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__label__cc	0.647343	0.352657	24 Hour Library A Library Blog by Abby Hargreaves Work and Projects SJSU MLIS ePortfolio Competency A Competency B Competency C Competency D Competency E Competency F Competency G Competency H Competency I Competency J Competency K Competency L Competency M Competency N Abby Reads: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo January 6, 2018 / abbyrhargreaves / 1 Comment Henry Holt and Co., 2015, 480 pages Offered the opportunity of a lifetime, Kaz Brekker knows he has to pull together the best possible team to pull of the most ridiculous heist ever attempted. It’s hard enough with antagonists after the team left and right, but with a team that can’t get along with itself, the caper is even more difficult. Relationships old and new appear in Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows, set in a world familiar to readers of her other books. Okay — let me be completely honest: I didn’t really know what was going on for 90% of this book. It’s a hefty object in hardcover, though I was surprised to find it was only 480 pages when I checked for the data above. It felt like at least 600. Six of Crows has an interesting premise and its fans love the characters and root for their favorite couples. I would, too, I think, if it weren’t for the fact that it was like walking through molasses mixed with superglue to read. Six of Crows is especially slow at the beginning as Bardugo introduces readers to her main characters and their motivations. When the group finally gets together, they are rarely all present on the same page, making it difficult to see how they really operate as a team. The plot is burdened not only by its slow pace, but by its seeming lack of stakes. Though Kaz and his crew are clearly motivated to receive their rewards for the heist (which I’m still not clear on the details for), the stakes never felt particularly high or driving. This lack of drive might come from the lack of clarity I struggled with so much, but regardless, it had a serious impact on how interesting I found the book. Adding to the slow pace of the plot is a narration style that is overly stylized. While this might have been appropriate for a shorter work, Six of Crows is already weighed down with a slow plot and a whole lot of world building (not to mention characters who are guarded — I’ll get to that). Although the prose might help suggest the sort-of-steampunk setting, it doesn’t do so enough to warrant how severely entrenched the style is. Bardugo does produce an interesting round of characters, to some degree. Nina and Matthias, in particular, are both characters who often behave in unexpected ways and play off each other nicely. This is heightened by a fascinating backstory (which is perhaps part of her other series? I’m not familiar and can’t say.) that is touched on here and there throughout Six of Crows. The pair have a realistic and smoldering sort of chemistry, which left me skimming through pages just to reach scenes that featured them together. Meanwhile, Kaz, for all his Tumblr fans, seems awfully simplistic in his jaded ways and, beyond Kaz, Inej, Matthias, and Nina, none of the other characters are terribly memorable (including the two other main characters, Wylan and Jesper, both of whose names I forgot multiple times while reading). Despite the decided cliffhanger at the end of the novel, Six of Crows didn’t compel me to run out for the next in the series, Crooked Kingdom. While I’d consider returning for the sequel, it’s not at the top of my list and it has some serious redeeming to do for Six of Crows in my book. I read this book as part of Book Riot’s 2017 Read Harder Challenge, fulfilling challenge #12, “Read a fantasy novel,” and I leave it behind with two-and-a-half hearts. ❤❤💔 out of ❤❤❤❤❤ Abby Reads fantasyreviewsyoung adult Abby Reads: Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour Abby Reads: In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero Reading Challenges: Book Riot’s 2017 Read Harder Challenge – 24 Hour Library 1 heart 1.5 hearts 2 hearts 2.5 hearts 3 hearts 3.5 hearts 4 hearts 4.5 hearts 5 hearts advice assignments autobiographies and memoirs biographies bulletin boards classics contemporary classics displays essays fantasy fiction re goals graphic novels hacks historical fiction horror humor information communities juvenile libr 200 librarians libraries nonfiction pathfinders pro talk reading challenges realistic fiction reviews romance safe spaces sci-fi science fiction technology thrillers young adult youth services Abby Reads: If I’m Being Honest by Emily Wibberly and Austin Siegemund-Broka Abby Reads: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo Abby Reads: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur Abby Reads: Bird Box by Josh Malerman Pro Talk: How to Read More Books © 2021 24 Hour Library	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line1
__label__cc	0.748554	0.251446	1 Thèses et Mémoires Faculté des Sciences de la technologie Magistère (Génie civil) Comportement de structures en portiques après la rupture d'un poteau de base. RAC5397.pdf (957.0Kb) Rached, Bader Samai, M.L. The research theme has reference to obtaining of the instantaneous image of a multi-bays multi-storeys structure after the accidental damage of a lower column. This instantaneous image, in fact, is represented by the bending moments diagram just after the accidental collapse. Obtaining of this bending moments diagram is not an easy matter to achieve; it requires the use of the concepts of the plastic analysis of the structures that cannot be ignored and a series of retro-analyses. Indeed the bending moment diagram of any structure depends to the nature of the loading and the conditions of supports with the assumption that the behaviour is elastic everywhere through the structure. Actually, after the damage of a column, this diagram of the bending moments will emphasize ineluctably sections or whole zones where the moments are higher than the respective plastic moments. This is being right for a mathematical point of view but impossible for a physical point of view. Three storeys-three bays basic frame was selected in order to study the case of the damage of a central column and an edge column. The results obtained after the series of retro-analyses were encouraging. In addition, two other frames one with a storey in more and the other with an additional bay were analyzed. The study in a first time related to the determination of truths collapse mechanisms for the three frames retained by using the method “pushover”. These same frames were reanalyzes after the damage of a central column and an edge column by using the same method and with a series of retro-analyses until obtaining the instantaneous image after the damage. The study was also relates to the study of the effects of some influential parameters such as the variation of the ratio α = V/H, the variation of the ratio Geometrical-mechanic l/M pb, the form of rise in the frame, the position of the damaged column. The results obtained were presented in graphic form by the construction of interaction diagrams, whereas these diagrams are recommended in the literature only for simple frames "single bay – single storey". The instantaneous images of the damaged frames revealed that, to in no case, it could be have a total collapse, however partial collapses (elementary mechanisms) were observed with some localised disorders http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7135 Magistère (Génie civil) [67] All of ArchivesCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line7
__label__cc	0.559073	0.440927	Primate Religion & Human Consciousness An Honors Seminar in the Neuroanthropology & Evolution of Religion Author: awhunt1 Excessively playing video games good or bad, or both? 21 Author awhunt1Published on March 11, 2014 21 Comments on Excessively playing video games good or bad, or both? Have you ever been so absorbed in a video game that you lose track of time? One moment its noon and the next thing you know the moonlight is shining through the windows. This is not uncommon to many, our lives are filled with all sorts of video games, from the Sims to World of Warcraft. In fact, several researchers studied the positive and negative effects video games, in particular World of Warcraft, had on gamers. Apparently getting immersed in such a visually stimulating game as WoW can have both good and bad impacts on health. Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, H.J. Francois Dengah II, Jesse Fagan, and David E. Most studied the dissociation or immersion of those playing WoW. What's really going on in our brains while playing? Snodgrass and friends identify absorption as becoming unaware of the environment around them and time perception maybe altered. According to Snodrass it is commonly accepted that being absorbed in something is healthy. Most people become absorbed in things on a daily basis, for example reading a good book. On the other hand there is the extreme version of this absorption called dissociative identity disorder or DID. This extreme detachment from the real world combined with amnesia, depersonalization, and de-realization have caused some scholars to diagnosed DID as a mental disorder. It is common for many people to become absorbed in things that give relief from the stresses of life. Except those that have DID use absorption to avoid stress. Snodgrass goes on to describe the ways in which researchers are reacting to the good feeling benefits of dissociation. One such approach is looking at the neurobiology involved, which in lay man’s terms means examining the brain’s lack of attention to the world around it. Then measuring the reactions of the stressors to the environment in relation to health benefits. An example of this is meditation. Another belief is that being in these “feel-good” states releases endorphins. Other researchers have focused on the effects dopamine (which is connected to the brain’s reward system) and stress have on addictions to harmful subsistences. They study the amount of stress hormones such as glucocorticoids cortisol have in short-term and long-term situations. The results showed that with short-term stress an increase in dopamine allowed people to feel focused and alert. While in a long-term situation it led to an opposite effect. Causing those under chronic stress to need more feel-good activities and becoming more susceptible to subsistences abuse. Snodgrass's Angle Snodgrass hypothesized that those who became absorbed in WoW could show the same mental states as other dissociates. He believes that those who become dissociative show both good and bad mental health depending on the players’ stress levels. Research and Methods Snodgrass and Co. used several methods for collecting data, they played the game, watched and interviewed other players. Three of the researchers hung out and played WoW excessively so as to better understand the effects of the game’s environment on their surroundings. They discovered that at some points it was a source of stress relieve while at other times it was the source of stress. They interviewed 30 gamers and split their data into three groups. One focused on the individuals’ motivations and goals, favorite and less favorite aspects of the game. Then gamers further described their positive and negative experiences when playing WoW. The third part was the cultural success in the both the game world and the real world. In addition, Snodgrass conducted a Web Survey with three scales. The first measured individuals’ levels of absorption using the Tellegen Absorption Scale and the Dissociative Experience Scale.They were asked to describe to what extent they became absorbed into the world of WoW. The second part measured how playing WoW negatively impacted their real-world lives. The last part asked the gamers to measure the extent WoW added to their happiness. Table 2 shows that 30% became so absorbed in the game that they blocked out the world around them. While, two-thirds said that losing track of time was also common, but that the virtual world of WoW felt real to them. In fact, many believe that the happenings in this fictional world were more memorable than events in their actual lives. Some even feel as though they truly are their characters. Table 3 focuses on the effects WoW has on players. Half of those surveyed said that the game actually increased their happiness. Many more found that the game was relaxing and helped release stress, increasing their life satisfaction. Oddly, most of those surveyed said that WoW didn’t increase stress, but one-third did agree that to a degree it did add to stress. Half did admit to being addicted to the game. Pretty eh? While doing research Snodgrass observed that many players found the world to be visually pleasing, vivid, and even seemed real. Many people, including the researchers preferred to be called by their character’s name while playing. In fact, the researchers found themselves unconsciously referring to each other with these made up names outside of playing WoW. Many of the players experienced the good benefits from being absorbed in a game. The researchers interfered that these players achieved positive dissociation from moving away from their stressors. Some even reached a meditative state. At the opposite spectrum the game was creating stress for some players.While many players started playing to avoid stress, yet found themselves being so immersed that they neglected every day responsibilities, creating more stress. Over time these players needed to spend more and more time in this fictional world to get the “good-feelings” from the game. Dissociation in WoW leads to both positive and negative mental wellbeing. Some people find WoW to be therapeutic, contributing to their over-all happiness and mental health. While others become so addicted to the game and found themselves unable to leave the game. Snodgrass believes that over-all playing WoW is not necessarily a bad thing and that it can actually be a healthy thing, relieving stress for most players. Published on March 11, 2014 Author awhunt1Categories Altered Consciousness, Dissociation21 Comments on Excessively playing video games good or bad, or both? 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__label__cc	0.70233	0.29767	Bismillah Electricals SPIE completes £6.4m refurbishment contract for Sidney Webb House UncategorizedBy adminevo September 30, 2017 39 Comments SPIE UK was awarded a £6.4m contract with Unite Students the leading provider of student accommodation in the UK, providing homes for 50,000 students across 28 cities, for the refurbishment of Sidney Webb House, a student accommodation building at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). As Principal Contractor and designer, SPIE has… REO UK Urges Renewable Energy Reform Power quality specialist REO UK is urging businesses to take another look at their relationship with renewable energy. The company has released a white paper which explores the state of the renewable energy sector. 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The launch brings… 23456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160161 Scolmore in the smart home market. Opening the door for the young in unemployment. Leeds improving the safety of residents with HomeLINK. Late night orders for next day delivery are no problem for tradespeople. Lady Fatima al-Zahra in Words of Infallibles. Blakewood Close Cottsmeadow Estate Shard End Birmingham B34 6TT E-mail: info@bismillahelectricalmaintenance.co.uk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line16
__label__wiki	0.629565	0.629565	mandag 11. mai 2020 Wuhan lab chiefs insist facility is secure as coronavirus claims circulate Leading officials at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have insisted they adhere to strict security standards following claims the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 originated from the lab. The facility includes a level four laboratory – the highest biosecurity level – which is authorised to carry out research on the most dangerous pathogens, such as Ebola, West African Lassa virus and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever viruses. Scientists have dismissed the possibility that the virus was engineered but the theory that it accidentally leaked from the lab continues to circulate, with US President Donald Trump saying he had seen evidence to support the claim. “We have adopted a series of measures to ensure no virus can leave our lab,” Yuan Zhiming, director of Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, told Science and Technology Daily on Sunday.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.753179	0.753179	Bears Berlin e.V. » BEARS Guestbook » Feedback » are five really good years in there, t #1 are five really good years in there, t von lebaobei123 11.04.2019 03:22 Every night of the Stanley Cup playoffs, TSN hockey analyst and former NHL goaltender Jamie McLennan breaks down each goalies performance. Jamies number grades given are out of five, with five being the best mark. Tuukka Rask, Boston Bruins (3) - He was sharp on Wednesday night with big saves in the first period on Brian Gionta and Brendan Gallagher and had no chance on the backdoor goal by Dale Weise. He also had huge saves in the second on Brian Gionta twice, Rene Bourque and the Thomas Vanek/Kevan Miller deflection. He kept it close with no chance on the backdoor max Pacioretty goal and kept it at 2-1 on a huge save on Andrei Markov. There was no chance on the deflection off of Chara in the third. Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens (5) - Price was dialed in all night with good saves on Jarome Iginla and Loui Eriksson and it looked easy because of his positioning. The statement save was on Patrice Bergeron with a 2-on-1 in the second. There was nothing to shoot at and it forced him to make a bad play. And he was sharp again in third when Bruins had a big push. You could feel that he wasnt going to lose this game. He outduelled Rask head-to-head and came out on top. John Gibson, Anaheim Ducks (3) - He had no chance on the Jake Muzzin goal, as it was a backdoor play and made good saves on Justin Williams and Anze Kopitar in the first. He allowed a bad goal to Trevor Lewis in second period which may have touched Bryan Allens skate, but it still goes through the five-hole. He also had a huge save on Doughty to keep it at 2-1. He was solid, but the difference was one soft goal and we are going to a Game 7. Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles Kings (5) - He had big saves on Lindholm, Koivu and Palmieri in this game. On the Palmieri goal, he was late to get across and tried to use flexibility with no push on it. His save on Devante Smith-Pelley in the last minute was vintage Quick, as he scrambled and got to post. The last second sequence was a true battle in the crease and he held up. Outstanding. Air Max Nz Wholesale . Lack replaced an injured Roberto Luongo late in the first period then watched defenceman Chris Tanev score the winning goal midway through the third as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Jets 2-1 in a tight NHL game. Cheap Air Max Nz Sale . He managed to save par, and went on to put together his best opening round of the year. Calcavecchia and Wes Short Jr. http://www.cheapairmaxnz.com/. PETERSBURG, Fla. Cheap Air Max Nz . But qualifying for her first Scotties Tournament of Hearts after years of falling short in tough Manitoba provincial championships is as good as consolation prizes get for the 29-year-old from Winnipegs Fort Rouge Curling Club. Cheap Air Max Nz Online .C. - NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick headlines this years electees into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.Its not the first time that the New York Yankees have raided the Boston Red Sox for a free agent outfielder -- Johnny Damon comes to mind -- and the Bronx Bombers werent shy about offering big money for an outfielder that is a premier base stealer, when healthy. Numbers Game looks at the Yankees addition of Jacoby Ellsbury. The Yankees Get: CF Jacoby Ellsbury. Ellsbury, 30, has been a productive player when healthy, a career .297 hitter who has led the American League in steals three times. However, hes missed a lot of time -- 264 games to be precise -- over the last four seasons, which makes a long-term investment risky, particularly for a player on the north side of 30 years of age. While Ellsbury had a 32-home-run season in 2011, thats the only season of his career in which hes finished with more than 10 home runs so, even in new Yankee Stadium, which plays well to lefthanded hitters, its not likely that Ellsbury will be a significant power threat. He could hit double figures in home runs, but its a long way from 10 or 12 to 30-plus. But, a little power to go with tremendous base-stealing ability makes Ellsbury an asset offensively. Over the course of his career, he has stolen 241 bases in 287 attempts (83.9%), including a ridiculous 52 in 56 attempts (92.9%) last season. The question, on top of whether Ellsbury can stay healthy, is for how much longer can he be that top-of-the-order base-stealing threat? Is it three years? Five? Given Ellsburys speed on the bases, it should come as little surprise that he covers a lot of ground in centre field. Over the last four seasons, he ranks among the Top 10 centre fielders with 25 Defensive Runs Saved, while ranking sixth in Ultimate Zone Rating.dddddddddddd Putting Ellsbury in centre field, moving Brett Gardner back to left field and Ichiro Suzuki in right will give the Yankees exceptional range in the outfield and ought to help their pitching staff to some degree. Despite his injuries, Ellsbury has accumulated a fWAR of 22.4 since 2008, which ranks fourth among centre fielders. The odds are that, over the course of the deal, there will be years that the Yankees regret because injury and/or age prevent Ellsbury from contributing like he has to this point in his career, but if there are five really good years in there, then that might be enough for the Yankees. A healthy Ellsbury improves their chances of returning to the postseason. The Red Sox are likely to move Shane Victorino to centre field to make up for the loss of Ellsbury and they could still be active in the free agent market looking for a corner outfielder. Additionally, prospect Jackie Bradley Jr. could be ready for another chance to stick as an every day player in the majors. Signed for seven years and $153-million, with an option for an eighth year that would run the contract to $169-million, Ellsbury is the latest in a long line of lucrative Yankees free agent signings, many of which have not panned out, but its only money and the Yankees generate enough of it that they can afford to swing and miss every so often, particularly with the chance to hit a proverbial home run. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. ' ' '	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line22
__label__wiki	0.892418	0.892418	Neymar regrets joining PSG – Report Added by rauf shola November 13, 2017 The Brazilian striker, signed for a world record £198m only this summer, has apparently said as much to former Barcelona team-mates, The Sun reports. Marcelo Bechler, the journalist who first told of Neymar’s desperation to leave the Nou Camp, has now moved the story way on with his latest revelation. Apparently, Neymar has confided in Gerard Pique and Luis Suarez and told them he wishes he hadn’t moved to Paris. The 25-year-old has certainly begun with a bang in front of goal with 11 in his first 12 appearances. He’s also picked up seven yellow cards and one red. Speaking on Onda Cero’s ‘El Transistor’ programme, Bechler claimed Neymar is struggling to win over the dressing room. He said, “There are a lot of high-ranking players in the dressing room, such as (Edinson) Cavani and (Angel) Di Maria, and they have found Neymar’s behaviour in these first month strange. “The relationship between Neymar and (Unai) Emery is distant, as it is with some players. “Yet PSG are clear that anybody else would have to leave before Neymar goes.” He added, “It would be easier for him to go to Real Madrid than return to Barcelona. “(Neymar) wouldn’t consider that a betrayal. “But right now this is just speculation.” The Brazil star broke down in tears this week as he insisted he was happy in the French capital. He said, “There is nothing bothering me at my club. “I’m here because I asked to be here. It’s going really well (in Paris), I’m really happy here and motivated. I’m a player who wants to give everything on the pitch.” ENTERTAINMENT News Sport Court Sentences Okah To Life Imprisonment Alleged suspected mastermind of October 1st bomb in Abuja, Charles Okah (M) walking out of the court room at the Federal High Court, Abuja with one Nwabueze Obi, who is also standing trail alongside, Okah, on charges bordering on conspiracy Billionaire Femi Otedola Caught Taking A Ride In ‘Molue’ (Video) Billionaire businessman, entrepreneur and chairman of Forte Oil PLC, Femi Otedola has taken to social media on Wednesday to share a video of himself on a public bus, popularly called “Molue”, in Lagos. The video captured the oil magnate on Fani-Kayode Condemns Documentary On President Buhari Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode has condemned the documentary by the presidency on the “human side” of President Muhammadu Buhari. In a post on his Twitter page, he said the release of the documentary implied that there is an	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line27
__label__wiki	0.529444	0.529444	More lies, another war, the death toll soars -- by John Sugg "Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all this time, and all of this sacrifice, and of all this support, there is no end in sight, then I say for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past."-- Richard Nixon, 1968 In August 1939, German soldiers dressed as Poles seized a German radio station and broadcast an inflammatory message. It was the justification the Nazis cited for launching what would become World War II. Six years later, what began as a "false flag" provocation ended after the deaths of 48 million people. In August 1964, the United States claimed North Vietnamese boats had attacked two of our destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. The uncritical press -- practicing "war enabling" that would be the norm by the time George W. Bush became president -- trumpeted the administration spin. The New York Times, for example, reported: "President Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and 'certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam' after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin." Decades later, a book by investigative author Tom Wells, The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam, detailed elements of Johnson's lie. Rather than a "response" to provocation, LBJ's escalation really "reflected plans the administration had already drawn up for gradually increasing" attacks on North Vietnam. We wanted all-out war and we got it, based on a lie, at the cost of 50,000 American lives and 2 million, maybe 3 million, Vietnamese. And, so now in August 2006, we learn -- if we're diligent because newspapers such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are burying the story or not printing it at all -- that the destruction of a democracy, Lebanon, was not mere "tit for tat" by Israel. You Say Potato, I Say Hyperbole I think it fair to say that Dean Mundy, author of the blog Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative, and a part-time community columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is widely respected on both the left and right sides of the cheddarsphere. I know I have appreciated his approach to issues, if not agreeing with them always. But recently, Dean decided to become involved in comments over at The Xoff Files regarding a piece titled "A tax-exempt GOP rally and hate fest." I suspect the real reason Dean became so upset was because the event targeted by Xoff was one that Dean attended. Maybe not. But the exchange occurred over this portion of an article written by an insider at the event. Vicki McKenna, conservative radio host at WIBA-AM 1310 in Madison, urged the audience to challenge the "left-ended world view" of the mainstream media "until we kill them," she said, "until they are deader than dead." A blogger/commenter named George Roberts responded to this. And such a frustration with the media, Owen, that the audience was called upon to kill them? Would that include Ms. McBride, still a newspaper columnist in the MSM? Or just how many hours a week does one have to be in journalistic employment to merit murder? Do you require an 8-hour workday? Or is one a prorated target if working part-time in the MSM? That kind of talk would get Ms. McKenna hauled away at airport security, I would hope, but it was okay at your convention? So much for the kinder, gentler country brought to us by the conservative revolution. At this point, Dean intervened. I attended it also, saw and visited the Libertarian party booth, heard one panel led by Sheriff David Clarke, who, in spite of protestations from the Left, is still a Democrat, and listened to another one which Mikel Holt, a self-confessed independent, sat on. A conservative convention, perhaps, but certainly not a Republican one. I'm surprised the left takes the phrases about killing so literally. Must never have played sports where killing is mentioned with no one contemplating homicide. One of the "nuts," I guess. Aside from the silliness regarding Sheriff Clarke, whom we all know could not win if he ran as a Republican, and Mikel Holt, who is a creation of Charlie Sykes if there ever was one, this was too much … associating threats of murder with sports. So I responded. There's a heck of a difference between yelling as a team (for example) ... "Let's kill'em, go Tigers" ... and pointing out individuals or groups of individuals for murder. I would have thought you knew that difference, Dean. Not very thoughtful in this case. Dean retaliated with this. Well, let's see, Tim, the writer described it as a "pep rally". Do you really think they were calling for murder? I would have to question your literary skills, then. Oh, come on, I thought. Needing to respond, I said: No need to get snippy.It was the author's decision to use those words. I think Ms. McKenna's phrasing was a little more ominous. Big difference! My literary skills are fine, thank you. Dean came right back: It was hyperbole. Good grief, in a public place, someone is going to call for someone's murder? I can't believe you guys would take that literally. I can't wait for the next time a liberal speaks in hyperbole. At which point I decided to quit. But only briefly, so I could comment in length here. First of all, a description of the word hyperbole from the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary. Etymology: Latin, from Greek hyperbolE excess, hyperbole, hyperbola, from hyperballein to exceed, from hyper- + ballein to throw -- more at DEVIL: extravagant exaggeration (as "mile-high ice-cream cones") Exaggeration ... as in mile-high ice cream cones, or sleeping for a year, or a book weighing a ton … you, know, nasty stuff. Stuff that kids do all the time. I’ve even told my kids a million times not to exaggerate. THESE are samples of hyperbole. Notice that these samples really couldn’t, wouldn’t happen. Now, check this one out. "Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized." Sterilized? My children like to draw. Are they bound to be sterilized for this? Well, of course not, because as Dean would say, "It’s hyperbole. " The author of that hyperbole was Adolf Hitler. Ach, that Fuhrer, he’s such a kidder. I do not know if the previous quote was ever said in public, which seems to define a true hyperbole for Dean. But the following were said in public by Adolf. I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work. (speech in PUBLIC before the Reichstag in 1933) My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognised these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognise more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow my self to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice...and if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. (Speech in PUBLIC Munich (12 April 1922) We all know what happened to the Jews in Europe. Just hyperbole, right? I’ve only chosen to use Adolf Hitler as a source of refutation. I’m sure that the works of Josef Stalin, Mao, etc. would provide more fodder. Still not convinced that anyone in their right mind would say such “hyperbole” in public? "I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?" (Glenn Beck) In this recurring nightmare of a presidency, we have a national debate about whether he "did it," even though all sentient people know he did. Otherwise there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate. (Ann Coulter, regarding Bill Clinton) If a liberal were to say something like this – and I have no doubt some fool has – the conservative media would be all over it, as would legion of liberals. However, a conservative says it and the response from their media and their partisans is, “It’s hyperbole.” I still have much respect for Dean. But, IT IS NEVER HYPERBOLE WHEN LIVES ARE THREATENED. So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? and Bush says, "Whad'l'ya have, pardner?" and Osama says... But wait a minute. I'd better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, "Security is no joking matter." But if security's no joking matter, why does this guy dressed in a high-school marching band outfit tell me to dump my Frappuccino and take off my shoes? All I can say is, Thank the Lord the "shoe bomber" didn't carry Semtex in his underpants. Today's a RED and ORANGE ALERT day. How odd. They just caught the British guys with the chemistry sets. But when these guys were about to blow up airliners, the USA was on YELLOW alert. That's a "lowered" threat notice. According to the press office from the Department of Homeland Security, lowered-threat Yellow means that there were no special inspections of passengers or cargo. Isn't it nice of Mr. Bush to alert Osama when half our security forces are given the day off? Hmm. I asked an Israeli security expert why his nation doesn't use these pretty color codes. He asked me if, when I woke up, I checked the day's terror color. "I can't say I ever have. I mean, who would?" He smiled. "The terrorists." America is the only nation on the planet that kindly informs bombers, hijackers and berserkers the days on which they won't be monitored. You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to get a jump on George Bush's team. There are three possible explanations for the Administration's publishing a good-day-for-bombing color guidebook. 1. God is on Osama's side. 2. George is on Osama's side. 3. Fear sells better than sex. A gold star if you picked #3. I'm going to tell you something which is straight-up heresy: America is not under attack by terrorists. There is no WAR on terror because, except for one day five years ago, al Qaeda has pretty much left us alone. That's because Osama got what he wanted. There's no mystery about what Al Qaeda was after. Like everyone from the Girl Scouts to Bono, Osama put his wish on his web site. He had a single demand: "Crusaders out of the land of the two Holy Places." To translate: get US troops out of Saudi Arabia. And George Bush gave it to him. On April 29, 2003, two days before landing on the aircraft carrier Lincoln, our self-described "War President" quietly put out a notice that he was withdrawing our troops from Saudi soil. In other words, our cowering cowboy gave in whimpering to Osama's demand. The press took no note. They were all wiggie over Bush's waddling around the carrier deck in a disco-aged jump suit announcing, "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED." But it wasn't America's mission that was accomplished, it was Osama's. Am I saying there's no danger, no threat? Sure there is: 46 million Americans don't have health insurance. IBM is legally stealing from its employees' pension plan and United Airlines has dumped its pensions altogether. Four-million three-hundred thousand Americans were injured, made sick or killed by their jobs last year. TXU Corporation is right now building four monster-sized power plants in Texas that will burn skuzzy gunk called "lignite." The filth it will pour into the sky will snuff a heck of a lot more Americans than some goofy group of fanatics with bottles of hydrogen peroxide. But Americans don't ask for real protection from what's killing us. The War on Terror is the Weapon of Mass Distraction. Instead of demanding health insurance, we have 59 million of our fellow citizens pooping in their pants with fear of Al Qaeda, waddling to the polls, crying, "Georgie save us!" And what does he give us? In my own small town, the federal government has paid for loading an SUV with .50 caliber machine guns to watch for an Al Qaeda attack at the dock of the ferry that takes tourists to the Indian casino in Connecticut. The casino dock is my town's officially designated "Critical Asset and Vulnerability Infrastructure Point (CAVIP)." (To find the most vulnerable points to attack in the USA, Al Qaeda can download a list from the Department of Homeland Security -- no kidding.) But that's not all. Bush is protecting us from English hijackers with a fearsome anti-terrorist tool: the Virginia-class submarine. The V-boat was originally meant to hunt Soviet subs. But there are no more Soviet subs. So, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin have "refitted" these Cold War dinosaurs with new torpedoes redesigned to carry counter-terror commandoes. That's right: when we find Osama's beach house, we can shoot our boys right up under his picnic table and take him out. These Marines-in-a-tube injector boats cost $2.5 billion each -- and our President's ordered half a dozen new ones. Lynn Cheney, the Veep's wife, still takes in compensation from Lockheed as a former board member. I'm sure that has nothing to do with this multi-billion dollar "anti-terror" contract. Fear sells better than sex. Fear is the sales pitch for many lucrative products: from billion-dollar sailor injectors to one very lucrative war in Mesopotamia (a third of a trillion dollars doled out, no audits, no questions asked). Better than toothpaste that makes our teeth whiter than white, this stuff will make us safer than safe. It's political junk food, the cheap filling in the flashy tube. What we don't get is safety from the real dangers: a life-threatening health-care system, lung-murdering pollution production and a trade deficit with China that's reducing mid-America to coolie status. Protecting us from these true threats would take a slice of the profits of the Lockheeds, the Exxons and the rest of the owning class. War on Terror is class war by other means -- to keep you from asking for real protection from true menace, the landlords of our nation give you fake protection from manufactured dangers. And they remind you to be afraid every time you fly to see Aunt Millie and have to give up your hemorrhoid ointment to the underpaid guy in the bell-hop suit with a security badge. Oh, hey, you never got the punch line.So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? and Bush says, "Whad'l'ya have, pardner?" and Osama says, "Well, George, what are you serving today?" and Bush says, "Fear," and Osama shouts, "Fear for everybody!" and George pours it on for the crowd. Then the presidential bartender says, "Hey, who's buying?" and Osama points a thumb at the crowd sucking down their brew. "They are," he says. And the two of them share a quiet laugh. -- Greg Palast is the author of the just-released New York Times bestseller, "Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War" from which this is adapted. The Amish are Coming I knew there was something sneaky about those Amish. Read this from Molly Ivins … I personally have been sleeping more soundly at night knowing that Michael Chertoff is secretary of homeland security. Ever since Chertoff's agency brought us the stunning news that there are more terrorist targets in Indiana than in New York or Washington, I've realized this guy could find a terrorist plot anywhere. Watch out for the Amish -- they'll run right over you with those buggies, and they all have pitchforks, too. I hear they're connected to al-Qaida through Saddam Hussein. Time to invade Pennsylvania. I hear there are lots of Amish there. And with their connections to al-Qaida, I just know that bunches of WMDs (wholesome maple desks) will be found. Ivins also touches on the fall of Lieberman. Her source is none other than the ever popular veep of whom Jessica McBride says we should not complain. Last I heard, about 20% of the population still cared what he had to say (still higher than McBride’s ratings at night I’d bet). Well, click here to read her entire column. I have to leave and duck ... I'm sure my friend Clint will have some mud to throw my way. Maybe not. I'll duck anyway. New Type of Body Armor The number of large chested women in the Middle East may increase after they hear of or read this story. JERUSALEM - An Israeli woman's breast implants saved her life when she was wounded in a Hezbollah rocket attack during Israel's war with the Lebanese group, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday. Doctors found shrapnel embedded in the silicone implants, just inches from the 24-year-old’s heart. Or, the combatants could just stop bombing each other. Just a thought. Sunday Evening Good Night Was watching some movies tonight with the beautiful Kelly. The first was the Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. I had not seen it in its entirety for quite a while. Loved the coo, coo Pigeon sisters. After it was over, flipped over to see the end of Back to the Future. It was the clock tower scene. Marty and Doc are discussing the future. Marty has tried to give Doc a letter regarding Doc's fate ... at the bottom of the screen, there is a dialogue box and in it there is a discussion of how cold it was during filming and that the wind machine used, which was called a McBride, was so loud that some of the dialogue had to be re-recorded. The thought crossed my mind that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Sunday Ruminations My son's birthday party was a smash hit Saturday. The now 11-year old made out like a bandit. He has enough gift cards to start his own wallet. He also has two lava lamps (Bill, do you remember lava lamps?). He got that from me. Friends, neighbors and family showed up and I didn't even have to beg them to or provide peace offerings (snicker!). This from a friend of mine. Another of those Internet pieces, but again I'll post it because I like what it says (this is unusual, because I usually just toss these dregs). 1. There are at least two people in this world that you would die for. 2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way. 3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you. 4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you. 5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep. 6. You mean the world to someone. 7. You are special and unique. 8. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you. 9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it. 10. When you think the world has turned its back on you take another look. 11. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line29
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__label__wiki	0.502706	0.502706	Buffett Wraps Hawaii Tour Leg On Sunday night in Honolulu Jimmy Buffett played his second show in the Hawaiian islands in three days. The Honolulu Pulse has a review of the show: Beach balls were bounced, marijuana was smoked, the skies stayed clear, and a good time was had by all last night as Jimmy Buffett brought his “Welcome to Fin Land” tour to Honolulu for two hours of tropical escapism under the stars at the Waikiki Shell. “You people really don’t care about going to work on Monday, do you?” Buffett said, adding that partying at the Shell on Sunday night is “like starting next weekend early.” Buffett had a good time with the fans last night. He noted the presence of a “parrot head fin baby” down front, said that the kid grew up he’d probably hate his parents for dressing him up like that, and promised that “we’ll still be playing when he’s 20,” even though, “we were never meant to last this long.” Tagged in Show Reviews	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line46
__label__cc	0.578005	0.421995	BUTCHA KIDS HUNTING HOUR OUR SIGNATURES ANNA ZHELEZNYAK Restaurant General Manager, Food and Beverage, Butcha Steakhouse & Grill Anna Zheleznyak is the General Manager of Butcha Steakhouse and Grill restaurant, and leads a dedicated team of 60 employees across itsoutletsat City Walk and The Beach. In this role, she steers the restaurant’s strategic vision and direction and offers her team crucial insights in leveraging a hands-on approach to ensure the smooth functioning of the values-led business. With over 10years in the hospitality industry, over six of which have been in senior leadership roles in hospitality companies in the USA, Ukraine and the UAE, Ukrainian-born Annabegan her hospitality journey with a degree in Hospitality Management fromCCL, Miami in the United States. She joined the Supper Club Steakhouse for Carnival Cruise Lines(CCL), a position that helped build her repertoire in all aspects of steakhouse and fine dining with emphasis on Americanand French gourmet. Upon completion of a sommelier course at Napa Valley in California, Anna assumed a managerial role at CCL’s Supper Club Miracle, New York, the elegant fine dining steakhouse and restaurant with a bustling bar lounge and cigar lounge. As a next step in her career path, Anna joined SKM Holding Group’s five-star luxury property in Donetsk, Ukraine – Donbass Palace and Opera Hotel, featured in the Leading Hotels of the World listing, as restaurant manager for the Lobby Lounge, French Brasserie and all-day diner, La Terrace. Here, she learned the fine art of guest relations as well as the business and financial aspects of the hospitality business. Anna began her Dubai sojourn at the luxurious Jumeirah Beach Hotel as Manager of a German Restaurant and Latin American Steakhouse. In this role, she spearheaded a multicultural team for the hotel’s in-house restaurants. With a passion for continuous learning and excellence, Anna later took on the role of Operations Manager of 11 independent food and beverage outlets at the largest department store in the UAE – FDS Galleries Lafayette, managed by Emaar at The Dubai Mall. In her role, she controlled and successfully managed the profit and loss (PnL) expenses in both retail and a la carte service. João Filipe Martins Garcia João Filipe Martins Garcia is the Head Chef at Butcha Steakhouse and Grill, where he leads a team of 26 chefs across the restaurants’ outlets at Citywalk and The Beach Mall, and updates the menu biannually. Revolving around steaks and other meat-based dishes with a Turkish twist, his recipes rely on a diverse range of techniques, many of which use butter, an ingredient that he believes keeps meat tender and juicy. João is also responsible for the restaurant’s central butchery, providing additional value to the brand as a beef-specialist with an excellent understanding of in-house food production. Chef João began his culinary career in Portugal, inspired by his Mediterranean family and their love of fresh produce. His culinary repertoire has flourished over a 10-year period. After studying Mediterranean cuisine at The Culinary Institute of America and undergoing training at the Alain Ducasse School, he worked at Lisbon’s Hotel Real Palácio as Chef de Partie and Junior Sous Chef.He continued to rise through the ranks at eatery Eleven, leading it to being honoured with a Michelin star in 2012. Today, he is decorated with one Michelin star, making him one of the most celebrated chefs in his cohort. Following a stint at CS Vintage Lisbon Hotel, where he graduated as Head Chef, Chef João relocated to the UAE to helm the kitchen at GQ Bar at JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai. Thereafter, he joined La Cantinedu Faubourg as Head Chef to steer one of the city’s most successful restaurant launches; the fine-dining venue won “Best New Restaurant in Dubai” in 2015 under his tutelage. After conceptualizing and developing the French menu at the Emirates Towers outlet, he helped open the restaurant’s second outpost in Ibiza. THE BEACH: + 971 4 553 0684 butcha.steakhouse@meraas.ae CITY WALK: + 971 4 343 1157 citywalk@butchasteakhouse.ae Meraas Group uses cookies to understand how you use our website and to improve your experience. To learn more about our use of cookies and our approach to data privacy, click here. By continuing to use our website, you accept our use of cookies.Ok	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line47
__label__cc	0.655066	0.344934	UC Research and Extension Centers: Statewide system provides local answers to local needs California Agriculture > Volume 55 > Number 6 > editorial Table of Contents \| Next > W.R. Gomes Editorial Overview The town of Hopland and Duncan Peak, as seen from Buckeye Point at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC). The center is one of 10 located throughout California in diverse climates, production zones and habitats. W.R. GOMES Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources IN 1951, the University established the Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) on what had been a working sheep ranch in Mendocino County. Sheep ranching was then a thriving California industry, and it was appropriate that the center at first emphasized studies of sheep breeding and management, veterinary entomology, native rangelands and wildlife. Today the Hopland center, which encompasses more than 5,000 acres of rolling and rugged rangeland, has evolved to match the needs of the surrounding agriculture and California as a whole. It currently supports 37 projects that span both traditional and new disciplines, and address both urban and agricultural needs. This issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of the HREC with publication of some of the center's current research — research informed by findings from past decades. Articles discuss emerging diseases, oak woodland ecology, watershed management, sheep and wildlife management, and vegetation change. Hopland's landmark investigations are cited, including studies of the center's herd of Columbian black-tailed deer, and ongoing investigations that have yielded the most comprehensive database for parasites associated with any species of deer. In addition, the issue summarizes 30 years of selective breeding of sheep for suitability to the Hopland environment, a remarkable example of long-term genetic trials conducted on domestic animals. Hopland is one of 10 UC Research and Extension Centers (RECs) located throughout the state's diverse production and climate zones. Each center offers unique opportunities for onsite research and education. As a whole the centers permit scientists to work on any of the hundreds of crop and livestock commodities grown in the state. For example, starting with the introduction of horseradish in the early 1950s, Intermountain REC research has resulted in the adoption of many new crops and improved crop varieties in the mountain valleys of Northern California. Sierra Foothill REC has supported oak woodland research to determine why native oaks are not regenerating adequately. Their investigations have also contributed to modern, environmentally sensitive, beef cattle-management systems. Turfgrass research from the Bay Area REC has enabled homeowners and turfgrass managers to select the turfgrass cultivars best suited to California's Central Coast climate. Below, Hopland's oak woodland terrain supports a variety of wildlife including acorn woodpeckers, which use a granary tree for storage. Above, left to right: During a June 2001, field tour at Hopland, UC Davis animal science professor Ed Price explains sheep behavior research; UC Cooperative Extension viticulture advisor Rhonda Smith describes vineyard irrigation work; UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Valerie Eviner discusses nutrient cycling. Photos by Phil Schermeister. With 25 permanent faculty, Kearney REC scientists have developed new fruit, nut and grape varieties, introduced innovative cultural and irrigation practices, and introduced and adapted new pest and disease management techniques. West Side REC scientists have pioneered saline drainage-water management options that are critically needed in this region of the state. Their furrow and drip irrigation methods, and fertilization practices, have been widely adopted by tomato and cotton growers throughout the Central Valley. Lindcove Lindcove REC maintains the Citrus Clonal Protection Program's foundation budwood orchard for disease-free citrus. More than 100 different selections of citrus are in this collection, making important budwood available to California nurseries and growers. Researchers at the Shafter REC have reduced the use of pesticides in cotton production by identifying six new biological control agents of the cotton aphid. Shafter exemplifies the collaborative potential of RECs by housing both UC and U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers at the same site and partnering with the cotton industry to focus research on the many issues facing cotton production statewide. Research at the South Coast REC has yielded important strawberry varieties now used in California and throughout the world. In 2000 almost half of the acreage of the $800 million California strawberry crop was planted to Camarosa, a prolific variety developed at South Coast REC and introduced in 1994. Research at the Desert REC, the first center that was established in 1912, has led to effective strategies for silverleaf whitefly control including development of a whitefly-resistant alfalfa variety. Hopland REC Each of the 10 centers pursues research of regional interest. Scientists study problems under local conditions one step removed from conditions on the farm. Their findings are relevant to area farmers because they share common soil, climate and geography. Could such research be done in cooperation with growers, using land on nearby farms? Unfortunately, many such trials would have an unacceptable economic impact on working farms. Research requires rigorous controls, typically over several years. It can entail destruction of produce and often involves a wide range of fertilizer, pesticide and water application rates. It can create potential risks from unregistered applications of pesticides or inoculation of plants with specific diseases. Indeed, when conditions permit, much of our “next stage” research is conducted on cooperating farms. More than 170 University scientists currently conduct nearly 400 research projects on the RECs. Each center provides specialized facilities and equipment and the technical staff required to manage commodities grown. Those facilities include greenhouses, laboratories, livestock handling and feeding facilities, postharvest equipment and controlled-atmosphere chambers. The system also serves as an educational resource for students, providing hands-on learning opportunities through work-study programs, field trips, short courses and graduate student research. Participants are not only from UC, but also from California State University campuses, community colleges and K-12 programs. Helping growers and ranchers with region-specific data and technical guidance provides benefits to all Californians. Such data enable growers and ranchers to produce bountiful, high-quality food and fiber using methods appropriate to local conditions. In this fashion, we at UC can continue to apply the best of research findings from our laboratories to the needs of all California citizens where they are — that is, the RECs help us in our effort to bring the University to the people. Gomes W. 2001. UC Research and Extension Centers: Statewide system provides local answers to local needs. Calif Agr 55(6):3-6.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line48
__label__wiki	0.854962	0.854962	Crave! Simon Mercep and Steve McCabe's film, music and entertainment review podcast. Subscribe to Crave! Coldplay announce New Zealand leg of 2016 stadium tour by Steve McCabe • 19 May, 2016 • 0 Comments COLDPLAY have today announced a New Zealand date on their A Head Full Of Dreams Tour, with a stadium show confirmed for Auckland. This is the band’s first world tour since the Mylo Xyloto Tour, which included Australian and New Zealand shows in November 2012. More than two million tickets have already been sold for the A Head Full Of Dreams Tour, which kicked off with a record-breaking stadium run in Latin America in March / April and which will see the band perform four sold out nights at London’s Wembley Stadium in June. Tickets go on sale at 2pm Monday, May 30. American Express Card Members will receive first access to tickets with a pre-sale starting midday Monday, May 23. To purchase go to American Express on Facebook. My Live Nation members can also be among the first to secure tickets during the pre-sale beginning Thursday May 26 at 2pm. For complete tour and ticketing details including VIP Packages, visit: livenation.co.nz. A Head Full Of Dreams (out now through Warner Music New Zealand) is Coldplay’s seventh album, featuring singles ‘Adventure Of A Lifetime’, ‘Hymn for the Weekend’ and ‘Up&Up’. Since its December 2015 release, the album has reached Number One on iTunes in more than 90 countries and sold more than 3.5 million copies. It has also cemented Coldplay’s position as Spotify’s most-streamed band in the world. The album is the vibrant follow-up to 2014’s fragile and lovelorn Ghost Stories, Coldplay’s sixth consecutive worldwide chart topper. The band chose not to tour Ghost Stories and headed straight back into the studio to record A Head Full Of Dreams. Says Coldplay’s Chris Martin: “I think that not going on tour with Ghost Stories was one of the best decisions we ever made, because it gave us such pent-up energy in the studio and completely reignited everyone’s desire to go around the world and play music. A Head Full Of Dreams was written as a record to be performed live. We can’t wait to do that.” MT SMART STADIUM, AUCKLAND TICKETS ON SALE 2PM MONDAY MAY 30 American Express Card members’ pre-sale: 12pm Monday May 23 until 12pm Thursday May 26 Live Nation pre-sale: 2pm Thursday May 26 until 5pm Sunday May 29 For complete tour and ticketing details, visit: coldplay.com and livenation.co.nz #AHFODtour ← The Internet announce NZ shows Changes to The Block Party line-up → Search Crave! Crave! episode 98 on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqnXsruNCeg Crave! episode 98: Black Hands, Des, Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Dobbyn, The Beths. It’s been a while, but Crave! is back, and better than ever. 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__label__cc	0.721427	0.278573	It’s all good and right at Goode & Wright, Notting Hill Emily Gibson / Dates, Eat, Impulse Friendly, Indoors, Mates, Mums, ££ / bistro, British, dates, dining, dining out, dinner, eating, eating out, fusion, going out, London, Notting Hill, quirky dates, restaurant review, restaurant reviews, restaurants, reviews, small plates, west London / 3 Comments Everyone should eat out on a Monday. Now that the nice weather is threatening to banish fleece-lined pyjamas to the back of the wardrobe for the foreseeable, Fridays don’t need any more glory. On a warm evening, with two days of freedom stretching ahead, Fridays are so lovely you could frankly have an absolutely top time drinking a pint of piss atop of pile of nettles. Mondays, on the other hand…well. They need all the help they can get. I’d spent the day working from home and making cups of sugary coffee for the plasterer, who’d called me up every couple of hours to admire his progress and show me the music videos of his son, who is an Albanian rap star. (I am not joking. His most popular track has over 17 million views on YouTube.) Once I’d clocked off and our bedroom had been rendered a ghastly nipple-like pinky-brown colour, albeit with very straight edges and smooth walls, it was time to head west to have dinner with Rosie. The venue was Goode & Wright, a restaurant I visited a couple of years ago and memorable for its uniquely horrible selection of cocktails. Everything we tried was sloshed together by an anonymous but aggressively enthusiastic amateur “mixologist” whose “creativity” manifested itself as the alcoholic equivalent of being fisted in the mouth. Needless to say, the place is under new management, and I’m pleased to report that these days it’s the kind of neighbourhood hero Portobello Road needs more than ever now that Greggs and Poundland have moved in. Nothing against Poundland, of course – it does then job when you’re shopping for oven cleaner – but it’s still a bit of a shock when you grew up watching Bedknobs & Broomsticks. The menu, which is all trendy small dishes, reminded me a bit of Picture of Marylebone/Fitzrovia: pretty plates with creative – but not fisting-level creative – flavour combos. I’m jealous of Rosie, who lives just around the corner, especially after the waitress revealed that there’s a 25% discount for locals. It’s keenly priced as it is. We chose five plates and a side to share, though they arrived so evenly spaced that it reminded me more of a tasting menu, which I liked. Nothing worse than your whole meal arriving in one go, each dish vying for tabletop real estate and going cold while you work your way round. The new chefs, Oren Goldfeld and Gabriel Muñoz, hail from Israel and Spain respectively, and their cooking can broadly be described as ‘world fusion’. Our first dish was a chicken liver parfait (£6.50) that glided onto the accompanying toast so pleasingly that even our wonderful plasterer would have broken his skimming thingamajig in half and burst into tears. We still haven’t gotten round to painting the new plaster yet and every time I close my eyes in my weird nipply bedroom I think of that lovely dish. The ceviche (£7.50) was listed on the menu without any named fish, which is a bit like ordering a ‘meat’ pie, but I suppose they just get what’s good on the day and save on reprinting menus. Meaty chunks of grapefruit turbo-charged with shouty lime juice and peppery daikon threatened to overpower the delicate fish, but the experience was a pleasant one with alternating forkfuls. Aubergine with chimmichurri (£7.00) bore no resemblance to the advertised dish, and more Middle-Eastern than South American with its red pepper hummus and curious absence of chimmichurri, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. Pig cheeks were good but not as succulent as the ox cheek I’d eaten a few days previously at Smokestak, and a tremendous take on cauliflower cheese (£3.00) read like a low-carb, soupy garlic bread, and is worth abandoning chips for. We finished up with the most expensive dish on the menu – juicy lamb chops (£13.00), pretty and pink in the middle and served on a bed of pickled veg. For dessert, we tried the Guinness and cacao cake with Marmite chantilly cream (£5.00). Hmm. The other proper puddings besides ice cream and cheese involved pistachios (piss on them) and panna cotta, whose only virtue lies in making me feel less wobbly in comparison. The cake was a sandwich of sorts, expertly made slabs of sticky brownie that had its fudgy thighs wrapped tightly around a frill of that controversial Marmite cream, which was interesting in that italicised sort of way but probably only really worth ordering if you really bloody love Marmite. Which I don’t. We went home feeling pretty pleased with our discovery, especially Rosie, who will be rinsing that local discount. The puddings could use a bit of work – please just put that wonderful brownie with a scoop of salted caramel ice cream and be done with it – but aside from that the menu was a marvellous mish-mash of thoughtful, interesting dishes. And, while it’s not as cheap as the Poundland over the road, it’s still pretty good value. Goode & Wright, 271 Portobello Rd, London, W11 1LR Author: Emily Gibson Emily is an urban adventurer, blogger and glutton foodie on an epic quest to uncover the best things to eat, drink and do in London. She lives in East London and loves ceviche, cycling and magic shows. Lifelong nemeses include beetroot, beards and wine served in tumblers. « A new kind of ‘cue at Smokestak, Shoreditch » Evasion: get quick or spy trying Mayochup 16th May 2017 @ 5:11 pm Looks like a nice find in Notting Hill 🙂 12th August 2017 @ 11:03 pm Food ok. Music terrible!! Preferred it when it was Finlay Logan’s place. They have ripped the heart out of it which is sad as it was a real gem. 24th August 2017 @ 10:00 am Oof, I hope Finlay Logan wasn’t in charge when I had the hideous cocktails of yesteryear! I think that was about two years ago. Music wasn’t an issue when I went, I guess it depends on the day. But I did enjoy the food!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line57
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__label__wiki	0.962683	0.962683	The drummer appeared in the YouTube-iest video of all time alongside his daughter Alabama Barker and host Hannah Stocking, where the three go head to head in a rapidfire Jenga match/booger-flavoured jellybean eating competition alongside Q&A style interviewing. Around the six-minute mark, Stocking asks Barker what music he's currently listening to. In addition to XXXTentatcion and tourmate Lil Wayne, the drummer notes that he's also been listening to a Christmas song that he "just made with [his] band Blink." It wouldn't be the first time the band got festive in the recording studio. Blink-182 released a pop-punk Christmas anthem "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" back in 2001. You can revisit that below. Could this tune be released in time for the holidays? Is it a cover of "Last Christmas"? Are Blink the next artists to be announced as SNL performers? So far, nothing has been announced officially, so stay tuned in the weeks leading up to the holidays — when we hope everything will be revealed — and watch the goofy interview below in the meantime. More Travis Barker More Lil Wayne More Blink-182 Travis Barker Machine Gun Kelly Says He's Made a "Pop-Punk 'Grease'" Movie with Travis Barker Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker recently joined forces to release a 2000s throwback pop-punk album called Tickets to My Downfall, and no... Blink-182's Travis Barker Joins Forces with Run the Jewels for New Track "Forever" The ever-busy Run the Jewels recently returned with RTJ4 and news of a new cannabis line, but they're not stopping there. Instead, the duo o... Blink-182 Are About to Release a New Song Called "Quarantine" Blink-182 have already released a near-insurmountable number of songs, but the band are far from done. Instead, they've already got yet anot... Watch Post Malone's Nirvana Tribute Concert It feels like world governments were woefully underprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, but we at least had two days to prepare ourselves... Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker Just Covered Paramore's "Misery Business" for Some Reason Here are a collection of words that would fall under the present era's definition of "emo" but would make the true emo heads cringe: Machine... Donald Trump Pardoned Lil Wayne Before Leaving the White House While a meme-hungry internet hoped that it would be Joe Exotic walking free, Donald Trump's list of pardons before leaving the White House d... Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty to Federal Weapons Charges Lil Wayne has pleaded guilty to serious federal weapons charges that could see him being sentenced to 10 years in prison. The rapper ente... Lil Wayne Hit with Federal Weapons Charges That Could Land Him 10 Years in Prison Lil Wayne has been hit with serious federal weapons charges in the U.S., and if convicted, the rapper could now be facing a lot of jail time... 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne Connect on "Money Maker" 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne have come together for a new single. You can hear the pair trade bars on "Money Maker" below. The horn-laden track... Lil Wayne Gets Jay Jones and Gudda Gudda for "Thug Life" Lil Wayne has gathered the Young Money family for a new single titled "Thug Life." Bringing in Jay Jones and Gudda Gudda for the track, "Thu... Tom DeLonge Just Sang on His Very First EDM Song Further proof that he's willing to do absolutely anything as long as it's not related to Blink-182, movie-directing alien hunter Tom DeLonge... Tom DeLonge Is Directing a Coming-of-Age Sci-Fi Movie About Pop-Punk Teens From cakes to the History Channel to Donald Trump's desk, Tom DeLonge has recently been everywhere (other than in the band Blink-182). Up ne... Someone Made a Nightmarish Tom DeLonge Cake on 'The Great British Bake Off' The Great British Bake Off finally launched its 11th season last night, and in addition to the debut of new co-host Matt Lucas, the show's n... Here Are the Folk Covers of Blink-182, Sum 41 and Kid Cudi You Didn't Know You Needed Following the release of his Phoebe Bridgers-produced debut album Beginners, Los Angeles folkster Christian Lee Hutson has now shared a thre... Blink-182 Curse COVID-19 on New Single "Quarantine" Omnipresent pop-punk mainstays Blink-182 have finally made good on their promise to release a new song called "Quarantine." And if you're no...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line60
__label__wiki	0.848049	0.848049	Reggae struggles for relevance in Namibia Published:Thursday \| June 20, 2019 \| 12:00 AM Boswell ‘Stampede’ Lammie Patrons enjoy the music at Rebel Salute, a major reggae show in Jamaica. DJ Lashes It is well documented that reggae music has a global reach and is taking over the world, but a recent report out of Namibia, Africa, would suggest otherwise. Online publication New Era, in an article last week, pointed out that “reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the 1960s and it spread to other countries across the world, including Namibia, where it is growing at snail’s pace.” In an interview with Namibian reggae artiste Jatumeni ‘Ten Dreadz’ Negumbo, the report states that the artiste wants a revolution of reggae music in the country for it to be relevant. The report quotes him as saying: “Reggae music is not really taken seriously in Namibia because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to many Namibians, just like rock music, but that does not mean it is irrelevant.” Producer and reggae and dancehall chart-maker Boswell ‘Stampede’ Lammie, in an interview with The Gleaner, is not surprised by the utterances. “Reggae really isn’t that big down there. Namibia is not like many other countries in Africa where reggae and dancehall dominate,” said Stampede, who has been promoting African reggae acts in Jamaica for years, and whose tentacles stretch to many African countries. Agreeing with Stampede was Lloyd ‘DJ Lashes’ Thomas, show promoter, disc jock and owner of one of the biggest sound systems in Gambia. He admitted that he hasn’t hear much about the reggae scene in Namibia. “I’ve never heard of much happening in Namibia. There could be a lot of reasons for that,” he said. No business approach According to the publication Entertainment Now! Ten Dreadz, who has reportedly been in the music industry for 20 years, said that “the irrelevance of reggae in the country started with reggae artistes themselves”. He points to several failings, some of which are surprisingly similar to those that reggae artistes in Jamaica are also guilty of. Among them are a lack of a business approach, very little unity and a laid-back approach. “Some reggae artistes in the country do not really focus on the business side of the music, they take music as a hobby instead of taking it seriously and promote the genre. We are too laid-back and too cocky when it comes to flexibility. We are not open to opportunities as well,” Entertainment Now! quotes Ten Dreadz. He added, “Many reggae musicians do not appear on time at their events, and most of them do not look presentable, so much so that fans complain of their untidiness. So, this also contributes to why people do not take our music seriously. Unity is also lacking among us, which is dividing us a lot,” he said, adding that he, however, appreciates reggae musicians for their live music and when they strive to learn musical instruments and share creativity. He urged Namibians to take the genre seriously and support local music. Meanwhile, DJ Lashes, whose One Force Sound System recently hosted Jamaican artiste Chan Dizzy, who was making his debut in Gambia, made the contrast between Namibia and Gambia, where the penetration of reggae and dancehall music is deep. “In Gambia, reggae muisc is big. Gambia is like Jamaica when it comes to the music, but I believe that Gambians listen to more reggae and dancehall music than Jamaicans,” he said. “And this is why I say this. Jamaicans listen to all different types of music, but Gambians are very much into their reggae and dancehall. The fan base is strong and demanding. Even if you are playing Afrobeat, patrons will come and ask you to play some reggae now,” he told The Gleaner. Jamaica’s influence in the southern African country was acknowledged last year when Namibia voted to rename a street in its capital city of Windhoek in honour of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Garvey. Both countries have waived the visa requirement for their respective nationals entering the other country. «Economic reggae: Bank of Jamaica sells recovery with songs Ricky Trooper, Pink Panther prepare for Sumfest’s Global Sound Clash - Local selectors say winning is a matter of cultural pride » Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival officially launched In open letter to Dr King, Stevie Wonder calls for equality It’s OK to not be OK - Reggae singer Sevana says therapy helped her through ‘tough’ year Entertainment Shorts Screen Actors Guild may discipline, expel Donald Trump Hollywood returns - Gaga, J Lo headline Biden inauguration Pioneer Owen Gray grateful for JaRIA Award - But says he should be getting far more acknowledgement as honours list is unveiled Please wear your mask Check movie listings	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line66
__label__cc	0.563751	0.436249	The two-party false-binary is dead to me. Conservatives live in an alternate universe where black folks and the lgbtq community have extra special rights that poor, unfortunate whites do not enjoy. They believe that the US military has been purposely & thoroughly depleted; and Muslims are on the precipice of instituting Sharia in Sheboygan. They’ve gone so mad that Democrats – needing only to seem slightly less evil – have lurched further & further right. In doing so, they force Republicans to take more extreme positions for contrast. In many respects, Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton are more conservative than Ronald Reagan. As governor of California, Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, and the Mulford Act which banned the open-carry of firearms. Besides, Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency; and George H. W. Bush referred to trickle-down as “voodoo” economics. Hillary has called herself a moderate. Obama said he would have been a moderate Republican in the 80’s. They agree with Republicans because they are in effect, Republicans. Yet they head the Democratic Party, because both represent the moneyed donor class as one. It’s been forty years since the Democrats represented the interests of the working class. It’s by design. The Supreme Court ruled in the mid/late Seventies that corporations are people & money is speech ergo political bribery has 1st Amendment protection. Corruption had always been around, this allowed them to openly and legally purchase our government at auction and use it to enrich themselves at our expense. This put Democrats at a disadvantage since Republican economic and tax policies favor billionaires and multinational corporations. Democratic President Jimmy Carter was (is) an Evangelical. But Reagan proposed a marriage between the chamber of commerce and the religious right which endures to this day. Democrats were seen as weak, having been anti-war in respect to Vietnam. Anti-poverty programs and progressive tax policy were framed as socialism. Social liberals were framed as godless pinko commies and feminazis. Liberal had successfully been branded a slur. In response, liberal elites decided that they too would sell out to corporate interests in order to level the playing field. They formed the Democratic Leadership Council. New Democrats would employ triangulation by being tough on crime, espousing hawkish foreign policy, and catering to Wall Street – whose interests are in direct opposition to those of working people. Neo-liberals stress compromise and – outside of gay rights and the bodily autonomy of women – generally agree with Republicans. When Democrats and Republicans agree it’s usually bad for the American people. They agree that we should embrace austerity, imperialism, mass surveillance, mass incarceration, prohibition, fracking, off-shore drilling, new pipelines, TPP, cutting corporate taxes, cutting social insurance programs, continuing corporate welfare, a permanent tax holiday on overseas earnings, and the repeal of habeas corpus. They are jointly opposed to a two-state solution, breaking up the banks, single-payer healthcare, campaign finance reform, $15 minimum wage, universal pre-k, free college, student debt forgiveness, expanding Social Security, and meaningful gun safety measures. Bill Clinton deregulated Wall Street & corporate media, slashed welfare rolls, and oversaw the imprisonment of more black people than any other president. Obama bombed at least seven majority-Muslim nations, made the Bush tax cuts permanent, implemented the Republican version of universal healthcare, accelerated the use of drone wars, enshrined legal framework for assassinating American citizens, nominated a conservative for the SCOTUS, and even went so far as to offer to gut Social Security benefits in his dogged pursuit of the ever elusive grand bargain. Forty years of neoliberalism – of Democrats acting as Republican-lite – have meant wage stagnation and the disappearing of a once-robust middle class. Economic (and demographic) frustration birthed the rise of authoritarian fascist Donald Trump. Faced with the threat of cheeto-Mussolini, Democratic Party elites purposely rigged the primary in favor of the most hated Democratic candidate in US history. Rather than risk implementation of a real progressive agenda, they gambled our nation’s future on a widely-distrusted corporatist. In a time of economic frustration which saw the rise of both Bernie and Trump, Democrats cast their lot with the establishment. So out of touch with the everyday struggles of the working poor, Democrats lifted up the protector of the status quo. Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after being caught using the DNC to tilt the scales against Bernie Sanders. She was replaced by Donna Brazile, who used her position at CNN to funnel Hillary a primary debate question. Hillary assured Wall Street executives that the public statements she makes have no bearing on her actual, private beliefs which she shares with them. It was confirmed that she is pro-TPP and was pro-Keystone XL (and hasn’t said a word about DAPL). With an audience of Wall Street executives, Hillary scolded environmentalists, telling them to “Get a life, you know?” We saw unethical coordination between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. We saw quid pro quo – meetings with Bill, ambassadorship appointments, and approval of arms deals. We saw illegal coordination between Hillary’s presidential campaign and pro-Hillary Super PACs. This is the person who democrats chose as their standard bearer. And rather than try and court the hundred million Americans who will choose not to vote this November, they instead scolded progressives for daring to challenge Democrats’ deal leader. Hillary scoffed at the notion that she should court the left. She instead cozied up to neocons and Jeb donors – garnering the endorsement of war criminals and establishment Republicans. Hillary and her acolytes spat in the face of progressives. Her campaign tried to frame the most progressive candidate in history as a sexist. They tried to frame a guy who was at the March on Washington and was arrested protesting segregation as a racist. They tried to frame Bernie Sanders – a Jew – as an anti-Semite. They cast progressives as sexist Bernie Bros and Jill Stein voters as white privileged Trump enablers. Anyone who dared speak on the contents of the Podesta leaks was labeled an agent of the Kremlin. They would rather initiate World War III than admit that their favored candidate might be flawed. That’s who Democrats are. Dr. Jill Stein Source: CC-BY, RAHurd Image by Becker1999 via flickr They don’t have to earn the votes of people whose loyalty is without question. I don’t care that our first-to-the-post Electoral College system favors two major parties. I reject lesser-evilism. I’ll vote Jill Stein in hopes that the Green Party reaches 5% and earns matching federal funds. And I’ll continue to fight against Hillary Clinton’s neoliberal agenda every step of the way. Previous PostRoger Goodell is TerribleNext PostRepublicans Promising to Kill Supreme Court if Hillary Wins	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line78
__label__wiki	0.816945	0.816945	A Decade Later Ray J Is STILL Talking About Kim K! At any rate, Ray J’s topic of concern this week—as expected—is his increasingly ancient relationship with Kim Kardashian. Chatting with singer Stacy Francis on Thursday’s episode of Celebrity Big Brother, Ray J accused Kardashian of cheating during their three-year stint as a couple. When asked if Kardashian had been “really really” in love with him, Ray J offered a not-so-subtle diss. “Nah, but she was a player though,” he said, according to Entertainment Tonight. Francis, who’s apparently friends with Kardashian, disputed this. “She was not a player,” Francis said. “She was crying her eyes out over you.” But Ray J doubled down: “Put it like this, we were both players,” he claimed. “We are both cheaters.” According to Ray J, he and Kardashian haven’t been in the same room since their 2006 breakup. Ray J also confessed to listening to Kanye West’s music “all the time.” As ET noted in their detailed report Friday, Ray J has already mentioned Kardashian and their infamous sex tape on Celebrity Big Brother on (at least) one previous occasion. “People wanna know about the sex tape with me and Kim Kardashian,” Ray J said on the show’s premiere, according to ET. “Order it, put some money in my pocket.” Ray J last trolled us with the release of his “Famous” diss track back in November. The track, a sequel of sorts to Ray J’s “I Hit It First,” was produced by Drumma Boy and features Chris Brown on the chorus. As usual, the sex tape was mentioned and Ray J seemingly took credit for the Kardashians’ entire empire. tagged in Kardashian, Kim K, Ray J NYU's McSilver Institute Awards Meek Mill Social Justice Award! Lil Wayne To Receive I Am Hip Hop Award! Celebrities Sign a Petition To Stop Execution Of Rodney Reed! Keyshia Cole Avoids Jail Time	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line85
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__label__wiki	0.691075	0.691075	You are here: Home / Features / Zac Pennington and Brian Lawlor’s Always and Only the Lonely is a Beautiful Examination of Suffering as Art Zac Pennington and Brian Lawlor’s Always and Only the Lonely is a Beautiful Examination of Suffering as Art April 6, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment “We don’t care to be understood, to understand is to lie.” – Implied Violence mission statement The only real constants to avant-pop act Parenthetical Girls were front man Zac Pennington’s melodramatic, ever-reaching vocals and taboo lyrical fixations. Throughout Parenthical Girls’ career, the band shifted line-ups and aesthetics, utilizing ornate instrumentation at first, then wielding increasingly more electronic elements and anthemic melodies before their indefinite hiatus after 2013’s Privilege collection. But Pennington’s personal style and vocal theatrics remained the defining trait of the band, a beautiful oddity that always seemed wonderfully out of place, simultaneously archaic and futurist. In between the start of the Privilege EPs and their final collection, Pennington collaborated with modern theatre ensemble Implied Violence for an opera titled The Dorothy K, conceived by Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell and composed and arranged by Brian Lawlor with the Western European Symphony Orchestra. There had always been an operatic bent to Pennington’s approach in Parenthetical Girls, but Always & Only the Lonely, Lawlor’s recent release of the recordings from the project, showcases an unrestrained Pennington, his theatricality and poetic eye given room to stretch and reach. Though it’s unmistakably the work of an immensely talented, globe spanning ensemble, it’s also unmistakably Zac Pennington, with all his quirks and obsessions and trills, not so much existing in the shadow of Parenthetical Girls but sharing and elongating that project’s dark spaces. Of particular obsession for Pennington, as always, are the betrayals of the body, whether that’s in a lusty sense– as with “Plague of Marcus” and its sneering remark about “Sweet sister Scotland/She’s on her knees more often/Than on her feet“– or a more physically painful sense, with motifs of disease, physical flaws and flagellation. Pennington’s lyrical obsession with suffering in all its forms is perhaps what made Implied Violence consider Pennington a potential collaborator, since, as Jen Graves wrote in a piece for The Stranger, Implied Violence’s costumes are “designed to induce heightened states in the performers: exhaustion brought on by extreme conditions (performing outdoors in a cold shallow pool in the rain for five hours[…]) is coupled with practices including repetitive dances based on the Shaker religious tradition, costumes so tight they’re like mummification, archery, ethering, and leeching.” Pennington may not be quite as physical in his suffering for his art as Implied Violence is but one must remember Pennington is an artist who once decided to have himself buried alive in order to confront his claustrophobia as well as his anxiety about leaving Seattle for Portland and then turned it into a performance piece and essay. Always & Only the Lonely’s title track explores Pennington’s romanticisation of permanent slumbers, albeit via sleepwalking instead of burial. Over the album’s jauntiest and most fleet footed musical performance, Pennington sings of sleepwalking and being “Swept off our feet/Free from disease,” urging others not to wake a slumering lover for fear that to do so would be catastrophe. Where others might fear comas and their near death state, Pennington glamorizes them as the ultimate in peace and tranquility, a medical Sleeping Beauty story; no wonder the promise and gift in “A Promise & A Gift” both seem to be death. This also connects to Pennington’s other lyrical fixation, temptation, specifically of a taboo sort. Pennington has always been one of the great lyrical explorers of perversion and hypocrisy, particularly as it relates to the outwardly pious, but Always & Only the Lonely is perhaps his most ambitious work on this front, weaving together the morbidity of the Old Testament and its abundant plagues and mayhem with the New Testament’s obsession with purity and cleanliness and how that manifests itself in organized religion. After the swelling of some ominous strings and horns, “The Wolves Who Hide Among the Trees” shrinks to give room for Pennington to set the scene. “Iris in/We pan upon the origins/Of sin,” he recites, in a baroque twist on screenplay jargon, going on to describe “the folds of skin she kept me in” and the narrator’s youth, fragile enough to be “still stifled by the sight of my own blood.” When the music builds again, Pennington’s voice soars, singing “Neither cross nor crown/Could touch us now,” a phrase that initially seems uplifting until you think of the more unsettling, we-suck-young-blood elements of the verses, punctuated as they are by horror movie baritone stabs. The implication is that authority seeks to feed on and corrupt youth and religion, though it masquerades as safe haven, is frequently one of the greatest indulgers of that. That lands with even greater impact thanks to the scene set by “The Plagues of Marcus,” which rattles off apocalyptic threats from some immortal, Old Testament being. The closing of Always & the Lonely, “The World Turns to Ash in His Mouth,” revisits that plague narrative and brings together the symbolism Pennington has used throughout the work by remembering “The plague came disguised/All in white/Inside all of you,” commentary on both the peace of death and the destruction religion and its finery can bring. The music behind this is beautiful and sublime until it isn’t, the abrupt shift from dreamy to melancholic expanding on the anxiety already present in Pennington’s delivery, imbuing the song with immense tension. Though the twin “The World Turns to Ash in His Mouth” movements are the most dissimilar to the music of Parenthetical Girls, the song’s structure and themes are peak Pennington, an ultimate expression of his artistic obsessions and a wondrous showcase for what this assemblage of equally bold collaborators is capable of. Typically collaborations of this nature are risky maneuvers, too frequently featuring outsized egos clashing more than fusing. So it’s remarkable that with The Dorothy K and Always & the Lonely, Zac Pennington, Brian Lawlor and Implied Violence managed to fuse together their aesthetics so seamlessly without diminishing their individual traits and talents. The end result is a work that is ambitious and intimate, transfixing even without its visual accompaniment, enviable in its discipline and capacity to wield suffering as a beautiful necessity. Nick Hanover got his degree from Disneyland, but he’s the last of the secret agents and he’s your man. Which is to say you can find his particular style of espionage here at Loser City as well as Ovrld, where he contributes music reviews and writes a column on undiscovered Austin bands. You can also flip through his archives at Comics Bulletin, which he is formerly the Co-Managing Editor of, and Spectrum Culture, where he contributed literally hundreds of pieces for a few years. Or if you feel particularly adventurous, you can always witness his odd .gif battles with friends and enemies on twitter: @Nick_Hanover Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Brian Lawlor, Implied Violence, Indie, Music, opera, The Dorothy K, Zac Pennington About Nick Hanover Nick Hanover got his degree from Disneyland, but he’s the last of the secret agents and he’s your man. Which is to say you can find his particular style of espionage here at Loser City as well as Ovrld, where he contributes music reviews and writes a column on undiscovered Austin bands. You can also flip through his archives at Comics Bulletin, which he is formerly the Co-Managing Editor of, and Spectrum Culture, where he contributed literally hundreds of pieces for a few years. Or if you feel particularly adventurous, you can always witness his odd .gif battles with Dylan Garsee on twitter: @Nick_Hanover	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line97
__label__wiki	0.53597	0.53597	Fast Download: DJDS Ft Rema & Tory Lanez – Simple Things Rema – Compilation (The EP) DJ Cuppy Ft Rema & Rayvanny – Jollof On The Jet Rema – Ginger Me Naijahitplay admin DJDS Ft Rema & Tory Lanez – Simple Things Ez Stevie - FYB (Free Your Body) ft Davido & Tory lanez DJDS Ft Rema & Tory Lanez – Simple Things (Download mp3) DJDS, Nigerian’s Rema and Tory Lanez from Toronto comes through with a new song titled “Simple Things” This amazing piece is one you can’t afford to miss out Update your playlist now!, also share with friends. Download Simple Things by DJDS, Rema and Tory Lanez ABOUT DJDS DJ Dodger Stadium (DJDS) is a production duo of Jerome LOL (Jerome Potter) and Samo Sound Boy (Sam Griesemer). They are based in Los Angeles. Divine Ikubor, known professionally as Rema, is a Nigerian singer and rapper. In 2019, he signed a record deal with Jonzing World, a subsidiary of Mavin Records. He rose to prominence with the release of the song “Iron Man”, which appeared on Barack Obama’s 2019 summer Playlist. Daystar Peterson, better known as Tory Lanez or sometimes by his alter ego ‘Argentina Fargo’ is a Canadian rapper & singer who was born on July 27th, 1992 and grew up in Brampton. Origin of stage name. The name “Tory” comes from Brooklyn rapper Notorious B.I.G. and “Lanez” is a nickname he had when he got “ from playing chicken in street.” Inspiration behind his crazy live shows. Tory has said that his father being a missionary preacher is what inspired him: Watching my dad as preacher plays a big part in it. Number one, him being a preacher, I always seen him like, level out his voice and then scream when it was time for it… Like me watching that… growing up, I think that played a big part in my presentation on stage, my wittiness ’cause my dad was one of those preachers where he’s in church and he can deliver a message to you at the same time but he can also take a second off and be witty, for a second, and make a joke. And it’s just like, people would laugh but they understand what he’s saying. Because of that, the projection and the way that he spoke and just like, his vocabulary and everything, just the way he did things, was just at such a pace and a place that I feel like, it was inspiring to me. Now that I’m on stage and I have the mic, and I’m leading my own congregation, if you will, I take things that I saw. Tory delves in detail into his upbringing including the passing of his mother when he was young, being homeless and why he started rapping in this interview. Despite hailing from Toronto, Tory was brought up in Miami, Florida; and during his later life, California. Lanez has been rapping since the age of nine. After having released a host of mixtapes, he released his debut studio album, I Told You, on August 19th, 2016. On March 2, 2018, he released his second album, MEMORIES DON’T DIE. Then, on October 26, 2018, Tory released his Miami-flavoured third studio album, LoVE mE NOw? — which was inspired by his near-death encounter with a plane crash in June, 2018. On November 15th of 2019 Tory released his early 2000s inspired fourth studio album Chixtape 5–a continuation of his predominantly R&B mixtape series. DJDS — Simple Things Ft. Rema & Tory Lanez Lyrics [Chorus: Rema] Simple things are your blessings The simple things them ah your blessings, your blessings How you nuh notice your blessings, your blessings? [Verse 1: Tory Lanez] You give me reason Lovin’ and teasin’ Touchin’ and squeezin’ when love isn’t easy Everyting hot, like the sun in Ibiza Fly her off a country, haffi land with a visa, hmm Body shaped like a figure eight Put your neck pon’ ice, like the gyal with them figure skate Lotta noise and it’s in the way Just tryna have a next level bezel with the diamonds in the face Seh mi need a hot gyal, mhmm Certified bad gyal, mhmm Mi know seh she a top gyal, mhmm Touch road with pure shot gyal, mhmm I think I love her Might fall for the big slip, mhmm Know she style and the way she ah gwan so She cyaa translate, me need an answer [Verse 2: Rema] Early in di mornin’ I wake up Look into that beautiful face without makeup Takin’ me away, away, away I fight for your love in di night and day, ah Let nobody tell you that you’re not beautiful Girl you blow my mind when I look at you Because of her lovin’ me, I go dey victimized Some say you don’t deserve me, don’t mind the haters Gyal, don’t mind the haters You know that out love is greater And I’ma give you my paper Gyal I go love you forever Gyal I go die for your matter, your matter [Bridge: Rema] Yeah, yeah, yeah Gyal simple things, know your blessings Gyal you di one I invest in You are di one I wanna invest on Yeah, oh-oh Woah, woah, oh, oh, woah Related Topics:DJDS, DJDS Ft. Rema & Tory Lanez - Simple Things, Rema, Simple Things, Tory Lanez Jungle ft Esdee – Make am D’Ace – Bobo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line104
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__label__wiki	0.685406	0.685406	Отто Ран: Bérengier Saunière François Bérenger Saunière (1852 - 1917), priest of Rennes le Château (1885-1917). A central figure in many of the conspiracy theories surrounding Rennes-le-Château, in particular, associated with the Grail and Cathars. Языковый фильтр Filter content by language (under No language option there are photos, documents, some videos) Нет языка An Online Journal by Richard Stanley (Originally appeared in R. S.' MySpace, December 9th, 2007.) Brethren, I have invited you here to this ancient, invisible theatre with the intention of not only unmasking the killer God responsible for these crimes against 'reality', but more cogently, to provide an unambiguous solution to two or perhaps three long running esoteric enigmas! I salute those who have stayed with the program from the top. For late joiners I include an index to conjure order out of the scrolling chaos and serve as an aid memoir for those hardy few who dare read further. I have very little keyboard time at present and less in the months to come. Until we meet again this strange saga is my gift to you. Be warned the completed text contains 'spoilers' and may be hazardous to your belief systems. RELIGION: The Cathars and Otto Rahn Ed Jajko says:_I would be most interested if Christopher Jones could cite his authorities for the Cathar Christology he presents us. What little I have read suggests that the Cathars had different, not entirely coherent views on Jesus Christ, but that they were not quite in consonance with what Mr. Jones has stated. Reference to a couple of scholarly sources would be much appreciated. RH: Yes, a few precise sources. Ed Jajko asked Christopher Jones to give sources for his statements about the Cathars. Christopher replies: The sources for my comments on the Cathari are all from Cruzada contra el Grial [original German, Kreuzzug gegen dem Gral] by Otto Rahn. This particular translation was done by Fernando Acha and published by Hiperión in Madrid. To the best of my knowledge and a fact that was reconfirmed to me by the current copyright holder in Germany, Rahn's book was never translated into English although Spanish, French and Italian versions exist. The book was first published in 1933. The wooden book of Montségur In the early 20th century, a series of palm leaves, containing anomalous writing, were apparently discovered within a hidden cache of the walls of the Cathar castle of Montségur. Though without any intrinsic value, the “wooden book” – as it became known – would become the centrepiece of the esoteric and metaphysical community; its discoverers even labelled it “the Oracle” and said it was able to contact the hidden masters of Agharta. Montségur is seen as the final stronghold of the Cathar faith, a bastion of true devotion besieged by the worldly ambitions of the papal troops. In March 1244, the Cathars that had been locked inside the castle for months finally surrendered; approximately 220 were burned en masse in a bonfire at the foot of the pog when they refused to renounce their convictions. Rescanières: another unsolved death? A memorial slab Stand in the covered hallway that is in front of the church of Rennes-les-Bains, and you will find that the community indeed had respect – more so than for the other priests that served the community, it seemed – for Boudet. That in itself should be remarkable. However, there is also another name on the memorial slab: Rescanières. The interesting thing is that Rescanières only served as priest of Rennes-les-Bains for one year: 1914 to 1915. It left him little time to leave an impression, it seems, but apparently he did. And the reason why and how he did so, has to do with his sudden, unexpected – and premature death: Rescanières was only 47 years old when he died. Might it therefore come as a surprise that some believe that he was murdered? One of Otto Rahn's Grail lakes La vraie langue celtique et le Cromleck de Rennes-les-Bains. The treasure of Volkes tectosages. A Roman proconsul of the name of Cæpion took from a votive lake 80 tons of gold and money and immediately re-melted this into ingots. This apparantly disappeared during its transport towards the port of Narbonne following an attack from Volkes tectosages upset by this profanation of their sacred offerings. They would have then withdrawn to the high valley of the Aude and would have hidden the treasure in this area which is easy to defend. Boudet speaks directly of the Volkes Tectosages, who became Galatian after Brennus, the Celtic Raven God, took the treasures of Delphi and brought them to Tolosa (Toulouse)[Strabo]. The treasure was cursed and so they threw them into a lake. Roscoe's solution (Part thereof) In Geography Strabo (64 B.C-23 A.D.) tells of a massive 300 tons of gold and silver bullion that was recovered by the Romans from the Celtic temples at Narbonne. This is near the mouth of the Aude river on the French Mediterranean coast. A further eighty kilometres up the Aude is Rennes-le-Chateau. Strabo attributes the bullion as either an accumulation of Celtic sacred offerings, or else the Celts' loot from the Greek treasuries at Delphi, sacked in 278 B.C. The Romans somehow lost the bullion near Narbonne during Caesar's Gallic Wars and it was never recovered. The gold was taken from a votive lake by a Roman proconsul by the name of Cæpion. He took 80 tons of gold and money and immediately re-melted this into ingots. This apparently disappeared during its transport towards the port of Narbonne following an attack from Volkes tectosages upset by this profanation of their sacred offerings. They would have then withdrawn to the high valley of the Aude and would have hidden the treasure in this area which is easy to police. Otto Rahn: To Rennes or not to Rennes? “The Emerald Cup-Ark of Gold: the Quest of SS Lt Otto Rahn of the Third Reich”, Colonel Howard Buechner claimed that Otto Rahn visited the Corbières in 1937. This visit is not substantiated. However, there is little doubt in my mind that there is a strong connection between Rahn and Rennes-le-Château. I found these connecting links: - Rahn’s link to the Cathars whom he loved with great passion; - The war waged against the Cathars by the Church and the French King, a war of such ferocity that it brings into question the true nature of the cause for which the crusade against Albigensian and Cathar was really launched; - Rennes-le-Château is seated in the Cathar heartland; Saunière discovering something linked to the “real” story of Catholic geopolitical involvement in the West over the centuries; - The Vatican not speaking out against the Nazis until close to the end of WWII. What was the Church afraid of? - Jules Massenet and his librettist Henri Cain for the opera: Don Quichotte and the metaphysical concepts of the necklace image and of the Island of Dreams; CHRONOLOGY 1904-1939 18 Feb 1904 Otto Rahn born, Michelstadt. Parents Karl & Clara (nee Hamburger) 1910-1916 Junior school at Bigen 1916-21 Secondary school at GrieBen 1922 obtains Baccalaureat 1924 obtains Bachelor in Philology and History 1930 Rahn begins his European travels (Paris, Provence, Switzerland, Catalonia, Italy) 1931 Rahn visits French Pyrenees. Visits "Spion" in Pyrenees with Himmler and Abetz 1932 Rahn leads a Polaires expedition in Pyrenees 13.12.33 Rahn joins the German Writers Association 1934 publishes "Kreuzzug gegen Gral" (Crusade against the Grail) 1935 appointed to personal staff of Heinrich Himmler 29.2.36 Rahn joins Allgemeine-SS, member 276 208 1936 Rahn visits Iceland with 20 men 1937 publishes "Luzifers Hofgesind. Eine Reise zu denguten Gelstern Europa" (Lucifer's Court in Europe; Rahn sent back to Languedoc (Montsegur), says he will return in 1939. Time of alleged Corbieres visit? 20.4.37 promoted to sub-lieutenant (Untersturmfuhrer) Sep-Dec1937 military service for "disciplinary reasons" at Oberbayern Regiment, Dachau The Cathar Myth: Church of the Holy Grail The first to create the Cathar myth referred to in The Da Vinci Code was Napoléon Peyrat, a bourgeois and talented fabulist, concocted in the 1870s an account of the Cathars, which, though largely made up, still passes as truth in esoteric circles today . Another equally influential is Jules Doinel (Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel, a Freemason and Spiritist (See "The Making of Spiritism" in the first part of Da Vinci Code Matrix). He claimed that Gnosticism was the true religion behind Freemasonry. Thus it is in the second half of 19th century France that the Cathar-myth was born, to which Joseph Péladan was the first to add to this a mention of the Holy Grail in his short treatise From Parsifal to Don Quixote, the secret of the Troubadours. Rennes-le-Chateau Here, on the northern edge of the Pyrenees some 110 years ago, a Catholic priest named Bérengier Saunière became unbelievably wealthy overnight, seemingly after discovering something of immense value or significance in his church. He is said to have spent lavishly redesigning the tiny hill-top structure, building a strange belvedere tower called Tour Magdala and constructing a guest house known as Villa Bethania. He is also reported to have started acting oddly, erasing inscriptions on tomb stones, carrying out nocturnal excavations in both the church and churchyard, and receiving visitors totally beyond his standing as a parish curé in a rural part of southern France. Facebook Like Google Plus One Популярное содержание Book by Jeanne D'Aout with Otto Rahn as one of the main characters См. также: Jeanne D'Août Порекомендуйте нас Гуглю 9 лет 2 недели назад Помощь приветствуется! 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__label__wiki	0.560313	0.560313	Project team and contact details The name Palimpsest was chosen to evoke the multi-layered imaginative, conceptual and historical cityscapes of our everyday settings that this resource seeks to bring to life. Palimpsest Methodologies Day Project Events, Updates No Responses » The Palimpsest Methodologies Day, which took place on 13th May 2014, was an opportunity for the project team to meet and share ideas with our wonderful advisory board, whose experience and expertise spans the wide range of academic and technical areas needed to help guide our multidisciplinary research. It was a chance for us to discuss past projects and methodological approaches, as well as to reflect on how Palimpsest is developing so far. The afternoon began with brief presentations from the project team, covering the background to the project and the literary tasks and aims (James L), the gazetteer and textmining challenges (Bea), the mapping and database aspects (James R), social media and communications (Nicola) and finally the creation of data visualisations (Uta and David). Slides from these sessions will be available soon via our forthcoming Publications and Presentations page. The introductions to the Palimpsest project and project team was followed by presentations by the advisory board, many of whom will soon themselves appear as guest bloggers on this blog: Screenshot of map selector in Walking Through Time App Chris Speed (Edinburgh College of Art) discussed the concept of “Temporal Ubiquity”: the notion that many times and places co-exist. Many of Chris’s projects have played with this idea, such as Walking Through Time which allows you to explore old maps of Edinburgh as you walk through the modern world and so experience both time periods. Chris added: “I wish I had put the Abercrombie plans into that app – a utopian future that never actually happened”. He went on to explain the ways in which technologies are supplementing our mobile temporal consciousness: we can follow long-dead people on Twitter, we can re-experience our own earlier lives through tools like TimeHop, and send messages to our future selves. All of these aspects create temporal ubiquity and provide new ways to open up and explore time and place. David Cooper (Manchester Metropolitan University) spoke about his work as a literary geographer. David’s interest in this area began with his research on post war writers descriptions of the Lake District. Of particular interest to David is the ways in which the burden of the past affects contemporary authors, and he explores this in terms of issues of spatial intertextuality and imaginative embedding. David was involved with the digital humanities project, Mapping the Lakes, which reapplied urban studies of literary place to rural topography, micromapping works by Thomas Gray and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This included an attempt to map authors’ emotional responses to landscapes and raised the issue of what we are doing when we attempt to map subjective emotional qualities. Finally, David emphasized the need to consider how we can convey the multisensory aspects of literary works. Jonathan Hope (University of Strathclyde) described his research on the Visualising English Print 1470-1800 project as part of the Text Creation Partnership, a collaborative venture between universities who have been creating a corpus of works input as text (rather than just page images). From 1st January 2015, they will start making freely available the Early English Books Online texts, which range from 1450-1700. The TCP project will then move on to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) although these present more complex copyright challenges. But it’s one thing to have the texts – what do you do with them? The team Jonathan works with is creating new tools and methodologies for working with these texts. Jonathan also raised questions for the Palimpsest team around the multidimensional nature of the data we are considering and stressed the need to enable the exploration of their intricate relations without flattening their complexity. Jason Dykes (City University London) raised five areas of reflection for the project team to consider: Location – designing for legibility and comparison. Representation – you don’t need precision for qualitative narratives. Annotation – test as spatial information, the words are the map! Connection – maps that tell (spatial) stories. Collection – explore content through visualisation. In discussing these areas Jason raised examples of work he and his colleagues have done at the giCentre at City University London that offer clever and playful takes on each of these dimensions. Screenshot of the Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-61 built by Axis Maps Dr Vincent Brown’s African Rebellion Project, Harvard University. David Heyman (Axis Maps) talked about the difference between map making and cartography, a difference which he defined as “the purposeful design of maps”. He talked about the importance of communicating a message to an audience and what that means for map design. For instance, in interactive cartography that means ensuring we design features that define functionality, communicate it to the user, and contextualise the thematic display. Miguel Nacenta (University of St Andrews) described several ways in which meaningful distortions in visualisations can help to communicate the information shown. FatFonts, which he created with Uta Hinrichs (on our visualisation team) and Sheelagh Carpendale, is a type face that provides a hybrid of the symbolic and the visual, by using a thickness of ink that is in proportion to the number being represented. These fonts are designed to highlight numerical changes and cluster numbers in a multilevel way to give you a sense of scale and meaning when you glance at a visualisation. Another of Miguel’s projects called Transmogrifiers enables users to interact with and transform a map to allow a new view of the information – as did the Jonson and Ward 1862 atlas, which showed rivers’ lengths juxtaposed in order to make visible a comparative sense of their scale. The 1862 Johnson and Ward Map or Chart of the World’s Mountains and Rivers – Geographicus. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Ewan Klein (University of Edinburgh) closed the presentations with a discussion of vernacular geography – the sense of place reflected in ordinary people’s language, which reflects a vagueness in semantics, that is often not acknowledged. The Natural Neighbourhood Questionnaire included two questions: what is your postcode and where do you live. The answers suggested that there was no clear boundary between or shared definition of neighbourhoods, with a heatmap version of the responses making visible a number of in-between places and showing Leith over represented territorially, perhaps partly due to streets such as Leith Walk , which despite their name stretch beyond Leith itself. The day concluded with very useful discussions of future challenges and opportunities for the Palimpsest project – as well as some fantastic and inspiring resources, which will feed into our work over the coming months. As a thank you to our advisory board, and as introduction to Edinburgh’s rich literary past, many of us followed the Methodologies Day with a literary walking tour of the city, finding out all about both some of our best known literary figures and some of their less well-known peers and inspirations for their characters. Thanks to a serendipitous accident of timing this included sighting one of Edinburgh’s most prominent present day writers, Ian Rankin, who was conveniently standing outside the very pub our guide had just mentioned as a favourite of his! Resources and projects highlighted during the day: Walking Through Time – phone app based around Edinburgh Timehop – view social media postings from one year ago Ghost Cinema App – find the ghosts of cinemas past CoGet – collaborative moving of objects where it is the object itself that has agency, forcing people to interact. Oona Raisanen’s Mystery signal from a helicopter – experiments with youtube noise signals Mapping the Lakes A Literary Atlas of Europe Text Creation Partnership and EEBO Visualising English Print 1470-1800 Docuscope BikeGrid – view where the hire bikes in London are and move to. Tools including: Stamen‘s Watercolour map and Jo Wood‘s oil paint and sketchy map layer algorithms. Axis Maps’ Indie Mapper toolkit. St Andrew’s FatFonts typeface for representing numerical information in meaningful ways within data visualisations. The We Are the City resources associated with an exhibition at Digital Shoreditch and the Museum of London, part of the giCentre’s bicycle hire work. Alper, B., Henry Riche, N., Ramos, G., and Czerwinski, M. 2011 Design Study of LineSets, a Novel Set Visualization Technique, In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Information Visualization, 2011. Available from: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/basak.alper/pubs/lineSets.pdf Digital Music Lab project Axis Maps and their projects including: Climate Commons, American Jewish Population Map, Musqueam Place Names Map, Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto, New York Times: Remembering 9/11 and Slave Revolt in Jamaica. FatFonts Transmogrifiers Brosz, J. , Nacenta, M. , Pusch, R, Carpendale, S & Hurter, C 2013, ‘ Transmogrification: casual manipulation of visualizations ‘. in Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology: UIST ’13. ACM Press – Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 97-106. – Nicola Osborne and Miranda Anderson Posted by Nicola Osborne at 3:09 pm Tagged with: AdvisoryBoard, literarymaps, literarywalk, MethodologiesDay, visualisation Explore Lit Long:Edinburgh Download the Lit Long App Runner-up of the British Library Labs Research Award LitLong App launched as Palimpsest and LitLong feature in Edit Lit Long:Edinburgh Launch LiveBlog Where is Edinburgh Modernism? Launch Event for Lit Long: Edinburgh Follow us: @LitPalimpsest Tweets by @LitPalimpsest Other Project Presences English Literature Palimpsest page Project Partners and Funders University of Edinburgh English Literature Department University of Edinburgh School of Informatics University of St Andrews Human Computer Interaction Research © 2014 Palimpsest Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line115
__label__wiki	0.523476	0.523476	All about flooble \| fun stuff \| Get a free chatterbox \| Free JavaScript \| Avatars perplexus dot info Home > General Mr. Ambrose And Mr. Bruford (Posted on 2006-03-26) Mr. Ambrose and Mr. Bruford, two senior executives of a London based multinational organisation, embarked on a business tour during the course of the year 2003 A.D. to two of the branches of the organisation located in the capital cities of two different countries. The flag of the country visited by Mr.Ambrose included a blue trapezoid and a green trapezoid as two of its features while the flag of the country corresponding to the city visited by Mr. Bruford contained a purely red circle. Immediately upon reaching the capital city of the host country, Mr. Ambrose reset his 24 hour wristwatch in accordance with the local time and observed that the date according to his watch was Pth day of the Qth month of 2003, where 2003 when divided separately by P and Q yielded a remainder of 3 in both the cases; both P and Q were greater than 3, and (P+Q) was divisible by 5. Furthermore, it was a FRIDAY according to his watch. After reaching his hotel room, when it was precisely (x^2) Hours according to his watch, Mr. Ambrose contacted Mr. Bruford for an urgent matter whereby he learnt that the time according to Mr. Bruford's 24 Hour electronic wristwatch (which was also reset in accordance with the local time) at the same instant was exactly ((5/4)x² +2) hours. Later during the same day, after returning from an important business meeting to his hotel room, Mr.Ambrose's watch displayed exactly ((5/4)x²+2) Hours when Mr. Ambrose contacted Mr.Bruford for the second time to discuss the outcome of their respective business meetings; Mr. Bruford's response included the fact that the time by his watch was exactly x Hours. What cities were visited by Mr. Ambrose and Mr.Bruford? What was the date and time according to their respective wristwatches when Mr. Ambrose contacted Mr. Bruford for the second time? Note: This problem is based on the global political scenario prevailing in 2003 A.D. See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta Rating: 1.5000 (2 votes) Comments: ( Back to comment list \| You must be logged in to post comments.) re: No Subject \| Comment 7 of 9 \| (In reply to No Subject by Dej Mar) While your final solution agrees with mine, I think you can eliminate some possibilities earlier if you re-evaluate your definition of a trapezoid. I always thought it meant a 4-sided polygon with 2 and only 2 parallel sides. The flags of both Gambia and Sierra Leone have blue and green rectangles (is a rectangle considered a trapezoid?) - Djibouti's flag is the only one that fits the stricter definition. Also, I interpreted the note at the end of the puzzle to mean that the capitals and flags involved were "as of" 2003 (since these things can change so frequently in these modern times), not that the puzzle situation had anything to do with a global political event, which saved me the trouble of looking them up. :-) But maybe I misinterpreted that part. Either way, I'm pretty confident that Tokyo and Djibouti is the correct solution. Posted by tomarken on 2006-03-26 19:25:00 Sign up! \| Forgot password Search body: Newest Problems Random Problem FAQ \| About This Site New Comments (1) Unsolved Problems Top Rated Problems This month's top Chatterbox: flooble's webmaster puzzle Copyright © 2002 - 2021 by Animus Pactum Consulting. All rights reserved. Privacy Information	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line116
__label__wiki	0.511093	0.511093	Mary Lee Brady, Ph.D. "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard." [Matthew 11] Matthew as an accountant/tax-collector begins the story of Jesus via reference to generations rather than eras of Prophets, Kings, or Roman calendar citing millenium, centuries, decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Indeed, our generation born during the years 1920 -1949 saw and heard a lot that might be useful and helpful to newer generations of life in pursuit of goodness born on Christmas Day about 12 B.C. when bad perceived as good, ... prevailed in the hearts and minds of most millions on earth including: Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. Philosophically, our website is about goodness seen and heard by people we love: for propagating the virtues of courage, faith, hope and love; and, functioning within the moral values of self-worth inherited via matrilineal and patrilineal generations evidenced by DNA tracks and historical documentation such as Census and Civil War enlistment records plus labors of the many Mormon missioniaries who tried to capture and record names and data from millions of denigrated souls lost but then found by believers for new generations to know. Email: Editors, More Mary Matters bradyenterpriseassociation@gmail.com Youtube: Harry Belafonte Mary's Boy Child + New and older Generations of Performers/Renditions Generations and Degenerations Matter (Greater Challenge Than Family Trees) Welcome to our re-published website (first uploaded in 2010) about the pursuit of "Goodness, born on Christmas Day that lighted a enduring empowerment movement/revolution/strategy." We believe, because Mary and Joseph (by any other names) joined in the context of philosophical teaming. A good (godly) woman and man for goodness sake. We define it as birthing, nurturing, inspiration, motivation, education, and enterprising functions spanning lifetimes. Our definition is inclusive of functional marriage by men and women who propagate new and better generations spanning multiple timelines, lives and places. Such beliefs are indeed mysteries in the faith many hold near and dear not just pursuant generations, but useful and helpful in here and now comprehending degenerations seen and heard. Not all persons born in same timeframe are of same generation in functional faith. Many choose not to be born again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte Our site and those we research and link are information sources for new generation artists and writers. Our hopes are that some if not all will discontinue using color as the least common denominator to define citizens of African heritage. Human beings are of many colors and shades. Better we think to use terms up from slavery such as "mother, father, brother and sister" significant in the spirit, not matter, but that of Christ who we hold dear. Color varies so widely as to be irrational identification even in Africa, Asia, and Europe where such reasoning apparently emerged for artistic religious artifacts/priests. What matters most is how new generations perceive themselves to be: matter or more? Site is neither historical fiction nor urban fiction. But rather as generation #65 believers, it is our attempt to foster more thoughts about generations in pursuant Goodness we believe emerged/was born on Christmas Day. Songs reciting/propagating good news differ from those that do not. Many minstrels minister goodness. The miraculous event, we are told, occurred during years when Herod was King over the Roman Province of Judea. Augustus Caesar was Emperor legally worshipped as a living god. Event was famously hailed to us by fellow believers like Harry Belafonte and Roy Hamilton with good news songs. Their music spiritually helped comfort our own generation #65. With little or nothing they came out of the Caribbean Islands in pursuit of goodness, and found many of us. We understand enough human history about Africa, the Americas, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and the Pacific Islands to stand firm in our belief. Philosophy of life (unchained) given by Jesus of Nazareth is why believers, including our documented ancestors such as my grandparents (image on right), believed him to be a new beginning. They perceived him as the Living Christ (Savior) for humanity's sake, not by color, race or sex: subject to freewill by believers. Not all humans past or present believed in the spirit of Christmas or functions thereto and therein. So, the birth of Jesus by any name or color matters. Famed story tellers like Charles Dickens addressed functions that honor him as the Christ. Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol (Original Screenplay) Some like Thomas Jefferson, born 1743 perceived him as the 1st generation of expandable goodness in mankind's documented history on earth. We honor Jefferson as a father of modern America because he wrote and propagated: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. From those thirty-five words came forth generations of believers like Douglass, Lincoln and millions more functional believers that included our ancestors once owned as slaves by men like Jefferson. He was imperfect but better than most slave-owners/lawyers. We and they perceived the international trade in African slaves and slavery itself was form of evil but many believers in philosophy of Jesus propagated: hate the sin, not the sinners. In facts for us to remember, it was Jefferson who urged that Ohio territory be admitted to the Union as a state in 1803-1804 not allowing slavery. That single action generated a functional sanctuary for ex-slaves and helped pave the way for a home and spreading of abolitionist movements westward, and up and down the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. The function of escaping slavery required having somewhere to go. It was also Jefferson who in 1806 made illegal the new importation of African slaves. The functions of enforcing the ban required naval enforcement and marines by a navy inadequate of ships for such functions. As a result the British Empire navy patrolling African coast and high seas often boarded and searched suspect American slaver ships. British naval captains removed suspected English born seamen as conscripts for the royal navy, and unshackled and freed on-board captives (image on right) as illegal contraband. Directly as a result, warfare erupted in year 1812 and generated the famed American national anthem. By time of its ending in year 1815, it was a lawyer negotiated ending by men like James Madison and Francis Scott Key who saw and heard the lightning and thunder. Star-Spangled_Banner Key was a friend and associate of Bushrod Washington, George and Martha Washington's heir. Bushrod Washington and Francis Scott Key wanted legally free colored populations encouraged by government to self deport back to Africa. After the 1812 war, he helped establish the American colony of Liberia and relationships with Richmond free colored populations such as embraced by the American Colonization Society. They subsequently sponsored sending Reverend Lott Carey, a free colored Baptist minister in Richmond to newly established Liberia colony. Most free colored opposed but agreed that Africa mattered in missionary good news because Jesus said do so. Treaty_of_Ghent#Agreement that ended the war of 1812-1815 is remembered because it ended captivity/impress of American sailors by British sea-captains to serve aboard British warships. It evoked a promise by President James Madison for Americans to stop seeking return of ex-slaves from Canada, Nova Scotia, England and Sierra Leone. Britain and America both agreed to do more at sea in fighting the evils of international slave trade. Britain promised compensation to American slave owners and their heirs who lost slaves evacuated by the British during American Revolution for liberty. Britain ended the claims by paying approximately two million dollars to honorable claimants like Bushrod Washington, an heir to evacuated slaves from Mount Vernon. About 25,000 escaped slaves joined British army as loyalist and were evacuated by British after the war's ending in 1783. The Loyal Blacks: White Historian Ellen Gibson Wilson Functional believer historians like Ellen Gibson Wilson offer facts that ought not be ignored by new generation writers about acts of evil that have blind sided make-believers like Clarence Thomas. He miraculously imagines there are no records of the 18th century slave trade that personified evil. The realities of it are well documented by historians. We also believe evil exists by many counter philosophies of life in all lands where humans existed/exist. Our focus is not about evil but known ancestors who functioned to overcome what destroyed millions of bodies and souls, good, bad and indifferent. Jefferson's proclamation of man in the eyes of God still matters to believers, and as a preamble to the U.S. Constitution is the founding doctrine for it coming into existence. Ignored by Madison, Monroe and other framers of the constitution, many patriots did not extinguish longings and thoughts about personal liberty for all Americans including those of African heritage. Personal liberty was especially pertinent to those thousands of men who fought and died in pursuit of it. Yes, approximately 5,000 uniformed combatants were of African heritage, along with many thousands more enslaved manual laborers and teamsters. James Lafayette was one of many trusted slaves recruited and deployed behind British lines to observe and report their findings to Washington's staff. When the war was won in 1783, General Lafayette was outraged and protested to George Washington, after returning from France and learning that his trusted spy had been returned to slavery. James Lafayette was freed. We can imagine that none were ancestors to Clarence Thomas whose views about African-American heritage are functionally ante-bellum reasoned hype. Most was overcome by the American Civil War in which President Lincoln invoked the doctrine set forth by 1776 American founders. They, not Congress of the constitution writers 11 years later, put their lives at great risks pursuant goodness. By his reasoning and that of Scalia, the declaration was not binding on Congress. Thus, the constitution was an instrument to govern, not for social considerations other than as allowed by constitution founders/prince. Machiavelli. Jefferson's declaration is disdained by so-called originalists proclaiming U.S. constitution is not/was not bound to revolutionary declaration of independence faith adopted in 1776. With that reasoning, neither is the revolution itself pursuant personal liberty patriots in uniforms, White and non-White. Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas had no American revolutionary ancestral generations with tales told as to why. Their views about original intentions by original nation building lawyers are amply reflected in many Supreme Court decisions about constitutional government and the rights of states to define or restrict any or all human rights not specified by constitutional founders. But, we believe it a mystery in our faith that towering in stone for all to see and hear stands: Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Words spoken and written by Scalia and Thomas have not shaken them from their honor in American faith. They reason as though American Revolution never occurred, but rather lawyers in wigs sat and reasoned together not joined to faith in God. That joining to faith would thus lead them back to the Declaration, which in turn to its Dogma. Sermon on the Mount by Jesus Thomas excepted, few educated and enlightened lawyers of African heritage have ever agreed that Jefferson's Declaration is not the stated doctrine for U.S. Constitution and its 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Agreeing to such reasoning is akin to propagating Christianity minus the bedrock doctrine set forth in Sermon on the Mount by Jesus. We believe Thomas Jefferson was inspired by his philosophical beliefs to write the immortal first line in 1776 Declaration of Independence. For this we honor him as a believer above all else he ever said, wrote and did. We think that Little By Little many people (not all) of African heritage enslaved and persecuted in Africa, the Americas and Caribbean developed functional belief and behaviors for survival and sustainment of offspring generations. Many embraced Christ. Many have not, and many lived and perished in the spirit of what we classify as: Nothingness in Living Color Generations numbers 66, 67 and 68 have to live their own lives, learn or not learn about yesterdays. However, our generation #65 have the free will as believers to tell their gifted and talented artists and writers what we have seen and heard. We have experienced eras of both volunteers for military services advancing personal liberties; and those young men conscripted to serve during national emergencies. It is the challenge of newer generations to research, learn, see and hear. We hope they act and write about what mattered to those souls seen and heard. Write about the best of times and worst that also came, and was overcome by functional faith. All We Are Saying Is Give Goodness a Chance John_Lennon born in 1940 in the same timeline we assigned to our own generation #65 was not a believer in the functional faith about Goodness we inherited. Apparently a gifted and talented child, he suffered the consequences of a mother and father Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman born in the timeline of generation #64. They were not teamed up in his nurturing, inspiration, motivation and education pursuant goodness. Yet in his song writing, we perceive he had a yearning for Christmas as we do. And, there were many others, millions of mothers and fathers born during years 1890 and 1919 that brought forth not only World War II that killed over 50 million human lives; .... but also gave birth to gifted lives like John Lennon, not nurtured and inspired in functional faith generations pursuant goodness on earth versus evil also seen and heard. His life mattered to music lovers. Who but him could imagine the world Lennon might have seen and heard had his father not gone away in the 1940s pursuant the great struggle waged by Great Britain and the United States navies. Those great power nations included men like Belafonte and Paul Lawrence Reeves Wilson Brady, born 1927 (image on right). Like Lennon's father, they both saw and heard their nation in peril of evil both domestic and abroad. Not easy to describe, we suffice to say evil always existed in all nations and lands with reasoning not joined to our faith. Foundations/Founders of Fascism Believe it or not, after Japan (blue) ravaged much of China and Italy slaughtered hundreds of thousand human lives in Africa; ..... ..... believers of all colors in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Caribbean and Europe (blue) believed the world was in peril to totalitarian evil. But, functional believers were inactive until Germany's devastating blitz attacks in Europe. It renewed what never ended with World War I in the 20th century nor Napoleon in 19th century. The beast of evil pursuits was stabbed but had not died. youtube music hotel california eagles Even then there was a certain blindness among certain kinds of believers of all creeds and colors. We dare not classify as functional generations in pursuit of goodness led by British Empire (dark green) and United States (light green) that forged an alliance against clear manifestations of evil. The desire to commit being of service helping an entire nation of others is certainly not something that exist among all or most well educated men. It was even so during times of dire threats such as World War II witnessed by my generation #65. Be clear to understand functional believers perceived it as good versus evil; and were not willing to sit and wait for a evangelical predicted second coming to overcome. As with other wars experienced by believers there existed different opinions about who, how, when, where and what based on beliefs and values by creeds, claims and indifference propagated by ignorance about the functional facts unknown. It will remain so unless scholars seek to search, learn and tell others who care to know. Many media producers still do not imagine that men of color during Christmas past were honorable men and functional believers before World War II. So, regular news prefix pre-Civil Rights Era? In what American era did men not seek civil rights to be and do goodness? Functional Goodness Defined in War The Axis Alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan as foreign threats caused the best and brightest military service volunteers, from America's best known families like the Kennedy, Bush, and Roosevelt clans. And many millions of young men were motivated by those examples in the pursuit of goodness to overcome clearly perceived manifestations of evil. Doris (Dorie) Miller, born in 1919 (image above right) was a hero during and after World War II among "the least of us" born in his generation #64 and our generation #65. The functional good news is that hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers in our generation affirmatively told offspring believer generation #66 that Dorie Miller aspired to be the best that he could be in service to God, home and country. And, the post World War I military leaders like General George C. Marshall understood that citizenship mattered in the nation's human resources during both war and peace. Born in Uniontown, PA. not far from Pittsburgh, George Marshall saw African-American young men integrated in the mills and coal mines; and heard his father and grandfather tell stories about their ancestral patriotic services in the Civil War. He also saw men die for America. Youtube: African-American Soldiers in Italy In year 1948, a product of his heritage seeing Black men matter, he endorsed President Truman's racial integration executive order of U.S. Armed Forces. Those years were all about societal connections in pursuit of goodness overcoming functional obstacles including major league baseball. America was newly embarked on a long cold war against the Soviet Union and dependent upon youth manpower potentials. We later learned that Lucian_Truscott was one of a few general officers who endorsed that historic moral heritage parameter to the 1954 Brown versus Topeka Board of Education decision by U.S. Supreme Court. Racial Desegregation of the Armed Forces Who were the numbered generational benefactors and do we dare imagine generation #66 beneficiaries as unknowing? We are very concerned that so many African-American gifted and talented including artists and athletes seemingly have no sense of connections to generation #65 or earlier ones. We think the result is poor reasoning joined to a faith in only themselves or the newest mindsets not connected to the past that included many tens of thousand patriots. The most recent example is hype about not standing for the national anthem. We were horrified watching and hearing a ghetto born comedian use the N Word in addressing President Obama at an affair watched around the world. The anthem is a free-will salute denied by a professional athlete oblivious to the relatively recent past when Jackie Robinson and his other best benefactors in professional sports did stand. Our thoughts have to be who do they think they are? Do they not feel connections with goodness in men like Jackie who bore the burden and scars of standing tall for them? Ulysees Lee: Employment of Negro Troops Dr. Ulysees Lee (image on right) not only served as a military officer during WWII but devoted his scholarship years as a History Professor to make certain that some new generation minds did not forget their benefactors. Surely his service is linked and a testament to the Mount Vernon Lee offspring everywhere. World War II and Korean War men and women in uniform mattered in changing the morality climate in America. Both Truman and Truscott had seen and heard about patriots of color who died in both World War I and II. We believe they joined superior reasoning to their faith. Our hopes are that new generation writers try to understand it was not easy for them or "the least of us." And some men volunteer in uniformed services under rule of law to move against evil; but often at a loss of family and community relationships. We perceive that beneficiaries of such men and women try to understand emotional compacts men have to make with themselves in order to effectively concentrate on 24/7 missions without visible ends. Dorie Miller did not know about the evil manifestations coming his way but obviously prepared himself to face it. New generation writers must not allow Hollywood to look at his color and stereotype him with ghetto characterizations born in Harlem and South Central Los Angeles mindsets (called keeping it real). It is and was not realistic for Hollywood artists and writers to consistently mischaracterize toughness as hoodlum traits commonly found in ghetto lifestyles, and scripted in the language of those values., not voices like former President Ronald Reagan in Army documentary about best of us. When not doing what they are responsible to do in combat zones, their free-time concentration still has to always be their mission, not family ties. Yet, even the best and brightest toughest of marines like The Late Senator John Glen even away on solitary missions needed emotional ties to God, home and country. As it was understood during World War II, the government has a unique responsibility to encourage but hold harmless mass media from denigrating African-American men and women (including volunteers like Milton Olive and Colin Powell) who served in wars such as Vietnam or anywhere else. Existing public prejudices against African-American veterans are difficult to kill. Let us not forget that young Milton Olive, one of the best and brightest in one of the Army's best and toughest paratrooper brigades was buried in the national cemetery at Biloxi Mississippi near his ancestral roots. His fellow paratrooper and friend the future artist Frank Frazier of Dallas, born in Harlem, said Milton's aspirations were studies to become a minister of the gospels in his hometown of Chicago. Military service was his resource pathway. Prior to the American military buildup in Vietnam during the summer of 1965, men like Milton and Frank were all volunteers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, high school and college graduates with above average aptitude test scores and functional training. African-American officers and enlisted were both exceptional and average. There were few if any conscripts in Vietnam before the buildup offensives that cost thousands of lives. America generated a storm of avoidance and rejection among potential conscripts like Mohammed Ali. Government sought to placate critics by education based deferment policies and student loans. Mass media deferment beneficiary hawks like David Horowitz even attacked men like Milton and Frank as being uneducated pawns and victims of racism for their military services. A few talking heads, like Ed Rollins of CBS, also a draft dodger, sought to add flavor to such stories. He was rewarded by anti-Vietnam bosses who made him an evening news start. They sent him to Vietnam wherein he was marketed to Americans public viewers as an expert on African-American troops in the war. Mothers and sisters were terrified, and the music moguls felt their pain. Marvin Gaye: What's Going On? Worse of the worse were perhaps thousands of ex-felons released from American jails and prisons deceitfully proclaiming their incarcerated years as back to back tours in Vietnam. Gullible media and listeners seldom, if ever, saw military DD214 discharge records. Documentaries and movies mocked Black men as degenerate war pawns. Television networks and artists became sole sources of knowledge by most Americans. The Bloods of Vietnam Family linkage matters, and too many are disconnected from systems that generate the needs for men who become veterans of overseas services. Vietnam haunts them also. Most, if not all, lack visibility even in the government itself when tours of duty are completed. It is costly for government bureaucrats to exclude proven patriots to its existence. Civil government requires a functional ground game that inter-connects and spans generations of Americans. The ability to have a ground game is more than exams and interview processes that miraculously exclude too many men that matter. National conflicts and wars are not definable by sports analogies/academic game theories. Winners and losers in America or its wars should not be judged by body counts or skin colors. The best and brightest veterans have to be viewed as more than a new job application number. The attributes of courage are not given all men, so it matters whether men and women with power believe such differences exist in deciding who to recruit, hire and send into harms way such as Benghazi. Essay exams and the Peace Corps are not the best way to find men with the right stuff. Academia has no means to predict courage or faith born out of societies experiences. Something is amiss when government does not have right stuff to recruit courage. Not even the best and brightest in churches or government entities can predict when or where it will be needed. Frank Frazier, artist, former member, 173 Airborne Brigade Fellow patriots with Paul Lawrence Lee Brady, Jr. born 1959 (left center) are examples as to what America still sends abroad to protect it's foreign interests but as individual employees, not functional team capabilities. But America needs functional squads of instantly deployable men who can team with each other 24/7 as needed where needed for temporary duty until relieved by other elements of government. They are government employees not in uniform but we can easily see they once were, and still valuable in societal security services, support, training and administration among many other growing domestic and foreign manpower needs in future decades. Documented failures in many scenarios raise questions as to why. Who did we hire? Who sent what to who? New Orleans Super Dome? Benghazi? Departmental stove-pipes throughout the civil service system make impossible the lateral movement of trained and experienced veterans from one department to another. Especially if service tours are out of country or away from Washington D.C. with family, friends and associates who know how to navigate government stovepipe personnel systems. Career veterans still have aspirations to provide useful service to God, home and country. They love America. Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child Who's Got His Own King George VI and Franklin Roosevelt among other leaders during World War II helped shape the inheritance of John Lennon. From the time of his birth, he began life and lived without functional family environment that included the spiritual nurturing and fleshly warmth of parents and grandparents. Though baptized in the Anglican faith, John Lennon's attitudes and beliefs in the spirit of Christ were very much founded on what he did not see and hear from generations that came before him; such as grandparent nurturers. Yet many grandparents believed the spirit of goodness in God, home and king/queen/country spans generations even after they are gone. And it is mystery in the faith that such could exist, especially for a child who never had an opportunity to see and hear creditable believers, not simply about Santa Claus. However, as an Englishman during the era of European Reconstruction he grasped understanding that: Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few And so it is with Americans who do not understand the above comment by Winston Churchill about Britain's homeland security. Their faith and functions required the best and brightest men and women in their empire and America to overcome evil by any other name. The war was a wakeup call to aristocracy and bureaucrats to overcome stovepipes easy to see and talk about in Parliament and Congress. Like it or not, its time to wake up. Wake up U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. It's time to break through the type uniform color stove pipes that once existed in the military services before emergence of men who now matter like General John Kelly (USMC) ret. (image on right). During the coming years and decades of emergencies at home and abroad, he will need to grab onto a lot of tried and true men like Paul Brady, Jr. to function as retired airmen, soldiers, sailors and marines. Homeland Security Department seemingly is the ideal functional home for recruiting and sourcing deployable teams, squads, and platoons for temporary security services to other departments like State, Energy, and Interior preset with bureau budgetary constraints. All have patriotic Americans on their staffing charts but a problem exists when such persons lack the right stuff needed: like courage and availability until planned and programmed solutions are in place, and in the budget. Kelly's challenge and those in his charge will be to recruit and package some men and women who have the right stuff. There seemingly are requirements to help secure America and its allies in emergency threats spanning generations of patriot careers. We think there is a requirement for lateral movement capabilities of civil and military validated human resources such as my son Paul Brady. He is still a determined marine in his aspirations to be useful to God, home and country, Semper Fidelis. His career experiences have given him ample opportunity to think about Murphy's law. Lateral movements of the best and brightest military and civilians to where needed and qualified is now routine for the Defense Department. Such programming has not cracked the ice in places like State Department where an Ambassador's budget considerations likely outweighed personal security considerations about places like Benghazi. Who could he call for? Ghost Busters or the Marine Corps that would have sent a budget busting company for at least 30 days? The army would have sent a battalion costing even more. Ambassador Christopher Stevens (image left) was one of best and brightest in the State Department but lacked a personal staff capability to move smartly in insecure areas. His diary makes our point that he needed a better TDY alternative. Borrowing two men from the C.I.A. was not equivalent to a temporary rifle squad or platoon on hand in the event of worst case scenarios: Murphy's Law always applies. State Department Report on Benghazi.pdf Like many other Americans, our concern is that American diplomatic activities abroad ought not be dependent upon impromptu Peace Corps type reasoning and foreign national militia to provide temporary physical security. Homeland Security Department should be considered by Congress for maintaining temporary deployable assets for lateral movements to impromptu situations, and in emergencies, domestic and foreign. Give them the TDY funding for domestic and offshore support requests by federal agencies anywhere. Program for reimbursements at a later date. America has emerging requirements for temporary duty mission capabilities to secure U.S. lives and property with validated faces, not simply very costly budgeted spaces in Defense and State Departments. Their permanent missions dictate Congressional pre-funding approvals. More action is needed, functional review processes to at least think and plan mid-term and long-term resourcing of mission needs. It appears those needs include temporary and/or permanent functional emergency manpower to protect and sure up the American flag; until other security forces arrive by air, land or sea. Depending on host nation militias or private security firms of unknown persons is a no-brainer. Not all requirements in government need ex-marines, but some places do and they are admired because of near instinctive abilities to team up and move against an adversary in best or worst of circumstances like Benghazi and Hurricane Katrina failures. From bottoms up to mass media talking heads, inaction prevailed about matters not seen or heard beforehand. Emergencies seldom are. That is not an instinct gained by a master's degree, law or doctorate and civil service exams: albeit many career veterans like Paul Brady, Jr. have pursued both. Many acquire skills and abilities in both crisis and routine processes in jumping and clearing administrative hurdles while other cultures choose to watch and wait. The American civil service system designed for civil society is a hurdlers nightmare for a lot of young men and women inspired, motivated, educated, trained and validated as overcoming hurdles to serve America. Overseas Veterans Also Rejoice In Christmas So, grand-parents in the functional faith matter very much in propagating the aspirations and beliefs of their offspring generations. If they will, the sights and sounds of grandparents reinforce those of parents near and far away which is another mystery in the functional faith passed over from generation to generation of believers. Though born in the City of Pittsburgh, I was an adult before realization that my inclination and love of garden was very much hereditary and reinforced by my extensive exposure and time communicating with grandparents Mary Hemings Butler Lee and Thomas Findley Lee. (Image on right) For example, is it a mere coincidence that my son Paul's aspirations about adventurous travel originated with William Lee, born abt 1756 and possibly generated thoughts inspired by his grandfather Marion Thomas Lee, born 1903 who for 50 years distributed the famed Gulf Oil Corporation. His adventurous employment paid my tuition and fees to the University of Pittsburgh and Smith College where I learned a lot about why generations matter a lot more than make believe chatter made very popular in the 1960s-1970s: way back when non-believers verbalized power and empowerment to be one and same. Even before becoming a mother and a psychologist, I understood that children embraced to love each other were instinctively empowered to be so and outreach to one another as adult believers. Otherwise, there is no logic as to why Jesus HIMSELF would have said so to believers, believe it or not. Many believers born in our generation #65, have lived long enough to see and hear generation #66 believers like Paul Lawrence Lee Brady, Jr. born 1959 affronted and confronted by hordes of non-believers, by many colors, faces and names: urging rejection of inherited functions generated in the pursuit of goodness born on Christmas Day. Our approach was to arm him with truths about his own heritage. Millions of American and European gifted and talented youth in the 1960s-1970s were functional rebels as John_Lennon born in 1940 had grown to be in the 1940s-1950s, arrogant and spiteful against authority of families, churches or official states of being like the military services during the Vietnam War era. It has been many years now since my son Paul Lawrence Lee Brady, Jr. born 1959 left Tuskegee University studies of veterinarian sciences behind to join the Marine Corps. That day generated other days that included me as a mother joining hundreds of others at Camp Lejeune witnessing his Marine Corps graduation from basic training, a grueling challenge to the graduates. But for me and the other fathers and mothers present it was also an affirmation of our functional faith seeing boys to men knowing we did not neglect or leave them behind in their own aspirations. Military volunteers are special and unique in American history and their aspirations cannot be generalized or taken for granted by beneficiary generations who do not care to know that such men existed or still exist. Why did or do they aspire to serve in both foreign and domestic services? Military men integrated America long before churches or free-will governments and industries. So, my husband Robert Martin Hill Atkins, LTC (USA) ret. and I travelled from Pennsylvania to Kansas this past September, ... not for glory, but family remembrances of flesh and blood that gave up the ghost in dismantling the Spanish Empire; and allowing nation-hood for Cuba. So far as known to-date Fitz Lee, born 1866 (Generation #63 in the spirit of Jesus Christ) was the only relative we believe to have died from wounds It was a very short but bloody war fought in the Caribbean and far away Philippine Islands at sea and on land. Teddy Roosevelt and Rough Riders are well remembered. But we dare not forget the Buffalo Soldier Regiments that included Fitz Lee and our known relatives such as: William Beverly Hemings Jefferson, born 1847, Robert Wilkes Frog Kyle, born abt 1875, Robert M. Woody, born abt 1879 and other brothers in Christ like William Lee who was lynched in Hinton, West Virginia. Men like Fitz Lee, the offspring of slaves like William and Frank Lee were legally entitled to burial in haloed grounds such as Arlington National Cemetery. It is a humbling experience to go there and other national cemeteries but rejoice us in understanding what we see. No one is glorified but all are honored for their service to God, home and country. I also visited the well-kept gravesite of William Hemings, 73rd Ohio Infantry, organized 1861 and is documentation that many men of African heritage living free as White men in the in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts: were among the many Americans who responded to President Lincoln's call for volunteers. William did as his older brothers did and their color and racial identify did not stop them. William was the youngest son of my great grandmother Mary Hughes McCoy, born abt 1812. We believe the fact that he is buried at Fort Leavenworth with a tombstone acknowledging his service in the 73rd Ohio Infantry disbanded in 1865: indicates he had a deep emotional memory of the men who served therein with him. And, as a Buffalo soldier he certainly was known and enlisted as a soldier of African-American heritage. McCoy Generations So, how much do we know about the real McCoys. We are of the opinion that men like George Washington and other slave owners, such as the Carters, allowed the gospels to be heard among slave populations in the pre-revolutionary war era Westmoreland County Virginia, rather than fearing it. Slave owners therein were completely Anglican and their church bishops and priests did not allow slaves in their congregations. And there were no known evangelical type paid pretentious preachers licensed therein to build churches among the slaves; yet apparently the ministries of Francis Asbury were allowed and effective without buildings or shrines. The Living Christ beliefs embraced by many gifted and talented distinguishes Jesus as more than a organized religion deity. We think to understand this difference, that scholars including ministers of the gospels need to seek into all the known generations of believers, including their own ancestors. What goodness is served by silence about past truths seen and heard. It is a matter of concern. Hopefully, in appraising their heritage in goodness, they will look back to original intents (parables) voiced by Jesus. Men and women are products of their own cultures that brought them forth, and cling to their beliefs. Not every person born is a believer in every or any faith. It is impractical to assume that every person enslaved was for same purpose and circumstances of skin color. Many were enslaved by birth, regardless of their sex and color or status of the fathers on earth or in heaven. The challenging questions raised by Dr. Martin Luther King for new generations like Paul L. Brady, Jr. as a Los Angeles police officer (image on left) is/was about joining reasoning to their functional faith. Police officers like Paul were never anything like Denzel Washington portrayed in his academy award winning movie: Training Day. It appears that Denzel in many roles is Hollywood's greatest poster boy for portraying men of African heritage as functional heathens and degenerates. Paul had to digest much more than color codes and other realities on the degenerate side of Christianity portrayed and applauded by Hollywood. Many in Hollywood and urban policed population areas disdained officers like him and the Christ in which he believed to have existed when Jefferson wrote "All men are born equal in the eyes of God." By those ten words, we applaud Paul as a functional believers in the philosophy of life espoused by Jesus of Nazareth. Without such believers, America lacks public pursuits of goodness. Jeffersonian Overview It is an offence against Jesus as the Christ HIMSELF for scholars and otherwise philosophers to pick, choose and delete human beings from the functional generation of victories initiated in 1776 and celebrated in HIS name. The new United States Congress of 1786-1787 did just that by functional deletion of originating doctrine that "all men are created equal in the eyes of GOD;" and then superseding with original intent of lawyers and liars who embraced reasoning of the Caesars. Hearing the spoken word "liberty," many subjects of color wanted it also but so-called founding fathers found new wording to exclude, not include. These founders of a new slave owning Republic excluded citizenship for persons born among "the least of us" before and after Christ resided in Africa or elsewhere. Yes, and many like Thomas Jefferson were beneficiaries of slave ownerships and their labors as sons and daughters of the American Revolution. Second American Revolution But, a generation was born that rebelled in the pursuit of goodness born on Christmas Day. Jesus was certainly a rebel, but not all people born in the timelines of the beastly Caesars (still existing) are of same generations of rebels in Christ reflected on this website. Our theme is that pursuits of goodness are birthed and born of mothers and fathers honoring Joseph and Mary as models in overcoming immeasurable challenges in life as functional believers. Boys and girls have to be nurtured, indoctrinated, educated and motivated to be and do the best they can in their given lives such as Jefferson's offspring generations below. Thomas Jefferson was also a founding father rebel that generated some gifted and talented rebels we know very well. One founding father rebel for us was Madison Hemings Jefferson, born 1805 (Generation #61). He generated three sons and a daughter who served for goodness sake during the Second American Revolution that began during the generation of William Lee, born abt 1756. Seeking for many years, we have found a spiritual bond as brothers and sisters in Christ for those who value such connections to hundreds of dispersed grave locations of deceased generations. Their connection to living generations have to matter less their functional faith was all in vain; and their lives of little or no matter to us excepting sperms and eggs or images without functional life stories. https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Madison+Hemings&FORM=RESTAB We do not seek the living among the dead but like my first cousin James Robert Lee, born 1927 (image on right) we share the Hemings and Lee lineage in their pursuits of goodness joined in marriage with others in the doctrinal faith. One is our beloved cousin Gail Lee Jones Wilkerson via Clara Rose Lee, born abt 1883 also an offspring of Thomas Findley Lee, born 1859 and Mary Elizabeth Hemings Jefferson Butler, born 1863. Gail (image below) joined me in celebrating the 55 years of marriage between cousin Robert and wife Patricia Clayter born of a lineage that also included emancipation patriots and medical care-givers in the pursuit of goodness. Clayter/Claytor Patriots Gail's marriage to a probable offspring of Emma Lowry, born abt 1814 has much encouraged us to tell offspring we believe as brothers and sisters in Christ not simply by the flesh but by our freewill faith. We do not go out into grave yards seeking this faith but among the living like Gail we have seen and heard. in a life pursuant goodness. Mothers like her, and there are probable millions in every generation inspired by faith alone to not neglect providing functional motherhood to new generations. And, we think about such when visiting the cemeteries and/or slave graveyards with ancestral remains, some dishonored in the now paved over Freedmen's Cemetery like Rose Lee (Carter), born 1788. Valerie Lee below is another functional daughter of the American revolution via my cousin Robert and Patricia above and as wife to a career military officer (West Pointer) we know William Lee would love to show them Mount Vernon where he is buried not far from George Washington. Yet, there are others that African-Americans, in particular the gifted and talented should know and understand: are buried in unmarked graves and some honored in national cemeteries like: Vicksburg National Cemetery the Leavenworth National Cemetery and Arlington National Cemetery Not having an ancestor buried in America's hallowed grounds: does not make any American an inferior species but it certainly confirms they are no better than those who do. For most Americans, it is a humbling experience to comprehend we are not far removed from the lives we choose to honor, such as known ancestors. Yet, the tragedy confronting burial location choices such as Arlington National Cemetery more often than not are dependent upon immediate family member affirmative actions by themselves and government. It appears to be that siblings of Fitz Lee in or around Dinwiddie County as his place of birth did not know he was dead or simply lacked the ability to perhaps bring him home to Virginia. No we dare not forget about him, but yet try to honor his fathers and mothers such as William and Frank Lee (Generation # 59) that we love to acclaim and adore in the generation of our own sense of being Americans even in national beginnings of the United States. Buffalo Soldiers At San Juan Hill The war that took down Spain as a great power made the United States an acknowledged Greater Power. Our web-site is not intended to foster novel ideas about empires, kingdoms, tribes, or clans. But rather that our ancestry is as American as anyone else of any color or cause pursuant goodness in Christ that many regiments such as above and Emancipation Patriots generated during the Second American Revolution. As functional believers in what our own known ancestors more or less saw, heard and believed, we honor them as founding fathers of the personal liberties gained by blood, sweat and tears shed before our own generation #65 came into being by faith they existed. In fact, we are far less interested in identifying ancestral flesh, color and wealth than we are in acknowledging the spirit they believed in. In fact evangelized young men in uniform called him JESUS and CHRIST among a few others like "The Big Man and The Man Upstairs." And, they were always the spiritually inclined functional least of us integrating America including baseball and regimentation of young men like Fitz Lee to be the best they could be. None enlisted were like Hollywood cast hoodlums cursing, swearing and swaggering to be seen and heard. Hollywood actors, coaches, trainers and directors appear to be stuck on a belief system about men of color in functional history of the United States. Most seem unable to imagine functional characterizations of the Buffalo soldiers and lawmen of color in post-civil war America covering vast distances and population growth. Their names and records exist in the archives alongside the files on General Custor and Marshall Wyatt Earp. They were no better or worse. The difference is not being known by writers. Keeping our eyes on the prize as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. so brilliantly urged reiterated a philosophy that encourages us to not turn around to living as non-believers. Such existed in the Roman Empire that crucified Jesus Christ (regardless of His actual birth name, color and various remembrances'). Same attitudes existed in other slave empires before the Americas and international slave trade ended by bloodshed. The existence of Jesus as a Living Christ gave African-Americans a lot to hope for from where they were. Take that away as many slave owners tried to do, and they existed in a plight of nothingness. Many enslaved minds did in fact perish per documentation in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census data. Carl Schurz Report to President Andrew Johnson. Carl Schurz, Report on Conditions in the South (1865) is a report that offers some insight as to what many functional believers saw and heard about ex-slaves liberated by the Civil War. All liberated slaves did not survive their personal liberty. Our report to new generations of artists and writers in summary urges them to to consider the functional faith of those who did survive to generate new and better lives. Not simply moan perished faithless. Over four million bodies were afforded personal liberty ends, by laws enforced by the Union Army and Navy; but not the minds for most of "the least of us" formerly dependent upon conditions of servitude. The newly emancipated dependent upon their own birthed "talented tenth" .... as it was with the children of Israel liberated by Moses. Old testament biblical stories written during captivity suggest they wandered for 40 years on a journey that should not have taken more than 40 days. There were of course vast differences but all reasonably dependent upon their own gifted and talented leadership potentials in young men born to them like Joshua. And enemies pursued them where they roamed in pursuit of goodness not yet born until Christmas Day some 1500 years later, and came again to Sheppard many, many, many millions of daughters and mothers like my great great grandmother. With a brother's Union Army mustering out pay and other young men by her side, she and they planted and grew gardens that have fed generations in the pursuit of goodness. Nancy Lee Bannister, born abt 1825 Enemies to personal liberties have never ceased to exist, and the surrender of Lee in April 1865 did not end the struggles to live in liberty. The Army did as it was told by General Orders to have commissioned officers make certain that all slaves knew they were free per the Emancipation Proclamation of 1 January 1863. They did so routinely by requiring slave owners in the surrendered rebel areas, plantation by plantation, farms, factories and mines to appear in presence of a designated officer and the slaves. Owners were made to announce their emancipation of slaves whether wanted or not: men, women and children, blind, cripple or crazy needing a home. But, the new free were not equal to each other It is important to understand there were no suggestions that all freedmen and women would be awarded 40 acres and a mule. Abraham Lincoln had raised the question during his visit to Richmond regarding traditional bonus payments to the 200,000 young men in U.S. Colored Troop regiments. Neither Lincoln or Douglass ever contemplated giving what amounted to more than military service bonus payments to: 4,000,000 emancipated slaves of mostly women, children and fewer husbands and fathers to toil. Yet, there was compassion to be helpful but how? General William Tecumseh Sherman was the first Union official to consider giving some captured private lands to freed slaves. He sought advice from liberated preachers, not youthful soldiers who liberated them. Cultural dynamics mattered. The questions not asked were ones that most mattered. Did freed slaves seek ideal material aspirations by an elderly preacher or functional capabilities by young men and women, hitched and harnessed to each other. Hopes for 40 acres of land and a mule was functionally insignificant in generation of goodness such as: census, marriage, birthing, nurturing, inspiration, motivation, education and opportunities for new and better generations. Historian: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Image on right is by artist Kevin Williams). The 40 acres and a mule sentiments by mostly preachers who had not served in the great liberation struggle was rejected outright by Frederick Douglass who proclaimed that personal liberty was an end in itself. But, the mass media fictional notions, among others, have survived the realties of the war that killed over 650,000 men. It is functional fiction by urbanized writers to dare imagine there were any adult enslaved men and women in the rebel states during that very bloody wartime era of 1861-1865 who did not know why. It is ridiculous to suggest slaves lacked understanding of their own enslavement in places like Texas wherein so many were moved there by slave-owners to avoid Union emancipations in lost-cause states. Lee surrendered, and Texas slave-owners waited until June. Even worse, there are talking heads who had no ancestral fathers among the thousands of U.S. Army Colored Troops who knew their roots and spared no efforts to make certain their kinfolks rejoiced in liberation. When the war ended they received sufficient mustering out pay from the government to travel and make certain, even among people who had no kin in the struggles. Some veterans like Charles Kyle, born 1840 embraced and loved believer beneficiaries like Adaline Frog Finney, born abt 1849 in pursuit of goodness. They married and pro-created new and better generations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth Even in Texas that had been spared any bloody battlefields and suffering, slaves knew they were free or soon to be by grace of the Union Army. Yet, we know by documentation the needy and uninformed were within 10 years abandoned by the Union Army which freed and advised them they were free; but also by their talented tenth that included former U.S. Colored Troops like Ellis Kile/Kyle, born abt 1845 known and perhaps targeted by ex-confederate troops organized by Nathan Bedford Forrest. Ellis was not a coward, but married a White woman in Cleveland and owned a grocery store. He remained in Ohio until early 20th century for safety of family in Salem, Virginia where he was born. African American Salemites Have Reportedly Ellis Kyle was able to read, write and speak various immigrant languages such as Italian, Slovak and Yiddish. It is not known when he permanently returned home to Salem where he apparently exerted influence on nephews Robert Wilkes Kyle and Robert Woody to join the Buffalo Soldiers. Their tales of travel and sights seen in the western states were told to nephews Edgar Kyle Atkins and the William Thomas Atkins Story worth believing. He passed on to generation #65 sons what was remembered hearing. Other than the old musket and pistol belonging to Robert Wilkes Frog Kyle, born abt 1875: William cited his uncle Robert's tales about the vast corn fields in Kansas and the rocky mountains beyond. He vividly described the Army as mainly having to fight the terrain so that settlers and wagon trains could find their way to where they wanted to go. Our hopes are to add more understanding of the victories gained and lost in the course of documented blood-letting between years 1754 to-date: by young men that ought not be forgotten as our brothers and sisters in the spirit of Christ that so many believed. We suggest that it dishonors one's known ancestry to not seek knowing and understanding, rather than judging them. It is a tedious challenge to learn and know our own past mothers and fathers. So, we think that blessed is the gifted and talented child who has stories received from his own parental and grand-parental pursuits of goodness including man-made wonders to see and hear. Functional Faith Raised Them Up Colin Powell, GEN (USA) ret. remembered that he and at least two million other soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen of African heritage living during generations #64 and 65 had a moral duty to remember the Buffalo Soldiers and regiments of faithful that served America in its pursuit of goodness. My husband (also with Buffalo soldier ancestors) and I remembered to visit the Buffalo Soldier Memorial (image on right) that General Powell encouraged the army to build. Beginning in 1866, Congress initiated four regiments of young men (about 6,000) who had served honorably in the U.S. Colored Troop regiments (about 200,000) during the Civil War that raged during years 1861-1865. In both processes of regimentation, such young men had the self-discipline, stamina and skills needed beyond 20th century Hollywood characterizations of inept and unworthy Black men in both civil and military lifestyles. Mass media stereotyped them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossian_Flipper Leaving Jesus and/or Fitz and other Buffalo Soldiers behind in our memories would be akin to ignoring basic beliefs about our own offspring's service to God, home and country that so many claim to believe but are conspicuously absent from knowledge and understanding how and why they want to be. Perhaps regretfully, too many radio and TV talking heads have no ancestral heritage of anyone that has ever served any interest other than their own self-interest. And they reason differently about past generations of service men and women. We are concerned about societal misunderstanding of career military veterans, and yearnings to still honorably serve. We think going, seeing and hearing why lives in service to others should not be denigrated or trivialized. My son Paul Lawrence Brady, Jr. born 1959 helped enlighten me by his yearning to be of service to GOD, home and country as was his father, a WWII sailor, who researched and published a very informative history about blindness in understanding that men in service to the nation are first and foremost Americans, not career and mercenary minded whether others believe it or not. Paul obtained his university degree after joining the Marine Corps in adventures that exposed him to his aspirations. Serving Just Cause In Pursuit of Goodness Most men who did serve in functional capabilities were conscripted, but many were volunteers with yearnings to serve their nation, like Paul Brady, Jr. when as a Marine policeman in Panama, he served in the President George H. Bush capture and imprisonment of narcotics crime lord Emanuel Noriega who declared himself "the maximum power." Paul also served in the Pentagon's Command Operations Center; and later as a Los Angeles police officer he observed the same degenerate thought processes of Noriega infecting and inspiring drug lords in places like South Central Los Angeles. After September 9-11, he labored as a security professional for the U.S. State Department in Iraq and Afghanistan, and retained his yearning to be of service to GOD, home and country. The State Department does not issue purple hearts but still a marine he earned one via a wound received in a terrorist attack overcome. He has a inherited empowerment in functional faith of his own ancestors that helped make America a light shining atop the mountain. Marshalling that faith is his on-going challenge of being "once a marine, always a marine." Paul Lawrence Reeves Wilson Brady, born 1927 My focus on understanding the generation of my son's interest in functional living other than simply getting his academic degrees led me to better comprehend his father's generation and their father's generation in the pursuit of goodness traceable to men like his great uncle famed Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves (image on right) who helped tame the southwestern United States badlands. I believe Paul Brady, Jr. inherited it and their/his interests in American security, is/was akin to being a lifetime good marine even in challenging security work for State Department overseas responsibilities. And, he could or would be equally effective as a U.S. Marshall or a functional in our Homeland Security Department where veterans are not left behind. Deputy U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves My son's life story in the functional world of opportunities and oppositions, cannot be segregated from his generation or generations that preceded his father and mine. He has the body, heart and mind made in America, but unknown unless his story is told to people who want to see, hear and interview him, not stereo typically clerically processes leading to down: rather than up to greater responsibilities. Indeed, a lot of healthy vigorous military retired men like John Glenn in their forties and fifties likely still have another fifty years of life to live. Remembering Hurricane Katrina Too many mothers like me, of aspiring sons do not understand that job interviewers/employers more often than not look for reasons to exclude ex-military, not include them onward and upward. Their cultural inheritance values (including movies and comedy) dictate what they see and hear about men like my son during processing, not well intended fairness laws too often set aside in faceless processes to hire preferred others on the basis of a civil service scoring criteria. But, when the rains came in with Hurricane Katrina too many ran away from the battles at hand, and jobs needed to be done such as having men to enter the Super-Dome for observations and explanations to terrorized residents. So, who was hired or fired. Mass media instigators and dishonest policemen? More federal emergency management programming, and subsequent federal officials not afraid to enter disaster areas. The Army was sent in. As a retired psychologist, I have come to understand that far too many mothers, daughters and sons know little or nothing about prior generations of functional men that mattered in their inherited salvation. It is a cultural deficiency propagated by dysfunctional values about functional men and women of African heritage in and of the Americas stereotyped by many minds. A good example are ancestral soldiers employed in America's westward expansion moving Indians to and from reservations There are thousands of stories yet to be written outside the scriptural doctrine by 20th century Hollywood writers/directors and producers. Great movies are not enough to tell stories that matter in pursuit of goodness. Abandoning generational searches for knowledge of family members that brought Fitz Lee forth disrupts our functional faith about generations at Mount Vernon and other sources via William and Frank Lee (Generation # 59). We dare not try to generalize their offspring and staunchly opposed to feminism, sexism, racism or any doctrines that seek to hinder their aspirations and growth from boys to men or girls to women in pursuit of goodness born on Christmas Day. The brothers generated eight (8) generations of believers to-date who labored and sacrificed for the faith, hope and love in Africa and America. We have tried to trace their many female and male offspring in both their flesh and spiritual traits, easier said than done. But, the spirit of goodness is much easier to find than laying hands on the flesh. An excellent example is Dr. Robert Edward Lee, 1920-2010, Republic of Ghana. Finding him in Ghana did not require DNA searches or documentation by sources of professed knowledge about African heritages; but rather inherited dynamics that we should honor all our ancestral kinsmen in seeking to find traits of goodness seen and heard such as the gospel in Africa. Gospels Are Alive in Africa Nelson_Mandela - Gifted Child and Functional Believer But, if the gifted and talented believers of African heritage do not know their own ancestral family stories seen and heard; then they are indeed victims of meta-physical rapes of their heritage replaced by novel nothingness among "the least of them that are born, live and function with dysfunctional beliefs." New generation writers will find a wealth of thoughts that influenced past generations of African-American writers like Richard Wright, (image on right) So many Urban Fiction Writers and others born during generations #65-66 conceptualized ghetto mind-sets for all past generations of men who should matter in what new generations see and hear. Many enriched themselves via movie royalties and book sales, but propagated images and values among historical heritage bandits comforted in thoughts "that is the way it always was and is supposed to be." States Rights Controversy Many still believe so. Such reasoning is still found among fascist minded scholars, often citing former Supreme Court Justice Antoine Scalia whose degenerate arguments were reactions against our generation's pursuits of goodness in Christ. But, Scalia was an honorable man believing the Second American Revolution affirmatively in pursuit of human rights was a violation of constitutionally enacted original intents for states rights enshrined in the original constitution. And his degenerate reasoning was always joined by "me too" declarations of Clarence Thomas who imagined the generation of his own birth was unrelated and insignificant liberalism. William Lee, born abt 1756 was a believer among believers (Generation #59) and was the first in my lineage known to me as having served in military services to America. He was not the last. Many offspring from him and his brother Frank responded to the trumpet calls to (Generation #62) during the Emancipation struggle that freed the bodies of more than 4.5 million people of African heritage. Patriots to the United States, but publicly scorned as traitors in their ancestral native State of Virginia. Many died as believers that others might have personal liberty in the pursuit of Goodness. Some Lee relatives like Nancy Lee Bannister, born abt 1825 called upon and labored for the Living Christ to also free minds and bodies of degenerated souls. Reasoning joined to our inherited faith is that far too many souls seen and heard in our generation do not value, and thus not propagate labor skills for new generations helpful and useful to others in many fields of endeavor including military services for which so many Americans profess to honor; but lack knowledge and understanding of who, how, when, where and why. Too many scholars degenerate such realties as labor intensive pursuits like carpentry, brick masonry, welding and other functional skills; by ignoring it as historical sources of indoctrination, training and employment for far more above minimum wage opportunities available to certain young men than otherwise found elsewhere in America. Generation Tables We have finally ventured to update missing data about Robert Lee Vann by seeking his motherhood lineage among documented Lee Generations including Lucy Lee, wife of Frank Lee who was the brother of our direct ancestor William Lee, born abt 1756. We are inclined to believe the great man born in generation #63 and founder of the Pittsburgh Courier adored by our own parental generation #64 was an offspring descendent of Frank and Lucy Lee (Generation #59. Descendents Remembered Mount Vernon Lucy was enslaved at Mount Vernon as George Washington's cook (born abt.1755); but classified as a dower slave to Martha Washington's inherited estate. Virginia Free Colored Census - 1810 confirms Lucy Lee as a free but indentured servant resident in nearby Fredericksburg, Virginia. Lucy Lee, born abt 1744 gave birth to her beloved daughter Grace, born abt. 1790 (Generation #60) who gave birth in Virginia to Helen Lee (generation #61) and subsequently indentured in North Carolina. Their story is that what George Washington feared would happen after his death: did happen, with degenerations still to be overcome. Degenerate men used enslaved women as breeding stock to breed more slaves for profits, not goodness sake. Mount Vernon, Frank and Lucy Lee North Carolina Census Data 1820 confirms Helen Lee as a free indentured servant resident in Hertford County North Carolina where Robert Lee Vann (Generation #63) was born in 1879 to an unwed mother named Lucy Peoples (Generation#62) we believe was a likely daughter of Helen Lee (Generation #61). explorepahistory: Robert Lee Vann. So, which generations mattered most, least or not at all? Who do we believe? Most importantly, which generations found and kept the faith to overcome adversities seen and heard? In the 1950s, Cora Lee Frog Finney Hill, born 1907 was active in the Western Pennsylvania Women's Club network and Allegheny Union Baptist Association. A informal conversation with Mrs. Robert L. Vann satisfied her understanding about the ancestry of Robert Lee Vann, and that he was likely a distant cousin to her Lee linage as told by grandmother Gilly Frog Finney Lee Hill, born abt 1845. Mrs. Robert L. Vann, Publisher of the Pittsburgh Courier, Presents a Gold Medal and NAACP Life Membership to Indian Prime Minister Jawarhalal Nehru, as NAACP Roy Wilkins Looks On, 1949, New York City © Bettmann/Corbis Use menu on left and bottom of page to explore site. Family Generations listed on menu confirm and explore some American born offspring of African, European and Native American heritage known to have existed in the pursuit of goodness during 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Believe it or not there were many who believed in a Living Christ that divinely intervened in their lives, not as miracles but functional salvation. It matters that scholars be able and willing to distinguish the functional faith from the sing and shout hand-raising praise generations that emerged from essential nothingness in the 20th century. Intentions are to encourage offspring descendents to care, research and tell their own inherited stories via modern functional means and methods that matter. Examples are such as the Harrison High School Val Victoria graduation of Cora Lee Hill in 1924 via State of Virginia standardized testing and certifications for Black and White students pioneered by Principal Lucy Addison. Lucy Addison was first and foremost a believer recruiter in the faith up from slavery she held dear even before becoming a classroom teacher and successful school principal. We are recruiting functional believers, (including screenwriters, producers and directors) to join with us in pursuit, for goodness sake to generation #68 and hopefully their offspring generations functionally integrated in a better world of faith, hope and love. They mattered very much in the academic struggle to gain official accreditation as a high school; as so with institutions like Hampton, Tuskegee and Virginia State gaining college and university accreditations. http://library.vsu.edu/special_collections.html It did not happen easily. It required generations of faculty and students in pursuit of something of functional empowerment, not 1960s type rhetoric by students with a short-list of semester reading topics; and reasoning not joined to or in pursuit to philosophy of life championed by prior generations in the functional faith that generated functional personal liberty. We think new generation writers can find a wealth of topics to address by looking at the places, times and persons of men like Henry Garnett, more so than a Malcolm X who liberated no one. Functional ministers of the gospels, like him, motivated Mercer Langston (image above) and others like Booker T. Washington as the vanguard of new generations born up from slavery. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was in the functional vanguard that came up and understood the functional faith of those climbing before him. He believed the past struggles in overcoming adversity was rooted in a firm doctrinal belief joined to Jesus as the Living Christ in overcoming chattel slavery; and warned Malcolm X and others to not let anyone turn them around. King knew, as did many before him, including Frederick Douglas, that functional opponents to empowerment of "the least of us" were masters of violence. As it was in the 18th century, such bigots must be defeated and held harmless. It was always done by invocation and congregating of prevailing Christian doctrine in the dominant society. That society included believers like Abraham Lincoln and Jimmy Carter debunking history of coded fascist/racist words like non-assimilated minorities in lieu of N-Words. Henry Highland Garnett It matters to understand that many African-Americans though the same color and sex were not all the same kind before, during or after the Civil War that ended chattel slavery. African and American geography had very different cultural dynamics of slaves, escaped slaves, indentured free colored and slave-owners-overseers-regulators-jailors-bounty hunters. They all fostered different religious beliefs and/or absence thereto before, during and after the Civil War. Most ex-slaves, not just a few, who believed in God did not subscribe to the Living Christ doctrine such as espoused by men like Reverend Garnett and others of his generation who struggled and fought for empowerment of others. They did not seek power over them and/or those who held them in bondage. His lifelong ministry was the pursuit of empowerment for others. He was a functional believer for sure, and even feared and hated by enemies of Christ long before his ordination. The Christian General, Oliver Howard Garnett was greatly influenced by existence of family connections and the Presbyterian thoughts of men like Oliver Howard, a bible in one-hand; and if necessary an axe in the other to be helpful and useful. We are inclined to believe that as with so many others touched upon in menu on this site, the young boy to man was greatly influenced by teachings of a determined mother we assume was a functional believer. He attended schools focused on recruiting him as a brother in the spirit, if not the body of Jesus Christ. He believed integration with White believers pursuant goodness in the abolition of slavery. It is and was a mystery in functional faith. Those beliefs very much existed in many parts of the eastern United States and northeast of the Mississippi River where cotton was not king. But, there were far more believers and non-believers suffering wounds and pain generated by centuries of evil in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Caribbean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_slaves We think their histories matter if descendents have minds to comprehend victories in Christ versus degenerations of men who have, pretend and pursue power to prove they are greater. Power versus empowerment is a historic reality. It is many Christmas stories still to be written by new generation writers who care that their own generation should believe and find happiness in being helpful and useful to other believers. "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." [Napoleon Bonaparte] Is or does history matter? Believe it or not, my enslaved ancestor Sarah (Sally) Hemings Wayles, born 1773 in the 60th generation in Christ was only five generations before my generation #65. Sarah was called the Black Mariah because she looked so much alike to her half-sister Martha Wayles who became the wife of Thomas Jefferson. She was one of my generational mothers, and Jesus taught that we should honor them; but how unless we seek to find and know them all leading to his philosophy of life about what is/was seen and heard, such as Napoleon. My ancestral Granma lived in France for awhile, heard revolutionary trumpeting but returned to the United States before emergence to power by the boastful Napoleon who enticed many men and women to love him. The man crowned himself emperor and promised to make the French Empire great again. The great dictator was not so much bound by racism as he reasoned like a born again Roman emperor that slavery was good for economic benefits fostering the empire he wanted. And there were many professed Christians and Jews in France who reasoned that such was more good than bad, and thus acceptable/profitable. Toussaint_Louverture#Slavery.2C_freedom_and_working_life Napoleon captured and imprisoned the great Haitian liberator but failed to restore Haiti as a French slave colony. Haitians defeated his great plan to make the French Empire great again including conquest of Spain and Portugal inclusive of their American slave colonies that included: Mexico that engulfed modern day Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and of course California. Frustrated that his army and navy had failed to re-conquer the Dominican jewels in world-wide slave and sugar industry, he abandoned thoughts about sailing an army up the Mississippi River to defeat the British Empire and retake Canada. And, he thus sold French claims and holdings in the famed Louisiana Purchase by President Thomas Jefferson. Haiti matters for believers seeking to understand generational empowerment versus power by men who would be great. Liberal education matters. Especially now so via Face book, Youtube and the Web for new generation writers who learn to begin somewhere near like their own inherent generations of believers that got them to here and now. Add, not subtract events in pursuit of goodness overcoming evil and uselessness seen and heard. Faces in places matter, so shine their light that believers might see. We think that we can do well by beginning with stories for new writers to consider about beginnings that matter beyond color causes (perhaps least of matter that matters in spirit of Christ, that is not physical matter but pursuits and sources of empowerment). We choose to remember history in context of empowerment overcoming powers we ought never forget. Blessed is the child who inherits a functional parental lineage in pursuit of Goodness/Christ. Learning the parables of Jesus before his resurrection is an amazing learning curve to inherit. Herod the Great - Topical reminder about heritage mindsets of many minds who dare seek power to be great versus those like our gifted sisters in Christ such as Shirley Chisholm, Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elizabeth Warren who have devoted their lives seeking empowerment in the pursuit of goodness we have seen and heard. Such mothers seen in the functional faith afford new generation writers with tales to be told about many ways and means overcome for goodness sake. In short-term, mid-term and long-term, motherhood still matters. But, youth must seek goodness in many places (Jesus in image on above right) to find and understand it is all about generations that are born, not self-made pretentions about being great or glorious proponents of a nationalism and inter-nationalism that yielded over 100 million dead bodies as military and civilian casualties in Africa, Asia, America, and Europe during the 1914 to 1945 holocaust; because men like Trump and Putin labored to make their countries great again! Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and the greedy aristocrats they overthrew and succeeded did it the old-fashioned way, espousing fears against movements by the needy in need of goodness. Mexican Heritage in America Matters Meeting Jesus in Las Vegas was preceded by a chance meeting at a rest-stop restaurant in Kansas of another Mexican born young man with his wife, daughter and new born two week old son. He was impoverished and in route west to join existing family members for help gaining a residence and employment income to fulfill his family responsibilities to God, home and country to which he desperately wanted to be part of. His situation reminded us of one of the brilliant parables by Jesus Christ about strangers who avoided care to a man obviously in need of help; but it was a Good_Samaritan who pursued goodness, not glory, in the functional faith indoctrinated in our upbringing. Abraham Lincoln had warned the French and other European government that pursuant the Monroe Doctrine, the United States would not allow them to re-colonize Mexico and reinstitute slavery. Within months of ending the American Civil War, American troops including George Washington Williams (image below left) and thousands of other former U.S. Colored Troops were welcomed into Mexico to help Mexicans regain their independence by ousting Emperor Maximilian of the so-called Holy Roman Empire with thousands of aristocrats born of power, not functional faith. Williams was definitely the Jesse Jackson of his generation. Amazingly about the Living Christ we choose to imagine possible, he was also Inspector-General in the liberating Mexican Army of peasant believers who shared his beliefs, not comings of men like Cary Cooper and Burt Lancaster in the 1954 movie: George Washington Williams Opening America's functional faith after the horrors that engulfed first half of 20th century was intended to harvest not only American agricultural blessings but goodwill in the new born like Jesus. The strategy developed between 1945 and to-date generated personal liberty and mobility stretching from Central America to Canada, not wars. Our generation saw and heard about much of what men like Andrew Carnegie feared would and did happen if the needy billions of souls expected steel and iron wills to make their lives better, minus goodness. Mussolini and Hitler both served in World Wars I and II, and loved both; but neither Trump (who professes to love war) or fabled ancestors ever served any military engaged in the hell on earth that constitutes it. American great men like Eisenhower disdained it. Even the victorious George Washington and Abraham Lincoln never sought to glorify it. Who does? School yard bullies? Introverts? Extroverts? Freedom is all about personal liberty, "an end in itself." [Frederick Douglass] It has never been free, and those who have it often take for granted the on-going struggles between what is good; and what is evil even when sugar-coated and spiced to sound and look good such as ante-bellum ideology seen and heard by past generations. The notion of returning America to a past so vividly seen and heard by billions of souls around the world, and in America, borders on insanity by make-believers who imagine and outright lie that building more armies, weapon systems, walls and prisons will enhance freedom? Or that free enterprises/jobs can be forced to move anywhere by who under what kind of governments for who, by who, and of who? Only dictators could have/want such power over free empowerments. Our generation #65 heard and read the tales by our own parents and grand-parents about men like Englishmen John Wesley who helped build those spiritual bridges that Prince Hall and ancestors of Hillary Clinton crossed over in multi generations of believers. Videos of youtube bridge over troubled water Our generation also saw and can still see the ruthless pursuits of power and wealth by fascist minded men such as Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Pieter Wilhelm Botha and many others in many nations who would close bridges and build walls to be great: as when Rome was an empire, enslaved, ruled the world and called it good. Such men viewed themselves as creative, not progressive in spiritual beliefs that generated doctrinal empowerment beliefs "all men are created equal in the eyes of God." But, power yields to nothing but greater power, pursued by men and women who would be greater than what was seen and heard in Jefferson's formulation of such doctrine. We have also seen the silly Sally beliefs that power simply drops down from heaven onto to them when assembled in joyful noise to the Lord, something Jesus never said in the philosophy of life espoused. Certainly, we believe it unacceptable that so many 20th and 21st century mothers, and some fathers, should be bound to pay homage to pretentions about empowerments that never were and cannot be without functional attitudes and behaviors, for goodness sake. It is little wonder that so many, now millions of young men and women, have not received the gospels as taught by Jesus himself, and continue to languish in the ignorance of their ancestral degenerations; surviving but existing without functional faith such as learning and laboring as Jesus did. Believe It or Not: Degenerations Also Live On Their fascist mindsets were against progressive movements pursuant goodness such as born again Jesus (above right) who was born in Mexico. He is laboring in Las Vegas to eventually marry and raise up a new and better generation of human beings. Our counsel from Jesus of Nazareth, "Indoctrinate your generation to not despair, Keep the Faith." Mexicans were born in Americas as fellow brethren in Christ with many bridges, not walls. Pawns perhaps, used by Roman mindsets in fear of Jews like Jesus whose spiritual generations did overcome. Gospel at Colonus - Let the Weeping Cease Gospels are more than history/music but more so stories by gifted and talented believers empowered to write and performed that others might see, hear and believe in "Truth and Goodness" as did "ST and HT" functional faith believers for sure. New generation artists and writers have a lot of work to do. Site explores a smorgasbord of topics, themes and loglines "up from slavery" we believe matters as to how when and where certain people evolved under extreme conditions of adversity in which so many millions perished. Unlike the well documented Mayflower transition experience, many modern day American lineages began from degenerations in nothingness without named identities or even clothing aboard slave ships in those pre-Civil War years before the Statue of Liberty that welcomed millions of immigrants like ancestors of aforementioned Trumpeters' affirmative action beneficiaries privileged to be paid for their labors and skills. Their inheritance stories are real excepting the ones deleted that we strive to include and recover for new generations to digest. Reverend Jesse Jackson reminded America back in the 1980's that all slaves (men, women and children 6 years and older) had jobs but the economic system then and when was always about "getting paid." We have gotten older with him but certainly remember his running as a quarterback for the famed A&T University football team, and then running like a professional as Wide-Receiver for Christ on the more famous team put together by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. We saw and marveled at Jesse in Chicago telling youth to "keep hope alive", reminded us of young John Mark who went into Alexandria proclaiming "we have the victory, Christ is risen." It is all about Generations in Christ Videos of youtube reverend jesse jackson Our fear for many Americans, including many of African heritage, with the audacity to imagine that functional faith and sacrifices of life, liberty and even happiness by given few did not matter in benefits derived by the multitudes. Historically, the issue dates way back when, then and now in times of peace, prosperity and wars and rumors of wars before, during and after realities of the international slave trade and chattel slavery that spanned years 1441 began by Portugal until 1885 when finally ended in Brazil; not forgetting ruthless African-Arab conquest that existed long before Portugal's Prince Henry and Pope Martin V (image below left) teamed up to make immorality legitimate and competitive with Arabs and Moors. And, heathen kings and queen-mothers rejoiced. Thus, Heathens, Christians and Jews feasted in further centuries of degenerations only overcome by known generations inspired for goodness sake, not glory. No one ever saw Jesus in Virginia or other places of believers in a Living Christ but believers believed anyway that His Spirit existed to see, hear and inspire them. And, "never did so many owe so much to so few." We think that far too many like Clarence Thomas were indoctrinated in the darkness of ignorance and then enlightened in beliefs and causes not true to philosophical lessons learned in blood, sweat and tears. Indeed, neither their ancestors or themselves bled for liberty to others, sweat at hard labor or shed tears for loves lost due to inadequate or absent medical care. They never saw Rachael weep. It is not an exaggeration to imagine human beings could be stripped of every matter except their souls. Dr. E.B. DuBois long ago noted that he believed Black folks had souls even though many scholars doubted it could be true. Non-believers did not care until the 1940s Jewish Holocaust changed a lot of reasoning. Mahalia Jackson--How I got over LIVE - YouTube So, it is legitimate for believers to wonder how millions of descendents got over into salvaged generations. We think we know how it all began, but not who, how, when and where in revolutions and transformations that overcame immoral philosophies of what mattered most at the time that Jesus was born and crucified: (Rome and other empires in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas). But, even revolutions for HIS sake have not killed the beast of human denigrations still evident. Our menu on the left makes an argument that salvation (believe it or not) was made evident via many believers integrated in American functional faith, during war and peace, including racial integration, functional families, communities in Christ, patriotism, military service, and citizenship rights and privileges thereto including new and better generations of life. We perceive this knowledge is threatened by sounds and rhetoric propagated mainly by "Hotel California" patrons of the arts of make believe. We respectfully fear that too many gifted and talented youth are embracing the beast. Real life stories from the past include, not exclude military services by known patriots during the many wars that helped establish America as we know it today. Integrating those functional patriots in story telling, such as the 1965-1966 Civil Rights Act, afford some insight as to what was overcome (believe it or not) for the least of us because young men (like Private Milton Olive) and women marching in uniform mattered. To men with power, a hundred thousand African-Americans in Vietnam also mattered. President Lyndon Johnson presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to parents of Milton Olive killed in April 1966; and it is ignorant to not imagine such events did not affect his thinking about civil rights matters. Who served causes of civil rights. New writers can imagine what if, like Muhammad Ali, all young Black men had refused to serve in Vietnam and gone to prison instead? What if the same scenario occurred the Korean, World Wars I and II, the Spanish-American, Indian and even the Civil War? What about President Abraham Lincoln? It is not realistic for writers to not at least understand that wars do matter. And ancestral burials of young men in the national cemeteries like Vicksburg matter. Our hopes are some gifted and talented menu descendents and others will honor their heritage by embellishing functional patriot believer lives of adventure and wonders, especially modern mass media. Not for glory: but for goodness sake. If not, their ancestry in hearts and minds of most Americans is simply more urban fiction, hip-hop and "gone with the wind" psychologically non-Americans, but happy with two million men incarcerated in jails/prisons. It is critical that new generations of writers understand Americans of African heritage living in America are not now nor ever have been monolithic in their origins, color or beliefs and faiths. But, judgments have been and are very often monstrous applications of the basic beliefs of the Roman Empire that not only crucified and enslaved millions of human beings but called it justice. The Roman Empire functional laws and orders were cruel, and it is often ignored who and how cruelty existed until it's very ending when the barbarians over-came their hallowed grounds and pretentions. Most Americans of all races, creeds and religions, regretfully are woefully ignorant of each other's heritage in the philosophy of life espoused by Jesus of Nazareth. Our focus is on the talented tenth integrated in a common functional faith of institutionalized values (connections) caring about "the least of us." Not just matters of government over them, i.e. Ronald Reagan envisioned safety net minus faith-hope-love. Nancy Harriet Lee, born August 1904 Some talented brothers and sisters like Huey Newton were from somewhere else than a heritage or even knowledge of men like Douglass, Garnett, Delany, and the hundreds of thousands other patriots that successfully pursued and fought the Civil War that ended slavery. Indeed, his only applied understanding of men who served in the great cause was that they had uniforms and guns. The Black Panthers were from somewhere else (mostly prison doctrines such as Elbridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice) imitating degenerate cultural dynamics read but not understood as alien to African-American generations in Christ. Somewhere Else - YouTube University Links (Updates needed/requested) The ultimate purpose of this site is to incite topics for new generations of artists and writers to consider in their minute of life. Whatever beliefs that functional believers of any cause, color or continent believe about Jesus, only non-believers deny that he was born (not made) and nurtured by HIS mother in the functional beginnings of inspired generations we can count 01 to 68. And, we want to help link information technology to what matters now to you in researching and honoring your mothers and fathers, of any color, with their stories on the world-wide web, not for profit, but for Goodness sake on earth in the here and now. Heaven can wait for you to do so. Such is our theme ..... which we dare to believe is a functional timeline helpful and useable in moral heritage titles, themes and loglines for a new generation of gifted and talented artists and writers to ponder. Maybe give more thoughts to how and why about matters like functional motherhood matters from which progressive human life is generated; and the sense of a Living Christ that emerged among many generations of people with little or nothing more than their faith in Jesus. Many internalized it in functional living. They teamed and joined others in pursuit of functional goodness seen and heard such as: personal liberty, enterprising lives and educating offspring to be helpful AND USEFUL in generating societal change for better and more fruitful lives. It is ignorant to dare imagine change occurred despite them. Image on left is of my grandmother Mary Elizabeth Hemings Jefferson Butler, born 1863 [62nd Generation] and right above is that of my great grandmother Nancy Lee Bannister, born abt 1825 [61st Generation] whose heritage, life, parents, teaming-upwards and offspring during much of the Second American Revolution that began during 18th century revolutionary fervor, and spanned the 19th century and much of the 20th. Ghosts may they now be, Abraham Lincoln and many other enslaved and restricted believers even unto life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr. ought not be judged on basis of their color or religion, but the contents of their character (functional faith). Laborious research to understand and honor them has helped inspire me to tell new writers there are still thousands of stories yet to be written by new generations in pursuit of goodness not limited to religious entertainment rituals. The site offers many topic backgrounds waiting and wanting to be embellished beyond the popular war, peace and urban fiction genres of marketable "nothingness." We think there is a waiting market for good news about historical persons who mattered helping others. Oral history stories matter; but, the arts and prose reiterate the functional human rights declaration as to who are to be fathers and mothers honored in hearts and minds of offspring generations; even though historically scourged by the Romans with functional powers forever among and about "the least of us." Many Hellenists-Romanced mindsets still scourge human history of disdained and heathen peoples by popular customs, laws, and punitive judgments (not redemptive); and judges, as did Pontius Pilot, wash their hands as honorable men and women. But, a Morehouse scholar born in the 65th Generation in Christ preached to remind us that many believers in our heritage (fathers and mothers) lived and died for us, and we should honor them in their faith and functions, not Romans we see. Thus, human history begins with what fathers and mothers value; and youth inheritance of same. It matters for artists/writers to value histories of human empowerment versus power and powerlessness themes so often cited and chosen by artists and writers as matters that can be seen and visualized. Yet, there are tens of thousands of amazing lives of empowered persons in many known believer family lineages in America before and after Great Emancipation War that possessed absolutely nothing of value, not even empowerment to name themselves or their offspring. The emphasis of this website is about empowerment in context of faith, oral history, and documentation that generated same. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The First American Revolution began with approximately 2.5 million population (excluding Native Americans); able to recruit and enlist upwards of 300,000 young men in the 17 to 28 year old age groups (including 5,000 of African heritage such as Henry Hill of Ohio, born 1753 and William Lee, born abt 1756) under the command of George Washington. National archives contain the names and discharge records of all who served excepting slaves. Few, if any of the gifted minds like Adams, Franklin and Jefferson that conceived the revolution ever engaged in the very bloody and strenuous military struggle. But, they did indeed team up with experienced talented men like George Washington to inspire, motivate, recruit, train and deploy a force of average youth that overcame the most powerful force on earth. Teaming always matters both within and outside faith, hope and love endeavors anywhere except among narcissist minds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism And so it was also in beginning of the Second American Revolution functional faith conceived during, up and out of international chattel slavery industry: overcome by gifted births (2%) to young mothers often unknown except by faith they existed. But, obviously they did and such offspring like William Lloyd Garrison, born in 1805 (image on right) outreached to embrace talented tenth that included Richard Allen. It is not a mystery that overcoming afterbirths of non-believers, fallen and faithless is primarily achieved by revival of the functional faith gifted (like Douglass, Garrison, Lincoln, and Tubman) used to motivate the talented (8%) functionally needed-useful to help uplift (the 90% least of us) --- including mentally and physically disabled and neglected. Except by the Faith in hearts and minds of such gifted believers that joined it to their superior reasoning, it is absolutely inconceivable that goodness seen and heard could have come into existence. Thus, a few gifted mothers like Mary Church Terrell and Margaret Murray Washington conceived neighborhood/motherhood clubs are critical to shepherd talented offspring among "the least of us." Without them there would not have been a Rosa McCauley Parks we so honorably remember; nor a Lucinda Todd Wilson (image below with her daughter) who helped the NAACP file and win the famed Supreme Court case "Bro wn versus Topeka Board of Education." From beginning to end, motherhoods the functional faith mattered most. A few generations. So what? In the timeline of sixty-eight (68) believer generations: African heritage Americans have existed in the last quarter of documented believers (many or most of whom were not known or defined by citizenship, color, gender or organized religion). In the Second American Revolution which emerged among men like William Lee, born abt 1756 writers can find at least ten (10) functional generations with unique revolutionary beliefs in a Living Christ beyond organized religious art, rituals and entertainment pursuant fame and glory. Paradox is that visual arts, organized religion and music matters in propagating unique beliefs. But, it is the new generation of gifted and talented reader/writer targeted on our website challenging them to forsake urban fiction degenerations and try to generate stories that help inspire their own generation. In the year 1799 when President George Washington passed away, my ancestor William Lee born of an unknown mother of African heritage, was a believer born in the 59th generation of Christ and offered emancipation by Washington because of military services suffered in the revolutionary war of 1775-1783; but rejected it and remained at Mount Vernon until his own passing in 1829. Decendents believe he stayed to help shepherd functional faith needed for a Second American Revolution for personal liberty to family and friends born in the 60th and 61st generations that included my paternal great-grandmother Nancy Lee Banister (1825-1912) who honored her grandfather William Lee (1756-1829) by remembering and telling offspring his story in the functional spirit of Christ in which he believed. Mary Lee Brady Atkins, generation #65. We think learning about prior generations including those in ancestral lands such as Ghana where "mother rights" still rule and can be inspirational understanding for writers who sojourn therein. It still matters to many believers that labor to generate and raise up a new and better generation. It matters that new generations seek to honor ancestral mothers and fathers in pursuit of Goodness by any other name, especially Jesus that so many (not all) called upon as their Living Christ; and that only began a relatively few generations ago. It matters that new generation writers try to understand why; and dare not categorize and classify millions of human lives in the novel language of theologian, historian and lawyer overviews by people who think they know what matters. Comparatively there have been sixty-eight generations of functional believers born since birth of Jesus, a relatively short period of time spanning some two-thousand + years in Roman calendar. It is essentially ignored in the philosophical reasoning of most conservative and liberal pundits not joined to the faith many like Clarence Thomas profess to have by hip-hop and side-step rituals. We pity, but dare not judge him and millions of others who like their ancestors avoided and evaded functional matters in pursuit of goodness during past years of laws and longings to be. Our issue is that far too many beneficiaries, like Thomas, of goodness gained by toils and sacrifices of past generations dare to imagine such lives did not matter much, or at all, in conserving Christian principles they profess to believe such as: honoring their mothers and fathers. He escapes it all by reasoning he is an "originalist" bound by documents, not faith. Not original at all: Capitein, Jacobus Elisa Johannes (1717-1747) Many like Capitein and Thomas do not know or seek the unknown, relying on supposed superior reasoning joined to a given faith generated by cultural dynamics way over their head. But, are they not honorable men? Gullah-Geechee off Southeast U.S. Coast Not caring to even seek and know is not functional Christianity but leftovers from a past partially overcome by communion in the revolutionary spirit of Jesus many profess to believe in but in reality hail the Caesars' that dominate their lives. But, Thomas perceives he is an honorable man. A fellow Roman. He has used his empowerment to justify assassination of goodness seen and heard by tens of million believers up from timelines in evil. Clarence Has His Own Constitution Family mattered more than personal liberty and most otherwise gifted and talented enslaved adults accepted the peculiar institution rather than abandon "the least of us" they called mother, grandmother, brother, sister, niece, nephew, cousin, and occasionally father when and where such a person was known to be. This trait of family first among the many many William and Frank Lee descendents can be tracked generation after generation from Virginia through the movement west, throughout the Civil War and upwards and beyond 20th century world wars even into Republic of Ghana as functional believers healing the sick as doctors and nurses.. For goodness sake of us all, we wish Clarence Thomas had the opportunity to spend a day, a week, a month or even a year on a campus like Morehouse College before selling his inheritance for a pot of reasoned hype not joined to our functional faith: Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Just A Minute Dewitt Robinson not left/right ideology but the moral center themes and links on this site to advance better knowledge and understanding of functional faith seen and heard by offspring generations, not diluted by ideologies also widely seen and heard. Conservatism in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Please advise us by email regarding any images or pages that fail to load and/or errors and mistakes in our editing about your ancestors or people and places known to you. Our grand plan is to add relative blog, face-book and other links that will help foster inter-active communications among you and long-lost cousins in new generations of goodness. Additions and corrections discovered will be included in our updates. Please be patient as our efforts are to help inspire new authors to characterize and help tell "inspirational stories about people of color other than purple who fought, died and lived useful lives that generated generations of goodness, ... not of characteristics imagined in books by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Mitchell and Alice Walker characterizing Black males (old and young) as cowardly, useless and threats." Mary and her son Jesus (called HIMSELF "The Son of Man") are religiously remembered as the source of goodness in first generation of live births that believer/followers called HIM "The Son of GOD". He is unique and useable to us in that within HIS Philosophy of Life any adult has free will to count and integrate in their own cultural heritage of any DNA track. But, not in every cause that existed before, during or after HE was seen and heard in the flesh by people of African, Asian and European ancestry dating back several millennium of procreative anatomies, hair grades, and skin colors. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme It is not a matter that should be hip-hoped over and under by gifted and talented needing to always practice their faith. 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__label__cc	0.705714	0.294286	es·ca·late – Become or cause to become more intense or serious Posted on July 9, 2013 by Toni It was coming to a close, the term, “getting close to an arrest,” was being bandied about with new meaning. In a discussion Morgan had with her doctor concerning how she was feeling about her stalker, only 36 hours before we found her lifeless body, Morgan told her doctor that she was positive, and upbeat and that the Detectives in her case felt they were very close to making an arrest. She saw the end of the nightmare, and she smiled at the thought. On the drive home there were even giggles about the happy thoughts we focused on even though some very disturbing news to Morgan had been told to her by a friend over her cell phone. Instead of going into self-pity mode Morgan, being Morgan asked her dad for a knife for extra protection, which he stopped and purchased for her on our way home. Morgan had such courage and it never left her, even at the bitter end. The very day before this drive (2 nights before her murder) I asked Detective Glassmire what he thought it meant, with so many upcoming events in her stalking case. About how I thought the colder weather may also turn the stalker away, as one of the Sheriff’s Patrol Officers had mentioned in the beginning of the stalking. When I think back on it now, his answer surprised me for an instant, as he said very matter-of-fact type of way that he felt, “if anything, it was going to escalate.” Just like that, he “felt it was going to escalate.” To put it in perspective, when you are not getting sleep, watching surveillance videos until you pass out and finding great joy and relief in a trip to Grand junction for an annual gynecological appointment, the word escalate is not something your mind wants to hear, much less process into a tangible thought. Steve would have had some quick comeback, he would not have let that particular word slip by, but Steve was not there. It was only Detective Glassmire and myself, standing at the corner of the house, between Morgan’s room and a tree we would later learn the stalker used to exit the roof. To find out now that Detective Glassmire had told the suspects about her pending formal interview, on camera, I have to ask…was he thinking that this would scare them? That knowing their goose would soon be cooked was all this case needed to end? No, he knew the answer when he told me that, if anything, there would be a reaction, an increase in intensity, it would escalate. That was Tuesday afternoon, November 30th, 2011, 2 days before Morgan would go to sleep for the last time. Sandwiched around that day would be an interview with the on again off again prime suspect, known to be involved by the Garfield County Sheriffs Department Detectives, just not in what capacity, Brooke was, “kicked around constantly,” as the leader of the stalking, a participant alongside Keenan, and as knowing what Keenan was doing, but that was all. This was before we would find out that Brooke had a habit of threatening Morgan, telling many others that Morgan was going to get it someday. Detective Glassmire would reveal the date of the pending interview of Morgan with this suspect. Something would happen to raise the Detective’s level of certainty that Keenan was Morgan’s stalker to 100%. Morgan did not need any more evidence, she was already 100% sure it was Keenan. She was an eyewitness to Keenan’s stalking, having seen him from a distance of less than 15 feet four times. Once getting out of her car to stand in the roadway because she was not about to tell the Deputies she was 99% sure it was him only to be told that was not good enough. Morgan was willing to risk it all to be 100% sure. She did and she was, I was 99% sure, and told Detective Glassmire that. Keenan would know that the record of his hours working for City Market was going to be handed over the Sheriff’s department the following week. Not only did the Detective think that, “if anything, the stalking was going to escalate.” He would ask for, and receive increased patrols, an extra one or two a night. And they would all be 100% focused up on our roof. What did they find out? And why did they not share it with us? Knowing why the extra patrols were ordered would have been far more valuable than the extra minute or two of safety the extra patrols gave. If we had known the danger level Morgan was in we would have somehow gotten her away where no one could find her – but we were not given that chance. Was critical information withheld from us? This has been eating at me for such a long time now and I really need to know. Law enforcement doesn’t want to give that up – that would look like they made a mistake so they sweep it under the rug for no one to see. How does that help the next victim? What do you tell her parents, the same lines we were fed? Accountability for your actions and changing the way things are done so it doesn’t happen again is what we teach our children – why were we not told, when our daughters life could have been at stake for all they knew those few days before she was, in fact, killed? This entry was posted in Morgan's Investigation and tagged Catching Stalkers, Crime scene, dr phil show, Dr. Phil, Ingram Blog, justice for morgan, Morgan Ingram, Morgan ingram blog, Morgan's Truth, Morgans Stalking, Morgan’s killers, Morgan’s Stalkers, Protecting Victims, The Morgan Ingram Foundation, Toni Ingram, Truth for morgan, victims rights by Toni. Bookmark the permalink. 8 thoughts on “es·ca·late – Become or cause to become more intense or serious” Bryan on July 11, 2013 at 4:40 pm said: Another question or two: the death report stated that Morgan’s boyfriend was present in the early morning hours when Morgan was found to be unresponsive. How did he happen to be at your house so early in the morning? Was he with Morgan the night before? Could he have drugged her? (On the Dr. Phil program you said the boyfriend had left a backpack containing intoxicants in your car which had been confused as being Morgan’s) Was the boyfriend ever a suspect? Where the bottle contents in the backpack ever analyzed? Why did the boyfriend put the backpack in your car? Where was the backpack before he put it in your car? I pray for God’s blessings on you and your family has you search for the truth in these matters. Toni on July 12, 2013 at 8:04 am said: First let me start off by saying the Sheriff’s reports and Coroner’s reports are full of mistakes – we only recently received the Sheriff’s reports (many important ones are missing) and have only received the 1st PER and 2nd PER and both tox results from the Coroner – we have been asking for over a year for copies of everything else from the Coroner’s office but they will never answer us and have given us nothing. The person they refer to as Morgan’s boyfriend was not her boyfriend – he was an ex-boyfriend that returned to the US from Australia just 2 weeks before her murder. He had just started to work for Steve and after Morgan was pronounced dead Steve spoke with him over the phone and he had his grandmother rush him over to our house. My car (the one Morgan shared with me) was parked in the street at that time and unlocked (I moved it there while Steve was still doing CPR on Morgan so that the first responders could get up the driveway) so I am not positive when or how the backpack got in my car since I do not recall seeing it in there when I drove the car out of the driveway that morning – remember I was in shock at that time and praying that Steve could revive Morgan so I think everything I was doing I was doing in some kind of fog. Bryan on July 14, 2013 at 4:15 am said: I find it to be unusual that Morgans ex-boyfriend was able to get to your home so early that Dec 2 morning. He was there almost as soon as Police and EMT. Exactly when did he arrive? It is well know in the forensic psychology that the stalker/killer often wants to be involved in the investigation of his or her criminal activity. The stalking often goes on even after the victim dies. Very true, but he rushed over because he called Steve to find out what time they were leaving for work in the morning and the EMT’s had just pronounced Morgan dead and Steve through tears told him, he jumped in his grandma’s car and came straight over – they should NEVER had let him in the room, the whole crime scene was like that – a complete disaster! And yes the stalking did continue but that is for another discussion So the backpack was placed in the car after 9pm Dec 1 and it was full of bottles of wine, beer –who know what else- the very drink that killed Morgan? We don’t know for sure when the backpack ended up in the car – I didn’t see it when I drove the car into the street and left it unlocked that morning so the EMT’s could come right up the driveway and I didn’t see the backpack, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there – I was moving while in shock that morning. It had (according to the Sheriff’s) one bottle of vodka and one beer – the forensic pathologist told us there was nothing in her stomach and the blood tests showed no alcohol, no illegal drugs, so I assumed the amitriptyline was in water or just liquid injectable form and the date rape drugs that were in her stomach fluid in a later test never made it into her bloodstream, and were obviously mashed up and liquified. So it had nothing to do with the backpack that was later found. Was the ex-Boyfriend really in Australia? Has that fact been verified? Absolutely – that they Skyped back and forth until he returned. 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__label__cc	0.650005	0.349995	Short sharp kick in the teeth Punk,Powerpop,Ska,Indie,Alternative # 547 Steven Knight and the Squires - Touch Side a: Touch Side b: You're the only one Great rock'n'rolling powerpop on this two track single! First of two self released singles in the same year. I think they had also a release in1980 under the name The Black Knights. I like it! Posted by razor at 12:30 1 comment: Labels: Powerpop # 546 Brad & Marty Band - Dancing in the moonlight Side a: Dancing in the moonlieght Side b: Clouds are rolling in US 19?? A fine rockin' powerpop track on the a side while the b side is more a 50/60is inspired popsong. I haven't informations about the release year of this self released 2 tracker. Enjoy it! Posted by razor at 12:29 No comments: Labels: Pop, Powerpop # 545 Blue Screaming - Bland hotel Side a: Bland hotel Side b: Thin-x-cinema Great sole release of this London/UK based 4 piece group. The band exist from 1977 to 1979. The a side is a organ driven powerpop/new wave song while b side is more punk/post punk. I love it! Labels: New Wave, Post Punk, Powerpop, Punk # 544 The Stingrays - Never do Side a: Never do Side b: Satellites Final 7" of this this Bristol based band. The a side is a very nice glam/powerpop stomper. If this record would have been released in 1972, they would have landed surely into the "top of the pops" show. The band is on the road again under the name Bristol Stingrays. Enjoy it like i do! Posted by razor at 12:53 2 comments: Labels: Glam, Powerpop # 543 The C.I.'s - Plus bonus single Side a: 1.Scared , 2.Show me light Side b: 1.Recognize the sun , 2.Moment of doubt This is the white label test pressing of the sole release by this New York based band. A fine New Wave/Powerpop 4 tracker. You can find the cover pictures of this release on Discogs if there's a need. Enjoy the record like i do! Labels: New Wave, Powerpop # 542 The Zoots - Today in the male Side a: Today in the male Side b: Number one A nice New Wave platter by this London (?) based 6 piece group. It seems that this is their lone record release. Enjoy! Labels: New Wave # 541 Interview with The Rabies An Interview with The Rabies Adderall Girl by The Rabies I had the chance to interview the great people of The Rabies who brings us a new single after their last releases in 1982. Special thanks goes out to George Faulkner who made it possible! 1 Please introduce yourself and your other band members. George: I’m George, the singer. Torin is the guitar player and songwriter. Kevin plays bass, and John is the drummer. 2 How did it happen that after 38 years, after your last two 7" records in 1982, you released another record? George: It had been a few years since I had recorded something fast and loud. I missed it. We also noticed our 1982 singles were selling for close to $200 so we knew there would be an audience for something fresh. Torin: For me, it was mostly about (My Girl’s a) Hologram, the A-side of our first single. I hadn’t heard it for decades, and when I listened again recently I finally understood why everyone loves it. Unlike nearly everything else I had written, it’s fun. Makes you smile. I wanted to see if we could come up with a worthy successor. And we did. John: We send a group text each year on the first of every May. It’s in reference to one of the lyrics in our old song Labor Day. On this particular May first which was in 2019, we started talking about the old records and the spirit of the original band in the early days. After a lot of reminiscing and jibber-jabbering, we decided to try hard to get back in that old headspace and try to recapture the fun and energy of Hologram. After the recording went so well, we decided that to make it a real Rabies thing, we need to press it. Kevin: We grew up together and as much as we live in different parts of the country, we are good friends and still have a strong bond. When the idea came up to record a new record we were all excited to play together again. 3 How did you get back together to reactivate the band? Did you still have contact over the years or was it a laborious search to get all band members together again? George: We’ve known each other since we were kids, and went to the same schools growing up. We played together in various bands off and on up until about 1996 before we took a long break. We’ve remained friends and keep in touch. No magic to this reunion beyond the fact that we all still like each other after so long. Torin: If there’s no magic to this reunion, then there’s no magic to anything! John: Once a Rabie, always a Rabie. It’s like the mafia, once you’re in you never really get out. Kevin: Two days in Brooklyn to play together and record a couple of songs was great fun; we knew it would be a blast and no one had hesitation about joining in. 4 The new record sounds, in terms of songwriting and sound, as if you hadn't stopped releasing records in 1982. Was it difficult to write songs again, which sounds the same as they did back then? George: We actually did stop releasing vinyl records for a while, but we all stayed pretty active in music with various bands releasing cassettes and CDs, and playing live. My first love is vinyl though, and our first release way back was on vinyl. As John said, once we had the right songs ready, we all agreed we had to get back to where we started – by pressing a single. We also decided to be brutally honest with Torin as he presented song options to us, and to be open and collaborative (and to be patient with one another). But don’t misunderstand, Torin is responsible for 99% of the Rabies compositions you hear. I’m a big fan of talking it out in pre-production, but when we hit the studio I like keeping everyone in their respective lanes. I’m not a fan of producing by committee. Torin: I looked at it as a lucky opportunity. 1982, when we released the Hologram single, was an amazing time for The Rabies. Then my songwriting went downhill, and we made all sorts of mistakes. To me, our recent reunion is like having a second chance at that fantastic first romantic relationship, except this time you know what you’re doing. In particular, now George, John, and Kevin are fully involved in the writing process, giving me invaluable, honest feedback on everything. John: We made a very conscious group effort to make it sound seamless with the original Rabies sound. Kevin: While it was a conscious effort to be consistent with the original sound of the Rabies, I think it’s simpler than that – this is what we sound like when we have fun playing together. 5 What were your main influences for your music then? And what are they today? George: I was a music junkie back then. Still am actually. But in 1981 when we formed, I was deep into NYC and UK punk and new wave. But, to me, the biggest influences were our friends and school mates that had bands. Not the kids with cover bands. The original bands. Teenagers writing their own original songs. It blew my mind that this was an option, could sell, and could draw a crowd. The biggest band that had members from our High School was called The Student Teachers. They were incredible. Influences on my most recent releases? The Ramones, Murry Wilson, The Lyres, and Harry Nilsson. Torin: The Student Teachers were terrific, and their singles still sound great. Also, Michael Shelley’s band, the Imposters, were a big influence (Michael is now a D.J. at WFMU, but he grew up with us too). But I was also trying to mimic The Ramones, The Clash, and The Velvet Underground. Hologram was obviously a Ramones-style song. In the decades since then, I’ve listened to so much music, of so many different genres, that I can’t really narrow it down. If I had to, though, I’d say The Beatles. John: I agree with George and Torin. Our High School was really like no other. For a period of about four or five years, there were a number of really cool bands playing original music. We were just part of it and because we actually had a physical product, we were super popular. For me, the biggest influences were The Beatles, The Who, The Clash, The Ramones, and also Bowie in a big way for all of us back then. Kevin: I think we were all on the same page in the 1980s… and who knows how many Clash concerts we managed to squeeze in during that time. But there were always other interests too, from Dylan to Elvis. I always loved rockabilly and one of the great pleasures of moving to Austin Texas in ’91 was discovering the joys of country swing, and two-steppin’ at the Broken Spoke. 6 The new record was released on Bolt records and Presidential records . Are these your own labels? George: The Rabies started Presidential Records and then it hibernated after the second single until today. I started Bolt Records sometime in the mid-80s I think. Presidential is just for The Rabies. Bolt is for all of the music I have been a part of throughout my life, plus music from some bands led by friends throughout the years. John: Presidential is to the Rabies what Swan Song was to Led Zeppelin. Kevin: I think we liked the two different ways you could read the words Presidential Records, but also always loved the humor in the graphics of our ‘presidential seal’ and bolt’s powerful image – and it’s great to have joined forces with Bolt Records in the US, You Are the Cosmos in Spain, and Different Class Records in Portugal too! 7 How did it come about that your two highly sought-after singles from 1982, are also being re-released? What I consider very gratifying is that even people with smaller purses can buy your records again. George: Actually, only the (My Girl’s a) Hologram 7” 45 is being re-released as of now. A great label from Spain called You Are the Cosmos reached out to us and they were interested in doing the project. What’s great about this is it inspired us to find the original tapes and have producer and engineer, Peter Denenberg, re-create the mixes and properly digitize them. All previous reissues we did ourselves were from cassettes and vinyl. This will be the first time this single will be heard as (close to) as it was in the studio. We hope it sounds as good, or maybe even better, as the original pressing. Time will tell. But yes, we are really excited that people will be able to buy Hologram again on 7” vinyl at a more reasonable price. We don’t have any copies of the 1982 singes anymore anyway. They are really hard to find. Kevin: It was wonderful that as we were planning this new record, sincere interest in the 1982 records reached the point where small labels started contacting us about reissues. Very fun! Labor Day by The Rabies 8 Most of you never stopped making music and playing in bands or doing solo stuff. Please tell us a little bit about your music life during the Rabies hiatus. George: It’s an addiction, I think. I’m one of those guys who just can’t stop making music, even though I have tried many times. I’m lucky, too. One of the very first things The Rabies agreed upon was to focus on recording originals, to try to only use professional producers in professional studios, and to release physical audio products (and not just be a bar and club act). Those decisions in 1981 were the right decisions, but they also introduced me to an industry – and some amazingly talented collaborators. After having been a music fan since childhood, I finally understood how it was done, and who was doing it. I needed it more and more. All of the bands I’ve worked with and all of the projects I’ve taken on have held on to a lot of that original Rabies approach. Keep writing, recording, and seek out pro collaborators. But, to answer your question, I’m currently re-recording the “lost songs” of Murry Wilson - father of the Beach Boys - for an album project. Right now though, it’s all about The Rabies. Torin: I’ve done a number of projects over the years, but really nothing compared with the Rabies at our best. George, Kevin, John, and I have a musical chemistry that I’ve never found with any other group. But one might be worth mentioning. A couple of years ago, I recorded some of my best post-Rabies songs, mostly at home, with minimal instrumentation—mostly just acoustic guitar. George sang them all. I released it on a CD called, “The Quiddities: Songbook 1”. John: After the Rabies broke up, I hung up my drumsticks and made a declaration that from now on I am a guitar player. Well, I wound up playing guitar like a drummer and after a ten-year hiatus, I wound up back on the drums and jamming with friends. The Rabies also reunited for our 30th anniversary for one show only in NYC which was a blast. Kevin: The highlight of my music life was our 30th reunion show in NYC. It was on the anniversary of our playing at CBGBs in 1981. Playing for our fans from the past along with playing for a whole set of new fans was special. 9 Are the Rabies playing live again or is it just a studio project? George: We’re not sure. It’s hard to avoid, but with the pandemic still peaking in the United States, I don’t think we’re going anywhere, anytime soon. Torin: When it’s safe, I hope we’ll play, maybe for our 40th anniversary next year. We played at a cool club in NYC, The Living Room, for our 30th, and it was fantastic. John: Japan 2021! Kevin: After the reunion in NYC at The Living Room in 2011 we committed to a 60th reunion in 2041, but I’m hopeful that we’ll be playing live sometime before then…. ‘celebrate the end of the pandemic with The Rabies’ 10 We are living in a difficult world right now. Does this influence your songwriting and lyrics? Torin: Possibly, but I’m definitely not trying to comment on the dire state of the world. More than ever, I’m trying to write lyrics that are both honest—giving expression to feelings I’ve actually had—and positive. George: There is an immediacy and innocence to the Rabies' sound. We care a lot about what’s happening in the U.S and the world and are each actively doing our part to make positive change in our respective communities. In our music, however, we have learned over the years that we are best at bringing some immediate positivity and music to make you smile. Go to Dylan or Prince for a brilliant meal to savor. We’re a fast, sugary dessert in my opinion. Kevin: Like George said, I’m so happy for us all that we have poets like Dylan who can help us metabolize and understand our world and call us to action. That said, I hope that a more just and post-pandemic world will also be one where we will be prioritizing being with the folks that we care about. Reuniting personally and musically was such a strong social occasion for the four of us, and making time for The Rabies will, I hope, be part of that re-prioritization. 11 The cover picture shows a very big Roy Lichtenstein influence. How did it come about? George: We used David V. Hughes, the same artist who designed our first two singles in 1982. He has come a long way since then (laughter). I think he was maybe 16 or 17 years old when he did the first two singles. But to answer your question, although The Rabies stayed close and gave feedback on the work as Dave presented it throughout the process, it was all him. Kevin: When the notion of having Dave Hughes design the cover came up, and when he was excited about participating again, we were all keen. It felt right, and we were thrilled with Dave’s work, which like the songs felt consistent with where we came from, but current at the same time. 12 Please tell us, where can we buy or download your records? George: Digitally? All the usual services. BoltRecords.net, Bandcamp, Discogs, iTunes, Spotify, etc. Or, if you like record store shopping and buying vinyl, Record Grouch and Rebel Rouser (Brooklyn), Record Surplus (Los Angeles), NAT Records (Tokyo), and My Mind’s Eye (Cleveland). They are all amazing record shops. 13 Finally, what does the future look like for The Rabies? Are there any plans for further new records, for example an LP ? Or a world tour or the first band to play on Mars? George: I’ve been on a singles kick since childhood. I like EPs too. Don’t get me wrong, I love a great album, but they are really hard to do well and incredibly time-consuming. What always bites me in the ass though is that an LP basically costs the same to press on vinyl as a single or an EP. Singles are not exactly cost-effective on the manufacturing side, even though they are cool as hell. Torin: I want The Rabies to record many more singles, all up the standard set by Hologram and Adderall Girl. Then maybe collect them on an LP. And I want to play live again, definitely, if not on Mars then at least in New York. John: The Rabies really only work in miniature. The 7” format suits us perfectly. Get in, get out. Kevin: The whole experience has been great fun and I suspect that we’ll be doing something… 14 Thank you very much for taking the time for this little interview! I wish you all the best for the future! George: Thank you! John: Ditto Torin: What they said. Kevin: Thanks. I hope that you like the record. (Oh yes i do !! Razor) (My Girl's a) Hologram by The Rabies The Rabies on Bandcamp Bolt Records Labels: Bolt records, Powerpop # 540 The Qt's - Savage in the city Side a: 1.Savage in the city , 2.Mummy is a wino Side b: 1.Yesterdays tomorrow , 2.Change it Great 4 tracker of this South England based band with ex-members of The Kitchens. All self penned songs are great new wave/powerpop. The band was active between 1978-1980. Enjoy the record like i do ! # 539 Alan Wolfson - Coat & tie Side a: Coat & tie Side b: Just for the moment Fantastic record by this Los Angeles/CA based musician! This might be his sole release. I love it! # 538 Zero-G - Pitter Patter Side a: Pitter Patter Side b: I can't get started Very nice sole release by this Band (or Studio Project?) with two Powerpop/Pop rock tracks. Maybe produced by Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel. I love it! Labels: Poprock, Powerpop Looking for this: Is someone out there who can help me to find this two tapes: The Russians , Sorry on Laser Records Various , Cigars on wednesday Vol.1 on Snotty Snail records I don't need the original tapes. I'm interest on the music on the tapes. So, good MP3 files are enough for me. Info to the downloads Please leave a comment if you like to have a re-upload of a file. File Links were re-freshed from # 397 to # 440. Files with these numbers are also re-freshed #10,14,15,31,33,36,37,38,45,51,56,65,70,79,81,82,91,94, 96,100,111,113,114,115,124,138,143,146,147,152,157,162,168,174,181,182,202,204, 213,215,228,230,231,232,239,248,251,252,255,258,260,264,268,273,277,278,280, ,283,290,291,294,295,297,299,301,302,303,305,308,312,314,315,323, 324,326,333,336,347,348,350,378,382,386,388,391,392. All the old Mediafire files are no longer available because i was dropped at Mediafire. Yes, I'm a Record Junkie. Yes, I'm a Nerd. But who fucking cares ? All records are ripped from good old (and out of print!)vinyl. Artist who are unhappy with my posts, please contact me. Nonstop on my turntable: Official Re-press of this hard to find piece of wax! Order your copy here! Blackwalls Bombsite Fanzine Bored Teenagers Crazee Kids Sound Dimension 7 Records El Sonido de 1979 ! Hits from the past KBD Records La Casa De Tocamela Roque Little Hits Music ruined my life My life's a jigsaw Power Pop Action ! Powerpop Criminals Proudfoot Sound Punk 77 Punk Rock Classics Radio Heartbeat Records Rave Up Records Shotgun Solution Sing Sing Blog The Sound of CrazzeGirl Tone and Wave Twilightzone ! Vibrator Buzz WhyDoThingsHaveToChange Worthless Trash # 252 Lip Moves - Guest Side a: Guest Side b: what is ... UK 1979 Killer lone release by this Bitterne/UK based punk/powerpop combo ! Two great stompers release... # 394 Lords - Thinkin' bout a girl Side a: Thinkin' bout a girl Side b: I love New York USA1979 Great garage punkrock by this New York city group! I only found a yo... # 280 Panic Squad - Runaway Side a: Runaway , 2.Back in the working class Side b: Island , 2.Clockwork Rockwork USA 1980 Superb glammy powerpop/punk from this New ... # 383 The P-15's - You're not that girl Side a: You're not that girl Side b: Elevator boy USA 1979/1980 (?) Once again, i can't find infos about this cool record. 2 fi... # 392 V/A - Belfast Side a: 1. STAGE B - Recall to life , 2.STRIKE - Radio songs , 3.EX-PRODUCERS - The system is here , 4.EZY MEAT - Sexy lady , 5.REFLEX AC... # 162 Magic Michael - Millionaire Side a: Millionaire Side b: Me and my friend UK 1979 Find this on the WWW: Described by NME writer Nick Kent as "Ladbroke Grove... # 373 The Extruders - She pushed plastic Side a: She pushed plastic Side b: Street avenger USA 1981 Great quirky and punky New wave platter by this Los Angeles based band. Kil... # 336 Zorro - Arrods don't sell'em Side a: 1. Arrods don't sell'em , 2. Soldier boy Side b: Starfight UK 1979 Superb glam/punk/NWOBHM by this Norwich/UK based ban... # 398 The Critics - Town girl Side a: Town girl Side b: 1. Plastic valentine , 2. 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__label__cc	0.714217	0.285783	RPG TITLES » Star Citizen » Star Citizen: The First Run: Episode Five Star Citizen: The First Run: Episode Five May 16, 2014 Star Citizen Episode Five When the Night Stalker, Burnett’s ship, lurched into the docking station, the sounds of metal coupling together echoed through the ship. Immediately, faint music played against the outer steel. Looking out the Night Stalker’s port view, the meteor-scarred haven of the Stardevils reflected in the reddish light from the gas giant. The base looked like two or three old Starfarers had been dragged out of mothballs and welded together. “Home sweet home,” said Burnett from behind me. He showed me all his teeth and I went back to staring at the Stardevil’s base. “Why do you do this?” I asked. “Why do I do what?” A wrench or some other heavy device banged against the air lock. We were being allowed to enter. Burnett moved to the door, so I stepped forward. “Why do you steal? Tell me this at least, before you sell me. You owe me that much.” “No, I don’t,” he replied, gazing at me with half-lidded eyes. “Well, it won’t cost you anything, either.” Burnett made a grumbling noise in his throat. “Fine. It’s not like it’ll matter long. The UEE stinks of corruption, every damn corporation cheats, and if you try to do the right thing you get screwed. One day you just get sick of it and take what’s been owed.” He placed his massive hands on the door panels, both of them, and briefly gripped so tight his knuckles cracked. He shook his head as if some memory was invading it. When he glared back at me, I tried not to recoil. “While we’re here, I expect nothing but silence from you. If you’re good, I’ll tell them you have some skills that they can use. If you piss me off, I’ll tell them you’re only good for one thing, and I think you can guess what that is. Got it?” “Good,” he said and punched the code into the airlock. Music flooded into the Night Stalker, if you were liberal with your definition of music. A strobing bass sounded like one note stuck on repeat and turned up to brain-melting levels. There were other screeching instruments overtop, but it was hard to distinguish between them. It sounded like the instruments were disintegrating as they were being played. The whole mess could have been mood music for a Robotic Underworld. Burnett pushed me through first as I held my ears closed with my fingertips. The artificial gravity was set really high and my legs sagged with each step. Burnett seemed to enjoy it. The innards of the base made the haphazard outside look planned. Tubes and other random shapes of metal had been welded to the walls. In the middle of the floor, a large phallic object made for a giant had been constructed. I didn’t see the Stardevil greeting committee until the man stepped out of the shadows. He had hair like rubber tubes, an abnormally long face, and inky black streaks in his arms and neck — marks of a heavy WIDoW user. “Gonna whicha broda sista,” said the tripped-out Stardevil with rubber tube hair, before he grabbed my arm and started dragging me down the hall. I struggled against him, but he was more used to the higher gravity and my boots slid along the metal grating in stunted clanks. Burnett stepped forward and shoved the Stardevil in the back, making him release my arm. “Keep your damn hands off,” said Burnett. I rubbed my arm. “Thank you.” “They haven’t paid for you, yet,” he said, looking away. A woman’s voice called out over the music. “Well, Burnett, have you brought us more than a little decryption business?” The woman was long and lithe, like a dancer, with black and white dreads, wearing a black leather jumpsuit. She wasn’t pretty, but had the confidence of a model. “Fresh meat, Synthia, if you’d like it,” he said, shrugging. “But if not, I can sell it somewhere else. I just need this file opened. The girl’s a bonus.” Synthia gave me a considering glance. “Follow me.” The passage was more of the same, like the twisted dream of an insane artist. At least the music wasn’t as deafening in the next part of the ship. Synthia brought us to what appeared to be a bar, if you enjoyed sitting on sharp objects. I eyed the stool made of bent rifles and remained standing. Burnett wisely leaned against the bar, while Synthia took position on a lumpy molded chair with sharp nails composing the backstop. “Let’s see it,” said Synthia, picking at an ebony fingernail. Burnett pulled the stolen MobiGlas from his breast pocket with two fingers and casually tossed it to Synthia. I must have made a noise in my throat, because Burnett narrowed his gaze in my direction, reminding me to keep my trap shut. Licking her lips, Synthia expertly tapped on the device for a minute before glancing up. “So?” he asked. “It can be done,” she said and her lips curled out, “for double the normal price.” The vein in Burnett’s neck pulsed to full standing. I’ll give him credit though, he swallowed it back and after stretching his neck gave his answer. “One-fifty and you get her.” He nodded in my direction. Synthia’s mouth pinched down to a point. “Her? You’re kidding me, right? She’d better be able to hot-wire an Avenger blindfolded to be worth that.” The grumble started in Burnett’s chest. When his forehead slumped, I knew he was going to give in. If you asked me later why I spoke up, I’d tell you it was quick thinking, but I’d be lying. Really it was pride and I didn’t even know how many credits they were talking. “I’m worth double that,” I said, right as Burnett was about to speak. Wide-eyed shock registered across Synthia’s face like a seismic event, which was probably the only thing that kept her from noticing Burnett about to reach over and choke me out. “I’m a trained chemist,” I blurted out. “I can double the efficiency on your WIDoW making. And not cutting it with junk. High quality only. Less side effects and better sell rate.” “Burnett?” asked Synthia. “Why’re you be so cagey? I’m as interested as a honey doll, but don’t chaw me. If she’s lying and wasting my time, then it’s two-fifty.” If the vein on Burnett’s neck had burst at that moment, I wouldn’t have been surprised. I spit the words out before he could ruin it: “My father owned a bar, and we brewed our own beer, and when times got tough, he brewed other stuff.” “You could be lying, girl,” said Synthia, tapping her lower lip with her black fingernail. “It’s on my MobiGlas, back on the ship. Brewers certifications, chemistry texts, the whole works. You’ll see. Let me go get it and I’ll show you.” When I moved toward the door, Burnett grabbed my arm. His fingers dug into the muscle and I had to suppress a cry of pain. “I’ll. Get. It.” intoning each word with such menace that I could feel my bones snapping already. He wasn’t going to just throw me out the airlock now, he was going to break me piece by piece. “You stay,” and pointed his meaty finger to the matching stool across from Synthia. After Burnett left, Synthia crossed her arms, tilted her head, and licked her lips in anticipation. “You’re lying, aren’t you?” I’d been making a spacer’s gamble without a plan in sight, but the way she looked at me, the way her eyes creased at the corners and sparkled with a mischievous light, made me realize I had to come up with something really fast. Rubbing my temples, I tried to think of something. Whatever it was, it had to be quick. Burnett would be back with my MobiGlas soon and then I’d be dead. MobiGlas. My MobiGlas. “He kidnapped me,” I said. “I’m a courier. The courier that was carrying that MobiGlas. He was going to throw me out the airlock, but I told him about the beacon the company puts on us for safety. So he decided to stick me with you to cover his tracks from what’s on the other MobiGlas.” “And why should I believe you?” asked Synthia. “You don’t have to believe me. Believe him. I recorded everything he said.” Or at least I hope I did. “It’s on the MobiGlas. I’ll play it back for you when he gets back.” Synthia stretched her neck and corralled her dreads to hang over her shoulder. Then she sub-vocalized some commands, I assumed to bring in reinforcements, and gave me a lazy wait-and-see glance. When Burnett returned, he threw me the MobiGlas. His lips were flat and his nostrils flared in twitches. “Show her your files.” I tapped on the glass, silently cheering when I found it was still recording, and handed the MobiGlas over to Synthia. She set the other one onto the table and started watching the playback. When a half-dozen other members of the Stardevils sauntered in with lead pipes and crowbars, each one looking successively more twisted than Synthia, Burnett backed against the bar and bared his teeth. His eyes flitted around the room. He knew something was going to happen. “Leave us to the UEE?” asked Synthia. “Not a very nice thing to do to a business partner. Maybe once I get these files off, we’ll shove this MobiGlas up you wide-wise and throw you out the airlock.” I backed away from Burnett as the others converged. He cracked his knuckles and looked ready for a fight. Despite being outnumbered, he didn’t look intimidated. In fact, he looked downright ready to sling fists. “I was going to ghost your ass,” said Synthia, “but I decided I’d let the gang have a little fun first. They don’t get these opportunities that often.” When Burnett made a desperate lunge towards Synthia, the others attacked. The fight quickly devolved into blunt weapons and fists, and Burnett, outnumbered and outarmed, was surprisingly holding his own. I used the distraction to grab the company MobiGlas and dart out of the room, my personal Glas unfortunately left behind. I wasn’t sure if they saw me, but I kept running as if they had. Thankfully, each corridor was so unique that I easily found my way back to the Night Stalker. With the airlock closed, I raced to the cockpit and started hammering buttons, hoping that Burnett hadn’t locked his system. When I hit the right sequence and the Night Stalker disengaged from the Stardevil’s base, I set the ship to head towards Oya III, fast as possible. Locking myself into the harness, I prepared for acceleration, right as an explosion rocked the ship. 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__label__cc	0.504157	0.495843	Home Tags Posts tagged with "Iberia" Air Nostrum Reviews Air Nostrum is also known as Iberia Regional, since it’s the regional airline of Iberia (largest and flag carrier of Spain). The independent carrier traces its roots back in 1994, in Valencia where it was initially known as “Líneas Aéreas del Mediterraneo” and they signed an agreement with Iberia in 1997 to be a branch of Iberia. Through that, the regional partner of Iberia and an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance has a total fleet size of 39 ATR and Bombardier aircraft which has a high potential of growth in the future. Air Nostrum operates from Barcelona Airport, Madrid-Barajas Airport and Valencia Airport that serves over 58 destinations internationally. There were only 3 incidents recorded in history and on a positive note they are all non-fatalistic just minor injuries. On Board Service Air Nostrum has only one kind of service offered on board: Business Class. The modern Business Class service inflight comes up with range of bonus and exclusive accommodation on board. Prior to boarding, separate check-in desks are provided, access to VIP rooms, increased luggage weight allowance and more Avios flight incentive points. While on air, passengers are offered with catering service, meals include local homemade bakery products, snacks, sandwiches and other Iberian products. To quench their thirst, customers had a wide selection from soft drinks, fruit juices, beer, wine, and spirits are also available. Just so you know, Air Nostrum had received the “Mercury Award” for their inflight catering service by International Travel Catering Association. Since the regional airline is Spanish-based, the official website is in Spanish by default but there’s an option to change it to English by clicking the United Kingdom flag at the top right of the page. Unlike Iberia, Air Nostrum’s website is not that user-friendly. However, with patience we were able to find out that the site provides information regarding the airline’s policies, company information, on board services , leasing, trading and news. The most essential part of the page is their main service to which customers can search and book for their preferred flight with Air Nostrum, either one way or roundtrip. Next to that, customers can be inspired with their current package deals to several destinations via flashing images. However, Air Nostrum doesn’t have a mobile app yet for all these services but we might be looking forward to this option in the near future. Air Nostrum Reviews of Passengers We are sad to inform you that Air Nostrum reviews are not as generous as they sound. On Airlinequality, they garnered an overall score of 6/10 based on 26 Air Nostrum reviews. But on the other side of the coin, these Air Nostrum reviews were actually mixed and the most recent ones are all positive and appreciative. Feel free to see these latest feedback of passengers, click here. How To Reach Them? Website URL: www.airnostrum.es Contact Number: +34 96 196 02 00 Contact Email: direccion@airnostrum.es Fax Number: +34 96 196 02 87 Head Office Address: Avda Comarques del Pais Valencia 2, Zona Servicio, Aeropuerto de Valencia, Quart de Poblet, 46930 Valencia, Spain Air Nostrum had been doing a pretty good job ever since, but maybe a little polishing with everything and innovation will help them raise their ranks up from the world’s top 100 airlines. The Iberia regional had been creating a great reputation while maintaining a good standing over these years. But if you had experienced something not similar to what was mentioned above, feel free to share your experience below.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line166
__label__cc	0.6563	0.3437	Link to Stop Common Purpose Home Page This mind map gives an overview of Common Purpose. Common Purpose UK Common Purpose is a fraudulent 'educational charity' acting as a change agent being used to recruit and train the commissars and apparatchiks needed to implement the British government's hidden New World Order communitarian agenda. Common Purpose hates having people discuss it. Please donate to help keep this website going and spread the message. 1. Britain 2010s We are living at a particularly momentous time in history. In order to understand what is happening in Britain in the 2010s, you need to know about four things: 1. The New World Order; 2. The United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development Plan; 3. A political philosophy called 'communitarianism'; 4. A fake charity named Common Purpose. These four things are linked together. This website will help you join the dots. In 1973 the UK joined the Common Market and in the 1975 referendum the people of Britain were conned into voting in favour of staying in the Common Market. [1.1] Prime Minister Heath, whose government entered into the accession treaty, and Prime Minister Wilson, who arranged the referendum, both knew that the Common Market was simply a stage in the development of the European Union. At some point, those behind the take-over of Britain by the EU realised that they needed people whom they could trust to manage the new bureaucracy. Enter Common Purpose, which was established to recruit and train the commissars and apparatchiks needed to run this bureaucracy. The Hidden Agenda From 1997, the New Labour government worked to two agendas. Firstly, the open agenda as laid out in their manifestos and secondly, their hidden agenda. The objective of the hidden agenda is the creation of a communitarian society controlled by the EU collective. In order to achieve this objective, the New Labour government ran a parallel administration made up of QUANGOs and fake charities. A fake charity is legally a charity but effectively operates as a government department, receiving a substantial amount of funding directly or indirectly from government and operating as a government department. The hidden agenda continues to operate under the coalition government. The British parliament has become just a puppet organization. They merely go through the motions - the pretense of acting like a governing body, but the reality is they are just rubber-stamping the programmes of the New World Order global communitarian technocrats. This project has been in the works for decades. Its main objectives are: 1. The creation of a One World Government with a unified monetary system under their direction; 2. To bring about the utter destruction of all national identity and national pride; 3. To bring about the end to all industrialization in what they call 'the post-industrial zero-growth society'. "United Nations Local Agenda 21 Programme for Sustainable Development is the 'smoking gun' for the New World Order. Adopted by all member nations in 1992, this is the model for redesigning a communitarian world. If you're like a lot of people who sense something is very wrong, if you're looking for concrete, irrefutable evidence for the New World Order in your neighborhood, nothing comes close to asking your local officials about Local Agenda 21 (LA21)." [1.2] "Whatever you call it, Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, the goals are the same, to reduce and eventually eliminate private property ownership and rights." [1.3] Another term for 'Sustainable Development'. [1.4] Part of the New World Order. Common Purpose members are taught to 'lead beyond authority' and are involved in the slow and secretive merging of the public and private sectors and preparing Britain for complete takeover by the EU. Common Purpose is part of an extensive European Union espionage network in the UK. One of the senior spy masters in that network was Commissar Sarah Lambert [1.5], Head of Political Intelligence, EU Office in London. The EU intelligence and monitoring teams are charged with seeing how well the EU's plans are doing and reporting on anti-EU activists. These EU spies in Britain not only engage in legitimate, open-source intelligence gathering such as monitoring websites, newspapers and political meetings but also engage in illegal intelligence gathering activities such as bugging, surveillance of individuals (stalking) and burglary. The EU spy masters in London also employ criminals to intimidate and harass anti-EU activists. Common Purpose as exists in the UK does not have representation in the USA. Common Purpose is being used to implement the EU/NWO communitarian agenda in the UK and a few other countries. The NWO communitarian agenda in the USA is being implemented through other communitarian programs. "Compassionate Conservatism is communitarianism. The Third Way is communitarianism. International Law has 'communitarian pretentions'. Community Policing is Communitarian Policing. Bill Clinton was a communitarian president." [1.6] "Agenda 21 uses communitarian language. The President of Colombia is a communitarian president. President Bush was a communitarian president. Obama is a communitarian president. George Soros is a communitarian. Americorps is a communitarian programme. Citizen Corps is a communitarian draft. Hilary Clinton is (among other various titles) a communitarian. ABCD- Asset Based Community Development is a communitarian mapping programme. Domestic Violence Acts and laws rely on communitarian shaming. Family based crime prevention is communitarian. Creative crime prevention is communitarian. Talmudic Homeland Security is communitarian. Faith-based programmes are communitarian. Domestic disarmament is Communitarian. Character Building is Communitarian. Globalization of Values and Norms is Communitarian. The New World Order is communitarian." [1.7] "Communitarianism and the Third Way are completely incompatible with religion - especially Christianity - in any way. The two simply cannot co-exist, because Communitarianism puts the common good ahead of any God-given rights including the right to live. We’re not just talking about abortion, but also elder care and end-of-life medical decisions." [1.8] Obama is sometimes called a 'socialist.' He isn't. He is a communitarian. 2. What is Common Purpose? Some people think that Common Purpose is simply a criminal organisation set up to siphon off public money but there is a lot more than that to the Common Purpose agenda On the surface, Common Purpose is an educational charity, registered in the UK under number 1023384, that does leadership and networking development training. However, Common Purpose is not what it appears to be on the surface. In reality, Common Purpose is a corrupt, subversive, secretive and deeply sinister organisation with a hidden agenda (communitarian corporate-communism, social control, corporate and EU state control) and hidden backers (Tavistock Institute, Fabian Society, Brussels). The main function of Common Purpose is that of a recruitment organisation being used to recruit the commissars and apparatchiks needed to implement the government's hidden communitarian agenda. Common Purpose is also... 1. A Masonic-like society for careerists most of whose 'graduates' avoid admitting association with Common Purpose. 'The first rule of Common Purpose is that you don't talk about Common Purpose'; 2. A means of subversion used to undermine traditional British values and destroy the identity of Britain; 3. Obsessed with social control and social engineering; 4. Working towards the establishment of a communitarian society; 5. Fraudulently masquerading as an 'educational charity' when its objectives are clearly political; 6. A criminal abuser of public funds - the tax payer is funding the hidden agenda; 7. Hiding its true origins and controlled by hidden hands who thought up the idea for Common Purpose initially and pull Commissar Middleton's strings; 8. An octopus-like mechanism with its tentacles reaching into national and local government departments, QUANGOS, charities, the media, the police and private businesses. The Italian word - 'la piovra' - means octopus and is used to describe the Mafia; 9. Corrupt, secretive, deceitful, fraudulent, treacherous, working to a fraudulent agenda and hiding its true intentions; 10. Blurring the edges between the public and private sectors to secretly merge these sectors; 11 Working as a change agent to subtly change Britain, British government departments and private industry. A change agent is a person, team or organisation used to effect changes in an organisation; 12. Helping to carry out the hidden agenda of the government; 13. A Bilderberg-type group for upper and middle management implementing the Agenda 21, sustainable development and communitarian policies of the New World Order; 14. Being used to form a New World Order control grid in the UK; 15. A 'Trojan Horse' fifth column operation and is part of the mechanism being used by Brussels to undermine and soften up British society to pave the way for the take-over of Britain by the European Union collective. When I first came across Common Purpose, it reminded me of Scientology and then I found this quote: "From what little I've been able to pick up from the bland yet creepy Common Purpose website and other little snippets I've encountered here and there, Common Purpose gives off a vibe of some kind of cross between Scientology, EST therapy, the Stepford Bureaucrats and the Masons." [2.1] Strange things have been happening in Britain in recent years. For example, the police have lost their common sense. The existence of Common Purpose helps to explain them. Some people have worked out exactly what Common Purpose has been up to and it is not a very edifying story. It is difficult to comprehend the enormity of the corruption, deceit, fraud and treachery that Common Purpose has engaged in. Common Purpose has been working with the British government to soften up Britain for takeover by the EU. This is what makes Common Purpose so unique. Most people will find it difficult to comprehend that any government could stoop so low as to betray its own citizens. The economic and social chaos that we are witnessing nowadays has been deliberately engineered and Common Purpose along with New World Order plotters in places like the United States and the European Union. There are literally no depths to which these institutionally-corrupt British governments will not descend: multi-billion eurofraud, relentless and ruthless abuses of citizens, lying, cheating, secrecy, going to war on the basis of lies, oppressive social control, abrogating sovereign rule to Brussels, corruption, deceit, fraud, treachery, bankrupting the country and so on. Whilst carrying out the hidden United Nations Agenda 21, Common Purpose has corruptly abused millions of pounds of taxpayers' money. Common Purpose is guilty of defrauding YOU of YOUR money. Common Purpose is a change agent being used to recruit and train the commissars and apparatchiks needed to implement the British government's hidden EU communitarian agenda. Common Purpose is being used to recruit and train change agents to implement this hidden agenda. The main objective of Common Purpose is social control in a collectivist and corporatist society. The other objectives of Common Purpose are the destruction of the national identity of Britain, the destruction of democracy in Britain, the undermining of traditional beliefs and values and the slow, secretive merging of the public and private sectors into a state-controlled partnership. What would you say, if I introduced to you a system, whereby, in an 'open and free society', some views were not heard at all? Possible? That is precisely what Common Purpose has set out to do - create an organisation that instructs its members how they must think and act on a number of key issues such as immigration, multiculturalism, the EU, global warming and any type of nationalism. The plan, now well advanced, is to create a massive network of 'training and diversity' organisations to brainwash the useful idiots needed to run society on behalf of the 'élite'. These include those involved with the institutions of government, commerce, education, law enforcement etc. Common Purpose proposes a 'design for life', from a frighteningly early age. If you are with them, you can rise through the system until you reach your calling - but dissent, and you will always be staring upwards from the nadir below. In other words, if you will not play by the rules of the manipulated system, you can kiss any future career goodbye. We are all being 'shafted' by a group of so-called 'élitists', who see the people as little more than taxable cash cows, that must be firmly indoctrinated and then kept in their place. Common Purpose objectives for individuals and families * Rapidly falling incomes * House repossessions * Increasing debt * Unemployment or low-skill employment * Poverty * Overcrowding * Control from cradle to grave * Victims of crime * Cultural disintegration * Constant surveillance Common Purpose objectives for Britain * Perennial trade deficit * High unemployment * Massive debt * Mortgaged to foreigners * Inequality * High population density * High immigration to destroy the culture * Social fragmentation * Economic enslavement * Organised plunder * Band-aid NHS * Politically correct multi-culturalism * Destruction of the middle class Objectives for Common Purpose members, bureaucrats and politicians * Rising incomes * Full employment * Tax-funded income * Comfortable pensions * Private medical insurance * Human rights * Lavish spending "Using 'environmental' concerns as the vehicle, the objective (of the New World Order) is for global control over work, industry, energy, food supply, populations and money." [3.1] Destroy Britain Part of the objective is to destroy the identity of Britain and destroy democracy in Britain. They are obsessed with social control and social engineering. Create a communitarian society Secretive merging of the public and private sectors into a state-controlled partnership - a communitarian society. Create a technocracy One of the objectives is to create a technocracy including an international system of computer control systems (management systems). For a brief introduction, see What is Technocracy? [3.2] Your future as a "biological economic device": [3.3] Power and money Power and money are great motivators. The hidden agenda of Common Purpose is based on the political philosophy of the 'Third Way' and pursues the political objective of the creation of a collectivist and corporatist society within the European Union. Communitarianism, the philosophy underpinning the NWO and its agenda, has been implemented by stealth in Britain over the past few years. For example, the smoking ban is a typical communitarian policy. Communitarianism is a type of supranational collectivism that uses social, economic, psychological and systems manipulation in preference to violence to achieve its objectives. Communitarianism is difficult to pin down. It is... 1. A strange mixture of capitalism and communism. Communitarians want social control in a collectivist and corporatist society; 2. A type of neo-communism that owes some of its ideas to Gramsci and the Fabians; 3. A 'Big Brother knows best' type of philosophy. Communitarians want... 1. To create a post-modern, post-democratic feudal society known as the 'New World Order' run by a small number of rich and powerful people with everyone else working as peasants. In order to achieve their objectives they must destroy the middle class and the nation state; 2. Group rights dominant over individual rights; 3. Highly-taxed capitalism merged with social collectivism, administered through QUANGOs and fake charities. They call this 'civil society'; 4. The 'reinvention of government' - replacing governments that operate under the rule of law with a system of 'professional managers'; 5. Government by committee, with the committee deciding what is for the 'common good'. The communitarians, through stealth, perseverance, duplicity, and subversion, have snatched individual-rights based democracy right out from under our noses, and replaced it with group-rights based communitarianism - a trendy, innovative, and newish form of communism administered by foreign elitists. They are convinced that a communitarian system is 'better' for society - 'improved social cohesion' is the central tenet of their political ideology. Obama, Blair, Brown and Mandelson et al are Fabian communitarians and Cameron and Clegg show distinct communitarian tendencies, although you will not have heard them use the term. The truth of their hidden agenda is now known and we know their real intentions. These people are front-men for the New World Order communitarians. Communitarian policy has been seen as fascist corporatism with the primary difference that instead of focussing on nation states, own country and people, it propagates a supranational policy. A secondary difference is it influences by means of informal social structures, like for example Common Purpose, instead of by institutionalised State violence - at least for the time being. Communitarianism is aimed just like fascists, socialists and communists at the collective. The interests of the collective always prevail above the interests of the individual. Individuals must subjugate themselves to the 'common good'. Communitarians create imaginary problems such as global warming, terrorism suppression and the bank crisis to force through their ideas. Barack Obama is a Fabian Communitarian, although you will not have heard him use the term during his election campaign. Americans will get a shock when the truth of his hidden agenda becomes known and they find out his real intentions. Bear in mind that Obama is simply a front-man for the New World Order communitarians. "In a communitarian society, which is inherently coercive, it isn't just the majority view that prevails and becomes policy, the majority view is the only one which can be spoken, the only one which can be even heard." [4.1] "Communitarianism is a collectivist philosophy that explicitly rejects individualism." [4.2] "Communitarianism is not about 'the common good'. It's about power and the absolute and dictatorial control of money and people - nothing more and nothing less." [4.3] "The cult television series 'The Prisoner' tells the story of a man who, after losing and then regaining consciousness, opens the blinds of his London flat to find that the world outside has undergone a Kafkaesque transformation: the skyscrapers and city streets visible from his window have been replaced with a small and serene village. (2) Accompanying this stark change in his external environment is a sharp decrease in his freedom. Whereas his life in London was his own, he discovers upon venturing out into the village (3) that his decisions and actions are now community property. He is watched everywhere he goes both by neighbors and hidden cameras. (4) He is expected to be an enthusiastic participant in all communal events, and is ostracized as 'unmutual' when he instead seeks out privacy and seclusion. (5) The town's authorities are intent on ensuring that residents cannot opt out of village life: quaint taxis transport people within the village, but never outside of it; phone service is strictly local; maps at the village store show nothing beyond the community's boundaries. (6) Each showing of independence or defiance by the protagonist brings strong pressure from the authorities to fully account for (and recant) his actions. (7) In short, his familiar urban life is replaced with a communitarian dystopia, hostile to privacy and deeply suspicious of every act of individuality." [4.4] These links will explain more about this evil and dictatorial philosophy: Niki Raapana's excellent analysis: [4.5.1] Niki Raapana answers questions about communitarianism: [4.5.2] Communitarianism is rule by permit only: [4.5.3] 'The EU Communitarian Agenda and The New Feudalists': [4.6] 'The Fabian Society, Communitarianism and the New World Order' video: [4.7] Fabians Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla, whom the Romans regarded as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, "To whose benefit?" Some people have gone to a lot of trouble to set Common Purpose up and keep its real agenda and activities secret. Cui bono? The benefits are a mixture of both political and financial and the people who benefit are the leaders and members of the Common Purpose network who want power and money. 1. The key to understanding Common Purpose is to realise that they are Fabians. 2. The final objective of the Fabians is to create a One World communitarian ('Third Way') government. This ties in with the New World Order project. [4.8] 3. Common Purpose is the management mechanism being used to carry out the true and hidden agenda of the Fabians. "The Fabians have been, throughout their history, political and social chameleons who have, through stealth and deception, changed their outer skin to infiltrate every political, social and educational institution around the world, particularly in Great Britain and the United States. Speaking of chameleons, the primary symbol of the Fabians is a 'wolf wrapped in a sheep's skin'." [4.9] So what motivates the Common Purpose leaders? 1. The Fabian/Communitarian New World Order political agenda. These people despise individuals and people who seek free choice but instead wish to make everybody from the same mould and they despise nations and wish to see the destruction of the nation state - in this case, the UK. 2. The chance to get their hands on and abuse loads of free 'government' or rather, tax-payers', money. And what motivates those who support Common Purpose, go on courses and do what the Common Purpose network tells them to do in their work? How about fat salaries and nice pensions? That'll do to start with. Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism This is where one of the main tools of communitarians - political correctness - was developed. [4.10] 5. Controllers Julia Middleton is nominally the Commissar-in-Chief of Common Purpose but other people further up the food chain pull her strings. Middleton, Bell, Prescott and Co are verminous, corrupt and evil crooks who have conspired with others to corruptly abuse millions of pounds of public money and corruptly suborn some members of the British police, judiciary and armed forces. Julia Middleton Muz Middleton is often classified as a Marxist but she is really a communitarian. Strangely enough, she was described as "A communitarian before the word was invented" by the Independent newspaper in 1995. [5.1] This was at a time when the word 'communitarian' was virtually unknown in Britain and shows that she was most definitely in the inner loop. An interesting video of how Common Purpose cult leader Julia Middleton uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques is available here: [5.2] Sir David Bell Bell is a Common Purpose trustee and one of the main string-pullers. Hidden hands Some of the input into Common Purpose comes from people whose identities are not revealed. Although Julia Middleton claims to be the founder of Common Purpose, it was not her idea. The ideas behind Common Purpose are too sophisticated and subtle for one person to think up. The idea for Common Purpose originally came from the Tavistock Institute. [5.3] Like Common Purpose, the Tavistock Institute is another organisation which is not what it appears to be on the surface. 6. Criminal activities Common Purpose is a fraudulent educational charity that is clearly politically motivated and is corruptly abusing public funds to implement the British government's hidden agenda. "Incitement to criminality: In reality operating outside authority for the police, and many others, means operating illegally and without accountability. This does not bother Middleton however, who urges Common Purpose leaders to create their own legitimacy. She quotes organisations as Stranger 1 and Stranger 2. But why are these strangers so shy? Are they financial contributors, do they have political agendas? If readers sense something sinister at work, I agree. Middleton does not really explain how, when she took over, she was able to raise £500,000 in a few months, and continues to receive huge donations from big business. She does not tell the reader how her Advisory Boards in each City select members for the Common Purpose élite. We know about half are selected for the inner sanctum - those who can be compromised, those who can be bribed with big salaries in quango or non jobs ,and those who will lie to conceal CP activities. But she does give a hint as to how the chosen are classified - 'Suns' (people of established power and influence), as 'Stars' (those of rapid but unpredictable rise to power and influence), and as 'Moons' (those individuals of diminishing power). Those who will not help Common Purpose, or who challenge it, are called 'Black Holes'." [6.1] Abuse of public funds Common Purpose has been obtaining money for training unlawfully, on at least three counts: 1. The decision for local authorities to spend the money on training was taken outside of the democratic processes and is therefore unlawful 2. The local authorities, when pressed, had to admit that there was no financial benefit to the ratepayer, i.e. unlawful 3. There are large bills for creating bespoke training courses, when in fact it is the same off-the-shelf course, i.e. fraud Common Purpose operates fraudulently as a charity. 1. Common Purpose has redefined the meaning of 'charity'. Although Common Purpose calls itself an 'educational charity', it is not the poor and disadvantaged who benefit. Instead, the main beneficiaries are the rich and powerful. 2. According to the Charity Commission, "An organisation will not be charitable if its purposes are political." [6.2] When you get beneath the facade of Common Purpose, its purposes are clearly political, not educational. Why is Common Purpose allowed to be a charity when its hidden agenda is clearly political? Common Purpose uses public sector facilities and office space for which it has made no payment nor signed any formal agreements. Is this to evade tax? Breaches of data protection laws Common Purpose has been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office for alleged breaches of data protection law. [6.3] Of course, CP's friends in the ICO made sure no action was taken. Those Common Purpose members who are public servants who breach ALL the Seven Principles of Public Life as set out by the Committee on Standards in Public Life. [6.4] Ultra vires A Common Purpose quote: "People who lead beyond their authority can produce change beyond their direct circle of control". [6.5] Leading beyond authority can mean acting ultra vires. Ultra vires a legal concept. It is Latin for 'beyond the powers'. It can apply to any body which has rules, such as a charity or a local authority. An ultra vires act is one that is outside the specified and/or implied constitutional objects and powers of the body in question. It is 'beyond the powers' and therefore illegal. Also, what are the implications of 'leading beyond authority' for services which require a hierarchical management structure to ensure discipline and cohesion, like the armed forces and police which can be manipulated from within for political purposes? Common Purpose calls its senior members 'graduates'. The UK has a politicised police force that is being developed into a State police force along the lines of the Stasi. [7.1] Common Purpose has corrupted the police in Britain. One of the main targets of Common Purpose is the police because Common Purpose is obsessed with social control. There is a surveillance camera system in Britain which would have been beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi. Britain is now an endemic surveillance society. [7.2] How Common Purpose seeks to corruptly influence the police 1. Common Purpose sent a letter to the Chief Constable of Fife giving instructions on how to deal with Freedom of Information requests made to him about Common Purpose. [7.3] Many other Chief Constables would have received similar instructions. Why is an 'educational charity' like Common Purpose giving instructions to police officers about how they should handle Freedom of Information requests made to them about Common Purpose? What is going on? 2. Norwich prison released to Common Purpose the name and address of a person who quite legitimately asked them, under the Freedom of Information Act, why the prison was providing offices for Common Purpose, and how much Common Purpose was paying. [7.4] HMP Norwich had no right to release this information contrary to the Data Protection Act and has had to apologise. Why does Common Purpose want to know the identities of those people making FOI requests about them? Why did HMP Norwich flagrantly breach the Data Protection Act? What action is being taken against them? How many more examples are there of Common Purpose corruptly influencing members of the police, judiciary, prison service and armed forces? Police officers are supposed to operate 'without fear or favour' but there are plenty of favours being done by Common Purpose police for their colleagues in the Common Purpose network. There is no need whatsoever for police officers to be part of any Common Purpose style network or act as agents for the European Union's espionage service. Police officers are also supposed to have allegiance to the Crown and not to Brussels. All police officers who are Common Purpose 'graduates' have been corrupted and are totally untrustworthy. They are a disgrace to their uniform and should be removed from office immediately. All police officers (and all other government employees for that matter) should be banned from attending any Common Purpose 'training' course. Common Purpose should be investigated for fraud by police not corrupted by Common Purpose - if they can find any. This is the thin end of a very nasty wedge. Common Purpose has corrupted the police. The people of Britain have a really serious problem to solve. Common Purpose has corrupted the British media. Common Purpose has representatives in all parts of the mainstream media. Even Private Eye, which is supposed to spearhead investigative journalism in the UK, will not discuss Common Purpose. Perhaps the editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop, has been so seduced by the cesspool of Common Purpose corruption known as the BBC, that he dare not investigate Common Purpose lest he lose his lucrative broadcasting contracts. It won't be the first time that an investigative journalist has been bought off. One of the main targets of Common Purpose is the media because the British government and Brussels need to control propaganda to the masses. Many BBC, ITV and other media personnel are graduates of the Common Purpose Revolution by Stealth operation. In fact, the BBC and other media outlets have become the propaganda arms of the British government's mealy-mouthed, pro-Europe and politically correct Ministry of Truth (Minitrue). The Common Purpose commissars and apparatchiks who have infiltrated the BBC have destroyed the reputation that the BBC had amongst many for independent and accurate reporting of news and current affairs. And this deceit has all been funded by the BBC Licence Tax payer. Mark Thompson, Dictator-General of the BBC, is a Common Purpose member but will not admit it. Mark Thompson is a corrupt and evil crook who has conspired with others to corruptly abuse millions of pounds of public money and corrupt the British media. You will find NO criticism of Common Purpose in the mass media. Why are people in the media so terrified of discussing Common Purpose? If you know the answer to that, please contact me. Media Standards Trust Whatever this bunch of crooks is up to, the only standards they are interested in upholding are their own - censorship and control of the media. They even have the gall, audacity, impertinence and effrontery to co-sponsor the Orwell Prize for political writing. As far as taking the piss goes, this really does take the biscuit. Their Board of Trustees reads like a Who's Who of the Common Purpose and New World Order brigade and includes Robert Peston (Business Editor, BBC). You need to keep an eye on the Media Standards Trust. Read about how Common Purpose is exploiting the News of the World hacking scandal to further its media control agenda here. All levels of government have been infiltrated by Common Purpose. How Common Purpose operates in councils. 1. Decisions concerning policy and expenditure affecting councils are made at meetings of Common Purpose that bypass the democratic, executive and scrutiny functions of the council. This is what Common Purpose calls 'leading beyond authority'. 2. Members of Common Purpose, which includes senior council officers, are chosen by Common Purpose for their value to Common Purpose and trained at ratepayers' expense, in spite of the fact that these costs are of no tangible benefit to the taxpayer. 3. The so-called 'graduates' or members of Common Purpose use unaccounted council employee time and resources for the business of Common Purpose and, as with their so-called training, the activities of Common Purpose within councils often escaped the attention of the Full Council, Cabinet and Scrutiny Panel. 4. Meetings of Common Purpose are held using a corporate account, off-books, to pay for the hospitality at these meetings. 5. Citizens are not only lied-to when questions are asked about Common Purpose, but are not even allowed to know which council officers have received the so-called training at the taxpayers' expense, and legitimate requests are still being unlawfully withheld. 6. Common Purpose coaches its members on how to avoid answering Freedom of Information requests and how to break the Data Protection Act with unlawful disclosures. 7. Common Purpose encourages its members to identify 12-15 year olds for grooming before placement for so-called 'Your Turn' training without any evidence of having carried out the statutory criminal safety checks. 8. Those identified with Common Purpose, in any capacity or association, are among the same people determined as either corrupt or behind the worst and continuing abuses of citizens. ...and what YOU can do about it... YOU have the chance to fight back! Let Common Purpose know that we are on to them. Find out what you can about expenditure on Common Purpose courses by your local council. Ask your councillors which Common Purpose courses the council pays for, who goes on these courses, what they cost, where they are held, why the council spends tax payers' money on these courses, what the actual and perceived benefits of these courses are, what the course syllabus is, any course notes and documentation you can find and why people who attend these courses are so secretive about what happens on these courses. Also, what sort of tendering process is involved when these contracts for courses are given to Common Purpose? Are other training companies allowed to compete to provide leadership training courses? Ask your councillors what is the benefit to YOU, the tax-payer, of these courses. (There isn't any benefit to the tax-payer of these Common Purpose courses.) What assessments/results of the courses are put into writing? (Answer: none.) Why are these courses so expensive? Are they value for money? (Of course not.) Is this money well-spent? (No, of course not.) Could all these thousands of pounds have been spent more wisely instead of being wasted on Common Purpose courses? (Yes... either your money could be better spent or YOUR taxes could be reduced.) Find out if Common Purpose is given any free accommodation or services by the local council. If you suspect behind-the-scenes corrupt deals going on in your council, see if you can find a common factor... all the people concerned may well be Common Purpose 'graduates'. You can find out more about how to do Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to find out about Common Purpose activities here: [7.5] Happy hunting... remember Common Purpose can't stand people asking questions about them. "Common Purpose is the glue than enables fraud to be committed across government departments to reward pro European politicians." Common Purpose undermines traditionally effective and efficient government departments with an overwhelming influx of new language, political correctness and management initiatives. The talk is of empowering communities, vision, mainstreaming (sucking EU money into a project to sustain it), community empowerment, working partnership, regeneration and celebrating diversity etc etc. Documents appear about change, and reorganisation. In time confusion rules, and things don't seem to work properly. Management decisions are made that seem stupidly destructive. The organisational performance becomes sluggish. Council Officers are having quasi secret meetings with, for example, property developer Common Purpose friends. No agendas and no minutes. Common Purpose members from the public quango sectors such as the Regional Development Agencies attend, and have the power to award large sums of public money to projects." The EU plan has been very simple and very clever. First set up via the traitors within UK national government the Regional Development Agencies. These were designed to be smooth as silk and sweet as honey - to do all things good e.g. regeneration, helping communities, helping business, innovation, entrepreneurship etc etc. Next load the honey trap with large amounts of money so that people, organisations are attracted to the honey pot. As more people are attracted, increase the powers of the RDAs to include planning powers and input. Make it compulsory for City Councils, County Councils and District Councils to consult them, and then their power increases further. And with planning powers they can get their organisational snouts into virtually every walk of life. Meanwhile 'bring the government to the people' by setting up the Regional Government Offices - (remembering Regional = EU). The Government Offices now get increasing powers to interfere in everything, and especially local and strategic planning, because almost nothing gets done, or built without going through the planning process. Make consultation with the Government Offices compulsory. Now the clever bit. In the background the traitors now work to introduce the Regional Assemblies. At first unelected and informal, so as to allay fears and ease doubts as to their true purpose. Then the 'behind the scenes traitors' start to work to make them elected using large amounts of UK public money and EU funds. Undermining the NHS is Common Purposes' biggest success so far. NHS senior and middle management is riddled with Common Purpose members, yet the average doctor or nurse has never heard of Common Purpose. Why is Common Purpose so secretive? Many fake charities such as Age Concern have links to Common Purpose. Common Purpose members tend to share the same characteristics. Want power People become Common Purpose members for career advancement and to be part of a secret, Masonic-like society for careerists who want what Common Purpose has to offer - access to the corridors of power. This is not the action of a selfless person. The Common Purpose idea of 'leading beyond authority' is particularly attractive to the corporate psychopath class of person who will see it a green light to go around their organisation and pick up power wherever they find it laying around. These people are not noted for their selflessness. Lack of integrity Being part of the Common Purpose network brings those in public service under pressure to do favours for other Common Purpose 'graduates'. The lack of integrity and probity of some Common Purpose police officers is particularly disturbing. Many Common Purpose members corruptly abuse public funds. Many Common Purpose 'graduates' in public service deliberately hide their membership of Common Purpose. This leaves them open to accusations of dishonesty, corruption, favouritism and under-the-counter dealings. Common Purpose targets the grey areas where public and private bodies meet such as Local Strategic Partnerships. These are prime candidates for potential corruption and dishonesty. They operate according to the Chatham House rules which effectively means that meetings are held in secret with no agenda, records or accountability. Common Purpose 'graduates' are incapable of leading by example because those people who have found out what they are up to do not trust them at all. The methods used by Common Purpose are what you would expect from fraudsters in this Jigsaw of Deception. The use of political correctness for social control and mental manipulation, deceit, fraudulent agenda, corrupt abuse of public funds, obsessive control freakery, secrecy and bland, banal and meaningless statements. Many of the methods used by Common Purpose originated at the Tavistock Institute. Vast sums of money have been spent in recent years on social control and engineering schemes. Neurological Linguistic Programming [8.1] is used by Common Purpose. This is similar to some of the techniques used to great effect by Derren Brown. [8.2] How Common Purpose cult leader Julia Middleton uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques: [8.3] Common Purpose uses training courses to change the existing beliefs and values of an individual into a new 'politically and socially acceptable' set of beliefs and values and to find suitable recruits for the social control bureaucracy needed to run the 'post-democratic' society that they are trying to establish. Common Purpose are obsessive control freaks and manipulators. One of their main tools of social control, the Marxist doctrine of political correctness, is used to usurp dissenting voices and paralyse thought. Just like in the Middle Ages with the use of the term 'heretic', this political correctness nonsense hides darker motives. "Political correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston [8.4] "Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous liberal press which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." Attributed to students at Texas A&M University. [8.5] Manipulating consensus The Delphi Technique [8.6] is used to manipulate meetings to a pre-determined outcome. The Consensus Process: [8.7] and How to Fight the Consensus Process: [8.8] Cognitive Dissonance: [8.9] It is the manipulation of consensus that has turned the three main political parties in Britain into one party all standing on the same ground. They might offer slightly different policies - and only slightly - but they are all agreed on the fundamentals and this makes elections irrelevant. Common Purpose Orwellian doublespeak * Equality means Inequality * Cohesion means Fragmentation * Diversity means Uniformity * Civic Society means Communism * Charity means Help the Rich * Common Purpose means Élite Control * Training means Brainwashing * Change means Chaos * Consensus means Dictatorship * Democracy means Corporate/State Control * Cultural Enrichment means Cultural Impoverishment * Consensus Building - Reaching a predetermined outcome through facilitated dialogue, often by ignoring, labeling, intimidating, ridiculing, or ignoring any form of dissent. * Critical Thinking - Criticizing and challenging traditional beliefs, values and authorities. Often uses ridicule, intimidation and rejection to conform people to the new paradigm. * Promoting Content Standards - Censorship * World Citizens - New World Order stooges. Even George Orwell could not have made this up. But he got the year wrong. Problem - Reaction - Solution A classic Common Purpose-style ruse is to decide upon an objective, create a problem and then introduce a pre-planned 'solution' to that problem. Straight from the Hegelian Dialectic - create the problem, manipulate the response, come up with the solution. Problem - reaction - solution. A solution which puts you in the position you wanted to be in in the first place but needed to create the problem in order to get there. Trojan mice Although Common Purpose is a 'Trojan Horse' operation, some of its methods have been more akin to 'Trojan Mice'. Trojan Mice operations have their roots in complex adaptive systems and Chaos Theory. (Please do a Web search for 'Trojan Mice' to find out more.) These systems theories get a bit complicated but it boils down to the idea that the best way to change an organisation (or a country for that matter) is by the use of small changes which very few people take any notice of at the time. These small changes increment over time to make large changes. When the large changes become apparent to the organisation's members or the general public, they may not be able to do anything about it. Manipulating systems Systems are manipulated to achieve the desired results. "A system is a set of integrated processes that are linked together to achieve a goal. Systems have inputs and outputs. They have entities such as people serving in roles. There are locations, time, duration, events and actions. All of the entities of a system work in concert to achieve the goal whatever it might be. Use of the term 'system' does not necessarily mean computer system but even when it does, the part that the computer plays is only one aspect of the system. The manual processes before and after the computer process are all part of the systems design as are the people for whom the system is designed. Organized societies are comprised of millions of systems and we play out our roles in those systems without really thinking much about them. We learn the procedures that we are to follow to get done what we need to have done. The Education, Health, Pension, Unemployment, Law Enforcement, etc. are all systems of government that are comprised of systems within systems as per the definition above. Recently, David Cameron gave a speech to the Conservative Party in Birmingham. He mentioned 'The Big Society' as his goal. When you pull away the curtains, 'The Big Society' is the same as the American President Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' of the 1960s. What they are talking about is design engineering of the social systems of your society. The role of Common Purpose is to inform and train you in the 'new systems' while making you believe that the changes they are implementing are local ideas. Nothing could be further from the truth. The systems they are implementing were designed at the global level and they are being implemented in all localities in most countries. The countries of the Middle East are 'resisters' to the global social systems engineering plans." Vicky Davis [8.10] Of particular interest is the way that Total Quality Management has been used to further the globalists' agenda. [8.11] "My observation has been that the Certified Public Accounting firms are the ones who are behind the consolidation of government systems. And I'm not just saying that because of the Pennsylvania story below. I keep seeing their names popping up in unexpected places. PricewaterhouseCoopers (formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand) Accenture (was Arthur Andersen) Here is something I wrote about the state of Pennsylvania after hearing a BookTV interview with former Governor Tom Ridge. Ridge became the first Homescam Security Director after 9-11." [8.12] 1.1 vernoncoleman.com/howthebritishmedia.htm 1.2 nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2010/08/la21-smoking-cannon.html 1.3 youtube.com/watch?v=p8wPl4AyDyk 1.4 newswithviews.com/Shaw/michael1.htm 1.5 stopcp.com/euspies20080603.php 1.6 nord.twu.net/acl/communitar.html 1.8 fiveboxes.com - tinyurl.com/2u9sq42 2.1 stefzucconi.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html 3.1 pjcjournal.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/the-road-to-rio-eu-officially-on-the-bandwagon 3.2 stopcp.com/technocracy.php 3.3 pjcjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/your-future-is-what-the-eu-says-it-will-be/ 4.1 medawarscornflakes.blogspot.com/2009/04/communitariansim-and-fall-of.html 4.2 blackcrayon.com/library/dictionary/?term=communitarianism 4.3 newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy74.htm 4.4 bit.ly/bxPhLh 4.5.1 nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2010/10/open-letter-to-all-members-of-local-tea.html 4.5.2 nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2010/10/niki-raapana-talks-to-herself-about.html 4.5.3 nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2010/12/massive-waterland-grab-by-federal.html 4.6 nylonmanden.dk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=180&Itemid=43 4.7 sovereignsentience.blogspot.com/2008/10/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-fabian-society.html 4.8 aquilion.com/fabian.htm 4.9 www.nolanchart.com/article5211.html 4.10 youtube.com/watch?v=qyu-9-OhHog 5.1 independent.co.uk/news/which-of-these-women-willl-be-running-the-country-1603052.html 5.2 eyetube.me/play/Censoringme/Julia_Middleton_Neuro_Linguistic_Programming 5.3 educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwotavistockbestkeptsecret.shtml 6.1 eutruth.org.uk/beyondauthority.html 6.2 charity-commission.gov.uk/Publications/cc9.aspx 6.3 bit.ly/aWwjxl 6.4 stopcp.com/cpbreachesthesevenprinciples.php 6.5 commonpurpose.ie/aboutus/leadingbeyondauthority.aspx 7.1 bit.ly/aAZirO 7.2 bit.ly/dmZYNh 7.3 stopcp.com/CommonPurposeInstructionstoPolice.pdf 7.4 cpexposed.com/document_library/?city=Norwich 7.5 stopcp.com/findcpmembers.php 8.1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming 8.2 bit.ly/aa306w 8.4 en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Political_correctness 8.6 eagleforum.org/educate/1998/nov98/focus.html 8.7 bit.ly/bBjikU 8.8 freedomadvocates.org/option,com_seyret/task,videodirectlink/Itemid,55/id,13/ 8.9 changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_dissonance.htm 8.10 channelingreality.com 8.11 stopcp.com/TQMJudyMcLemore.pdf 8.12 channelingreality.com/Digital_Treason/The_Spy_On_Your_Desk.htm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line168
__label__wiki	0.949743	0.949743	Helms Alee is: Dana James - Bass, Vocals Ben Verellen - Guitar, Vocals Hozoji Matheson-Margullis - Drums, Vocals Helms Alee Tour Dates Tweets by @HelmsAleeMusic Sleepwalking Sailors Bio 2014 Sleepwalking Sailors Helms Alee's music is exactly the sort of mutant, fantastic hybrid that used to only occasionally erupt out of small, isolated scenes, uninformed by trends of the day — instead inspired by the band’s own collective contributions. The Seattle trio’s unique amalgam of metal, art rock, pop and punk is charmingly reminiscent of the fertile creativity that groups once had before the Internet seemed to instruct bands to only copy one another. Helms Alee’s third album, Sleepwalking Sailors, sounds like many styles combined into one, and none of it concerned with any notion other than creating vital, urgent and uniquely characteristic music. Bassist/vocalist Dana James, drummer/vocalist Hozoji Matheson-Margullis and guitarist/vocalist Ben Verellen combine a vast array of ideas within a single song, while still sounding entirely cohesive. Their songs are undeniably heavy, but also freely roaming through icy post-punk and warm melodic haze at any given moment. Any given song can be pummeling one moment and then subtly shift into triply harmonies without the listener even realizing what has happened. "The weird thing about it," Verellen muses, "is that we've got three different people contributing lyrics, parts and melodies to each song. So, they end up being disjointed by our individual input. We spent 3-1/2 years writing the songs for this album, so it's thematically all over the place." Sleepwalking Sailors was recorded with engineer Chris Common (These Arms Are Snakes, Pelican, Chelsea Wolfe) in Seattle, with intentionally built-in limitations. "We recorded the album to tape in order to confine ourselves from ProTools refining every detail. We ended up with something that sounds really big, but also a bit more aggressive." Helms Alee's previous album Weatherhead was released in 2011 to much acclaim by their longtime label HydraHead just before it went under. Undaunted, and as a testament to the band's strong fan base, Helms Alee originally crowdfunded Sleepwalking Sailors, eventually raising an impressive recording budget. Upon hearing Common's early mixes, Sargent House quickly offered to bring the band onto their management roster and release the new album. Throughout the course of the album's creation, the band's independent aesthetic becomes clear: a dedication to truly representing themselves, regardless of trends and outside influence. Album opener "Pleasure Center" kicks off with churning riffs and staccato drums that repeat and morph in a constant build that's equal parts Gang Of Four as it is early Soundgarden. The slithering and perfectly meshed distorted rattle of James' bass with Verellen's climbing, chiming single notes on "Tumescence" lead off with Neurosis style heft, but soon give way to compelling minor-key vocal harmonies laid over the proceedings. Elsewhere, James' and Matheson-Margullis' even more pop-hook leaning vocal harmonies lend a transcendence to the proceedings. "Pinniped" pits near chamber-pop group vocal harmonies against screaming, wailing guitar blasts and thumping tom drum beats. Throughout the album, Helms Alee prove that their unique creative spark is its greatest asset in creating incisive and insightful music. Sleepwalking Sailors was released worldwide on LP, CD and download on February 11th, 2014 via Sargent House. Helms Alee / Young Widows - Split by Helms Alee & Young Widows	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line175
__label__cc	0.508488	0.491512	Association of Queensland Live Stream Meetings Click here to view our YouTube Channel Brisbane River cruise South Pine River messabout Management Committee Monthly Meeting Monday, February 08, 2021 4:30pm Monthly Barbecue and Meeting Tuesday, February 09, 2021 5:30pm We welcome new members Membership details and application form. 12th TWEED CLASSIC BOAT REGATTA 5-7th October 2012 by Ian Primrose The Regatta started in the traditional way on Friday evening with a meet'n'greet cruising up Tweed on the "MV Golden Swan". There were 27 "official" entries for the Regatta plus a few "tag-alongs" and a couple of non-starters It was a 9 am start up the River on Saturday for most with a few stragglers slow off the mark. There was a good mix of boats including putt-putts, motor launches, sailing boats and outboard propelled jobs. The weather was fantastic with clear skies and a light breeze. Several years ago we were able to navigate with great caution, the passage behind Stott's Island. Even then, it was difficult and slow to manoeuvre around fallen logs. Over the years it got worse to the point where navigation was impossible and this was a great pity as, even with the obstructions, it was a very pretty trip past the dense rainforest on Stott's Island. However, this year the Regatta Committee cut through the red-tape to get permission to clear the passage. Having dealt with Council and various government departments they then set-about clearing the passage with chainsaws. Some massive tree limbs were removed and these also had to be taken onto land for disposal. To the credit of the Committee, the passage behind Stott's is now a navigable waterway with only one caution-point. So we did the "African Queen" thing through the passage line-of-file and some boats also did the return journey. By 10:30 am we were at the town of Tumbulgum for a morning tea break after which we headed a bit further upriver to a park near Condong where the Committee had organized mooring posts, a jazz band and for the Air Sea Rescue to put on a sausage sizzle. There was a fair crowd of the public to inspect the boats and then it was a leisurely cruise back to the Caravan Park. At night we enjoyed a catered roast dinner and the plaques and awards were given out. Alan Graham was awarded "Gem of the Tweed" for his excellent "Queensland Maid" and Ray Muggeridge was voted the "Boatie's Choice" for his David Payne designed "Jimmy Hall". Both awards were well-deserved. Unfortunately, on Sunday the forecast was not too good with 30-40 knot winds from the North and then the South. The wind was up early so most boats pulled out or had a lay-day in sheltered waters. It was a great weekend none-the-less, very well organized and a beautiful part of the country to go boating in. The Len Johnstone Story.’ by George Lestor, 1990 I am proud to share this story of my late sailing mentor and friend, Len Johnstone. I wish to thank the Lestor family for their permission to reprint the story that initially was contained in the book ‘History of the Sandgate Sailing Clubs 1897-1990.’ Ian Kirk. ‘The Len Johnstone Story.’ by George Lestor, 1990. Len Johnstone A legend in his own lifetime. Without doubt, the most outstanding and remarkable small boat skipper produced in Sandgate, Queensland, Australia and possibly the world would... National Festivals Hobart* Goolwa* Cairns NQ* New South Wales* A. C. T. Victoria* Tasmania* South Australia* Western Australia* Sailfish Enthusiasts* * opens in a new window Website by Oz Web Crew Opinions and Advice: Opinions and advice expressed on this website and in the Association’s meetings are those of the individual originator’s only. The Editor and the Association’s Committee do not necessarily endorse views expressed at such forums. Participation in Events: Participation in events organised by the Association may involve certain risks inherently associated with the perils of the sea or weather which include the possibility of damage to, or loss of, vessels and equipment, as well as injury or death to persons. Such risks will require the exercise of the prior judgment of members on behalf of themselves, their guests and invitees, whether to commence or continue any particular activity irrespective of information supplied by the Association, its Committee or officers. The Association, its Committee and officers accept no responsibility for damage, loss, injury or death arising from these risks. Contributions to this website: Contributions to this website by members of the Association on relevant topics are most welcome. Contributions may be edited before publication at the Editor's discretion. By submitting any material for publication the Contributor warrants that he/she is the copyright owner, and consents to both the editing of the material and its publication in 'The Log' and on the Association's website, on a royalty free basis.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line182
__label__wiki	0.75042	0.75042	Backup WD What To Dos What's Worth Seeing… …on screen, on stage and beyond. Satellite & Cable Stand up & Sketch Comedy Mondays in the Sun Mondays in the Sun – Review 27th May 2005 20th March 2018 Jason Korsner DIRECTED BY: Fernando Leon De Aranoa – FEATURING: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, Jose Angel Egido [click for more...] What’s Worth Seeing on Social Media Follow WWS on Twitter What’s What’s Worth Seeing? Contact What’s Worth Seeing What’s Worth Seeing © 1996 - 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line186
__label__wiki	0.579188	0.579188	tronn: >Bina: Are you sure you really are falling into something? Most of reality is space which is basically a huge void, right, so there's no guarantee that there's a bottom or anything. Maybe you should just use this opportunity to take a nap? It's just the black expanse of nothingness like always. Kíeros: > So, uh, are there any other holes you can see to get into? But there should be other holes… shouldn't there? B12 and company implied that the damage done to reality doesn't reset. It just gets worse every time. She's B13, so where are all the holes? This shouldn't be an infinitely dark void, it should be like falling through the temporal equivalent of Swiss cheese… Just a minute ago, when Kendra mentioned the state of the ceiling, she'd realized that she'd never seen herself land before. She just falls, and then she's there. Kablam! But this time she'd seen them land. The hole even stuck around. Maybe that's because of this crap right now, with Piotyr, but maybe… A small part of her tells her that she's falling to her death and she should be busy panicking. Remember? Anxiety attacks? Now would be an excellent time for one! The rest of her glares at it. Panicking about what? So, ok, she's falling through time towards an unknown four dimensional destination while only meters away from an enormous monster that's maybe the quantum entangled undead duplicate of the ghost of a beagle that seems to be camping out in her dreams. And ok, she's tired, beat up, her fingers hurt, her side hurts, she's swallowed god only knows how much muddy rainwater, and she probably has some broken ribs. Oh and that monster-beagle-undead-corpse-puppy can shoot lasers out of its mouth. Lasers that, when you look at them for more then a second, make one feel as though they were staring into the eye of some vast and alien insect-like god. So yeah. That's all happening. No argument here. But how exactly is panicking going to help the situation? It's not like she can change any of that. The small part of her advocating panic admits that the rest of her makes a very good point. Well good, the rest of her thinks. Glad we've reached an arrangement. What was she thinking about again? Oh yes, Kendra. Faaar away now. She'd better not jump in after her. She's out, now that Bina thinks about it. She could just duck out the door, walk the direction away from Gregor, and she'd be safe. She hopes Kendra does that. Of course she does. To think anything else would be - Wait, she was having a thought here? Their landing. Earlier, Bina had attributed their unusual landing to the time machine, but now that she thinks about it, that doesn't feel quite right. That feels like the easy answer. The answer that someone like B3, or B12, or Josephine would give. They'd say something like 'Due to the widened angle of the foozwidget, the prunedangle has parped the shmagee! This means that you were able to observe your own landing this time and also the gap stayed open behind you. Because science, and also math and things!' But Bina thinks it isn't that complicated. Bina's pretty sure that all that other stuff is so much horse shenanigans. Bina thinks that it wasn't what she was doing, or even how she was doing it, but who she was doing it with. Terry Pratchett died today. There are words to say about that, and other people, more skilled, have said them. I have only these: He left the world a brighter place then when he found it. There is no higher praise then that. He will be missed.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line190
__label__cc	0.511587	0.488413	E-mail: japc@annexpublishers.co Editorial Board Member - JAPC LAUREN BERKOW Division of Neuroanesthesia Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Dr. Lauren Berkow is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Division of Neuroanesthesia and in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, United States. She almost has 14 years of experience in the field of Anesthesia. She is a committee member in Johns Hopkins CME as Advisory Board and also a committee member in many more communities. She also has vast experience in Patient Safety/Performance Improvement Initiatives. She is also works as a Director of Anesthesia Supplies and Equipment. She is also a committee member in Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, Teleflex Medical Advisory Board, Masimo Consumer Advisory Board, Covidien Consumer Advisory Board. She is also a member is many International Associations. She is also a member of ASA Neuro track committee, Director and organizer of airway workshops for Johns Hopkins Perioperative Management Conference. She has been honored with Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Leadership Award. She is also invited as the Physician representative on the Sustainability Leadership Council for Johns Hopkins Health System. Her research interests are Airway management, Neuroanesthesia Other Editorial Board Members - JAPC John Patrick F. Bebawy University of Loyola Chicago USA UDAY JAIN SEBASTIANO MERCADANTE Director of Anesthesia & Intensive Care and Pain Relief & Supportive Care Unit La Maddalena Cancer Center, Palermo Dell R. Burkey Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Somchai Amornyotin NGUYEN HUU TU Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Hanoi Medical University OSAMA ALI MOHAMED IBRAHEIM Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Assiut University ROSE BERKUN State University of New York at Buffalo Alex Bekker Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Rutgers New Jersey Medical School JAMES G. CAIN University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line195
__label__cc	0.69502	0.30498	Key Rums of the World – J. Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum (Jamaica) At the opposite end of the scale from the elegant and complex mid-range rum of the Appleton 12 year old – a Key Rum in its own right – lies that long-standing rum favourite of proles and puritans, princes and peasants — the rough ‘n’ tough, cheerfully cussin’ and eight-pack powerful rippedness of the J. Wray & Nephew White overproof, an unaged white rum bottled at a barely bearable 63%, and whose screaming yellow and green label is a fixture in just about every bar around the world I’ve ever been in and escorted out of, head held high and feet held higher. This is a rum that was one of the first I ever wrote about back in the day when I wasn’t handing out scores, a regular fixture on the cocktail circuit, and an enormously popular rum even after all these years. It sells like crazy both locally and in foreign lands, is bought by poor and rich alike, and no-one who’s ever penned a rum review could dare ignore it (nor should they). I don’t know what its sales numbers are like, but I honestly believe that if one goes just by word of mouth, online mentions and perusal of any bar’s rumshelf, then this must be one of the most well regarded Jamaican (or even West Indian) rums on the planet, as well as one of the most versatile. Even in its home country the rum has enormous street cred. Like the Guyanese Superior High Wine, it’s a local staple of the drinking scene and supposedly accounts for more than three quarters of all rum sold in Jamaica, and it is tightly woven into the entire cultural fabric of the island. It’s to be found at every bottom-house lime, jump-up or get-together. Every household – expatriate or homeboys – has a bottle taking up shelf space, for pleasure, for business, for friends or for medicinal purposes. It has all sorts of social traditions: crack a bottle and immediately you pour a capful on the ground to return some to those who aren’t with you. Have a housewarming, and grace the floor with a drop or two; touch of the rheumatiz? – rub dem joints with a shot; mek a pickney…put a dab ‘pon he forehead if he sick; got a cold…tek a shot and rub a shot. And so on. This is not even counting its extraordinary market penetration in the tiki and bar scene (Martin Cate remarked that the White with Ting is the greatest highball in the world). There aren’t many rums in the world which have such high brand awareness, or this kind of enduring popularity across all strata of society. Like the Appleton 12, it almost stands in for all of Jamaica in a way all of its competitors, old and new, seek to emulate. What’s behind it? Is it the way it smells, the way it tastes? Is it the affordable price, the strength? The marketing? Because sure as hell, it ranks high in all the metrics that make a rum visible and appreciated, and that’s even with the New Jamaicans from Worthy park and Hampden snapping at its heels. Coming back at it after so many years made me remember something of its fierce and uncompromising nature which so startled me back in 2010. It’s a pot and column still blend (and always has been), yet one could be forgiven for thinking that here, the raw and rank pot-still hooligan took over and kicked column’s battie. It reeked of glue and acetones mixed up with a bit of gasoline good only for 1950s-era Land Rovers. What was interesting about it was the pungent herbal and grassy background, the rotting fruits and funky pineapple and black bananas, flowers, sugar water, smoke, cinnamon, dill, all sharp and delivered with serious aggro. Taste wise, it was clear that the thing was a mixing agent, far too sharp and flavourful to have by itself, though I know most Islanders would take it with ice and coconut water, or in a more conventional mix. It presented rough and raw and joyous and sweaty and was definitely not for the meek and mild of disposition, wherein lay its attraction — because in that fierce uniqueness of profile lay the character which we look for in rums we remember forever. Here, that was conveyed by a sharp and powerful series of tastes – rotten fruit (especially bananas), orange peel, pineapples, soursop and creamy tart unsweetened fresh yoghurt. There was something of the fuel-reek of a smoky kerosene stove floating around, cloves, licorice, peanut, mint, bitter chocolate. It was a little dry, and had no shortage of funk yet remained clearly separable from Hampden and Worthy Park rums, and reminded me more of a Smith & Cross or Rum Fire, especially when considering the long, dry, sharp finish with its citrus and pineapple and wood-chip notes that took the whole experience to its long and rather violent (if tasty) conclusion. So maybe it’s all of these things I wrote about – taste, price, marketing, strength, visibility, reputation. But unlike many of the key rums in this series, it remains fresh and vibrant year in and year out. I would not say it’s a gateway rum like the Pusser’s 15 or the Diplo Res Ex or the El Dorado 21, those semi-civilized drinks which introduce us to the sippers and which we one day move beyond. It exists at the intersection of price and quality and funk and taste, and skates that delicate line between too much and too little, too rough and almost-refined. You can equally have it in a high-class bar in Manhattan, or from cheap plastic tumblers with Ting while bangin’ down de dominos in the sweltering heat of a Trenchtown yard. In its appeal to all the classes of society that choose it, you can see a Key Rum in action: and for all these reasons, it remains, even after all the years it’s been available, one of the most popular — even one of the best — rums of its kind ever made, in Jamaica, in the West Indies, or, for that matter, anywhere else. Unaged pot and column still blend The colours on the label channel the colours of the Jamaican flag Posted by Ruminsky at 3:42 am Appleton, Blended Rums, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Overproofs, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Unaged Rums, White Rums Tagged with: Appleton, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Key Rums of the World, Rums from Jamaica, White Rums - Unaged Blackwell Fine Jamaican Rum – Review The Blackwell Fine Jamaican rum is the result of another one of those stories we hear these days, about somebody with good intentions, oodles of spare cash, and some street cred in another creative field of endeavour (music, movies, TV, writing, master of the universe, Wall Street, take your pick), deciding they can make [insert product name here] just because (a) they always liked it (b) they have eaten / drunk / smoked / worn / read / watched / experienced it for many years and (c) they want to immortalize their own preference for said product. “How difficult can it be?” you can almost hear them asking themselves, with a sort of endearing innocence. When that kind of thing is done well and with focus, we get Renegade. When done with less, we get this. With all due respect to the makers who expended effort and sweat to bring this to market, I gotta be honest and say the Blackwell Fine Jamaican Rum doesn’t impress. Part of that is the promo materials, which remark that it is “A traditional dark rum with the smooth and light body character of a gold rum.” Wait, what? Even Peter Holland usually the most easy going and sanguine of men, was forced to ask in his FB post “What does that even mean?” I imagine him nobly restraining the urge to add an expletive or two in there, because colour has been so long dismissed as an indicator of a rum’s type or an arbiter of its quality. Still, here’s the schtick: it’s a 40% ABV throwback to yesteryear’s mild rums, a blend of pot and column still rums from that little hoochery J. Wray, and no age statement: it has indeed been aged (in ex bourbon barrels), but I’ve heard 2-4 years ageing, one guy at the 2019 Paris fest told me “around five” and in a review from back in 2014, The Fat Rum Pirate noted it was “only aged for 1 year”. We’re going to have to say we don’t know, here. Though I question whether it’s important at all, since everything about it suggests it is not meant as a sipping rum, more a cocktail ingredient, and some rough edges and youthful notes are tolerated characteristics in such a product. An inviting dark red-amber colour, the first sharp and hot notes out the glass are caramel, molasses, light vanilla, not much like the younger Appletons, any of them. There’s a wisp of seaspray whisking a single olive into your face, some raisins, black cake and cinnamon – but funk, rotting bananas, spoiling fruit? Nah, dem ting gaan AWOL, don’ go lookin’. To be honest, as something that trumpets the fact that it’s a Jamaican rum, it seems to be in no hurry to actually smell like one. The palate is equally indeterminate, and its unique characteristics may be youthful sharpness and jagged edges, to say nothing of its overall rough feel on the tongue. Even at 40% that’s no fun, but once it relaxes (which happens quickly) it becomes easier – at the cost of losing what tastes it initially displayed into a vague melded mist of nothing-in particular. These were fruits, dark ones, black cake, molasses, cinnamon, lemon peel, fading fast into a rough and hurried finish that was sweet, with some licorice, bananas, lemon peel and a couple of raisins. Frankly, I thought it something of a yawn through, but admittedly I say this from the perspective of a guy who has tasted growly old bastards bottled north of 60% from the New Jamaicans. Anyway, it reminds me less of a Jamaican rum than one like Cruzan or Gosling’s, one of those blended every-bar-has-one dark mixing rums I cut my teeth on decades back. With respect to the good stuff from around the island — and these days, there’s so much of it sloshing about — this one is feels like an afterthought, a personal pet project rather than a serious commercial endeavour, and I’m at something of a loss to say who it’s for. Fans of the quiet, light rums of twenty years ago? Tiki lovers? Barflies? Bartenders? Beginners now getting into the pantheon? Maybe it’s just for the maker — after all, it’s been around since 2012, yet how many of you can actually say you’ve heard of it, let alone tried a shot? The real question is, I suppose, what other rum-drinking people think of it. I may be going too far out on a limb here, but my personal opinion is that Not much is the most likely answer of the kindhearted, and Nothing at all is the response of the rest. Me, I’m with those guys. The Blackwell brand was formed by Mr. Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records) and Mr. Richard Kirshenbaum (CEO of NSGSWAT, a NY ad agency), back in 2012. The Blackwell rum derives from a blend of pot and column distillate made by J. Wray and Nephew, developed with the help of Joy Spence, and is supposedly based on a Blackwell family recipe (secret and time honoured, of course — they all are) which hails from the time the Lindo family (who are related directly to Mr. Blackwell) owned J. Wray & Nephew. In 1916 Lindo Brothers & Co. bought J. Wray, and picked up the Appleton sugar estate at the same time. The whole edifice was merged into one company, J. Wray and Nephew Ltd, and it existed for nearly a hundred years until 2012, when the Campari group bought the company. The words “Black Gold and “Special Reserve” on the label are marketing terms and have no bearing on the quality of the rum itself, or its antecedents. Posted by Ruminsky at 7:21 pm Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Appleton, Blended Rums, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Miscellaneous, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type Tagged with: Appleton, Blackwell Rum, Pot and Column Still Blend, Rums from Jamaica Appleton Special Jamaican Rum (2016) Rumanics Review #93 \| 0607 The Appleton Special is not yet a true Rumaniacs rum, since it’s still commonly available – it was, for quite a long time, one of the most common low-end starter rums available in North America and Europe, so it’s more than likely that one can still find a bottle. However, in 2016 it was retired from active service and put out to pasture, to be replaced by the not-quite-as good J. Wray Jamaica Gold rum – I think they tweaked the blend somewhat since the taste is almost, but not quite, similar. So, since it is no longer in production and gradually will disappear, I include it in this series rather than the main body of the reviews. As far as I know, this is a blend of very young rums (less than five years old, and my own feeling is two years and less), pot and column still blend, and an entry level rum made for mixing with whatever you have on hand. Colour – Gold Strength – 40% Nose – Funk and dunder, warm bordering on hot. Bananas, brine, olives, plus citrus peel, flambeed bananas, some nuts, molasses and faint rubber. Sharp and light at the same time. I suppose one could add some water to bring out the nuances, but at 40% I didn’t bother. It’s meant for cocktails, so that’s where it shines more. Palate – All the hits come out to play: vanilla, orange peel, watermelon juice, brine, avocados. Some apple cider and green grapes, plus light underlying notes of bitter salt caramel and molasses. Weak and undernourished, really, but they’re there and the longer one sticks with it, the more pronounced they become. Finish – Short, mostly caramel, brine, vanilla and funk Thoughts – Oddly, I liked it better than the new J. Wray Gold. It’s a subtle kind of thing. Some of the rough edges the Gold retained were less evident here. It was slightly better integrated, and it could – with some effort – be had neat (though I would not recommend that). In fine, it’s a fully competent mixing agent, with enough character to wake up a cocktail, yet possessing a fine edge of refinement that incrementally lifts it above its successor. Update June 2020: It was announced that the Appleton Special and White would be rebranded as Kingston 62 in the UK, but with no changes to the recipe. Posted by Ruminsky at 11:48 pm Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Appleton, Blended Rums, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Rumaniacs Tagged with: Appleton, Blended Rums, Pot and Column Still Blend, Rums from Jamaica, Unknown Age J. Wray Jamaica Gold Rum – Review In the previous review of the Florida Caribbean Distillers industrially-produced Florida Reserve 2 year old rum, it was treated and written about with some disdain, because as far as I was concerned, it had nothing to make it stand out at all. It was a low rent mass-produced column-still rum that did exactly nothing to distinguish itself and could at best be used to spike a drink with alcohol, without leaving any trace of itself behind, not even a grin. Move on now to another minimally aged rum marketed to the masses, cheaply priced, easily available (at least, in Toronto, which was where I sourced it), and you can see what a difference there is. I’m not talking about intrinsic quality so much as distinctiveness; nor do I contend that the J. Wray Gold is some kind of hidden masterpiece, because it rubs shoulders in the same sort of downmarket liquor store shelves where you might find the Reserve, and is a mass market rum just like it….but does have its points. The J. Wray Gold is nothing particularly new – for years it was sold as the Appleton Special Jamaican rum, and this new version got issued in 2016 as a rebranding effort (though why they bothered escapes me – maybe it’s to distinguish it from the slightly more upmarket Appleton range of rums). For what it’s worth, I tried them side by side, and felt they tasted somewhat similar, scored somewhat similar, but were definitely not the same – so the recipe was likely tweaked some in the rebranding. What is also peculiar is that there is actually not much information available on what makes it up: the most I can ascertain is that it’s a mix of pot and column still distillate, 40% ABV, and (my opinion) is probably very young – maybe two years old or so, maybe even less. I make this last observation because of its unrefined nature. Even at standard strength, it noses rather raw and jagged, even harsh. There are initial aromas of light glue, rotten bananas and some citrus, light in tone but sharp in attack. It also smells a little sweet and vanilla-like, with vague florals, apple cider, molasses, dates, peaches and dates, with the slightest rtang of burnt rubber coiling around the back there somewhere. But it sears more than caresses and it’s clear that this is not a lovingly aged product of any kind. It is, however, somewhat more distinct on the taste. The sharp and uncouth nature doesn’t abate, that’s a given, and funky notes persist – rotting fruit, ripe landfill steaming after a tropical rain (yeah, I know what that sounds like), overripe fruit and bananas, honey, brine, vanilla and some molasses and caramel. It’s not very well integrated and though I mention these flavours, the truth is that they are still underwhelming (a function of the strength) and the roughness on the tongue makes it unsuited for any kind of sipping drink. The finish is unspectacular- short, salty, nutty with some citrus and vanilla thrown in, and overall, very faint, quickly gone. This is not a ringing endorsement by any means — I can’t say I cared for it, really. But for good or ill, it was a rum you couldn’t easily forget once you tried it because of those very same attributes. It excites opinion, not indifferent yawns. Sure it’s a rough ‘n’ ready backcountry bottom-feeder, perfect for a pick-me-up hip flask to be taken into the dodgy areas of Scarborough when you’re liming with your squaddies down at the local rumshop. It’s cheap, it’s raw, and doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an entry level hooch. Yet at the same time you can sense the nascent quality it has, which emerges more fully as you work up the line of the company’s products. It has something, some small spark of artistry, of appeal, of uniqueness. Poor as it rates next to pricier upscale rum from J. Wray / Appleton, it does show what some distillation chops and blending ability can bring to the table with a set of people who know what they’re doing, even at the bottom end of the range. Oh sure it won’t class with an aged Hampden or Worthy Park, and I think even the V/X exceeds it. So okay, it fails, maybe….but to me, it fails with authority. And that’s why, though scoring them almost the same, I would prefer an honestly made piece of dreck like this, over something more smoothly anonymous like the FCD Florida Reserve. Update June 2020: It was announced that the Appleton Special (which was supposedly rebranded already elsewhere as this “Gold”) and the White would be rebranded as Kingston 62 in the UK, but with no changes to the recipe. Posted by Ruminsky at 10:15 pm Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Appleton, Blended Rums, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type Tagged with: J. Wray & Nephew, Pot and Column Still Blend, Rums from Jamaica C.J.Wray Dry White Rum (2000s) We’re all familiar with the regular roundup of major Appleton rums like the Reserve, the 12 YO, the 15 YO, 21 YO and 30 (old version or new), as well as their halo rum du jour, the 50 YO. But the company also had and has distinct and not so well known brands for sale locally (or niche export markets), such as Edwin Charley, Coruba, Conquering Lion, JBW Estate and Cocomania. And as the years turned, the company outlived some of its own brands – for example the previously well-known One Dagger, Two Dagger and Three Dagger rums which went out in the 1950s. Another casualty of the times was the C.J. Wray Dry White Rum, which was launched in 1991 as a broadside to Bacardi; at the time there weren’t many light whites out there and the Superior was the market leader, so Wray & Nephew decided to take lessons from the very successful premium vodka campaign of Absolut (against Smirnoff) and launched their own, supposedly upscale, alternative. But by the early-to-mid 2000s, the Dry was discontinued. The reasons remain obscure: perhaps on the export market, it couldn’t compete with the vastly more popular poor man’s friend and bartender’s staple, the 63% overproof, being itself a meek and mild 40%. Perhaps there was some consolidation going on and it was felt that the Appleton White was enough. Maybe it just wasn’t deemed good enough by the rum drinkers of the day, or the margins made it an iffy proposition if it couldn’t sell in quantity. Technical details are murky. All right, they’re practically non-existent. I think it’s a filtered column still rum, diluted down to standard strength, but lack definitive proof – that’s just my experience and taste buds talking, so if you know better, drop a line. No notes on ageing – however, in spite of one reference I dug up which noted it as unaged, I think it probably was, just a bit. Nose – Light, mild and sweet. Dry? Not for this guy’s schnozz. Initial aromas narrow in on vanilla, nougat, white toblerone and almonds, with a little salt and citrus peel to liven up the party. It’s very soft (no surprise), gentle, and warm, and going just by the nose, is perfectly acceptable to have neat, though I saw some fans posting back in 2008 who were itching to try it in a daquiri. Palate – Not as interesting as the nose, really, but every bit as nice. Tinned cherries and pineapples in syrup was the first thought that ocurred to me as I sipped it; a trace of salt and brine, with perhaps half an olive, vanilla, almonds, and – if you crease your brow, sweat a bit and concentrate – citrus, raisins, cinnamon and maybe a shaving of fresh ginger. Finish – Short, mellow, slightly fruity, a little herbal. Nothing to write home about. Thoughts – For a low-end white, it’s actually quite an interesting drink. Sales must have been low, margins too scrawny, reactions too muted, and it was put down as an act of mercy (or so the storyteller in me supposes). That’s too bad because while the profile does suggest that it was doctored (entirely a personal opinion – it lacks something of the punch and edge of a clean and unmessed-with rum, though this may simply be over-enthusiastic filtration), it’s a neat little rumlet if your expectations are kept low and you like easy. Maybe, had it been left in place to gather a head of steam, it might have found some legs — these days, good luck finding any outside an estate sale or an old salt’s collection. Posted by Ruminsky at 10:01 am Appleton, Column Still Rums, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Rumaniacs, Unknown, White Rums Tagged with: Appleton, Column Still Rums, J. Wray & Nephew, Light Rum, Rumaniacs, White Rums - Filtered, White Rums - Lightly Aged Wray & Nephew Private Stock (1970s) A rum like this makes me want to rend my robes and gnash my teeth with frustration because there’s no information available about it aside from what’s on the label, and that’s hardly very much. Still, it’s Jamaican, it’s a J. Wray (Appleton) and it’s from the 1970s and that alone makes it interesting. Imported by another one of those enterprising Italian concerns, age unknown. From the colour I can only hope it was a real oldie. Colour – Dark red-brown Nose – “Dirty” might be the est way to describe the nose. I’ve mentioned “rotting bananas and veggies” before in a review once or twice, and here it’s real. Quite intense for a standard proof drink – wine, bitter chocolate and black rye bread. Then molasses and bananas and a lot of compost (wet leaves in a pile) and a lot of fruit way past their sell-by date. Oh, and anise, strong black tea and some smoky, leathery aromas backing things up. Fantastic nose, really. Palate – Smoothens out and is less aggressively crazy as the nose, though still quite assertive, luscious and rich. Molasses, caramel and dark fruits (prunes, plums, stewed apples, raisins) with the off notes held much more in check. Then chocolate, black tea and some citrus oil, a flirt of sugar cane juice and the bitterness of some oak. Some spices noticeable here or there, but nothing as definitive as the nose had suggested. Finish – Short and easy, mostly caramel, wood chips, more tea, plums, a little brine and a last hint of veggies in teriyaki, odd as that might sound. Thoughts – I really liked this rum, which didn’t present itself as an Appleton, but more like a unique Jamaican carving out its own flavour map. I seriously doubt it’ll ever be available outside a collector’s shelves, or perhaps on an auction site somewhere, but if it can be found I think it’s worth picking up, both for its history and its taste. Posted by Ruminsky at 10:52 pm Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Appleton, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Rumaniacs Tagged with: Appleton, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rumaniacs, Rums from Jamaica Charley’s J.B. Overproof Jamaican White Rum – Review Photo (c) shopsampars.com Just about every rum junkie has heard of the J. Wray & Nephew 63% Overproof, Appleton’s flagship white lightning and that’s likely the variation that most people know about and have tried. But since the 1990s, there’s been a local hooch, the Charley’s J.B. White Overproof (made by the Trelawny Rum Company which Appleton controls), primarily marketed in the backcountry…at that time it was aimed at rural farmers and considered a sort of 2nd tier tipple. In 2015 the company decided to issue it to the urban market perhaps because people in the cities were getting annoyed at those wussy little forty percenters they had to suffer though, wondering why “dem lucky bredren in de backdam gettin’ all dat good bashwar”, and wanted to get something from near by Cockpit Country that would pack more animal in its jock. And aside from actually stating that the Charley’s JB is a “Trelawny blend,” I’m not sure there’s much difference between it and the JW&N 63%. Most people who’ve tried it just love the thing for its fiery, fruity and powerful taste. Photo Courtesy of Matt Pietrek, the Cocktail Wonk Like DDL’s High Wine, or the Rum Nation Pot still white 57% — and of course the Haitian clairins — it channels a sort of barely contained ferocity. No easy lead up here: the rum puts you in the middle of the action immediately, with the very first sniff of the cap when cracked, so it’s probably a good idea to go easy for the first few minutes and let the alcohol burn off a mite. Do that and you sense salty, fusel oil fumes, with sharp rubber, acetone, musty cardboard and leather vying to see which can skewer your schnozz the fastest. It stays sharp, and is like breathing the inside of a vulcanizing shop in hot weather, but it does develop well (if grudgingly), and aside from a weird glue aroma, a watery fruity punch of bananas, citrus, unripe green apples is also there, tied up neatly with the rich scent of new leather shoes still in the wrapping paper. Tasting it more or less continues the experience and I am here to assure you that yes, to some extent, it really does smoothen out…just a little (well, it is 63% ABV, so you can’t expect too much). Sweet watery pears, white guavas, watermelon, cucumbers, some dill and rosemary, squash segue their way across the tongue. The crisp tartness of the nose mellows into something more akin to plums and blackcurrants with a flirt of gooseberries thrown in, if you can believe it, but just add a little water (coconut water might be better), and the feral beast goes quiescent in labba time. The finish? Nothing shabby – nice, long, fruity, estery, sugar water and soursop ice cream, plus the faintest bit of rubber and smoke. Overall, it’s a crude iron axe, not a sword made from Damascus steel, and that’s apparent all the way through….but “little axe does chop down big tree” as my great aunty Sheila always used to tell me so sanctimoniously. Frankly, I’m amazed that Quazi4Moto, my correspondent on reddit, agreed to spot me a sample (many, many thanks to the man for sending it along). This isn’t the best white ever made by a long shot, and it shows its cheerful working class origins clearly…but it sure is a unique one, a taste bomb of savage, raw quality, and if it belonged to me and I knew I wasn’t going back for rice and peas any time soon, I’m not entirely convinced if I’d have shared it myself. See, I’m aware it’s powerful and uncouth and needs some dialling down, and them crazies who quaff it neat are clearly purveyors of over-the-cliff machismo who are afraid of absolutely nothing; and to be sure, it proudly struts a massive codpiece of taste that falls this side short of a mess, and which will curl your toes without busting a sweat. But you know, in its own way it’s a really freakin’ cool white rum. So what if it’s untamed and maybe too sharp? So what if it growls down our throats as if mixed with undiluted tiger blood? It’s in no way a bad hooch, and those who make it past their initial despite might find themselves – like me — breathing hard, grinning stupidly, and nodding that yeah, they’ll take another shot. Maybe two. According to the Cocktail Wonk’s informative post, in the good old days, such rural backwoods rums were undesirably-congener-rich heads and tails cuts pilfered from the distillery process, which gave rise to the humorous grumble that it tasted “like a John Crow batty” (in Jamaican creole it refers to a vulture’s ass…quite poetic, yes?). I wonder if it’s a coincidence that the initials CJB of the rum are the same, if out of order. I can’t find much data on who Charley was, or what J.B actually stands for. Maybe I’ll have to go to Jamaica to find out. Posted by Ruminsky at 9:38 am Appleton, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Pot Still Rums, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Unaged Rums, White Rums Tagged with: Appleton, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rums from Jamaica, White Rums - Unaged J. Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum – Review Raw white overproof, fun to drink mix or celebrate with…as the Jamaicans have long since known. First posted 01 November, 2010. (#045)(Unscored) To be honest, I’m not entirely clear why people – aside from binge drinkers, students and serial alcoholics, whose motives are clearer — bother to drink white overproofs straight on a regular basis. The taste is simply too raw for real appreciation, in my opinion (though I have had several “full proof” rums which avoid this sharp stiletto to the palate, so it’s by no means a hard and fast rule). But I suppose they’re like those long distance runners who believe that twenty six miles is for sissies, and run ultra marathons instead. Tail end of the bell curve, or something like that. Or maybe they got used to in their youth in an old-country beer garden, or some trading post-cum-rumshop in the backdam; or believe it makes them more macho; gets them high faster; mixes better. Who the hell knows? If it’s one thing I’ve discovered in writing these reviews, is that there is as wide a variety of tastes as there are rums, and what is derided by one may be equally praised (fulsomely so) by another. Whatever the case, there is actually a pretty good market for overproof rums among drinkers: overproofs are supposedly for cocktail bases and cooking purposes, but that never stopped anyone I ever met, male or female: one of my most enduring memories of working (and boozing) in the bush is a young Amerindian girl, passed out dead drunk on the Baramita airstrip, a bottle of Brazilian 99% alcool clutched tight in her left hand, and I know men who simply pace themselves better with strong spirits than with weak ones. That said, as I was researching and reading online readers’ fora about Stroh 54 (and 80), Bacardi’s 151 and the Clarke’s Court Pure White, knowing what I knew about Guyanese “High Wine” and now writing about the J. Wray & Nephew White Overproof, it seems to me that some people simply prefer it. And that’s perfectly proper. The white I discuss here is bottled at a relatively mild 63%, which would make scotch drinkers quite happy, I suppose. It is, as any rum aficionado can immediately tell you, manufactured by the Jamaican boys who make Appleton Estate rums: and while the Appletons are easily purchased the world over, I get the impression that this white lightning is not easily or commercially available outside the Caribbean – which is indeed where my Torontonian squaddie John had picked it up on one of his sojourns to the Islands. It may be the single most popular rum in Jamaica, and mostly drunk mixed. Therein lies the rub. Drinking an overproof of any kind is not a matter of sipping it neat, or even on ice. The J. Wray variant in this review is pretty strong, searing stuff without question: a massive, raw, ethanol delivery system that could knock a platoon out by breakfast time with one quick inhale. At the inception the white has almost no taste: it’s pretty flavourless beyond some kind of smoky, oil-fire kero tang coiling behind the nasty burn, which means that it’ll take on the flavours of whatever you chose to mix into it. Sure you might get some hints of orange peel, licorice and a peppery kind of spiciness at the back end (nose? what nose?), but truly, the only way to get any enjoyment at all out of something like this is to mix it, because all tastes are burned to a crisp by the spirit fire fairly fast (and in the distance I can hear the sneers of the Maltmonster as he delicately noses his favourite Ardbeg, neat). Do that and this transparent medium body rum fares rather well, I thought (not without a little surprise). It makes a mean bastard of a Cuba Libre, a deep and strong Mai Tai that kicks the crap out of you in labba time, and I can almost guarantee that there isn’t a household of Jamaicans – expatriate or homeboys – who don’t have a bottle of this stuff kicking around. Like Guyanese with their XM five, it has all sorts of social connotations: crack a bottle and immediately you pour a capful on the ground to return some to those who aren’t with you; have a housewarming, and grace the floor with a drop or two; touch of the rheumatiz? – rub dem joints with a shot; mek a pickney…put a dab ‘pon he forehead if he sick; got a cold…tek a shot and rub a shot. And so on. Of course, it must be noted that all the usual safety advisories are in order as well, given the flammability of something this close to pure ethanol. I have gained a sort of sneaking appreciation for overproofs, including this one, because while it lacks the subtlety of a more refined 40% variation (subtlety? don’t make me laugh…the thing is like a charging brontosaurus on steroids at rutting time), it makes an intense, strong, powerfully tasting mix with whatever you decide to chase it. Try adding cola to a 40% low-ender and then to the White Overproof and try and tell me this one doesn’t have more character, more taste, more…well, cojones. It absolutely is not afraid to charge the gates and get the hell off the reservation. When you drink J. Wray’s clear hooch, reader, there’s no ifs, ands or buts — you know Elvis has left the building; and didn’t just exit, he took off with rocket-powered, turbo-charged steel-toed boots. And a jet pack. So if you believe that major rum producers have pussied out and are producing too many high end, over-sugared, liqueur-tasting sweet drinks (like spiced rums, underproofs or Pyrat’s) for the masses of the unwashed and the hordes of the rabble (like myself); and if you think your chest lacks sufficient cylindrical, keratinous filaments; and that you are swinging a pair of weighty ones that should be addressed by a man’s drink — well, then it’s entirely possible that you are just waiting to buy a gallon or three of this popskull, made by one company that remembers its roots and continues to distil a real rum. Always assuming, of course, that you do not already own some. Posted by Ruminsky at 7:41 pm Appleton, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Unaged Rums, White Rums Tagged with: Appleton, Jamaica, Overproofs, White Rums - Unaged, White Rums - Unfiltered Coruba Dark Jamaica Rum – Review First posted 25 February 2010 on Liquorature. Short, sharp sword to the guts when had neat, this rum is without question something to use as a mix and not to risk taking alone. Needs refinement to be taken seriously, but since it’s cheap as all get-out, it does have a perverse attraction on that basis alone. Go for it if you’re feeling a bit brave today. This is another one of those reviews that I wrote in order to give some weight to the Single Digit Rums. Having tasted it, shuddered and reached for the coke, I can understand both why it costs so little, and why it’ll probably never make the table of the Club. SDRs are in the main the bottom end of the ranking scale, and part of that is because they represent what I term the tipple for the masses – it’s the sort of thing I grew up on, had many a good conversation over, and eventually moved away from as my tastes became more snooty (and hence, expensive). The Jamaica distillery of J. Wray & Nephew, home of Appleton makes this low end rum – using 30 marks to create it utilizing the solera method – primarily as a mixer and a base for cocktails and other drinks. Given that the age is unmentioned anywhere on the label, and taking into account its somewhat raw searing taste, I venture to suggest it’s five years old or less. The thing is, a rum this dark, I kinda expected just a tad more…a strong molasses taste maybe, a burnt-sugar kind of nose. Something that was rude, vulgar and overpowering, that happily booted and spurred across the palate and would never see the tables of the rich but which at least had some kind of obnoxious character all its own (say what one will about the Bundie, no-one can deny it has a taste and prescence not readily ignored). None of that is really in evidence in the Coruba, because the spirit fumes overpower everything fast. Now, if one flexes one’s snoot and gives it a long and decent snort, one may be able to separate the fruit and perhaps some whiskey: certainly the taste is there – I detected some apricot and sugar on the way down. The problem is that the finish is too short and harsh, and you know me: I really have an issue with that damned whiskey burn. So neat and on the rocks, I’d stay away from it, since this is clearly not a sipping rum. Even when mixed, alas, it lacks the release of flavour that characterizes the aristocrat of the working class tipple, the EH5 (which has become a low-end baseline all its own, by the way). Which is a shame, because once the burn goes away and you manage to swallow, you do actually taste something of the toffee and caramel at the back of the throat. Unfortunately, that’s more than likely just the coke or ginger beer. In summary then, Coruba really fails as a sipper either neat or on the rocks. On the assumption that it’s a mixer, I’d put it on the bottom shelf. If I was desperate for a drink I’d take it, but it’s got so much competition at the same price point that it’s probably best to just use it in one’s cooking without giving it pretensions to your liquor cabinet…unless a favoured enemy is dropping in for a visit, in which case, be generous. Update 25 Oct 2010: I just reviewed an article on Wikipedia which states that Coruba is not marketed in Jamaica, but primarily in New Zealand, where it has held the top selling rum spot since the 1970s. If anyone from NZ can comment on that I’d appreciate it, since it sure is news to me, and it’s curious that I found a Kiwi rum in Alberta. Posted by Ruminsky at 3:55 pm Aged Rums - 01-5 YO, Coruba, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type Tagged with: Blended Rums, Coruba, J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line197
__label__cc	0.569266	0.430734	Brent D. Gardner, CLU, ChFC Independent Insurance Broker, Chartered Financial Consultant, Chartered Life Underwriter, Freedom Evangelist, Raconteur. Home Blog New Exposé Shows UK’s COVID Response was Rife with Corruption and Cronyism Insurance Geek Contact Brent Tax Free Retirement • Key Person • Buy/Sell Agreement • Deferred Comp • Group Carve-Out New Exposé Shows UK’s COVID Response was Rife with Corruption and Cronyism Roughly $5 billion in taxpayer money allocated for PPE contracts went to companies connected to government officials. The United States government’s COVID-19 policy response has proven rife with waste, fraud, and abuse at every turn. From $10 million for gender programs in Pakistan being tied to a COVID relief bill to the expanded unemployment system’s runaway corruption by fraudsters, American pandemic governance in 2020 has seemed like a never ending cycle of fiscal irresponsibility. Yet a new exposé by the New York Times shows that the fraudulent and flawed nature of the US’s COVID response is not an outlier by any stretch. According to the new investigative reporting, the United Kingdom’s COVID response was riddled with cronyism and corruption. The Times analyzed roughly 1,200 government contracts, worth $22 billion in sum, that were dolled out for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other pandemic-related purchases during the immediate aftermath of the outbreak. At least $11 billion—nearly half—went to suspicious contractors. Roughly $5 billion went to companies with a clear connection to a politician. Nearly $6 billion went to companies with no prior experience in the goods they were contracted to produce, including jewellers and fashion designers. And more than $5 billion was given to companies with controversial pasts including alleged tax evasion, allegations of human rights violations, and more. The below graphic from the Times sums up this suspect spending well. Image Credit: New York Times Not all of this was necessarily fraudulent or corrupt—but a lot of it sure must be. And this just represents a small slice of the total waste. Many of the contracts that were doled out actually couldn’t be viewed by the Times because the UK government is eschewing normal transparency requirements. The details get even worse. House of Lords member Paul Deighton was put in charge of PPE and “helped the government award billions of dollars in contracts—including hundreds of millions to several companies where he has financial interests or personal connections,” the Times reports. The government also created a “VIP lane” that allowed companies recommended by government officials to get fast-tracked contracts that were 10 times more likely to be approved. The Times notes that “there is no evidence to suggest that government officials were engaged in illegal conduct... but there is ample evidence of cronyism, waste and poor due diligence.” This corrupt government approach stands in stark contrast to how goods are distributed by the market. In a free market, millions of customers make buying decisions based on their personal appraisal of costs and benefits. So, the overall market outcome is determined by widely dispersed decision-making. This makes it much harder for any one corporation or special interest group to rig a sweetheart deal. Government officials, however, are not spending their own money, nor are they spending it on themselves. This means that their decisions regarding who gets what are less driven by economic factors and more driven by political factors. What’s more, large government contracts are often determined by a relatively small number of people relative to the free market. Together, these conditions make corruption and favoritism, also known as cronyism, inevitable. “Cronyism is the substitution of political influence for free markets,” Mercatus Center economist David R. Henderson explains. “It comes about when government has a lot of power over private-sector decisions and when the government officials in power have great discretion over how to use it.” “The more power the government has over the economy, the more allocation of resources will depend on political connections,” he concludes. “The way to eliminate cronyism is to have free markets and little government control.” As we can see, the British government’s horrific misuse of taxpayer funds is not a one-off incident caused by particularly bad actors or some especially corrupt group of politicians. Rather, it’s just another example of the endemic favoritism and waste that inevitably corrupts all government spending. The reality is that big government initiatives will always end up funnelling money to the well-off and well-connected. And that’s a lesson worth remembering long after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Brad Polumbo Brad Polumbo (@Brad_Polumbo) is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Opinion Editor at the Foundation for Economic Education. This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Web Soft Copyright © 1997-2021 Brent D. Gardner, all rights reserved. • (800) 680-5596 • brent@lifesolutionsonline.com • Epstein didn't kill himself.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line204
__label__cc	0.590901	0.409099	Medical Abortions May Be Performed From 3 to 14 Weeks Choose Abortion pill to make it happen….! Abortion Clinics: Counseling Patients on Their Choice Abortion Pill Side Effects – Know Everything In Detail Things You Should Know About Medical Abortion Abortion Fee – Important Points To Remember Things that one need to know about abortion and pills Key Points to Keep in Mind When Searching for Abortion Clinic What Side Effect Are You Likely To Have With An Abortion Pill? 5 Reasons to Go For an Abortion Pill Abortion Pill Effects – Pay Proper Attention Safety Precautions When Having An Abortion Procedure Abortion and Its Hidden Benefits Are the medicines Abortion Pill and Morning after pill of similar nature? Abortion pill buy for safe and successful abortion James S. Pendergraft How Is The Abortion Pill Procedure Performed In Abortion Clinics? Health Articles \| March 11, 2012 The abortion pill procedure is performed in abortion clinics routinely between 3 and 9 weeks gestation using the combination of RU 486 (mifeprex) and cytotec (misoprostol). Abortion pill procedures can be performed up to 14 weeks on a outpatient basis under certain circumstances. The Abortion Pill Procedure (medical abortion, mifeprex, mifepristone, RU 486, Abortion Pill) has swiftly gained favor in the U.S. since 2001 when the FDA approved RU486 for terminating pregnancy between 3 and 7 weeks. There have been multiple studies in the U.S. and throughout the world that demonstrate the abortion pill is effective up to 9 weeks from a patient's last menstrual period with minimum side effects. RU 486 has been examined in several countries both on an in and outpatient basis and found to be effective and safe up to 14 weeks from the last menstrual period. It is well published that patients less than 6 weeks gestation, who receive RU 486 alone, have a 40 to 60% success rate of expelling the pregnancy tissue (i.e., miscarriage). In order to reduce the length it took to complete the abortion process, along with diminishing the chance of uterine infection, vaginal bleeding or having retained tissue, Cytotec (misoprostol) was added. Cytotec is a prostaglandin known to cause uterine contractions. RU 486 causes an increase in the intrauterine pressure and separates the pregnancy tissue from the uterine wall. Changes also occur locally in the cervix (lower part of the womb) allowing the cervix to dilate (open) and become soft which helps the pregnancy tissue to be discharged from the uterus. This process can take on average between 4 to 6 hours after insertion of the Cytotec tablets. On average, there is a 2 to 6% failure rate using the combination of RU 486 and Cytotec to carry out the abortion procedure on patients between 3 and 14 weeks pregnant. Patients less than 6 weeks gestation have a 97 to 99% success rate. In essence, the earlier in gestation the medical abortion procedure is performed, the greater the success rate. Abortions using RU 486 and Cytotec are associated with minimal complications. Side effects of RU 486 can include the possibility of headache, abdominal discomfort and diarrhea. Initial chills, fever, nausea vomiting and diarrhea can occur with the use of Cytotec. Complications associated with the abortion procedure in general are retained (tissue remains behind in uterus) or failure of the procedure, continued or excessive bleeding, all of which require a surgical abortion procedure to be performed. In rare cases, blood transfusions have been required, and there have been reports of sporadic deaths due to a rare type of infection. There has been no conclusion that these deaths were directly caused by the abortion procedure. In general, patients who are further along in their pregnancy have more discomfort with their uterine contractions, and there is a slightly higher chance of a continued pregnancy which requires surgical removal of the pregnancy. In summary , medical abortion with RU 486 and Cytotec has been used for many years to terminate pregnancies up to 9 weeks gestation and can now be used in many cases up to 14 weeks gestation. Patients who are further than 10 weeks must be advised that they may see fetal tissue if they look at the material that is expelled from their vagina. Performing the Abortion Pill procedure up to 14 weeks is to a high degree safe and effective alternative to the surgical abortion. Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com James Scotty - About the Author: Abortion Clinic West Palm Beach Dr. James S. 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__label__wiki	0.974409	0.974409	Lady Cumquat rekindles memories of Peter Pan By , on March 30th, 2014 The colours made famous in the 1930s by the champion Australian galloper Peter Pan were carried to victory by Cambridge filly Lady Cumquat in the Gr. 3 Higgins Manawatu Classic at Awapuni yesterday. Lady Cumquat became the second horse to successfully carry the orange and green-hooped colours in New Zealand following the win of her year older half-brother Zaberto at Ellerslie earlier this month. And in both cases it was instant success for the colours. The colours were auctioned for charity in Melbourne in August 2002 and the successful bidder was Sydney-based Tony Wales, who races Lady Cumquat and Zaberto in partnership with his long-time friends, Peter Newsom and Mac Whitehouse. “Tony originally bought them as memorabilia but last year he said he wouldn’t mind registering them,” explained Westbury Stud’s Russell Warwick, manager of the New Zealand racing interests of the three partners who race their horses together. Peter Pan, who has been inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame, raced in the early 1930s during the Great Depression and he became a household name alongside the legendary Phar Lap. Foaled in 1929, Peter Pan had 36 starts in his illustrious career for 23 wins and became famous for winning the Melbourne Cup twice (1932 and 1934). He won the Melbourne (now MacKinnon) Stakes – Melbourne Cup double both years and his other wins included the Rawson (now Ranvet) Stakes, AJC Plate (now Queen Elizabeth Stakes), All-Aged Stakes and AJC St. Leger. Though only ever dreaming of getting a horse of the calibre of Peter Pan, Lady Cumquat’s owners have enjoyed plenty of success over the years. Newsom bred the multiple Group One winner Sedecrem and NZ Derby runner-up Mount Street, whom he raced with Whitehouse and Wales, and also bred the stakes winners Full of Spirit (a half-sister to Zaberto), El Roca, and Destruction and is now enjoying the excitement of breeding Zaberto and Lady Cumquat. One of the early success stories in New Zealand for Newsom and Whitehouse was the ill-fated Gold City, whom they bred and raced from the Matamata stable of Ray and Sharon Johnson. Gold City won eight races, four on each side of the Tasman, and was narrowly beaten by Octagonal in the Gr. 1 Australian Cup. Lady Cumquat is prepared at Cambridge by Roger James, who won four races with Full Of Spirit, whose best win came as a three-year-old in the 2012 Gr. 3 Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m) at Randwick. And now James is keen to attempt to win the Adrian Know Stakes with Lady Cumquat. A daughter of Duke Of Marmalade, Lady Cumquat has been patiently handled by James and broke through for her first win in her fourth start when stepped up to 1600 metres at Tauranga last November. She was then freshened and resumed with a strong-finishing second to Dresden Park over 1400 at Ellerslie before a third to Rough Copy on Derby Day, again at Ellerslie. Despite contesting 2000 metres for the first time, Lady Cumquat was installed favourite yesterday and she didn’t let her supporters down, finishing strongly to score by two lengths from fellow Cambridge galloper Mountain Jack. Lady Cumquat has been ridden in each of her last four starts by Rory Hutchings, who was thrilled to win a feature on the promising filly. “Roger could have taken me off but he’s stuck by me and to get a stakes win for him felt great,” said Hutchings, who rode a patient and well-judged race. James is making a habit of winning features races multiple times and climbing to the top of that list is the Manawatu Classic. James has won the Gr. 1 NZ Derby on five occasions and he picked up his fifth win in the Gr. 1 Lindauer NZ Stakes with his latest Derby winner, Silent Achiever, earlier this month at Ellerslie. A race earlier on that same day he celebrated his 1000th New Zealand win with The Tidy Express. James had also won the Manawatu Classic on five occasions and, even though it is only a Group Three race compared to the other Group One highlights, he was delighted when he picked up his sixth win in the event with Lady Cumquat at Awapuni yesterday. The first Manawatu Classic win for James came in 1985 with Majestic Angel when he was training in partnership with Jim Gibbs. He then won it in 1998 with the Gary Harding-owned Limerick and two years later he saddled up Spottswoode to take the honours. Congrats, in 2006, and Valpolicella, two years later, took his tally to five.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line218
__label__wiki	0.813432	0.813432	September 19, 2018 by Paul Robidoux Opinion: Why is Kim Reynolds afraid of Jake Porter? Libertarian candidate for governor, Jake Porter. Photo courtesy jake-porter.org. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never received a job without a job interview beforehand. I see political debates as kind of the same idea, an opportunity to get face time and explain your stances to your possible employer (which in this case is we the people, as voters and payers of public employees’ salaries). Have you ever heard of someone being refused a job interview based on the request of another candidate? In an absurd power move fueled by fear, Governor Kim Reynolds is forcing Libertarian candidate Jake Porter out of any debates she is participating in. In 2017 the Libertarian party was designated with large-party political status in Iowa, a status granted due to the number of Iowans that voted for Libertarian candidates in the 2016 election. On June 19th of this year, KTIV in Sioux City issued invitations to all large-party candidates for a gubernatorial debate. On August 24th, almost two months after issuing an invitation to Porter’s campaign, they received a “new, revised” debate criteria list that would exclude him from the debate. Porter’s campaign noted that according to the new criteria, no candidate was eligible for the debate at that time because there was no new polling data since the primary elections. He called to get an explanation about the revision. He was told by John Curry of KCAU that the Reynolds campaign was who contacted the media originally to host a future debate, then sent participation criteria to the station after invitations were sent out. I believe that Reynolds was not aware that KTIV would send an invitation to Porter. Part of that analysis comes from the lack of transparency from the TV station to the Porter campaign about where the new criteria came from. Also, on Sept. 5th KWWL posted an article about the upcoming debate, listing Porter as a participant- the next day they issued a clarification that Porter was not included due to the fact that Reynolds has not agreed to debate Porter. It’s not new for a candidate to choose to abstain from debates, but the way that Reynolds is pushing for a debate that excludes a large-party candidate is deplorable and raises the question, why? Democratic candidate Fred Hubbell knows why Reynolds refuses to debate Porter- she’s afraid of him. In case you’ve forgotten, Kim Reynolds was appointed Governor when Terry Branstad became the American ambassador to China. She has never won an election. Hubbell has publicly called for Reynolds to include Porter in the debate, and Porter has suggested to Hubbell on twitter that Hubbell should boycott any debate with an excluded candidate, and Porter would be happy to debate him anywhere in Iowa. Hubbell is supporting Porter joining debates for the same reason Reynolds fears him; Libertarians steal Republican votes. While the Libertarian views are usually slightly to the right of the Republican platform, both parties have the same conservative values. In a tight race with Hubbell that could be decided by the public’s view of debate results, Reynolds fears losing some of her voter base to the younger, idealistic Libertarian who also believes in smaller government, private business, and the like. If one in ten Iowa Republicans listens to Porter and sways their opinion of which party is the more conservative, the results could be devastating to the Reynolds campaign, leading to a Hubbell victory. The back-room collusion and lack of respect for other the other conservative candidate shown by the Reynolds campaign and media outlets is deplorable. What else could the Reynolds campaign be doing behind closed doors regarding other candidates? If this claim is false, why has the Reynolds campaign been silent about it? Reynolds campaign’s latest news release regarding debates says nothing about Porter at all, while stating that “Reynolds hopes Hubbell joins her” in the three debates that Reynolds says she will partake in (Hubbell is only listed on one so far), almost passive-aggressively saying between the lines that the debates will not happen if her demands are not met. Kim Reynolds, by trying to exclude Porter, is trying to portray herself incorrectly to voters as the only conservatives in the race. She is trying to keep information from the voters. I believe that all candidates should be allowed the right to speak and explain their platform to allow constituents to be as informed as possible, and a debate between Hubbell and Reynolds that actively excluded a candidate sounds like more of the two-party political monopoly that more and more Americans feel do not represent them. 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One of Jofra Archer's early mentors has told him to stay off social media as he learns to cope with the demands and criticism that come with playing for England. Yemen's Dar al-Hajar - or 'stone house' - looks incredible from every angle. No wonder it appears on a Yemeni banknote (the 500 rials one). Chris Wallace did two things right there that Trump absolutely hates He proved him wrong, and he made him do homework, Noah said of the presidents Fox News Sunday interview. The annual Moscow International Foto Awards is now in its seventh year and has been flooded with entries from photographers in over 100 countries. Newcastle are planning for purchase 37.5mg in bangkok next season under Mike Ashley and Steve Bruceamid growing doubts over proposed 300m takeover. Edinburgh's world famous Hogmanay street party has been scrapped because of the coronavirus pandemic. Festival chiefs announced tickets will be pulled from sale and refunds given Major League Baseball will hold its delayed opening day this week, with no fans. In four American cities, though, professional baseball has already returned, pressing ahead in a season like no other. An act called JARV IS who could order cosudex 500mg in mexico that possibly be? At a time when millions of people are facing up to wearing masks, Jarvis Cocker has opted for something fairly transparent. The legislation for the first time guarantees money for land acquisition and preservation, but conservatives denounced it as a federal land grab. Regional ingredients are put to delicious use in this bright new farm-to-table cookbook. Australia's largest commercial employer of apprentices and trainees has collapsed putting more than 1000 jobs at risk. Toyin Ojih Odutola, known for her figurative portraits and vibrant buy pramipexole thailand use of color, shares a new artwork. 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BRIAN VINER Every new Woody Allen film used want to buy nodict 1.5mg in london to be a cinematic event. Any hand-wringing over it was always strictly artistic. Had he lost his touch? Was it as good as his early ones? The Brazilian Press Association has said it will file a lawsuit in Brazil's Supreme Court against President Jair Bolsonaro over possibly exposing members of the media to Covid-19, according to a statement from the association on Tuesday. Mahmud Kamani is at war with his wealthy Cheshire neighbours over the controversial gates he purchase cheap estrace store otc built at their Grade II listed mansion in 2017 and have applied for retrospective planning permission. There are grave fears for an Australian couple who are still missing off the coast of East Africa after their 14-metre long catamaran Ohana-Uli capsized in heavy seas. President Trumps demotion of Brad Parscale a few months before the election is like a jockey jumping off his horse in the homestretch and deciding to run the rest of the way, said Seth Meyers. Wendy Petrie, 49, read the 6pm news every week night alongsideSimon Dallow for TVNZ's network but was unexpectedly dumped due to COVID-19 restructuring. Kris Jenner has broken her social media silence amid the drama surrounding her son-in-law Kanye West - which saw him brand her 'Kris Jong-Un'. Chris Silverwood is adamant England have done everything they can to look after Jofra Archer since his dramatic late withdrawal from the second Test after breaking duomox purchase shop australia bio-secure regulations. Three people have died in an off-road tour bus accident in the Canadian Rockies, according to the company running the tour. Website URL:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line220
__label__wiki	0.882423	0.882423	Posts Tagged ‘Teenage Fanclub’ I Break Horses break silence with new single Force Field PRIf there was any bright side to be gleaned from I Break Horses abruptly cancelling their North American tour last Fall, it’s that the Swedish duo of Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck would be able to get to work on the follow-up to their debut Hearts, hands-down my favourite record of 2011. And unsurprisingly, given their reclusive natures, there’s been little in the way of status update since the went off the road and fans have had to take it on faith that they were hard at work. Encouragement came by way of Twitter with a, “Mixing songs for the next album!” tweet in April, but there’s been nothing tangible to nourish our Scandi-synth-gaze appetites – until now. A new song and remix b-side will appear on a limited edition 12″ for the Independent Label Market happening at London’s Spitalfields Market tomorrow and while one would hope that any leftover copies would be made available to the internet at wide… there almost certainly won’t be any copies left over. Instead, we’ll have to make do with a stream of the new song – which happily still pushes all my right buttons – via Pitchfork and anxiously await the October release of their second album. Which, while it seems like ages away, is actually sooner than I had expected to get new music from them so no complaints here. Stream: I Break Horses – “Denial” Under The Radar talks to the Dreijer siblings of The Knife. The Alternate Side has a session and interview with Junip. Up-and-coming Swedish electro-pop artist Elliphant has released a new video for her latest single. Video: Elliphant – “Music Is Life” Kate Boy stop in at Daytrotter for a session. Spanish Balearic-pop purveyors Delorean have announced the September 10 release of their second album Apar – along with a stream of a new song – and a corresponding North American tour that hits The Horseshoe on October 17. Stream: Delorean – “Spirit” German industrial-rock mainstays KMFDM will be at The Phoenix on October 28, tickets $27.50. Video: KMFDM – “Juke Joint Jezebel” Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys run down their favourite dance music songs for The Guardian. Their new album of dance music – Electric – is out on Tuesday, July 16, and they play The Sony Centre on September 25. Editors have offered up a stream of the next single from their latest, The Weight Of Your Love. Stream: Editors – “Formaldehyde” Consequence Of Sound welcomes The Joy Formidable for an Off The Avenue video session. The Huffington Post and Boston Globe also have interviews. The Scotsman and Glasgow Evening Times chat with Norman Blake about his partnership with Joe Pernice as The New Mendicants, but that Scotsman headline about being “Ex”-Teenage Fanclub? Nope. Nope. Nope. Tags: Delorean, Editors, Elliphant, I Break Horses, Joy Formidable, Junip, Kate Boy, KMFDM, Knife, New Mendicants, Pet Shop Boys, Teenage Fanclub Just in case you don’t frequent any other music site on the internet, here’s that new song from The xx FacebookLook guys, some nights you’d rather just toss something together quickly and get back to watching TV rather than hunker down and come up with some original content that hasn’t already been blogged/tumblred/tweeted/Facebooked into irrelevance over the past 12 hours. Last night was one of those nights. And so I invite you to 150,000th or so person to check out the stream of the first complete and official sample of Coexist, the second album from London’s The xx, out September 11. For those who like the band’s minimalist electro-soul, it’s like manna from heaven; for those who don’t, there’s nothing to hear here. Certainly the band’s formula – which extends to their album art, viewable over at The 405 – will have the legs to get them through the ‘difficult’ second album, and after that? Well that’s their problem, not ours. In any case, it’s a bit of a taste of what to expect when they hit The Phoenix on July 28 for a sold-out show and for those not lucky enough to get tickets, one can’t help notice that the just-announced Fall tour still has some conspicuous gaps in it… this is not to say that they’ll be announcing another show in a more appropriately-sized venue after The Phoenix show is past, but they totally could. MP3: The xx – “Angels” Also dominating one’s RSS feed yesterday was official details on the second album from Mumford & Sons. Rolling Stone has all the specifics as well as notes from bassist Ted Dwane, but the salient points are that it will be called Babel, be out September 25, and probably further annoy a whole lot of people. The Sun talks to The Vaccines about their forthcoming second album No Hope For The Vaccines Come of Age, out September 3. DIY tries to pry some info on album number two out of Little Boots, but all she’ll offer is that it will be out this Fall. Clash settles for asking her about her book collection. NPR has a Tiny Desk Concert with Laura Marling. Hot Chip have released a new video from In Our Heads. Video: Hot Chip – “Look At Where We Are” The B-side of the new Blur single is available to download. The 7″ single on which it appears is out August 6. MP3: Blur – “The Puritan” Blur also comes up in this interview with Graham Coxon at Loud & Quiet, but it’s mainly about his latest solo record A+E, whereas this piece with The Guardian, also featuring a conversation with producer Stephen Street, is entirely about Blur and the making of Parklife. Norman Blake has announced via Twitter that Teenage Fanclub are making a new album this Fall and Joe Pernice has confirmed that the collaboration between he and Blake, premiered at The Dakota last month will indeed be a real thing with recording and touring happening under the name of The New Mendicants. DIY talks pop with Amelia Fletcher of Tender Trap, whose new album 10 Songs About Girls is due out in September. DIY also chats with Elizabeth Morris and Bill Botting of Allo Darlin’, the former of whom used to be in Tender Trap. Trivia! Rolling Stone gets Of Monsters & Men’s thoughts on being remix targets, amongst other topics. Sigur Rós have premiered another new video from Valtari, and good for you if you noticed it’s a song that they’ve already released a video for. No, they don’t care. They play Echo Beach on August 1. Video: Sigur Rós – “Ég Anda” She’s still being coy on details like, oh, a release date, but the lead single from El Perro Del Mar’s new record Pale Fire is available to download. The record is due out in the Fall because, well, it kind of has to be. MP3: El Perro Del Mar – “Innocence Is Sense” Niki & The Dove have released a new video – not from Instinct, but for a song that appeared on their mixtape back in April. Someone explain to me what a mixtape is? No actually, don’t. Instinct gets a North American release on August 7 and they’re at The Drake Underground on October 2. Video: Niki & The Dove – “Dance Floor” Daytrotter has posted a session with We Are Serenades. So wait, this is what a post that I am throwing together to go watch TV looks like? Dammit people why has no one staged an intervention yet. Clearly I need help. Tags: Allo Darlin', Blur, Graham Coxon, Hot Chip, Laura Marling, Little Boots, Mumford & Sons, New Medicants, Niki & The Dove, Of Monsters & Men, Sigur Ros, Teenage Fanclub, Tender Trap, Vaccines, We Are Serenades, XX Joe Pernice & Norman Blake at The Dakota Tavern in Toronto Frank YangI don’t think Toronto necessarily has an international reputation as a destination for expatriate pop geniuses, but apparently Canadian women hold a certain appeal for them. Joe Pernice of Pernice Brothers has been up here for the better part of eight years while Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub moved to Kitchener a couple years ago – both on account of their Canadian wives – and on Friday night, they were on stage together at The Dakota Tavern for a low-key show together. It had been advertised as a Joe Pernice show with the promise of a “special guest”, and while a show from Joe alone would be worth pencilling into the calendar, once the faintly-veiled clues as to who said guest would be got out, it turned into a must-see. Anyone expecting a high-falutin’ musical summit between two of the finest pop songwriters around would have done well to dial down their expectations, though. The show was much more of a back porch strumalong between two old friends who just happened to have one hell of a songbook to draw from and though it had its share of sloppy moments, that arguably made it even more special and memorable than if it had been meticulously rehearsed. Pernice started out with a short solo set that drew from his many projects – Pernice Brothers, Joe solo, Scud Mountain Boys – and included a new song entitled “Surf’s Up” that he revealed was from a new, just-completed Scuds record. Scoop! Blake was then invited onstage and the two spent the rest of the show playing each other’s songs – Pernice on a standard acoustic, Blake on a Nashville-strung parlour-body – and reminding the gathered that they were two of the funniest stage banterers in the business with some great repartee. There was plenty of time for banter as Blake’s guitar required plenty of tuning and retuning – their first run through of “Baby Lee” went further out of tune with each strum and forced a do-over – but when they were able to get onto a song, it was grand if clearly not overly rehearsed. Even with a music stand overflowing with notes onto the floor between them, they were happy to do things off the cuff – Blake had to teach Pernice the chords to “You Was Me” from his Jonny side-project with Euros Childs on the fly (it turned out fine) and even though their take on Fanclub’s “I Don’t Want Control Of You” was a bit of a comedy of errors, they still made it tremendously entertaining. The stuff that was more properly arranged, however, was nothing sort of sublime. Hearing them trade verses on “Everything Flows” was easily the highlight of the night and their finale of “Alcoholiday” not far behind. You obviously didn’t have the wall of harmonies that Teenage Fanclub proper can offer, but Pernice’s falsetto was a pretty good stand-in. It wasn’t just about the Fanclub material, mind, as their work on “Loving Kind” off the last Pernice Brothers album Goodbye Killer was stirring and their cover of The Zombies’ “The Butcher’s Tale” darkly affecting. Though they obviously could have kept going all night, a hard curfew forced them to cap things at 90 minutes though they were permitted an encore of Fanclub’s “Start Again” that was a divine finale. It’s not clear if this tweet is a joke or a promise, but an actual collaboration between the two – or even some more of these casual-vibe shows – would be a great treat and a far better way to enjoy having these talents as locals than going through their trash. The Calgary Herald has an interview with Joe Pernice about his plans to release two albums this year – the aforementioned new Scuds record and the long-promised new Pernice Brothers album. Photos: Joe Pernice & Norman Blake @ The Dakota Tavern – June 22, 2012 MP3: Pernice Brothers – “Somerville” MP3: Scud Mountain Boys – “Grudge Fuck” MP3: Teenage Fanclub – “Baby Lee” MP3: Teenage Fanclub – “It’s All In My Mind” MP3: Teenage Fanclub – “Everything Flows” MP3: Jonny – “Candyfloss” MP3: Jonny – “Gloria” Dirty Projectors are giving away a couple tracks from their forthcoming Swing Lo Magellan, out July 10. They play The Music Hall on July 6. MP3: Dirty Projectors – “Dance For You” MP3: Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger” Video: Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger” The Alternate Side has a session and Clash, Houston Press, and Indy Week have interviews with Lower Dens. They play Lee’s Palace on July 17. Beirut has released a video for the title track of last year’s The Rip Tide. They are at The Sound Academy on July 19. Video: Beirut – “The Rip Tide” The Antlers are streaming a track from their forthcoming EP Undersea, due out July 24. Stream: The Antlers – “Drift Dive” The Shins have rolled out a new video from Port Of Morrow; they’re in town August 4 opening up for The Black Keys at The Molson Amphitheatre. Video: The Shins – “No Way Down” Pitchfork talks to Cat Power about her new record Sun, due for release on September 4. Aimee Mann has given Rolling Stone the title track of her new record Charmer to stream. It’s out September 18. Stream: Aimee Mann – “Charmer” The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has taken their reunion from the stage into the studio and are set to release their first new album since 2004’s Damage in Meat & Bone, out September 18. Then they’ll take in back to the stage with a series of live dates that includes an October 18 appearance at The Horseshoe in Toronto. Stream one of the new songs below. Stream: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Black Mold” San Fransciso goth-gazers The Soft Moon will be at The Drake Underground on September 22, tickets $11.50 in advance. MP3: The Soft Moon – “Tiny Spiders” MP3: The Soft Moon – “Breathe The Fire” Michael Gira’s Swans will make an appearance at Lee’s Palace on October 25 in support of their new double-record We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head, tickets for that $26.50 in advance. MP3: Swans – “Sex God Sex” Matt & Kim are preparing for the Fall release of their new record Let’s Go with a video for the title track. Video: Matt & Kim – “Let’s Go” Boulder Weekly has a tete-a-tete with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco while The Daily Herald and Missoulian chat with Nels Cline. Interview talks to Munaf Rayani of Explosions In The Sky. Spinner documents a typical day in the life of The Flaming Lips, assuming that playing a free show in downtown Toronto as part of NXNE counts as typical for these guys. Maybe it does. You don’t know. Okay, gotta go. San Francisco beckons. Tags: Aimee Mann, Antlers, Beirut, Cat Power, Dirty Projectors, Explosions In The Sky, Flaming Lips, Joe Pernice, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jonny, Lower Dens, Matt & Kim, Pernice Brothers, Shins, Soft Moon, Swans, Teenage Fanclub, Wilco Posted in Concert Reviews \| 1 Comment » Youth Knows No Pain Lykke Li finds Lost Sessions Roger DeckkerA little before the holidays rolled in, Swedish songstress Lykke Li gave her fans an early Christmas gift by releasing a three-song EP of stripped-down versions of this year’s Wounded Rhymes. They’re decidedly spare and more downbeat than the finished versions, but if you liked the moodiness that pervaded her second album, then you might well like these versions better than the album versions because they’ve got shadowy atmosphere to spare. And if the version of “Jerome” sounds familiar, it’s because a video of the performance of “Jerome” came out in the early part of the year – which implies that there might well be more videos lurking in her vaults, just as the Volume 1 implies there might be more songs to give away; perhaps to keep folks interested while she works on album number three. MP3: Lykke Li – “I Follow Rivers” (The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1) MP3: Lykke Li – “Jerome” (The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1) MP3: Lykke Li – “Youth Knows No Pain” (The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1) Video: Lykke Li – “Jerome” (The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1) Stream: Lykke Li / The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1 Also offering gifts from Sweden were Stockholm pop outfit Acid House Kings, who offered a free download (and a remix) of one of the highlights of their delicious 2011 release The Music Sounds Better With You, a record I didn’t get around to reviewing but which is, indeed, delicious. And with this offering, that’s three of the album’s ten tracks available as free downloads via Labrador… those Swedes are generous folk. MP3: Acid House Kings – “Are We Lovers Or Are We Friends?” MP3: Acid House Kings – “Would You Say Stop?” MP3: Acid House Kings – “(I’m In) A Chorus Line” MP3: Acid House Kings – “(I’m In) A Chorus Line” (Dave DaG remix) Filter chats with Adam Olenius and Markus Krunegård of Serenades. jj have released a new video. Yes, it’s weird. Video: jj – “VI” “Lúppulagið” – the one new song included on Sigur Ros’ Inni live album – is now available to download. MP3: Sigur Ros – “Lúppulagið” And Jonsi has released a video for one of the songs on the We Bought A Zoo original soundtrack. Have you seen the film? I think they buy a zoo. Video: Jonsi – “Gathering Stories” The Irish Times, Daily Record, and The Skinny talk to Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream. Bandstand Busking reaches back to the Summer for a session with Veronica Falls; they’re at The Garrison on February 14. Lanterns On The Lake offer a list of their favourite records to DIY, chats with The Irish Independent and play a session for Beatcast. The Quietus marks the twentieth anniversary of Teenage Fanclub’s classic Bandwagonesque. Want to hear an early demo version of a new xx song? No? Then don’t click on the link below. And then the play button on the page that link leads to. Stream: The xx – “Open Eyes” Elbow have announced deluxe reissues of their second and third albums for next year; 2003’s Cast Of Thousands and 2005’s Leaders Of The Free World will be released on March 5 with a second disc of period-correct bonus material and a DVD of videos and live performances. Tags: Acid House Kings, Elbow, jj, Jonsi, Lanterns On The Lake, Lykke Li, Primal Scream, Serenades, Sigur Ros, Teenage Fanclub, Veronica Falls, XX In The Dark Places PJ Harvey Shakes out preview of new record Seamus MurphyThroughout her career, Polly Jean Harvey has managed the difficult feat of being artistically chameleon-like from one to the next, each often stylistically miles removed from that which came before it, while remaining consistently interesting and by and large excellent throughout. Her last effort, 2007’s fragile piano-led White Chalk, certainly didn’t hint at what Let England Shake – out next week – has to offer. Just posted to stream in its entirety at NPR, it’s a strange yet immediately compelling collection built around themes of nationalism and war. While has echoes of her past works – the urgency of her early records, the melody of her middle-period works and the stark beauty of recent recordings – it sounds completely fresh, with Harvey favouring the higher registers of her voice in a way that I, at least, haven’t heard before. I’m only a few listens in and already I’m finding myself connecting with it in way that I haven’t with her stuff before. This is an exciting development. She’s only got three North American tour dates scheduled right now (Los Angeles, Coachella and New York) but considering she’s not toured over here properly in forever – her last Toronto date was in 2004 – I have to think or at least hope that more will be coming. MP3: PJ Harvey – “Written On The Forehead” Stream: PJ Harvey / Let England Shake The Guardian and State interview Anna Calvi, whose self-titled debut is due out on March 1 and who will be at Wrongbar on March 11 as part of Canadian Musicfest. The Quietus goes over their debut Violet Cries track by track with Esben & The Witch while Drowned In Sound gave them the keys to their whole website last week. Paste just interviews them. They’re also at Wrongbar on March 11 for Canadian Musicfest. Billboard has a cover story on Adele in advance of the February 22 release of 21. NPR is streaming the album in its entirety as well as a half-hour live performance from the singer, who’s just announced a North American tour in suport of album number two, including a May 18 date at The Kool Haus in Toronto. Stream: Adele / 21 NPR has a World Cafe session with Duffy. PopMatters interviews Kate Nash. Spinner talks to Mira Aroyo of Ladytron about their forthcoming Best of Ladytron: 00-10 compilation, due out March 29. Micachu & The Shapes are still working on the follow-up to 2009’s left-field gem Jewellery, but in the interim will be releasing Chopped & Screwed, a collaboration with The London Sinfonetta that will be coming out on March 22. What’s it sound like? Click below and read this piece on the collaboration at Clash. MP3: Micachu – “Everything” Pitchfork talks to Jamie Smith of The xx about stuff both xx and not xx. The Fly checks in with Friendly Fires, who are finishing up their second record Pala, due out in the Spring – certainly before their May 30 date at The Phoenix. The Fly and The Scotsman profile The Joy Formidable, who follow up the North American release of The Big Roar with a date at The Horseshoe on April 2. Magnet handed over the editorial chair of their website to White Lies last week. The Mirror has an interview. The Boxer Rebellion have made a date at The Horseshoe for April 18 in support of their new record The Cold Still; tickets $13.50. Video: The Boxer Rebellion – “Step Out Of The Car” State, Exclaim and Clash interview The Go! Team, who bring their new record Rolling Blackouts to The Opera House on April 10. They’ve released a couple new videos and an MP3 from said record. MP3: The Go! Team – “T.O.R.N.A.D.O.” Video: The Go! Team – “Super Triangle” Video: The Go! Team – “Secretary Song” Guy Garvey discusses Elbow’s forthcoming new record build a rocket boys!, out March 8, with The Quietus. Toronto fans disappointed there’s no official stop here for the upcoming Trash Can Sinatras tour would do well to look at their itinerary, email the address noted on the right and ask themselves just how much seeing them play an intimate house show is worth to them. Liam Gallagher of Beady Eye discusses his new band’s debut Different Gear, Still Speeding with Spin. The record is out March 1. Spinner reports that Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire is disappointed that their last single didn’t chart in the UK; perhaps they overestimated the appeal of an Ian McCulloch duet? Time to dig up Nina Persson’s phone number again, methinks. The Quietus contemplates the legacy of Teenage Fanclub while The Line Of Best Fit has an acoustic session with Fanny side-project Jonny. 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__label__cc	0.602069	0.397931	Can Samoas-flavored pina colada mix be far behind? Boys Scouts have an oath. Girl Scouts have a promise. As both organizations were forged more than a century ago—Boy Scouts in 1910, Girl Scouts, two years later—it is not surprising that a fine mist of Victorian notions about youth clings to both groups, despite their sometimes frantic efforts to stay current. The Boy Scouts, for instance, vow to stay "morally straight" and obey a law demanding they remain "clean." The girls' morality, meanwhile, is assumed, as is their cleanliness. No vows necessary. The boys are, in a subtle way, being warned away from traps that boys are expected to be tempted by, if not fall into. The girls, well, not so much an issue. Rude to even mention, really. They're girls. The "good" is implied. That's why the Boy Scouts' gradual transformation into a hate group was so jarring. They were supposed to be moral, while being blinded to what morality now meant, thanks to the shrinking in significance of what you do with other people and an increase in what you do to them. Girl Scouts, well, they sold cookies. Who doesn't love cookies? Yet, despite this chasm in pretensions to morality, one still has high moral expectations for Girl Scouts, perhaps even more than the Boy Scouts, since they didn't have to struggle for decades deciding which kind of kid to bar at the door. Girls who liked girls, well ... let's just say, years before the military initiated "Don't Ask/ Don't Tell" the Girl Scouts were already there. You're a girl? Great, start making potholders. So I was a little disappointed to see this box of Girl Scouts Thin Mints breakfast cereal at the Evanston Jewel Thursday night. Really? Everyone has a bottom line, and brand extension is all the thing, but cookies for breakfast? The Girl Scouts of America is not only endorsing cookies for breakfast, but making a buck in the process? Does that "make the world a better place," to quote one of the imperatives from the Girl Scout Law. Does that help the girls who snarf it back be "strong"? Is the girl who breakfasts on Thin Mints really, truly, "Doing her best?" I imagine General Mills didn't steal the Thin Mints brand, but are sharing their cut with the Girl Scouts. So the organization gets paid something. But what are the Girl Scouts giving up in return? I have to wonder whether they thought this through. I'm all for marijuana legalization, but somehow, when the Girl Scouts offer a merit badge in cannabis cultivation, it will still be a sad day. If the Girl Scouts don't take their own program seriously, who will? Clark St. September 8, 2017 at 12:36 AM The Big Secret Girl Scouts don't want you to know: Keebler Grasshoppers are identical to Thin Mints & are available all year round. Even better, that taxing bitch Preckwinkle can't tax them! Coey September 8, 2017 at 9:42 AM I didn't find them identical, but the Keebler ones are a pretty close substitute and will do when Thin Mints aren't available. (When they are available, I often have to freeze a couple of boxes because it's usually Lent!) I've heard Keebler's Coconut Dreams are very like Samoas but haven't tried them yet. Dennis Fisher September 8, 2017 at 10:42 AM Far be it from me to be the voice of propriety or political correctness, but don't you think that the reference to "that taxing b---h Preckwinkle" is remarkably distasteful for a thoughtful blog like this? On a more positive note, Neil Steinberg has a remarkable touch as a photographer. The photos at the top of the page are always beautifully composed and stimulating. Clark St. September 8, 2017 at 3:56 PM It's not distasteful at all, as it's a perfect description of her. Hypocrite & liar are simply too mild to describe a fraud like her. Your comment reminds me of something in "Spy Magazine" years ago. Spy had an occasional column called "Letters to the Editor of the New Yorker", because the New Yorker didn't have a letters column at that time. It was about something the magazine had published, but with the proviso that there were things it left out because they were too disgusting to tell. But as Spy pointed out, that same issue had printed an article with every four, eight & twelve letter word you could think of, uncensored, so what would be more disgusting than that? tate September 8, 2017 at 4:59 PM I think Toni Preckwinkle deserves a better defense than I can give her, but suffice it to say that President Preckwinkle rolls off my tongue while I still can't bring myself to pronounce that awful combination: P.........t T.....p. I'm not sure it would have helped, but I think the soul stirring commercials about the poor kids destined for obesity, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes should have preceded the appeal for money to cover a budget shortfall. Tony Galati September 8, 2017 at 8:23 PM I can't bring myself to refer to Trump as "our president", so I just refer to him as "our Trump". It's somehow more appropriate. More clownish. Hmm...how dare Girl Scouts venture outside of their niche, because that's not the feminine thing to do? Really? Neil Steinberg September 8, 2017 at 8:08 AM Ahhh no, it would be pretty much the health/hypocrisy argument. So Wendy, you're basically offering up the Right Wing's ignore-the-point-and-pretend-something-stupid-was-stated-instead tack? Really? Bill September 8, 2017 at 8:54 AM Perhaps your point isn't as clear as you think it is? I had no idea if this piece was satire or not, what with the riffs on perceived gender roles and morality, and didn't even get to a health-and-hypocrisy conclusion -- I assumed you were upset that they licensed their name to a business. Because surely you know they aren't really advocating cookies for breakfast. It is cereal that (allegedly) tastes like the cookies. Whether the cereal is actually "healthy", who knows? I suspect it isn't, but given everything you say on morality and money-making and marijuana, a "health/hypocrisy argument" seems pretty well-hidden, and maybe your readers can be forgiven for not finding it without being accused of "offering up the Right Wing's ignore-the-point-and-pretend-something-stupid-was-stated-instead tack". Bitter Scribe September 8, 2017 at 9:35 AM The health/hypocrisy argument was clear as a bell to me. Which is not to say I agree with it. Sugared cereals that are the nutritional equivalent of eating cookies for breakfast have been around for decades, and while they may be deplorable, they're not going away. I don't know that the Girl Scouts have ever been about nutritional fanaticism, and if they can make what is probably a needed buck out of this deal, personally I don't see much harm. Tony Galati September 8, 2017 at 7:56 AM That's a great photo at the top. A few birch, maple, Norway pine, and an over abundance of jack pine. An old mostly sand logging road, blue reflectors on trees to warn snowmobilers, an amusingly out of place road sign. Looks like Yooper country, eh? Thanks. Ontonagan. And I can't wait to get there. Beautiful. I was at Black River Harbor last month. Going back in October. Fall is da best up dere, eh? When you get there, look for Maple Creme Cookies, made by "Dare", a Canadian company. The best cookies you can buy in a box, and they wisely haven't turned them into breakfast cereal. FME September 8, 2017 at 11:32 AM oh my! Neil , I thought based on historical context your point was pretty clear and that you weren't stating your opinion but document the sexist opinions of others, the Boy Scouts of people who are different and weirdos who seethe Girl Scouts promotion of feminine purity as acceptable. cookies for breakfast? yay! Bernie September 8, 2017 at 9:21 AM One would think an all volunteer organization like the Girl Scouts of America could get by on selling cookies to fund various activities like field trips. Think again, they are incurring extraneous expenses like paying for lawyers to defend against lawsuits. tate September 8, 2017 at 11:38 AM Lawyers aren't allowed to sell cookies, so they have to file lawsuits to get even. Bernie September 8, 2017 at 7:46 PM Lawyers and their clients can't be bothered to do anything pro bono. And why bother if you can force hundreds of thousands of them to slave away (ha! after all they are merely unpaid volunteers, get it?) selling cookies for your benefit. Those kids can just check their little girl privilege at the courtroom door. okie September 8, 2017 at 11:25 AM Once heard a nunutritionis say 99.99% of cold cereal is basically sugar coated sugar. Cracked me up. And yes, the Girl Scouts has corporate ideals, too. Darn. Nutritionist. Mr. Creosote September 8, 2017 at 12:11 PM I think the Girl Scouts are risking the specialness of the brand. The cookies are expensive but have a sentimental value for folks, and selling them only once per year adds an element of scarcity that increases the value. Better buy them now! Could change them from a special treat that people recall selling when they were kids to just a small box of cookies for four bucks. 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__label__wiki	0.886861	0.886861	You are here : Football Oranje » Eredivisie » De Boer looking forward not backwards De Boer looking forward not backwards Posted by Himanshu Dhingra on July 4th, 2014 09:29 PM \| Eredivisie, News Ajax may have won four consecutive Eredivisie titles but coach Frank de Boer still sees plenty of challenges ahead of the club for the 2014-15 season. By Himanshu Dhingra Follow Himanshu on Twitter Speaking to club’s official website de Boer said, “We want to make a step forward in any case. Stagnation means decline as a team, after four league titles in a row, we will now be more than ever the favorites. Competition would come closer. To avoid that, we must ensure that we stay two steps ahead. That takes a lot of the team. ” “The fourth title in a row should be celebrated, but you are only as good as your last game. Last season does not count. It is now for the first game of the season. “Because Christian Poulsen has gone there will be both a new second and third captain to come. As staff we did have some ideas, but the coming weeks will show how that works and which players will rise. The Lancers begin the new season without former Captain Siem de Jong who was sold to Newcastle United, and have named Niklas Moisander as captain. Himanshu Dhingra (207 Posts) I come from a vast and a varied country - India. Big football fan, big Newcastle United, Ajax, Dortmund fan. Tags: Ajax, Christian Poulsen, Eredivisie, Newcastle United, Niklas Moisander, siem de jong « Van der Wiel unsure about future Adidas produce stylish new Feyenoord uniforms »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line242
__label__cc	0.6795	0.3205	FutureU™ Navigation: Products \| Solutions \| Store \| Contact Us \| About Us Discussion of Data Feature Descriptions From FutureUTM For the best guidance in Teaching and Learning Online: Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course Web Site Faculty Web Book (Make the Most of Teaching Online) Student Web Book (Make the Most of Learning Online) Choosing Course Management Software A Decision Makers' Planning Tool Faculty Training for Online Teaching Fast-Track™ for Rapid Course Development Use browser menu: File \| Print = File \| Print Preview = Preview before printing PDF Version (295K) This is the domain and hosting service provider FutureU uses the most. They have the all too rare live customer support and they are great to work with. Cheap pricing too! Adobe makes the free Acrobat Reader most people use to view PDF files. They also make a whole suite of creative products that are "best-in-class" so it's worth your while to check them out. 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ZoneAlarm is our brickwall against the invading hordes of hackers. And it does a great job! And it has a free version. This is an in-house standard for FutureU. Donations for Value of Content Since 2000 when this report was first published, thousands of people have visited this page, apparently finding it of some value. If you agree then feel free to buy us a cup of coffee by sending some spare change through Paypal. Just click on one o the buttons below to vote with your credit card. Help keep this page available for future researchers. Contribute what you can. Thanks, Claude Whitmyer Click this button to send us 3 bucks!: Click this button to choose a different amount: Comparative Features Analysis of Leading Course Management Software Note: This report compares versions of six leading course management software packages as of January 2, 2000. Summary \| Top \| During the spring and summer of 1999, The University of the Future, LLC, (FutureU) completed a research study to identify a robust set of features that support teaching and learning online and then compared six leading course management software (CMS) packages to determine the extent to which each one of the six packages provides the desired features. A report on the results of this research was published on October 13, 1999. A month following the initial study, WebCT submitted an updated feature list based on version 2.0 of their product. The current report reflects integration of these updated features into the narrative and tables. The purpose of this investigation was twofold: 1) to help academic institutions make informed decisions when they purchase or upgrade CMS products and 2) to help CMS developers make informed decisions when they plan for product development and marketing. The research identified a total of 94 desired features. A comparison of the six packages reveals that WebCT offers the most features (82), followed closely by Web Course in a Box (79). These were followed next by a tie between Blackboard's CourseInfo (75) and the Embanet implementation of Intralearn (75). The other two packages in the study were WBT System's TopClass (48) and Virtual Learning Environments VirtualU (65). Introduction \| Top \| Higher education is experiencing a growing demand for access to technology-mediated or "online" learning. Reduced costs and increased functionality are allowing more and more academic decision makers to justify technology-mediated learning initiatives. One of the fastest growing areas in the technology-mediated educational arena is the use of the Internet by colleges and universities to supplement face-to-face courses with online components and to deliver some courses completely online. Until recently, most academic administrators sought, above all, to minimize the cost of technology mediation. Now, attitudes are evolving and many administrators are acknowledging that a significant investment in online education can yield valuable long-term benefits that are well worth the cost. As a result, they are beginning to increase support and funding for online learning. Until recently, most vendors have been promoting their products as a way to lower costs. But this has not proven true in practice. Initial investment requirements can be especially high. The payoff comes not in cost savings but in support for teaching existing courses and higher revenue from increases in the size of learner populations that can be served. Online delivery allows an institution to serve a larger population and to serve its current students better, thus attracting more dollars from both sources. Key to a wise online initiative is robust course management software (CMS) that is easy to learn; easy to use; flexible; rich in features for learning, teaching, and administration; easy to integrate with other software and easily upgraded to future versions. More than a dozen players are currently struggling to grab market share in the dynamic, rapidly evolving CMS marketplace. Armed with a greater understanding of their competition and customer needs, they can make informed choices about how to invest in product enhancement and market positioning. Their customers can make more fully informed decisions about which course management software will best meet their needs. FutureU intends this report to address both of these purposes. Methodology \| Top \| FutureU searched popular periodicals such as Byte, InfoWorld, PC Magazine, PC Week, and Syllabus, as well as several books and six university Web sites for reviews and comparisons of CMS packages. The search revealed mentions of more than a dozen different CMS products. (See Appendix 2 for a complete list of the articles and Web sites searched in this study.) Products Reviewed A decision was made to focus on the five CMS products most frequently recommended for use in academic settings: Blackboard's CourseInfo MadDuck Technologies' Web Course in a Box (WCB) Universal Learning Technology's WebCT Virtual Learning Environment's VirtualU WBT System's TopClass A sixth vendor, IntraLearn, is a relatively new entrant into the CMS arena and is included, as a point of reference for what is technologically feasible today. However, it should be pointed out that currently available third-party products allow the integration of the widest variety of technology-driven features—as other vendors reviewed in this study so aptly demonstrate. IntraLearn's current market strategy is to function as a distributor, selling only to third-party providers such as Embanet. For this reason, FutureU chose the Embanet implementation of IntraLearn for this study. Groupware software such as FirstClass and Lotus Notes were not considered in this comparison because they tend to lack specific tools for learning and teaching. Lotus Notes LearningSpace was also eliminated because its much more complex tool set makes it difficult to compare with the more standard CMS products. Products such as Asymetrix' Toolbook and Macromedia's Authorware were not included because they are primarily intended for corporate training, not higher education. And, although they offer a rich set of features that make them useful in academic education, they are enough different to warrant a separate evaluation that explores their unique feature sets. Several companies, notably Blackboard, Convene, Embanet, eSocrates, eCollege, and Jones University market additional consulting and implementation services as well as course management software. These services are not evaluated in this report. In future studies, FutureU will evaluate groupware, comprehensive consulting solutions, and third-party providers of CMS access in greater detail. At FutureU, we take the position that satisfaction with any one CMS product is highly subjective and that any attempt at quantitative analysis would therefore be fruitless. Instead, we have developed a check list of desired features and indicated whether each of the six CMS products either has or does not have each feature. Similarly, we have made no attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of specific features, because we believe that idiosyncratic learning and teaching styles can profoundly influence an individual's assessment of effectiveness. The single quantitative measure we do provide is a score of the number of features in a given CMS product as a function of the total number of features evaluated in this study. The feature list itself was assembled using three criteria. To be included on the list, a feature must be: Considered essential for online teaching and learning by FutureU technical staff Frequently requested by FutureU clients Frequently mentioned in third-party reviews The assumption was made that the ideal learning environment, whether face-to-face or online, would routinely support students first, faculty second, and administration third. Features that support students were divided into two categories: learning tools and collaboration tools. Features that support faculty were divided into: authoring tools and course management tools. A handful of "back-office" administrative features were also included on the list of desired features. For a complete list of the features considered in this study, see Appendix 1: Basic Feature List. Data Sources \| Top \| Data for this study came directly from the six vendors, supplemented with information from current journal articles and from Web sites that offer access to local evaluation initiatives. An email message went out from FutureU to each of the six companies whose products we hoped to evaluate. Attached to the email was an Excel spreadsheet containing our best guess as to whether the company's product did or did not have each of the desired features. We asked each company to confirm whether it offered each of the features and to explain, in writing, any disagreements with our assumptions. We then revisited each software vendor's demo site to confirm for ourselves that their answers were indeed true. Several vendors chose to answer "Coming Soon" instead of "No" to particular features. Since software release dates are often delayed, we chose to convert all such answers to "No" and leave it up to the marketplace to keep tabs on future changes. Discussion of Data \| Top \| The research led to a list of 94 features deemed desirable for a course management software package. The total list was then divided into three categories and five subcategories: Student Tools (40 features) Learning Tools (18 features) Collaboration Tools (22 features) Faculty Tools (39 features) Authoring Tools (14 features) Course Management Tools (25 features) Administration Tools/Costs (15 features) A comparison of the six most popular products revealed the following: WebCT version 2 has the highest number of desired features (82 out of 94, or 86% of the total list). Web Course in a Box version 4, has the next highest number of features (79 out of the 94, or 84% of the total list). The Embanet implementation of IntraLearn and Blackboard's CourseInfo tied for the second highest number of features at 75 (80% of the total list). A noticeable gap appears between these and VirtualU, with 65 (69%) of the desired features. By far the lowest product in terms of number of desired features is WBT System's TopClass, with only 48 features, or 51 percent of the desired total. Five of the CMS products rely on third-party providers for at least some of the desired features. Tables 1-4 use the abbreviation "3p" to identify features provided by third parties. WCB offers 12 features, VirtualU offers 9, and WebCT offers 4 features this way. FutureU advocates open design standards and ease in integration of third-party add-ons. So we suggest that reliance on outside vendors should be perceived not as a negative but rather as an indicator of adaptability and potential for easy future expansion. For WCB, the "outside" features are: library and information access, annotation/markup, glossary help, study skill building, access to newsgroups/list servs, team building, advanced course design, automated table of contents and indexing, course search engine, Web search tools, calculation of class grade averages, and online-student/faculty orientation. For VirtualU, the third-party features are white boarding, both audio and video teleconferencing, self-assessment exercises, Web search tools, timed and repeatable quizzes, and timed and repeatable exercises. For WebCT, the third-part features are access to ListServs/News groups, and teleconferencing, both video and audio. IntraLearn and CourseInfo also use third-party providers for a few features: IntraLearn for three types of teleconferencing (audio, video, and live text-based) and library/information access; CourseInfo for chat and chat archiving. Tables 1 through 5 illustrate which features are present or absent in each of the six CMS products. Table 6 compares the six products on each of the five feature set subcategories: learning, collaboration, teaching, course management, and administration. Quick Jump To: Table 1. Comparisons of features among CMS products evaluated: Learning Tools. Table 2. Comparisons of features among CMS products evaluated: Collaboration Tools. Table 3. Comparisons of features among CMS products evaluated: Authoring Tools. Table 4. Comparisons of features among CMS products evaluated: Course Management Tools. Table 5. Comparisons of features among CMS products evaluated: Administration Tools/Costs. Table 6. Comparative scores on the presence and absence of specified feature sets. Feature Descriptions \| Top \| Students use two broad categories of tools from the list of desired CMS features: tools for individual learning and tools for online collaboration. Bookmarking. The nonlinear nature of the Internet makes it hard for students to keep track of where they left off in their work. A bookmarking tool allows them to stop at any point and return later to the exact same spot. Given how much time students spend retracing their steps in the online environment, such a tool is much more than a mere convenience. Because most Web browsers include a bookmarking feature, and all six of the CMS products in this study are browser accessible, all six have access to this feature. WebCT also has its own built-in bookmarking system. Student Area. A specific area set aside to organize and share ongoing work is another important feature of a collaborative work environment. Library and Information Access. For accreditation purposes and to fully support distance learners, online access to library and information services is essential. Most CMS products ignore this feature, requiring their customers to implement their own library and information services. IntraLearn provides a place for internal links to existing library and information services. WCB offers a third-party planning tool for creating or enhancing library and information access for online learners. CourseInfo, VirtualU, and WebCT allow no specific library access help, but they all, as well as WCB offer easy interface with existing library access points and they are all open to the Web. WebCT alone offers a special "Reference Tool" that allows resource and content catalogs to be placed wholly within any give course Web site. TopClass provides no help in this area. Annotation. WebCT is the only software with a built-in tool that allows instructors to mark up assignments and that allows students to mark up documents created collaboratively. WCB offers a link to a third-party annotation tool, but the remaining vendors provide no system for electronic annotations. Glossary. Every good CMS package includes a glossary that is either instructor generated and/or generated by the learners themselves. VirtualU and WCB both provide a Web-based template that allows the instructor to create a glossary, but neither of these products has an automated interface to its glossary template. WebCT and IntraLearn both provide built-in, fill-in-the-blanks glossary generators. CourseInfo and TopClass do not support this feature. Course Index/Search Engine. The ability to search an entire course Web site helps both learner and instructor to deepen learning through review. CourseInfo, TopClass, WebCT, and IntraLearn all offer automatically generated course indices and course-wide search engines. VirtualU plans this feature but doesn't currently offer it. MadDuck has identified third-party search engines that can be applied to any WCB generated course, provided the instructor is willing to turn off course-access security for the short indexing period. Learning Exemplars/Guidance. All six CMS vendors claim to provide student guidance and learning examples. As of this report date, however, WCB is the only product with a self-paced or instructor-led online course to prepare students to use the Internet for learning; included are specific guidance for creating an effective online study environment, mastering the study habits necessary for success in the online environment, and handling the most common technology issues. Access to Grades. When students have access to their own grades, they can better track the progress of their own learning. All six CMS vendors give student a way to access their own grades. TopClass, VirtualU, WebCT, WCB, and IntraLearn also let students compare their own grades to the class average. None of the vendors provide automated assignment reminders. Student Guide. All six CMS packages have a printed guide for documenting student-centered functions. VirtualU also includes examples to help guide students through the experience of learning to use the online classroom. As stated above, WCB offers a third-party course in how to maximize online learning. Self-Assessment Exercises. Students deepen their learning when they can check their own progress as they make their way through an online course.. The simplest tool for this purpose is a self-scoring quiz/exercise generator that reports measurements such as score, elapsed time, and number of attempts. This feature can also be used to create scored tests for use in assessing a student course grade. All the vendors in this study offer some sort of quiz generator that can be used for self-assessment exercises. Although third-party providers of online quiz generators are numerous, VirtualU is the only vendor to offer a third-party solution for this feature. Study Skill Building. Many first-year college students have such poor study skills that they are encouraged to take remedial education in the basics of studying. The online environment is such that online students must be even better organized, more disciplined and more skilled at time management than their face-to-face counterparts. Tools for building study skills can range from a simple review tool (e.g., a glossary builder) to a full course on study-skills. Among the six providers in this study, WCB is alone in offering a third-party course that covers the study skills necessary for the online environment. Student Web Pages. Student Web pages help the virtual learner get organized and share information with other students. CourseInfo, VirtualU, WCB, and WebCT all give students a way to create their own personal Web home pages. WCB also offers two additional kinds of student pages not offered by any of the other vendors: Project and Portfolio pages. VirtualU offers a "student space" that displays a graphical desktop to represent a dormitory study corner, complete with desk, dictionary, calendar, and other metaphorical features. Research has shown that the most effective learning model for the online classroom encourages a high degree of interaction and collaboration among learners.(1) This suggests that tools for facilitating collaboration may be the most important aspect of any course management software product. For purposes of this study, FutureU identified the minimum set of tools necessary for effective online collaboration. These tools include features that facilitate discussion, simplify document sharing, and simplify group work. Discussion Options. Discussion options for collaboration should include at least email (for one-to-one discussions) and either mailing lists/list servs or text-based conferencing (for many-to-many discussions). Bulletin board or classified listings that allow one-to-many communications are also useful but not essential. Depending on the course design, synchronous discussion tools are also helpful. Especially when the content includes graphic images or complicated symbols, a white board function is helpful. Synchronous chatting and video or audio conferencing can add a dimension to the interaction that many find helpful, but these features are not essential for successful collaboration and can be counter-productive unless well managed by a clear set of participation rules. A mailing list/list serve function creates a discussion environment in which the learner may choose among the following options for delivery of discussion forum content: Visit discussion forum Web page Receive discussion forum messages by email Receive email notice of new messages in discussion forum Receive email summary of new messages from discussion forum A quick look at Table 2 shows that the products are "all over the map" in how they deliver collaborative discussion tools and in which ones they choose to offer. There is so much variation, in fact, that future upgrades and new product developments seem likely in this area. All six packages offer some type of one-to-one email service. Among the hundreds of students FutureU has dealt with, a general preference is reported for the approach to email taken by CourseInfo, VirtualU, and WCB. All three of these CMS packages use the email function built into the Web browser rather than proprietary email like that offered by TopClass or WebCT. This means that students who already have their own email accounts on an ISP or the campus server, don't have to check multiple email in boxes to manage their communications. Both CourseInfo and IntraLearn offer their own many-to-many list serve/newsgroup function, while WCB offers access to third-party newsgroup software, if desired. All six packages offer both synchronous and asynchronous, text-based conferencing, but only CourseInfo and IntraLearn offer a bulletin board where students may post one to many announcements. WCB and WebCT offer an announcement function for use by the instructor, but not accessible to students. WebCT claims to offer a bulletin board function for students, but this is a misnomer as what they are referring to is the text-based conferencing function. Though this is a moot point, as any system that has text-based conferencing can create a discussion forum that is set aside for posting one-to-many notices. So you could answer "yes" there is a bulletin board for any CMS package that offers text-based conferencing (asynchronous, not chat). All except TopClass provide a chat function, either built in or through a third party, although VirtualU?s chat does not have archiving capabilities. CourseInfo, VirtualU, WCB, WebCT and IntraLearn all offer a white board. TopClass does not. VirtualU, WebCT, and IntraLearn offer audio or video teleconferencing provided by third parties. File Sharing. Participants in an online discussion must have the ability to share documents and images from the content of their course. This need can be met either by attaching shared files to email or discussion messages or by providing a file storage space where files can be uploaded and downloaded with permission. It is useful to include a private storage space where students can organize any files they intend to share, plus a separate file space for public access. Restricting access to certain files can be handled either by attaching files to messages and restricting message distribution, or by allowing the file's author to decide who may access their files. Using file attachments is usually easier to implement and teach than setting file access permissions. All of the CMS products reviewed provide for file sharing. CourseInfo, WCB, WebCT and IntraLearn can all accommodate email file attachments. CourseInfo, VirtualU, WCB, WebCT and IntraLearn all allow attachments to discussion forum (conferencing) messages. TopClass allows file storage for assignments only, while the rest, with the exception of WebCT, have full file storage capabilities. All have a public file library and all but TopClass offer students a private directory on the course server. Work Group Areas. True collaboration requires online work areas with controlled access for flexibility in forming and reforming collaborative groups as the course unfolds. Group discussion areas provide private space for the group to organize and track collaborations. Group Web pages provide a place for group members to display the unfolding results of their work together. Course materials or processes that teach team building and team learning skills are also helpful and can sometimes be built into the CMS design or provided as an add-on. CourseInfo and WebCT allow users to create multiple groups and provides each group with their own set of communication tools as well as file sharing. All of the products provide for group conferences, with the exception of TopClass. All except TopClass have a team building feature. CourseInfo, WCB, WebCT, and IntraLearn all offer a work group area and WebCT and IntraLearn can accommodate group Web pages. Faculty members use two types of tools from the list of desired CMS features: tools for authoring their courses and tools for managing their courses. Course Planning, Design, Templates. Putting a course online is more than simply converting existing course materials to Web pages. CMS packages automatically shape course design by the layout and structuring tools they use to create course pages. By definition, then, every CMS package offers some help in planning and design. For purposes of this report, however, this feature is considered present only if an explicit planning or design aid is offered, which it was in every case. Automated Glossary. See Glossary under Learning Tools. Automated Course TOC/Index/Search Engine. See Course Index/Search Engine under Learning Tools. File Management. File management tools include file uploading and downloading aids and file storage space on the course server. The ideal is to include both one-at-a-time file transfer and batch file transfer. Only TopClass and WebCT offer batch upload and batch delete. IntraLearn offers batch uploading, but not batch deleting. CourseInfo offers a facility to batch upload a group of files that may exist in a web structure or a multitude of files that are interconnected. All other packages require that files be moved or deleted one at a time. Instructor Guide/Course Exemplars. Most people learn from examples. Course instructors/developers find value in an instructor's guide and examples of pedagogically sound online courses All six vendors claim to offer course examples and they all offer printed instructor documentation. VirtualU offers both design and teaching aids. WCB offers these features through a third-party provider. Web Search Tools. Students must be able to search a course site quickly to locate or return to key information while studying. Because access to course Web pages is usually controlled by the instructor, it makes sense to provide the instructor with the ability to index the course Web pages and then make that index and/or a search engine of the index available to students. Only IntraLearn has built in Web searching tools. CourseInfo, TopClass and WebCT don't support this feature at all. VirtualU and WCB offer this feature by utilizing third-party search engines. Multimedia Capability. When used appropriately, graphic images from audio, video and VRML files can spice up a course and make it more engaging. Most online classrooms are text-based, however, and can function effectively without multi-media elements. When some or all students have a limited bandwidth, a simple, text-based format avoids delays in downloading and ensures that everyone has equal access to course materials.. All of the CMS packages in this study allow for multimedia, although each one does it in a slightly different way. WebCT, VirtualU, and WCB all use hyperlinking to uploaded files or Web URLs and require that the student's desktop provide the client application to play the multimedia file if it has something other than a Web-based format (such as PowerPoint slides or Lotus ScreenCam files). IntraLearn alone offers some built in multimedia players. However, any open standard CMS (these include CourseInfo, VirtualU, WebCT and WCB in the present study) could easily meet the need for multi-media by publishing a link to, for example, Jasc Software's "Quick View Plus" file viewer (downloadable from ZD Net's Shareware Software Library). Instructors and students could install this file viewer on their desktop s and view most files without having to use a client application. Course Management Instructor Information Pages. While not absolutely essential, contact and biographical information about the instructor adds an element of efficiency and personality to a CMS environment. For students in distant locations, it can help make a virtual experience more "real." All the vendors in this study routinely offer this feature. Course Pages. CMS packages have perhaps their greatest impact on course design through the type of course page templates they provide. Most course management software includes, at least, pages for a syllabus, a calendar, announcements, and course contents. Student Management. One of the biggest reasons for buying a CMS package is to track and manage student participation in the course. The major features in this category include student course registration, , attendance and participation tracking, a grade book, assessment tools, and a place for students to post their assignments for instructor comments. All packages offer a specific page or pages for student presentations and projects. CourseInfo and WebCT offer student pages that can be used for either groups of students or single individuals and allow individual students to post documents and other project files that they have created during a course. "Attendance" refers to whether or not a student visited the course. "Participation" refers to whether or not the student posted messages, how many and how long. VirtualU does not offer attendance tracking. VirtualU and WCB fail to offer participation tracking. We were unable to determine the exact nature of the participation tracking offered by CourseInfo, TopClass, and IntraLearn; to qualify, a vendor must provide a way of knowing what has been read, by whom, and when. It was unclear from our analysis whether these vendors met these criteria. If not, then their products probably only track attendance, not participation .) None of the vendors offers automatic student assignment reminders, a feature that would work in conjunction with the assignment calendar to send notices automatically to students when due dates or other event dates are approaching. CourseInfo, WebCT and WCB automatically calculate the students grade as they take tests and quizzes in the system. In addition both store this information in the online grade book. TopClass does not support automatic grade calculation or calculation of class averages. WCB calculates class averages by exporting the grade book to a spreadsheet. All six vendors offer timed and repeatable quizzes and all but TopClass offer timed and repeatable exercises. In most case, the same tool generates both; quizzes go in the grade book, exercises don't, but otherwise the procedure is identical. VirtualU relies on third-party providers for both of these functions. Course Archive/Backup/Replication. CMS customers want an easy way to replicate, back up, and archive courses as they unfold. CourseInfo, TopClass, VirtualU, WebCT and WCB offer functional archiving, backup, and replication of courses. It is unclear how TopClass does this and IntraLearn does not (as reported by Embanet). Course Revision. All six CMS packages include easy-to-use tools for modifying an existing online course. Online Help/FAQs. It has become a universally acceptable standard to provide a list of frequently asked questions and answers along with at least email access to a help desk for learner and instructor support. All six vendors provide this feature. Automated Registration. More and more institutions are asking for a way to integrate course management software into their existing registration process. This usually requires that the CMS be compatible with a database standard such as ODBC. If such compatibility is not available, the next best capability is an automated registration system that allows batch uploads of student information, so that CMS administrators can easily import data that has been exported from an existing registration system. Among the six vendors in this study, only IntraLearn is currently ODBC compliant and even they don't offer any help integrating with existing administrative databases. IntraLearn also offers real-time order processing and student registration. All the other vendors offer batch uploading. So far, no one offers a direct interface with administrative databases although WebCT reports partnerships with SCT/Banners and PeopleSoft to do this for their products.. Security. Security tools restrict access to, and control modification of, course pages. CMS customers expect it. Most CMS packages that use open standards also support browser security, which provides secure transactions on the Web. Customers are also starting to ask for automatic scanning for virus contamination in uploaded and downloaded files. This is less of a concern for servers using the UNIX operating system. WebCT offers virus scanning on shared files. All others rely on third parties for virus scanning. All of the vendors provide access security. Tech Support. CMS customers expect access to support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Many vendors provide this with FAQs and email; however, most customers also want access to telephone support. All six of the vendors in this study offer 24/7 tech support by email and most offer some telephone call back service. Apparently no one offers live phone coverage on a 24/7 basis. Student Transcript. Another function that institutional administrators increasingly request is the ability to track a learner's online participation and automatically generate a transcript of any completed course. Among the six vendors in this study, only IntraLearn WebCT, and VirtualU offer student transcripts. Standards. Because CMS products and vendors are evolving so rapidly, smart customers want the ability to transport course files from one CMS environment to another. CMS vendors that embed some or all of their product features in a proprietary platform make it difficult or impossible for their customers to transfer course files to a different platform, forcing course developers to start over almost from scratch if their department or school switches platforms. By contrast, an open platform utilizing Internet and Web standards allows the course developer to create course pages only once and then transport them easily from one CMS package to another and back again if necessary. Although CourseInfo, WCB, WebCT, and IntraLearn all claim open standards for their products, close examination shows that only CourseInfo and WCB are truly open. Both WebCT and IntraLearn have proprietary elements within their offerings that disallow full Web-based compatibility. Blackboard (manufacturer of CourseInfo) claims to have a translation process to convert WebCT courses to CourseInfo. Platform. Most CMS packages are available in at least the UNIX and Windows NT platforms. CourseInfo, TopClass, VirtualU, WCB, and WebCT are all available for the UNIX platform. CourseInfo, TopClass, VirtualU, WCB, WebCT and IntraLearn run in Windows NT. TopClass and WCB offer a Linux version in addition to NT and UNIX. (Note: In most instances, if a CMS package can run in UNIX it can run in Linux). Cost For purposes of this report, the following costs were evaluated: It is safe to say that there is no pricing standard in the CMS market niche. The way price is calculated and actual pricing varies dramatically from vendor to vendor. Most vendors charge a license fee for each server. The cost of TopClass and Embanet's implementation of IntraLearn increases as the number of seats goes up. Table 5 shows the various pricing schemes for all six vendors. In summary, WCB and WebCT appear to be the least expensive products, with WCB edging out WebCT over time. With WCB, you pay nothing for the second and subsequent years unless you upgrade. If you do upgrade at (50% of full price) then the difference in price between the two products breaks down as follows: Package Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total WCB $4,000 (original license) $2,000 (upgrade) $2,000 (upgrade) $8,000 Web CT $3,000 (annual fee) $3,000 (annual fee) $3,000 (annual fee) $9,000 This projection assumes that both vendor's prices will remain constant. This is highly unlikely over a several year period. But we can conclude, that WCB and WebCT are competitively priced at the present moment. At FutureU we're always interested in a diversity of experience and opinion. If you want to join in a discussion about the pros and cons of the Course Management Software reviewed here, drop in to our Online Learning Exchange and join the discussion forum to post your contributions. Notes: \| Top \| [1] Harasim, Linda, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, and Murray Turoff. Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning Online. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, third printing, 1997. Appendix 1: Features List \| Top \| Bookmarking/last place visited Private directory on course server Shared work (see Work Group Areas) Library and Information Access Annotation (markup) capability Glossary help (student generated) Course Index/Search Engine Learning Exemplars/Guidance Access to own grades Assignment reminders Comparison to class averages Self-assessment exercises Study skill building Student Web pages Email (one to one) List Servs (many to many) Text-based conferencing (many to many) Bulletin Board (one to many) Live, text-based conferencing Email attachments Message attachments Public file library Work Group Areas Group Web pages Course templates Automated glossary Automated course TOC/index Course search engine Instructor file storage Batch delete Course exemplars Web search tools Multimedia capability Instructor information pages Course info/syllabus Course calendar/schedule Announcements/Bulletins Student presentation pages Attendance/Participation Tracking Student access to own data Automatic assignment progress tracking Automatic grade calculation Class averages auto calculation Timed Course Archive/Backup Course replication Course revision Online Help/FAQ Administration (Back Office) Automated Registration Student Transcript Appendix 2: Articles and Web Sites referenced in this study. \| Top \| Atkinson, Roger (ed.), "Course server software for online teaching," Murdoch University Teaching and Learning Working Party, June 1997. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/teach/guide/res/examples/course-servers.html. Cashel, Jim, "30 Features to Consider When Choosing Forum Software," Forum One Communications Corporation, retrieved on 7/29/1999 from http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/features/30/. Creed, Tom, "Choosing a Virtual Communal Space for Your Course," The National Teaching and Learning Forum, Vol. 6 No. 6. Retrieved on 5/5/1999 from http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/vcslinks.htm. Gray, Sharon, "Web-based Instructional Tools," Syllabus, September 1998, Volume 12, No. 2. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.syllabus.com/sep98_magfea2.html. Harris, Elizabeth (ed.) "Readers Respond B Winter 1998," CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 21, Number 4, 1998. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem984e.html. Hazari, Sunil, "Evaluation and Selection of Web Course Management Tools," June 21, 1998, University of Maryland, College Park. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://sunil.umd.edu/webct/. Kaplan, Howard, "Building you own Web course: the case for off-the-shelf component software," CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 21, Number 4, 1998. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9849.html. Kristapiazzi, Geri. "Compare Web Tools for Course Authoring," contracted report for Daytona Beach Community College, 7/21/1998. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Gold/6012/compare_web_tools.htm (now expired). Landon, Bruce, "Online educational delivery applications: a web tool for comparative analysis," Douglas College, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Retrieved on 6/9 1999 from http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/. Lewis, Frank, and Shahron Williams van Rooiji, "Partnerships for Creating an On-line Learning Environment," presented at CUMREC '99, The College and University Information Services Conference. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cmr9922/cmr9922.html. McCollum, Kelly, "Colleges Sort Through Vast Store of Tools for Designing Web Courses," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tuesday, October 21, 1997. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://chronicle.com/data/internet.dir/itdata/1997/10/t97102101.htm. Mesher, D., "Designing Interactivities for Internet Learning," Syllabus, March 1999, Volume 12, No. 7, retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/mar99_magfea.html. Press, Larry (ed.) "Beyond the Blackboard: Policy Recommendations for California State University/Monterey," retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/text/csd1014.txt. Resmer, Mark and Steve Griffin, "The Educom NLII Instructional Management Systems Project," presented at NLII New Orleans '99, the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative Semi-Annual Meeting. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/orleans99/ims/ims0.html. Staff, "Integrated Course Management Software," Distance and Virtual Learning Department, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://online.parkland.cc.il.us/presentations/integrated/. Staff, "Tools for Developing Interactive Academic Web Courses," University of Manitoba. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.umanitoba.ca/ip/tools/courseware/evalmain.html. Staff, "Web Course in a Box: Why Choose WCB?" MadDuck Technologies. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.madduck.com/wcbinfo/why_wcb.html (now expired). Syllabus staff, "Curriculum and Productivity Products: A Buyer's Guide," Syllabus March 1999 Buyers Guide. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmart/mar99_BG.html. Syllabus staff, "Internet and Telecommunications: A Buyer's Guide," Syllabus November/December 1998 Buyers Guide. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmart/nov98_BG.html. Uiterwijk, Juli (ed.), "Web-based training solutions: The virtual classroom," InfoWorld Media Group, 1999. Retrieved on 7/7/1999 from http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/981123comp.htm. Woolley, David, "Choosing Web Conferencing Software," presented at the 1996 International University Consortium Conference on WWW Course Development & Delivery. Retrieved on 5/25/1999 from http://thinkofit.com/webconf/wcchoice.htm. Woolley, David, "Conferencing Software for the Web, A comprehensive guide to software that powers discussions on the Web including Forum Software, BBS Software, Internet & Intranet Groupware, Software for Virtual Communities, Virtual Teams, Message Boards, Collaborative Workgroups," August 3, 1999. Retrieved on August 11, 1999 from http://thinkofit.com/webconf/index.htm. Share your experiences and opinions by joining the discussion about Course Management Software at FutureU On Ning. Contents and Methodology Copyright © 1999-2006 by Claude Whitmyer. All rights reserved. Published by The University of the Future, LLC. Individuals wishing to use the data or methodology reported herein should contact Gail Terry Grimes, CEO, at 415-824-7726 or gail[at]futureu.com for permission and terms. Published October 13, 1999. Revised January 1, 2000. Please note: The data for this study came directly from the six vendors. As a user, if you disagree with the presence or absence of features for a particular CMS product, please contact the vendor with your feedback. Also post your comments at FutureU On Ning 10/14/99 - Section added at end of tables page to include vendor and user feedback. 10/20/99 - IntraLearn features updated based on email from IntraLearn Executive VP Peter Banhazl. 10/21/99 - CourseInfo features updated based on email from Blackboard Director of Product Strategy, Stephen Gilfus. 10/27/99 - WCB features updated based on personal communication from MadDuck VP Steve Saltzberg. 10/31/99 - Note to users added to report and table page. Minor edits to incorporate vendor feedback. 11/17/99 - WebCT feature changes added to bottom of table page based on personal communication from Kathleen Paul, Champion at WebCT. 01/02/2000 - WebCT version 2.0 feature set integrated into narrative report and tables. Comments and constructive criticisms are welcome via email. Copyright © 1999-2000 by Claude Whitmyer. All rights reserved. Published by The University of the Future, LLC (FutureU™).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line243
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__label__wiki	0.926988	0.926988	The Slaying of the Shrew by Simon Hawke Published by Forge Books Kill Me, Kate Reviewed by Karen G. Anderson Mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theater abound, and with good reason. London of that era was a hotbed of exploration, commerce, political intrigue and artistic expression. Its foremost writers, William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, lived and died under mysterious circumstances. The exploits of their friends and patrons in the Elizabethan court were every bit as dramatic as the action seen onstage at the city's popular playhouses. Nearly 400 years later, crime fiction writers such as Faye Kellerman (The Quality of Mercy, 1989) and Patricia Finney (Firedrake's Eye, 1998) have mined this turbulent setting to produce dark, dramatic thrillers. By contrast, Simon Hawke's mysteries draw from the Bard's comedic side. The North Carolina author, already known for his science fiction novels, casts young Shakespeare as a brilliant but neurotic desk-chair sleuth whose footwork is often done by his friend Symington "Tuck" Smythe. Critics have likened this pair to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, but a young Woody Allen and Michael Caine also come to mind. You get the idea -- if Hawke's Shakespeare went down mean streets, he'd be looking over his shoulder frequently and carrying on an entertaining monologue about the shortcomings of the city's carriages. Hawke's latest frolic, The Slaying of the Shrew, follows on his series' 2000 debut, A Mystery of Errors, in which Shakespeare and Smythe foiled a foreign plot to overthrow the English government. That initial case won them the patronage of Sir William Worley, an official in the Elizabethan-era forerunner of Her Majesty's Secret Service. Errors also introduced Smythe's love interest, the striking Elizabeth Darcie, daughter of an ambitious London merchant. When Shrew opens, young Shakespeare has yet to publish a play. He ekes out a living scribbling sonnets on behalf of noble patrons and rewriting hackneyed drama for the Queen's Men to perform at James Burbage's London theater. He shares quarters with the even less successful Smythe, a stagehand for the Queen's Men who harbors delusions of becoming an actor. These dreams are even less realistic than his plans to marry the well-heeled Elizabeth. The shrew of the title turns out to be Elizabeth's close friend, Catherine Middleton, whose status-conscious father is about to marry her off to a dimwitted, ugly but pedigreed nobleman. An ostentatious wedding celebration at the family estate is planned. The bride is to arrive by barge, dressed as Queen Cleopatra, and a play and a medieval joust will entertain the guests. "A wedding joust," said Shakespeare. "Well, why not? 'Tis an apt metaphor for the combative state of holy matrimony. Has a decision yet been made about which play shall be performed? Perhaps the groom, as Caesar, could be stabbed to death on stage while the bride, as Cleopatra, made a complete asp of herself in front of all the wedding guests." Shakespeare's mood becomes even more acerbic when he learns what play the Queen's Men will be performing at the event. The well-meaning but unthinking Smythe has suggested to Burbage that they present Shakespeare's new comedy about mistaken identity. Unfortunately, that play is only half written. While Shakespeare struggles to complete his comedy in time for the wedding, it becomes clear to the reader that other characters in this story are headed for tragedy. Catherine Middleton is a shrew, all right, but in view of her forced marriage, she's a shrew with good reason. Her rants against men inspire her friend Elizabeth to find fault with poor Smythe and break off their courtship. Attempting to get back into the maiden Darcie's good graces -- and suspicious that she might have found a new love interest -- Smythe follows her around the Middleton estate on the eve of the wedding and spots her going into a garden maze at dusk. Wandering that dark maze, he fails to find Elizabeth but does overhear a chilling conversation on the other side of a hedge. Two men are plotting to impersonate noblemen with the aim of marrying a wealthy young woman and making off with her dowry. The woman in question turns out to be Catherine's younger sister, Blanche. Smythe's accidental sleuthing -- and Shakespeare's gibes about the violent aspects of marriage -- acquire far more sinister meanings on the day of the wedding. When Cleopatra's elaborate barge arrives for the wedding festivities, Catherine refuses to rise from her bridal throne. A group of the Queen's Men rush on board to discover that she's dead. The dull groom stands twittering on the dock ("Is ... is there to be no wedding, then?"), but Smythe and Shakespeare spot a connection to the plot overheard in the maze. Blanche Middleton has suddenly become the marriageable daughter with the sizeable dowry, and an imposter is out to win her. Shakespeare and Smythe, hurrying to Catherine's aid, find at her feet a bottle that apparently contains a poison. After conferring with their patron, Sir William Worley, who is a guest at these nuptials, Shakespeare hies back to London with the evidence of murder. There he confers with an apothecary, Granny Meg, an eerie old hag who is clearly destined to be the model for the witches in Macbeth. What Granny Meg reveals about the potion sends Shakespeare dashing back to the Middleton estate, but he arrives too late to prevent a tragicomedy of errors that recalls -- or, rather, foreshadows -- the action in a few well-known Shakespearean dramas. To say which ones would reveal this book's ending, though not the identity of the murderer, which remains a tantalizing mystery right up to the final pages. While this Shrew is a light read, it's hardly a trifle. Hawke spices his story with allusions to the Bard's works that will delight and impress readers of Shakespeare without sending everyone else running for the reference books. The "comedy about mistaken identity" that was to have been Shakespeare's debut at the Middleton wedding sounds very much like what is believed to have been his first performed play, Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Taming of the Shrew was his second published play -- inspired, Hawke suggests, by the Middleton wedding fiasco. "Perhaps you can write a play about what happened here," said Worley, with a smile. "'Twould be a tragedy, of course. Quite worthy of the Greeks, I should think. Murder, greed, imposture, lust and madness, dead bodies strewn everywhere about ...." "Been done," said Smythe. "Still," said Shakespeare, scratching his chin thoughtfully, "'tis an idea ..." -- \| January 2002 Karen G. Anderson is a contributing editor of January Magazine.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line258
__label__wiki	0.623255	0.623255	Double Selfie or, the simple solution to all our problems in the Middle East Can two women - one Palestinian, and one Israeli - join forces to try to win a Jerusalem-based selfie contest - without killing each other in the process? Double Selfie is a ‘satire with a heart,’ a buddy film meets “Borat.” Much of the production (in English, Hebrew, and Arabic) will be high energy improvisation - actors thinking and risking on their feet, interacting with real people, in locations both public and private. The story takes place during the 2015 - 2017 “Stabbing Intifada,” which has raised the heat in Israel/Palestine, and especially in Jerusalem. Maryam Abdulazziz and Sara Goldstein are thoroughly modern residents of Jerusalem. Both have just turned 30, and both are now rediscovering their religious roots - but with their own feminist emphasis. Both recently decided to wear head coverings - stylish print hijab on Maryam, and “mitpachat” head scarf on Sara. When not on Facebook or going to Jerusalem music clubs, in our opening scene they are at their mutual Ground Zero: Sara praying at the Kotel (the Western Wall), Maryam up above at Al Aqsa. Maryam's Jerusalem family home is due to be demolished by the Israeli authorities for unauthorized building, unless they pay a $25,000 fine. That night, her eye is caught by a Facebook ad – a photo of the Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall below, with the headline, “ARE YOU ONE OF THE TRULY COURAGEOUS ONES?” She reads on: "Can one Jew and one Muslim create peace in the Middle East?" Later, Maryam to her friend: “How in Allah's name am I going to meet a Jew who wants to do this contest with me?! A Palestinian and a Jew have to take a selfie together in 10 different places they announce on the website. This is evil! One challenge is announced each week - the pair who gets successfully to the end with the most Instagram ‘likes’ wins FIFTY. THOUSAND. DOLLARS.” The next day, a dusty Old City hummus joint. Maryam awkwardly starts a conversation with a Jewish girl at the neighboring table, who with her head wrap, looks like a damn settler: Sara. In the next few days, under pressure from the deadline of the impending first Challenge, the two women become Facebook friends, and decide to jump in together to the Contest. First Challenge: Double Selfie, on top of the Temple Mount. This problematic place - where a giant riot started the Second Intifada, and where more and more right wing Jews believe the Third Temple will be built one day soon, ushering in the coming of the Messiah. One sunny morning, the two women meet next to the Dome and pose - a Moslem and a Jew - “click”. They upload it to the contest website via iPhone, just in time - success. Our story careens ahead, the next Challenge concerns those male religious authority figures: Bring a big happy dog to the office of a (real) sheikh, interview him about the negative view of dogs in Islam, and for bonus points, include the sheikh - with the dog in his lap - in the Selfie. Dogs are viewed traditionally as "unclean" - and if one licks you, a ritual bath is needed. Sara's black lab, Sam, "unclean"? No way! The challenges done in public might be the hardest: (and how many of the contestant pairs are same sex?): Lip lock in public, surrounded by 100 Orthodox Jewish men in black. “Oh my God.” “Don’t worry - if Borat could do it, so can we.” And they go to (the real) Mea Shearim, the Orthodox neighborhood, and risk life and limb - for a simple kiss. But meanwhile, in the background of all these double selfie adventures, the “Stabbing Intifada” continues - teen boys knife other teen boys, and soldiers shoot to kill. The stabbers are heroes to many Palestinians, and simple terrorists to many Israelis. One morning, Sara discovers an inflammatory graphic on Maryam's Facebook page - a big heroic knife - the red blood on it becoming part of a Palestinian flag design. The women meet to plan the next Challenge, but have a huge blow out. Shouting and screaming, they're rescued by the bonds of their feminism, their anger towards the authoritarian men in their religions - and by humor. Maryam asks Sara, "If I can get you to laugh, you won't kill me?!" Maryam redeems herself by showing Sara a crazy cartoon of a hairy old rabbi and sheikh - the sheikh is naked, kneeling, a big yellow celebrity-style star covering his anus, with words above, “MOHAMMED, A STAR IS BORN.” Maryam adds, “Men - they’re all freaking gay.” Sara agrees: "Yep, or terrified of being gay." Friends again, they slowly unwrap their coverings, revealing for the first time (to us and to each other) their hair. Big grins. Two beautiful women. Then they cover their hair again, wearing each other’s cloth wraps. They passed the challenge on the Temple Mount - so, next week's challenge right below, at the Western Wall, should be easy: You're experts at getting past checkpoints by now, so it's time to enter the heart of Judaism: you have to pray together at the Western Wall. Time for a bit of a disguise at the Kotel (the Hebrew name for the ancient Wall): both women wear Jewish hair coverings, easy enough. But Sarah proposes they go for a special selfie: in the last few years, women activists have often been arrested at the Western Wall for wearing prayer shawls (the Jewish tallit) and holding a Torah (both of these considered by Orthodox Jews to be strictly for males). So of course Sara makes sure they each wear a tallit, and she smuggles in a tiny torah scroll, which she unrolls for the double selfie, quickly! - click! - two women daring to stand up for their feminine spiritual power. And then of course there's the Tel Aviv Challenge: Your job - you two peace seekers - is to find the most rad double selfie in the City of Sun and Sin - Tel Aviv. The beach is the obvious classic choice, but what other pairs would pose there wearing matching super-stylish, made-in-France, psychedelic burkinis? Success after success. A couple days after they return from Tel Aviv, they get an email: Congrats - you have reached the Semifinals! Five pairs of contestants will be given two round-trip tickets to New York City. That’s right - you will have exactly twenty four hours to take the most daring, unforgettable Double Selfie you can think of - anywhere in the Big Apple. Sitting eating hummus, the women scratch their heads on this one. Wow. Sara grew up in New York, Maryam has never been to the United States. While on that long 12-hour flight, they brainstorm: In front of Lady Liberty? Something wild in Times Square? Empire State Building? They arrive in Manhattan and exploring the busy streets, they realize: No, not at all. The time is right for a double selfie in front of that evil Tower of Trump: the two women in a big hug - wearing special head gear. They prod the (real) policeman there, “I’m Muslim and she’s Jewish, we’re getting married and want to deliver Donald an invitation to our wedding - just joking!” And they may just (really) get arrested during this selfie. And a day later, they return to Israstine: will their making up after all those knock-down fights pay off? Will their bonds as women overcome their conflicts over the big mess in "Israstine"? Will they be able to delay Maryam’s family’s demolition order long enough to rise to the indescribable Final Challenge? - where they have to return to the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa, and take a final selfie....while they do what in that holy place?! Or, will all their progress be wasted - an impossible friendship in an impossible Land - and everything go down the drain? Double Selfie brings together a combustible, outrageous mix of feminism and women's spirituality, Middle Eastern politics and religion - Arab vs. Jew, Palestinian vs. Israeli, women vs. men, reality vs. fiction. Treatment © 2017, Harvey Stein Screenplay available on request. Business plan (for potential investors), also available on request. Contributions of any amount can be made here: http://tinyurl.com/jerusalemny-donation Contributions (tax-deductible in the United States) of $50 or more, can be made here: http://tinyurl.com/d8hq9kd (All contributors will receive a digital download of Harvey's recent feature documentary, "A Third Way - Settlers and Palestinians as Neighbors.") Double Selfie is a multicultural production of Jerusalem New York Productions, committed to a local cast and crew of Israelis and Palestinians working and creating together. As part of our vision, during production, we will assemble a crew of up to 10 teens from both groups, to be mentored in our "digital media school", that will be a part of the project from start to finish, teens learning skills of writing, production, and video editing. Our project will also have a global component: we will solicit “double selfie” submissions from pairs of people around the world, “You and your Other” - in similar challenges to the ones in our story. The submissions with the most votes will be included in our movie. Lastly: we are actively looking for corporate sponsorship in the areas of women’s fashion and sportswear. Both main female characters are stylish and hip - starting with their head coverings, and will be wearing cutting edge unique print fabrics as head coverings. Written by Harvey Stein and Vered Post Director: Harvey Stein Producers: Gidi Avivi, Harvey Stein, Melissa Athens CONTACT: Harvey Stein email: harvey33@gmail.com www.jerusalemny.com/doubleselfie777 phone: 972-50-212-8132 skype: harveystein33 Harvey Stein is an Israeli-American filmmaker from New York City, now living in Jerusalem, or as he sometimes calls it, “JerusaQuds.” His last feature documentary, “A Third Way - Settlers and Palestinians as Neighbors”, about Rabbi Menachem Froman (the notorious “settler rabbi for peace”), Ali Abu Awwad, and others, is now being shown extensively both in the United States and Western Europe. His previous screenplays have won two awards, and he is looking forward to returning to the world of fictional stories. Vered Post is an Israeli writer and performer. She was a co-writer for the original Israeli/Palestinian Sesame Street. She co-wrote several produced Israeli screenplays, and wrote the hit play "MacBroth", a takeoff on Macbeth, that had a 4-week run at NYC's La Mama. She also performed for many years in the Train Theater. She also teaches empowerment workshops for women on how to make short videos to help their business or career. Gidi Avivi (producer) is an Israeli film producer, the founder of Vice Versa Films. For more than 20 years, Avivi has produced successful Israeli documentary and fiction films, and TV series, many of which have been co-productions with other countries. His last film was ”East Jerusalem, West Jerusalem”, which followed the making of Israeli pop star and peace activist David Broza's hit CD of the same name.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line260
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__label__wiki	0.870099	0.870099	Legal Risk Management in Electronic Commerce - Managing the risk of cross-border law enforcement Author: Jan Trzaskowski Webdesign: MERE.INFO Ex Tuto Publishing, October 2005 (ISBN 87-991018-0-7) www.legalriskmanagement.net 2. The Internal Market 3. Public Law Enforcement 4. Private Law Enforcement 5. Risk Mitigation 7. Literature and References 7.1. Books 7.2. Articles etc. 7.3. Acts, Regulations, Conventions etc. Andersen, Mads Bryde, IT-Retten, Forlaget IT-Retten, 2001, www.it-retten.dk Baldwin, Robert (Editor), Law and Uncertainty - Risks and Legal Processes, Kluwer Law International, 1997 Balmer, John M. T. and Greyser, Stephen A., Revealing the Corporation, Routledge, 2003 Barnard, Catherine, The Substantive Law of the EU - The Four Freedoms, Oxford, 2004 Bassiouni, M. 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__label__wiki	0.56515	0.56515	Projects under evaluation (nov 2019) Emotion Networking as a Participatory Approach with Towns and Citizens’ Heritage (ENPATCH) EUROPE FOR CITIZENS Strand2: Democratic engagement and civic participation 615528-CITIZ-1-2019-2-NL-CITIZ-NT ENPATCH is a project about contested heritage, discussed and recognized in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, as a source of potential tension in urban communities in Europe. It brings together citizens, civil society, policy makers and experts in five diverse European cities (Amsterdam, Antwerp, Lisbon, Nicosia and Ohrid) in a common network to develop and apply novel participatory methods of democratic engagement and civic participation with heritage that benefits social cohesion and intercultural dialogue. ENpatch aims: To support and develop civil society initiatives and policy approaches, tools and instruments on contested heritage in five major European towns; To pilot the “Emotion Networking” method (EN-method) with citizens and policy makers on selected, locally relevant and socio-politically urgent cases of contested heritage; To empower local authorities and civil society with policy tools to reduce the risk of escalation of conflict around contested heritage; To build a long-lasting and expanding structural cooperation framework between large urban areas in Europe in the form of a sustainable city (citizen and policy) network on contested heritage. Research network: Reinwardt Akademy, Amsterdam Coord.; Omilos Istorikou Dialogou Kai Epeunas, Nicosia; Antwerpen Kunstenstad, Antwerpen; Dep Museology ULHT, Lisbon; Stichting Imagine Identity and Culture, Amsterdam; Municipality of Ohrid, Ohrid.Kosovo Budget: 151210,00 € Race and gender subjectivities in National Integration models BASENJI Call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships) Proposal ID 890683 (24 months) Researcher: Edileny Tome da Mata One of the main challenges with Europe is the migration process and the perspective of integration/inclusion and the diversity management on one hand how local governments deal with migrant issues and in particular, with the integration process. In our proposal, we want to focus on social and cultural topics of migrants’ integration and the impact that will be at the local and regional level, in Lisbon, Coimbra, Seville, and Huelva, through the perspective of migrants’ integration and inclusion policies. We mean, instead of focusing on nationalities and cultural differences of migrants as the way to integrate in a two way process, we aim to change it to the migrant’s subjectivities (racial, gender, sexual orientation, religion...) and, thus, look for an equal (through the equity) field of integration. In this proposal, we focus on racial (black) and gender topics that will lead us to revitalize intersectional realities in Portugal and in Spain that can be referenced to Black migrants’ communities in their process of integration in the host country. In order to fulfill the objectives set out above, we will carry out a rigorous literature review. In addition, we will hold a dialogue with civil and academic society, as well as with the public and private bodies and authorities involved in the field of integration of migrants in Seville, Huelva, Coimbra, and Lisbon. Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity: Theory and practice of Sociomuseology (2018-2024) Judite Santos Primo – Scientific Employment, Principal Researcher (FCT – CEECIND/04717/2017) The topic of the present research is part of the School of Thought recognised as Sociomuseology within the scope of Social Sciences and its area of application is museological practices that are inclusive dialogical and geared towards human development (De Varine H. 2005). This Sociomuseology has its roots in Paulo Freire methodology particularly in its dialogical and inclusive dimensions and has given important contributions to the widening of the notions of museum and heritage to the distinction between public and users to the respect for cultural diversity and gender equality and to the role and social responsibility of Museums. This new conception of museums has been explicitly recognised by UNESCO in the recent Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums and Collections of their Diversity and their Role in Society (Nov. 2015). Bearing in mind that Sociomuseology is a school of thought still under construction the main goal of the research will be to contribute to clarifying its concepts aiming to consequently further its theoretical depth. This research project to be implemented in an integrated way with the UNESCO Chair will be based on a dialogical relation with museums and museological processes recognised and acting in the field of Sociomuseology. The project will be carried out based on the existing partnerships of the Department of Museology and on the network created within the scope of the UNESCO Chair which will inevitably be expanded in due course. Judite Santos Primo – Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico – Individual – Investigadora principal (FCT – CEECIND/04717/2017) COSMUS - Community School Museums, 2018-1-PT01-KA201-047472 ERASMUS+ COSMUS - Community School Museums, seeks to value European cultural heritage as a central element of diversity and intercultural dialogue. The project aims to establish strategic and virtuous interactions, promoting intercultural dialogue, in the school and community contexts, with a sense of inclusion and participation. The mission of COSMUS is to establish learning networks, to stimulate the sharing of experiences, the development of competences, with a view to building knowledge through collaboration and innovation. Research network:Externato Frei Luís de Sousa, Portugal Coordenação; Colegiul National de Arta “Octav Bancila”, Roménia; Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 1, Polónia; Istituto Istruzione, Itália; Ismail Sefa Ozler, Turquia; Kallitehniko Gymnasio, Grécia; Escola Superior de Educação Jean Piaget; Eekhout Academy, Bélgica; Associações Almada Mundo, Portugal; Meraky, Espanha. The Department of Museology was invited to become member of the Adviser Board in order to contribute to the construction of learning and practice communities, mobilized to understand cultural diversity, from a perspective of global citizenship; collaborate in the preparation of the first (2019) and second (2020) mobilitys of "First short-term joint staff training events"; Contribute to the preparation of the intellectual outputs of the project; Participate in the organization of the final conference (2021). (Agreement memo 15.01.2019) Budget: 344 289,00€ https://communityschoolsmuseums.eu/ Ágora – Encounters between the city and arts: exploring new urbanities PTDC/ATP-GEO/3208/2014, CEG-ULisboa (Partnership) The fundamental goal of this project is to know how, in a context of crisis, transformations and resistances take place in the city through the arts and artists, configuring lines of continuity and others of rupture. The contribution of arts for the transformation of the city is the result of a tension between domination and resistance, in which the former is linked to commodification and to cities’ competition and the latter to the reflexive, critical and disruptive impulses that seem to be intrinsic to a wide array of contemporary art expressions. Hence, it becomes relevant to grasp up to what extent artistic dynamics are connected to quarrels between the forces of the market, political powers and the refusal of the neoliberal model, particularly in the Lisbon metropolis. Research Team: Ana Estevens (coord.), Agustín Cócola Gant, Ana Moutinho, Aquilino Machado, Daniel Paiva, Eduardo Brito Henriques, João Sarmento, Leandro Gabriel, André Carmo, Mariana Gaspar e Miguel Santos. The Lusófona University CeiEd (Dep. Museologu) is partner of the project; tasks coordinated by Ana Moutinho. Budget: 154 949 € https://agoraprojecto.wordpress.com/ Exhibition design innovation in educational context To adapt, disseminate and evaluate exhibition resources in the field of new information technologies, for the qualification of exhibitions’ communication in schools, using as tools "Augmented Reality" and " Body as Interface" technologies. The project is developed in a network of Secondary Schools, linking students, teachers and employees through worshops articulated with curatorship of participatory thematic exhibitions. Cross-sectional work involving various areas of training such as: computing, arts, cultural studies. Network of institutions involved: Aquilino Ribeiro Oeiras School Grouping, Amora Secondary School, Cuba, ESA, Professional School, Parede School Grouping, S. Domingos de Rana Grouping of Schools. Research team: Mário Moutinho PhD, Ana Moutinho Phd, Manuel Costa Leite PhD, Mariana Grilo Msc, Luís Gonçalves Msc . Financied by Cofac.Crl Sociomuseology + Paulo Freire study group Sociomuseology + Paulo Freire study group is a collective of researchers of the Master and Doctorate programs in Museology at Lusophone University-Lisbon, with the support of the UNESCOChair “Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity”, CeiED - Center for Studies Interdisciplinary Education and Development, MINOM - International Movement for a New Museology and EducaMuseu project. Open to the participation of the entire academic community of Lusófona University, with emphasis on members of CeiED's Research Unit. The group is also open to outside participation and aims to reach school teachers and professionals who work in non-formal educational spaces such as museums, science and culture centers. The meetings are held monthly and dynamized through “Culture Cycles” (according to Freire's terminology) are conducted by invited researchers, always having as their generating theme one of Paulo Freire's works. In a second phase of the project, it is planned to organize courses and seminars on Paulo Freire's work open to the general public. Objectives: Disseminate Paulo Freire's ideas, Understand the importance of Freire's ideas in the context of Sociomuseology, produce academic material (reviews, interviews and articles) and promote seminars and courses Research team: Moana Soto, Judite Primo, Mabel Cavalcanti Financied by Cofac.Crl/ Cátedra UNESCO https://www.facebook.com/groups/sociomuseologiapaulofreire/ Celebration of Coastal Culture EEA Grants, 2008-2010 Project seeks to identify the inventoried maritime heritage and promote the inventorying of new collections based on the territorial and problematic area offered to the project by each partner through the formation of a team of local inventors, identified by partners and other local organizations. Creation of a team of multidisciplinary researchers, with 3 national inventors in the field and local trainees, a Disciplinary Validation Unit, involving partners and other community institutions and organizations, and with the participation of the Portuguese Network of Fishing Women. Research network: Fishermen's Mutual Lisbon (Coord) ,ADEPE - Associação para o Desenvolvimento de Peniche, ADPM - Associação de Defesa do Património de Mértola, Barcos do Norte (Viana do Castelo), Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Planeamento Regional, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Cooperativa Porto de Abrigo (Ponta Delgada). Dep. of Planning and Community Studies, Univ. Tromsø, Museu Marítimo e Regional de Ílhavo, Museu Marítim de Barcelona, Dep. Museologia da Universidade Lusófona, Financiador(es): EEA Grants EEA Financial Mechanism, Câmara Municipal de Sines *Coordination: Lorena Querol by Museology Department The Museum's Public in Portugal: characterization and motivations Sapiens Projecto nº 33546. 2002-2004 (concluído) The study, started from the premises of the public studies of museums, but, progressively was finding several limitations, reason why it began a process of searching for alternatives more in accordance with the intended goal. This objective was, in fact, to establish the methodology necessary for the development of researches that would effectively evaluate the impact of museums on society, and not only on visitors. Developing public studies based on a traditional idea of museum reduces the interest of such studies. In this sense, it was necessary to take into consideration the conceptualization of Museology, as it has been considered by the new currents of thought (and practices), generically called New Museology, Ecomuseology, Community Museology, integrating among others, the ideas of participation, local development, service provision, broad concept of heritage, territory and cultural management. Research Team: Mário Moutinho (coord), Fernando João Moreira, Francisco Esteves, Isabel Victor, Judite Primo, Zoran Roca (Universidade Lusófona), Isabel André, (Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa) Consultants: Denise Studart (Comité Internacional Educação e Acção Cultural dos Museus do ICOM Presidente CECA Brasil), Paulette MacManus, (University College London )Ximena Varela, Drexel University Filadélfia, Adriana Mortara ( pós-doc Universidade deCampinas) Projecto nº 33546 Programa plurianual FCT / Centro de Estudos de Sociomuseologia Budget 16000,00€ Recent Submitted projects not approved Emotion Networking with the Public for Inclusive Remembrance of Empire (2018) (ENPIRE) 609272-CITIZ-1 -2019-1 -NL-CITIZ-REMEM In seeking to create a public transnational conversation about Europe’s common history, the European Union European Remembrance programme supports activities in which civil society engages in reflection and debate about the continent’s dark pages. The memories and history of totalitarian regimes, world wars and genocide are thus preserved, explored and put up to offer guidance in charting the future of value-based democracy, human rights and the rule of law through many different activities, including public debates, educational resources, media productions and more. Research network:Reinwardt Akademy, Amsterdam (Coord); FARO Flemish Support for Cultural Heritage, Brussels; Stichting Imagine Identity and Culture, Amsterdam; Dep Museology ULHT, Lisbon Budget: 103.320,00€ Contextualized, media-independent purveyor of socio-cultural and historical knowledge-Storyteller (2010) Horizon 2020 / Societal Challenges Work Programme: Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies Topic: Curation of digital assets and advanced digitization. Storyteller addresses the topic DT-TRANSFORMATIONS- 12-2018- 2020: Curation of digital assets and advanced digitisation as it aims to develop a system to acquire, process and present information to users in a way that will provide them with a meaningful storyline, considering timelines, topics and the familiarity of the user with the presented topics. Research network: Agência Lusa Portugal (Coordinator), Agencia EFE Spain, Blasting News UK, Universidade Lusófona Portugal CeiEd - Dep Museology, Suite5 Cyprus, Ubitech Greece, inknow solutions Portugal Budget: 3 884 562.00 € Museums as services providers: enhance the role of Museums (2010) Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Refª: C495464983-00095359 Museums and other similar institutions are increasingly playing a prominent role in the Service Economy Sector in Europe and all over the world. Whether they are traditional museums, preserving and displaying their collections, whether museums are based on Sociomuseology and therefore anchored in concepts such as development, identity and social inclusion, all face the challenge of socially and economically assert themselves as service providers organizations. Based on the understanding of the current state and its challenges facing museums, the project aims to create the basis for a Conceptual Framework that links Museums with Services aiming at expanding innovative practices in museum programming and sustaining the transformation of new discoveries and ideas into new Services, Products and Processes. Research team: Mario Moutinho, (coorditator) Mario Antas, Judite Primo, José Bras, Maria Gonçalves, Ana Moutinho, Phd Contratado, Bolseiro Licenciado, Bolseiro Iniciação científica. Budget: 117.684,47 Reinterpreting Europe's cultural heritage: towards the 21st century library and museum? (2010) Fondazione Rosselli Italy (coord) Build up an experimental research project inspired by the “Grand Tour”, the XVII sec. characteristic journey of discovery, experiences and training for the lucky youth through Europe, considered as the first civil way for a peaceful interaction between nations. Our aim is, therefore, to create a “XXI sec. Grand Tour”, in order to consolidate the integration between national European museums and libraries, institutions that have to become integral part of Europe, able at the same time to narrate European identity and to appeal to new audience. The research project will try to rebuild the historical evolution that brought to the European identity development, through a selection of art works, books, images that our museums and libraries house, focusing in particular on three steps considered as fundamental for our roots: Classical culture; Spread of Christianity; Scientific thought This kind of ideal tale will show to the audience a virtual tour, that will make use of modern technologies, new media and web, across our history with a new and wider interpretation of our identity. The virtual tour, of course, will be just a support, an aid for the real “XXI sec. Grand Tour”, a journey that the audience could decide to do, a turistic-cultural path that will aid people to contextualize events and things in a larger and more broadminded history. Research network: Institute and Museum of the History of Science Italy, Cardiff University UK, Historical Museum of Shkodra Albania, The Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy Serbia, The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage Netherlands, Unicity Italy, Departamento de Museologia da Univ. Lusófona, Financiador(es): Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), theme 8, Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line279
__label__cc	0.610917	0.389083	Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris Finds Evolutionary Purpose In Crisis Humans within this planet now are the newest experience of the universe in what, biologically, always seems to come down to cycles: of unity to individuation, through which arises conflict, negotiations happen, cooperation is arrived at; and we go to unity again at the next higher level. And that’s why the story of evolution is so important today, to help us understand where humanity is, and what is our next step.” Elisabet Sahtouris PhD, Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Source: Interview excerpt from Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove [9 min. video] Humans Not the First to Create a “World Wide Web” In her book EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution, Sahtouris describes the evolutionary cycle of other species who, like humans today, transitioned through highly competitive phases of development: When we look anew at evolution, we see not only that other species have been as troublesome as ours, but that many a fiercely competitive situation resolved itself in a cooperative scheme. The kind of cells our bodies are made of, for example, began with the same kind of exploitation among bacteria that characterizes our historic human imperialism….. In fact, those ancient bacteria invented technologies of energy production, transportation and communications, including a World Wide Web still in existence today, during their competitive phase and then used those very technologies to bind themselves into the cooperative ventures that made our own existence possible. In the same way, we are now using essentially the same technologies, in our own invented versions, to unite ourselves into a single body of humanity that may make yet another new step in Earth’s evolution possible. If we look to the lessons of... Like Cells In A Body: Seeing Humanity As Parts Of One Organism Man’s irresistible drift away from conflict and towards cooperation is but the complete adaptation of the organism (man) to its environment (the planet, ‘wild nature’), resulting in a more intense vitality.” The above and subsequent quotes are taken from the book, The Great Illusion; the work of one Sir Norman Angell, economist, politician, author, and nobel peace prize recipient. Almost 100 years ago (1913) Angell wrote on issues which remarkably hold particular relevance today: 1) The individual as a part of a nation. 2) The nation as a part of all nations. And; 3) Man as an individual, nation, and together all nations, as one organism. The Biological Argument For Mutual Consideration Part of Angell’s argument, for mutual cooperation among people, stems from a biological observation: Now, a body, the various parts of which are so interdependent that without coordination vitality is reduced or death ensues, must be regarded, in so far as the functions in question are concerned, not as a collection of rival organisms, but as one. This is in accord with what we know of the character of living organisms in their conflict with environment. The higher the organism, the greater the elaboration and interdependence of its part, the greater the need for coordination.” Seeing Humanity As One Organism As cells must operate in mutual consideration for the body to remain healthy, Angell argues that so must the person, as a part of all people (one organism), operate the same: The individual in his sociological aspect is not the complete organism. He who attempts to live without association with his fellow dies. Nor is the nation the complete organism.... Animation Books Case Studies Children Clips connection crisis. ecology economia. economy ego ego. egoism elisabet sahtouris Experiments Film funny global happiness humor hurricane sandy Integrated World interdependence Interview Music naturaleza. nature News nicholas christakis quotes Opinion Poetry Quote Posters Quotes revolution RSA sandy Social Networks Social Psychology sociedad. society Statistics TED The Now Generation Video world Mutual Responsibility is a community and growing network of like-minded people determined to promote the value of mutual responsibility to the center of public discourse. Amalganation Magazine – Issue 1 Citas en posters Connection Circles MR TV Welcome to MR Privacy Policy © 2021 All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line280
__label__cc	0.718091	0.281909	Texas Instruments- 2017 to Present North Texas Stockroom Manager Most of the wafers produced by Texas Instruments are created in fabs in North Texas, each of which are supported by a stockroom with thousands of spare parts for the tools and material resource planners to ensure the correct number of spare and consumable parts are in stock and transferred to the fabs as needed to support the operation. In this role I look after the physical storage and distribution of these parts and the MRP planning and inventory strategy. Mainfreight - 2011 to 2017 Branch Manager - Logistics - Nov 2014 to Nov 2017 Designed and built a 130k square foot distribution warehouse that provided distribution services to a variety of customers. Within about a year the start up operation was profitable and was quickly the most profitable operation in the US. The role involved management of all aspects of the business sales, recruiting, HR, training and finance, and operational tasks like labor, asset, and facility management. Logistics Operations Specialist- Oct 2011 to Oct 2014 I supported the operation and sale of our warehousing and distribution services in North America. Responsibilities ranged from WMS administrator for North America, RFP/RFQ support, project management for IT Dev. roll outs and major customer on-boarding, warehouse design and layout, and training. I traveled often to about 10 warehouses in the major markets in the US focusing on training, process improvement, and customer meetings. Crane Worldwide/Crane Freight - 2009-2011 Sales Support/Biz Analyst My first real job out of college. I started on the logistics side of the business doing some sales support and business solution design and implementation, with some account coordinating thrown in. A year later I was transferred to the new start-up, Crane Freight Services, to help with the start their Harley-Davidson distribution business. I worked with HD, UPS Supply Chain, HD Tier 1 Mfg's and HD stores on a daily basis. I had responsibilities ranging from accounting, to business analysis, to management of the LTL program. PepsiCo - 2008-2009 Supply Chain Sustainability Internship I was given the tall task of creating a system to capture and calculate the carbon footprint of all of PepsiCo's transportation across all of it's business units and fleets in the USA. From the Frito-lay and Pepsi route trucks to the Tropicana Train and loads of potatoes from Idaho. In the end I calculated that they released more emissions than small countries. Unfortunately my internship ended after the fall out of 2008 and I left due to a hiring freeze. CEVA Logistics - 2008 Freight Management Internship My first "career" experience. I started by making standard operating procedures manuals for many departments, then spent time with the Lean/Six Sigma team. I finished up my time at CEVA by creating and implementing a yard management system for their new DFW Airport location, which included setting up a vendor to paint numbers on every door and yard parking spot, creating an IT platform for users throughout the building to be able to check on the status of trailers in the yard, and the operational processes that needed to be followed to maintain the system. University of North Texas - 2007- 2008 Peer Tutor As part of the Student Support Services program, I tutored students in business and math subjects like Accounting, Economics, Algebra, Calculus etc. Tutoring others really helped me to understand these topics very well. Tyler Junior College - 2005- 2007 A Federal Grant funded a support program called TRiO, which paid me to tutor students in almost every subject available. I did specialize in math related subjects, including working the open math lab. City of Tyler, TX - 2006- 2007 Keep Tyler Beautiful Internship I approached the city and offered to be an unpaid intern for Keep Tyler Beautiful because I really supported its mission. While there I assisted with organizing many community clean ups and education/awareness events such as park cleanups, recycling drives and tree plantings, to name a few.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line283
__label__wiki	0.753814	0.753814	Patent application title: MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE Inventors: Masaki Mori (Shizuoka-Ken, JP) Tomoyuki Oda (Shizuoka-Ken, JP) Assignees: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION IPC8 Class: AF02F100FI USPC Class: 1231932 Class name: Internal-combustion engines particular piston and enclosing cylinder construction cylinder detail A multi-cylinder engine with a crankcase integrated cylinder block including a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores, a plurality of crank chambers formed by an upper crankcase and a lower crankcase, a bulkhead that partitions between the cylinder bores and the crank chambers, and a honing release portion having a cylindrical honing release surface formed continuously with the cylinder bore in the upper crankcase and the bulkhead. The honing release surface forms an arcuate recessed portion in the bulkhead, the bulkhead is formed with a communication hole that includes a first opening edge on a side of the cylinder bore, a second opening edge on a side of the crank chamber having an opening width decreasing with a distance from the cylinder bore, and a third opening edge that extends substantially in parallel with the cylinder axis. 1. A multi-cylinder engine comprising: a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinder bores; an upper crankcase and a lower crankcase that form, in combination, a plurality of crank chambers corresponding to the cylinder bores; a bulkhead that partitions between the cylinder bores and the crank chambers adjacent to each other; and a honing release portion having a cylindrical honing release surface formed continuously with the cylinder bore in the upper crankcase and the bulkhead, wherein the cylinder block and the upper crankcase are formed integrally, the honing release surface is formed with a diameter larger than the cylinder bore, and an arcuate recessed portion is formed in the bulkhead, the bulkhead is formed with a communication hole that communicates with the crank chambers adjacent each other, the bulkhead including a first opening edge on a side of the cylinder bore extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a cylinder axis, a second opening edge on a side of the crank chamber having an opening width decreasing with a distance from the cylinder bore, and a third opening edge that extends substantially in parallel with the cylinder axis and connects between the first opening edge and the second opening edge, and the second opening edge is formed from the cylinder bore to the recessed portion to prevent the honing release surface from being divided. 2. The multi-cylinder engine according to claim 1, wherein the communication hole has a maximum opening width in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cylinder axis, which is larger than a width of the recessed portion. 3. The multi-cylinder engine according to claim 1, wherein the first opening edge and the third opening edge are disposed, in position, on a side of the cylinder bore. 4. A multi-cylinder engine comprising: a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinder bores; an upper crankcase and a lower crankcase that form, in combination, a plurality of crank chambers corresponding to the cylinder bores, the upper crankcase being formed integrally with the cylinder block; and a bulkhead that partitions between the cylinder bores and the crank chambers adjacent to each other, wherein the bulkhead is formed with: a communication hole that includes a first opening edge on a side of the cylinder bore extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a cylinder axis and a second opening edge on a side of the crank chamber having an opening width decreasing with a distance from the cylinder bore so as to establish communication between the cylinder bores and the crank chambers adjacent to each other; a bearing half portion that constitutes a journal bearing in which a crankshaft is journaled in a joint surface between the bearing half portion and the lower crankcase; and a pilot bolt hole as a fastening hole for a fastening member for fastening, to the bulkhead, a bearing cap that constitutes the journal bearing together with the bearing half portion, and wherein a clearance between the communication hole and the pilot bolt hole is larger than a clearance between a circle whose diameter is a maximum opening width of the communication hole in a direction of the cylinder axis and the pilot bolt hole. 5. The multi-cylinder engine according to claim 4, wherein the fastening hole is formed with a female screw portion, and a clearance between the communication hole and the female screw portion is larger than a clearance between the circle and the female screw portion. 6. The multi-cylinder engine according to claim 4, wherein the communication hole has a first opening area at a position of the cylinder bore side from a center of the circle and a second opening area at a position of the crank chamber side from the center of the circle, the first opening area is larger than half of an area of the circle, and the second opening area is smaller than half of the area of the circle. 7. The multi-cylinder engine according to claim 4, wherein the communication hole has an opening area larger than the area of the circle. PRIORITY CLAIM [0001] This patent application claims priority to Japanese Patent Application No. 2010-164294, filed Jul. 21, 2010, and Japanese Patent Application No. 2010-160684, filed Jul. 15, 2010, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] Disclosed embodiments relate to a multi-cylinder engine particularly provided with a crankcase integrated cylinder block. [0004] 2. Related Art [0005] For a multi-cylinder engine, particularly, a multi-cylinder four-stroke cycle engine mounted in a motorcycle, in order to reduce the number of components or assembling steps, there is known a multi-cylinder engine including a crankcase integrated cylinder block in which a cylinder block including a cylinder bore and an upper crankcase that forms an upper half of a crank chamber are integrally formed. [0006] Such a multi-cylinder engine including a crankcase integrated cylinder block includes a bulkhead (or partition wall) that partitions between adjacent cylinder bores and crank chambers, and the bulkhead has a communication hole that provides communication between the adjacent crank chambers. The communication hole acts to reduce pump loss caused by compression of air in a crank chamber in a piston downward-moving process or to reduce resistance to stirring caused by oil splashed in the crank chamber and mixed with air (for example, see Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2005-69170)). [0007] In order to reduce a weight of an engine, a crankcase integrated cylinder block is formed of an aluminum alloy by casting. In this case, a cylinder inner wall surface, that is a slide surface with respect to a piston and forms a cylinder bore, is plated with metal such as nickel to prevent adhesion wear to the piston. [0008] A method of plating the cylinder inner wall surface includes a so-called dipping method performed by dipping the entire crankcase integrated cylinder block in a treatment tank, and a method of blocking a crank chamber side end of a cylinder bore with a jig, and passing a plating solution from a cylinder head side of the cylinder bore (for example, see Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 8-261055)). The method of blocking one end of the cylinder bore consumes smaller amounts of various plating solutions and requires less treatment time than the so-called dipping method. [0009] The method of blocking one end of the cylinder bore to plate the cylinder inner wall surface described in Patent Document 2 requires a seal surface, which is not required in the so-called dipping method. The seal surface is a surface against which the jig to block the crank chamber side end of the cylinder bore is abutted, and a surface for keeping the inside of the cylinder bore liquid-tight so as to prevent the various plating solutions from leaking from the cylinder bore. [0010] The crankcase integrated cylinder block includes a honing release portion having a honing release surface with a diameter larger than the cylinder bore continuously with the crank chamber side end of the cylinder bore. The honing release surface is a surface for releasing a honing edge of a honing machine in honing a cylinder bore, and used as a seal surface in plating the cylinder inner wall surface. [0011] The crankcase integrated cylinder block has a communication hole that provides communication between adjacent crank chambers. The communication hole is positioned closer to a crank chamber than a lower end of a piston ring or a piston skirt at the lowermost stage of the piston at a bottom dead center in a boundary between the cylinder bore and the crank chamber, that is, near the honing release surface. [0012] Thus, if an opening diameter of the communication hole is simply increased to further the reduce pump loss or resistance to stirring, the communication hole divides the honing release surface, and the method of blocking one end of the cylinder bore to plate the cylinder inner wall surface cannot be applied. [0013] On the other hand, incidentally, the bulkhead partitioning the cylinder bore and the crank chamber also includes a bearing half portion that constitutes a journal bearing portion in which a crankshaft is journaled, and the engine includes a bearing cap that constitutes a journal bearing together with the bearing half portion of the bulkhead. The bearing cap is secured by fastening a fastening member such as a bolt in a fastening hole formed in the bulkhead. The fastening hole is, a so-called bolt hole, includes a female screw portion, and is placed adjacent to the bearing half portion. [0014] That is, there is also known a crankcase integrated cylinder block having a rounded rectangular communication hole extending in a direction perpendicular to a cylinder axis, that is, a circumferential direction of a cylindrical surface that forms a cylinder bore (for example, see Patent Document 1). [0015] For the communication hole extending in the direction perpendicular to the cylinder axis, a fastening hole for fastening a bearing cap to a bulkhead or a prepared hole thereof is placed close to an opening edge of a communication hole, which may reduce strength and durability against damage that occurs in the fastening hole or the prepared hole. [0016] The bulkhead also includes a bearing half portion that constitutes a journal bearing portion in which a crankshaft is journaled, and the engine includes a bearing cap that constitutes a journal bearing together with the bearing half portion of the bulkhead. The bearing cap is secured by fastening a fastening member such as a bolt in a fastening hole formed in the bulkhead. The fastening hole is, a so-called bolt hole, includes a female screw portion, and is placed adjacent to the bearing half portion. [0017] A crankcase integrated cylinder block has been known having a rounded rectangular communication hole extending in a direction perpendicular to a cylinder axis, that is, a circumferential direction of a cylindrical surface that forms a cylinder bore (for example, see Patent Document 1). [0019] Disclosed embodiments were conceived in consideration of the circumstances encountered in the prior art mentioned above. Disclosed embodiments provide a multi-cylinder engine provided with a crankcase integrated cylinder block in which a communication hole having a maximum opening area is formed in a bulkhead that partitions a cylinder bore and a crank chamber without dividing a honing release surface formed continuously with the cylinder bore. [0020] Disclosed embodiments also provide a multi-cylinder engine provided with a crankcase integrated cylinder block capable of providing a sufficient clearance between a fastening hole for fastening a bearing cap or a prepared hole (pilot bolt hole) thereof and an opening edge of a communication hole, and improving strength and durability against damage that occurs in the fastening hole or the pilot bolt hole. [0021] According to disclosed embodiments, these features can be achieved by providing, in one aspect, a multi-cylinder engine which includes a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinder bores; an upper crankcase and a lower crankcase that form, in combination, a plurality of crank chambers corresponding to the cylinder bores; a bulkhead that partitions between the cylinder bores and the crank chambers adjacent to each other; and a honing release portion having a cylindrical honing release surface formed continuously with the cylinder bore in the upper crankcase and the bulkhead, wherein the cylinder block and the upper crankcase are formed integrally, the honing release surface is formed with a diameter larger than the cylinder bore, and an arcuate recessed portion is formed in the bulkhead, the bulkhead is formed with a communication hole that communicates with the crank chambers adjacent each other, the bulkhead including a first opening edge on a side of the cylinder bore extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a cylinder axis, a second opening edge on a side of the crank chamber having an opening width decreasing with a distance from the cylinder bore, and a third opening edge that extends substantially in parallel with the cylinder axis and connects between the first opening edge and the second opening edge, and the second opening edge is formed from the cylinder bore to the recessed portion to prevent the honing release surface from being divided. [0022] According to at least one disclosed embodiment, in the multi-cylinder engine, the crankcase integrated cylinder block can be formed with a communication hole having a maximum opening area in the bulkhead that partitions the cylinder bore and the crank chamber without dividing the honing release surface formed continuously with the cylinder bore. [0023] According to another disclosed embodiment, these features can be also achieved by providing a multi-cylinder engine including a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinder bores; an upper crankcase and a lower crankcase that form, in combination, a plurality of crank chambers corresponding to the cylinder bores, the upper crankcase being formed integrally with the cylinder block; and a bulkhead that partitions between the cylinder bores and the crank chambers adjacent to each other, wherein the bulkhead is formed with a communication hole that includes a first opening edge on a side of the cylinder bore extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a cylinder axis and a second opening edge on a side of the crank chamber having an opening width decreasing with a distance from the cylinder bore so as to establish communication between the cylinder bores and the crank chambers adjacent to each other; a bearing half portion that constitutes a journal bearing in which a crankshaft is journaled in a joint surface between the bearing half portion and the lower crankcase; and a pilot bolt hole as a fastening hole for a fastening member for fastening, to the bulkhead, a bearing cap that constitutes the journal bearing together with the bearing half portion, and wherein a clearance between the communication hole and the pilot bolt hole is larger than a clearance between a circle whose diameter is a maximum opening width of the communication hole in a direction of the cylinder axis and the pilot bolt hole. [0024] According to at least one disclosed embodiment, in the crankcase integrated cylinder block of the multi-cylinder engine, the fastening hole or the pilot bolt hole thereof for fastening the bearing cap is sufficiently separated in structure from the opening edge of the communication hole, thus improving the strength and durability against damage which may be caused from the fastening hole or prepared pilot bolt hole. [0025] The nature and further characteristic features will be made clearer from preferred embodiment described hereunder with reference to the accompanying drawings. [0026] In the accompanying drawings: [0027] FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an engine to which a crankcase integrated cylinder block of a multi-cylinder engine according to one disclosed embodiment is applied; [0028] FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the engine to which the crankcase integrated cylinder block, viewed from a different direction from that of FIG. 1, according to another disclosed embodiment is applied; [0029] FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing a cylinder block and a crankcase of the multi-cylinder engine to which the crankcase integrated cylinder block is applied; [0030] FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the crankcase integrated cylinder block of the multi-cylinder engine according to the disclosed embodiments; [0031] FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the crankcase integrated cylinder block of a multi-cylinder engine, viewed from a different direction from that of FIG. 1, according to another disclosed embodiment; [0032] FIG. 6 is an illustrated sectional view showing a communication hole region of the crankcase integrated cylinder block of a multi-cylinder engine according to the disclosed embodiments; [0033] FIG. 7 is an illustrated perspective sectional view showing the communication hole region of the crankcase integrated cylinder block according to the disclosed embodiments; [0034] FIG. 8 is an enlarged perspective view showing the communication hole region of the crankcase integrated cylinder block according to the disclosed embodiments; [0035] FIG. 9 is a bottom view showing a relationship between a cylinder bore and a bulkhead of the crankcase integrated cylinder block of the multi-cylinder engine according to the disclosed embodiments; [0036] FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the relationship between the cylinder bore and the bulkhead of the crankcase integrated cylinder block of the multi-cylinder engine according to the disclosed embodiments; and [0037] FIG. 11 is an illustrated sectional view showing a communication hole region of the crankcase integrated cylinder block of a multi-cylinder engine according to another disclosed embodiment. DESCRIPTION OF THE DISCLOSED EMBODIMENTS [0038] Embodiments of a multi-cylinder engine provided with a crankcase integrated cylinder block according to the present invention will be described hereunder with reference to FIGS. 1 to 11. It is further to be noted that terms "upper", "lower", "right", "left" and the like terms indicating direction or like are used herein with reference to the illustrations of the drawings and an actually installed state of the engine. [0039] As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, an engine (multi-cylinder engine) 3, to which the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 is applied, is a four-cycle multi-cylinder engine, and more specifically, an in-line four-cylinder engine including four cylinders arranged in series. The engine 3 may include a plurality of cylinders without being limited to four cylinders. [0040] The engine 3 is provided with the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 including a cylinder block 5, an upper crankcase 6, and an upper transmission case 7 integrally formed, and the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 further includes a cylinder head 8 provided on an upper surface of the cylinder block 5, a head cover 9 provided on an upper surface of the cylinder head 8, a lower crankcase 11 provided on a lower surface of the upper crankcase 6, and a lower transmission case 12 formed on a lower surface of the upper transmission case 7 and formed integrally with the lower crankcase 11. [0041] The upper crankcase 6 and the lower crankcase 11 constitute a crankcase body (merely called crankcase, hereunder) 13. [0042] Next, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of the multi-cylinder engine according to this embodiment includes the cylinder block 5 and the upper crankcase 6 integrally casted, and includes the cylinder block 5 including a plurality of cylinder bores 21 (herein, four cylinder bores 21a, 21b, 21c and 21d), the upper crankcase 6 that forms a plurality of crank chambers 22 (herein, four crank chambers 22a, 22b, 22c and 22d) corresponding to the cylinder bores 21 together with the lower crankcase 11, and an upper bulkhead or partition wall (bulkhead) 23 that partitions between the cylinder bores 21 and the crank chambers 22. [0043] The lower crankcase 11 is assembled to the upper crankcase 6 to thereby constitute the crank chamber 22. The lower crankcase 11 includes lower bulkheads 25 opposing respectively to the upper bulkheads 23 of the upper crankcase 6. [0044] The engine 3 includes a plurality of pistons 26 (herein, four pistons 26a, 26b, 26c and 26d) inserted into the cylinder bore 21 to be reciprocally movable, a crankshaft 27 journaled in the crank chamber 22, and a plurality of connecting rods 28 (herein, four connecting rods 28a, 28b, 28c and 28d) that convert reciprocating motion of the piston 26 into rotational motion of the crankshaft 27. [0045] The crankshaft 27 includes crank pins 31 (herein, four crank pins 31a, 31b, 31c and 31d) that constitute a plurality of eccentric shafts corresponding to the pistons 26, a plurality of crank journals 32 (herein, five crank journals 32a, 32b, 32c, 32d and 32e) that are main shafts of the crankshaft 27 and disposed on opposite sides of each crank pin 31, and a crank web 33 that connects between the crank pin 31 and the crank journal 32. [0046] The connecting rod 28 includes a small end 36 journaled on a piston pin 35 provided in the piston 26, and a large end 37 journaled on the crank pin 31, and connect the piston 26 and the crankshaft 27 to each other. [0047] The upper bulkhead 23 of the upper crankcase 6 and the lower bulkhead 25 of the lower crankcase 11 partition (section) between the cylinder bores 21 and the crank chambers 22 adjacent to each other, and partition, from outside, the cylinder bores 21 and the crank chambers 22 placed at the end portions, and hence, the upper bulkheads and lower bulkheads of the number larger, one in number, than the number of cylinders are provided (herein, five upper bulkheads 23a, 23b, 23c, 23d and 23e and five lower bulkheads 25a, 25b, 25c, 25d and 25e). [0048] The upper bulkhead 23 is formed with a communication hole 38 establishing the communication between the cylinder bores 21 and the crank chambers 22 adjacent to each other. The communication hole 38 is located at a position closer to the crank chamber 22 than a lower end of a piston ring, not shown, or a piston skirt at a lowermost stage of the piston 26 at a bottom dead center in a boundary between the cylinder bore 21 and the crank chamber 22. Each communication hole 38 is formed substantially in parallel with a rotating axis of the crankshaft 27. [0049] The upper bulkhead 23 includes a bearing upper half portion 42 (bearing half portion) that constitutes a journal bearing 41 in which the crankshaft 27 is journaled in a joint surface between the upper bulkhead 23 and the lower crankcase 11. On the other hand, the lower bulkhead 25 includes a bearing lower half portion 43 as a bearing cap that constitutes the journal bearing 41 together with the bearing upper half portion 42. The bearing upper half portion 42 and the bearing lower half portion 43 are formed as arcuate groove in the upper bulkhead 23 or the lower bulkhead 25, respectively. [0050] FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing a communication hole region of the crankcase integrated cylinder block of a multi-cylinder engine according to the embodiment of the present invention. [0051] FIG. 7 is a perspective sectional view showing the communication hole region of the crankcase integrated cylinder block, FIG. 8 is an enlarged perspective view showing the communication hole region of the crankcase integrated cylinder block, FIG. 9 is a bottom view showing a relationship between the cylinder bore and the bulkhead of the crankcase integrated cylinder block, and FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the relationship between the cylinder bore and the bulkhead of the crankcase integrated cylinder block of the multi-cylinder engine according to the present embodiment. [0052] As shown in FIGS. 6 to 10, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of a multi-cylinder engine according to this embodiment includes a cylinder axis C substantially upright with respect to a joint surface of the upper crankcase 6. A cylinder inner wall surface 47 forming the cylinder bore 21 is a slide surface with respect to the piston 26 and plated with metal such as nickel to prevent adhesion wear to the piston 26. [0053] The crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 includes a honing release portion 48 having a cylindrical honing release surface 48a formed continuously with the cylinder bore 21 in the upper crankcase 6 and the upper bulkhead 23. The honing release surface 48a has a diameter larger than the cylinder bore 21 and forms an arcuate recessed portion 49 in the upper bulkhead 23. [0054] The honing release portion 48 is formed in an opening edge of the cylinder bore 21 on the side of the crank chamber 22. The honing release portion 48 includes a smooth arcuate connecting surface 51 (a so-called corner R) in a boundary between the honing release portion 48 and the upper bulkhead 23. [0055] On the other hand, the communication hole 38 of the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 is formed from the cylinder bore 21 to the recessed portion 49. The communication hole 38 includes an opening edge 45a (first opening edge) on the side of the cylinder bore 21 extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cylinder axis C, an opening edge 45b (second opening edge) on the side of the crank chamber 22 having a decreasing opening width with distance from the cylinder bore 21, and an opening edge 45c (third opening edge) that extends substantially in parallel with the cylinder axis C and connects between the opening edge 45a and the opening edge 45b. [0056] The communication hole 38 also includes an arcuate opening edge that smoothly connects between the opening edge 45a on the side of the cylinder bore 21 and the opening edge 45c. [0057] The opening edge 45b is formed so as to provide a V-shape opened toward the cylinder bore 21, and a root of the V-shape edge is formed to have a smooth arcuate shape having an appropriate curvature. The opening edge 45b is formed from the cylinder bore 21 to the recessed portion 49. [0058] In the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 thus configured, the opening edge 45b formed from the cylinder bore 21 to the recessed portion 49 prevents division or separation of the honing release surface 48a so as to ensure a annularly continued honing release surface 48a. [0059] A maximum opening width D of the communication hole 38 in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cylinder axis C is larger than a width d of the recessed portion 49 of the upper bulkhead 23. The opening edge 45a and the opening edge 45c that constitute the maximum opening width D of the communication hole 38 are positioned on the side of the cylinder bore 21. [0060] Further, the communication hole 38 has an opening area larger than half of an area of a circle R, whose diameter is a maximum opening width W of the communication hole 38 in a direction of the cylinder axis C, on the side of the cylinder bore 21 from a center Rc of the circle R, and an opening area smaller than the area of the circle R on the side of the crank chamber 22 from the center Rc of the circle R. Further, the communication hole 38 has an opening area larger than the area of the circle R. [0061] A flow of gas moving reciprocally in the crank chamber 22 through the communication hole 38 with reciprocation of the piston 26 is significantly influenced by the shape of the communication hole 38. [0062] Thus, as mentioned above, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of a multi-cylinder engine according to this embodiment is configured to have the opening area larger than half of the area of the circle R, whose diameter is the maximum opening width W of the communication hole 38 in the direction of the cylinder axis C, on the side of the cylinder bore 21 from the center Rc of the circle R, and the opening area smaller than the area of the circle R on the side of the crank chamber 22 from the center Rc of the circle R. [0063] Accordingly, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 provides a smooth flow of gas on the side of the cylinder bore 21 of the communication hole 38 (that is, a region closer to the piston 26), and ensures a required opening area including an opening region on the side of the crank chamber 22. [0064] Further, in the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1, with such a configuration, the opening area of the communication hole 38 can be made larger than the area of the circle R. [0065] Moreover, in the communication hole 38 thus opened, the opening edge 45b opens the recessed portion 49 that constitutes a part of the honing release surface 48a in a V-shape, thereby providing a sufficiently large total opening area of the communication hole 38 while preventing division or separation of the honing release surface 48a. [0066] Furthermore, in the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1, a curvature of the connecting surface 51 (so-called corner R) of the honing release portion 48 can be increased to enlarge the honing release surface 48a inward of the crank chamber 22 (as shown with broken line 51 in FIG. 8). The enlarged portion of the honing release surface 48a is a boundary between the cylinder bore 21 and the crank chamber 22, which may easily cause division of the honing release surface 48a when the opening area of the communication hole 38 is increased. Specifically, in the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of the multi-cylinder engine, the increase in the curvature of the connecting surface 51 (so-called, corner R) can also prevent division of the honing release surface 48a. [0067] However, in this case, the connecting surface 51 is brought closer to the inside of the crank chamber 22 with enlargement of the honing release surface 48a, and thus, a gap between the crankshaft 27 (particularly, crank web 33) and the honing release portion 48 needs to be ensured. Thus, when the crankshaft 27 and the honing release portion 48 interfere with each other, additional machining to remove an interference range needs to be performed after plating of the cylinder bore 21 to remove the interference region. [0068] With the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 according to this embodiment, the communication hole 38 in which the side of the cylinder bore 21 is widely opened and the opening width decreases with distance from the cylinder bore 21 in the boundary between the cylinder bore 21 and the recessed portion 49 can provide a smooth flow of gas in a region immediately below the piston 26 at the bottom dead center, and can also prevent the division of the honing release surface 48a. Specifically, with the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1, it becomes possible to apply the method of blocking the end of the cylinder bore 21 on the side of the crank chamber 22 to plate the cylinder inner wall surface 47, and to also ensure a large opening area of the communication hole 38, thereby reducing the pump loss caused in a falling (downward moving) process of the piston 26, or resistance to stirring caused by oil splashed in the crank chamber 22 and mixed with air. [0069] Therefore, as described hereinabove, with the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of the multi-cylinder engine according to this embodiment, the communication hole 38 having a maximum opening area can be formed in the upper bulkhead 23 that partitions the cylinder bore 21 and the crank chamber 22 without dividing the honing release surface 48a formed continuously with the cylinder bore 21, thus providing advantageous effects and functions. [0070] Furthermore, a crankcase integrated cylinder block according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1-5 and FIG. 11, in which FIG. 11 is a sectional view, in an enlarged scale, of a communication hole portion of the crankcase integrated cylinder block according to another embodiment, and like or same reference numerals are added to the same or corresponding portions or components. [0071] As described hereinbefore with reference to the afore-mentioned embodiment, one of the upper bulkheads 23 (herein, the upper bulkhead 23a) that partition the cylinder bores 21 and the crank chambers 22 placed at the ends from outside has an opening 39 having the same shape as the communication hole 38 and placed in the same straight line as the communication hole 38. [0072] The upper bulkhead 23 includes a bearing upper half portion 42 (bearing half portion) that constitutes a journal bearing 41 in which the crankshaft 27 is journaled in a joint surface between the upper bulkhead 23 and the lower crankcase 11. On the other hand, the lower bulkhead 25 includes a bearing lower half portion 43 as a bearing cap that constitutes the journal bearing 41 together with the bearing upper half portion 42. The bearing upper half portion 42 and the bearing lower half portion 43 are arcuate grooves formed in the upper bulkhead 23 or the lower bulkhead 25, respectively. [0073] Then, with reference to FIG. 11, particularly in combination of FIG. 3, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of the multi-cylinder engine according to this embodiment includes a cylinder axis C substantially upright with respect to a joint surface of the upper crankcase 6. [0074] The communication hole 38 in the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 includes an opening edge 45a (first opening edge) on a side of the cylinder bore 21 (FIG. 3) extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cylinder axis C, an opening edge 45b (second opening edge) on a side of the crank chamber 22 (FIG. 3) having a decreasing opening width with distance from the cylinder bore 21, and an opening edge 45c that extends substantially in parallel with the cylinder axis C and connects between the opening edge 45a and the opening edge 45b. The communication hole 38 also includes an arcuate opening edge that smoothly connects between the opening edge 45a on the side of the cylinder bore 21 and the opening edge 45c. [0075] The opening edge 45b is formed into a V-shape opened toward the cylinder bore 21, and a root of the V-shape is formed into a smooth arcuate shape having an appropriate curvature. [0076] The communication hole 38 has an opening area larger than half of an area of a circle R, whose diameter is a maximum opening width W of the communication hole 38 in a direction of the cylinder axis C, on the side of the cylinder bore 21 from a center Rc of the circle R, and an opening area smaller than the area of the circle R on the side of the crank chamber 22 (FIG. 3) from the center Rc of the circle R. [0077] Further, the communication hole 38 has an opening area larger than the area of the circle R. [0078] The upper bulkhead 23 is formed with, besides the communication hole 38, a fastening hole 51 in a fastening member, not shown, for fastening, to the upper bulkhead 23, the bearing lower half portion 43 as a bearing cap that constitutes the journal bearing 41 (FIG. 3) together with the bearing upper half portion 42, and a water jacket 50 as a cooling channel for circulating cooling water or oil for cooing the cylinder block 5. [0079] The fastening hole 51 is provided by forming a female screw portion 51a in a prepared hole, as a pilot hole, 52 drilled in the upper bulkhead 23, as a so-called bolt hole. The fastening hole 51 and the pilot bolt hole 52 are formed close, in position, to the bearing upper half portion 42 and the bearing lower half portion 43 (that is, the journal bearing 41) in order to reliably integrally secure the bearing upper half portion 42 and the bearing lower half portion 43. [0080] In the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of a multi-cylinder engine, in a relationship between the communication hole 38 and the pilot bolt hole 52, a clearance 11 between the communication hole 38 and the pilot bolt hole 5248 is larger than a clearance L1 between the circle R whose diameter is the maximum opening width W of the communication hole 38 in the direction of the cylinder axis C and the pilot bolt hole 52. In the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1, in a relationship between the communication hole 38 and the female screw portion 51a, a clearance 12 between the communication hole 38 and the female screw portion 51a is larger than a clearance L2 between the circle R and the female screw portion 51a. [0081] Generally, in a crankcase integrated cylinder block having a communication hole in a bulkhead that partitions a crank chamber, a position of an opening edge on a side of a cylinder bore of a communication hole is determined by a position at a lower end of a piston ring or a piston skirt at a lowermost stage of a piston at a bottom dead center. [0082] Thus, the conventional crankcase integrated cylinder block has a communication hole extending in a direction perpendicular to a cylinder axis in order to increase an opening area of the communication hole. The conventional crankcase integrated cylinder block having such a configuration is disadvantage in strength because the communication hole is placed close to a bolt hole used for fastening a bearing cap. [0083] With the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of a multi-cylinder engine according to this embodiment, the opening of the communication hole 38 is shaped to have the opening edge 45a (first opening edge) on the side of the cylinder bore 21 extending in the direction substantially perpendicular to the cylinder axis C and the opening edge 45b (second opening edge) on the side of the crank chamber 22 having the decreasing opening width with distance from the cylinder bore 21, maximizing the opening area of the communication hole 38 while ensuring the clearance between the pilot bolt hole 52 or the fastening hole 51 (more specifically, the female screw portion 51a) and the opening edge (particularly, opening edge 45b) of the communication hole 38. Thus, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 can prevent damage that may occur in the pilot bolt hole 52 or the fastening hole 51, and also reduce pump loss and resistance to stirring caused by rotation of the crankshaft 27. [0084] A flow of gas moving upward and downward in the crank chamber 22 via the communication hole 38 with reciprocation of the piston 26 is significantly influenced by the shape of the communication hole 38. [0085] Thus, as mentioned with reference to the afore-mentioned embodiment, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 according to this embodiment has the opening area larger than half of the area of the circle R, whose diameter is the maximum opening width W of the communication hole 38 in the direction of the cylinder axis C, on the side of the cylinder bore 21 from the center Rc of the circle R, and the opening area smaller than the area of the circle R on the side of the crank chamber 22 from the center Rc of the circle R. The crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 can therefore provide a smooth flow of gas on the side of the cylinder bore 21 of the communication hole 38 (that is, a region closer to the piston 26), ensures a required opening area including an opening region on the side of the crank chamber 22, and prevents damage that may occur in the pilot bolt hole 52 or the fastening hole 51. [0086] Furthermore, in the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of the multi-cylinder engine according to this embodiment, with such a configuration, the opening area of the communication hole 38 can be larger than the area of the circle R. [0087] Thus, the crankcase integrated cylinder block 1 of this embodiment can provide a sufficient clearance between the fastening hole 51 for fastening the bearing lower half portion 43 as a bearing cap or the pilot bolt hole 52 thereof and the opening edge of the communication hole 38, and improve strength and durability against damage that occurs in the fastening hole 51 or the pilot bolt hole 52. [0088] It is further to be noted that the present invention is not limited to the described embodiments and many other changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scopes of the appended claims. 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__label__cc	0.68316	0.31684	Your USMNT Line-Up v Costa Rica Does this mean we get the empty bucket? #USMNT Starting XI vs. Costa Rica Howard; Evans, Cameron, Orozco, Ream; Yedlin, Williams, Jones, Shea; Zardes, Altidore (C) #USAvCRC — U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) October 13, 2015 - Greg Seltzer Posted by Greg Seltzer at 6:07 PM Labels: by Greg Seltzer, Costa Rica, USMNT i like the schedule USA has drawn for this next round of qualifying. our national team needs to get out on the road and bond a little. yeah, the first game is at home against st V&G, but then it is t and t and guat., on the road. after three games of qualifying for Russia, we should have more to work with. I believe our national team can turn on a dime, and next game this team can look like world beaters. the history of US soccer says as much and is one that always has the fans on pins and needles. one minute the team is on the way out the door, next thing you know, they are in the quarterfinals in 02, or the finals of the 09 confed cup. after the Guatemala road game, USA get the home stand in the spring and this plays well into our current situation. if we need points down the stretch, we have the games to get those points, and if there is a change at the helm, there will be time to correct. that long window between the t and t road game and the Guatemala road game does not work in the favor of a coach who is on the hot seat, and who needs two victories from his next two games. there is a deeper issue than the coach in all of this, and I hope that going forward we are able to recognize what it is that is limiting our growth. every country in the world has a style, and coaches and players come and go, but the style does not. we, as a nation are not honing in on our ingrained style. we are not focusing on our style, and we are not looking to further develop it, unfortunately because we are busy trying to emulate Barcelona, or the dutch. or Germany!!! we shy away from what is our natural style, and maybe that is why ticos outnumbered gringos at red bull arena tonight. and why a little country like costa rica can produce joel cambell. costa rica was playing three center backs tonight. I guess we basically were also. the difference being that they were doing it with intent, and for us it was the way the lineup worked out. come on coach klinsmann, just put Michael and freaking benny in the center of the park, and we can enjoy a couple more years of magic from these two. its so obvious. yeah lee ngyuen dances around on the ball nicely, but no one in the US pool has the vision of feilhaber. nobody, not mix, not a one. this is needed and it will open everything else up. I don't know, enough is enough. I really think that beating England in 1950 was the worst thing that could have ever happened to US soccer. do NFL owners really want soccer to become as big in America as it is in the rest of the world? why would they? oh well.... Bernardinho said... Now this here, this is a good read: http://screamer.deadspin.com/is-this-jurgen-klinsmann-fabian-johnson-thing-really-a-1736298516 Great article Bern, and also the one it links to in regards to Mexico just having better players. Tony M said... The article is garbage. Its an attempt to recast crappy coaching and untruths into something that favors JK: "Many fans, media members, and U.S. Soccer bigwigs, though, haven’t taken kindly to the blunt talk. This means that every controversy is about something more, or other, than itself; they’re all, at root, about whether Klinsmann is right about whether the American way of soccer needs to change." Blunt truths - what garbage. Find me a serious American soccer fan who doesn't want the quality of play raised, doesn't want a better, tougher player education through academy development. The fact is that this change has been going on for years. It predates JK and will continue without him. It's complete BS that disliking JK = liking the status quo. Let me be clear: he is a horrible coach because he has us underperforming our capabilities and he is setting the program back, not ahead. Tony M, I guess my biggest problem with your comments is that, for one contingent or another, every coach has left the national team underperforming. You say coach klinsmann is an idiot, someone else had a firebobbradley#. Is this really the way to view the team? Is there another way? Do you think pep guardiola would come in and be different? How about klopp? Brendan Rodgers? Maybe that Dutch guy, guus hiddink? They all might be better. Maybe we need to look deeper than the coach, to come to terms with the problem. J.D. Springer said... @Dik We have an American style of play. It's defend and counterattack with speed. But that's not attractive enough to some purists, so we keep trying to pound square pegs into round holes. Until and unless we have a young group of players whose skillset begs for something different -- and I have yet to see these young lions -- that is who and what we are. That is our style Joe Bailey said... I have to agree with JD. I'm missing the empty bucket & Ricardo Clark now... Arne Olson said... I haven't seen anyone write about this, but it seems like Klinsmann came in the first thing he did was to neuter the counterattack so that we would have to play his possession style. I remember wondering during those early games why the hell they weren't going for it when they had the chance. They seemed to be holding back deliberately in favor of possessing the ball from the back. I think this played into the Donovan situation as well. LD was absolutely ruthless on the counter -- no one else had his vision and pinpoint passing and as long as he was on the field the team was going to run through him. But this was counter to Klinsmann's style and he couldn't have that going into the World Cup. It wasn't enough for the team to play well, Klinsmann wanted to get credit for changing American soccer. Then of course we didn't have the personnel for his system to work, so we ended up defaulting back to the counter attacking style, but without the ruthlessness we previously had. And we have had trouble scoring goals ever since because we can't create anything through possession and we have forgotten how to counter. In case anyone was wondering, Fabian Johnson went the full 90 today. His coach made three subs, and obviously he was not one of them. His team also won in convincing fashion today. And for what it is worth, Johnson played two full 90s and started and played 70 mins in three games prior to the Mexico game. He played that time in those three games over a span of one week, before he had a week off, leading into the Mexico game. I suspect a Twitter apology will come from Fabian Johnson over the next 48 hrs, if he has aspirations of playing for his national team again anytime soon. counter-attacking football is great if your highest aspiration is WC quarterfinals. does switching to possession make us weaker? yes. do we have the technical players to succeed with a possession game? no. but we will. and then we will not be weak. we will be stronk. when we make it to the semifinals, it's going to be with possession (which includes counter-attacking), not with bunker-ball Yes, having possession is better than not having possession. My main point is that our counterattack has been woefully missing for 3 years, and it is just dawning on me that it may have been a deliberate strategy to kill the counterattack to force the team to change its game. We need to be able to attack with precision and deadly intent any time a good opportunity presents itself, whether on the counter or though long buildup. Listening to Jurgen klopps post game comments after his first game in charge at Liverpool, It amazed me how much he sounds like coach Klinsmann. I guess they are both German! soccer boy said... Wow Saturday was a week later. You can recover a week latter. No issue. Greg Seltzer said... These two games were a big gut punch package, man. And life gets busy sometimes. :) Arne, why would having possession be better than not having possession, for a team that plays strong defense, and thrives on the counter? Italy plays defense and counter. Have they been to a semi final of the World Cup?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line303
__label__wiki	0.855361	0.855361	The Ode Street Tribune: Rosslyn local news from a Rosslyn resident to everyone, worldwide Rosslyn transportation hub in 1868 In 1868, Arlington was part of Alexandria County, but Rosslyn was already emerging as a transportation hub. From a map dated November 16, 1868: The Town of ROSSLYNN is located immediately opposite GEORGETOWN at the Southern terminus of the Aqueduct Bridge and has been laid out by the "Alexandria Canal Rail Road and Bridge Company" for the purpose of making it a thriving place, in view of the important Rail Road and other interests to be centered there. It is contemplated to make the Aqueduct Bridge the main Rail Road connection between the North and South, a Turnpike Road to Falls Church, a Rail Road to Alexandria, and a branch to the Loudon and Hampshire Raid Road to connect with Rail Roads to be brought through Georgetown are among the enterprises soon to be inaugurated. It is also the intention to have the Street Cars from Washington cross the Aqueduct to Rosslynn. The Town Plats include good business property: Fine Residence lots, and a number of magnificent sites for Suburban Villas. Today Rosslyn is a transportation leader with a hub of multi-user trails, metro lines, and roads. Rosslyn's transportation leadership has deep historical roots. Posted by Douglas Galbi at 12:10 AM Language Version Neighborhood news from right here in the Westmoreland Terrace Condominiums on North Ode Street in the Radnor Fort Myer Heights neighborhood of Rosslyn in Arlington, Virginia. View the Front Page Hi, I'm Douglas Galbi. I live in this neighborhood. You can contact me at Send me tips, story ideas, compliments, and complaints. All email and material sent to the Ode Street Tribune will be considering for posting, unless you explicitly request otherwise when you send the email/material. For my other amusements, check out Galbi Think! and purple motes. Subscribe via email to the Ode Street Tribune Subscribe via email to the Westmoreland Terrace Condo News List Follow @OdeStreet Blog Archive June (20) May (21) April (20) March (23) February (18) January (18) December (13) November (18) October (22) September (19) August (20) July (18) June (20) May (22) April (22) March (21) February (20) January (24) December (14) November (23) October (26) September (25) August (26) July (22) June (26) May (25) April (26) March (26) February (24) January (25) December (16) November (23) October (27) September (24) August (26) July (27) June (25) May (27) April (26) March (26) February (26) January (27) December (16) November (26) October (26) September (25) August (27) July (26) June (26) May (27) April (26) March (27) February (24) January (26) December (20) November (26) October (27) September (23) August (22) July (16) June (16) May (15) April (13) March (14) February (22) January (17) December (18) November (9) October (11) September (9) August (9) July (5) June (8) May (12) April (9) March (12) February (8) January (10) December (10) November (13) October (8) September (9) August (7) July (9) June (7) May (9) April (6) March (8) February (4) January (6) December (4) November (5) October (16) September (2) August (4) July (2) June (4) May (2) April (9) We can do better! The Ode Street Tribune enjoys Joan's artisanal cheeses Ode Street Tribune by Douglas Galbi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Here is additional freedom.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line304
__label__wiki	0.807733	0.807733	Woman given 30-day sentence for Blasphemy Posted by swiftfoxmark2 Well, if the headline had said that, then maybe people would be up in arms about it: A woman facing a drug possession charge got a harsh lesson in justice after a Miami-Dade judge sentenced her to 30 days in jail for flipping him the bird at a hearing Monday. Penelope Soto, 18, was arrested for possession of Xanax and was brought before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat Monday, where she was asked about her assets. Soto, who was sporting orange jail clothes and smiled and stroked her hair through the proceeding, laughed when she was asked how much her jewelry was worth. "It's not a joke, you know, we're not in a club now," Rodriguez-Chomat told her. "We are not in a club, be serious about it." "I'm serious about it, you just made me laugh," Soto replied. "You just made me laugh, I apologize. It's worth a lot of money." "Like what?" the judge asked. "Like Rick Ross. It's worth money," she said. The judge, not understanding the odd reference to the South Florida rapper, asked Soto if she's taken any drugs in the past 24 hours. "Actually, no," she replied. Rodriguez-Chomat set her bond at $5,000 and said "bye,bye," and Soto laughed and replied "Adios." Annoyed, Rodriguez-Chomat summoned her back and reset her bond at $10,000, shocking Soto. "Are you serious," she asked. "I am serious. Adios," he replied. Soto started to walk away when she flipped Rodriguez-Chomat her middle finger and blurted "[expletive] you." She was called back again and Rodriguez-Chomat gave her a 30-day sentence for contempt of court. I don’t necessarily agree with the woman’s attitude or her behavior, but the Judge was clearly upset that she wasn’t taking him, or his authority, seriously. She was being charged with possession of Xanax, which as far as I know isn’t even a serious problem on the substance abuse spectrum, so of course she regarded it all as a joke. For the Statist, the State is to be regarded as a religion and the officials within it as its priest or gods. The parallels are all there. If you replace the term “Press Secretary” with “High Priest” for example, you’ll have an idea of how this works. On a side note, what kind of judge has an hyphenated name? Seriously, that’s a disqualification in my book for any position of authority because it is quite clear this judge can’t even run his own household, let alone his courtroom. John T February 5, 2013 at 7:42 PM Agreed. Miami Dade has a lot of dangerous criminals. This is absolutely a waste of resources. This girl is clearly so nice she does not need to be in the system. As usual, these police officers and judges operate out of spite and egomania. Zarathustra February 7, 2013 at 5:54 AM Obviously, this young woman was under the influence of some kind of drug... The judge was a little excessive in his sentencing also... Apparently, this young woman had forgotten that when you're in court, in front of a judge, you're to be subdued and respectful... This judge apparently has no sense of humor at all.... Michael Price February 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM So the judge is deciding bail bonds on what language he's addressed in? Real professional. If he's woundering why he didn't get any respect, it's because he made an arbitrary decision to punish the woman for doing something that wasn't illegal (saying "Adios"). He doesn't deserve any respect, which is why he is in a job where he can punish people who don't give it. Unlawful Laws Abolish the FDA Part 1323: Diet Milk Chuck Woolery on Assault Weapons How The Government & Media Cheated Ron Paul Facing Up To The Consequences Rand Paul on the Use of Drones Quote of the Moment: Chuck Hagel & Israel FAA Official Speaks Doublespeak To Dumb Masses Ron Paul Reacts to State of the Union Address Christopher Dorner Murdered Chris Dorner is the State’s Worst Fear Senator Lindsey Graham is Trying to Kill Me Sandy Hook Father Speaks Out Against Gun Control Alexandria, VA is Run By the Insane The Tragic Death of Chris Kyle Can Medical Tourism Save Us From Obamacare? Horse Meat Found in Burger King Patties The Fake Recovery is a Sign of Pending Collapse	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line313
__label__wiki	0.860471	0.860471	— Main Menu —HomeAbout Stephen- Biography- TributesNewsEventsCatalogue- Brass- Guitar- Harp- Harpsichord, Clavichord, Organ & Piano Accordion- Orchestral- Piano- Strings- Solo Vocal and Opera- Choral- Wind Orchestra- WoodwindRecordings- Listen- DiscographyContact Harpsichord, Clavichord, Organ & Piano Accordion Solo Vocal and Opera POSTPONED: Cadilly – Magnard Ensemble by Leonora Dawson-Bowling March 12, 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm Barnes Music Festival Church Road, Barnes SW13 9HL Due to the latest COVID-19 restrictions, the Barnes Music Festival has been postponed until 15th–30th May. More details to be announced in due course. The Magnard Ensemble and a cast of soloists perform Stephen Dodgson’s short chamber opera Cadilly alongside his Gipsy Songs at the Barnes Music Festival. Cadilly, based on one of the Tales from the Fens by W. H. Barrett, tells the story of a beautiful woman and ‘willing maid’ who is loved by the scholars, their tutors and the townsmen alike but jailed for ‘immoral behaviour’. The performance will take place twice in one evening (at 6pm and 8pm), allowing for a larger audience in a safe an environment as possible. For booking details and other Barnes Music Festival concerts, see www.barnesmusicfestival.com Search music catalogue Sign up to the mailing list to hear news about future performances, recordings and other events and news. MusicWeb International review: Music for Winds II (Magnard Ensemble) Fanfare review: Music for Winds II (Magnard Ensemble) Tournament for Twenty Fingers – concert review New release – Dodgson: Music for Winds II (Magnard Ensemble) 7:30 pm POSTPONED: Piano Quintet – Emma ... @ Sevenoaks Music Club POSTPONED: Piano Quintet – Emma ... @ Sevenoaks Music Club This concert has been postponed. Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet pair Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 1 with Schumann’s piano quintet in an evening concert for the Sevenoaks Music Club. Programme Mendelssohn: String quartet in E flat op. 12 Dodgson: Quintet no. 1 in C Schumann: Quintet in E flat op. 44 6:30 pm Dodgson – solo songs @ St Gabriel's Pimlico (streamed only) Dodgson – solo songs @ St Gabriel's Pimlico (streamed only) A rich selection of Stephen Dodgson’s songs will feature at this live-streamed concert (at St Gabriel’s Pimlico), performed by Ailish Tynan, James Gilchrist, Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn. Full repertoire and streaming details to follow. 7:30 pm POSTPONED: Piano Quintet No. 1 –... @ Whitstable Music Society POSTPONED: Piano Quintet No. 1 –... @ Whitstable Music Society This concert has been postponed until 30th October. Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet pair Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 1 with Schumann’s piano quintet in an evening concert for the Whitstable Music Society. Programme Mendelssohn: String quartet in E flat op. 12 Dodgson: Quintet no. 1 in C Schumann: Quintet in E flat op. 44 6:00 pm POSTPONED: Cadilly – Magnard Ens... @ Barnes Music Festival POSTPONED: Cadilly – Magnard Ens... @ Barnes Music Festival Due to the latest COVID-19 restrictions, the Barnes Music Festival has been postponed until 15th–30th May. More details to be announced in due course. The Magnard Ensemble and a cast of soloists perform Stephen Dodgson’s short chamber opera Cadilly alongside his Gipsy Songs at the Barnes Music Festival. Cadilly, based on one of the Tales from the Fens by W. H. Barrett, tells the story of a beautiful woman and ‘willing maid’ who is loved by the scholars, their tutors and the townsmen alike but jailed for ‘immoral behaviour’. The performance will take place twice in one evening (at 6pm and 8pm), allowing for a larger audience in[...] 1:00 pm POSTPONED: Fantasy Divisions – M... @ Barnes Music Festival POSTPONED: Fantasy Divisions – M... @ Barnes Music Festival Due to the latest COVID-19 restrictions, the Barnes Music Festival has been postponed until 15th–30th May. More details to be announced in due course. Guitarist Michael Butten performs Stephen Dodgson’s Fantasy Divisions in the latter’s much beloved Barnes as part of the Barnes Music Festival. This intimate lunchtime concert, rescheduled from last year, also includes works by Dowland, Bach, Legnani and Albeniz. The intention is to have the concert open to the public to attend in person with suitable modifications in place and also streamed but there will be updates nearer the time. For more details, see http://www.barnesmusicfestival.com. 8:00 pm POSTPONED: Piano Quintet No. 2 –... @ Holmes Chapel Music Society, Cheshire POSTPONED: Piano Quintet No. 2 –... @ Holmes Chapel Music Society, Cheshire This concert has been postponed until 23rd October. Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet reunite to perform a concert of quartets and quintets including Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 2 for the Holmes Chapel Music Society. This is a special occasion as this work was originally commissioned by the society. The Tippett Quartet and Abbate went on to record it together in 2017 and now they are bringing it back to its birthplace. Programme Haydn String quartet in B minor op. 33 no. 1 Dodgson Piano Quintet No. 2 (HCMS commission) Puccini Crisantemi Schumann Piano quintet 7:30 pm POSTPONED: Piano Quintet No. 2 –... @ Barber Institute, Birmingham POSTPONED: Piano Quintet No. 2 –... @ Barber Institute, Birmingham This concert has been postponed. Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet reunite to perform a concert of quartets and quintets including Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 2 at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Programme Haydn String quartet in B minor op. 33 no. 1 Dodgson Piano Quintet No. 2 (HCMS commission) Puccini Crisantemi Schumann Piano quintet 8:00 pm Piano Quintet No. 2 – Emma Abbat... @ Holmes Chapel Music Society, Cheshire Piano Quintet No. 2 – Emma Abbat... @ Holmes Chapel Music Society, Cheshire Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet reunite to perform a concert of quartets and quintets including Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 2 for the Holmes Chapel Music Society. This is a special occasion as this work was originally commissioned by the society. The Tippett Quartet and Abbate went on to record it together in 2017 and now they are bringing it back to its birthplace. Programme Haydn String quartet in B minor op. 33 no. 1 Dodgson Piano Quintet No. 2 (HCMS commission) Puccini Crisantemi Schumann Piano quintet 7:30 pm Piano Quintet No. 1 – Emma Abbat... @ Whitstable Music Society Piano Quintet No. 1 – Emma Abbat... @ Whitstable Music Society Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet pair Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 1 with Schumann’s piano quintet in an evening concert for the Whitstable Music Society. Programme Mendelssohn: String quartet in E flat op. 12 Dodgson: Quintet no. 1 in C Schumann: Quintet in E flat op. 44 Copyright © 2021 Stephen Dodgson Charitable Trust. All Rights Reserved. Mailing list: Sign up for news about performances, recordings and other events. If you found this interesting, please share with friends and music lovers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line319
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__label__cc	0.696385	0.303615	Vote Like Your Rights Depend On It. This is likely one of the most important elections ever facing our country. Certainly the most important for our transgender community. It will restore balance to the three governmental branches; what the constitution writers envisioned. Any president that can lie so blatantly about supporting the transgender/(LGBTQ) community then go out of his way to do harm, is despicable. How any member of our community could still support Trump is beyond my understanding. Also, he actually believes he can circumvent the constitution by executive order - That is dangerous thinking. What will be next - The First Amendment because the news media is "the enemy of the people"? If you think that the only issue that matters is the economy, that is pure selfishness. Fact check: The economy grew more under Obama than Trump - 4.1% vs 5.2%. If you are part of the top 1% that got 83% of the tax cut gains, enjoy your new yacht and massive corporate tax cut. Just know that the middle class and likely your children, will paying for your greed for generations. Further, does the world's respect mean nothing to you? Historically I have voted Republican more often than Democrat, although I have always voted issues and not party. Currently, I am a registered Independent. However, Trump is not on the ballot so he is not the candidate we are voting in or out. I firmly believe that the Mueller investigation will solve the 2020 election before we get there. This election is about restoring constitutional balance and integrity. This election may require many to make difficult decisions. You may have incumbents who are Republican that you like. The Republican party has been hijacked by Trump and if you favorite Republican is not speaking out, then he/she is guilty of supporting the Trump administration. Similar to the person driving the car for a bank robbery; an accessory after the fact and guilty. I found this Facebook re-post and it sums up my feelings. I hope yours as well: I have NEVER voted straight party ticket since I started voting too many years ago, I always voted for the person, never the party! Sadly the person who occupies the desk in the Oval Office has made this election all about him (as he does with everything, nothing is as important as he is, at least in his little mind) so I have to repudiate every Republican on the ballot this election. It's something that pains me, but until the Republican party admits that there is a dangerously demented individual who believes he is a demigod in the Oval Office and does something about it, I will continue to vote against them every opportunity that arises. Janet Ybarra November 5, 2018 at 7:12 AM In the spirit of your article today, Rhonda, I thought I would share this essay from Max Boot. Mr. Boot is a former Republican who advised Mitt Romney and John McCain during their presidential campaigns... Vote against all Republicans. Every single one. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/sick-and-tired-of-trump-heres-what-to-do/2018/10/31/72d9021e-dd26-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.76efe457dec8 rhonda's escape November 5, 2018 at 8:00 AM Thanks Janet. A great Washington Post link. Well worth reading. I wanted to let people know who are voting Tuesday, who may be voting in red states run by Republicans who are doing some form of voter suppression (ie purging voter rolls, voter ID, exact match, etc) that there is help. Call (866) OUR-VOTE or visit https://866ourvote.org to make sure that your vote counts. There was one more thing I wanted to say about this election, and also for the elections in the future. And in what I write, I'm not casting blame or aspersions on anyone for past votes or political affiliations since people walk different paths in life. But, for the life of me, I cannot understand why a transgender person would vote Republican. Not just how could they vote for Donald Trump but Republicans in general. (Now, for full disclosure, where I used to live in New England a quarter century ago, I did vote for a couple of highly progressive Republicans. But never for federal office.) We transgender women and men are in a very unique position. We are asking our fellow Americans to support our rights. What are we doing for other vulnerable groups and their rights? I heard from a transgender person recently who said, essentially, "I wish Trump would protect transgender people, but other than that, he's done a lot of good." That exposes a huge blind spot. How can we ask for transgender rights while turning a blind eye to what Republicans have been doing to women in general? People of color? Immigrants? Children in cages? Religious minorities? Jews being slaughtered where they pray? That would seem deeply hypocritical. And it would be to ignore history to say that Republican racism began with Trump. He has been only the one to use it most overtly. In truth, it goes back generations.. at least to Richard Nixon. Ronald Reagan really stoked racism when, in 1980, he chose to kick off his campaign in Neshoba County, Miss. Neshoba County had been the site in 1964 for Freedom Summer white supremacists killed three civil rights activists. When Reagan visited in 1980 in front of nearly white audience, Reagan didn't mention those killings at all, basically giving the community there a pass for what occurred there. Of course, let's not forget George H.W. Bush's "Willie Horton" ad and Jesse Helms' "white hands" ad, in which white hands crumble up a job rejection letter because an African American person had gotten that job instead. 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__label__cc	0.602991	0.397009	Tindak Malaysia Action:3 essential rules in dealing with the Govt Thread: Action:3 essential rules in dealing with the Govt 25th February 2015, 11:42 PM #1 pywong 3 Essential Rules for Dealing With the Government by Harry Browne. Posted Feb 20, 2015. [This essay was excerpted from Harry Browne’s book How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. Although first published in 1973, the themes and lessons he espouses are as relevant today as they were when he first wrote about them. Mr. Browne was a pioneer of the financial newsletter industry, and he churned out actionable solutions for people who wanted to escape the effects of government on their finances and lives. We’re proud to share a few of his thoughts, below.] The first principle in dealing with government is: Don’t be awed by it. What little the government achieves is almost always due to the voluntary participation of its citizens. Those who don’t want to help the government can go their own ways without running into much trouble. The second principle is: Don’t confront the government. A sure way to make your life miserable is to attack the government head on. Its resources are limited, and it can’t waste them tracking down every possible violator of every law. But it will certainly aim its power at anyone who publicly defies it. So keep to yourself, do what you have to do. The third rule in dealing with government is: Don’t organize. Don’t get a large group of people together to defy tax laws, promote ways of circumventing the government, or openly violate regulations. Any activity big enough to require a leader is big enough to be noticed and attacked. By joining protests, you might wind up in jail. And you won’t have much freedom there. And mass campaigns are easy targets. That’s where the government is likely to devote its limited resources. When many people are doing the same thing, it’s easy to stop them by passing laws or by applying existing laws against them. When you act alone, however, you’re usually not worth the trouble. And when you act alone, you can flexibly do whatever is necessary to stay ahead of the government. If new laws are passed, you can change your methods to continue doing what you want to do. No cumbersome, bureaucratic government can move as fast as an individual who’s determined to stay ahead of it. There are limitless possibilities for avoiding government — without crises, court battles, or fear of being jailed. Start by listing the governmental restrictions that inhibit your freedom. Determine the possible consequences of ignoring them. It may be that no more than a warning is involved if you’re caught. And you might also find that there are legal ways of avoiding the restrictions — if they’re important enough to be worth the time to investigate. In many cases, you can just ignore the law without incurring dangerous consequences. In others, you may have to go to more trouble — such as consulting an attorney or tax accountant. But act for yourself. Don’t organize, and don’t look to leaders to help you. Any activity big enough to require a leader is big enough to be noticed and attacked. For most people, there are more than enough loopholes available to be able to operate freely without running afoul of the law. More than anything else, it simply requires the determination to do so. For example, I know of a company that operates successfully in spite of governmental regulations. The state in which it’s located has been trying to license it for five years, and a federal agency has been trying to shut it down for violating a regulation. The state legislature even passed a special law to bring the company under its jurisdiction. But to this day, the company still operates in its own way, pleasing its customers, and making profits for its owners. They’ve moved flexibly and easily into a different method of operation every time a ruling has been made against them. They’ve had to pay attorneys’ fees, but those are insignificant compared to the profits they would have lost had they given in to the bureaucrats. I once had a similar experience. I was operating a small business in California — burdened with payroll taxes, bookkeeping requirements, and other regulations imposed by the government. There were Social Security taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, disability insurance taxes, and income taxes to be paid or withheld. They cost me money and time, and they reduced the take-home pay of my employees. I regularly received notices from an organization whose purpose was to end payroll taxes. They requested funds, of course, and they also wanted me to join a protest movement to quit withholding taxes once the membership was large enough to be intimidating. Naturally, I didn’t get involved. Instead, I fired all the employees (including myself) and made contracts with each person for his services. Since I no longer had any employees, I no longer paid or withheld payroll taxes. No bureaucrat called on me to find out why the revenue to the state had been lost. Meanwhile, the protest movement died its inevitable death, and other employers continued paying payroll taxes. The “employees” of my company received an additional benefit. They were now independent businessmen, selling their services to me, so they could designate their homes as their offices, coming to my office to perform services for me. As a result, each of them had far more tax deductions. He could claim as business deductions part of his household expenses, telephone bills, utility bills, car expenses, and other things that are normally considered to be personal expenses. Even with no income tax withheld, very few of them owed anything in taxes at the end of the year. None of them bothered to file quarterly tax estimates, and none of them ran into any trouble from the Internal Revenue Service. The simple change from employee status to that of independent contractor resulted in lower taxes for everyone concerned. It’s a small and common example — but there are probably millions of people who could use that loophole and don’t. It’s well known that there are thousands of millionaires who don’t pay income taxes. Some of them avoid property taxes as well. Occasionally, there’s a hue and cry about it in Congress, but no effective changes are made. No tax law could be written (short of 100% confiscation) that wouldn’t have numerous loopholes. As one loophole is closed, another opens up. Part of the reason may be that Congressmen don’t like to pay taxes, either. Some people evade taxes by changing their citizenship and/or by operating personal holding corporations through tax-free countries. If you make $25,000 or more per year, it’s probably worth looking into. Others move to countries with more favorable tax structures. Did you know, for example, that writers, artists, and other creative people are exempt from income taxes in Ireland? The laws provide loopholes that allow individuals to establish personal tax-free foundations that receive all their income and pay their personal expenses — without the money being taxable to anyone involved. Unfortunately, a group of people tried to organize this method into a mass movement about five years ago, which resulted in offsetting legislation. But the loophole is still used. Inheritance taxes can be legally avoided, too. Sometimes it requires only that property be co-owned or transferred prior to death. The important thing is to avoid the normal postmortem legal processing of an estate. There are a multitude of ways to legally avoid taxes. I can’t list them here or that would defeat their purpose. And you won’t find them in magazine articles about taxes. Much of the information in those articles comes straight from the booklet that accompanies your tax return. But once you’re determined to cut your taxes, you should be able to find the best ways for yourself. Harry Browne Last edited by pywong; 26th February 2015 at 08:30 PM. 24th October 2016, 02:52 PM #2 keluangman anymore actions from the group? looking forward for a better Malaysia Is it looking better now? Doesn't seem so, not with Mahathir manipulating public opinion with unnecessary actions. Quick Navigation Action Top Admin Announcement PACABA: Polling Agent PACABA & Election Campaign POSTAL POLLING PACABA: Register Here 1. 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Chapter 9: Executive Agencies Chapter 10: The Federal Judiciary Chapter 11: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Chapter 12: Public Policy Chapter 13: State and Local Government Chapter 14: U. The etymology of bureaucracy derives from the French word for office (bureau) and the Ancient Greek for word power (kratos). The Regulatory Agencies. Its resources now include approximately 8,000 employees and a budget of over $440 million. Corresponding Chapters in Wilson text: Chapter 13: The Bureaucracy D. Flashcards. Grade levels: 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, College: First year, College: Second year, College: Third year, College: Fourth year. 320 International Monetary Reform A Specific Set of Proposals. List 4 prevalent myths about bureaucracy. The author's focus on bureaucracy, "corruption," writing systems and urban studies (Islamabad) in a post-colonial context makes for a unique ethnographic engagement with contemporary Pakistan. 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A bureaucracy is a form of organization that delivers goods and services at the lowest cost through specialization of jobs, close supervision on employees, and clear rules for making decisions. txt) or read online for free. There are 16. Chapter 8 \| Political Participation and Voting 116 Chapter 9 \| Political Parties 130 Chapter 10 \| Campaigns and Elections 147 Chapter 11 \| Groups and Interests 168 Chapter 12 \| Congress 180 Chapter 13 \| The Presidency 201 Chapter 14 \| Bureaucracy in a Democracy 214 Chapter 15 \| The Federal Courts 228 Chapter 16 \| Government and the Economy 243. ual contains chapter overviews, chapter outlines, lecture enhancements, discussion. As You Read Fill in the outline below by answering the questions in the spaces provided. Borjas examines how the salaries of the 2. Bureaucracies are central to our lives. Politics in Action: Regulating Food (pp. So you'll never miss out. Avoid Illegal Characters in File Names! 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A) Leadership B) Authority C) Management D) Responsibility Answer: B Explanation: B) The right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders is known as authority. Impersonality 2. Job specialization. Readings: Greenberg and Page Chapter 14. The Federal Bureaucracy. Essay Outline 10% Deadline October 21 (outlines will not be accepted after this date) To facilitate and improve essay development, each student is required to submit one essay outline no later than October 21st that includes the following: A draft introductory paragraph stating the topic of the paper. 4 million full-time, permanent civilian employees of George J. Bureaucracies develop extensive rules. Sara works in an ice cream shop. Chapter 13: The Bureaucracy 94. The student is required to complete an outline with properly identified vocabulary terms for each chapter in the Edwards text. • Bureaucracy - an effective system of organizing a large number of people o Often equated with government, however, any organization with a large number of employees. List 5 elements of the Weberian model of bureaucracy. Distinctiveness Of The American Bureaucracy oBureaucratic government is a feature of all modern societies, but three aspects of our constitutional system and political traditions make American bureaucracy different oThese aspects are: Political authority over the bureaucracy is divided among several institutions •Constitution allows both Congress and the president to exercise authority over the bureaucracy •Congress itself is divided up into committees, subcommittees. Bankruptcy Code. Contained in Notes on the State of Virginia is Jefferson's vision of the good society he hoped America would become: a virtuous. Social Support The Federal government imposed special procedures for the payment of sick leave due to quarantine. 3 Understanding Bureaucracies and th. In addition, Hull's study is a refreshing voice that breaks the mold of current representation of Pakistan. The chapters are in the order in which we will be covering them Education---Chapter 14 Families---Chapter 13 Poltical Economy---Chapter 16 Political Economy cont. General Motors, the Southern 2. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, for example, the government deregulated the airline industry, significantly increasing competition and lowering prices. Government. The most prevalent myths about bureaucracy are that 1) Americans dislike. Download the slides here: http://www. 471-472) A. government organizations, usually (9). Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Bureaucracy as violence. In Chapter 2, “Structural Changes: Regional and Urban,” Carol Heim outlines the broad regional and urban/rural shifts that have taken place. As of today we have 85,979,630 eBooks for you to download for free. [2] And because many of its agencies do not have clearly defined lines of authority—roles and responsibilities established by. 2 Policymaking, Power, and Accountability in the Bureaucracy; 14. 1 Bureaucracy and the Evolution of Public Administration; 15. Food and Drug Administration. Chapter 20 - Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual Rights. So you'll never miss out. AP US GOVERNMENT: CHAPTER 11 CONGRESS: THE PEOPLE’S BRANCH The US Congress is one of the world’s most representative and democratic institutions, admired for its openness and deliberateness. Friedman Chapter Ten: The Federal Judiciary Brian M. Assess the repercussions for democracy concerning bureaucracy 8. [2] And because many of its agencies do not have clearly defined lines of authority—roles and responsibilities established by. CHAPTER 14: THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY: THE REAL POWER? Our food is safer, health care better, air cleaner all because of federal rules/laws. Components of the Federal Bureaucracy. · Analyze the process used to select the bureaucracy. The Roots of bureaucracy. If you need to contact the Course-Notes. Chapter 15 Section 3 Flashcards Quizlet. The Federal Register act (44 U. List 4 prevalent myths about bureaucracy. gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. Unit tests will also be given using material from current and past units. Food and Drug Administration. and Richard W. the bureaucracy at the federal and provincial levels within 15 months of coming into power. March 2-4: The Bureaucracy Lowi, Ginsberg, and Shepsle, Chapter 7 Woll, ``Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power'' (W) Wilson, from Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (K & S) Moe, ``The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure'' (K & S) March 9: The Courts Lowi, Ginsberg, and Shepsle, Chapter 8 Federalist 78 (W). Furlong, Scott R. Each department is in charge of its own mission which divide the work into bureaus. N - Sustainable Bureaucracies. Not only have the numbers of bureaucrats grown, but also the methods and standards for hiring and promoting people have changed dramatically. president has come into office determined to refashion and trim the bureaucracy chapter study outline read book chapter 15 the federal bureaucracy answers chapter. The argument of this paper is that the Book of Joshua is a classic of political thought, that can be and should be read as a coherent whole, in fact, as a major statement of the classic political world view of the Bible. Reveal Correct Response Spacebar. The Federal Register (the daily journal of the Federal government) is published every business day by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)'s Office of the Federal Register (OFR). Introduction Northerners and southerners supported the war for a variety of reasons, such as ending slavery, preserving the Union, defending states’ rights, or protecting the Confederacy. The chapters are in the order in which we will be covering them Education---Chapter 14 Families---Chapter 13 Poltical Economy---Chapter 16 Political Economy cont. So you'll never miss out. AP US Government: The Federal Bureaucracy Test. The Federal Bureaucracy Find Out A. 4 The Functions of the Federal Bureaucracy. 1 Copyright, 2000 © Prentice Hall Magruder's. When the Department responds to a major CAL FIRE jurisdiction incident, the Department will post incident details to the web site. Are they engineers? 14. Argument 2. Discuss how the American bureaucracy differs from others. After reading and reviewing the material in this chapter, the student should be able to do each of the following: 1. Chapter 6 - Judicial Branch - Guided Reading. Chapter 15 was added to federal law as part of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. On the ever-controversial abortion issue, Clinton supported the Roe v. Iron Triangle: sub-governments, mutually dependent, mutually advantageous relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees. A balance of payments deficit is an imbalance in a nation's FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as The Fed): It is the central banking system of the United States. The first ten amendments to the Constitution—the Bill of Rights—came into effect on December 15, 1791, limiting the powers of the federal government of the United States and protecting the rights In federal criminal cases it requires indictment by a grand jury for any capital offense, or infamous crime. Updated: Aug 4, 2014. NW at 15 mph. Russian Government Decree on taxes, social insurance contributions and bankruptcy dated March 18, 2020. Chapter 15: The Federal. If you cannot win after a few times, try to restart the chapter to get better Relics. The structure of the bureaucracy was intended to make it difficult. 1 This 1885 cartoon reflects the disappointment of office seekers who were turned away from bureaucratic positions they believed their political commitments had earned them. What is the merit principle? Bureaucracy where one is awarded based on demonstration, treat clients impartially, and functions as a well organized machine with plenty of working, but hierarchal, parts. Bureaucracy – A form of organization that operates through impersonal, uniform rules and procedures. General Motors, the Southern 2. Org web experience team, please use our contact form. Test Questions. The Framers simply didn't set out the organization of. 320 International Monetary Reform A Specific Set of Proposals. Thompson and Joseph V. GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, GAO/GGD-98-147. Annenberg Video - Interest Groups. Bureaucracies use task specialization. The armies of bureaucrats proliferating like gerbils, scurrying like lemmings in pursuit of the ever-expanding federal agenda testify to that amply. Chapter 13: The Bureaucracy 94. Insights into hours worked, September 2020. List four prevalent myths about bureaucracy. UNIT 1: Chapter 8 - Executive & Federal Bureaucracy. 6 Bureaucracies and the Democratic Process. Bureaucracy may seem like a modern invention, but bureaucrats have served in governments for nearly as long as governments have existed. JavaScript chart by amCharts 3. • Divided supervision - Congress has the power to create, organize, and disband all federal agencies. Borjas examines how the salaries of the 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS chapter 1 \| 19 pages. Under this Act, as amended, the Commission is empowered, among other things, to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; (c) prescribe rules defining with specificity acts. ppt View Download. 1 The US Legal System; 15. Chapter 7 The Federal Bureaucracy: Putting the Nation’s Laws into Effect. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. After completing this chapter, you will be able to: Outline the process of an environmental impact assessment, and describe several Canadian examples. These are officials who sit in powerful positions. Not only have the numbers of bureaucrats grown, but also the methods and standards for hiring and promoting people have changed dramatically. The resistance—led by teachers' unions and the politicians beholden to them—to allowing partial homeschooling or online learning for K-12 kids has been swept away by necessity. The federal support to the medical care services has already been allocated and has arrived in the regions. Federal consumer Agenda • Today a massive gov bureaucracy attempts to protect the consumer against abuse: more then 900 different programs administrated by more than 400 federal entities. 4 Recommended Reading; 14. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you. Most bureaucrats work for the prime minister's cabinet, whose ministers are responsible for the majority of public services provided by the Canadian government. Evaluate the role of public opinion, interest groups, and political parties in the political system. Bureaucracies have come to be associated with “waste, confusion, red tape, and rigidity. Bureaucracies are central to our lives. 3 In this context, this chapter has two parts. Enter a single, fanatical human from space to dish out his own kind of conversion. The chapter begins by looking at the concept of market entry strategies within the control of a chosen marketing mix. The Bureaucracy CHAPTER 15 REVIEWING THE CHAPTER CHAPTER FOCUS STUDY OUTLINE. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. The bureaucracy is often called the “fourth branch of government. Shows the daily level of the federal funds rate back to 1954. The New Face of State and Local Government. The United States was the creation of 13 individual states, each of which valued its traditions and powers, and so the overarching federal government was deliberately limited in its. Cities have grown and regionally, the West and South have gained, especially in the post-WWII period in terms of population and income per capita. A bureaucracy is a form of organization that delivers goods and services at the lowest cost through specialization of jobs, close supervision on employees, and clear rules for making decisions. Chapter 15: Government at Work: The Bureaucracy Section 3. What is the Bureaucracy? 1. Hierarchial authority structure b. • Divided supervision - Congress has the power to create, organize, and disband all federal agencies. 230222 0130406716 Core Concepts of Accounting, 8 /e Anthony. Philosophical Foundations- September 11-13-15 1. Bureaucracies have a hierarchical authority structure. Define what a bureaucracy is, and summarize its key Federal Bureaucracy -. Disaster Loan Assistance. The little-known USDA Agency of Invasive Species—founded by President and humble peanut farmer Jimmy Carter—would like to reassure you that they rank among the most effective and cost-efficient offices within the sprawling federal bureaucracy. 世界中のあらゆる情報を検索するためのツールを提供しています。さまざまな検索機能を活用して、お探しの情報を見つけてください。. Most bureaucrats work for the prime minister's cabinet, whose ministers are responsible for the majority of public services provided by the Canadian government. Updated: Aug 4, 2014. Chapter 15: The Bureaucracy. The FDIC insures deposits; examines and supervises financial institutions for safety, soundness, and consumer protection; makes. Time Worked (hours) Amount Earned (dollars) (15) 127. When the framers of the Constitution developed our government, they gave Congress the authority to create the departments necessary to carry out the day-to-day responsibilities of governing. 42) Unit V: Chapter 15: The Bureaucracy – 186 to 197 43) Unit VI: Chapter 13: Congress – 201 to 216 44) Unit VI: Chapter 17: Domestic Policy (Policy Making, Social Welfare, Business Regulation, & Environmental Policy – 217 to 234 45) Unit VII: Chapter 16: The Judiciary – 237 to 252 46) Unit VII: Chapter 5: Civil Liberties – 253 to 278. Select a Tab. The Current Account is a summary of all transactions in assets, real or financial. Almost all of the federal bureaucracy is found in the. Chapter 15 Outline Distinctiveness Of The American Bureaucracy oBureaucratic government is a feature of all modern societies, but three aspects of our constitutional system and political traditions make American bureaucracy different oThese aspects are: Political authority over the bureaucracy is divided among several institutions. They exist to help the president administer federal policies? We are talking about the thousands of people that work in the administrative body called the US bureaucracy. Chapter 21. In addition, Hull's study is a refreshing voice that breaks the mold of current representation of Pakistan. Philosophical Foundations- September 11-13-15 1. Taks specialization c. Full text of "ERIC ED463386: Rights at Risk: Equality in an Age of Terrorism. Gibbs stood in front of his boat, sandpaper in hand as he caressed the graceful curves of the hull, sanding with the grain of course. Hierarchical Authority – built like a pyramid, chain of command running from top to bottom. What types of jobs are listed in the plum book and how does an administration go about filling. Chapter 15: Administrative discretion the Federal Bureaucracy. The US Legal System; Power of the US Supreme Court; Selecting Federal Judges; The Courts in the Information Age; Recommended Reading; Recommended Viewing; Chapter 16: Policymaking and Domestic Policies. In addition to these formal criteria, federal courts are most likely to grant writs of certiorari for cases involving conflicts among federal circuit courts, cases that present important questions of civil rights or liberties, and cases in which the government is the appellant. government organizations, usually (9). You can write a book review and share your experiences. Although really comprising an industry that exists for communication and entertainment, the media nevertheless play important roles in monitoring the government and informing the public. Unit IX: The Federal Bureaucracy (Chapter 15) Unit X: The National Judiciary (Chapter 18) Unit XI: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Chapters 19-21) Unit XII: Public Policy (Chapters 16-17, 22-23) Assignments: Students will be assigned a variety of classroom assignments throughout the course of the class. Some Bureaucratic Myths and Realities. Bankruptcy Code. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2016 by using the calendar at the. Its resources now include approximately 8,000 employees and a budget of over $440 million. AP Government chapter 13- congress vocab. bureaucracy a formal organization characterized by a hierarchy of authority, a clear division of labour, explicit rules, and impersonality. Development of the Civil Service 1. Direct and indirect growth. Open note quiz. by cizun on 28. The 15 executive branch departments are: Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture. Browse the U. © Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Governments have various structures and forms, from dictatorships to democracies. Trump signed an Executive Order that fulfills his commitment to eliminate the Federal bureaucracy attached to environmental review and permitting for major infrastructure projects. • vast amounts of information available on the Internet. category people who share similar characteristics but who are not connected in any way. A bureaucracy is a form of organization that delivers goods and services at the lowest cost through specialization of jobs, close supervision on employees, and clear rules for making decisions. The FDIC insures deposits; examines and supervises financial institutions for safety, soundness, and consumer protection; makes. 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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. This 1885 cartoon reflects the disappointment of office seekers who were turned away from bureaucratic positions they believed their political commitments had earned them. Bureaucracy is a system of administration characterized by strict policies, procedures, and hierarchy. The bureaucratic management theory emphasized on a formal organizational structure where a proper hierarchy is to be maintained. The Ancient Ruins Chapter is definitely one of the most tricky maps in Peaks of Time at the beginning of AFK Arena. Chapter 5 Outline system of government that dispersed authority by assigning law- making, administering, and judging to separate branches; called for a Kindle File Format American Government Chapter 5 Outline Chapter Study Outline. the federal judiciary: politics, power, and the “least dangerous” branch. You can write a book review and share your experiences. Bureaucracy defined and explained with examples. 4 Controlling the Bureaucracy; Chapter 16: Domestic Policy. If the federal bureaucracy was reduced by 50%, my success would probably increase due to the lessening of restrictions on free enterprise and. Click here to see new Excerpts of Record Rule 30-1 and redlined versions of all other rule revisions. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by the Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system. Bureaucracy definition is - a body of nonelected government officials. 4a Implementation, administration and regulation. Chapter Outline and Learning Objectives Bureaucracies as Implementors LO 15. How does the Constitution make reference to a federal bureaucracy? 3. Parliamentary Systems of Governance 03 Chapter 15: The Federal Bureaucracy. A schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience. Subscribe Diversity Latest Podcasts Video The Magazine Store Webinars Newsletters All Topics The Big Idea Visual Library Reading Lists Case Selections My Library Account Settings Log Out Sign In. The Department of Human Resources was created in 1970 by the merger of the Departments of Vocational Rehabilitation, Public Health, Public Welfare, and Veterans Affairs. Bureaucracy may seem like a modern invention, but bureaucrats have served in governments for nearly as long as governments have existed. Most of the federal bureaucracy is under the Executive branch. Flashcards. U S Debt Clock Chapter 1 Charts Optional Chapter 1 Charts Chapter 1 Key Terms Chapter 2 Key Terms Chapter 2 Outline Chapter 2 Charts Optional Chapter 2 Charts MINDTAP URL How to Access MindTap Amendments to the U S Constitution The Bill of Rights Chapter 3 Charts Federalism Video Chapter 3 Key Terms Optional Charts, Federalism Assignment Wed. Bureaucracy How the Bureaucracy Grew Before the Bureaucracy The Bureaucratic Model Bureaucratic Pathologies The Democratic Dilemma What Bureaucracies Do Implementation How the Bureaucracy is Organized The Cabinet Departments Comparing Nations: Parliamentary Systems Other Agencies Who Controls the Federal Bureaucracy? The People The. Chapter 7 The Federal Bureaucracy: Putting the Nation’s Laws into Effect. Multiple Choice. Define what a bureaucracy is, and summarize its key characteristics and its nature. Chapter 12: The Federal Bureaucracy. After coordination with the Länder and the Federal Government, the BMI. The federal bureaucracy is not explicitly laid out in the Constitution. CHAPTER OUTLINE I. In sociology, the term bureaucracy refers to the particular form of organization of human activities. 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Wade decision, but also declared that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare. 3The bureaucrats we have in mind are career civil servants who enter the bureaucracy through a In section 3, we outline how the alternative mechanisms work through the lens of a canonical eciency wage 15Although time taken to sanction projects is a more direct way of measuring bureaucratic. Describe separation of powers and checks and balances in both theory and practice. Each department is in charge of its own mission which divide the work into bureaus. Furlong, Scott R. some basic concepts. -Bureaucrats shape policy as administrators, implementors, and regulators. Efforts to reform the bureaucracy. 1 The US Legal System; 15. The Federal Courts and Judicial Policy-Making: Edwards and Wattenberg, Government in America, chapter 15. CHAPTER OUTLINE Government at Work: The Bureaucracy 2 Directions: Fill in the outline below. 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Chapter 9: Executive Agencies Chapter 10: The Federal Judiciary Chapter 11: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Chapter 12: Public Policy Chapter 13: State and Local Government Chapter 14: U. The United States was the creation of 13 individual states, each of which valued its traditions and powers, and so the overarching federal government was deliberately limited in its. By definition, it is not privately owned. 1:Bureaucracy and bureaucrats are used to describe the federal government’s organizations and employees. The original bureaucracy of the federal government consisted only of employees from three small departments — State, Treasury, and War. 4 The Courts in the Information Age; 15. uppercasing. World of Ruin. Run across the bridge and come across a few of them. Name the three main characteristics of a bureaucracy and explain why each is important. Here is the first lecture on the federal bureaucracy, presented on Monday, 23 March 2009. Disaster Loan Assistance. collection. 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__label__wiki	0.82956	0.82956	Yuri Kageyama NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA: Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet About Yuri (Biography) Publications (Bibliography) The New & Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling Till Now THE VERY SPECIAL DAY Talking Taiko _ The Film Photo, design credits My Stories for The Associated Press 2019 and 2018 NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA: Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet _ now a film OUR “NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA” now honored at film festivals around the world: SEMI-FINALIST Official Selection Jelly Film Festival January 2021. Official Selection Vancouver Independent Film Festival January 2021. Official Selection Toronto International Women Film Festival January 2021. BEST DOCUMENTARY Official Selection Rome International Movie Awards January 2021. Finalist Official Selection Flixze Film Festival Jan. 5 ~ 6, 2021. Official Selection Kalakari Film Festival May 15, 2021. GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD – CINE DANCE POEM and WORLD PREMIERE at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival SAT Nov. 2, 2019, 6 p.m. East Bay Media Center Performance Space BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE WINNER Royal Wolf Film Awards December 2020. NOMINATED BEST DOCUMENTARY BIMIFF – Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival November 2020. BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Madras Independent Film Festival October 2020 Edition. BEST EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY Sicily Independent Film Awards August 2020. FINALIST Official Selection Montreal Independent Film Festival September 2020. Official Selection Motion Pictures International Film Festival November 2020. Official Selection Silent River Film Festival in California August 2020. Official Selection Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival June 2020. SELECT SHOWCASE Official Selection at the Guam International Film Festival (2019~2020), airing on PBS Guam June 2020. Official Selection ARTS X SDGS film festival New York April 2020. Official Selection 2020 Oniros Film Awards in Italy. FINALIST BEST ASIAN FEATURE FILM at the New Vision International Film Festival in Amsterdam September 2019. Screened online at the Toronto Film Channel Aug. 31, 2020. Screened online at the Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival Dec. 9, 2020 through Dec. 15, 2020. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet Written by Yuri Kageyama \| Directed by Carla Blank Film directed by Yoshiaki Tago with camera work by Tago and Kate McKinley. Editing by Eri Muraki. “Yuri, you did a great job. Stay hard and blunt and don’t mince words. Yours was a powerful reflection on the corruption and greed of men and their indifference to human life.” _ Ishmael Reed. Photo by Tennessee Reed Photo by Annette Borromeo Dorfman Photo by Annette Borromeo Dofrman For the San Francisco performance, we had genuine Bon Daiko drum music performed by Isaku Kageyama with shakuhachi and fue by Kouzan Kikuchi, joined by Joe Small (taiko/percussion) and Stomu Takeishi (bass), delivering mesmerizing renditions of Bon and minyo from Fukushima, as well as other Japanese tunes. The Bon idea of the dead’s homecoming and the abstracted repetitive dancing in a circle serve as a symbol of the piece’s message of death, yearning for family and future generations, and gratitude for the harvest and peaceful everyday life. Juxtaposed with the experimental choreography by the director Carla Blank, incorporating collaborations with the performers, Takemi Kitamura, Monisha Shiva and Shigeko Sara Suga, Bon dance was transformed on the American stage, and presented as a dignified and artistic motif of modern movement. Bon Odori continues to bring people together in the Japanese American community _ and communities all over Japan. This performance is a collaboration among all its participants, some who have worked together since 2015, and some who in 2017 helped create this new development of the piece. Through email conversations and intensive rehearsals we arrived at our choices of the particular dramatic scenes, music, video, dances and other action you will see. The Bon Odori dances and music, which provide transitions between the scenes, are based on traditional celebrations that occur throughout Japan during the late summer to honor the ancestors: Soma Bon Uta and Aizu Bandaisan from Fukushima, Yagi Bushi from Tochigi and Gunma near Tokyo, and Tanko Bushi from Fukuoka, besides Tokyo Ondo, which continues throughout Bon Odori (The Death Dance). Great thanks to Takemi Kitamura, who taught us the four dances you will see and who also created the movement for the Prologue solo and Epilogue trio, inspired by a line dance from Aizu, the westernmost region of Fukushima, where annually it is offered in remembrance of 19 of the over 300 Byakkotai warriors , teen-age sons of samurai in the White Tiger Battalion who in 1868, during the Boshin Civil War, committed ritual disembowelment (seppuku or hara-kiri) because they mistakenly believed a fire had consumed their lord’s castle, which would mean their city had been captured and their families killed. For me, this dance particularly resonates because of where it comes from, how contemporary its formal choices appear, and how as the strokes of the blades go every which direction, it becomes a metaphor for the ways life can slice us also. It has been my great pleasure to realize Yuri Kageyama’s work with all these wonderful, dedicated performers. Ishmael Reed came up with the title for my performance piece: “NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA: Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet.” As that suggests, the piece is about my vision as a poet. My spoken word pieces, delivered to accompaniment of various kinds of music, address racism, stereotyping, sexism and the search for love. They seek to address what society sees as “bigger” issues, such as the Fukushima accident, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and the journalistic mission. For me, they are all connected. All those themes provide the driving force in my storytelling that has over the years always sought to bring closer to home the perennial repetition of people’s betrayal, selfishness and smallness. The Fukushima disaster is the biggest story of my life _ both as poet and journalist, those sides of my writing identity which have in the past remained so painfully separate. They have now come together. We have all come together in this effort _ all of us, of different backgrounds, cultures and disciplines. We have become one. It is clear we have each done our best to share our talent, our passion and our lives, to raise questions, to connect _ and to bring hope. What people are saying about NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA: MEDITATION ON AN UNDER-REPORTED CATASTROPHE BY A POET. Yuri Kageyama, with her epic poem, has earned a place among the leading world poets. This work proves that the poet as a journalist can expose conditions that are ignored by the media. _ Ishmael Reed poet, essayist, playwright, publisher, lyricist, author of MUMBO JUMBO, THE LAST DAYS OF LOUISIANA RED and THE COMPLETE MUHAMMAD ALI, MacArthur Fellowship, professor at the University of California Berkeley, San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate (2012-2016). NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA is a commentary on what it means to be human in the 21st Century. While we are divided by race, ethnicity, language, geography and culture, the essence of our humanity remains constant. In NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA, the cast, director and playwright all come together to create a montage of courage, uncertainty and hope in the face of disaster. _ Basir Mchawi producer, community organizer and radio show host at WBAI Radio in New York, who has taught at the City University of New York, public schools and independent Black schools. Awesome music and dancing! The haunting drumming, dazzling satire and the golden heart of a poet in protest. Nothing is under control when the environment is under siege. Aluta! _ Sandile Ngidi poet, Zulu/English translator, journalist and critic. Her collage-like piece weaves together lyrical monologues, sword dance, film and live music that blends jazz, taiko drumming and minyo folks songs. In the Fukushima of 2017, goes one line late in the play, “the authorities say they are playing it safe, when no one really feels safe.” _ Lily Janiak writer for The San Francisco Chronicle. A vital story of our times. Spoken word and music from a talented multicultural ensemble. A beacon of light in a darkening world. _ Paul Armstrong artistic director at International Arts Initiatives, a Vancouver-based nonprofit for cultural advancement through the arts and education. I welcomed NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA _ into my consciousness, with deep gratitude, seeing it twice, two days in succession _ all the while marveling at the tough yet faithful production and its dedication to truth-telling. _ David Henderson poet, co-founder of Umbra and the Black Arts Movement, author of ‘SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY. JIMI HENDRIX: VOODOO CHILD. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA echoes the mourning of Bon Odori dance to warn us again and again that the nuclear age of post-World War II Japan has never ended. _ Hisami Kuroiwa movie producer and executive for “The Shell Collector,” “”Lafcadio Hearn: His Journey to Ithaca,” “Sunday,” “Bent” and the Silver Bear-winning “Smoke.” Strong threads of a woman’s point of view …. Excellent ….The issue of motherhood in looking at Fukushima is well done. And the candid shots of Obon in Japan are fantastic in the background. As are the shots of rows and rows of radioactive materials in plastic bags, just left in rows upon rows in Fukushima. I thought the production was very good, technically excellent, and very illustrative of a Japan we don’t hear about after the 2011 triple disaster. Go see it. _ Peter Kenichi Yamamoto poet in San Francisco and coordinator at the National Japanese American Historical Society. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA is a memorable performance with well-researched narratives that throws you into a quest for humanity. _ Midori Nishimura Stanford University professor and medical doctor. A powerful message not to forget: Fukushima. _ David Ushijima San Francisco business professional in retail, mobile, sensor-based and connected devices, Internet of Things. It’s the kind of piece that keeps this from being forgotten. With all the other things going on in this world, we can forget about this, and we have a distance from them. But this kind of piece can remind us to return to it and continually reconsider the choices we make in our society. _ Adam Hartzell writer at koreanfilm.org Great music …. It left such an impression. A splendid performance. _ Seiko Takada musician, “Kaizoku” vocalist/guitarist. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA is a powerful artistic response to disaster, informing us and inspiring us to compassion. _ Ravi Chandra San Francisco-Bay Area poet, writer and psychiatrist. A truly emotional experience. _ Liliana Perez child psychologist and Ph.D. Fukushima: Excellent musical accompaniment to poignant poetry, with minimal yet imaginative staging and choreography. _ Nana pianist and New Yorker. What a delight …. See this show and be transported magically. _ George Ferencz co-founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater, resident director at La MaMa (1982-2008), who has also directed at the Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Berkeley Rep and Cleveland Playhouse. News that enraptures and engages through Sound. A Poet sings of the unreported calamity at Fukushima. _ Katsumi a Japanese living in New York. The arc of history in every nation has its sadly forgotten men, women and children. Hauntingly powerful, NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA draws our eyes and hearts back to an ongoing, under-reported tragedy. _ Curtis Chin Milken Institute fellow and former U.S. Ambassador. Everyone who took part in this performance, and those who came to see it, although of different races and thinking, all felt clearly the existence of what we know is so important …. I have lived to see many people who hurt others out of selfishness, betrayed others without qualms, and then went on to hide what they had done. But in the end, what is desired is not achieved, leaving only hunger, and, because of that, the cycle gets repeated …. I pray more people will be able to feel love through seeing this performance. _ Toshinori “Toshichael Jackson” Tani dancer, member of TL Brothers and instructor. Bios of the artists in Cast, crew, filmmakers, director and writer of NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA THE PLAYWRIGHT YURI KAGEYAMA is a poet, songwriter, filmmaker, journalist and author of “The New and Selected Yuri” and “The Very Special Day.” Her spoken-word band the Yuricane features Melvin Gibbs, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Morgan Fisher, Pheeroan akLaff and Winchester Nii Tete. She is published in ”Breaking Silence,” “On a Bed of Rice,” “Pow Wow,” Cultural Weekly, Y’Bird, Konch and Public Poetry Series. http://yurikageyama.com/ Carla Blank CARLA BLANK is a writer, editor, director, dramaturge and a teacher and performer of dance and theater for more than 50 years. She worked with Robert Wilson to create “KOOL _Dancing in My Mind,” inspired by Japanese choreographer Suzushi Hanayagi. She directed Wajahat Ali’s “The Domestic Crusaders” from a restaurant reading in Newark, California, to Off Broadway and the Kennedy Center. http://www.carlablank.com/bio.htm TAKEMI KITAMURA, choreographer, dancer, puppeteer, Japanese sword fighter and actor, appeared in “The Oldest Boy” at Lincoln Center, “The Indian Queen” directed by Peter Sellars; “Shank’s Mare” by Tom Lee and Koryu Nishikawa V; “Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed” by Dan Hurlin and “Memory Rings” by Phantom Limb Co. She has worked with Nami Yamamoto, Sondra Loring and Sally Silvers. http://takemikitamura.com/ MONISHA SHIVA is an actor, dancer, choreographer and painter, appearing in “The Domestic Crusaders” and “The Rats,” for theater, and independent films such as “Small Delights,” “Carroll Park,” “Echoes” and “Ukkiya Jeevan.” A native New Yorker, she has studied classical Indian dance and Bollywood, jazz and samba dancing, and acting at William Esper Studios and Studio 5. http://www.monishashiva.com/Monisha/home.html Shigeko Suga Sara. Photo by Annette Borromeo Dorfman SHIGEKO SARA SUGA, actress, director, artistic associate at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and Flamenco and Butoh dancer, has performed in 150 productions, including Pan Asian Rep.’s “Shogun Macbeth” and “No No Boy.” She dedicates her performance to her nephew Ryoei Suga, who volunteered in Kesennuma after the 2011 tsunami and now devotes his life there as a fisherman and monk. www.shigekosuga.com THE MUSICIANS STOMU TAKEISHI is a master of the fretless electric bass and has played and recorded in a variety of jazz settings with artists such as Henry Threadgill, Brandon Ross, Myra Melford, Don Cherry, Randy Brecker, Satoko Fujii, Dave Liebman, Cuong Vu, Paul Motian and Pat Metheny. He tours worldwide and performs at various international jazz festivals. Kouzan Kikuchi (L) and Stomu Takeishi. Photo by Annette Borromeo Dorfman KOUZAN KIKUCHI, shakuhachi player from Fukushima, studied minyo shamisen with his mother. A graduate of the Tokyo University of the Arts, he studied with National Treasure Houzan Yamamoto. He has worked with Ebizo Ichikawa, Shinobu Terajima and Motoko Ishii. In 2011, he became Tozanryu Shakuhachi Foundation “shihan” with highest honors. Joe Small (L) and Isaku Kageyama. Photo by Annette Borromeo Dorfman ISAKU KAGEYAMA is a taiko drummer and percussionist, working with Asano Taiko UnitOne in Los Angeles, film-scoring extravaganza “The Masterpiece Experience” and Tokyo ensemble Amanojaku. A magna cum laude Berklee College of Music graduate, he teaches at Wellesley, University of Connecticut and Brown. http://isakukageyama.com/ JOE SMALL is a taiko artist, who is a member of Eitetsu Hayashi’s Fu-un no Kai and creator of the original concert, “Spall Fragments.” He has apprenticed for two years with Kodo, researched Japanese music as a Fulbright Fellow and holds an MFA in Dance from UCLA. He teaches at Swwarthmore College. www.joesmalltaiko.com THE LIGHTING DESIGNER BLU lived in New York for 20 years and was resident designer at the Cubiculo and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. A Bessie Award winner, he was lighting designer for renowned dance theater artists such as Sally Gross, Eiko and Koma, Ping Chong, Donald Byrd, Nancy Meehan and Paula Josa Jones. THE FILMMAKER YOSHIAKI TAGO, whose video was part of the live performance, has made NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA into a film. Tago also directed “A.F.O.,” “Believer,” “Worst Contact,” “Meido in Akihabara.” His short “The Song of a Tube Manufacturer” won the runner-up prize at the Yasujiro Ozu Memorial Film Festival in 2013. He served as film adviser for Takashi Murakami, and has worked with Nobuhiko Obayashi, Takashi Miike and Macoto Tezuka. He is a graduate of the prestigious Tokyo film school founded by Shohei Imamura. YOSHIAKI TAGO The two sides of who I am _ poet and journalist _ have long been separate. I am a poet, first and foremost, I felt, and reporting is what I do for my job. But the 2011 Fukushima disaster brought those two sides together in a way that was undeniable, imperative and honest. I am filled with gratitude toward my collaborators, who have turned my words and ideas into a moving, convincing and honorable piece of theater. In this work, we defy the boundaries of cultures, race, generations and genres to tell the story about how our world has created a catastrophe. We don’t pretend to have all the answers. But it’s an important story. Thanks to Akiyoshi Imazeki for photographs of Fukushima for video by Yoshiaki Tago for “Decontamination Ghosts;” Z Space, especially Drew Yerys, Minerva Ramirez, Wolfgang Wachaolovsky, Jim Garcia, Julie Schuchard and Andrew Burmester; Alex Maynard and Adam Hatch for the use of Starline Social Club for rehearsals; Mark Ong of Side by Side Studios for the poster design; Annette Borromeo Dorfman for program design and photographing the performance; Sally Gross, Ping Chong and Meredith Monk for help finding our cast; Ishmael Reed for ongoing support and Tennessee Reed for photography; Hisami Kuroiwa for her wise counsel, filmmaker Kate McKinley; LaMaMa Experiemental Theatre for showing the work in New York in 2015; Melvin Gibbs, Sumie Kaneko, Hirokazu Suyama and Kaoru Watanabe for the music at La MaMa; Bob Holman for presenting an initial reading at Bowery Poetry Club with Yuki Kawahisa, Pheeroan akLaff and Tecla Esposito; Makoto Horiuchi; Yoichi Watanabe and Hiromi Ogawa of Amanojaku taiko in Tokyo; all the members of the Yuricane spoken word band who inspired the poems and stories that developed into this work, and, last but not least, the people of Fukushima. Yuri Kageyama reports from the no-go zone in Fukushima. Photo by Kazuhiro Onuki. A World Premiere screening at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival Nov. 2, 2019. From left to right: Festival founder and organizer Mel Vapour, director Carla Blank, writer/poet Yuri Kageyama and camera-person Kate McKinley. Photo by Tennessee Reed. Accepting the award at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival Nov. 2, 2019. From left to right: Camera-person Kate McKinley, director Carla Blank, festival founder and organizer Mel Vapour and writer/poet Yuri Kageyama. Photo by Tennessee Reed. With director Yoshiaki Tago at the red carpet event. In Amsterdam in September 2019 for the New Vision International Film Festival, where News From Fukushima was a Finalist Best Asian Feature Film. more gala shots News From Fukushima an Official Selection at the ARTS X SDGS festival I talked about our film and all my great collaborators at the Silent River Film Festival, which screened NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA August, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/SilentRiverFilmFestival/videos/644827306160921/ https://www.facebook.com/SilentRiverFilmFestival/videos/1021079638326778/ OMG Two of my films are an Official Selection at the Montreal Independent Film Festival OMG! Great news: Two of my films NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA and THE VERY SPECIAL DAY just became Official Selections at the Montreal Independent Film Festival. Thanks to the festival, everyone for giving of their talent. Thanks for believing in my poetry, my stories and my filmmaking. MY TWO FILMS OFFICIAL SELECTIONS AT TOKYO LIFT-OFF FILM FESTIVAL The Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival has selected not just one but two of my films for the event in June 2020 _ NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA and THE VERY SPECIAL DAY. Thanks to the organizers for believing in my vision. And thanks to all the artists who put up with me and worked on the films. We are all so looking forward to taking part in the event. Both films are screening (online as the event has moved because of the coronavirus outbreak) MON June 22 ~ SUN June 28, 2020. THE VERY SPECIAL DAY is showcased in the “Newcomers Short” section for Short Films, while NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA is in the “Trendsetters” section for Feature Documentaries at the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA: MEDITATION ON AN UNDER-REPORTED CATASTROPHE BY A POET _ at Z Space, San Francisco July 8 – 9, 2017 NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet Z Space 450 Florida St. San Francisco CA 94110 SAT July 8, 2017 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. SUN July 9, 2017 2 p.m. $10 admission (free with student ID) Discussion with audience and cast after each show. For tickets and other information, please click on this special Z space site. “Yuri Kageyama, with her epic poem, has earned a place among the leading world poets. This work proves that the poet as a journalist can expose conditions that are ignored by the media.” _ Ishmael Reed “A commentary on what it means to be human in the 21st Century.” _ Basir Mchawi “A beacon of light in a darkening world.” _ Paul Armstrong “Tough yet faithful production and its dedication to truth-telling.” _ David Henderson “The nuclear age of post-World War II Japan has never ended.” _ Hisami Kuroiwa The performers in NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA: From left to right: Shigeko Sara Suga, Monisha Shiva, Takemi Kitamura (photo by Tennessee Reed) Fukushima is the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. It will take decades and billions of dollars to keep the multiple meltdowns under control. Spewed radiation has reached as far as the American West Coast. Some 100,000 people were displaced from the no-go zone. But, six years after 3.11, the story hardly makes headlines. Journalist Yuri Kageyama turns to poetry, dance, theater, music and film, to remind us that the human stories must not be forgotten. Carla Blank, who has directed plays in Xiangtan and Ramallah, as well as collaborated with Suzushi Hanayagi and Robert Wilson, brings together a multicultural cast of artists to create provocative theater. Performing as collaborators are actors/dancers Takemi Kitamura, Monisha Shiva, Shigeko Sara Suga and musicians Stomu Takeishi, Isaku Kageyama, Kouzan Kikuchi and Joe Small. Lighting design by Blu. Documentary video of Fukushima by Yoshiaki Tago. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA is a literary prayer for Japan. It explores the friendship between women, juxtaposing the intimately personal with the catastrophic. The piece, which had a debut run at La MaMa in New York in 2015, continues to develop and premieres on the West Coast at Z Space in San Francisco. For more information, interviews and other queries: Please click on Contact BIOS OF THE ARTISTS: Yuri Kageyama. Photo by Junji Kurokawa. YURI KAGEYAMA is an award-winning journalist, poet, songwriter, filmmaker and author of “The New and Selected Yuri” and “The Very Special Day.” Her spoken-word band the Yuricane has featured Melvin Gibbs, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Morgan Fisher, Pheeroan akLaff and Winchester Nii Tete. She is published in ”Breaking Silence,” “On a Bed of Rice,” “Pow Wow,” Cultural Weekly, Y’Bird, Konch and Public Poetry Series. http://yurikageyama.com/ TAKEMI KITAMURA (CENTER). PHOTO BY TENNESSEE REED. MONISHA SHIVA. PHOTO BY TENNESSEE REED. SHIGEKO SUGA (LEFT). PHOTO BY TENNESSEE REED. ISAKU KAGEYAMA. PHOTO BY KOJI SASAHARA. KOUZAN KIKUCHI. PHOTO BY JUNJI KUROKAWA. JOE SMALL is a taiko artist, who is a member of Eitetsu Hayashi’s Fu-un no Kai and creator of the original concert, “Spall Fragments.” A Swarthmore graduate, he apprenticed for two years with Kodo, researched Japanese music as a Fulbright Fellow and holds an MFA in Dance from UCLA. He teaches at the Los Angeles Taiko Institute. www.joesmalltaiko.com YOSHIAKI TAGO directed “A.F.O.,” “Believer,” “Worst Contact,” “Meido in Akihabara.” His short “The Song of a Tube Manufacturer” won the runner-up prize at the Yasujiro Ozu Memorial Film Festival in 2013. He serves as film adviser for Takashi Murakami. He has worked with Nobuhiko Obayashi, Takashi Miike and Macoto Tezuka. He is documenting “News from Fukushima” as a film. Yuri Kageyama reports with a photographer in the Fukushima no-go zone. Photo by Kazuhiro Onuki. I welcomed NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA _ into my consciousness, with deep gratitude, seeing it twice, two days in succession _ all the while marveling at the tough yet faithful production and its dedication to truth-telling. _ David Henderson poet, co-founder of Umbra and the Black Arts Movement, author of ‘SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY. JIMI HEDNRIX: VOODOO CHILD. Tragically, Fukushima is still constantly being shaken by earthquakes. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA echoes the mourning of Bon Odori dance to warn us again and again that the nuclear age of post-World War II Japan has never ended. _ Hisami Kuroiwa movie producer and executive for “The Shell Collector,” “”Lafcadio Hearn: His Journey to Ithaca,” “Sunday,” “Bent” and the Silver Bear-winning “Smoke.” Fukushima: Excellent musical accompaniment to poignant poetry, with minimal yet imaginative staging and choreography. Musicians were absolutely superb! _ Nana pianist and New Yorker. What a delight was the new theater piece featuring Shigeko Suga, which did a short run at La MaMa. Ms. Suga and her fellow performers glided beautifully with wit, authority and grace through the stylized performances. See this show and be transported magically. _ George Ferencz co-founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater, resident director at La MaMa (1982-2008), who has also directed at the Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Berkeley Rep and Cleveland Playhouse. News that enraptures and engages through Sound. A Poet sings of the unreported calamity at Fukushima in NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA to Melvin Gibbs’ bass. _ Katsumi a Japanese living in New York. It spoke of what’s most critically needed in this age. Despite advances in civilization and culture, the power of emotions has weakened, and people don’t know how to talk to each other. Everyone who took part in this performance, and those who came to see it, although of different races and thinking, all felt clearly the existence of what we know is so important, what we feel is so needed: Love. Love is not an abstract concept. It is about how we treasure our family, how we treat our lovers, our friends. I have lived to see many people who hurt others out of selfishness, betrayed others without qualms, and then went on to hide what they had done. But in the end, what is desired is not achieved, leaving only hunger, and, because of that, the cycle gets repeated again. What I saw here is not just cultural collaboration but what is at the center of that _ a warm feeling, and the expression of the message that the world cannot go on this way. I pray more people will be able to feel love through seeing this performance. I pray as someone who believes in love. _ Toshinori “Toshichael Jackson” Tani dancer, member of TL Brothers and instructor. An excerpt from NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA: “Hiroshima.” Filmed and edited by Yuri Kageyama. Poet Yuri Kageyama, Drummer Pheeroan akLaff and Filmmaker Yoshiaki Tago YURI KAGEYAMA, a poet of both worlds Japan and America, American drummer PHEEROAN AKLAFF and Japanese filmmaker YOSHIAKI TAGO come together to tell a pan-Pacific tale of pain, love and survival that defies racism and sexism over moments and generations. Witness, celebrate and join in this exhilarating crossing of barriers of cultures and genres to debunk stereotypes and find free expression. MON Aug. 6, 2012. 8 p.m. (door opens 7:30 p.m.) at Live space plan-B (4-26-20 B1 Yayoicho Nakano-ku, TOKYO. FREE ADMISSION (Donations welcome for plan-B). Yuri Kageyama is the author of “The New and Selected Yuri: Writing From Peeling Till Now.” Her works, winning praise from literary giants like Ishmael Reed and Shuntaro Tanikawa, appear in “Y’Bird,” “Pow Wow,” “Breaking Silence,” “On a Bed of Rice,” “Konch” and “Phati’tude.” She has read with Eric Kamau Gravatt, Isaku Kageyama, Ashwut Rodriguez, Seamus Heaney, Shozu Ben, Victor Hernandez Cruz and the Broun Fellinis. http://yurikageyama.com Pheeroan AkLaff is a New York-based drummer and composer. He has played with Rashied Ali, Oliver Lake, Henry Threadgill, Cecil Taylor, Yosuke Yamashita and Andrew Hill. A headliner at many festivals including Moers and Nurnberg, he is in Japan on the “Dear Freedom Suite” tour with Jun Miyake and Toshiki Nagata. He has led an ensemble dedicated to John Coltrane’s music. He teaches at Wesleyan University. http://pheeroanaklaff.com Yoshiaki Tago directed “Worst Contact,” “Believer” and “Maid in Akihabara,” and served as assistant director on many Japanese feature films. A graduate of the prestigious Japan Academy of Moving Images, Tago frequently works on TV shows and promotional videos for pop artists, major companies and government projects. He is documenting Kageyama’s readings with music in a work-in-progress “Talking TAIKO.” For more information, email yurikageyama@yahoo.com or 090-4594-2911 A TOKYO FLOWER CHILDREN production Talking TAIKO Book party in San Francisco Film by Yoshiaki Tago Photos by Annette Dorfman Film by Yoshiaki Tago. Talking TAIKO Book party for “The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling Till Now” at Yoshi’s in San Francisco MON Aug. 15, 2011. An evening of poetry by Yuri Kageyama with music by The Yuricane: Eric Kamau Gravatt (drums), Makoto Horiuchi (guitar, musical director), Isaku Kageyama (taiko, percussion), Hiroyuki Shido (bass), Glen Pearson (keyboards), Ashwut Rodriguez (guitar). Special Guests: Ishmael Reed, Tennessee Reed and Carla Blank. A firsthand report in Jazz Advance: Borderless Poetics: Taiko Meets Jazz at My Book Party. Reading at a San Francisco book store Reading at a San Francisco book store TUE Aug. 16, 2011 with (from left to right) Yoshiaki Tago (filmmaker), Hiroyuki Shido (bass), Eric Kamau Gravatt (drums), Makoto Horiuchi (guitar), Yuri Kageyama (poet) and Isaku Kageyama (percussion, taiko). Photos by Annette Dorfman. The best thing about the reading was that Milton Murayama, author of “All I Asking For Is My Body,” whom I had not seen in years, came with his wife Dawn because he saw it in The San Francisco Chronicle. He told me the day he would stop writing is the day he dies. So much like Milton _ still the same after all these years. He had that same twinkle in his eye when he said those words like a promise. Death can’t be all bad if we can keep writing till the day we die. Talking Taiko _ the Movie Yoichi Watanabe, master taiko drummer, shows his stuff at Bon Odori _ as he does each and every year (with Daisuke Watanabe and Isaku Kageyama of Watanabe-led Amanojaku). Bon Odori Conneting with the past And all that went before us Connecting with the future And all that awaits A poetic moment Being a poet is seeing so much more in the everyday. Bon Odori is the closing scene of “Talking Taiko,” a movie I’m working on with Japanese director and film-maker Yoshiaki Tago. He’s doing his stuff on a Shibuya pedestrian walkway _ another place where we are finding a poetic moment. trailer on YouTube Do we write to live or live to write? Do we write to remember or do we write to forget? Do we write to remember or do we write to be remembered? Do we write so we don’t kill or do we write so we don’t kill ourselves? Do we make movies to live or live to make movies? Do we make music to live or live to make music? Do we live? Yoshiaki Tago Film-maker Film-maker Yoshiaki Tago in his Tokyo office. Tago and I are working on a film together. Surprisingly, it’s only recently (after reminding from an email from writer and choreographer Carla Blank) that I’ve realized this is another cross-cultural collaboration that’s always been my life/work/identity. I have a very good feeling about our work in progress. I love Tago’s sensibilities. He is a Japanese film-maker. And that means a certain language, a way of seeing and telling a story. But we are struggling to connect a divide (gender, generation, genre, cultural reference). Sometimes we are frustrated because we don’t understand what’s so obvious to the other. By being forced to articulate what my poetry is for me, I am learning how my works connect to the past, to music, to the marginality of being caught in between the U.S. and Japan, to sexuality, to my son and his music _ all the things that are so close to me I sometimes forget or choose to forget what they mean. Certainly, I don’t want to talk about them _ in conversational prose. After all, that’s why the scars and tears and shame are all so carefully packaged _ and over so many years since my childhood in my poetry and stories. To put it another way: If I had become someone who wrote in the Japanese language, I would certainly have become a different kind of person. I write in English. I am an American minority writer. I don’t want to give the wrong impression. Tago and I get along great: We both don’t like “Elephant Man,” or even “The Ballad of Narayama” (though Tago was educated in the school of director Shohei Imamura). And we both love Kihachi Okamoto. 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__label__wiki	0.901618	0.901618	SNH in Assynt Dates of Board Meetings 2020 Mad Midge Midsummer Run 2020 Run Details Shop - Buy our merchandise Fèis in the Fank in Pictures 25th Anniversary Speeches Key speeches from the Events The Allan MacRae Memorial Debate Assynt Crofters' Trust About Assynt Crofters' Trust The Assynt Crofters' Trust is the owner of the North Assynt Estate which consists of some 21,000 acres and includes the Townships of Torbreck, Achmelvich (part), Clachtoll, Stoer, Balchladich, Clashmore/Raffin, Culkein Stoer, Achnacharnin, Clashnessie, Culkein Drumbeg, Drumbeg and Nedd. The Trust has enabled the ordinary people who live and work on the land to have some control over their own economic future. The agreed purchase price for the total asset was £300,000 of which almost half was raised by the crofters and their supporters throughout Britain - indeed donations came from abroad, from some of those who traced their ancestry to Highlanders who had sought a new life in the Colonies during the dark days of the Clearances. The remainder of the purchase price came from public agencies, Sutherland District Council and Highland Regional Council in the form of grant and loan. A generous donation was given by the Highland Fund to assist with the initial administrative burden of the Trust. Today the Estate is in the possession of the crofters, free of debt and administered by a Board of Directors elected by democratic vote by each of the thirteen townships making up the Estate who serve for three years. The Trust is managed on a day-to-day basis by the Administrator/Crofting Administrator and the Secretary, directly responsible to the main Board. The full Board meets approximately once every two months. All Board meetings are open to the public. Assynt Hydro Assynt Hydro Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Assynt Crofters’ Trust Limited. The principal activity of the company is generating electricity from a hydro-electric project at Loch Poll on the North Assynt Estate. The scheme was commissioned in September 2000 and consists of four reservoirs in cascade. The upper three – Loch Torr na h’Eigan (top loch), Torr nan Uidhean (middle loch) and Loch an Loinne (bottom loch) – provide storage for Loch Poll, which acts as the head reservoir. It is a 225KW scheme utilising a CINK Crossflow turbine. The project has proved to be highly successful. Assynt Crofters Trust enjoys the benefit of regular and valuable income that is expected to continue for many years. In 1989 Edmund H Vestey renamed the coastal crofting strip - comprising thirteen townships and a total area of 21,300 acres (9,000 Ha) - as North Lochinver Estate, and sold it for £1,080,000 to a Swedish land speculator. In none of these transactions were the interests of the people who lived and worked on the land considered to be relevant. In 1992 Scandinavian Property Services Ltd went into liquidation, with a Swedish bank as the main creditor. A London-based Liquidator was appointed and the selling agents who had been employed by the Vestey family to conduct the original sale were re-appointed. The estate which had been sold to Scandinavian Property Services in three lots was now to be broken up into seven lots, no concern being shown for the impact of this process on the crofting activity of the inhabitants. At a public meeting called a few weeks later, a proposal, judged by some to be bordering on the lunatic, was put to those present, that an attempt be made to raise sufficient money for the crofters to bid for the Estate themselves. This was agreed to and a steering committee was formed which consisted principally of the grazings clerks of the thirteen townships on the Estate - the role of the committee being to guide the project and to act as links with the crofting people. Within three months a feasibility study and business plan had been put together with financial help from the Crofters’ Union and Caithness & Sutherland Enterprise and so the Assynt Crofters’ Trust came into being. On July 1 there appeared the first of many reports in the national press about the audacious attempt of a few motley crofters in the remote NW Highlands to win back the land of their forefathers. The campaign caught the public imagination, donations began to roll in and negotiations began in earnest with the Liquidators. After having had two offers to purchase the Estate rejected by the selling agents, a deal was agreed in December 1992 - almost exactly 6 months after the original public meeting. The Trust has three part-time posts: Secretary, Crofting Administrator and Administor. Currently the roles of Administrator and Crofting Administrator are combined. The Administrator can be contacted on tel. 01571 855298 or e-mail admin@assyntcrofters.co.uk, to whom all general enquires and correspondence should be addressed. By Post: Assynt Crofters’ Trust, North Assynt Estate, Stoer, Assynt, Sutherland, IV27 4JE The Current Directors: Achmelvich - William MacLeod Clachtoll - Bob Cook Stoer and Balchladich - Claire Belshaw Culkein Stoer - John Morrison Achnacharnin - Ian C MacKenzie Clashnessie - Roddie Kerr (CHAIR) Culkein Drumbeg - Marion MacLeod Drumbeg - Donald MacLeod Nedd - Anne MacCrimmon Co-opted Directors: Hugh MacRae (Culkein Drumbeg) Carol Anne MacRae (Clachtoll) James Morrison (Culkein Stoer) Ailsa Kinnaird (Balchladdich) Matthew Bulch (Culkein Stoer) Crofting Administrator - croftadmin@assyntcrofters.co.uk or admin@assyntcrofters.co.uk Secretary - secretary@assyntcrofters.co.uk Our committees focus on certain organisational areas within the Trust, such as Sport & Game. Find out more about the areas in which the committees are active. Maybe you would like to get involved in one of them! Allan MacRae (1939-2013) It was with profound shock and sadness that the Board of Assynt Crofters’ Trust learned of the death of Allan MacRae, a founding Director of the Trust and long-time Chairman of the Board, in 2013. To us Allan was the passion and spirit of the Trust and could always be relied on as a first line of defence for the well-being of people on the land. A light has gone out in the glen. We welcome any kind of support. If you would like to help, please contact us! North Assynt Estate Lairg IV27 4JE E-mail: admin@assyntcrofters.co.uk © Assynt Crofters' Trust	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line367
__label__cc	0.557422	0.442578	Home Sport Run the Ridge Running buddies . . . Young Run the Ridge competitors Kate Spriggs (14), left, and Olivia Piebenga (14), both of Cromwell, wait for their 10km run to start on Saturday morning. PHOTO: ALEXIA JOHNSTON Run the Ridge Cool conditions and overcast skies did not deter the many people who ventured to McArthur Ridge Vineyard near Alexandra for the annual Run the Ridge race on Saturday morning. The event, which allowed participants to run or walk a range of distances, attracted people from as far away as the North Island, including guest entrant Dom Harvey, who is a host on The Edge radio station. Run the Ridge featured 5km, 10km and 21km events, along with a team relay, which followed a 5km loop. Although held at the same location as other years, this year’s event took place on a different course. Despite the unseasonal conditions, participants were looking forward to getting involved, including Rachel Petrie. Her husband is the vineyard manager so she was keen to get involved by supporting the event as a competitor. “I’m just excited that everyone’s here. It’s really special. A lot of organising goes into this,’” she said, while waiting for her race to start. Event director Camille O’Connor said many people noted the cooler than usual conditions were “great for running”. She said the majority of the 405 participants were “from out of town”. “[It] is great that the event is attracting such a wide audience from as far as Auckland and even some overseas competitors.” ALEXIA.JOHNSTON @alliedpress.co.nz Gearing up . . . Meg McKay (left) and her mother Sandy McKay, both of Dunedin, took part in the Run the Ridge on Saturday. PHOTOS: ALEXIA JOHNSTON Footing it . . . Jessica Taylor, of Tauranga (left) took part in the Run the Ridge's 21km event, while her mother, Sharon Seager (right), of Whakatane, took part in the 5km walk. Game on . . . Preparing for last week's Run the Ridge event are Rachel Buchanan (left) and Holly Murphy, both of Gore, who competed in the 21km walk. Special guest . . . Dom Harvey, a host on The Edge radion station, gets amongst the action at last weekend's Run the Ridge. Wrapping up . . . Cool conditions greeted participants at the start line, including (from left) Jo Tietjens, of Queenstown, Paula Fletcher, of Auckland, Cisca Hartner, of Auckland, and Janette Farrell, of Auckland, who all took part in the 21km walk. PHOTO: ALEXIA JOHNSTON And they're off . . . Participants in the 21km Run the Ridge race launch into their event on Saturday under cloudy skies and a cool breeze. Challenge accepted . . . Run the Ridge competitors and supporters (from left) Rachel Petrie, Hailey Petrie (13), both of McArthur Ridge, Sophie MacDonald (13), of Alexandra, and Carol Petrie, of Auckland, wait for events to start. Sport mediaMens Flynit Trainers Previous articleCraft beer festival Next articleRace details ‘top secret’ Challenge ‘hardest achievement’ A new track and record crowds at races	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line370
__label__cc	0.66666	0.33334	Listen Live Playlist On-Air Schedule Hear At Home Interviews 88.5 Music Blog Smart Speaker / 88.5 FM APP Concert Calendar 9 O'clock News An Oasis Reunion On The Horizon? Published 6 years ago by Jeff Penfield Any artistic endeavor requires a great deal of passion to complete. When you work in a team, egos must be handled and emotions kept under control. We know all too well this doesn’t always happen in the music world, however one of the longest feuds may be coming to an end. For the first time since their breakup, Oasis appears to have an outside chance. Noel Gallagher, on tour with his group High Flying Birds, stated in recent interviews that he is open to a reunion...for a price that is. Then his brother Liam, who recently broke up his band Beady Eye, tweeted this: Keeping it in the family...LG x pic.twitter.com/qZeEHUKOam — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) March 14, 2015 So how does this compare to historical feuds? Well, the Eagles had a long running feud that broke up the most successful American rock band in history for 14 years. The disagreements were so bad that Don Henley consistently said the band would reunite when “hell freezes over”. Of course their reunion album was aptly titled Hell Freezes Over and the band continues to tour today. Pink Floyd, on the other hand, could never get over their issues. Roger Waters increased his songwriting control in the group throughout the 1970’s to the point that David Gilmour received no writing credits on 1982’s The Final Cut. Waters left the band and attempted to keep Gilmour and Nick Mason from using the name. They reunited once since that album, however the band appears to have cut all ties after releasing last year’s outtakes album The Endless River. So what do you think? Is Oasis bound to be the next Pink Floyd? Or will they come back better than ever like the Eagles? Tagged : Oasis \| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds \| Liam Gallagher \| Beady Eye \| Pink Floyd \| Roger Waters \| David Gilmour \| Eagles \| Don Henley \| Joe Walsh	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line374
__label__wiki	0.897282	0.897282	Brazil passes 1 million coronavirus cases with no end in sight RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil passed 1 million coronavirus cases on Friday and approached 50,000 deaths, a new nadir for the world’s second worst-hit country as it struggles with Stunned world grapples with 'once-in-100-year' coronavirus battle SYDNEY/BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of people worldwide were adjusting on Wednesday to once-in-a-generation measures to battle the coronavirus crisis that is not only killing the old and vulnerable Chilean Air Force says Antarctica-bound plane missing with 38 on board SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Chilean Air Force reported on Monday the disappearance of one of its cargo planes that was headed to a base in Antarctica with 38 people on Cartel gunmen terrorise Mexican city, free El Chapo's son MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Heavily armed fighters surrounded security forces in a Mexican city on Thursday and made them free one of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s sons, after Mexican finance minister Carlos Urzúa quits with critical letter MEXICO CITY (web Desk) – Mexico's finance minister Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías has quit over differences with the country's left-wing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In a letter, made public on Harrowing photo of drowned migrants at US border draws global attention MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - A harrowing photo of a man and his young daughter who drowned on the U.S.-Mexico border has brought global attention to the dangers for a wave At least 57 inmates strangled to death in Amazon prison gang clashes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - At least 57 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, where a fight	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line375
__label__cc	0.651827	0.348173	Nubia Z20 review: A decent device with an unnecessary second screen gimmick [Video] - Feb. 6th 2020 3:00 pm PT Feature Review Video We’re at a strange time when unique smartphone designs are falling into some weird places, and the Nubia Z20 is one such oddity. Featuring two displays, the Nubia Z20 is a hybrid of sorts. It feels like the step just before a folding phone — or LG implementation of a folding phone — as it gives you similar screen real estate but without the potential banana skin of a flexible display. You do get some other potential long-term problems as a result, but Nubia has pinned hopes on the second screen adding something to what on paper seems like a reasonably solid device. The offshoot of ZTE is not even the first to add a second screen to a smartphone. Vivo did it almost two years ago with the Nex Dual Display, but this is a more refined approach. You could maybe assume that Nubia is targeting people that simply don’t want a folding phone. We can see why not everyone would want something that can bend, flex, fold, and potentially break — so it makes sense to offer a novel alternative. The biggest problem we can see from the outset is convincing people that a second display on the rear panel is an actual viable alternative. Wacky design aside, with a starting price of just $550, based on entry-price and specifications alone, the Nubia Z20 is actually quite a compelling package — but is that enough to make it even worth considering? Hardware and design My first thought when looking at the Nubia Z20 is that it has some real OnePlus 7 Pro vibes. The almost bezel-less design definitely looks familiar from the front. Turn it around, though, and the mirror-like finish is completely at odds with the matte design you’ll see on one of 2019’s best smartphones. The main display measures in at 6.42 inches, and although it is a FHD+ AMOLED, I think it has great viewing angles and is definitely on par with most other similarly sized smartphones. At the rear, the 5.1-inch 720p secondary display is more of a mixed bag. Out of the box it’s calibrated with an “eye-saving” mode which gives everything a horrid yellow tint. You should definitely disable it as it helps with the admittedly dim 330 nit display. When you combine the low max brightness with a mirror-like finish, it’s actually hard to see things in direct sunlight or brightly lit areas. I will say that it’s far better than some very cheap Android smartphones, but I wouldn’t call the rear display “good.” The smaller size also makes it just less fun to use in general — even more so when the initial novelty wears off. I do like the ridged side bezels as it makes the phone far easier to grip and grasp. To help your grip even further, Nubia has added two power buttons on the left and right sides of the phone. Both include capacitive fingerprint scanners. It’s a bit confusing, but it’s a neat way to solve the problem, and gives right and left-handed people more options for which fingers they register for secure unlocks. Having that second display on the back might draw attention and provide a neat sales gimmick, but it actually poses a few longevity and durability problems. For starters, finding a case that protects and still allows you to use that back panel display is almost impossible unless you get a bumper-style case. On top of that, the glossy rear panel will be prone to scratches and make it even harder than it already is to actually use that rear display. Nubia even includes a pre-applied front and back screen protector, to alleviate these fears. However, I’m not confident that it will withstand daily use and abuse simply because of the way you use it. Software and performance When reviewing a Nubia device, I must admit that it’s a reprieve from heavy skins and unnecessary software tweaks — although there are plenty of unnecessary hardware additions. You get a very clean, almost “stock” experience, save a few minor hardware-related inclusions. The biggest downside yet again is the lack of Android 10. This phone ships with Android Pie, and it’s unclear if or when we see the latest OS upgrade on the Nubia Z20. Considering that this phone was released shortly after the Android 10 update, it is disappointing and frustrating in equal measure. I do like that Nubia has thought about the second screen throughout its software skin. There is a persistent display switch button — that you can turn off — which allows you to quickly move between the displays at any time. I thought that whatever you had open would simply move from display to display but it turns out that you can have completely separate apps open simultaneously if you wish — which does open up some awkward multi-tasking possibilities. You can also just turn the phone over, and the display on that side will activate once you unlock. I think this is where the extra power button has come in really useful. When using the main display, the fact that you have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ and 8GB of RAM means performance is stellar 99% of the time. Disappointingly, though, I have seen a few hiccups and slowdowns on the smaller rear display. I put this down to poor software optimization, although I’m not entirely sure. At the front, it’s plain sailing, and everything you can throw at this phone should run more or less flawlessly. The Nubia Z20 comes with a triple camera setup that also doubles as the selfie camera, which is very enticing. It relies on the Sony IMX586 sensor, which means 12-megapixel main lens shots, 16-megapixel ultra-wide shots, and 8-megapixel telephoto shots. It’s quite a good selection that will no doubt cover almost all scenarios you might encounter with your smartphone. However, the image quality isn’t the best, given the hardware. Stills can either be under or overexposed in some situations, and I just found myself avoiding the telephoto zoom lens as pictures just looked soft. With some patience, you can get really detailed and impressive photos but not having OIS makes it harder to get that “perfect” photo in a flash. Because the selfie camera is also the main camera, the results are the same when you flip to the rear display and start taking them. The portrait mode is the most impressive on this camera setup, as the fake bokeh and edge detection are pretty good compared to other cheaper devices. The Nubia camera app is a little bit frustrating, though, as it’s poorly laid out and not that much fun to use. Hopefully some software tweaks can eke a little more out of the solid camera system, as on paper it should be producing far better images than it currently does. I expected selfies to wipe the floor with the competition because of the better sensor, but it really doesn’t do that great. With a 4,000mAh battery, you are assured of all-day usage, but I’d call it adequate rather than impressive. I averaged around five to six hours of screen on time, which I thought was pretty good considering that there are two displays on this phone. The 27W fast charger is good at getting you topped up and back enjoying the quirky experience. I averaged about five hours of screen on time during my review period, which I think it pretty adequate. There are often days that I barely scrape two hours of screen on time, so my usage isn’t always the best unless in certain circumstances. As far as smartphone gimmicks go, the Nubia Z20 has one of the “better” additions. I’m still concerned just what it achieves to really help sell this phone. Yes, you get the ability to use the rear camera setup as your selfie camera and some multi-tasking options but beyond that, I can’t really see the appeal. If Nubia focused on the core experience and less on weird extra hardware, this could have been one of the affordable flagships to beat. Almost spec-for-spec, it competes with the OnePlus 7 Pro and the OnePlus 7T, but falls short in a few areas that make it hard to recommend. I will say that it’s a neat device, but one that you should probably avoid unless you simply must have a smartphone that acts as a conversation starter. Where can I get the Nubia Z20? At under $600 with that spec sheet, you do get a solid phone in a lot of ways. If you want dual screens, top-tier internals, and a relatively clean but ever so slightly outdated experience, then you can pick up the Nubia Z20 from Amazon. We’d still suggest going for the OnePlus 7 Pro — which is around the same price now. More on Nubia: Nubia is apparently bringing 80W fast charging to its next Android phone Nubia Red Magic 3S review: Incremental updates to a mobile gaming Goliath [Video] Red Magic 3 review: The true budget gaming flagship, at least on paper [Video]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line377
__label__cc	0.730318	0.269682	Asbestos Training Breaches Cause Concern At ACM Removal Site Workers are concerned that the state’s biggest asbestos-removal site is risking safety by frequently breaching procedure. Worker’s anonymously contacted The Advertiser news source and informed them that are doubtful that the correct removal methods were used in the first four months of the project. These four months involved the clean-up of 93,000 sq m of asbestos sheeting on the former Mitsubishi manufacturing site. SafeWork SA officers visit the site frequently and have had inspectors issue statutory notices for non-compliant work practices. Some of the breaches include a failure to comply with PPE (personal protective equipment) requirements for asbestos-removal. However, there have been reports by former workers (who have quit) that the dangers extend far beyond PPE issues. Some issues have been cited regarding the handling of asbestos sheeting once it is removed from the factory structure by DE-Construct. One worker stated that sheets were simply “dumped” into trucks with a plastic lining, causing airborne asbestos particles and dust. Workers have also cited concerns with the thick cloud of dust in the factory that they believe may contain asbestos. A spokesperson for the company stated that the company’s top priority was the safety of their workers. Asbestos removal is being carried out according to EPA guidelines and under the watchful eye of SafeWork SA. More information on Asbestos Training Source: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/asbestos-clean-up-breach-fears-at-old-mitsubishi-site/story-e6frea83-1226370401166	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line392
__label__wiki	0.825541	0.825541	Asbestos Training: Three Brisbane Schools Face Asbestos Scare Three Schools in Brisbane are now faced with asbestos concerns amid revelations that construction workers digging trenches at Graceville State Primary school found asbestos Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek says alerts have been sent out to the parents of students at Sandgate High School and Rainworth State School regarding recent asbestos concerns. Langbroek stated that parents, faculty, and students have all been kept in the loop regarding the safety risk. Langbroek says clear measures are used to deal with any asbestos issues in schools; such as closing off areas, and obtaining the services of professionals to conduct air and soil tests. Regarding the Graceville case, Langbroek says that two very small discrete pieces of the deadly material were identified and subsequent tests revealed that asbestos particles were not spread throughout those areas. He says in the Graceville case, two very small, discreet pieces of asbestos have been identified. Mr Langbroek says there’s a very large amount of asbestos in Queensland schools, dating back to the 1950s. “We do remove (it). Over last financial year and this financial year, we have a budget of $40 million to go towards removing asbestos,” he said. “Given the amount of asbestos there though, it’s a small amount. But it’s something that’s at least planned and structured compared to what was happening when I first came into parliament in 2004.” More info on Asbestos Training Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/asbestos-scares-at-three-brisbane-schools/story-fn3dxiwe-1226718286962	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line393
__label__wiki	0.639456	0.639456	Anis Farooqui Op-Ed / Columns / Blogs Canadian elections and the Pakistani community On August 11, 2018 By News DeskIn 0p-ED The nomination race between the two Canadians of Pakistani-origin is now facing a challenge that is purely a matter of statics, division of community votes and a tight number game strategy for both contenders Even when abroad, Pakistanis continue to carry their distinct flavour in all walks of life. This also involves taking an interest in politics of their new country of residence. Recently, a new wave of political activism has emerged in Canada as provincial and federal Canadian elections are approaching and new ridings (constituencies) are either being shaped or have become vacant for new contenders. It is good to see that Pakistani-Canadians are really learning the new ways of politics and its traditions practiced in the West, or in Mississauga, Ontario to be precise. Mississauga was formed in 1805, and the city has an area of 112 square miles with a mixed population of over 7,00,000 people. South Asians are second dominating community of this city and play a very active role in politics and social activism. Islam is the 3rd largest religion and Urdu is 2nd major language spoken in Mississauga after English and French. Apart from other attractions of this booming dynamic city, the photogenic and camera-friendly City Mayor Bonnie Crombie is equally popular, active and very supportive for her community of Mississauga. The mayor enjoys good relations with the Pakistani community who equally admire her. Pakistanis have also gone above & beyond to stand by their Mayor and with this collaborative joint effort City is flourishing in business and economic sector. 65+ year old Liberal Party’s MPP Harinder Takhar had been a favourite in this riding since 2003. He won three consecutive terms and now after his decision of staying with Centre Riding, contest is open for new nominations for Erin Mills. Therefore, fresh candidates have been tossing their names in the hat for this electoral riding. Jumping on the bandwagon are two of our own Pakistani-origin Mississaugians, who have decided not only to run for nomination but also to face-off each other, thus causing a major split in their own numbers, dividing community and reducing the likelihoods of a clear win, yet they are determined and pursuing the race aggressively. First contender who came forward to this nomination race, is a Liberal party loyalist and hard-core worker Imran Mian. Imran is a young IT professional, has a long history of volunteering, firmly believes in social justice program of Liberal Party and demonstrated active involvement in politics many times. Imran sets long term goals and works to achieve them. He is known to be a result-oriented enthusiast. Imran also has a good rapport within the party circles and bonds well with the party leadership. The Pakistani community in Canada must act fast, move forward with unity and adhere to the core values of the Canadian Charter, while respecting others living in Ontario, instead of scaring them off Pundits see him as a favourite for this nomination race and anticipate that he might even sweep the elections against rival parties when the time comes. Another name among the Pakistani diaspora is Hifza Musa, who has a socialite, well qualified and down to earth personality. She is also running in the same Erin Mills Riding for nomination. Musa is very active communally, but within the party she is yet to make some waves unlike Imran Mian. She is known to be very close to Iqra Khalid, Federal Member Parliament, who got elected in the same Mississauga neighbourhood community the federal elections. Musa has great potential and can prove to be a good community voice as she is quite capable to effectively presents their issues in the legislative quarters. She seems to be surrounded and managed by pretty much the same team that was part of Iqra Khalid’s campaign in the federal elections. Iqra Khalid faced harsh resentments across Canada from Canadians on a provocative and controversial Islamophobia motion. Some fear that secular Canada might once again be infested with same style of faith-based politics where religion is used as a tool to win Muslim vote. I noticed that phone number that Hifza Musa carries contains three magical digits 786 which some devout Muslims believe to be reflective of the Holy Quranic verse; Bismillah-Al-Rahman Al-Raheem (it is a phrase in Arabic meaning “In the name of God”; it is the first word in the Quran, and refers to the Quran’s opening phrase). Let’s hope it’s a good beginning for her political career too. Nevertheless, Hifza Musa can put a good fight and at the end she may very well surprise pundits and critiques and do an upset. Meanwhile, this nomination race is now facing a challenge that purely is a matter of statics, division of community votes and a tight number game strategy for both contenders. Numerous attempts by the community think tanks and activists were made to resolve this split, and convince one of them to withdraw in other’s favour, but all in vain. This is not good at all, because it is not going to lead Pakistanis anywhere. One must act fast and make a right call to end this division. We should also remember that after ‘Trump’s effect, Premier Kathleen Wynn’s disapproval in Ontario and Islamophobia motion 103 by Iqra Khalid, Liberal Party has lost its grip and PC Party on the other hand appears to be in a much better shape. To reverse this harm, the Pakistani community in Canada and Muslim community as a whole must act fast, move forward with unity and adhere to the core values of Canadian Charter, while respecting others living in Ontario, instead of scaring them off. They must also come out of the denial mode and face the realism by trying not to follow in the footsteps of softhearted celebrity Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This path is not only going to isolate Muslims from mainstream Canadians but tarnish the real image of Canada and that’s not the Canada we all want to see. The writer is a social and civil right activist and very vocal on Human Right violations across the globe. He works as Host/Producer (Current Affairs) at a leading news channel of North America. He can be reached at anisfarooqui@gmail.com and tweets @anis_farooqui Published in Daily Times, December 10th 2017. We live in a strange world, don’t we? 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__label__wiki	0.523764	0.523764	The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith. Director: James McTeigue, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski Actors: Carrie-Anne Moss, Helmut Bakaitis, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith, Keanu Reeves, Lambert Wilson, Laurence Fishburne, Mary Alice, Randall Duk Kim, Roy Jones Jr. Keywords:123movies 9movies Free gomovies gostream losmovie movie4k movietv primewire putlockers putlockertv seehd seehd.info shockshare sitename solarmovie The Matrix Revolutions Online Watch The Matrix Revolutions watch32 yesmovie A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it’s up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a… After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a… The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the… Country: New Zealand, USA As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement… In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members… Against his father Odin’s will, The Mighty Thor – a powerful but arrogant warrior god – recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to… Along with crime-fighting partner Robin and new recruit Batgirl, Batman battles the dual threat of frosty genius Mr. Freeze and homicidal horticulturalist Poison Ivy. Freeze plans to put Gotham City… Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians…. Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction Two siblings who discover their seemingly normal mom is a former thief in witness protection. Mom is forced to pull one last job, and the kids team up to rescue… Genre: Action, Family Colonel John Taylor enlists billionaire inventor Leor Teska to fund a secret black site, testing Teska’s new nano technology for military applications, developed by scientists. When one of the test… Big-city lawyer Casey McKay, is drawn to a small town by his ex-wife to defend her brother, accused of murdering a DA. He discovers a web of conspiracy that puts… Genre: Action, Western Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower… Trailer: The Matrix Revolutions	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line401
__label__cc	0.733221	0.266779	iHelp San Diego Restaurants With Take-Out / Delivery FREE At-Home Kids Activities Charities Who Need Help Special Grocery Store House for Seniors, Disabled San Diego Companies Who Are Making A Difference During The Covid-19 Crisis By JA Apr 23, 2020 The people of San Diego are known for being generous and helping in a crisis, so it's no surprise that many companies throughout the county have stepped up to make a difference in people's lives during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are just a few examples: Luna Grill in March, after schools were closed because of the pandemic, the threat of hunger became even more real to San Diego children who rely on the nutritious meals served at school to get by. That's when Luna Grill (which was founded in San Diego) stepped in to help with the Good Card program. For every $5 a consumer spends on a Luna Grill gift card, a nutritious meal is prepared and donated to kids in need through the San Diego Food Bank. Luna is open for take-out and delivery orders, so purchasing the Good Card is an easy way for consumers to make a donation which paying for their own meals at the same time. Mia Bella Couture has transitioned their dress making team into a mask making machine! The company has been manufacturing formal gowns and dresses for the past 8 years, but as the shortage of face masks became urgent, they decided to focus all their efforts on providing high-quality and affordable protective wear. Their design team worked to perfect a pattern multiple sizes that is comfortable, breathable, protective, and practical, as well as machine and hand washable. Mia Bella Couture is proud that they've been able to keep their employees working while also being able to help a worthy cause, as the proceeds for mask sales are going towards masks for the homeless community and front line workers. Visit www.miabellacouture.com and search 'mask' to see the available products! Mission Hills Nursery when their garden show was cancelled due to state mandated stay-at-home orders, the nursery and Dümmen Orange Plants, donated thousands of dollars worth of plants to San Diego residents so they could enjoy some "Plant Therapy" and a cheerful yard! Evans Tires Service Centers is hosting a social media giveaway as a way of saying “thank you” to San Diego County essential workers, or those who have done random acts of kindness, during the COVID-19 crisis. Now through April 30th, San Diegans can enter to win: 1st Place - 4 Kumho tires; 2nd Place - $100 Evans Tire gift certificate; 3rd Place - $50 Evans Tire gift certificate; 4th Place - $50 Evans Tire gift certificate. Get complete contest details at EvansTire.com/promotions/giveaway. About iHelp San Diego Resources for San Diegans during the coronavirus crisis, including lists of: restaurants offering take-out and delivery, stores offering special shopping hours for seniors and disabled, and non-profit organizations that need volunteers and donations of goods and services.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line402
__label__wiki	0.508835	0.508835	2nd August 2016 15th August 2016 By Lee Our first day in Kandy would be a very cultural one. We did the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Temple of the Tooth Relic, taken around a gem museum and went for a tuk-tuk ride downhill! Given how tired the girls were getting with all the walking, when we arrived at Royal Botanic Gardens our guide… 31st July 2016 15th August 2016 By Lee Drive to Kandy Early Sunday morning we left Pasikudah for the long drive over to Kandy, with a stop off en route to Dambulla Rock Cave Temple. After a while of driving, police cars were signalling for all traffic to pull over – then what seemed like a gazillion bicycles zoomed past. We were told that it was… Pasikudah After a long drive and several cultural stop-offs, we arrived at Anilana Hotel late Sunday evening – just in time for the end of the dinner buffet. First impressions of the hotel were very impressive, looked like we’d got another super luxurious place; the lobby was big and open, the ceilings were 20ft high; our… 24th July 2016 10th August 2016 By Lee Polonnaruwa – The Drive to Passekudah Leaving the Mudhouse, we head towards the ancient capital of Polonnaruwa. Lydia felt much better, but wasn’t a 100% yet – she needed to catch up on sleep. On the road away from the Mudhouse, our guide spotted a “Starred Tortoise” crossing the road, he wanted to pull over to give us a closer look…. 24th July 2016 16th August 2016 By Lucy The Mudhouse We were greeted by a large welcoming party, who unloaded the van and carried our luggage off down a dirt track into the forest. After saying bye to Geehan and Sanjeewa (our driver) we too were lead down the dirt track unsure where we were going. Two minutes later we were presented with our very… 24th July 2016 2nd August 2016 By Lee Cultural highlights – Mihintale and Anaradhapura Leaving Sigiriya, we headed towards Anamaduwa for our stay at the eco-friendly Mudhouse. On our journey we stopped off at various cultural places. First stop was Mihintale, which we are told is the birthplace of Buddhism within Sri Lanka; (the story goes that King Devanampiyatissa was out hunting when he met Mahinda, the son of… 21st July 2016 30th July 2016 By Lee Sigiriya Lion Rock Tour After the village tour, we headed back to the hotel to cool off with a relaxing swim. Late afternoon, we headed over to Sigiriya Lion Rock for a guided tour. Since Lucy’s ankle was still recovering, we’d already decided that we wouldn’t risk climbing up to the very top, in case of further injury… but… 21st July 2016 29th July 2016 By Lucy Sigiriya Village Experience We set off from Hotel Sigiriya and were dropped off on the main road a few minutes later. We knew that we were going on a “Village Experience” tour, but wasn’t exactly sure what it entailed. Next thing we knew; we were being ushered on to the back of a bullock cart! The bullock slowly… Minneriya National Park Safari Leaving Negombo lagoon, we took our morning transfer into the Cultural Triangle region. Since it was a 4-hour drive, we aimed to catch up on some sleep, (as the night before was quite hot and we didn’t sleep so well) – although Katelyn resisted it, as she was fascinated by the sights & scenery. Lunch… 19th July 2016 27th July 2016 By Lee Negombo Lagoon Jetwing Lagoon hotel After our long journey to Sri Lanka – a la “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” via Yatton, Reading, Gatwick, Dubai and ultimately Colombo – we were greeted by our Selective Asia guide (Geehan) with flower garlands; taken to our car, (a 7-seater – so plenty of room for luggage and the kids to… © 2016 Lee Kelleher, Lucy Kehoe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line403
__label__wiki	0.565982	0.565982	Copyright © 2017-2020 Attraction Magazine, All rights Reserved. Site by Waddell Creative Featured, Health & Fitness June 23, 2020 by Jennifer Latham In April 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to place increasing demands on health care workers and first responders around the nation, University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) CEO Mohan Suntha, MD, launched a campaign to encourage community appreciation for the dedication of more than 26,000 UMMS team members serving the health care needs of Maryland residents. Announcing the theme of “Home of the Brave,” Mohan commended all employees of the health care system for their innovation, teamwork and unwavering commitment to the patients, community and each other. “As health care professionals, we are most comfortable behind the scenes going about our day-to-day work ensuring our patients are treated, healed and comforted,” he wrote. “We aren’t used to being called heroes. We are simply doing what we were called to do, and it is that mission-driven spirit that will turn the tide. Your bravery will make the difference.” University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is proud to share stories of just a few of its many, brave health care heroes working under the challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide safe and effective care to individuals and families in Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties. At far right is Chris Di Fatta, Shore Regional Health’s Materials Management director. He is shown with a room full of PPE supplies and members of his department, including Shirley Morris (left), Clarence “Dusty” Freeman, Steve Cephas, Tammy Shores and Ronni Colbert. Not shown are: Gale Chambers, Jeff Johnson, Brian “Keith” Gray, Andrew Robinson, Kenny Manokey and Jaleesa Gardener. A major challenge for hospitals and health care systems fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is maintaining adequate stocks of sanitation supplies and physical protection equipment (PPE) needed to ensure that all members of the health care team can provide safe and effective care. For UM Shore Regional Health’s Materials Management Director Chris DiFatta, it’s a fast-moving and complex task, tracking the current “burn rates” of various sanitation supplies, gloves, gowns and three different types of masks used by health care team members in Shore’s hospitals in Cambridge, Chestertown and Easton and the Emergency Center in Queenstown, and by those in outpatient facilities and medical practices throughout the five county region. Demand rises or falls with the number of patients needing care and with the prevalence of infectious disease among those patients. For Chris, daily tasks include looking ahead and estimating how a potential surge or change in inpatient and outpatient volumes will affect the supplies on hand, identifying new sources, ordering more supplies as needed, and inspecting incoming shipments for quality, as well as calculating and reporting the number of days’ supply is available for each item. “Chris and his staff are doing a phenomenal job under the extraordinarily demanding and extended circumstances brought on by this pandemic,” says William Huffner, MD, senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and chief medical officer. “His diligence has been key to maintaining the safety of our patients, our providers and front-line staff, and we are all grateful for his excellent work.” Laurie Wade, Sterile Processing Manager, UM Shore Medical Center at Easton Laurie Wade, Sterile Processing manager at Shore Medical Center at Easton, participated on conference calls with sterile processing leaders throughout University of Maryland Medical System discussing the sterilization reprocessing of N95 masks to help conserve supplies in UM Shore Regional Health hospitals. From there, she independently researched reprocessing guidelines from the mask manufacturers and the Food and Drug Administration and reported back to hospital leaders. Based on her work, the decision was made to move needed equipment from Shore Medical Pavilion at Queenstown to the Easton hospital where the masks could be reprocessed for use by staff working Surgical Services, Intensive Care and Telemetry. “Laurie’s initiative and follow-through were instrumental in enabling us to implement a fast and workable strategy for conserving our N95 masks,” says Penny Pink, director, Surgical and Ambulatory Services for University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH). “She’s a great example of our many ‘Health Care Heroes’ who are working behind the scenes to help us provide safe and effective patient care during COVID-19.” Sam Joseph, Environmental Services tech, UM Shore Emergency Center at Queenstown. Sam Joseph is a member of the Environmental Services team at UM Shore Emergency Center at Queenstown. Mary Alice Vanhoy, who manages the Emergency Center, describes Sam as the Center’s “hero in the shadows.” As she explains, “Sam is always there, not just attending to his own duties, but taking the iniative to interact supportively with patients and all members of the care team. He’s always watching, keeping an eye out for things that need to be done and then doing them without being asked – whether it’s cleaning a room, moving boxes or equipment, or alerting other team members about a patient care concern. We never have to worry when our hero in the shadows is here.” Rita Holley (left) is shown dropping off donations at the Neighborhood Service Center, Inc. (NSC), in Easton, with NSC staff members Alicia Parker and Janie Foster. The UM Shore Regional Health nursing team organized a food drive to help children, seniors and all those suffering from the economic impact of COVID-19. “Over the past few months, our hospitals have received countless donations of meals, face masks, hand sanitizer, care packages, encouraging signs and more, so the Nursing and Patient Care Services team wanted to do something special for the community in return,” explained Rita Holley, director of Shore Home Care Services. “So many people are hurting right now, and collecting healthy food and supplies for vulnerable community members is another way that we can help.” The donations were distributed to the Lutheran Mission Society and the Humane Society of Dorchester County in Cambridge, Samaritan House in Denton, the Neighborhood Service Center in Easton, Caroline County Humane Society in Ridgely, Safe Harbor Presbyterian Church in Stevensville and Queen Anne’s County Animal Services in Queenstown. In addition to the food drive, UM SRH recently made a donation of $5,000 to the Maryland Food Bank-Eastern Shore that benefited communities in Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Talbot and Queen Anne’s counties. Members of the UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown’s Perioperative Services team are Sarah Busick (left), Dawn Ford, Sissy Demby, Louise Dove, Kristy Moss, Lisa Cleary, Terry Dulin, Suzie Miller, Vicky Downes, Darlene Spencer, Amy Loder, Oriane Bowers, Peggy Roca, Courtney Hessian and Lisa Milton. In March, when UM Shore Regional Health suspended elective surgeries to focus on preparations for COVID-positive patients, several care teams from the three hospitals were deployed to other units and tasks where they could be of the greatest help. This was especially true for Perioperative Services, which includes Pre-anesthesia Testing, Same Day Surgery, Operating Room, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit and Sterile Processing. Perioperative Services team members – who normally take care of surgical patients from their arrival to discharge – quickly began assisting on COVID inpatient units, in Emergency Departments and other areas. In many cases, this not only meant new duties but wider responsibility, as emergency surgeries were still taking place. The Perioperative team has worked as “nurse extenders” on inpatient units and in Emergency Departments, assisting with the care of COVID patients and patients on non-COVID units. They also perform COVID-19 testing on patients scheduled for necessary surgeries. Sterile Processing team members also assisted by taking staff temperatures upon arrival for work. “The whole team stepped up to new challenges,” says Peggy Roca, manager, Perioperative Services at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown. “I call them our Perioperative Angels because as the days and weeks progressed, I saw them get pulled in several different directions, shining wherever they went.” Dr. Steven White is shown outside the Emergency Department at UM Shore Medical Center at Dorchester. As medical director, Emergency Department at UM Shore Medical Center at Dorchester and also Dorchester County Emergency Medical Services, Steven White, MD, is well-known and highly regarded in his home community. And, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, his expertise and experience are appreciated more than ever by all those working in the hospital’s Emergency Department. Certified in pediatric emergency care, Steven provided key input during the process of developing guidelines for the care of pediatric patients diagnosed with COVID-19. He also played a central role in training Shore Medical Group providers who volunteered to be called in to assist in emergency care in the event of a surge in COVID-19 patient volumes.” “Dr. White is an amazing leader for our emergency team,” says AnnMarie Hernandez, interim nurse manager, Dorchester Emergency Department. “He welcomes input from everyone on the care team, and is extremely respectful of patients and their family members. He really cares about the people in this community – even when he is not scheduled to be on site, if he hears we have a challenging case such as a child with coronavirus symptoms, he doesn’t hesitate to come in to help out. He is a health care hero that all of us in the Emergency Department, and the community, can count on.” Allison Rogers allison@attractionmag.com Attraction Magazine The Good News Magazine Serving the Eastern Shore for more than 40 Years! Copyright © 2017 Attraction Magazine, All rights Reserved. Created by Waddell Creative	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line413
__label__cc	0.651492	0.348508	Governing Legislations Accreditation and Affiliation Financial Management and Standards Financial and Compliance Audit Report Special Audits The audit office’s primary role is to provide independent report, assurance and advice to the Legislature through the Speaker on how the government and other public bodies account for and use public money. The role is discharged by carrying out audits and report on whether government activities are carried out and accounted for in compliance with legislation, and with the intentions of the legislature. Core output The core output of the Office are classified into two areas known as Output Classes. They cover Parliamentary reports and services Audit Reports on financial, compliance and performance statements. The management structure of the Audit Office is shown below. The two main branches of Corporate and Operations are directed by six Audit Managers. The office is structured under two(2) main branches: 1. Corporate: Which is the supporting arm of the Office. It only consist of the Corporate Management Unit 2. Audit Operations: Which is the heart of the Office. It consists the Current Office INTOSAI PASAI IPSASB Parliament of Tonga Ministry of Information and Communication Tonga Government Portal Tonga Office of the Auditor General Copyright © 2021. TOAG.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line415
__label__cc	0.655481	0.344519	Quick Answer: Is Yelling A Sign Of Abuse? What are behavioral indicators of abuse? What is the meaning of verbal abuse? What does narcissistic abuse feel like? What is narcissistic abuse mean? Who can be an abuser? What are the 4 types of abuse? What are symptoms of abuse? How does verbal abuse affect the brain? What are the 10 different types of abuse? What is the most common form of abuse? What are six long term effects of abuse? What are the side effects of verbal abuse? What are the 5 signs of abuse? What are the side effects of emotional abuse? What type of abuse is the hardest to detect? Behavioral indicators of physical abuse include: Fear of going home. Extreme apprehensiveness or vigilance. Pronounced aggression or passivity.. When someone repeatedly uses words to demean, frighten, or control someone, it’s considered verbal abuse. You’re likely to hear about verbal abuse in the context of a romantic relationship or a parent-child relationship. … Verbal and emotional abuse takes a toll. It can sometimes escalate into physical abuse, too. You have symptoms of anxiety and depression Anxiety and depression commonly develop as a result of narcissistic abuse. The significant stress you face can trigger persistent feelings of worry, nervousness, and fear, especially when you never know what to expect from their behavior. Narcissistic abuse is a hypernym for the psychological, financial, sexual, and physical abuse of others by someone with narcissistic traits or suffering from narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). An abuser could be anyone. It can be someone you know or someone you work with. It could be staff who care for you, like the nurse or care assistant in your home. It could be your family or friends. the Four types of abuse:Physical abuse.sexual child abuse (Rape, molestation, child pornog-neglect (Physical neglect, educational neglect, and.Emotional abuse (Aka: Verbal, Mental, or Psycholog- Emotional abuse signs and symptomsDelayed or inappropriate emotional development.Loss of self-confidence or self-esteem.Social withdrawal or a loss of interest or enthusiasm.Depression.Avoidance of certain situations, such as refusing to go to school or ride the bus.Desperately seeks affection.More items…• As yet unpublished research by Teicher shows that, indeed, exposure to verbal abuse does affect certain areas of the brain. These areas are associated with changes in verbal IQ and symptoms of depression, dissociation, and anxiety. The Care and support statutory guidance identifies ten types of abuse, these are:Physical abuse.Domestic violence or abuse.Sexual abuse.Psychological or emotional abuse.Financial or material abuse.Modern slavery.Discriminatory abuse.Organisational or institutional abuse.More items… Neglect is the most common form of child abuse. Physical abuse may include beating, shaking, burning, and biting. Adults with a history of child abuse and neglect are more likely than the general population to experience physical health problems including diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, arthritis, headaches, gynaecological problems, stroke, hepatitis and heart disease (Felitti et al., 1998; Sachs-Ericsson, Cromer, Hernandez, … What are the effects of emotional or verbal abuse? Staying in an emotionally or verbally abusive relationship can have long-lasting effects on your physical and mental health, including leading to chronic pain, depression, or anxiety. Read more about the effects on your health. Possible Indicators of Physical AbuseMultiple bruising.Fractures.Burns.Bed sores.Fear.Depression.Unexplained weight loss.Assault (can be intentional or reckless) Does emotional abuse lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?angry outbursts.being easily startled.negative thoughts.insomnia.nightmares.reliving the trauma (flashbacks) and experiencing physical symptoms such as rapid heartbeat. Emotional or psychological abuse Emotional abuse often coexists with other forms of abuse, and it is the most difficult to identify. What Is The Healthiest Item At Chick Fil A? Why you should never eat Chick Fil A? Eater writer Question: How Do You Maintain Your Good Health? How do you maintain good health as a student? Quick Answer: Can Dentists Tell If You Throw Up? How long does it take for your body to heal from bulimia? What Will Happen If You Eat Too Many Apples? Is it OK to eat 2 apples a day? A new study, published Question: What Can I Cook For Dinner In USA? What should I cook for dinner tonight? 80 Easy Dinners	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line417
__label__wiki	0.900301	0.900301	Migration of Kosovars may jeopardize the liberalization of the visa regime By Elton Tota/ Published on: 07/09/2017 Numerous families, students and other youngsters are waiting in the bus station in Pristina. They have packed their suitcases to travel to Hungary, with the hope of illegally crossing into Germany and other EU countries. People blame the government about the fact that they’re leaving and say that the cause that they’re fleeing the country relates to the economic situation. Experts of political affairs say that this massive exodus shows that citizens of Kosovo no longer have any hope that things will be better in this country. Opinion maker, Vilhard Shala told IBNA that the lack of perspective and corrupt politicians who are in power, is forcing Kosovar citizens to abandon their country for a new life toward the West. “Kosovars only have two alternatives now: protests and buses to leave the country, with the hope of gaining asylum in the EU member countries. If they continue to leave like this, Kosovo may soon become an empty country”, Shala says. Meanwhile, sociologist Elmi Amdi told IBNA that this massive exodus is happening because people have lost all hope and faith on the politicians of Kosovo. “They no longer hope that things will improve. For two decades in a row, they have been fed up of empty promises, economic development, integration in the Euro-Atlantic structures and so many promises that were never kept”, he says. The European Union may delay the decision for the liberalization of the visa regime for Kosovo citizens for another year. According to analysts, such delay will come as a result of the fears that member countries have about a possible wave of illegal migration from country with the youngest population and the largest number of unemployed people. Professor of European Law, Muhamer Pajaziti told IBNA that illegal migration is preventing the liberalization of the visa regime. “The fleeing of Kosovar citizens in EU countries with the hope of being granted asylum shows that Kosovo is not even close in meeting the criteria set out by the European Commission for accession. People are leaving because they feel marginalized and discriminated. The state is not able of offering them work, healthcare services, education or social welfare to survive”, Pajaziti says. /balkaneu.com/ Cyprus: Anastasiades meets with outgoing French Ambassador	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line420
__label__wiki	0.567488	0.567488	E-newsletter Advertising Sign-up Form The Magazine For People Who Sell Art Supplies Your Stores The Plans were Perfect but the Timing was Off Do: Retail Best Practices for a Pandemic and Beyond the standout Retailers Recommend Fabulous Products Artful Behavior home street home Getting perspective Downloadable Interactive Guide List Your Company for Free получить кредит онлайн взять кредит микрозайм быстрый займ микрозаймы быстрый кредит наличными микро займы займ заем онлайн займы займы онлайн займ онлайн деньги в долг кредит кредит наличными At this year’s Global Mural Conference, Fernanda Gonzalez Lattrecchiana from Buenos Aires was among a dozen sponsored artists who created murals of scenes along the Erie Canal. by Tina Manzer In September, the 10th Global Mural Conference was held in Fairport, New York, just a few miles down the road from our magazine’s headquarters. The conference is held every other year under the auspices of the Global Mural Arts and Tourism Association (GMACTA) based in Canada. Its unique goal is to help communities become tourist attractions through mural programs. The conference – which brings together city officials, artists, businesses, art enthusiasts, economic development authorities and tourism organizations – helps create the partnerships and networks necessary to reach that goal. It has been held in locations around the world, from Tasmania and New Zealand to California and Georgia, since 1997. This year, it was hosted by Mural Mania based in New York’s Finger Lakes Region. Mural Mania has been placing murals along the regional Erie Canal Corridor for the past 20 years. Its efforts are both cultural and economic, and so far have resulted in 70 miles of murals stretching from Syracuse to Brockport, New York. Their themes are mostly historical, and are portrayed in styles that run the gamut from realism to abstract. Each mural was commissioned using input from local communities. The conference began with a bus tour of those murals, followed on the second day by expert presenters who discussed mural restoration and upkeep, marketing, working with communities, mural funding and more. Mark Golden from Golden Artist Colors, a major sponsor of the event, spoke about the resources available to mural artists for selecting supplies and materials. GOLDEN also donated a generous supply of Heavy Body Acrylics for use during the Erie Canal Heritage Mural Expo, a special feature of the conference. For six days, a dozen artists painted murals outside in a tent near the conference venue. The group was mostly local, but also included artists from Argentina, Australia, Canada, China and Tennessee. They painted on Evolon, a soft but durable microfilament fabric donated by Atlantic Papers. Three local student groups also participated, and a mosaic mural created by students from across New York State was on display throughout the event. About 1,200 people attended the conference and expo, a low number considering that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for local artists and art lovers alike. “As much as we publicized in advance, there were still some people who did not understand what the conference and expo were all about,” commented the event’s planning committee. “They had nothing similar to compare it to.” Resourceful problem-solvers “Muralists typically work independently, so seeing everyone working at the same time was fascinating,” says artist and expo organizer Amy Colburn. “We mural artists are good at making our own quirky but wonderful tools, and adapting tools used for other tasks to meet our needs. To the best of my knowledge, there is not a line of tools available specifically for muralists.” She described a “swab” that one artist was using to push the paint around. It was like an extension pole for a roller, but on the end was a rag wrapped around padding or a sponge. It looked like a giant Q-tip, which is exactly what the artist needed. There’s nothing like that at an art materials store.” When Amy required an easier and more efficient way to grid out her murals, she attached a long wooden handle to the front of an existing 4-foot metal ruler. On the back she added padding. “I can put the ruler right up against the wall without hurting anything,” she explains. “It’s really sturdy, and very efficient.” The same is true for her scaffolding, custom-made by her father. “You can’t move commercial scaffolding. Mine is modular so I can reconstruct it and use it on stairs and around corners.” For her supplies, she heads to hardware and craft stores. “Cinderblock walls and plywood are not surfaces designed for expensive little brushes, so I have a totally different tool set for canvas painting in my studio,” she explains. Her tool set for mural making contains more disposable pieces like low-cost brushes and rollers, which she purchases in several sizes. “Mural artists don’t buy good brushes to take from job to job because they are just going to get eaten away by a concrete wall.” For many years Amy used Benjamin Moore exterior latex for outdoor art. “A lot of muralists use house paint because it lasts in the heat and is less expensive than acrylics,” she says. “I love GOLDEN acrylics but it would be cost prohibitive for me to use them for an 800-square-foot mural.” About a year ago, an artist in Germany recommended Nova Color Artists Acrylic Paint, made in California. “It has nice opacity,” says Amy. “It comes in a variety of sizes from 4-ounce jars to 5-gallon pails, and you don’t have to mix it with a medium or water. It’s not sold through stores, so it’s much less expensive than other brands.” The Artex company has been making Nova Color for more than 50 years. It was developed by Carlos and Raoul Amparan shortly after acrylic polymer resin was introduced for commercial use. They produced their product on a small scale in Culver City and sold it directly to local artists. Because Nova Color was cheap and readily available, it helped fuel the explosion of mural art movements in Southern California during the late 1960s and 1970s. Over the years, the formula has become more advanced, but it’s still produced in the same. Nova Art still sells direct only, and has developed a loyal following. Previous articleThe Renaissance Man Next article“What are artists creating with your products?” “What are artists creating with your products?” The Renaissance Man You Get What You Paid For by Kevin Fahy Read His Latest... Industry news and products for people who sell art supplies, delivered directly to your email inbox. 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__label__wiki	0.93338	0.93338	Tencent-backed brokerage Futu targets $130m in US listing Xiaomi-linked rival also headed for Nasdaq debut Two Chinese fintech startups are preparing for an IPO on Nasdaq. © Reuters ALEX FANG, Nikkei staff writer February 28, 2019 07:18 JST \| China NEW YORK -- Futu Holdings, an online stock brokerage based in Hong Kong and backed by Tencent Holdings, has set terms to raise up to $130 million in its Nasdaq initial public offering, which will value the company at over $1 billion. Catering to an emerging affluent population in China, Futu offers trading services for stocks listed in Hong Kong and the U.S. Tencent, which already holds 38.2% of the startup, has indicated interest in purchasing up to 25% of the new shares issued, according to Futu's prospectus. The startup previously planned to raise as much as $300 million when it filed for a U.S. listing in December but lowered their target. Futu was founded in 2011 by one of Tencent's first employees. The company adds a brokerage component to the financial technology portfolio of Tencent, which competes in that field with fellow Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group Holding and affiliate Ant Financial. Alibaba last week boosted its stake in China International Capital to become the third-largest shareholder of the investment bank and broker -- just behind Tencent, which acquired a 4.95% stake in the firm in 2017. Futu's direct rival Tiger Brokers, which offers similar services and counts Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi as an investor, also filed on Friday for a U.S. listing, two months after Futu first announced its IPO plan. According to Futu's latest filing, revenue surged to $103.6 million in 2018 from $39.8 million the year before. The brokerage also said it had entered a strategic agreement with Tencent, which promised to help in areas like traffic, content and cloud support. Futu looks to join a growing list of Tencent-backed startups that have gone public, as the tech giant continues to build a massive investment portfolio in China and abroad. Tencent President Martin Lau told reporters last week that the company had invested in 700 businesses over the past 11 years. Of these, 63 are now listed -- 16 went public in 2018 alone. Another 122 are private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Tencent's investment gains also drove the company's profit rebound, earnings for the third quarter of 2018 show, after China's new gaming regulations helped send the tech giant to its first decline in years last summer. Lau said Tencent will not scale back on investments in 2019. In the fintech space, Tencent's interests extend beyond China. In October, the company invested $180 million in Brazilian startup Nubank -- a virtual bank and credit card operator -- at a $4 billion valuation. ByteDance and Pinduoduo founders crash Hurun rich list China's Tencent invests $180m in Brazil fintech Nubank Fundraising by China's startups surges 60% to $80bn Asia fintech leads global funding as Alibaba and Baidu wallets thrive	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line427
__label__cc	0.525506	0.474494	ASOVART Home Gallery A SOVIET ART PRIVATE COLLECTION A journey back to USSR Art Asovart This website is dedicated to Soviet Art. The majestic and diverse Russian paintings always please audiences with their volatility and the perfection of art forms. The Soviet painting period was included strongly into world art heritage. ASOVART COLLECTION Read about Soviet Art Our collection counts more than 1000 works from the classical period of the Soviet art painting from the 1930th – till the 1980th year, including Soviet impressionism - "a socialist realism with a human face". Socialist realism is characterized by the glorified depiction of communist values, such as the mancipation of the proletariat, in a realistic manner. The Soviet painting of this period was included strongly into world art heritage. The collection is a result of tireless search of the enthusiast of painting and collector Jean Veiss. During 1990 he visited hundreds workshops and met hundreds artists from Baltic to Vladivostok. The spirit of the age, the atmosphere and ideology of the country which was called USSR and the unique local color of painting of artists from Ukraine, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan are reflected in this collection. All genres - landscapes, portraits, industrial landscapes, still lifes, conversations and also theatrical sketches, - are presented by painting and graphics. OUR PAINTERS Read about our Painters A lot of paintings from the artists of this collection, like A. Tutunov, N. V. Ovchinnikova, A.A. Okladnikova, A.V. Motorina, are included into gold fund of the Soviet painting long ago and are stored in many museums of Russia and in the Tretyakov Gallery. Now they count as national gold fund for the former Soviet Republics, such as Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Graphics from VE Kaydalova, work from FU Madgazina (they are at Savitsky Museum in Nukus) and MA Saidov entered into a nationwide cultural heritage of Uzbekistan since long ago. The artists presented paintings often from ordinary life of ordinary Soviet workers, steelworkers, farmers, doctors, who are the main characters of the system. Portraits' workers and genre paintings represent the people in all the splendor of their simplicity and strength. As successors of the Russian school of painting, past masters of the school of its time, artists in our collection form a strong foundation of Soviet graphic record. Every artist his face, they all share a genuine interest in the subject, although they all lived and worked in the Soviet era, in the era when reigned the spirit of the official order. Our dream - to share with everyone the interest and knowledge of this period of Soviet art, participate in auctions, helping to create a database of artists, available to all for free, post biographies, place private collections. Assess, advise amateurs and professionals in the purchase and sale, exchange and investing in art. To place at all articles, photos, videos and links to related sites. Our goal - to share the passion, knowledge, making cultural events to connect with this picture, and this time, the exhibition ... auctions, collecting biographies of placing private collections to create a database accessible to all free of charge ... Evaluate, assess, guide both amateurs and professionals in the purchase, sale, exchange and investment .... Host all articles, photos, videos and links to related sites ... Copyright www.asovart.eu © 2021.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line428
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__label__wiki	0.769578	0.769578	Music at Whitesbog Music has always been a part of Whitesbog and it is continuing to grow. We host the bi-monthly Blueberry Jam, Music in the Bogs events and of course the Blueberry Festival going on now 37 Years! We have more in the works to come! Blueberry Festival Musicians We are so lucky to have so many amazing Musicians at Whitesbog, that come out and play at the Blueberry Festival, The Blueberry Jam and many other events that we host at Whitesbog. The Accidental Jug Band Bad Dogz The BAD DOGZ is a bluegrass band named after Joe Wills’ schnauzer, Kayla. We didn’t know what to name the band when we first got together but when Kayla backed guitar player John O’Donnell into a chair, he remarked “that’s a bad dog”. We had a name for the group! Together since, 2002, the BAD DOGZ consists of John O’Donnell on guitar, Bill Doerge on bass, Jim Gooch on fiddle and mandolin; and Joe Wills on 5-string banjo and Dobro. The BAD DOGZ have appeared for many years at the annual Blueberry Festival at historic Whitesbog Village, Browns Mills, NJ; and at the Fall Pinelands Discovery Day that was held there each October. We have performed a number of times for the prestigious Stafford Historical Society in Manahawkin, and at historic Tuckerton Seaport where we had the honor of being the first band to begin their Friday Night concert Series in 2008. The DOGZ was the headliner bluegrass band performing on the main stage at the 2012 New Jersey Folk Festival at Rutgers University. We have performed at the Burlington County Farmers Market, and for the last several summers at Bass River State Forest. Past appearances have been at The Acoustic Musicians Guild’s Harvest Harmony Festival and showcases, and at the Pinelands Charge Bluegrass Gospel Festival; and for the Ocean County Library. Other appearances include the Howell, NJ Grange, and the 1st Annual Bikes & Bluegrass in Frenchtown, NJ, at the Pinelands Short Course at Burlington County College. We perform at Albert Music Hall in Waretown, NJ, and at BOTMA and have performed at both the NJ Historical Fair at Allaire Village, and at the Burlington County Earth fair. We like to do high lonesome bluegrass and throw in some cornpone humor to keep it interesting. We’ll add in some Celtic to get your heart pumpin’, too! When the DOGZ are barkin’, we hope you’ll be tapping your toes and waggin’ your tails! We hope to complete our CD project, NO CATS ALOUD in the near future. We are honored to be invited to perform at the First Annual Allaire Bluegrass Festival! The Raising River Band The Basement Musicians BASEMENT MUSICIANS – Tony Pileggi (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) & Joe Stamboni (backup vocals and lead guitar.) Ed Mattson Clay Hawkins Blending rapid-fire finger style slide guitar and honest, heartfelt songwriting, Clay Hawkins creates his own unique brand of acoustic rock. Influences like Neil Young, John Fahey, The Black Keys, Nick Cave and even Radiohead come together behind a well worn yet lush vocal style. Clay’s music unfolds naturally, taking the listener on a ride that is entirely his own. As far as his “story” goes, well that began in Phoenix, AZ… Born into a household of professional rodeo cowboys (truly) it wasn’t immediately obvious that music would be the chosen path. But the nights spent on the road, listening to country music, (when it was still good) on the way to the next town made an impression. Since carrying a guitar around is a lot easier than hauling horses…, maybe there was something floating in the dust all along. Fast forward to the discovery of guitars, classic rock and the life sustaining qualities of coffee and a warm smile. It was all uphill from there. Eventually all roads led out of town. Clay refined and supported his new songwriting habit up and down both coasts, across Europe, in and out of clubs, cafes, street corners, bars, barns, back yards and back alleys. Hanging his hat in New Orleans and then San Francisco, he listened and turned the sound echoing in those halls into the basis of the music he makes now. What he calls, “Late Night, Boot Stomping, Road Music from the Heart”. That road became home, and eventually the wild hills of Northern California claimed another as their own. With a rolling band of co-conspiritors, an assortment of slide guitars, old amps and a great affection for good times, (and a dog), Clay spends his days playing music around California and taking it one mile marker at a time. He still doesn’t own a horse though. Brian Rauch Ron Stevenson Born in Brooklyn, NY, lived 15 years in Asia, then Western Pennsylvania and now central NJ. Has played Old Time String Band Music since 1970 on mandolin, banjo, guitar, fiddle and resonator. Since moving to NJ in 2013, became part of NJ’s bluegrass and old time community and Whitesbog’s jams at the Barrel Factory and stage. Michael Rochelle and Shadetree Mechanics Larry Cottrell Libby Prison Minstrels New Jersey’s own Libby Prison Minstrels are a group of musicians dedicated to history and education through music. They have entertained audiences since the early 1990’s with programs that include music of the Union and the Confederacy, dances of the period, humor, stories of soldiers, stories related to President Lincoln, and the remarkable history of the prisoners held in Libby Prison. The name of the band was chosen to remember those prisoners known as The Libby Prison Minstrels, who sang and performed to keep up the morale up of their fellow Union officers. In addition to Civil War presentations, Libby Prison Minstrels can also share the life of 19th century sailors through traditional sea shanties, work, and fo’c’sle songs. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, they have added music of that era to their repertoire. Libby Prison Minstrels perform in period attire appropriate to the program theme presented. Over the years, the band has performed at a number of special venues throughout the Mid Atlantic. Ford’s Theater, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. At the New Jersey State House for the State of the State Address A Civil War era Christmas event in Colonial Williamsburg A Remembrance Day Ball in Gettysburg At the Gettysburg National Military Park for the 100TH Anniversary of the National Park Service and annually for the Gettysburg Music Muster in August On board New Jersey’s official tall ship the A.J. Meerwald Numerous libraries, historical societies, schools, and festivals throughout the state A specialty of the band is the singing an 1863 version of the Star Spangled Banner, which they have performed at Citizens Bank Park at the invitation of the Philadelphia Phillies. The Libby Prison Minstrels also perform regularly at New Jersey’s historic Albert Music Hall in Waretown NJ. For further information, photos, videos, along with upcoming performances please follow our Facebook page Libby Prison Minstrels, the one with the eagle as its profile picture. For booking information, please contact band manager Mr. Brian Ross at 856 304-2358 Elaine & The Cimarron Sky Band Singer/Guitarist/Keyboardist Elaine Orzechowski is a veteran of the Jersey Shore music scene, having been a part of numerous bands/trios/duos and even a stint as a party DJ over the years. Performing in several country rock/southern rock bands she developed a love for harmony-driven country-tinged music. As a solo performer, Elaine specializes in singing classic country and country rock songs, but also includes acoustic versions of favorite pop/rock/folk songs from the 50’s through today’s music. With her band, The Cimarron Sky Band, the same classic country/country rock songs are taken to the next level with full instrumentation and up to four-part harmony – with a touch of bluegrass added to the mix! THE CIMARRON SKY BAND is: Brian Rauch – electric & acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, lead & harmony vocals Mark Donley – bass guitar, lead & harmony vocals David Donley – fiddle, mandolin, harmony vocals Lori London Miss London sings with a powerhouse of emotion, vocally she has a wide range — a big voice. She has the ability to sing virtually any style of music ranging from Jazz to Operatic music. Miss London is a published songwriter and at a very early age had the honor of composing with noted arranger, composer and conductor Lew Douglas. He wrote songs such as Pretend, Why Don’t You Believe Me and Have You Heard recorded by the talents of Patti Page, Joni James, and The Duprees. Lori has opened for music legends such as The Duprees, The Brooklyn Bridge, Kenny Vance and The Planotones, Queen of Country Miss Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, Ray Price, Mel Tillis, Queen of Bluegrass Miss Rhonda Vincent and The Rage, most recently for the annual APOL dinner dance and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and at the Chicago Cultural Center under the Tiffany Dome for a Friends of Animal Welfare fundraiser. Miss London has performed with Chicago’s Ambassador of Music Franz Benteler and The Royal Strings Orchestra. She’s performed at the historic landmark Tampa Theatre and Cuban Club in Ybor City — Tampa Florida. In New York for the 158th Birthday Celebration for genius inventor Nikola Tesla. Miss London recalls standing on the very site where the Tesla Tower had stood at Tesla’s Wardenclyffe laboratory! Miss London performs as a tribute artist in “Patsy Meets Elvis” in which she gives an emotionally charged performance as the voice of Patsy Cline. She once performed tribute as the humorous June Carter Cash, in The Man In Black. To find out more about Lori London click the link to her website. Alpha Rabbit Pete Kennedy While awaiting retirement back in NJ, I decided to learn to play the guitar and loved it. As time went on I attended the biweekly “Whitesbog Music Jams” and also the Pickin shed at “Albert Music Hall “ These great groups of Musicians encouraged and inspired me to continue and perform whenever I can. Now playing and residing in TN and Outer Banks NC, pursuing my love of music. Warm Hearted Country Warm Hearted Country was formed in 2003 by Laurie and Alice Dorisio. Alice has been performing country music for about 50 years, mostly in family bands. Laurie’s love of country and bluegrass music goes back to her childhood when she began singing with her Mom at age 6. Laurie sings lead vocals, plays guitar and mandolin. Alice plays the snare drum, harmonica, provides harmony and sings lead vocals. This mother/daughter team offer audiences a unique combination of immensely popular entertainment. Other Warm Hearted Country band members include Dave Thomas playing lead guitar and mandolin along with Alan Chambers playing electric bass. It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news of the passing of Alice’s son Bruce. He was a fabulous harmonica player and added so much to the unique sound of Warm Hearted Country! We miss him dearly but we know Bruce will continue to play beautiful music with the heavenly angels! This fine group of talented, experienced musicians delight and captivate audiences through their creativity and the signature, unique sound of Warm Hearted Country. Audiences can expect to hear an enjoyable mix of Classic Country, Bluegrass, Oldies, Old Time Rock & Roll and Gospel favorites! Please visit www.warmheartedcountry.com for more information about Warm Hearted Country. Warm Hearted Country Website The Grassland Band A new group with an old name. Back in the 1990’s Ed Krizni, with some friends, started his first bluegrass band called Grassland. It was an amateur group that played a couple of gigs over their couple of years together. Ed wanted to keep the Grassland name, but instead he got picked up by another band (the Fox Hill Bluegrass Band). The Grassland Band is now registered in NJ and consists of two versions, The Grassland Band with four or five members and the Grassland Band Trio with three. The music they play is a mix of traditional bluegrass, very old country, originals, and some well-known songs done bluegrass style. Over all you get a good mix of vocals and songs that do not all sound the same. The band members themselves have a wide variety of talent and come into the group with their own unique backgrounds. The Grassland Band Website Yankee Rebels Bluegrass Band The Rebels appeared at the Whitesbog Blueberry Festival a few years ago. Yankee Rebels Blugrass Band Website The Fiddle Kicks FiddleKicks was formed when cloggers who had recently moved to Philadelphia from Boston and a group of Philadelphia folk dancers met at a clogging workshop at the 1996 Heritage Dance Festival in Plymouth-Whitemarsh, PA. They began meeting regularly in Mt. Airy to practice Appalachian clogging steps and routines to bluegrass and old-time music. As word of these sessions spread, other cloggers joined the group, and soon FiddleKicks expanded in size and scope. By April of 1997, the group received an invitation to perform. Prominent in performance, education and preservation of Appalachian clogging, FiddleKicks has substantial experience and expertise giving performances and teaching workshops in the Eastern U.S. and England. Concerts usually include narration and audience participation, enabling the public to connect with and personally experience this unique dance form. Repertoire also includes other traditional percussive styles, such as Cape Breton step dances, English clog & sword dances. Programs are closely tailored to the audience and can be Fiddle Kicks Website The Stage at Whitesbog Keeping the music Alive at Whitesbog – Help Us finish the New Stage! We have built the 1st “Stage” of the New Stage, which was a great asset to the 2019 Blueberry Festival – We still need to raise more funds to Build the Roof! Thank You for your donations! We have designed a multi use stage that will fit into the village surroundings utilizing cedar siding and the red metal roofing we see in our buildings throughout the village. Below is a concept design of the New Stage. To find out more about The Stage at Whitesbog - Click Me! The Stage at Whitesbog - A Timelapse - Building the 1st Stage of The Stage! 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__label__cc	0.651785	0.348215	HOME > Alma Classics > Eugene Onegin View basket “Eugene Onegin” has been added to your basket. English Classics German Classics Gothic Classics Great Women Writers Irish Classics Other Literatures Russian Classics Syllabus / GCSE SEE INSIDE > By Alexander Pushkin Translated by Roger Clarke RRP: £5.99 £4.79 Eugene Onegin quantity DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga – Lensky’s fiancée – Onegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making. Eugene Onegin – presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and commentary – was the founding text of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the quintessentially Russian hero and heroine, which would remain the archetypes for novelists throughout the nineteenth century. This edition also contains an appendix with passages excluded by Pushkin from the 1837 edition, as well as extra material about the author’s life and works and a carefully selected bibliography. Part of Alma Classics Evergreens Series For more poetry click here SKU: 9781847494177 Categories: Evergreens, Great Poets Series, Poetry, Russian Classics Tags: Classic, dual text, Evergreens, nineteenth century, Poetry, Russian hero, Russian Literature, Russian poet, tragedy, world literature Pushkin’s novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, is the book that has most influenced my life. Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) was a dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov. He is now considered the father of modern Russian literature. Lyrics: Volume 4 (1829–37) – Dual Language The Queen of Spades and Other Stories Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies The Captain’s Daughter and A History of Pugachov Ruslan and Lyudmila Belkin’s Stories	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line433
__label__cc	0.615237	0.384763	2021 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss Changes, Concept and Release Date The new-generation Silverado is here. The thing that has always been great about this truck is a variety of versions in the offer. The new generation comes with even wider choice. There is a completely new version called 2021 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss. It is an off-road oriented truck, which comes with numerous modifications compared to base models. You will notice lots of visual upgrades first, but this model also comes with a few mechanical modifications, including higher ground clearance.Also, the great thing about this version is the fact that you can choose several different engines. The list of standard equipment is also on a high level. 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Thanks to its amazing efficiency, it delivers a pretty respectable amount of power, on par or even better than most V6 units around. A total output goes around 310 horsepower and 350 pound-feet of torque. Also, fuel economy is on a pretty high level. It goes around 20 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on a highway.The 2021 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss is also available in a version with eight cylinders. There is a familiar 5.3-liter V8 engine, which for this occasion delivers around 355 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque. Unfortunately, the larger, 6.2-liter engine is not available for the Trail Boss. It is reserved for higher trims only.Finally, there is a great news for all those economy-minded drivers. The 2021 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss also comes in a diesel variant. Of course, it features a familiar 3.0-liter inline-six turbo diesel unit. This engine features a max output of 282 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque, which is much more compared to main diesel rivals from Ford and Ram. Fuel economy is also pretty good and goes close to 30 mpg on the highway. 2021 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss Price and Competition Considering that 2021 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss comes with several engines in the offer and with different lists of standard equipment, the price goes in a pretty wide range. The cheapest versions go around 44.000 dollars. When it comes to the competition, most experts see Ram Rebel as a potential rival. 2 photos of the "2021 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss Changes, Concept and Release Date" 2020 Chevrolet Trailblazer Interiors, Price and Release Date 2020 Chevy Trax Rumors, Engine and Powertrain 2020 Chevy Orlando Specs, Price, and New Design	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line441
__label__cc	0.669464	0.330536	A model analysis of the tidal engine that drives nitrogen cycling in coastal riparian aquifers The size of this resource is 44.5 KB Mar 26, 2019 at 2:46 p.m. Mar 23, 2020 at 12:45 p.m. 10.4211/hs.39abb2d1a3614b88afc02b22b77021a2 In coastal rivers, tides facilitate surface water-groundwater exchange and strongly coupled nitrification-denitrification near the fluctuating water table. We used numerical fluid flow and reactive transport models to explore hydrogeologic and biogeochemical controls on nitrogen transport along an idealized tidal freshwater zone based on field observations from White Clay Creek, Delaware, USA. The capacity of the riparian aquifer to remove nitrate depends largely on nitrate transport rates, which initially increase with increasing tidal range but then decline as sediments become muddier and permeability decreases. Over the entire model reach, local nitrification provides a similar amount of nitrate as surface and groundwater contributions combined. More than half (~66%) of nitrate removed via denitrification is produced in-situ, while the vast majority of remaining nitrate removed comes from groundwater sources. In contrast, average nitrate removal from surface water due to tidal pumping amounts to only ~1% of the average daily in-channel riverine nitrate load or 1.77 kg of nitrate along the reach each day. As a result, tidal bank storage zones may not be major sinks for nitrate in coastal rivers but can act as effective sinks for groundwater nitrate. By extension, tidal bank storage zones provide a critical ecosystem service, reducing contributions of groundwater nitrate, which is often derived from septic tanks and fertilizers, to coastal rivers. White Clay Creek -75.6499° National Science Foundation EAR-1446724 Geologic Society of America Wallace, C. D., A. H. Sawyer, R. T. Barnes, M. R. Soltanian, R. S. Gabor, M. J. Wilkins, M. T. Moore (2020). A model analysis of the tidal engine that drives nitrogen cycling in coastal riparian aquifers, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.39abb2d1a3614b88afc02b22b77021a2	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line442
__label__cc	0.707695	0.292305	« Trayvon Martin Grada Kilomba on racism in Europe » The Broken Africa stereotype Tue Mar 13th 2012 by abagond Somewhere in Africa in a place called Kenya The Broken Africa stereotype is one of the main ways Americans picture Africa: a violent hellhole, savage and cruel, a place of war, genocide, famine, slums, disease, failed states, refugee camps, etc. Aids, malaria and Ebola. Idi Amin, Mugabe and now Kony. Rwanda and Darfur. Somali pirates. Corrupt government officials. Child soldiers. Black men raping virgins to spread Aids. The heroes of this piece? White saviours, like Bono and Miss Jolie. White people to the rescue! Africa was, is and always shall be backward. Anything good in Africa comes from outside. Africans can never do anything right – and never will. James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA who should know a thing or two about genes, said he was: I used to think this picture was a side effect of the Western press, which makes a living off of bad news, and Western NGOs, which make a living off of helping the helpless – making Africa the Country into a land of bad news and helpless people. Not so: the stereotype goes way back, to the 1700s, to the days of the slave trade. War, famine, disease and evil men are found throughout the world and throughout history, not just in Africa. So why does the image of a Broken Africa stick? The Rule of How Mud Sticks: When blacks do something bad or whites do something good, it is largely due to inborn qualities – like “black” crime and “white” inventions. When blacks do something good or whites do something bad, it is an exception or largely due to circumstances – like black inventions and white crime. This creates an imbalanced, racist picture of Africa: Mugabe? Proof that blacks are unfit for rule. Hitler? A madman. The Rwandan genocide kills 800,00 Tutsis? Proof of how violent Africans are. The German genocide kills 6 million Jews? That was an exception. The Germans killed 100,00 Hereros in Namibia? Another exception. Middle-class Nairobi or Luanda? Exceptions. The slums of Nairobi and Luanda? Proof of how screwed up Africa is. African civilizations? They tell us nothing. Primitive tribes in out-of-the-way places? The True Africa. Like most stereotypes it is two parts self-serving lie and one part projection: Projection: It was the West that broke Africa. It was the West that was savage. It was the West that could not run things properly. Before whites showed up Timbuktu had more people than London and its schools were better known at the time than Oxford and Cambridge. After whites appeared over 17 million died in the slave trade and the slave wars. Self-serving lie: The stereotype did not arise till the 1700s to excuse the slave trade – and later grew in strength during the white rule of colonialism. That Africa is poorer than Europe and North America has nothing to do with whites robbing it of human labour and mineral wealth. No, Africa is broken by nature. Picture credits: The first picture was taken by photojournalist Kate Holt, who works for the British media and NGOs. If you click on the picture it leads to her blog where you can find out more about the picture and about her. The first two pictures are from Dadaab, a vast refugee camp in Kenya where hundreds of thousands have fled famine and war in Somalia. The third picture is from a coffee house in an upmarket Nairobi mall – also in Kenya. It is by Noor Khamis for Reuters and appeared in the South African press. stereotypes about Africa The Panama Papers – a more objective look at corruption than what the Western press presents. White paternalism White saviours and darkies Chinua Achebe: Africa’s Tarnished Name the single story Why do whites hate, demonize, fear and look down on blacks? A bit of realism for those interested in Africa The Business of Saving Africa An Open Letter to King Leopold II “The average African IQ is 70″ Diop: The African Origin of Civilization: Myth Or Reality Fanon: The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 12:39:29 Matari Truthfully stated, Abagond. Now let the trolling begin! on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 12:54:42 anglesanddimensions Portraying the affluent class of Africa side-by-side doesn’t negate the fact that the sorry picture of Africa exists. It only serves to show the extreme inequality that exists in the region. The poverty in Africa is shown with a purpose, and not a humanitarian one. It is used to show that Africans are inherently screwed up, they can’t govern themselves and hence they need American and European [conditional] aid, foreign soldiers on their ground, foreign control on their resources. To back this theory up they show the ‘benevolent whitey’ side by side. In my country, India, I’ve seen many holding up the 58 dollar billionaires of India when they want to portray their country as a ‘good’ place. Nationalism obscures one to reality and makes them resort to absurdity when someone points out something that’s wrong in their country. Obviously, 58 dollar billionaires are a shame in a country whose 80% live under Rs.20 ($1=about Rs 50) per day. But there’s one thing that must be mentioned about those who point out that something is wrong in a country – usually they are the ones trying to establish their superiority over another. You will see how the tone changes when you bring up IMF, World Bank, their conditional loans and aids, wars, sanctions etc imposed by the UN, US & Co because those point towards all the evils that their countries are doing, and they know they’re beneficiaries of it. I have only one thing to say to those in the first world who point towards the poverty in third world countries – protest against your govt policies, stand up against the wars that your countries wage against others(Libya used to be one with a good HDI before Obama & Co. bombed it to the ground, and yes, sponsored the killing of blacks in Libya by the rebels). If you don’t, then stop whining and shove your charity up your backside. Don’t use poor people as an excuse to feel good without doing anything good. on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 13:20:15 leigh204 You know what I find repugnant? You see the media showing the likes of Bono and Angelina Jolie shaking hands with some of the populace, “Oh, look. We are trying to make a difference in Africa.” They don’t deserve recognition. Other people have been doing it for years. Did they smile for the camera and get a pat on the back for helping those in need? on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 13:22:47 Oyan (@Oy_aN) I understand that this blog points out what was/is wrong with the evil behavior of Europe/whites and how they mangled and continue to mangle Africa/black, but, what is ‘wrong’ with Africa that this was possible. I was listening to a Youtube vid, and this professor , Dr Amos Wilson, spoke on how Europe attempted this horror on China, was initially successful, but the Chinese were able to repel them. ‘Other’ groups keep coming for us, why is that? There is this parable, “when you act like sheep, people will act like wolves”. on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 14:25:42 JC What are your thoughts on the Arab slave trade? Slavery was not just a phenomenon of the West and Europe. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/the-arab-trader-argument/ Very interesting article on the “Arab Trader Argument.” It would be futile trying to compare or judge which was worse. My feeling is that the European slave trade is still highly remembered due to the ever-lasting presence of NGOs in Africa, particularly when they are fueled by projections and self-serving lies. On the other hand there aren’t any current issues that allow bringing up the Arab slave trade. on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 15:36:36 lokey @angelsanddimension Hello from your fellow countryman :). I dont know if you are in the US or in India, but I guess you got the picture, the Imperial narrative of the colonized has always been designed to shame the colonized into thinking the other (colonizer) is great while making the colonizer feel superior to the colonized. Gandhi called this phenomena: Drain inspection. The chief artist of this deception against India was an American white woman (who was also a racist, anti-immigrant conservative who would fit right in with the loonatic racists of the tea party of today). You can read more here: http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2006/02/teaching-journal-katherine-mayos.html She was hijacked by the British propaganda machine and because she was white and American, most people in the US and UK (and more shamefully our own Indians) brought this racist/biased narrative. Now you can see that this culture continues by way of rented-negroes (in these case rented-Indians) see here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17377895 I just looked at the comments, it is hilarious that the Arab trader argument popped up like clockwork. These guys are like automatons! @ JC My feeling is that the European slave trade is still highly remembered due to the ever-lasting presence of black people in the Americas. As if on cue: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57398804-10391698/george-clooney-arrested-during-protest-at-sudanese-embassy/ It is becoming so predictable and hollow. It’s funny, because the time I spent in both Edo State and Lekki Nigeria was simply fantastic. There are many spots that are incredibly modern and over looked, while there were many spots that were poor and over exposed. The people though, were more aware of their situation then the (whites) West give them credit for. on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 17:27:45 truthbetold I will respond later when I have more strength. My heart is weary from the last post on the killings of our people. @lokey Hi!(Punjab? Am from Kolkata) Among the many issues with Gandhi’s observations is that he failed to grasp the cause-and-effect relations and thus reached a wrong conclusion. While I do agree that colonizers and neo-colonizers everywhere try to paint the colonized people as horrid, irrational people unable to govern themselves and I do caution myself and others against accepting accounts by colonizers without solid evidence as they’re most likely liars, I do not agree with the approach taken by Abagond here, or nationalists at home to counter such ‘drain inspections’. Drains need to be inspected. Not by degenerates like Katherine Mayo who use the drains in order to turn the whole country into a stinky swamp, but by people who would clean the drains up. Katherine Mayo and her likes in the US want to rob people of their sovereignty and exploit them all the while justifying the exploitation with the theory that we’re not fit to govern ourselves. Yes, India is an extremely poor country. The denial of this fact is denying the truth and supporting the ‘feel good’ feeling propagated by the media in order to keep the countrypeople from a revolution. It is like someone from the slavery era saying that there are slaves who have better masters who don’t beat them up and feed them well and even let them read books. At home CNN does not mention poverty once on TV, in abroad the same CNN is gushing about poverty in third world countries. It’s against the ruling class interest to let the relatively better-off people here who can access TV know how hard the overwhelming majority of the country suffer. In abroad, the ruling class use the ‘drains’ to garner support for all the atrocities they commit in the name of help. So yes, India is a poor country and I’m an Indian by accident of birth and internationalist by principle living in India. That does not make me or anyone in India superior or inferior to anyone and does not make us deserving of subordination or inherently screwed up. Want proof of how India or Africa came to be so poor? Look at the global powers, the corporations, the international organizations like the UN, IMF, World Bank. Learn some history and you’ll find that we’re not inherently screwed up. Rather, the ones who are trying to portray us as such are. As one commenter commented on this blog yesterday, “there’s no shame being a slave. Only a slaveholder.” P.S. Gandhi was, without a shred of doubt, a servant of the colonizers. Gandhi opposed the struggle of the Zulus and defended the massacre of the Zulus by the British in South Africa, was racist to the core which is evidenced by his many remarks on the inferiority of the black race, opposed freedom struggles by labourers and peasants in India, openly said that he supported landlordship and opposed any kind of attempts to take away the wealth they held, worked as a recruit agent for the British army and declared that the British rule was a godsend for India. His ‘non-violence’ was only for the Indians struggling for their freedom because he knew if the struggle turned violent, the British would have to flee and the power would be seized by the people instead of the Congress party (created by the British) which existed to serve the interest of the Indian bourgeoisie. Obviously, given the nature of Gandhiism, it would naturally be the philosophy that the ruling class would want the oppressed class to believe in. Oppress without any fear of a backlash – the dream of the oppressor! on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 19:12:58 DarqBeauty This post instantly made me think of this video. -_- on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 19:47:03 dave I’ll concede the point about Mrs. Jolie / Pitt, however, when It comes to Bono I am going to disagree. He doesn’t just use his celebrity and own money to help others in need in Africa…He does it throughout the world. Not only In America, but his own country of Ireland. I saw him when I worked at the pentagon after 9/11 (I was there on the smoke cleanup crew.) He was also with Chris Tucker, by the way they looked to be having a ball together laughing and clowning each other. I didn’t get to meet Bono, but later on Tucker was walking around near the Hall of Heroes, which I happened to be cleaning and I met him. He was very nice and he wanted to see the devastation and he told me he offered officials there anything he could do for help to raise awareness by the use of his celebrity. Now why isn’t Chris Tucker and other blacks being yelled at. Why do you guys hate Bono so much. I think he is a nice man. What about Sean Penn and the work he does in Haiti. Penn also partnered with Spike Lee on that movie he did to benefit with Hurricane Katrina victims. on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 19:55:14 brothawolf I just had to deal with a fool on Colorlines.com who gave me his Western view of Africa as a helpless, corrupt place incapable of of self-governance and self-reliance. He objected to how the Kony 2012 issue is a “white savior” infomercial and the possibility that America’s main interests when it comes to any African nation is to make money from its resources. It’s amazing what some people will believe without using their heads. on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 20:45:46 Tyrone Africa was turned into a monopoly board by europeans, this fact is omitted from so-called journalism here in the US and abroad. Leaving out this info presents a false narrative to consumers of media, because all consumers of media don’t have the same level of understanding about the issue. If folk haven’t studied the history of what took place via the transatlantic slave trade, they would view africa as continually dysfunctional. It’s not what we see and hear in media, it’s what we don’t see and hear in media that keeps us in the fog. Whites portray native africans as out of control, knowing damn’ well that their race is the source of the problem. This allows them to play the role of “Savior” that we have all come to despise. Brad Pitt, Angelina, Bono, and other bleeding hearts will never be honest about who created the chaos that we see in some african countries, Never! on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 21:54:24 Notable Links: 3-16/12 « BROTHA WOLF […] “The Broken Africa Stereotype” by Abagond […] on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 22:07:30 BROTHA WOLF on Fri Mar 16th 2012 at 22:15:47 Mel @Oyan, Other’ groups keep coming for us, why is that? There is this parable, “when you act like sheep, people will act like wolves”. I do sometimes feel blacks “welcome” the victim-hood portrayals. I often find it aggravating the way blacks welcome cameras to film them. Those videos of Africans dancing and singing for white audiences annoy me. So do those “news” pieces with black women crying about how “single” /unmarried they are. Why allow mainstream media to victimize you? What many black people don’t get or understand is that many non-blacks, particularly whites, believe, as a natural rule, that blacks are genetically or intellectually inferior to whites and other groups. From this “blacks are naturally inferior” belief, they build all their opinions, laws, attitudes, etc about blacks. I volunteered at a local high school in 2010, and was allowed to sit in on the staff meeting, where the officials discussed “dumbing down of the curriculum.” The school is mostly black and South Asian, and when I asked why they were dumbing down the curriculum (which made it difficult for the kids attending the school to get into universities), the answer was that the kids can’t handle the tougher curriculum, so the solution, naturally, is to dumb it down. Now, if I were a parent with a kid at that school, I’d be offended that they’re doing this, because I understand why they chose this as a solution…they believe the black and South Asian kids are too dumb. So Mel, just to be clear, are you’re saying here that you were okay with the dumbing down process (not offended) because you’re not a parent with a child attending that school? Were any African or South Asian staff members attending that meeting? on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 00:37:40 destructure I used to care about what happened to poorer countries. But this post has really straightened me out. From now on I promise not to give a $#!t. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 01:05:49 Franklin @ Destructure If your belief is that flimsy and is swayed that easily then it probably wasn’t genuine in the first place. But that’s me posting as if I has no idea that you were just some dishonest white who’s trying to paint himself as an open-minded person who is now deeply offended because of some cruel boogeymen that he was fighting for. Abagond, I am glad that you posted this post. Good post. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 02:03:27 Bliff @mel the answer was that the kids can’t handle the tougher curriculum, so the solution, naturally, is to dumb it down.. Finally, a sensible school district. Usually, the teachers, administration, community, or white people are blamed, usually in a game of musical chairs which of this takes it’s turn in being blamed. Finally, they have awoke – maybe its the kids. @anglesanddimensions 58 dollar billionaires are a shame in a country whose 80% live under Rs.20. You know nothing of the generation of wealth in an economy. The presence of biliionaires, indicates a growing economy. From India’s lower economic base, much money is made by entrepreneurs who create business and start to produce goods for the people. The entrepreneurs can make a lot of money in these intial stages. those who point out that something is wrong in a country – usually they are the ones trying to establish their superiority …..Don’t use poor people as an excuse to feel good without doing anything good. Not always. There are many honest charitable organizations, nost of them white. Your racist attitude toward them may explain your poor opinion of them. Would you rather we not send the money? Because if that is your attitude, maybe we should not. Bono and Angelina Jolie shaking hands with some of the populace,… They don’t deserve recognition. The use of celebrities to bring awareness, action, and money has been used very successfully for a wide range of causes. People would normally not listen to simple pleas for help unless there is something that catches their attention – celebrities, pictures of children, or highly polished videos. So perhaps you should put aside your disdain for white people and think about how the disadvantaged are helped by the celebrities’ efforts. It’s irrelevant whether Jolie and Bono are getting more than their share of publicity. It’s disgusting to me how many commenters disdain white people so much that they would criticize their efforts to help. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 02:49:09 brothawolf @Bliff, But it’s okay to have a disdain for blacks, including Africans, because you, as a so-called race realist, believe they are not as intelligent or sufficient as whites? I’m just asking. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 02:53:40 leigh204 Pffft. What do I care about white celebrities bringing attention to causes. I personally know people who do a lot more in helping others and don’t go in front of a camera to do it. GTFO. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 03:17:21 FG Stop blaming Americans for everything and start paying more attention to the problems of your own country! on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 03:34:12 DarqBeauty FG obviously hasn’t read the post and the comments. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 05:15:03 dave I would like to hear some credit for this man here. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 07:55:21 anglesanddimensions @Bliff And your profound knowledge of economics astounds me. For twenty years since neoliberal policies have been adopted India has been experiencing what economists call ‘jobless growth’. Unless ‘growing economy’ means increased economic inequality, I don’t see how we can call the economy of a country which has the highest unemployment rate in 20 years growing. Goods for people? The purchasing power of the common Indian is mentioned in my previous post. Social welfare indicators are indicating the worst in 20 years. Some amount of industrialization is happening all right, but at the cost of farmers and tribals who are displaced from their lands creating several times more jobless and homeless people than the factories can hire. Again there are the huge number of factories that shut down and small businesses are getting wiped out. Trickle-down economy has failed. It is clear as daylight and anyone with a slightest bit of brain can see why. So we’d better stop being happy about pumping money into the tummy of the super-rich. Not always. There are many honest charitable organizations, nost of them white. Your racist attitude toward them may explain your poor opinion of them. Would you rather we not send the money? Because if that is your attitude, maybe we should not. There may be “honest” charitable organizations, but charity is merely a way to keep people from an uprising. Charity does not solve poverty, it keeps a very tiny percentage of people in poverty barely alive. An investigation into the cause of poverty reveals what policies are responsible for it and who wanted to implement those with what intentions. This part gets really uncomfortable for people like you who think you’re doing us a favour by tossing $5 a week at us. That is why people like you will boast of charity but start opposing anyone who will stand up against the cuts in welfare, the liberalization-privatisation-globalization drive. If those organizations really wished to solve the issue of poverty, they would have hit at the core reason of poverty, the international policies, organizations like WB and IMF, imperialist wars, sanctions imposed on countries (US is threatening to impose sanctions on India if the latter doesn’t stop buying oil from Iran) etc. and finally capitalism itself. So save your favors. Do away with the charity industry by all means. Hardly makes a difference to the poor population, but at least it will stop the people who want to boast to people ‘you know, I donated to the poor kids in Africa, oh how poor they are’ without any significant loss to their lifestyle and all the while supporting the system that keeps their privileges intact and makes the poor people poorer. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 09:48:26 malkia Thanks for this post! Especially in the wake of that Kony mess and now George Clooney! @Destructure honestly, I really do wish all of you would leave us alone. Thanks. Your “help” is more about how good you want to feel than about us really. Am not trying to be your feel good moment. I don’t think many Africans like it. I agree with Mel. A lot of white people do truly believe that black people are inferior. I will not believe otherwise. A couple of things they have said: 1. Oh look at Rwanda, these primitive savages killing each other over some ancient tribal feuds. Never mind that people were fighting over systemic inequality introduced by the Belgians. 2. On critics of Kony 2012: “Well at least we care about your hellhole!” “at least WE are doing something unlike YOU Africans” “Africa is just stuck in the stone age, we should leave those uncivilized people to kill each other” 3. Saw a story on dead elephants on CNN, the white people almost dying over a dead elephant in fact some were saying that they should be moved out of Africa. Next story was on Sudan…”primitive savages” seemed to be the underlying message in their comments. I could go on and on, but this is the general meme of their arguments. Finally, Africa does have a lot of problems, I do not deny that. I live here and we are all faced with our problems. But we are more than the sum of our failures. Here is fact: 8.5 billion dollars worth of diamonds are extracted out of Africa every year. It is enough to wipe out hunger and poverty in Africa. This is just diamonds. Here is another fact: only an eighth of Africa’s mineral have been discovered. The clamour for Africa’s rare minerals have began. There is no continent like Africa. Congo alone could feed us for 20 years. I wish we could really see how much we have and rise as a people and take fate into our hands. @Oyan, I agree with you. We as Africans and black people are way too forgiving! Look at the Jews, they did not forgive or forget. We should emulate them! “But that’s me posting as if I has no idea that you were just some dishonest white” But of course I’m a “dishonest white”. Is there any other kind? And each one of us is more racister than the next, right? That’s why I came to this blog — to learn da troof. Yes, yes, yes. A person with no real purpose or argument is using colorful sarcasm as their “Hail Mary Attempt” to sway people’s attention away from that fact. It was only a matter of time. honestly, I really do wish all of you would leave us alone. Thanks. Your “help” is more about how good you want to feel than about us really. Am not trying to be your feel good moment. I don’t think many Africans like it. I can assure you that Africa has never been my “feel good moment”. I’ve never been there. Never plan to go there. And I’ve never given a cent to any charity except for those performing medical research. I believe most charities end up making things worse. People shouldn’t become dependent on handouts whether it’s welfare or ‘save the children’. There’s a reason national parks have signs that say, “Don’t Feed the Bears.” It’s bad for bears and its bad for the people feeding them. And it’s just as bad when people get charity. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 18:01:00 Nom De Plume I’ll say it again. Subscribing to The Africa Channel through my cable company was one of the best things I’ve ever done. Pffft. What do I care about white celebrities bringing attention to causes. Pffft yourself. Apparently you don’t care about the disadvantaged either, otherwise, you wouldn’t put down people like Jolie or Bono. @brothawolf disdain for blacks….believe they are not as intelligent. Saying blacks is less intelligent than whites is something I have come to believe as an explanatory principle of blacks, condition. It’s not something I created, nor do I say it in any disdain….it’s just something that’s true and explains an awful lot. You are just shooting the messenger. I “disdain” I speak of here is those who speak ill of those who are helping. I am criticizing the criticizers for what they are doing – disdaining – not for any of their abilities. People are held responsible for what they do, not for who they are. neoliberal policies That was India’s first mistake. Should have tried capitalist policies. Works much better. Trickle-down economy has failed. Don’t think so. The strange term just makes it amenable to ridicule. Charity does not solve poverty, it keeps a very tiny percentage of people in poverty barely alive. This is all charity could ever be expected to do. Solving poverty comes from the country, their government in its policies, and the people themselves, including developing/adopting a culture of growth. This part gets really uncomfortable for people like you who think you’re doing us a favour by tossing $5 a week at us No, I personally don’t even do this; hence, no discomfort. I give $0 to overseas charities. They let do it on their own. They constantly criticize USA and Americans, so let them pound salt. core reason of poverty, the international policies, ….., and finally capitalism itself Lady, I’ll bet you learned your wacko liberal-socialist ways right here in the USA at one of our fine leftist universities. We wouldn’t need any international policies if the poor countries were already doing fine on their own. Capitalism is the GREATEST solution to poverty. Look at Hong Kong, Asian tigers, and China. They are growing due to their adoption of Western (white) capitalist policies. Do away with the charity industry by all means. Here we agree. YOU can be the one to tell your people you recommended turning down western money because it was given by snotty white people. Then take the first flight out of your country immediately, for your own safety. stop the people who want to boast to people ‘you know, I donated to the poor kids in Africa Really. You think this is why people do this? Do you think white people are not caring? How RACIST!!!! on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 19:13:08 Matari ” I agree with you. We as Africans and black people are way too forgiving! Look at the Jews, they did not forgive or forget. We should emulate them!” Speaking with my individual POV as a descendant of those kidnapped from somewhere in West Africa, I don’t think Jews are the people we should emulate. Without going into a lengthy post, here’s why. There exists in a Marvel Comic storyline about a mythical technologically advanced self-sustaining, never colonized, never conquered Kingdom/nation in Africa that’s run by a fictional King/Ruler named T’challa, aka The Black Panther. This “fictional” Kingdom, an African nation named Wakanda, imo, is closer to who we once were as Africans, (i.e. the Moors ..) in antiquity than the present model of real life Jews. If we need to emulate someone, let’s model ourselves after own ancestors/people before they were overcome by Europeans. Even the mythical Wakandan empire is a better role model than modern, present day Israel largely comprised of Ashkenazi Jews. How can it be good for our young to grow up wanting to pattern/model/emulate after a group made up of largely European people? Haven’t we already witnessed enough of the harm internalized racism has pained us? Yes, we should never forget ..or repeat our mistakes. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 19:30:30 vanishingpoint @Bliff, ever hear of Lauren Gallindo? Jolie’s adoption of her son from Cambodia was tainted, and the facilitator(Gallindo) was arrested and convicted of child trafficking. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437411857.html Also, another saviour, Madonna, took David from Malawi even though he was not an orphan, his father visited him every week and never gave permission for him to be adopted. I guess splitting up families due to poverty is helpful and good? @ Bliff Get a clue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism You’re new around here, aren’t you? And you don’t have a clue as to the kind of person I am so please spare me with the “you don’t care about the disadvantaged either” crap. Again, what do I care about Angelina Jolie and Bono? They’re just a bunch of rich, influential white people who smile for the camera patting themselves on the back for the “good” they’ve done. What a great photo op. on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 20:10:16 JC Don’t forget to add George Clooney to the mix….It’s almost as if he was trying to purposely get arrested this week in Sudan. Is this supposed to be raising awareness or attention grabbing self-aggrandizement?!?! (The spirit of Rochester rasps); “Help us, help us lousy nigras sah! What is disgusting is they have neglected to clean up their own back yard whilst helping someone else with theirs. Anything to keep the nigras at home in their place. At the same time you can feel good about yourself for helping the nigras overseas! Why don’t you go kiss some more white behind? Thanks white folks! Now can you do for us here at home what you are doing for others abroad? @anglesanddimensions: He is smarter than you because he is a white man, never forget that! But of course I’m a “dishonest white”. Is there any other kind? If there is I have yet to meet one! Really you sound paranoid. There’s a reason national parks have signs that say, “Don’t Feed the Bears.” It’s bad for bears and its bad for the people feeding them. Stop! Will the lunacy never end? What's wrong with you? People are held responsible for what they do, not for who they are. If that were true you would stop writing the reams of garbage that you do. 1. So, what you’re saying is that any theory that “proves” the so-called inferiority of blacks and Africans is something you would automatically believe without question? (yes or no) And any proof that counters this is just wrong? (yes or no) 2. No one here has the right to question or criticize anything they find suspicious when it comes to whites always being seen as saviors of Africans even though that not only does it offend, but also raises important questions? (yes or no) 3. If people are held responsible for what they do and not who they are, then: a. Why can’t we hold you responsible for the racist…i’m sorry, race realist crap you spew all the time that offends the people here? b. Why is it you believe that blacks and Africans are responsible for the ills they go through and face because they are black and African and nothing else? c. Why don’t you hold white people responsible for the ills they’ve done to themselves and other people? “Perhaps FG is another advocate of the: — “non-American ‘foreigners’ have no right to comment on this blog-site and if they comment must only praise everything about the US” — school of non-thought?” I never told anyone that they can’t criticize the US (or other countries). I just think that several of this blog’s patrons have an unhealthy, sometimes hateful obsession with Americans and American social life. This reached a crescendo with the micro-analysis of the YouTube video made by those two little girls from Florida. If two 15 year-olds living in Britain or France made a comparable video, I wouldn’t give it any attention whatsoever. That’s because I am primarily (though not solely) concerned with what’s going on in the society in which I was born and raised. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 02:22:39 Bliff You’re new around here, aren’t you? Yeah I am, but more than a match for you, young missy. you don’t have a clue as to the kind of person I am Let’s see – you think you’re nasty, sassy, think you know more than you do and you actually think that I care. what do I care about Angelina Jolie and Bono? You missed the point. I don’t care Jolie and Bono either. However, celebrities attract attentionto their causes and that helps the disadvantaged. The point that you missed is the celebrities are unimportant, what they can bring in to help the disadvantagedis what is important. It seems you would let the disadvantage suffer, just to spite the celebrities. Do you understand now. inferiority of blacks and Africans…believe without question I never stated I believed it without question, like I just woke up one day and it was convenient to me to believe. No, I believe, not in “inferiority”, like you state, but that blacks are less intelligent, more impulsive, and less forward thinking than whites, which causes them to underachieve in a white-based society like the USA. I don’t believe it without question, I have come to see it as a good explanation of blacks’ condition in USA, as opposed to the white racism charges of people like Abagond. whites …. as saviors of Africans Why do you obsess on this? Whites do what they do to help, other people do what they do to help Africans. Just because there is some publicity in the USA about white peoples efforts, is no reason to get concerned. I would think you would be happy about anyone helping Africans. we hold you responsible for the realist crap you spew What do you mean by responsible? You can challenge me at anytime on this blog. If you want me to respond, you must write something worth responding to, not just a bunch of personal attacks. Why is it you believe that blacks and Africans are responsible for the ills they go through and face because they are black and African and nothing else? As I said before, I believe blacks’ have trouble in USA because of what I said earlier. These are the main reasons. Why don’t you hold white people responsible for the ills they’ve done to themselves and other people In the last 50 years, whites have been overwhelming helpful to blacks. Few blacks today should be concerned with happened before that, because that is before their time. However, I see many blacks, on this blog and others, who obsess over the past times. I think they’re just trying to scam whites and get extra benefits. Blacks need to let go off past times and be concerned with what is happening in the present and what that means for the future. you can feel good about yourself for helping the nigras overseas Maybe you would prefer we don’t help the “nigras overseas”, just so the snotty white people don’t feel good about themselves? A great help you are to the disadvantaged. @vanishingpoint ever hear of Lauren Gallindo? No, I haven’t and I don’t care about Jolie’s personal life. I am just here to point out that many commenters would rather criticize Jolie, Bono, etc about the publicity they attract, out of jealously, rather than their efforts to help the disadvantaged. Would you would prefer we don’t help, just so the snotty white people don’t feel good about themselves? on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 03:15:40 DarqBeauty How can someone think Africans are inferior then feel out of sorts because we don’t think Africans need white help? These people don’t care about Africans. So why are they pretending indignation. Am I the only one who sees how illogical this argument is? Abagond sure has some interesting visitors.People who think we are inferior, but will spend days and days arguing with those they consider beneath them. o_0?? You confuse me. The Africans can refuse white help at any time. How can you say whites don’t “care about Africans” when we do many things to help. I’m feeling that whites will be criticized by blacks NO MATTER what we do. I never called YOU personally inferior. “Reporter Asked Trayvon Martin’s Mom If He Ate Chicken! LAMO. How great is that!?” That is what you wrote on another post. You are filth. Your diseased mind has been exposed. There is nothing you can say, no sanctimonious stance you can fake. You’ve been exposed by your own words. Don’t address me ever again. Just typing to you creeps me out. You’re a racist with a hard heart. You are irredeemable. I feel sorry for you, but on the other hand, I am deeply disgusted by your very presence. Please. Don’t address me again. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 05:08:26 brothawolf Bliff, I won’t try to participate in derailing this thread for your amusement, but you’re just showing how trolls think when it comes to your comments: You basically don’t give a damn who you offend on this blog, do you? Now back to our conversation: You say you never stated you believed in black inferiority, but then again, I don’t recall you saying that you’ve questioned or not questioned it either until now when you said that you don’t believe without question. Here’s what’s so funny. You say you don’t believe in “inferiority” and yet you say that blacks are less intelligent, more impulsive, and less forward thinking than whites which causes us to underachieve in a white-based society like this one. Well, what else do you call it especially compared with your brand or level of so-called intelligence, behavior, and mentality? You don’t have to say “inferiority” outright if all that what you say you believe in compares one group of people to another based on your own prejudices. If you truly do think blacks are inferior, why not be a (white) man and say it instead of double talking. If anyone is obsessed with white saviors it’s white people and their media. I’m not happy if all I see are white people as generous, altruistic human beings saving the poor, helpless Africans who can’t save themselves. Why the bloody hell would I be happy to see those images over and over again? If you’re a white man with intelligence superior to my own, why don’t you tell me what responsible is? I, Abagond, and most other people have challenged you. Yet, you come up with laughable, offensive, and degrading responses like a typical troll. We’ve written something worth responding to and yet you seem to cower behind your race-realism, fake knowledge of history, narrow-mindedness and other dehumanizing responses. Why is it you believe that blacks and Africans are responsible for the ills they go through and face because they are black and African and nothing else? As I said before, I believe blacks’ have trouble in USA because of what I said earlier. These are the main reasons. So, the answer is yes. See? This is what pisses me off the most. You and your “that’s in the past and it doesn’t matter” crock of bullshit you always type. And how the fck have whites been overwhelming helpful to blacks? Name some true examples–that have actually worked. Your problem is that you can’t stand to face the truth of the white race’s past let alone the present. No wonder you have a poor knowledge of history. But I bet dollars to donuts that you would get orgasms about Paul Revere’s ride, Ben Franklin’s innovations, and the most important event, how this country was founded. But Heaven forbid you learning about–and I have to keep this within the subject matter–European colonization of Africa and the West’s–and Europe’s–exploitation of the continent’s rich resources, and the support of the dictators of certain regions. All of which were orchestrated mostly by whites in a subtle method of modern imperialism for greed and power. This is why I’m tired of seeing the same “white savior of Africa” image over and over again when most/many whites, especially those in power, have corporate interests in the land, and will do ANYTHING, which includes destruction, to take over. For the record, learn to read directions carefully because I did ask for ‘yes or no’ answers and not paragraphs. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 05:08:33 joshua What should George Clooney be doing? I’ve seen him interviewed, and he seems to be truly passionate about the causes he gets involved with. Does anyone here know differently? The map at the start of this thread is bogus. It is titled “African Slave Trade” yet the arrows coded for volume really only show the Atlantic slave trade. Trickle down is a failure. Feudalism was an example of “trickle down”. The basic problem is that pure capitalism tends to concentrate wealth in few people to the extent that they can manage it. The sayings “it takes money to make money” and “them that have the gold make the rules” are as true now as they ever were. This is even more true in places without decent education systems. The rich can send their kids abroad – what do the poor do? on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 07:04:52 anglesanddimensions neoliberal policies That was India’s first mistake. Should have tried capitalist policies. Works much better… Lady, I’ll bet you learned your wacko liberal-socialist ways right here in the USA at one of our fine leftist universities. We wouldn’t need any international policies if the poor countries were already doing fine on their own. Capitalism is the GREATEST solution to poverty. Look at Hong Kong, Asian tigers, and China. They are growing due to their adoption of Western (white) capitalist policies. Because there do not exist any mainstream leftist parties in the US, the American left is the global centrist with a Keynesian approach, practicing a somewhat cushioned capitalism. The political terminology is upside down – the Keynesians are called liberals. If you had the slightest familiarity with politics except what your mainstream ‘Faux’ and CNN are blathering, you would’ve known that neoliberalism is in common parliance what is called the free market policy. Fine specimen of the superior race, you are. And yeah, you lost the bet. I will not derail the thread going into China’s widespread poverty, labourer repression etc. I’ve seen American people boast of charity too many times not to think this is the chief reason they donate. I do not say there aren’t white people who care (this is so tiring and we’ve all been through this several times, but you lot are rigidly against any observation of traits prevalent in white people or American people. This helps you deny that environment conditions a person thus denying the necessity to change the environment and attributing everything to ‘genes’, ‘internal structure’ etc. Funnily, you people are constantly making general assuptions about black people, Arab people, Indian people, East Asian people, Muslim people and so on. While not allowing general observation of white Americans and making general observations of many other groups, traits get attributed to race, religion, nationality et al while the white American culture remains ‘no-culture’). Few people, of any ethnicity or nationality, really care. But there’s no point repeating what I’ve made obvious in my previous posts. Not sorry to disappoint you, I think that is exactly why people do this. And this culture of hypocrisy is spread with a purpose which is beyond your comprehension, I’m afraid. Correction: The political terminology in America Just saw the ‘chicken’ comment. Go to Stormfront, that’s where you belong, bliff. I just hope there are no people of color in your neighbourhood. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 07:30:45 abagond Here is the Ugandan prime minister’s response video to “Kony 2012”. Notice how he sees northern Uganda as something to be proud of rather than something to be pitied or ashamed of: Jesus Christ, of all people, said that if you do your charity for the world to see then it is not true charity but hypocrisy: you are doing it not out of love and concern but to make yourself SEEM like a good person to others. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 08:01:16 leigh204 Wow, this fellow finds amusement with the chicken comment? Sick! You are so on the money about this pathetic excuse for a human being, DB. The fact that I even acknowledged his lowly presence gives me a feeling of revulsion. @ Joshua It does show African slaves going to other parts of the world. If you have hard numbers, rather than wishful thinking, to dispute the indicated volumes for those years (1500-1870) then please share. Personally I doubt it: there is a huge African Diaspora (160 million people) on the shores of the Western Atlantic. I do not see signs of anything like it elsewhere from the past 10,000 years. The closest thing is the Bantu Expansion but that was within Africa. In case you do not know, Arab slave traders are a moral fig leaf White Americans like to hide behind. As the map shows it is a pretty slim one. @ leigh Yuck, double yuck with a side of crispy fried nastiness. I mean who thinks things like that, let alone says them? smh That chicken comment was in extremely bad taste, at the least. Therefore I have allowed DB’s and Leigh’s comments to go through. A few more things you need to realize. The reason why, as you say, I–or rather we are obsessed with the white savior bit is because it’s shoved into our eyes and eyes all the time. We can’t go anywhere without hearing about it from the TV, the radio, or even our co-workers. But do you hear or see POC going to Africa and doing good deeds there? Hardly. Does this mean POC, including blacks, don’t go to Africa? No. Does this mean they don’t perform good deeds over there. Again, no! But how often do you hear about them as opposed to the white people saving Africa news? You’d be lucky to hear about it at all outside of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and even then it rarely happens. The point is that Africans are not helpless. Only someone who learns from the mainstream media or raised by that way would foolishly believe that unquestionably. I had to deal with two people on Colorlines.com who see white saviors as white saints!! They see this guy Jason Russell as an angel and his movement as something 100% noble. When I placed my two cents into the forum, one kept going on and on about why is this a race issue. The other believed that Africans are really helpless and hopeless. Both saw Kony 2012 as a God send, and despised the fact that questions and criticisms were made as a response. These two would not see what the “fuss” was about no matter what explanations were given. It was like talking to a two cartoon idiots. I should post the link to the video about Jason’s bender. Then again, they may consider it as a leftist plot, anything not to see the shadows behind their “white knight”. @ Bliff, etc Given the bad relationship that whites have had with Africa – slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism, etc – any thinking person is going to question the motives of whites who want to “help”. Whites in general have way more power in the world than blacks. That the prime minister of Uganda felt the need to defend his country from a YouTube video and found himself writing to the likes of Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga shows that imbalance. It shows how dangerous “well-meaning” whites can be. Tourists spent $560 million in Uganda in 2008. Invisible Children spent $3.3 million there in 2011. If Ugandan tourism drops by more than 0.6% due to the “Kony 2012” video making people think Uganda is a dangerous place, then it will do more material harm than good. Broken Africa is basically the bases for racist propaganda in USA and around the west, mainly. The idea behind it is that because the whole Africa is just a cesspool of hunger, diseases and poverty and failure, no wonder that all the blacks are basically the same all over the world. Broken Africa is the reason why blacks are below whites and stay there and should stay there. No need for complicated HBD theories nor any other scinetific crap, just point a finger to Africa and say: See? Broken Africa is the patent aswer for all questions about racism. “See+ Look at It yourself!”. It is also very important, almost essential, to show year after year how the White West rescues africans from africans and most of all, from Africa itself. It is very important to repeat this message in various forms and platforms, overtly and subliminaly, ober and over again, untill it becomes a reality and replaces any other idea of Africa. It is via this repetition that comes the idea that it is natural to send in some relief troops or military into Africa to helpo africans, because they can not helpo themselves. In this propaganda it is also very important to avoid all images, stories and videos of any sort of normalcy. Delete all information that shows how normal life is in Africa. Deny all the development in Africa. Also, high light the corrupt leaders of Africa as natural beings for Africa and do not even hint that those guys are stealing their countries blind with the help and assistance of white bankers and consults and big companies etc., sometimes with the helpo of white soldiers who may be “advisors” or “security consultants” or even “friendly forces supporting and protecting democracy”. Put all these together and you once again can do what ever you want or need to do when ever it is in your white western interests. A very good example: somali pirates. International fishing industry has been stealing the fish from the sea and somali fishermen had no more their traditional way to support their families etc. They became pirates. And how this has been presented in the western media?? That is why and how Africa is ad will be broken in the white western media. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 11:40:19 Matari SatanForce I see that you’re “trying” to read my posts. Good for you!! LOL Keep at it. With time and practice your comprehension skills will improve. In time, your ability to see past the box you’re in may improve. At any rate, I think (despite your confusion) this point can’t be stressed enough. Israel is not a good role model to emulate! 🙂 What I actually wrote was: on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 14:45:56 Nom De Plume “Which brings me to the 2 ‘little girls’ on their racist rant on another recent thread.” “Do you have any sympathy for the black and brown little girls these girls were hating on? And you think Abagond wrote that post only for American commenters?” I caught that comment, too. “FC” referred to the teen racists in Florida as “little girls.” On another thread, destructure seems to believe that Trayvon, who was around the same age, was a grown man because he could grow hair on his face and get a drivers license. Different commenters with the same double standard. George Clooney is appearing on “Meet The Press” today, no doubt discussing his recent arrest in Sudan. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 16:17:38 Herneith Let’s see – you think you’re nasty, sassy, think you know more than you do and you actually think that I care. That sounds like you are describing yourself. Do you understand now. No. You’re writing in circles. On the one hand celebrities are unimportant. On the other hand they generate publicity for these photo-ops, I mean charities. If the celebrities are not important, then how do they engender the publicity to get people to ‘donate’ en masse to these charities? Maybe you and your ilk can promote these causes! No, I believe, not in “inferiority”, like you state, but that blacks are less intelligent, more impulsive, and less forward thinking than whites, which causes them to underachieve in a white-based society like the USA. What Bliff really means; “I hate ni&&ers, but am to ‘civil’ to use uncivil words. I prefer to baffle people with nonsense! It is more fun and helps me bolster my already low to non-existant self worth. Where would we be without the lowly negro to enhance our sense of worth or to compare ourselves to(of course to our betterment)? If you want me to respond, you must write something worth responding to, not just a bunch of personal attacks. Oh and I guess your reply to Leigh was constructive criticism, cretin? I think they’re just trying to scam whites and get extra benefits. Where can I sign up for this program genius? I could use the extra benefits and cash to buy a new handbag! . Blacks need to let go off past times and be concerned with what is happening in the present and what that means for the future. According to you, Bliff, we are less intelligent so therefore we cannot. Any suggestions? So why are they pretending indignation. Am I the only one who sees how illogical this argument is? Nope. I am starting to think they let the lunatics loose on the computers at the mental hospital. They are f—ed in the head, morally bankrupt among other things. It is too bad there is a comments policy here or I would really let this Bliff person know what I think of them. T’wouldn’t be nice and would make one’s ears burn! on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 17:03:19 truthbetold @ Abagond, Leigh, Darq, Brothawolf There are some folks on this blog, that I won’t mention, who just come here to incite and fan the flames of racial hatred. These individuals have no purpose here. They’re not here to learn or heal or understand a damn thing. Just ignore them. You’ll be better off. I need to let them go stew in their own hate. They give me nothing in return but headaches. on Sun Mar 18th 2012 at 22:09:20 kittyem The woman on the first pic appears to be posing. It’s a norm for western jurnos to go to the refugee camps and actively look for the thinnest children to photograph. A former jurno narrated at how his former boss used to reject his work because the children were “not thin enough” During the Horn of Africa drought last year, a common complaint among the Somali people at the refugee camps was the jurnos who kept asking them to uncover their children so that they can take “good” pictures. It seems the more the ribs that can be counted, then so much the better. On the Kony 2012 issue, I learned that our hero recently embarked on a public masturbating frenzy. Apparently he is also a coke addict. It just goes to show that whites are still hankering for for negative narrative about Africa and they will reflexively buy into any such nonsense without even questioning who came up with it. The third picture is from a coffee house in an upmarket Nairobi mall. It is by Noor Khamis for Reuters and appeared in the South African press. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 00:04:58 Doug1 Projection: It was the West that broke Africa. No it wasn’t. ssAfrica has always been a very lagging part of the world, throughout all history. There was no literacy in African languages until Europeans taught that to them. Why? Because of the major geographic races with lots of members, ssAfricans are the least intelligent. Other races as distinct as ssAfricans are from the other six or so major geographic races, are even less intelligent on average than ssAfricans, such as the Koisans, Pygmies, and Australian Aborigines. However their numbers have always been relatively few, and also their impact on world history, A. Aborigines partly excepted due to overplayed by leftists white guilt. The so called stereotype has TONS of truth to it, in other words. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 00:12:47 JC @Doug, did you not read the article? Yes it is TRUE that Africa has one of the highest poverty rates in the world, but this doesn’t mean all of Africa should be portrayed that way. That’s how a STEREOTYPE works, by making blanketing assumptions across the board even when there is diversity. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 00:45:19 Bliff Oh c”mon the “chicken comment was in extremely bad taste”. This whole blog is in bad taste. People attack me personally all the time here. I’ve seen pornographic conversations on this blog about porn movies (Not that there’s anything wrong with that). In fact,I was only quoting Oyan who stated it first. It’s TRUE! Blacks are really OVERSENSITIVE to mild things. In fact, I think it’s worse than that. I think you guys feign being insulted just to have something to whine about and shoot back at the whites. @Doug1 Good one. Nice to see someone else on this blog who actually knows something and has not bought into the Bad White, Good Black mentality. You’re writing in circles. No I’m not. You’re playing games with the references to the word important. The celebrities are important to the charities because they raise awareness and bring in more money than if the were not involved. The celebrities should be unimportant to observers, like you, because you should be concerned with the charity work, not weather Jolie and Bono are getting any more publicity. You see? A completely contained reason thought, no circular logic. What Bliff really means; “I hate ni&&ers. Wrong again. I believe what I said because it seems to be a good explanatory principle. Like a scientific theory. There is no hate involved. Just a dispassionate belief. I have no reason to hate black people. Can you prove that I do? Where can I sign up for this program genius. You probably already have: affirmative action, anti-discrimination laws restricting whites’ actions, Title I, Head Start, many programs for the poor that help blacks disproportionately. what that means for the future. If you can’t run or walk, then at least limp into the future. Quit whining about the past, and think about your future in this greatest of all countries. where was the US when the Acholi people…Banyore massacre….Mukula massacre….Uganda People’s Defence Force…. DR Congo’s resources were being plundered? The rest of the world, including you, apparently think they have some say in where the USA employs its military forces. The USA will employ them where we have an interest. Africa is not really that place. I wasn’t important when we were confronting the USSR, and it’s not so important in the MIdEast. Contrary to myth, we DON’T jump into every conflict there is. We get blasted by the rest of the world as it is, so why would we jump into meaningless African conflict? we are obsessed with the white savior bit is because it’s shoved into our eyes and eyes . It is NOT!! You’re just whining. I watch TV too and it’s just not on that much. If you don’t like it turn the channel. I would really let this Bliff person know what I think of them. I think you already have….in so many words. Frankly, Herneith, I think you’re just ticked because the truth hurts; you know it and I know it. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 01:37:52 Franklin @ Doug1 Normally, I ignore your because your arguments because they’re flimsy and full of holes. But periodically, just to demonstrate how little you know, (despite all your desperate posturing) I like to prove that you’re an idiot and that you don’t know squat. Here we go again… “There was no literacy in African languages until Europeans taught that to them.” Right off the top of my head Ge’ez, Chromatographic Edo Script, Nsibidi, are three African writing systems among a number, that pre-date the arrival of Europeans on the continent. Now I’ll sit here and wait for you to shift goal posts, by attempt to invalidate that fact by saying something ridiculous like “There were no books, so it doesn’t count!” on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 02:56:24 DarqBeauty ” Now I’ll sit here and wait for you to shift goal posts, by attempt to invalidate that fact by saying something ridiculous like “There were no books, so it doesn’t count!”” Exactly. They may tell themselves that we are intellectually inferior, but who are the geniuses arguing with people they consider below them day after day? This is one of those regurgitated “facts” that white supremacist like to regurgitate. Even though the reality is vastly different. But hey, they can’t like little things like facts get in the way of their good old fashioned hate. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 02:59:01 brothawolf It is NOT!! You’re just whining. I watch TV too and it’s just not on that much. If you don’t like it turn the channel. If you were to read the whole sentence, I mentioned other mediums. I should’ve mentioned movies as that’s a Hollywood narrative to produce at least once a year. You’re backed into a corner for which you can not escape by using your ramblings. Also Bliff, I’ve written a bit about how people like you act in another thread entitled “My Philosophy on Trolls”. I don’t want to derail this topic. So, if you want to continue with your hatred, meet me there. @doug1: “ssAfrica has always been a very lagging part of the world, throughout all history.” Öööh… You do know that your ancestors came from Africa? Like, all humanbeings came from Africa, right? And since we are now on the subject, what your ancestors were doing when the nubians were building pyramids or those guys in Timbuktu were collecting one of the biggest library in the world, or those guys in present day Zimbabwe were trading with gold and silver and building castles from stone? You do know that most of the whites who escaped or were sent by force, were slaves or prisoners or just ran out from Europe because they could not make it there, could not even read, right? You know that at that time the english men bathed perhaps once or twice a year, right? You do know that the parfume industry was created to cover up the rampant diseases in the court of the Sun Kig of France back in the late 1600’s because the smell of rottening felsh, infections, and other of such since they did not have a single toilet in Versailles nor used baths? Never mind that africans had have their parfumes for centuries by then and washed almost daily were ever water was available. You do know that in 1700’s absolute majority of the white europeans could not read or write? Majority of the white europeans could not read or write in first half of the next century either. You do know that there were massive famines in Europe in 1800’s? You do know that it was only in 1800’s that the white europeans realised that it could be a good idea to wash hands before helping at child birth or surgical operations or at all? The japanese, chinese and indiand, arabs and some africans had done it for centuries by that time. You do know that the Great White Man had no say so in most parts of Africa untill 1800’s? The funniest thing is that they died in there and could not live there because they had no idea how to survive there. The crucial point came when they realised that perhaps we should learn something from the natives, like kinine, the only working medicine against malaria, which by the way, the africans had used and known for centuries by then. And this happened in late 1800’s, not before. Now I wonder, if africans and Africa had been lagging all trough the history, why on earth the white man did not take over before that? Why white men did not invade Africa before 1800’s? According to you, the place was a mess and lagging already. Why not the vikings, who went to America and Asia and kicked almost everyones butts, did not just row their boats up the Nile or Kongo and kicked the butts of those black semianimals and steal their ivory and gold? They did it almost anywhere else, like in the White Sea area where they brought the northern ivory, tusks of the walruses. They were trading slaves from Ireland to Caspia Sea, so why not from Africa? Why the great english sea dogs and explorers did not just occupy that lagging part of the world in 1600’s? Why the french did not do that? Or the dutch? I mean, they invaded and occupied the East India. And on that note, why the americans, the greatest of the great whites, did not take over the whole continent from those savages in 1800’s? They took their own continent from the natives just like that, so it could not have been morally wrong or even impossible, right? Ok, why the USA did not invade and take over Africa after WW1 or WW2? I mean, USA was the only super power in 1945. It could have been so easy. Right? Now, lets see how the mighty USA has been doing in the lagging Africa… Somalia in 1990’s, anyone?? “Contrary to myth, we DON’T jump into every conflict there is.” China 1945-51. France 1947. Marshall Islands 1946-58. Italy 1947-1980’s. Greece 1947-49. Philippines 1945-53. Korea 1945-53. Albania 1949-53. East Europe 1945-56. Iran 1953. Guatemala 1953-90’s. Costa Rica 1950’s, 1970-71. Middle East 1956-58. Indonesia 1957-58. Haiti 1959. Guyana 1953-64. Irak 1958-63. Vietnam 1945-73. Cambodia 1955-73. Laos 1957-73. Thailand 1965-73. Ecuador 1960-63. Kongo/Zaire 1960-65, 1977-78. France 1960’s. Brazil 1961-64. Peru 1965. Dominican 1963-65. Cuba 1959- present. Indonesia 1965. Ghana 1966. Uruguay 1969-72. Chile 1964-73. South Africa 1960’s-80’s. Bolivia 1964-75. Australia 1972-75. Portugal 1972-75. East Timor 1975-99. Angola 1975-90’s. Jamaica 1976. Nicaragua 1979-80. Hoduras 1980’s. Philippines 1970’s-90’s. Seychelles 1979-81. South Yemen 1979-84. Souht Korea 1980. Tshad 1981-82. Grenada 1979-83. Surinam 1982-84. Libya 1981-89. Fidji 1987. Panama 1989. Afganistan 1979-92. El Salvador 1980-92. Haiti 1987-94. Bulgaria 1990-91. Somalia 1993. Irak 1990’s. Peru 1990’s. Columbia 1990’s. Mexico 1990’s. Yugoslavia 1995-99. Just few examples of conflicts were US military or CIA has been involved since 1945. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 07:32:29 dee I recommend everyone to watch this. Ignorance is caused by, well, ignorance. Apart from American history, American schools spend way too much time only focusing on Europe. As a high school student, all I’ve learned about Africa from school are basically things that contribute to African stereotypes. I blame textbook makers, and schools, for buying these inadequate learning devices. I don’t understand why the good parts of Africa are completely ignored, beyond ancient Egypt and parts of South Africa. Just because someone doesn’t live in a mansion doesn’t mean their life sucks. But at the same time, there are many people who do live in mansions. I don’t understand why this sort of thing continues @bulanik: No, he did not know, but then again, he does not believe it. He believes he sees on tv, on the right channel that is. @bulanik: 😀 on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 11:48:14 leigh204 Italy 1947-1980′s. Guatemala 1953-90′s. Costa Rica 1950′s, 1970-71. France 1960′s. South Africa 1960′s-80′s. Angola 1975-90′s. Hoduras 1980′s. Philippines 1970′s-90′s. Irak 1990′s. Peru 1990′s. Columbia 1990′s. Mexico 1990′s. Now that’s what I call a BURN. lol! 😀 on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 12:05:36 Jack in the Box So that’s where all my tax money went? on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 12:20:09 Matari I recall seeing the above JS video years ago. SIX MILLION people from third world (non-white) countries are DEAD in the wake of the CIA’s 40 years (at the time that video clip was produced) involvement in the affairs “other” nations Remember, this video was made way BEFORE the 911 false flag operation invasion that led to the phony War On Terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan (and Iran too if these crooks have their way). The white racial frame propaganda machine prohibits people from seeing who the true, brutally efficient criminals are in America, and those who are dead as a result. Some of us here know that non-white dead (or alive) people don’t cause whites much concern, or sympathy. Yet, incredulously adding insult to injury, the white racial frame (POV) maintains that blacks are the most violent criminal group in America that deserves incarceration. The combined number of black violent criminals worldwide can’t begin to match the atrocities of the top 2% of white male criminals – the ones who wear badges, uniforms, white collars, carry brief-cases and have never seen the inside of a prison. Remember this the next time a troll, or whomever, suggests to you that blacks are the most aggressive, violent and criminal people on earth. Sam listed a number of conflicts that we were involved in, though I don’t necessarily agree with his list. These are conflicts we apparently wanted to be involved in. You listed some we did not get involved in, so my original point, we don’t get involved in every conflict, still stands. So, all US disruptive involvement in Africa is military? If you’re addressing me, please explain why would you even ask me this. I have made no such generalization. I made one comment about how the USA does not get involved in every conflict when you listed some conflicts in Africa you apparently thought we should’ve have got involved in. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 13:31:02 Nom De Plume “Does this means then, that the real challenge is to find other sources of capital?” Dr. Moyo recommends encouraging and assisting people to start their own businesses. She says that http://www.kiva.org is a good way to do this, and believes it will prove to be more beneficial over time than funding from NGOs and others. I know what you mean. I haven’t had any personal involvement with the organization. I just remember Dr. Moyo recommending it during one of her interviews. on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 20:46:22 Tyrone All of us know that our african sistas and brothas have to reconstruct “Mama Africa” on their own accord going forward, but, we can’t allow those who created the mess to wash their hands of what we see taking place in nations such as Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, etc. We should bitch and moan about the ish that we see going on. As black people, we should be outraged at so-called black leadership in this country and in africa. George Clooney has to get arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy to bring attention to the genocide in Sudan and South Sudan, WTF? Why the hell are we voting for a bunch of yes men and women who don’t speak up for us anyway? The CBC loves to travel to africa, but can’t open their mouths when the st hits the fan. We have a so-called black president in power, and the bs is still taking place…Scary!!! on Mon Mar 19th 2012 at 23:02:20 V-4 It seems like Dr. Moyo is ignoring the wests involvement over the years in creating instability and poverty, its not “aid” that has created the problem. In a very real way, its the system she is talking about, capitalism, profitting off of another human beings misery is pretty much the central tenent of capitalism. I mean, in the US we getting tremendous amounts of aid from China, so she may have a point. If China wasn’t willing to give us money would we have gone to war? On the other hand; socialistic countries are way more stable than the ones like the US which are more based on a capitalistic economic system. Less criminal, more literate, less depression etc…. And her Ethiopian example; she pointed out the African average for ownership of cell phones was 30% so their must be countries out their that recieve aid that don’t fall under the Ethiopia example, countries that can do both aid and capitalism, why not look to them as examples? That being said; she points out the problems with the Aids Culture, its messages are negative and ultimately potentially harmful as pointed out with Invisible Children, if they cause tourism to fall even a tiny miniscule amount they have simply done harm and no good. The Aids culture message negates people wanting to do business or even interact in africa, while at the same time not pointing fingers at the damage our culture as a whole has done to Africa. on Tue Mar 20th 2012 at 04:17:04 Secular X. Blood You really should look at Unamusement Park. He has a great flyer on stereotypes (no, really). There is this thing in statistics called “The Exception that Proves the Rule.” The term is somewhat misleading. A better, albeit less catchy term would be “The Anomaly that Highlights the Tendency.” Hitler is one of those exceptions. As is Stalin. Back to the thing about blacks being just as fit to run a country as whites. Are you willing to make the argument that South Africa is better now than it was 30 years ago? What about Namibia? Human differences exist. Things would go a lot better if we recognized them and compensated for them. We would have saved millions of lives in America and Africa alike if we would not hide behind your liberal curtain. If you would like me to show you some evidence that racial differences do indeed exist, you are welcome to email me (please resist the urge to troll). My email is secularblood (at) gmail (dot) com. Unamused’s Blog: http://unamusementpark.com/ on Tue Mar 20th 2012 at 06:56:52 Franklin Unamused? Is that the same Unamused who didn’t even know that “The Rule of Thumb” was an idiom, that had his entire blog consistently refuted by the infamously nutty (but accurate) Obsidian (who Unamused banned because he couldn’t handle facts), and who has been thoroughly embarrassed on this very blog? He’s a joke who “whores out”/shamelessly plugs his worthless blog and brags about traffic, like he’s some sort of posturing 12 year old that desperately needs validation in order to prove to himself “that he’s a big boy now.” Unamused’s blog is like “The Mad Magazine of Genetics”. @ Secular Your approach has been tried and instead of saving lives it has led to the deaths of tens of millions of people, like Jews, blacks, Gypsies and natives on three continents. “Things” only went better for white Christians. The current racism of ordinary White Americans, a racism much milder than yours, has led to the rise of the Kleptocracy, bringing levels of class inequality even worse than famously kleptocratic Nigeria. But then again, as a Social Darwinist, you are probably proud of that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/democide/ on Thu Mar 22nd 2012 at 04:20:15 Ace That has got to be the best shut down of a “Africa’s always been horrible” argument that I’ve ever seen. It’s funny how these same people won’t even go into how messed up Europe was throughout the majority of it’s history… on Thu Mar 22nd 2012 at 04:32:40 V-4 Satanforce kind of has a point about Wakanda I mean they bad talked the various modern powers at that meeting but they themselves do fuck all to help out the various countries around them. Its a monarchy with an incredibly wealthy elite at the top with an incredibly poor bottom layer…..I mean the people at the top are pretty much techno-gods while the people at the bottom live in huts and still use spears to hunt. Exactly why don’t they share their technology more, not only with other countries but within their own as well? I don’t think there’s any escaping the class system they have going on if you want social mobility. on Thu Mar 22nd 2012 at 22:25:43 Matari “Lets look at Israel. A constitutional created from an international diaspora of varying peoples. They are energy independent, due to nuclear power. They can kick anyone’s ass, conventionally and nuclear – no nation in their vicinity can fuck with them!!! Through lobbying and and strategic alliances, they guaranteed the utmost support of the US . They have created a “start-up nation” , in essence, a national Silicon Valley. And most importantly, they have enslaved and destroyed the nation-state (West Bank, Gaza Strip) that opposed them. Cheap labour forever. Yes, they could be kinder, but fuck that.” “I know. I know. I find it hard to escape the fact of how smart and conscious I am.” And IMMORAL, too – which isn’t at all unexpected, given your name. YOU would align, ally and imitate… Theft and occupation of sovereign land, racism, hatred, oppression & mistreatment, slavery-like conditions & wages, expansionism, covert operatives/spies interfering in the affairs of sovereign nations, manufacture/buy/export hi-tech weaponry, attack Iran, (or have a proxy do it), control & own the galaxy. White Supremacy – Lite! Yup … nice role model, indeed! Why not simply model yourself after the United States of America? The big cheese. – chuckle – No thanks Donald. I’ll stick with the imperfect, fictional Wakanda. : )) on Fri Mar 23rd 2012 at 16:47:16 Bliff @Satanforce If a Pan-African solution were created, say a 19 nation Sub-Saharan African Federal Republic (SSAFR), it would by simple definition, be a sub-continental superpower, on the level of Brazil, Russia, India, China and yes, the U.S. You write some of the best posts on this otherwise lame black-centered blog. However, this one left me LMAO. Are you serious? An African super-power? Run by a bunch of countries who can’t even run themselves. Africa is so tribal each country is dysfunctional, unless bailed out by whites, or more likely now, by the Chinese. I suppose they could use that Western black powerhouse nation that has been independent for over 200 yrs now – Haiti – as a template. Yes, with Haiti’s senior leadership, maybe they could pull it off. One thing from history when we are talking about how Africa and its history are seen and what really was: How many of you know how big Christopher Columbus “ship” was? It was a pretty small boat, actually. Some plus 20 meters long if I don’t remember wrong. And how big were the “canoes” used along the Kongo river system from the earliest times? They were 50 to 60 meters long. They carried people and goods all across the “darkest Africa” for centuries before any white dude showed up with his tsuktsuk steam engines to the same waters. Why not heavier boats? Because the canoes, just like those viking ships, could go trough shallow waters and navigate trough water vegetation, something that those steam engine boats could not do, even though they had nice sound and that advanced technology! The guys living on the other side of the world in the New Caledonian islands had “canoes” even longer, carrying up 100 guys and their gear. Ad the ships on the east coast of Africa? Well, they were bigger than any of the cogs in Europe for centuries. They were trading to Arabia and India and beyond. Some historian think all the way up to China. And this happened well before Marco Polo came back with noodles and created the spaghetti. Also, something to think about: east africans were trading with the romans. They have discovered at least two cities (roman cities according to the white historians but it can be argued whose cities they actually were) on the east. These were trading with romans in Egypt and in Middle East via Red Sea etc. The romans also recognised african kings and nations, they also fought long and hard wars against some of them, and if you read their texts about these african adversaries you’ll notice that the romans saw them as equal adversaries, enemies taken seriously. They were not less sub human savages than the celts or any other nations or people the romans met and fought with. Actually roman texts are more hostile and racist towards the northern people than the africans. Just read what they say about the people living beyond the germanic tribes. So perhaps the history of Africa is not what it has been made to look like in recent decades or during last couple of centuries. @satanf: Sure, but I just wanted to point out the fact that sea going vessels, which some argue were the reason for the expansion of the white european colonisation (and an example of more advanced technical know how of the whites vs black africans etc.) were NOT unique in the way some have seen it. And while we are here, some of the viking ships were pretty big too, from few centuries before those examples of wikipedia. on Sat Mar 24th 2012 at 15:02:52 SHONDIS to get arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy to bring attention to the genocide in Sudan and South Sudan, WTF? YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT!! THE POINT IS NOT TO BELIEVE THE GARBAGE THE MEDIA SAYS IS GOING ON IN AFRICA IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! if you meet someone from sudan, ask them about the genocide and i bet they will say “WHAT GENOCIDE”??? I love the construction/development shown in those videos you posted. It’s in sharp contrast to what the western MSM shows what;s going on in Africa. That said, there’s something a bit unsettling about the tall apartment buildings – they seem to suggest movement towards higher population densities. My personal preference – lol – is for a much lower skyline that lends towards a more spread out community contoured and integrated with open spaces. People, especially children, should be closer and more connected to the land, NATURE and natural open spaces, rather than concrete, steel, and super tall hi-risers. Perhaps those skyscrapers are the more affordable housing units for the less well to do as oppossed to the beautiful homes being constructed for the upper-middle class? I love your Malcolm X picutre. I listen to him these days instead of Lil Wayne and I am a Black teen. I wish you can get other Black teens to stop listening to Lil Wayne and start listening to Malcolm X’s message and speeches. He is way more important to Black History and more inspirational. As for the Broken Africa Sterotype, where did that come from? The last time I studied African history, there were rich civilizations such as the Mali, Songhai etc. Africa was a rich contient with gold and resources. Even though Afirca seems to be poor today, some people from Africa tell me that there are shopping mall and things in Africa. They never show that on the TV and I always wondered why. Ms.McKenzie, Thank you. I totally agree with your opinion regarding Malcolm X vs many of today’s “commercial entertainment artists.” I’m certain there are other young people, however few they may be, who also (or will come to) share your view. Why is Africa almost always shown in a very negative way on TV? In a word: RACISM. White Supremacy/Racism (whiteness) – in order to maintain itself – must elevate itself by devaluing/deflating others. They transmit their supposed superiority and others’ supposed inferiority messages in thousands of different ways that affects everyone – whether they realize it or not. Whiteness prefers to showcase Africa’s weaknesses and problems while failing to highlight her strengths, vast potential and material wealth/natural resources. Its intent is to own and control all or some of Africa’s vast mineral abundance because of its insatiable greed/need to consume/control everything and anything within its reach or grasp. Whiteness is like a really bad mental, emotional, spiritual sickness that cannot be cured or fixed. Thank you because I go to school and all they talk about is Africa being poor and not being anything. I always found that strange. The movie, Hotel Rwanda was shown in my history class and it really made me think that Africa was poor and nothing. Thank you for the info. @adeen: Always when learning history remember that it is told by some one who has his/hers own agenda and opinions. This is true in every history lesson, book, documentary etc. It is very important to learn more, so that one can make more complete picture about any issue at hand. One very important thing about Africa: it is a huge continent. When western media talks about Africa, it is the same as it would be for Europeans look at USA nothing but a part of whole Americas and treat all of USA and its people like they are just the same as anyone from Chile or Brazil. That is how western media many times treats Africa. As for Malcolm X, I think he was one of the most important thinkers of the last century. He was not the monolithic zelot the white media has been always presenting him. He corrected his own views if he learned otherwise and got more and more information for himself for his thinking, he was studying everything all the time, and most of all: he saw the big picture and did the analysis. Very dangerous thing. He saw the whole thing as it was: poverty and disaster of the black ghettoes, crime and narcotics, black criminals working in cahoots with white criminals, who were working for white organised crime, who was working with the local police, federal law enforcement, CIA, with the help and the blessing of the politicians, who were errand boys of the white elite who was really ruling the country. That made him so dangerous for that whole power network. That is why they decided to kill him one way or another. The same thing happened to Martin Luther King too, after he started to talk openly about that same power stucture. He understud it too and saw it and talked about it. And was killed. on Sun Mar 25th 2012 at 18:42:05 matari8017 SantaForce “Stark Industries, in collaboration with Reed Richards, have found a way to cheaply synthesize artificial vibranium, reducing the thprice from 30,000 dollars a gram, to 3 dollars a kilo, This has caused the Wakandan economy to collapse overnight, with riots shaking the capital and calls for the Wakandan king, T’Challa to step down. Chief amongst these calls is Nobel award winning biophysicist Joseph Kenyatta, who i calling for a constitutional monarchy with a new constitution, as well as abandoning Wakanda’s isolationaist stance so that an East African republic may be created. How will T’Challa respond to this?” He doesn’t have to respond. But, why not? Apparently the Universe had other plans for this small, yet powerful African nation. Haven’t you heard? The synthetic vibranium was discovered to have a couple of latent flaws that were somehow overlooked by the Stark-Richards consortium. It turns out that these two literal super-geniuses (like you!) in their rush to, one: undermine Wakanda’s sovereignty, wealth, independence and two: to bring their artificial product to market — failed to conduct substantive empirical testing on what has turned out to be an inherently unstable pseudo vibranium. Put simply, the free valence electrons in the synthetic version could not maintain and sustain its atomic orbit/integrity. Another snafu was the stock-market backlash (CRASH) caused by the fake vibranium resulted in record breaking financial losses, thereby bringing both Stark Enterprises and Richards Corp along with their hordes of financial backers to the brink of bankruptcy and financial ruin. Subsequently, the resilient Wakandan economy currently enjoys a full recovery, along with an increased demand for vibranium, now at $40K a gram to replace the faulty synthetic product tragically failing on a global scale in electronic consumer, commercial & military industrial components and systems, not to mention the degrading spy/surveillance satellites orbiting the Earth. T’Challa’s kingdom, prestige, honor and political base are fully restored. Rumors about his impending marriage to Storm, a senior member of the X-MEN, have been confirmed by Wakandan press releases. An African mutual defense treaty with Wakanda’s neighbors is in its early development stages. All is going very well for the Black Panther, the sage Wakandan monarch and his people. Tony Stark & Reed Richards are both facing civil litigation class-action law suits that will likely tie them up in court for the next 20 years. on Sun Mar 25th 2012 at 19:59:32 Adeen Danica Mckenzie I am starting to realize that History is told by people with an agenda.I am really young, under the age of twenty five. Ah, but Bliff, I am afraid that the facts beg to differ with you. Interesting. However, you can easily get high rates of growth starting off of a very low base, which is where Africa is now. You can never just simply extraplote this growth rates into the future. they are unlikely to last. Africa has always had a lot of potential. There are the vast mineral deposits in the Congo and elsewhere. The Ivory Coast has great cocoa plantations ever since the cocoa tree was imported from South America during the Age of Discovery and Slavery. However, the problem is the Africans themselves. They were primitive until Europeans came to colonize. Since the Europeans left, Africa has slid backwards, unable to maintain what the Europeans created. Africa is highly tribal and their nation-states, imposed by the Europeans, barely work. Strong man dicatators have taken over in most states and have imposed socialist bureaucratic governments. Look at what Mugabe did to Zimbabwea. Most of the people are loyal to their tribes, not the state. The dictators spend much of the country’s wealth on building grandiose capital cities, with modern airports and modern center city areas. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is in shambles. Even Bulanik seems to be fooled by the lavish capital cities, surrounded by much vaster slums. The Africans themselves produce mainly bureaucracy. Most college educated Africans go into the govenment, where they are expected to provide favors to their extended families. Corruption, by Western standards, is completely embedded into the system. The Africans themselves are not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. Africa has been dominated by Europeans, and now the Chinese are coming in. I know the Chinese have a low opinion of blacks, so it will be interesting how it plays out. I see no scenario in which any group of African nations rises to superpower status in anyforeseeable future. Your Wiki link was interesting, and pointed to some current high rates of economic growth. However, even it did not indicate any thing as preposterous as a SuperPower Africa. on Mon Mar 26th 2012 at 04:58:44 Herneith Why don’t you go there and help them out? Invest some? “You can never just simply extraplote this growth rates into the future. they are unlikely to last.” You mean like in USA? With several depressions and slumps in its record? What was the growth rate in USA last year? Oh, well… “They were primitive until Europeans came to colonize. Since the Europeans left, Africa has slid backwards, unable to maintain what the Europeans created.” They were primitive? You mean unlike europeans out of whom majority could not read or write, who usually lived well below the poverty line, who had famines every now and then in 1800’s etc.? Yes, they have had hard time to maintain such a rate of slavery and opression, but they try, my friend, they try. It is hard, though, without the european know how on opression. It is kind amateurish now but lucky for them, there are european, american and chinese intelligence people, soldiers, sorry advisors, and big businesses helping them to maintain the opression leves at some kind of standard. “Africa is highly tribal and their nation-states, imposed by the Europeans, barely work.” You are right and that is why you have all these ethnic conflicts falring up inside those european imposed un-natural states. “Strong man dicatators have taken over in most states and have imposed socialist bureaucratic governments”. Name one African country that is socialist. And those strong men have some backing. Example. Just recently the military took over in Mali because the government was not doing enough to deal with the tuareg rebels in north. You know why those tuaregs are fighting? Their land has uranium. Guess who are after that? Yeap… “The dictators spend much of the country’s wealth on building grandiose capital cities, with modern airports and modern center city areas.” Noup. The dictators hide most of their nations wealth into secret bank accounts i Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Caribian island banks. As for building modern airports and cities, you mean like USA did in 1950’s and 60’s and 70’s and… Those bureacracies were created by europeans during colonial times. They were created to control the population and still do. Nepotism was also a handy tool used by the european minority to conquer and divide and they used it from Africa to India. When it is possible to feed your family by working in the bureacracy, that is where you aim to get in. Once in, you are sipposed to do favors for your bosses and help your own clients. That is called clientism, a nice system, which was also the governing system of Rome. And speaking about bureacracies, isn’t it weird that you guys always complain about the Big Government in USA? As for the corruption, that is pretty funny coming from a guy who lives in a land where dozen banks stole 770 billion dollars from taxpayers with the help of the government. Or where a war was kept on going for the benefit of private companies for ten years. Nice. That is because you have a bit naive and short view of history. Egypt was a super power for couple thousand years. How long USA has been one? A hundred, 120 yrs? Not that long in history. That is true, that is why they do not use knives anymore but assault rifles. “Africa has been dominated by Europeans” Right, and yet you claim that africans have caused their problems, this despite of your fact that Africa has been dominated by Europe. So which way it is? Did the europeans dominate africans or are the africans the cause of their plight? “now the Chinese are coming in” Well, according the recent studies and findings it is possible that chinese merchants have been coming in since 1300’s but who cares. @ Satanforce Right off the top of my head, you can also add the Benin Empire (who are severely mis/under-reported), the Axumite Empire, or even Kanem Bornu as another non-primitive examples. What do you think of the recent Chinese involvement in Africa? @StanForce, et al I originally just wanted to comment on SatanForce’s statement about the Africa SuperPower. Contrary to what it may seem, I really have NO INTEREST IN AFRICA. So this will be my last go round on this topic; just so everyone knows, if you respond to this, I won’t be responding back, so save your typing fingers. You do realise that all those countries are democracies There are still many strongman governments in Africa, whether they are officially called “democracies” or not. I don’t democracy has really taken hold yet in Africa, it’s counter to their tribal mentality. were primitive until Europeans came to colonize. Most of subSaharan Africa was preliterate before the coming of Europeans. That does not include those areas where Islam was introduced or those along the Nile Valley. The Ashanti became an empire only after they encountered Europeans and obtained firearms in exchange for slaves and ivory. Other commenters referred to battles in the 1800’s between Africans and Europeans. This is again, after the coming of the Europeans. I see little to change in my original comment. That’s it – I’m done with this Africa thread. You can go and talk amongst yourselves, now. on Mon Mar 26th 2012 at 20:32:26 SomeGuy Contrary to what it may seem, I really have NO INTEREST IN AFRICA. Strange that someone would make a hobby of Black folks and not have at least a passing interest in their continent of origin. Bliff, I don’t think you are taking this hobby seriously! on Mon Mar 26th 2012 at 21:37:08 teddy1975 Satanforce, the Ashanti, one of the most notorious slave trading peoples in all of Africa, still not entirely forgiven by others, might not be the best counter example to the broken Africa stereotype. on Mon Mar 26th 2012 at 23:06:06 JT Anyone else find it wierd that Black people are Bliff’s hobby? Do you think it is because he identifies with Black people on some level? on Tue Mar 27th 2012 at 02:06:34 Bliff @JT a hobby…not the hobby; really an interest of mine, not my only interest. Would you find it odd that some people have an interest in watching football? Would that mean that’s all they do? Think first next time, JT. Are you fucking crazy???!!! Use the n-word again, even with asterisks, and I will fucking ban you. You’re funny, you know Bliff? Research your claims before committing to them. Akan Script – Asanteman Nsibi Script Geez Script -Ethiopia, approx. 500B.C. Akan uses a Latin script. Europeans devised the script for the Akan language when they arrived. The Akans had the language, the Europeans invented the writing for them. Nsibidi is a primitive proto-writing symbology from the Nigeria region. It is a primitive set of symbols, not a true language. Geez Script, has been used in the Ethiopia area, which is the Nile Valley, not subSaharan Africa. The script has Semitic roots, not Negroid roots, in South Arabia. Again, from Semitic, white people. Who’s funny now, SatanForce? on Tue Mar 27th 2012 at 13:33:51 sam You are funny. Nubians in present day southern Sudan had their own alphabet and writing already in 100 AD, perhaps even before. Your great great great great great great grand parents did not even know how to read or write. At that time their kingdom was well below Sahara. Around 700 Bc their empire consisted whole of Nubia, Kush, from Meroe to the Libanon in middle east. Burns your behind, doesn’t it? But never mind the alphabets. You do know that other civilizations, like the incas, used totally different kind of symbol system as a means to communicate, that is to “write” without using letters? You did not know that? Oh my oh my… So, you do not know everything about all?? Tsot tsot… You are funny part 2. “the Ethiopia area, which is the Nile Valley” Back to school, my friend. Take few geography classes first, before some history. Ethiopia is not the Nile valley. Sorry about that but hey, you are a product of the american school system so I forgive your ignorance on the geography too. on Tue Mar 27th 2012 at 16:52:59 Matari Three words to summarize your latest video offerings: -Happy -Prosperous -Thriving Three existential things the western media is most likely NOT to televise re Africa. Pease keep up the good works, even if some of us can’t keep up with YOU! Bulaniik “This has led to creation of specialized agencies to handle the work of urban housing by acquiring assistance from the World Bank and UN to implement national or city-based housing-related projects. It sounds good, doesn’t it —- but do these initiatives work without the political will and leadership to carry-through on commitments? ” The mere mention of the World Bank and the UN, for me, conjures up nasty images of western corruption – both financial and political. I don’t like or trust either of these institutions.The solutions to housing the poor, for example imo, should come from innovative grass-root leaders, scholars and thinkers that are FROM the problem areas. We already have a ton of examples why the IMF, WB, WTO and UN solutions don’t/won’t work. Greed, corruption and the desire for control/power/hegemony. The best outcome is to enable, empower and allow the indigenous populations to solve their own issues. There are some GREAT forward thinking young (and old) African minds already at work, seeking/offering long term plans and solutions for Africa’s people. BTW, I love the idea of bottle housing! If waste is used to produce and construct useful/beneficial products – everyone wins! Still you. Right everybody? Right you are chap! Bliff is a ras hole! I will interrupt my self-imposed exile for just this brief message. I am no Africa expert. Apparently, Africa has brought novel ideas to the entire world, besides spear chucking. There is that noble practice of….female genital mutilation. The one the West couldn’t come up with. Perhaps Bulanik could bring this practice with her from Mother Africa. on Tue Mar 27th 2012 at 19:10:25 SomeGuy Nah, some Europeans should just stick to what they know best: Child Abuse, White Sexual Slavery and Ruining National economies. You know, the good stuff! “There is that noble practice of….female genital mutilation. The one the West couldn’t come up with.” Ok, buddy, you asked for it. And I assume you mean whites with the term West? Ok. Lets see. Every one knows what it was like in the medieval times so just to spare some space here and abagonds nerves I bring you the western stuff since 1500’s. Religious wars from 1500’s up untill 1600’s in the continent and up to 1990’s in Northern Ireland. The religious wars in France in 1500’s claimed up to 200 000 victims, some estimates are even higher. Mutilation was not only typical, it was the usual method of getting rid of the opponents. 30yrs war (1621-48) by the way was the most destructive event to face Europe up till that time and before Napoleons wars, WW1 and WW2. That was destruction on a biblical scale, so much so that northern Germany was reduced form a green agricultural land into a barren desolet waste land populated by flys only, as one soldier once wrote. Normal practises in that war were: skinning, slaughtering, burning, mass lynching, torture on massive scale and some few thousand witch burnings to go along. Swedes (and finns among them) invented a swedish drink. They poured urine and such into someone untill his stomach was totally bloated and after that they jumped up and down on that individuals stomach, untill it bursted open or internally. Nice, huh? Holy roman inquistion is well known but its counter part Spanish inquisition (which was independent organ working under the Spanish royalty) was much more original. They had a massive spike, three feet high, widening at the base, into which women were lowered so that the spike penetrated their private parts and lowered still untill women were ripped apart. The famous burining at the stake was considered as an act of mercy since it shortened the time spent in the purgatory. So they tried to burn the victims as slowly as possible for the joy of their ideology. And this went on for few hundred years totally among the westeners. If we move into USA and genital mutilation, when the colorado volunteers massacred the peaceful natives in Sand Creek, they took some souveniers. They made money pouches from the testicle sacks of the dead natives, pinned male genitals into their hats as trophies and also female genitals, they had legs, thigs, breasts and heads on spikes as trophies as well as killed native children. These were shown to a white publuc on a victory parade held later and received a great joy and jubilation among the white population. And of course, there were the lynchings of the blacks in which genital mutilation was fairly common feature. And these went on at least untill 1930’s in your beloved US of A. And of course there are other snappy methods of mutilationa and mayhem that those africans never came up: the flame throwers which made their debut at the battle of Verdun in 1916 and poison gas used as weapon, machine gun which helped the britts to mow down thousands of natives in Sudan early 1900’s. Even Winston Churchill who was at present was impressed when they lost only few men and the natives lost thousands in few hours. And one thing those africans never came up with was that A bomb. Now that is some serious destructive bisnes right there. @bulanik: For all my knowledge this old custom is very rare in sub Saharan Africa but more common in the southern Sahara area, around Sudan, Tshad, and northern Ethopia and Somalia etc. in the east. I have no knowledge opf this custom among the central african people. I might be wrong. This cutting Africa into two parts divided by Sahara is funny since Sahara was steppe and savanna until few thousand years ago. Also rivers like Nile and coastal traffic had not stopped going trough or around that area. Timbuktu is a fine example of how much there used to be traffic across the Sahara during centuries. on Tue Mar 27th 2012 at 20:27:49 B. R. I refer at times to sub sahara Africa to define a cultural genius that came from there that can be found all over sub sahara Africa, and, is differant from the culture that is in north of the Sahara Africa (although traces of it are in north Africa also, but, there is a deep Arab influence also up there). Where there are huge cultural differances from tribe to tribe, area to area, there is a cultural expresion that have similar properties that is the gift that sub Sahara Africa has given the world Talk about the broken Africa concept and how people outside of Africa look at Africans, here is a excerpt from Che Guevara’s diary. wow, it is pretty shallow : On July 17, 1952, age 24, in his personal diary, Che Guevara wrote[1]: “The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. These two races now share a common experience, fraught with bickering and squabbling. Discrimination, and poverty unite them in a daily battle for survival but their different attitudes to life separate them completely: the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead, even independently, of his own individual aspirations on Wed Mar 28th 2012 at 03:39:54 Bliff Cool!! I love Western violence. I am so proud of our boys. on Wed Mar 28th 2012 at 12:29:51 B. R. I have to confess, one of my biggest dreams is to visit a country in Africa , like Gana, Angola, Kenya, Senegal. I dont know if I will ever be able to do that, but, I would love to go to one of the modern cities, stay in a nice hotel and be able to see as much music as posible since music and dance is a tremendous live experiance that have a big affect on me. Especialy the state folkloric danca and drummers. Ways to see the traditions and histories. Id really like to find out the true Africa instead of the media Africa on Wed Mar 28th 2012 at 23:48:06 Dahoman X For those curious about african writing systems, there is this book, by Saki Mafundikwa: http://creativeroots.org/2011/11/afrikan-alphabets-book-by-saki-mafundikwa/ A review of the book (with some pictures): http://kintespace.com/rasx46.html Have you ever heard of Aminata Traore? She summed up your many interrogations in one single question: what kind of development do we (Africans) want for of Africa? In an interview she was asked: “What does it take to give Africans a dignified life?” Her answer: In the first place it takes self respect and a belief in our own capabilities. Real development needs the fertile basis of a lively culture that constantly feeds new solutions. (…) Real development should also be based on a culture that found the right balance with the surrounding environment. Because every culture primarily is a transformation of the earth, the forests and the soil. Economics, ecology and culture are the three pillars that carry a society. From the moment that triangle is balanced, we can build a society that no longer robs people from their own dignity, knowledge and dreams. Then we can make a future for our own people. If we could have defined for ourselves what democracy is made of, we would have found ways to question and sanction our leaders for example. Because when the moral point of view is shared, the powerful are obliged to listen to the powerless. http://www.mo.be/node/23000 Aminata Traore is particularly critical of the neoliberal policies enforced in Africa during the last 2 decades. More about her ideas here: http://www.guinguinbali.com/index.php?lang=en&mod=news&task=view_news&cat=3&id=372 on Wed Mar 28th 2012 at 23:56:25 silentreturn BR, Start saving a little bit now. 🙂 on Thu Mar 29th 2012 at 00:33:45 silentreturn ‘Nsibidi is a primitive proto-writing symbology from the Nigeria region. It is a primitive set of symbols, not a true language.’ By that logic, hieroglyphs and cuneiform is not writing either. on Thu Mar 29th 2012 at 03:03:41 Bliff the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead, even independently, of his own individual aspirations Ya see – if duma$$ Che Guevara had the low down on blacks. A race realist like me couln’t said it any better. This is a pretty typical international-wide opnion of blacks. on Thu Mar 29th 2012 at 03:23:44 SomeGuy Since you are so fond of quotes, here’s one: “Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.” -Immortal Technique Truth spoken. Also, the scrotal sacks of native men, and the breasts of native women, would be dried and cured, and used as tobacco pouches and black-powder (for guns) pouches. White europeans (the French, specifically) are the ones who originally engaged in the practice of scalping – they called it ‘counting coup’. And what did he (Che Guevara) do? Did he went on bashing blacks, did he went on stating that blacks are less than human, that they do not deserve the same rights as whites, that blacks are not equal with whites? Did he say that black cubans are less cubans than white cubans? Was he burning crosses and killing blacks for fun? @sepultra: It was also pretty common practise among the celts to take the heads of their enemies. It was called “taking beards”. This habbit was practised at least till late roman times and perhaps even till later. Also let us not forget the romans, those civilized white heros of the past: in one 107 days lasting games given by emperor Trajanus some 30 000 people were killed in Colosseum alone. That is fed to the beasts, killed by any other means, and of course, killed by each other. All this for the great amusement of the audience. on Thu Mar 29th 2012 at 04:51:54 Linda In 1964, Che Guevara then denounced the United States policy towards their black population, stating: “Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men—how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom worldwide?” on Thu Mar 29th 2012 at 10:04:23 B. R. Sorry , Linda, Guevara’s racsim is blatent in his statement about Africans no matter what he states about Americans. Sam, you do know that some of Guevaras solderscomplained of his racism? You do know that the Congolease communists kicked Guevara out because he was too radicle in his methods ? You do know that a bunch of black scholars has condemned Castros Cuba as racist You do know that Fidel and Guevara executed more poeple than the militarry dictaroships of Cile, Argentin and Brazil put together? I mean that is an important question for Africa, do you want just any white man coming in…a white man like Guevara ? Who demonstrates without a doubt that he is racist to the core calling Africans frivilous and saying they smell bad but can mouth the right things about what is wrong with America ? After that passage in his diary, I wouldnt cut Che Guevara any slack what so ever… In my book he was a meglomaniac Bulanik…Gueveras trips to Africa were sponsered by the Soviet Union, since they were sponsoring Cuba. They were everybit and more involved with trying to spread their flawed ideaology over the globe as the USA, and Africa was caught right in the middle of both of these ideologies Seriously, if any person can read what Guevera said about Africans, and still think he was some noble fighter for justice and equality and really have the interests of black people in his heart…i have to question their logic What do you not understand about ” Africans are frivolous..they dont bathe…”? If that is the kind of white man you think is fine to look to for inspiration..becaue he can mouth something about the USA who was his sworn enemy, who would like to find their weakness ? But fundimentaly he looks down on Africans ? He is a basic racist ? What is wrong with your logic ? How interesting, Guevera is no better than Doug 1, Bliss, or any other racist on here who sais disgusting things about black people and he is ok with you? It is absolutly plain and clear that Guevera, a blatent racist , is as bad for Africa as any colonial power out there. He is as guilty as any other power that came into Africa to exploit it and start wars… And that is ok for you ? So what the USA did in Africa and the colonial powers is what is bad but the Soviet Union sponsering Cuba and people like Guevera to come there and start wars is ok ? Looking down on Africans while you come in to start wars and destruction to get power of recources for you and your sponsoring country with a flawed ideilogy to begin with is just fine ? The hypocricy is mind boggling..see I know both sides are dirty So you give Guevera a pass? After what he puts in his diary… You arent going to call Guevera what he is …a blatent racist ? He is no better than what we have heard from Doug ,Bliff, No Slaps the lot of them on Thu Mar 29th 2012 at 11:25:06 Matari “Ya see – if duma$$ Che Guevara had the low down on blacks. A race realist like me couln’t said it any better.” You and your brethren ought to quit with the phony pretense and just come out of the closet. “Race Realist” is purely a PC way of saying REAL RACIST. Racism (and racists) haven’t changed. Only the language/lexicon has. Also, if Che Guevara is a “duma$$,” comparatively speaking that makes you (and other real racists) extraordinarily stupid/deluded duma$$es. A trait that you persist on continually showing the world. Despite the grievous offense you bring to my nostrils, I fully understand why Abagond permits your stinking presence to foul up the air in here. Bulanik , this is the Broken Africa thread. I already said they both were dirty…does that rersonate with you at all? Im making posts on other threads, I suggest you read them. You were inspired enough by Gueveras scripted words , prepared as his propaganda page to defend them brought in by Linda, against his emotional entry into his diary that reveals he is a blatent racist , which seems to mean nothing to you. You absolutly cannont discuss broken Africa seriously without examining all the sides who were involved breaking it, and , Guevera, a man who personaly brought his flawed idealogy, who reveals himself to be a racist with a very low opinion of Africa,started armed revolutions , death and destruction in Africa, is as guilty as the USA and all the colonising powers to the factors that contribure to the things that are ailing some of the African countries today. He is part of the whole truth about broken Africa Yet you fail to acknowledge that,and , are attacking me, have mischaractorised me right along the way since the other thread . . You are trying to shift talking about broken Africa into American racism when Guevara personaly was in Africa promoting death and destruction. One thing you should know. Communism never was interested in racsim and the civil rights for black people By the way, Im not like any of the people on here who call Obama a socialist or scream “commie” at any inteligent solutions They dont know what real communists are I do, I have researched the numbers of people eliminated under the flawed ideaology of communism . There was a real reason to fight communism , but not what the dorks you see screaming “commie” coming in here know anything about When I talk about communism Im not talking anything like what those chumps are railing about Actualy, what Im really saying is that, all the conflicts, the colonizers, the powers that invaded for riches , the Gueveras backed by Fidel in Cuba with Soviet support…etc All these things are what contriburted to the broken Africa stereotye.They were the conflicts that take away the attention from anything good and growing in Africa.That hinder any good growth when they are set into effect. Because this thread is about the broken Africa stereotype By the way, relating to Gueveras diary statement, I just am in humble admiration as to what Africans from countries like Gana, Nigera, Kenya, Semagal etc etc have brought to the tavble of civilisation interms of culture , language, foods, etc I could never make a ststement like his nor ever understand it @BR: No I don’t but I do know that he was a real hero for millions who fought against western imperialism in the Third world. No I don’t but I do know that he was too radical for Castro too. Who are these black scholars? Name few, thank you. No I do not because that is a lie. Those three dictatorships killed many more thousands than Castro and his ilk ever did. The diary you so eagerly quote was written when Guevara was a young amn still looking what to do with his life. At that time he was not a communist nor guerilla, nor anything else than a young middle class kid from Argentina driving around the continent with his friend on motorcycles. Let me get this very clear to you. I don’t like Che or Castro or soviet or any kind of communism. Why? I lived my whole life few miles from the USSR. I can assure you that I know hell of a lot about USSR than you will ever know. And that includes communism, you know, the real deal, Red Army, red ruskies and all that, not the one you read in the books. As for Africa, this thread is not about BROKEN Africa per sé but the stereotype of it, the one you so eagerly promote here. If you were alert and understud the post you would realise that in reality there is not that Broken Africa you suscribe for. It is a myth promoted by western propaganda and judging from you, it has worked just fine. There is no lost cintinent raped by communist subversives: that is the CIA vision of it. You claim that Che Guevara, who only visited Africa, and communists are responsible for the stereotype of Broken Africa. I wonder how you get your head around that. It is the western media which has created that myth. Not communist propaganda. If you look at their own myth, Africa is a place were happy balck people hold hands and sing and dance with Lenin smiling at them, and also a continent raped by the mean american tycoon. That was their myth. Broken Africa is a western idea of a continent that can not handle itself because of its ow people. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/03/nation/la-na-cuba-blacks3-2010jan03 I hate making you look bad, Sam because I like your heart is in the right place Would you like me to destroy your other arguments ? 30,000 people were eliminated by Argentina military dictators, 3,000 in Chile, less than 1000 in Brazil 60,000 were executed in Cuba Ill be happy to referance it, yes you know more about the red army and I know more about you about what happened in South America Sam , did you read what I said ? You are putting words in my mouth. These conflicts and the exploiting of Africa that we have all talked about, is one of the reasons for the broken Africa stereotype and I said that right above, are you reading ? Bulanik, I wrote that you were “inspired” to defend Guevara’s words inspite of seeing he is a blatent racist ( dont buy your excuse, Sam). You are getting on your motorbike and spinning wheels knocking up a lot of dust to try to point out to everyone that I am for some reason not qualified to post about these things or I might be a racist.You are doing that on the other thread…go right ahead, maybe after spinning your wheels enough and kick up enough dust you might find something that sticks…but you are going to have a lot of dust and smoke in your eyes Sam , quote quote from wikipedia : According to various reports and investigations 1,200–3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 were interned, and up to 30,000 were tortured by his regime including women and children.[6][7][8] Under the influence of the free market-oriented Bulanik, excuse me, Ive been acused of lies by Sam, do I have any right to prove he is dead wrong….about “inspiration” ive answered twice Sam here is Brazil “According to a government-sponsored truth and reconciliation commission in 2007, by the end of the 21 years of dictatorship there were 339 documented cases of government-sponsored political assassinations or disappearances. More were interrogated, tortured, and jailed ” The point we are making about Africans and how this relates to all this, Guevara, represents , along with the colonisers, the USA cold war polocies etc, the real reasons Africa had conflicts that gave people stereotypes of Africa is all conflicts and violence… (gees Sam, millions of people voted for Bush also, whta does tht tell you? Millions and millions of people can make wrongt choices, millions and millions of people hate them both alsoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War Argentina ,statistics right at the top Yeah its wikipedia, but, they fall into the statistics Ive seen many times….they could vary , Ive seen more in some reports check out this history of how many times Cuba has been involved in Africa for dirty wars that also had involvement by the USA and other out of Africa powers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Cuba again, all this really points out how responsible outside forces were at conflicting inside Africa and creating impresions world wide that Africa is nothing but conflicts You are looking way more into the word “inspired” than I ever intended… Let me state , I absolutly dont think you or Sam are communists or followers of Che Guevara Sorry , Linda, Guevara’s racsim is blatent in his statement about Africans no matter what he states about Americans I truly hold no white man up as an inspiration, least of all Che Guevara… I am not sure at what point he made his statement about “blacks being indolent and frivolous” (before or after Congo) but it doesn’t matter… he was dedicated to his cause and he viewed the Congo as another frontier to conquer (just like European adventurers before him) ….he was also told by the Egyptians not to go to the Congo and interfere, but he did it anyway and like his predecessors before him, he thought he could “tame the natives”..he lost that bet. “BR But fundimentaly he looks down on Africans ?” Guevara was no different than the average “white” north American or South American, who thinks they are better than anyone with dark skin. the average person doesn’t reveal their true feelings when it comes to race anyway. thanks to the internet, my white coworker who sits next to me all day, can safely go onto a blog forum and call black people the N-word, while telling me about her day and her family (true story) I put up Guevara’s quote about “race in America” as a balance to the previous quote and as you stated, megalomaniacs (pick any country with money and an agenda with military might to back it up) tend to talk out of both sides of their mouths to further their causes…. on Thu Mar 29th 2012 at 17:00:40 Dahoman X I re-read my previous post and your subsequent reply, and I believe we may have a misunderstanding. IMHO, I think one doesn’t have to be African oneself to appreciate the seriousness, the complexities, beauty and supreme importance of Africa’s development by Africans. I did not imply anything like that. Quite the contrary: I like how your posts develop actual analysis and it’s obvious that, unlike many commenters, you go through the trouble of researching the issues that you write about. My Aminata Traore reference was just to bring to your attention a woman whose thoughts on development go in the sense of your own reflection. Bulanic , I am sorry it took me this long to understand what you needed to hear ….my bad…I hope Im not a person who acuses anyone of being commies for making intelligent statements Sam is my man also, Linda, I agree, Guevera is the same as any other white man going into Africa and superimpose his values Bulanik…again I misspelled your name, my error , I am a person who is paid well for a skill I am good at but I am not college educated so I am always making spelling errors I have followed your posts and I know you are a very articulate informed young lady… We are just sharing opinions , right ? We may disagree on other things also but at least I want you to know I have a fundimental respect for you and where you are coming from on Sat Mar 31st 2012 at 12:18:55 sam Images are power, that is why the System uses them more and more with more and more sophistication. Africa and africans in the images are part of that use of power trough images and visual means. Africans are smiling and happy only when a white celebrity comes to their village and hands out some relief. Then they dance and clap their hands and sing their tribal songs for the great white saviour. During other times they are just trying to survive famine, wars, mass murders, genocides, aids, flies in their eyes, tuberculosis, crockodiles and hippos, elephants on rampage, robbers, drunken men in armed gangs looting villages at random, warriors from the neighbouring tribe, islamic jihadists, mercenaries paid by angry arabs, couple Al Qaida guys here and there, dictators and strongmen, unhealthy food full of flies and maggots, dirty water, cholera, malaria, huts built from cow manure, smoking stoves and broken sandals. That is, if you believe what you see in western media. That is why women today see few hundred photoshopped unrealistic images of the woman in magazines, commercials and practically everywhere, every day. Hundred years ago average woman saw perhaps a 100 women during her lifetime, more if she lived in a city but at most few thousand. Today, if you are living in a big city and heavy user of the media, you will see few thousand of such images a day. Why? To make you feel frustrated of yourself so that would trigger a shopping spree. US marketeers found this out already in 1940’s. on Sat Mar 31st 2012 at 15:24:09 abagond I did that same sort of Google experiment with Luanda. If you search CNN or the New York Times for images of Luanda, the first pictures that come up are those of its slums. If you search the whole Internet, the first pictures that come up are beautiful pictures of the centre city: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/how-backward-is-africa/ The term “sub-Saharan Africa” makes my skin crawl. I should probably do a post on it. on Sat Mar 31st 2012 at 15:45:26 B. R. Absolutly correct, people react to image…. Im a person who has never been to Africa, and, it is one of those dreams I have…I would love to know where some countries that have powerful drum and dance cultures, have folklorico national drum dance companies , and be able to stay at a nice hotel…and if its on a beach that has some small waves to swimn in…. Any reccomdations from people who live there or know ? Actualy, Bulanik, you asked me who I dig from Senegal…I love the drum record by Dou Dou Rose, you can hear the roots of Cuban mambo gua gua co, and samba, and funk and jazz…I was into those AFrican folkways records from a long time ago, Fon Ton Fron drumming, Congo ( I have a record now I listen to), Masai, Kikuyu, Gana drumming, Nigeria You know, Im one of those people who believe very deeply in the genius of sub Sahara Africa, and in that context, I really do beleive you can look there as the place that came certain concepts of culture, music and dance that have a similar developement, the same way as we recognise Europe classical music , it comes from various countries but in a similar context. And those concepts have affected the world in a big way on Sat Mar 31st 2012 at 16:19:40 Herneith Try talking to people from the various countries in Africa. You will get myriad information about politics, societies etc. Many would be surprised at the disparities between what they tell you and what the white media tells you. I am speaking in general, society at large, not anyone in particular, therein lies the problem. Sure some of these countries have problems in varying degrees but what country doesn’t? For example; if you are homeless and starving in North America, that makes that society morally bankrupt as it is put forward as a 1st world country(ies). What is their excuse? They should apply all this charitable work to their own country and clean up their own back yards instead of fomenting propaganda against other countries. But then again they would have to admit their wickedness towards their fellow countrymen both currently and historically. I think they concentrate on these countries and their travails to show that blacks inferiority, this appears to be on a continuum when taken in its’ totality, via media etc. Fools like these race realist have taken to using these images to prove blacks inability to run things and clinging to their white privileges. If I were paranoid, I would think there was a conspiracy of a sort to this end. I don’t credit them with enough intelligence for this, they take a ‘Let the chips fall where they may’ approach. Good point, Herneith Its hard to find images of Africans that gets into their humanity, and, the value of their culture. Its all suffering and they are in the distance. It starts becoming ammunition for what ever agenda wants to use it. I remember seeing a really off the radar documentary of a tribe from northern Uganda, the part that was more affected by violence, with some of the children had been child solders and others had lost loved ones. The young kids were getting ready to go down to a big city to compete in a cultural music and dance festival. It showed the teachers come in and demonstrate the dances and musics, and, the kids had seperate interviews about their experiances. They went down to the competition and you could see that through their participation and victory in two of the catagories , a tremendous pride and emotion. One girl , who seemed to have the saddest look, came all alive while dancing with the most incredible expresion of joy on her face, she later said when she is dancing, she forgets all her problems…and the drumming and dancing was wonderful It was just a moving documentary that got deeper into these peoples humanity and struglle and joy through artistic expresion…I was floored…and you just dont get to see that kind of stuff on tv that often on Sun Apr 1st 2012 at 00:57:52 B. R. Enough !! Its over, this phony charade about intelligence tests that are controversial anyway belongs in the trash. They dont cover real ways to survice in life like intuition and improvisation. Bell curves, IQ exames, they are useless in judging real genius. There is more black American genius at the highest level in the world you can find in this youtube , than you could shake a stick at the whole ivy league. These gentleman have raised the bar in what they do to an unbeleivable hight and their work will be studied in 100 years as the defining thinkers of this time , 1965… I cant listen anymore to white insecure no nothings who dont know how to difine real genius if it was sitting on their nose . Any one who question black American intelligence or genius, just tell me what these gentlemen are doing here if you can Sorry, posted this on the wrong thread, my apologies on Mon Apr 2nd 2012 at 01:18:58 B. R. Actualy, Im going to tie this in with this thread…with out the cultural concepts that came from certain areas of Africa, this wouldnt have existed…. And, these concepts are never really addressed or talked about with any depth. With any notion how much they have dominated much of the worlds popular music. Any where there is the African diaspora, there are these concepts that entered the popular musics of where African slaves were brought, and absolutly took over the type of beat and dance that each of the countries turned into their popular grooves and dance crazes , of course mixing with the culture of each area they arrived at. and, the “broken Africa stereo type” has totaly buried any real look at these incredible concepts that have shaped cultures in various places The humanity and culture are ovelooked to focus more on misery , death and destruction. All you hear about is death and destruction in the Congo Ive got an incredible record of folklorico music from the Congo. Did you know they have a drum that stretches one gut over the bottom head, so the drum buzzes as you hit it….it is the first snare drum. I thought snare drum concepts came from Europe….wrong When I think of Congo, I think of these musicians and the concepts they are dealing with, I see their humanity and creativity and artistic expression. These wars and conflicts dont define the people there, the culture and art defines them on Sat Apr 7th 2012 at 08:15:33 Anna Another side-effect of the stereotype. – If you happen to be African, live in a Western country, are articulate, educated, has travelled a lot i.e. don’t correspond to most stereotypes people have of African people, it either mean your parents were diplomats or are corrupt politicians who feed off the poorest of their country. – You can’t and don’t know much about your history, your culture, your continent because let’s face it, you’re too famished to think about knowledge. African people cannot write plausible and objective facts about themselves: they don’t even have schools. – If you happen to speak any European languages without the (awful and generic) African accent, it means you went to a private French, Belgium, American or British school in your country – All African people have protuberant abdomen (a Chinese friend from Mauritius told me that after stressing on the fact that she isn’t African – I asked her why her country was a member of the African Union then) – Do you live with the lions or in the trees? (not kidding, I was asked this question a couple of times, years ago in France – Same thing happened to my Malagasy friend from Indian descent and another West African friend) – If you have a light skin, it means you must have had a white or an Arab ancestor. – “Hakuna Matata! Do you speak swahili?” (Huge eyeroll) I am not saying that Africa isn’t poor. It is indeed and a lot remains to do, first of all by assuring food security. Yet, Africa isn’t only the dying and begging kids, the dishevelled women, the desert, the armed conflicts and…. the safaris. I think Sahel is the area on the southern edge of the Sahara proper. I think it does not cover more than that. As for sub-Saharan Africa, the funny thing is that originally it was geographical term: it described the difference between the Sahara region and area north of Sahara (sub tropics) and the areas south of them. the savannah etc., the climate etc. BUT what has happened is that racists have hijacked this term too as a cultural and racial divide. This is not an accident. This idea, like others such, come from few racist think tanks which replace the meaning of a word and then begin to use it as their own. This is an old trick used by several ideologies in the past, like the Nazis or communists. on Sat Apr 7th 2012 at 13:29:59 Dahoman X what has happened is that racists have hijacked this term too as a cultural and racial divide. This is not an accident. I believe it dates back to the colonial era. Only then did the Sahara (which historically has always been a crossroad) become this somewhat airtight frontier between “white” and “black” Africa. Notice how this frontier conveniently ceased to exist every time the colonizer summoned the infamous “arab influences” to explain any sign of “civilization” observed in the southern part of the continent… I just talk about Africa and for me that covers anything south of Mediterannean. From Morocco to Capetown. @dahoman X: I think the racist sub Saharan Africa is quite recent term. I am not certain though. In colonial times they used very handy term the Darkest Africa. Thus they implied an area whithout any light=intelligence and culture=civilization and also the dark skinned inhabitants. Thus white (light) people were bringing light o the darkness when they conquered it. Nice ideological twist. on Sat Apr 7th 2012 at 14:47:17 Adeen Danica Mckenzie What made Africa split into non Black Africa, North Africa and land south of the Sahara is Black Africa?. So strange. I just don’t get that at all because I usually think of Africa as an continent where Blacks descended from like how Caucasians descended from Europe. Yeah the words Sub Saharan Africa makes my skin crawl as well because the term doesn’t make sense to me at all. What in the world is that term supposed to mean except for the fact that it is the south of the Sahara deser? I agree with you. Yes, Africa is anthing that is south of the Mediterannean to Capetown is Africa to me as well. Glad someone reads my mind. All people come from Africa. That is the scientifical fact. The present day europeans are decendants of the people who came from Africa tens of thousands of years ago. So there is no humanbeing who has originated elsewhere. If one wants to be a bit cheeky one can say: biologically we are all Africans. That is also the one thing racists try to hide and do their best to discredit. But that is a fact. So there are no caucasians at all. There is only one humanrace on this planet. Gentically you and I are more closer than a guy from Mali is to a guy from Mozambique. There are bigger genetical differences inside Africa than in all the rest of the world. That is because the rest of us are the decendants from those who left Africa tens of thousands of years ago. In colonial times they used very handy term the Darkest Africa. Thus they implied an area whithout any light=intelligence and culture=civilization and also the dark skinned inhabitants. Thus white (light) people were bringing light o the darkness when they conquered it. Yeah, Africa is often referred as “the dark continent”. All those meanings are implied here. Joseph Conrad’s title “Heart of Darkness”, literally the tale of a journey to the heart of Africa, also comes to mind. Yes and it is excellent book. And look who is the worst lunatic of them all: white colonel Kurtz. So the heart of darkness is in actuality inside the white mans head: “Horror, the horror!” I have no knowledge of this but I always suspected that Condrad knew something about Leopolds Congo. on Sun Apr 8th 2012 at 06:12:48 sam I do not know if he ever visited Congo himself. In the book the structure is three dimensional: steamboat travel along the Thames “up the river into the heart of darkness”, in the narrative on a steamboat along the Congo River “into to the heart of darkness” and in the minds of the carachters “into the heart of darkness”. If he did visit Belgian Congo we know where he got his nightmarish storyline but if he did not, he obviously knew something about what was going on in there. on Sun Apr 8th 2012 at 07:47:37 Dahoman X According to the wikipedia page Conrad did visit Congo: Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had gone to serve as the captain of a Congo steamer. On arriving in the Congo, he found his steamer damaged and under repair. He became sick and returned to Europe before serving as captain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness A good read: An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, by Chinua Achebe. http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html There is a distinct cultural differance between sub Sahara Africa and North Africa.Some one in here had an argument with me a long time ago, I was telling him there is a distinctive cultural way that drums are played and the dances are done , that seperate sub Sahara Africa from North Africa. I proceeded to bring in youtubes from various areas of sub Sahara Africa with very similar concepts in drumming and dancing. Let me make it clear that Im absolutly not saying all the drumming and dancing are the same. Its the basic pollyrhythmic concepts that are the same. The same way we can say Europe evolved harmony and classical music symphonies even though they are from differant countries that speak differant languages but Europe is where they evolved certain harmonic concepts. In that context you can say sub Sahara Africa evolved certain musical concepts.Ill be happy to bring in those youtubes again if anyone has any doubt that you cant quantify certain concepts of culture from sub Sahar Africa Recently Ive been listening to a cd from Dudu Rose from Senegal. The drumming concepts are distinctive and recognisable. I have a record from the Congo also. It has very distintive charactoristics but the pollyrhythmic call responce is the same as Senegal. I saw an in depth docu of Uganda recently and some children preparing for a music fest with their drumming and dancing, distinct beats and dances but same concepts as the Congo and Senegal. I have youtubes of the same concepts from kids playing in Kenya, I think they are Kikuyu, you can look at Watusi cerimonies, Zulu cerimonies, I can go on and on and bring in examples. Besides Gnawa in Moroco, Id like to see some North African drumming and dancing that uses these same kind of pollyrhythmic , call responce, pelvic thrust, fast shuffle steps. Im sure they exist, but, Im not aware of them, I dont think north Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Moroco except for Gnawa, have those concepts as the dominant factor in their musical culture. Maybe Sudan and Ethiopia have some forms of the drumming, for sure you can really hear mixtures of both the Arab concepts and the sub Sahara drum dance concepts. If someone can bring in a youtube to educate me , it would be welcome As equaly frightening as outsiders thinking sub Sahara Africa is some horrible place compared to North Africa, would be denying the genius that is from the culture of sub Sahara Africa. That is extremly important to recognise the cultural gifts to the world that black sub Sahara Africa has been responsible for To deny this genius fits right in with the broken Africa sterotype, especialy the broken black Africa stereotype on Tue Apr 10th 2012 at 12:13:17 Adeen Danica Mckenzie @B.R. I agree. And why did they separate ”North Africa” from Sub Saharan Africa when both places are in Africa? If all the Blacks came from Sub Saharan Africa, how come supermodel Iman is from Somalia and Somalia is NOT in ”Sub Saharan Africa”. Iman is Black! Somalia is in North Central Africa. That Sub Saharan crap that is perpentrated in History and Geography is a lie. I think they split Africa in two to discredit Africa’s role in civilization and History. No wonder Egypt is in ”North Africa”, because they weren’t ”Blacks” and couldn’t have possibly have built such an empire! I believe some of the Pharoahs were Black, yes but this foolishness has to stop. Blacks have contributed much to civilization and inventions as much as East Indians, Chinese, Europeans and others. Adeen, Im in full agreement about any attemt to paint any part of Africa as less than or more backwards. And, I think the cultrual aspects Im talking aboiut dont address color in the sence that North Africa has a wide range of color. I want to make it clear that I am addressing cultural concepts that most certainly came out of black Africans who have differant culturual concepts from Arabs that took over North Africa And these cultural concepts are distinctive and can be quantified. In North Africa, I suggest that there is a mixture of these concepts but the Arab concepts are more in effect in North Africa Any body who knows a little bit about the various drum/dance concepts that dominate the Afro diasporic cultures throughout the Americas, can recognise the roots of those grooves right away in various sub Saharan drum dance cultures and you cant do that with North African musics Or , please demonstrate it, because I can demonstrate with authority what Im talking about this is differant from what I will bring in belowhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMHucmq7yBE il try to linc the north African style again this is differanthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CozpRbD5sms I mean anyone on here can hear the differance, right? Its not color, its culture… Also Im not sure about how one minute we are so firm that Africa is a continent of many countries and cultures and the next oh but its all one Africa… I mean great about ideaologicy thought out intellectual arguments to counter stereotypes and western ignorance about real Africa, but please dont sweep in distnintive cutltrural differances that actualy point out to a genius of cultural value that is quantifiable and distinct from anythng else in the world here is the gnawa from moroco that I said is more from a groove stanpoint. It is the exception of North Africa It is obvious that in North Africa because of the Arab conquest that the Arab concepts of music are going to dominate, like I said this is somewhat of a an exception, but you sure can hear a differance from the youtube avove As I said, Morroco is the country in North Africa that has good examples of the drum principles that come from the south. You have to look at how the dances hook up with the drums to really see the differance with the Morrocon concepts versus say concept you might find in Nigeria. Of course influences were going back and forth. Swahili had Arab influcence. Nigeria has some of the population muslim. But this what what I consider a more North African feel on Tue Apr 10th 2012 at 17:02:22 teddy1975 Well, the Sahara was a greater barrier than the Mediterranean Sea, which with ships and all was rather a way things could be transported, even the fauna and flora of Super-Saharan Africa have more in common with southern Europe than with Sub-Saharan Africa. The Islamic conquest really changed the way Europeans saw (North) Africans. Before that, that part of Africa was not seen as intrinsically different from the European parts and islands of the Mediterranean. Here is the differace Absolutly, Teddy, that is my point, there are concepts of life and how to aproach life that come from the middle of Africa down towards the south. Was it the Bantu migration ? I dont know or really think so, I think some of these drum dance concpets go back a long long time. And, I think the fact that you can see the power in the Afro diasporic concepts, and how they absoutly dominate any country that brought slaves from the culture above, the Mali drumming, for example. It is a power, a genius, it shouldnt be hidden behind other cultures like the Arab cultures, and the mixtures of those concepts,those are fantastic also, really fantastic. But these principles of life , and living, filtered sometimes through drumming /dancing, the inclination to use these drums and dances to turn off the thinking brain and get in touch with the intuition, need to be examined on their own terms for exacty what they represent and represent alone. Especialy in light of scientific discoveries that prove that is what is happening in our everyday life anyway It is that reason that I say there are instances that we can look at culture from sub Sahara Africa…I totaly agree that any point of veiw that choose to look at sub Sahara Africa as sub or worse off, or equal to misery is ridiculas. And again, like in the Congo, if you really begin to understand the humanity of the people, the contriburion their culture has made on the world, those stereotypes couldnt kick in We have to make the culture as a focal part of what is incredible about all of Africa Ok all of those sentances are not understandable: And, I think the fact that you can see the power in the Afro diasporic concepts, and how they absoutly dominate any country that brought slaves from the culture above, the Mali drumming, for example (should continue on to say ) is a tremendous example of that power and genuius. Look how they groove the beat into the ground . I get it now. I am sick of the false sterotypes about Africa and I really want to know the truth about Africa. on Tue Apr 10th 2012 at 22:04:42 Dahoman X Abagond already posted about Achebe’s response to Conrad Abagond actually commented Achebe’s criticism of Conrad, but his post did not include a link to Achebe’s original article which, IMHO, is pertinent to the present thread. This article also further explores the 2 allegories mentioned by Sam: the one regarding the parallel Thames/Congo, and the one about the darkness inside Kurtz’ (the White man’s) heart. @ Adeen Somalia is located in East Africa and is considered part of sub Saharan Africa. For some weird reason, you seem to infer from my post that: 1) I believe there is no difference between Northern and Southern Africa 2) I imply some kind of inferiority of the Southern part 3) I’m trying to hide it by stressing the “Arab” influence If you actually read this in my comment, please re-read it. It is not what I wrote. Northern Africa and Southern Africa have their own identities (notice the plural. None is monolithic). Yes, the Northern part, while very diverse, is culturally close to the Arabic Peninsula and the Middle East. I don’t deny that. If you take a plane from Tunis to Lagos you will be shocked by the contrast and will feel like you stepped from a world to another. But if you, say, travel by caravan from Tunis on the Mediterranean Sea to Lagos in the Gulf of Benin, you will have a very different experience. The transition will feel very progressive and you won’t be able to define a clear cut frontier between these two parts of the continent. That’s because, contrary to what people commonly believe (see teddy1975’s post above) the people living along both banks of the Sahara have always interacted and influenced each other. They have never let the Sahara become a barrier. Quite the contrary, actually: during the past millennium it has been the place of the most dynamical trade routes of the continent, and of racial and cultural melting-pot. And when I say they have interacted, when I say melting-pot, I don’t imply that it has always been kumbaya love between North Africa and Southern Africa, or between so-called “white” and “black” Africans (see the racist exactions currently going on in “liberated” Libya, for instance). Regarding the polyrhythmic concepts. I’ll have to trust your expertise on this, as I’m utterly illiterate in the matter. I can appreciate good music though. I can’t really see your YouTube videos (slow connection here), but I recognize some names. Beside you cited Doudou Ndiaye Rose. Good pick. on Tue Jul 17th 2012 at 01:46:31 Anomymous I have more hope for Africa, than Haiti. However one of the main problem is the government and lack of unity, and initiatives. Africans are very divided. They are still too tribal (IMHO). Then there is the never ending political unrest etc…. If the Africans leaders were serious and there wasn’t all this division going on,then it would move forward in a faster fashion. on Thu Jan 10th 2013 at 06:25:38 munu aka Bantu I want to put my two cents to counter stereotypes about Africa in general and a few guidelines about how to look at African affairs: 1. As somebody said already, most stereotypes carry some truth with them; the question is, oft, of how can we expurgate them of implicit falsehoods; for example it’s truth that African governments are, in most cases, corrupt, but a) not all of them (I bet that the Botswana Government is one of the world’s most clean in that regard!) and the rest are corrupt in different degrees; b) outside the continent we find also many corrupt governments (in Latin America, South Asia or Eastern Europe, for example) and, therefore it’s false to draw the conclusion that corruption is kind of an African trademark alone; 2. Africa is a very diverse continent as Abagond has pointed out already (possibly the most diverse of them all!); there are many different countries there, and each of them is an unique “human experiment” by itself; you have different ancient histories from different places (from Yoruba kingdoms in one corner to Zulu warriors in another, and many other different narratives in between); you had different colonial powers in different places (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Belgian, etc) with different impacts (the different “official“ – European – languages” are a lasting testimony of that); you had different colonial settlements in different places (from none or few European settlers in places like Ethiopia, Somalia or Cameron to hundreds of thousands or millions in most Southern Africa countries and Algeria) and therefore you should expect different degrees of “European acculturation” in those places (in Maseru, Lesotho you will find that most native Africans communicate between themselves in a local African idiom most of the time, but in Maputo or Luanda people opt to use Portuguese as their “lingua franca”) 3. The diversity of situations in Africa is also clear in terms of economic development; from small economies as in the Sao Tome e Principe islands to the relatively highly developed economy and infrastructure as in the Republic of South Africa, which consumes more energy per year than highly industrialized countries like Netherlands or Sweden, you find a large spectrum of all different levels of economic development; a curious fact about the perception of long term economic prospects of Africa is that a few years ago the keyword was “afro pessimism” but now some economists start to look at Africa as the next large emerging market after China and India and they cite the present high grow rates in many African countries as an early indication of that; a more sober and balanced view would be to look at African economies as “developing economies” meaning that they are “yet to mature organic systems” that appear now in a yet relatively young phase of their development; as with humans, adulthood will surely follow the young age, but the journey from one point to the other will be a zigzag of advances and setbacks; so it’s life! 4. Diversity is also to be found in the level of economic development inside each African country; you have the striking divide between the urban (more developed and westernized) and the rural (less developed and more traditional); urban settlements show also a divide between their more developed center and their less developed periphery (shanty towns); there are also oft regional differences (for example the southern part of Mozambique is more developed than the northern part; the same can be said about Nigeria); these features characterize all developing countries including the ones in South America and Asia. 5. Each African country is also a diverse place as a consequence of recent history; the borders of most African states – defined by European powers at the begin of the 20th century – encompass a huge variety of ethnic groups (the so called “tribes”); this is sometimes the cause of internal strife and political instability but when properly managed is the foundation upon which a very rich cultural heritage can develop; one of the functions of the state in Africa is to build the nation from the amalgamation of those diverse groups, contrary to 19th century European states which were, for the most part, mono-ethnic; there are, also, some African mono-ethnic states such as Botswana, Lesotho or Swaziland; this kind of diversity implies that most Africans speak at least 2 languages (one African idiom plus the official European idiom…) and oft even 3 (…plus one more African idiom; this is the case in many urban settings where people from different ethnic backgrounds coexist). 6. Last but not least, the reality of African societies is very fluid and what is true now can change tomorrow behind recognition. This is, in fact, what makes many stereotypes not stand to a close scrutiny: the reality they were supposed to describe oft has already changed when you present them! A few examples: a decade ago it was said that most of Africa (except a few countries) had a very low density of telephone lines and this was seen as a major stumbling block against social and economic progress; today, after a rapid penetration of mobile telephone networks, all over Africa, its citizens are reasonably well connected. It is known that libraries and access to books are in short supply in many African societies and that impacts negatively teaching and learning activities. But as I write, we are witnessing a remarkable grow in Internet access (yet to mature) which can open, in the coming years, the access to universal human knowledge (written documents) to a much wider class of African citizens. More, a decade ago you would see a serene traffic atmosphere in the streets of Maputo and other Mozambican cities. Today, after an explosive grow of the number of car owners, during the past decade, we witness major traffic congestion in their urban settlements which are, therefore, forced to expand their limits outwards and densify their road networks. Twenty years ago we had merely 3 institutions of higher learning in Mozambique enrolling a few thousands students, but now we have more than 30 such institutions which graduate thousands of young (and not so young!) people every year. The same trends you can watch in many other African societies. Many such developments are not an end by themselves, but form a basis for future social and economic progress. Finally, I cannot end without mentioning that all those trends are turning into a reality the emergence of a middle class, in not few African societies, which are gradually overcoming the old motto that says that in Africa either you are (very) rich or (very) poor. munu aka Bantu At the 80’s I was in Germany to study and soon it became clear to me that most people there had little to no knowledge about Africa, and from that fact followed a lot of false assumptions and misunderstandings about the continent and its people. Stereotypes thrive in an environment of ignorance. In most cases it is less a question of malice, and more of lack of knowledge of the facts. This is my opinion. Therefore the best antidote against stereotypes is to put the facts before people so that they can review their perceptions by themselves. At that time, I wrote letters to my brothers asking them to send to me dozens of postcards with diverse motifs reflecting life in my country. And I showed them to my German colleagues. I can bear witness to the fact that many of them became, after that, more curious about my “heimat” and, not few, changed radically their view of it. Today it should be easy for anyone to do the same at a lower cost: you can search through the Web and collect photos and video-clips which show how things are in your country. Or you can upload your own items to your blog or site. It is that easy! And if we, as Africans, don’t do that, then we must bear some of the guilt for the current situation where most people living outside Africa rate the continent much lower than it should be! Not only Whites who never visited the continent but also Asians, American and European Blacks, and even first generation children of Africans in the Diaspora share those misconceptions. Even worse: often you discover that Africans themselves don’t question such stereotypes when they think about other African nations, sometimes even neighbor countries. We should do better about this and surely we can! on Thu Jan 10th 2013 at 14:01:43 Kwamla @ munu aka Bantu Thank you for your informed and much needed perspective on the changing and ever developing continent we label Africa. I for one enjoyed these far more enlightend contributions. on Wed Jan 16th 2013 at 03:31:03 munu aka Bantu Kwamla To close my contributions on this topic of “broken Africa stereotype” let’s show some images of the continent. I will put some links to web-pages with pictures and video-clips about two places from the eastern part of Africa: Nairobi and Maputo. The former is well-known in many quarters as a beautiful urban setting in Africa, kind of a mini New York of sorts, and the later is my birthplace and, as an American visitor once put it, “one of the most underrated tourist destinations in Africa”. Let’s begin with Maputo: Video-clip (taken in the central areas of the city) • http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=373682379318444&set=vb.243802292315574&type=2&permPage=1 (this clip gives a glimpse of the cosmopolitan atmosphere in Maputo) Photos (taken in the centre of the city) • http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1446879&page=4 on Thu Jan 17th 2013 at 21:49:45 abagond From munu aka Bantu: … About Nairobi: · http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyNztfyen7Q (this clip looks at middle class Nairobi life) · http://www.nairaland.com/51356/nairobi-photos-kenya-beautiful-east I hope this helps people to review their stereotypes about Africa. Perhaps, the continent is not “so broken”, after all! Here is the BBC’s top picture of Nairobi on Google Images: on Thu Jan 17th 2013 at 22:44:57 Jorbia Well,if Africa is so broken, why are so many Europeans living there? Many Europeans who live in Africa for a while never want to leave. If they can, they will go back there to live, even if it’s after they retire. My parents have European friends who went to East Africa when they were adults but call Kenya and Tanzania “home.” on Sat Jul 27th 2013 at 15:48:16 Shefali Thank you for posting this. This and the comments are so informative. One thing to think about re. black IQs – even if IQs are lower in the third world, it is known that malnutrition adversely affects IQs, into the third or fourth generation. So solve the issue of hunger, and the IQ problem would also be resolved, IMHO. on Thu Aug 15th 2013 at 23:30:11 Colorful Exchange with Lefties and Race Addicts (It’s like dances with wolves, only wolves are smarter) \| Praetori […] tried elsewhere to give, what I think is, a more balanced overview of Africa. See: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/the-broken-africa-stereotype/#comment-156161 If you want to discuss those issues with me, I would suggest you comment at those aforementioned […] on Tue Sep 17th 2013 at 06:02:29 ACurious Youngin Sub-Saharan Africa is the most genetically/phenotypically heterozygous continent and the origin of modern Homo Sapiens. Most racists believe that the regions lack of centralization until 1800s show some sort of failure. They first believe in this false Eurocentric myth that civilization arose there indigenously and not imported from the Middle east and think they have the right to criticize other cultures for lack of writing or urban stimulus for technology yet ITSELF did not invent neither of these things. Secondly, racists falsely believe that the determinants of civilization depend on some genetically conditioned intelligence(guess that makes Europe stupid then). The latter view distorts history and makes Civilization seem like it is a phenomenon that only the group based intelligent can accomplish. For starters, there is no such thing as a ” Group” IQ instead intelligence goes by a bell curve with 15 % between “races” and 85 % within these “races”. There is Within population genetic diversity in every Human population and is expressed highest, as said, in Sub-Saharan Africa, so the concept of a “Universal IQ” seems ludicrous. Furthermore, if genetic variation ,according to racists, determine ability in intelligence and innovation solely, if at all, that would mean that Sub-Saharan Africa and recent diaspora have the highest in both extreme outliers, in other words, the ability to make 2X scientific/technological innovations , in terms of quality. However, at the moment that is not observed, meaning their is more to innovation or civilization than genetics which does not play a major factor (at least evidently) in the divergence of the Mother continent from that of the prehistoric diaspora. According to most anthropologists, there were only six areas that had the requirements that others did not that enabled civilization ; a river valley located in a soft fertile region. The belief in “Anthrocentrism” is what fuels racism in the first place, the thought that Man is God therefore can control every aspect of its progress and those behind are the least “fittest” which is untrue. We are subject to are environment no matter how genetically “superior” or competent we may supposedly be. From the six areas, civilization spread to those that were less efficient reaching Northern Europe(400 AD) and Sub Saharan Africa in several eras; Axum/Ethiopia (400 BCE); Islamic SSA (1000 AD); the rest of Africa (1800s AD). In the former two eras, Africa rose to significance such as in Pastoralist but Imperial Axum, a military power equal to Rome or China emerged according to contemporary prophet Mani or during Songhai dynasty where scholars in a salt (or iodine) depreciated but wealthy region were able to be great leaders in Islamic literature ( Mathematics, Astronomy, History,etc.) and Law. In the latter era, however nothing but destruction was brought from slavery to colonialism to modern exploitation nothing but disaster has befallen SSA forming the modern stereotype which was not far from the truth. In modern times, however, this is not accurate as Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s fastest growing economies and is predicted by economics to reach 29 trillion USD by 2050,larger than USA and Eurozone combined and definitely larger than United states of America and Europe separately. Sub-Saharan Africa would have gotten back in its feet sooner had not 1.4 trillion USD not been transferred illegally largely to the west, that’s more than the ODA that racists complain about being paid. If anything ODA should be seen as the West paying debt to Sub-Saharan Africa like they are to the Peoples Republic of China. So this stereotype of Africa is long overdue and blasted to make racists feel like “at least the Negros are still down” as we enter a multipolar world;no longer “white man’s Burden”. Deny or envy, but Sub Saharan Africa is getting up in the world. Look for example at Luanda in Angola, it has a booming luxurious industry but they never show you that… they’ll never tell you this ^. I don’t blame them, it is the responsibility for an Afro-descendant to know their history, struggles, progress, and future not the American Western Media, their purpose is to distort, degrade, dehumanize, to erase any sense of hope in an African so that all is left is a empty vessel, a Slave…No more. See: Get Ready for an African boom/CNN http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=768&tbm=isch&tbnid=GzgEOtFEwhoNXM:&imgrefurl=http://hotelpresidenteluanda.com/presidente/en/hotel/lazer&docid=omRZdruSt2n26M&imgurl=http://hotelpresidenteluanda.com/site_images/contents/contents/225/page/Luanda.jpg%253F1304523299&w=990&h=600&ei=Y-83UtXyOKrC4APAx4DQBg&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:6,s:0,i:97&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=175&tbnw=254&start=0&ndsp=15&tx=161&ty=155 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8DjO8FHj3Y) @Shefali I do believe malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and its diaspora is preventing it from reaching full potential such that micronutrients like Iodine and iron alone can cost 15 IQ points and 14.8 IQ points respectively along with the effects of others micronutrient deficiency as well as rampant poverty. As I said, the diaspora is also going through this with African American mothers giving birth iodine deficient on average since 1900s. That’s 15 IQ points right there and the Flynn effect has been explained based on micronutrient deficiency( Iodine for instance). In the Western world, the introduction of iodine to Whites via lactose dairy products allowed the IQ to rise to 15 IQ points during the 1900s. see: http://www.businessinsider.com/iodization-effect-on-iq-2013-7 on Thu Feb 20th 2014 at 20:45:19 v8driver omg i am so sick of the united states i can’t wait to go over ther to africa (http://youtu.be/5utDdxveaJc) Trotting out “the children” is always a good say to say shut up! I’m very suspicious of Gates here. Moyo’s response: http://www.dambisamoyo.com/?post=dr-dambisa-moyo-responds-to-bill-gates-personal-attacks on Sat Aug 30th 2014 at 19:38:15 Broken Records: Arguments About Race \| Marmalade […] The Broken Africa stereotype – Africa is a hellhole […] on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 14:33:22 EPGAH How did whites “break the continent”? Did you forget empires like the Oyo, and even the NIGER EMPIRE starting slavery, then Arab slavers, THEN AND ONLY THEN the whites? We tried to rebuild things. Shining cities, safe countries, rule of law, etc. If you want to say Mugabe is “just a madman”, that would imply he’s the exception. What about Mandela, Zuma, Shaka Zulu, Idi Amin? If a group keeps having “exceptions”, they stop being the “exception”, and start being the rule. Sort of like how the Moslem Cult is associated with terrorism, and even the “moderates” are in favor of forcing Sharia Law on anyone naive enough to let them in? Even when shown a picture of shining white houses in “Africa”, as I was recently shown to try to shut me up, it was NIGERIA, who are up to their old thieving tricks, AND getting money and infrastructure from CHINA! Why can’t Africa do on its own, without another group building FOR them and FORCING Order on them? on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 15:11:33 sharinalr @EPGAH tsk tsk tsk. Oyo, Niger, and Arabs did not start slavery. Your precious slavery was in full effect for years. Used by all. Greeks and Romans alike used slavery. Then along came Whites or Americans if you like who needed new slaves. Whites did not try to rebuild things. They destroyed it. They came and stole any and everything they could from Africa. Did that for years. They created laws that benefited them. Destroyed cities that were already there and replaced them with their own. Laid claim to the ones they liked. “Sort of like how the Moslem Cult is associated with terrorism, and even the “moderates” are in favor of forcing Sharia Law on anyone naive enough to let them in?”—Claims that require proof. So far this is talk of a mad man. “Even when shown a picture of shining white houses in “Africa”, as I was recently shown to try to shut me up, it was NIGERIA, who are up to their old thieving tricks, AND getting money and infrastructure from CHINA!”—It was not used to shut you up. It was used to make you look like the fool you are. While you are trying to find some nitch to say how bad Africa is, there are several other cities just like it. Not to mention you made yet another claim your a* seems to be unable to cash. You claimed there were no such cities that made it. Now you want to whine about how they made it. Yet according to YOU making it entails thievery. So why be made because they are taking a page out of the white play book? “Why can’t Africa do on its own, without another group building FOR them and FORCING Order on them?”—I would ask the same things about white America, but you are a hypocrite so. At any rate China did nothing more than invest. After investments it takes drives and work to run the businesses to build from that point on. So in short they are doing it by themselves. Just like they are doing it by themselves when they come to america and make your young white children look dumb. on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 15:31:05 Michael Jon Barker @ sharinalr. A shout out to you for having the patience in dealing with EPGAH. Whatever BS he comes up with you have effectively shot it down. I’m unable to have civil conversations with people like EPGAH. His world view is no different then Roofs so he comes here to shoot this place up. To him his views are his religion. on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 15:32:30 King “Even when shown a picture of shining white houses in “Africa”, as I was recently shown to try to shut me up, it was NIGERIA, who are up to their old thieving tricks, AND getting money and infrastructure from CHINA It would be interesting to hear how Nigeria could possibly be “stealing” from the larger and more powerful China? One might ask why the backward northern barbarians could not do on their own without the Romans building FOR them, assimilating them, and FORCING order upon them. You know… the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Burgundians, the Franks, the Britons, theVandals… in other words, YOU. on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 15:39:04 taotesan @mike4ty4 “ and this is exactly why I have so much discomfort with the idea of a so-called “white African”. How can “whites” be truly called “African” when they, or at least most of them, benefit from educational, wealth and land ownership, and social privileges that have yet to be afforded to the people who have been in Africa for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years longer than their families have ever been, not to mention it is questionable how much cultural assimilation they have undergone?” This is my take on ‘white Africans’ in the South African context. It is quite long. Apology. I do not speak as political analyst, but from a personal broad-based perspective.Being veteran grandmaster thieves of land, this latest development of linguistic contortionism is the refinement of their delusion of white superiority complex and greedy-guts syndrome. These people, including the liberals (we did not know it was wrong to hate Black people, we were only taught to) who owns land that is simply not his or hers, if they are such lovely non-racist Africans, they must give us back our land. I am not sure the time when Black people said: “Here, Baas, take our land, we love living in matchboxes. You are so good.” To be called a white ‘African’ (writing this hurts me) ties in, not with any nationalist, patriotic or any romantic notion, but with their unbridled capitalistic rapacity and their perverted ideology that they are God’s chosen people (Afrikaners) so they are entitled to all our land. In South Africa, we have Black Economic Empowerment, aka BEE, a program (which is failing dismally) to redress the iniquitous economic disparity wrought on the natural inhabitants by centuries of genocide, slavery, cultural annihilation, land dispossession, colonialism, apartheid and neo-colonialism. Now the very beneficiaries of slavery, colonialism and apartheid, want to insist upon South Africans that they are Africans so that they can continue being first in line, as usual. They just have to be OWNERS. They have to own everything, including their victims’ name and land. So, being a white ‘African’ would tie them to the right to lay claim to mineral rights, economic opportunities and to hold on to land claims. Not so long ago when these people had their very own nirvana, (and they still do, for the most part) they made up the most crude and de-humanising names for African people. Remember, apartheid was supposed to be forever. Every single facet life of a South Black person’s life was/is still dominated and poisoned by white superiority. As a person who is still trying to heal very deep wounds (and trying hard to forget) from apartheid, I remember how my parents were forced to bow their heads to white people, who insisted they be called ‘baas’ or ‘missus’- master and madam in Afrikaans. [Both of them eventually died from a broken heart.] The ‘master race’ – the European, in their utopia, subjected the natural inhabitants to unspeakable and intolerable cruelty and made sure that we knew that they were Europeans or whites, who were the acme of civilization. The humiliation of the ubiquitous apartheid signs. Almost ALL of our rivers, mountains, seas, plants, animals and place names are European or British named. They called themselves Europeans and whites interchangeably. Google the apartheid signs. In their ugly madness they have no insight when they nakedly accuse the victims of their oppression as racist, when we refuse to acknowledge them as Africans. The temerity of these ungrateful gate-crashers. They are not Africans. They are white South Africans. Or European descendants / settlers/ invaders/ living in South Africa. The African name has been most reviled by the same white man and woman who wants to be included as African for capitalistic, neo-colonialist motives, and further perpetuating their economic dominance in the midst of their manufactured poverty. It also kills two birds with one stone: they can claim victimhood (and what loud moaning Charlies they are) and exonerate them from their complicity in apartheid. But they do that anyway. In South Africa, they create websites exaggerating the number of farm murders and crying foul that a ‘genocide’ has been committed against them. Understand it is the very people who make/made Black people feel like criminals just for being Black. Although we do not have formal slavery, these Afrikaner farmers (owning millions of hectares of stolen African land) treat their workers sadistically and still pay them a pittance, where they have they still have very little recourse to the law. These wannabe ‘Africans’ have now overwhelmingly denied that apartheid was a crime against humanity. The deafening silence of the European colonialist has not been punctured by even a susurration of admittance or half an apology. Because they are not sorry. Whites are symbiotes not parasites…Or at least were. We built and let anyone in WHO WOULD OBEY THE RULES! “You are welcome to join us, but you will not lead!” What group doesn’t pass laws that benefit themselves? I asked you that in another thread, plus asking what nonwhite group passes laws like Affirmative Action, that benefit non-self, at self’s expense. Got no answer so far. Is that a claim every white hater’s a* are unable to cash? We have a mediocracy now, because it’s what gets rewarded. I’ll be the first to say Ob-America is an Obamination compared to 80s America. But that is a derail, because it’s all about WHITES instead of Blacks, much less Africa. http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/nine-things-youll-learn-from-pews-poll-of-the-worlds-muslims/ If you prefer, rather than linking, I can copy&paste the whole article, rather than a link? Not sure what your policy is on copy&paste plagiarism. Did you ever use your favorite search engine and look up the Moslem “refugees” trying to cancel Germany’s Octoberfest, because beer&boobs are offensive to them? I use the quotes, because true refugees would NOT be trying to change their hosts, they’d be thankful their hosts are protecting them from whatever they’re fleeing! Maybe not kissing ass, but at LEAST keeping a low profile and causing as little problems as they could? South Africa (and others) were under Civilized World control. It put an END to tribes and their petty bickering. It put an end to Shaka Zulu’s “knocking”. (One of those genocides everyone forgets because it wasn’t committed by whites). It was an idyllic scene straight from the Mythical 1950s! Important detail: WHITES built that, not the savages. THEY DIDN’T MAKE THAT, WE DID! Mugabe’s “palace” is actually an old white farmers’ house that was stolen! Savages came in, “Only To Work”, then once they were the majority in the whites’ country, they overthrew and destroyed it. How is that from whites’ playbook? Actually, that sounds more like the Mexican Scam! Whites never wanted, nor even pretended to want, to JOIN savages’ savagery, buy land, kick them aside and build civilization seems to be our historical path. Just for clarification: When the savages got control, whom did the laws they pass benefit? Particularly BEE, the exact inverse of our Affirmative Action? In America, Government forces Black MINORITY into undeserved jobs. In South Africa (Savage control), Government forces Black MAJORITY into undeserved jobs. See how that works? A certain asymmetry and/or lack of charity there! America wasn’t the one that got order forced on us. From the 1800s to let’s say 1964, we have been the enforcer of order. It wasn’t Britain or France that put the Barbary Pirates down…It was America. Britain could’ve stopped the Japanese carrier group that did Pearl Harbor. They didn’t because they WANTED America in the fight. Why? Everyone “hates” us, sure, but when they have a flood, tsunami, earthquake, or riot, it isn’t CHINA they call for help. Why is that? Is that a long-con plan to drain us of our resources? Are we chivalrous or chumps for always helping others, even our enemies (Like Afghanistan) whenever they call? China didn’t just invest. China (re)built the country, in exchange for resources. Just like whites did! So why are Chinese “Noble” for doing this, but whites are “evil colonialists” for the same thing? China is building the country in exchange for resources. China is “helping”. Whites did the same thing, but whites are the “evil colonialists”. Eventually, the savages turned on whites, stole and ruined the country. Do you think China will let the savages pull that same stunt? Keep in mind our divergent responses to riots in our own country. America gives savages “Space To Destroy”, China sent a TANK to stop the party! What do you consider Romans if not white? Were they Black? Arab? Space aliens? @Michael Jon Barker Thanks. That is because he is a big joke. Laugh at him and even you will have the patience. taotesan By that “logic”, Blacks in America should be called something else, and if they get “too rich” in our country, they should be murdered and their property stolen, just like the savages did–AND STILL DO–to landowners and farmers in South Africa and elsewhere? “Kill The Boer Kill The Farmer” vs…Hm, we don’t have a “Kill The Savage” movement here in America, do we? Of course whites would be owners, whites built the country. Blacks came in only to work. That “pittance” you call it, was WAY more than they could get under their fellow savages. Once again, why come INTO a place if you’re so ill-treated? Find out if the border is just as permeable the opposite direction! Have you done any searches on what the savages did to the people who built up a better country that they could live in if they could behave? Did you ever consider Apartheid was to PREVENT exactly what the savages did when they got weapons from Russia and overran our control? Google “Farmers killed by machete” and take a REAL wild guess why they don’t consider Apartheid a bad thing. Hint: Your deep EMO wounds are nothing compared to what the savages did to the whites, then stole their land/farm/business to add insult to LITERAL injury! To wit: If you are violent and untrustworthy (Savage), why not keep you away from us? As to education, look at the fantastic schools and universities whites built even in the areas they set aside for savages. They didn’t HAVE to do that! They could’ve said, “That side is your side, be as Savage As You Wanna Be” How DID you learn English anyways, if not taught by the Civilized World? Did you butcher a human, eat his brain, and absorb the knowledge that way? I thought that only worked in videogames! As to wealth, you’re right, but whites figured out how to make resources into wealth. That’s why “make money” is an American/European idiom that does NOT mean counterfeiting. As to land ownership, once again, whites brought the CONCEPT of land tenure there. “This Area Is Ours. Period.” not “Oh, we lay claim to this vast strip, but we’ll keep going back and forth along it like a toy train” Even now, YOU call the land they own “stolen”, and look the other way, if not cheer, when savages brutally murder them and steal what they built and EARNED, right? Is that not greedy gutting? (Literally!) Are they made to feel like criminals for being Black or for what they did to the people who built the country? How many decades are you going to keep pretending to be victims? You killed them, you stole the country, what are you going to do with it? Make it crash&burn, then blame the whites, right? Kinda like someone carjacking me, killing me, then wrapping my car around the nearest utility pole, and blaming ME for not teaching them to drive before they killed me, right? Michael Jon Barker Right, ROOF is the threat, not Farrakhan, or Noble, or Kambon, or any of the other savages exhorting the extermination of whites, especially cops? You don’t see how those two are opposite, but not equal? Farrakhan&co would NEVER dirty their hands by killing a white themselves. They enjoy the luxury of the Civilized World too much. All they’re doing is free speech, right? “You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies!” Those were the words of Minister King Samir Shabazz, also known as Maurice Heath, the New Black Panther Party’s Philadelphia leader. Shabazz is the same man the Holder Department of Justice refused to prosecute after he was filmed on Election Day 2008 with Jerry Jackson wearing paramilitary uniforms, carrying a nightstick and blocking a doorway to a polling location to intimidate voters. Is their hate their religion too? small person shout at the warden and tell to loosen your straight-jacket on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 16:14:06 v8driver Awkward! I guess there was a bit of antiamerican sentiment in my part uf u scroll back abit but thats under the category of no way to explain that to the kids that live actually near me on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 16:14:29 Omnipresent EPGAH What do these savages look like? ^him and whilst you are at it insist on better padding on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 16:19:10 Uglyblackjohn @ EPGAH – But the Africans are wrong for taking over an existing culture? Isn’t that their manifest destiny? Didn’t most white people end up on other continents in an effort to escape oppression by other white people? As to views as religion, even here on this very site, some Blacks claim that whites are not human, or in this very thread, one claims we who created the country don’t deserve to enjoy it, so which “religion” do you think is more harmful? “WE SEE THEM AS HUMAN, THEY LOOK LIKE REAL HUMANS BUT THEY ARE NOT, THEY DO NOT HAVE HUE TO BE MAN.” HUE-MAN? Sounds like a He-Man villain. v8driver I don’t blame you at all. You want to escape America to escape your ex-wife. taoetesan You justify BEE–Government forcing Blacks into undeserved positions–but isn’t that just the savages, now that they’re in control, passing laws to benefit THEM? Where is their generosity, like whites passing Affirmative Action, laws that harm us, and benefit not-us? Savages are selfish, whites are generous. “what nonwhite group passes laws like Affirmative Action, that benefit non-self, at self’s expense. Got no answer so far. Is that a claim every white hater’s a* are unable to cash?”—That is not the question you asked, but I will quote what you did say so you can stop pretending like you are not goal post shifting when you are. Your original response got an answer. You just did not like it. As such AA actually benefits whites. Which is why they are the biggest benefactors/supporters of it. You need to do research on what AA includes. Not just women but those with disabilities as well. “If you prefer, rather than linking, I can copy&paste the whole article, rather than a link? Not sure what your policy is on copy&paste plagiarism.”—Two problems with your source. 1. It does not prove or support what you claimed above. 2. It managed to show no sample size. 3. It contradicts what you you claim. Ie In most the percentage of Muslim respondents who said they favor Shariah as the law of the land is 20 percent or lower. “Important detail: WHITES built that, not the savages. THEY DIDN’T MAKE THAT, WE DID! Mugabe’s “palace” is actually an old white farmers’ house that was stolen!”—Sure and I am an Alien. I require proof. Not a mad man ranting. Even with sources you seem to be unable to realize what they say versus what you believe in your mad mind. “Savages came in, “Only To Work”, then once they were the majority in the whites’ country, they overthrew and destroyed it. How is that from whites’ playbook? “—How can they come in to land that was already theirs? News flash they can’t. So based on your logic the savages are the whites who came in to “work” and steal and when they became the majority they overthrew and destroyed. Copy that to the situation in America and you have successfully described how everyone took a page from the white playbook. “Everyone “hates” us, sure, but when they have a flood, tsunami, earthquake, or riot, it isn’t CHINA they call for help.”—You might want to talk to some of those people. They don’t beg for America’s help as the media likes to tell. In fact I have ran across a great deal that would like america to stay out simply because America uses it’s “Help” to build strongholds in their countries. “China didn’t just invest. China (re)built the country, in exchange for resources. Just like whites did! So why are Chinese “Noble” for doing this, but whites are “evil colonialists” for the same thing?”—Whites did not invest in the country. They simply took. Big difference. @ EPGAH That is quid pro quo, or as we like to call it, “doing business.” Each party agrees that the other party has something of value to offer. An exchange is driven, and both parties benefit. Neither party is “stealing” as you have so recklessly suggested. No, I think not. Whites did not sit down with Africans and hammer out a quid pro quo. Whites simply stole the land and resources by annexing them by force. They did the same in India and later, in China. Whites essentially carved up Africa into colonies as they pleased… which I assume is why they were called “evil colonialists.” To the thinking man, this makes perfect sense. https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1e0eaaa410d48dc9e428825b11643bad?convert_to_webp=true Uglyblackjohn Well, you COULD say whites LEFT if they didn’t like it! Which was my message on one of the other threads. If I DO have a flaw, it’s that I’m too subtle for most people to get the message. Whites’ flaw is suicidal altruism. Woman and the snake, Frog&scorpion, whatever. But I digress. But actually, no, most white countries/colonies/whatever you want to call it is because whites, once we had the wherewithal to, are explorers. Is there really an “edge of the world”? Is the Sound Barrier real? Is the sky really the limit? If you’re trying to draw an equal sign between conquests, I have to put a big old NO on that one too. Which group made a BETTER, SAFER, MORE LAW-ABIDING country, and which one made Purgatory on Earth? Or let’s talk about EARNING? Which one did it all on their own, and which one needed Russian weapons to overthrow civilization? And now needs constant investment from China? “Which one did it all on their own, and which one needed Russian weapons to overthrow civilization? And now needs constant investment from China?”—America. @Everyone For everything he is trying to say about Africa, I realize he is actually talking about America. ROFL http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/us-safrica-mugabe-idUSKCN0RL19P20150921 Let’s start with this one? South Africa ruled that Mugabe has to give back ONE stolen residential property. I don’t know how jurisdiction works there, that would be like France making Spain return something they stole. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/11442408/Zimbabwes-white-farmers-targeted-for-new-Mugabe-land-grabs.html MORE stealing from white farmers. I am shocked! Or at least pretending really really hard to be shocked! News flash: It WASN’T their land, they didn’t have the concept of land tenure. So it’s NOT theirs! Another poster in this thread put up a map of who owned what. Whites–at least British and Dutch–set aside Reservations for the savages. Savages eschewed that and wanted the whites’ part! If I let you live in my basement, would you kill me and take over the upper floors of my house? The whites didn’t come there to work, they BUILT THE COUNTRY! It was their work that made the country worth savages immigrating/invading! What the savages did is something akin to what I believe Mexicans are trying to do to America. And South Africa is an EXTRA special case, it was too desert, too inhospitable for even the SAVAGES to want to live there! So if you throw something away, I take it, recondition it into a gleaming (or at least serviceable) prize, you don’t get to say “I want it back, it’s mine.” They terraformed it into something worth living in, that’s why the savages wanted it. That, or thriving farms and businesses, electric and road infrastructure, things worth stealing. I’m sorry, building a whole country from scratch is not investing? It WAS quid pro quo: WE build a country, savages could live there if they wanted a Better Standard of Living, otherwise, they could get out of the way. But now the savages have their Wish! They are reduced to a paltry minority in their own countries, if not entirely left or dead (Which is “gone” in the metaphysical sense). Being our Noble EQUALS, why didn’t the savages build or at least maintain a country every bit as shiny as when the whites controlled it? Why did they NEED China to build infrastructure FOR them? Whites already built the infrastructure, what happened to that infrastructure? Did whites rip it out with their dying breaths? Did the savages destroy it because it was a reminder of Civilized World control? Did they just let it decay because they didn’t know how to maintain it? @epgah, at that point i was considering moving to lesotho/south africa America has always been independent by nature. In the last 60 years, we undid our isolationism, which is a large part of the end of my parents’ mythical 50s. Russia has never given us anything but grief. In the 90s, there was an attempt at reconciliation–and we even bailed them out when they collapsed–but even if Gorbachev was 100% sincere and honest, the long-term effect was that it was just for them to get closer to stick a bigger blade in Uncle Sam’s back. If you want to borrow King’s thing about a give&take, so far, America’s been doing all the Giving, and Russia is not the least of countries doing all the TAKING! Most egregiously, America GAVE up our anti-nuke project in Poland. If we hadn’t, Iran’s PROMISE (And probable LIE) about not building nukes wouldn’t matter. They would stay peaceful, because if they weren’t, we’d shoot their nukes out of the sky and return fire. If Russia FELT it was aimed at them, only the hit dog squeals, right? What might Russia be doing that an anti-nuke system would thwart? That is not quid pro quo. Look up the word first before you…..nevermind. “Being our Noble EQUALS, why didn’t the savages build or at least maintain a country every bit as shiny as when the whites controlled it? Why did they NEED China to build infrastructure FOR them?”—They had. This is the part of the story where the whites come in and destroy it. “America has always been independent by nature.”—False. Even coming to this land “Americans” were dependent on the help of natives. Otherwise they would have died. Years fast forward they became dependent on the funds of other countries. You forget this country is in debt. We are dependent on foreign oil. Should I continue on this dependency? I don’t see where I mentioned Russia, but…..deflect on. You are good at that. FYI my comment came before king so not sure how I borrowed anything from him, but great minds do think alike. EPGAH, Whites did not “build a country” almost anywhere in Africa. What they built were a very few White cities/towns that were used as garrisons, colonizing centers, and hotels for the Whites who came and went. In all cases, the vast majority of the “country” was worse off after colonization then before colonization. This idea that Whites built up these countries into shining African empires that were then taken over by ungrateful savages and ruined is more the result of you not reading books than reflective of any historical facts on the matter. v8driver That would kind of redefine “Out of the Frying Pan, Into The Fire” (Capitalization?) Unemployment has gotten worse, and the savages decided it wasn’t bad enough, so they passed BEE laws, so if you’re white and can’t buy your way into Orania, you can forget about it. Also, savages with machetes are a constant problem, stealing from anyone who DOES make it. I’ve even heard rumors they have started attacking “too successful” blacks now, but that’s probably overblown. You see all the houses with concrete corners and barbed wire? They’re not a WWII reenactment troop, they’re trying to ward off savages. On the other hand, if you join a PMC, you can make serious bank protecting civilized from savage! Even some of the richer savages hire “consultants”, not bodyguards. The name-change is to avoid hypocrisy, of course! Also, savages with machetes are a constant problem, stealing from anyone who DOES make it. I’ve even heard rumors they have started attacking “too successful” blacks now, but that’s probably overblown Why is it overblown? Further upthread, I asked you what these savages look like. taotesan suggested they look like you but I don’t think you picture them that way. If I DO have a flaw, it’s that I’m too subtle for most people to get the message. I am sure you know what I am driving at here but, if you are ‘less subtle’ and actually honest, it will discredit all of your arguments on here and expose you so instead, you misrepresent things but what is underlying is not at all subtle You said we were just the same as the savages taking help from Russia to overthrow and destroy. “A page from America’s book”, right? quid pro quo is a TRADE. Doesn’t have to be a FAIR trade, even, it has to be PERCEIVED as a fair trade at the time. What do others have to offer that is worth the upgrade in Standard of Living they would get by invading any place created by the Civilized World? Yes, America TRADED food for protection. The savages didn’t give us food because they were feeling generous or some kind of Welfare project, it was because the Wampanoags were attacking them and they saw Salvation in our metal-and-GUNPOWDER weapons! We beat the bullies down–then they turned on us! I think I said that in another thread? Or you just weren’t listening. Our dependence on foreign oil is a CHOICE. Environmental regs have choked off not only oil-drilling but smelting, manufacturing, all dirty industry. Economy is less important than ecology, and we have the unemployment to prove it, right? Of course, Obama claims it’s part of a “strategy” to have oil left when terrorists/Mexico/Canada run out. We suffer until they run out…Does this even “seem like a good idea at the time”? There was a Faction in America’s RECENT history, say the last 10 years, that wanted eco-exemptions for “Drill Baby Drill”. Refresh my memory, were they praised or ridiculed? “You said we were just the same as the savages taking help from Russia to overthrow and destroy. “A page from America’s book”, right?”—I didn’t mention Russia, so you basically are putting words in my mouth. The only thing I said from your quote was “A page from America’s book.” “quid pro quo is a TRADE. Doesn’t have to be a FAIR trade, even, it has to be PERCEIVED as a fair trade at the time.”—Here is the definition of quid pro quo “Quid pro quo means an exchange of goods or services, where one transfer is contingent upon the other.” It requires a trade yes, but forcing a lifestyle on someone is not a trade. You have so far been describing a forced lifestyle on people. Not a quid pro quo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo “Yes, America TRADED food for protection. “—Nope. Another snippet from your false history. They gave you food and taught you how to grow it. Among other things. “I think I said that in another thread? Or you just weren’t listening.”—You claim to say a lot of things and when it comes to those things being quoted it turns out that is not what you even said. You make stuff up as you go as I did say and can quote time and date when I said it. Plus I can’t hear you through the computer screen. “Our dependence on foreign oil is a CHOICE.”—If that is the lie you wish to tell yourself. If it was a choice the choose to drill oil on your own land or choose to make cars that don’t rely on it, but America can not fathom a life without oil. Primarily why the business is rolling in the dough. This quote is a prime example of that dependency “We suffer until they run out”. If you were not dependent on something you would not see it as suffering for not using it. “There was a Faction in America’s RECENT history, say the last 10 years, that wanted eco-exemptions for “Drill Baby Drill”. Refresh my memory, were they praised or ridiculed?”—Don’t know and don’t care as to answer would give you another deflection route. Why is it overblown? Because savages would NEVER attack their OWN for being too rich. This is about RACE and who BELONGS there, not who got rich and who didn’t, isn’t it? They are trying to have the whites’ houses, businesses, and lifestyle, without the whites! Killing fellow savages would not advance this goal. They want a WHITE-free country, not a country purged of fellow savages! Is that or is that not what is underlying the overthrow, no matter how nobly or subtly they may couch it? Why IS it noble for savages to purge whites–EVEN FROM OUR OWN COUNTRIES–but whites purging savages are “madmen”? Even Hungary building a wall to keep savages OUT, rather than purge them, is considered worse than Mao and Hitler put together! I picture them as Black, grinning evilly, a machete in one hand, and either a gun or a severed head “trophy” from a recent murder in the other. Lions are actually more valuable than HUMAN lives to the savages. Which is why they were so tightly controlled when the Civilized World ran the place. They somehow predicted savages would be savage (Definition: Primitive and violent), so they kept them separate to avoid trouble! I’ve tried being less subtle but my comments keep getting deleted. Hilarious but unproductive. What do you think I’ve “misrepresented”? I keep getting accused of moving the goalposts and similar, but I don’t see it. “very few White cities/towns that were used as garrisons, colonizing centers, and hotels” What do you consider a COUNTRY to be? Are they supposed to coat the whole place in concrete? Maybe Domed Cities with Cursed Earth between them? America is generally considered a country, but there are large unoccupied areas, and other areas are over-occupied. Are the unoccupied areas NOT America? If so, why don’t illegals settle there and build their own civilization, rather than invade our ALREADY-BUILT CITIES and antagonize us by failing to observe our language and laws? Furthermore, what determines ownership? Might Makes Right? Sheer Numbers? (Which is actually a variant, but let’s pretend it’s separate.) Borders and Laws? Or the people who BUILD the country, OWN the country? I’ve read plenty of books about Rhodesia and South Africa, but it just doesn’t do it justice. When I actually was ASSIGNED there, I was shocked at how much worse it was than the books hinted at. The books I read were “Tell Me And I Shall Forget” “White Paint” “Memoirs of a Traitor” I also read some book I can’t remember the title of about Cargo Cults in Africa, far deadlier than their Asian counterparts. After whites left, of course it’ll be worse! We raised their expectations! They’ve always HAD disease, starvation, death, and random violence, but now, because of Civilized World food, meds, and law-enforcement, they EXPECT not to! Somehow it becomes the whites’ fault the savages are dying. Our fault for letting them kill us, I guess, instead of developing bulletproof skin and machete-proof necks? The underlying problem: They want the white lifestyle without the whites making it/making it possible! That’s where the “White Privilege” misconception comes from. It’s like a child demanding more toys, more candy, believing the parents have or can buy it, and are just selfishly holding out on them. Someone slips the kid a gun, they shoot the parents, then find out the parents weren’t holding out, they really DIDN’T have it to give. And the kid can’t afford to buy more because anyone unscrupulous enough to HIRE a kid would CHEAT it! In fact, that was almost verbatim the plot of the book about the African Cargo Cults. Whites were messengers from the Gods, sent to give the savages gifts, but when we stopped giving gifts, they thought we were HOLDING out rather than RAN out of gifts to give, so they killed us! Now THAT’S ungrateful! “I keep getting accused of moving the goalposts and similar, but I don’t see it.”—You also don’t see what half of your sources say, so the idea that you don’t see it is inline with a lot of things you don’t see. For example you claimed Africa never made it. Then when presented with a Pictures of Africa that has “made it” you change or switch goal posts to say they are thieves or scammers. This is goal post shifting and you have several across several threads. China is heavily involved in terms of upgrading several countries in africa’s infrastructure, for commercial gain, it’s true but.. I don’t know if you’re being intentionally difficult/obtuse, or just really can’t figure it out. We don’t FORCE a lifestyle on anyone. They WANT our lifestyle, and consider it unfair if we have ANYTHING they don’t! BUT they don’t want to follow the rules, or even the annoying steps we had to go through to GET to this point of relative wealth. In short, they want us to build it up, they show up “Where’s My Share?” and we just fork it over! Otherwise we’re selfish Privileged scum, right? Is that or is that not why poor savages keep pouring into white countries, instead of China or fellow savage countries? Indeed, why is illegal immigration from CHINA now outstripping that from MEXICO, our hereditary invader? China’s a rich country, shouldn’t they be able to take care of their own excess population? Unless they WANT OUR LIFESTYLE? “They gave you food and taught you how to grow it. Among other things.” Yes, but you keep mischaracterizing it as them doing it out of altruism, the Goodness of their Heart, etc. It wasn’t. They could’ve let us starve, it wasn’t against their BELIEF, as they later tried to DIRECTLY KILL US, it was against their SELF-INTEREST! IF we die, the Narragansett keep attacking them until THEY die. Once the Narragansett were gone, we had Outlived our Usefulness, so they tried to kill us DIRECTLY! Sad Music They USED us! End Sad Music Whites may or may not have whined, “But we had a DEAL!”, but in any event, we kicked savage ass. Did you read the Wikipedia article on King Phillip’s War? Or just Google it, and find a site you DO trust, if you don’t trust Wikipedia for whatever reason? It’s not just Americans that can’t fathom (Good pun!) a life without oil. Europe, Chinese, Russians, and savages of every country and description have cars too, and I DON’T think any of them run on fairy dust! Even when savages can’t AFFORD a car in their own country, as soon as they invade the Civilized World, they get one? (If people REALLY cared about Global Warming, or Environment Justice or whatever, they’d stop savages from getting cars, but that’s just shy of stopping them from BREEDING in difficulty!) Petrochemicals are the ONLY way to get AS MUCH energy as you want WHEN you want WHERE you want. Battery tech has basically plateaued in say the past 10 years? (We can argue exactly HOW LONG it’s stagnated, but it HAS stagnated, can you agree with that?) So electric cars are inefficient, and more importantly, EXPENSIVE to have batteries on a CAR scale instead of a cellphone or laptop scale. The Volt is $70,000 STRIPPED! I can buy 3 cars for that! And batteries don’t MAKE electricity, they STORE it. Where are we going to get the electricity in the first place? Solar and wind are unreliable and require constant subsidy. Solar cells and windmills are built in CHINA, so that wouldn’t create any jobs FOR AMERICANS! (It doesn’t “count” if it’s not for us, OK?) The Bum keeps blocking charters of new nuclear reactors or even renewal of old ones. So all we’ve got left IS fossil fuels. EPGAH said: I picture them as Black, grinning evilly, a machete in one hand, and either a gun or a severed head “trophy” from a recent murder in the other. Lions are actually more valuable than HUMAN lives to the savages. Which is why they were so tightly controlled when the Civilized World ran the place.They somehow predicted savages would be savage (Definition: Primitive and violent), so they kept them separate to avoid trouble! Your outlook on life is primitive and violent so, I think you fit the term savage more than anyone else. I feel like I am reading the post of a child, one that is constantly pointing the finger saying ‘look what he/she/they did’ and just not understanding the context of anything. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. Look at all the concessions China has squeezed out of America for just monetary loans to support our ridiculous “social safety net” spending, from letting spies go to our nuclear and rocketry secrets. How much MORE would they extort if they actually BUILT THE COUNTRY? Savages have nothing to offer except staying out of the way while someone mines resources that Civilized World needs and China needs for their cheap (and often toxic) knockoffs of our products…Or LABOR. China does not have slavery, they have Laogai, which is arguably worse… My outlook on life is NOT primitive and violent. I LOVE the Civilized World’s technology, and I think we could’ve done a LOT MORE if we weren’t constantly trying to keep savages either at bay or paid off. As to post of a child, there are other threads here that seem like just, “Whites have MORE than we do! GIMME GIMME GIMME!” I consider myself the adult saying, “BEHAVE! Let us EARN more so we can give you more!” Savages overthrowing our countries is a primitive, violent way of saying, “WE WANT IT NOW!” Actions louder than words, right? Or burning down cities in America. As to context, what “context” could possibly justify invading a country, demanding things from it, and murdering the people and destroying it if they don’t get their way? ·They didn’t build any of it. ·If they worked, they were paid for it. ·We tripled their average life expectancy, so they owe US, not vice-versa. ·If they didn’t like it, they could stay out and return to Nasty, Brutish, and Short! That is my “context”. What “context” could reverse that formula? PS, the savages HAVE done that to farmers and other WHITE landowners, so I don’t think I’m particularly off in my idea of how savages look/act/wield. Do a Google Images Search on it. Maybe you’ll throw up in horror, or maybe you’ll cheer at the savages killing the greedy selfish whites? But given what they’ve done, doesn’t that make ANY length whites go to to protect ourselves seem absolutely justified or else “Not enough”? From Apartheid in South Africa–UNFAIR, sure, but NECESSARY, given what the savages did when it stopped–to Hungary and Israel walling themselves off from the violent savages to America… Hmm, America doesn’t HAVE ANY defenses from the savages since Wilson, do we? BTW, this article completely leaves out Amy Biehl. Gang-raped and murdered while trying to help the savages. And her parents put up money…for the legal defense of the savages who did it! THAT is seriously bad parenting! Or the nurses who got raped in Haiti. Or the doctors who got kidnapped in Somalia so frequently, that Doctors Without Borders quit going there! What’s the “context” to justify those? “I don’t know if you’re being intentionally difficult/obtuse, or just really can’t figure it out.”—Nope that is all you. You seem to have a thing for voicing who you are while trying to paint it as someone else. “We don’t FORCE a lifestyle on anyone. They WANT our lifestyle, and consider it unfair if we have ANYTHING they don’t!”—That is false and history shows that as much. Take the natives for example. They were put in schools and had their names changed, forced to renounce their old ways, and forced to dress the way “whites” wanted them to. Even if we look at today, whites want to force people who come here to speak English and even force English on other countries. “Is that or is that not why poor savages keep pouring into white countries, instead of China or fellow savage countries?”—History shows that whites pour into other people’s countries. Just because those minorities decide to return to their lands does not mean they are pouring in to a white country. It just means they are returning home. “Yes, but you keep mischaracterizing it as them doing it out of altruism, the Goodness of their Heart, etc. It wasn’t.”—-Here is another example of goal post shifting. You claimed America was independent. You have a whole aparagraph above raving about it, but Natives decide to help those helpless white Americans and now you want to claim it was not for nothing. A claim you have no proof of other than your idea of “we whites would have done that so they more than likely did it.” In short the first settlers needed them. Their survival was dependent on them. You were debunked again. “Did you read the Wikipedia article on King Phillip’s War?”—Save the deflection as it still has nothing to do with what you are claiming. “It’s not just Americans that can’t fathom (Good pun!) a life without oil.”—But we are not talking about other countries. We are talking about dependency. You claimed America was so independent. Now you are making excuse for why it is SO dependent. See the humor. ROFL If you want lack of context, look at the top of the page here. Mugabe is proof that blacks are unfit to rule and Hitler is a madman, because of the CONSEQUENCES for their respective genocides. Whites all banded together to stop Hitler. Even Russia (for a time) was on the side of the Angels! Blacks, they banded together…UNDER it! They didn’t try to STOP Mugabe, too busy congratulating it for overthrowing and murdering whites in our own country, and even shielding the King of Sudan from prosecution! @Omnipresent I think he is a child myself. I have met some dumb adults but this is utter ridiculous. The savages wanted to live in OUR country, so why shouldn’t they speak OUR language? Who is returning to THEIR land? If they’re coming into OUR country, it’s obviously not theirs! English is the Universal Language because English were the Universal Civilizers–before America took up the torch. Everything from science to commerce to Air Traffic Control is in English. If China had civilized the world, rather than merely usurp America’s tech, would you complain as loudly if they expected anyone who wanted to do business with them to learn Chinese? Indeed, would China be ANYTHING without England upgrading them? Why DID they renege on the land treaty of Hong Kong? “In Perpetuity” becoming “99 years” is moving the goalposts…quite a bit! The “context” being they killed a lot of English people, and turned one English woman into a Nice Belt! That needs to be punished, don’t you think? You debunked NOTHING King Phillip’s War is not a deflection. It is exactly what I’m claiming. King Phillip’s War is the name usually given to the Wampanoags turning on the Pilgrims. We were independent, trading military aid for food. “America’s” first military treaty even BEFORE America was a country! If they just fed us and we stood around and did NOTHING for it, then yes, I’d say we were dependent leeches. OK? That is the difference. Our survival was dependent on them, BUT if we didn’t beat their bullies, their survival was null&void too. They were dependent on us! If whites were as evil as you pretend, why didn’t we kill BOTH groups of savages, TAKE the food, and that’s that? “murdering whites in our own country”—anymore questions on the level of delusion of this man? You don’t HAVE to learn English. You don’t even have to get housebroken. But if you do not, there will be things forever denied you, and people will always treat you as less. Assimilating to a better culture, a better mode of behavior, gives you privileges in return. Privilege is as always, EARNED, not merely BORN! Rhodesia was a white country. If you want to claim the English aren’t or weren’t white, it’s not me that has a level of delusion! “The savages wanted to live in OUR country, so why shouldn’t they speak OUR language?”—False. You are in their country. You should be speaking native tongue. This is not your land. You wanted to come here. No native invited you. “If they’re coming into OUR country, it’s obviously not theirs!”—False again. You can return to a land that you once lived on. Reread what I said. You seem to have gotten sidetracked. “If China had civilized the world, rather than merely usurp America’s tech, would you complain as loudly if they expected anyone who wanted to do business with them to learn Chinese”—Can you stop trying to deflect. You are embarrassing yourself terribly. Forcing English on people in other countries doesn’t have to do with just business. Research…research. “Indeed, would China be ANYTHING without England upgrading them?”—It would as would any country, but it just would not be what you want it to be. “You debunked NOTHING”—I actually did. Several times I might add. I got such a level of kick and giggles out of how easy it was. You made claims you never could support. King Philip was not even one of them. You bring in a bunch of irrelevant things hoping that those will beef up your claims. They don’t. Then you switch positions in hope that moving to another will make you seem more right. It doesn’t If you like I can and likely will make a list of all the claims you made here and were debunked on. “If they just fed us and we stood around and did NOTHING for it, then yes, I’d say we were dependent leeches. OK? That is the difference.”—There is no stipulation to being dependent on something. The meaning of the word is clear. If you rely on or your life standing is determined by something or someone else then you are dependent. Period. “Our survival was dependent on them, BUT if we didn’t beat their bullies, their survival was null&void too. They were dependent on us!”—Except those “bullies” were around before you came. How did they deal with them them? The same as they did before you came. “If whites were as evil as you pretend, why didn’t we kill BOTH groups of savages, TAKE the food, and that’s that?”—Because you still needed the other group to teach you the land beyond the coast. Except American culture is not a better culture. You only put it on a pedal stool. “Rhodesia was a white country.”—Countries don’t have color, but if we want to go their it was stolen. That does not make it a white country. “If you want to claim the English aren’t or weren’t white, it’s not me that has a level of delusion!”—Except I did not claim that and was not going to. I thought you got enough of embarrassing yourself by trying to lay claim to what I think or believe. @epgah what does epgah stand for? Btw if you wrote anything besides vitriol and hate you’d be an eloquent and persuasive writer We’re on land they once occupied. They were no more invited than we. We actually made a country, they didn’t. Think of 5-year-olds playing in a dirt lot. They don’t build anything (Or at least nothing lasting), they invent nothing, how is it theirs? Then if a bunch of musclebound behemoths lift them off that dirt lot, and put them outside it, and build a store there, can they barge in and say “We own this store because we used to play in the dirt lot that was here before!”? I’ve moved 27 times in my 36 years of life. Could I go to any of those previous houses and say, “Hey, I USED to live here, I’m gonna live here again!”? I don’t think that would fly. The current occupants might make ME fly out a window, but that doesn’t “count”! No savages are coming here because America used to be theirs. Mexicans used to be kept out by Apache and Comanche, now immortalized in military helicopters. It would be exceptionally ironic if we used those helicopters to keep them out…but we don’t. We have the Bum’s “Virtual Fence” with camera drones so we can WATCH them invade and rape our country, turning it into the same mess their country already is! Before English, German was the Prime Language, and before that, Latin was. There’s always some Prime Language, everyone “has” to learn if they want the benefits behind it. AND of course, the lesser cultures are always going to whine some variant of “Hey, why can’t we have the benefits without the rest of the culture?” American culture of WHAT YEAR? If even HALF of what my parents claim is true, then the 50s were better than the 80s, which in turn, are far and away better than the now-time. Technology is better, people, educational system, manners, safety, and other facets are worse. And this is the same country–allegedly–just separate temporally from itself. Are you the same person as you were 30 years ago? Or even 10? But if America is not a better culture, how do we still have a better country? Or at least better than Mexico…Faint Praise, indeed! And in turn, there are countries south of Mexico that make MEXICO look like a success story. Mexicans complain about Nigerian and Honduran illegals! That is what you said. BUT King admitted that Europeans carved the mostly-blank land of Africa into COUNTRIES where there weren’t before. Just like America, Rhodesia was sparse or even blank land before the Civilized World built it into a COUNTRY! Stealing a country is a modern thing, there has to BE a country there first! “Breadbasket of Africa”, now can’t even feed itself. We send seeds, they either eat them or use them to soak up floods. Hilarious, but unproductive. “What do you consider a COUNTRY to be? Are they supposed to coat the whole place in concrete?” What are they SUPPOSED to do? Probably not take over other people’s lands without invitation, consent or payment, If it comes down to what they are “supposed” to do in the first place. But if you want to make an argument that part of the payment was “building up the country,” then it can’t just be built up for the White people in the country. Otherwise it’s not helping the people who you are arguing that it benefits for taking their land. Well, the Europeans seem to keep changing their minds on what constitutes ownership. For example, when dealing with non-Europeans, then “Might Makes Right” is a perfectly acceptable rationale. “Manifest Destiny” in the Americas and the “Scramble for Africa” on the Continent exemplify that reality. However if Hitler invades Poland or France, then it’s no longer an acceptable rationale. Or if Saddam invades Kuwait, or if Putin invades Ukraine. This is what’s known as Moving The Goal Posts (please see sharinalr for details) “After whites left, of course it’ll be worse! We raised their expectations! They’ve always HAD disease, starvation, death, and random violence, but now, because of Civilized World food, meds, and law-enforcement, they EXPECT not to!” But then everyone has always had disease, starvation, death, and random violence. Do you watch the news? Do you read history? These poor souls… such a Savage existence… (SMH) EPGAH: demanding things from it and murdering the people and destroying it if they don’t get their way This sounds an awful lot to me like what Europeans did for example in America but under no initial resistance from the indigenous people that lived there. The native people helped them – that’s what Thanksgiving is about isn’t it? Later down the line, they Europeans got greedy, took land but wanted more, encroaching on and then invading on what was established indigenous areas. Guess who the murderers were here? It’s my initials. Why do you consider what I write “hate and vitriol”? Whites are called “Cancer of the planet” on this very site! Savages talk&sing about exterminating whites–sometimes they DO it, so why is it “hate and vitriol” to want savages to either calm down and behave or get the expletive of your choice out of our countries? Is it also hate&vitriol when savages invade our countries, murder the people and overthrow them? Or when say, Mexico doesn’t want savages to breach THEIR southern border and cause “economic and cultural disruption”? When does it stop being “hate and vitriol” and start being a reasonable desire not to be murdered, robbed, or otherwise violated? Or is that NEVER a reasonable desire? Speaking of which, have you seen the savages national anthem after they overthrew South Africa? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOXqFQw2hc) Kill the White, Kill the Boer. What “context” makes that not “hate&vitriol”? It wasn’t murder, it was fighting back. After you sell me land, I can do whatever I want with it. It is no longer yours, it is MINE! If you get “worried” I’m buying too much land, the correct way of stopping me is to stop selling me anymore. Japanese and Chinese are buying up land in America, from prime grazing land to Rare Earths mines–the ones necessary for Clean Energy technology as well as battery research. Should we kill them as well because the amount of land they’ve bought is “worrisome”? Should we claim they only buy it for 99 years, instead of forever? (Hong Kong reference) We don’t renenge on land deals, we play fair, even with our enemies. In any event, the savages CHOSE to attack us, and we CHOSE to fight back rather than bending over. So yes, the savages were the murderers. If I sell you my house RIGHT NOW, then I kill you for being in “my” house, then I am the murderer. YOU legally have the deed. All your friends would exact vengeance on me, or at the very least, the police would! Do you get the “context”? “Under no initial resistance” is a bit of a red herring, BTW. If you offer me enough for my house, I won’t “resist” selling to you. If you buy too many houses in my neighborhood, the civilized way would be to organize the rest of the homeowners NOT to sell to you. What the savages did was round up a posse and try to kill you for the equivalent of buying too many houses in my neighborhood. After the posse killed 1/10 of your family, you calmly shot the whole posse. Is that a better explanation? “Don’t think so.”—It is common knowledge now that you don’t think. Let’s take your example. You don’t just come and build a store on land. You pay for it. Seeing as you never paid the natives for their land then you are on stolen land. I doubt the man who puts up the store invented anything, but felt by some right he could just take the land. In the real world the natives were not just playing in sand on their lands. They had homes, crops, a lifestyle. All your examples fail in these situation because frankly the key term here is paid for it. Something settlers did not do. “No savages are coming here because America used to be theirs.”—False again. For example Texas used to be Mexicos. I believe some other areas fall into their too. So yea….they are returning home, but this is another straw man. I never said just Mexicans. “Before English, German was the Prime Language, and before that, Latin was.”—False again. There were many languages, but none of them were prime ones. “American culture of WHAT YEAR? “—That is irrelevant. The year does not change the heart of the culture. “Are you the same person as you were 30 years ago? Or even 10?”—Nope, but that has a great deal to do with me pulling myself away from American culture. “But if America is not a better culture, how do we still have a better country”—But you don’t have a better country. You would be surprised at the lengths your government goes through to ensure you believe that. It indoctrinate its citizens to believe that. “anymore questions on the level of delusion of this man?”—I never questioned your delusion. I can read your post and let it stand as proof of your delusions. “That is what you said. “—If that was what I said then you would be quoting it. The fact that you have not says a great deal. At any rate if you want to do a straw man then it would not be the first, but do stop putting words in my mouth. “Just like America, Rhodesia was sparse or even blank land before the Civilized World built it into a COUNTRY!”—Just like America this would be another false statement with no supporting facts. “Stealing a country is a modern thing, there has to BE a country there first!”—No it does not. Stealing by definition is taking what is not yours. If the land was not yours then you stole it. Just because you decided to call it a new name does not mean it was never stolen. @epgah frankly, i’m surprised that this conversation has been going on all day? But the ‘mostly white’ colonislstic forces interrupted africans’ development, dutch east india co. Style, creating the diaspora, etc at the time of their industrial age, it’s been posited here before, idk you keep saying savages, and your reasoning is biased and ‘monolithic’, xenophobic, idk… not friendly either. My wife calls me racial slurs, so what, i mean we’re all grown (mostly) here, i’d assume @v8driver “vitriol and hate you’d be an eloquent and persuasive writer.”—I don’t think so unless he is talking to a bunch of individuals who do not do research. The heart of everything he says is a lie. Most of his rantings of paranoid rants of a mad man. Suffering from delusions of grandeur. My comment is in moderation, but this portion I want to make very clear. You have made the claim several times now of me saying something that I did not. If that is the tact that you must resort to then what every debate you think you have had with me has been lost several times over. I DID quote it, I copied and pasted it directly. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/the-broken-africa-stereotype/#comment-296048 Here’s a direct link to your comment, in case you forgot you said it. Yes, and mostly nonwhite conquerors “interrupted” Rome’s development. But the whites just got back up and continued. And it should be noticed that whites and ONLY whites judged slavery ILLEGAL. Whether or not we considered it WRONG, we made it ILLEGAL. As to being biased, calling “White Privilege” a bad thing should be considered “biased” and thrown away. At least if we’re using the dictionary definition of “Privilege”, “Extra benefit or access earned by meritorious behavior” When and how did that become a four letter word? There’s a whole thread on how the Irish “mysteriously” became white, but they did so by learning how to behave, instead of insisting on behaving THEIR way in OUR country. As to monolithic, we’re talking about a “minority” group that celebrates and angsts over being a “minority” group. Noone else suffered as much as they did, from slavery on up, right? If the majority of a group acts like X, and the rest of the group does not punish those who act X or extra X, we have every reason to suspect the group LIKES acting X, right? Whites punished Hitler, so he was a madman. Blacks APPLAUDED Mugabe so it was part of their DESIRED behavior, not a madman to their standards. Is that a good illustration? As to xenophobic, that would be true if and only if we had no indication of how a given group behaved. But we have whole COUNTRIES their behavior already ruined. Some groups, we’ve let into our country in substantial numbers, we can observe if their behavior “magically” improves from setting foot in our country. So far, I’d say they act the same or worse in our country as they do in their own, wouldn’t you? Ever seen Star Trek? Dad bought the tapes and we watched one per night when I was a kid. The most extreme perversions of the human form were accepted because they BEHAVED. Things that looked like humans with bad mustaches and eyebrow implants were NOT accepted because they kept ATTACKING US! Are we not supposed to judge by their behavior in real life? on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 22:49:51 mike4ty4 @EPGAH: Slaughtering tens of millions in wars and genocides, deceiving and defrauding people out of land so that it could be used to extract resources, etc. are not “meritorious behavior”. It’s nation-scale robbery. What the savages did was round up a posse and try to kill you for the equivalent of buying too many houses in my neighborhood. Incorrect, since there is a presumption here that the dealings with the NAs were Honest. They weren’t, and employed various forms of deceit (fraud). We don’t FORCE a lifestyle on anyone. They WANT our lifestyle, and consider it unfair if we have ANYTHING they don’t! If they “WANTED” it and it didn’t need to be “FORCED”, then there was no need for whites to SLAUGHTER them by the MILLIONS in pursuit of granting it and try their darndest to obliterate their native culture. That was evil: murder, theft, rape, and psychological torture all in one. (Oh yeah and if you don’t think hostilities emerged until the Natives fired the first shots — WRONG. When Columbus first showed up his men took people and RAPED them. “Civilized” all right. Hostilities were established from day 1, by the Whites.) “I DID quote it, I copied and pasted it directly.”—Aw so you were referring to that quote. But what you wrote is simply copy and paste and can been seen more as plagiarism than quoting me. Quoting it not throwing out a random sentence with no proper credit to the individual. Here is an example of quoting: According to Roger Sipher, a solution to the perceived crisis of American education is to “Abolish compulsory-attendance laws and allow only those who are committed to getting an education to attend” (para. 3) Notice the quotation marks around the quoted phrases. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/563/ At any rate, what of it? You have said nothing that changes what I said. @EPGAH, Also, if “whites” were truly so “civilized” and “sorry” they did all this slavery and were really trying to end it, not only would they have made it “illegal” but they would ALSO not have instituted 90 years of Jim Crow on top and instead would be or have been paying reparations to recompense the communities who were denied wealth after slavery was made “illegal”. (Seems after slavery was made “illegal” whites tried their darndest to keep Blacks as close to slaves as they could without making them actually so — almost as if the outlawing of slavery was a grudging concession instead of a whole-hearted display of “Civilization”.) @sharina i meant stylistically,obviously we diverge on content, something … idk I see africa as a succession of power vaccuums from untenable states of being directly traceable to berlin 1888 i believe bolstered by cheap weapons and expedience and ulterior motives, a sad thing really. mike4ty4 We ARE civilized, which is why we’ve abided by land sale agreements, and not killed the ex-slaves like Moslems often did when they were “done with them”. Oprah, MJ, Sharpton, Jackson, etc. were not killed so we could take back their property. Indeed one of those is well behind on taxes, IIRC? Once the slaves were no longer our PROPERTY, by all logic, they should no longer be our PROBLEM right? We’re off the hook for their upkeep and all that? (Except with the Rise of the Welfare State, we are essentially THEIR slaves, but I think we’re supposed to ignore that?) BUT that assumes the slaves just stopped existing once they stopped being property. They didn’t, they went directly from “property” (HELPING you make a profit) to “rival” (OBSTACLE to you making a profit), and in some cases, outright ENEMY (KILLING you to prevent you making a profit). So self-preservation would lead us to make the obstacle as small as possible and the enemy as safe as possible, right? Jim Crow Laws varied from State to State, depending on the severity of the perceived threat. Which State do you want to go through? One of them had literacy tests for voting. Only people who could READ could vote! I think that’s a GREAT idea, needed now! Why pay reparations to the enemy? Where are the reparations for the chumps who bought slaves, and were abruptly divested of very expensive property? Or is it because they lost the war, they don’t DESERVE reparations? What if your car or your computer went from being your property to your enemy? Would you pay it or try to destroy it? How much did you pay for your car, and would that amount of money prevent you putting a bullet through/between the headlights? If only there were some highly allegorical movies about our machine property turning on us. Get Schwarzenegger on the phone, he’d be good for 3-4 of such movies! on Mon Oct 5th 2015 at 00:13:39 EPGAH Also remember, when they WERE offered a chance to get “out from under” AND reparations…Most REFUSED! ·Their own land–FREE ·Their own livestock–FREE ·Their own tools–FREE ·Their own effort determines how much they get! Maybe they thought it was an MLM scal, but depending whose stats you take as Gospel, only 9,000-13,000 took them up on the Deal..OVER 100 YEARS! (Lincoln to Eisenhower!) Modern cruise ships carry more than that–plus passengers–every trip! Maybe they weren’t crazy or desperate enough to leave, and the real ungrateful complaining wouldn’t begin until the 1960s? Maybe they knew it would be overthrown as soon as America yanked the Marines that acted as Border Patrol for them? Maybe if more had gone, they would not have been overthrown? Look up Liberia in whatever info engine you like, tell me if I’m lying? on Mon Oct 5th 2015 at 00:18:48 v8driver one time, when i was in the homeless shelter in easton, pa? i met a marine sniper, he shot the opposition leader in liberia @ EPGAH: Comment deleted for use of moderated language. on Mon Oct 5th 2015 at 00:52:00 sharinalr Perhaps….. I met the Epic Beard Man before he was Epic, and the American Sniper before he was murdered, does that count? Just goes to show africa and the middle east has been a chessboard for centuries And south/southeast asia EPGAH is banned for plagiarism. I’m sure i’ve caused some grief here, but that was a little unsettling, plus it was like 2 weeks of discussion in 8 hours? Unreal. on Mon Oct 5th 2015 at 16:46:17 villagewriter “To be called a white ‘African’ (writing this hurts me) ties in, not with any nationalist, patriotic or any romantic notion, but with their unbridled capitalistic rapacity and their perverted ideology that they are God’s chosen people (Afrikaners) so they are entitled to all our land.” When I read about “god’s chosen people” (Afrikaners) I had a good laugh. I am sorry but I do not trust them. They could plant a nuclear weapon in South Africa or even assassinate your president. Their kind of racism is so fresh and pure that it makes American racism look like Godly love. on Mon Oct 5th 2015 at 19:55:24 Michael Barker @ Mirkwood It’s your blog, you shouldn’t have to come here for approval. What you have in common with him is that the both of you deny white supremecy but for different reasons. If you kept him around on your blog and debated him it might help you see things differently here and as they truley are. You have been here a while but have resisted changing your world view. on Tue Oct 6th 2015 at 05:34:19 abagond @ Lord of Mirkwood I would stick to my comment policy, though you might want to think about what changes you should have going forward. He would still be here if he was not caught plagiarizing. To me trolls are part of the cost of doing business. Sometimes they can be put to good use as useful idiots. Most trolls wind up using sock puppets, so I would keep my eye out for that. on Tue Oct 6th 2015 at 13:11:21 Uglyblackjohn Dang it!!! I finally get around to finding his reply and he’s gone? The thing that he fails to understand is that most white immigration WAS done because white people wanted to get away from other white people. That most of ‘his’ country’s wars: both World Wars, the Cold War, the Civil War, the Mexican-American War (Spain is European and white – he agrees), the War of 1812, the Revolutionary War and the Seven Year War – were fought against OTHER WHITE PEOPLE. So much for being a civilized people. (And yes, it was fun having him around.) on Tue Oct 6th 2015 at 19:24:22 sharinalr EPGAH’s screen name was very familiar and then I realized I debated him prior on some youtube comment section. on Wed Oct 7th 2015 at 01:32:45 Fan ... “I’ve decided not to ban him,…” Well, it’s not like you have a large group of posters there, and commenters – for some people – are hard to come by, so I can understand you being far less discriminating… Besides, I didn’t see you disagreeing with a lot of its mess before IT was banned. I suspect that you may not have enjoyed ITS presence here because IT was stealing away much of the attention you were formerly getting. lol “If you refuse to do so, then I know you’re not seriously interested in what my political leanings are ….” You’re kidding, right?? (Nice try … lol) Even the walking dead KNOW what your politics are… which is why to a very large degree you stand OUT here. Much of what you, if not all you do here, is talk about the donkeys and the elephants. That’s why people like me don’t take you very seriously. You infinitely dodge the root issues, even when it’s politely explained to you. “I am tired of trying to justify myself to everybody here 24/7, but I will keep at it.” No one is buying your justifications because they are found bogus and irrelevant to what OUR day to day experiences are. If you wish to be taken seriously and not ignored (or used for entertainment) you need to come in here through a door of OUR shared circumstance. The door you approached and entered in here (your circumstance) just ain’t working! on Wed Oct 7th 2015 at 15:01:36 taotesan I was going to write a sober response to your comment, but this popped into my mind and ran away with me. (Still trying to write, but feeling a little brain-dead at the moment.) No, I do not ride zebras. It is a surprise to any African that zebras could be ridden, but I do have pet lion, Nelson, whom I walk with to my child’s school every day. I go about my day to day life in a loin cloth, with my breasts bared. Who is this Levi, Tommy Hilfiger and Donna Karan? I wrote this article, in African, had it translated into English by a special seer, in feather pen, in long hand, in my village , on papyrus and sent it cross-Atlantic by carrier pigeon. I do not know how to read. I have never heard of Shakespeare, Jackie Collins, Brendan Behan or Noam Chomsky. When trying to contact a relative long distance, I walk for miles and ululate in special code. What is this thing called a cell phone? My stomach is still digesting the GMO maize meal so generously donated by the USA, with mopane worms and chicken feet. I do not know what a quiche Lorraine, fettuccini carbonara or Nigiri is. When we listen to music, a goat must be slaughtered, and its hide cured and made into a djembe drum and we dance and ululate around the fireplace. I have never heard of Tchaikovsky, Whitney Houston, Eminem, Tupac or Bono. I must tell you I have never had the AIDS. I am afraid of needles. I know this is too much information and you probably would not believe me, but my private parts are intact. What is this Princess Diana and Prince Albert piercings? When I have that thing Europeans call influenza, (not affluenza) I boil special herbs in water from the river that USA dumps their toxic waste. It tastes horrible. What is antibiotics? I do not have the Ebola either. Mzanzi or South Africa is closer to Antarctica than to Sierra Leone and Guinea. It’s about 9000 km. Sierra Leone is closer to New York (7063 km) than Cape Town. My sister tells me there are white people in America who have the Ebola. In my hut, I use special cow-dung. I do not know magic white light. I have no idea how to re-heat a pizza, or how to load a washing machine. I have never heard of Mies van der rohe or Buckminster Fuller. Before my daughter goes to school, she walks barefoot in the dark, to collect firewood. I also rise early to collect water for bathing and drinking water. But I heard a lot about this TV, you know, the big box where the people who talk funny in the English tongue, live. My brother tells me that that ladies with long blond hair like to kiss a lot and like the sex with different men. He also says that the people, even the women with the sun-hair and no skin colour and white-white teeth like shooting people a lot. They have better guns than the Russian AK-47s and Kalashnikovs. . I do not like guns. My brother’s wife wants a weave like the Black ladies in the TV. You can buy a weave from the Chinese corner shop. Me, I am just a wash and leave. I also hear in America white fat people are dying from malnutrition. When I travelled to the USA, I crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a dhow and then hitched a ride, monkey grip on Boeing 747. I know there is a Black President in America, but my brother,he tells me that there is going to be another Black president, who is very, very rich, just like our president, but he is white and has a carpet on his head, just like our president who has a shower on his head. My brother says orange is the new black. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPrJxTvgdQ) Very funny clip by fellow Mzansinite, Trevor Noah. @LOM Those are not the root issues. Those are YOUR root issues. When we attempt to discuss anything with you you happily dismiss it. on Sat Sep 10th 2016 at 10:05:00 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord) How many countries in Africa can you name ? http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/africa Quick little fun game. I got 27 out 54. Can anyone beat that ? I don’t think so Don’t cheat though. Unless you want to check spelling on Sat Sep 10th 2016 at 13:20:30 Kartoffel Ha, I love these Quizes. got 50/54 but I do them all the time. I couldn’t remember the english spelling of four countries. Also this test doesn’t forcde you to match country and its name, for example I never now which one of the islands is which. on Sat Sep 10th 2016 at 16:54:41 gro jo How is Mugabe like Hitler? You swallowed the propaganda all the while pretending to debunk it. Africa is broken, how could it not be after more than five hundred years of near genocidal exploitation? The real question is how to repair the damage done. Only people like Mugabe have the balls to take on the task of repairing the damage. @Kartoffel – 50 our 54 ? Are you serious ? What ones did you miss ? Anyone who get’s over 40 is a Jedi on African geography. I’ve never known anyone to get 50; That’s a Jedi master. The average score is around 22. I’d say about 10% get over thirty, 5% over 40 and as I say (if your telling the truth) no-one has got to 50. I knew my score of 27 would not be a stern test, the ‘I don’t think so’comment was tongue in cheek but that’s what I got. Best be honest @Lord of Mirkwood – 38 is still way above average and like you I missed out on some incredible ones, that I can’t believe. on Sat Sep 10th 2016 at 19:55:58 taotesan I can tell who is a white American in my area without hearing them talk. on Sat Sep 10th 2016 at 20:11:45 Mary Burrell @taotesan: Can you recommend a book about the history of Africa I know this can be quite dodgy? While trying to find decent reference books about the continent of Africa I have learned many books are written by whites who view Africa with a white lens and they are not objective. What I am learning is the language used in these reference books, for example “darkest Africa or black Africa. There is something very unsettling about that type of language. I want to make smart choices when I purchase reference books any suggestions will be welcome. @taotesan: I love Trevor Noah he hilarious thanks for the YouTube share. @ TheHipHopRecords As I said it wan’t the first time I did such a quiz. I have no idea how much I scored when I did an Africa nation quiz for the first time. Also I learned all African states by heart as a child. I couldn’t remember the English spelling of Mauritania, Equitorial Guinea, Sao Tome e Principe, Djibouti and other. ( Sorry, was watching Paralympian bench press) @ Mary I can’t think off hand the exact titles with authors. I will come back to you soonest. Off- hand, I would highly recommend Guyanese Walter Rodney’s seminal work: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. It is information dense beginning with the European slave trade of Africans to neo colonialism in Africa. Kwame Nkrumah’ Decolonization. Timbuktu by Diagne. I can’t get the the title or author of Ancient Egyptian history. The historian was Caribbean and I think he was assissinated. I had read it a few years ago and the historians name eludes me. A Comparative Study of South African and American History by Frederickson. On my shelf and not yet read: Half a yellow Sun by Adichi Chancellor Williams by The Destruction of Black Civilization Revolution by Frantz Fanon. Most of my books are packed away, and just can’t recollect. Perhaps you could tell me the region and era that you might be interested in. A good place to start would also be a light introduction through literature. Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangaremga, a Zimbabwean. Maru by Bessie Head, South African (highly recommended) Naguib Mafouz : Trilogy , Egyptian Things Fall Apart : Achebe, Nigeria This will be nice a project for the week, and I will provide some background. My reply to you is in moderation. Yes, there are a plethora of books written by white foreigners through a paternalistic lens. Read a few and tossed them out. Give me a bit of time to provide a precis of and better thought through and systematic recommendations . I think a start could be is to first ground in Ancient history by Black historians: I think ‘Stolen Legacy’ by a Guyanese, George Granville James, who was also assassinated like Walter Rodney! is a must read. Cheikh Anta Diop: ‘African Origin of Civilization’ or any book by him. (Glad you enjoyed Trevor Noah, Unfortunately, I have watched him so many times, that I can’t even laugh anymore. Briefly met him before he was famous. ) on Sat Sep 10th 2016 at 21:43:20 Solitaire I only got 28. Out of the remainder, there were maybe half I knew but blanked on (e.g. Chad, Angola, Sierra Leone), but the rest I would have never gotten. I need to brush up on my African geography. I also showed my age by trying Zaire. 😦 What is the name of the small African country with an American miltary base? Clue:Which you might hear about in a few months time when the US announces that country needs a regime change or needs to install ‘democracy’ Another clue: China has troops there. Djibouti? You are fast , Abagond. 🙂 Now how about on that overdue post on South Africa?:) I got 53/54. I missed Seychelles. @ taosetan What is the name of the island in the Indian Ocean which Britain has stolen from its inhabitants and had sold it to the United States, which is now populated by Americans with its military base and what is the name of the island in the Indian Ocean which the the inhabitants were relocated and now live in abject poverty? village writer and michaeljonbarker know the answer. Here’s a gem: Which are the three African countries, which are diamond rich, had the Marburg virus? Or one on Trevor Noah. You can put Mary out of her misery, who has been throwing hints for a while. 🙂 53 out of 54?!? Damn, Abagond, you are smart. on Sun Sep 11th 2016 at 06:18:49 Afrofem “the name of the island in the Indian Ocean which Britain has stolen from its inhabitants and had sold it to the United States, which is now populated by Americans with its military base and what is the name of the island in the Indian Ocean which the the inhabitants were relocated and now live in abject poverty?” Diego Garcia. on Sun Sep 11th 2016 at 14:59:05 Mary Burrell @taotesean:Thank you for those titles I will write them down and check them out. A post on Trevor Noah would be great I think he’s funny and sharp. on Sun Sep 11th 2016 at 20:15:13 taotesan Not to mention. I will provide more later, when I am back home. Trevor Noah On Black Americans. I must have watched this about 20 times. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZYCj39M38) Not just a pretty face. Excellent. And the Indian Ocean island the Chagossians were relocated to? No pressure. Since you are so smart on African geography and all, perhaps another post on Africa from your pen is in order. The Chagossian diaspora resides on three islands: ▷the Seychelles (east of Kenya/Tanzania) in the Indian Ocean ▷Mauritius east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean ▷the UK in the Atlantic Ocean I hope this is not a spoiler, but I saw an excellent 2015 article about the Chagossians in the Independent, a UK based newspaper/news site: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-chagossians-the-indian-ocean-islanders-exiled-from-their-home-and-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-10169107.html on Mon Sep 12th 2016 at 21:11:55 taotesan You are sharp. ( I could not get on to your link, yet). (http://johnpilger.com/videos/stealing-a-nation) John Pilger was the investigative journalist who brought it to the world’d attention. And resw, it is through the Queen of England’s seal, that this crime is allowed to continue. And do Americans know about one of the most outrageous crimes of the 20st century? “Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America’s largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an “indispensable platform” for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.” LOL. Posts on present-day Africa are hard for me because I know from experience that I sit on the other side of a huge Eurocentric lens. For African history, I have better sources. So, the Songhay Empire, say, is much easier for me to do a post on than South Africa. That said, on a blog like this, I cannot NOT do posts on South Africa and apartheid. And Zimbabwe too. And, because Mary’s suggestions are almost always good, Trevor Noah. What are some good websites on news in South Africa? on Sun Sep 18th 2016 at 02:32:20 Solitaire So I took the map of European nations quiz on the same website and did just as dismally, like almost the exact same score. Granted, Eastern Europe has changed a lot since I was in school — but I got several of those new little nations while completely blanking on Austria. What’s even worse is that as I was filling in those little nations, I thought to myself, “That’s right, this all used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.” And I still forgot to add Austria! I did get Hungary, though. I do have a few brain cells left. At least I did much better on the South America quiz, but then there were only 12 nations, so it’s not anything to brag about. on Sun Sep 18th 2016 at 05:30:18 jefe Thank you for that video link. I love Trevor Noah. I even tried to book tickets to see him on my next trip to New York. After hearing his testimony, it reminds me of a lot that I grew up with too. It was not until I was in college that I shared a hotel room together with both my parents – and that was in Boston, not in the South. I find it inspiring that he can make a joke of it now and make others laugh. on Fri Sep 30th 2016 at 21:09:11 taotesan I am also an autodidact like you. I think learning about the History of Africa is so important in the diaspora. I have learnt about my own history(through woven interconnections) by learning about African American History. Experiencing a fever of moods, amidst tumult here, so apology for replying in my own time. Here is an addenda to previous recommendations. “An Account of Egypt”, by Herodotus – Abagond had written on it: (https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/black-people-according-to-herodotus/) “ The Black Athena” by Martin Bernal, highly controversial book. Ivan Van Sertima was born in Guyana.He is a literary critic, a linguist, an anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields. He has also been honoured as an historian of world repute by being asked to join UNESCO’s International Commission for Rewriting the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind. A small sampling from a prolific writer: 1 “Blacks in Science: ancient and modern”. 2. “Black Women in Antiquity”. 3.” Egypt Revisited”. 4.” Egypt: Child of Africa”. 5.” Nile Valley Civilizations”. 6. “African Presence in Early Europe”. 7.” African Presence in Early America”. 8. “Great African Thinkers”. Dr. John Henrik Clarke, was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions. Molefi Kete Asante listed Dr. John Henrik Clarke as one of his 100 Greatest African Americans. 1.”Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths ” 2″.Dawn Voyage: The Black African Discovery of America” 3.”Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism” ,amongst many other books. (I had half-read this on pdf and it is brilliant. I had also read that he was a teacher par excellence. Toyin Omoyeni Falola is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies. 1.”Colonialism and Violence”. 2.”The power of African cultures”. Chancellor Williams was an African-American sociologist, historian and writer. He is noted for his work on African civilizations prior to encounters with Europeans. his major work is: 1. “The Destruction of Black Civilization”. Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan,was an African-American writer and historian. He was considered to be one of the more prominent Afrocentric scholars. 1.”Africa: Mother of Western Civilization (African-American Heritage)”. “Meanings of Timbuktu” by Shamil Jeppie, Souleymane Bachir Diagne (http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?productid=2216) I apologize, if you were interested you would not have found it by my previous description. Joseph Ki-Zerbo was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer. He was recognized as one of Africa’s foremost thinkers. Ki-Zerbo campaigned internationally to make make slavery as a crime against humanity and that Africa should get reparations for it, too. 1. “History of Black Africa” originally written in French. I have not read anything from a Black South African historian’s pen. However, not quite historical, but urgently, one of the most important books, is Steve Biko’s: “I Write What I Like.” If you might be interested in South African history, there is an online history written by both Black and white authors. (http://www.sahistory.org.za/) It has been a while that I have been to my local library. Most of the books I had read a long time ago on History/Archeaology/ Anthropology of Southern and West Africa were authored by white academics. Correction: “Toward the African Revolution” By Frantz Fanon I had also read “Black Skin,White Masks” and “The Wretched of the Earth”, both hard to read, but worth the effort. I would add: “Precolonial Black Africa” by Cheikh Anta Diop, who was an historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician who studied the human race’s origins and pre-colonial African culture. He was a towering intellectual. Some I have read, half-read and quite a few are on my wish-list, if I had the time and money (and attention span). I would love to own Unesco General History of Africa” volumes 1-V111. Entirely at your convenience and schedule, could you let me know if it was at all helpful and what you book/s you had decided on and your take on them? No rush. You might want to dip into a few of these online news wbsites. Honestly, I am the last person to vouch for any newspaper, as I have tremendous feeling that I am lied to and the news seems obscured to demonize Black people as the only corrupt ones, that criminality is essentially a Black enterprise and white plutocracy does not exist, even though there are excellent Black editors such as Justice Malala and previously Ferial Haffejee (I grew up with her) of the “Mail And Guardian” – mg.co.za. Most of the news is still dominated by whites. I go through spells when I cannot bear to read or watch the news for a long while. That being said,I would recommend (http://mg.co.za/) with usually excellent editorials & (http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/) which is regional. The rest: (http://www.iol.co.za/) (http://www.timeslive.co.za/) (http://www.news24.com/) I have added City Press: [(http://mg.co.za/) (http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/) (http://city-press.news24.com/) ] as top recommendations. (http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica) I have a comment for you in moderation. And corrections in moderation. on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 21:37:58 abagond on Sun Oct 2nd 2016 at 01:04:28 abagond Do you have any opinions about “Cry, the Beloved Country” (1948) by Alan Paton or “The Covenant” (1980) by James Michener? on Sun Oct 2nd 2016 at 03:26:19 michaeljonbarker @Taotasen I am curious of your opinion of the newly elected major of Johnnasburg, Herman Mashaba. I understand he is a self made millionaire from developing hair products called “Black Like You”. Is South Africa post aparthied a better climate for Black entrepreneurship ? on Sun Oct 2nd 2016 at 17:57:06 taotesan Thank you for asking for my input. By brain is percolating, and stomach queasy scanning all the rave reviews and critiques of “Cry, The Beloved Country” that has won Alan Paton critical acclaim and is probably the widest read book on South Africa. I have not read the book and am way too jaundiced to write a balanced critique on a dead white man’s paternalistic juvenile dehumanization of Black people. The white liberal is the one who tells us how to respond to his kick. For now, I had picked up that book was a ‘poetic and nuanced lyricism” of a quixotic look into pre-apartheid South Africa. Interestingly, Alan Paton’s widow had scurried back to England, after Nelson Mandela was the first (Black) democratically elected President. She complained South Africa was too violent. When one of the most evil systems was about to be codified, she and her late husband opted to stay put. I will come back to you tomorrow with some kind of synthesis, Abagond. Are you reading it at the moment or have seen the film with James Earl Jones and Charles S. Dutton? If you do, if I may offer that you read Steve Biko’s ‘I Write What I Like’ as a perfect counterpoint to white liberalism in South Africa. “The Covenant” was banned in South Africa during apartheid. That in itself should not carry the have to read, because it was verboten. It was merely banned because Michener had wrote about apartheid in his particular style. I have not read “The Covenant” either. Although, through blurbs, it starts with the San migration, it has a lens through Afrikaners and their history, hundreds of pages long. You will come out dirty. That the tome ends in 1980, when the country was in political turmoil, I do not think justifies reading 900 pages. If there are any questions or suggestions, I could e-mail you. (You are catching me out as my reading of late has been from the pen of African American and Caribbean writers). ” it reminds me of a lot that I grew up with too. It was not until I was in college that I shared a hotel room together with both my parents – and that was in Boston, not in the South” I do not share your stance on Kiwi’s antipathy towards Black people. That said, I am tremendously saddened to read your story with your mother and father. I have read a bit about Jim Crow South, but were there codified laws like the ‘immorality act’ , ‘mixed marriages act’ as in South Africa, that legally made such unions illegal, punishable to the full-extent of the law? In some way, if my child was born during Jim Crow or apartheid, tragedy such as yours, Trevor Noah and Bessie Head would have been befallen my small family. He is extremely clever, if you know what I mean, to embody magnanimity and self-deprecation showing up the absolute absurdity behind personal tragedy. One can laugh, go mad, like Bessie Head, or die of a broken heart like my half-brother. I misspelled Taotesan’s name. My apologies on Mon Oct 3rd 2016 at 00:46:14 Mary Burrell @taotesan: I thank you for your wonderful suggestions I have decided to go with the UNESCO General History of Africa Volumes. However I will definitely explore some of the other books you suggested. Many thanks sister.🤓🤓 on Mon Oct 3rd 2016 at 04:35:05 abagond I have copies of both books and am wondering if they are worth reading. on Mon Oct 3rd 2016 at 21:16:40 taotesan @ michaeljonbarker :Not a problem at all, will reply later. As a person that subscribes to Black consciousness, I cannot recommend” ‘Cry, The Beloved Country” the liberals handbook, in good conscience. If you do, use James Baldwin’s understanding of white innocence, and Biko’s appraisal of the white liberal to thoroughly appreciate the project of white South Africans instant self exoneration of crimes against humanity, whilst successfully demonizing the Black (criminals) victims, casting themselves (whites) as civilizing saviours and victims of pinned privilege. This book is one of those. Of all the reviews, not one Black voice was amongst the praise. I can’t read anything written by white South Africans without thick cynical cataracts. Strained to yet give good recommendations, because most books are still published white authors. Wow. Thanks. I was afraid of that. Quite long, dismiss if necessary. From studynotes and reviews: (that you won’t find on goodreads) My obtuse understanding of interweaving Alan Paton’s life and that of the ‘white antagonist’, fleshed out an the white protagonist, this is a beautifully written book about the skin deep understanding of the liberal. Paton, concedes that the South African Black is broken by cultural decimation, through enforced labour, and land loss, through the white exploitation. The landowner Jarvis/ Paton, cannot go below the skin of genocide and slavery and recent recipients of African land, to see that they themselves are the criminals and invaders. Instead they are come with ersatz Christianity as means of reconciling the irreconcilable. The landowner offering cheap benevolent philosophy to the victim is small change, a pro-active balm against an intuitive sense that white people deserved to be killed for their crimes. The same Christianity that has made the landless, beasts of burden, docile, preaches to the Black man to love his oppressor. There is no sense of irony through Paton, that Jarvis that he is a settler, an invader, but some-one tied to the land, as echoed in Alan Paton living on acres and acres of land, displacing the Native and relying on him for mining, and domestic servitude, and the indentured servitude of subcontinental Indians(in Kwa Zulu Natal). Got carried away. That the book was published before 1948, just when virulent Nazi-inspired racism codified under Afrikaner apartheid, was put in place, his vision of South Africa , though quixotic, yet Paton himself and his white ‘protaganists’ never found apartheid repugnant enough to up and leave in disgust to their mother country, merely offering a critique of the status quo, on the racist uncles of Afrikanerdom. The Afrikaners gave the British and Jewish liberals shade to tolerate the worst abominations. Merely , by describing the abominations and offering advice to the Native about his own liberation through a foreign ‘civilizing’ Christianity betrays the paternalism of the white saviour, without really doing anything, except to dispense maudlin, schmaltzy forgiveness, in a flipped script, that is not theirs to forgive. The liberal colonist gets to keep the land and the minerals, his own religion, obscene wealth hypocritical dependence on cheap labour and the saved façade of goodly ‘anti-racism’, power, exemption from psychological torture, and arrogance to lecture the Indigine, dispensing ‘philanthropy’ through civilizing the already dismembered,disenfranchised and dispossessed. Any white man killing any black person would have gotten off scot- free. As a matter of fact less than a handful over the last century and a bit has been jailed for killing, stealing, raping any Black man and woman. Khumalo is jailed for killing the settlers son, who forgives him. The unnatural bending forced upon Africans to endure the most abnormal circumstances with no way out is out of the criticism of the white man who is the originator of that abnormality. My words not, Paton’s. Sophisticated white man’s tears where ‘forgiveness’ is not theirs to give. Alan Paton and Jarvis stayed put on land that was stripped from Blacks 1913 Native Land Act. They did not give it up back then, and they still have not given it back now. on Thu Oct 6th 2016 at 23:02:42 taotesan Only a pleasure. @ michaeljonbarker. Yes, poportunities have indeed opened up for some South Africans across the board. There are now a few millionaires and a middle-class due to entrepreneurship. ( I, myself am had two failed small businesses- one being freshly prepared vegan and vegetarian food ).There was no Black middl-class twenty years ago. Most however , are situated in the corporate environment. Before, all that talent was consigned as cheap labour. However, many people have good ideas, but the failure rate for entrepreneurship is very high compared to other countries – about 70% due to complex reasons- competition for markets, not having requisite business skills, lack of role model emulation, high interest rates for start-up , lack of infrastructure, lack of finance due to lack of assets, background of terrible education system and an alloy of other reasons. What I am more concerned about is the Black and Coloured membership of the Democratic Aliance. The DA is essentially a Jewish and afrikaner party. Some Blacks do not see that they are being played even with leadership positions the top positions, like mayorship. The top echelons of the party are not Black and has strong ties with Zionism. Its unstated mission is to re-install white rule, applying similar undermining tactics as the Jewish presence in the NAACP. (http://www.smesouthafrica.co.za/15427/The-state-of-SAs-township-entrepreneurship/) on Thu Apr 12th 2018 at 09:02:38 satanforce Hey Abagond – check your e-mail again. Could you help me with that thing I asked you? on Fri Apr 13th 2018 at 16:56:38 abagond Satanforce’s comments on this thread have been removed per his request. on Wed Aug 26th 2020 at 03:43:16 Keith Essien Broken Africa ? Rwanda – Kigali https://scontent.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/84350926_189804692374865_3215805652769177600_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=NNP4qa-bAwkAX9SUgIL&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-1.fna&oh=c15de07a06d75e89a38d92115ce084f7&oe=5F6A8550 Luanda – Angola https://scontent.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/85093427_189780022377332_6213407892951793664_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=1gRdWbW9VU4AX8OEWZ4&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-1.fna&oh=8d888d5cce4fa21a65234aa6ab9a44d5&oe=5F6AB87A Kenya – Nairobi https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/84726202_189780229043978_7836560236944031744_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=yL8fqMDG30sAX9cvY81&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=8d2e96f16d34866fd5b63217133a3b81&oe=5F6A5E91 Morocco (Blue Chefchaouen) https://scontent.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/85019830_189828995705768_8477415013009588224_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=4HAE61j3ji0AX-vO0V7&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-1.fna&oh=44e41fe0cd7313cc490dc93a518c0996&oe=5F6C0451 Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/86393111_189804742374860_4810440595031982080_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=Lyb4_2gDvEUAX9sPQh3&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=d5de55122ead8cb5106756e1b96b012d&oe=5F6A02F9 https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118319045_332125598142773_7901775972830428205_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=Sg5-EP_XUv4AX8_32In&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=7bb4c08cccba5da481cf4861ee8a8dd5&oe=5F6B9CA2 https://scontent.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/85115032_189804685708199_5388308790938435584_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=jtEX-x0ZrpwAX-Ea2I0&_nc_oc=AQkYbGvpAbJDS5l-ZQh5vSS79YEbN7zOhaT88We3ANQyY_9f3LY3I5A6YtdmVVW75QLpMSKxMx80bKF7C5NPMn33&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-1.fna&oh=39ecd6ab5b23797f54f0ccbc85cf7227&oe=5F6C4C32 Mozambique: Its remote coastal beaches https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/86488189_189780299043971_1379520388551147520_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=9Gthtm-fTVcAX8S2NVM&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=ab5be3048a7bde71882f54593a98c97a&oe=5F6CF1A3 Avenue of baobabs, Madagascar https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118401569_332125361476130_6653895100783452477_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=7839hOO1FiEAX91MGwW&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=3b4eebce9d8638de7cb875a13945db77&oe=5F6AE844 Rock Restaurant, Zanzibar https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118405291_332125611476105_6673359937729765103_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=54oskc765p8AX9yz04w&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=649c08fc3c16106c705437a0bcf422c4&oe=5F6B1D7B Lagos – Nigeria https://scontent.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118343730_332125608142772_276196293452853320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=HeJOIbVMEnoAX-0Lxxz&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-1.fna&oh=25b8e50169e3c4744eabc900e56cdc47&oe=5F6BE30F Egypt – Alexandria https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118480840_332125354809464_9179758740979642558_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=Gee2FAyLLIAAX9v4i8l&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=12adf8b0a3cdc6caea093d49f4e67a8a&oe=5F6A0E97 https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/83944173_189828975705770_2881851080554053632_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=Pag-b963Ya4AX_f8q5r&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=e7e2d792dd5763b4ba4047c696f18f90&oe=5F69DB48 Dakar – Senegal https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/84921806_189779962377338_8422337795514695680_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=KGhhvKq5jBUAX8WLpa7&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=d743fb50eb3bef99b9546f9a2dc54c22&oe=5F6A190F on Wed Aug 26th 2020 at 04:55:03 Afrofem @ Keith Essien Stunning images! Thanks. Avenue of baobabs, Madagascar was my favorite.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line444
__label__cc	0.644059	0.355941	Little Bethlehem Reverend George L. Pike grew up in a small Southern Baptist church where he became a Christian as a teenager. By the time he was in his late 20s, Pike was ordained into the Church of God. In 1966, at the age of 37, he founded his non-profit organization in Olive Branch, Mississippi under the chartered name of Jesus Christ Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc. Pike’s organization set up training and ordination for those entering the ministry. Over 80 churches internationally grew out of the organization. In 1970, George Pike moved to Monroe, Georgia. He purchased a 70-acre tract of land that he named Little Bethlehem, affectionately referred to as the “The Home of the Soul.” Pike soon after began to build his international headquarters for world evangelism. Little Bethlehem is not affiliated with any specific denomination. George Pike focused his message and ministry on the final book of the King James Version of the Bible, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ.” The basis of his message is that God reveals Himself to humanity through shapes, symbols just as society uses letters, numbers, and sounds to define, describe and prove theory and understanding. Pike’s sole purpose was to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to all humankind. The chapel was constructed in 1970 by George Pike and his fellow church members. He solely depended on donations from the congregation to build the church. Over time, the building became a patchwork of materials and equipment. It was not uncommon for several hundred people to attend church services at Little Bethlehem. The church grew to become a home for dozens of families from all over the United States. Only a small number of members or residents were from the local area. The actual residents on the property were made up of missionary families from dozens of states, including New York and California. There were even some families from other countries, who had or were in the process of becoming U.S. citizens. The local townspeople were not accustomed to Pike’s charismatic ministry. His unconventional style and old school Southern Baptist teachings were polarizing to some, while others revered Pike as a prophet. During the late 70s and early 80s, the church experienced its most substaintial growth when three churches rom different states relocated to Little Bethlehem after hearing Pike speak at a revival. Soon after, rumors began to swirl about George Pike and his ministry. There were rumors Pike would take the congregation’s money and only give them back what he thought they needed to live on. However, it is untrue. In fact, George Pike never handled or involved himself with the financial responsibilities of the church. He was known to never carry cash or credit cards. The men of the church would gather for weekly open meetings where decisions were made on funding, missionary, or religious endevours of any sort. The men would volunteer to carry out these tasks. They would use fundraisers or contribute from their funds to further whatever endeavors had been voted and agreed upon. Beyong the rumors of hoarding money, there were also salacious rumors that George Pike had physical relationships with chosen women of the church. Perhaps, these rumors were fueled by local townspeople who viewed Pike’s church as a Jim Jones cult-type movement or maybe from the church’s strict dress codes. A security team was created by church members to protect Pike’s family and also to prevent Little Bethlehem from being overrun with visitors. The church also had a strict code of ethics between males and females. Fellowship between male and female adults were mostly limited to church gatherings or group settings. Strict rules and guidelines that included dress codes, language, conversation or unsupervised, and unmonitored fellowship were in effect daily. The majority observed these rules on a rigorous and religious basis. There was zero tolerance for any infidelity by anyone, especially the pastor and leaders of the church. Any drug use, alcohol, dishonesty, or physical abuse were grounds for expulsion and ex-communication for those involved. George Pike’s six-sided bank known as The Reserve at Little Bethlehem George Pike envisioned an open-air market at Little Bethlehem. In 1975, He built a six-sided bank known as The Reserve to be the center of the market. Church members could sell handcrafted items, healthy food, clothes, and dry goods, all at deeply discounted prices. Teller windows on the sides of the bank would have been where people came to pay for their products, deposit, or withdraw money. The nearby concrete pillars were the beginning stages of a roof that would cover half of the market. Neighbors joked that the posts were “soul launchers”, for launching the souls of Pike’s congregation into outer space. Pike decided the area where the market was being built was too small to allow for proper growth, so the market was never finished. The market operated on what Pike called Script currency, a form of paper money that was sold at equal dollar value to U.S. currency, also redeemable at any time for U.S. currency. The only individuals allowed to purchase the Script currency were church members. Pike believed this prevented non-members from having access to the community economy. The vault inside of The Reserve at Little Bethlehem A member of Pike’s congregation once confused a blank check from The Reserve with a check from his business account with a public bank. He mistakenly paid a bill to an outside vendor with a check from The Reserve. The check cleared all the way to the Federal Reserve in Atlanta. Since it was not part of their banking currency clearing system, the FBI came to Little Bethlehem to investigate. Upon their arrival and meeting with George Pike and others, the FBI concluded that as long as the members did not use their currency or checks outside of the privately owned community businesses, then it was legal. The FBI told Pike that he could link The Reserve with the Federal Reserve so that the checks could be used at public businesses. However, Pike declined and the markets continued, with extra caution and emphasis being placed on not allowing Script currency or checks to be presented to outside businesses. This house was referred to as “The Father’s House” since it was built for George Pike by the church members. Today, the house remains unfinished. The large house at Little Bethlehem was named “The Father’s House” since it was built for George Pike by members of the church. Construction on the house started in the early 1980s. After ten years of work, there are many areas of the house that remain unfinished. Plans included adding an additional story. The spiral staircases doubled as fire escapes from the upstairs living quarters. There is also an area that was left reserved for an elevator. The certificate of occupancy was granted in 1996. However, it is still under construction today. The blueprints for the house show it in a much more elaborate state than what has been built so far. Now referred to as, “The Manor” and “The House of DAVAD,” the home is currently lived in by one of Pike’s sons and his family. Reverend George Pike never actually moved into the home. Instead, he remained in the smaller house next door. Pike dedicated the large house as a guest house. George Pike’s mausoleum at Little Bethlehem Reverend George L. Pike passed away unexpectedly on June 10, 1996. He is buried in a star-shaped mausoleum on the property. Church leaders began construction on the crypt in the same month Pike died. However, it was not complete until 2002-2003. George Pike’s son, David, became a senior pastor after his father’s death. He later resigned in 1999. Little Bethlehem changed hands and pastors numerous times afterward. In 2013, David Pike was invited back to pray the closing prayer and say the final words at the closing of the church. After the church closed, Little Bethlehem was left abandoned. In 2016, David Pike and other church members purchased all of the assets and proprietary rights from the original non-profit through a corporation he started. Today, he maintains a residence at Little Bethlehem and hopes to preserve his father’s legacy. Thanks for reading. For more photos of Little Bethlehem and many other locations check out my book, Abandoned Georgia: Traveling the Backroads. Would you like to support Abandoned Southeast? 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Posted in abandoned, abandoned america, abandoned houses, abandoned places, abandoned southeast, Decay, Georgia, photography, ruins, travel, Uncategorized, Urban Exploring, urbex, urbex photographyTagged abandoned, abandoned community, abandoned cult, abandoned GA, abandoned Georgia, abandoned house, abandoned mansion, abandoned places, abandoned places in Georgia, abandoned south, abandoned southeast, cult, explore Georgia, forgotten places in Georgia, forgotten south, GA, George Pike, Georgia, Jesus Christ Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Lie, little bethlehem, little bethlehem georgia, little bethlehem monroe georgia, Monroe Georgia, mysterious religious community, religious community, reverend george l pike, southeast, travel, urbex, urbex GeorgiaBy Abandoned Southeast 27 Replies to “Little Bethlehem” brockbuildersteel says: That kind of freaky, perhaps they should have removed all the pews and emptied the pool and turned into one bizarre holy roller rink. Million facet mirrored disco ball hung from the ceiling. Collin Nunez says: If your eyes of understanding were enlightened to see the symbolic meanings of the inside of Loves Temple, you wouldn’t have made such an ignorant statement as you did. May God bless you with wisdom is my prayer. MaryBeth Davis says: Such ignorance. what’s freaky about a preacher trying to help people find a better, more peaceful way of life ? Fabiana Dokes Brock says: One really should not comment unless you knew this man and and his family . His belief in Christ saved may people and could be used to turn this wicked world around. People always like to make statements that aren’t true or irrelevant when they don’t understand or want to understand. frank berretta Jr. says: This was once a vibrant church and a thriving Christian Community. the place was charged with a unique sense of spiritual enthusiasm. The preacher was a powerful and stoic figure; and whether he was hurling verbal Thunder, or offering more quieted consolation, he always spoke as one who had Authority! It was an old-time holiness version of the Gospel, which translated well into community life. Little Bethlehem was somewhat like an Amish community, but with no prohibitions on technology or modern conveniences. His was a Ministry of biblical proportions. You couldn’t spend a significant amount of time there without eventually encountering the miraculous and the unexplainable. Yet the only Miracle George Pike ever focused on was the transformation of the human heart. He was masculine and courageous, yet tender-hearted and easy going. I believe his extraordinary life was made possible by his unwavering conviction, that where as “many are called,” only those who respond appropriately become the “few are chosen.” Though his Revelation was seemingly deep and complex, yet to those who understood it, the theme was simple: Man’s greatest calling is to be like Jesus, for in him the fullness of God can be found. Written by: Frank Berretta Jr. Richard Diegel says: Frank that was very well said! Hope you and your family are doing well 🙂 still have sermons aired on WDJS radio Mount Olive NC like years ago here 252-550-0461 Pingback: MCR: Little Bethlehem – Magic City Radar Donald Parnell / Atori Alo Yansa says: I love him, an extraordinary man in ministry, a wonderful family and an amazing assembly. Totally a cult Leah Pike says: ignorance must be bliss, huh? Marilyn Mathis says: And what evidence do you have to support your statement. My family and I used to drive past this place on the way to visit relatives. I always wondered what the story was behind it, and it’s really interesting to finally learn! I can appreciate the good intentions behind it, it’s rather sad how it all turned out. Pingback: Little Bethlehem [oc][300×150] – Viralpics 252-550-0461 lets have the sermons aired again now FM 102.5 now also and 10,000 watt 1430am jimmy Pingback: I See Georgia: Monroe – Adventures of the Bear Team Any pictures from inside “The Father’s House”? Suresh Madramootoo says: Dear pastor can you please help me with some Free Gospel tracts.years a go you use to help me.1989.songs books,the Gospel tracts must be in Dutch.address.Suresh Madramootoo. P.o.box.1454.Paramaribo Suriname. (South amarica) Christian Pike says: I would be happy to send you any gospel literature that you need. Please visit the Facebook page titled Rev. George Leon Pike Sr. – Quotes & Fellowship Tim Treadwell says: Why put rumors or even mention rumors? Tim, The Pikes want to put the rumors to rest and state the truths which is what we did in the article. If you would like to talk more, email me. Thanks. I want the same please don’t drag this mans good name through the mud. There is nothing I can add that his grandson hasn’t mentioned and stated well. I enjoy your work. The places are interesting, the photographs are stunning and the stories well written. Some of things in the piece “ Little Bethlehem “ as far rumors and gossip just struck me as derogatory. It just struck a wrong chord . I didn’t mean to make any accusations. Please understand it is personal because my father loved this giant of a man. This was a way of life for me for a period of time and part of my history. Thank you for your response. Tim, I apologize if the blog hit home and seemed derogatory. The purpose of the blog is to educate. Like I said, the goal of the blog is to end the rumors. Aclloyd Antony Micheni says: God bless you for your labour in His vineyard. I kindly request for gospel tracks, sermon books and other gospel books. Do you have Bible commentary? If so I kindly request for one to be able to teach and preach the word of God. Am a pastor in my local church. PO Box 25 – 60103 Runyenjes, Embu, Kenya Rob Browne says: Where in Monroe was/is this located? I love touring this area and finding interesting, out of the way places with stories connected to them. If someone could share the address, I’d be most appreciative. Thank you. SomeonesDad says: This is interesting. All power to them, seems to be one of the few groups that looks super cult-like from the outside but did its best to not be. My personal opinions about religion granted make me think many religions are cut like though haha. Neat to see the work they put in to this and thought process. As long as they were not aggressive into “converting others” to their way of thinking, all the power to them. Barry Lamon says: We stumbled upon Little Bethlehem as we were doing our usual roaming around Georgia looking for hidden gems, treasures and out of the way places in what I call being somewhere nowhere. As we did not want to cause problems or trespass, we cautiously stopped and took pictures of this wonderful, cool place tucked off Highway 78 near Athens that we spotted from the road, thinking at first it was a Jewish temple or Messianic Jewish compound. My girlfriend being the resourceful one she is quickly found the story about this place on your great website, sad and bittersweet to go with the quiet that resides in that place. As always, it seems a dream had fallen due to the ignorance and intolerance of those who don’t care to understand. Previous PostPrevious Pomegranate Hall Next PostNext River Country	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0095.json.gz/line445

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