, I’d like the time off anyway. Just, once we get into the desert I think we should recreate that Thelma and Louise picture, the one with the scarf and the sunglasses. Just for fun.
Kathleen: Sure. Once we get to the desert, I’ll pull over like an idiot so you can take a picture.
Three hours later…
Kathleen: Is this a good place to stop for your picture?
Patty Lynn: Huh?
Kathleen: The picture you wanted to take. Should I stop here to take it?
Patty Lynn: Sorry, I was listening to music on Spotify.
Kathleen: Get out of the car.
Patty Lynn: What?
Kathleen: Get out. We’re taking your picture.
Patty Lynn: Aww, thank you!
Kathleen: You’re welcome. We’ve only got seven more hours so we’re practically there already.
Nine hours later….
Kathleen: Patty Lynn…
Patty Lynn: What? Did we make a wrong turn? Are we in Oregon?
Kathleen: No. We’re here. We’re finally here.
Patty Lynn: You mean it?
Patty Lynn: Would it be bad if I kissed the ground?
Kathleen: I don’t know if I’d do that…
Patty Lynn: I won’t, I won’t. I want to, though.
Kathleen: Let’s go check in!
Kathleen and Patty Lynn head in to the hotel lobby to check in.
Kathleen: Hey there, Denise, can we check in? It’s been a long day.
Denise: Sure. What’s your name?
Kathleen: Kathleen Landfield.
Patty Lynn: You changed your name back?
Kathleen: I never officially changed it.
Patty Lynn: Really?
Kathleen: It was my third marriage, I didn’t want to go through the hassle again.
Patty Lynn: How didn’t I know that?
Kathleen: My address labels had Allen’s last name on them. It was a mistake at first and then I just kept it that way since I figured we’d be okay after the ten year mark.
Denise: We don’t have anyone under that name, I’m sorry.
Kathleen: How about Kathleen Jarvitz?
Denise: Let me check.
Kathleen: Please check quickly. It’s been a hell of a day.
Denise: We don’t have anyone under that name, either.
Kathleen: Kathleen Landfield-Jarvitz?
Denise: We do have someone under that name!
Kathleen: Must’ve been a mistake on my part.
Denise: Do you have identification?
Kathleen: Here.
Denise: Okay, everything checks out. Here are your keys. You’ll be staying in room 204.
Kathleen: Are there any first floor rooms available? We’re very old.
Denise: That is on the first floor even though it doesn’t sound like it.
Kathleen: You are an angel, thank you.
Denise: Have a nice night.
Kathleen You too.
Patty Lynn: So where are we headed?
Kathleen: Room 204. It’s on the first floor. Let’s go park the car in front of it so we can get unpacked.
Patty Lynn: But it’s so late.
Kathleen: It’s seven thirty.
Patty Lynn: Alright, fine.
Kathleen: You can even go to the room if you’d like. I’ll bring the stuff in.
Patty Lynn: No, I’ll help.
Kathleen: Thank you.
The next day…
Kathleen: Good morning! You sure slept in.
Patty Lynn: What time is it?
Kathleen: Seven.
Patty Lynn: We’re on vacation. Just relax.
Kathleen: We only have a week here. Let’s not blow it resting in the hotel room because the drive was so harsh.
Patty Lynn: We can’t go anywhere until about nine. We showered last night, we can relax for a bit. We’re only twenty minutes away from Grand Canyon National Park.
Kathleen: Fine, but this isn’t the only place we’re going while we’re in Arizona.
Patty Lynn: I know, Thelma. Let’s just focus on the here and now.
Kathleen: What? I’m not Thelma! I’m clearly Louise. She’s the fun one!
Patty Lynn: I’m the fun one. I’m Louise.
Kathleen: Oh, fine. At least my name is listed first. Kathy & Patty. They should make a movie about us.
Patty Lynn: It would be called Patty & Kathy. My name has to go first.
Kathleen: Then I guess you’re Thelma! Ha!
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Brent Faiyaz Drops New EP, ‘Lost’
Thanks to the runaway success of GoldLink’s “Crew,” Brent Faiyaz nabbed himself a GRAMMY nomination and one of the most memorable hooks of 2017. However, the singer has been making a name for himself as a member of the trio Sonder.
Now, a year after releasing his debut album Sonder Son, Faiyaz surprises fans with a new EP, Lost. A six-track release, the project is as smooth as its predecessors, with only one guest appearance from Loshendrix. With Cuffing-slash-Leave It In SZN in full effect, now’s as good as ever to start prepping soundtracks for the occasion.
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Hydra, Poros and Egina Day Cruise from Athens with Optional VIP Upgrade
Discover three beautiful Greek islands on this full-day cruise from Athens. Sail to Poros, Hydra, and Egina in the Saronic Gulf and enjoy free time at each island to stroll, sightsee, and shop as you wish. A delicious lunch and Greek folklore show aboard your ship are included, and a guided excursion to Egina's ancient Temple of Aphaia is also available at your own expense. Upgrade to the VIP experience for access to an exclusive lounge with a welcome drink, as well as transfer from your hotel to port and private check-in.
City Sightseeing Athens & Beach Riviera Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour
Experience the best of Athens in one day and your own way, on this City Sightseeing hop-on hop-off Athens bus tour. Travel around by open-top double-decker bus and create your own sightseeing itinerary. Learn about Athens’ history from the onboard audio guide and choose from various routes. Perhaps visit the spectacular Acropolis, the New Acropolis Museum, or other top sights—you set the pace and choose where to explore on foot.
1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes
Delphi Day Trip from Athens
Immerse yourself in the myths and monuments of classical Greece on this full-day tour of Delphi from Athens. Explore the UNESCO-listed archeological site of Delphi with an expert guide and learn how the city was considered the ‘Center of the World’ in ancient Greece. Stand in awe before the dramatically situated Temple of Apollo, then discover long-lost wonders at the Delphi Archeological Museum, including the Charioteer of Delphi and the Sphinx of Naxos. After lunch in Delphi (optional upgrade or at own expense), visit the handicrafts towns of Arachova and Levadia on the way back to Athens.
3-Day Classical Greece Tour: Epidaurus, Mycenae, Nafplion, Olympia, Delphi
Explore the rich history of Classical Greece on a 3-day tour departing from Athens. Led by an expert guide, see UNESCO-listed sites such as the Olympia archaeological site and discover the Delphi Archaeological Museum. Venture out on daytime excursions to Olympia, Delphi, and Epidaurus with your historian guide before enjoying your evenings in relaxed, 4-star accommodations.
4-Day Classical Greece Tour: Epidaurus, Mycenae, Olympia, Delphi, Meteora
Delve into Greece’s rich history on this 4-day tour from Athens. Discover the UNESCO-listed classical sites of Mycenae, Epidaurus, Olympia, and Delphi; and pay a visit to Meteora to explore its spectacular rocktop monasteries. Take a guided walking tour at each site to learn about its past, and visit other top sights, such as the Corinth Canal. Overnight accommodation in 4-star hotels, breakfasts, dinners, and coach transport are included. Including a trip to medieval Meteora, this unique ancient Greece tour is great for all history buffs.
Meteora Day Trip by Train from Athens
Travel by train through the beautiful countryside on a full-day tour from Athens to the Meteora monasteries. Your driver meets your train in the town of Kalambaka and take you to the medieval monastery complex, which sits perched high atop sandstone cliffs and is honored by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. It’s a wonderful way to experience one of Greece’s most breathtaking and off-the-beaten-path cultural treasures.
Cape Sounion and Temple of Poseidon Half-Day Small-Group Tour from Athens
Visit one of Greece’s most picturesque coastal viewpoints on a half-day small-group tour from Athens to Cape Sounion. Travel by minivan along south Attica’s scenic shoreline roads to reach the ancient Temple of Poseidon, built atop a towering sea cliff with fantastic views of the Aegean. Explore the ruins of this temple dedicated to the Greek god of the sea, and opt for an afternoon tour to catch a famously beautiful sunset.
Unique Sailing Experience from Athens to Agistri, Moni, and Aegina
Escape the urban energy of Athens for the day and set sail for the Saronic Islands aboard a spacious Greek sailing ship. Find your favorite spot on deck to soak up the Mediterranean sun while island-hopping to Agistri, Moni, and Aegina. From ancient temples and wild peacocks to pristine beaches, there’s something for everyone at each stop. Swim and snorkel right off the boat, and indulge in a delicious Greek lunch onboard during this luxury island adventure.
2-Day Trip to Delphi and Meteora from Athens
Get an up-close look at Ancient Greece on this 2-day tour of Delphi and Meteora. Departing from Athens, follow a knowledgeable guide through the UNESCO-listed site at Delphi, discovering the Sanctuary of Apollo and the rest of the area's rich history. Then pass through the scenic towns of Amphissa, Lamia and Trikala before relaxing in 3- or 4-star accommodations in Kalambaka for the night. Top off your trip on Day Two with a visit to the famous monasteries of Meteora, once a safe haven for monks fleeing the fall of the Roman Empire.
Athens Full Day Private Tour
Explore the highlights of Athens in a private vehicle on this full-day tour. Depart from your hotel and make your way the the Acropolis, where you can stroll through the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Temple of the Athena Nike, the Propylaea, the Erechtheum, and the Parthenon. Take in views from Lycabettus Hill and explore the neighborhoods of Plaka and Monastiraki.
Athens Half-Day Sightseeing Tour
Discover some of Greece’s greatest treasures and the best of modern Athens on this morning or afternoon Athens sightseeing tour. With an expert guide, take a coach tour of top Athens sites, including the Greek Parliament and Panathenaic Stadium, stage of the first modern Olympic Games. Then, explore the mighty Acropolis on foot to see the glorious Parthenon and other highlights. Want to add more sightseeing in Athens? Upgrade your morning tour to include entry to the Acropolis Museum to see its incredible Parthenon friezes, and other archaeological exhibits.
Luxury Catamaran Cruise from Athens with Traditional Greek Meal and BBQ
Drink in the beautiful sights and seas of the Athens Riviera from a catamaran on this half-day, small-group cruise. While an experienced skipper and crew do the work, relax and revel in the sunshine and scenery. Step aboard your luxurious craft, sip a welcome drink, and enjoy the warm breezes as you sail along the picturesque coastline. Enjoy stops to swim or snorkel, stay refreshed with unlimited complimentary drinks, and savor a delicious Greek meal, including barbecue dishes, served by the crew. Choose a morning or sunset cruise when you book.
Athens Shore Excursion: Athens and Piraeus Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour
Maximize your time in port with a hop-on hop-off bus tour of Athens and Piraeus. Your self-guided shore excursion offers the best of both worlds, with the flexibility to visit the sights at your own pace and the on-board commentary ensuring you don’t miss anything. Jump off along the way to explore ancient sites like the Acropolis, Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus; stroll the pretty streets of Plaka; or visit popular attractions like the National Archeological Museum, Syntagma Square and the National Gardens.
Mycenae and Epidaurus Day Trip from Athens
Follow in the footsteps of the ancient Greeks on a fascinating full-day trip to Mycenae and Epidaurus from Athens. Traveling by air-conditioned coach, you'll drive along the beautiful Saronic Gulf and into the Peloponnese to the atmospheric hilltop ruins of Mycenae, a fortified city from the second millennium BC. See the famous Lion’s Gate, Tomb of Agamemnon and Palace, and after a stop in pretty Nauplia, continue to another archaeological treasure, Epidaurus. Pick your way around the UNESCO-listed Sanctuary of Askeplios and ogle the age-old theater, a wonder of ancient architecture.
Skip the Line Acropolis of Athens Tour
Discover the architectural marvel of Ancient Greece with a visit to Athens’ star attraction – the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Acropolis of Athens. Follow your guide on a walking tour around the hilltop archaeological wonder, stopping to admire the Propylaea gateway, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Dionysus Sanctuary as you climb to the summit. Learn more about the fascinating ruins and imagine their former glory as you roam the sprawling citadel, stand in awe before the Theatre of Dionysus, and look out over the city from the Parthenon.
Hop on Hop Off Classic tour of Athens
Explore Athens at your own pace with a hop-on hop-off bus tour that provides easy transportation to key attractions like the Panathenaic Stadium and the Parthenon, part of the Acropolis. Travel across two interchanging lines—the Blue and the Orange—plus enjoy access to/from the port in Piraeus for cruise passengers.
1 hour 15 minutes to 2 hours
Delphi: A Day Tour at the Navel of the World from Athens
Follow in the footsteps of ancient heroes and legends with a full-day tour from Athens to Delphi, a UNESCO-recognized archeological site that’s among Greece’s most iconic places. Travel past the plain of Boeotia and the birthplace of King Oedipus, then explore a historic monument and treasury, the scenic ruins of the Temple of Apollo, and the spectacular friezes in the Delphi museum. After an optional lunch at a local restaurant, visit a picturesque mountain village to browse woven handicrafts and carpets before returning to Athens.
Acropolis Walking Tour, Including Syntagma Square and Historical City Center
Delve into the history of ancient Greece on this Athens walking tour. With an expert guide, stroll around the historic heart of Athens to see Syntagma Square, the Parliament Building, and the ancient ruins tucked around the slopes of the stunning, UNESCO-listed Acropolis. Check out fascinating archaeological exhibits in Syntagma Square and admire awesome views of the Parthenon as you view the Theater of Dionysus, Odeon of Herodes Atticus and other sights. With revealing commentary from your guide throughout, this walking tour of Athens will delight history buffs. Please note admission to the Acropolis is at your own expense.
Athens Electric Bike Tour
Make easy work of Athens’ busy streets and steep hills by whizzing around the sights on an easy-to-ride electric bike. Glide effortlessly around the hilltop ruins of the UNESCO-listed Acropolis of Athens, pedal around the atmospheric Old Town of Plaka, and explore lively Monastiraki. Hop off along the way to see the New Acropolis Museum, Hadrian’s Arch, Panathenaic Stadium and the National Gardens of Athens.
Full Day Private Tour: Essential Athens Highlights plus Cape Sounion and Temple of Poseidon
Make the most of your time in Greece on this full-day privately chauffeured tour of Athens. Get a true insider's view of this bustling Mediterranean metropolis and learn the history and culture of the city along the way. Explore the city while visiting such sites: Olympic Stadium, the Acropolis, Hadrian's Arch, the Temple of Zeus, and the New Acropolis Museum. Watch the changing of the guard at the parliament and then take a coastal road trip to the dramatic clifftop Temple of Poseidon. This tour is flexible and allows you to go at your own pace.
Full-Day Meteora Tour from Athens by Train
When visiting Athens, take a full-day detour to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Meteora. Ride a train through the Grecian countryside with included rail tickets and travel from the town of Kalambaka to the ancient clifftop monasteries in a luxury minibus with onboard Wi-Fi. View all six sky-high monastic retreats and visit three of them. You’ll discover hermit caves and enjoy lunch along the way.
The Acropolis, Athens Walking City Tour and Acropolis Museum
Skip the long lines at the iconic Acropolis (ticket price not included), discover the Acropolis Museum, and enjoy a guided walking tour of Athens in just a few hours on this action-packed tour that’s tailor-made for history buffs. Along the way enjoy the single most elegant approach to the Acropolis: a stroll up the pedestrian walkway Dionysiou Areopagitou.
4-Day Greece Highlights Tour: Epidaurus, Mycenae, Olympia, Delphi and Meteora
Experience the myths and glory of classical Greece on this unforgettable 4-day adventure from Athens. Visit five UNESCO World Heritage Sites including Ancient Olympia, Delphi, and the cliff-top monasteries of Meteora. Walk among temples to the Greek gods, admire excavated statues at archaeological museums, and soak up some of the most spectacular scenery in Greece. The tour includes all transportation, breakfast and dinner each day, entrance fees, and your choice of 3- or 4-star overnight accommodation.
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Arrests made following chicken wing contraband bust at SMCI
Multiple arrests have been made following a recent contraband bust at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution that involved chicken wings, weed and other items.
Corrections officials were able to recover 25 packages, some of which were made into footballs, that were thrown over the 18-foot fence at SMCI in the early morning hours of December 7th, but the suspects drove off before officials arrived. Now, 18-year-old Christopher Wilson, who is currently out on bond on a murder charge, has been arrested after his electronic ankle bracelet led authorities right to him.
The MDOC explained that it was the seven-pound bag of chicken wings that initially tripped the sensor, allowing authorities to secure the packages and catch a glimpse of the getaway car.
“We are continually improving new technology to protect our prisons, but the tragedy in this case is that now four more people are in jail and the inmates connected with the smugglers will lose eligibility for early release –all because they didn’t consider that drugs and seven pounds of chicken wings would trip a sensor,” MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain said.
According to the Department of Corrections, the bracelet, which alerts authorities if disabled, allowed law enforcement to track the smugglers from the prison near Leakesville back to Richland. Richland police officers were able to stop Wilson’s car, which he had stolen, and found another football in the car containing synthetic marijuana called “spice.”
Police also arrested 19-year-old Fredric James Roberson and 18-year-old Keshun Chambers. MDOC officials said the trio will be charged with drug possession, trafficking, and introducing illegal contraband into a prison. Further investigation also led to the arrest of Roberson’s 22-year-old sister Fredricka Roberson and 21-year-old Fredrikee Gooden on charges of introducing contraband into a prison. They were jailed in Greene County.
Among the contraband seized, officials found:
4 pounds of marijuana
20 pounds of tobacco and rolling papers
38 cellphones, chargers and Blue Tooth earbuds
An assortment of cigars
Over-the-counter cold medications
10 cans of snuff
Several packs of cigarettes and lighters
1 head scarf
7 pounds of chicken wings.
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Home Analysis A-League 2019/20: Melbourne City FC vs Melbourne Victory FC-tactical analysis
A-League 2019/20: Melbourne City FC vs Melbourne Victory FC-tactical analysis
Kalhan Karwani
This was the third Melbourne derby of the season, played at AAMI Park on the night of 7th February 2020. Melbourne City scored in both halves, defeating Melbourne Victory 2-1. Florin Berenguer was instrumental in City’s first derby win since 2018, as he was involved in both the goals. It was Berenguer’s first ever goal in the Hyundai A-League. However, in the 78th minute City’s goalkeeper Thomas Glover gifted Victory a late goal and a chance to get back in the game. But still City came out on top and delivered their boss Erick Mombaerts his first ever Melbourne Derby win.
This tactical analysis will show you what tactics were used by both teams. This analysis will also illustrate the tactics used by Mombaerts, which were like their sister club Manchester City.
City started in their usual 4-1-4-1 formation, with Rostyn Griffiths and Nathaniel Atkinson coming in for centre-backs Harrison Delbridge and Jack Hendry who were out through suspension and injury, respectively. Adrian Luna returned from injury to replace Connor Metcalfe, who sat this one out because of a knee injury. While between the goals, Glover took the place of Dean Bouzanis, who missed the match because of personal reasons. Scott Jamieson, the captain also returned from suspension to take Scott Galloway’s place in the starting line-up.
Melbourne Victory’s coach Carlos Salvachua made a few changes to the line-up and formation for this fixture. He switched to a 3-4-3 and started Tim Hoogland in the middle of the back three. Attackers Marco Rojas and Robbie Kruse started the match on the bench.
City’s high press & man-man marking
From the start, City pressed Victory high-up the pitch. They man-marked and stayed tight to their opponents. As you can see here, Jamie Maclaren, who formerly played for Hibernian in the SPFL, is starting the press for City and, using his cover shadow to cover Tim Hoogland. Hence, he didn’t let Victory build from the back. Craig Noone is pressing James Donachie and using his cover shadow to cover the left side of the pitch while, Markel Susaeta is pressing Benjamin Carrigan and using his cover shadow to cover the right side. City forced Victory to take more risks and play long balls to their wing-backs.
As you can see here, Maclaren has positioned himself in between Donachie and Carrigan. Hence, he is not allowing the Victory centre-backs to play the pass to each other. Hoogland then moved to the midfield to give an extra passing option to the centre-backs. After that, Luna closed him down. This pressing system by City was passing-lane and option-oriented. City’s wingers are using cover shadow to the close passing lanes of the Victory centre-backs to their wing-backs. Rest of the centre-backs’ passing options were cut out by the City midfielders. Therefore, Victory’s only option was to play long balls to their attackers.
Inverted full-backs
As you can see here, Scott Jamieson has moved into the midfield right next to Josh Brillante. Thus, both of them are forming a double-pivot. In City’s build-up phases Scott Jamieson operated in the central areas, moving up and down the pitch. The idea behind this move was to overload the central areas and force Victory to play narrow. This leaves Noone in a 1 v 1 situation against their right-wingback. Noone could receive the ball out wide and take on their isolated wing-back. So, Berenguer drifted to the left-flank to create a numerical advantage against their right-wing back. Meanwhile, Atkinson was operating out wide on the right flank in a traditional right full-back position.
This is a principle similar to what Pep Guardiola has applied at Manchester City. As you can see here, City are trying to use Glover to build from the back in a 2-3-5 formation. This time both Atkinson & Jamieson have moved into the central areas. It allowed the central midfielders and wingers to attack without compromising their team’s defensive structure. Thus, there will be five defenders and five attackers, who the opposition will find it difficult to counter-attack against and, get sufficient numbers to go against the five defenders already present there. City’s players showed fluidity in their positional rotations. Victory could not determine who to mark and, City exploited the spaces in between the lines and always found an open player there.
Maclaren’s brilliance
Maclaren has been the leading goal-scorer in the league which has helped City maintain the second position in the table. The tactics deployed by Mombaerts has brought the best out of him. He is a traditional centre-forward who likes to make incisive runs in between the defenders and exploit the space behind the opponent’s defence line. In the above example, we can see Maclaren making a diagonal run between the centre-back and the left centre-back. Thus, because of this dummy run, he could take out Hoogland with him. So, it created space for Luna to pass the ball to Berenguer, who finished in style to score the first goal of the game.
Victory was pushing very hard for an equaliser but City was able to double their lead in the 71st minute. As we can see above, Berenguer plays a through ball into the path of Maclaren, who’s making a diagonal run. Later, Noone and Maclaren combined with each other, while Berenguer made a late run into the box and received the ball near the sideline from Maclaren. Later, Maclaren scored his 14th goal of the season after Berenguer played a perfect back heel pass into his path. Throughout the match, his impressive off the ball movement helped in stretching the opposition’s defence. His well-timed runs in between and from behind the defence helped in creating space for his teammates to operate in between the lines.
Overloading the wide areas
Adama Traore & Andrew Nabbout linking up on the left flank
After scoring the first goal City got comfortable. They sat back and defended in their own half. Thus, Salvachua changed the formation to a 3-3-4 with, Adama Traore and Roux operating as left and right centre midfielders respectively and the two wingers touching the sidelines. With the help of their wide centre midfielders and wingers, Victory could stretch the field and create a numerical superiority in the wide areas. They overloaded the flanks to draw the City players over, which created space in the centre. The centre-backs were allowed plenty of time on the ball in their own half. Their priority was to play lateral passes to their wing-backs, who would then deliver crosses into the box. The Victory players attempted 18 crosses out of which only 8 were accurate.
As you can see here, Traore and Elvis Kamsoba are operating as right and left central midfielders. The 3-3-4 formation puts Victory’s attackers in a 4 v 4 situation against the opposition defenders. Victory overloaded the wide areas with the aim of penetrating the opposition. It was an intentional tactical ploy set by Salvachua. Hence, they could dominate possession. This forced City to over-commit more players on one side and leave the opposite flank exposed. As a result, Victory could create dangerous 1 v 1 and even 2 v 1 situations by switching the ball to the exposed flank.
City’s stern defence
Melbourne City defending in a 4-4-2 formation in a low block
Halfway through the second half, City switched to a 4-4-2 formation and defended with a low block. City gave a lot of space and time to opposition defenders. Thus, allowing them to move out of their defence line and bring the ball up. However, they could not link-up with their midfielders because of City’s tight man-marking. So, the last resort for them was to play long diagonal balls to their wingers, who were hugging the sideline. The wingers would then deliver crosses into the box looking for Ola Toivonen. But, even when the wingers received the ball under pressure, City full-backs pressed and forced them to pass the ball back. Toivonen had the least number of actions (41) for Victory amongst the players who started the match. He hardly got the ball in the final-third and his lack of movement in build-up play, forced the defenders to go long.
After scoring early in the game, Melbourne City had a simple game plan to stop Melbourne Victory from playing their natural game. They allowed Victory’s centre backs to keep the ball. In the time being, they covered and man-marked their passing options, forced them to take risks. Therefore, on turnovers City hit them on the counter by using the pace and quality of their attackers.
Up to the 71st minute, City were winning 1-0. Melbourne Victory pushed very hard for an equaliser. So, up stepped Maclaren who scored his 14th goal of the campaign and, doubled the score to give City a firm lead. He combined well with Noone and Berenguer in the Victory’s box which eventually opened up their defence. Yet, City held on to their lead despite a few nervous moments late in the game and came out on top to get a crucial win, claiming all three points.
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Have we got a tough guy here? Have we got a tough guy from the streets?
In this hipster overrun time of ours, we've been slowly losing our dangerous man persona, ever since THE GRADUATE made it hip to be sullen. Men of earlier decades were real, complex, intelligent and tough: John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, James Caan, Brando, Lee Marvin, Sinatra, Bronson, Bogart... badasses not afraid to show intellect and wit, to pick fights and help others with their brains, fists and--when needed--guns.
We've still got some tough guys today, but most of them are pretty boys with glazed eyes. They toughen themselves up with military haircuts and grimy armor and CGI high contrast. For lack of a better all-around representative of this style, I'm using Channing Tatum, who I like a lot, actually, as far as this kind of new male goes. In all fair prejudice, I'm looking at movie star males who are a whole generation younger than me, a generation that's grown up neck-deep in real war (Iraq and Afghanistan) video game war (too many to name, but most recently TOUR OF DUTY IV) and online fantasy war (W.O.W.). They celebrate the new sincerity and new virginity, and it scares me to death. Theirs is a bizarro-world, more conservative than their great grand-parents in the 1950s! At least the grandparents smoked cigarettes and had unprotected sex in drunken blackouts... for awhile..."cough"
At least Tatum has a fairly deep voice, but look at his baby face and his brow furrowed with dopey concentration, the kind of blank face that helps smart kids fit in, which is fine considering the callow war heroes he specializes in, but now, dear reader, now let's think of real tough guys, and how they don't have to pretend they're not witty, crazy and full of venom and vinegar. Imagine the original STAR WARS if there was NO Harrison Ford to add a real 'dangerous man' energy to the role. Instead, imagine if Hayden Christensen played Solo, or Freddie Prinze Jr. You have fallen asleep!? Welcome to the 10s!
Just to prove it's got nothing to do with face and hair color (i.e., apple-cheeked and fair-haired callow) check out Angelina Jolie's dad (below left) in an old photo. He's got a baby face too, but take a deep look into those eyes. Even squinted shut you can tell there's a man in there, he'll fuck you up and not need to call for back-up and body armor before he does it.
What you get with Tatum is more like a male model --a mix of tough guy posing, bedroom twinkle and the vacancy of a kid whose used to being stuck in classrooms and churches and not fathoming a word the teacher or preacher is saying and no one cares because there are kids worse off and louder.
Also, you have a kind of military professionalism. In the absence of actual fathers in the home, these kids have adopted military ethics and leadership as the de-facto non du pere (or "no of the father" - the prohibition of enjoyment that constitutes acceptance into the social order, away from the realm of the mother).
That's all well and good until you remember just how dangerous, how far outside the box, our stars used to be. Our men used to be so dangerous that Harvey Keitel was the callow pretty boy (below). Now of course his hair and eyelashes are longer than Tatum's, but why is that? WHY oh WHY does every young thug-lite now have this awful mix of 50s crewcut and 80s gel hair? Oh, don't get me wrong, the actors of old could still bring the danger with no hair or even a self-inflicted Mohawk. Just look at De Niro's eyes (left) and you get a chill right down your spine.
I've been getting into The Dog Whisperer and I think he would call this trend an example of "bad leadership skills" or lack of assertiveness. A passive little boy lostness has infected our young men due to a crisis of fathering that's been getting worse since the dawn of the industrial age, and which they can't shake no matter how many CGI buildings they demolish...
As a final illustration, let's compare the new 3-D CLASH OF THE TITANS hero's look (GLADIATOR/300-style) with the original Harry Hamlin (whom I originally hated even seeing it in theaters as a kid back in 1983, for being also too smarmy). But compared with the harsh nihilism of the near-bald mercenary version of Perseus at left, freakin' Hamlin's a small miracle.
That said, we know where the Hamlin look comes from, and the first "tough guy pretty boy" from which the title of this blog entry comes (Randy Newman's "Pretty Boy" from 1979's Born Again) but it launched a thousand seamy/sexy NYC youth ships, and made glazed-eyed, pouty-lipped mono-syllabic working class boyhood into a sexual commodity that still sells today, even though the original is all but forgotten. I refer of course to SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977).
P.S. for an antidote and return to full cool toughness, I recommend Kim Morgan's Dangerous Soulful Sexy Deep Freeze: Lee Marvin.
Labels: Channing Tatum, Harry Hamlin, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Randy Newman, Robert De Niro
The inestimable Bright Lights Film Journal has received a swell make-over, so if you're having trouble finding it, just go here.
To give you some background on this amazing and long-running magazine, definitely check out Matthew Sorrento's interview with BL editor Gary Morris. Finding Bright Lights can be like coming home after years of wandering. If you like first-rate film writing mixed with freestyle cultural associations and psychosocial analytic theory, then Pounce! Gary Morris rocks!
I've got a few things in their latest issue, #67:
Towards a New Cinema of Castration: I Spit on Your Grave and Only Angels Have Wings
By Erich Kuersten
"Peer pressure is either a boon or a bitch with the power to destroy the world, or save it."
Femme Fatale: Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies, by Dominique Manon and James Ursini. Hammer Glamour, by Marcus Hearn.
Reviewed by Erich Kuersten
And on the blog, Bright Lights After Dark, from today:
Charge of the White Elephant:
"When Lee Krasner describes Pollock’s creative art to potential buyers or critics it’s in a stilted, rushed way, as if she’s trying to earn a 20% commission before she gets cut out of the deal AND keep her thick long island accent in effect at the same time: “What Jacksin’s doin’ with line and cullah goes beyond abstrackshin.” It’s all overstuffed with pompous gravitas and we know that the lines coming out of Krasner’s mouth are meant as exposition so that we, the viewers, can share in her drunk husband/infant’s brilliance, but instead the feeling is kind of like going to what you think is a cocktail party and it’s really a time share condo pitch."
VOODOO MAN: Patron Saint of Megalomaniacal Children and Torpor!
Notoriously absent from the world of DVD for the longest time (it's somehow not as much in the PD as the rest of the Lugosi Monograms? What else explains it?): VOODOO MAN (1944) completes the holy "Lugosi Nine." The missing link in the chain of strange, boring, inept but irresistibly Brechtian and unintentionally hilarious horror films from poverty row studio Monogram starring Bela Lugosi. Marked by a cheap crackerjack style that made sister fleapit PRC seem an MGM by contrast, what saved Monogram movies from dullness was a savvy they needed to keep kids from getting bored and tearing up the theater seats with their switchblades and--in the Lugosi nine--an ability to create the space for the great one to display the full breadth of his talent, from heartbreaking pathos to seething megalomaniacal menace.
Especially during the war years (when the bulk of "the nine" came out) Lugosi's complex persona found a niche freezing the new brides of overseas fighting men, as if preserving them for their soldier boys' return (in danger only of having their hair combed and petted by Carradine like he's Lenny with a rabbit.)
VOODOO MAN's release year, 1944--the last full year of all-out war, was an otherwise lean one for horror films. Aside from the work of Val Lewton over at RKO, poverty row studios like Monogram ruled over the empty kingdom of wartime horror like blind kings. A lack of budget led to lack of meddling producers noticing or caring about the product as long as it was finished at or under budget and on time, and in the process nocturnal dream poem auteurs like Lewton and Jacques Tourneur could weave future classics like I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE out of gossamer cobwebs, while half-asleep directors like William "One Shot" Beaudine could follow their lead like a dollar brick road, straight into the undernourished collective unconscious of the home front audience.
In the case of VOODOO MAN (or similar CORPSE VANISHES), the plot involves Lugosi abducting women for scientific experiments and keeping them in suspended animation via hypnosis and/or narcotics. The subtextual translation to home front psychology isn't hard to discern: Unable to see what their men were doing overseas except through alchemical means (and letters that might arrive after the sender had already been killed in action), the brides and sweethearts left at home created a distorted magnification of sexual paranoia that found a nice screen in the suave, European dark and handsome devil Lugosi even as the repression of being faithful to a ghost husband driving themselves into cold storage storage fugues.
But me, I was a kid when I first encountered VOODOO MAN as a bored child in the 1970s. It was on UHF TV almost all the time, along with other Monogram Lugosi 'classics': THE APE MAN, GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE, THE CORPSE VANISHES, BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT and THE INVISIBLE GHOST... all could barely register against the constant attacks of static and "ghosting" on UHF channels, and in retrospect, that made the threadbare films seem better - like maybe we missed something, like there was something to miss. We kids watched these titles over and over again --every time they were on TV--in our forlorn pre-VHS hope of catching a view of a real frickin' monster --they were rare. Maybe it was edited out and we'd see it next time? The "Voodoo" title of this one made us think that, maybe, there'd be, I don't know, a zombie? Anything? But Noooo! Just hypnotized chicks in robes, and Bela Lugosi and George Zucco in a crazy headdress, all seeming to have been filmed on a single dirty staircase with a ratty old camera, and as full of dull adult talk as any crappy film parents watched.
But still... when Bela was on, we were transported!
To really appreciate VOODOO MAN as a key 20th century work of art, you need to vibe with the lonesome beauty of Edward Hopper's paintings, as in the gas station scene above. It's hard to tell if the VOODOO MAN gas station is indoors on a set or outside at a real gas station, I'd assume the latter. But the resemblance is uncanny for other reasons then the style of the pumps; the same lonesome quality of Hopper's gas station, the same eerie forlorn dusk approaching, darkening the forest down the road so it seems like a black devouring sadness is creeping towards the man working outside. Similarly, the drivers who pass by George Zucco's gas station don't realize this is the station where Zucco signals the arrival of desired vicitms by radioing on ahead for the trap to be laid. In bigger budgeted films you might see a long shot of the gas station along the road, but Monogram's aesthetic afforded no non-stock footage exteriors. So the Zucco station demands close framing all the time, giving the film a cramped feeling as if the road is only around a mile total in length, and then the world just ends in a black gulch abyss.
World War Two saw, among other things, men going off to fight battles who, before they left for Europe, got married so they could at least have some sanctioned sex, i,e, not die a virgin, and maybe even leave a kid behind as a legacy. For a nation of these young women and young men, the sexual relation was hot and short, leaving them with a whetted appetite and little else. Their erotic awakening froze in early bloom. The soldier’s bride surely felt as if she was married to a nonexistent entity (perhaps she even sets the table in case he comes home, in shades of Lugosi’s first Monogram pic, THE LIVING GHOST). Not only is her man not around, but his next letter may arrive weeks after he is already dead. These sorts of things were probably swilling around the collective unconscious like a plague of ghost G.I.s and seductive traveling salesman Hitlers. Like the Voodoo Man, in fact.
And of course, through it all, that horrendous ache, the lonesome sadness, the same sadness a boy in the early 1970s like myself was feeling from staying indoors on a sunny day, unable to leave Bela's side in his hour of woe, sighing over his Charlie's Angels bubblegum cards in prepubescent longing all the more tortuous for the fact that Kate Jackson was so out of reach, yet right there - in ephemeral mirage form. Life.... to death. Image... to life, and each side greener than the other, blacker too.
Thus to appreciate the beauty of VOODOO MAN without the background of having seen it many times as a child in the 1970s, or as a wartime lover, you must first understand true suffering: romantic longing, unfair parents, stupid little brothers, annoying teachers. You should be a mad genius trapped in the mundane reality of normal suburbia. For like such a mad genius, VOODOO MAN suffers from disrespect and the hostile derision of lesser mortals. For indeed, the poverty row horrors of the 1940s were dissed by everyone, even their own makers; a sad state of affairs when the director and writer admit throughout the film that they don't give a damn about what they're doing and you shouldn't either. But we were used to being told stuff we liked was crap. And we raged against boredom and against every bedtime; and in this refusal to kowtow to life's petty rules we really found a kinsman in Lugosi. It didn't matter how bad everyone else was in front of and behind the camera, Bela was a star and he gave it his all, like it was his last picture ever, and like his character had nothing left to lose, was not about to postpone joy just because the cops and/or mom was closing in.
So yeah, the director William "One Shot" Beaudine shot the film with his usual adherence to the lazy tenets of his nickname, though like the lazy he occasionally lurches into inspired brilliance. "Romantic" lead Tod Andrews plays Ralph, the most unimaginative and dull screenwriter in Hollywood, though his existential suggestion that Bela Lugosi star in the film he has just written and/or lived, does in fact come true, Moebius strip style. Still, in Ralph's own words, "Zombies are a scenario writers worst nightmare. I should know, I wrote one once.”
Hmm, so zombie and horror films are for morons, and Monogram's writers should know, because they write them? Such self-defeating and dubious logic abounds all through the film, as as when the sheriff refuses the hero's help in finding the ever increasing roster of missing women: "Me and Elmer've done all right looking for them ourselves, I guess we can look for one more." Not that they've found any clues, or leads, or women, but they're doing "all right by themselves." That's something a child says when they're too shy to ask for help. Such blatant contempt for the intellect of an audience borders on the pathological, even further, until it loops back around to crest the pinnacle of high art.
This meta-logic ties into the practice of voodoo itself, in both in the contempt it inspires in the western "white man," and the way trances actually can be induced to universal benefit and cosmic aura enhancement. The voodoo spells performed are just contemptuous mumbo jumbo but the actors are game and Lugosi and Zucco both intone like skilled hypnotists or bass players, their robes are badass, and Ramboona clouds the minds of all who would try and stop them. Free to treat the landscape of the film as his own tyrant sandbox, Lugosi outwits the sluggish sheriff, berates his cringing dingbat servant/drummer Toby (John Carradine) and leaves hypnotized women shambling around his whole world backyard. It fits the mindset of any frustrated kid who (often rightly) feels the adults in charge are raving idiots and/or cocktail-dazed bullies; and who recruits the dumb little brothers and their friends into his mad schemes to transform the den into a magical alternate realm. The only other 'real' person he knows- - his wife--is dead, or in kid terms, his best friend moved away, or Kate Jackson exists only on the cover of Bananas, in WW2 terms it's that girl back home re-reading the letters written by her MIA husband until they're sogged, until she turns to killing sailors as a sacrifice to get her man back from hell.
In case you don't have a drunken father or son or me to make snide comments as you watch the film, the VOODOO MAN DVD comes with the comic stylings of Rifftrax, hence the cover that makes this look like some frat boy Tiki party video: Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy, ala Mystery Science Theater, are the comics and rather than robot silhouettes there's thankfully just a hilarious audio commentary option. I'm certainly grateful to them for getting the film out on DVD, in a nice transfer, and for keeping their comments on a separate track so I can enjoy the purity of the original and refer to their company only when I want to make sure they caught some ridiculous moment, and they do catch them all. Keep 'em coming, buckos!
So now that I've trashed the film and everyone, let's concentrate on the brilliance beneath: Lugosi, naturally. His restrained, melancholic performance reflects, as I've said, that he always brought his "A" game (check his "handy" robe above), no matter how contemptuously the actors around him treated the story. As grieving husbands trying to resurrect their lost Lenores he could pull you right into the screen by the throat just by welling up his eyes with tears and spacing out his words in the right way... "Life... to... death!" His sense of despair and dejected madness is again totally metatextual, for he was a classically trained toast of Romanian theater who had come to Hollywood and rose to iconic fame and just as quickly fell off big studio favor and now here he was at Monogram studio, with William "One Shot" Beaudine, kind of like Klaus Kinski in AGUIRRE: WRATH OF GOD, ending up the king of a gaggle of unimpressed monkeys. And Zucco of course, his perfect wingman.
Bela's megalomania and devotion to the eternal "play" of acting, then, earns our love despite and because of the dregs surrounding him. Children still at that pre-compassion stage could easily identify with that kind of protective madness, the insanity that prevents true genius from succumbing to despair at the mundanity all around.”
I also like how the film adheres to the spirit of a child’s sense of play, where no one really dies or escapes fake death. In all these Monograms there was seldom any actual harm done to these young frozen brides. They usually snapped out of whatever trance they happened to by the picture’s end (presumably unmolested -- coded into the 'child-like' nature of her keepers), while Bela inevitably died in his burning lab, usually with his hands happily locked around the neck of a gorilla. Every kid knows that in war games the only true winner is the one who dies last. Even the last man standing knows that, to truly win, you don't stay standing--you're always shot by the second-to-last man as he dies, as a kind of final exhale of life and bullets: in death there are no losers, everyone gets their own death scene, to make of what they will. After all, what is the difference between a living soldier and an emotionless zombie if not that one of them is seen but not heard from, the other heard from but never seen again? The pain of absence underlies both, and is the one true enduring badge of courage. Come home, soldier. Andy, come home, whatever you are.
Labels: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Monogram
Sprays of Heaven: IN THE DUST OF THE STARS (1976)
"Help means so much more than giving you weapons."
What happens when a peaceful rocket full of sexy East Germans are lured to a western colonized planet and are subject to drugs (the red spray is "spicy" while the blue spray is "sweet"), erotic dancing and orgiastic staring contests? Das ist die frage in Gottfried Kolditz's colorful, cool and just plain weird film, 1976's IN THE DUST OF THE STARS (Im Staub der Sterne). Classy is the word I use to describe this crew, four women and two older guys, well-dressed and even-tempered. Nice hair.
Answering a distress signal, this East German rocketship (from the planet Cynro) emergency lands and is greeted first by a woman dressed like Pocahontas driving a combination school bus-railroad handcar who comes rumbling up to the ship in welcome like she's Robby the Robot in FORBIDDEN PLANET. Suko stays behind to spy while the rest ride over to the club to sit on divans and catch snide insults from the local bosses. Someone wants this spaceship to go home, but first, why not invite them to the party? Pocahontas comes by later with prismatic plastic fantastic invitations for each of them.
The "boss" of the planet is a fey German artiste who gets his hair painted blue and is forced to play with lite-brite and a keyboard that controls a disco dance floor full of pythons and gel-lit frauleinen. Don Draper this guy ain't. And let me tell you, his army sucks. Mostly the battles consist in a lot of standing around, working up the nerve to bust a cap, like a high school dance in Hell. These cavorting hedonists never speak, but spend most of their time spraying drugs of one color or another into their mouths, brainwashing nosy visitors with pen flashlights and doing licentious dances. The costumes aren't up to Mario Bava PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE standards but nonetheless pretty fetching, with an uncanny resemblance to UN peacekeepers. And it's nice that they change clothes about five times a day and stay color coordinated with each other, as if through telepathic EFSP (Extra-Fashion-Sense Perception). The patterns and styles are elegant and mod without being tacky or cumbersome, and they go well with the natural blonde shag haircuts of the majority of the crew. Jana Brejchová is the hottie commander (at right). She was once married to Milos Foreman!
In a way, DUST OF THE STARS is the perfect Iron Curtain counterpart to the American space fantasia of 50's sci fi films, ala: CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON/MISSILE TO THE MOON/QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE and THREE STOOGES IN OUTER SPACE, wherein dopey male astronauts land on a planets run by space women with a hankering for new blood... in their lineage and on their mandibles. In DUST there seems to be mainly dudes on the planet, at least with speaking roles (aside from Pocahontas) and the men are in weird Studio 54-esque "boytoy" attire, all ready to offer a hit of primo "spray" to any crew member with an open nostril, er, I mean mouth. And the girls in the crew are the ones who call the shots! The two men on the crew are clearly both well-laid and mildly emasculated... a perfect Euro combination that Americans can only sneer at in envy. Both Paul Lind and Mae West would have loved them!
Kind of like HELL HOUSE (the Halloween 'haunted house' wherein Christian kids finally get to dance, pretend to do drugs and worship Satan in their own way), the licentious dancing and spraying of the aliens here presumably was acceptable to the East German censors because it was negatively depicted as a trap-- set by Decadent Western Imperialist aliens--to ensnare good honest Communists.
The parties these aliens throw are awesome, but for my money nothing can beat the black tights beatnik bar modern expressionist dancing of CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON. Man, those girls just nailed it! And though one of the two men on the Cynro crew is pretty smart (usually in these films, only one paranoid crew member smells danger while the others consider him a buzzkill), the commander is a woman--and competent! Navigating her sometimes overly compassionate female emotions with the same objective grappling of, say, Kirk on STAR TREK grappling with his shoot-from-the-hip egotism, and between all of the crew is a sexually relaxed vibe (they sleep with each other and make no big deal of it? Man, those East Germans!). My favorite is the girl at lower left; what a magnificently sensual pout!
I think her name is Miu. She's played by Regine Heintze, and I love her. Also, I love the offhand way that the film's sexuality and lovely female forms are displayed without any leering and/or slavering. It's like the characters in this film actually have sex rather than just winking and drooling and then finally having one chaste kiss like they're David Manners at an ice cream social. In DUST, they just do it and forget about it. The Germans have no patience for lovelorn leering! Stand straight! Are you slouching?! Achtung!
I am grateful to Netflix for having this film on instant stream and thus indirectly introducing me to the wonderful site known as Teleport City ("Bringing you yesterday's tomorrow... today!"). I love what their writer says about the loose nature of the crew (remember this was the 70s, pre-AIDS awareness, when sex wasn't a four letter word):
Now, in addition to their refreshing gender make-up, there are other things about the Cynro crew, only subtly hinted at for the most part, that make them just a little different from what you'd normally expect from the militarily-ranked team manning your average movie starship. I think, also, that these things are meant to suggest the way things roll back on Cynro. For one thing, this gang is just a tad more touchy-feely with one another than the behavior of those serving aboard the Enterprise and its like have accustomed us to. Secondly, Suko, as a not-all-that-in-shape middle aged guy with thinning hair, clearly has the arrangement to beat onboard the vessel, as he seems to be the boy toy of at least two of the female crew members, including the Captain and her blond colleague Miu. Miu, for her part, also might have a thing for the ladies, as one later scene seems to suggest. While all of this implied hanky-panky provides the opportunity for a bit of casual nudity and light petting between the cast members, it's all presented very matter-of-factly, with none of the exploitational hubba hubba you might expect. Wham Bam Thank You Spaceman this is not -- and the tone seems to suggest that the egalitarian ethos observed on this lots' home planet extends to everyone getting an equal piece, not just of the proverbial pie, but of each other, as well.
Now I don't know about you, space neighbors, but that seems pretty cool to me. If the wall hadn't come down, I might be tempted to hurtle it. I would disagree with Teleport City about the score (they don't like it). Yes, it's a bedroom-ish low fi casio-guitar soundtrack, but it's superb in its monochromatic moodiness; it's low-fi shoegaze twenty years ahead of schedule and as such is 100 times better than those super-slick-hyper-cliched Danny Elfman orchestral/children's choir cues that have been deadening so many big budget sci fi and fantasy films here in the states in the last 20 years.
Similarly ahead of his time is the fey "boss" of the bad guys, a prancing Caligula-wannabe who parties with snakes and likes to change his hair color to match his mercurial mood. He could be knocking back drinks with any 1990s Manhattan loungecore crowd and everyone would assume he's in advertising -- but it's still only 1979 and he's a Communist playing a decadent Colonialist oppressor. And we think those East Germans were behind the times? In 1979 they were partying like it's 1997, which is to say, hard and unsmilingly.
In typical Communist fashion, the action break-out finale looks more like a labor strike than a shootout, replete with hundreds of confused, identically-dressed male extras hacking at rocks, locking arms and shuffling around in nonviolent protest. No one seems very militarily coordinated on this planet, with opposing armies running to and fro like herds of awkward antelope, but they look good, specimen-wise. Boasting a mix of modular architecture and muddy grassland roughly parallel to Gene Roddenberry's TV special futurescapes of the era, the film earns extra points for the natural and uncanny weirdness of East German design and the refreshing lack of western sexism. Not once does any male say anything condescending or object to a woman in charge. And our director manages to make the women all seem both vulnerable and strong, smart and gullible, i.e. like anyone else -- all while never missing a chance to show some sexy thighs (below left).
Much more bizarre in terms of sci fi plots is the moral quandary the crew faces: If they intervene on behalf of the oppressed workers of the planet then they'll have to stay around like a peacekeeping delegation and will probably get involved in an interplanetary war; if they just leave then they've turned their back on a people in need. This quantry makes a good modern parable for a UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Liberia or Darfur--or the reason, for example, that George Bush Sr. was too smart to invade Iraq ("no exit strategy"). By the same token, the conquering Tem people know they can't kill or attack the visiting ship directly if they want to avoid an "inter-galactic incident," but the miners are all fair game, used as human shields, slave labor and so forth --again, just like real life!
Another perhaps more controversial analogy is with modern UFO philosophy--i.e. the notion that we're (as in earthlings) under the rule of trans-dimensional aliens who harvest our genetically modified souls and have worked their way into the fabric of all levels of social leadership. The space travelers tell the enslaved Tekk: "We can't build a force field around your planet so you can develop undisturbed like we would like"-- a lament very similar to UN policy toward underdeveloped nations undergoing exploitation by slick multi-nationals, or the way grays try not to disrupt our evolution even as they tinker with our DNA on the sidelines.
Whoa! Don't think I'm crazy. I've just been reading Nigel Kerner's new book all weekend. It's not that I 100% believe we're a soul farm stud on Orion's Belt, but if we in the First World can't/won't imagine there might be some extraterrestrial race for whom we're a Third World primitive society in the midst of being exploited (we learned Colonialism from somewhere) maybe we deserve all we get, or may have already gotten. Plus, our East German rocket comrades bear more than passing resemblance to the "blonde" aliens sometimes seen cruising around in saucers or European dance clubs.You will now please erase this nonsense from your mind. Alles ist schone. Alles ist schone...
Due to budget or obscure Communist censorship laws we don't see too much violence or special effects; most of the attacks are offscreen (we hear about them on the ship's radio). The big climax just involves one "important" death, which causes "the Boss" to smash his orbs, if you know what I mean. On both sides of the squabble there's a remarkably etched-in sense of collective teamwork, decision making and leadership skills. But hey, we don't have to see scenes just because the rickety sci fi framework plot requires them; we've seen it all before -- fill in your own blanks, let your tongue feel the spray, and dig those astro-boots (right).
In the end, DUST says more about Communist fantasies of western decadence, Binaca-style spray drugs and open-sexuality than a whole festival of Amerikanische schweinhunde filmen ever could. Most devastating is the implication that the need to get high and exploit nude bodies is perhaps just a Capitalist-conditioned response to the repression and misery instilled by our Puritan forefathers. These East Germans don't need to do all that because they just have casual sex with each other, wear cool clothes, and forget about it. With a crew of beautiful, healthy German women to give your aching head a maternal massage as needed-- and/or dance while you eat breakfast, maybe you'd be just fine as a cog in the people's machine. After all, what else are you exploiting the workers and getting high for, anyway?
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Labels: aliens, Blondes, Communism, East Germany, European, Fashion, Germans, greys, Hipster, Nordics, seventies
The Bulls Fighter: BRONSON
There's tough guys, and then there's Charlie Bronson (not the one you're thinking of). Johnny Cochran fought the law and the law won, but Bronson has fought the law for three decades, to a bloody tie. All the bulls can do is keep him locked down - the minute he's free, he starts a ruckus. And it's a bleedin' true story! He wanted to be famous and he is, and the film is gorgeous, but the whys go unanswered. Or do they now? (Yes) Who are you talking to? (you). You who? (don't let the posey fool ya).
The calling card major talent English language debut of Norway's Nicolas Winding Refn, 2008 film BRONSON's slow mo strut and staggering formalist tracking shots (timed to great classical music and shrill Pet Shop Boys disco) are CLOCKWORK ORANGE enough to wow the highbrow critics and scare the provincials (it glorifies hooliganism!) and since Kubrick's film was surely a big influence on both the man, the country and the system-- our hero's edge-of-your-zipper male persona is something that's ultimately made rather sad and tragic, not to mention slyly post-modern. Bronson is an unstable terror, but kind of a hero in that he doesn't actually kill or rape anyone, nor does he seem to pick on anyone smaller than he is; he's not a sadist or a bully, per se, yet the man ends up serving more time than most rapists or murderers have, at least in the UK, oh what a world!
Whatever your view on violence, you got to love those tracking shots and the Wagner, right? Wait, did we all see the same film? Read all these confusing reactions by Peter Travers in ROLLING STONE:
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, known for his Pusher trilogy, pushes hard at the boundaries of banal film biography. Bronson talks directly to the camera, wears menacing clown paint and does music-hall bits. He also makes life hell for guards who interfere with his vision of himself as an artist. So much for the global petition circulating to free Bronson. Whether or not you'd sign the petition, this movie and Hardy's electrifying performance will knock you for a loop.
Guards "interfere with his vision of himself as an artist"? Man, what kind of artist is he if not the Picasso of ass kicking? Like Picasso, he likes to fight with the bulls (English slang for prison guards in this case) and when he decides to be the drawing kind of artist, he gets support from the system, so what are you talking about, Peter Travers? The verb "push" used twice in a sentence? Why does making hell for guards (which seems inaccurate since most of the guards seem like sadists happy to indulge our hero's masochistic penchants) have anything to do with a global petition? Travers thinks "menacing clown makeup" wraps up the question of a global petition, pat, and no mention of said petition is made in the film, which ends on a very sad and depressing note. So, did Travers really even stay to the end or did he just crib from the press release?
Travers and his once-relevant rag or no, critics are unanimous in their 3 out of 4 star rating for this gutsy little opera of punching and pounding. The film is stylish and sharply observed without being derivative or suffocatingly crafty. There's an amazing powerhouse 20 minutes kicking it all off, Winding's influences are all right there in the propulsion system: Kubrick, Scorsese for momentums glacial, ceaseless, and druggy; Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson for the resonant gritty young man alienated-from-the-tools-of-the-system ferocity, and.... no destination really.... there's really nowhere to go but right to left, then left to right in those lovely musical tracking shots. Here's Ebert:
Originally sentenced to seven years ("You'll be out in three," his mother calls to him in the courtroom), he has now served 34 uninterrupted years, 30 of them in solitary confinement. Why? We don't know. The movie doesn't know. If Bronson knows, he's not telling
But Roger, he has been out once or twice, even in the film --he just couldn't handle it, then. And we do know why he's back: from making an in-house ruckus! Just because you're in jail when you assault guards and hold people hostage doesn't stop it from adding time to your sentence. If he'd been a good boy he'd been out in four, but assault charges do add up, murder or none. So it's hard to feel like he's a victim of the system. Then again, it's more like the system is a victim of him, and that's why the film works (for me at least) even without going too deep under the skin. He's not that much of a threat to society--besides petty robbery--but he is a threat to the penal system. Brit corrections can't do a thing with a guy who actually likes being forced into prolonged periods of solitary confinement--or pretends to cuz he's just that tough. Every time he gets his act a bit together the warden cautiously grants him some privileges, only to regret it, time and again, culminating in the tragic climax wherein he holds his own art teacher hostage for 44 insane hours. Clearly he needs anti-psychotics and could benefit from modern strides in pharmacology.
My overall point of quoting the above critics is to perhaps convey how being high up in the press circle might make BRONSON more opaque, which is a sad thing to have to say, especially about ROLLING STONE magazine which, as I dimly recall, used to have its finger at least in the same town as the counterculture's pulse. A sleek, younger journal like SLANT nails it beautifully however in this piece of knowing, liquid mercury prose from Nick Schager:
As the famed inmate, whose bald head, upturned mustache, and imposing physique (usually nude or in white long-sleeved T-shirts) resembled that of a cartoon carnival strongman, Hardy is a whirlwind force of nature, stomping around a cell like a one-track pain train, leaping into battle with rabid-dog intensity (in one sequence, he actually takes on a Doberman), and in his first-person monologues, flashing unnervingly funny menace. Bronson so immediately and definitively establishes its template and character that each scene soon plays like a disturbed Loony Tunes cartoon replete with concluding punch(line). And when Bronson appears on stage with face covered in white makeup (and, in a magnificently deranged, schizo sequence, with half his face au natural and the other half done up like a mad Nurse Ratchet), Refn strikingly nails his subject as a monstrous clown, a lunatic who took great, sadistically comical pleasure from putting fists to flesh.
Love the Nurse Ratchet, monstrous clown cartoon animal strongman observations! But even here, Schager is wrong. It wasn't a wussy Doberman Bronson fought, it was a bleedin' pit bull!
Fittingly, though it's the brilliant UK writers at GUARDIAN who really nail the anguish of the man. Check out this from Erwin James, who actually met Bronson whilst serving his own life sentence:
(the) film made me think a little deeper about the real Charlie Bronson. We have had some correspondence recently. His first letter made me want to cry. "It has been nine years since I caused anyone any harm," he wrote. "Surely it must be time now to give me a chance?" I was touched by his vulnerability. Having been a prisoner with little hope once, I wanted to reach out and reassure him. For all the pain he has caused - in his prison career he has taken 11 hostages and staged nine rooftop protests - he has had an abundance of grief in return. The film, he says, has given him a new impetus for life. "It has brought me a great feeling of inner strength and self-worth. I actually feel human again." All he wants to do now is get out and concentrate on his art. "I'm a born-again artist," he says. "Through all this mad journey of institutions, I have found myself in art."
See? It would have been good to know all that in the film... or to know anything that went a bit deeper into what makes this fighter tick. Perhaps--and this is only a guess--it's something to do with latent homosexuality? The preference of male skin--even if it's only knuckles of the bulls--over the confusing, maddening touch of unknowable woman? Yes? Tom Hardy's intense, beautiful, heartbreaking, and incredibly jacked performance certainly allows for this possibility without committing one way or another. He's smashing, he is!
Also, how in the world does he manage to--apparently--keep all his teeth? He should look at least mildly Mickey Rourke-ish after a few fights... and how can he charge into battle naked and have no bulls smash a nightstick or taser to his naughty bits? That's what I'd do, by crikey. But, it takes a Brit to know a Brit, and on that note, here's one of my new favorites, Florence, of Florence and the Machines (below). If this song was rolling over BRONSON's credits perhaps, it might have made everything a mite clearer. So... will you join me in imagining this music video re-done with tons of BRONSON footage? (though you can certainly enjoy Florence's hot little shimmy), and then raising a glass to England, where they still rage like America used to in the 1970s?
Labels: British, Charlie Bronson, Florence and the Machines, Penitentiary, Tom Hardy
The Wuss in the Willows
Back in November 08, I lamented how our cinema's once-golden child, Leo Di Caprio--he who wowed us in WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE and the BASKETBALL DIARIES--had fallen into the Hollywood aging child actor bear trap, wherein the same baby face that made him a heartthrob as a youngster becomes a liability when he's just too old to 'pass.' Where other actors in his same pretty boy straits veered off from the shallows into ambiguous depths--playing villains, cross-dressers and amoral pirates; getting all their pretty punched away in brawls--Leonardo hath locked onto a rigidness of moral fibre that would make even the Lone Ranger wince. Since he became a huge star with TITANIC, Leo's roles have grown more and more inflexible. Nowadays he makes sure every character he plays is:
A) The good guy
B) Straight (even in BASKETBALL DIARIES, he's only repulsed when pulling tricks in the Men's room - and is only seen receiving, never giving, if you know what I mean)
C) Seriously under-appreciated or unloved and always grieving dead parents, dead wife, dead kids, and/or dead-end job. This explains his narrow range, why he don't laugh. See, he's traumatized.
D) Tough (symbolized by tattoos, crewcuts, muscles and the fiercest facial hair he can muster)
E) Morally upright and sober (though this is often ridiculously played both ways, as in THE DEPARTED wherein he risks being ostracized by ordering straight cranberry juice at a gang-run bar, but is a supposed to be a Xanax-addict. He wants to pass as a thug but won't even have a gin and tonic?)
D) a compassionate, non-objectifying lover --whether there's any room or use for it in the script or not, he must have a (straight) love interest, preferably played by a total hottie. She may be dead and haunting him in flashbacks or ghostly visitations, but she must be model-level hawt, bro.
E) Ideally he'll get to have a cool accent, either Irish-Boston or South Ah-friggin.
As I noted above, many of Leo's fellow under-grown adult child actors have since purged themselves of the "aww pretty boy / can't you show me nothing but surrender" syndrome*. Tom Cruise, for example, recently absolved himself for all wrongdoing with his balls-out-on-the-floor shoutaholic in TROPIC THUNDER (not to mention his similar role in MAGNOLIA a mere decade earlier).
Meanwhile, guys who started out kind of doe-eyed pretty-- Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon come to mind--have actually dared to toy with their Tiger Beat origins. Can you imagine Di Caprio mincing like Keith and Mick's love child in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN trilogy? Or playing THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY? Or getting pummeled out of recognition in real life ala Mickey "Motorcycle Boy" Rourke? Nope? Why not? Can't you see what RIPLEY would have looked like if Leo starred in it? He'd have probably had it rewritten to make Ripley a (straight) innocent victim of circumstance. His lovers would die of natural causes so he could cradle their heads in his arms and scream "Damn yoooou!" in pitch-shifted low yowls.
Leo's characters can never make fun of themselves; they have no outside perspective on their wearyingly glum sanctimony. Meanwhile, if he could prance around, or snivel, or laugh, or punch out a woman while wearing a bear suit, or just play an ambiguous opportunist, he'd re-establish his Oscar worth. Instead he stands alone, holding onto his dimestore glower (right), his wispy 'stache fluttering.
To his credit, Leo doesn't fall back on Christian Bale-style deep throat talking, and he did send up his bratty crystal-drinking modelizer image in Woody Allen's CELEBRITY, back in 1998, when he was still young enough that he was supposed to seem adenoidal, plus... that was the same year as... TITANIC. Has the star of Leo fallen since then? Well, not quite. It's more like it's been affixed to Scorsese's, and sometimes two very big rights make a little bit of a wrong. I did enjoy THE AVIATOR, GANGS OF NEW YORK and INFERNAL AFFAIRS' BOSTON VACATION, but Leo was, frankly, the worst part of all three of them. Now he's starring in another Scorsese film opening this weekend, a thriller called SHUTTER ISLAND. Oh man, I can just tell by the trailer he's still in this holding pattern of little boy in big man clothesism.
There, see him up op in the middle? Compared to that "normal" looking cop on the left, and even the smartly dressed detective on the right, doesn't Leo seem strangely.... "off"? Like his clothes are too big? Like he has to put them back in dad's closet before dad comes home at five? Like that tacky green and white tie had to fight past three stages of re-writes? Like he's trying too hard to seem like a big, beefy working class copper? Beefy working class coppers don't try, Leo! They just is.
Now imagine Johnny Depp (left, from BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) wearing a dress in Leo's place above, See how it doesn't even matter? See how he's still more of a man as a woman than Leo in a trench coat and fedora? And I'm not saying you can't be wussy and manly, or baby-faced and manly. Look at Baby Face Nelson! Why doesn't Leo play him? (though his agent's army of image coordinators would maybe excise all the cold-blooded kills and tack on a dead wife to explain his moral degradation).
I suggested in my earlier post that Leo abandon his mission of saintliness by trying his hand at a giggling psycho ala the great Richard Widmark's characters in ROAD HOUSE and KISS OF DEATH. I'll suggest it again. Leo! Follow Widmark! What's up next, Leo? Teddy Roosevelt??? How, I wonder, will your writers sidestep Roosevelt's infamous 1909 safari wherein he "killed.... 512 big game animals, including six rare white rhinos." Leo, my star, my golden child, if your version of Teddy kills even one animal, I'll eat my hat. Come on, Leo. Shoot a white rhino and prove me wrong!
PS - I feel allowed to give Leo image advice since he looks like and reminds me so much of, my kid brother Fred.
PS. 5/23/16 - I had forgotten the vehemence with which I railed on Leo's choices here. As some know, I completely took it all back and fell on my face for years ago in awe of his courageous ballsy performance as the evil plantation owner in DJANGO. (see here)
In other words, ladies and gentlemen: shoot a white rhino he did
PS - 12/19/19 - I can't help but think that both Leo and Quentin read this post and it inspired Leo's great work in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, where we get not just a ballsy all-in lead-eyed villain in a movie his character--a loose mix of himself and various Hollywood leading men like Clint, Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, et--but the villain he's acting on set. In other words, Leo sends up his own image-- he has a great trailer smashing freak-out, struggles to drink moderately, cries when realizing the book he's reading could be about himself, laughs, kills a woman in a swimming pool, and generally does everything right, everything this article suggests he do. Thanks, Leo and Quentin - whether you heard this post 10 years ago via direct contact or just the ephemeral butterfly wing tsunami cross country psychic hotline, I thank you for 'listening.' And of course, for another amazing movie.
* Patti Smith, ("Land," Horses)
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"Anything" goes in JEOPARDY (1953)
In any marriage, the reasons for "cheating" vary by age and gender. Older men cheat because they're chomping at the bit or having a midlife crisis or don't want to miss what might be their last opportunity. Young guys cheat because they don't want to end up like the older ones who cheat, so they want to sow the oats from their systems. Young women cheat because they're not happy or having enough orgasms. But older women cheat only in order to save their husbands' lives or reputations as DAs, and sometimes fate must contrive beyond all logic to arrange it for them, at least in the movies, of the post-code era.
Witness JEOPARDY (1953), a post-code throwback to the soapy days of maternal "indecent proposals" in films like THE CHEAT (1931), TEN CENTS A DANCE (1931) and BLONDE VENUS (1932). The whole rickety plot is set up for the payoff answer to the question: "How far would you go to save your husband?" In other words, what Rube Goldberg-style series of events needs to be set up for a Good American Mother/Housewife to able to get her freak on with a wild outlaw Ralph Meeker without having to feel guilty later, or die at the end by the decree of the almighty code?
The story is itchy, fetid and well-laden with cryptic foreshadowing: roadblocks appear on the family trip to a lonesome stretch of Mexican beach; the WW2 vet husband's .45 automatic is brought along "in case" and stashed foolishly in the glove compartment; a rickety, dangerous pier leads far out to sea; the son's constant mention of "peril" makes it seem like a Disney ride he's excited for (no American post-war family vacation is complete without a life-or-death disaster). Director John Sturges assumes we already know what's going to happen (Husband trapped! Tide incoming! Ralph Meeker! With his shirt open!) so he's able to mine terrific suspense, especially once husband Barry Sullivan starts helping his towheaded son back across the treacherously weathered pier.
Stanwyck is set up right off the bat as the kind of broad we just don't see in the movies anymore. You can tell by her deep voice, brown tan and manly aura that she's a lifelong cigarette smoker. A closeted lesbian from Hollywood's inner sewing circle (1), Stanwyck's ambivalence towards her husband's sexual advances is palpable and anyone who suffers from anxiety is bound to understand her trepidation at taking a holiday in the middle of nowhere, with no one around, open to attack from any wandering biker gang, rapist, sadist or Satanic coven that happens by, with only her naive breeder husband around for protection (with our butch belle Babs, either you show her some rough stuff up front--give her a couple slaps, throw her up against a wall, shoot a cop--or she'll lose respect for you). It ain't called JEOPARDY for no reason! And her man's innate sense of trust in the world to supply him with anxiety-free isolation jars her craw. Like so many noir women she's the only "conscious" one in the family, and when she sees Meeker, it's like she finally finds the dark soul mate she's been unwilling to admit she's needed all along. (Note the poster at left, which deceptively paints Meeker and Stanwyck as a tough noir couple)
Stanwyck is a wife who, as she explains in her narration, "found out" how far she would go for her husband. And if you want to know just what kind of distance we're talking about, just look at that canary-fed cat grin of Meeker's up top. But who is really being served here? Babs is too far gone to matron to be a jailhouse pin-up, but the roughnecked Meeker is certainly a believable hothouse fantasy for a very frustrated and guilty-about-it hausfrau. When she says "I'll do anything to save my husband... anything!" It's both dangerously sexy and hilariously campy, like the way the gay john who admits he has no money in MIDNIGHT COWBOY asks "What are you going to do me?" with masochistic anticipation.
Thus the JEOPARDY payoff is not the rescue or near-rescue, the life or death ticking of the clock, but the cool way Stanwyck goes from panicky harridan--speeding around gnashing her teeth--to a resignedly smooth seductress, sizing up Meeker as a potential lover so that you can't tell if she's really turned on, just trying to seem that way to win his interest, or cannily realizing a 'freebie' like this may not come again, and grabbing on. Meeker proposes she just forget her husband and son and ride off into adventure with him and--for a few seconds--you can believe she's seriously considering it. Regardless of her decision, what impresses Meeker isn't the thought of shagging a cougar-iffic MILF as much as the fact that she's willing to go that far in order to save her husband: "You've got some cat in you" he says. Mister, Stanwyck wrote the book on "cat" and by the way he leaps into the cold surf later to help her husband, you know she scratched him in all the right places.
That such a key element of the story is missing (we fade out from their first kiss back to the crashing waves and husband) attests to the basic adult understanding of the code. Kids could watch this and probably never catch on what happened in between that juicy fade-out. JEOPARDY's so coded, with every signifier--the gun, the car, the desert, the pier, the waves--so charged with foreshadowing, the film barely needs actors at all. Even if you've never seen a movie before in your life and therefore don't understand coded symbolism, there's something about that fleshy, middle-aged, husky-voiced Stanwyck smolder cuts right through the crap. And in JEOPARDY there ain't no crap to begin with, so you just get cut. A vehicle for suspense and suggested sexual content from an age when sun--tanned middle-aged broads could still hook 'em, fry 'em and devour 'em -- even if its in the service of the over-hallowed American Family on holiday crap-- JEOPARDY's the sort of game where everybody wins, especially horny-but-guilt-wracked-about-it wives seeing this on rainy weekday matinees while the kids are in school. When the symbolically neutered husband finally realizes that a wife in the bush can be worth more than a gun in the hand, even the censors can't do anything about it, since on the surface it's just cars, cactus, crowbars, tire jacks, and lots and lots of sexy cigarettes.
1. This according to my sources on the matter, which are admittedly--and understandably--shadowy. And let it be known this diminishes my love for her not a whit, and may even enhance it far more than some dull as
For more on Stanwyck, read my 2008 review of TEN CENTS A DANCE.
Thanks / for the Lucky Strikes
The title of this blog entry will be familiar to Jack Benny fans, as one of the "commercial song parodies" with which his Sportsmen Quartet slyly ribbed and celebrated their sponsor, Lucky Strike, that fine cigarette that 4 out of 5 doctors prefer... so round, so firm, so fully packed. So free and easy on the draw!
Bob Hope was a frequent guest star on Benny's show and he was always hilarious, a bundle of energy and joy, sharing a deep-seated sense of ease and beyond-impeccable comic timing with fellow star vaudeville types like Benny or Bing Crosby. There's not much of that kind of rapport in BIG BROADCAST OF 1938, Hope's first big role. But he sings fairly well in the slightly trilly style of the time. He plays a radio announcer/promoter for a cross Atlantic cruise ship race, with WC Fields as his comic co-star (and Fields is not one for lightning fast banter off-the-cuff with upstarts). Fields plays a corporate spy sent to slow the boat down so the other side can win, but he lands his crazy autogyro bicycle on his own cruise line; laughs ensue. Hope meanders around introducing an abundance of weird yet strangely exhausting musical numbers, including a long Die Wulkure aria, replete with Brunhilde in helmet, braids and brandishing a spear (below).
But then, like an oasis of beauty and quiet in a big shrill sporadically funny mess, comes this lovely scene between Bob and his unhappily divorced wife, Shirley Ross. A kind of female Walter Burns in HIS GIRL FRIDAY, Ross has Hope arrested so she can bail him out of jail before the boat sails, and generally employs all the screwball tricks to keep this baggy pants slickster around where she can see him. It's an old familiar, no-win situation, but what ensues in their "Thanks for the Memories" number, their delicate but cool, unforced and sensitive shy/sly duet, strikes a note of transcendent grace.
An ode to good times that later went bad and the way savvy lovers catch themselves rose-tinting the whole affair when they know full well that there were an awful lot of good reasons why they left each other, this song and they dynamics both actors bring to it will be familiar to anyone who ever still loved--and was friends with--an ex. Hope--later content to be kind of a genial quick-witted leering buffoon--got his start this kind of sensitive smart guy, the sort who could actually wrestle with his fears, face the villain, woo the girl successfully and admirably, and still get off great wisecracks. In films like the following year's CAT AND THE CANARY and THE GHOST BUSTERS (both my favorites as well) for example, he cracks cowardly yet acts continually courageous - a whistling in the dark approach that never backs down from danger ("I'm so scared," he warns a sinister man on the boat to Cuba in GHOST BUSTERS, "if I see a ghost, I'm liable to take a shot at it, silly isn't it?")
"Thanks for the Memory" captures this same mix of courage and avoidance as the better part of valor, and proves Hope is already a master of working off the energy of his fellow player. He falls completely in-step with the deep pangs of longing coursing through the blithe fatigue of Shirley Ross. Like a good jazz bassist might in a trio, he finds her off-beats and adds shadow and accent to her highlights.
Written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, the song itself stands way, way out from the rest of the songs in the film; it's almost Shakespearean in the way its surface percolates with sophisticated drollery, the "Hurrah for the next who dies!" modernist kind of stiff upper lip emotional denial, the trick we use over drinks to convince ourselves we're better off calling it quits, while just under the skin there's all this tenderness, longing, regret and--most beautiful all--a genuine love and interest in the other person even if they don't get back together, even if they know it's for the best they don't. Also, the song acknowledges the weird way guilt and regret will fuel the rose-tinting process, the way everything is suddenly perfect just when you're about to finally part. So you stay to try and make it work, and it falls instantly to shit.
Love thrives on absence, and never is love stronger than when you separate ships sail off into separate sunsets. If that strength makes you jump overboard and swim to their ship, the love starts to weaken before you're even dry. Ross and Hope's singing, and the way the drama and push-pull dynamic is only heightened by the words and melody, making this one of my all-time favorite musical moments. Particularly I love the sudden stops into speaking - "That's life I guess / I love... / your dress," he sings/says, the word 'love' causing her to look up expectantly. When he says 'your dress' she looks down at it, her tears temporarily subsided even with the disappointment:
"Do you?"
"It's pretty," Hope says. Before singing some more. That "it's pretty" gets me every time; from the giddy hope of "I love..." to "it's pretty" represents a whole downward facing spiral of relationship dynamics. Ross wont get the words she wants to hear (I love you) but she will get the words she needs to hear (it's pretty).
By the end of the song, Ross is in tears and Hope has re-set the rules by resuming his role as the "distancer" in their codependent pair bond --even if he's weakened by the experience. Things seem already back where they were. So what, then, is love but the contract by which one is humbled into accepting the lesser of two evils? It's like being addicted to war: the pre-WW2 era was all about looking askance at marriage and the conventions of the old social system, flappers and fun, not marriage and kids. Funny how lately the winds of time have so shifted so that we willingly have given up nearly every freedom we won in the years between 1945 and 1979. Soon we will not even be allowed to smoke a Lucky Strike... at all... even outside! Ah, when I first moved to Manhattan in 1992, you could drink outdoors, as long as they were in brown paper bags, and there was dancing in every bar, pimps in fancy cars, drunks and punks and whiteboy funk and junkies with guitars... how lovely it was....
Labels: Bob Hope, Jack Benny, NYC, Shirley Ross, W.C. Fields, Wagner
1. THE HURT LOCKER
dir. Kathryn Bigelow
I am imagining Kathryn Bigelow (above) as the Evelyn Mulray to Howard Hawks' Noah Cross and I mean that in the best possible way because I revere Hawks uber alles and this would be perhaps a non-incestuous version, one with more fishing and hunting and target practice. I'm sure Hawks would have called HURT LOCKER "a damn good picture" and Bigelow "a damnned good-looking girl."
2. ANTICHRIST
Poor Lars, so blinded by panic he could barely film the best movie of the year. As in DOGVILLE, the subject matter is the absolute rejection of patriarchal mores and logic in favor of the dark chthonic evils at the base of sexual desire. Lady MacBeth once cautioned her husband "Appear the innocent flower / but be the serpent under it." And even if you don't know the blooms, you can always just soak in the ground zero madness and spooky charm of the serpent under it, as Willem Dafoe is exhumed like a living corpse and cognitive therapy gets a well-deserved smash to the groin, Charlotte Gainsbourg delivers five actresses worth of the performance of the year, and there's a talking fox that says more in two words than Wes Anderson's menagerie would ever dare.
3. OBSERVE AND REPORT
dir. Jody Hill
The near constant amount of pumping rock music-scored slow mo walking illuminates not only the inherent psychosis of action movies, but the way blind self-confidence and insane conviction are the backbone of America. the script is packed with bizarre lines like: "If anything I laugh at other people who try to do what they want, not do... what I want." When people try and reach out to our heavy mall cop (Seth Rogen) he declares: "Save your sorries and put 'em in a sack." Splitting the difference between DON QUIXOTE and TAXI DRIVER goes to THE 'BURBS, Jody Hill proves himself the only American auteur with the guts to show his country in the same twisted light as Von Trier and Herzog, and then embrace it anyway with the deadpan zeal that makes our nation so kewl despite its rampant faults. Best of all, he loves his characters even when no one else does. Even a vomit kiss is rendered crazy romantic by just the right song. America's bi-polar disorder is perfectly embodied in Ronnie's gun-shaped birthday cake, linking the film to another classic wherein malls and guns go hand-in-hand to paint America black: Romero's original DAWN OF THE DEAD.
4. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
dir. Quentin Tarantino
...Rather than as a war film, BASTERDS should be met as a meditation on artifice, cinema and power. The main scenes people don’t like in the film generally revolve around women: the protracted tavern scene with the movie star fending off drunken German soldiers; the projectionist dealing with the amorous German movie star. Tarantino exlores the way dialy life under occupation–or as a woman–involves always living under threat. There is no cathartic respite, no “now we’re safe” moment when you’re a woman in a man’s world. The only time we men feel that is when we're occupied by an invading force.
5. BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
Going off to AA and leaving your druggie mate behind to drink alone is hazardous to any relationship, an instant point of necessary cataclysm from the sober person's point of view (28 DAYS, CLEAN AND SOBER). Luckily Herzog would never dream of following the sober person's point of view. When everyone else is slinking away as some frothing meth addict rants and raves and loses his shit, Herzog walks boldly up with his camera and asks him about his dreams. Herzog would be a great "guide" on an acid trip. You can see him getting all up in a cop's face over his charge's right to make out with the flowers in Central Park or to bite the heads off slow-footed squirrels, as long as it was being filmed and therefore the stuff of future legend.
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Research ArticleHEALTH AND MEDICINE
Transient stealth coating of liver sinusoidal wall by anchoring two-armed PEG for retargeting nanomedicines
View ORCID ProfileAnjaneyulu Dirisala1,*,
View ORCID ProfileSatoshi Uchida1,2,*,†,
View ORCID ProfileKazuko Toh1,
View ORCID ProfileJunjie Li1,
View ORCID ProfileShigehito Osawa1,3,
View ORCID ProfileTheofilus A. Tockary1,
Xueying Liu1,
View ORCID ProfileSaed Abbasi1,
View ORCID ProfileKotaro Hayashi1,
View ORCID ProfileYuki Mochida1,
Shigeto Fukushima1,
View ORCID ProfileHiroaki Kinoh1,
View ORCID ProfileKensuke Osada4 and
View ORCID ProfileKazunori Kataoka1,5,†
1Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, 3-25-14 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki 210-0821, Japan.
2Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
3Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
4National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.
5Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
↵†Corresponding author. Email: suchida{at}bmw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (S.U.); kataoka{at}ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp (K.K.)
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
Science Advances 26 Jun 2020:
Vol. 6, no. 26, eabb8133
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb8133
Anjaneyulu Dirisala
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Satoshi Uchida
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For correspondence: suchida@bmw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp kataoka@ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Kazuko Toh
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Junjie Li
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Shigehito Osawa
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Theofilus A. Tockary
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Xueying Liu
Saed Abbasi
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Kotaro Hayashi
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Shigeto Fukushima
Hiroaki Kinoh
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Kensuke Osada
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Kazunori Kataoka
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A major critical issue in systemically administered nanomedicines is nonspecific clearance by the liver sinusoidal endothelium, causing a substantial decrease in the delivery efficiency of nanomedicines into the target tissues. Here, we addressed this issue by in situ stealth coating of liver sinusoids using linear or two-armed poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)–conjugated oligo(l-lysine) (OligoLys). PEG-OligoLys selectively attached to liver sinusoids for PEG coating, leaving the endothelium of other tissues uncoated and, thus, accessible to the nanomedicines. Furthermore, OligoLys having a two-armed PEG configuration was ultimately cleared from sinusoidal walls to the bile, while OligoLys with linear PEG persisted in the sinusoidal walls, possibly causing prolonged disturbance of liver physiological functions. Such transient and selective stealth coating of liver sinusoids by two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was effective in preventing the sinusoidal clearance of nonviral and viral gene vectors, representatives of synthetic and nature-derived nanomedicines, respectively, thereby boosting their gene transfection efficiency in the target tissues.
Nanomedicines have been widely studied for the efficient delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents into target tissues (1–6). However, nanomedicines are exposed to several clearance mechanisms, such as reticuloendothelial system (RES) uptake, after their systemic administration (7–9). Among these mechanisms, liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) express numerous types of scavenger receptors for capturing a variety of nanomedicines and have high endocytic activity to clear them actively from the blood circulation (10–12). The targets of LSEC-mediated clearance include both synthetic and nature-derived nanomedicines, such as viral gene vectors (13, 14), limiting their delivery efficiency to the target tissues.
To address this issue of LSEC-mediated clearance, the stealth coating of nanomedicines, e.g., by poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), which allows nanomedicines to persist in the blood circulation for hours to days, has been widely attempted (15–18). However, depending on the formulation of the nanomedicine and its drug contents, it is often difficult to obtain sufficient stealth coating to completely inhibit the clearance mechanisms without compromising nanomedicine functionality (19–22). Thus, a combination of other strategies is required. The modulation of host-tissue clearance mechanisms is a promising option. For this purpose, previous studies have attempted to saturate the availability of clearing sites, e.g., by preinjecting scavenger receptor ligands, such as fucoidan (23), polyinosinic acid (poly-I) (24), and dextran sulfate (DS) (25), or decoy nanoparticles, such as polymer-albumin nanoparticles (26) and cationic liposomes (27). However, this strategy has two major problems. First, agents used for receptor saturation inhibit only specific mechanisms of sinusoidal clearance, depending on the receptors or clearance sites that they target, despite the fact that the liver sinusoid has diverse clearance pathways. Even a single nanomedicine can be recognized by several receptors (12, 28, 29), such that the simultaneous inhibition of various clearance mechanisms is preferred. Second, the receptor saturation strategy often raises safety concerns, including inflammatory responses induced by fucoidan (30) or poly-I (31) and anticoagulation associated with the administration of DS (32).
To circumvent these issues, herein we propose transient and selective stealth coating of liver sinusoidal endothelium, using precisely designed PEGylated oligocation (Fig. 1). In contrast to the previous strategy of receptor saturation, PEG coating of liver sinusoidal endothelium would be effective for the simultaneous inhibition of various clearance mechanisms. The coating should be transient and selective to the liver sinusoid to avoid toxicity concerns. This was achieved by using oligo(l-lysine) (OligoLys) conjugated with two-armed PEG at its carboxyl end (two-arm-PEG-OligoLys) for anchoring PEG to liver sinusoidal walls. The PEGylation of OligoLys allowed us to avoid the nonspecific attachment of OligoLys to the extra-liver endothelium, presumably via the steric repulsion of PEG, with preserved binding capability to liver sinusoidal endothelium, which may have high binding affinity to oligocations because of the abundance of heparan sulfate proteoglycans and scavenger receptors (11, 33, 34). The clearance behavior of the PEGylated OligoLys was successfully controlled by optimizing the PEG configuration, with two-arm-PEG-OligoLys showing transient PEG coating to the liver sinusoidal endothelium, followed by gradual biliary clearance, while the OligoLys conjugated with one-armed (linear) PEG (one-arm-PEG-OligoLys) bound to the sinusoidal endothelium persistently. Subsequently, transient and selective stealth coating of liver sinusoids by two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was found to be effective in preventing the sinusoidal clearance of nonviral and viral gene vectors, providing an increased gene transfection efficiency in their target tissues via their relocation from the liver sinusoid to the tissues.
Fig. 1 In situ stealth coating of liver sinusoidal wall using PEG-OligoLys.
(A) OligoLys with 20 Lys units conjugated with two linear chains of 40-kDa PEG at its carboxyl end (two-arm-PEG-OligoLys). (B) Schematic illustration of in situ stealth coating of liver sinusoidal wall. Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys selectively attaches to the sinusoidal wall to prevent the attachment of nanomedicines, such as polyplex micelle (PM) and adeno-associated virus (AAV), to the wall via stealth property of PEG. Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys is gradually cleared to the bile to avoid prolonged disturbance of liver sinusoid functions.
Selective coating of liver sinusoidal wall using PEGylated OligoLys
Short OligoLys with approximately 20 Lys units was used, as the shortening of the oligo-polycation is an effective strategy to circumvent toxicity concerns (35, 36). OligoLys was PEGylated in two different methods, using either one- or two-armed PEG. A single linear chain of 80-kDa PEG or double linear chains of 40-kDa PEG were conjugated to OligoLys at the proximal ω-NH2 terminus of PEG by forming a stable covalent amide bond to the distal carboxyl end of OligoLys (Fig. 2A). We selected the PEGylated OligoLys samples to have the same total Mw (weight-average molecular weight) of PEG in each molecule, i.e., 80 kDa. Total PEG Mw was set to 80 kDa for avoiding renal clearance of PEGylated OligoLys (37), which may influence its sinusoidal coating behavior. Note that each molecule of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys has two 40-kDa PEG strands, meaning that total Mw of PEG per OligoLys strand in the molecule is set at 80 kDa, and this is the same PEG Mw ratio to OligoLys as that in each of the one-arm-PEG-OligoLys molecule with a single strand of 80-kDa PEG. In this way, we can faithfully evaluate the effect of PEG configuration (linear versus two-arm branched) without an influence of total Mw of PEG fraction in each PEGylated OligoLys molecule. These PEGylated OligoLys formulations were labeled with a single molecule of Alexa Fluor 594 at the OligoLys main chain ω-NH2 group for the real-time fluorescence observation of their pharmacokinetic behaviors in living mice using intravital confocal laser scanning microscopy (IVCLSM).
Fig. 2 OligoLys distribution in connective tissue.
(A) Chemical structures of one-arm-PEG-OligoLys (top, left), two-arm-PEG-OligoLys (top, right) with or without Alexa594 labeling (bottom). (B to D) Alexa594-labeled OligoLys with or without PEGylation was intravenously injected. Five minutes or 1 hour after the injection, earlobe dermis was observed using IVCLSM. (B) One-arm-PEG-OligoLys. (C) Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. (D) Non-PEGylated OligoLys. Arrowheads, capillary walls. Two-way arrows, capillary lumen.
When observing the earlobe dermis, a representative connective tissue, after intravenous injection of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, the fluorescence intensity of the blood vessel walls was comparable with that of the lumen (Fig. 2, B and C), indicating no PEGylated OligoLys attachment to the vessel walls of the earlobe. On the contrary, non-PEGylated OligoLys with approximately 28 Lys units was aligned to the vessel walls of the earlobe as early as 5 min after injection (Fig. 2D). Thus, the attachment of OligoLys to the vessel walls of a connective tissue was successfully avoided by PEGylation of OligoLys, presumably due to stealth properties of PEG.
In sharp contrast, both one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys were attached to the vessel walls of the liver sinusoid within 5 min after injection (Fig. 3, A and B). Quantitative analysis revealed a much higher fluorescence intensity of the sinusoidal wall compared with the lumen (Fig. 3, C and D). This observation indicates the successful PEG coating of the liver sinusoidal wall after the injection of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. These PEGylated OligoLys formulations attached more efficiently to the blood vessel walls of the liver compared with those of the connective tissue (Fig. 2, B and C). Such selective binding of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys to the liver sinusoidal wall may be attributed to the abundancy of anionic proteoglycans, such as heparan sulfate proteoglycans, present on the sinusoidal extracellular matrix, which can capture oligocations (33, 34), as well as to the high expression levels of scavenger receptors, which recognize cationic macromolecules, on sinusoidal cells (11).
Fig. 3 Attachment of PEG-OligoLys to liver sinusoidal wall and its clearance.
(A to D) IVCLSM images after injection of Alexa594-labeled one-arm-PEG-OligoLys (A) and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys (B). Green, autofluorescence of liver parenchyma. Red, one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. Presumable regions of bile canaliculi are encircled with white dotted lines. Intensity profiles of Alexa594 in the white arrows in (A) and (B) are shown in (C) and (D), respectively. (C) One-arm-PEG-OligoLys. (D) Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. (E) Bile ducts were visualized using 5-carboxyfluorescein (CF, green). Then, Alexa594-labeled two-arm-PEG-OligoLys (magenta) was injected for observation 7 hours later. Colocalization of these two colors is observed as white or cyan (encircled by yellow dotted lines). (F) Blood circulation profiles of PEG without OligoLys, and one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. n = 4. Data are shown as means ± SEM.
Biliary clearance of PEGylated OligoLys
The two-arm-PEG-OligoLys fluorescence signal at the sinusoidal wall gradually decreased and became almost undetectable at 6 hours or later after injection (Fig. 3, B and D), whereas one-arm-PEG-OligoLys remained localized to the sinusoidal wall even at 9 hours after injection, with a minimal decrease in the fluorescence intensity of the sinusoidal wall during the observation period (Fig. 3, A and C). Closer observation revealed that two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was progressively accumulated to the space between the hepatocytes (encircled with dotted lines in Fig. 3B) at 3 hours or later after injection, whereas one-arm-PEG-OligoLys exhibited an almost undetectable accumulation to that space even at 9 hours after injection. On the basis of its anatomical position, the space may correspond to the bile canaliculi, which collect the bile from hepatocytes for clearance through the bile ducts. To clarify this point, a fluorescent bile tracer, 5-carboxyfluorescein (CF), was injected 5 min before two-arm-PEG-OligoLys injection. The position of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys accumulation at 7 hours after injection was colocalized with that of CF, as observed in the white or cyan pixels in Fig. 3E, which resulted from the merging of green (CF) and magenta pixels (two-arm-PEG-OligoLys). These observations indicate the gradual biliary clearance of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys.
The clearance profile of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was additionally evaluated by observing their persistence in the blood circulation. While these two groups showed comparable blood circulation profile within 1 hour after injection, obvious differences were observed at 1 hour or later after injection (Fig. 3F); the blood concentration of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys gradually decreased, while that of one-arm-PEG-OligoLys remained almost constant. The blood concentrations of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys fit the two-compartment model with high R2 values, in which the polymers were administered into the central compartment and subsequently distributed into a tissue compartment (fig. S1 and table S1). These two formulations showed a comparable distribution phase half-life of around 15 min, with a comparable distribution rate constant (k12). This is consistent with the observation that both formulations similarly showed rapid binding to hepatic sinusoids. On the other hand, the elimination phase half-life of one-arm-PEG-OligoLys (13.3 hours) was much longer than that of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys (5.7 hours), which may reflect the different clearance behaviors of these two groups. The blood circulation profile of PEG without OligoLys conjugation fits the one-compartment model with high R2 values and presented a long half-life (19.8 hours). Without binding to vessel walls, this formulation may lack a distribution phase.
To obtain further mechanistic insights into the different behaviors between one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, these two formulations were coinjected into mice for IVCLSM observation of their distribution in the hepatic sinusoids after labeling one-arm-PEG-OligoLys with Alexa647 (fig. S2, red) and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys with Alexa594 (green). Both formulations showed comparable levels of liver sinusoidal accumulation at 5 min to 1 hour after injection (Fig. 4 and movie S1). This observation suggests that the binding affinity of these formulations to the sinusoids is comparable. In sharp contrast, fluorescence from two-arm-PEG-OligoLys in the sinusoidal wall became weak, especially 6 hours or later after injection, presumably through biliary clearance, while a strong fluorescence signal from one-arm-PEG-OligoLys was consistently observed in the wall. Eventually, the sinusoidal walls in the images gradually became red (one-arm-PEG-OligoLys), with green (two-arm-PEG-OligoLys) appearing in the presumable location of the bile canaliculi 6 hours or later after injection. This observation is consistent with that after the single injection of each formulation, with two-arm-PEG-OligoLys still gradually cleared in the presence of one-arm-PEG-OligoLys. Thus, one-arm-PEG-OligoLys may preserve the liver functionality of biliary clearance but failed to be cleared under these conditions.
Fig. 4 Coinjection of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys.
Alexa647-labeled one-arm-PEG-OligoLys (red) and Alexa594-labeled two-arm-PEG-OligoLys (green) were coinjected from the tail vein. (A) IVCLSM imaging of the liver. Presumable regions of bile canaliculi are encircled with white dotted lines. (B to D) Intensity profiles of Alexa594 and Alexa647 in the white arrows shown in (A). (B) 0.5 min, (C) 5 min, and (D) 6 hours after injection.
Toward safe usage of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, it is important to estimate its clearance rate. For this purpose, blood clearance profile of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was observed under its continuous intravenous infusion. In this experiment, bolus intravenous injection of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was performed at a dose of 1250 μg per mouse, which is the same as that used throughout this study. Subsequently, two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was infused at the rate reduced in a stepwise manner, to find the rate that allows the blood level of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys to be constant. Under such condition, the infusion rate of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys would be balanced with its clearance rate. The blood level of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was constant under the infusion rate of 1200 μg/hour per mouse and gradually decreased under the rate of 630 μg/hour per mouse (fig. S3). This result suggests that the clearance rate of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was approximately 1200 μg/hour per mouse. This clearance may occur mainly through the biliary pathway, as two-arm-PEG-OligoLys with molecular weight over 80 kDa is unlikely to be cleared through the renal pathway. Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys accumulation to the bile canaliculi was observed in intravital observation of the liver 3 hours or later after the injection (Fig. 3B). It is also worthy to note that the biliary clearance rate of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys (1200 μg/hour per mouse = 240 pmol/min per mouse) is comparable with that of cationic drugs (100 to 1000 pmol/min per mouse), as reported previously (38).
We then checked hemolysis and change in major biomarkers related to liver and kidney functions to estimate potential acute toxicity of injected polymers. Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, as well as one-arm-PEG-OligoLys, showed no ex vivo hemolytic activity (fig. S4) and no detectable changes in plasma levels of a general tissue damage marker [lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)], liver damage markers [aspartate aminotransaminase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT)], and kidney function markers [blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine (Cre)] after in vivo administration (table S2). On the other hand, non-PEGylated OligoLys induced a substantial level of hemolysis activity ex vivo and LDH release in vivo.
Together, the above results demonstrate that the clearance behavior of the PEGylated OligoLys was successfully controlled by fine-tuning of PEG configuration. PEGylated OligoLys formulations used for the transient stealth coating of liver sinusoidal wall should simultaneously meet the following two requisites: (i) sufficient and selective stealth coating of the liver sinusoidal wall for retargeting nanomedicines and (ii) ensured clearance from the sinusoidal wall for avoiding chronic disturbance of physiological functions due to accumulation of PEG-OligoLys in the body. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, both one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys attached to the sinusoidal walls selectively, meeting requisite (i). Worth noting is that two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was able to be cleared from the sinusoidal wall to the bile in several hours, while one-arm-PEG-OligoLys persisted on the wall even after 9 hours of the observation period. This result indicates that one-arm-PEG-OligoLys does not satisfy requisite (ii), which may induce safety concerns of chronic accumulation toxicity. Thus, we selected only two-arm-PEG-OligoLys for further examination devoted to evaluate redirecting efficacy of nanomedicines, demonstrating the enhanced gene expression of polyplex micelle (PM) and adeno-associated virus (AAV) in target tissues as described in the following sections.
Retargeting of pDNA nanoparticles from the liver sinusoid to the tumor
To evaluate the feasibility of the sinusoidal PEG coating strategy, we first selected PM loading plasmid DNA (pDNA) as a model nanomedicine (39, 40). PM was prepared by mixing pDNA with one-arm-PEG-poly(l-lysine) (PLys) block copolymers with a PEG Mw of 12 kDa and a PLys polymerization degree of 44, installed with thiol moieties in 50% of the lysine residues for environment-responsive cross-linking between the cationic segments of the block copolymers. The PM was composed of a PEG shell and a core containing condensed pDNA. Disulfide cross-linking in the core stabilizes PM in extracellular environments and is selectively cleaved in intracellular reductive environments for pDNA release. According to our previous report, despite the stealth and stabilized PM formulation, a large fraction of the PM was cleared from the blood circulation within 1 hour after systemic injection, with only 23% of the dose remaining in the blood at 1 hour after injection (40). Such a moderate level of stealthiness provides us with a good platform for the application of the sinusoidal PEG coating strategy to prolong the persistence of PM in the blood circulation.
PM showed a cumulant diameter of 112 nm with a polydispersity index (PDI) of 0.15 and an almost neutral ζ-potential of −1.5 mV, suggesting the successful formation of the core-shell structure, composed of a PEG shell and a core containing condensed pDNA. First, PM loading Cy5-labeled pDNA was intravenously injected into the mice without two-arm-PEG-OligoLys injection for IVCLSM observation of PM behavior in the liver. PM showed sinusoidal entrapment as early as 5 min after injection, despite the fact that PM was PEGylated (Fig. 5, A and C). When two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was preinjected into the mice 5 min before the PM injection, the sinusoidal entrapment of the PM was effectively prevented even at 1 hour after injection (Fig. 5, B and D). This process was more obviously visualized by labeling both of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys and PM, using Alexa594 for two-arm-PEG-OligoLys and Cy5-labeled pDNA for PM (fig. S5 and movie S2). Meanwhile, under continuous observation, PM preinjected with two-arm-PEG-OligoLys exhibited sinusoidal attachment to some extent at 3 hours after injection. This result is consistent with the gradual clearance of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys from the sinusoidal wall 3 hours after injection (Fig. 3, B and D).
Fig. 5 Delivery of pDNA PM after preinjection of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys.
Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was intravenously injected to coat liver sinusoidal wall with PEG, followed by the intravenous injection of PM loading pDNA 5 min later. (A and B) IVCLSM imaging of PM loading Cy5-labeled pDNA (red) in the liver without PEG coating of sinusoid (A) or with the coating (B). Intensity profiles of Cy5 in the white arrows in (A) and (B) are shown in (C) and (D), respectively [(C) without coating and (D) with coating]. (E) Blood circulation profiles of PM with or without PEG coating of sinusoidal wall. n = 4. (F) PM loading Luc-expressing pDNA was injected to tumor-bearing mice with or without preinjection of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. Luc expression in the tumor was measured 2 days after injection. n = 4. Data are shown as means ± SEM. Statistical analysis was performed using unpaired two-tailed Student’s t test.
The effect of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection on PM clearance was further evaluated by observing the blood circulation profile of PM. Without two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection, PM showed two phases of decrease in its blood concentration, with a rapid drop within 1 hour after injection, followed by a gradual decrease (Fig. 5E). The marked decrease in the PM blood concentration could be attributed to its tissue distribution, including the sinusoidal entrapment, as shown in Fig. 5, A and C. Such rapid PM clearance from the blood was effectively prevented by two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection, presumably via the prevention of sinusoidal PM clearance, as shown in Fig. 5, B and D.
These promising results motivated us to use our strategy for gene transfection at the tumor site, as the PM formulation used in this study provided successful outcomes in the antiangiogenic treatment of cancer in our previous reports (41, 42). PM loading luciferase (Luc) pDNA was intravenously injected into the mice bearing C26 murine colon carcinoma, 5 min after preinjection of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection resulted in a more than 10-fold increase in Luc expression efficiency in the tumor compared with the PM injection without two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection (Fig. 5F). The enhanced transfection expression efficiency of PM in the tumor after two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection could be attributed to the avoidance of PM sinusoidal entrapment, which may result in enhanced tumor accumulation of PM.
Relocation of viral gene vectors from the liver sinusoid to their target organs
Last, we applied the two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection approach to the administration of viral gene vectors, in which this technology is highly demanded. In particular, when organs other than the liver are targeted, sinusoidal entrapment of the vectors seriously hinders the ability of viruses to reach their target organs (14, 24), resulting in an increase in the viral dose, which then poses a safety problem. Although AAV is widely believed to be safe, high levels of toxicity have been observed in large animals after AAV administration at the dose that is required to obtain therapeutic levels of protein expression in the spine (43). Here, two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection was performed 5 min before injection with AAV8 to prevent the sinusoidal clearance of AAV8 and to relocate it to the heart and skeletal muscles, which are promising target organs for the therapeutic application of AAV8 (44). Three weeks after the delivery of AAV8 expressing Luc, two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection resulted in a decrease in the expression efficiency of Luc in the liver to 42% of the level observed without two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection (Fig. 6A). This result suggests the successful prevention of AAV8 entrapment in the liver by the PEG coating of the sinusoidal wall using two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection resulted in a significant increase in Luc expression in AAV8 target organs, a 4.3-fold increase in the heart (Fig. 6B), and a 2.3-fold increase in the skeletal muscles (Fig. 6C), respectively, presumably via the relocation of AAV8 from the liver sinusoids to these organs after sinusoidal PEG coating. This result demonstrates the effectiveness of our strategy in increasing the gene expression of viral vectors in their target organs, which will allow for a reduction in the dose of the vectors needed for gene therapy, thereby minimizing the safety concerns.
Fig. 6 AAV transfection after preinjection of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys.
Five minutes after intravenous injection of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys for PEG coating of liver sinusoidal wall, AAV8 expressing Luc was intravenously injected. Three weeks later, Luc expression in the liver (A), heart (B), and skeletal muscle (C) was measured. n = 6. Data are shown as means ± SEM. Statistical analysis was performed using unpaired two-tailed Student’s t test.
An important feature of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys for future clinical applications is its transient binding profile to the liver sinusoidal walls with a gradual clearance to the bile, providing an advantage in terms of safety over one-arm-PEG-OligoLys, which persisted in the sinusoidal wall. To obtain mechanistic insight into the differences between one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, first, the intrinsic biliary excretion profile of OligoLys without PEGylation was observed in the liver using IVCLSM. Non-PEGylated OligoLys exhibited a high accumulation to the presumable location of bile canaliculi, especially 3 hours or more after injection (fig. S6). This result indicates that OligoLys is intrinsically cleared to the bile, while this process is inhibited by single 80-kDa PEG chain conjugation to OligoLys but not by double 40-kDa PEG chain conjugation. Meanwhile, both one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys exhibited similar behavior in terms of their binding to the sinusoidal wall after coinjection (Fig. 4). Thus, binding affinity to the sinusoidal wall may not be a major factor for the differences between one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. Two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was cleared to the bile even after coinjection with one-arm-PEG-OligoLys, indicating that one-arm-PEG-OligoLys preserves the liver functionality of biliary clearance. Even under such conditions, one-arm-PEG-OligoLys still failed to be cleared.
Although detailed molecular analyses should be performed in the future to fully explain such clearance behavior of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, it is worth proposing a possible mechanism, based on the following two hypotheses. (i) Sinusoidal walls are densely coated with PEG. (ii) Biliary clearance of PEGylated OligoLys occurs via the endocytotic pathway, especially clathrin-mediated endocytosis, which is dominant in LSECs (11). On the basis of the radius of gyration, the diameter of 40-kDa and 80-kDa PEG is around 20 and 30 nm, respectively, which is close to the typical size of clathrin-coated vesicle (50 to 200 nm) (45, 46). When cell membrane is densely coated with PEG, such large PEG chains would overlap with each other after curving of cell membrane in endocytosis, and such overlapping between PEG exclusion volume is entropically unfavorable based on a scaling theory (47, 48). Here, we estimated the effect of PEG configuration on the overlapping volume using mathematical modeling, by assuming one-arm-PEG-OligoLys as one sphere of 80-kDa PEG and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys as two spheres of 40-kDa PEG, which densely coat the plasma membrane with a hexagonal lattice structure, without overlapping. In this model, curving of cell membrane in 50- to 200 nm-sized vesicles induces overlapping of PEG chains, with 80-kDa PEG providing more than threefold larger volume of the overlap compared with 40-kDa PEG (note S1). This calculation suggests that long single PEG chain (80 kDa) may not represent a suitable cargo of endocytotic vesicles to facilitate biliary excretion, while separation of PEG chains into two segments is effective in avoiding this issue.
Such transient coating of liver sinusoidal walls with two-arm-PEG-OligoLys allowed us to relocate nonviral and viral gene vectors from the sinusoidal wall to their target tissues, thereby improving the gene transfection efficiency in the tissues. With the ability to improve nanomedicine pharmacokinetics, this approach can be used not only to enhance the effect of nanomedicines but also to reduce the dose required to obtain these effects, which is particularly important for reducing the toxicity of viral gene therapy. While clearance behavior of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was evaluated in detail after its single bolus administration as well as under the continuous infusion for several hours (fig. S3), detailed examination of possible chronic toxicity due to polymer overloading upon multiple injections may be required in the future to translate this procedure of transient surface covering of sinusoids in clinics, because nanomedicines are administered repeatedly in many cases. Here, we faithfully focus on the configuration of PEG (linear versus two-arm branched) having the same total Mw of 80 kDa, yet optimization of total PEG Mw should also be addressed in the future for further optimal tuning of the liver sinusoidal coating to maximize the efficacy of nanomedicine therapy, with minimal influence on liver physiological functions. Our approach is versatile for combinational use with various nanomedicines, including synthetic and nature-derived nanomedicines, opening avenues for future nanotherapy and nanodiagnosis.
Synthesis and fluorescence labeling of OligoLys with or without PEGylation
OligoLys with or without PEGylation was synthesized via the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of Nε-trifluoroacetyl-l-lysine N-carboxyanhydride [l-Lys(TFA)-NCA, Chuo Kaseihin Co. Inc., Tokyo, Japan], as previously described for two-arm-PEG-OligoLys (49), one-arm-PEG-OligoLys (50), and non-PEGylated OligoLys (51). Briefly, for two-arm-PEG-OligoLys synthesis, two-arm-α-methoxy-ω-amino-PEG [two-arm-PEG-NH2, Mn (number-average molecular weight) = 2 × 40 kDa, NOF Corporation, Tokyo, Japan] was used as a macroinitiator for the ROP of l-Lys(TFA)-NCA to obtain two-arm-PEG-OligoLys(TFA). The molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys(TFA) was 1.04, according to size exclusion chromatography (SEC) (TOSOH HLC-8220; Tosoh Corp., Tokyo, Japan). The TFA groups were deprotected to obtain two-arm-PEG-OligoLys. The degree of polymerization (DP) of OligoLys in two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was 19, according to 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum (JEOL ECS 400; JEOL, Tokyo, Japan). For one-arm-PEG-OligoLys synthesis, one-arm-PEG-OligoLys(TFA) was synthesized using one-arm-α-methoxy-ω-amino-PEG (one-arm-PEG-NH2, Mn = 83 kDa) as a macroinitiator of ROP of l-Lys(TFA)-NCA and exhibited Mw/Mn of 1.06 in SEC analysis. One-arm-PEG-OligoLys, obtained after the deprotection of TFA groups, showed an OligoLys DP of 21 in 1H NMR. For non-PEGylated OligoLys synthesis, OligoLys(TFA) was synthesized by ROP of l-Lys(TFA)-NCA using n-butylamine (TCI Chemicals Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) as an initiator, followed by the deprotection of TFA groups to obtain OligoLys. The DP of OligoLys was 28, according to the 1H NMR spectrum. The fluorescence labeling of OligoLys with or without PEGylation was performed as previously described (49). Briefly, one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys and non-PEGylated OligoLys were labeled with a single molecule of Alexa dye at OligoLys at the main chain end the ω-NH2 group before deprotecting the TFA groups using the N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) ester of Alexa Fluor 594 or 647 (Thermo Fischer Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. For injection, OligoLys with or without PEGylation, with or without fluorescence labeling, was dissolved in 10 mM Hepes buffer containing 150 mM NaCl (pH 7.3).
Ethical compliance for animal experiments
All animal experimental procedures were approved and conducted in compliance with the Institutional Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals as stated by the Animal Committee of the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM).
Intravital observation of earlobe and liver
All of the intravital observations in this study were performed using IVCLSM, an A1R confocal laser scanning microscope (Nikon Corp., Tokyo, Japan), connected to an upright ECLIPSE FN1 (Nikon Corp.), using the following settings. The pinhole diameter was set to obtain a 10-μm optical slice. BALB/c mice (6 weeks old, female, 18 to 20 g, Charles River Laboratories Inc., Yokohama, Japan) were anesthetized with 2.5% isoflurane (Abbott Japan Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) using a NARCOBIT-E Univenter 400 Anaesthesia Unit (Natsume Seisakucho Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan). The anesthetized mice were placed onto a temperature-controlled plate (Thermoplate; Tokai Hit Co. Ltd., Shizuoka, Japan) with the temperature set to 37°C.
For the observation of blood vessels in the earlobe dermis, the earlobe was fixed using a drop of immersion oil beneath the coverslip. For the observation of the liver, the liver was surgically exposed and glued directly to the cover glass using a drop of oil. Fluorescence-labeled OligoLys with or without PEGylation was intravenously injected through a catheter inserted into the lateral tail vein slowly in approximately 30 s at the dose of 15 nmol per mouse (1.25 mg per mouse for one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys and 0.05 mg per mouse for non-PEGylated OligoLys). Throughout the study, the autofluorescence signal of liver parenchyma was excited using a 405-nm laser and detected using a 450/50-nm bandpass emission filter. Alexa594 was excited using a 561-nm laser and detected using a 595/50 bandpass emission filter. Alexa647 was excited using a 640-nm laser and detected using a 700/50-nm bandpass emission filter. A 40× objective lens was used for liver imaging, while a 20× objective lens was used for earlobe imaging. Images were processed using NIS-Elements software (Nikon Corp.) for the quantification of fluorescence intensity. The fluorescence intensity of each pixel in the line charts was calculated after subtracting the background fluorescence intensity, which was measured using the images obtained 10 s before sample injection.
Bile duct imaging
CF diacetate (CFDA, TCI Chemicals Co. Ltd.) was intravenously injected at a dose of 0.2 mg/kg. Five minutes later, a liver image was obtained using IVCLSM, by exciting CFDA using a 488-nm laser and detecting the fluorescence using a 520/50-nm bandpass emission filter. Immediately after the CFDA imaging, two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was intravenously injected for liver imaging 7 hours later, as described in the previous section.
Evaluation of blood circulation profile
The blood circulation profile of fluorescence-labeled OligoLys with or without PEGylation was quantified by measuring the fluorescence intensity of the blood vessel lumen in the earlobe after injection of the samples, as described in our previous report (49). Briefly, the fluorescence intensity in the region of interest (ROI) in the vein was measured at each time point, followed by the subtraction of the background fluorescence intensity obtained 10 s before the injection. The value obtained for each time point was standardized with the maximum fluorescence intensity of the ROI during the observation period.
Coinjection of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys
In the coinjection of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, a mixture of 1.25 mg per mouse of Alexa647-labeled one-arm-PEG-OligoLys and 1.25 mg per mouse of Alexa594-labeled two-arm-PEG-OligoLys was injected from the tail vein. The parenchymal autofluorescence and fluorescence signal from Alexa594 and Alexa647 was detected as described in the “Intravital observation of earlobe and liver” section. After subtracting the background fluorescence intensity, which was measured using the images obtained 10 s before the sample injection, the fluorescence intensity of Alexa594 and Alexa647 was standardized on the basis of the intensity of fluorescence in the blood vessel lumen at 30 s after injection, set to 100% in Fig. 4 (B to D). The attachment of one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys to the sinusoidal wall was almost unobservable at 30 s after injection (Fig. 4, A and B).
Blood examination
OligoLys with or without PEGylation was injected into the tail vein at the same dose as for intravital imaging above (1.25 mg per mouse for one- and two-arm-PEG-OligoLys and 0.05 mg per mouse for non-PEGylated OligoLys). Blood was collected from the mice 4 hours after injection to examine the plasma using a DRI-CHEM 7000i system (Fujifilm, Tokyo, Japan).
Ex vivo hemolysis assay
Mouse blood was centrifuged at 500g for 5 min to sediment the blood cells, followed by washing with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS; pH 7.4) twice. Red blood cells (RBCs) collected from 1 ml of the blood were suspended in 20 ml of PBS. One volume of OligoLys with or without PEGylation was added to 10 volumes of the RBC suspension. The final concentration of OligoLys with or without PEGylation was adjusted to 7.5 pM, which is the same as the calculated concentration of OligoLys in the blood when OligoLys injected at the dose used in intravital imaging above was evenly distributed in 2 ml of mouse blood. The mixture was incubated at 37°C for 1 hour, followed by centrifugation at 500g for 5 min. The absorbance of the supernatant at 405 nm was measured using Microplate Reader Infinite M1000 Pro (Tecan Japan Co. Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan) to quantify the amount of hemoglobin. A mixture of one volume of Triton X-100 (20% v/v) and 10 volumes of RBC suspension was sonicated for use as a positive control (exhibits 100% activity of hemolysis). The absorbance value of each sample was compared to the value obtained for the positive control.
Synthesis of thiol-introduced PEG-PLys
PEG-PLys, used for constructing PM as described in the following section, was synthesized via ROP of l-Lys(TFA)-NCA using PEG-NH2 (Mn = 12 kDa) (NOF Corporation) as a macroinitiator. The Mw/Mn of PEG-PLys(TFA) was 1.05 according to SEC. The DP of PLys in PEG-PLys was 44, based on the 1H NMR spectrum. The 1-imino-4-mercaptobutyl (IM) groups were introduced onto the side-chain ε-amino groups of the lysine units of the PLys segment in PEG-PLys [PEG-PLys(IM)] using 2-iminothiolane (Thermo Fischer Scientific), according to a previous report (39). The introduction ratio of IM in the total NH2 groups in the original PEG-PLys was 50%, according to the 1H NMR.
Preparation and characterization of PM
A pDNA expressing Luc, pCAG-Luc2, was constructed by cloning the Luc coding sequence of pGL4.13 vector (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) into the pCAG-GS vector (RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan). PM was prepared from PEG-PLys(IM) and pCAG-Luc2 pDNA at [amino groups in PEG-PLys(IM) (N)] to [phosphate groups in pDNA (P)] (N/P) ratio of 2, as previously reported (39).
The dynamic light scattering (DLS) and ζ-potential measurements were measured using a Zetasizer Nano ZS ZEN3500 (Malvern Instruments Ltd., Worcestershire, UK). For these measurements, the pDNA concentration was adjusted to 33.3 μg/ml, dissolved in 10 mM Hepes buffer containing 150 mM NaCl for DLS measurement and in 10 mM Hepes buffer without NaCl addition for ζ-potential measurements. The hydrodynamic diameter (DH) and PDI of PM were evaluated using DLS at a detection angle of 173° and a temperature of 25°C using cumulant methods. The ζ-potential was measured with electrophoretic light scattering at 37°C using Smoluchowski’s equation.
For injection, the pDNA concentration was adjusted to 100 μg/ml with a final concentration of Hepes and NaCl of 10 and 150 mM, respectively.
PM observation using IVCLSM
For the intravital imaging of PM, pCAG-Luc2 pDNA was labeled with Cy5 using the Label IT Tracker Intracellular Nucleic Acid Localization Kit (Mirus Bio Corp., Madison, WI). PM loading Cy5-labeled pCAG-Luc2 pDNA was intravenously injected into the tail vein at the dose of 20 μg per mouse 5 min after the intravenous preinjection of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys at a dose of 1.25 mg per mouse. The control mice were injected with 10 mM Hepes buffer containing 150 mM NaCl (pH 7.3) instead of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys solution before PM injection. Liver imaging and the evaluation of the blood circulation profile were performed, as described in the “Intravital observation of earlobe and liver” and “Evaluation of blood circulation profile” sections, respectively.
PM injection into tumor-bearing mice
Murine colon adenocarcinoma 26 (C26) cells were obtained from the National Cancer Center (Tokyo, Japan) and cultured in high-glucose Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum. C26 cells (5 × 106 cells per mouse) were inoculated into subcutaneous tissue in the right rear flank of BALB/c nu/nu mice (7 weeks old, female, Charles River Laboratories). Mice with tumors of approximately 100 mm3 were intravenously injected with PM loading 20 μg of pCAG-Luc2 pDNA, with or without two-arm-PEG-OligoLys preinjection, as described in the previous section. Tumors were harvested 48 hours after PM injection. The extracted tumor was homogenized using Multibeads Shocker in passive lysis buffer (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), followed by a Luc assay using a Luciferase Assay System (Promega) and Lumat LB9507 (Berthold Technologies, Bad Wildbad, Germany). The luminescence intensity values were normalized to the total protein amount in the homogenates determined by the Micro BCA Protein Assay Reagent Kit (Thermo Fischer Scientific). The values were presented after subtracting the background values obtained from the tumors harvested from mice without PM injection.
Luc expression after AAV8 injection
BALB/c mice (6 weeks old, female, Charles River Laboratories) were intravenously injected with 1.25 mg of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, followed by the injection of AAV8 encoding firefly Luc driven by the CMV-IVS promoter (Vector Biolabs, Malvern, PA, USA) at the dose of 2.5 × 1011 viral genomes per mouse, sequentially at 5-min intervals. For the control mice, 10 mM Hepes buffer containing 150 mM NaCl (pH7.3), instead of two-arm-PEG-OligoLys, was injected before the AAV injection. Three weeks after AAV8 injection, the liver, heart, and muscles from the backside were excised. The Luc assay and data were analyzed as described in the previous section for the quantification of Luc expression in the tumor tissue.
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Acknowledgments: We thank M. Kuronuma and Y. Satoh (Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion) for technical assistance. Funding: This research was supported financially by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) through the Center of Innovation (COI) Program [Center of Open Innovation Network for Smart Health (COINS) (grant number JPMJCE1305)], Research on the Innovative Development and the Practical Application of New Drugs for Hepatitis B from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) (JP17fk0310111 to K.K.), and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (18 K03529 to S.U.) and for Early-Career Scientist (18 K18393 to A.D.) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT). Author contributions: A.D., S.U., and K.K conceived the idea, designed all the experiments, and wrote the manuscript. A.D. performed all the experiments. K.T. helped with the IVCLSM experiments. S.A. performed the pharmacokinetic analysis. H.K. assisted with the virus experiment. S.F. helped with synthesis of the oligocations. J.L., S.O., T.A.T., X.L., K.H., and Y.M. contributed in the other experiments. K.O. discussed the experimental data. S.U. and K.K. supervised the whole project. Competing interests: K.K. is a founder and a scientific advisor of AccuRna Inc. The remaining authors declare that they have no conflict of interests. PCT patent pending: Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion (K.K., S.O., S.U., K.H., A.D., and K.T). Date: 12 March 2019; serial numbers: PCT/JP2019/009919. JP patent pending: Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion (K.K., S.O., S.U., K.H., and K.O). Date: 19 November 2019; serial numbers: JP2019/520319. Data and materials availability: All experimental data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Additional data related to this paper may be requested are from the authors.
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You are going to email the following Transient stealth coating of liver sinusoidal wall by anchoring two-armed PEG for retargeting nanomedicines
By Anjaneyulu Dirisala, Satoshi Uchida, Kazuko Toh, Junjie Li, Shigehito Osawa, Theofilus A. Tockary, Xueying Liu, Saed Abbasi, Kotaro Hayashi, Yuki Mochida, Shigeto Fukushima, Hiroaki Kinoh, Kensuke Osada, Kazunori Kataoka
Science Advances 26 Jun 2020 : eabb8133
Transient in situ stealth coating of liver sinusoids using two-armed PEG relocates nanomedicines from the liver to their targets.
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