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Devising Ireland: genealogies and contestations
McIvor, Charlotte and O'Gorman, Siobhán (2015) Devising Ireland: genealogies and contestations. In: Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice. Carysfort, Dublin, pp. 1-29. ISBN 9781909325784
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By focusing on devised performance, we embrace the flexibility and fluidity of roles, the collectivity of creative processes, to recognize forgotten historical contributions and celebrate the work of diverse participants as theatre-makers past and present. Perhaps the lack of a sustained theorizing of Irish devised theatre’s goals, aesthetics and impacts up until now stems from the ways in which some of this work resists containment within linguistic parameters and, hence, is even more ‘ephemeral’ than the traditional ‘play.’ In Conway’s introduction to The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays, he offers, somewhat paradoxically, that the volume entails a published record of recent productions that ‘ride in no slipstream of the identifiably Irish play’ and offer ‘a commitment to become in the theatre’ (7). Our own volume seeks to explore rigorously the slipstream that Conway identifies that indeed has changed the face and working processes of Irish theatre in 2015, as well as broadening who can be credited as the ‘authors’ of contemporary Ireland as lived on the stage. This slipstream can only be navigated through a thorough historical approach to devised performance cognisant of national and international trends in theatre practice that influenced its development, and its implications for the future of Irish theatre as a genre in its own right. In navigating this history, Devised Performance in Irish Theatre’s coverage can only be partial, and it is hoped that this collection is the springboard for diverse future inquiries.
theatre, devising, Irish Studies, Performance, Contemporary Theatre-Making
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Day 1 Almaty - Kyzylorda - Baikonur
Almaty. Transfer to airport, flight № СК 975, at 08.40, to Kyzylorda. Arrival in Kyzylorda at 11.15, meet at the airport "Korkyt-Ata". Transfer: Kyzylorda town - Zhosaly village - Baykonur town (234 km, 3-3,5 hours). Arrival to Baikonur's check-point, formalities with checking permits and passports, transfer to hotel, accommodation.
Visit Museum of the History of Baikonur Cosmodrome that focuses on the story of the construction of the cosmodrome, with photographs and personal items belonging to general Shubnikov who was in charge for construction of cosmodrome. A full-size model of the first Sputnik shows its simple structure and small scale - a polished metal ball from which antennae trailed. There are models of the Vostok, Soyuz and N-l rockets, and of the Energia rocket with the Buran space shuttle on its back.
From the memorials to the victims of the accidents of 1960 and 1963, continue south along Pionerskaya Street. This brings you to the Town Palace of Culture on your right; there is a mosaic frieze in the foyer celebrating the work of the builders of the cosmodrome. A stone just outside the Palace of Culture marks the place on which on 5 May 1955 the first building of the new town was constructed. Nearby stands a bust of Georgy Shubnikov, who was in charge of the work. On the top floor of the Palace of Culture is housed the Museum of the History of Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Walk along Gagarin and Korelev avenues, visit Mir Park with a statue of jubilant Gagarin, holding both arms aloft in triumph. At the western end of 'Peace Park' stands a weapon of war, an SS-17 ICBM, in front of which stands a bust of rocket designer Mikhail Yangel.
South of Mir Park, close to the side of the road, stands a monument consisting of a Soyuz rocket. Further south is the pleasant bench-lined Korolev Square, centred on a statue of designer Sergei Korolev, large of head and small of neck, gazing pensively across the town established to test his rockets. The stretch of Korolev Avenue south of here has been pedestrianised, and is known locally as 'Arbat', aping Moscow's famous pedestrian street. This is the favoured place for Baikonur's locals to stroll on warm summer evenings. At the southern end of 'Arbat' is the town's main square, still called Lenin Square and centred on a large statue of Lenin, pointing towards the Tsentralnaya Hotel as if proffering directions to a group of lost tourists. This large open square was once the venue for military parades. The green-walled neo-classical building opposite the Tsentralnaya Hotel accommodates the administration of the cosmodrome.
Day 2 Cosmodrome Baikonur
Breakfast. Start excursion at Baikonur cosmodrome at 8.00 am. The cosmodrome is located north of Baikonur town, on the other side of the Orenburg-Tashkent railway line and the main east-west road. The checkpoint marking the entrance into the cosmodrome is about 8km north of the town. The facilities are widely scattered across the open steppe; your guided tour will include only a few of the more historically interesting sites. The central area of the cosmodrome was based around the processing and launch facilities of the designer Sergei Korolev. The western side, or left flank, served the ballistic missiles and space launchers developed by the design bureau of Vladimir Chelomei, including the facilities for the Proton rocket. The eastern side, or right flank, was devoted to facilities supporting Mikhail Yangel's bureau.
The 'Gagarin Pad' - All the facilities on the cosmodrome are allocated a number, and a logical enough place to start a visit is the launch pad bearing the title of Site No 1. This place provided the purpose of the original facility: it was the launch pad for the R-7 ICBM, first launched from here in 1957. This was also the pad used for the Vostok rockets, and Site No 1 is now informally known as the 'Gagarin Pad', because it was from here in 1961 that Yuri Gagarin was launched into space and into history. It is still in use today, as the launch pad for the manned Soyuz programme. It is located in the central area of the cosmodrome, some 25km from the checkpoint, just beyond the collection of buildings known as Site No 2. The latter were originally constructed as residential and assembly buildings for the R-7 programme.
A complex network of metal arms and latticework cradles the Soyuz rocket at the launch pad. The rocket arrives at the pad in a horizontal position, and is then lifted carefully into place. There are large floodlights at each corner of the launch pad, powerful enough to turn night into day. On the side of the structure are painted several hundred stars, each one signifying a launch. There is a clump of trees by the side of the launch pad. Descend a flight of steps to reach an obelisk topped with a model of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, launched from this pad in October 1957. An inscription records that the audacious assault on the cosmos was begun here by Soviet genius.
Site No 254 - Some 3km from the museum, Site No 254 at the cosmodrome is home to a huge, four-storey, blue and white-painted hangar, which from the outside looks like an ordinary office block when viewed from one angle, but displays its large hangar doors from another. The building is 312m x 254m in size, and was built for the Buran space shuttle programme. Since Buran's demise it now serves as the assembly and test block (known by its Russian acronym, MIK) for the Soyuz and Progress programmes.
Cosmonauts about to set off aboard Soyuz are brought to Site 254 some four hours before launch. Here they are given a final medical test, a meal, don their spacesuits and give a press conference. You can visit the room in which the press conferences take place. The cosmonauts are protected behind a glass screen from any germs which may be carried by the media. Site 254 has been used for manned space launches since 1988: there are photographs on the walls of the cosmonauts to have set off from here.
Proton rocket assembly and launch sites - The Proton rocket, a product of Vladimir Chelomeis design bureau, is a long-serving unmanned launch vehicle. First launched in 1965, the Proton remains in use, although it is slated for replacement by the Angara rocket, which can carry a heavier payload and uses a less toxic fuel mix. Baikonur is the only location used for the launch of Proton rockets, which are built at the Khrunichev plant in Moscow. Its name derives from the Proton scientific satellites which were among the rockets first payloads.
The Proton facilities are located on the western side of the cosmodrome. From Site No 254, head back southwards in the direction of Baikonur town. Turn right after 8km. Some 32km on, a signposted right turn brings you to Site No 200, one of two Proton launch complexes at Baikonur, consisting of two launch pads each. Launch Pad 39, which came into operation in 1980, is still in use. As with the Soyuz rockets, the Protons are brought to the launch pad by rail in a horizontal position, and then raised to the vertical, supported by a metal cradle. A reinforced concrete bunker houses the staff at the launch site. Launch Pad 40, opposite, is no longer in operation.
A few kilometres away, at Site No 92A-50, the payloads for the Proton rockets are assembled. This assembly and test block (MIK) of the Khrunichev plant houses in its entrance a display of photographs from the joint visit to the site of presidents Putin and Nazarbaev on 2 June 2005, marking the 50th anniversary of the cosmodrome. Foreign companies whose satellites are being taken up into space by a Proton rocket carefully prepare their valuable property in a specially guarded area of the facility. A constant year-round temperature is maintained in the assembly halls, and their staff boast of standards of cleanliness as good as any hospital surgery.
Day 3 Baikonur - Kyzylorda - Almaty
Breakfast. Transfer to Kyzylorda (234 km). Arrival in Kyzylorda, transfer to airport, flight to Almaty KC 976, departure at 12.25, arrival to Almaty city at 14.40, meeting and transfer to city.
Please, note that the prices and timetable are subject to change without notice!
1 Transfer to Almaty airport
1 Take a Flight № СК 975 at 08.40 to Kyzylorda
1 Transfer: Kyzylorda town - Zhosaly village - Baykonur town (234 km, 3-3,5 hours)
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10 people 1520 $
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- All necessary permits to enter cosmodrome Baikonur;
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Daily News 13 / 01 / 2017
Brussels, 13 January 2017
Commission proposes EU Solidarity Fund assistance following the floods in the United Kingdom
Today the Commission has proposed aid to the United Kingdom worth €60 million from the EU Solidarity Fund following the floods in December 2015 and January 2016. The flooding affected essential infrastructure, especially for transport, as well as public buildings, private homes, businesses and farmland in several regions of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Creţu said: "The EU Solidarity Fund lends a helping hand to populations affected by natural disasters. This financial aid will help cover the costs of emergency measures, clean-up operations and of the restoration of vital infrastructure." The proposed aid of €60 million now has to be approved by the European Parliament and Council. A full press release is available online. (For more information: Anna-Kaisa Itkonen - Tel.: +32 229 56186; Sophie Dupin de Saint-Cyr – Tel.: +32 229 56169)
Commission proposes EUR 100 million in Macro-Financial Assistance to Moldova
The European Commission has today granted a request by the Republic of Moldova by proposing a Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) programme of up to EUR 100 million. The proposed assistance would help the country meet its short-term financing needs. Up to EUR 40 million of the MFA would be provided in grants and up to EUR 60 million in medium-term loans at favourable financing conditions. Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, said: "This assistance will help Moldova meet its most immediate financing needs and stabilise its economy. At the same time, we are confident that the conditions related to this financing will contribute to improving economic governance in the country and encourage vital reforms." Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, said: "Moldova's recent efforts to pursue stability-oriented policies and tackle long-standing vulnerabilities must be sustained. Today the Commission is providing further support for the country as it works to preserve macroeconomic stability, improve governance and achieve more sustainable and inclusive growth." A full press release is available online. (For more information: Vanessa Mock – Tel.: +32 229 56194; Annikky Lamp – Tel.: +32 229 56151)
Seafood: Survey on EU consumers' attitudes to seafood reveals some unsuspected shopping and eating habits
The majority of Europeans say they eat fish because it is healthy. Fish consumption is increasing, with 42% Europeans eating fish/aquaculture products at least once a week at home. This underlines the need to ensure sustainable supply of fish to the EU market. A new Eurobarometer survey on EU consumer choices regarding fishery and aquaculture products reveals that people in the EU eat seafood quite regularly, although how far people live from the sea plays a role in how often they eat fish. "This survey helps us see how Europeans choose their seafood. This helps inform our policies. We must make sure that consumers continue to have a wide range of high quality seafood to choose from. That is why we are determined to reach targets on sustainable fishing by 2020", stated Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella. For seafood, there is a strong preference for regional, national and European origin (80%). Reducing import dependency by developing sustainable fishing and aquaculture in the EU is again emphasised. 66% think the information on products is clear and easy to understand, showing that EU labelling rules are working. For more information see here. (For more information: Enrico Brivio – Tel.: +32 229 56182; Iris Petsa - Tel.: +32 229 93321)
Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of Endurance by Sompo
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of Endurance of Bermuda by Sompo of Japan. Endurance is a global provider of speciality non-life insurance and reinsurance. Sompo is a global provider of a variety of insurance, reinsurance and financial services. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns because the overlaps between the companies' activities as well as their activities on vertically related markets are limited. The transaction was examined under the simplified merger review procedure. More information is available on the Commission's competition website, in the public case register under the case number M.8275. (For more information: Ricardo Cardoso – Tel.: +32 229 80100; Maria Tsoni - Tel.: +32 229 90526)
EUROSTAT: Première diffusion pour le troisième trimestre 2016 - Le taux d'épargne des ménages stable à 12,6% dans la zone euro
Au troisième trimestre 2016, le taux d'épargne des ménages s'est établi dans la zone euroà 12,6%, stable par rapport au deuxième trimestre 2016. Le taux d'investissement des ménages a quant à lui été de 8,5% au troisième trimestre 2016 dans la zone euro, contre 8,6% au trimestre précédent. Ces informations, qui proviennent de la première diffusion de données, corrigées des variations saisonnières, sur les comptes européens trimestriels des secteurs, sont publiées par Eurostat, l'office statistique de l'Union européenne, et la Banque centrale européenne (BCE). Un communiqué de presse est disponible ici. (Pour plus d'informations: Christian Wigand – Tel.: +32 229 62253; Mélanie Voin – Tel.: +32 229 58659)
EUROSTAT: Première diffusion pour le troisième trimestre 2016 - Le taux d'investissement des entreprises en baisse à 21,9% dans la zone euro
Au troisième trimestre 2016, le taux d'investissement des entreprises s'est établi à 21,9% dans la zone euro, contre 22,2% au trimestre précédent. La part des profits des entreprises s'est quant à elle située à 40,6% au troisième trimestre 2016 dans la zone euro, contre 40,5% au deuxième trimestre 2016. Ces informations, qui proviennent de la première diffusion de données, corrigées des variations saisonnières, sur les comptes européens trimestriels des secteurs, sont publiées par Eurostat, l'office statistique de l'Union européenne, et la Banque centrale européenne (BCE). Un communiqué de presse est disponible ici. (Pour plus d'informations: Lucía Caudet – Tel.: +32 229 56182; Mirna Talko – Tel.: +32 229 87278)
The European Commission at the World Economic Forum in Davos:
The 2017 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos will take place from 17 to 20 January. This year's meeting will put the focus on “Responsive and Responsible Leadership”. The Commission will contribute to this debate by explaining and promoting its priorities and policy actions to address challenges in areas like migration, security, economy, climate change and energy. First Vice-President Timmermans will lead the Commission delegation in Davos. Altogether, twelve Members of the College (First Vice-President Timmermans, High Representative/Vice-President Mogherini, Vice-Presidents Ansip, Šefčovič and Dombrovskis, and Commissioners Oettinger, Hahn, Malmström, Bulc, Moscovici, Navracsics and Moedas) have accepted the invitation of the Forum and will participate in a range of sessions and meetings with leaders from politics, business and society from across the world. For details see the calendar of Commissioners' weekly activities and the web page of the World Economic Forum. Follow us under the Twitter hashtag: #EUatDavos. (For more information: Margaritis Schinas – Tel.: +32 229 60524; Jens Mester – Tel.: +32 229 63973)
Le Commissaire Mimica sera à Bamako, Mali, pour participer au Sommet Afrique-France
Du vendredi 13 au samedi 14 janvier, le Commissaire à la coopération internationale et au développement, Neven Mimica, participera au Sommet Afrique-France accueilli par la République du Mali à Bamako. Le Commissaire Mimica prononcera un discours et tiendra des réunions bilatérales à haut niveau pour souligner l'engagement fort de l'Union européenne en faveur de la paix, la sécurité et le développement durable de l'Afrique. L'Union européenne appuie la mise en œuvre des objectifs de développement durable et confirme sa volonté d'investir dans l'avenir de l'Afrique, notamment à travers le Plan d'Investissement Extérieur Européen. Un Plan qui soutiendra des secteurs clés, comme l'énergie, et les petites et moyennes entreprises, tout en créant des opportunités pour les femmes et pour les jeunes. La paix et la sécurité sont aussi des facteurs fondamentaux pour améliorer les conditions de vie de la population africaine ainsi que le climat des affaires. Dans ce contexte, le Commissaire Mimica soulignera la volonté de l'Europe de travailler avec l'Afrique dans un esprit de partenariat et d'amitié. Volonté qui sera de nouveau exprimée lors du prochain Sommet UE-Afrique en novembre 2017 à Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (Pour plus d'information: Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordejuela – Tel.: +32 229 65322; Daniel Puglisi – Tel.: +32 229 69140)
Commissioner Avramopoulos in Greece
Today, Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos is in Athens, Greece, where he will meet with Minister of Migration Policy Ioannis Mouzalas to discuss the immediate migratory challenges and humanitarian situation in Greece. Discussions will focus on the ongoing work by Greece to improve the standard of reception facilities and address the humanitarian needs on the ground, as well as on speeding up the absorption of EU funding. Overall, the European Union is providing over €1 billion in support for Greece in tackling the migration, borders and security challenges – making Greece the largest beneficiary of EU migration and home affairs funding. Since the beginning of 2015, the Commission has made available for Greece €352 million in emergency assistance from the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF). In addition, substantial EU funding, approximately €198 million, is being provided to humanitarian partners through the recently created EU Emergency Support Instrument. The emergency funding comes on top of the €509 million already allocated to Greece under the national programmes for 2014-2020 (€294.5 million from AMIF and €214.7 million from ISF). (For more information: Natasha Bertaud – Tel.: +32 229 67456; Tove Ernst – Tel.: +32 229 86764; Markus Lammert – Tel.: +32 229 80423; Katarzyna Kolanko – Tel.: +32 229 63444)
Commissaire Avramopoulos lundi à Paris
Dimitris Avramopoulos, Commissaire européen pour la migration, les affaires intérieures et la citoyenneté, sera à Paris lundi, où il rencontrera le Premier Ministre français, Bernard Cazeneuve, et le Ministre de l'intérieur, Bruno le Roux, pour discuter des questions relatives aux défis actuels de la migration et de la sécurité. Il se rendra au Sénat, où il rencontrera le Président du Sénat, Gérard Larcher, ainsi que Jean Bizet, Président de la Commission des Affaires européennes, et François-Noël Buffet, Rapporteur de la Commission des questions juridiques. Le Commissaire donnera aussi le discours d'ouverture du Youth & Leader Summit 2017 à l'École des affaires internationales de Paris et participera au panel de haut niveau dédié à "La crise migratoire: Gouvernements et Institutions dépassés". (Pour plus d'informations: Natasha Bertaud – Tel.: +32 229 67456; Tove Ernst – Tel.: +32 229 86764; Markus Lammert – Tel.: +32 229 80423; Katarzyna Kolanko – Tel.: +32 229 63444)
European Commission appoints new Head of Representation in Estonia
Mr Keit Kasemets has been appointed as the new Head of the Commission Representation in Tallinn. Mr Keit Kasemets will take up office as the new Head of the European Commission Representation in Estonia on 16 January 2017. He brings to his new role more than ten years of experience working in high-level positions for the Estonian government and in its administration, as well as a wide network of contacts with stakeholders from national and international environments. Since January 2016, Mr Kasemets has been Deputy Secretary-General in the Estonian Ministry of Economy and Communications, where he was responsible for Internal Market issues and preparations for the upcoming Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. A full press release is available here. (For more information: Mina Andreeva – Tel.: +32 229 91382; Alexander Winterstein - Tel.: +32 229 93265)
Commission appoints top scientists to the European Research Council's governing body
Today, the European Commission appointed four accomplished scientists to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council, for a four-year term of office. At the same time it has also renewed the mandates of four members for two more years. The four new members are Paola Bovolenta, Professor and Head of the Biology and Biomedicine Area of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Eveline Crone, Professor in Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology at the Leiden University, Andrzej Jajszczyk, Professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology of Krakow and President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Giulio Superti-Furga, Professor of Medical Systems Biology at the Center for Physiology and Pharmacology of the Medical University of Vienna and Scientific Director of the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In addition, two new Vice-Presidents of the ERC, Professor Éva Kondorosi and Professor Martin Stokhof, elected by the Scientific Council in 2016, have taken up their duties on 1 January 2017. The ERC Scientific Council is an independent body that decides the strategy and distribution of ERC funding. All of its members are selected by an independent Identification Committee. The ERC's main goal is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, on the basis of scientific excellence. An ERC press release is available online. (For more information: Lucia Caudet – Tel.: +32 229 56182; Joseph Waldstein +32 229 56184)
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The 2010 Oscar Nominated Shorts-Animated
The animated shorts segment was a lot of fun. Not only were the Oscar nominated shorts shown, but three other excellent were added as filler. Some of these shorts are actually available on YouTube and I have included links where those are available. Check 'em out there a lot of fun. Here's my reviews of all the shorts shown.
THE ANIMATED SHORTS
French Roast
The misadventures of a snooty French businessman who loses his wallet in a cafe. Nice computer animation along with a simple story. ***
The Lady And The Reaper
Death and a doctor battle over an elderly, lonely widow's life. Again, very nice computer animation. ***
A Matter Of Loaf And Death
Wallace and Gromit are bakers in the midst of a serial killing spree targeting bakers. Wonderfully animated and witty short. ****
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
A demented grandmother tells her granddaughter her own version of Sleeping Beauty. Nice blend of computer and hand-drawn animation, but the story doesn't quite come off. **1/2
Tale shows where storks get babies from and we are introduced to a stork who has to deliver the most dangerous animal babies. Pixar short that played before Up was not nominated for an Oscar, but is very rich and nicely executed. ***1/2
Chaos ensues on a train when a conductor becomes distracted and an underling takes over. This hand-drawn film was not nominated for an Oscar, but is very imaginative. ***
The Kinematograph
An elderly inventor in the late 19th century struggles to invent a color film movie camera to film his sickly wife before she dies. Not nominated for an award, but it should have been. Superb computer animation is well told and moving. ****
Logorama
In an L.A. where everyone and everything is a corporate logo, two Michelin Men police pursue a fugitive Ronald McDonald. Vulgar short resembles a Grand Theft Auto game and isn't particularly appealing. **
Labels: 2009, Oscars, Shorts
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CRYSANDREA.ORG
What is Crysandrea?
Crysandrea is a fictional world around which an avatar-based chat site was created. Users were rewarded with Palladium for interacting in a friendly environment. Those Palladium could be used to purchase various cosmetic upgrades for their characters, giving them a more fancy look. A side game and an engaging friendly staff made it a fun twist on everyday chatting.
The Crysandrea code is mostly written by Tyler Diaz, built on a PHP framework called codeIgniter.
Is Crysandrea.org a reboot of Crysandrea?
Yes and no. The site will be launched using the latest code available from the original developer's software repository. A database and structure will be created to allow users to join and interact much as they would on any avatar site. However, Crysandrea.org will, at this time, be used to develop and test new features and bug fixes in the code. While measures will be taken to keep the site stable and reliable, changes will be more frequent. There is always the possibility of a bug or a crash, but that should be kept to a minimum.
We are looking for a volunteer staff for the following tasks and positions:
Site Graphics
Avatar and Item Pixel Graphics
Site Administrators and Moderators
Coders, primarily with PHP experience, but possibly using some C++/Wt in the future
What are the plans for developing Crysandrea code?
The current code is going to be launched in its present form and given a release number 1.0 for reference. Then, it will be updated and patched to work with the latest stable codeIgniter, and that will be the new version 1.1 development branch. Version 1.1 will focus on improving the existing Crysandrea code.
A new version 2.0 will be developed from the ground up. It will focus on maintaining compatibility with the existing database, so that current sites will be able to test and transition into it. At this early stage, it's too soon to tell what the development path of version 2.0 will be, but several new and interesting ideas are already on the drawing board.
Will Crysandrea.org be maintained and managed like other chat sites?
The primary goal of Crysandrea.org will be to create a live testing environment. It will also allow users to enjoy and hang out on the site, and it will attempt to maintain a fun and engaging chat environment, however that will take a back seat to development unless sufficient staff volunteers.
Expect things to be a little more rough around the edges!
What is the age rating for the site?
Crysandrea.org will be for MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. This is for a lot of reasons. On the one hand, we just don't have the staff to watch messages, graphics, and posts on this site. On the other hand, it gives members the freedom they want in an avatar-based site.
What is the story / theme for Crysandrea.org?
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CommentaryEnglandThe AmericastransfersUnited StatesWorld Cup
Besler-Zusi Axis of SKC Loyalty-Legacy Represent
July 22, 2014 — by Rob Kirby
[Editor’s note: On the eve of Sporting KC’s expected destruction of Manchester City in a stateside friendly–booo, Nasri!!!!–Cameron Garrison, rabid SKC and AFC supporter, weighs in on his unbelievable happiness at USMNT Brazil 2014 standouts Matt Besler and Graham Zusi rejecting offers from England and abroad and staying put at the home of the MLS champions. Loyalty isn’t dead, the legacy is only beginning.]
So, Saturday. What an AMAZING day for Kansas City and soccer in Kansas City. It’s really difficult to overstate just how big Saturday was. We have been fortunate to have a number of fantastic players during this 4-year run. Many have moved on. Many have stayed. And we have been so successful because Vermes is so brilliant at replacing those that have gone.
But through it all, these two were THE guys. They were the heart and soul of the whole thing. Always. As the WC approached, I was equal parts thrilled and terrified. I knew that if they played well, we would probably lose them. But I also knew that, if that happened, I would be so proud to see them go. They *are* SKC.
Then it happened. One played pretty well that first match but had to leave at half because of a hamstring. The other didn’t start, but he came on, they let him take the set pieces, and he perfectly delivered the corner that Brooks turned into maybe the second or third most famous USMNT goal ever. The next game brought a masterpiece against Ronaldo, another assist, and I knew the dreams and nightmares were coming true. It was after Portugal that I first told myself that one, and likely both, were leaving. The next two games just reinforced that. When Brazil was over, I was SURE one was gone, and assumed the other was too. I was already trying to mentally move on.
Then it kept dragging on more and more, and I allowed myself to dream a bit. But just a bit. It wasn’t until this past week that I began to think there was even a chance. And then on Saturday it happened:
@SportingKC: DONE DEAL! #SportingKC re-signs @mbesler and @gzusi to Designated Player contracts.
IT HAPPENED. They’re staying!!! With all those options in front of them, they chose to stay and keep this going. Out of all the choices, they chose to try and win ring after ring at Sporting Park. This thing that has been so amazing for the last 4 years is going to remain that way for at least 4 more. And I’ll get to be there for it all. And my son, who lives and dies with SKC, will be there with me. The sheer JOY on his face when I told him they were for sure staying is something I will never forget.
And then, for good measure, we went out and rolled the squad that won the last 2 titles before we took it last year.
I will never forget that day. I can’t possibly ever explain what this means in KC. With all that we’ve been through with our sports the past couple decades. Then we finally get a real team. Then the city totally buys in…we give them our hearts and souls. Then, just when it seems like it’s all over, THIS happens.
So. Happy.
We love you Sporting, oh yes we do.
We love you Sporting and we’ll be true.
We will forever, bleed blue!
Oh Sporting we love you.
#NoOtherClub
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Texas Hold'em Mafia (Day 3 - An Unexpected Twist)
Re: Texas Hold'em Mafia (Day 3 - An Unexpected Twist)
Postby somitomi » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:39 pm UTC
That was damn cool. Congrats everyone and thanks for replacing, Madge. You were way better than I ever could've.
Mark_Cangila
Postby Mark_Cangila » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:41 pm UTC
This game was a lot of fun tbh.
Can I post scum qt?
Postby LaserGuy » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:59 pm UTC
@Mark: Maybe wait till bessie can check in. She had mentioned she might want to edit a few posts.
Postby moody7277 » Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:13 pm UTC
Lesson 22: If it looks too good to be true, it usually is
Lesson 23: Even Sabrar is fallible (that reads list though)
Madge: very nice on the vig shot for the win.
SuperJedi224
Postby SuperJedi224 » Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:15 pm UTC
GG guys
My youtube channel.
Get your votes in for the current round of our new song contest.
New avatar by adnapemit.
Zenii
Re: Texas Hold'em Mafia (Day 1)
Postby Zenii » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:07 pm UTC
Zenii wrote:
BoomFrog wrote: Wow. That will teach me not to rescind doom.
<3 I was planning for it to be me you and plytho in the end for the ultimate zen-boom showdown.
That's some serious Hard Mode there, though. You would have NKed Vic and mpolo over plytho? Now Zenii, BoomFrog, Vic would have been a delightful endgame.
Nah, I was hoping they'd be lynched or vigged. I was thinking something like this,
Jedi vigged
discussion about single kill
madge distrust, moody, distrust, wam distrust
moody lynched
kill wam
mpolo vigged*
this would have been the fun day that everyone turns on each other
vic and plytho would have have likely would have gone after you, i would white knight. not sure what madge would've done.
ideal end of day would be vic lynch
kill Madge
*i'd need to convince madge/town not to vig on one of the days in order to keep the pool open.
zen-boom-vic would have been fun, but I'd have preferred zen-boom-plytho. I have no doubt that you would have eventually come to the conclusion that I was scum. I also couldn't kill you, because if I remained alive while you were dead, town would probably come to the conclusion that I was scum. If I was going to make it, it had to be me vs you in the end. Vic is too swingy. I can never tell if he's going to go with his intuition or not. Even though Vic had suspicions of you, I think you would have had a higher chance of out towning there. I think plytho better reads my mind (and my simulated mind) and I would have been able to form a solid case against you that would have appealed to him in the same way it would appeal to me.
Vicarin
Postby Vicarin » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:33 pm UTC
Oh wow, amazing. Sabrar nails the scum team with his reads list but then gets caught up linking me with two of them
Yeah, I don't know what I would have thought if I'd been getting to endgame, once moody and SuperJedi went down, I'd have to start getting a hell of a lot more paranoid.
Amazing call by Madge there, saved us so much trouble.
Postby BoomFrog » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:38 pm UTC
I nice plan, but D4 would have been the showdown there. My "scum is being too tricky" alarm would have been blaring. Although given the lack of listening to dead town that happens you might have won anyway if you got me lynched D4.
@LaserGuy: sorry for thinking you changed your answer or something, it's just Sabrar sounded so damn certain when he went and reworded my question before it got answered, but I guess that's just Sabrar
Setup did seem as if it ended up pretty balanced in how it got drawn, town just happened to immediately start crushing scum apparently.
@Sabrar: ha, take that, 99.9% certainty! But really, great job this game, damn. Just wish you'd tunneled on your initial reads list instead of me after I'd roped myself in a bit.
I'm happy that people were predicting me getting dogpiled immediately D2 and that I was able to prove them wrong
Vicarin wrote: @LaserGuy: sorry for thinking you changed your answer or something, it's just Sabrar sounded so damn certain when he went and reworded my question before it got answered, but I guess that's just Sabrar
Yeah, Town was so strong in the day phase this game I don't think that the PR balance likely would have had a big effect unless scum's power was overwhelming. I feel like maybe this setup is a bit swingy if anything... if scum gets off to a bad start they're likely to continue on losing; if Town gets off to a bad start they're likely to continue losing. I may have underpowered scum's PRs a bit by making them Even/Odd/2-shot, but I didn't want to end up with something like Vig + Gunsmith + IC vs. Full roleblock + rolestop, which would be very scumsided IMHO.
plytho
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Postby plytho » Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:24 pm UTC
LaserGuy wrote: I feel like maybe this setup is a bit swingy if anything... if scum gets off to a bad start they're likely to continue on losing; if Town gets off to a bad start they're likely to continue losing.
Isn't that somewhat true for most setups?
Pronouns: he him his
Avatar: The High Frontier by Angus McKie
I think most setups will have somewhat snowballing effects anyway just because of a loss losing a PR randomly is. Stuff like a tracker definitely steps up a LOT in power once there's only 1 scum left (though gunsmiths seem way more useful in general). Unless you take specific countermeasures (like, I think last year's Halloween game?), setups will always be swingy. And if you do put in countermeasures, it can feel bad because you can feel like you're getting punished for doing well.
Ninja'd yup
plytho wrote: Also, I almost counterclaimed BoomFrog. Good thing I checked my role pm again.
I'm wondering what would have been going through your head as you counterclaimed a vanilla role, while knowing scum has safe claims
Postby Madge » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:28 am UTC
All credit to sabrar. I copied my vig list from his reads post. Wasn't able to properly read the thread. Figured sabrar was killed for a reason and he's confirmed town! Absolutely thrilled I was able to bring town to a win by playing my way
Take that everyone who says I need to play better! You are already gazing upon perfection
Postby Vicarin » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:05 pm UTC
I do find it funny that you copied the list from his initial reads, and not his later reads or even his explicit instructions for PRs. Oh well, worked out well
Postby Madge » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:13 pm UTC
Honestly it's because I was in a hurry so I grabbed the first one I found.
I am now off work but also away from computers until Monday.
Postby Zenii » Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:38 am UTC
I had a feeling that might happen.
Scum qt
Vic and Sabrar, do you think you could walk us/me through how you came by the probabilities on the first page?
Postby Vicarin » Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:58 am UTC
Oh, the first page?
Well, it's not pretty to do it analytically because of the condition that there needs to be more town PRs than scum PRs. Sooooooo I just made up a MATLAB script that drew 9 numbers from 1-39 (for town) and 3 from 1-13 (for scum), without replacement. Any town number from 1-12 was a PR and a scum number from 1-4 was a PR. Then, if there were more town PRs than scum PRs, I chucked that simulation out. Then, ran it 10^5 times, and just looked out how often each thing happened.
Basically just brute forced the problem
That should be kept the run, not chucked out. Chucked it out if no of scum PRs was greater or equal to town PRs.
@Zenii: ha, I thought after you posted that very silly response to me arguing probabilities with Sabrar that you weren't keeping up with the discussion, but you DO know your conditional probabilities after all
@bessie: as I said in thread, I thought Sabrar's reason for reading you as scum was pretty bogus as well, but that just made him read us as scum buddies harder so I don't know
Vicarin wrote: Oh, the first page?
I tried doing something similar, but I think I messed up somewhere. Also I was doing it on a calculator and only had enough memory for about 10,000 sims. What do you think is the/how do you determine the minimum runs necessary to get an accurate picture?
Vicarin wrote: @Zenii: ha, I thought after you posted that very silly response to me arguing probabilities with Sabrar that you weren't keeping up with the discussion, but you DO know your conditional probabilities after all
I have a basic understanding, but I don't think I'm anywhere near comprehending you and Sabrar's argument. I want to learn though!
Postby Sabrar » Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:30 am UTC
Zenii wrote: Vic and Sabrar, do you think you could walk us/me through how you came by the probabilities on the first page?
Used the hypergeometric distribution function in Excel to get the probability of each case separately (product of 2 hypgeom.dist functions as spades are drawn independently). Discarded the scum>=town results and reweighted the remaining probabilities to total up to 100% once again.
@Sabrar: Guess that works too. Also reassuring my numbers matched so I probably didn't mess up massively.
@Zenii: Minimum runs necessary is just however many you can run until the numbers stop changing significantly. For example, you can do a sample of samples (run 10^5 times 10 or so times) to get a tough idea of how much the results are varying between those big runs. That can give you a good estimate for your error from such a method. I was happy with that many runs because the results seemed accurate to about 0.1% or so.
My argument about the vig situation was actually pretty similar to your example in the scum chat too. I was saying that if you're dealt a King, the chance of being in a setup where there's more than 1 King increases significantly because you're more likely to be dealt a King in a setup with multiple Kings.
Postby BoomFrog » Fri Oct 26, 2018 2:41 pm UTC
Zenii wrote: -boom i don't think we share the same reasoning for plytho, im curious about what it is you can "see"
Ah see, I was disappointed we didn't debate more finer points like this. I thought it was a combination of RL time limits and wakizashi style, but no, it was that you were scum and putting half your thoughts in scum chat. And probably didn't want to really engage me.
Anyway, I was thinking scum generally don't want to declare townie's definitely town as that limits their options later. Plytho is generally cautious and might stick to that generic scum behavior.
Postby LaserGuy » Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:15 pm UTC
Scum chat is here.
Postby Zenii » Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:55 am UTC
Vicarin wrote: My argument about the vig situation was actually pretty similar to your example in the scum chat too. I was saying that if you're dealt a King, the chance of being in a setup where there's more than 1 King increases significantly because you're more likely to be dealt a King in a setup with multiple Kings.
Are you sure that would apply in this situation? How would it be different from say dealing three cards out randomly three people. If person 1 received a King, that wouldn't change the probability that person 2 and 3 received a King would it?
Ah, I see. I usually declare people town because it's the easiest way to look like you're actually thinking about people's alignment.
I genuinely was busy and intended to more minimal (and intend to in the future) regardless of alignment. That being said, there were so many times I had to stop myself from buddying you. I didn't want you to think I was being Boom-from-crossover.
Postby Vicarin » Sat Oct 27, 2018 2:54 am UTC
So, the interesting thing is that it does, very slightly, compared to how the probabilities are before looking at any card, if you know someone got dealt a King. Kings get removed from the deck as they get dealt to people, reducing the probability that other people will get them, but observing a King for your own card increases the likelihood that other people have Kings, because you're more likely to have a King when there's lots of Kings out there.
For a toy example, consider a deck that consists of 8 cards, where there's 2 Kings and 6 other cards, and there's 2 people. If we use K for king, and O for other, the deals are, for (you, other person):
KK: (1/4)*(1/7) = 1/28
KO: (1/4)*(6/7) = 6/28
OK: (3/4)*(2/7) = 6/28
OO: (3/4)*(5/7) = 15/28
and that all adds up to 1, so all good so far.
Now, say we want to do something similar to what Sabrar wanted to do. If we know there's at least 1 King in the game' (which was the assumption made because otherwise there's no vig to make the decision to shoot or not), then we can remove the OO situation, and conclude that there's a 1/13 chance (after normalizing it) of there being 2 Kings. However, we can do better than that, because we can look at our own card. If it's a King, then we know that the OK situation is impossible (because we've got a King), and then conclude that now that we've seen our card, that the probability of the KK situation is actually 1/7, which is significantly higher (and exactly what you'd expect from the probability of the other person being dealt a lone K out of a deck of 7 remaining cards, once you've been dealt the first King).
My original point was in response to:
Vicarin wrote: Actually, yeah, how did you come to that conclusion exactly Sabrar? I can't see how it matches up with the probabilities we both posted.
Why not? How would you go about and calculate this? Because I have exact probabilities based on hypergeometric distribution and those give a ~15% chance of there being at least 2 Vig-s, after which it's pretty easy to solve for 0.85*p + 0.15*(2*p2+2p*(1-p))=1
I pointed out that the probabilities needed to be updated, and then Sabrar said
Sabrar wrote: @Vicarin: if we have 0 Vig-s in the game than the actual number doesn't matter at all. Therefore I don't have to look at my card to calculate odds because I'm already assuming that we have at least 1.
Which is incorrect, otherwise the probability in the above example would be 1/13 for KK, after seeing your own card. (I'm assuming that the combination of statements meant that Sabrar renormalized the numbers and got ~85% 1 vig, 15% 2 or more vigs, after assuming that there's at least 1 vig, so I was arguing on that basis).
Of course, when there's a bunch more people, the calculations become more involved, because when you look at your own card and see a non-King, that doesn't completely rule out there being more than 1 King among other people, but it does provide evidence for it (because if there's a ton of kings in circulation, you probably would have gotten dealt one). So if you want to crunch the numbers then, it's probably best to just pull out Bayes' Theorem instead of trying to cover every single case specifically.
If you want a really extreme example, you can even say LaserGuy had different decks to draw upon. Say he said there were two setups for 9 town, that he's going to randomly select between:
1. Town gets dealt cards from a deck with 1 King and 8 non-kings
2. Town gets dealt cards from a deck with 8 Kings and 1 non-king (putting aside the issue of having 8 different kings).
You know that at least one person got a King in each possible setup, so we can then ask the questions:
How many Kings on average are there in the game before you look at your card?
You look at your card, and it's a King. How many Kings on average are there in the game now?
Wow, insane. Probability is insane.
Postby BoomFrog » Sat Oct 27, 2018 3:48 am UTC
Your last example is a very different situation, so let's stick to your 2 player 8 cards example and the real game example.
Having a king tells you only that other people don't have that king. There is not a higher chance that others are a king, there is actually a lower chance because you have one of the Kings.
The order of the deal doesn't matter. Everyone getting a card first then you get delt last, and you getting delt first both have the same chance that you get a King.
Having a king does increase the chance that you are in a game with multiple Kings. Of course it does. You being a king went from 4/52 to 1/1 so that raises the chances of a multi king game. But you having a king Decreases the chances that others are a king, because before it was 4/52 and now it's 3/51. (you need to use hypergeometric distribution to calculate the chance of multiple other players).
So I think Vic is understanding the probability, but (as usual) is misunderstanding/Misscommunicating with others.
@Zen: Having few dimond safe claims does increase the chance that town has more dimonds, but only by the amount that that you would calculate if you took all the cards you didn't have as safe claims and delt them to the town. However, every card you didn't have on the safe claim list was equally likely, so claiming a dimond is not more dangerous then any other unknown card.
The important thing to remember is that the order of a deal doesn't matter. If I get delt first, but I get the second card in the deck and then you get the first card, did what I get affect your deal?
Yeah, I know that there's those two different effects. I'm arguing that Sabrar, in his statement, took into account the decreasing chances due to Kings getting removed from the deck as they get dealt to other people (because that's the whole point of using the hypergeometric distribution), but failed to take into account the information that people dealt kings have (that is, they have a King in front of them). Hence, Sabrar was underestimating the probability of being in a multi-king game for people who'd seen that their own card was a King.
In the first example I gave, if you take into account the first effect but not the second, you end up with the 1/13 chance, but if you take into account both, you get the 1/7 chance.
Half the issue is because very similar sounding questions have very different answers and different implications on the game state.
If you ask "How likely is it that there's at least two Kings in this game, given that there's at least one King?", it's got a different answer to "How likely is it that there's at least two Kings in this game, given that I am a King?". I'm saying Sabrar said he answered the second (because it's what you want the vigs to know when deciding whether to fire or not), but gave the reasoning for answering the first.
Bleh, went back to my model and checked with for the explicit answers for the setup:
There's a ~60% chance of there being at least 1 King drawn in a setup that isn't rejected.
There's an average of ~0.78 Kings in all non-rejected setups, and an average of ~1.27 in those non-rejected trials that have at least 1 King. As required, 0.78/1.27 is approximately 60%.
Out of the trials where there's at least 1 King, ~75% have 1 King, ~23% have 2 Kings, and ~2% have 3 Kings (I have no idea where Sabrar's 15% number came from now...)
If you look at your card and have a King, then you're in a 1 King setup ~60% of the time, a 2 King setup ~36% of the time, and a 3 King setup ~4% of the time, with a mean of ~1.44 kings. If you want to have an average of 1 person fire on N1, then you use these numbers, not the ones in the previous paragraph.
Hopefully Sabrar can agree with these
Postby Sabrar » Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:27 am UTC
I don't have my spreadsheet anymore but the whole discussion is pointless because town should never post numbers based on their own card as that explicitly tells scum whether they are PR. I'm surprised this didn't occur to you during the game.
That's why I posted probabilities during the game from both PoVs, for exactly that reason. In my first post. So yes, it did occur to me.
Hell, you were the one giving the PRs the instructions to begin with, I don't know why making sure the instructions are correct is such an issue Also, giving the instructions doesn't say anything about whether they're a PR or not (we were both vanilla and all).
Postby LaserGuy » Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:08 am UTC
You guys have put way more thought into the probabilities than I ever did
Postby bessie » Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:30 am UTC
I am rather enjoying this argument discussion.
I’m working on my shout outs/feedback. I will try to have have something tomorrow!
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The parent company of the Cetera Financial Group of independent broker-dealers, RCS Capital (RCAP), filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware on Sunday as expected, and Cetera plans to spend some $50 million on programs to retain the roughly 9,000 independent advisors affiliated with its network of broker-dealers who are eligible for such funding, court filings show.
New York-based RCS Capital has close to $2 billion in assets and roughly $1.4 billion in debts, according to a Bloomberg report. The company’s unsecured creditors include Wilmington Savings Fund Society and Proskauer Rose LLP of New York.
In early January, RCS Capital said it had obtained $150 million to restructure its finances from a group of key investors. Also, private equity firms Carlyle Investment Management and Fortress Investment Group, along with asset manager Eaton Vance Management, are letting the company forgo debt payments. These entities are poised to see the money they are lending to Cetera turn into equity shares in the group of independent broker-dealers.
Cetera includes 10 broker-dealers, several of which carry the Cetera brand; others — such as First Allied and Investors Capital — do not.
The Cetera-branded broker-dealers are likely to offer retention deals only to reps who have $250,000 or more in average yearly fees & commissions, says Jon Henschen, a recruiter and head of Henschen & Associates. Advisors and others in the industry have said the deals will be roughly equivalent to 6% of an advisor’s trailing-12-month production level and will be paid in stock, Henschen said; these reps also will be eligible to receive another 2% of their yearly production in cash.
Advisors who serve as regional vice presidents and those leading offices of supervisory jurisdiction could receive an additional 2% of trailing-12-month production in cash, with a total maximum payout of 10% for OSJs and RVP otherwise 8%, according to Henschen.
Cetera declined to comment at press time on such details.
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EPV for naval service
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Originally Posted by Stoker
Based on what Irish sea ferry built in Holland?
From the attached .pdf file it is based on a Manx ferry.
The Absalon class
http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/T...lass(2004).htm
Old Redeye
Are you confused? I don't think Absalon is based on a ferry - more like previous Odense built warships for the RDN. Now, the MRV for New Zealand is based on a ferry, see the tenix link three posts above.
I think we should rule out Absalon from the start. It is way more warship than we will ever need.
Unless that id you are a certain person who believes a thread IMO mods invented some time ago...
http://www.irishmilitaryonline.com/b...hlight=absalon
mutter nutter
"Nice ass, Samson..."
the problem with the Tenix MRV maybe that it look's too much like a LPD and we all know the crusties will raise shit over it........probably claim we're building it to help the EU RRF to invade Africa again
Who cares what the crusties think. Tell them its a ferry to collect refugees from Nigeria.
Politician's who hold the wallet,do, or to be more precise, they'd care what influence the crusties would have on the oridinary public who don't know much about the military, oh I'm sure the crusties would not bring up what they themselves would think the ship was for, the usual "we're throwing away neutrality", or going on "imperilist adventures", the issue of how expensive it is, why do we need it, it's an offensive weapon system, would be used against it, no matter what the truth is, it alway's get's buried in bullshit, but you'd have muppet's like Matt Cooper bleeting on again about "expensive toy's for the boy's" like he did when the Javelin's were being bought, I'm sure that gobshite Barret would be all over the place complaining, and you know as well as I do, that one whiff of controversey and the politician's will drop any ship building project like the MRV , maybe I'm being just pessimistic but it's just a feeling I have about it
sorry for the rant
The crusties are clueless when it comes to the naval service(much the same as the rest of the country). When GWB visited shannon,their experts decided Eithne was a US naval vessel sent to the shannon estuary to protect him.
As for matt COO COOper he is too liberal for his own good. The anti war made no comment whatsoever when we went to the Old enemy 5 years ago and got them to build us 2 new ships. Its the job of the DF press office to provide the correct and relevant information to prevent distortion of the real story. Emphasising the vessels abilities in:
pollution control,
(if on the off chance the vessel were in a tsunami affected area),
,fisheries protection and
troop transport.
Its all about marketing.
Originally Posted by Old Redeye
No not confused, from the .pdf file attached to this thread (of the New Zealand MRV) - the tenix link - the MRV is based on a Manx ferry.
Lordinajamjar
Aha: Death=Preconception
Goldie, since it is officially getting about near the time to replace at least one of the P20s' just how soon do you think a firm order might be placed? If one of the P20's is really being decomissioned in 2007 the procurement tender should be about ready to go out on the streets. Do you really believe that anything other than another P50 is really on the cards? These rumours of a larger vessel are they really anything more than just pie in the sky?
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Well the facts,as I have them are:
The east wall of the basin in Haulbowline,never in the past used by the Naval service has been dredged to a depth deeper than the rest of the basin. ask anyone why(regardless of rank) and they will say its for the new ship.
Ask anyone if they heard the rumour,and everyone in the NS will reply"the blue/green ship?"
Everyone in the NS also agrees that Emer is on her last legs.
There are other sources I have that I cannot talk about,needless to say they are reliable.
The only variable is the Dept of Finance.
yooklid
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That's a HELL of a variable.
Well Goldie I guess we will soon know then one way or the other. I daresay that the morale of the NS would be dampened a bit then if the rumour turns out to be false. From what you've presenetd though there seems to be reasonable case for optimism. Fingers crossed.
The way I Understand,how these things work is that the military authorities identify a requirement,look at how others do it,decide what they want and then present their proposals to the department of defence,who propose it to the Dept of finance,who decide whether or not the funds are there. Then it is tendered for,with experts wording the tender in such a way that the type of vessel originally considered can be specified. In its short history,the NS has learnt a lot about ship procurement and design. In the Case of the P50 class,Design was left to KMM, who came back with a vessel that has preformed excellently,with a few minor flaws which were quickly rectified. Eithne Could have been an excellent class too(and is an excellent vessel),If dockyard disputes and internal difficulties within the Defence forces had not hindered it so much.
Peacocks were an opportunity that we happened to be ready for,as a replacement for the Minesweepers had long been sought,and these vessels provided a cost effective option,which has payed off. While the P20 class has for many years been the blueprint for all similar sized coastguard vessels in the north atlantic.
The latter 2 P20 class have a lot more life in them than Emer has. The current concentration in the naval industry towards anti terrorist EEZ patrolling,has provided the market with a wide range of off the shelf options,such as the British River class,KMMs variants(as seen to enter service in the next few years with the NZ navy),and many more.
Our advantage is we have been involved in EEZ patrolling for many years. We know what we need. Our ships are equipped with equipment larger supposedly better equipped Navies only recently realised they needed, such as RIB boarding boats,Visual weapon targetting,low density crew accomodation.
When the decision is made,because of the tight purse strings,the best value for money will be the key.
How about some ex-yank equipment?
USS Racine is in reserve
http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/161191.htm
And the Aussies have done a nice job with the one they aquired
http://www.navy.gov.au/ships/manoora/default.htm
Here's an article on the refit
http://www.sutcliffegallery.com.au/k...it/refit1.html
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how many does it take to crew her
There is no problem that cannot be fixed with high explosive.
31st July 2005, 14:12 #91
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do we have enough crew for her so? I thought there was a manpower shortage in the service at the moment
1st August 2005, 00:13 #93
I think the second hand stuff has been ruled out.
The above mentioned US vessel is older than the last vessel disposed of by the Irish Naval service, and a lot less modern in equipment. To convert it,as the Aussies did to a vessel which had not been lying rusting at anchor since 1996,would cost as much as a newbuild.
The Multi Role Vessel (MRV)
The MRV is contracted-out to Merwede Shipyard in the Netherlands, but will be sailed to NZ or Australia for final fit-out. The MRV should be delivered to the RNZN in late 2006.
Tenix's MRV as a design based on a commercial Ro-Ro ship, BEN-MY-CHREE in operation in the Irish Sea. Tenix's existing facilities could handle building the ship, but the Dutch yard offered the best use of the facilities available in order to get the ship to the RNZN as soon as possible.
The MRV will have diesel-electric propulsion and a max speed of 19 knots. The MRV is intended to provide a sealift capability for the transport and deployment of equipment, vehicles and personnel, and to be capable of transferring cargo and personnel ashore when port facilities are not available.
Displacement: 8000 tonnes
Length overall: 131 metres
Beam: 23.4 metres
Complement: Core ship's company: 53
Flight personnel: 10
Government agencies: 4
Army ship's staff: 7
Trainees: 35
Troops: 250
Propulsion: Diesel engines
Flight deck: Space for two helicopters
The NH90 helicopter has been selected to replace the RNZAF's Iroquois utility helicopters. It will be able to operate from the MRV carrying Army equipment from the ship to shore.
http://www.navy.mil.nz/visit-the-fle...or/default.htm
More details on Ben-My-Chree
Interestingly,the original Ben-My-Chree was used as a troopship during WW2.
Goldie, would the MRV be your personel choice for a new ship, if you had to choose?
Originally Posted by mutter nutter
If you mean the Kiwi MRV,No. Its size is excessive for a vessel which would spend the majority of its time engaged in duties it was not designed for,ie routine Patrol.
Its fine for the Kiwis,as they have a large section of the pacific to look after,and have a requirement for a ship to bring their own military vehicles between the islands in their own nation,so a ferry type makes sense. The convenience of Stern and Side loading ramps on the hull is outweighed by the extra maintenance these occasionally used features will require.
The Meko 200 MRV to me is more suitable,as it is designed,to quote Blohm and Voss
as a long range, high endurance cutter with the enhanced flexibility to operate as a true Multi-Role Vessel "MRV" with additional mission capabilities
which would be similar to the role Eithne is currently carrying out.
In addition,MEKO ships are far more adaptable in the long term should mid life equipment refits be required.
I assume the Meko designs were aimed at the Kiwi Project Protector plan. The Meko 100 OPV is worthy of consideration for future vessels also,but thats another topic.
Right On Goldie. Good analysis, correct conclusion. Of course something larger and more capable would be nice, but a MEKO 200 would be excellent return for the expenditure, is sustainable from every perspective and would adequately satisfy NS outstanding requirments. I say order one ASAP and definetely keep the 100 design in mind for subsequent requirements.
Is the MEKO 200 (ANZAC Frigate etc.) not designed to full naval standards with all the associated extra costs that this apparently brings?
Both the Danish and the NZ ships are supposed to be designed to commercial/civil standards in order to save costs are they not?
Even taking into account the above a fleet of MEKO 100s and 200(s) would be nice though, although I thought that the "100" design was beaten by the Roisin design for the OPV?
The Meko 200 MRV is not the Anzac frigate. The only feature they share is the designing Dockyard.(Blohm and Voss). the MEKO system refers to a method of construction,rather than a design class.
What do you mean by "naval standards"?
4th August 2005, 14:44 #100
Golide I think ias confused the Meko 200 frigate with the Meko 200 MRV
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In the May issue of GENETICS, Kaufman and Rosset describe a testing framework that substantially boosts the power of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), without the need to collect more samples.
“We think practically everyone who’s ever done a case-control GWAS could benefit from reanalyzing their data in this way,” says author Saharon Rosset, an associate professor of statistics at Tel Aviv University.
The major innovation of the approach is tapping an abundant source of existing data: independent genetic studies of the same population, including other GWAS. Such studies don’t provide data on which individuals have the disease or trait of interest, but they do tell you more about the general population that was sampled. That extra information translates to more statistical power.
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More power is also crucial for detecting genetic interactions, where the effect of one genome variant is dependent on other variants. Such interactions are expected to be widespread, but finding them is a challenge because the overwhelming number of tests creates a huge multiple comparisons burden. Even limiting the search to pairwise interactions between a modest 300,000 SNPs requires 45 billion tests.
Rosset and graduate student Shachar Kaufman decided to approach the problem by making use of other genomic studies that sampled the same population. The extra data is intuitively useful, Rosset explains. “Let’s say we know the exact genotype distribution of the population. For a real genetic association, we would expect the controls to look similar to the general population and the cases to look different. But if it’s the other way round — if the cases look very similar to the population and the controls look different — then the statistical association is more likely to be a coincidence,” he says.
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Their model can be readily combined with other methods for boosting performance. For example, the authors also increase power by assuming Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium of genotypes and linkage equilibrium between loci. With these improvements, incorporating population data samples of realistic size typically leads to a substantial increase in power, bringing it close to what would be possible if all genomes in the population were known.
To see how the tests fared with real data, the authors used them to look for genetic interactions in a dataset that had already been intensively studied, the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium study. With the help of the new approach, they were able to identify several promising new candidates for pairs of loci that affect bipolar disorder, coronary artery disease, Crohn’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Targeting Tuna In The East Region With Capt. Mike Holliday
For the most part, there are two species of tuna we target in my region on a fairly regular basis: yellowfin and blackfin tuna, with the blackfins the more commonly caught species. We do catch some yellowfins in my region, and even a few bigeye and the occasional Bluefin tuna, and that usually happens after a week or so of windy weather and rough seas. We’ll also catch skipjack tuna mixed in with the blackfins.
The anglers that specifically target yellowfins in my region usually do so by running to the eastern side of the Gulf Stream and fish either the western Bahamas or just north of the Bahama Bank in an area known as “The Corner” or “The Pocket.” Yellowfin tuna fishing is good starting in May, and runs through October, with the fish pushing north late in the season. Right now, those fish are probably 10 to 20 miles north of the Bahama Bank.
Most of the boats making the 65 to 80 mile run will be trolling, although you can chunk or chum the fish and live bait them. As they boats get 60 or so miles out, they start using their radar screens to help them mark the big flocks of birds that travel with the tuna schools. On some days, there may be a half-dozen flocks showing on the screen.
Once you find the birds, the trick is to keep them at a distance and plot their course of travel, then run ahead of them, put out lures or baits and wait for the tuna to swim up to the moving boat. Tuna swim very fast, a lot faster than the normal 7 or 8 knot trolling speed, so they catch the boat quickly.
The average yellowfin can be anywhere from 30 to 80 pounds, with fish topping 100 pounds, so most boats fish them using 50 or 80 pound tackle, a 100 pound fluorocarbon leader and either lures like a cedar plug, a big-lipped swimming plug, a Japanese feather or small bonito-style lures or rigged ballyhoo. All these baits are effective, and it seems like the darker colors work best with the lures.
When a fish is hooked, the boat continues at the same speed in hopes of getting more bites from the school. Some anglers like to make a turn when the get a bite, hoping the change in direction of the lures or baits will entice the rest of the school to feed.
Blackfin tuna are the most commonly caught tuna species in my region and range anywhere from a few pounds to up to 40 pounds. August and September are great months to target blackfin tuna in my region, either looking for them along the edge in 200 to 400 feet of water from Palm Beach up to Jupiter, or on offshore atolls like Push Button Hill, 12 miles southeast of St. Lucie Inlet.
The blackfins are usually traveling in schools, with a lot of small fish in the mix, but also so huge ones. The big blackfins sometimes like to mix in with the bonito schools, and are very boat shy, so they’re targeted with lines placed way behind a boat. You can troll up blackfin tuna with small feathers in pink, silver or black.
The most consistent way to catch blackfins in my region is by live chumming with juvenile pilchards or Spanish sardines. Blacken your livewells with these baits and then run out to 200 feet of water or more, and start the chum line going. The blackfins will eventually find them, often showing up after the bonito. At times, you’ll see them jumping out of the water chasing your baitfish.
Blackfin tuna are leader shy, and don’t have teeth, so you can target them with 30 pound fluorocarbon leader and a 2/0 to 3/0 circle hook—something small that can be hidden in the bait. They tend to be boat shy, so you want to put the baits as far from the boat as possible.
You’ll know when you hook a blackfin tuna, as they make long, powerful runs, more so than a big bonito, and take longer to get to the boat. They’re outstanding to eat, but you want to bleed them immediately and put them directly on ice to improve the flavor.
Catch just one blackfin or yellowfin tuna, and you’re hooked for life. These fish not only taste great, but are incredible fighters on any tackle.
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face-off specialist Mack Turi was selected to represent the New Jersey Regional Team in the Command Division at the 2017 Under Armour Underclass Lacrosse Tournament in Baltimore, MD. Featuring the best high school lacrosse players in the nation, the event is part of Under Armour’s All-America Lacrosse Games.
Read more about Mack and the tournament:
Under Armour All America Lacrosse 2017
Under Armour All America Lacrosse 2017 Underclass Rosters
Mack Turi Under Armour All America Lacrosse Athlete Profile
MLC SALUTES THE BIANCHI BROTHERS
These Maplewood brothers gave their all—on the athletic field and to their country.
By Raymond Leone
When Kevin Bianchi arrived at Columbia High School as a freshman, he followed in his two older brothers’ footsteps and became a standout athlete. After graduating from Columbia, Kevin followed Jimmy and Bobby Bianchi to the prestigious U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. There he began a journey that few
embrace and even fewer excel at. While still tearing up the athletic fields this energetic schoolboy became
a man, not only surviving the rigors of military academy life but embracing it fully as he was groomed into an officer of the U.S. Navy.
On July 16, 2003, Kevin Bianchi followed in his brother Bobby’s footsteps again—this time tragically Kevin and three other crewmen died when the Sea Dragon cargo helicopter he was co-piloting crashed during a training mission 10 miles from the Naval Air Station Sigonella in eastern Sicily. Navy Cmdr. Kevin Bianchi was 40 years old, married and the father of two sons, aged 9 and 7, and a 3-year-old daughter. He was also survived by his parents, Albert and Sue Bianchi of Maplewood, and his brothers James and Richard.
He was brought "home" to New Jersey two weeks later and was buried barely 10 paces from where his brother, Navy Lt. Robert Bianchi had been buried 16 years earlier. Bobby too, had died when his helicopter crashed
during a training mission, in the Philippines on March 23, 1987. For one Maplewood family, unbearable grief
had stricken twice.
"These guys were just standout human beings. I think about that family, and that’s the way they all were," remembers former Columbia High School athletic director and lacrosse coach Bob Curcio, who has been close with the Bianchis for years. "Sure they were all very good athletes, but more importantly, probably four of the nicest people you would ever want to meet," he says of the Bianchi brothers he coached and taught.
"Kevin, for one, just loved life so much. He was the kind of guy who always had something good to say about everybody. Now, I’m sure they got into their fair share of trouble in high school that Coach Curcio never found out about," he says with a playful grin, "but they were really a special group of guys."
"Kevin would occasionally just show up in my office every now and then over the years just to say hello when he was in town, usually soaked in sweat from a run of unthinkable distance he had just completed,"
Curcio adds. "And I loved getting his Christmas card in the mail. It was always something special, like a picture
of Kevin and the kids in the tub with Santa hats on," Curcio remembers, and then looks away, lost in a memory.
Curcio says that he and many of his ex-players have gone through a range of emotions as they have grappled with the fact of Kevin’s death. "I was just so angry at first," he says. "It’s so unfair that the same family would have to go through this again. Kevin had so much going for him. It’s such a shame. They were the family next
door. You wanted your kids to grow up and be like them."
Athletics is indeed one area where the Bianchi brothers made a name for themselves. Jimmy and Bobby were high school All-American lacrosse players. Two years ago the Star-Ledger voted Bobby Bianchi the high school lacrosse player of the century. Kevin was "an exceptional wrestler for us," Curcio states proudly. And Richard, the youngest Bianchi brother, was a standout football and lacrosse player and wrestler as well. He went on to Rutgers University.
Ed Peery was Kevin’s wrestling coach at the Naval Academy. "Kevin was stocky and strong as an ox," says Peery. "We called him 'the block' because of his build. He was not highly recruited but worked his way up.
He really had to battle as a freshman." Peery also remembers Kevin for his "glowing personality". Says Peery,
"He was very entertaining and could always find a bright side and create some humor in tense situations.
And we had a few of those at the Academy. One thing that impressed me was that he always showed concern
for others."
Peery remembers a special moment after Kevin had graduated that really made an impression on him. "This sums up Kevin Branchi in a nutshell: When my daughter passed away (in 1990), Kevin made an effort to come and see me," Peery says softly, "He came and paid his respects, and not many guys would do that. I will never forget that. He was a special person."
Richie Meade was the assistant lacrosse coach at the Academy when Jimmy, Bobby and Kevin came through. "Those boys were as advertised," says Meade. "Everything you heard about them was absolutely true."
He remembers Kevin as "a tough guy, but always smiling—the kind of guy you wanted to be around.
He also always made you feel important." A fact that impresses Meade to this day is that all three of the Bianchi who went to Annapolis were team captains—Jimmy and Bobby for lacrosse and Kevin for wrestling.
"To have one kid at the Naval Academy become a captain of an athletic team is one thing, but three," he says,
"is truly something special. It says a lot about their family." In 1987 the Academy created the Robert Bianchi award, which is given our yearly to Navy’s most valuable lacrosse player.
Jeff Ringel, who grew up in Maplewood and graduated from Columbia High School with Bobby Bianchi,
also attended the Naval Academy and is now an FBI agent. He remembers the Bianchi brothers' prowess on the sports fields. "Those guys were all top-notch athletes—they really had something special," he says. Life at the Naval Academy, Ringel points out, is "grueling. Life at the academy is a 24-hour job, and for guys who play a major sport it’s that much more work. Everybody has to keep their academics up—no question about it.
No television or radios for the first two years, a lot of studying and a very regimented life right from day one."
"In the summer you had a few weeks off and then you were sent to training either on a ship or a base. To get into flight school, you had to be at the top of your class. Only the guys with the best grades and rank became pilots," Ringer says, "Being a career military man is a tough life. You are gone on deployments a minimum of six months out of the year. It’s hard, especially if you are married and have kids."
Ringel flew covert gun-ship helicopters in the U.S. Marines for more than seven years after leaving the academy and certainly understands life in the military and its dangers. “Naval aviation is a very dangerous business,”
he says firmly, "and the helicopters they were flying get used a lot and are always pushed to the extreme limits. When you are in that business, losing guys in accidents is a part of life that you have to deal with. It’s never easy but it becomes ingrained that it can happen at any time to anyone."
He adds, "Even though the newspapers reported that they (Kevin and Bobby) crashed in training missions,
most people don’t realize that when you fly a training mission it’s really set up like a combat situation. It has to be that way so you are always ready if you are called into action. Training can be as dangerous as combat; you fly low, you fly in extreme conditions, you fly fast. You see how far you can push it, you are simulating a potential real situation," Ringel says, "and knowing Kevin and Bobby, I’m sure they always gave it their all."
Reflecting on Kevin’s funeral, Ringel says: "Even though it’s a tragic loss, you could really feel the pride from all
of the servicemen that were in attendance. It was almost heartwarming. The fact that this happened twice to the same family is just horrific, but you have to realize that even though Kevin died, and Bobby too, they were doing something that they truly loved."
He pauses, takes a deep breath and then says with quiet pride, "and most importantly, they were serving their country. What more can you ask for?"
Raymond Leone is a freelance writer and resident of Maplewood.
Published in Matters Magazine of Maplewood (http://www.maplewoodonline.com/matters/bianchi/)
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Who is responsible for welfare of LNR and DNR?
The humanitarian situation in the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics [LNR and DNR] controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists and Russian military personnel, is quickly becoming dire. Long-term self-sustainability within current boundaries, according to this excellent Hromaske.tv report, is 'near-impossible'.
I wrote previously President Poroshenko has passed a decree to withdraw state support to inhabitants of these regions - this has caused some significant controversy.
The long-time mayor of Donetsk, Oleksandr Lukyanchenko gave an long television interview last week that perhaps deserved more attention than it received. Having been forced to flee from Donetsk for refusing to co-operate with the separatists, he is now believed to be in Kyiv.
He makes it clear that the armed conflict in Donbas should be called a war, not an anti-terrorist operation. "Yes, the Russians crossed the border, and we should call things by their proper name. The Russians are now delivering hundreds of pieces of weaponry, but we still continue to say that an anti-terrorist operation is ongoing. Why don't we call things by their [proper] name?"
He openly stated that people in the area, in his city, never wanted, and do not want to detach from Ukraine.
He suggested that if more resistance had been offered by Ukrainian forces initially during the Crimea take-over, then a similar situation may not have arose in Donbas. He claims 'its not our war, and Donbas is merely a bargaining chip between major powers'.
He calls it immoral that Kyiv has financially cut off the occupied territories in the East and suggest cash could be transferred to individuals bank accounts electronically, so that people could still purchase provisions with debit cards in the still reasonably well stocked major food outlets. He claims that Donbas citizens are fully entitled to pensions, having contributed to state schemes for years.
He states Rinat Akhmetov's relief fund has now sent over 1/2 million 10kg parcels in aid...but that Rinat's TRK television channel is blocked in Donbas. [Lukyanchenko was considered 'close' to Akhmetov for many years.]
He claims up to 50% of industrial capability is now destroyed and many of the brightest and best amongst the population have left.
It is difficult not to have some sympathy with those that are left in Donbas, but I think that despite bold pronouncements by president Poroshenko and others that Ukraine must remain a unitary state within the pre-2014 boundaries, there is a growing feeling of 'shadenfreude' amongst some Ukrainians who consider it may be better to ditch the troublesome Donbas for good.
In one article article author Vasyl Rybnikov describes how six months ago many ran through squares in Donbas and Luhansk oblasts and plundered supermarkets, waving flags supplied, allegedly by Rinat Akhmetov's warehouses, in joyful anticipation of the incoming of Putin, who would be welcomed on bended knee.
Somewhere along the way it all went horribly wrong. Humanitarian aid from Putin has been stolen by those supposedly defending the people from the 'genocidal nazi junta'; and the future looks grim indeed.
Donbas which was [erroneously] considered by locals to be carrying the whole of the Ukrainian economy on its back is now not even capable of feeding itself.
And how is it that the great Donbas patriot, king of Donbas, Rinat Akhmetov is now residing comfortably in the heart of the fascist Banderite junta state - the blood-riven capital of Ukraine - Kyiv - and not in his own home town?
The recently-appointed governor of the part of Luhansk oblast under Kyiv control, Hennadiy Moskal, in an interview in Dzerkalo Tyzhnya, puts the blame for the dire situation in the East of Ukraine squarely on the Party of Regions' leadership.
"I blame the 'Regionaly' for setting fire to Donbas, for developing the war, and then running from the field of battle like rats from a ship. I blame them totally for all that is going on in Donbas and Luhansk in general. It's their slogans, used by LNR and DNR - Fascists, Nazis, Punishers. They provoked everything, wound up the people, and when they lost control over them they fled, leaving everyone to their fate. Ours is the only oblast in Ukraine where the regional council is not working (it is almost 100 percent Party of Regions). All have fled."
The DNR leadership have promised some social payments will be made to the needy on December 1, but no-one is holding their breath on this.
Ukrainian patriotism is honest and decent...and mu...
Should Kyiv provide for the welfare of citizens in...
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Putin pushing for Minsk-2?
Russians not keen on LNR and DNR
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How business models distort science
20. December 2018 Wolfgang HofkirchnerComments: 0
On 10 December 2018 Klaus Kornwachs was guest in the fall lecture series Aspects of the Digital Transformation, organised by the Center for Informatics and Society (C!S) of the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology.
The title of the lecture was: Data – Interests – Ontologies: How business models distort science.
This is the abstract:
The new possibilities of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Technologies allow finding unexpected structures and relations in data sets, generated in different fields and contexts. This can be done either to figure out new scientific hypotheses or to find relations which can be used to establish new business models.
A result generated by Big Data or AI can only be interpreted meaningfully by knowing the original research question. Thus, a model with a pre-theoretic hypothesis is necessary. Nevertheless one can find the tendency to substitute the scientific methods by pure numerical methods. This tendency is driven by the development of business models that aims to market a multifunctional use of data once collected in a wide variety of contexts. Some examples in the field of Human Resource Management will be given. It can be shown that the use of such procedures is not reliable. Such procedures should be used in a way that supports decisions, not to automate or substitute them.
Klaus Kornwachs is a permanent Honorary Professor for Philosophy at University Ulm, Germany since 1990, and a member of the German Academy for Science and Engineering. He held the Chair for Philosophy of Technology at Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus from 1992 to 2011. He studied Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy, and won 1991 the Research Award for Technical Communication of the Alcatel-SEL Foundation. He was Guest Professor at Vienna, Budapest and Dalian. His main fields in research are philosophy of technology, analytical philosophy, philosophy of sciences and general system theory. For publications see http://kornwachs.de.
Kornwachs had agreed to become part of the newly established Advisory Committee of GSIS – The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society.
The invitation to this lecture was given on the suggestion of the UTI Research Group.
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Basketball discussion
Kelly Olynyk: What's Up?
Thread: Kelly Olynyk: What's Up?
GonzagasaurusFlex
Zag for Life
In his sixth NBA season (year two of his four year, $50 million contract w the Miami Heat) the 27 year old seems to be either regressing, losing interest, playing injured or just in the doghouse. I have no idea which if any of the above explain his apparent drop-off in production, but the fact his minutes per game are going down in what should be his prime is puzzling to me. Last night he played 13 minutes with zero field goal attempts.
Here are his stats from last five games, which seem to be trending downward: http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/...3/kelly-olynyk
GP MPG FGM-FGA FG% 3PM-3PA 3P% FTM-FTA FT% RPG APG BLKPG STLPG PFPG TOPG PPG
2018-19 Regular Season 10 19.3 2.6-5.8 .448 1.1-3.8 .289 1.9-2.4 .792 3.1 2.4 0.5 0.6 2.6 1.2 8.2
Career 364 21.2 3.7-7.7 .481 1.0-2.8 .368 1.5-1.9 .751 4.9 1.9 0.5 0.7 2.9 1.5 9.8
It is their time....their team...I just get to watch. - Bartruff1
willandi
I looked last night and couldn't find anything other than this clip on the heat site. Sounds like he is just in a slump. https://www.nba.com/heat/video/kelly...e-sound-181121
Hoping you have a sense of humor too!
Down Under, you know Opera house etc.
In Kelly's last two Games with the Heat he has looked much better.
He needs to play 20+ minutes per game for the Heat if they have any chance of winning games.
They want him to shoot 3s if he's open, it opens up so much more if he make them....
https://clutchpoints.com/heat-news-w...int-whisperer/
ZagNative
Spokane South Side
This is a very complimentary article on Kelly's importance to the Heat and his performance recently: "Miami Heat: The overall dynamic effect of Kelly Olynyk"
Since being reintegrated into the core rotation of the Miami Heat, Kelly Olynyk has again demonstrated his immense value to the team.
For a decent period of time this season, it was unclear just where the Miami Heat stood with Kelly Olynyk.
Despite the underwhelming performance of the team, it seemed there was no room for the unique package of skills that Olynyk brings to the table. Over the first 20 games of the season, he averaged 8.1 points and 3.4 rebounds in just 17.8 minutes per game, including receiving the dreaded Did Not Play – Coach’s Decision.
This was a far cry from the final 20 games of Olynyk’s first season with the Heat, where the Canadian native averaged 13.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists in 23.9 minutes per game.
However, with the Heat struggling mightily with a 7-13 record, and with a number of key players sidelined for multiple games, Olynyk again became part of head coach Erik Spoelstra’s plans. Thus far, the results speak for themselves. Over the last nine games, the Have posted a 6-3 record, which featured winning four out of six games during a challenging West Coast road trip.
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zagbeliever
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I don't know if it has anything to do with it but Sam Dower is his best friend and Sam's dad just died. I know Kelly and Sam are both very close to each other's family. So sorry for Sam and for Kelly.
23dpg
17,250 miles East of Spokane
Weird situation. He's getting this stat line lately.
K. Olynyk PF DNP-COACH'S DECISION
Mojo13
Originally Posted by 23dpg
A couple things going on - the Heat are semi-struggling coupled with just many healthy bodies right now (had a load of guys hurt last year). They are experimenting with different line-ups and attempting game by game match-ups. All this is causing KOs minute to fluctuate wildly. It is still quite odd to see as KO was really good for the Heat last year. There were a couple line-up couple combinations with KO that were very effective last year yet they have rarely been used this year.
Add to oddness is that KO really killed the Clippers the last time they played yet gets DNP'd last night and DNP'd vs Boston where you;d expect him to ball out.
Hopefully it all works itself out in his favor.
sittingon50
Colville, Wa.
They sure are paying him a lot of money to be nailed to the bench. Bad situation.
We didn't want the guy anyway.
Kelly got some time on court today...(due to an injury of a teammate).
A very efficient 11 points (on 6 shots) and 6 rebounds in 17 minutes...
http://www.espn.com.au/nba/boxscore?gameId=401071415
When he plays well Miami has a great record..
NontradZag
Olynyk is having himself a night...28 pts on 40 + minutes of PT.
If at first you don't succeed, try to solve the situation with a spud gun. ~Dwight Schrute~
azzagfan
El Gorah, Egypt
Another big game for Kelly, 25 pts on 9-13 in blowout of Nets. http://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401071610
Originally Posted by azzagfan
From DNP Coaches decision a few weeks ago to the last 4 games averaging 22.25 ppg....as a starter.
I know its because if injuries right now, but even when other players get back KO should remain the starting PF for the rest of the year with Bam as the centre.
Kelly makes the most of another start (and win), leading the Heat in minutes and scoring.
He certainly has his MOJO back hitting 5 of 7 three pointers (He's hitting 61% of them the last 5 games).
http://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401071638
As a long-time Kelly follower it's great to see him on a roll.
Originally Posted by OZZY
He is gearing up to lead Canada to a medal at the World Cup this summer.
webspinnre
Kelly featured in this week's Zach Lowe column, at number 3:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...s-paul-swagger
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ZagNut08
Just got $1M bonus based on minutes played...must be rough figuring out the tax implications
bartruff1
At this point he could just buy Kamloops....but if you have been a young good looking single NBA multi millionaire in South Beach.....
Kelly O to the Mavs as part of the Butler trade
Marc Stein
@TheSteinLine
@AlbertNahmad
Miami would get Jimmy Butler, Dallas would get Kelly Olynyk and Derrick Jones Jr. and Philadelphia would get Josh Richardson ... but that trade construction remains (at least) one piece shy
Wasn't it Dallas that originally drafted him?
Cuban is a players' owner. Hope Kelly enjoys himself.
Update from CBS:
Heat's Kelly Olynyk: In limbo after sign-and-trade fails
By RotoWire Staff 1h ago • 1 min read
UPDATE 1h ago
Olynyk's future is clouded after Sunday's attempt by the Heat to sign-and-trade for Jimmy Butler hit a snag, Marc Stein of the New York Times reports.
There's apparently some confusion as to which players were involved in the deal, so for the time being Olynyk remains in a holding pattern. Tim Cato of The Athletic reports that the initial deal between Miami and Dallas is off, but it's still very possible that Miami could end up moving Olynyk -- to the Mavs or another team -- in the coming days to facilitate the Butler acquisition.
With Hassan Whiteside being traded I don't think Miami will also move Kelly.
Spo has a soft spot for KO and I was surprised that he was being traded.
Unless they land another experienced big I have to think that KO is still starting beside Bam.
With Kanter and Leonard leaving Portland Collins has a better chance of getting some starts
Last edited by OZZY; 07-01-2019 at 10:18 PM. Reason: re read the trade information
Yesterday, 02:23 AM #22
Miami reportedly the team OKC is most likely to work a deal w in order to trade CP3 to them. I’ve read both teams and CP3 want to make it happen. Heat will have to unload some big contracts back to OKC to pull it off $ wise. Too lazy to dig deep into current Heat roster to make informed guess about which contracts they would most likely need to move to OKC in order to clear room for CP3, but I’m sure Olynyk’s (2 years remaining on his 4 year $50M signed in 2017) would be high on the list.
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For Peachtree Ridge students, October means red and gold leaves wrapped around rugged bark, the scent of pumpkin spice wafting through the air, and an event that unites the entire school – Trunk or Treat.
On Tues., Oct. 30, Peachtree Ridge will host its annual Trunk or Treat from 6 to 8 p.m. Kids of all ages are invited to dress up, trick-or-treat around the faculty parking lot, and visit dozens of car trunks. Each trunk will be filled with candy and decorations to match a certain theme, and some will even include games and prizes!
The only cost of admission is a donation to the Care Closet, a food and supply pantry founded by two of Peachtree Ridge’s former students. Food will be sold at the event, and proceeds will go directly to Relay For Life.
Aside from being an event for families, Trunk or Treat also embodies a sense of unity among the dozens of student organizations of the school, which are responsible for sponsoring the trunks.
In years past, you could find YoungLife, a Christian youth group, decked out in Hogwarts scarves, next to the National Art Honor Society, whose members were painting pumpkins on kids’ faces. A few trunks away, Beta Club, a volunteer organization, was lip syncing High School Musical songs while the girls’ softball team was passing out candy. The members of Science Olympiad were transformed into bright yellow Minions, and the football team was running a bean bag toss for the youngest kids to enjoy.
By bringing the entire school together, Trunk or Treat perfectly captures the diversity of the school as well as the camaraderie of the community. If you’re wanting to celebrate an annual tradition and benefit two charitable causes, just bring a donation, come out to Trunk or Treat and prepare to get into the Halloween spirit!
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The Grit and Glamour of Queer LA Subculture Main Menu Introduction to Grit and Glamour #OVAHNESS: Ephemeral Archives in the Digital Age THE SWISH ALPS: Exploring Queer Affect in Northeast LA (IN PROGRESS) Queer LA Punk? (IN PROGRESS) Rough Riders: Leather, Motorcycle Clubs, and Defense of Queer Space H.N. Lukes 76bfab3424b1e3a4a686ed031370b6dfac5dd2dd David J. Kim 18723eee6e5a79c8d8823c02b7b02cb2319ee0f1
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QUEER INTENTIONS
Women! Women of Los Angeles!
You can’t clean it up til you make a mess!
-Tracy + The Plastics, “Save Me Claude” [link]
This Scalar project is based on a course offered in the Spring 2016 semester at Occidental College in the department of Critical Theory and Social Justice in collaboration with the college's Center for Digital Liberal Arts and Center for Community Based Learning. [link] A Mellon Faculty Fellowship has afforded me the opportunity to develop this digital humanities archiving course from two previous iterations of a Los Angeles LGBT* cultural studies/social history offerings.
This course, “CTSJ 337: Queer LA: Cruising the Archive,” borrows its title from a 2012 ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archive exhibition, “Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture, 1945-1980.” Actually, I don’t borrow the ONE's title. I steal it. Yet as Wilson Mizner, playwright, manager of LA’s famous Brown Derby, and native Angelino ne’er-do-well once said, “If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” While holding ourselves to a higher ethical standard of scholarship, CTSJ 337 intends to use this queer sense of reference, homage, and magpie research to study and create a mixed-media archive documenting LGBT* life in the greater LA area.
Engaging both traditional archival research and emergent digital tools, this course forwards the idea of “cruising the archive” by placing the “digital” and the “queer” in conversation, each as implicit critiques of traditional methodological practices and brick-and-mortar containments of culture and history. Cruising implies both looking for sex (as well as improvised community, world-making, and identity) and looking for information in non-systematic ways. This irregular form of “research” has consistently informed queer theory’s interdisciplinary and often anti-disciplinary ethos since its inception in the early 1990s. (fn, Tea Room Trade, Sedgwick, Munoz, Cvetkovich, Murphy et. al)
CTSJ 337 is a team-driven and project-oriented course organized around building a hybrid archive/book in Scalar by the end of the semester. It is unclear what final form this product will take, but we imagine linking text, audio, photography, video, mapping, and timeline formats to external sites of other community organizations and archives, perhaps constructing a kind of archive of and about queer LA archives. We will be critically examining the potentials and limits of “the Digital Revolution” through such questions as: Who has more or less access to information in a shift from analog to digital forms? How does the movement toward the digital cast a nostalgic light on analog formats? How does any shift in technology and media provoke, invite, repress, or ignore extant systems of information storage and access? Are these effects accidental, market-driven, community-oriented, conscious, or (dare I say) unconscious?
My extraordinary partner and co-teacher in this endeavor is David Kim, a current Oxy Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, an archival theorist, freelance archivist, and digital humanities scholar. We worked over a course of six months in advance to plan the class and continue to collaborate on constructing its interweaving seminar and lab structure (five units; three classroom hours led by me and one lab hour taught by Kim per week over fifteen weeks). With the goal to organically balance theory and practice, we did not write a conventional syllabus but rather built an “archive” of potential primary and secondary source materials, which far exceeds what students could read in a semester, with a few required texts in the beginning and a scaffolded schedule, allowing flexibility for how the students themselves might select materials and assign “readings” and teach session themselves as they hone their collective interests for the Scalar book and specific team interests for each chapter.
I write this introductory essay to our book/archive in three parts, starting here with section 1, “Queer Intentions,” in order to illuminate the beginning, middle, and end of our course-driven process rather than to frame the content or form of this Scalar project will become as a product. Our proposed audiences are the following (in no particular order), but we hope others will cruise our archive as well: users of Scalar interested in what the format affords; students and teachers interested in exploring the capacities of digital humanities and collaborative pedagogy; queers and feminists looking for information that they can cut, paste, and reassemble as they will; and less finally than expansively, all those interested equally in cleaning up messes (e.g. archiving, social justice) and messing up pre-ordained taxonomies (e.g. queering, critical theory).
To think the queer through the digital and the analog begs deep questions about relationality: between people, between people and things, and between things and things that people may never mediate. Here at the beginning, I want to imagine this project as a riff on the classic 1970s feminist text Our Bodies, Ourselves, which provided crucial answers to questions that many could not even think to ask. Here we lead with a question: Our Archives, Ourselves? I leave it to this semester’s talented and engaged collective of young minds to provide more nuanced questions about how to tell both the story of queer LA and their experience of trying to tell it.
NOTES IN MEDIA RES: ROPES, RIGGING, AND QUEER MAPPING
At this point in the semester, I suppose it is worth confessing my prior fears while not yet giving away my greatest hopes. Had things gone badly, I would have by mid-term abandoned both digital technology and democratic pedagogy. I would currently either be reverting to a version of traditional reading-assignment-grading class structure or be panting on the shores of the digital humanities -- the equivalent of a shipwrecked captain, blaming only herself, while uselessly stuffing a hand-written note in an analog bottle: “Please. Send. Help. New World of Digital Humanities off map. Provisions running low.”
Well, I am proud to say, that these fears of digital and democratic disaster have not come to fruition, due mostly to an amazing crew. Even as I instantly have a critique of my own colonial discourse, I will nonetheless extend my metaphor in the name of anti-hegemonic adventure. The ship has changed course but with better destinations in mind, even as these lead us through queerer and more harrowing waters.
Our crew of nine student voyagers started with a map and an archive for readings instead of a standard syllabus. To get out of port, we read together Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons’s popular history book, Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians.” (fn). Here we traced the originating courses of social historians who had traveled before us, adding to this mapping the alternative charts figured by the likes of Moira Kenney, Daniel Hurewitz, and Karen Tongson. As we gathered now common information about the LGBT* history of the Los Angeles area, we quickly became more interested in what paths have been less traveled by these public/social/cultural history forebears. Whereas initial study of queer LA started with a booster ethos offering that “US gay history happened in LA first,” scholarship has evolved into a more nuanced version suggesting that what happened in LA challenges what we think of as standard LGBT* historiography, and even how said “gay” geography might revise urban studies. (fn) We found ourselves at sea in multiple discourses that refused to align into a longitudinal/latitudinal matrix. We only had distant landmarks of disciplines and swirling eddies of keywords to guide us: suburbs, oral history, lipstick lesbians, cultural studies, transgression, cognitive mapping, sociology, bohemia, gentrification, the police, community organizations, HIV/AIDS, etc.
Yet starting always already as pirates -- having once stolen our very course title from the ONE Archive, then further pillaging information from Faderman and Timmons -- we then moved on to sweeter and dirtier lucre – theory. Here the crew found a different navigation system set forth by the many privateers who had come before. To be fair, Dr. Kim initiated our idiosyncratic course on the first day with a presentation on his own queer (in every sense of the word) archiving experience and a rumination on Michel Foucault’s famous preface to The Order of Things:
This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ in which it is written that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that.
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Pantheon, 1970) xv.
I did not anticipate to what extent Kim’s presentation would serve as something like the allegorical, presaging sermon of Father Mapple, a whaler turned preacher, in Moby Dick or how Foucault’s shattering laughter would become our siren song. We have, indeed, come to work the ropes and rigging of the stark impossibility of thinking the limitations of our own system of thought.
On first entering these seas of impossibility, we read John D’ Emilio’s “Capitalism and Gay Identity” and Marlene Manoff’s “Theories of the Archive” to steer our ship.
Waters became troubled with José Estaban Muñoz’s 1996 “Ephemera as Evidence,” the introduction to a special issue of Women and Performance on the topic of “Queer Acts,” written five years after Joan Scott’s essay “The Evidence of Experience,” published in Critical Inquiry. Muñoz and Scott were not in direct conversation but shared the winds of three influences at their backs – earlier historical gay and lesbian studies’ “ancestor recovery”; newly minted “queer theory,” variously informed by Freud, Foucault, and all things “post-structural”; and the biopolitical devastations of HIV/AIDS. We discussed how Muñoz and Scott could be construed as disagreeing with each other but concluded that they rather complicate the burden of the empirical in archiving queer experience. When Scott claims that “[e]xperience is at once always already an interpretation and something that needs to be interpreted,” (fn) Muñoz implicitly says, yes, but then asks whose experience is even recognizable for interpretation and how? “Instead of being clearly available as visible evidence, queerness has instead existed as innuendo, gossip, fleeting moments, and performances that are meant to be interacted with by those within its epistemological sphere – while evaporating at the touch of those who would eliminate queer possibility” (6).
Since the last decade and half has provided an explosion of research on the general story of "Gay LA," I decided upfront to organize our inquiry into four more specific fields: initially these were 1) Silver Lake: Rise and Fall of a Gayborhood; 2) Queer Art in LA; 3) The Queer LA Punk Scene; and 4) REACH LA. This last category marks our class's partnering with this community organization, whose name is a rough acronym of Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health, specializing in supporting youth of color at risk for HIV/AIDS. Our intention is to help REACH LA process some of their raw collections of ephemera and born-digital material from their hosted competitive drag "ball" events, a phenomenon popularized by the 1990 documentary film Paris is Burning and Madonna’s appropriation of its dance styles in her song and video “Vogue.”
CTSJ 337's academic readings and archival research have narrowed our focus to a study of subculture, a traditional subject of inquiry for Cultural Studies. Starting with Dick Hebdige’s classic Subculture: The Meaning of Style then engaging texts by Judith “Jack” Halberstam, Tavia Nyong'o, and others has provoked us to test the thesis of what counts as subculture. (fn) So far, we have yielded a handful of productive questions: Can older hermeneutics of subculture still inhere in the age of the digital? How do aspects of style, place, and minoritized identities define what counts as a subculture? How does the ideation of subculture interface with the dynamics of the subaltern? Although our class discussions have revolved around more specific concerns, I pointedly frame these queries in general terms to afford the students an opportunity to grapple with them in detail in their writings within each chapter.
This testing of subcultural theses has reorganized our chapters, expanding some, honing others, and further queering all. Given the legacy of Hebdige's classical study of punk as subculture, the authors of the queer punk LA chapter have been blessed and burdened in two ways: with an ostensible punk "control group" for our study and as our leaders in theories of subculture. The implication of analogy between the subversive aspects of punk and queer, best analyzed by N’yongo (fn), dissolved quickly because the early LA punk scene did, in fact, involve a lot of extra-identitarian homosexual action.
As is evident, the latter theoretical concern intoxicated all of us and made us think differently about our overall goal and the imperatives of the separate chapters. Our original dialogical framing questioned whether we could at once archive the queer and queer the archive. Now, this chapter's authors, Brita Loeb and Casey Diaz, are concerned with how a parallel construction of punking the queer and queering the punk renders dialogue, influence, and genealogy moot, such that Poly Styrene’s infamous punk answer to a queer/feminist question only implicitly asked -- "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" – is a better index of how we must shift the very form of the whole course’s inquiry. Perhaps the answer comes before the question.
Loeb and Diaz have decided to respect this queer-punk or punk-queer tradition that well exceeds any containable temporal or geographical scene by focusing on the archival and historiographic technology of the "zine" as an organizing principle. I will say more about our amazing zining workshops led by Kelly Besser at the end of this essay, but suffice it to say, Diaz and Loeb intend to make Scalar work through the form of zining, with digital links to information and analysis branching off from their own analog cut-and-paste zine design. The case study of the early LA punk scene's "urban," queer, and co-ed transformation into a suburban dude fest via the west coast birth of Hardcore has commanded the entire class to reconsider aspects of location, aesthetics, and temporality in the ideation of queer subcultures.
Authors Juan Daniel Calzadillas and Gavin Haffner have renamed their chapter on Silver Lake "The Swish Alps" to acknowledge the neighborhood's campy 1970s moniker. They also mean to disrupt the sanitizing memorialization recently conducted by the City of Los Angeles's historical landmarking of the Mattachine Steps and the Black Cat Tavern (fn), even as gentrification draws white, heterosexual, and affluent families to the area and drives out extant and future LGBT, ethnic, and working-class residents and businesses. Their questions include whether Silver Lake's queer community was the result of subcultural disidentification with homonormative West Hollywood in the 1970s or a part and parcel of the area's longer status as "bohemian Los Angeles," as claimed by scholar Daniel Hurewitz. How accurate is the oft-told story that Silver Lake has featured a pernicious tension between Latinx families and white gay men, the latter commonly understood to be the stylish renovation-oriented spearhead of gentrification? Is the decline of queer retail presence in the neighborhood the result primarily of gentrification, gay assimilation, or digital dating apps like Grinder.com? Are there still a number of queers in residential spaces that are not reflected in “gay retail?” Do young queers even need the always already ideational space of a gayborhood? This chapter will draw heavily from primary source material of oral histories with Silver Lake residents. (fn)
No researchers/authors have chosen to grapple with this question of whether queer subcultures are bound to space as intently as the former "Queer Art in LA" students, who -- well, let's just say, got super interested in gay male motorcycle clubs and the art of Tom of Finland, whose foundation thrives in contemporary “bohemian Los Angeles.” This fascination started with Lindsay Weinberg and Declan Creed’s distraction from the task at hand (a laudable queer archival practice). Said task involved a whole group field trip and assignment designed to interpret the first three years of the Christopher Street West parade archives at the ONE in order to determine why it stopped in 1974. (See the annex chapter of the whole crew’s amazing work of archival analysis). In addition to mining the ONE, Creed and Weinberg have gotten in touch with willing community archivists, namely those at the Satyrs Motorcycle Club and the Tom of Finland collection. This group’s questions include: If LBGT* constitutes a subculture, how do we document and theorize sub-subcultures in terms that are not easily subsumed under the rubric of identity politics? How and where do gay leather/Levi bars, actual motorcycle clubs, and BDSM communities overlap or draw boundaries? Why shouldn’t gay motorcycle clubs be considered in a spectrum of other kinds of biker clubs? How do archivists and archival researchers navigate such taxonomies of sexual identity, sexual practice, bounded club membership, and style?
These concerns about style, spectacle, and belonging have influenced the evolving tasks of the REACH LA team and its analysis of the local House and Ball community. Our greatest hope is to provide the organization with an archival survey of its raw materials, currently stored in the REACH’s on-site closets and hallways. On our fieldtrip to REACH, our guide, board member, and music director, Joe Stewart , mentioned that REACH LA has been working too fast toward its core mission to have time to record its own history. Given the controversy about representation around Jennie Livingston’s documentary Paris Is Burning, this team is interested in how non-profit mediation and hosting of drag balls variously controls, defines, or fosters extant or emerging subcultures – and how archiving REACH’s materials will map their future narratives.
In addition to executing these tasks of actual archiving, team members Maggie Mather and Promise Li are engaging in a broad set of theoretical questions, including: how Foucault’s wariness about taming “the wild profusion of existing things” applies to pragmatic archival service for an active organization versus innovative queer analysis of these materials; how to think archival practice and research relative to queer of color theorists’ claim that any black sexuality has always already been construed as queer in the US, thus challenging even standard intersectional understandings of identity, archival sedimentation, and experiential legibility; and finally, how the theories of spectacle might inform how to analyze and preserve the born-digital video records of the ball scene (when everyone has a video function on their phone, how does one mark author or consent to be recorded?).
In media res, I am so impressed by these students’ work toward researching, constituting, critiquing, and thinking the warrens and explosions of queer LA archives. As the chapters get more specific toward actually completing our archive/book, Kim has provided technical pedagogy, while also using the expansive organizational principles of Scalar to push students to think about how their archives and critical interventions might organically shape the structure of each chapter. Our CCBL supported “Education in Action” coordinator Adrienne Adams and I work between the teams to help flesh out each team’s archives and bibliographies while trying to theorize the technical and conceptual connecting tissues between the chapters. While not contributing directly to the writing of these four chapters, Adams will contribute a “coda” chapter to this book/archive, reflecting on how this queer LA course has informed their past, present, and future work on their ongoing study of oral history, archival practice, and affect studies in queer theory.
No matter how fair the winds and currents, all hands on a vessel mid-ocean are both vexed and invigorated by their exposure and a desire to find a happy port. As a captain, I am continually anxious about becoming a sort of Ahab. Yet given that we did not leave port hoping to find a white whale or a New World of digital humanities that would subsume analog ways, our journey will have at least been interesting (says the captain in her log).
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Brain Injury History in Football, Denial in Football, Health Crisis in American Football
Youth Football Lineage and Debate: Pre-1900 News Line
August 13, 2016 Matt 1 Comment
Opposition to schoolboy football rears in the 1890s, Victorian Era America, as the college game faces abolition threat
Posted Saturday, August 13, 2016, ChaneysBlog.com
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1862 Nov 13 “Camp Lyon [Va., Union Army,] presents quite a winter-like aspect this morning, and the season is being speedily introduced by a severe snow storm. It looks gloomily enough about the camp, and every body is glad to keep indoors, and hug the stove as lovingly as he would a fair friend at home. Nothing of very great importance has transpired in the regiment since I wrote you last… on Saturday afternoon we have game of amusement for exercise in the stead of a battalion drill, in the shape of a foot ball match [English soccer], which is considered a very favorable substitute. To be sure, barked shins are quite numerous, but notwithstanding, all seem to join in the fun and enjoy it amazingly”—“CHAS.,” infantryman correspondent, Pittsfield Berkshire County Eagle MA
1872 Oct 20 “With the same blood running in his veins, the healthy American ought to be the peer of the athletic Englishman. … Surely Young America will not quietly sit down and excuse itself for its shortcomings to the athletic world on the ground that our climate is deteriorating to the Anglo-Saxon race as physical beings! … The finest thing for the young men of this country would be the establishment of thousands of athletic clubs before next Summer. Till we have them we must be content to be… physically inferior race to our cousins on the other side of the water”—New York Times
1873 July 3 “FOOT-BALL, according to the newspapers, is becoming a popular game all over the country. Boston girls claim to be the most skillful.”—Pulaski Citizen TN
1876 autumn Incoming college freshmen Walter Camp and Theodore Roosevelt arrive at Yale and Harvard, respectively, destined to become key opinion leaders on tackle football for boys and men in America. Camp plays football for Yale, but young Roosevelt avoids the rough game to become fervent fan instead, donning a Harvard jersey he secures from a varsity player
1876 Nov 22 “Princeton College in a circular to Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, asks them to send delegates to Springfield, on the 22d, to form an International Foot-ball Association”—newspapers report
1878 Oct 14 “At Lake City a son of Dr. Adams, aged 10 years, had one of his legs broken above the knee by the accidental kick of a boy, while playing foot-ball”—Saint Paul Globe MN
1880 March 20 “They are playing football down at Medicine Lodge. The Cresset says: ‘Legal fraternity, physicians, druggists, merchants and cowboys may be seen at almost any time swinging their lily white hoofs in frantic attempts to kick the seductive football’”—Kinsley Valley Republican KS
1882 Athlete-managed “football associations” at four eastern universities—Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia—establish the Intercollegiate Football Association [IFA]. The evolving tackle sport is now based on English rugby, but American rules set a line of scrimmage between opposing teams, ball possession for one side at a time, and loss of possession for failure to advance five yards in three downs. Consequently, linemen and backs form “interference” or blocking schemes to lead ball-carriers, disallowed in rugby, and ramming becomes prevalent in American football. Injurious collisions are reported routinely by newspapers, especially of the “rush line”
1882 Nov 12 “A fine game of foot-ball was played Saturday afternoon between the [Washington] High School and Columbia College teams, which resulted in a tie, each securing one goal. The goals were kicked by English for the High School, and Davidson of the Columbias. A High School player had his knee sprained by being jumped into by one of the Columbias”—Washington Sunday Herald DC
1883 Nov 15 Schools should offer physical training and athletics, a doctor recommends at convention for the American Public Health Association convention. “Exercise is necessary to health. [Dr. Charles Lundy] spoke of the debilitated appearance of school children, and remarked that if we wished to preserve the highest type of manhood and womanhood in this country, we must devote more time to exercise and less to book knowledge. He favored the appointment of a physical trainer… Throughout the schooling period, physical sports and games, such as running, jumping, hare-and-hounds, base ball, foot ball, cricket, lawn tennis, lacrosse and boating, under proper guidance and restrictions, are admirable, and should be encouraged”—Detroit Free Press
1883 Nov 23 IFA rules ban “butting,” officially defined as striking a man with the shoulder or head, along with “hacking, throttling, tripping up, tackling below the hips or striking with closed fists”—New York Tribune
1883 Nov 24 Anti-butting policy helps “safeguard” American football, the forward-colliding sport “established as firmly as baseball at many colleges”—New York Times
1884 Oct 7 “Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, director of the gymnasium at Harvard, says that greater attention than ever will be given to athletics at the college the coming year. The report that the faculty will forbid football, he says, is without foundation. ‘The fact is,’ he says, ‘the members of the faculty are just as much interested in Harvard’s success in athletics as the students are themselves… the Harvard faculty simply tried to take some action that would make the football association change their objectionable rules. The rules for 1884, just issued, disqualify a player for a single foul, and the result is accomplished.’ Dr. Sargent says that the physical examinations of college athletes will be much more thorough and strict this year. He says: ‘Last year there were men in the crew, in the base ball nine, and in the football team, who had no business there. They didn’t keep the rules of training, and were not manly enough to let the people know about it until it was too late. I shall see that nothing of that sort happens again. Heretofore I have examined the athletes two or three months before the various contests came off. Hereafter I shall examine them at short intervals up to the day of the games and races. If they are not in good condition they cannot take part in the contests’ “—Wilmington Morning News DE
1884 Nov 26 “W.B. Phillips, one of the most popular Harvard students and leader in college athletics, is lying at the point of death from injuries received in playing football. The committee on athletics have announced their intention to ask the faculty to prohibit football after this season”—newspapers report
1885 March 6 “An interesting game of foot ball was played yesterday between fifteen boys of the Macon school, and fifteen of the graded school. The score made was 4 for Macon school and 3 for the graded school. The game lasted three hours”—Charlotte Observer
1885 Nov 2 “Yesterday afternoon on the Lehigh University Athletic grounds the Lehigh and Lafayette elevens played a match game of football. Lehigh forced the ball near the Lafayette goal and by good playing kept it there for forty minutes, when Pierce, Lehigh’s centre, [butted] into Davidson, Lafayette’s half back. Referee W.C. Posey, of the University of Pennsylvania, ordered Pierce off the field. Lehigh claimed that this was an unjust decision, as the collision of Pierce and Davidson was purely accidental. The Lehigh faculty ordered the men off the field, whereupon the referee, as compelled by the rules, gave the game to Lafayette”—Wilkes-Barre Times PA
1885 Nov 15 “But few of the objectionable characteristics of modern college foot ball have as yet been eliminated from the game. … The fact is, the American college game of foot ball is not foot ball [soccer] at all, but simply a game in which a foot ball is used as the medium for a series of wrestling encounters in which mere weight of muscle turns the scale in awarding victory or defeat, and skillful strategic play finds but a limited field for exercise. As to the danger of the sport the recent death of a Yale student in New York, which was caused by an injury sustained in a foot ball match last week, is but one incident in the chapter of accidents arising from the dangerous roughness of the game as played under the existing rules of allowing the ball to be handled”—Brooklyn Daily Eagle
1886 Oct 11 “The Yale men are hardening themselves by butting their heads against trees and fences, while Harvard’s forces prefer dropping iron anvils upon their toes. Altogether the football outlook is most promising and the ambulance driver will soon have lots of work”—New York Morning Journal
1886 Nov 25 “A chilling rain fell during the afternoon, but the people, armed with umbrellas and horse blankets, never minded the [Thanksgiving] elements. Hodge [of Princeton] and Wallace [of Yale] indulged in a slugging match in which blows were exchanged, and even butting with the heads was resorted to”—New York Sun
1886 Dec 5 “Town of Princeton, the center of what is supposed to be college refinement and the best educational influences of New Jersey, was the scene of the display of low, vulgar brutality and rowdyism which marked the occasion of the match between the fighting and wrestling teams of Yale and Princeton. … This is nice kind of work for college students claiming to be gentlemen. It is simply vulgar wrestling encounters, with slugging thrown in. The sooner the college clubs drop their game and substitute regular foot ball under the English Association [soccer] rules the better. Such a scene as that at Princeton on Thanksgiving is a disgrace to both Yale and Princeton”—Brooklyn Daily Eagle
1887 March 27 “The Inter-Collegiate Foot-ball Association met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day [in Manhattan]… A general opinion was expressed that some means would be adopted to stop the extreme roughness of the game as played on some fields, but the only thing done in this direction was to pass a resolution expressing the sense of the convention that referees should more strictly enforce the rules in future than in the past and pledging the captains of the teams to use their strongest personal influence to prevent their men holding in the rush line, slugging and all other objectionable features of the game. The convention will meet again in May”—Philadelphia Times
1887 Oct 10 “Outbursts of temper in play cannot be guarded against, for slight ‘spats’ often occur in practice games. In a regular game there are twenty-two players nearly all of whom are at work all the time, and on the rush lines where fourteen big fellows are constantly blocking each other’s movements, it is not to be wondered at that hot-headed men in their great anxiety to do all within their power to win the game, occasionally lose their heads and try to ‘put a head’ on the fellows opposite. The [newly sanctioned] second referee has long been needed and will undoubtedly improve the game”—New York Tribune
1887 Oct 10 Despite anti-butting and further rules, football’s necessary collisions include head-ramming reported in virtually every newspaper’s play-by-play accounts. IFA leaders, pressured by faculty and advisory committees, convene to address “brutal playing that has unfortunately marred the sport in the last five or six years” and promise “practicable and sensible measures”—newspapers report
1887 Nov 20 “Yale beat Princeton to-day at foot ball on the Polo grounds by 12 points to 0… As it was, over 5,000 persons were present, and the foot ball enthusiasts and experts were unanimous, and justly so, in the opinion that the game on the whole was the sharpest, best-tempered, and most reputably played between the two colleges since the present championship series began. The Yale team work was a model of snap and vigor. The rush line stood up like a stone wall, and the Princeton players tired themselves out butting blindly against it”—Chicago Inter Ocean
1887 Nov 25 “A large crowd went to the [New York City] Polo grounds this morning to witness the foot ball match between the University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan college teams. These colleges were tied for last place in the college tournament. It was a very rough game, and slugging was freely indulged in. In some cases actual knock-downs occurred. Referee Walter Camp, of Yale, and Umpire Richard Hodge, of Princeton, tried in vain to keep the game within proper limits”—newspapers report
1887 Nov 26 “The Emerson Institute team defeated the second eleven of the [Washington] High School yesterday by a score of 8 to 0”—Washington Evening Star DC
1888 spring “Interference” or blocking is finally sanctioned under IFA rules, along with “low tackling” above the knees. Tacklers now duck legally for thighs of a ball-carrier, aiming to strike “eyes open” with head up and held aside—per coaches’ specific instruction—and absorb impact with shoulder and chest. Football coaches discuss new head-up theory in newspaper accounts complete with artist illustrations of “proper” tackling. Some coaches, widely known as “football experts,” write for the popular press of newspapers and magazines
1888 circa “The history of college football in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a chronicle of rules constantly evolving in large part to outlaw tactics the old rules had inadvertently permitted”—Michael Oriard, Oregon State University, author and former NFL player, in his Reading Football: How The Popular Press Created an American Spectacle [1994]
1888 April 25 “The Bush murder trial is nearing its end. The prisoner sat behind his attorneys quiet, pale, and holding his hands to his face. … Dr. S.V. Clevenger said that he had given the prisoner much thought since the trial began, and had come to the conclusion that he was suffering from traumatic insanity—produced by wounds. The doctor also believed that the prisoner had inherited his affliction. Traumatic insanity also disclosed itself in suicidal and homicidal tendencies. … He concluded by saying that in his opinion the prisoner was not responsible for the murder of his wife”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1888 Nov 18 “One of the prettiest foot ball games ever played in this vicinity was that at Princeton today between that college and Harvard, which the Jersey men won by a score of 18 to 6. … Harvard was surprised to find that her rush line, strong as it was, could not make an impression upon Princeton’s line of giants. … The powerful Tigers sprang at Harvard’s rush line, and beat it out of shape. Cowan, Cook, Irvine, and George began to butt away at the Harvard rushers like human pile-drivers… Mr. Camp’s work as referee was excellent”—newspapers report
1888 Nov 30 IFA referee, rule-maker and coach Walter Camp is ridiculed for lax penalty enforcement in the violent game between Penn and Wesleyan on Thanksgiving, when numerous players suffered head wounds and/or brain trauma, among injuries: “both teams endeavored to find out which possessed the most force as battering rams, and they were ramming away most cheerfully when time was called, at 4:45, just as it was growing too dark to see”—New York Times
1888 Nov 30 “Unfortunately there was considerable unfair playing and ‘slugging’ [between Penn and Wesleyan]. It is hard to say which side began it. Only one man was disqualified when there should have been half a dozen”—New York Tribune
1888 Dec 1 Referee Camp, of Yale, under fire for the Penn-Wesleyan game, blames players for failing to “tackle properly”… “The tackling, as Walter Camp says, was generally disadvantageous to the runner and often ‘laid him up’ ”—newspapers report
1889 March 11 “It was a current rumor that a bill would be introduced to prohibit football playing in North Carolina! Of all absurd things… It was said last night that [legislator] Mr. Walser proposed to introduce the bill, but had concluded not to do so. What a storm of ridicule that passage of such a bill, or its mere introduction, would have aroused”—Durham Tobacco Plant NC
1889 March 21 “The Boston Globe publishes the following amendments to the rules governing intercollegiate foot-ball… Rule 27. A player will be disqualified for hacking, striking with closed fist, or unnecessary roughness. For intentional tackling below the knees, butting, tripping and throttling, the other side gets twenty-five yards or free kick”—newspapers report
1890 September “Of all college sports foot-ball has proved most attractive to the spectators. It has suffered more rebuffs at the hands of the press than any other game, but these rebuffs were attributable to ignorance of the rules and customs, and as the sport became better known the adverse criticism decreased until it has now almost disappeared… No game has shown such a remarkable vitality in the face of all opposition. It has steadily increased the number of its supporters, and it has no deserters. Every convert becomes an eager advocate of its merits, and although it is only fifteen years old in America, nearly every school and college has a team.”—Walter Camp, the multi-entrepreneur as Yale football director, IFA rule-maker and field referee, football consultant and children’s author, sportswriter and medical technician, in his Foot-Ball Rules and Referee’s Book annual published by A.G. Spalding & Bros. equipment company
1890 September Walter Camp omits the term “butting” from his football rulebook, as he has for editions since 1888, published by his business associates at A.G. Spalding & Bros. With various rule printings in circulation, confusion and lax enforcement will continue regarding field colliding, especially for striking with or at the head
1890 Nov 6 “Is it not possible to play the game without the exercise of quite so much muscle? If not, it is time for some kind philanthropist to step to the front with a contrivance for the protection of the players. How would a tin suit do?”—Brooklyn Daily Eagle
1890 Nov 16 “Harvard has not yet learned to ‘tackle low,’ but it is a proverb at Princeton ‘never to tackle a Yale man low’ “—New York Tribune
1891 Sept 24 “A fifteen-year-old… in Talbot County, Ga., whose favorite sport was butting heads with other boys, has been sent to the lunatic asylum. It is thought his insanity was caused by the concussion of the brain received in his contests”—Salina Daily Republican KS
1891 Oct 13 “The Cook County High-School League met at the Grand Pacific yesterday afternoon. It is composed of these schools: Evanston Township, Englewood High, Manual, Hyde Park High, and Lake View High”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1891 Nov 27 “Ten thousand shivering enthusiasts saw the Chicago university club eleven beat Cornell today [Thanksgiving], by 12 to 4. It was a great game, won by Chicago’s splendid work. Cornell was a strong team, but not so good individually. Her best player, Galbraith, was hit in the face by Alvord [of Chicago] and compelled to quit early in the last half, hopelessly weakening the rush line. Two Chicago men were ruled off for foul tackles, and altogether the team distinguished itself by disregard of the rules. Scarcely a member of the New York team escaped injury of some sort, and nearly every one of them closed the day with blood on his face”—Los Angeles Herald
1891 Nov 29 “To tackle a man by the head or neck is not in any way foul, and an umpire should always ask himself the question when a foul tackle of this nature is claimed, ‘Did the tackler shut off the man’s wind?’—for a man who is being throttled cannot breathe”—Walter Camp, writing for newspapers
1892 March 6 “Cracked skulls, broken fingers, shattered teeth, dislocated ankles and bleeding noses were the only things in order at Central Park yesterday. The announcement that football teams of the Berkeley and Oakland High schools would play in the morning and the teams of the Berkeley Gymnasium and the San Francisco High School in the afternoon did not tend to draw much of a crowd. … The [Berkeley-Oakland High] game was very tame, the players showing that they knew very little of the rules governing the different points. They seemed to take special delight in butting into one another, and the player who could spill the most blood was considered the best player”—San Francisco Chronicle
1892 Oct 30 “The star of the Pennsylvania team is one [Arthur] Knipe. A homely genius is Knipe. He is one of those stocky sons of toil with a foundation under him that would make the Chicago Post office a useful edifice. His head is his distinguishing member, however. It is inordinately large to start with and is covered with a growth of bushy hair… when he starts down the field and gives the wind a chance at it he is a sight once seen not soon to be forgotten. When he ducks that huge top piece of his and starts at the anatomy of the rush line he generally relieves the man he hits of whatever surplus wind he has in his lungs. Long hair is the fad here and that on the heads of the Pennsylvania team, if shorn, would fill a mattress… The ball would be handed [Knipe] and that huge bunch of moss on the top of his head would go butting through the line for rapid gains. Finally, with the ball at the ten-yard line, he went through left tackle and end for a touchdown, and Thayer kicked goal”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1892 Nov 14 “Garfield university’s eleven won a game of foot ball Saturday afternoon from Lewis academy by a score of 34 to 0. The game was closely contested at times but the superiority of the Garfield eleven is team work and weight was noticeable. The [prep] academy players complain bitterly of the treatment they received, declaring that foul plays characterized the university’s game and were overlooked [by] the too lenient referee and umpire. The boys say they got very much the worst of it in all the decisions. They claim to have suffered a great deal from foul tackles”—Wichita Beacon KS
1892 Dec 19 “Ten or fifteen thousand people went to the [Cal-Berkeley] football game on Saturday and appeared to enjoy it hugely. It was a new sensation, for there is rather more excitement in football than in baseball. … The team which can make the strongest rush generally wins, on the Napoleonic principle that fortune is on the side of the heaviest battalions. … For the idea of the modern football captain is to fling such a force upon the holder of the ball that he shall be knocked down, and probably knocked senseless, then to carry off the ball without meeting with the like experience from the opposite captain”—San Francisco Call
1893 Jan 27 “John. L. Herget, better known as ‘Young Mitchell,’ the famous San Francisco boxer, was a spectator in the [California] Senate yesterday. He is doing some quiet lobbying against the bill which proposes to prohibit glove contests and other sports that are liable to produce bodily injury. … The bill, he says, will prohibit football and other similar games, if it becomes law”—Sacramento Record-Union CA
1893 Oct 22 During the coming week [Cal-Berkeley] Coach Heffelfinger will strive to remedy the great defect of the team at present—high tackling. Work on the tackling-bag will be in order. This bag is a plush-covered arrangement, with soft interior, and is about the height of a man. Suspended by rope and pulley in the gymnasium it will be put into motion and the men be practices in diving at it on the fly as it were”—San Francisco Call
1893 Nov 8 “One week from Saturday the Kansas State University and the University of Nebraska teams will butt heads at Lincoln”—Topeka Daily Capital KS
1893 Nov 27 A Brooklyn football referee for schools and colleges writes that “boys usually claim a foul tackle if a player is caught about the neck. No umpire in this section was ever known to give twenty-five yards penalty under the rule, which probably forbids only choking direct by grasping a player’s throat with the hand. An arm thrown around the neck from in front or one side produces no throttling [call] that should be forbidden. Who ever heard of a player being disqualified for ‘unnecessary roughness?’ The line between disabling a player and killing him is only a line in width, and has been too often passed. Here the fault lies with the umpires, not the rules”—New York Sun
1893 Dec 1 “There is a great deal of interest in army and navy circles [of Washington] over the coming football contest between the cadets of West Point and those of Annapolis tomorrow. Anxious mothers, sisters, sweethearts and some fathers have sent letters to both Secretary of War Lamont and Secretary of the Navy Herbert beseeching them to prevent the game”—Allentown Leader PA
1893 Dec 3 “The boys at the [St. Paul] Central high school are in mourning, and it is all on account of the attitude of Prof. J.N. Greer, the principal, who opposes football playing on the ground that it is attended with too much brutality. In speaking of the subject yesterday he said: ‘I am thoroughly disgusted with football as it is at present played. The game resembles a prize fight in which there are eleven men on a side instead of two as in the genuine fight. It is every year growing worse, and the people of the city can rest assured that next year I will use every effort within my power to prevent the organization of a team among the Central high school boys, if the game continues to grow in roughness.’ … It is probable that the subject will receive an airing before long at the hands of the board of education”—Saint Paul Globe MN
1893 Dec 3 “The [Pittsburgh] police authorities have declared against football playing under the present rules, and say tonight that in future no such degrading and brutal exhibitions as has been witnessed on the football field during the past season would be permitted in this city. They say further that they have information that the authorities in other cities will take similar action”—Chicago Inter Ocean
1893 Dec 10 “I think there should be two umpires instead of one—one at each end of the line. This is from personal experience. With this addition of officials there would be no possible excuse for questionable work. Foul tackling is universally allowed at present. I have not seen a foul tackle given against a team this year”—W.D. Osgood, University of Pennsylvania player, in New York World
1893 Dec 19 “Football, as at present played, is at least fifteen years old, and it is only within the past three months that we have had all this fuss about the danger of the game. Doubtless boys have been hurt at it from the day it was first played, as they are liable to get hurt at almost any game in which they engage—unless it be croquet, as we have suggested recently. … This question of football is a matter of family government rather than the public’s business. If the parents are willing for the son to play football and take chances, it is none of the public’s affair. After the player passes 21 years, it is nobody’s but his own”—Charlotte Observer
1894 Jan 3 “L.F. Deland of Boston, who is an expert counselor to businessmen, was the inventor of the ‘flying wedge’ in football, which has caused so much havoc among college teams. Mr. Deland never played a game of football in his life”—newspapers report
1894 Jan 6 “The game of football at the city school Monday drew a big crowd. The game was quite interesting to those who understood it, but for the outsider he could size it up as a ‘butting game’ “—San Bernardino Weekly Courier CA
1894 Jan 30 “The football reform movement at last begins to assume a tangible shape. … The University Athletic Club has decided at the request of Yale and Princeton, the remnants of the Intercollegiate Football Association, to shoulder the take of preparing the new rules, or rather taking steps to see that they are prepared. In order that this may be done the plan which has frequently been outlined will in all probability be adopted, and that is to appoint a committee of five football experts, who will gather in opinions and suggestions of other experts, and from these select the best from which to draw up the new rules”—New York Evening World
1894 February U.S. President Grover Cleveland calls a White House summit on football, joined by his cabinet members to hear player injuries and more issues involving the teams at the Naval Academy and West Point. “[Navy] Surgeon Harvey made the report, and it showed that twenty-seven [Annapolis] men playing football received thirty-seven injuries; while 198 men exercising in the riding hall received twenty-six injuries in the same period—three months. The 101 men exercising in the gymnasium in the same period received ten injuries. The time lost by students on account of injuries was divided in this way: Through football, 106 days; through riding, seventy-one days; through gymnasium work, fifty-eight days. … Gen. John Schofield said football ‘requires some essential modifications. The required modification will be difficult to enforce,’ he continued, ‘for the reason that the objectionable features are those which contribute most to success in a contested game. They are those features which are most dangerous to life and limb, and may be said to most resemble military operations. They are more or less objectionable on that account. While it is undoubtedly true that experience in actual war is the best possible military training, modern civilization does not permit the making of war simply for the purpose of training an army’ ”—Salt Lake Tribune [1897 Nov 28]
1894 Feb 2 “There is some consternation among lacrosse and football players [in Canada] from the fact the insurance companies are disposed to refuse applicants who have been injured at any time in their athletic career by a blow on the head”—Manitoba Morning Free Press
1894 Feb 21 “Professor [Woodrow] Wilson [of Princeton] made the familiar plea that [football] developed moral qualities… We think the defenders of the game as now played would do well to omit the ‘moral qualities’ argument. It is really a little too much”—New York Evening Post
1894 Feb 27 “[War and Navy] Secretaries Lamont and Herbert have decided that there shall be no contests at football between cadets of Annapolis and West Point. This action is taken because of a conviction that the inter-academic matches are a detriment to discipline and to the studies of the cadets”—Columbus Republic IN
1894 March 26 “A surgeon visited [West Point Military Academy] several weeks ago for the purpose of gathering statistics to show that football, as it is now played, is a dangerous sport. In his statement, published in a medical magazine, he gives the percentage of accidents due to football as being twenty-six times as great as in riding, and fifty times as great as in gymnasium exercises. He concludes by saying that, in his opinion, football is a needlessly dangerous sport. It is evident that the doctor does not understand… [the injuries] amounted to nothing more than a slight inconvenience. The statistics as published do not give a correct idea of the casualties from football play at West Point”—New York Times
1894 May 8 “Walter Camp has finished his investigation into the dangers of football. He has sent over 1,200 letters to players all over the country, including principals of preparatory schools and physical directors of universities, and has received in answer replies from over 1,100 persons. In nearly every case the answer made is that the game is not considered brutal, although it is admitted to be rough. Principals of fitting schools place themselves on record as stating that with the proposed changes the game will be an ideal form of American sport. The statistics received establish the fact that only a small proportion of players received permanent injuries, and that in an overwhelming number of cases the hurts were simple bruises or sprains. Most of the sprains were not obtained from contact with players, but were owing to uneven ground”—New York Tribune
1894 May 30 “The foot ball rules have been revised and the game is now deemed much safer. However, people who are on the lookout for new drawing room amusements for the children need not expect to adopt foot ball just yet unless the furniture is insured”—Fort Scott Daily Monitor KS
1894 Oct 13 “Principal Frederick Partington of the Staten Island Academy sent a circular letter on Monday last to the parents of the male students denouncing football as a brutal, rough sport, and asking the parents to do all their power to arrest the growth of interest in the game among their sons. Principal Partington declines to assume any responsibility for the students who engage in the games. The letter caused no end of talk among the parents, students, trustees, and stockholders of the school. Those who have expressed their views are against any interference with the sport. Principal Partington, it is said, is a very good instructor, but he knows nothing of the merits, or demerits, of football. … One of the students on the team said to a reporter yesterday that no attention had been paid to Principal Partington’s letter, and that none of the parents of the members of the eleven had shown any signs of complying with the principal’s request”—New York Sun
1894 Dec 3 “The whole matter is one of business, not confined to universities, but more strikingly illustrated in the preparatory schools. It is notorious that the schools excelling in athletics, especially football, attract the largest number of scholars. Hence an encouragement of the games by the teachers. I could cite many instances. Only last week one of the masters of a leading Boston classical school rebuked a strong boy for not playing football, although he was out of condition and had been forbidden by his father to enter the game. Lessons are subordinate to athletics, and examinations are made easy for him who upholds the prowess of the baseball nine or the football team”—William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., social reformer, in letter to the editor, New York Evening News
1894 Dec 7 “In sentencing two youths to pay a small fine for engaging in a fight at a football game, [Washington municipal] Judge Miller took occasion yesterday to make some spicy comments on that knock-down-and-drag-out sport. ‘There seems to be a spirit of fight manifested throughout these contests,’ he said. ‘People get hurt and killed and much malice is shown. Everything seems to be done by force. If the games are to be conducted in the future as in the past then players should go out into the woods [like illicit pugilists]’”—Washington Times DC
1894 Dec 9 “To all the State Legislatures: Pass laws prohibiting football, or repeal the existing laws prohibiting prize-fighting”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat
1894 Dec 13 “The captivating game of [American] football has recently received such a severe blow in the east that there is danger of its doom being speedily sealed. The press in the eastern States is making a heavy drive at it—especially intercollegiate football. The change of rules since last year, abolishing ‘the flying wedge’ and other forms of mass play subject to abuse, was expected to result in less rough playing and fewer casualties this season. The expectation has not been realized. … And the game is seriously threatened. For it is impossible to ascribe the violence of the contest to any special kind of tactics. Last year the flying wedge and momentum plays were made the scapegoat for all the accidents of football. The public were easily deceived in that matter, even those who were the bitterest critics of the game, and when the playing rules were revised last winter, with momentum plays prohibited, the critics at once claimed a great victory for milder football. Such was the irony of fate that the most violent contest seen in years [Yale-Harvard Thanksgiving game] was played under those revised rules, and, moreover, with the chairman of the revision committee [Walter Camp] as umpire. Another journal referring to the same game says, it was undoubtedly the worst exhibition of recklessness and brutality that has been publicly made since the days of the Roman gladiators”—Winnipeg Tribune of Canada
1894 Dec 17 “Is football essential to manly sports? Certainly not for physical culture; for our gymnasiums and athletic clubs afford every facility. We have baseball, cricket, and polo; bicycling, boating, and swimming, running, fishing, and hunting; all of these offer delightful recreation… It is a lack of real moral manliness on the part of the governing powers. There is a mania and rivalry for large numbers on the college rolls which makes presidents timid and under a compromising policy. It is a betrayal of a holy trust”—Rev. J.J. Tobias, Episcopalian, in Chicago Daily Tribune
1894 Dec 18 “I think President Eliot’s attitude in some respects a very unfortunate one for the College [Harvard]. His opposition to Athletics and his efforts to Germanize the methods of teaching work real harm. The main product we want to turn out of our colleges is men. Incidentally let them be professors, chemists, writers, anything you please, but let them be men first of all, and they can’t be turned out if we don’t have the instructors themselves men, and not bloodless students merely”—Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard alumnus, football booster, federal official and outdoors writer, in personal correspondence
1895 Feb 14 “What matters a few broken bones to the glories of football as an intercollegiate sport? Is there a boy in college that would not gladly risk a broken bone for the honor and glory of being on one of the great teams? I say I am the father of three boys. I do not know whether they are going to make athletes in college or not, but I will say right here that if I thought any one of them would weigh a possible broken bone against the glory of being chosen to play on Harvard’s football eleven, I would disinherit him!”—Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Civil Service commissioner, ardent Harvard grid fan since a freshman student at Cambridge in 1876, in newspapers
1895 Feb 21 “Harvard men have talked about nothing else today except the action of the Harvard faculty last night. T. Jefferson Coolidge, a member of the Harvard overseers, said that he was personally opposed to this movement to abolish the game of football. Col. William A. Bancroft, Mayor of Cambridge and also a Harvard overseer, also intimated to-day that he would not support the faculty. But he would like to see the game limited to youths of twenty [and older] and would also have the gate money abolished”—New York World
1895 Feb 27 “A brutal game is no great feeder of the intellect and is not the sure way to literary honors. President Eliot, of Harvard, denounces the game as played. This leads Civil Service Reformer, Roosevelt, a regular foot ball crank, if not a foot ball savage, [to extol the sport]… Roosevelt is a corker. Has he brains enough to be reformer of any sort?”—Wilmington Messenger NC
1895 April 12 “The Harvard overseers [soon to appoint Roosevelt], as had been anticipated, refused to sustain the faculty yesterday in their anti-football decree, and gave the game a lease of life for at least another year”—Boston Post
1895 Sept 26 “Many friends of foot ball would resent having their favorite sport classed with pugilism, which is termed ‘degrading and barbarous.’ The admirers of pugilism have nothing good to say of foot ball. If knocking men down is barbarous in the prize ring, why not in a foot ball game, where hitting below the belt and butting are the rule and not the exception? … foot ball games are a terror to the community. The Pittsburgh Comet publishes a list of casualties in foot ball and prize fighting for the last five years. Foot ball games have caused 133 deaths, fractured 281 legs, broken 294 heads, broken 75 arms and 117 bones, maimed for life 212 persons and caused 377 other injuries. In the same length of time prize fighting has killed 3 persons and broken 5 bones”—Greenville Record-Argus PA
1895 Oct 15 “Line up, boys. Line up, quick. Better let us sell you your football toggery. No danger when you get our armor on. Have you been in this athletic department? Come in, look around, whether you want to buy or not. Football goods, golf goods, boxing and fencing goods, and pretty much anything you can ask for in the way of gymnasium paraphernalia. Probably the most comprehensive stock of its kind in the city, and from 15 to 25 per cent under the others’ prices”—Parker, Bridget & Co., advertisement, Washington Times DC
1895 Oct 17 “The Berkeley School football team [of Manhattan] played a match game at Berkeley Oval, Fordham Heights, yesterday afternoon with a team from Betts Academy of Stamford, Conn. During the game Frederick Mynders, eighteen years old, Captain of the Betts team, was caught in a scrimmage and seriously injured internally. … He was trying to rush the ball through centre when he was downed. Mynders, instead of holding his head down and butting the crowd in front of him, held his head bolt upright. When the crowd downed him his head was thrown backward and his body was twisted in the scrimmage”—New York Times
1895 Oct 19 “Henry Dobson was run into by the ‘flying wedge’ of the Eastern High School football team, and, as I am told, was unconscious nearly two hours. It is a wonder that he was not killed, and it seems to me that football rushes should be prohibited on the common playground”—Dr. H.A. Dobson, letter to editor, Washington Times DC
1895 Oct 19 “While the whole country is congratulating the Governors of Texas and Arkansas for their valiant stand against incursions of prize fighters and their friends it might be well for someone to suggest to other governors that it would save life and limb and promote public decency if extra sessions of the legislature were called to enact laws prohibiting football. It is long years since any such brutality has been exhibited in the prize ring as that which attends almost every game of football… due not to accident, but to sheer, brutal intention”—Washington Evening Times DC, opinion page
1895 Oct 19 “When the misfortunes of last year on the gridiron were fresh in the minds of the people it was freely predicted that football was done for in this vicinity. That prediction has fallen. There was probably never as many football teams in this locality as there are this season. There is the Columbia Athletic, the Potomac, the Gallaudet, the Orient, the teams of the various high schools, the Kendall Green, the Georgetown teams, the business college, the colored high school team, the Shamrocks and a half dozen or more other teams, all in full blast, and others coming on. There was never more interest taken in the game than there is at present. Fortunately nothing up to this hour has happened to put a damper on the sport. All of the boys and many of the men, and not a few of the gentler sex are bound up in it, and it is to be hoped the season will go through pleasantly and without casualties of a serious kind”—Washington Evening Times DC, sports section
1895 Nov 3 “Lieutenant Leonard Mr. Prince, Second Infantry, U.S.A., died at the [Chicago] Presbyterian Hospital yesterday from injuries received in the famous army and navy football game at Annapolis in 1892”—Charlotte Observer
1895 Nov 15 “As to the dangers of the game, let me make some suggestions. Many lives are lost among bathers. Should bathing be abolished? People are constantly thrown out of buggies, limbs broken and lives lost. Should buggy-riding be abolished? Two Sunday school scholars were killed by their teacher? Should Sunday schools be abolished? Children fall out of trees. Shall tree climbing be stopped, etc., etc. That there is little real danger in football is proved by the fact that the game goes on in all the colleges, and many of the schools, towns, villages and cities every day for many weeks, tens of thousands of players, and in proportion to the numbers engaged the serious accidents few”—Anonymous “prominent gentleman,” in Raleigh Observer NC
1895 Nov 22 “The Yale men wore more headgear and harness than has ever been seen in this city. The backs wore leather helmets with ear protectors and rubber nose masks, so that their friends were utterly unable to recognize them from the grand stand”—New York Post
1895 Nov 29 “If Moss, [local school] full back, would duck his head like Puck Dixon when he makes his rush through the center, there are but very few elevens that he could not go through. When Moss starts through the center, he holds himself erect and as a result twenty-one men pile on him. … If he ducked his head and made his rush he would go through the line like a shot as soon as he got on to it. … Puck Dixon as a half back is all right. He is better than any billy goat at butting”—Arkansas City Daily Traveler AR
1895 Nov 29 “The crusade against football which was inaugurated last year has proved a complete failure and everyone might as well realize that fact. The people of this advanced day seem to like reminder of the gladiatorial combats of medieval ages and the fiercer they are the more the populace howls in glee. Who is there now who has strength enough to tear the chrysanthemum-headed youths from their pedestals of glory and stem the tide of favor which runs so strongly towards football! Not one! The anti-football man seems to be… desolate and deserted”—Columbus Evening Dispatch OH
1895 Dec 1 “Traumatic insanity” is caused by brain lesions of head impacts and jarring, “a fracture of the mysterious network of filaments whose continuity is as essential to normal mental activity as is the continuity of a wire charged with electricity in order to the transmission of the electric fluid. A lesion may be compared to a melted fuse in an electric lighting system. Lesions of the brain are necessarily obscure, because invisible. The skull is an impenetrable covering. Where death occurs, as the sequel of insanity, an autopsy, if made, often reveals a large cerebral abscess, involving extensive tracts of the brain. In other post-mortem examinations the lesion is so minute as not to be discoverable without the aid of the microscope”—Frederick Howard Wines, theologian, hospital chaplain and prisons expert, writing for newspapers
1895 Dec 5 “What are the tendencies of the present ‘game’ of football? What elements of character does it have a strong tendency to develop and strengthen? What propensities and passions does it nourish and encourage? … We believe our board of education should [prohibit football]. Of course, they cannot control the actions of individual players when the schools are not in session; but they can absolutely control the conduct and relations of teachers in their employ with reference to this game. They can also control all organizations and associations among the pupils as such. In other words, they can free the schools of the city from the disgrace of countenancing and encouraging this species of pugilism”—Belle Plaine News KS
1895 Dec 22 “A college president in this State says it is idle to ‘kick’ against football; that the game is here to stay, and that even the second class colleges have teams. ‘Don’t fight the game,’ he added, ‘it is no use’ “—Charlotte Observer
1896 March 6 “It is a deplorable fact that football has spread to the public schools of the various states, and it is to be feared that ere long the standard of character and good behavior in these schools will not be much above that in the average college and preparatory school. We don’t know why it is, but there seems to be something about the game of football that promotes rowdyism”—Brown County World KS
1896 March 27 “Every individual fellow owes a debt of gratitude to a man who has the qualities of mind and body to make the team and who plays for Harvard. He reflects honor on us all and holds the interests of all of us in his hands”—Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard athletics overseer, speaking to students and fellow alumni on campus in Cambridge
1896 Oct 18 “The football eleven of the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons played the college team to a tie today and the crowd saw probably the closest contested game ever witnessed in Beloit and one of the wickedest in the matter of slugging that was ever played anywhere. The doctors outweighed Beloit [College] and seemed to want to kill someone and do it quickly and so began slugging from the start and it was not long before the rough work was not confined to one side by any means. … As the game was drawing to a close Hansell, one of the doctors, who had put up a fine game as left half back, began to act queer and was taken off the field, when he became unconscious and lay in that condition for several hours, but is recovering now. Some think he suffered from concussion of the brain”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1896 Nov 1 “Baine, the Indian halfback, did great work for Kansas [University] until he was laid out by a fierce tackle early in the first half. After that he did not know what he was doing. He played out the first half and then retired, Crooks taking his place. Baine was in bad shape and needed medical attention. The doctors said he was in a bad way and feared concussion of the brain. He certainly looked like a very sick man when he left the field”—Kansas City Journal MO
1896 Nov 7 William Baine, concussed KU halfback, plays against Nebraska with head protection later described as an early anti-concussion “helmet.” Bert Kennedy, KU quarterback who became a Lawrence dentist, would later recall: “Blaine, a Sioux Indian youth we found at Haskell Institute, was our star. Despite the fact he had no more than a fourth grade education, we enrolled him in the school of law and kept him eligible. He suffered a slight concussion of the brain in practice before the Nebraska game and we fashioned a padded canvas headpiece to protect him. It was the first football helmet I ever saw. Blaine made K.U.’s first touchdown in the first half. We were trying to stall and I called a right end run merely to get the ball in the middle of the field. The Indian protested that his head ached and he couldn’t run. But he traveled 60 yards to a touchdown so fast the Nebraskans never laid a hand on him”—The Associated Press [1944 Oct 20]
1896 Nov 29 “There may be some kicking among the football players at the decision of the school board to discourage the game, but parents will generally endorse the board’s action. The frequent occurrence of fatal accidents in the game has caused a prejudice against football that can only be overcome by radical changes in the rules. Athletic sports should be encouraged, but this does not necessarily mean football; there are other games in which the boys will find plenty of amusement and ample exercise”—Sedalia Democrat MO
1896 Dec 1 “I believe it is a most brutal sport, and I am not sure but that it is a matter demanding legal restraint. … If the same sporting element followed football games as follows prize fighting, it would have been suppressed long ago. It is the gamblers and sports who support prize fighting that have brought public sentiment in opposition to it. In the case of football, a respectable part of society has countenanced it. College men play it, and the people receive it as legitimate sport. And, besides, the young ladies seem to look with special favor upon football heroes. I have no doubt in my mind that many a young man plays most vigorous football because he knows his lady friends are looking at him, and after the game he hopes to bask in the sunshine of their smiles”—Gov. Claude Matthews, Indiana, in Chicago Inter Ocean
1896 Dec 19 “Modern football players believe in protecting their heads. … The rubber nose mask, which covers the mouth as well, and the leather helmet are devices that seem almost indispensable. The helmet that is in use now not only covers the top of the head with a cap of hard leather, but protects the ears with two big muffs made of thick felt”—Chicago Eagle
1897 Jan 5 “An act of cruelty I would not permit for one moment, but I do very emphatically believe in boxing and football, and in all forms of rough, out-of-door, manly sports. … Somehow or other we must see that as men grow gentle and more honest, they do not grow weak or cowardly, and it will be a bad day for this Republic when we let the bad men monopolize the physical courage and rough energy of the community”—Theodore Roosevelt, New York City police commissioner, in New York Tribune
1897 Jan 23 “While the college Presidents are considering the matter of changing the rules of football so as to make the game less hazardous, the [Indiana] Legislature has taken the matter in hand and promises to do away with the game entirely in this State. Representative E.L. Patterson, a Franklin County doctor, today introduced a bill to that effect, and it was the first measure thus far proposed that has met with applause when its title was read. Dr. Patterson has witnessed many games, including the big annual events in the East, and makes the declaration that more men have been killed by football than by pugilism”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1897 Jan 30 “Several Harvard football players said recently in regard to the anti-football bills introduced in Indiana and Nebraska, that it was their opinion that such legislation could not be but the work of cranks. Arthur M. Beal, the quarterback, expressed his condemnation of the proposed legislation as being senseless and practically illegal”—Chicago Inter Ocean
1897 May 12 “College students and athletic associations in Michigan are considerably agitated over a pending measure in the Legislature of that State to prohibit football contests”—Angola Herald IN
1897 Oct 2 “The style of game for this [football] season will be varied somewhat but only in the details. Much of kicking will be done. Not only does it make the game a better one for the spectators, but it is a sure, safe game, and especially on a windy day is the winning game. The line work will be more open and easier to watch… doing away of mass plays”—Lincoln Courier NE
1897 Oct 19 “Ninety-nine out of every 100 patrons of the Harrodsburg graded school will say ‘Amen’ to Prof. Bell’s good judgment in prohibiting football on the school grounds, says the [Harrodsburg] Democrat”—Stanford Interior Journal KY
1897 Oct 20 “The clerical reformers have entered on a new crusade against football. And yet some of our divinity students have been the fiercest and sturdiest of football players while fitting themselves to fight the devil”—San Francisco Call
1897 Oct 27 “Andrew Hasche died in the Astoria Hospital [Tuesday]. His neck had been broken in a football game at Casino Beach, L.I., on Sunday afternoon. He was a finely built fellow of nineteen years… Hasche was taken to the Astoria Hospital and attended by Dr. James F. Trask and Dr. W. Baldwin Wayt—the latter being particularly interested in the case, as he was recently a member of the University of Virginia eleven and had seen two deaths on the football field. In the hospital Hasche was put to bed with sandbags ranged beside him to keep him in position, and particularly to prevent his head from rolling. The physicians said it was a hopeless task. … ‘It’s a pity,’ Dr. Wayt said. ‘The young man had a superb physique. I do not see how anybody can be blamed. It was the game. The post-mortem has not yet been held, but it will show undoubtedly that there was a fracture dislocation of the sixth cervical vertebra of the spine.’ … The unfortunate player was running with the ball, his head down and his neck extended… the exact position which would make a blow fatal”—New York World
1897 Nov 1 “Von Gammon, one of the players on the University of Georgia football team, died this morning from injuries received in a game… Gammon never regained consciousness after a scrimmage at the beginning of the second half. … His death has stirred prejudice against the game among the members of the State Legislature, which is now in session. A number of legislators expressed themselves today as bitterly opposed to the game, and it is probable that a bill will be passed in a few days making it a misdemeanor to engage in a game of football in this State”—Pittsburgh Daily Post
1897 Nov 9 “Alderman Platke, author of the theater hat ordinance, will introduce at a special meeting of the City Council, called for this afternoon, a measure to prohibit the playing of football anywhere within the limits of the city of Chicago. In speaking of his anti-football ordinance, Alderman Platke said: ‘I’d rather see a prize-fight any day than a game of football. It teaches school children to be brutal’ “—Oakland Tribune
1897 Nov 10 “The jury in the Costello-Winston case returned a verdict for the defendant. The action was brought by M. Costello of Duluth against P.B. Winston, the Minneapolis capitalist, to recover $50,000 damages. In a high school game at Duluth Mr. Costello’s son was thrown out of a flying wedge and permanently crippled. He contended that Mr. Winston’s son threw him out. The defense did not attempt to show that rough character of the game”—Humeston New Era IA
1897 Nov 14 “An ordinance prohibiting football was introduced in the [St. Louis] house of delegates by ex-Speaker Lloyd at the meeting of that body last night. Mr. Lloyd says the game, as played, is worse than prizefighting, and while he presents the measure by request, it is in accordance with his own views”—newspapers report
1897 Nov 16 “The governor of Arkansas strongly urges the president and trustees of the state university to prohibit football. When football or anything else gets too bad for Arkansas to endure, it is surely time to stop and think about it”—Lawrence Daily Journal KS
1897 Nov 19 “Statistics have been carefully kept by a Philadelphian since the last uproar against foot ball in 1894 and proved the absurdity of branding foot ball the most dangerous of sports and one to be abolished. Since April, 1894, he records the fatal accidents due to swimming at 1,350. Boating has the next place, with a list of 986, of which 354 occurred to followers of fishing. Of the men who would a-hunting go 645 have failed to return, and the past year alone charges up to the bicycle the death of 264 persons. Horseback riding claims 333; ice boating, 22; base ball, 6; tennis, 4, and golf, 2. Against these, foot ball, which by its immense patronage is proven to be the most popular game of the century, stands alone arraigned with a list of fatal accidents amounting in four season to 11”—Wilkes-Barre Record PA
1897 Nov 20 “A conservative medical journal, the Philadelphia Medical Record, makes a weighty deliverance against football. It is a high authority on medical matters, and what it says should have a great influence. … Says the Medical Record: ‘Short of actual death on the field, not much account is taken of the hundreds of young men who are oftentimes injured for life as the result of the rough-and-tumble methods of the match. The trainers explain the number of injuries by the lack of requisite physical preparation for the contest, but, in reality, the more the footballers are trained the more dangerous becomes the game. It is certainly time we should look the matter fairly in the face. If we want to develop pluck, courage, endurance and strength we can do so in more healthful and safer ways”—Pittsburgh Daily Post
1897 Nov 21 “In a football game between Hughes high school and Walnut Hills high school, Cincinnati, O., there was a riotous free fight. … This town is in a state of mind to-day against juvenile football and is likely to prohibit it altogether. … [A] grammar school has taken on the appearance of a miniature hospital. Several of the boys of the town have hobbled about for days and attended school only with the aid of crutches. Others have appeared with bandaged limbs, and scratches and bruises have been and are now a very common sight. What makes the aspect of affairs more serious is the knowledge that these boys in nearly every instance are from 10 to 15 years of age and not as yet out of the grammar grades”—Kansas City Journal KS
1897 Nov 21 “The agitation of the [Springfield] grammar school football question some time ago has resulted in making it very improbable that there will be any grammar school league next year. … One principal, Miss Harriet C. Emerson, of the Burrows school, has said definitely that her school boys will not be allowed to remain in the league. She has decided that the game is not suitable for grammar school boys, not only for the physical danger, but because of the mental distraction to the pupils in the match games and in the ill feeling that grows out of it”—Springfield Republican MA
1897 Nov 24 “Bicycling and Football—A St. Louis man killed himself yesterday, his mind having been affected, so it is stated, by injuries received in a bicycle accident. According to the notion of the anti-football zealots, this would afford sufficient excuse for the Legislature of Missouri to enact a law forbidding the use of wheels in this state”—Kansas City Star
1897 Dec 2 “The [Richmond] city union of the King’s Daughters will meet tomorrow to prepare a petition to the Legislature asking it to prepare a petition to the Legislature asking it to prohibit football in this state”—Richmond Dispatch VA
1897 Dec 4 “Of course the true spirit of football does not animate every boy… It is the same spirit that nerves the country boy to catch the wild colt, ride and master it; it is the same spirit that stirs the school fellow on the playground to take the side of the weak; it is the same spirit that prompts the trained swimmer to attempt the rescue of the drowning when the onlookers stand with blanched cheeks; it is one and the same spirit that gives us our leaders, whether in war or peace. … No boy should be allowed to play in any game with any constitutional defect or any inability, and even [if] sound, without being in condition; and even then, mere youths, immature and undeveloped, no matter what their skill and spirit, should not be allowed to contend with giants in strength and stature. According to age and weight they should be classed as light, middle and heavy weights, and this will be done, but that is not the work of any legislature; it is peculiarly and wholly the duty of the guardians of the boys, whether at home, school, college or university”—T.P. Branch, letter to Georgia governor, reprinted in Atlanta Constitution
1897 Dec 6 Ultimately no state will outlaw tackle football, although Georgia comes close in a bill that reaches the governor’s desk for signature. “Governor Atkinson has decided to veto the anti-football bill, and is preparing a statement to be sent to the Georgia Legislature explaining why he has decided to withhold his approval from it. … The bill was passed in the hat of prejudice against football caused by the killing of young Von Gammon, of the University of Georgia team on the gridiron last month, and the legislators felt that they were avenging his death by promptly providing against future accidents of a similar nature. It turns out that Von Gammon comes from a Spartan family and that neither his relatives nor his friends are seeking that sort of vengeance. It is his own mother who has induced the Governor to veto the bill. Mrs. Von Gammon, in a petition to the Governor, states that football was her son’s favorite game, and that if he could be consulted he would join in the request of his fellow students for the defeat of the bill. She calls the Governor’s attention to the fact that two of her son’s schoolmates, William Reynolds and Arthur Goetchins, recently met accidental deaths, one by falling over a precipice and one by falling downstairs. Mrs. Von Gammon asks if it is not as sensible for the Legislature to abolish precipices and stairways on account of these deaths as it is to abolish football because of the death of her son”—Baltimore Sun
1897 Dec 10 “No very drastic measures need to be taken to remove the principal ill of modern football, that of mass plays. … The element of danger can never be removed from the sport, no matter how the rules are altered, any more than that element can be taken away from polo, hunting, basket-ball and many other games, which are just as dangerous as football—provided the mass play is eliminated from the latter game. No contest where men run at full speed in-and-out in confined space can ever be otherwise than dangerous, so far as bumped heads and bodies bruised by collision are concerned”—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle NY
1897 Dec 15 “[Washington] Public School Trustee Wilson fired the first gun at football so far as it affects pupils under the jurisdiction of himself and his colleagues last night. He introduced a resolution at the regular meeting of the board, placing certain restrictions on the game as played by the local high school teams. … First—No boy shall become a member of any school football team against the wishes of his parent of guardian after notification to the principal of the school. Second—All contests shall be confined to teams of about total average weight. Third—Games shall be played only with teams connected with some educational institution. Fourth—Each team shall be supervised by some school official, to be designated by the school principal, who shall have absolute power to decide upon all questions of its membership, the proper clothing and physical condition of its members, and no match game shall be played without his authority”—Washington Times DC
1897 Dec 24 “Since legislation has been aimed at foot-ball, the [officials] of the game have met in convention and decided to adopt new rules, leaving out some of the butting-ram and thunder-and-lightning features, so that playing foot-ball in the future will not be much more dangerous than breaking wild Mexican broncos”—Crawfordville Gulf Coast Breeze FL
1897 Dec 31 “If the new football armor makes the game perfectly safe, the public will be sure to lose all interest in the sport”—Washington Star DC
1898 Jan 5 “A player is killed in a football game. There is plenty of law to cover the case. But nobody thinks of applying that law by arresting, indicting and trying somebody for manslaughter… It is absurd to pass a law prohibiting football only for the sake of preventing manslaughter and mayhem on the gridiron because, for the accomplishment of that object, such a law is entirely superfluous”—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle NY
1898 Jan 27 “Assistant Secretary of the Navy [Theodore] Roosevelt received the ovation that is always his when he comes before an audience of Harvard men. He spoke slowly and forcibly, as he always does, receiving generous applause throughout. He said: ‘I don’t suppose there is a man here among the graduates who does not have a feeling, no matter what part of the country he is in, of personal interest in Harvard athletics. … I am a great believer in athletics, a very great believer. I feel that the university should do more than merely develop intellect. Intellect is a good thing, but there is something better, and that is character, force, strength of will power to hold one’s self, to bear one’s self as a man among men, and athletics, no less than study, help to develop the character. … I have not got the least objection to field sports with the element of personal contact in them. I trust that we shall develop men, and plenty of them, and when they buck up against the man opposite they will go through him and play for every ounce that is in them as gentlemen’ ”—Boston Daily Globe
1898 Nov 9 “A new helmet for football players has been placed upon the market and is pronounced complete by experts. … The new helmet completely protects the head and ears. The crown of it is made of tough sole leather, filled with air holes and lined with soft felt. It has stout earlaps of leather, with holes in them so that the wearer can bear the signals, and a strong elastic band, which buckles under the chin and keeps the new headgear firmly in place”—Logansport Pharos-Tribune IN
1898 Nov 12 “The board of education has decided to prohibit football playing on the school grounds”—Salina Daily Union KS
1899 April 10 “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph”—Theodore Roosevelt, New York governor and press hero of the American “war” with Spain in Cuba, from his speech “The Strenuous Life”
1899 June 29 “George Miller, son of J.S. Miller, living near Doniphan, was declared insane as a result of a blow received in a football game while he was playing with the Midland college [team] in Atchison a year and a half ago”—Columbus Weekly Advocate KS
1899 Oct 15 Popular music is banned at the University of Chicago while officials sanction head-knocking football as educational. At the game with Cornell: “The University of Chicago band played ‘There’ll Be a Hot Time in The Old Time Tonight’ and went un-rebuked, although that is a tabooed melody at the university, its moral tone not being considered altogether compatible with scholastic life. [Then running back] Slaker’s hooded head broke through the Cornell line for a short gain… Slaker’s battering-ram head was again sent hammering away at Cornell’s line and another touchdown counted”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1899 Oct 22 “The Elgin High School football team defeated the Lake Forest Academy team 27 to 0. During the game Trumbull, quarter back, of the Lake Forest team, received a blow on the head which caused temporary insanity. He raved several hours before he could be calmed. It is feared he suffered concussion of the brain”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1899 Oct 29 “How to Tackle Safely: Now about tackling. The reckless boy who is playing for the grand stand will often get his head just where the runner’s knee will strike it and there is a severe shock. The best way to learn tackling is with a dummy with head thrown to one side. That saves your head. The moment you have a grip on the runner pull him toward you with all your strength. That is the secret of good tackling. Another point is to go at your man without hesitation and in doing this you may have to overlook the rule about keeping the head to one side. The softest place to put it is in the other man’s stomach. That makes a pretty tackle, too”—F.C. Armstrong, MD and football coach of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, writing for newspapers
1899 Nov 16 “James Franks, Captain and right half back of the Lewis grade school football eleven [in Englewood, Ill.], is in a critical condition, the result of injuries received in a gridiron struggle with the Normal park school team. … Frank has suffered greatly and has been kept continuously under the influence of opiates. The nature of his injury is such little food can be given him. … The accident has aroused considerable feeling among parents of the Englewood pupils antagonistic to football. … Parents are saying as a part of grade school training football is too severe. Miss Vreeland, teacher of the eighth grade, to which Frank belonged, will endeavor to stop the play among pupils of the Lewis school”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1899 Nov 24 “After spending several more days investigating the death of John Wright, right tackle of the football team of the Christian Brothers’ college, who was injured November 11, in a game with the St. Louis university eleven, the [city] coroner’s jury today returned the following verdict: ‘We, the jury, find that the game was played strictly according to Rugby rules; but we believe the game is dangerous, and should be prohibited’ ”—newspapers report
1899 Nov 26 “Bumping along down the field the [Princeton blockers’] orange and black striped legs flashed along, warding off the [Yale] blue legged runners perfectly, while the stocky [Princeton ball-carrier] Reiter, with a head armor that looked like a coal scuttle, kept going”—Chicago Daily Tribune
1899 Dec 9 “The Strenuous American Approaches: The days of the politician who depends upon the old, threadbare subterfuges are about numbered, and the athlete in statesmanship is about to leap into public favor. … Heretofore our so-called statesmen have relied almost exclusively upon their lung power for propulsion and maintenance. In the future we are to have the opportunity to contemplate and admire the public man who brings all his physical self into play. The man who calls to arms all sections of his anatomy when he engages in battle. … It made its appearance [in Congress] this week when the Hon. William Eaton Chandler introduced a bill providing for the increase of the efficiency of the West Point and Annapolis Academies by physical training instead of excessive mental education. Mr. Chandler’s bill provides that the higher mathematics and languages shall be succeeded to a certain degree by what he is pleased to term ‘the game of golf, bicycling, baseball, and football.’ … We have no doubt that Mr. Chandler will be magnanimous to concede that he was prompted to move in this direction by the achievements of the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. The man who could don the uniform of a rough rider, mount a prancing steed, and perforate the atmosphere with [bullet] lead and shouts in such a forcible manner as to ride into the New York governorship and the affections of the book publishers is worthy of emulation”—Washington Post
1899 Dec 9 So-called government football is fully restored at Army and Navy academies while a federal “Indian School” in Pennsylvania, Carlisle Institute, rises as gridiron power. Carlisle is coached by affable, shifty Glenn “Pop” Warner, reputed for rules-skirting and head-ramming teams he builds of Native American men and boys. “When they go to Carlisle for the five-year course they do not know the difference between a football and a pumpkin, as their manager [Warner] expresses it. When the Indian team has a new player he is a real novice. … In view of the fact that the highest class in the Indian School is no further advanced than the first year of an ordinary high school, the Indians’ claim that the four-year-college playing limit should not have many arguments in its favor, for the status of the school is not above that of an ordinary preparatory institution where many future varsity players engage in football for four or five years before they enter college. During their six seasons the Indians have played about ten games a year with different colleges. … Dash and unity describe the Indians’ style of play. The linesmen tear forward the instant the ball is snapped, and seem trained to jump through and break up the opposing play before it is well started. Metoxen, the full-back, rated the greatest line bucker on an American gridiron this season, smashes forward head down, low and with terrific force”—San Francisco Chronicle
1899 Dec 21 “The full armored football player of to-day bears a striking resemblance to the knights of the middle ages in battle array, minus his spear and his sword. … The result of the great advance in the science of football has been to do away, first of all, with the dangers of the game. All the tricks that made football so dangerous a few years ago have either been discarded or have been prohibited. Teams all over the country are now playing the old-fashioned open game, with lots of punting and runs around the end of the line. This game, however, is harder than the game of a dozen years ago. Interference, diving tackles, line bucking and formation plays make the players more liable to cuts and bruises. For this reason, the armor of football has not been discarded. On the other hand, it has been added to from year to year. All sorts of devices have been tried to protect the players from hard knocks and bruises. … Every physical trainer has his own little kit of tools, medicines and bandages, which he applies according to his own ideas. Every big team is haunted by dozens of specialists with new devices for protecting the players, new kinds of foods for making boys strong, and every sort of mechanism that might have been useful in a tilting tournament”—New York Herald
Matt Chaney is a writer, researcher and consultant on public issues in sport, specializing in American football for three decades. Chaney, an MA in media studies, is a former college football player and coach whose books include Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football, from his Four Walls Publishing in 2009. Chaney’s study for graduate thesis, co-published with the University of Central Missouri in 2001, analyzed print sport-media coverage of anabolic substances in football from 1983-1999. Email him at mattchaney@fourwallspublishing.com or visit the website for more information.
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‘Heads Up’ Theory, Football Helmets and Brain Disease, 1883-1962
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Today’s football officials like NFL commissioner Roger Goodell tout their safety measures as new, including Heads Up “technique” for headless hitting—but historical news and medical literature tell a different story
Brain Injury in American Football: 130 Years of Knowledge and Denial
Part Three in a Series
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2016
II. 1883-1906: Anti-Butting Rule, ‘Head Up’ for Safer Football
III. 1909-1915: Open Game Spurs High Tackling, Call for ‘Heads Up’
IV. 1920s: ‘Punch Drunk’ Questions, An Answer by Martland
V. 1930s: CTE Evidence, Debate Cast Football as Causal Suspect
VI. 1940: Plastic Helmet Panacea, Psychiatrists Coin CTE Term
VII. 1962: Reselling Anti-Concussion Helmets and Heads Up
This post is dedicated to Donnovan Hill, 18, who died today in his homestate California, a mighty young man
Controversy overtook American football again by 1960, reigniting debate and recommendations for the collision sport. A scourge of brain and spinal injuries threatened football’s standing, particularly at thousands of schools and youth leagues.
Football boasted an estimated 2.5 million players, including a million prepubescent kids. The American Medical Association wanted doctors on sidelines during games, and some AMA physicians labeled tackle football as inappropriate for children.
“We have itsy-bitsy leagues of all descriptions, and we don’t have to like them,” said Dr. Robert R. MacDonald, of Pittsburgh, speaking with Time magazine. “The overwhelming opinion among physicians is against contact sports for elementary and junior high school students.”
“Children are not little men,” said another doctor, unidentified, speaking at an AMA meeting in Washington, D.C. “Cutting down the field and changing the rules doesn’t make football a kid’s sport.”
Health writer Dr. William Brady condemned football for juveniles and insinuated that most medical professionals stood by silently. “With almost no exception, physicians, orthopedic surgeons, and physical education instructors who are not afraid to be counted say football is a grown man’s game and not a game for growing boys,” Brady declared in his national newspaper column. “It is dangerous enough for college or university men.”
American football had withstood crisis before, including for “concussion” or traumatic brain injury, TBI, of varied description. But after World War II the public cringed over player collisions in hard-shell helmets, and scrutiny fell upon football’s growth sector of grade-school and “peewee” leagues. In 1956 the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended no tackle football for boys until high school.
Plastic helmets had been released commercially during the war, a technical collaboration between football and military designers that changed collision risk on the gridiron. A review of football fatalities from 1947 to 1959 found prime causation shifting away from abdominal bleeding and infection to damages of the brain and neck.
Football was compelled to respond, along with associate enterprises of sports medicine and helmet manufacturing. This unofficial alliance shared profit synergy and motive to expand football, especially among Baby Boomer children, while trying to alleviate casualties and answer critics.
Football officials and associates—including many doctors, AMA members—acknowledged disability and death could never be eliminated, even for kids. But they promised “safer football” that reduced casualties to an unspecified minimum, and their ideas poured forth, disseminated by news media who questioned little for concept validity, reliability or feasibility.
The 1960s helmets would prevent concussion, finally, declared the “football experts.” Anti-TBI models had failed since 1899, starting with patent sole-leather, but now the experts touted polycarbonate plastic shells, rigid facemasks, interior liners and padded covers. They extolled space-age helmet gadgetry, transistor sensors to measure g-forces of head blows, in the all-out research mission of football safety.
Football organizers, coaches, game doctors and academics spoke of rule changes and headless hitting, based on “proper coaching” for safe blocking, tackling and running. Helmet “spearing” and facemask butting were denounced, and in 1962 the college coaches association emphasized “heads up” form for players—anti-butting theory already applied in American football, unsuccessfully, for 79 years.
1883-1906: Anti-Butting Rule, ‘Head Up’ For Safer Football
American athletics expanded along with industry in the 19th century, booming after the Civil War, and sport casualties became a national health problem. Injuries to head and neck led every mainstream sport to ban “butting,” but in tackle football the policy was inapplicable among forward-colliding players.
Rules of American football, based on rugby, evolved to set a line of scrimmage between opposing teams, to designate ball possession for one side at a time, and to assess loss of possession for a team’s failure to advance five yards in three downs. Blocking lines formed, disallowed in rugby, and ramming became prevalent in American football, with injurious collisions reported routinely by newspapers, especially of the “rush line.”
In 1883 the athlete-managed Intercollegiate Football Association [IFA] outlawed butting, defined as Striking a man with the shoulder or head. Problems rose immediately, challenging chief rulemaker Walter Camp for his multi-interests of football—he also refereed games, coached the Yale team, wrote for publishers. America recognized Camp, a 24-year-old Yale graduate and former player, as preeminent authority of “foot ball.”
Referees like Camp could do little to enforce anti-butting within football’s daring runs and thrilling collisions demanded by spectators. Referees only made cursory calls against head-on strikes, citing the most flagrant violations, and the inconsistency ignited controversy when penalties affected victory or defeat.
Trouble struck late in a game of 1885, when Lehigh center Ross Pierce was ejected for butting a Lafayette player, leading to game forfeit. “Lehigh claimed that this was an unjust decision,” reported The Wilkes-Barre Times. ”The Lehigh faculty ordered the men off the field, whereupon the referee [W.C. Posey], as compelled by the rules, gave the game to Lafayette.”
Elsewhere, Yale was notorious as a butting team, and Coach Camp’s affinity for head-knocking play reflected in his comportment as field referee. Camp, for example, conspicuously ignored the violation while refereeing a game of Harvard versus Princeton, which The New York Sun described as “a contest in butting and wrestling” highlighted by “battering ram” hits.
Terrible injuries piled up for American football, including for unrestrained “slugging,” fist punches. Concussion of the brain occurred nationwide, per press reports, along with deaths from cerebral and spinal damage, and rulemakers caught ridicule, particularly since most doubled as inept referees like Camp. The IFA committee promised strict rules enforcement in 1887, adding an “umpire” to aid the referee in a game, and commanding team captains to police player behavior.
Officials analyzed collision contact in hope of eliminating dangerous “high tackling.” Coaches and football-friendly professors penned how-to layouts on safe tackling published in newspapers, complete with illustrations. Players were instructed to strike with shoulder and chest while keeping head to one side, out of harm’s way. “Foul tackling” was defined as hits below the waist and above neckline. But nothing changed and rulemakers acted again, sanctioning blocking on offense while lowering the legal tackle zone to above the knees. Coaches preached “low tackling” with “eyes open” to avoid head shots from churning thighs and feet.
But contact theory and policy could not alter the necessary, inherent ramming of football, and Camp took flak for his officiating fiasco at the 1888 Thanksgiving game between Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania.
“Only one man was disqualified,” observed The New York Tribune, “when there should have been a half dozen.” The New York Times, under its sarcastic headline “Not A Man Killed,” reported “both teams endeavored to find out which possessed the most force as battering rams, and they were ramming away most cheerfully when time was called at 4:45, just as it was growing too dark to see.”
Camp responded to the New York press, laying blame for the bloody contest onto players of Penn and Wesleyan, alleging they failed to “tackle properly.” His IFA rules committee huddled further, dropping the term “butting” from code in official printings of 1890, with the edition edited by Camp and published by his business associates at Spalding equipment company.
Thus America’s first football rule to address butting was erased, and Camp proclaimed head hits legal except when a tackler draped a runner’s neck, “throttling” or choking him. Indeed, Camp’s Yale teams capitalized on attacking “like human pile-drivers,” stated a national story. Likewise, for college teams that Camp advised on his California sojourns, “The head or skull of a contestant is quite frequently called into service,” reported The San Francisco Call.
Yale stood peerless for winning football and most recently for revolutionary isolation blocking, sending men through line holes to clear downfield for ball-carriers. Yale players were proficient in head-butting defenders, raved journalists and game insiders. “Yale’s rush line was too strong for Princeton. It was like a battering ram,” newspapers reported of the 1890 game on Thanksgiving.
Brain casualties were acceptable for Camp, but likewise for all football officials and fans, or the game could not exist. Newspapers of the Gay Nineties commonly reported “concussion of the brain” in football, among descriptions of TBI incidents from New York to the Hawaiian Islands. Player symptoms publicized besides “knockout” included headache, memory loss, nausea, balance dysfunction, personality change and mood swings.
Medical specialists treated TBI casualties of early football for all degrees of severity, down to diagnosing “slight concussion” through clinical criteria recognized for decades. “Cerebral concussion with persistent symptoms was described by Boyer in 1822, Astley Cooper in 1827, and Dupuytren in 1839,” observed Dr. Randolph W. Evans in 1994, reviewing the literature timeline.
Physicians of the 1890s could recognize TBI in football players, acute symptoms such as amnesia and violent behavior, but there existed no validated treatment nor reliable injury management. Conservative approach dictated rest and isolation for concussed football players, and doctors urged some to quit the sport—medical opinion prone to dispute by coaches and trainers. Many doctors believed concussed football players could die of brain hemorrhage when returned to contact too quickly.
Moreover, given medicine’s experience with railroad accidents and warfare of industrial artillery, many experts believed brain disease could result from impacts and jarring of any source. Collision football posed obvious risk for cerebral trauma and disorder, those “nervous conditions” already known in the courts as “railway brain” and traumatic insanity. Pathologists utilizing microscopic autopsy found tiny lesions in brain tissue, “a fracture of the mysterious network of filaments… essential to normal mental activity,” prisons expert Frederick Howard Wines wrote in 1895. “A lesion may be compared to a melted fuse in an electric lighting system.”
Medical Record, a journal in Philadelphia, called for abolishing football, “productive of the greatest variety of surgical injuries to every part of the body.” The journal editorialized about tone deafness of society for football casualties. “Short of actual death on the field, not much account is taken of the hundreds of young men who are oftentimes injured for life as the result of the rough-and-tumble methods of the match.”
The football-adoring public had to ignore medical literature and opinion, for cheering the athletic street fight on fields. An Iowa newspaper hyped imagery of ramming heads—foreshadowing future NFL television graphics of clashing helmets—for the opening of college football in 1895. “The Cornell (Mt. Vernon) College foot-ball team will be here next Saturday… to butt heads and tangle limbs and scramble for the ball with the U.I.U. team,” heralded The Fayette County Leader.
Football coaches, trainers, and team physicians surely grasped TBI danger but sought to sustain their lucrative sport, not end it because of irremovable forward-colliding. And head-ramming typically influenced victory for which team did it better, so successful coaches beyond Yale stressed the attack—especially when all of football counted on emerging headgear for neutralizing injury threat.
“There is no use in exposing a man’s head to bruises which the modern football harness largely prevents…,” noted The Chicago Daily Tribune, “the protection of nose guards, ear pads, and the various devices in use make him feel more secure from hurt.” The newspaper observed a “carefully harnessed” team at University of Chicago, the powerful Maroons of coach Amos Alonzo Stagg.
Stagg had starred as a “butting” player at Yale and the philosophy continued for teams he coached. Stagg said he tried teaching the Maroons safer “low tackling” but they were slow to learn. Rather, Stagg’s players aimed “for a man’s head,” reported The Chicago Inter Ocean.
Glenn “Pop” Warner coached at the government Carlisle Institute in Pennsylvania, for young American Indians, and his teams thrived on trick plays and butting throughout the field. The reputation preceded Carlisle on a West Coast trip in 1899, with The San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting:
Dash and unity describe the Indians’ style of play. The backs all crouch like sprinters on the mark, and are off… The linesmen tear forward the instant the ball is snapped, and seem trained to jump through and break up the opposing play before it is well started. [Jonas] Metoxen, the full-back, rated the greatest line-bucker on an American gridiron this season, smashes forward head down, low and with terrific force…
Butting was no small concern for football officials, however, as predictable brain and spine casualties continued despite reform of “brutality” hyped by Camp from 1894 to 1897. The initial helmet models of rubber and leather were proving no remedy for TBI, so officials kept pushing theory of headless contact, promising to teach players.
“The best way to learn tackling is with a dummy with head thrown to one side; that saves your head,” commented Dr. F.C. Armstrong, coach-physician of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, for his how-to article in newspapers. But Armstrong acknowledged the game’s frenetic colliding could not be choreographed. Often the tackler had to halt his foe however necessary, “and in doing this you may have to overlook the rule about keeping the head to one side,” the coach advised. “The softest place to put it is in the other man’s stomach. That makes a pretty tackle, too.”
But a few years later Pratt scrapped football because of the incorrigible violence, in 1906, middle of football season. Institute administrators cited brain injury as particularly incompatible with education, for ethics and practical purposes.
Supposedly the game had been cleansed of brutality through “open play” rules instituted after invention by President Theodore Roosevelt, but Pratt officials disagreed. “Yes, we have dropped football,” confirmed J. Martin Voorhees, director of physical education, speaking with The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “We find that the game has been brutalized to such an extent that a player has to be practically a prize fighter to endure the knocks.”
“That was our experience at Princeton a few weeks ago. We were beaten 27 to 0, but it was not the defeat that came as hard as the breaking of bones and other knocks that were dealt out to us, and I want to say that it was not by unfair methods either, but by football as it is insisted upon today by those who framed the new rules.
“Why, we have today a boy who has concussion of the brain as the result of that contest,” Voorhees continued. “And he is not out of danger yet. That is only one of the cases. There are several others, and I hold the new rules are responsible. It was put up to the committee last night and we simply decided to abolish the game.”
1909-1915: Open Game Spurs High Tackling, Call for ‘Heads Up’
In years following the football reform led by Teddy Roosevelt, recorded injuries dwindled on the team at Harvard, his alma mater, but that was an exception.
Most outlets reported negligible positive results while ferocity of football collisions apparently heightened—and concussions of the brain increased—because of the “open game.” The charged-up field of forward passes, outside runs and sweep blocks produced brutal smashups in free spaces, with less “mass” formations to slow traffic. “High tackling” was blamed for numerous casualties.
“The revised rules of the game have not fulfilled the hopes of their framers,” editorialized The Waterloo Press in Indiana, “the speed and combination plays have proved almost as hazardous.”
“Has Football Reform Failed?” posed The Harrisburg Courier of Pennsylvania, stating “not even the football rule makers can wipe out the bone breaking features of the game by substituting one kind of danger for another.” In Philadelphia, students of a medical college voted to ban the football program after a player died of brain hemorrhage.
“SEASON JUST CLOSED MOST DISASTROUS IN HISTORY OF FOOTBALL: 29 MEN KILLED,” headlined The Topeka Daily Capital on Thanksgiving weekend in Kansas, 1909.
A movement opposed boys football in high schools and “midget” leagues, led by doctors and medical journals, but the naysayers also included NCAA officials, college coaches, grid stars and university presidents. Some lawmakers moved to ban juvenile football in Indiana, New York City, Boston, West Orange, N.J., further locales. Former President Roosevelt supported boys football but admitted reform had fallen short, saying most schools lacked supervision and he wished the game were “less homicidal.”
High schools in the nation’s capital banned hits above neckline and the forward pass: “For Safer Football,” headlined The Washington Herald. Nationwide, officials discussed eliminating kickoffs, barring quarterback runs, penalizing “flying” tackles and blocks. Coaches everywhere reemphasized shoulder tackling and blocking.
“Heads up” contact would protect players, declared The Asbury Park Press, reviving the familiar theory:
It is to be hoped that if football retains its hold upon the American heart that “butting” may be so modified as to preserve the college young man’s skull for future and perhaps more laudable uses. In any event “tackle” with heads up should be substituted for “tackle” with heads down in the football contest. Athletes may get along with broken noses and gradual elimination of front teeth but the skull is valuable and rules should be made to hold it intact if possible.
College rulemakers took another turn at reform in 1912, without addressing head blows. Forward passing was fully sanctioned, legalized from anywhere behind the scrimmage line, for any length of throw, and the playing field was set at regulation 100 yards complemented by 10-yard “end zones” for touchdown receptions. The measures were taken for both player safety and spectator enjoyment, according to the NCAA committee.
Officials declared protective equipment was also advancing. Illinois coach Bob Zuppke produced a new helmet “so designed that the protection comes at all points where a blow might wreak havoc,” newspapers stated.
But one NCAA committeeman questioned safer football, the official pledge since Roosevelt’s intervention. “I am in doubt as to whether the game is safer than it was in years past…” said rules chairman Jonas Babbitt, of Haverford College, “but public opinion seems to hold that it is safer.”
Football’s dark side continued to confront schools, doctors, police, courts and unfortunate families, especially for brain injury and mental disorder linked to the game. Psychosis engulfed a promising young man in eastern Pennsylvania, Raymond Yerger, for injuries believed to have begun in school football, according to newspapers of the period.
The well-liked Yerger, only child of Morris and Sallie Yerger, part of a larger local clan, excelled in athletics and academics at Allentown High. For Thanksgiving in 1910, Yerger led senior football players in organizing a train excursion to their final game at rival Reading. Two hundred AHS faithful paid $1.10 each for train fare, embarking on a holiday extravaganza to culminate that night with a dance back in Allentown.
At Reading the football contest was rough, and Allenville lost in both the score and injury count. Several Allenville players were carried off, including star halfback Ray Yerger, suffering neural effects from a kick to the head. Yerger, diagnosed with “slight concussion” and returned home to Allentown, missed the dance but resurfaced a few nights later to play church basketball. Yerger graduated high school as an honors student, accepted a bookkeeping job, and continued playing sports other than football.
For a few years Yerger remained active in his community and church, and employed, although increasingly subject to mental “spells” and “aberrations,” as family and friends would later recall. A thrown baseball beaned his head around 1913, aggravating symptoms. Yerger grew morose, paranoid, reclusive, avoiding friends for suspicion they made fun of him.
Then an episode turned violent for Yerger at home, terrifying his parents who struggled themselves to make sense of the son’s deterioration. Physically strong, mentally ill, the 22-year-old raged and tossed furniture, threatening to kill his father. Police arrived and placed him in custody. It was holiday season, four years since brain trauma in his last football game for school.
Authorities committed Yerger to Rittersville state hospital for allegedly attempting murder of the father. Yerger reportedly was administered brain surgery to “cure” his disease, and after one year in the facility he sneaked to a bathroom and committed suicide, hanging himself with a towel.
The funeral for young Raymond Yerger was “largely attended” in Allentown, per a report, and he was buried at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, two weeks before Christmas, 1915. Family and friends would always blame football in the tragedy.
1920s: ‘Punch Drunk’ Questions, An Answer by Martland
During the First World War, U.S. military bases trained soldiers in football, indoctrinating thousands for the game beyond those with previous experience. A single camp might host dozens of football games in a day, and at war’s end soldiers came home eager for the civilian gridiron as players, coaches, trainers, doctors and boosters. “World War I provided the new football [passing attack] with a timely and powerful weapon to drive it into the hearts and minds of the American public,” observed historian John Sayle Watterson in 2000. Automobile proliferation, urbanization and partying also juiced football popularity.
The game permeated America in the 1920s, raising concrete stadiums in many communities and reaching every pocket of society. Teams were established in the remotest regions, enlisting boys for school and midget football, ever younger in age, and men to fill local rosters.
Football’s public health issue followed in kind, spreading along, affecting every level to grassroots. Scandals of college football posed sexier headlines for newspapers, revelations of “professionalism” and academic corruption at major universities, but the game’s everyday problem remained violence and casualties of collisions. Publicized annual death tolls reached 20 again, however invalid the numbers, and rekindled debate.
“High tackling” haunted football for injuries to brain and neck, as since the 1880s, and Harvard leaders proposed to outlaw forward passing once again. More old ideas re-circulated. After the 1925 season a group of eastern coaches demanded anti-butting again be mandated, finally enforced, and football experts took another look at field contact, promising safer colliding.
Coaches and officials pushed “head up” theory for low tackling, again, but there was a new twist, talk of upright hitting with head held aside. At least one newspaper scoffed, The Altoona Tribune, commenting in Pennsylvania:
Tackling below the shoulder would be a very fine thing and very practical if runners could be forced to do their sprinting with head up and chest out. The sad part of it is that runners, like [“Galloping Ghost” Red Grange], run very low. If the Wheaton ice man is to be tossed at all, the tackler has little time or opportunity to pick a suitable spot of the Phantom around which to twine his arms. Officials believe that high tackling should be punishable to a 15-yard penalty.
Shortly thereafter, NCAA rulemakers refrained from acting on high tackling and head-up technique. Yet officials needed to find resolution somehow, because news on football TBI was getting worse, with discussion moving toward brain disease.
American football was awash in incidence of concussion or TBI suffered by players, as demonstrated by daily news, while treatment remained inconsistent and mysterious for lack of known, validated protocol. Medical convention, conservative approach, prescribed “the old clinical maxim that every case of concussion must be treated by a definite period of rest in bed, and the very slow and cautious resumption of active life,” said Dr. Wilfred Trotter, British surgeon of neurology, in 1924.
Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], noted football risk for concussion and emphasized specialized examination for suspected injury. Fishbein, writing for his national newspaper column in 1927, alerted readers to symptoms of broadly defined concussion, “such as dizziness, ringing in the ears, disturbance of vision, headache, drowsiness, pains in the eye, inability to sleep, convulsions or vomiting.”
But many doctors believed no serious injury occurred until loss of consciousness, an opinion parroted by football personnel, despite player cases of severe TBI not involving knockouts. Football’s minimizing or downplaying cerebral disturbance was also conducive for returning players quickly to field contact. Brain trauma was cost of doing business in head-ramming football, so teams stockpiled smelling salts, hired doctors when possible, and young athletes kept lining up, willing combatants.
“No football player is afraid of getting knocked out. It’s too common an experience,” said Centre College star Sully Montgomery. “You can’t go through a season on the gridiron without being knocked senseless a couple of times.” Coaches were run over by speeding bodies, too, like old battering ram Amos Alonzo Stagg, flattened unconscious by a player at the University of Chicago. Kayoed at age 64 by “a swift charging back,” Stagg returned next day to his coaching job, 34 years leading the Maroons, newspapers reported.
Chronic mental disorder, meanwhile, became football’s larger question of the 1920s, the threat of permanent disease from impacts and jars. Boxing attracted attention for medical allegations it caused brain damage, resulting in legal claims and defenses, but football was likewise suspected by people qualified to make the connection. At least one pair of researchers and a segment of NCAA coaches discussed possible neural disease among football players—before Dr. Harrison S. Martland released his milestone evidence of micro-hemorrhaging in brains of deceased boxers.
For years medical personnel had diagnosed disorder like traumatic insanity in football players, and “shell shock” since the World War. Doctors and football families linked suicide and crime to disease of brain trauma, testifying in cases of troubled players. “Punch drunk” or “slug nutty” commonly meant brain disorder in pugilists but the slang showed up elsewhere, around football in particular. A Brooklyn sportswriter described Syracuse linemen as “punch drunk and wavering” against Columbia in November of 1926, and famed columnist Grantland Rice ripped Harvard and Yale, football’s fading flagships, as “old timers who are now punch drunk.”
Drs. Michael Osnato and Vincent Giliberti discussed traumatic encephalitis in their 1927 article on post-concussion damage for Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry. The New York physicians concluded brain disease might manifest in “young men knocked out in football and other games,” continuing: “Our work shows that the structural factors in post-concussion neurosis have not received adequate attention.”
Awareness went mainstream in 1928, when Martland presented his findings of “punch drunk” in boxing and recommended investigation throughout contact sports for brain damage in athletes. The term sprang into popular lexicon, including for grist in comedy setups—“The Three Stooges [in] Punch Drunk!” News rhetoric from Washington relied on punch drunk allusions for discussing lawmakers and congressional bills paralyzed by politics.
Talk buzzed of punch-drunk football players, naturally, and apparently long had. “Notwithstanding that this condition has been known to boxing and football coaches for many years, it is only within the past year that the medical profession has seriously considered the matter,” Dr. James W. Barton wrote for his syndicated newspaper column. Barton, a sport physician, continued:
As students we were taught that a “concussion” was just a shaking up of the brain. That it was as if you took the skull in your hands and gave the contents a “shake.” No injury followed it, because the bony case, the skull, was not injured. … Therefore we never gave concussion much thought, because, although there is a temporary loss of consciousness or a loss of memory, it soon clears away, and there is no apparent damage done.
However, Dr. H.S. Martland some months ago told us that in some of these cases the brain substance can be “bruised” just like other parts of the body, and this bruising results in the breaking of tiny blood vessels and discoloration just as in a bruise of the skin.
What is this knowledge going to mean to us?
It certainly does not mean that boxing, football or other sports should be abandoned, but where an athlete or a player in any kind of sport gets a bump, a blow, or a kick, and finds it results in a loss of memory, however short, he should keep away from that sport for a time, because it is the “repeated knocks,” coming at frequent intervals, that may finally unbalance the mind.
A doctor who refereed NCAA sports warned of “punch drunk” football players, speaking at a coaches gathering in Boston. The referee Dr. Eddie O’Brien said: “Every one of you high school football coaches should see to it that a doctor is on the field of play, ready to rule whether a lad hurt in a game should be removed or not. If the player is not steady on his legs and normal in his faculties, he should be removed from the game and given medical assistance until he has fully recovered from the blow that caused the trouble.”
The writer Damon Runyon remarked that many football players “wind up a little slug-nutty.” New York sports columnist W.O. McGeehan criticized a coach for returning a “punch drunk” player to action, when “the first thing he did was to toss a forward pass to one of the opponents.” Coach Knute Rockne joked in Collier’s about a “punch drunk” halfback at Notre Dame, unable to find his sideline after being rocked in a game.
Legendary Irish player Jim Crowley, one of the Four Horsemen, spoke seriously in regard to traumatic brain injury. Crowley, head football coach at Michigan State, drew praise for limiting practice hits among his players during the week. “Give that same outfit three or four scrimmages and they’ll be punch drunk when a game comes around,” Crowley said.
Besides Coach Crowley and referee-physician Eddie O’Brien, football insiders produced no fresh thought for protecting the head and reducing TBI, and casualty reports stayed in headlines, like minimally 29 deaths in 1931.
Helmets were brought up again as possible prevention, and so-called technique for headless hitting. Grantland Rice, the household name among sportswriters and a former Vanderbilt football player, teamed with NFL star Benny Friedman to retread and promote “heads up” theory.
Friedman blamed deaths on the players themselves, for “lacking of skill in blocking and tackling.” The Giants’ record-setting quarterback insisted players must finally accept and learn heads-up contact. “I have seen any number of tacklers and ball carriers drive in with their heads down instead of keeping their heads up,” Friedman said. “I have also seen considerable attempted blocking with the head and neck instead of shoulders or body.”
Rice, wordsmith of Four Horsemen gridiron myth, channeled Friedman’s “heads up” tips for millions of readers, writing in his syndicated column: Tackle with your head up… A ball carrier should keep the head up… Use shoulders, hips and body… know the proper way to block.
Yale coach and physician Dr. Marvin “Mal” Stevens endorsed head-up theory and shoulder tackling, but he really banked on helmet tech to finally stop TBI in football. “It is well within the bounds of reason that within a short space of time football equipment can and will be materially improved, and we look forward confidently to the near future when vastly improved headgear will eliminate all serious head injuries,” Stevens co-wrote in his 1933 book, The Control of Football Injuries, with Yale surgeon Dr. Winthrop Morgan Phelps.
Yale’s MD coach would enter his own headgear into the ring of football’s everlasting helmet sweepstakes. Dr. Mal Stevens would design his prototype for the elusive anti-concussion helmet, and, in standard practice for coach inventors, test it on the heads of his college players.
1930s: CTE Evidence, Debate Cast Football as Causal Suspect
New Jersey pathologist Dr. Harrison S. Martland committed to a prime scientific mission in the 1920s, for exposing an occupational hazard, but it wasn’t brain damage in athletes.
The unassuming Martland, coroner of Essex County across the Hudson from New York City, became internationally renowned for identifying radium poisoning in factory workers, hundreds of women. Martland documented and explained the toxic disease, leading to court settlements for the afflicted and industry regulation to save lives. Additionally, Martland was a pioneer of forensic medicine for crime-solving and helped found a school in the discipline at NYU.
Martland could not follow-up his 1928 “punch drunk” findings, leaving the disease state for others to quickly label traumatic encephalopathy, or TE. His method for full brain autopsy would not be replicated in the United States until the next century, unfortunately for head-injury victims like athletes, combat soldiers and battered women, generations to come.
The American sports of boxing and football did not embrace Martland research, ignoring two urgent research needs posed by the results: a) to determine prevalence of traumatic encephalopathy among deceased athletes, and b) to randomly measure cognitive deficits in living athletes through converging neuro-psychiatric assessment tools.
Boxing officials had already questioned existence of punch-drunk syndrome, for decades, and they responded strongly to Martland’s brain slides that spelled instant tempest for the sport. Prizefighting insiders claimed, led by heavyweight champs Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, that factors besides punches caused undeniable micro-hemorrhaging, later termed as tau deposition. Insiders blamed child exploitation, poor training, “unscientific technique” and worn-out gloves for punch drunkenness, even gravity, boxers’ falls to ring mats.
Boxing voices said low IQ could cause locomotor ataxia or the shuffling “fighter’s dance,” as could causal sins like alcohol, drugs, philandering—just not the sport itself. Seattle promoter Buddy Bishop declared bankers and bookkeepers faced same risk as boxers. “Dissipations [vice] and not punches bring a boxer to the ‘punch drunk’ stage,” Bishop said. “Bad liquor, later hours, unnatural habits and bad associates will make any person groggy in time. Boxers do not get ‘punch drunk’ from beatings.”
Football sidestepped epicenter of the TE debate and made no move toward studies of players. Many coaches and newsmen were humored, in fact, joking about slug-nutty linemen, conveying nonchalance. “These boys are getting punch-drunk from going up against bigger, tougher teams and so am I,” cracked Bob Zuppke, iconic coach for winning and certifiable failure for designing anti-TBI headgear, at University of Illinois. Washington Post columnist Shirley Povich practiced football-boxing hypocrisy dating to the 1880s, the juggling act of condemning pugilism while extolling the gridiron; he depicted boxers as gladiatorial dupes but football players as swashbuckling , endearing “punch drunks.”
And at Notre Dame, the football team’s ominous supply of ammonia smelling salts for brain-blasted casualties got airy treatment in a wire report:
Irish Trainer Prepared For 1,440 “Knock Outs”
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)—Eugene Young, Notre Dame trainer, is ready for a big football season.
Taught by experience, he has ordered a gross of boxes of inhalants, or 1,440 “smellers,” just about the quantity he needs to revive young gridders knocked unconscious on the gridiron. In the old days a bucket of water was all that was necessary.
But laughter had limits in the trustless Depression Era, including for the beloved gridiron institution. The game caught fallout over The Carnegie Report, corruption at colleges, and for player fatalities in schools and sandlots.
A special criticism materialized for traumatic brain injury and the question of disease potential in forward-colliding football. Medical experts, news writers and former players led a public discussion, marking the 1930s as another crisis period for the game.
Conventional doctors, those unattached to sports medicine, deemed concussion or TBI of football unhealthy and potentially damaging. Specialists generally opposed rapid return to play for brain casualties in football, and some called for outlawing juvenile participation. A succession of MD newspaper columnists warned of football during the Thirties, such as Drs. William Brady, Morris Fishbein, Louis Berg, Logan Clendening and Irving S. Cutter.
Dr. Brady ripped juvenile play and enabler parents, along with characterizing schools as football churches that made pariahs of boys who resisted indoctrination. And an anti-football administrator typically did nothing for fear of unemployment, alleged Brady. “Now, parents, all together: Down with high school football!” Brady proclaimed in his well-read column.
A key figure of football health debate was Dr. Fishbein, high-profile leader of the American Medical Association as a national columnist and JAMA editor. Fishbein sounded the alert on concussion and potential damage of the collision game. “KEEP YOUR HELMET ON!” he preached to players, introducing a 1933 column for newspapers. Fishbein continued:
There have been far too many cases of concussion of the brain and even fracture of the skull in football to take a chance without adequate head protection. …
Most serious of all injuries are those affecting the brain and the skull. A concussion of the brain means that the brain tissue actually has been bruised, with possible small hemorrhages into the tissue.
The first sign of such injury is loss of memory for recent events. The least important sign is a slight dizziness. But coaches and trainers should not, however, be unimpressed when a player comes out of a sudden impact with another player merely slightly dizzy or dazed.
In a subsequent column, Dr. Fishbein observed: “Because the school or the team takes much of the responsibility for the football player, it should control the kind of medical attention that he receives. The man should not be permitted to consult the first charlatan at hand, but should be directed to proper medical care by those in charge of the team.”
Dr. Berg affirmed the risk of brain disease in football and employed the medical term chronic encephalitis, or CE, for his column:
To many people the term “punch drunk” brings to mind a comic character weaving and boxing with an imaginary enemy the moment somebody sounds a bell behind him.
In truth it is an actual mental disorder—though not known scientifically under that name—brought on by repeated injuries to the blood vessels of the brain and the production of what is called chronic encephalitis.
It is a mistake to assume that this is a condition confined solely to ex-boxers. True the old-time fighter and in particular the preliminary boy, who risked his neck for a few dollars and the plaudits of the gallery, were the commonest exponents of this condition. But today one sees other victims of this disease due to punishment received about the head. Such a type is the football player who partakes in one game or one scrimmage too many. …
The mental symptoms of this disorder produced by minute hemorrhages in the brain, are a distortion of the faculties of attention, concentration and memory.
Dr. Clendening observed: “Punch drunk is an occupational disease. The victims have very marked personality changes… The condition is not confined to boxers, and may occur in football players or to anyone who receives a severe blow on the head.”
Medical literature and groups corroborated the MD columnists regarding brain injury, in communication often citing football.
“The increasing number of cases of trauma of the head [in society] presents a problem of major importance to all branches of the medical profession,” Drs. A.E. Bennett and H.B. Hunt wrote for Archives of Surgery journal in 1933, continuing:
There has been a marked therapeutic advance in the management of the severer types of acute injuries of the head in the past decade, owing to the increasing general knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of cerebral edema and hemorrhage. Also, the surgical indications are fairly well agreed on by all authorities.
The milder degrees of cerebral trauma, which at the time of the accident are usually called cerebral concussion, representing types of injury to the brain without acutely increased intracranial pressure, with or without fracture of the skull, have not in our opinion received the study they deserve. In the past the results of treatment of this group of patients, in which there is a large number, have been unsatisfactory. A large percentage of the patients have residual complaints, and the question as to whether their complaints were on a psychogenic or an organic basis has not been clear.
Some of the patients show diffuse neurologic signs, mental symptoms, personality changes, palsies of the cranial nerves and bilateral findings, but no focal signs. These findings are not entirely attributable to cerebral edema, but are probably the result of multiple punctate hemorrhages throughout the brain tissue. This condition is a true type of traumatic encephalitis…
“Statistics show an appalling incidence of head trauma,” Drs. N.W. Winkelman and J.L. Eckel wrote for Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry in 1934, continuing:
The subject of the changes in the brain and the symptoms resulting from head injuries is coming to be most important in modern medicine. The courts are deluged with cases in which compensation and redress are sought because of claims of permanent sequelae as the result of alleged injuries to the brain. The subject is further complicated by the fact that neurologists and neurosurgeons are still at odds concerning the question of the organic or functional nature of many of the symptoms. The clinical evidences of brain trauma during the acute period require no lengthy descriptions.
Dr. Edward J. Carroll, Jr., who interviewed ring insiders for in his 1936 observational review of brain-injured boxers titled “Punch Drunk,” reported hearing of the condition among professional football players. Carroll wrote for American Journal of Medical Sciences:
There is a clinical syndrome of frequent occurrence among boxers, to which they refer as “punch-drunk,” “punchy,” “goofy,” “slap happy,” cutting paper dolls,” or “slug nutty.” Other terms might be applied, such as “traumatic dementia” or “traumatic encephalopathy,” but they are not nearly so appropriate and descriptive as the epithet “punch-drunk.” …
Although multiple punctate hemorrhages probably constitute the underlying pathologic change in punch-drunk, extensive degeneration might be explained even without reference to such vascular lesions. It is hardly possible that a blow which jars the brain sufficiently to cause loss of consciousness would not be followed by some tissue reaction, such as hyperemia and edema with effusion into the intracellular spaces, leading to [metabolic] disturbances of nutrition and thus to impairment of function. An area with anatomic predilection to this type of injury is the midbrain. With a jar of the skull, the midbrain is forced against the sharp edge of the tentorium and bruised, resulting in edema and hyperemia. Following repeated insults to this region a gliosis may begin, and increase with each succeeding trauma. This scarring could result in a narrowing of the aqueduct, predisposing to the formation of an internal hydrocephalus with an increase in the intraventricular pressure and subsequent damage to the cortex.
Another explanation is the jarring of the brain by a blow results in the fracturing of cell processes. The unequal specific gravities of the gray and white matter give to them different degrees of acceleration in response to a force. This inequality of movement might cause a rupture of the neurons at the junction of the two tissues. The technical problems of demonstrating such minute lesions and differentiating them from artefacts leave this occurrence unproven.
Carroll’s study would stand seminal among the American literature on brain disease of sport and other trauma causes. He concluded:
Comment. It is probable that no head blow is taken with impunity, and that each knock-out causes definite and irreparable damage. If such trauma is repeated for a long enough period, it is inevitable that nerve cell insufficiency will develop ultimately, and the individual will become punch-drunk.
The cognizance and investigation of this condition by the medical profession would be a contribution to the neurologic and psychiatric study of traumatic disorders. But a higher end would be the education of the layman to the remote dangers incident to repeated minor head traumas. The occurrence of this type of degenerative brain change must be recognized and publicized rather than disregarded and discounted. It is especially important that athletes entering into competitions in which head injuries are frequent and knock-outs are common should realize that they are exposing themselves not only to immediate injury, but also to remote and more sinister effects.
Specialists of medical groups and journals logically correlated “punch drunk” with head-ramming football, particularly in Pennsylvania, where the state athletic commission screened for stricken boxers. “ ‘Traumatic encephalopathy’ is what the doctor would call it… Should not young men in boxing and football be watched more closely and be forbidden the sport at the first sign of punch-drunkenness?” posed Pittsburgh Medical Record editors.
The Delaware County Medical Society intoned: “Young athletes, whether in boxing or football or whatever sport should be carefully guarded by their trainers against the cranium crunchers that lead to being punch drunk.”
News media, for their part, reported of football TBI and punch-drunk players at all levels of the game in the 1930s.
Hartford Courant sportswriters extended concern for a local Colgate graduate and grid star, Joe Bogdanski, urging him in print to forego professional football. “Joe’s fresh-faced, handsomely built, tawny-skinned with the glow of health, full of the vigor of youth,” they editorialized, “who wants to see him battered and ‘punch drunk’ like some of the best-known pro football players of today? We could mention a few names… but we won’t.” Bogdanski would not play pro football, going on instead to earn a law degree and serve as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
Press accounts alleged that anonymous football players suffered brain disease like many boxers who were landing in courts and mental wards. The writer-artist Copeland C. Burg filed this 1934 analysis for The Chicago American:
CHICAGO, Oct. 6—Punch-drunk football players! Sure—there are lots of them.
Like punch-drunk prizefighters, they are goofy and wander around in the clouds most of the time.
But try and prove it!
We mean get some football coach or big player to talk about it for publication.
Nothing doing. When queried they look at you as though you were very punch-drunk yourself and walk away.
But off the record they will tell you plenty.
They will tell you that _________ _________, at one time one of the biggest backfield stars in America, is so punch drunk he goes around writing bum checks, forgetting important engagements and generally acting so strange and absent-minded that he has ruined his professional career. He’s punch-drunk.
They will tell that __________ _________, formerly a big eastern star, who thrilled the overflowing stands with long runs down the field, is about to be taken to an insane asylum. He’s harmless but more easily cared for at an institution than in the home of a relative. Another punch-drunk victim.
They will tell you strange stories about many great players and the central theme of these yarns is that the players did this and that because they got punch-drunk from blows received in football games.
In modern football, in addition to the bumps and swats received in authorized play, there is considerable old-fashioned, Marquis of Queensbury, punching and slugging as everyone knows.
High up in the stands a spectator can’t see much of these private boxing matches but players, coaches, and officials down on the field know that almost all games are marked by a score or more of good knockout punches, “sneaked” over during line plunges and other plays that give a chance to swat in the dark.
Kicking is another feature contributing to punch-drunk gridiron victims. Nearly every player gets kicked in the head by one of the enemy at least once or twice each season.
The writer talked to a former midwestern star about punch-drunk football players. This player was one of the best ever turned out in America. He admitted freely that many players were punch-drunk and never recovered from the effects of the blows they received on the gridiron. He named several big stars from leading colleges. He also named quite a few former college heroes, now professional football players.
Some of the yarns he told about those players were pretty wild.
In fact the writer was and is firmly convinced the man he was listening to was thoroughly punch-drunk himself.
In Georgia, The Albany Democrat-Herald declared athletes had but a shelf life in football and brain-battering sent many into premature decline, a brutal cause-and-effect scenario “apparent to laymen who have followed the game.” The editorial continued:
Football is a hard game. Those who play hardest at it are likely to be jarred into a condition similar to that which fighters and wrestlers undergo. They become what would be called in the ring “punch drunk.” This mental condition, together with the physical injuries which football players sustain, operate to slow men up as they become veterans. That is the probable explanation of a vast majority of anti-climaxed gridiron biographies.
Critics contended NCAA football should provide “scholarships,” medical coverage and pensions for players, given the profits for colleges and coaches. Scandal struck the University of North Carolina in 1937, on revelations of illicit aid to football players, and The Daily Tar Heel editorialized against injuries and false amateurism, suggesting a professional club might be in order for the campus. Editors co-wrote:
If we have to have football to let some boys work their way through school… abolish the “beating” they get in the game, and give them part of the $30,000 we collect in fees in the form of plain scholarships. The boys would have a much better chance to show themselves good students and worthy “persons as persons,” as the rules say, than they do now when you work them every day for five hours, take them out of school one sixth of the time… turn ’em out in the end punch drunk or cracked up, and make ’em lie about it, to boot. If you want to improve conditions, why don’t you set up a working hour-wage law for football, forbidding more than an hour-and-a-half practice every day. …
One more and probably the most honest suggestion: rent the stadium and the whole outfit to the alumni, let them put out a really first class ball club, professional and paid, under the name, if you will, of the UNC Alumni team. If the boys happen accidentally to want to take advantage of the educational opportunities here, splendid; let ’em register with their preferred Dean.
News commentators kept hammering football as America approached its next great war. At autumn’s outset in 1939, a West Coast columnist remarked: “It is now football season and there will be about 12,000 college men playing this year for—for what? Getting knocked punch drunk to promote a billion-dollar business.”
The unattributed blurb, surfacing on an Opinion page in Van Nuys, perhaps was traceable to Oakland Tribune sports editor Art Cohn. Soon after, with football casualty reports piling up, Cohn panned the game as a “rotten racket in glamour and glorified insanity.” He wrote: “The football business cannot absolve itself… Football cannot even give its victims—or their bereaved—enough insurance to cover doctors’ bills and funeral expenses.”
1940: Plastic Helmet Panacea, Psychiatrists Coin CTE Term
Football officials of the Thirties weren’t easily provoked to comment on issues, by detractors whose complaints were muted amid cultural glorification of the game. The pro level was unorganized among circuits like the NFL and of marginal concern to the general public. The premier NCAA game was bureaucratic with leaders scattered at member schools, making them tough to corner individually on the macro issues, especially traumatic brain injury.
Many NCAA policymakers doubled as coaches who were publicly adored for winning, flanked by friendly media to protect them and the sport. The football-media complex counterattacked dissidents like Frank Scully, writer and former Columbia player who suffered injury infection and leg amputation. When Scully alleged college football was rife with TBI and cerebral disease, in his exposé published by Liberty magazine, ready sport scribes pounced to excoriate him as a vengeful liar.
The NCAA and coaches association stated nothing formally on the prospect of permanent brain damage for players. But officialdom finally gave ground over broadly defined concussion, conceding it was common problem for football, as conventional medicine had charged since the Victorian Era.
“Concussion is a term which is used to describe a very definite injury,” observed football coach Dr. Mal Stevens, a forerunner in sports medicine, for his book with Yale surgeon Dr. Winthrop Phelps. The co-authors continued:
It is the result of a blow on the head which is sufficiently hard to cause a period of temporary disturbance [emphasis added] of the proper functioning of the brain. This is usually apparent either from a period of unconsciousness or may be seen in a period during which the player is dazed or unaware of what is going on. He may seem to continue to play normally but will not remember, afterwards, events which have occurred during a given period of time. This period of amnesia may last from a few minutes to a few hours. A mild concussion may often be determined by asking the player questions which require him to be closely in touch with his environment.
Stevens led official endorsement of sideline testing for concussion, a questions-based protocol appearing in the first NCAA medical handbook, 1933. Concussion testing was said to fully protect football players at programs like Yale, where Stevens played and coached. Stevens served one term as president of the American Football Coaches Association and chaired its injury committee for a longer period, overseeing the publication of recommendations for safer play following the 1937 season.
The coaches’ criteria for safe football mostly rehashed 40 years of official promises regarding brutality. The boilerplate talking points, crafted by the late Walter Camp at olden Yale, included: fitness examination for every player, child and adult; high-quality training facilities; protective equipment; constant injury monitoring by doctor and coach; proper training and technique; qualified coaching; and parental vigilance for player health.
But the modern coaches posted genuinely progressive points, too, urging the establishment of paid healthcare and heart screening for all players. Moreover, AFCA recommendation No. 6 addressed negligence of brain injury in football—extraordinary for the time, profound for future context—while specifying a concussion threshold to avoid mortality in contact sport:
During the past seven years the practice has been too prevalent of allowing players to continue playing after a concussion. Again this year this is true. This can be checked at the time of the preseason medical examination by case history questions. A case in point is where no knowledge was had before the player’s death of a boy who suffered a previous concussion from a bicycle accident. Sports demanding personal contact should be eliminated after an individual has suffered one concussion.
Nevertheless, no such health information was incorporated for football rules or other NCAA mandates throughout the Thirties. As in past crises, the committee tinkered with code on “unnecessary roughness,” banning slaps and forearm strikes to the head, among modifications, but nothing further in association policy transpired to prevent injury.
Officials recommended safety measures, they theorized, like touting “side” and “roll” tackles. Players were taught “scientific” falling and tumbling, how to tuck chins and roll on their shoulders. Coaches emphasized, once again, that players must hit with head up and held aside. And football officials promised safer helmets, as usual, promoting revolutionary technologies.
Dr. Stevens saw the moment to unveil his “concussion eliminator” helmet, a pneumatic model presumably improved from the Spalding failure in early century. Stevens, head football coach at New York University in 1939, placed the contraption of rubber and air cushions on his players then reported himself that “experiments have proved it highly successful.”
News writers merely parroted Stevens’ claim the model eliminated all brain trauma down to headaches, in their reports. None confirmed independent validation of the Stevens anti-TBI helmet, much less his qualifications to engineer such a design. But it hardly sold, anyway, because plastic hard-shells were the rage.
Plastic helmets were football’s salvation, certain to stop brain injury in football—or so went the popular assumption without scientific proof.
And John T. Riddell emerged as the chosen coach to reap helmet riches, releasing his plastic models in 1940 with major press coverage. Riddell’s state-of-the-art, hard-shell helmets adorned the team at Northwestern University, where players felt fortunate to wear full protection from head injury, according to the public narrative. Soon Riddell would join production forces with the U.S. military.
Nothing really changed, of course, for field danger that season. Football games and practices continued producing TBI incidents by the thousands, according to news reports available today in electronic databases such as ProQuest and Newspapers.com. The year’s grid star was ramming fullback John Alec Kimbrough, Texas A&M, a spectacular “line ripper” of size and speed who amassed yardage in “his famed butting, diving, plunging and shouldering,” gushed The Christian Science Monitor.
In the same year, without fanfare, a pair of psychiatrists coined the term chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, some 60 years before pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu made it commonplace. In 1940 psychiatrists Karl M. Bowman and Abram Blau discussed chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a boxer’s case for their book chapter “Psychotic States Following Head and Brain Injury in Adults and Children.”
A year later Pearl Harbor was bombed, drawing the United States into World War Two, and the horrific global conflict desensitized Americans for domestic issues like tackle football.
1962: Reselling Anti-Concussion Helmets and Heads Up
When Mal Stevens was a young head coach in college football, he dreamed of becoming rich. “If I had a million dollars,” Stevens would remark, “I’d buy me a professional football team and enjoy myself for the rest of my life by coaching it.” Recalling this story for a writer in 1960, Dr. Marvin A. “Mal” Stevens didn’t mention whether his personal foil was failure to engineer the golden anti-concussion football helmet. Besides, he still hadn’t given up on his pneumatic model.
Dr. Stevens no longer coached football, having left the game following World War Two and his military service as orthopedic surgeon and medical adviser. In 1951 Stevens accepted the New York governor’s appointment to “help clean up boxing” by establishing a boxing medical board for the State Athletic Commission. Thus Stevens became recognized for leading American boxing’s campaign to demean and deny CTE findings dating back to Martland’s “punch drunk” study.
Stevens, the joint-and-bone specialist, a living legend of sports medicine, still insisted concussion or traumatic brain injury was temporary, posing no risk of permanent damage. Citing his own brain studies of athletes, scoffing at conventional research like so many of his colleagues in U.S. sport, Stevens outright dismissed the sound neurological theory of repetitive, sub-concussive trauma as causation for disease.
“We just haven’t seen any punch-drunk fighters since I have been here, and we’ve been looking for them,” Stevens testified before New York legislators in 1962, adding his regret that “we don’t have boxing in every school and every town in the country.” Neurologist Dr. Abraham Rabiner, a boxing medical colleague of Stevens at the Albany hearings, testified that studies on repetitive blows and chronic encephalopathy amounted to junk science, “nonsense.”
Meanwhile, plastic football helmets had proven no panacea for preventing TBI, the addition of rigid facemasks notwithstanding. Riddell and other makers of hard headgear had succeeded in major sales over the decades since leathers, but danger of head-on brain injury was higher than ever in football—and unnecessarily so, according to Dr. Stevens.
“The hard plastic helmets used today are worse than the ones we used 30 years ago. They ought to be outlawed,” Stevens commented in The Boston Globe. “Players can use their helmets as offensive weapons. The faceguards are worse.” Stevens believed his helmet of air-cushioned rubber had hope yet. “I don’t favor all this stuff that goes in front of the face,” he volunteered. “I think a player would be much better off with a well-fitted, soft and resilient helmet, without a faceguard. There’s been some experimentation with pneumatic helmets [by Stevens, 1939, and Spalding-Camp in 1903], but without much luck.”
Helmet rivals aside, Stevens strongly advocated football and rejected revivalist criticism for juvenile participation, declaring the sport itself was not dangerous, only irresponsible individuals. “If you’re going to play the game, then you must accept the fact that there will be some injuries. But with proper supervision and good common sense, there is less risk in playing football than there is in driving to the game.”
He sounded like Walter Camp, revered “Father of Football” whom Stevens got to know as star Yale halfback in the early Twenties. During this 1962 interview Stevens repeated football’s time-trusted talking points for gullible generations. The Boston student writers who interviewed Stevens, and Globe copy editors who laid out the Q&A page, proclaimed football in a headline to be “Basically a Safe Game.”
They printed verbatim Stevens’ stock football lines about safe blocking and tackling, and headless contact—yet impossible in the forward-colliding sport, particularly for modern helmets.
“Teach the players to run with their heads up; block and tackle with their heads up,” Stevens said. “You can’t theorize on these things.”
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The author stocks additional information in histories, medical literature and thousands of news texts, among media, for this analysis. Also see ChaneysBlog news lines on Heads Up theory and football brain disease.
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Fighting For. (1928, May 17). Fighting for his life. Roseburg News-Review OR, p.10.
First Death. (1924, Sept. 12). First football death recorded. Bismarck Tribune ND, p.8.
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Football Killed. (1914, Oct. 13). Football player killed. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.14.
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For Safer. (1910, Jan. 26). For safer football. Washington Herald DC, p.8.
Forced Quit. (1909, Nov. 18). Forced to quit school. Newport Miner WA, p.8.
Fordham Star. (1931, Dec. 3). Fordham star dies of hurts and sets sports-loving fans wondering of aftermath. Danville Bee VA, p.8.
Former Star. (1928, Nov. 30). Former Yale star beats up his wife. Helena Independent Record MT, p.1.
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Frank, N. (1934, Dec. 29). It just occurred to me. Harrisburg Telegraph PA, p.8.
Frank Scully. (1937, Sept. 30). Frank Scully gives inside dope. Wilkes-Barre Evening News PA, p.28.
Friedman Safety. (1934, April 27). Friedman for safety. New York Times, p.28.
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Georgia Tech. (1929, Jan. 2). Georgia Tech wins national title by defeating California: Was Riegels punch-drunk when he made that weird run? Portsmouth Daily Times OH, p.12.
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Gold Triumphs. (1911, Dec. 1). Gold and black triumphs over Sewanee purple. Nashville Tennessean and Nashville American, p.1.
Goss Coach. (1904, Oct. 10). Goss to coach. Minneapolis Journal, p.14.
Got Craze. (1914, Dec. 9). Got murder craze from gridiron kick. Greenwood Daily Journal SC, p.5.
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Government Waste. (1936, May 26). Government waste held ‘punch-drunk.’ Ogden Standard-Examiner UT, p.10.
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Gridder Saved. (1942, April 21). Gridder saved by plastic helmet. New Philadelphia Daily Times OH, p.5.
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Grist Mill. (1934, Dec. 19). Grist From The sports mill. Hartford Courant CT, p.16.
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Harvard Expected. (1928, Nov. 24). Harvard expected to take important game in New England today. Coshocton Tribune OH, p.6.
Harvard Jolted. (1911, Nov. 12). Harvard is jolted by the Carlisle Indians. Pittsburgh Daily Post, p.18.
Harvard Student. (1885, Nov. 12). A Harvard student fatally injured. Lebanon Daily News PA, p.1.
Harvard Students. (1895, Feb. 21). Harvard students angry. New York World, p.6.
Harvard’s Team. (1892, Nov. 20). Harvard’s football team beaten six to nothing. New York Herald, p.1.
Head Blocking. (1962, Oct. 24). Head blocking under scrutiny. Beckley Post-Herald WV, p.2.
Head-On Collision. (1933, Sept. 28). Head-on collision results in grid death in East. Fresno Bee Republican CA, p.30.
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Humble Cornell. (1899, Oct. 15). Humble Cornell’s pride. Chicago Daily Tribune.
Hurt Memory. (1900, Nov. 13). Hurt at football, lost memory. Pittsburgh Daily Post, p.6.
Husband Slays. (1933, Sept. 25). Husband slays wife. Kingsport Times TN, p.3.
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Indiana News. (1917, Jan. 31). Indiana news in brief. Indianapolis News, p.15.
Indians Good. (1895, Nov. 29). Indians play good football. New York Times, p.6.
Indians Practice. (1899, Dec. 13). Indians practice on Folsom Street field. San Francisco Chronicle, p.14.
Ingram, B. (1935, Oct. 30). As I was saying. El Paso Herald-Post TX.
Injured Gridder. (1937, Oct. 26). Injured gridder to play. Fresno Bee CA, p.10.
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Inter Collegiate. (1887, March 27). Inter-college foot-ball. Philadelphia Times, p.2.
Intercollegiate Foot-Ball. (1889, March 21). Intercollegiate foot-ball. Chicago Inter Ocean, p.2.
Interest Football. (1889, Nov. 30). Interest in foot-ball. Chicago Inter Ocean, p.4.
Investigation Proves. (1909, Dec. 26). Investigation proves injuries in football have been exaggerated. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Iola Theatre. (1934, Aug. 2). The Three Stooges “Punch Drunk” [advertisement]. Iola Register KS, p.8.
Irish Prepared. (1933, Sept. 1). Irish trainer prepared for 1,440 “knock outs.” Rushville Republican IN, p.3.
Is Football? (1894, Dec. 13). Is football too brutal to play? Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, Canada, p.2.
It Was. (1889, Nov. 29). It was a hard fought contest. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.2.
It’s Dementia. (1938, Jan. 16). It’s ‘dementia pugilistica’ and not ‘punch drunk.’ New York Times, p.67.
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Laid Rest. (1915, Dec. 10). Laid to rest. Allentown Leader PA, p.6.
Lake Forest. (1899, Oct. 22). Lake Forest player is injured. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.22.
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Laugh At. (1894, Feb. 10). Laugh at the anti-football bill. New York World, p.6.
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Mental Test. (1939, Dec. 28). Boxing solon suspends 81 fighters: Mental test may bar punch drunk fighters. Wilkes-Barre Evening News PA, p.18.
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New Football. (1903, Aug. 8). New football devices. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p.29.
New Gridiron. (1912, Feb. 18). New gridiron game is just Yale’s kind. Anaconda Standard MT, p.23.
New Helmet. (1943, July 2). New helmet is much better. Cumberland News MD, p.4.
New Rules. (1887, Oct. 29). New foot-ball rules. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p.8.
New Rules. (1910, April 9). New football rules make safer game. Winfield Daily Press KS, p.7.
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Office Wife. (1938, Dec. 18). ‘Office wife’ was punch drunk when she slew. Atlanta Constitution, p.16A.
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Paragraphs Films. (1936, May 31). Paragraphs on Brooklyn films. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.41.
Parrot, H.E. (1931, Dec. 9). Poor conditioning cause of epidemic of football injuries, says trainer. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.25.
Parson-Boxer. (1929, Feb. 7). Parson-Boxer wanted to throw wife out of window: Punch-drunk. Portsmouth Daily Times OH, p.16.
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Pitcher Morris. (1887, Oct. 16). Pitcher Morris severely injured. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.13.
Plastic Helmet. (1940, Nov. 3). Plastic football helmet used by Northwestern. Kingsport Times TN, p.7.
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Pratt Drops. (1906, Oct. 26). Pratt drops football because of danger. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.1.
Present Rules. (1926, Jan. 2). Present football rules are satisfactory in opinion of the Football Coaches Ass’n. Bryan Eagle TX, p.3.
President’s Day. (1907, Feb. 24). President’s busy day in Boston and in Cambridge. Boston Daily Globe, p.1.
Press Box. (1926, Nov. 10). The press box. Bluefield Daily Telegraph WV.
Princeton Re-Enforced. (1893, Nov. 20). Princeton is well re-enforced. Chicago Inter Ocean, p.4.
Princeton Wins. (1886, Nov. 14). Princeton wins again. New York Sun, p.2.
Princeton’s Opening. (1889, Oct. 6). Philadelphia Times, p.3.
Princeton’s Protest. (1887, Nov. 18). Princeton’s foot-ball protest. Philadelphia Times, p.1.
Pringle Over. (1898, Nov. 25). Pringle went over line for a touchdown for the University of California. San Francisco Call, p.2.
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Punch Drunk. (1928, Oct. 22). ‘Punch drunk’ may apply in other sports. Bismarck Tribune ND, p.1.
Punch Drunk. (1937, April 26). Punch drunk. Anniston Star AL, p.4.
Punch-Drunk Boxer. (1937, June 5). Punch-drunk boxer compensation claim fails. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia.
Punch-Drunk Football. (1937, Sept. 29). Punch-drunk football stars! Atlanta Constitution, p.8.
Punch-Drunk Forger. (1932, July 12). Punch-drunk forger gets parole here. Belvidere Republican-Northwestern IL, p.6.
Punch Drunkenness. (1928, Oct. 19). Punch drunkenness is found outside the boxing profession. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.31.
Punch Drunkenness. (1957, Feb. 19). Punch drunkenness can cripple boxers for life. Oxnard Press-Courier CA, p.11.
Rah! Rah! (1889, Nov. 29). Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Cincinnati Enquirer, p.2.
Ralph Missing. (1892, Jan. 1). Ralph H. Warren missing. New York Sun, p.2.
Reading Kick. (1914, Dec. 3). Reading High kick blamed for crazy of Allentown. Reading Times PA, p.1.
Reddy, B. (1949, Aug. 25). Keeping posted. Syracuse Post-Standard NY, p.12.
Redskins Bothered. (1937, Dec. 11). Redskins bothered by wintry blasts. New York Times, p.13.
Reform Football. (1909, Jan. 16). Reform in football. New York Tribune, p.10.
Reformed Foot-Ball. (1894, Oct. 30). Reformed foot-ball. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle NY, p.6.
Reichert, J.L., Glasscock, E.L., Logan, G.B., Maksim, G., Moody, E.E., Shaffer, T.E., Stuart, H.C., & Yankauer, A. (1956, October). Report: Committee on school health: Competitive athletics: A statement of policy [American Academy of Pediatrics]. Pediatrics, 18 (4), pp.672-76.
Rice, G. (1926, Nov. 15). Notre Dame, Navy, Brown, Stanford, Lafayette, NYU, Alabama leading unbeaten elevens. New York Herald Tribune, p.19.
Rice, G. (1931, Dec. 5). Grantland Rice’s sport light. Lincoln Evening Journal NE, p.8.
Rice, G. (1937, May 26). If kid has any knack, boxing is career, Leonard tells Rice. Baltimore Sun, p.19.
Richards, E.L. (1894, October). The football situation. Popular Science Monthly, 45, pp.721-33.
Richardson, W.D. (1940, Oct. 23). LaManna and Frank to see action for N.Y.U. on Saturday. New York Times, p.29.
Rigid Exams. (1962, Jan. 11). Rigid exams urged for grid players. Ogden Standard-Examiner UT, p.24.
Ring Official. (1936, Sept. 17). Ring official once fought as a pro. Washington Post, p.X19.
Ripley, R.L. (1919, Aug. 25). Gameness is usually associated with boxing. Houston Post, p.7.
Rising Deaths. (1961, Oct. 13). Rising grid deaths cause concern. Kansas City Times, p.30.
Roosevelt Crusade. (1905, Oct. 10). Roosevelt in new crusade. Chicago Tribune, p.1.
Roosevelt Robe. (1910, May 27). Roosevelt in red robe. Baltimore Sun, p.2.
Rules Exercise. (1891, May 3). Rules of exercise. Pittsburgh Dispatch, p.10.
Rules Manly. (1883, Nov. 24). Rules for a manly sport. New York Times, p.4.
Runyon, D. (1929, Nov. 7). Runyon says. Harrisburg Evening News PA, p.28.
Russell, D. (1962, Feb. 1). Rustlin’ sports: Trainers meeting will get attention. Albuquerque Journal, p.15.
Ryan, A.J. (1962, Sept. 2). Let’s stop football tragedies. The Week magazine, Salt Lake Tribune, p.95.
Safer Football. (1906, Nov. 27). Safer football. Hutchinson News KS, p.2.
Safer Football. (1909, Dec. 22). Safer football aim of experts. Bismarck Tribune ND, p.10.
Says Dangerous. (1906, July 3). Says athletics are dangerous to life. Indianapolis News, p.10.
Says Insane. (1928, March 13). Says he was insane when he killed wife. Wilkes-Barre Evening News PA, p.21.
Savage, H.J., Bentley, H.W., McGovern, J.T., & Smiley, D.F. (1929). American College Athletics: Bulletin Number Twenty-Three. Carnegie Foundation: New York.
Saxton Case. (1962, Feb. 8). Saxton case dismissed. New York Times, p.20.
Schneider, R.C., Reifel, E., Crisler, H.O., & Oosterbaan, B.G. (1961, Aug. 12). Serious and fatal football injuries involving the head and spinal cord. Journal of the American Medical Association, 177 (6), pp.362-67.
Schuylkill Victory. (1928, Oct. 15). Schuylkill victory not as impressive as score indicates. Reading Times PA, p.13.
Scraps. (1887, Dec. 2). “Scraps.” Indianapolis News, p.2.
Scrimmages Harmful. (1931, Oct. 17). Scrimmages harmful to team, Michigan State coach asserts. New York Times, p.18.
Scully Claims. (1937, Sept. 29). Scully claims that football changes players into ‘stumble backs,’ half-wits. Columbia Daily Spectator NY, p.3.
Season Close. (1909, Nov. 27). Season just closed most disastrous in history of football; 29 men killed. Topeka Daily Capital KS, p.1.
Sembower, J.F. (1961, Nov. 22) Players “wired” for sound probe cause of grid hurts. Circleville Herald OH, p.15.
Sheldon Ban. (1910, Jan. 22). Sheldon would put ban on high school game. Indianapolis News, p.8.
Shell-Shock Misnomer. (1931, Aug. 10). Shell-shock misnomer. Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger IN, p.4.
Shock Battle. (1915, June 8). Shock of battle causes rare ills. Bremen Enquirer IN, p.4.
Sidney Blackmer. (1920, May 30). Sidney Blackmer trains for stage as he did when playing football, he says. New York Tribune, p.B1.
Sideline Slants. (1937, Oct. 5). Sideline slants. Stanford Daily CA, p.3.
Sixty-Two Safer. (1905, Dec. 29). Sixty-two colleges for safer football. Harrisburg Daily Independent PA, p.4.
Smith, D.K. (1963, April 9). No butting. Ames Daily Tribune IA, p.9.
Smith, R. (1957, Dec. 25). Red Smith. New York Herald Tribune, p.B1.
Some Ex-Fighters. (1930, Aug. 11). Some ex-fighters on Easy Street. Daily Boston Globe, p.9.
Sport Comments. (1934, Jan. 5). Sport comments. De Kalb Daily Chronicle IL, p.6.
Sport Tips. (1938, Sept. 21). Sport tips. Frederick News MD, p.6.
Sporting News. (1901, Feb. 4). Sporting news in general. Oshkosh Daily Northwestern WI, p.3.
Sports Air. (1887, Nov. 27). Sports in the open air. New York Tribune, p.2.
St. John’s Prepping. (1933, Oct. 25). St. John’s is prepping for Hopkins game. Hagerstown Daily Mail MD, p.7.
Starnes, R. (1961, Nov. 24). Richard Starnes says: Football has its tragedies. Delaware County Times PA, p.4.
Steelton Wins. (1904, Oct. 31). Steelton wins by one point. Harrisburg Telegraph PA, p.6.
Steps Suggested. (1961, Oct. 14). Steps for curbing accidents suggested. Corpus Christi Caller TX, p.21.
Stevens, M.A., & Phelps, W.M. (1933). The Control of Football Injuries. A.S. Barnes and Company: New York.
Stop Tragedies. (1931, Dec. 10). Stop these football tragedies! Canandaigua Daily Messenger NY, p.10.
Strong Words. (1905, Nov. 27). Strong words from U. of C. Chicago Tribune, p.2.
Stroop, J.R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, pp.643-62.
Students Stop. (1909, Nov. 2). Students stop all athletics. Scranton Truth PA, p.9.
Suicide Story. (1905, Dec. 1). Suicide story an absurdity, Clark says. Minneapolis Journal, p.14.
Surgeons Score. (1906, Jan. 6). Surgeons score gridiron sport. Greensboro Daily Industrial News NC, p.3.
Sustains Injury. (1914, Nov. 24). Sustains curious football injury. Escanaba Morning Press MI, p.5.
Swords Gloves. (1930, May 30). Swords and gloves. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.16.
Sylvester, H. (1935, Sept. 8). Sporting chances. New York Herald Tribune, p.SM16.
Tackling Rule. (1908, Nov. 7). Tackling not now a matter of strict rule. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p.6.
Taube, M. (1940, Nov. 3). Gridiron success is achieved by faithful practice of fundamentals. Hartford Courant CT, p.D3.
Tech Suggests. (1909, Nov. 23). Tech suggest rule changes. Atlanta Constitution, p.10.
Telander, R. (1989). The Hundred Yard lie: The Corruption of College Football and What We Can Do to Stop It. Simon and Schuster: New York.
Tells Insanity. (1909, Nov. 27). Tells of insanity in Ellis family. Daily Arkansas Gazette, p.1.
The Bag. (1893, Sept. 23). The tackling bag. San Francisco Chronicle, p.9.
The Century. (1887, Sept. 27). The Century for October. Easton Star-Democrat PA, p.3.
The Cumnock. (1890, Nov. 2). The Cumnock nose mask. New York Times, p.2.
The Deadly. (1902, Dec. 13). The deadly pigskin. Atlanta Constitution, p.6.
The Faults. (1893, Nov. 27). The faults at football. New York Sun, p.6.
The Foot Ball Rules. (1894, May 30). [No headline or byline for stand-alone text in column.] Fort Scott Daily Monitor KS, p.2.
The Footballs. (1888, Nov. 29). The footballs. New York Evening World, p.1.
The Game. (1892, Dec. 19). The football game. San Francisco Morning Call, p.4.
The Growth. (1894, Oct. 28). The growth of football. New York Sun, p.20.
The New. (1906, Oct. 12). The new football. New York Times, p.8.
The News. (1894, Jan. 6). The news in brief. San Bernardino Weekly Courier CA, p.6.
The Toll. (1912, Jan. 13). Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, Canada, p.4.
The Sport. (1889, Nov. 19). The sport of the season. Wilkes-Barre Evening News PA, p.2.
Theodore Hurt. (1905, Nov. 19). Theodore hurt in game: President’s son carried from the field unable to stir. Washington Post, p.3.
They Can’t. (1894, Dec. 28). The can’t slug now. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.1.
This Game. (1895, Nov. 2). This game will show. Chicago Inter Ocean, p.4.
Tigers Win. (1899, Nov. 26). Tigers win great game. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.17.
To Reform. (1897, Dec. 10). To reform the game of football. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle NY, p.23.
To Make. (1894, Jan. 2). To make football less brutal. Kansas City Gazette KS, p.3.
Training For. (1899, Oct. 29). Training for football. Detroit Free Press, p.C3.
Transit Company. (1912, Aug. 31). Transit Company employees’ outing. Allentown Democrat PA, p.1.
Trevor, G. (1925, Feb. 4). Centre College’s famous tackle may yet wear Dempsey’s crown. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.19.
Trotter, W. (1924, May 10). On certain minor injuries of the brain. British Medical Journal, 1 (3306), pp.816-19.
Tunney Backs. (1937, Feb. 5). Tunney backs school boxing. Baltimore Sun, p.16.
Two Football Players. (1909, Oct. 11). [No headline or byline for stand-alone text in column.] Asbury Park Press NJ, p.4.
UM Surgeon. (1961, May 3). U-M surgeon suggests four changes in football helmets. Traverse City Record-Eagle MI, p.18.
Uncle Sam. (1941, July 31). Uncle Sam adopts sort of helmets used by gridders. Uniontown Evening Standard PA, p.10.
Van Dellen, T.R. (1963, Feb. 2). Boxing is not worth misery. Lake Charles American-Press LA, p.11.
Vicious Aggies. (1940, Nov. 17). Vicious Aggies gridmen trample Rice with power. Hartford Courant CT, p.C5.
Vidmar, R. (1939, Nov. 19). Down in front. New York Herald Tribune, p.B8.
Vital Changes. (1912, Feb. 14). Vital changes in football code. Honolulu Evening Bulletin, p.9.
Walsh, G. (1961, Nov. 6). 18 football deaths: Is it the helmet? Sports Illustrated, 15 (21) , pp.24-25.
Walter Camp. (1894, Jan. 20). Walter Camp favors new rules. Chicago Inter Ocean, p.6.
Walton, G. L. (1883, October 11). Possible cerebral origin of the symptoms usually classed under “railway brain.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 109 (15), pp.337-42.
War Pathologist. (1916, Oct. 6). War not near end, says pathologist, back in U.S. Indianapolis Star, p.7.
Warburg, J.R. (1932, Nov. 15). Talk about bridge. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.19.
Was Injured. (1900, Dec. 1). Was seriously injured. Philadelphia Times, p.5.
Watterson, J.S. (2000). College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.
Weak Defense. (1898, Oct. 23). Weak in defense. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.30.
Wesleyan Last. (1888, Nov. 30). Wesleyan comes last. New York Tribune, p.8.
Wesleyan Rear. (1888, Nov. 30). Wesleyan in the rear. New York Times, p.8.
Wesleyan Wins. (1887, Nov. 25). Wesleyan wins: A very rough game in which Pennsylvania is defeated. Saint Paul Globe, p.1.
Wesleyan Wins. (1889, Nov. 29). Wesleyan wins. Lebanon Daily News PA, p.1.
Westwick’s Sport. (1955, Aug. 9). Westwick’s in the realm of sport. Ottawa Journal, Ontario, Canada, p.16.
Weyand, A.M.(1926). American Football. D. Appleton and Company: New York.
Where Killed. (1909, Nov. 2). Where the man—not the beast—is killed. Atlanta Constitution, p.6.
Why Fall. (1934, Nov. 6). Why stars fall. Albany Democrat-Herald GA, p.4.
Will Play. (1910, Nov. 10). Will play old rivals. Allentown Democrat PA, p.8.
Wines, F.H. (1895, Dec. 1). Cure for madness. New Orleans Times-Picayune, p.27.
Winkelman, N.W., & Eckel, J.L. (1934, May). Brain trauma: Histopathology during the early stages. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry, 31 (5), pp.956-986.
Wisconsin Favorite. (1928, Nov. 24). Wisconsin is favorite. Bismarck Tribune ND, p.4.
Wolgast Guardian. (1917, April 3). Guardian for Wolgast. Wichita Beagle KS, p.7.
Yale End. (1904, Oct. 9). Yale loses end rush McMahon. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.3.
Yale Harvard. (1890, Nov. 18). Pittsburgh Daily Post, p.6.
Yale Hero. (1901, Nov. 26). Yale hero taken home. Chicago Daily Tribune, p.6.
Yale Princeton. (1892, Nov. 23). Yale vs. Princeton. New Castle News PA, p.1.
Yale’s Turn. (1887, Nov. 20). Yale’s turn to yell. Chicago Inter Ocean, p.1.
Young Boxers. (1932, Sept. 21). Young boxers exploited for gain become punch drunk wrecks. Boston Globe, p.23.
Young, S. (1942, Sept. 16). Canadian sport snapshots. Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, Canada, p.17.
Your Health. (1936, July 6). Your health. Monongahela Daily Republican PA, p.2.
Youth Football. (1959, Aug. 30). Youth football out. San Bernardino County Sun CA, p.56.
Zero Score. (1894, Oct. 28). Zero was the score. San Francisco Chronicle, p.17.
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Irwin Chusid: Playlist from November 18, 2009
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November 18, 2009: PLEDGE, por favor.
Lee Morgan Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit) The Gigolo 0:00:00 ()
Old Codger Money Hotcakes and Hot Mamas 0:04:29 ()
Amanda Chaos In the Nearness of Amanda 0:20:48 ()
anon. Mr. Snuggles The Incorrect Music Companion 2001 0:25:32 ()
Tahiti 80 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star Puzzle 0:28:18 ()
Swell Maps Let's Build a Car Jane From Occupied Europe 0:41:41 ()
Lane Steinberg Swine Flu Blues November 2009 home recording 0:44:21 ()
Miley Cyrus (as Hannah Montana) Who Said Hannah Montana: Songs From and Inspired by the Hit TV Series 0:58:52 ()
Amanda Worship Me Me. Worship ME. 1:01:49 ()
Dennis Diken with Bell Sound The Sun's Gonna Shine in the Morning Late Music 1:04:54 ()
Mighty Sparrow Jerk Sparrow at the Hilton (LP) 1:21:40 ()
Johnny Mercer Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive Collector's Series 1:25:15 ()
Bow Wow Wow Fools Rush In Girl Bites Dog: Your Compact Disc Pet 1:27:56 ()
Johnny Mercer What-Cha-Ma-Call-It My Huckleberry Friend 1:32:30 ()
Chris Palestis Don't You Want Me, Baby? Wizz-O: Live & Insane, May 1, 1982 1:48:09 ()
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love & Understanding Under the Covers 2 1:58:32 ()
Love The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This Forever Changes 2:01:43 ()
Fountains of Wayne Strapped for Cash Traffic and Weather 2:06:46 ()
Denise Rosner/Camp Akiba (1976) Big Spender Incorrect and Proud (2002 IMH marathon CD) 2:09:58 ()
Alasdair MacLean Since K Got Over Me Live @ WFMU 28 OCT 2009 2:22:59 ()
Amy Annelle Clean Starts Some From The Stream II 2:26:51 ()
Amanda Up Against the Wall Redneck Mama Walls, Rednecks, and the Mamas Who Are Up Against Them 2:43:27 ()
The Joy Poppers DNA III (Ice Cream Eaters) 2:46:59 ()
Wed. 11/18/09 3:01pm Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn:
El posto numero uno.
Wed. 11/18/09 3:06pm MamaLisa:
Ima PLEDGE! Where's the K-ster?
might i suggest self-loathing instead?
if i had to choose, i'd give away my TV before i would part with my radio
Wed. 11/18/09 3:11pm Looms (Fr):
Hi Irwin, keep on spitting on television please!!!!!!!!!!!! AND commercial stations!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:16pm asilamam:
I said I wasn't gonna pledge. But I can't help myself. I LOVE WFMU! It's gonna cost me 10 acupuncture sessions at Pacific College of Chinese Medicine. So Irwin, you're responsible for any agressive act I commit going forward.
Wed. 11/18/09 3:17pm north guinea hills:
Someone should put the donor google map up. It's always my favorites of marathons (being a cartographer and all...)
Wed. 11/18/09 3:18pm CHUCK IN CT:
i love this station ,,,,,irwin your the best dj
Wed. 11/18/09 3:19pm Lizardner Dave:
Pledged last week in advance of the marathon and listening guilt free.....
Wed. 11/18/09 3:21pm Dead Corporate Eyes:
Oooh, just arrived from my AED/CPR class...feel free to have a heart attack. I'm prepared.
Wed. 11/18/09 3:21pm mikey in phx:
I MISS MY INCORRECT MUSIC!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:21pm Janet H:
I pledged earlier today!....yes irwin is the best dj!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:24pm Lisa:
There is no pledge high enough to match the entertainment and joy in Johnny Cash's face as he dances to Amanda and points at his butt!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:24pm Stan Z.:
Is this Miley Cyrus without Disney overdubbs or Amanda?
Wed. 11/18/09 3:24pm Amanda Fan Club:
My favorite DJ's and my favorite performer all at once. Heavenly! You know to keep us happy.
Wed. 11/18/09 3:25pm Brucie:
Oh IRWIN! You dropped the AMANDA bomb! THANKS! I coughed up 15 bucks earlier this afternoon with a little note for you. Should be enough funds to have your Amanda archive waxed and polished professionally to keep it shiny for years to come.
Mr. Snuggles ROCKS!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:27pm John McCabe in LA:
Irwin is the Alan Lomax of incorrect music
Irwin, you are OUR Mr. Snuggles.
Is this Mlliie Cyrus sans Disney again? Michelle's version is awesome! Thank you Irwin!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:39pm Lisa H.:
We have Swell Maps at home! LOVE THEM!
Regarding the hours i spend every week online to listen to the shows, i fell like stealing you with my 35 dollars pledge... I'm sparing for the further March regular marathon,, really!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:43pm AnAnonymousParty:
I got $15 just a burnin' a hole in my wallet. What should I do?
Wed. 11/18/09 3:49pm R!SKY:
GET EM IRWIN!!!
Wed. 11/18/09 3:58pm jgiles:
yeah play AMANDA, pleaaaaz
Wed. 11/18/09 3:59pm Momager:
I don't know if you've noticed, Irwin and Monica, but KEILI is turning into a young Japanese Girl.
YEAAA AMANDA! YEAAAA IRWIN!
this is kind of a good song - oh shit its Hannah damm...
Wed. 11/18/09 4:03pm em:
the universe is not smiling on me today -- i missed amanda but made it in plenty of time for miley. sigh.
never mind -- apparently i am lucky enough to get BOTH!
i love it when HM talks in her song
Wed. 11/18/09 4:05pm dc pat:
AMANDA!!!!
Wed. 11/18/09 4:05pm Andy in Berlin:
I have to say I'm starting to like this Amanda stuff. What's wrong?
Wed. 11/18/09 4:06pm fcunmys:
HEED AMANDA'S CLARION OR IS IT CARRION CALL!!!! WORSHIP HER!!!! OR AT LEAST GIVE HER SOME MONEY!!!
I do and I did. What's happening to me?
NOTHING AT ALL!! YOU"VE JUST FALLEN UNDER AMANDA'S SPELL. WORSHIP HER!!!!!
GIVE HER MORE MONEY!!!!!
Wed. 11/18/09 4:13pm Carmichael:
Hi Irwin/Monica. Let me go get my wallet. Be right back.
Rich Hazelton Rules!!!!!!!!!
I'VE PAID HOMAGE TO AMANDA!!!! ANDREW JACKSON & ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAVE BEEN SACRIFIED TO HER!!! GIVE! GIVE!! GIVE!!!!
Oh and where is Texas Scott during pledge time? He's the official WFMU cheerleader.
Wed. 11/18/09 4:25pm tom:
yay! Mighty Sparrow is great.
Wed. 11/18/09 4:30pm frenchee:
Dear IC:
It's not the shirts. It's you and your show. And Amanda.
YOO-HOO!!! AMANDA!!!!! WHERE FOR ART DAMAGED THOU?!?!?
Wed. 11/18/09 4:32pm Steve:
I pledged to make sure Monica continues to give high school cheer bands get their fair share of airplay.
Wed. 11/18/09 4:34pm Tizzie:
Does Amanda suffer from Asperger's Syndrome? Or she is really thant naturally talendted?!?
If Irwin is going to engage in any testicular action may it mercifully be for his annual prostate examination. No offense but you must be getting on in years and we in the ether cloud do not want any interruptions of the medical kind to your wondrous aural mayhem!!!!
If that is from the heart, the boy needs defibrillation.
Wed. 11/18/09 4:55pm Webhamster Henry:
Hi Irwin: where's the classic "Cat hairball" imitation this year?
Probably in that last singer's throat.
Wed. 11/18/09 5:06pm Gordie:
Arthur Lee Rules!!!
dramatic cash monologue
YOU WANT MORE CASH, IRWIN!!! BRING OUT AMANDA AGAINS AND YOUR COFFERS SHALL BE FILLED!!!! OR AT LEAST PLAY SOME WRECKLESS ERIC!!!
OR SOME FLYING LIZARDS, BARRETT STRONG, OR EVEN THE BRAINS!!!! MORE BRAINS!!!! NO!!! MORE AMANDA!!!!!!!
Wed. 11/18/09 5:11pm Miley:
Is that Hannah Montana a threat of what's to come if you guys don't get $$?
Wed. 11/18/09 5:12pm cobalt:
loved that fountains song.
♥ the show!
damn, wish i'd waited a little before pledging so i could be in the running for that Incorrect Music CD. sounds amazing.
Wed. 11/18/09 5:20pm Monetta:
I miss Mike Lupica too.
Wed. 11/18/09 5:26pm Laura L:
As always, thank you for Alasdair and Clientele--wonderful to have him live on your show.
OMG I WANT THAT AMY COMP!
I WANT THAT TALK-OVER MUSIC COMP!
Wed. 11/18/09 5:41pm IT Assholes:
We believe in pointless lockdown. It makes nerds and trolls like us feel powerful.
Wed. 11/18/09 5:43pm Card:
A M A N D A
Wed. 11/18/09 5:47pm Musing...:
Did the Amanda who recorded this ditty have any clue as to the semantic range of "up against the wall"?
Amanda has all the clues we need. Up against the wall, Musing...
Wed. 11/18/09 5:54pm um:
nah, that's ok, no amanda plz
Wed. 11/25/09 9:46am caroline:
i am new, can someone explain to me who amanda is?
Wed. 11/25/09 9:49am crosby:
To find out about Amanda, check out Irwin's July 22 and 29 programs.
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Gavilan Roundup: Sept. 28
Gavilan volleyball went 1-1 at the Fullerton College Classic Friday in Fullerton.
The Rams opened with a 3-1 win over Cerritos, but dropped their second game 3-0 to host Fullerton.
Samantha Nydam led the Rams offensively against Cerritos with 10 kills. Alexia Balistreri had nine in addition to two solo blocks and two block assists. Madison Hartman added eight kills in the 15-25, 25-13, 25-22, 25-15 win.
Erica Chapa brought it all together with 35 assists and racked up 17 digs. Valerie Rodgers added 17 digs.
Nydam had nine kills and Balistreri had seven in the 23-25, 17-25, 19-25 loss to Fullerton. Chapa had 22 assists. Rodgers had a team-high seven digs, while Balistreri had three solo blocks.
Gavilan (5-7) will host San Francisco City for its home opener at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Rams drop third straight
Gavilan lost its third straight game, falling 3-1 to West Hills Tuesday in Lemoore.
West Hills took a 2-0 lead into halftime. Gaspar Mata cut that in half with an unassisted goal in the 60th minute. West Hills put the nail in the Rams’ coffin with a goal in the 75th minute to win.
Hibsen Tamayo-Davila had three shots on goal for Gavilan in the game.
Gavilan (0-3) looks for its first win when it hosts Foothill College at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Find out when and where your favorite teams are playing this week:
9.29—Soccer vs. Foothill College, 4 p.m.
9.30—Volleyball vs. San Francisco City, 6:30 p.m.
10.2—Soccer at Chabot, 4 p.m.; Volleyball vs. Chabot College, 6:30 p.m.; Football at West Hills, 7 p.m.
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On the paper road
PERFORMERS AND PUPPETS: Old-school effects like shadow and light play, rod puppets, live performers, live music and a Kiwi gothic story for kids and adults slouches into Gisborne next week. Picture supplied
A lot of kids are fascinated by the ghoulish and the macabre, says Dionne Christian in her New Zealand Herald review of The Road That Wasn’t There.
“Take your older kids and I doubt you’ll be disappointed by the ever-so-slightly spine-chilling story,” says Christian of the show that opens in Gisborne on May 7.
The entertainment with shadow, and rod, puppetry, live performers and live music sits easily with mildly ghostly and gothic dark fantasy stories such as Neil Gaiman’s Coraline or the movie Monster House.
“Gabriel (Paul Waggot) travels home to St Bathans, Otago, when he gets a call informing him that Maggie (Ellie Wootton), his elderly mum who’s always been a little odd, is acting even more peculiarly than usual. He returns and finds Maggie ready to expose the ghosts of her past and share a sinister secret with him.”
The title of the play refers to paper roads, the towns and roads that in an earlier century were drawn on paper but never built.
As a young girl Maggie follows a paper road on the map and ends up at a paper town where there is a travelling theatre who put on this play and falls in with them. The play within a play is very much a narrative story that uses old-school effects like shadow and light play, puppetry, music and a good old-fashioned spooky tale.
The Road That Wasn’t There, War Memorial Theatre, Tuesday, May 7, 1pm and 6pm. Tickets from Stephen Jones Photography and www.eventfinda.co.nz
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Shepard Fairey on NY1
Artist Shepard Fairey appeared on local New York City news station NY1 for an in-studio live interview segment. Among several topics discussed were the iconic Obama “Hope” poster, graffiti, copyright and fair-use issues, and his new work, which will show at the Deitch Projects gallery, in New York, in May.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2010 by GG.
High Line + Standard Hotel
A.S.V.P. Letters
More street-art freshness in the form of large, colorful letters by A.S.V.P. on the “Jay Meisel” building at Spring and Bowery streets in the Nolita-Lower East Side border area., downtown New York City.
Greetings From Coney Island
Wheat-paste street art of a classic Americana-style Coney Island picture postcard on the Jay Meisel building (on Spring street at Bowery) in Nolita, New York City.
Oh, so this is what a time machine looks like. Who knew it was parked on Broome Street in Chinatown, in downtown New York City. We wonder where they put the flux-capacitor.
Smort Crew
This van parked on Wooster Street in SoHo has been given the graffiti treatment by Smort Crew.
A.S.V.P. Nolita
An A.S.V.P. wheat-paste poster at the vacant lot at the corner of Prince and Mulberry streets, across the way from the McNally-Jackson Bookstore, in Nolita, New York City. Notice how the A.S.V.P. neatly covers a sneaker paste-up (see previous post).
Another one of the sneakers wheat-paste posters. This street art work series uses bright DayGlo-type colors over a black-and-white image of a high-top shoe. Usually the kicks are shown in profile or 3/4-angle view. In this piece, the shoe image is full-frontal.
You could find this poster next to the vacant lot at the corner of Prince and Mulberry streets in Nolita, near SoHo, in downtown New York City. But the very next day after this photo was taken, fresh work by A.S.V.P. was wheat pasted over the sneaker. (See the next post.) And even that has since been covered, ripped, and covered again several times over.
Matt Held’s Facebook Portraits
The personal Facebook profile picture has become the source material for artist Matt Held and his series of of oil-on-canvas “Facebook Portraits.” We want want one (or two or three.) Held chronicles his experience at The Portrait Painted Blog.
This entry was posted in Art on April 23, 2010 by GG.
Foursquare Badges Design
Foursquare badges have a distinct (mostly) flat info-graphic design aesthetic we like. The designs have thick round borders and cheery colors. But it’s the sense of humor of these icons we like best. Foursquare recently activated a badge for Banksy, which incorporates the artist’s signature rat wearing starry-eyed sunglasses.
This entry was posted in Design on April 23, 2010 by GG.
Gorgeous signage and architectural design at Meet, a beautiful loft space at “The Apartment” in SoHo that can be rented for corporate meetings and event.
This entry was posted in Spaces, Places & Architecture on April 23, 2010 by GG.
Haculla of Liberty
Fresh art work from Haculla at the usual spot near Cafe Select on Lafayette Street in SoHo / Nolita. IHere the artist uses imagery from the Statue of Liberty and celebrates New York City (and state) under the heading “Empire State.” The standard fanged and mustachioed Haculla character is superimposed on Lady Liberty herself.
These directional “Walk” signs on a building hoarding in SoHo are amusing. Love ’em. Aside from stating the obvious, the signs imply that walking in the opposite directions is not an option, when clearly it is. There’s a nice “R.I.P.” stencil below it. (Sadly, the battery in our digital camera died before we could get a close-up shot.)
Read Dead Redemption
The side of this building at Canal and Mercer streets on the Soho-Tribeca border in New York City has for years been a giant outdoor billboard space for Rockstar Games, the videogame unit of Take Two Interactive that gave us the Grand Theft Auto series. Here we see an ad for one of there new titles, “Red Dead Redemption,” which comes out in May 2010.
This entry was posted in Media & Advertising on April 21, 2010 by GG.
Epic Marco
Artist and Lower East Side fixture Marco painted these massive hoardings on the stretch of Orchard Street between Houston and Stanton streets, where for a couple of years several major condo, hotel and retail property-development projects have simultaneously been in progress.
Marco’s aesthetic is not exactly our style, but he’s playfully brightened up a block that for too long has been blighted by construction. We took these pictures a couple of months ago during a terribly grim patch of winter weather in New York City. These paintings brought some cheer on a gray day, on a gray road. Thanks, Marco!
Google Maps Car Chase
Here’s an amusing short animated video of a birds-eye view car chase on Google Maps. The locale is Brooklyn, New York City. (The chase starts in front of the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Prospect Park.) There are so many possibilities with this idea. It seems that the creators could have taken this a lot further, but it’s great proof of concept.
Satellite Car Chase from Honest Directors on Vimeo.
Ripped Shepard Fairey
A massive and ripped-up Obey-Andre (“Giant has a Posse”) wheat-paste poster in SoHo, in downtown New York City. Looks kinda cool this way, actually, like abstract artwork.
The beautiful and beautifully rendered large logo on the wall at La Colombe Torrefaction cafe in Tribeca, New York City.The espresso here is some seriously good and seriously strong stuff.
Revisit is a beautiful real-time and dynamic visualization of Twitter users and their tweets for a select set of keywords over time. Kind of like Twittervision, but cooler.
Website: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/revisit/
This is “five kinds of awesome” awesome! Love it.
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Faces, places, treasures, and trends that caught our attention
Gallerist Kenise Barnes, photoGraphed By MiKe yaMin
Barnes at The Barns
This month Kenise Barnes opens an exciting new gallery in Kent featuring contemporary artists. Don’t miss the opening reception! by Daphne Anderson Deeds
People often think of an art gallery as an exclusive place, a white cube accessible only to insiders. Those assumptions should be banished when visiting Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent/CT. Her new space in the Kent Barns enclave promises to be as accessible as she is. Though her clients and the artists she represents praise her for her loyalty and professionalism, Barnes’ most valuable asset is her warm personality and calm demeanor.
Gallerist Kenise Barns, photoGraphed By MiKe yaMin
As a well-established gallerist in Larchmont, New York, the launch of a second gallery comes naturally to Barnes. Five years ago Barnes remarried and moved to Litchfield. During the past year she has considered various locations for a gallery closer to her home. When the Kent Barns opportunity arose, she knew it was the right fit. The new gallery is quite versatile, with a large open space on the ground floor and a mezzanine area that will allow her to show small two-dimensional works, ceramics, and sculpture. French doors open onto a patio that is shared, serendipitously, with a wine vendor and a cheese store.
The inaugural exhibition Thrive – Kenise Barnes Fine Art/CT will provide a good indication of Barnes’ vision. A selection of work by seven of the thirty artists she represents, the show will reveal Barnes’ interest in singular visions and diverse materials. And, like Barnes herself, they are all quite accessible.
Brooklyn artist Jackie Battenfield bases acrylic on mylar paintings on her photographic studies of nature. She then interprets the photography as detailed large scale drawings. Using ink pigments, she carefully articulates her palette on mylar, rendering veils of color washes. The finished mylar painting, like Salt Mist, seen here is mounted on a translucent panel that invites the play of light.
JacKie BattenField, salt Mist, 2018, acrylic on Mylar, 40 x 60 inches, $10,500 (FraMed)
Elizabeth Gourlay is a masterful colorist who lives in Chester, Connecticut. Her artistic practice is a deeply meditative process of considering the nuances of hues, and structure of chromatic relationships. The rhythmic patterns of Gourlay’s compositions have been compared to music but rather than a melodic allusion, B221A suggests rich tonal chords.
elizaBeth Gourlay, B221a, 2019, Flashe on linen, 50 x 30 inches, $8000
Toronto-based artist Janna Watson offers a torrent of colors. The paint of Secrets Falling Out Like Ocean Clouds is applied with rich impasto. Watson has a virtuosic command of her brush, letting her hand work rich, layered areas, but also knowing when to retreat from the bravado. The balance between active passages and quiet spaces is both dynamic and arresting.
Janna Watson, secrets FallinG out liKe ocean clouds, 2019, 60 x 60 inches, $9000
Though he is a ceramicist, artist Peter Pincus is also well versed in the painting tradition. His traditional porcelain vessels are swathed in minimalist pastel patterns. This elegant mash-up of pottery and painting is fresh and commanding. The shapes of Warm Container and Cool Container are reinforced by precise bands of pigment, creating an intriguing interplay of two dimensional patterning on three dimensional surfaces. A longtime resident of the Rochester area, Pincus has a studio in Penfield, New York.
peter pincus, WarM container and cool container (side By side), colored porcelain, Gold luster, 20 x 6 x 6 inches (each), $4000 (each)
Other artists featured in the new Kent space will be Cuban-American Yolanda Sanchez, a painter of sensory experience, Michigan artist Melanie Park who works from memory to create lush still lifes, and Sophie Treppendahl, from Virginia, whose interiors and landscapes are appreciations of the quotidian.
yolanda sánchez, the happiness oF Birds, 2017, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches, $12,000
Barnes spent her childhood near Lake Skaneateles, New York, the smallest of the Finger Lakes. Her father was a teacher and her mother the nurse at Trinity Pawling School. By the age of twelve, she wanted to be an artist. After two years at Cazenovia College, she transferred to Temple University as a painting major, but graduated with a BA in Women’s Studies. Barnes moved to New York City in the roaring 80s, and was immediately offered a job in the Bids and Sales Department at Christi’s East. Soon she became the Assistant to the Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art when she focused on pre-War European painting and sculpture. Shortly thereafter, Barnes was named Specialist in Charge of Contemporary Art, a job that constituted a PhD in real world art.
Melanie parKe, sandhill, 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches, $3900
Barnes moved to Larchmont as an unemployed newlywed with her nine month old daughter and first husband. She found herself in an established town, where young people were buying houses, but not art. As she made friends, she offered to take them to artists’ studios. Her expertise made her advice persuasive, so when she was pregnant with her second child, a son, she opened her first gallery. Three Larchmont gallery locations and twenty-four years later, Kenise Barnes Fine Art is thriving.
sophie treppendahl, Gold JaMes, 2017, oil on canvas, 48 x 70 inches, $7000.
Though Barnes follows no explicit tenet when inviting artists to join her gallery, there is a distinct commonality among them. Basically, they share a love of nature, a curiosity about materials, and an enthusiasm for making. One comes away from a Barnes show feeling revived and optimistic. This ebullience might be seen as lacking the challenge and edginess that much contemporary art conveys. But a positive perspective is just as vital as angst, and one responds to the other in order to be fully expressed. Barnes’ ability to identify art that is both complex and life-affirming is her strong suit.
Consultations by appointment. Services offered at the gallery: delivery, installation, and worldwide shipping.
Thrive – Kenise Barnes Fine Art/CT inaugural exhibition
Inaugural Exhibition Reception: May 11, 4 – 6 pm
The exhibition runs through July 7, 2019.
Kenise Barnes Fine Art
The Kent Barns
7 Fulling Lane
Kenise@kbfa.com
www.KBFA.com
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Toss for - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/toss+for
toss for
toss for (something)
To flip a coin with someone in order to decide or determine who gets to have or do something. A name or personal pronoun can be used between "toss" and "for." We both wanted to go with him to the concert, so we decided to toss for it. A: "No, it's your turn to do the dishes." B: "Aw, come on, I'll toss you for it!" There's only one chocolate bar left, so let's toss for it.
See also: toss
toss (someone) for something
Fig. to decide with someone, by tossing a coin, who will get or do something. Let's see who gets to go first. I'll toss you for it. I'll toss for it. Let's toss for it.
To compete for something by flipping a coin to determine the winner: There's one window seat, so let's toss for it. The candidates tossed for the chance to speak first at the debate.
This decision was made even though the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce cancelled their Great Fruitcake Toss for this year.
Cool Science has offered their free catapult workshop the same weekend as the Great Fruitcake Toss for the last five years.
Cool Science to Host Mini Fruitcake Toss at Manitou Art Center
And, although the chamber often leaves bits of refuse cake on the grounds of the toss for "the critters," neighbors were not too excited about coming home from out of town to find chunks of cake scattered across their porches, Lewis said.
Hold on to that fruitcake, it may be a winner
Baffled Vaughan lost the toss for the 16th time in 22 Tests as captain in Cape Town, making him the least successful England skipper in Test history at the pre-match ritual.
Cricket: WE END THEIR FLIPPING HELL
The president of the Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service, which lost last week's coin toss for control of the service to the Trinity Broadcasting Network, sent notice Friday to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association that it will seek a preliminary injunction to set aside the contract between the Philharmonic and TBN.
LAWSUIT PLANNED OVER EASTER SERVICE
See the magic for yourself by first blow drying, and then work in Toss for instant texture.
Alec Stewart won the toss for the fourth time on the trot in the World Cup and with it the match, reckons Zimbabwe captain Alistair Campbell.
Calling the shots pays dividends for Stewart
I make this plea because I have always thrown flowers to Mirella Freni (I tossed two bouquets to her for her Madame Sans-Gene in Zurich last week, I will be tossing a bouquet for her Boheme in Chicago, and I expect to toss for her Tatyana in Turin in February), and I intend to continue tossing bouquets to Mirella until the end of her career.
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TOSS Exchange Center
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Finding Body Love: A Finalist’s IsaBody Story
Written By: Ashley Maish
Amber struggled with yo-yo dieting for almost 20 years. After moving to a new city across the country, she was ready to make a change. She and her fiancé made the commitment together to live a happier and healthier life.
Soon after, they were introduced to Isagenix. With the IsaBody Challenge® community, she found the support she was looking for. She felt encouraged and inspired in her journey every day, and over the course of three Challenges, she’s lost 22 pounds and has put on lean muscle!*
Amber completed her first Challenge on an incredible high. She felt like nothing would stop her. But during her second Challenge, she suffered an injury that took her out of the gym entirely. She was still healing during her third IsaBody Challenge.
“Life changes so much in 16 weeks,” said Amber. “Every single Challenge is filled with triumph, victories, struggles, and hardship. I’ve had to continuously adapt to what life throws at me so I can be successful in my goals.”
Working with her chiropractor, she came back slowly and, over time, has been able to evolve from yoga and light weights to what she is most passionate about, including heavier weight lifting and spin class.
“At times, I felt exhausted and defeated, but it was so rewarding to know that no matter the circumstance, I could always find a way to succeed,” she said.
Amber found a balance in giving her body what it needed by adapting her diet and activity, and it has given her a new love and appreciation for her body.
“I so hope I’m able to help other people in the IsaBody™ tribe find their way to body love, self-confidence, and belonging the way this community has helped me,” she said.
Get to Know Amber
We asked this IsaBody Challenge Finalist a few questions about her success, and here’s what we found out.
What are her must-haves in the kitchen (other than Isagenix products) to help her stay on track with her health and wellness goals?
On any given day, you’ll find Amber’s kitchen well stocked with portioned meats and veggies. Every weekend, she preps all her lunches and snacks for the week ahead. She admits it takes work and can be boring, but it’s been a game changer for this finalist’s success.
What’s her morning routine?
Over the last year, Amber admits that it’s taken a lot of hard work to create her morning routine, but now, she’s killin’ it before she even gets to work!
Enjoy a morning serving of Ionix® Supreme.
Walk the dog.
Drink 1 IsaLean™ Shake.
Check out the IsaBody Facebook page to connect with her community.
Spend 10-30 minutes on personal development.
Go to the gym (She currently works out four days a week).
Living a healthy lifestyle takes a lot of hard work, so we asked Amber for her best tips and hacks to make it a little easier. Here’s what she said.
“Remember, you are human. You will make mistakes, have setbacks, and struggle at times. The path to crushing your weight loss and fitness goals is full of ups and downs. Try to stay away from focusing on the outcomes, and instead, focus on the next right action you need to take to get there. You are always one choice away from getting closer and closer to achieving your success.”
Being named an IsaBody Challenge Finalist is a big deal at Isagenix, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds for Amber. So, what’s on the horizon for her?
Amber believes from the bottom of her soul that she will be able to help others achieve and maintain the body they dream of. She spent years struggling to find a diet that supported her body, and through the IsaBody Challenge, she has not only found a solution to achieving her health and wellness goals, but her voice and a way to share the ins and out of her experience. By sharing in the IsaBody Facebook group and on her personal Facebook and Instagram, Amber wants to help as many people as she can to crush their goals and find appreciation for their body.
“I am beyond thrilled to see what opportunities will come to me as an IsaBody Finalist!” said Amber.
To get in on this incredible 16-week Challenge and discover how you can transform your life, visit IsaBodyChallenge.com.
*Results not typical. Weight loss, muscle gain, lifestyle, and other results depicted here reflect exceptional individual experiences of Isagenix Customers and should not be construed as typical or average. Results vary with individual effort, body composition, eating patterns, time, exercise, and other factors, such as genetic and physiological makeup. In a study performed in 2012 by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers, subjects lost an average of 9 pounds with an average of 2 pounds of the loss from visceral fat after 30 days on an Isagenix System. The subjects also had a greater level of adherence and had more consistent weight loss from week to week compared to subjects on a traditional diet. View the study results.
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Carolynn Logan
Carolynn Logan, 86, of Springdale, died Saturday evening, January 6, 2018, with her family gathered by her side. She was born November 29, 1931 in Neosho to Pearl and Ruby (Jones) Scranton. Carolynn lived her life for her family and her grandchildren. She enjoyed gardening, crocheting, crossword puzzles, and in later years became a huge NFL fan. She faithfully took care of her husband, Bob, during his illness and after his death in 1999 began volunteer work at the Jones Center and Circle of Life Hospice.
She is survived by three children, Donna Laverty and husband Steve of Springdale, Anne Walls and husband Andy of Springfield, Keith Logan and wife Kim of Joplin; one sister, Suzetta Hunter of Springfield; eight grandchildren, Keifer, Lauren, Austin, Keith, Jr., Quincy, Olivia, Augusta, Jessica; and several close friends. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Barbara Wallis.
A memorial services will be 12 noon Saturday, January 20, at the Circle of Life Chapel in Springdale. Memorial contributions may be made to Circle of Life Hospice.
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We all have experienced the emptiness and grief when someone we love dies. It is paramount with our staff to give genuine compassion to those that are hurting. It is what our Lord has called us to do in every aspect of our lives.
Like many other things, funeral costs are out of control. Heritage Funeral Home is committed to responsible business practices in order to maintain affordable costs. A funeral shouldn’t cost a life’s savings.
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SLOANE, Hans (1739-1827), of South Stoneham, Hants.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986
Available from Boydell and Brewer
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23 Oct. 1788 - 1796
Family and Education
b. 14 Nov. 1739, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of William Sloane of South Stoneham by 3rd w. Elizabeth, da. of John Fuller† of Brightling, Suss. educ. Newcome’s acad. Hackney; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1757; I. Temple 1755. m. 24 June 1772, his cos. Sarah, da. and coh. of Stephen Fuller of Bloomsbury, Mdx., 4s. 1da. suc. Hans Stanley† to Paultons, Hants and Chelsea estate 1780, subject to life interest of Stanley’s sisters, wives of Welbore Ellis* and Christopher D’Oyly† who renounced it for an annual rent in 1802. Took additional name of Stanley 24 Dec. 1821.
Dep. cofferer of Household 1770-82; commr. of trade Sept. 1780-July 1782.
Col. N. Hants militia 1780, 1794-1800; brevet col. 1794.
Hans Sloane owed virtually everything to his relative Hans Stanley, but by 1790 he had lost the latter’s electoral interest at Southampton and was sitting for Christchurch on the interest of James Harris†, later Lord Malmesbury. After opposing Pitt over the Regency, he also paired against him on the Oczakov question, 12 Apr. 1791, was listed ‘doubtful’ on the question of Test Act repeal the same month, and voted against him over the Russian armament, 1 Mar. 1792. Thereafter no minority vote is known. Listed a Portland Whig in December 1792, he was among those invited to Windham’s house and attended on 10 and 17 Feb. 1793. He was referred to by Lord Buckingham, writing to Lord Grenville, 4 Oct. 1793, as ‘one of your new converts’, who had ‘passed his summer with his regiment under the Duke of Richmond’.1 He showed some enthusiasm for the militia unit he formed and several speeches on militia organization were reported. He was one of those Members consulted by Pitt on the subject. He was at first against incorporation of the militia in the regular army, but after supporting the use of the militia in Ireland, 20 June 1798, he changed his mind, 12 June 1799.2 He had voted for Pitt’s assessed taxes, 4 Jan. 1798.
Malmesbury having lost his interest at Christchurch, Sloane came in by purchase on the Mount Edgcumbe interest in 1796 for Lostwithiel, a seat available to friends of government. He voted and spoke with Pitt at variance with the Addington administration, 3 June 1803, was one of Pitt’s friends who abstained from voting on Wrottesley’s motion, 7 Mar. 1804,3 voted in Pitt’s minority of 15 Mar. and voted with Fox, 23 Apr., and Pitt, 25 Apr., in their defence motions. He supported Pitt’s second administration and the Grenville ministry. After being absent on 3 Mar. 1806, to the disappointment of Pitt’s friends, he voted for the repeal of Pitt’s Additional Force Act on 30 Apr. 1806. At the dissolution that year he was persuaded to retire to suit Lord Grenville. Malmesbury informed his son, 18 Dec. 1806:
You see Lord Grenville has given ... Sloane a living—it is that which was Jonathan Rashleigh’s in Lincolnshire and I somehow or another [sic] believe it is connected with Sloane’s giving up Parliament as Rashleigh (the brother) managed Lostwithiel for him, which you was to have had and would have had, if Pitt had lived—no blame attached to Sloane in all this.
On 1 Oct. Malmesbury had reported that Sloane had approached Rashleigh about an annuity, ‘but I much fear it will not be listened to’,4 and on 21 Nov. Sloane approached Lord Grenville, through a friend, telling him that Pitt had promised to secure, after Rashleigh’s brother’s death, a living ‘held under the crown’ for his son Stephen, but Pitt’s death had rendered uncertain
the accomplishment of this object, unless the many many years bringing myself into Parliament and supporting that administration of which Lord Grenville formed so distinguished a part, can be brought forward now as a claim for a single mark of favour to my son, when I am obliged after being in Parliament nearly 38 years, to retire from it by ill health suffering from my long attendance on the duties of it.
Being the only Member in the House who had been an officer in the commencement of the militia establishment, one most essential point to the State, I carried in Parliament, by introducing some years past the first enlisting a certain number of men out of the militia for the artillery, by which so many other measures for adding to the strength of the army became so easy to be accomplished.5
Sloane appeared in the Duke of Portland’s patronage book as wishing for a peerage subsequently. In 1804 he sold Stoneham and began embellishing Paultons, his new residence, which work was completed in 1808.6
Sloane survived until 1827. In 1809 Lady Harriet Cavendish, who visited his family at Paultons, reported that ‘Mr Sloane, the old one, tells long stories from morning to night which, however, he is very kind in not seeming to wish one to attend to much. He is a very respectable, good sort of man.’7
Ref Volumes: 1790-1820
Author: R. G. Thorne
1. Add. 37873, f. 201; HMC Fortescue, ii. 437.
2. Add. 35393, f. 3.
3. Lonsdale mss, Ward to Lowther, 8 Mar. 1804.
4. Malmesbury mss, FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 4 Mar., Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 18 Dec. 1806.
5. Fortescue mss, Sloane to Ld. (forwarded to Ld. Grenville).
6. Dorset RO, Bond mss D367, Jekyll to Bond, 15 Dec. 1804, 29 Apr. 1808.
7. Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish, 326.
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H. BELLOC
To Somebody
A PLEA FOR THE SIMPLER DRAMA
ON A NOTEBOOK
ON UNKNOWN PEOPLE
ON A VAN TROMP
HIS CHARACTER
ON THRUPPENNY BITS
ON THE HOTEL AT PALMA AND A PROPOSED GUIDE-BOOK
THE DEATH OF WANDERING PETER
THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
A NORFOLK MAN
THE ODD PEOPLE
LETTER OF ADVICE AND APOLOGY TO A YOUNG BURGLAR
THE MONKEY QUESTION: AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE
THE EMPIRE BUILDER
CAEDWALLA
A UNIT OF ENGLAND
THE IRONMONGER
A FORCE IN GAUL
ON BRIDGES
A BLUE BOOK
PERIGEUX OF THE PERIGORD
THE POSITION
THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND
THE PORTRAIT OF A CHILD
ON EXPERIENCE
ON IMMORTALITY
ON SACRAMENTAL THINGS
Of the various sketches in this book some appear for the first time, others are reprinted by courtesy of the Proprietors and Editors of The Westminster Gazette, The Clarion, The English Review, The Morning Post and The Manchester Guardian, in which papers they appeared.
It is with the drama as with plastic art and many other things: the plain man feels that he has a right to put in his word, but he is rather afraid that the art is beyond him, and he is frightened by technicalities.
After all, these things are made for the plain man; his applause, in the long run and duly tested by time, is the main reward of the dramatist as of the painter or the sculptor. But if he is sensible he knows that his immediate judgment will be crude. However, here goes.
The plain man sees that the drama of his time has gradually passed from one phase to another of complexity in thought coupled with simplicity of incident, and it occurs to him that just one further step is needed to make something final in British art. We seem to be just on the threshold of something which would give Englishmen in the twentieth century something of the fullness that characterized the Elizabethans: but somehow or other our dramatists hesitate to cross that threshold. It cannot be that their powers are lacking: it can only be some timidity or self-torture which it is the business of the plain man to exorcise.
If I may make a suggestion in this essay to the masters of the craft it is that the goal of the completely modern thing can best be reached by taking the very simplest themes of daily life—things within the experience of the ordinary citizen—and presenting them in the majestic traditional cadence of that peculiarly English medium, blank verse.
As to the themes taken from the everyday life of middle-class men and women like ourselves, it is true that the lives of the wealthy afford more incident, and that there is a sort of glamour about them which it is difficult to resist. But with a sufficient subtlety the whole poignancy of the lives led by those who suffer neither the tragedies of the poor nor the exaltation of the rich can be exactly etched. The life of the professional middle-class, of the business man, the dentist, the money-lender, the publisher, the spiritual pastor, nay of the playwright himself, might be put upon the stage—and what a vital change would be here! Here would be a kind of literary drama of which the interest would lie in the struggle, the pain, the danger, and the triumph which we all so intimately know, and next in the satisfaction (which we now do not have) of the mimetic sense—the satisfaction of seeing a mirror held up to a whole audience composed of the very class represented upon the stage.
I have seen men of wealth and position absorbed in plays concerning gambling, cruelty, cheating, drunkenness, and other sports, and so absorbed chiefly because they saw themselves depicted upon the stage; and I ask, Would not my fellows and myself largely remunerate a similar opportunity? For though the rich go repeatedly to the play, yet the middle-class are so much more numerous that the difference is amply compensated.
I think we may take it, then, that an experiment in the depicting of professional life would, even from the financial standpoint, be workable; and I would even go so far as to suggest that a play could be written in which there did not appear one single lord, general, Member of Parliament, baronet, professional beauty, usurer (upon a large scale at least) or Cabinet Minister.
The thing is possible: and I can modestly say that in the little effort appended as an example to these lines it has been done successfully; but here must be mentioned the second point in my thesis—I could never have achieved what I have here achieved in dramatic art had I not harked back to the great tradition of the English heroic decasyllable such as our Shakespeare has handled with so felicitous an effect.
The play—which I have called "The Crisis," and which I design to be the model of the school founded by these present advices—is specially designed for acting with the sumptuous accessories at the disposal of a great manager, such as Mr. (now Sir Henry) Beerbohm Tree, or for the narrower circumstances of the suburban drawing-room.
There is perhaps but one character which needs any long rehearsal, that of the dog Fido, and luckily this is one which can easily be supplied by mechanical means, as by the use of a toy dog of sufficient size which barks upon the pressure of a pneumatic attachment.
In connexion with this character I would have the student note that I have introduced into the dog's part just before the curtain a whole line of dactyls. I hope the hint will not be wasted. Such exceptions relieve the monotony of our English trochees. But, saving in this instance, I have confined myself throughout to the example of William Shakespeare, surely the best master for those who, as I fondly hope, will follow me in the regeneration of the British Stage.
PLACE: The Study at the Vicarage. TIME 9.15 p.m.
DRAMATIS PERSON
THE REV. ARCHIBALD HAVERTON: The Vicar.
MRS. HAVERTON: His Wife.
MISS GROSVENOR: A Governess.
MATILDA: A Maid.
FIDO: A Dog.
HERMIONE COBLEY: Daughter of a cottager who takes in washing.
MISS HARVEY: A guest, cousin to Mrs. Haverton, a Unitarian.
(The REV. ARCHIBALD HAVERTON is reading the "Standard" by a lamp with a green shade. MRS. HAVERTON is hemming a towel. FIDO is asleep on the rug. On the walls are three engravings from Landseer, a portrait of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, a bookcase with books in it, and a looking-glass.)
MRS. HAVERTON: My dear—I hope I do not interrupt you— Helen has given notice.
REV. A. HAVERTON (looking up suddenly). Given notice? Who? Helen? Given notice? Bless my soul! (A pause.) I never thought that she would give us notice. (Ponders and frowns.)
MRS. HAVERTON: Well, but she has, and now the question is, What shall we do to find another cook? Servants are very difficult to get. (Sighs.) Especially to come into the country To such a place as this. (Sighs.) No wonder, either! Oh! Mercy! When one comes to think of it, One cannot blame them. (Sighs.) Heaven only knows I try to do my duty! (Sighs profoundly.)
REV. A. HAVERTON (uneasily): Well, my dear, I cannot make preferment.
(Front door-bell rings.)
FIDO: Bow! wow! wow!
REV. A. HAVERTON (patting him to soothe him): There, Fido, there!
FIDO: Wow! wow!
REV. A. HAVERTON: Good dog, there!
FIDO: Wow, Wow, wow!
REV. A. HAVERTON (very nervous): There!
REV. A. HAVERTON (in an agony): Good dog!
FIDO: Bow! wow! wow! Wow, wow! Wow!! WOW!!!
MRS. HAVERTON (very excited): Oh, Lord, he'll wake the children!
REV. A. HAVERTON (exploding): How often have I told you, Dorothy, Not to exclaim "Good Lord!"... Apart from manners— Which have their own importance—blasphemy (And I regard the phrase as blasphemous) Cannot—
MRS. HAVERTON (uneasily): Oh, very well!... Oh, very well! (Exploding in her turn.) Upon my soul, you are intolerable! (She jumps up and makes for the door. Before she gets to it there is a knock and MATILDA enters.)
MATILDA: Please, m'm, it's only Mrs. Cobley's daughter To say the washing shall be sent to-morrow, And would you check the list again and see, Because she thinks she never had two collars Of what you sent, but only five, because You marked it seven; and Mrs. Cobley says There must be some mistake.
REV. A. HAVERTON (pompously): I will attend to it.
MRS. HAVERTON (whispering angrily): How can you, Archibald! You haven't got The ghost of an idea about the washing! Sit down. (He does so.) (To Matilda) Send the Girl in here.
MRS. HAVERTON sits down in a fume.
REV. A. HAVERTON: I think....
MRS. HAVERTON (snapping): I don't care what you think! (Groans.) Oh, dear! I'm nearly off my head!
Enter MISS COBLEY. (She bobs.)
Good evening, m'm.
MRS. HAVERTON (by way of reply): Now, then! What's all this fuss about the washing?
MISS COBLEY: Please, m'm, the seven collars, what you sent— I mean the seven what was marked—was wrong, And mother says as you'd have had the washing Only there weren't but five, and would you mind....
MRS. HAVERTON (sharply): I cannot understand a word you say. Go back and tell your mother there were seven. And if she sends home five she pays for two. So there! (Snorts.)
MISS COBLEY (sobbing): I'm sure I....
MRS. HAVERTON (savagely): Don't stand snuffling there! Go back and tell your mother what I say.... Impudent hussy!...
(Exit MISS COBLEY sobbing. A pause.)
REV. A. HAVERTON (with assumed authority): To return to Helen. Tell me concisely and without complaints, Why did she give you notice?
(A hand-bell rings in the passage.)
FIDO: Bow-wow-wow!
REV. A. HAVERTON (giving him a smart kick): Shurrup!
FIDO (howling). Pen-an'-ink! Pen-an'-ink Pen-an'-ink! Pen-an'-ink!
REV. A. HAVERTON (controlling himself, as well as he can, goes to the door and calls into the passage): Miss Grosvenor! (Louder) ... Miss Grosvenor!... Was that the bell for prayers? Was that the bell for prayers?... (Louder) Miss Grosvenor. (Louder) Miss Gros-ve-nor! (Tapping with his foot.) Oh!...
MISS GROSVENOR (sweetly and, far off): Is that Mr. Haverton?
REV. A. HAVERTON: Yes! yes! yes! yes!... Was that the bell for prayers?
MISS GROSVENOR (again): Yes? Is that Mr. Haverton? Oh! Yes! I think it is.... I'll see—I'll ask Matilda.
(A pause, during which the REV. A. HAVERTON is in a qualm.)
MISS GROSVENOR (rustling back): Matilda says it is the bell for prayers.
(They all come filing into the study and arranging the chairs. As they enter MISS HARVEY, the guest, treads heavily on MATILDA'S foot.)
MISS HARVEY: Matilda? Was that you? I beg your pardon.
MATILDA (limping): Granted, I'm sure, miss!
MRS. HAVERTON (whispering to the REV. A. HAVERTON): Do not read the Creed! Miss Harvey is a Unitarian. I should suggest some simple form of prayer, Some heartfelt word of charity and peace Common to every Christian.
REV. A. HAVERTON (in a deep voice): Let us pray.
Curtain.
A dear friend of mine (John Abdullah Capricorn, to give him his full name) was commandeered by a publisher last year to write a book for 10. The work was far advanced when an editor offered him 15 and his expenses to visit the more desperate parts of the Sahara Desert, to which spots he at once proceeded upon a roving commission. Whether he will return or no is now doubtful, though in March we had the best hopes. With the month of May life becomes hard for Europeans south of the Atlas, and when my poor dear friend was last heard of he was chancing his popularity with a tribe of Touaregs about two hundred miles south of Touggourt.
Under these circumstances I was asked to look through his notebook and see what could be done; and I confess to a pleased surprise.... It would have been a very entertaining book had it been published. It will be a very entertaining book if it is published.
Capricorn seems to have prepared a hotchpotch of information of human follies, of contrasts, and of blunt stupidities of which he intended to make a very entertaining series of pages. I have not his talent for bringing such things together, but it may amuse the reader if I merely put in their order one or two of the notes which most struck me.
I find first, cut out of a newspaper and pasted into the book (many of his notes are in this form), the following really jovial paragraph:
"Archdeacon Blunderbuss (Blunderbuss is not the real name; I suppress that lest Capricorn's widow should lose her two or three pounds, in case the poor fellow has really been eaten). Archdeacon Blunderbuss was more distinguished as a scholar than as a Divine. He was a very poor preacher and never managed to identify himself with any party. Nevertheless, in 1895 the Prime Minister appointed him to a stall in Shoreham Cathedral as a recognition of his great learning and good work at Durham. Two years later the rectory of St. Vacuums becoming vacant and it being within the gift of Archdeacon Blunderbuss, he excited general amazement and much scandal by presenting himself to the living."
There the paragraph ends. It came in an ordinary society paper. It bore no marks of ill-will. It came in the midst of a column of the usual silly adulation of everybody and everything; how it got there is of no importance. There it stood and the keen eye of Capricorn noted it and treasured it for years.
I will make no comment upon this paragraph. It may be read slowly or quickly, according to the taste of the reader; it is equally delicious either way.
The next excerpt I find in the notebook is as follows:
"More than 15,000,000 visits are paid annually to London pawnbrokers.
"Jupiter is 1387 times as big as the earth, but only 300 times as heavy.
"The world's coal mines yield 400,000,000 tons of coal a year.
"The value of the pictures in the National Gallery is about 1,250,000."
This tickled Capricorn—I don't know why. Perhaps he thought the style disjointed or perhaps he had got it into his head that when this information had been absorbed by the vulgar they would stand much where they stood before, and be no nearer the end of man nor the accomplishment of any Divine purpose in their creation. Anyhow he kept it, and I think he was wise to keep it. One cannot keep everything of that kind that is printed, so it is well to keep a specimen. Capricorn had, moreover, intended to perpetuate that specimen for ever in his immortal prose—pray Heaven he may return to do so!
I next find the following excerpt from an evening paper:
"No more gallant gentleman lives on the broad acres of his native England than Brigadier-General Sir Hammerthrust Honeybubble, who is one of the few survivors of the great charge at Tamulpuco, a feat of arms now half forgotten, but with which England rang during the Brazilian War. Brigadier-General, or, as he then was, plain Captain Hammerthrust Honeybubble, passed through five Brazilian batteries unharmed, and came back so terribly hacked that his head was almost severed from his body. Hardly able to keep his seat and continually wiping the blood from his left eye, he rode back to his troop at a walk, and, in spite of pursuit, finally completed his escape. Sir Hammerthrust, we are glad to learn, is still hale and hearty in his ninety-third year, and we hope he may see many more returns of the day upon his patrimonial estate in the Orkneys."
To this excerpt I find only one marginal note in Capricorn's delicate and beautiful handwriting: "What day?" But whether this referred to some appointment of his own I was unable to discover.
I next find a certain number of cuttings which I think cannot have been intended for the book at all, but must have been designed for poor Capricorn's "Oxford Anthology of Bad Verse," which, just before he left England, he was in process of preparing for the University Press. Capricorn had a very fine sense of bad taste in verse, and the authorities could have chosen no one better suited for the duty of editing such a volume. I must not give the reader too much of these lines, but the following quatrain deserves recognition and a permanent memory:
Napoleon hoped that all the world would fall beneath his sway. He failed in this ambition; and where is he to-day? Neither the nations of the East nor the nations of the West Have thought the thing Napoleon thought was to their interest.
This is enormous. As philosophy, as history, as rhetoric, as metre, as rhythm, as politics, it is positively enormous. The whole poem is a wonderful poem, and I wish I had space for it here. It is patriotic and it is written about as badly as a poem could conceivably be written. It is a mournful pleasure to think that my dear friend had his last days in the Old Country illuminated by such a treasure. It is but one of many, but I think it is the best.
Another extract which catches my eye is drawn from the works of one in a distant and foreign land. Yet it was worth preserving. This personage, Tindersturm by name, issued a pamphlet which fell under the regulations, the very strict regulations, of the Prussian Government, by which any one of its subjects who says or prints anything calculated to stir up religious or racial strife within the State is subject to severe penalties. Now those severe penalties had fallen upon Tindersturm and he had been imprisoned for some years according to the paragraph that followed the extract I am about to give. That the aforesaid Tindersturm did indeed tend to "stir up religious and racial strife," nay, went somewhat out of his way to do it, will be clear enough when you read the following lines from his little broadsheet:
"It is time for us to go for this caddish alien sect. If on your way home from the theatre you meet the blue-eyed, tow-haired, lolloping gang, whether they be youths or ladies, go right up to them and give them a smart smack, left and right, a blow in the eye; and lift your foot and give the tow-headed ones a kick. In this way must we begin the business. My Fatherland, wake up!"
To this extract poor Capricorn has added the word "Excellent," and the same comment he makes upon the following conclusion to a letter written to a religious paper and dealing with some politician or other who had done something which the correspondent did not like:
"That his eyes may be opened while he lives is the prayer of
"Yours truly,
"AN EARNEST MEMBER OF THE FOLD"
From such a series it is a recreation to turn to the little social paragraphs which gave Capricorn such acute and such continual joy; as, for instance, this:
"Mrs. Harry Bacon wishes it to be known that she has ceased to have any connection whatsoever with the Boudoir for Lost Dogs. Her address is still Hermione House, Bourton-on-the-Water Fenton Marsh, Worcester."
There is much more in the notebook with which I could while away the reader's time did space permit of it. I find among the very last entries, for instance, this:
"It was a strenuous and thrilling contest. Some terrible blows were exchanged. In the last round, however, Schmidt landed his opponent a very nasty one under the chin, stretching him out lifeless and breaking his elbow; whereupon the prize was awarded him."
To this joyous gem Capricorn has added a whole foison of annotations. He asks at the end: "Which was 'him'? Important." And he underlines in red ink the word "however," perhaps as mysterious a copulative as has ever appeared in British prose. I should add that Capricorn himself was an ardent sportsman and very rarely missed any of the first-class events of the ring, though personally he did not box, and on the few occasions when I have seen the exercise forced upon him in the public streets he showed the greatest distaste to this form of athletics.
Lastly, I find this note with which I must close: it is taken from the verbatim report of a great case in the courts, now half forgotten, but ten years ago the talk of London:
"The witness then said that he had been promised an independence for life if he could discover the defendant in the act of enclosing any part of the land, or any document or order of his involving such an enclosure. He therefore watched the defendant regularly from June, 1896, to the middle of July, 1900. He also watched the defendant's father and mother, three boys, married daughter, grandmother and grandfather, his two married sisters, his brother, his agent, and his agent's wife—but he had discovered nothing."
That such a sentence should have been printed in the English language and delivered by an English mouth in an English witness-box was enough for Capricorn. Give him that alone for intellectual food in his desert lodge and he was happy.
Shall I tempt Providence by any further extracts? ... It is difficult to tear oneself away from such a feast. So let me put in this very last, really the last, by way of savoury. There it is in black and white and no one can undo it: not all her piety, nor all her wit. It dates from the year 1904, when, Heaven knows, the internal combustion engine and its possibilities were not exactly new, and I give it word for word:
"The Duchess is, moreover, a pioneer in the use of the motor-car. She finds it an agreeable and speedy means of conveyance from her country seat to her town house, and also a very practical way of getting to see her friends at week-ends. She has been heard to complain, however, that a substitute for the pneumatic tyre less liable to puncture than it is would be a priceless boon."
There! There! May they all rest in peace! They have added to the gaiety of mankind.
You will often hear it said that it is astonishing such and such work should be present and enduring in the world, and yet the name of its author not known; but when one considers the variety of good work and the circumstances under which it is achieved, and the variety of taste also between different times and places, one begins to understand what is at first so astonishing.
There are writers who have ascribed this frequent ignorance of ours to all sorts of heroic moods, to the self-sacrifice or the humility of a whole epoch or of particular artists: that is the least satisfactory of the reasons one could find. All men desire, if not fame, at least the one poor inalienable right of authorship, and unless one can find very good reasons indeed why a painter or a writer or a sculptor should deliberately have hidden himself one must look for some other cause.
Among such causes the first two, I think, are the multiplicity of good work, and its chance character. Not that any one ever does very good work for once and then never again—at least, such an accident is extremely rare—but that many a man who has achieved some skill by long labour does now and then strike out a sort of spark quite individual and separate from the rest. Often you will find that a man who is remembered for but one picture or one poem is worth research. You will find that he did much more. It is to be remembered that for a long time Ronsard himself was thought to be a man of one poem.
The multiplicity of good work also and the way in which accident helps it is a cause. There are bits of architecture (and architecture is the most anonymous of all the arts) which depend for their effect to-day very largely upon situation and the process of time, and there are a thousand corners in Europe intended merely for some utility which happen almost without deliberate design to have proved perfect: this is especially true of bridges.
Then there is this element in the anonymity of good work, that a man very often has no idea how good the work is which he has done. The anecdotes (such as that famous one of Keats) which tell us of poets desiring to destroy their work, or, at any rate, casting it aside as of little value, are not all false. We still have the letter in which Burns enclosed "Scots wha' hae," and it is curious to note his misjudgment of the verse; and side by side with that kind of misjudgment we have men picking out for singular affection and with a full expectation of glory some piece of work of theirs to which posterity will have nothing to say. This is especially true of work recast by men in mature age. Writers and painters (sculptors luckily are restrained by the nature of their art—unless they deliberately go and break up their work with a hammer) retouch and change, in the years when they have become more critical and less creative, what they think to be the insufficient achievements of their youth: yet it is the vigour and the simplicity of their youthful work which other men often prefer to remember. On this account any number of good things remain anonymous, because the good writer or the good painter or the good sculptor was ashamed of them.
Then there is this reason for anonymity, that at times—for quite a short few years—a sort of universality of good work in one or more departments of art seems to fall upon the world or upon some district. Nowhere do you see this more strikingly than in the carvings of the first third of the sixteenth century in Northern and Central France and on the Flemish border.
Men seemed at that moment incapable of doing work that was not marvellous when they once began to express the human figure. Sometimes their mere name remains, more often it is doubtful, sometimes it is entirely lost. More curious still, you often have for this period a mixture of names. You come across some astonishing series of reliefs in a forgotten church of a small provincial town. You know at once that it is work of the moment when the flood of the Renaissance had at last reached the old country of the Gothic. You can swear that if it were not made in the time of Francis I or Henry II it was at least made by men who could remember or had seen those times. But when you turn to the names the names are nobodies.
By far the most famous of these famous things, or at any rate the most deserving of fame, is the miracle of Brou. It is a whole world. You would say that either one transcendent genius had modelled every face and figure of those thousands (so individual are they), or that a company of inspired men differing in their traditions and upbringing from all the commonalty of mankind had done such things. When you go to the names all you find is that Coulombe out of Touraine began the job, that there was some sort of quarrel between his head-man and the paymasters, that he was replaced in the most everyday manner conceivable by a Fleming, Van Boghem, and that this Fleming had to help him a better-known Swiss, one Meyt. It is the same story with nearly all this kind of work and its wonderful period. The wealth of detail at Louviers or Gisors is almost anonymous; that of the first named perhaps quite anonymous.
Who carved the wood in St. James's Church at Antwerp? I think the name is known for part of it, but no one did the whole or anything like the whole, and yet it is all one thing. Who carved the wood in St. Bertrand de Coraminges? We know who paid for it, and that is all we know. And as for the wood of Rouen, we must content ourselves with the vague phrase, "Probably Flemish artists."
Of the Gothic statues where they were conventional, however grand the work, one can understand that they should be anonymous, but it is curious to note the same silence where the work is strikingly and particularly individual. Among the kings at Rheims are two heads, one of St. Louis, one of his grandson. Had some one famous sculptor done these things and others, were his work known and sought after, these two heads would be as renowned as anything in Europe. As it is they are two among hundreds that the latter thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries scattered broadcast; each probably was the work of a different workman, and the author or authors of each remain equally unknown.
I know not whether there is more pathos or more humour or more consolation in considering this ignorance of ours with regard to the makers of good things.
It is full of parable. There is something of it in Nature. There are men who will walk all day through a June wood and come out atheists at the end of it, finding no signature thereupon; and there are others who, sailing over the sea, come back home after seeing so many things still puzzled as to their authorship. That is one parable.
Then there is this: the corrective of ambition. Since so much remains, the very names of whose authors have perished, what does it matter to you or to the world whether your name, so long as your work, survives? Who was it that carefully and cunningly fixed the sights on Gumber Corner so as to get upon a clear day his exact alignment with Pulborough and then the shoulder of Leith Hill, just to miss the two rivers and just to obtain the best going for a military road? He was some engineer or other among the thousands in the Imperial Service. He was at Chichester for some weeks and drew his pay, and then perhaps went on to London, and he was born in Africa or in Lombardy, or he was a Breton, or he was from Lusitania or from the Euphrates. He did that bit of work most certainly without any consideration of fame, for engineers (especially when they are soldiers) are singular among artists in this matter. But he did a very wonderful thing, and the Roman Road has run there for fifteen hundred years—his creation. Some one must have hit upon that precise line and the reason for it. It is exactly right, and the thing done was as great and is to-day as satisfying as that sculpture of Brou or the two boys Murillo painted, whom you may see in the Gallery at Dulwich. But he never thought of any one knowing his name, and no one knows it.
Then there is this last thing about anonymous work, which is also a parable and a sad one. It shows how there is no bridge between two human minds.
How often have I not come upon a corbel of stone carved into the shape of a face, and that face had upon it either horror or laughter or great sweetness or vision, and I have looked at it as I might have looked upon a living face, save that it was more wonderful than most living faces. It carried in it the soul and the mind of the man who made it. But he has been dead these hundreds of years. That corbel cannot be in communion with me, for it is of stone; it is dumb and will not speak to me, though it compels me continually to ask it questions. Its author also is dumb, for he has been dead so long, and I can know nothing about him whatsoever.
Now so it is with any two human minds, not only when they are separated by centuries and by silence, but when they have their being side by side under one roof and are companions all their years.
Once there was a man who, having nothing else to do and being fond of that kind of thing, copied with a good deal of care on to a bit of wood the corner of a Dutch picture in one of the public galleries.
This man was not a good artist; indeed he was nothing but a humpbacked and very sensitive little squire with about 3000 a year of his own and great liking for intricate amusements. He was a pretty good mathematician and a tolerable fisherman. He knew an enormous amount about the Mohammedan conquest of Spain, and he is, I believe, writing a book upon that subject. I hope he will, for nearly all history wants to be rewritten. Anyhow, he, as I have just said, did copy a corner of one of the Dutch pictures in one of the galleries. It was a Dutch picture of the seventeenth century; and since the laws of this country are very complicated and the sanctions attached to them very terrible, I will not give the name of the original artist, but I will call him Van Tromp.
Van Tromps have always been recognized, and there was a moment about fifty years after the artist's death when they had a considerable vogue in the French Court. Monsieur, who was quite ignorant of such things, bought a couple, and there is a whole row of them in the little pavilion at Louveciennes. Van Tromp has something about him at once positive and elusive; he is full of planes and values, and he interprets and renders, and the rest of it. Nay, he transfers!
About thirty years ago Mr. Mayor (of Hildesheim and London) thought it his duty to impress upon the public how great Van Tromp was. This he did after taking thirteen Van Tromps in payment of a bad debt, and he succeeded. But the man I am writing about cared nothing for all this: he simply wanted to see how well he could imitate this corner of the picture, and he did it pretty well. He begrimed it and he rubbed at it, and then he tickled it up again with a knife, and then he smoked it, and then he put in some dirty whites which were vivid, and he played the fool with white of egg, and so forth, until he had the very tone and manner of the original; and as he had done it on an old bit of wood it was exactly right, and he was very proud of the result. He got an old frame from near Long Acre and stuck it in, and then he took the thing home. He had done several things of this kind, imitating miniatures, and even enamels. It amused him. When he got home he sat looking at it with great pleasure for an hour or two; he left the little thing on the table of his study and went to bed.
Here begins the story, and here, therefore, I must tell you what the subject of this corner of the picture was.
The subject of this corner of the picture which he had copied was a woman in a brown jacket and a red petticoat with big feet showing underneath, sitting on a tub and cutting up some vegetables. She had her hair bunched up like an onion, a fashion which, as we all know, appealed to the Dutch in the seventeenth century, or at any rate to the plebeian Dutch. I must also tell you the name of this squire before I go any further: his name was Hammer—Paul Hammer. He was unmarried.
He went to bed at eleven o'clock, and when he came down at eight o'clock he had his breakfast. He went into his study at nine o'clock, and was very much annoyed to find that some burglars had come in during the night and had taken away a number of small objects which were not without value; and among-them, what he most regretted, his little pastiche of the corner of the Van Tromp.
For some moments he stood filled with an acute anger and wishing that he knew who the burglars were and how to get at them; but the days passed, and though he asked everybody, and even gave some money to the police, he could not discover this. He put an advertisement into several newspapers, both London newspapers and local ones, saying that money would be given if the thing were restored, and pretty well hinting that no questions would be asked, but nothing came.
Meanwhile the burglars, whose names were Charles and Lothair Femeral, foreigners but English-speaking, had found some of their ill-acquired goods saleable, others unsaleable. They wanted a pound for the little picture in the frame, and this they could not get, and it was a bother haggling it about. Lothair Femeral thought of a good plan: he stopped at an inn on the third day of their peregrinations, had a good dinner with his brother, told the innkeeper that he could not pay the bill, and offered to leave the Old Master in exchange. When people do this it very often comes off, for the alternative is only the pleasure of seeing the man in gaol, whereas a picture is always a picture, and there is a gambler's chance of its turning up trumps. So the man grumbled and took the little thing. He hung it up in the best room of the inn, where he gave his richer customers food.
Thus it was that a young gentleman who had come down to ride in that neighbourhood, although he did not know any of the rich people round about, saw it one day, and on seeing it exclaimed loudly in an unknown tongue; but he very rapidly repressed his emotion and simply told the innkeeper that he had taken a fancy to the daub and would give him thirty shillings for it.
The innkeeper, who had read in the newspapers of how pictures of the utmost value are sold by fools for a few pence, said boldly that his price was twenty pounds; whereupon the young gentleman went out gloomily, and the innkeeper thought that he must have made a mistake, and was for three hours depressed. But in the fourth hour again he was elated, for the young gentleman came back with twenty pounds, not even in notes but in gold, paid it down, and took away the picture. Then again, in the fifth hour was the innkeeper a little depressed, but not as much as before, for it struck him that the young gentleman must have been very eager to act in such a fashion, and that perhaps he could have got as much as twenty-one pounds by holding out and calling it guineas.
The young gentleman telegraphed to his father (who lived in Wimbledon but who did business in Bond Street) saying that he had got hold of a Van Tromp which looked like a study for the big "Eversley" Van Tromp in the Gallery, and he wanted to know what his father would give for it. His father telegraphed back inviting him to spend one whole night under the family roof. This the young man did, and, though it wrung the old father's heart to have to do it, by the time he had seen the young gentleman's find (or trouvaille as he called it) he had given his offspring a cheque for five hundred pounds. Whereupon the young gentleman left and went back to do some more riding, an exercise of which he was passionately fond, and to which he had trained several quiet horses.
The father wrote to a certain lord of his acquaintance who was very fond of Van Tromps, and offered him this replica or study, in some ways finer than the original, but he said it must be a matter for private negotiation; so he asked for an appointment, and the lord, who was a tall, red-faced man with a bluff manner, made an appointment for nine o'clock next morning, which was rather early for Bond Street. But money talks, and they met. The lord was very well dressed, and when he talked he folded his hands (which had gloves on them) over the knob of his stick and pressed his stick firmly upon the ground. It was a way he had. But it did not frighten the old gentleman who did business in Bond Street, and the long and short of it was that the lord did not get the picture until he had paid three thousand guineas—not pounds, mind you. For this sum the picture was to be sent round to the lord's house, and so it was, and there it would have stayed but for a very curious accident. The lord had put the greater part of his money into a company which was developing the resources of the South Shetland Islands, and by some miscalculation or other the expense of this experiment proved larger than the revenues obtainable from it. His policy, as I need hardly tell you, was to hang on, and so he did, because in the long run the property must pay. And so it would if they could have gone on shelling out for ever, but they could not, and so the whole affair was wound up and the lord lost a great deal of money.
Under these circumstances he bethought him of the toiling millions who never see a good picture and who have no more vivid appetite than the hunger for good pictures. He therefore lent his collection of Van Tromps with the least possible delay to a public gallery, and for many years they hung there, while the lord lived in great anxiety, but with a sufficient income for his needs in the delightful scenery of the Pennines at some distance from a railway station, surrounded by his tenants. At last even these—the tenants, I mean—were not sufficient, and a gentleman in the Government who knew the value of Van Tromps proposed that these Van Tromps should be bought for the nation; but a lot of cranks made a frightful row, both in Parliament and out of it, so that the scheme would have fallen through had not one of the Van Tromps—to wit, that little copy of a corner which was obviously a replica of or a study for the best-known of the Van Tromps—been proclaimed false quite suddenly by a gentleman who doubted its authenticity; whereupon everybody said that it was not genuine except three people who really counted, and these included the gentleman who had recommended the purchase of the Van Tromps by the nation. So enormous was the row upon the matter that the picture reached the very pinnacle of fame, and an Australian then travelling in England was determined to get that Van Tromp for himself, and did.
This Australian was a very simple man, good and kind and childlike, and frightfully rich. When he had got the Van Tromp he carried it about with him, and at the country houses where he stopped he used to pull it out and show it to people. It happened that among other country houses he stopped once at the hunchback squire's, whose name, as you will remember, was Mr. Hammer, and he showed him the Van Tromp one day after dinner.
Now Mr. Hammer was by this time an old man, and he had ceased to care much for the things of this world. He had suffered greatly, and he had begun to think about religion; also he had made a good deal of money in Egyptians (for all this was before the slump). And he was pretty well ashamed of his pastiches; so, one way and another, the seeing of that picture did not have the effect upon him which you might have expected; for you, the reader, have read this story in five minutes (if you have had the patience to get so far), but he, Mr. Hammer, had been changing and changing for years, and I tell you he did not care a dump what happened to the wretched thing. Only when the Australian, who was good and simple and kind and hearty, showed him the picture and asked him proudly to guess what he had given for it, then Mr. Hammer looked at him with a look in his eyes full of that not mortal sadness which accompanies irremediable despair.
"I do not know," he answered gently and with a sob in his voice.
"I paid for that picture," said the Australian, in the accent and language of his native clime, "no less a sum than 7500 ... and I'd pay it again to-morrow!" Saying this, the Australian hit the table with the palm, of his hand in a manner so manly that an aged retainer who was putting coals upon the fire allowed the coal-scuttle to drop.
But Mr. Hammer, ruminating in his mind all the accidents and changes and adventures of human life, its complexity, its unfulfilled desires, its fading but not quite perishable ideals, well knowing how men are made happy and how unhappy, ventured on no reply. Two great tears gathered in his eyes, and he would have shed them, perhaps to be profusely followed by more—he was nearly breaking down—when he looked up and saw on the wall opposite him seven pastiches which he had made in the years gone by. There was a Titian and a George Morland, a Chardin, two cows after Cooper, and an impressionist picture after some Frenchman whose name he had forgotten.
"You like pictures?" he said to the Australian, the tears still standing in his eyes.
"I do!" said the Australian with conviction.
"Will you let me give you these?" said Mr. Hammer.
The Australian protested that such things could not be allowed, but he was a simple man, and at last he consented, for he was immensely pleased.
"It is an ungracious thing to make conditions," said Mr. Hammer, "and I won't make any, only I should be pleased if, in your island home...."
"I don't live on an island," said the Australian. Mr. Hammer remembered the map of Australia, with the water all round it, but he was too polite to argue.
"No, of course not," he said; "you live on the mainland; I forgot. But anyhow, I should be so pleased if you would promise me to hang them all together, these pictures with your Van Tromp, all in a line! I really should be so pleased!"
"Why, certainly," said the Australian, a little bewildered; "I will do so, Mr. Hammer, if it can give you any pleasure."
"The fact is," said Mr. Hammer, in a breaking voice, "I had that picture once, and I intended it to hang side by side with these."
It was in vain that the Australian, on hearing this, poured out self-reproaches, offered with an expansion of soul to restore it, and then more prudently attempted a negotiation. Mr. Hammer resolutely shook his head.
"I am an old man," he said, "and I have no heirs; it is not for me to take, but to give, and if you will do what an old man begs of you, and accept what I offer; if you will do more and of your courtesy keep all these things together which were once familiar to me, it will be enough reward."
The next day, therefore, the Australian sailed off to his distant continental home, carrying with him not only the Chardin, the Titian, the Cooper, the impressionist picture, and the rest, but also the Van Tromp. And three months after they all hung in a row in the great new copper room at Warra-Mugga. What happened to them later on, and how they were all sold together as "the Warra-Mugga Collection," I will tell you when I have the time and you the patience. Farewell.
A certain merchant in the City of London, having retired from business, purchased for himself a private house upon the heights of Hampstead and proposed to devote his remaining years to the education and the establishment in life of his only son.
When this youth (whose name was George) had arrived at the age of nineteen his father spoke to him after dinner upon his birthday with regard to the necessity of choosing a profession. He pointed out to him the advantages of a commercial career, and notably of that form of useful industry which is known as banking, showing how in that trade a profit was to be made by lending the money of one man to another, and often of a man's own money to himself, without engaging one's own savings or fortune.
George, to whom such matters were unfamiliar, listened attentively, and it seemed to him with every word that dropped from his father that a wider and wider horizon of material comfort and worldly grandeur was spreading out before him. He had hitherto had no idea that such great rewards were attached to services so slight in themselves, and certainly so valueless to the community. The career sketched out for him by his father appealed to him most strongly, and when that gentleman had completed his advice he assured him that he would follow it in every particular.
George's father was overjoyed to find his son so reasonable. He sat down at once to write the note which he had planned, to an old friend and connection by marriage, Mr. Repton, of Repton and Greening; he posted it that night and bade the lad prepare for the solemnity of a private interview with the head of the firm upon the morrow.
Before George left the house next morning his father laid before him, with the pomp which so great an occasion demanded, certain rules of conduct which should guide not only his entry into life but his whole conduct throughout its course. He emphasized the value of self-respect, of a decent carriage, of discretion, of continuous and tenacious habits of industry, of promptitude, and so forth; when, urged by I know not what demon whose pleasure it is ever to disturb the best plans of men, the old gentleman had the folly to add the following words as he rose to his feet and laid his hand heavily upon his son's shoulder:
"Above all things, George, tell the truth. I was young and now am old. I have seen many men fail, some few succeed; and the best advice I can give to my dear only son is that on all occasions he should fearlessly and manfully tell the truth without regard of consequence. Believe me, it is not only the whole root of character, but the best basis for a successful business career even today."
Having so spoken, the old man, more moved than he cared to show, went upstairs to read his newspaper, and George, beautifully dressed, went out by the front door towards the Tube, pondering very deeply the words his father had just used.
I cannot deny that the impression they produced upon him was extraordinary—far more vivid than men of mature years can easily conceive. It is often so in early youth when we listen to the voice of authority; some particular chance phrase will have an unmeasured effect upon one. A worn tag and platitude solemnly spoken, and at a critical moment, may change the whole of a career. And so it was with George, as you will shortly perceive. For as he rumbled along in the Tube his father's words became a veritable obsession within him: he saw their value ramifying in a multitude of directions, he perceived the strength and accuracy of them in a hundred aspects. He knew well that the interview he was approaching was one in which this virtue of truth might be severely tested, but he gloried in the opportunity, and he came out of the Tube into the fresh air within a step of Mr. Repton's office with set lips and his young temper braced for the ordeal.
When he got to the office there was Mr. Repton, a kindly old gentleman, wearing large spectacles, and in general appearance one of those genial types from which our caricaturists have constructed the national figure of John Bull. It was a pleasure to be in the presence of so honest a man, and in spite of George's extreme nervousness he felt a certain security in such company. Moreover, Mr. Repton smiled paternally at him before putting to him the few questions which the occasion demanded. He held George's father's letter between two fingers of his right hand, moving it gently in the air as he addressed the lad:
"I am very glad to see you, George," he said, "in this old office. I've seen you here before, Chrm! as you know, but not on such important business, Chrm!" He laughed genially. "So you want to come and learn your trade with us, do you? You're punctual I hope, Chrm?" he added, his honest eyes full of good nature and jest.
George looked at him in a rather gloomy manner, hesitated a moment, and then, under the influence of an obvious effort, said in a choking voice, "No, Mr. Repton, I'm not."
"Hey, what?" said Mr. Repton, puzzled and a little annoyed at the young man's manner.
"I was saying, Mr. Repton, that I am not punctual. I have dreamy fits which sometimes make me completely forget an appointment. And I have a silly habit of cutting things too fine, which makes me miss trains and things, I think I ought to tell you while I am about it, but I simply cannot get up early in the morning. There are days when I manage to do so under the excitement of a coming journey or for some other form of pleasure, but as a rule I postpone my rising until the very latest possible moment."
George having thus delivered himself closed his lips and was silent.
"Humph!" said Mr. Repton. It was not what the boy had said so much as the impression of oddness which affected that worthy man. He did not like it, and he was not quite sure of his ground. He was about to put another question, when George volunteered a further statement:
"I don't drink," he said, "and at my age it is not easy to understand what the vice of continual drunkenness may be, but I shouldn't wonder if that would be my temptation later on, and it is only fair to tell you that, young as I am, I have twice grossly exceeded in wine; on one occasion, not a year ago, the servants at a house where I was stopping carried me to bed."
"They did?" said Mr. Repton drily.
"Yes," said George, "they did." Then there was a silence for a space of at least three minutes.
"My dear young man," said Mr. Repton, rising, "do you feel any aptitude for a City career?"
"None," said George decisively.
"Pray," said Mr. Repton (who had grown-up children of his own and could not help speaking with a touch of sarcasm—he thought it good for boys in the lunatic stage), "pray," said he, looking quizzically down at the unhappy but firm-minded George as he sat there in his chair, "is there any form of work for which you do feel an aptitude?"
"Yes, certainly," said George confidently.
"And what is that?" said Mr. Repton, his smile beginning again.
"The drama," said George without hesitation, "the poetic drama. I ought to tell you that I have received no encouragement from those who are the best critics of this art, though I have submitted my work to many since I left school. Some have said that my work was commonplace, others that it was imitative; all have agreed that it was dull, and they have unanimously urged me to abandon every thought of such composition. Nevertheless I am convinced that I have the highest possible talents not only in this department of letters but in all."
"You believe yourself," said Mr. Repton, with a touch of severity, "to be an exceptional young man?"
George nodded. "I do," he said, "quite exceptional. I should have used a stronger term had I been speaking of the matter myself. I think I have genius, or, rather, I am sure I have; and, what is more, genius of a very high order."
"Well," said Mr. Repton, sighing, "I don't think we shall get any forrader. Have you been working much lately?" he asked anxiously— "examinations or anything?"
"No," said George quietly. "I always feel like this."
"Indeed!" said Mr. Repton, who was now convinced that the poor boy had intended no discourtesy. "Well, I wonder whether you would mind taking back a note to your father?"
"Not at all," said George courteously.
Mr. Repton in his turn wrote a short letter, in which he begged George's father not to take offence at an old friend's advice, recalled to his memory the long and faithful friendship between them, pointed out that outsiders could often see things which members of a family could not, and wound up by begging George's father to give George a good holiday. "Not alone," he concluded; "I don't think that would be quite safe, but in company with some really trustworthy man a little older than himself, who won't get on his nerves and yet will know how to look after him. He must get right away for some weeks," added the kind old man, "and after that I should advise you to keep him at home and let him have some gentle occupation. Don't encourage him in writing. I think he would take kindly to gardening. But I won't write any more: I will come and see you about it."
Bearing that missive back did George reach his home.... All this passed in the year 1895, and that is why George is to-day one of the best electrical engineers in the country, instead of being a banker; and that shows how good always comes, one way or another, of telling the truth.
Philip, King of Macedon, destroyer of the liberties of Greece, and father to Alexander who tamed the horse Bucephalus, called for the tutor of that lad, one Aristotle (surnamed the Teacher of the Human Race), to propound to him a question that had greatly troubled him; for in counting out his money (which was his habit upon a washing day, when the Queen's appetite for afternoon tea and honey had rid him of her presence) he discovered mixed with his treasure such an intolerable number of thruppenny bits as very nearly drove him to despair.
On this account King Philip of Macedon, destroyer of the liberties of Greece, sent for Aristotle, his hanger-on, as one capable of answering any question whatsoever, and said to him (when he had entered with a profound obeisance):
"Come, Aristotle, answer me straight; what is the use of a thruppenny bit?"
"Dread sire," said Aristotle, standing in his presence with respect, "the thruppenny bit is not to be despised. Men famous in no way for their style, nor even for their learning, have maintained life by inscribing within its narrow boundaries the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments, while others have used it as a comparison in the classes of astronomy to illustrate the angle subtended by certain of the orbs of heaven. The moon, whose waxing and waning is doubtless familiar to Your Majesty, is indeed but just hidden by a thruppenny bit held between the finger and the thumb of the observer extended at the full length of any normal human arm."
"Go on," said King Philip, with some irritation; "go on; go on!"
"The thruppenny bit, Your Majesty, illustrates, as does no other coin, the wisdom and the aptness of the duodecimal system to which the Macedonians have so wisely clung (in common with the people of Scythia and of Thrace, and the dumb animals) while the too brilliant Hellenes ran wild in the false simplicity of the decimal system. The number twelve, Your Majesty...."
"Yes, yes, I know," said King Philip impatiently, "I have heard it a thousand times! It has already persuaded me to abandon the duodecimal method and to consign to the severest tortures any one who mentions it in my presence again. My ten fingers are good enough for me. Go on, go on!"
"Sovran Lord!" continued Aristotle, "the thruppenny bit has further been proved in a thousand ways an adjuvator and prime helper of the Gods. For many a man too niggardly to give sixpence, and too proud to give a copper, has dropped this coin among the offerings at the Temple, and it is related of a clergyman in Armagh (a town of which Your Majesty has perhaps never heard) that he would frequently address his congregation from the rails of the altar, pointing out the excessive number of thruppenny bits which had been offered for the sustenance of the hierarchy, threatening to summon before him known culprits, and to return to them the insufficient oblation. Again, the thruppenny bit most powerfully disciplines the soul of man, for it tries the temper as does no other coin, being small, thin, wayward, given to hiding, and very often useless when it is discovered. Learn also, King of Macedon, that the thruppenny bit is of value in ritual phrases, and particularly so in objurgations and the calling down of curses, and in the settlement of evil upon enemies, and in the final expression of contempt. For to compare some worthless thing to a farthing, to a penny, or to tuppence, has no vigour left in it, and it has long been thought ridiculous even among provincials; a threadbare, worn, and worthless sort of sneer; but the thruppenny bit has a sound about it very valuable to one who would insist upon his superiority. Thus were some rebel or some demagogue of Athens (for example) to venture upon the criticism of Your Majesty's excursions into philosophy, in order to bring those august theses into contempt, his argument would never find emphasis or value unless he were to terminate its last phrase by a snap of the fingers and the mention of a thruppenny bit.
"King Philip of Macedon, most prudent of men, learn further that a thruppenny bit, which to the foolish will often seem a mere expenditure of threepence, to the wise may represent a saving of that sum. For how many occasions are there not in which the inconsequent and lavish fool, the spendthrift, the young heir, the commander of cavalry, the empty, gilded boy, will give a sixpence to a messenger where a thruppenny bit would have done as well? For silver is the craving of the poor, not in its amount, but in its nature, for nature and number are indeed two things, the one on the one hand...."
"Oh, I know all about that," said King Philip; "I did not send for you to get you off upon those rails, which have nothing whatever to do with thruppenny bits. Be concrete, I pray you, good Aristotle," he continued, and yawned. "Stick to things as they are, and do not make me remind you how once you said that men had thirty-six, women only thirty-four, teeth. Do not wander in the void."
"Arbiter of Hellas," said Aristotle gravely, when the King had finished his tirade, "the thruppenny bit has not only all that character of usefulness which I have argued in it from the end it is designed to serve, but one may also perceive this virtue in it in another way, which is by observation. For you will remember how when we were all boys the fourpenny bit of accursed memory still lingered, and how as against it the thruppenny bit has conquered. Which is, indeed, a parable taken from nature, showing that whatever survives is destined to survive, for that is indeed in a way, as you may say, the end of survival."
"Precisely," said King Philip, frowning intellectually; "I follow you. I have heard many talk in this manner, but none talk as well as you do. Continue, good Aristotle, continue."
"Your Majesty, the matter needs but little exposition, though it contains the very marrow of truth," said the philosopher, holding up in a menacing way the five fingers of his left hand and ticking them off with the forefinger of his right. "For it is first useful, second beautiful, third valuable, fourth magnificent, and, fifthly, consonant to its nature."
"Quite true," said King Philip, following carefully every word that fell from the wise man's lips, for he could now easily understand.
"Very well then, sire," said Aristotle in a livelier tone, charmed to have captivated the attention of his Sovereign. "I was saying that which survives is proved worthy of survival, as of a man and a shark, or of Athens and Macedonia, or in many other ways. Now the thruppenny bit, having survived to our own time, has so proved itself in that test, and upon this all men of science are agreed.
"Then, also, King Philip, consider how the thruppenny bit in another and actual way, not of pure reason but, if I may say so, in a material manner, commends itself: for is it not true that whereas all other nations whatsoever, being by nature servile, will use a nickel piece or some other denomination for whatever is small but is not of bronze, the Macedonians, being designed by the Gods for the command of all the human race, have very tenaciously clung to the thruppenny bit through good and through evil repute, and have even under the sternest penalties enforced it upon their conquered subjects? For when Your Majesty discovered (if you will remember) that the people of Euboea, in manifest contempt of your Crown, paid back into Your Majesty's treasury all their taxes in the shape of thruppenny bits...."
At this moment King Philip gave a loud shout, uttering in Greek the word "Eureka," which signifies (to those who drop their aitches) "I've got it."
"Got what?" said the philosopher, startled into common diction by the unexpected interjection of the despot.
"Get out!" said King Philip. "Do you suppose that any rambling Don is going to take up my time when by a sheer accident his verbosity has started me on a true scent? Out, Aristotle, out! Or, stay, take this note with you to the Captain of the Guard"—and King Philip hastily scribbled upon a parchment an order for the immediate execution of the whole of the inhabitants of Euboea, saving such as could redeem themselves at the price of ten drachmae, the said sum upon no account whatsoever to be paid in coin containing so much as one thruppenny bit.
But the offended philosopher had departed, and being well wound up could not, any more than any other member of the academies, cease from spouting; so that King Philip was intolerably aggravated to hear him as he waddled down the Palace stairs still declaiming in a loud tone:
"And, sixteenthly, the thruppenny bit has about it this noble quality, that it represents an aliquot part of that sum which is paid to me daily from the Royal Treasury in silver, a metal upon which we have always insisted. And, seventeenthly...."
But King Philip banged the door.
The hotel at Palma is like the Savoy, but the cooking is a great deal better. It is large and new; its decorations are in the modern style with twiddly lines. Its luxury is greater than that of its London competitor. It has an eager, willing porter and a delightful landlord. You do what you like in it and there are books to read. One of these books was an English guide-book. I read it. It was full of lies, so gross and palpable that I told my host how abominably it traduced his country, and advised him first to beat the book well and then to burn it over a slow fire. It said that the people were superstitious—it is false. They have no taboo about days; they play about on Sundays. They have no taboo about drinks; they drink what they feel inclined (which is wine) when they feel inclined (which is when they are thirsty). They have no taboo book, Bible or Koran, no damned psychical rubbish, no damned "folk-lore," no triply damned mumbo-jumbo of social ranks; kind, really good, simple-minded dukes would have a devil of a time in Palma. Avoid it, my dears, keep away. If anything, the people of Palma have not quite enough superstition. They play there for love, money, and amusement. No taboo (talking of love) about love.
The book said they were poor. Their populace is three or four times as rich as ours. They own their own excellent houses and their own land; no one but has all the meat and fruit and vegetables and wine he wants, and usually draught animals and musical instruments as well.
In fact, the book told the most frightful lies and was a worthy companion to other guidebooks. It moved me to plan a guide-book of my own in which the truth should be told about all the places I know. It should be called "Guide to Northumberland, Sussex, Chelsea, the French frontier, South Holland, the Solent, Lombardy, the North Sea, and Rome, with a chapter on part of Cheshire and some remarks on the United States of America."
In this book the fault would lie in its too great scrappiness, but the merit in its exactitude. Thus I would inform the reader that the best time to sleep in Siena is from nine in the morning till three in the afternoon, and that the best place to sleep is the north side of St. Domenic's ugly brick church there.
Again, I would tell him that the man who keeps the "Turk's Head" at Valogne, in Normandy, was only outwardly and professedly an Atheist, but really and inwardly a Papist.
I would tell him that it sometimes snowed in Lombardy in June, for I have seen it—and that any fool can cross the Alps blindfold, and that the sea is usually calm, not rough, and that the people of Dax are the most horrible in all France, and that Lourdes, contrary to the general opinion, does work miracles, for I have seen them.
I would also tell him of the place at Toulouse where the harper plays to you during dinner, and of the grubby little inn at Terneuzen on the Scheldt where they charge you just anything they please for anything; five shillings for a bit of bread, or half a crown for a napkin.
All these things, and hundreds of others of the same kind, would I put in my book, and at the end should be a list of all the hotels in Europe where, at the date of publication, the landlord was nice, for it is the character of the landlords which makes all the difference—and that changes as do all human things.
There you could see first, like a sort of Primate of Hotels, the Railway Hotel at York. Then the inn at La Bruyre in the Landes, then the "Swan" at Petworth with its mild ale, then the "White Hart" of Storrington, then the rest of them, all the six or seven hundred of them, from the "Elephant" of Chateau Thierry to the "Feathers" of Ludlow—a truly noble remainder of what once was England; the "Feathers" of Ludlow, where the beds are of honest wood with curtains to them, and where a man may drink half the night with the citizens to the success of their engines and the putting out of all fires. For there are in West England three little inns in three little towns, all in a line, and all beginning with an L— Ledbury, Ludlow, and Leominster, all with "Feathers," all with orchards round, and I cannot tell which is the best.
Then my guide-book will go on to talk about harbours; it will prove how almost every harbour was impossible to make in a little boat; but it would describe the difficulties of each so that a man in a little boat might possibly make them. It would describe the rush of the tide outside Margate and the still more dangerous rush outside Shoreham, and the absurd bar at Littlehampton that strikes out of the sea, and the place to lie at in Newhaven, and how not to stick upon the Platters outside Harwich; and the very tortuous entry to Poole, and the long channel into Christchurch past Hengistbury Head; and the enormous tides of South Wales; and why you often have to beach at Britonferry, and the terrible difficulty of mooring in Great Yarmouth; and the sad changes of Little Yarmouth, and the single black buoy at Calais which is much too far out to be of any use; and how to wait for the tide in the Swin. And also what no book has ever yet given, an exact direction of the way in which one may roll into Orford Haven, on the top of a spring tide if one has luck, and how if one has no luck one sticks on the gravel and is pounded to pieces.
Then my guide-book would go on to tell of the way in which to make men pleasant to you according to their climate and country; of how you must not hurry the people of Aragon, and how it is your duty to bargain with the people of Catalonia; and how it is impossible to eat at Daroca; and how careful one must be with gloomy men who keep inns at the very top of glens, especially if they are silent, under Cheviot. And how one must not talk religion when one has got over the Scotch border, with some remarks about Jedburgh, and the terrible things that happened to a man there who would talk religion though he had been plainly warned.
Then my guide-book would go on to tell how one should climb ordinary mountains, and why one should avoid feats; and how to lose a guide which is a very valuable art, for when you have lost your guide you need not pay him. My book will also have a note (for it is hardly worth a chapter) on the proper method of frightening sheep dogs when they attempt to kill you with their teeth upon the everlasting hills.
This my good and new guide-book (oh, how it blossoms in my head as I write!) would further describe what trains go to what places, and in what way the boredom of them can best be overcome, and which expresses really go fast; and I should have a footnote describing those lines of steamers on which one can travel for nothing if one puts a sufficiently bold face upon the matter.
My guide-book would have directions for the pacifying of Arabs, a trick which I learnt from a past master, a little way east of Batna in the year 1905—I will also explain how one can tell time by the stars and by the shadow of the sun; upon what sort of food one can last longest and how best to carry it, and what rites propitiate, if they are solemnized in a due order, the half-malicious fairies which haunt men when they are lost in lonely valleys, right up under the high peaks of the world. And my book should have a whole chapter devoted to Ulysses.
For you must know that one day I came into Narbonne where I had never been before, and I saw written up in large letters upon a big, ugly house:
ULYSSES,
Lodging for Man and Beast.
So I went in and saw the master, who had a round bullet head and cropped hair, and I said to him: "What! Are you landed, then, after all your journeys? And do I find you at last, you of whom I have read so much and seen so little?" But with an oath he refused me lodging.
This tale is true, as would be every other tale in my book.
What a fine book it will be!
"I will confess and I will not deny," said Wandering Peter (of whom you have heard little but of whom in God's good time you shall hear more). "I will confess and I will not deny that the chief pleasure I know is the contemplation of my fellow beings."
He spoke thus in his bed in the inn of a village upon the River Yonne beyond Auxerre, in which bed he lay a-dying; but though he was dying he was full of words.
"What energy! What cunning! What desire! I have often been upon the edge of a steep place, such as a chalk pit or a cliff above a plain, and watched them down below, hurrying around, turning about, laying down, putting up, leading, making, organizing, driving, considering, directing, exceeding, and restraining; upon my soul I was proud to be one of them! I have said to myself," said Wandering Peter, "lift up your heart; you also are one of these! For though I am," he continued, "a wandering man and lonely, given to the hills and to empty places, yet I glory in the workers on the plain, as might a poor man in his noble lineage. From these I came; to these in my old age I would have returned."
At these words the people about his bed fell to sobbing when they thought how he would never wander more, but Peter Wanderwide continued with a high heart:
"How pleasant it is to see them plough! First they cunningly contrive an arrangement that throws the earth aside and tosses it to the air, and then, since they are too weak to pull the same, they use great beasts, oxen or horses or even elephants, and impose them with their will, so that they patiently haul this contrivance through the thick clods; they tear up and they put into furrows, and they transform the earth. Nothing can withstand them. Birds you will think could escape them by flying up into the air. It is an error. Upon birds also my people impose their view. They spread nets, food, bait, trap, and lime. They hail stones and shot and arrows at them. They cause some by a perpetual discipline to live near them, to lay eggs and to be killed at will; of this sort are hens, geese, turkeys, ducks, and guinea-fowls. Nothing eludes the careful planning of man.
"Moreover, they can build. They do not build this way or that, as a dull necessity forces them, not they! They build as they feel inclined. They hew down, they saw through (and how marvellous is a saw!), they trim timber, they mix lime and sand, they excavate the recesses of the hills. Oh! the fine fellows! They can at whim make your chambers or the Tower prison, or my aunt's new villa at Wimbledon (which is a joke of theirs), or St. Pancras Station, or the Crystal Palace, or Westminster Abbey, or St. Paul's, or Bon Secours. They are agreeable to every change in the wind that blows about the world. It blows Gothic, and they say 'By all means'— and there is your Gothic—a thing dreamt of and done! It suddenly veers south again and blows from the Mediterranean. The jolly little fellows are equal to the strain, and up goes Amboise, and Anet, and the Louvre, and all the Renaissance. It blows everyhow and at random as though in anger at seeing them so ready. They care not at all! They build the Eiffel Tower, the Queen Anne house, the Mary Jane house, the Modern-Style house, the Carlton, the Ritz, the Grand Palais, the Trocadero, Olympia, Euston, the Midhurst Sanatorium, and old Beit's Palace in Park Lane. They are not to be defeated, they have immortal certitudes.
"Have you considered their lines and their drawings and their cunning plans?" said Wandering Peter. "They are astonishing there! Put a bit of charcoal into my dog's mouth or my pet monkey's paw—would he copy the world? Not he! But men—my brothers—they take it in hand and make war against the unspeaking forces; the trees and the hills are of their own showing, and the places in which they dwell, by their own power, become full of their own spirit. Nature is made more by being their model, for in all they draw, paint, or chisel they are in touch with heaven and with hell.... They write (Lord! the intelligence of their men, and Lord! the beauty of their women). They write unimaginable things!
"They write epics, they write lyrics, they write riddles and marching songs and drinking songs and rhetoric, and chronicles, and elegies, and pathetic memories; and in everything that they write they reveal things greater than they know. They are capable," said Peter Wanderwide, in his dying enthusiasm, "of so writing that the thought enlarges upon the writing and becomes far more than what they have written. They write that sort of verse called 'Stop-Short,' which when it is written makes one think more violently than ever, as though it were an introduction to the realms of the soul. And then again they write things which gently mock themselves and are a consolation for themselves against the doom of death."
But when Peter Wanderwide said that word "death," the howling and the boo-hooing of the company assembled about his bed grew so loud that he could hardly hear himself think. For there was present the Mayor of the village, and the Priest of the village, and the Mayor's wife, and the Adjutant Mayor or Deputy Mayor, and the village Councillor, and the Road-mender, and the Schoolmaster, and the Cobbler, and all the notabilities, as many as could crush into the room, and none but the Doctor was missing.
And outside the house was a great crowd of the village folk, weeping bitterly and begging for news of him, and mourning that so great and so good a man should find his death in so small a place.
Peter Wanderwide was sinking very fast, and his life was going out with his breath, but his heart was still so high that he continued although his voice was failing:
"Look you, good people all, in your little passage through the daylight, get to see as many hills and buildings and rivers, fields, books, men, horses, ships, and precious stones as you can possibly manage to do. Or else stay in one village and marry in it and die there. For one of these two fates is the best fate for every man. Either to be what I have been, a wanderer with all the bitterness of it, or to stay at home and hear in one's garden the voice of God.
"For my part I have followed out my fate. And I propose in spite of my numerous iniquities, by the recollection of my many joys in the glories of this earth, as by corks, to float myself in the sea of nothingness until I reach the regions of the Blessed and the pure in heart.
"For I think when I am dead Almighty God will single me out on account of my accoutrement, my stirrup leathers, and the things that I shall be talking of concerning Ireland and the Perigord, and my boat upon the narrow seas; and I think He will ask St. Michael, who is the Clerk and Registrar of battling men, who it is that stands thus ready to speak (unless his eyes betray him) of so many things? Then St. Michael will forget my name although he will know my face; he will forget my name because I never stayed long enough in one place for him to remember it.
"But St. Peter, because he is my Patron Saint and because I have always had a special devotion to him, will answer for me and will have no argument, for he holds the keys. And he will open the door and I will come in. And when I am inside the door of Heaven I shall freely grow those wings, the pushing and nascence of which have bothered my shoulder blades with birth pains all my life long, and more especially since my thirtieth year. I say, friends and companions all, that I shall grow a very satisfying and supporting pair of wings, and once I am so furnished I shall be received among the Blessed, and I shall at once begin to tell them, as I told you on earth, all sorts of things, both false and true, with regard to the countries through which I carried forward my homeless feet, and in which I have been given such fulfilment for my eyes."
When Peter Wanderwide had delivered himself of these remarks, which he did with great dignity and fire for one in such extremity, he gasped a little, coughed, and died.
I need not tell you what solemnities attended his burial, nor with what fervour the people flocked to pray at his tomb; but it is worth knowing that the poet of that place, who was rival to the chief poet in Auxerre itself, gathered up the story of his death into a rhyme, written in the dialect of that valley, of which rhyme this is an English translation:
When Peter Wanderwide was young He wandered everywhere he would; And all that he approved was sung, And most of what he saw was good.
When Peter Wanderwide was thrown By Death himself beyond Auxerre, He chanted in heroic tone To Priest and people gathered there:
"If all that I have loved and seen Be with me on the Judgment Day, I shall be saved the crowd between From Satan and his foul array.
"Almighty God will surely cry 'St. Michael! Who is this that stands With Ireland in his dubious eye, And Perigord between his hands,
"'And on his arm the stirrup thongs, And in his gait the narrow seas, And in his mouth Burgundian songs, But in his heart the Pyrenees?'
"St. Michael then will answer right (But not without angelic shame): 'I seem to know his face by sight; I cannot recollect his name....'
"St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; 'I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.
"'And though I did not know him well, And though his soul were clogged with sin, I hold the keys of Heaven and Hell. Be welcome, noble Peterkin.'
"Then shall I spread my native wings And tread secure the heavenly floor, And tell the Blessed doubtful things Of Val d'Aran and Perigord."
This was the last and solemn jest Of weary Peter Wanderwide, He spoke it with a failing zest, And having spoken it, he died.
The nation known to history as the Nephalo Ceclumenazenoi, or, more shortly, the Nepioi, inhabited a fruitful and prosperous district consisting in a portion of the mainland and certain islands situated in the Picrocholian Sea; and had there for countless centuries enjoyed a particular form of government which it is not difficult to describe, for it was religious and arranged upon the principle that no ancient custom might be changed.
Lest such changes should come about through the lapse of time or the evil passions of men, the citizens of the aforesaid nation had them very clearly engraved in a dead language and upon bronze tablets, which they fixed upon the doors of their principal temple, where it stood upon a hill outside the city, and it was their laudable custom to entrust the interpretation of them not to aged judges, but to little children, for they argued that we increase in wickedness with years, and that no one is safe from the aged, but that children are, alone of the articulately speaking race, truth-tellers. Therefore, upon the first day of the year (which falls in that country at the time of sowing) they would take one hundred boys of ten years of age chosen by lot, they would make these hundred, who had previously for one year received instruction in their sacred language, write each a translation of the simple code engraved upon the bronze tablets. It was invariably discovered that these artless compositions varied only according to the ability of the lads to construe, and that some considerable proportion of them did accurately show forth in the vernacular of the time the meaning of those ancestral laws. They had further a magistrate known as the Archon. whose business it was to administrate these customs and to punish those who broke them. And this Archon, when or if he proposed something contrary to custom in the opinion of not less than a hundred petitioners, was judged by a court of children.
In this fashion for thousands of years did the Nepioi proceed with their calm and ordinary lives, enjoying themselves like so many grigs, and utterly untroubled by those broils and imaginations of State which disturbed their neighbours.
There was a legend among them (upon which the whole of this Constitution was based) that a certain Hero, one Melek, being in stature twelve foot high and no less than 93 inches round the chest, had landed in their country 150,000 years previously, and finding them very barbarous, slaying one another and unacquainted with the use of letters, the precious metals, or the art of usury, had instructed them in civilization, endowed them with letters, a coinage, police, lawyers, instruments of torture, and all the other requisites of a great State, and had finally drawn up for them this code of law or custom, which they carefully preserved engraved upon the tablets of bronze, which were set upon the walls of their chief temple on the hill outside the city.
Within the temple itself its great shrine and, so to speak, its very cause of being was the Hero's tomb. He lay therein covered with plates of gold, and it was confidently asserted and strictly and unquestionably believed that at some unknown time in the future he would come out to rule them for ever in a millennial fashion—though heaven knows they were happy enough as it was.
Among their customs was this: that certain appointed officers would at every change in the moon proclaim the former existence and virtue of Melek, his residence in the tomb, and his claims to authority. To enter the tomb, indeed, was death, but there was proof of the whole story in documents which were carefully preserved in the temple, and which were from time to time consulted and verified. The whole structure of Nepioian society reposed upon the sanctity of this story, upon the presence of the Hero in his tomb, and of his continued authority, for with this was intertwined, or rather upon this was based, the further sanctity of their customs.
Things so proceeded without hurt or cloud until upon one most unfortunate day a certain man, bearing the vulgar name of Megalocrates, which signifies a person whose health requires the use of a wide head-gear, discovered that a certain herb which grew in great abundance in their territory and had hitherto been thought useless would serve almost every purpose of the table, sufficing, according to its preparation, for meat, bread, vegetables, and salt, and, if properly distilled, for a liquor that would make the Nepioi even more drunk than did their native spirits.
From this discovery ensued a great plenty throughout the land, the population very rapidly increased, the fortunes of the wealthy grew to double, treble, and four times those which had formerly been known, the middle classes adopted a novel accent in speech and a gait hitherto unusual, while great numbers of the poor acquired the power of living upon so small a proportion of foul air, dull light, stagnant water, and mangy crusts as would have astonished their nicer forefathers. Meanwhile this great period of progress could not but lead to further discoveries, and the Nepioi had soon produced whole colleges in which were studied the arts useful to mankind and constantly discovered a larger and a larger number of surprising and useful things. At last the Nepioi (though this, perhaps, will hardly be credited) were capable of travelling underground, flying through the air, conversing with men a thousand miles away in a moment of time, and committing suicide painlessly whenever there arose occasion for that exercise.
It may be imagined with what reverence the authors of all these boons, the members of the learned colleges, were regarded; and how their opinions had in the eyes and ears of the Nepioi an unanswerable character.
Now it so happened that in one of these colleges a professor of more than ordinary position emitted one day the opinion that Melek had lived only half as long ago as was commonly supposed. In proof of this he put forward the undoubted truth that if Melek had lived at the time he was supposed to have lived, then he would have lived twice as long ago as he, the professor, said that he had lived. The more old-fashioned and stupid of the Nepioi murmured against such opinions, and though they humbly confessed themselves unable to discover any flaw in the professor's logic, they were sure he was wrong somewhere and they were greatly disturbed. But the opinion gained ground, and, what is more, this fruitful and intelligent surmise upon the part of the professor bred a whole series of further theories upon Melek, each of which contradicted the last but one, and the latest of which was always of so limpid and so self-evident a truth as to be accepted by whatever was intelligent and energetic in the population, and especially by the young unmarried women of the wealthier classes. In this manner the epoch of Melek was reduced to five, to three, to two, to one thousand years. Then to five hundred, and at last to one hundred and fifty. But here was a trouble. The records of the State, which had been carefully kept for many centuries, showed no trace of Melek's coming during any part of the time, but always referred to him as a long-distant forerunner. There was not even any mention of a man twelve foot high, nor even of one a little over 93 inches round the chest. At last it was proposed by an individual of great courage that he might be allowed to open the tomb of Melek and afterwards, if they so pleased, suffer death. This privilege was readily granted to him by the Archon. The worthy reformer, therefore, prised open the sacred shrine and found within it absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Upon this there arose among the Nepioi all manner of schools and discussions, some saying this and some that, but none with the certitude of old. Their customs fell into disrepute, and even the very professors themselves were occasionally doubted when they laid down the law upon matters in which they alone were competent—as, for instance, when they asserted that the moon was made of a peculiarly delicious edible substance which increased in savour when it was preserved in the store-rooms of the housewives; or when they affirmed with every appearance of truth that no man did evil, and that wilful murder, arson, cruelty to the innocent and the weak, and deliberate fraud were of no more disadvantage to the general state, or to men single, than the drinking of a cup of cold water.
So things proceeded until one day, when all custom and authority had fallen into this really lamentable deliquescence, fleets were observed upon the sea, manned by men-at-arms, the admiral of which sent a short message to the Archon proposing that the people of the country should send to him and his one-half of their yearly wealth for ever, "or," so the message proceeded, "take the consequences." Upon the Archon communicating this to the people there arose at once an infinity of babble, some saying one thing and some another, some proposing to pay neighbouring savages to come in and fight the invaders, others saying it would be cheaper to compromise with a large sum, but the most part agreeing that the wisest thing would be for the Archon and his great-aunt to go out to the fleet in a little boat and persuade the enemy's admiral (as they could surely easily do) that while most human acts were of doubtful responsibility and not really wicked, yet the invasion, and, above all, the impoverishment of the Nepioi was so foul a wrong as would certainly call down upon its fiendish perpetrator the fires of heaven.
While the Archon and his great-aunt were rowing out in the little boat a few doddering old men and superstitious females slunk off to consult the bronze tablets, and there found under Schedule XII these words: "If an enemy threaten the State, you shall arm and repel him." In their superstition the poor old chaps, with their half-daft female devotees accompanying them, tottered back to the crowds to persuade them to some ridiculous fanaticism or other, based on no better authority than the non-existent Melek and his absurd and exploded authority.
Judge of their horror when, as they neared the city, they saw from the height whereon the temple stood that the invaders had landed, and, having put to the sword all the inhabitants without exception, were proceeding to make an inventory of the goods and to settle the place as conquerors. The admiral summoned this remnant of the nation, and hearing what they had to say treated them with the greatest courtesy and kindness and pensioned them off for their remaining years, during which period they so instructed him and his fighting men in the mysteries of their religion as quite to convert them, and in a sense to found the Nepioian State over again; but it should be mentioned that the admiral, by way of precaution, changed that part of the religion which related to the tomb of Melek and situated the shrine in the very centre of the crater of an active volcano in the neighbourhood, which by night and day, at every season of the year, belched forth molten rock so that none could approach it within fifteen miles.
Among the delights of historical study which makes it so curiously similar to travel, and therefore so fatally attractive to men who cannot afford it, is the element of discovery and surprise: notably in little details.
When in travel one goes along a way one has never been before one often comes upon something odd, which one could not dream was there: for instance, once I was in a room in a little house in the south and thought there must be machinery somewhere from the noise I heard, until a man in the house quietly lifted up a trapdoor in the floor, and there, running under and through the house a long way below, was a river: the River Garonne.
It is the same way in historical study. You come upon the most extraordinary things: little things, but things whose unexpectedness is enormous. I had an example of this the other day, as I was looking up some last details to make certain of the affair of Valmy.
Most people have heard of the French Revolution, and many people have heard of the battle of Valmy, which decided the first fate of that movement, when it was first threatened by war. But very few people have read about Valmy, so it is necessary to give some idea of the action to understand the astonishing little thing attaching to it which I am about to describe.
The cannonade of Valmy was exchanged between a French Army with its back to a range of hills and a Prussian Army about a mile away over against them. It was as though the French Army had stretched from Leatherhead to Epsom and had engaged in a cannonade with a Prussian Army lying over against them in a position astraddle of the road to Kingston.
Through this range of hills at the back of the French Army lay a gap, just as there is a gap through the hills behind Leatherhead. Not only was that gap easily passable by an army—easily, at least, compared with the hill country on either side—but it had running through it the great road from Metz to Paris, so that advance along it was rapid and practicable.
It so happened that another force of the enemy besides that which was cannonading the French in front was advancing through this gap from behind, and it is evident that if this second force of the enemy had been able to get through the gap it would have been all up with the French. Dumouriez, who commanded the French, saw this well enough; he had ordered the gap to be strongly fortified and well gunned and a camp to be formed there, largely made up of Volunteers and Irregulars. On the proper conduct of that post depended everything: and here comes the fun. The commander of the post was not what you might expect, a Frenchman of any one of the French types with which the Revolution has made us familiar: contrariwise, he was an elderly private gentleman from the county of Norfolk.
His name was Money. The little that is known about him is entertaining to a degree. His own words prove him to be like the person in the song, "a very honest man," and luckily for us he has left in a book a record of the day (and subsequent actions) stamped vividly with his own character. John Money: called by his neighbours General John Money, not, as you might expect. General Money: a man devoted to the noble profession of arms and also eaten up with a passion for ballooning.
I find it difficult to believe that he was first in action at the age of nine years or that he held King George's commission as a Cornet at the age of ten. He does not tell us so himself nor do any of his friends. The surmise is that of our Universities, and it is worthy of them. Clap on ten years and you are nearer the mark. At any rate he was under fire in 1761, and he was a Cornet in 1762; a Cornet in the Inniskilling Dragoons with a commission dated on the 11th of March of that year. Then he transformed himself into a Linesman, got his company in the 9th Foot eight years later, and eight years later again, at the outbreak of the American War, he was a major. He was quarter-master-general under Burgoyne, he was taken prisoner—I think at Saratoga, but anyhow during that disastrous advance upon the Hudson Valley. He got his lieutenant-colonelcy towards the end of the war. He retired from the Army and never saw active service again. When the Low Countries revolted against Austria he offered his services to the insurgents and was accepted, but the truly entertaining chapter of his adventures begins when he suggested himself to the French Government as a very proper and likely man to command a brigade on the outbreak of the great war with the Empire and with Prussia.
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KANSAS CITY -3 vs New England
Tom Brady ain’t as good as he once was.
Bill Belichick ain’t as good as he once was.
But really ….. how hard was it to improve on these?
Good thing he met Gisele after growing out of his awkward phase.
This is Belichick as a Colts Special Assistant in 1975. Some guys just never lose the fashion style.
These guys haven’t been an underdog since 2015. They won that game outright. You might point out that they haven’t won a playoff game on the road since 2007. You would be right, but their record since then is …. 0-2. That’s right. They’ve had two road playoff games in the last 12 years. Both times they lost to the Broncos and Peyton Manning.
Which brings us to Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes:
Andy Reid as a BYU assistant in 1982. He was the same size as a 12 year old in the Pass Punt and Kick competition. Look it up. We’re sparing you the picture.
Patrick Mahomes on draft day. The guy has style.
One of these things is not like the other, right? Brady, Belichick and Reid are OG. They learned how to win over a long period of looking like “Before” pictures on a self-help infomercial.
This is going to matter on Sunday night in not-as-cold-as-you-think Kansas City. Mahomes is magic but he hasn’t paid his dues in the league. Sorry Patrick, you’ve gotta wait your turn.
The Chiefs only chance was for the weather to make Brady want to run for a blanket to put over his legs and a warm mug of cocoa on the bench. You know, like Jared Goff. But it’s looking like mid-30s and not windy in KC. Better weather than in Foxboro this time of year.
The Chargers’ defense is way way better than the Chiefs’, and the Patriots made them look silly last week. The Chiefs need to outscore the Pats to win, and unfortunately that means stopping them every once in a while. The Pats uncharacteristically took the ball after winning the coin toss, and they rolled down the field for a score. Expect them to do the same if they win it again.
We’ve been making fun of Brady’s battle versus Father Time for two years now. One day we’ll be right. In the meantime, do you want to be the one that gave points to the greatest dynasty in league history against a rookie QB and a coach with a 12-13 career playoff record with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line?
Brady needs to win to get to his 9th Super Bowl. He’s trying to keep pace with Phillip Rivers kid count. Time is running out, but we’re counting on Brady/Belichick to be as good once as they ever was. (Thanks, Toby Keith)
Patriots +3
Patriots +135
NEW ORLEANS -3.5 vs. LA Rams
Bill Vinovich is the head referee for the NFC Championship in New Orleans. Really, the lead official shouldn’t be a storyline, but it is for this game. Vinovich has been the head referee in 8 Los Angeles Rams games. The Rams record in those games - 0 and 8! This record includes two games this year - Week 9 in New Orleans when the Rams came in 8-0 and left with a 45-35 loss and Week 15 a 30-23 loss to the Eagles. So not only are the Rams 0-8 when Vinovich is the head referee - he was the referee when these two teams met earlier in the season. No one at the NFL offices noticed that?
The Vinovich selection has caused so much consternation among Rams fans that one fan started a petition to remove Vinovich from the game. At the time of this writing, 6,812 fans have signed the petition including yours truly. Click the link below to view and sign.
Some key points in the case against Vinovich.
1) The Rams are are 0-8 with Vinovitch as their head referee despite being 55-48-1 without him since 2012.
2) Vinovitch has never assessed the Rams' opponent more penalty yardage. That includes the games that McVay coached.
3) On average, the Rams nearly double the penalty yardage assessed when compared to their opponents in the games Vinovitch has reffed since 2012.
4) Vinovitch is the only ref to have ejected Aaron Donald.
5) Vinovitch is the only ref to have ejected Chris Long (I know he’s not playing in the game but still!)
But the most significant point against Vinovich was a very controversial call in the Week 9 game vs. New Orleans. The highlight of that game’s officiating was a missed call when the Rams faked a field goal tied 14-14 and Johnny Hekker clearly reached the ball over the first down marker before going down or being out of bounds. It was obvious to everyone watching the game, that Hekker made the first down. What makes it worse is that when challenged by head coach Sean Mcvay, Vinovich found “no conclusive evidence” to overturn the call.
Johnny Hekker is an inspiration to punters everywhere. ✊ @JHekker pic.twitter.com/itqo1Kd674
— The Checkdown (@thecheckdown) November 4, 2018
Aside for the obvious advantage from the officials, this game is being played in New Orleans where the Saints enjoy a significant home field advantage. In terms of personnel, both teams are fairly even. Drew Brees experience definitely gives the Saints an advantage over Jared Goff. Playmakers are comparable for both sides with Tayson Hill’s versatility being an advantage for the Saints. On the defensive side of the ball, the Rams pass rush, led by Aaron Donald, is one of the best in the league but the linebacking core is a weakness. The Rams have struggled against the run and the Saints may be able to exploit that. The Saints defense was the 2nd toughest to run on this year, but was the 2nd easiest to throw on. If LA can establish the run like they did last week, they will have a much easier time moving the ball through the air. All in all this will be a very even match-up and should be an excellent game. In the end, the Saints 12th man (Superdome crowd) and 13th man (Vinovich) will prove to be to much for the Rams.
SAINTS -3.5
Will a Special Teams or Defensive TD be scored? YES +155
Will there be a Successful 2 point Conversion Attempt in the Game? YES +275
Will the game go to Overtime? YES +900 (worth a small flier on this one)
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Isle Royale 1845-1846
By James R. Stevens
Angelique Mott was seventeen when she was deceived and eventually left on her own with no food to survive a frigid winter on Michigan’s famed Isle Royale. Her fight to survive is a heroic epic on the Lake Superior Frontier of 1845 and 46. James R. Stevens’ novella, based on historical fact is an emotional journey with Angelique as she starves and deals with her faith in Christianity and the spirit world of her forest people. Much of the story streams forth in the words of an old Metis grandson living alone on Madeline Island in Wisconsin. Angelique’s journey into a winter of hell begins at Sault Ste. Marie when she and her husband, Charlie Mott ride the schooner Algonquin to the shores of Isle Royale in a search for copper.
“Angelique’s story represents the essence of our true selves, and despite the intrusions of foreign doctrine. James Stevens properly portrays the powerful and mystical ways of our unique spirituality. This, the mainstay of Angelique’s survival crossed by the violent nature of humanity and of nature itself. Angelique teaches us the essential human elements…..faith in yourself and forgiveness to those who have caused so much tragedy. Little did I know that I would be so engulfed in Angelique’s harrowing life experience that I became a part of her journey in such a way that I will never forget. The book reinforces our belief system of never giving up and the power of forgiveness. This story is a must read for everyone. ”
Marlene Pierre—Ojibway Woman Activist—
Angelique's Isle
by director Michelle Derosier
Julia Jones as Angelique and Charlie Carrick as Charlie Mott. The young couple were abandoned on a Lake Superior island in the 1840s. Only Angelique survived. (Thunderstone Pictures)
Filmmaker Michelle Derosier is currently editing her first feature, Angelique’s Isle, which will be released next year.
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Reporters’ Roundtable – July 8, 1983
Subjects: Filmed panel discussions | Journalists | Politics | Government | Louisiana. Legislature | Louisiana Legislative Session, 1983 | Elections, 1983 | Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1983 | Edwards, Edwin W. | Treen, David C., 1928-2009 | Deferred Compensation Corporation of Louisiana | Louisiana. Office of the Lieutenant Governor | Freeman, Robert L., 1934- | STATE BUDGET | Multibank holding companies | Banking Industry | Lotteries | Louisiana. Department of Environmental Quality
Ekings, Robyn Host
Young, David Host
Duffy, Joan Panelist
Wardlaw, Jack Panelist
This segment from the July 8, 1983, episode of “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features David Young and Robyn Ekings leading a reporters’ roundtable with Joan Duffy of United Press International and Jack Wardlaw of the New Orleans Times-Picayune on the conclusion of the 1983 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature. They discuss: the impact of the investigation into the Deferred Compensation Corporation of Louisiana (DCCL) on the 1983 gubernatorial election between former Governor Edwin Edwards and Governor Dave Treen; Treen’s veto of two-thirds of Lieutenant Governor Bobby Freeman’s budget; the debate over the state budget; the defeat of the multibank holding company bill and the lottery proposal; the creation of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ); and the upcoming statewide elections in November.
1983 Legislative Session Recap
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LGBTI Intergroup MEP heading to Belgrade Pride
26th September 2014 60 0 0
After three bans in a row since 2011, a Pride March is scheduled to take place in Belgrade this Sunday. From the European Parliament, Terry Reintke MEP will march along for equality and human rights.
After an attack on a German LGBTI activist two weeks ago, all eyes are on Serbia to ensure that and well-protected pride takes place. The last three years, Prides were cancelled last-minute, quoting security threats.
The European Parliament has closely followed developments in Serbia and often called on the Serbian Republic to ensure that freedom of assembly is guaranteed for all, including LGBTI people.
Last Tuesday, the State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior stated that he saw “no reason” for the Pride not to be held.
Member of the LGBTI Intergroup-designate Terry Reintke MEP, who will head to Belgrade for the Pride, reacted: “Two weeks ago I was in Serbia at an LGBT Conference where one of the participants faced horrible violence.”
“I strongly appreciate the openness and determination with which the police worked on clarifying the dreadful event. Now it is the task of the Serbian state authorities to ensure a peaceful, free and safe pride. It is the fundamental right of every citizen to freely assemble. Implementing this right is of ample importance for ensuring a democratic society.”
Vice-President of the LGBTI Intergroup-designate Tanja Fajon MEP, added: “I welcome that for the first time, political leaders have given their explicit support for the Pride, with even a Minister announcing his attendance.”
“After three last-minute bans over the last three years, this year, the Serbian government will have the opportunity to right these wrongs. The values of tolerance and diversity that will be highlighted this Sunday are European, and Serbia fully belongs in Europe.”
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Anarchists Article History Tree Map
Encyclopedia of Keywords > Society > Movements > Political Movements > Anarchism > Anarchists Michael Charnine
STALINISTS
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ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM
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ANARCHO-COMMUNISTS
ANTI-STATE
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FREE SOCIETY
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INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHISTS
This Review contains major "Anarchists"- related terms, short phrases and links grouped together in the form of Encyclopedia article.
Anarchists is a South Korea action movie, made in 2000, and directed by Yu Yong-Sik and written by Park Chan-wook. (Web site)
Anarchists was the first Korean and Chinese co-production in the history of Korean cinema. (Web site)
Anarchists are people who believe in anarchism and desire to live in anarchy as all our ancestors once did. (Web site)
Anarchists are opposed to government, the state and Capitalism. (Web site)
Anarchists are thus opposed to both capitalism and to the state, as well as to all forms of religious authority.
The anarchists on the libertarian side, and the Jacobins, Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, and reformist state-socialists on the authoritarian side. (Web site)
Nevertheless, all who opposed the Stalinists were labelled Trotskyists or Anarchists, and had to be eliminated. (Web site)
We knew the history of Spain where both the Francoists and Stalinists executed anarchists. (Web site)
Anarchists in power would not necessarily be any better or worse than anyone else, and they might even be as bad as Communists or fascists. (Web site)
Collectivism is the ideology of fascists and communists, not anarchists. (Web site)
And I have to say that the "anarchists and trotskyists fought to resist fascists in Spain" were every bit as nasty in their methods as the opposition.
No, anarchists do not subscribe to such "equality," which is a product of the "ethics of mathematics" of capitalism and not of anarchist ideas.
The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in their literature.
Anarchist ideas evolved and blossomed when Russian anarchists Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) and Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) started to write and speak. (Web site)
With the example of the Russian revolution, most revolutionary-minded people turned to the Leninists; the anarchists became increasingly marginalized. (Web site)
His groundbreaking "Anarchists in the Russian Revolution" (1973) completed what we may call the first phase of his work. (Web site)
Anarchists had influence in many other revolutions, including the Mexican Revolution and the Russian Revolution, and rebellions like that in May 1968.
The red-and-black flag, coming from the experience of anarchists in the labour movement, is particularly associated with anarcho-syndicalism.
For more details on anarcho-syndicalism see section J.3.8 (and section J.3.9 on why many anarchists reject aspects of it).
Only by doing this can anarchists prove, to quote Rocker, that " Socialism will be free, or it will not be at all." [ Anarcho-Syndicalism, p.
In addition, revolutionary anarchists argue that even if anarchists did not support revolutionary change, this would not stop such events happening.
When the ideas of revolutionary anarchists like Bakunin and Kropotkin are compared to revolutionary syndicalism, the similarities are soon discovered.
Any account of anarcho-syndicalism really needs to address this issue if it is to convince other revolutionary anarchists of its merits. (Web site)
For Sacco and Vanzetti died, as the entire world knows today, because they were Anarchists. (Web site)
It also discusses the Spanish Civil War, the 1917 Revolution, the influence of Emma Goldman and the case of executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.
To the very end, then, Sacco and Vanzetti remained active anarchists, continuing their work even in prison. (Web site)
Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian anarchists framed in the United States in the early 20s for a robbery and murder they did not commit.
Sacco and Vanzetti, then, were two of the many thousands of Italian anarchists in the United States. (Web site)
The manifesto was countersigned by approximately one hundred other anarchists, half of whom were Italian anarchists.
Individualist anarchism does not represent the majority of anarchists; most anarchists favor some form of communitarianism or collectivism.
Slight expansion on the section explaining why anarchists reject "individualism" and "collectivism" as two sides of the same (capitalist) coin.
Criticism of collectivism comes from individualists, such as classical liberals, libertarians, individualist anarchists, and Objectivists.
To the claim that anarchism "combines a socialist critique of capitalism with a liberal critique of socialism," anarchists say that this is mistaken.
For anarchists, "socialism from below" can only be another name, like libertarian socialism, for anarchism (as Lenin, ironically enough, acknowledged).
This is true, in a sense, as anarchists are not state socialists - we reject such "socialism" as deeply authoritarian.
Famous anarchists of the nineteenth century such as Mikhail Bakunin and Errico Malatesta saw violence as a necessary and sometimes desirable force. (Web site)
He wrote biographies of many famous anarchists, including Mikhail Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, and Errico Malatesta.
Johann Most was also the teacher of several more well-known anarchists, most notedly Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and Errico Malatesta.
Extensive information on many anarchists, from Bookchin to Malatesta.
Similarly, anarchists like Malatesta also recognised the importance of mass organisations like unions.
As Malatesta argued, "anarchy, as understood by the anarchists and as only they can interpret it, is based on socialism.
Anarchists including Benjamin Tucker, Federica Montseny, and the Bonnot Gang claimed him as an influence, while Emma Goldman gave lectures on his thought. (Web site)
His ideas and writings came to influence later anarchists particularly Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker. (Web site)
Some individualist anarchists such as Benjamin Tucker and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon referred to their philosophy as socialism. (Web site)
There, Benjamin Tucker was arguing that anarcho-communists were not anarchists while Johann Most was saying similar things about Tucker's ideas. (Web site)
Well, I found the anarchists, anarcho-communists, libertarian socialists, etc., if not by the hundreds at least by the score. (Web site)
So in this respect the Anarcho-Communists see themselves as pursuing a fuller definition of liberation than other anarchists.
Unsurprisingly, these "anti-state" liberals tended to, at best, refuse to call themselves anarchists or, at worse, explicitly deny they were anarchists.
Anarchists are anti-state, therefore we cannot be part of a political spectrum which is statist. (Web site)
Anti-state.com is an online meeting place for market anarchists.
Market anarchists include agorists[4], anarcho-capitalists, mutualists and voluntaryists.
Part I of the book is addressed to other libertarians, specifically market anarchists (also called anarcho-capitalists). (Web site)
Market anarchists are anarchists who favor individual possession of property and free exchange of property through market associations. (Web site)
Anarchists such as Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin argued over a century ago that Marxist economic reductionism neglected the importance of State power.
Communist Anarchism was associated with such anarchists as Élisée Reclus, Carlo Cafiero, Errico Malatesta and (most famously) Peter Kropotkin. (Web site)
Anarchists in the Jura federation, like James Guillaume, would play a key role in Peter Kropotkin 's conversion to anarchism. (Web site)
Emma Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre were anarchists for different reasons and in different ways. (Web site)
He is recorded as having regular correspondence with noted anarchists, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, and Max Nettlau and many others.
Emma Goldman, for example, summarised for all anarchists when she argued that anarchism "stands for.
The Chicago anarchists, like all anarchists, were applying their ideas to the class struggle.
Anarchists have always taken a keen interest in the class struggle, in the organisation, solidarity and actions of working class people.
Anarchist-Communists are revolutionary Anarchists who believe in the philosophy of class struggle, an end to Capitalism, and all forms of oppression. (Web site)
As anarchists have long argued, the class struggle creates the framework of a free society. (Web site)
So, while anarchists see "the future in the present" as the initial framework of a free society, we recognise that such a society will evolve and change.
Anarchists realize that quite to the contrary, the principal barriers to a free society are State and the institution of private property. (Web site)
Thus classical economics was rejected in favour of utility theory once socialists and anarchists used it to show that capitalism was exploitative. (Web site)
Moreover, anarchists also reject capitalism for being authoritarian as well as exploitative.
Similarly, they consider that profits, interest and rent as valid sources of income while anarchists oppose these as usury and exploitative. (Web site)
Anarcho-capitalism IS a form of anarchism, simply by the fact that anarcho-capitalists call themselves "anarchists".
Socialist anarchists, sometimes called left anarchists by pro-capitalists, do not always consider anarcho-capitalism to be a form of anarchism.
Most anarchists reject the claim that anarcho-capitalism is a form of anarchism as it is marked by authoritarian structures. (Web site)
During the Spanish Civil War and Revolution of 1936, anarchists liberated areas of Aragon, Catalonia and other parts of Spain.
The Spanish Revolution & Civil War 1936-1939 Introductory essay on the Spanish Civil War in which anarchists played a major role.
I would fully agree that Anarchists and Trotskyists shot, bombed and executed Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.
Anarchists like David Koven, surviving old Italian and Spanish anarchists, and conscientious objectors returning from the Waldorf detention camp took part. (Web site)
The role of the Spanish anarchists in the Spanish Civil War has perhaps generated more debate on alt.society.anarchy than any other historical issue. (Web site)
The thesis that the Spanish Anarchists were "primitive rebels," with a primitive understanding of the nature of revolution is a common one amongst Marxists. (Web site)
Anarchists have been using the term "libertarian" to describe themselves and their ideas since the 1850's.
Nor do anarchists assume that a revolution will initially be libertarian in nature.
Libertarian had previously been used most commonly by anarchists to describe themselves, avoiding the derogatory connotations of the word "anarchy".
People like that don't leave Israel or Jews alone, whether they're libertarians, anarchists, conservatives or liberals. (Web site)
Anarchists and minarchists All libertarians agree that government should be limited to what is strictly necessary, no more, no less. (Web site)
Anarchists and Left Libertarians - Includes biographies of prominent anarchists and left libertarians.
Proudhon did not write a programme for all time, nor did Kropotkin in his time write for a sect of Anarchists. (Web site)
In 1892, she joined Malatesta and Kropotkin, among others, in an informal group calling on anarchists to work more closely with trade unions. (Web site)
Kropotkin argued, for example, that "from all times there have been Anarchists and Statists." [ Op.
For Bakunin, like all anarchists, the abolition of the state occurs at the same time as the abolition of capital.
As Bakunin argued at the time (and anarchists have repeated since) the state is, by its nature, a centralised and top-down machine. (Web site)
Anarchists made a break from Marxists when Bakunin was ejected from the First International.
Rather than show the failure of anarchism, the experience of the Spanish Revolution indicates the failure of anarchists to apply their ideas in practice. (Web site)
Aware that some anarchists in Spain did propose anarchist solutions to the problems facing the Spanish revolution, Selfa tries to present them as Marxists.
The Spanish Revolution is often quoted by Anarchists as an example of Anarchist ideas in action.
Anarcho-syndicalism is also discussed, as is why many anarchists are not anarcho-syndicalists.
Hence the paradoxical situation in which the anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and FAI members found themselves in during this time. (Web site)
Important article on the near revolution in Italy in 1920 in which anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists played an important role.
It has nothing to do with violence, quite the reverse, as anarchists see it as the means to end the rule and use of violence in society.
Anarchists reject the Leninist idea that state property means the end of capitalism as simplistic and confused.
The Anarchists believe in liberty both as an end and means, and are hostile to anything that antagonizes it. (Web site)
Lawrence Jarach: There are many ecologically minded anarchists these days, from Social Ecologists to Green Anarchists, to Earth Firsters, to primitivists.
The problem many "red" anarchists have with green anarchists is our distaste for industrialism and the fact that we abhor "work". (Web site)
Anarchists in general, and green anarchists in particular, favor direct action over mediated or symbolic forms of resistance.
Marxists are not considered anarchists as they support the state as a means of transition to an anarchist society.
It was no accident that anarchists in Chicago were at the centre of a movement that looked to the unions as a means of bringing about an anarchist society.
Anarchists emphasized the need for revolutionary means (organizations, actions and ideas) to foreshadow the ends (an anarchist society). (Web site)
It is true that, in the course of social revolution, we anarchists may not be able to stop a new state being created or the old one from surviving.
While most anarchists do believe that a social revolution is required to create a free society, some reject the idea.
For anarchists, a social revolution is the end product of years of social struggle.
Therefore, I think the question is not about "communists" and "individualists", but rather about anarchists and non-anarchists. (Web site)
Anarchists, whether collectivists or individualists, communists or agorists (marketeers), have always remained on the furthest Left. (Web site)
While all anarchists rejected the state communism advocated by Karl Marx, individualists had a particular focus on the primacy of the individual. (Web site)
Many anarcho-communists (and collectivist anarchists as well) reject "individualism" and "collectivism" as illusory concepts. (Web site)
Unlike mutualists, collectivist anarchists oppose all private ownership of the means of production, instead advocating that ownership be collectivized.
Both communist and collectivist anarchists recognise the need for anarchists to unite together in purely anarchist organisations.
In the Ukraine, anarchists fought in the civil war against Whites and then the Bolsheviks as part of the Makhnovshchina peasant army led by Nestor Makhno.
True, the government, at that period, was not averse to dealing severely with both Anarchists and Bolsheviks. (Web site)
The Bolsheviks triumphed in the Russian revolution, crushing both the Mensheviks and the anarchists in their wake.
This idea was repeated after the Russian revolution by anarchists like Kropotkin and Makhno, as well as some communists.
Anarchists agree with communists that capitalism is a tool for oppression, that it is unjust and that it should be destroyed, one way or another.
Anarchists built all kinds of communes and collective during the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s, but were crushed by the fascists and the Communists.
Unlike anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, syndicalists have generally felt happy to leave the question of the fate of the state unanswered.
Needless to say, as far as means go, few anarchists and syndicalists are complete pacifists.
Maximoff has written about the experience of anarchists and syndicalists in the Russian Revolution of 1917. (Web site)
Additionally, some libertarian socialists refer to themselves as anarchists or communists to differentiate themselves from Libertarians.
Anarchism is a libertarian doctrine and a form of libertarian socialism, so not all the views of libertarians or libertarian socialists are anarchists. (Web site)
Libertarian socialists and communists, left communists and anarchists often use terms such as "state socialism" or " state capitalism ".
Feral Watkins refers to Chaz Bufe's "Listen, Anarchist!" as evidence of how anarchists feel about those who try to avoid work in our society. (Web site)
More and more anarchists came to see "propaganda by the deed" as giving the state an excuse to clamp down on both the anarchist and labour movements.
While all of these organizations have anarchists as members, many are inclusive beyond anarchist and include anti-authoritarians and greens.
Hence, reason some critics of anarchism, the goal of anarchists is futile because we are already in a state of anarchy.
Cit., p. 40] And, just to state the obvious, anarchy does not mean chaos nor do anarchists seek to create chaos or disorder. (Web site)
Little wonder, then, that anarchists oppose private property as Anarchy is "the absence of a master, of a sovereign" [Proudhon, Op.
As we can see, the exploitative, force- and rule-based system of capitalism is not championed by any anarchists, not even the anarcho-capitalists. (Web site)
The main distinction between anarcho-capitalists and other anarchists is the support of capitalism. (Web site)
Hence, anarcho-capitalists depart from individualist anarchists on what constitutes concepts such as the "state", "capitalism", and a "free market". (Web site)
Because "anarcho"-capitalists embrace capitalism and reject socialism, they cannot be considered anarchists or part of the anarchist tradition. (Web site)
Cit., p. 39] Needless to say, anarchists oppose state socialism just as much as they oppose capitalism.
Many anarchists, however, consider anarcho-capitalism an oxymoron, arguing that capitalism is a hierarchal system and anarchism is non-hierarchal. (Web site)
In practice, most political revolutionaries have been either liberals, nationalists, socialists, communists, fascists or anarchists. (Web site)
Heh. Or maybe a whole Far Left front, not just socialists but communists and anarchists too, to finally put an end to capitalism.
So anarchists consider themselves as socialists, but socialists of a specific kind -- libertarian socialists.
Anarchists who are not individualist anarchists oppose the idea that private defense could be compatible with anarchism.
This social context helps explain why some of the individualist anarchists were indifferent to the issue of wage labour, unlike most anarchists.
Because of this the Individualist Anarchists, like other anarchists, considered non-labour derived income as usury, unlike "anarcho"-capitalists.
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Luna 24 landed on the northwestern rim of a 64 m diameter impact crater, on the volcanic plains of Mare Crisium. Enlargement of lander at lower left, NAC M174868307L [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Three Soviet missions (Luna 16, Luna 20, and Luna 24) successfully collected and returned pieces of the lunar surface. Before the successful Luna 24 sample return mission in August 1976, Luna 23 was sent two years earlier (November 1974) to nearly the same location in Mare Crisium, but was unsuccessful.
Luna 24 landed in Mare Crisium on 18 August 1976 to complete the unfinished mission of Luna 23. The landing sites of Luna 23 and 24 are only 2.3 km apart. The region of Mare Crisium where they landed is a typical smooth mare surface with little relief in the immediate vicinity. There are numerous secondary craters scattered across the region, and Luna 24 landed on the edge of one of these. The secondary craters are the result of an impact to the northeast of the landing site, perhaps from the crater Giordano Bruno.
The Luna 23 and Luna 24 landing sites. Distance between two landers is 2.3 km. NAC M119449091LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Because the precise locations of the various Soviet robotic landing sites were previously unknown to scientists and engineers, finding the spacecraft in LROC NAC images is a high priority. By locating the spacecraft, we gain an understanding of the geologic context of the rock fragments and soils returned by Lunas 16, 20, and 24. Geologic context allows scientists to place the rock fragments and soils into the "bigger picture" within our current understanding of lunar geology, geochemistry, and geologic history. Many of the robotic spacecraft from various nations have been found already in LROC images, but there are a few remaining spacecraft with unknown locations including the early Soviet landers, Luna 9 and 13.
The Luna sample return spacecraft consisted of three flight elements: descent stage, ascent stage, and Earth-return capsule. The entire suite was landed on the surface, and the sample was acquired and placed in the Earth-return capsule. Then, the ascent stage, carrying the Earth-return capsule, was launched to return to Earth. The descent stage of the Luna spacecraft was left on the surface, which is observed in the LROC NAC images of the Luna 16, 20, and 24 landing sites. In the case of Luna 23, the entire spacecraft is still on the surface because it was damaged during landing and was unable to successfully operate and return a regolith sample to Earth.
Artist rendering of the liftoff of the ascent stage and Earth-return capsule from the surface of Mare Crisium.
Unfortunately, Luna 23 experienced a malfunction and hit the surface at a very high velocity. Contact was maintained between Earth and the spacecraft after landing, but a sample could not be acquired. At the time, the cause of the failure was not known, but it seemed probable that the whole spacecraft tipped over upon landing at an unexpectedly high velocity. Indeed, the high resolution LROC NAC image (below) shows the spacecraft lying on its side!
The entire Luna 23 vehicle (descent stage, ascent stage and Earth-return capsule) landed at an unexpected speed and fell on its side. Enlargement of vehicle in lower left inset; D: descent stage, A: ascent stage. NAC M174868307R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Luna 24 landed on Mare Crisium on 18 August 1976. The launch occurred several days earlier on 9 August from the Baikonur Cosmodrome using a four-stage Proton rocket. The vehicle arrived at the Moon on 13 August and spent five days in orbit before descending to the surface. After less than 24 hours, the ascent stage fired, sending the sample back toward the Earth. The spacecraft returned a total of 170 g (0.375 pounds) of regolith to the Earth on 22 August. Today's Featured Image here is the highest resolution observation of Luna 24 acquired by LROC, acquired from an altitude of 29 km above the surface, on orbit 10904.
It is hard not to notice all the bright spots around the Luna 24 descent stage. Are they boulders? Most likely, the small (pixel sized) bright dots are pieces of insulation blankets blown off the descent stage when the ascent stage blasted off to send the sample on its way to Earth. If you look closely you can find this type of debris up to a kilometer away from Luna 24! These bright spots are not present around Luna 23 because there was no blast effect from the ascent stage.
The returned Luna 24 sample surprised scientists as it had unexpected characteristics based on the understanding of Mare Crisium geology at the time. Most importantly, the titanium content and the maturity (or the amount of time the sample was exposed to the space environment) of the sample material were different than anticipated. But how could this be? Based on the geologic context of the lander, the reason for the difference may now be understood. With the precise location of the landing site now known, the LROC images show that the mission sampled impact ejecta from a nearby 64-meter diameter crater. That crater has excavated below the surface bringing up material from deeper lava flows that had not been previously exposed to the space environment. Thus, the Luna 24 sample may not represent nearby Mare Crisium surface materials observed using remote sensing techniques, but rather the subsurface which was only exposed to the space environment for the relatively short time. It’s amazing what geologic context can tell you!
Explore the surroundings near the Luna 24 spacecraft on your own!
Review earlier LROC Featured Images highlighting Luna 16, Luna 20 and Luna 24, and the two Soviet rovers Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2.
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Model behaviour: Julia Campbell-Gillies
December 16, 2015 / Linnea Enström
Over the past months, Julia Campbell-Gillies has started popping up in my Instagram feed. Messy fringe and heart-shaped lips, the South African model and artist has a talent for looking bored and totally enigmatic at the same time. But it’s not just the dazed stare that draws you in. Julia studies Art Direction at Condé Nast and is acutely aware of the message she puts across, collaborating only with photographers whose artistic vision she trusts. I spoke to the 19 year old burgeoning creative about vision, artistic collaboration and the inspiring women she has encountered along the way.
December 16, 2015 / Linnea Enström/
Art, Photography, Mafalda Silva, London
Finding Vivian Maier: The Story of America's Secret Photographer
July 17, 2014 / Linnea Enström
Vivian Maier never laid eyes on most of her own photography. When her belongings were sold at a Chicago auction after her death they comprised thousands of undeveloped rolls of film. Since then, she has become known around the world for her striking images of 1950s and 60s street life. Charlie Siskel, co-director of the documentary Finding Vivian Maier, was one of the first people to see her work in print. Immersed in an archive of beautiful city scenes, he was confronted with lost moments that perfectly blend the realms of art and reality.
July 17, 2014 / Linnea Enström/
Vivian Maier, Photography, Charlie Siskel, Art
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Ch 5 | Plotting with the Big T
The television newscast of a Catholic bishop chasing a girl in her soccer outfit off the steps of a Cathedral caught the attention of people around the world. Everyone wanted to know what it was all about. Suddenly reporters began to call the Chancery of the Diocese of Helena and the home of Catie Jo. The Diocese of Helena issued a no comment statement. Catie Jo’s parents said that no one from their family would speak to the press. The only other person, who knew what was happening was Fr. Hugh. He immediately called Catie Jo’s mother, Anne, who he had taught when she was in college, and arranged for a meeting with her and her husband, Pete.
Not only did they come to meet with Fr. Hugh, but Catie Jo’s two older brothers, Matt and Michael also came. Fr.Hugh sat in his office looking at four people, whose faith in the 11-year-old girl was amazing. Anne said she had always been a girl rich in imagination; an imagination that often became real in remarkable ways. Pete said he learned to believe his daughter when she suggested things. He told a story about how she warned him that he needed to take care of the pipe on their woodstove when she was six. It turned out the stovepipe was dangerously blocked and could have led to a serious incident if he had waited to check it. This was only one example of many things that led them to trust her.
Matt was a high school wrestler, who would only say his sister could take care of herself, but if she couldn’t he would be there to help her. Michael, who was graduating from high school and was an aspiring writer, brought his notebooks which documented the interesting things Catie Jo had said since she was seven.
They all knew she needed patience and love.
Fr. Hugh thought they might blame him for encouraging her in her imaginative relationships, but her parents told him they trusted him and knew that she was lucky to have someone like him to help her. As he looked at the four of them, he felt a thrill of anticipation move up his spine. Catie Jo had a devoted following in these four and the fact that they were her own family was even more remarkable. They only thing they wanted to ensure was that she had a normal childhood, as normal as possible.
Later that day Catie Jo came by to see Fr. Hugh. She was quieter than normal, but she didn’t seem upset or anxious. She asked Fr. Hugh to say a prayer with her. She prayed first for the Bishop, who needed her understanding, and then she prayed for her family.
She also prayed for a Church that needed something from her. She was embarrassed to say that the Church needed her help, but if it was so, she hoped she could offer the help that was needed. The priest and the little girl sat in silence. Fr. Hugh had the feeling again that she was guiding him down a road that he had to travel with her. To himself he asked for the humility that the young girl had.
As if she was reading his mind, Catie Jo said that Jesus needed people to be more humble. Fr. Hugh took a deep breath and asked her what she meant. She said that’s what everyone agreed when “the terrible T’s” came by to talk.
Fr. Hugh had to ask who the T’s were. Catie Jo said “That’s what Catherine called the Theresa’s,” whom Catherine accused of “traveling in a pack.” Fr. Hugh sat back in his chair realizing that whether he wanted it or not, he was along for the ride.
The girl added that it was the Big T, who especially thought people should be more humble when they came before the Eucharist.
Fr. Hugh felt himself making an important choice, relinquishing a lifetime of fears and concerns, as he suggested that the Big T was probably Teresa of Avila.
Catie Jo said,” Of course it was. The Big T asked me to start a little campaign to show people how to be more humble and respectful before the Eucharist. The Big T wanted to give up genuflecting.”
After all, she was another Church doc, so Catie Jo believed her when she said that genuflecting was an excuse for people to hide behind their unworthiness. They needed to stand up and look Jesus in the eye, accepting their call to be the partners in love that he called them to be, to see themselves as he saw them. The Big T said they needed to get beyond the worm thing.
Fr. Hugh asked what the worm thing was.
“You know, when you feel like an unworthy worm, when you realize how much God loves you,” she responded. “When you think about it, after a while you realize worms play a great part in creation. Then you feel Jesus lifting you and telling you to stand up and accept who you are … without groveling.”
Catie Jo added, “I think the word groveling is more T’s than Jesus’. The Big T says that groveling is only a sign that you aren’t humble enough to stop using your sinfulness as an excuse to become a true instrument of Jesus’ love.”
Fr. Hugh tapped on an envelope on his desk that contained the Bishop’s letter of support and the Vatican’s encouragement of the new devotion of people genuflecting before they received the Eucharist.
“And I suppose, you have some plans about how to do this,” he said smiling at Catie Jo, who smiled back at him.
The Bishop’s Dilemma
Ch1 | The Cathedral Steps
Ch 2 | St. Joan Expresses Her Concern
Ch 3 | Beautiful Fruit in Jello
Ch 4 | The Saints of Nicea
Ch 6 | Summoned to the Chancery
Ch 7 | The Menace from Ennis
Ch 8 | What About the Holy Spirit?
Ch 9 | St. Helena’s Clean Up
Ch 10 | What is Going On in Helena?
Ch 11 | In the Quizzes
Ch 12 | Catie Jo Fails to Make a Friend
Ch 13 | The Great Amen
Ch 14 | Fr. Hugh Undergoes A Small Conversion
Ch 15 | The Empress on the Move
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Phillippa Gordon
Around and About, Features, hockey, School Sports, Schools, Sport
Wartburg Kirchdorf claims fifth consecutive victory SPAR KZN School Girls’ Hockey Challenge
Wartburg Kirchdorf claims their fifth consecutive victory at Umvoti, uThukela and Umzinyathi Regional at Wembley College – Greytown
Wartburg Kirchdorf claimed their fifth consecutive victory at the Umvoti, uThukela and Umzinyathi Regional of the SPAR KZN School Girls’ Hockey Challenge at Wembley College in Greytown this Saturday.
Wembley College’s Ashleigh Mason sends the ball in from the top of the D during the tightly-contested, spirited game against Domino Servite at the SPAR KZN School Girls’ Hockey Challenge at Wembley College. Pic by Jonathan Burton
The cold, rainy and blustery weather did not dampen the spirits of the five first schoolgirls’ hockey teams, as they took to the astro. But it was the defending champions, Wartburg Kirchdorf who owned the day despite all the teams having had a tough time in the conditions. As the weather was less than ideal, games were shortened to 20 minutes one way instead of 30 minutes as originally planned for this regional.
In the final game, Wartburg psychologically worked some magic as they scored the game’s three goals within the first four minutes. Michelle Engelbrecht, managed to score the first and third goals, while her cousin Elona Engelbrecht, who plays for KZN U19 Inland Kites Team (although she is only U17), the second – with all three goals secured with skillful reverse stick precision.
Wembley fought back bravely, and managed to keep the decisive opponents out of the goals for the rest of the game, but, this resulted in them having to play a more defensive game. Goalie Ashleigh Mason was not going to allow any more passages into her goal, and valiantly defended it backed up by some rather determined Wembley defence.
An elated Wartburg Kirchdorf coach Lisa Misselhorn said “We are thrilled to have once again taken the honours. This was initially a very tough regional for us, as we were not playing with our heads. I knew all along that the bodies would not give up, they are strong, but we needed to pull together to play a more strategic team game. In the end this all seemed to come together and I think they worked extremely well as a team in the final game against Wembley.”
Kevin Engelbrecht, a relative of the Engelbrecht girls, was acknowledged as the most promising umpire for this regional.
Wartburg Kirchdorf join winners from the Ugu and Sisonke Regional, King Edward, Ferrum Skool (Newcastle), St Anne’s College (PMB North), St John’s DSG (PMB Central), Amanzimtoti High School (Durban South), Our Lady of Fatima (Durban North) and Durban Girls College (Durban Central). The remaining two regionals are to be played later this month.
The Grand Finals takes place at St Mary’s DSG on 28 and 29 July.
For more info like the Facebook page.
1 Wartburg Kirchdorf, 2 Wembley College, 3 Greytown High School, 4 Deutsche Schule Hermannsburg, 5 Domino Servite.
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The Meander Chronicle covers news and events happening in and around the broader KZN Midlands area, as well as issues further afield which may affect or interest people in the Midlands area. The Chronicle team consists of Phillippa Gordon and Caroline Richter - all based in the Midlands and passionate about this part of the country.
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June 17th, 2015:
Trade Union Views on Redeployment/Redundancies
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Document outlining the position of the University of Manchester campus trade unions on redeployment and redundancies: Trade unions views re redeployment and compulsory redundancy policy
Members views on Redepolyment
A pdf document summarising the feedback we have had from members of the University of Manchester UCU and Unison branches on their experience of the redeployment register: Staff experience of redeployment
Message on Compulsory Redundancies
Dear Prof. Dame Nancy Rothwell and members of the Senior Management Team, Board of Governors and Senate,
As we hope you are aware, 37 permanent, core-funded members of staff of the University have been sent letters under Section 188 of the Trade Unions and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act informing them that they are at risk of compulsory redundancy. Also, Karen Heaton has sent the campus Trade Unions proposals for radical changes to the University’s redeployment policy that would make compulsory redundancy easier in future.
The campus Trade Unions believe these radical changes to the way the University operates are unnecessary and unjustified by present circumstances as well as being grossly unfair to the staff immediately affected, detrimental to staff morale and goodwill and the University’s reputation, and inconsistent with the traditional principles of collegiality and public service of the University. We are therefore sending you – as a members of the Senior Management Team, Board of Governors and Senate – the attached two documents, which we would be grateful if you could take the time to read, consider and discuss.
“Trade unions views…” summarizes the views of the campus Trade Unions regarding the threatened compulsory redundancies and the proposed changes to the University’s redeployment policy. In particular, it explains:
Why we believe the reasons given to justify compulsory redundancies – that the Redeployment Register will cost the University £2m this year and a £20 shortfall in the University’s bottom line – arise from misunderstandings and misrepresentations of the real situation.
Why the proposed changes to the University’s redeployment and redundancy policies are unfair and will damage the functioning of the Redeployment Register and, thereby, staff morale and goodwill.
Why the proper forum for discussion of redeployment and redundancy policy is the Joint University/Trade Union Negotiation Group, which was discussing these issue until, for reasons that have never been explained, management seemed to abandon interest in talks in January.
Why we believe it was so egregious to send 37 colleagues, who went onto the Redeployment Register voluntarily on the understanding that doing so incurred no risk of being made compulsorily redundant, Section 188 at-risk letters.
“Trade unions views…” also outlines an alternative set of proposals, which we are discussing with HR and which we believe represent a more collegial response to the challenges facing the University that would enhance its reputation as a not only a world-class university but also as a first rate employer that attracts and keeps the very best staff. We ask for your support for them:
A Targeted Voluntary Severance package limited to staff going on to the Redeployment Register.
Improvements to the management of staff on the Redeployment Register so that talented staff are not lost.
Strengthening of the University’s Restructuring Policy to ensure proper oversight of restructures.
A new Avoidance of Redundancy Agreement to be introduced into the Statutes and Ordinances or elsewhere as deemed appropriate.
The second document, “Staff experience…”, contains anonymised feedback we have received from our members concerning their experience of redeployment and views of the proposed changes to the university’s redeployment/redundancy policy. This provides support for the arguments presented in the first document that: (a) the Redeployment Register offers real benefits rather than a crude £2m loss to university, yet also needs to be improved, and (b) compulsory redundancies are unnecessary and will, if accepted, be detrimental to staff goodwill and the university’s reputation.
Adel Nasser, President. UMUCU
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Trade unions views re redeployment and compulsory redundancy policy
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Professor Jivan Astfalck PhD
beneath the skin
Elizabeth Callinicos MA(RCA)
Professor Jack Cunningham PhD
Andreas Fabian MA(RCA)
Chris Knight MA(RCA) FRSA
Dr Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill
Laura Potter MA
Jessica Turrell MA
Acknowledgements & image credits
Jivan Astfalck’s artistic research activities focus on wearable and decorative objects, which exist outside the margins of a recognised design culture, signified by a continuous dynamic of rediscovery, recycling of meaning and appropriation. These objects resonate with intimacy and passionate investment, rather than a functional design agenda. It is body adornment that exists in stark contrast to the overwhelming standardisation generated by mechanised commodity production, a ‘folk-art’ of our own culture.
The relationship between the finding, collecting and conceptualising of marginalized artefacts and their meaning is explored within the area of metaphorical symbolisation. Jivan is interested in jewellery pieces that map out the demarcation lines, where body meets world, a place, or idea of a place, where narratives are invested in objects with the aim to negotiate that gap, complexity, confusion or conflict in relation to private and subjective mental experience.
There is a correlation between literature and creative activity. The love of reading complicated literature and continental philosophy has over an elongated period of time enabled a pattern to evolve. By isolating ideas and voices verbalised in literature and pitching against other often conflicting ones is like a kaleidoscope. You throw them around and they make a pattern, a new pattern, often more eloquent. These groups of ideas over time became her thesis.
'The made objects have features beyond material and aesthetic values; there is meaning that comes out of an analytical and reflective process, but the unverifiable and intuitive process that happens at a subconscious level must not be messed with.''A large number of my jewellery pieces, especially in the early part of my research, exemplify my intension to create narrative jewellery pieces, which informed by my readings on metaphor, aim to do in material what Ricoeur explores in written text.'1
1. Astfalck, Jivan, Narrative Structures in Body Related Crafts Objects, PhD Thesis, University of Arts, London, March 2007, pp 15.
Jivan Astfalck is a visual artist, jeweller and academic. Born in Berlin, where she was trained as a goldsmith, she has been living in London for more than 20 years. She obtained her MA in the History and Theory of Modern Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design and her PhD in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London. Dr Astfalck is now Professor at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University and combines her studio practice, which she exhibits internationally, with teaching as the MA Course Director in Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Product. Her main focus and research interest is in using hermeneutic philosophy, literary theory and other appropriate thought models as tools to investigate narrative structures embedded in body related crafts objects. In her view, the convergence of crafts, design and fine art practices is conductive to extending the theoretical vocabulary and map out new territories where crafts practices contribute to cultural production and dissemination.
Her publications and conference contributions include
TableManners, TR11/01, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 2011; Traditional craft: manufactured nostalgia or grass-root resistance?, The Journal of Modern Crafts’ (online), Murray, K. (ed.), 2009; Lifelines, in ‘The International Journal of the Arts in Society’, volume 3, number 1, 2008; Difference and Resemblance in ‘Six Views on a Practice in Change’, Crafts In Dialogue-IASPIS, Stockholm, 2005; Whose Jewellery is it anyway? in ‘Challenging Crafts’, The Robert Gordon University, 2004
Commissions include
The Sting of Passion, Manchester Arts Galleries, 2009; Going Places, for Architecture Week and New Generation Art (NGA), Birmingham UK, 2007; I-con, for Forum für Schmuck und Design, Germany, 2005; Hide, for ‘Self,’ touring, Craftspace & Angel Row Gallery & Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, UK, 2004; On Memory and Loss, for ‘Acknowledged Sources’ exhibition project, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 2001
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There’s No ‘Irrelevant’ Question
Posted on September 4, 2018 by mlimba
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Makati City (September 8) – There was a recent invitation from the Mindanao Institute of Journalism for me to be a resource speaker at an academic forum attended by around a hundred lecturers and students of Kidapawan Doctors College.
So I had to fly back home to speak about peace journalism and share my personal observations of the media as a MindaNews columnist (http://www.mindanews.com/author/mansoor-l-limba). Read more »
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Is ‘Terror’ Marawi’s Single Story?
Posted on July 3, 2017 by mlimba
By Mansoor L. Limba – July 3, 2017
(The following is a modified transcript of the 20-minute presentation of a working paper “The Marawi Crisis: A Derridean Reading” at the Forum “Terror in Marawi: Looking through Different Perspectives,” organized by the Social Sciences and Education Cluster at Ateneo de Davao University, June 30, 2017.)
My esteemed co-panelists – Sir Dennis [Coronel, MA] and Ma’am Diana [Taganas, CPA, MA] – Ma’am Carmen [Sabino, RP, RPm] and her team of young and energetic organizers, my fellow students, and other members of the academe who are present in this forum: Good afternoon and “salamun ‘alaykum” (may peace be upon you)!
At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to the organizers for giving me this rare opportunity to share my thoughts and views on the current crisis in Marawi.
Let me begin by narrating my favorite introductory anecdote in this regard. In a peace-building symposium-workshop last year, there was a casual conversation between (1) a Muslim NGO worker and (2) a Mindanao-based non-Muslim journalist.
This conversation suddenly turned into a heated argumentation over the ‘correct’ description for such groups as the Abu Sayyaf and others. The Muslim NGO worker argued that they are ‘un-Islamic’ because “what they are doing are against the teachings of Islam!” The non-Muslim journalist countered by saying that they are ‘Islamic’ because “They use Islamic symbols, metaphors and justifications in their acts of violence!”
That heated argumentation, actually, calls to mind postmodernism’s recurring themes, one of which is Jacques Derrida’s ‘grammatology’ or semiotic analysis given in his writings. According to this prominent postmodernist, textual is the way in which the social world is constructed, and interpreting the world reflects “the textual interplay at work,” or the concepts and structures of language.
According to Derrida, there are two ways of exposing textual interplays, viz. (1) deconstruction and (2) double reading (Derrida, “Of Grammatology,” 1976). By ‘deconstruction, he refers to a means of showing how all theories and discourses rely on artificial stabilities produced by the use of seemingly objective and natural oppositions in language – for example, light/darkness, knowledge/ignorance, white/black, friend/enemy.
In a bid to demonstrate how these stabilizations operate, Derrida subjects the text to double reading: (1) a repetition of the dominant reading to show how it achieves its outward coherence and (2) the demonstration of the internal tensions within a text that result from the use of ostensibly natural stabilizations. In doing so, Derrida’s aim is not to come to a ‘correct’ or even ‘one’ reading of a text, but to show how there is always more than one reading of any text.
Taking postmodernist Derrida’s ‘grammatology’ or semiotic analysis as the theoretical framework, this brief presentation, which hopefully will become a working paper, shall explore the textual interplay at work in this forum’s framing of words (i.e. ‘extremism,’ ‘religious extremism,’ and ‘terror’) about the Marawi Crisis. Using Derrida’s ‘deconstruction’ and ‘double reading’ tools, in this brief presentation I shall scrutinize these three terms, viz. (1) extremism, (2) religious extremism, and (3) terror in Marawi.
Case 1: ‘Extremism’
It is mentioned in the invitation letter that there shall be a forum on “Terror in Marawi: Looking through Different Perspectives.” It is also stated thus, “…the SSE Cluster is inviting you to be one of its key speakers to discuss religious extremism” (emphasis added). One implication that can be inferred here is that the ‘terror’ in Marawi is a product of ‘religious extremism’.
In Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism (CVE/PVE) trainings and workshops, the first session is usually allotted to conceptual clarification, and the first question being posed always is something like this: Is to be ‘radical’ or ‘extremist’ necessarily bad and, therefore, condemnable?
Basically, we define ‘radical’ to be the one that advocates fundamental and/or drastic change. When we say ‘extremist’ we usually refer to someone that holds a view or displays a behavior or action different from the ‘usual’. Consciously or unconsciously, whenever we say ‘extremist’ we are imagining in our mind a spectrum having two ends which are the ‘extreme’ parts while its middle is what we imagine to be the norm or ‘normal’ as adopted by the majority.
George Washington was definitely a radical during the American War of Independence, because instead of maintaining America under the British Empire, he was opting for American independence! Andres Bonifacio was a certified extremist, because instead of just reform under Spanish sovereignty, he was fighting for separation from Spain! Nelson Mandela was a convicted terrorist for the Apartheid regime in South Africa, and because of this heinous crime, he was imprisoned for almost three decades!
By the way, how about the young Jewish man who had the audacity to turn upside down the money changers’ table in the Temple of Solomon? (Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-47; John 2:13-16) He would also address his fellow Jews as “You serpents, generation of vipers!” and “a wicked and adulterous generation!” (Matthew 23:33; 16:4) He must be an extremist during his time!
As you see, knowing the context of such terms as ‘radical’ and ‘extremist’ is very important.
Case 2: ‘Religious Extremism’
Let us equally pose this fundamental question: Is ‘religious extremism’ necessarily bad, and thus, blameworthy?
How about the case of one who voluntarily makes the ‘vow of celibacy and poverty’ to become a nun or priest? Accordingly, he or she makes this decision as a religious ‘calling’. How about the case of a teetotaler who totally abstains from alcohol, on account of religious conviction? How about the case of a non-smoker in a country or city of smokers, who refrains from smoking due to a religious reason?
Is their ‘religious extremism’ necessarily bad?
It’s not, of course, because there is a missing element here, namely, violent imposition or compulsion. If a would-be nun voluntarily makes a vow of celibacy and poverty, it’s just okay. It will not be okay if she begins to impose celibacy upon all women by force. If a person does not drink alcohol, it’s just okay. He will become questionable when he starts forcing the hook, line and sinker of his teetotalism down the throat of the people around him. If the would-be nun and the teetotaler do so, they may be accused of violent extremism in the name of, or under the guise of, religion.
Case 3: ‘Terror’ in Marawi
Let us now consider the third and last case – ‘terror’ in Marawi.
The title of this forum is “Terror in Marawi: Looking through Different Perspectives.” As I read this title for the first time, my take – correctly or not – was that it is like saying, “Let’s talk about toothpaste from different perspectives, but let’s just talk about Colgate!” That is to say, “Let’s come to talk about Marawi Crisis from diverse views and opinions, but let’s just talk about its ‘terror’ dimension!”
The fact is that the Marawi Crisis is a multi-dimensional issue, and ‘terror’ is just one of the many dimensions of the Crisis.
Aside from its ‘terror’ dimension, how about (1) the historical context, in particular the Philippine government’s failure to fully implement the peace agreements it has signed for decades? How about (2) the Philippine military intelligence’s success or failure? (As can be recalled, during the first day of the Marawi siege, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told us that there was no failure of military intelligence because there were already such reports of the siege, but what was lacking was ‘appreciation’ of those reports. Perhaps the Secretary fails to realize that the public knows that intelligence report without proper appreciation of it is no ‘intelligence’ at all. It’s just a wanton stockpiling of tons and tons of raw materials and information data!)
How about (3) the role of LGU’s peace and order councils in preventing the siege, in particular that of the BPATs (Barangay Peace Action Teams) in all barangays of the occupied business district of the city? How about (4) the issue of alleged unholy marriage between local narco-politics and terrorism?
How about (5) the actual terror of the ‘war on terror’? (I am referring to the reports of military’s mishandling in checkpoints and lootings of properties in areas of the city they control.) How about (6) the issue of Philippine military modernization (specifically the challenge of modern urban warfare, and more serious than that, the challenge of asymmetrical warfare in the information age)? How about (7) the question of excessive use of force in the form of aerial bombardments against enemy targets? (What prevents the onset of snipers versus snipers scenario, by the way?)
How about (8) the problems related to the evacuees and internally displaced people (IDPs)? How about (9) the issue of rehabilitation, resettlement and internal migration?
And how about (10) the melodramatic accounts of survivors, sometimes risking their own lives for the sake of others with a different religious affiliation?
Undeniably, these are all Marawi stories, as well.
By scrutinizing the three terms (extremism, religious extremism, and ‘terror’ in Marawi), we can say that textual is indeed the way the social world is constructed. It is the same reason why we call part of the South China Sea as “West Philippine Sea” and the Benham Rise as the “Philippine Rise.”
As a ‘middle ground’, instead of ‘religious extremism’ an alternative term is ‘violent extremism (in the name of, or under the guise of, religion). And an alternative title that can be considered for this forum is: “The Marawi Crisis: Looking through Different Perspectives.”
In conclusion, the universe is not a monopoly of binary equations. The world – the Marawi Crisis included – is not always a case of “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Zero-sum is not always the game in town. In the Derridean jargon, there is always a multiple reading of a text.
To take ‘terror’ as Marawi’s single story is no doubt a dangerous game to play.
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A Media Narrative’s Textual Interplay on Marawi Incident
Posted on May 24, 2017 by mlimba
MARGINALIA COLUMN > A MEDIA NARRATIVE’S TEXTUAL INTERPLAY ON MARAWI INCIDENT
Mansoor L. Limba on May 24, 2017
MAKATI CITY (Mindanews/24 May) – Early this month I presented a paper about the media discourse on violent extremism in Mindanao at the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA) international conference in Cebu City.
Adopting postmodernist Jacques Derrida’s semiotic analysis he dubbed ‘grammatology’ as the conceptual framework, I applied his twin tools of ‘deconstruction’ and ‘double reading’ to examine the textual interplay at work with three relevant terms: (1) Maute Group, (2) ISIS vs. IS, and (3) Islamic vs. un-Islamic. (See related column, “Islamic, un-Islamic, or Islamist?” (http://www.mindanews.com/…/marginalia-islamic-un-islamic-o…/))
As the Marawi encounter was unfolding yesterday afternoon, I can’t help but read through the same Derridean lens one of the earliest news reports on the incident by Cotabato City-based John Unson of The Philippine Star newspaper (“Troops, Maute group clash in Marawi City,” May 23, 2017, http://www.philstar.com/…/troops-maute-group-clash-marawi-c…).
Three lines of the report particularly caught my attention:
Line 1: “The Maute group… espouses hatred to non-Muslims.”
The fact is that the said group, along with others that have allegedly subscribed to the ISIS ideology, is not only an interfaith, but more seriously, an intra-faith issue among Muslims.
A cursory examination of the textual sources they have been using, including “Durarus-Saniyyah fi Ajwibati’n-Najdiyyah” (a compilation of discourses, letters, and religious verdicts issued by Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab), will reveal that ‘takfir’ – declaring other Muslims not subscribing to their interpretation to be ‘kafir’ (unbelievers) – is an integral part of their creed.
Statistics also show that Muslims have been the overwhelming majority of victims of terrorism in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
Line 2: “Army intelligence sources said members of the Maute group had infiltrated a gathering of hundreds of Tablighs in the barangay…”
A regular gathering of the Tabligh-i Jama‘ah is called “Ijtima‘” which is the Arabic word for “assembly,” “gathering” or “convention”. As a nationwide event, this gathering usually attracts thousands or tens of thousands of attendees, as residents near the Markaz Mosque in Marawi City would confirm.
I hope Mr. Unson would have the opportunity to check the method of his ‘army intelligence sources’ in estimating the number of people in a gathering – to differentiate hundreds from thousands, tens of thousands from a million.
Line 3: “The Tablighs are missionaries engage[d] in da‘awah (preaching) activities that many moderate Islamic theologians do not agree with.”
This statement could give a wrong impression to an unsuspecting reader and make the following premises and conclusion: “The Tablighs are not ‘moderate’ and therefore they are ‘extremists’ and since they are ‘extremists’, they must be violent extremists!”
Founded in the Indian sub-continent more than a century ago and introduced in the Philippines in mid-1980s, Tabligh-i Jama‘ah is a non-political non-violent religious movement of tens of thousands of Muslims throughout the country.
If to be ‘political’ is a sign of ‘moderation,’ then the Tabligh members are ‘extremists’ for being non-political; otherwise, they are not.
Moreover, if ‘missionary’ is meant to refer to someone who is sent by an institution to propagate a faith as his mission, then members of the Tabligh-i Jama‘ah could not be called ‘missionaries’ because there is no such institution that is sending them to a mission; rather, each member is supposed to provide for his or her travel expenses.
In sum, as Derrida would remind us, textual is the way in which the social world is constructed, and the media people have a pivotal role in this ‘construction’ of – either a bridge or a wall.
[MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. Mansoor L. Limba, PhD in International Relations, is a writer, educator, blogger, chess trainer, and translator (from Persian into English and Filipino) with tens of written and translation works to his credit on such subjects as international politics, history, political philosophy, intra-faith and interfaith relations, cultural heritage, Islamic finance, jurisprudence (fiqh), theology (‘ilm al-kalam), Qur’anic sciences and exegesis (tafsir), hadith, ethics, and mysticism. He can be reached at mlimba@diplomats.com, or http://www.mlimba.com and http://www.muslimandmoney.com.]
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Islamic, Un-Islamic, or Islamist?
Posted on January 19, 2017 by mlimba
Mansoor L. Limba on January 19, 2017
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews /19 January) – At the sideline of a peace-building symposium-workshop at the height of the national electoral campaign period last year, the casual conversation between two long-time friends, a Muslim NGO worker and a Mindanao-based non-Muslim journalist, turned into a heated argument over an ‘accurate’ descriptive word for such groups as the Abu Sayyaf Group and others.
The NGO worker protested against the journalist’s use of the term ‘Islamic extremism’ to describe such groups or their activities. “They cannot be ‘Islamic’ because what they are doing are clearly against the teachings of Islam!” he would complain.
“But they are using Islamic symbols, metaphors and justifications!” the journalist would reason out.
As I was attentively listening to both arguments, I can’t help but call to mind postmodernism’s recurring themes, particularly Jacques Derrida’s ‘grammatology’ or semiotic analysis given in his various writings.
Derrida’s Grammatology
According to Derrida, who was a preeminent postmodernist figure, textual is the way in which the social world is constructed. For him the world is constituted like a text such that interpreting the world reflects what he calls “the textual interplay at work,” or the concepts and structures of language.
In order to expose these textual interplays, Derrida advances two ways, viz. deconstruction and double reading (Derrida, Of Grammatology, 1976). Anchored in the idea that seemingly stable and natural concepts and relations within language are in fact artificial constructs, arranged hierarchically such that in the case of opposites in language one term is always privileged over the other, deconstruction is a means of showing how all theories and discourses rely on artificial stabilities produced by the use of seemingly objective and natural oppositions in language; for example, light/darkness, knowledge/ignorance, white/black, friend/enemy.
In a bid to demonstrate how these stabilizations operate, Derrida subjects the text to double reading, the first being a repetition of the dominant reading to show how it achieves its outward coherence and the second being the demonstration of the internal tensions within a text that result from the use of ostensibly natural stabilizations. His aim is not to come to a ‘correct’ or even ‘one’ reading of a text, but to show how there is always more than one reading of any text.
Applying both deconstruction and double reading, one would venture to ask, “If used to modify something praiseworthy, which term is privileged over the other – ‘Islamic’ or ‘un-Islamic’? How about if it is used to describe something blameworthy?” “In between ‘Islamic’ and ‘un-Islamic’ at both ends of a spectrum, is there any possibility of a third modifier? In other words, is there a possible gray in between white and black?”
Islamic?
The argument goes, “They are ‘Islamic’ groups in the sense that their members are Muslims, or at least, they claim to be such; they use Islamic symbols and metaphors such as the black flag with religious inscription in Arabic, and the utterance of ‘Allahu akbar’ (‘Allah is the greatest’) in their propaganda materials; they justify their acts as part of ‘jihad’.”
Backed up by this kind of reasoning, the label ‘Islamic’ inevitably gives the impression that the term being described is ideally representative of, or in line with, Islam and that there is a unanimous view of Muslims or the majority of them in this regard. But the truth of the matter is that it is not so. In fact, many Muslims, if not most of them, take offense with the media hype ‘Islamic terrorism’ or ‘Islamic extremism’.
As an expected drawback, such a label provides such groups an axe to grind about the allegation that “there is indeed a foreign (Western) conspiracy to demonize Islam and the Muslims,” thereby aptly dragging the ‘victimized’ typical Muslims into the warm embrace of those groups.
‘Maute Group’
The appellation ‘Maute Group’ also works the same way. What is the origin of the appellation? Do the leadership and members of the group explicitly identify themselves as such?
A background study of the group shows that since 2013 it has been identifying itself as ‘Dawlah Islamiyah’ (‘Islamic State’) [in Lanao] while its precursor was Khilafah Islamiyah Mindanao-Black Flag Movement (KIM-BFM).
Then, who originates the ‘Maute Group’ appellation? If Google search were the basis, the media that oftentimes erroneously describes ‘Khilafah Islamiyah Mindanao’ as ‘Khalifah’ (Caliph) (instead of ‘Khilafah’ (Caliphate)) is also the one that cogently coins the appellation, obviously for convenience’s sake.
What’s the justification? “Well, the founders of the group are two Maute brothers, Abdullah and Omar, and a good number of its members are the founders’ relatives,” one might put forth.
Granted that tens, say fifty, members of the group bear the family name ‘Maute’, is this hasty generalization justifiable? Is it reasonable to implicitly implicate in the popular court of public opinion the hundreds, if not thousands, of members of the clan to the group and its notoriety?
Is this not playing the very game of the players one refuses to play with?
No wonder, for individuals for whom drowning in the deep blue sea of stereotyping and guilt by association is imminent, befriending the ‘devil’ of violent extremism is by far ‘a lesser evil’.
Un-Islamic?
The binary opposite of this ‘Islamic’ appellation is the simplistic dismissal and dissociation of such groups with Islam:
“The ISIS is un-Islamic. The activities of such-and-such groups are against the teachings and principles of Islam. Those who commit such acts are not Muslims, even if they call themselves ‘Muslims’. Terrorism is ‘haram’. No Muslim is a terrorist!”
The fact is that with all their doctrinal sophistication and communication astuteness, these groups use Islamic symbols and theological bases in such a way that awfully appeal to the innate idealism and heroism of young Muslims.
As you condemn terrorism, they would instantly present you with a plethora of Qur’anic passages, citations from the Prophetic tradition (hadith), and/or selective historical accounts in order to doctrinally justify their violent acts. Worse still, they might even declare that it is you who actually went outside the pale of Islam and is condemned to death for being a ‘murtad’ (apostate)!
No doubt, a regional Muslim authority’s issuance of a religious edict (fatwa) against terrorism in 2015 can be considered a laudable bold step (http://armmrdi.blogspot.com/p/resource-centre.html). Yet, the fact that the said fatwa is written in Arabic (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByHDjAlc3Q7ibE5mbWVYT0tHNjA/view) and that no official English and Filipino translations of it have been so far posted in the same website two years since its issuance is something regrettable, as it dismally fails to reach a wider audience – the overwhelming majority of local Muslims, the youth in particular, who are not Arabic literate.
In this age of information overload and unprecedented speed wherein religious sermons delivered on top of the wooden ‘mimbar’ (pulpit) of the mosque are replaced (or supplemented) by Facebook posts and Tweets in the cyberspace, the ‘khatib’ (preacher) needs more than a loud speaker.
The Middle Ground
After doing Derridian ‘deconstruction’ and ‘double reading’ of the terms ‘Islamic’ and ‘un-Islamic’ to describe certain groups, is ‘a third reading’ possible? Can we come up with a middle ground? Can we find a neutral platform?
As I was passively listening to the arguments of the journalist (who uses the appellation ‘Islamic’ to those groups) and the NGO worker (who, in contrast, prefers the label ‘un-Islamic’ to describe the same), I was imagining myself telling them both, “In my personal opinion, both of you have valid points in your arguments. Apart from ‘Islamic’ and ‘un-Islamic’, ‘Islamist’ is a due candidate to describe those groups – more accurately. The modifier ‘Islamist’ suggests that those groups adopt Islam – implicitly or explicitly – as their overarching ideology (‘ism’) but whether this adoption is religiously correct or not on the basis of the textual sources of Islam is a different story.”
In other words, the universe is not a monopoly of binary equations. The world is not always a case of “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Zero-sum is not always the game in town.
In the Derridian jargon, there is always a multiple reading of a text.
Categories: Current Events, International Relations | Tags: abu sayyaf, Bangsamoro, deconstruction, Derrida, double reading, isis, islamic, islamist, maute group, Mindanao, moro, postmodernism, un-islamic | Leave a comment
The Politics of Hermeneutics or the Hermeneutics of Politics?
Posted on April 1, 2015 by mlimba
When I was translating into English a book on the untold story of freedom a decade ago, I encountered for the first time a hermeneutically enigmatic couplet of the great Persian poet-mystic Jalaluddin al-Rumi whose 800th birth anniversary was commemorated by UNESCO on September 2007 and whose magnun opus, Mathnawi-ye Ma‘nawi (Spiritual Couplets) was first translated into English in full by Reynold A. Nicholson in 1925-40.
Rumi sings, thus:
That one is ‘shir’ [milk, or lion] in the ‘badiyeh’ [cup, or jungle]. And the other one is ‘shir’ in the ‘badiyeh’. That one is ‘shir’, which devours human (or, which human eats). And the other one is ‘shir’, which devours human (or, which human drinks).
The word “shir” means “milk,” as well as “lion”. “Badiyeh” also denotes two meanings: the first one is “desert” and the other is “cup” or “vessel”. In this couplet, it is not exactly clear which one is “lion” and which one is “milk”. Badiyeh is equally not clear which one means “desert” and which one means “vessel” or “cup”.
This Rumian style is inherited by Maguindanaons, though in a simpler but somehow blunt fashion.
When a curious child would ask about the identity of something an adult Maguindanaon is holding, it is not uncommon for the latter to say, “Ut_n na midsa.” Usually, the former would demand clarification, “What is midsa?” but receive only one-word reply, “midsa.” So, he would suppose that midsa is a kind of animal, but years later, he will realize that midsa means ‘one who asks’ and therefore referring to himself!
In interfaith circles, ‘dialogue’ could mean different things. In mid-1980s Durban-based Ahmed Deedat took issue with the Holy See for evincing his willingness to have ‘dialogue’ with Muslims when, accordingly, he meant something else, and therefore, challenged him to a ‘dialogue’ in St. Peter’s Basilica without realizing perhaps his own use of the same word (dialogue) that also means something else, i.e. ‘debate’—and possibly an acrimonious one. In 2000 two medical doctors, Dr. William Campbell and Dr. Zakir Naik, engaged in a religious ‘dialogue’ which every neophyte member of a university debating team can easily identify as actually a debate.
During the Cold War era, the ‘subversive’ or even ‘activist’ (read ‘communist’) was the favorite villain in the ‘free world’. Shortly after the dismemberment of the strongest bastion of communism in the world, the ‘subversive’ or ‘activist’ was soon replaced by the ‘Islamic fundamentalist’ or ‘extremist’.
After the 9/11, it is the time for hunting down ‘terrorists’. It is interesting to note that Jason Burke dedicated his informative book on Al-Qa‘ida—his first written book—on the victims of both ‘terror’ and the ‘war on terror’.
Since the occupation of the war-rampaged Iraq in 2003, this politics of hermeneutics or hermeneutics of politics—depending on one’s reading—has its own version: the hermeneutics of rafidah with the aim of throwing two birds with a single stone.
Literally means ‘one who rejects’, rafidah (plural rawafid) is translated as ‘heretic’ and its derivative modifier rafidi as ‘sectarian’. For centuries and especially more recently, it is increasingly used as a pejorative designation for a Muslim sectarian group demographically the majority in Iraq since its British-midwifed birth in 1920. Until the fall of the Ba‘ath regime in 2003, however, this majority had been persecuted and politically disenfranchised.
How to convey a sectarian message totally comprehensible to adherents and at the same time capable of fending off outsiders’ accusation of the message’s advocacy of sectarian-based civil war and division of the ummah?
The solution lies in playing with the ambiguity of the word rafidah.
Vitriolic verdicts on the urgency of killing rawafid channeled through audiotapes distributed within the flock of votaries and downloadable at insurgent websites are coupled with everyday carnage of civilians in public places such as markets and houses of worship.
Condemnation of these mass murders is immediately deflected by claiming that the targets are only the “collaborators working with the Crusaders”. Granting that police stations, military outposts and political figures are legitimate targets, why market-goers and worshippers are daily victims?
If ever pounded with this question, rafidah-manipulators argue that voters are responsible for the actions of leaders they elected: “[T]hey are not ordinary people… for they have become the soldiers of the infidel occupier… Did not al-Ja‘fari, al-Hakim and others come to power through their votes?”
Given this line of argument, one may wonder how and at which voting precinct the dome and two minarets in Samarra cast their votes for which they were condemned to destruction for two counts.
Hence, the use of such word is truly a powerful bomb that must be detonated. In postmodernist parlance, this textual interplay at work requires either deconstruction or double reading, or both.
For Derrida and Foucault wannabes, this is a golden opportunity to test the validity of these twin tools. I just hope they would not discover and thereafter conclude that ‘deconstruction’ and ‘double reading’ themselves also require deconstruction and double reading.
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Academic publications on contemporary art conservation in open access
Open access has hit contemporary art preservation and conservation as well. Ever more publications are appearing with free access for all researchers worldwide.
We have compiled a list of English-language monographs, conference proceedings, and journal issues from our field. Currently the list contains fifteen titles, and will be expanded periodically.
Barranha, Helena, and Susana S. Martins (eds.), Uncertain Spaces: Virtual Configurations in Contemporary Art and Museums, Lisbon: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2015, 251 pp. Based on the conference produced in the framework of the Unplace project.
Beerkens, Lydia, and Tom Learner (eds.), Conserving Outdoor Painted Sculpture, Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2014, 145 pp. Proceedings from the interim meeting of the Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group of ICOM-CC, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 4-5 June 2013.
Dekker, Annet (ed.), Archive2020: Sustainable Archiving of Born-Digital Cultural Content, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2010.
Dekker, Annet ed., Speculative Scenarios, or What Will Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future?, Eindhoven: Baltan Laboratories, 2013, 144 pp.
Depocas, Alain, Jon Ippolito, Caitlin Jones (eds.), Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with Montreal: Daniel Langlois Foundation, 2003, 137 pp. Outcome of the research project Variable Media Network (2001-04).
Interventions 4(1): “Object Lesson: Conservation and Contemporary Art”, eds. Anna Linehan and Béatrice Grenier, New York: Columbia University, Jan 2015.
Lavédrine, Bertrand, Alban Fournier, and Martin Graham (eds.), Preservation of Plastic Artefacts in Museum Collections, Paris: CTHS, 2012, 325 pp. Outcome of POPART project.
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Media-N 11(1): “The Aesthetics of Erasure”, eds. Paul Benzon and Sarah Sweeney, New Media Caucus, 2015.
Noordegraaf, Julia, et al. (eds.), Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, 428 pp. Outcome of the research project (2007-10).
Revista de historia da arte, 4: “Performing Documentation in the Conservation of Contemporary Art”, eds. Lúcia Almeida Matos, Rita Macedo, and Gunnar Heydenreich, Lisbon: Instituto de História da Arte, 2015, 196 pp. Proceedings of the 2013 conference.
Reyes-Garcia, Everardo, Pierre Châtel-Innocenti, and Khaldoun Zreik (eds.), Archiving and Questioning Immateriality: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Art Congress, Paris: Europia, 2016, 466 pp.
Rivenc, Rachel, and Reinhard Bek (eds.), Keep It Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art, Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2018. Proceedings from an ICOM-CC MMCA meeting organized in Milan, 2016.
RTRSRCH 2(2): ““, eds. Scott deLahunta and Bertha Bermúdez, Amsterdam School of the Arts, 2010, 44 pp. Special issue on the documentation, analysis, reconstruction and preservation of contemporary performance.
Scholte, Tatja, and Glenn Wharton (eds.), Inside Installations: Theory and Practice in the Care of Complex Artworks, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2011, 266 pp. Outcome of the Inside Installation project.
van Saaze, Vivian, Installation Art and the Museum: Presentation and Conservation of Changing Artworks, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2013, 226 pp. Based on author’s dissertation.
VoCA Journal, ed. Robin Clark, New York: Voices in Contemporary Art, since 2015. Published three times a year.
Wijers, Gaby, Evert Rodrigo, and Ramon Coelho (eds.), The Sustainability of Video Art: Preservation of Dutch Video Art Collections, Amsterdam: Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art, 2003, 167 pp. Outcome of the research project Preservation Video Art (2000-03).
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Mancusi-Ungaro, Carol. Material and Method in Modern Art: A Collaborative Challenge
Scientific examination of art: Modern techniques in conservation and analysis. (2005). Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
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This paper studies the impact of social relations on the crowding process of government funding–the effect that government funding to nonprofits may crowd out or crowd in private donations. By using a novel panel dataset across 12 years from the People’s Republic of China, this study suggests that, although government funding to a nonprofit may crowd out the private donations to the same organization, private donations are not reduced but redistributed to other nonprofits in the organizational network. Policy and practical implications are discussed.
Keywords: crowd out, crowd in, social relation, government funding, nonprofit organization, networked society
Full-text: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3262798
The research infrastructure of Chinese foundations, a database for Chinese civil society studies @Scientific Data
Ma, J., Wang, Q., Dong, C., & Li, H. (2017). The research infrastructure of Chinese foundations, a database for Chinese civil society studies. Scientific Data, 4, sdata201794. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.94
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web crawling and OCR of verification image
I’m working on crawling data from some websites for my research, the most challenging issue is the verification image – the barrier set by websites to prevent programmed crawling. I’ve tried different approaches, but all failed: the success rate is too low to be usable. Looks like such verification mechanism is not as vulnerable as people always assume. However, it is beneficial to write down my lesson, for my own reference and other folks who may want to give a try. Promising solutions for avoiding verification may be the IP pools and delayed requests (courtesy to servers!). Continue reading “web crawling and OCR of verification image”
[Preprint] Thirty Years of Nonprofit Research: Scaling the Knowledge of the Field 1986 – 2015
Ji Ma, Sara Konrath
This empirical study examines knowledge production between 1986 and 2015 in nonprofit and philanthropic studies using science mapping and network analysis. Results suggest that scholars in this field have been actively generating a considerable amount of literature and a solid intellectual base for the continuing development of this field as a new discipline. Knowledge production in this field is also growing in cohesion – several main themes have been formed and actively developed since the mid-1980s. Future advancement of this field faces a critical challenge: the lack of geographic and cultural diversity resulting from the domination of research taking place in the “Anglosphere.” We also emphasize the importance of new paradigms in mitigating the tension between theory and practice – a challenge commonly faced by academic disciplines. Methodological and pedagogical implications, limitations, and future directions are also discussed.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 52
Keywords: nonprofit and philanthropic studies, network analysis, knowledge production, paradigm shift, science mapping
Full text available at SSRN.
Nonprofit management education: A literature collection
I was on a project reviewing the literature on nonprofit management education. The outcome of this project is an unpublished English manual and an article in a peer-reviewed Chinese journal (The China Nonprofit Review). The following items are the references in the literature pool. This should be helpful if you are developing a course (or a series of courses) of nonprofit management.
Update 12/2018: Another paper which reviews the scholarship on nonprofit studies in the last century was recently published and selected as the “Editor’s Choice Free Article”: A Century of Nonprofit Studies: Scaling the Knowledge of the Field (Ma, J. & Konrath, S. Voluntas (2018) 29: 1139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-00057-5)
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[Preprint] State power and elite autonomy: The board interlock network of Chinese non-profits
Ji Ma, Simon DeDeo
In response to failures of central planning, the Chinese government has experimented not only with free-market trade zones, but with allowing non-profit foundations to operate in a decentralized fashion. A network study shows how these foundations have connected together by sharing board members, in a structural parallel to what is seen in corporations in the United States. This board interlock leads to the emergence of an elite group with privileged network positions. While the presence of government officials on non-profit boards is widespread, state officials are much less common in a subgroup of foundations that control just over half of all revenue in the network. This subgroup, associated with business elites, not only enjoys higher levels of within-elite links, but even preferentially excludes government officials from the nodes with higher degree. The emergence of this structurally autonomous sphere is associated with major political and social events in the state-society relationship.
For full text, refer to http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08103
Understanding the Journal Review Process: How Associate Editors Work?
I have submitted a manuscript in mid-January; thereafter, I got another routine besides refreshing my Facebook page. The progress has been staying in “Awaiting Referee Selection” for about two months; until today, it changes to “Awaiting Referee Invitation.” I am so curious (and also frustrated) about the review process, and the following slide meets my curiosity perfectly – it will tell you how Associate Editors work.
This is an operation manual of Manuscript Central for AEs. MC is a popular manuscript processing system through which I have submitted my paper. I have embedded this file in this post, original link of this file is:
http://secure.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jjco/aemanualeng.ppt
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#livereview @metalmoth1 @O2AcademyNew in #pictures
Metal Moth, We Rise Tomorrow, The Distorted, Blackjack
O2 Academy Newcastle
Saturday 22nd August 2015
Metal Moth ©Joanne Oliver for Jowheretogo
Four great local rock bands rocked the Academy. Headliners Metal Moth blew away new fans with their heavy chunky riffs keeping the friendly mosh pit happy. They played the tracks from their Rise EP and upon that basis their next EP will be a must buy. Natalie Gaines’ intricate rhythms coupled with Kurt Hudson’s engaging vocal style wrapped in a sea of guitars make for a great outfit.
We Rise Tomorrow ©Joanne Oliver for Jowheretogo
Support came from the musical juggernaut that is We Rise Tomorrow. Richard Clayton is a superb frontman who commands attention. The performance would put metalcore legends Killswitch Engage to shame. Stand in drummer Josh Dunn fitted in well in a vibrant performance.
The Distorted ©Joanne Oliver for Jowheretogo
Also on the bill were The Distorted whose Circus of Power-style slabs of riffs that are heavily influence by classic early 70s metal bands. The opening band, Blackjack, worked hard and did a great job with their blues soaked songs.
Blackjack ©Joanne Oliver for Jowheretogo
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Words by Stephen Oliver.
Labels: Blackjack, Metal, metal moth, the distorted, We Rise tomorrow
Thanks to @rftkpromotions Coming to #Newcastle 13th Sept: @DogfashionDisco and @Psychostick #videos to get a taste!
Touring their new album Ad Nauseum, Dog Fashion Disco are dragging along Psychostick to add to the madness at The Cluny on the 13th September.
The Cluny has been recognised as one of the best music venues in the country and so where better to experience this totally mental lineup?
"Dog Fashion Disco started in 1998 by 5 high school friends, made some records, toured a lot, broke up in 2007. Formed Polkadot Cadaver, made some records, toured a lot. Decided being broken up was dumb in 2014. Did crowd funding campaign for a new album and raised $85K... come to find out people actually give a shit. Heavily influenced by bands such as Mr Bungle this promises to be off the hook.
Check out War Party-
Psychostick are What happens when two best friends who grew up listening to Weird Al and Pantera decide to start a band combining crunching riffs and laugh-out-loud lyrics. Psychostick happens, happened, and continues to happen. Vocalist Rob Kersey and guitarist Josh Key teamed up with drummer Alex Dontre and Matty J "Moose" to create some of the most off-the-wall records to ever reach store shelves. Backed up by a fleet of viral-sensation online videos and an insane live show that few can forget, Psychostick has proven year after year that they refuse to be ignored. And the fans wouldn't have it any other way.
Now residing in Chicago, IL with four hard-hitting comedic albums behind them – We Couldn't Think of a Title (2006), their holiday album The Flesh Eating Rollerskate Holiday Joyride (2007), Sandwich (2009), and Space Vampires vs. Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D (2011) - the nearly 100 percent do-it-yourself band Psychostick returns with their latest offering: The crowd-funded album Revenge of The Vengeance out on November 4, 2014. (fan thank you video -
Featuring an eye-brow raising track list that includes previously released singles such as the manly beard anthem Obey The Beard -
and over-night internet hit Dogs Like Socks-
plus new tracks Quack Kills, So. Heavy., Blue Screen, and a tribute to the 21st century's most beloved action super hero Bruce Campbell, Psychostick aims to please their cult-like following while maintaining steady growth as new fans discover this one-of-a-kind project."
Here's the event on Facebook...https://www.facebook.com/events/451508031718359/
Labels: dog fashion disco, live music, madness, Metal, psychostick, RFTK Promotions, september, The Cluny
about #Cumbria #Artist @Artchick4U #RachelGreenbank exhibition @_circle_bar_ #Carlisle starting 24th Aug #portraiture
Cumbria artist Rachel Greenbank is holding an exhibition of her works at Circle Bar, in Lowther Arcade, Carlisle.
Rachel is a contemporary portrait and figure artist and Illustrator.
After graduating in Illustration in 1998 from U.C.Lancs with first class Hons Rachel gained her first art job designing greeting cards for International Greetings and Inspire By Design. She freelanced for 4-5 years,before returning to her first loves -portrait painting and The Lake District.
As a portrait artist she passionately believes the process of trying to capture a persons character, and simultaneously revealing a little of ones own personality, is the driving force behind her work.
She creates realistic, emotive portraits, in acrylic, pencil and mixed media. Blending the natural beauty of figures and faces with nature's elements, and constructing digital montages she then creates artworks that are reflections of love, spirituality, human nature and self expression.
"I love painting eyes. That moment when you can almost feel the subjects soul staring back at you is as powerful as a lightning strike"
The exhibition starts on Moday 24th August and continues until 4th October.
Facebook event with details.
Contact Rachel regarding commissions or other enquiries on
Rlgreenbnk@hotmail.co.uk
Mobile-07894758826
http://rachelgreenbankart.4ormat.com
Labels: art, Carlisle, Cumbria, Exhibition, Portraits, Rachel Greenbank. Troy Slater
@ChaseParkFest does it again with @AshOfficial and @TurinBrakes ..what a great #accessible #Festival
Chase Park Festival 2015
Accessible to all, the festival has multiple runways and flat platforms to keep wheelchair users as near the action as possible. Signers (very enthusiastic and entertaining) made sure the hard of hearing didn't miss a word. Food was available from local traders..our personal favourite for a second year running, was Pizzette, a mobile stone cooked pizza van. When you're not into meat, you do often find your diet limited at festivals so this was a lovely change from chips.
Chase Park Festival had a good start with sunshine and Beth Macari..her backing band made up mostly of 3 at Sea. Beth continues to develop her soulful pop sound. Beth knows how to engage the audience and was a formidable first act of the day. Patrick and Holly then treated us to a street-dance routine. This was fun! Would love to have joined in but my joints just don't do that!
Ambient electro beats from Soundbeams (from the Percy Hedley Foundation) kept the audience happy until Hot Soles were pulling in the little dancing kids with their funky soul rock. A truly spectacular performance from this duo. Who needs a bassist, or indeed a stage!
Amazing Radio's Tom Cotton hit play a few times to fill the air with music while Gallery Circus set up on the main stage.
Gallery Circus were superb. Just two (obviously twins if you don't know already) jumping all over the drums, guitars and keys to create a massive sound, sometimes with hints of Muse and Jellyfish (whom they and you have probably not heard of). Nothing wrong with telling the audience who you are, and where to get the tunes though, lads! Fantastic performance from this pair.
Aukestra : part of a project helping people with varying levels of autism. They were great, harmonising with a backing band, 5 singers performed some uplifting crowd pleasers.
Blizzard was a bit late on Stage 2, but his combination of rap, singing and piano was a teatime treat! Really loved the Megabus Song!
Monogram proved to be a quality anthemic pop rock band in the vein of the Futureheads. Massive electronic drum sound and synths with guitar. I detected a sound of Big Country at one point, which isn't a bad thing. This band are surely bound for greater things. I think I need a CD. Yes, a CD, I do like something I can hold...old fashioned again, I guess.
Hulkenburg seriously brought the noise with a punk sound, again just two blokes, some drums and a guitar proved to be enough for me to get the old head banging. Think White Stripes but harder and more blokey.
Slug brought the most catchy avant garde music. What a great artist. Not mathrock, with the time signature, but sometimes felt that way. The crow were surprisingly receptive to the quirky set. A great band put together for this project and it's good to see a band enjoying themselves on stage. Call me old fashioned but bands who stare at their feet while mumbling half-baked vocals...not for me. Slug are nothing if the kind and lifted the mood at the festival with their attitude.
Turin Brakes took the reigns with professional hands, a fabulous performance of their beautiful songs. They do have a familiar sound from all that radio play, and the crowd appreciated the quality of their show.
The headliner, Ash, played an absolute blinder. No sign of the band letting up on the pace after all these years. They blasted through favourites such as Girl From Mars, A Life Less Ordinary, Go! Fight! Win! , Kung Fu and a crowd pleasing finale of Burn Baby Burn. Ash tunes are all great music to jump around to. I propose an "Ash Fit" fitness class! They had the horde bouncing, a great end to a special festival. We are looking forward to next year..keep it ambitious, keep it inclusive, keep it real.
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Labels: Ash, Aukestra, Chase Park Festival, Hulkenberg, Monogram, Slug, Turin Brakes
@SubjunoMusic 's @StephenCochraneSC talks to @PAndS_Music about the upcoming album, #life #songwriting #cheese and @JamesBlunt
Interview with Stephen Cochrane of SubJuno
Stephen was the songwriting powerhouse behind This Ground Moves. He played guitar in the band and added his vocals to the songs, but those compositions were largely from this talented young fella. I met up with him in July in the pleasant surroundings of the Forth pub’s roof beergarden.
I begin my asking about his upcoming single Nancy’s Song.
JO: You can tell by the sound of the new single that This Ground Moves songs were largely your writing.
SC: Yeah, but all of This Ground Moves was me. I wrote every song we ever did. ‘Cos’ that was my job! I’m not that great a guitarist so I had to bring something to the table, or else I’d be just someone playing chords badly on stage!
JO: Having listened to Nancy’s Song it has a This Ground Moves “edge” about it but also a slight poppiness.
SC: Yeah I wrote it (Nancy’s Song) when I was in TGM but I don’t think the rest of the band were that interested in it. But as soon as I wrote it I though “That’s gonna be a single, that’s coming out.” Whether or not the band are still together. And I was going to do SubJuno anyway, I’ve got 46 songs written for it now!
JO: 46? Crikey!
SC: My problem at the minute is I don’t know which ones to put on the album.
JO: The best ones?
SC: Yeah but although it’s not a concept album as such, every song relates to another song. I’ve got to pick 12 that “talk to each other”.
JO: Have you got a favourite song so far?
SC: Find Someone – I think that’s the best song I’ve ever written by about a million miles. I may release it separately from the album.
JO: SubJuno has a different sound though.
SC: There’s a bit more 80’s sounding synths etc.
JO: A lot of 80’s inspired music happening right now.
SC: yeah but you should borrow from the 80s, from the 90s. A lot of what’s going on now is just shite. The problem with music now is it’s very very boring or just safe. I mean, what’s the point? Kanye, X Factor, it just not for me.
JO: People do enjoy it though.
SC: Yeah they do. Not everyone wants to come out on a Saturday night and watch a band. We used to have “New faces” and “Opportunity Knocks”
JO: I swear it was better!
SC: It was MUCH better!
JO: So the name, SubJuno?
SC I wanted to call the band “Subrosa” a legal term meaning “under the rose”. Private meetings would have a rose displayed over the door to signify what was discussed was private. I found out there was a prog rock band in the 70s called “Subrosa” so decided against it. The Roman god Juno was “of the earth” so SubRosa is meant to mean “under the earth” or “underground”. It sounded right.
Jo: So, the new album, how’s the release coming along?
SC: I’ve been working with John at Loft studios as he can get the sound just how I like it. Loft did the This Ground Moves album at their old studios. I’m on a label now.
Jo: Oh, great stuff!
SC: Yeah, I’m not sure I’m meant to say who they are yet. But they have a release plan and it’s looking like the last week in September for Nancy’s Song. They’re sorting that for us. To be honest I really can’t be bothered with all that side. It’s good to have a label doing that for us. What I want to do is just write songs. I don’t want to do the business side any more. I had my label and it showed me that it’s not where my strengths lie. I’m a songwriter. It’s all I ever wanted to be.
JO: You can’t do both.
SC: No you can’t. Unless you’ve got £100k you’re prepared to put in. With TGM only about half of the money spent was got back. It’s different when you have a label dealing with all that. You know what it is? I don’t even see myself as a musician. I’m a songwriter. If I was dealing with the business side, all the songs would be about the stress of running a label. Songs are better written when you can focus on them. Write them in ten minutes! You’ve got to be prepared to sit in a room with a guitar or a piece of paper and have an argument with yourself. That’s how I do it. I think I’m quite prolific. Can I call myself prolific?
JO: I think with 46 songs in the bank yes.
SC: Yeah I suppose I’m prolific. Isn’t Prince supposed to write a song every day? I bet a lot of them are crap! When I write songs, I’ve been doing this long enough now to know in the first 3 seconds “this is a good song”. If it’s not, I don’t carry on. You have to learn what’s going to be good and what’s not going to be good. I always wanted to write songs. I would finish work and sit at home in me bedroom, two hours every night writing song after song – and they were terrible! Really bad. Then about 3 months in I wrote a song called I’ve Been Down. I’d been in a band as soon as I got a guitar. It was very punk in the sense we couldn’t really play at first. But once I wrote that song I just kept on writing. In about 2003 I wrote up Light Up Life and that sat around until This Ground Moves.
And so that was the period when I was really getting good at what I do. And I am good! Don’t care if anyone thinks that sounds arrogant!
JO: Ha ha, nothing wrong with that. You had a good gig at Corbridge Festival this year. Think you’ll do it again?
SC: Yes, maybe do it with a full band. It was good doing an acoustic set, but my proble right now is that the band’s not ready yeat. I’ve got a guitarist starting this week. But I don’t think I’ll do it like the old band.
JO: No?
SC: No, I don’t think I’ll do the proper band thing again.
JO: One question I’d like to ask then, although it’s like discussing an old girlfriend, is how did This Ground Moves drift out of being?
SC: I think I just got tired. We’d had The Soviets, This Ground Moves, it went on for years. At first it was me and Micky (Cochrane) and then Andy Mackin joined. But as time went by it just got tired. And it was costing a lot of money. It got to a point it wasn’t really worth it.
Jo: I was wondering if it was the old “musical differences” thing, especially as you were doing all the writing.
SC: Ha ha!
JO: Especially after getting the sync (music onto visual media) on CSI New York – one of you getting all the money and the others getting fed up – that can happen and it’s usually called “musical differences”
SC: Ha! Yeah! I was SUPPOSED to get more money as the writer but haven’t had any yet! They (licensees) have ages to pay up. But I just wanted to write that first album and then hand over the reins to the rest of the band. But I don’t think they were interested really.
This Ground Moves, Corbridge Festival 2013
JO: With this release, a lot of people are going for the EP format but you are going for an album.
SC: You see, to me, four songs is a single. I remember when you had a single and you had 3 B-sides. It’s changed and nobody cares about B-sides anymore. I don’t think people care that much about singles any more, it’s all died. So I think an EP might get “lost”. And I have the album all there.
JO: Yeah you’ve got enough to pick and choose ..no filler!
SC: I’m going to come across really arrogant again because there really is no filler. It’s the best body of work I’ve ever written. I’m going in next week to record a song called Moves To Hollywood and I know how I want it to sound, how the album will go. An EP to me would be just throwing four songs together.
JO: Great, so we’ll get a real “play it in the car” CD. I found that with TGM, great for long journeys!.
SC: That would have kept you awake! It was quite loud in parts! There’ll probably be one or two anthemic songs on the album when I finalise it. But like you said earlier it’s more pop.
JO: Intelligent pop?
SC: I hope so! I’ve got a song called Pyrrhic Victory which I think is a really poppy sounding song but the lyrics are quite obscure. My bassist asked “What the hell’s a pyrrhic victory?”. I had to explain some of the terms used. But then you have Nancy’s Song, an out and out love song.
I don’t think I’d ever say “I love you” in a song. It’s a bit dull isn’t it? James Blunt You’re Beautiful, for example. If everybody wrote a song about people they’d seen on a train and fancied, it would be really dull. But then he goes from saying he’s seen a girl on the subway, then says “You’re beautiful”, so now he’s saying that to me? If James Blunt thinks I’m beautiful, that’s fine, but why’s he talking about this girl?
Jo: Ha ha jealous?
SC: Yeah who’s this girl, what’s the craic James?
With the help of Peroni we had further discussions on the way social media has taken over people’s lives:
SC: I don’t need to know what time you’ve gone to bed, really. People post the most pointless things.
JO: Guilty!
SC: And I’ve got this image of being out on the beer all the time…I get tagged and I wasn’t even there! I do like Twitter though, it’s like standing in the street shouting your opinions.
Stephen enjoys a cool beer mid before the interview
Stephen also has opinions on the “Three Kates”
On Price: So much cleverer than she makes out. Everything she does is planned for publicity. Amazing businesswoman.
On Moss: Always admired her. Again, carefully planned press exposure, keeping her in work. Clever woman. People slag her off, I like her.
On Hopkins: Terrible woman. Nothing clever about saying nasty things for attention.
I asked Stephen the important question “What is your favourite cheese”?
SC: Halloumi.
JO: Yeah?
SC: When it’s grilled.
JO: Is there much taste to it?
SC: Yeah it’s lush, dead meaty. Halloumi pasta. You can’t whack a bit Halloumi pasta, a bit garlic, tomatoes.
JO: Ooh sounds canny!
SC: See I like cooking. I used to hate it but I’ve learned the worst can happen is it goes in the bin.
Watch out for the release of Nancy's Song in the autumn, with the album release to be confirmed!
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Labels: Album, Corbridge Festival, James Blunt, Nancy's Song, New realease, Stephen Cochrane, Subjuno, This Ground Moves
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Prince Harry and Meghan have split from joint foundation with Prince William and Kate
Kensington Palace says the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be starting their own foundation to support their charitable endeavors, formally spinning off from the entity Prince Harry and...
Kensington Palace says the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be starting their own foundation to support their charitable endeavors, formally spinning off from the entity Prince Harry and Prince William established together a decade ago.
The long-expected change is intended to better align the work and interests of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle. A name has not yet been chosen for the new foundation.
William and wife Kate Middleton will remain with the original charity.
The decision to break away from the Royal Foundation is seen as the final step in the division of the couples’ public duties and comes following the conclusion of a review into its structure.
The royals will continue to work on joint projects, such as the Heads Together campaign.
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Stable to Laundry Reno
Posted Monday, November 26, 2012 in: Before & After
“Renovated to look un-renovated” could be the way to sum up the theme behind this project – a back garden stable turned into a laundry for the owners of a grand old Fremantle residence so beautiful it made me seethe with jealousy a bit.
While the two-storey, heritage-listed Victorian home had been renovated substantially in recent years, the 1890s-built home had no proper laundry and the owners were keen to have one (apparently they come in handy sometimes).
OUTDOOR LIGHT: This gorgeous traditional-looking light fitting was from Beacon Lighting, a store Ashley loves (I do too). “A lot of lighting stores are very expensive, but they are reasonably priced and have a nice balance between traditional lights and new contemporary ones,” he says.
ABOVE: The stable before.
ABOVE: The stable now.
THE CHANDELIER: The owner fell in love with the chandelier and carefully kept it in storage until it was ready to use. “The 1940s-style chandelier really completes the look,” says Ashley. “Again it’s something that the owners might have taken out of the house one time and put out here.” Ashley bought the large table for folding laundry from Recollections, a company that sells home renovation and building products in traditional period styles.
ABOVE: The space as it was.
ABOVE: The wall by the door and the ceiling were left untouched to add to the rustic feel. Rather than concealing the washer and dryer, Ashley made them clearly visible, building a shelving unit from bricks. “To aid the functionality I raised the washer and dryer and tied it in with the fridge,” he says.
They called in Belle Maison designer Ashley Peverett who revamped the stable at the bottom of the garden to turn it into a laundry . Years before the original stables had fallen into bad condition, but being a heritage-listed residence, they needed to be rebuilt as they were. Sitting at the bottom of the garden away from the main house, part of the building was used as a garage, the other part as a storeroom. It was this part that Ashley turned into a laundry.
“The owners’ first thought was to make the laundry look very contemporary – more in keeping with the fit-out of the rest of the home,” says Ashley, who encouraged the family to go with something more rustic and traditional to tie in with the history of the stables. “I was drawn to the size of the space, the timber cladding and the paint spilled onto the floor to create this unique laundry space. It’s not often that you can get a space that has high functionality as well as high aesthetics. A laundry can be a showpiece of the house and I think in a Federation home you can do something really crazy like this. It’s unexpected.”
In a time when I find many renovations strip homes of all their cute little imperfections and original features, sanitising them to a point where they lose their character and charm and feel a bit clinical and cookie-cutter, it’s nice to see a project like this. Ashley gave the ordinary brick walls a weathered, aged look with layers of paint and sanding, left the paint-splattered concrete floor untouched and the ceiling beams exposed, and incorporated recycled elements. It’s rustic, a bit unfinished and raw, just as you might imagine a back yard laundry to be. Ashley says it will look better the more it gets used as in time, as the owners add more and more things, the laundry will get that layered look of old country family houses where the owners have lived there for decades.
“We’re really happy,” the mother of the family told me warmly. “I love my laundry, it’s beautiful.” The owners are having a wedding out in the garden soon, and what a nice backdrop the freshly painted stable will be.
ABOVE: I love this shot Simone took of the laundry from inside the house. In the background is Fremantle's gorgeous Monument Hill with ocean views. We used to roll down it when we were kids.
A STABLE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN: The stable now and the stable before paint and new doors. I love horses – I was an absolute horse nut as a kid and a teenager. I would have LOVED to have a stable at the bottom of my garden even if it didn’t have a horse in it. Secret - when I was a teenager I even painted one of my parents’ garden sheds red with white stripes to make it look like a barn.
ABOVE: A new custom-made jarrah window replaced the shabby aluminium one. “The old trough we got from a salvage yard,” says Ashley. “We purchased the old copper taps and asked the plumber to do all exposed plumbing in copper.” The secondhand Baker lights were from Recollections and give the laundry another perfect yesteryear touch.
ABOVE: Looking back at the old limestone house from the laundry.
THE WALLS: “The ageing of the walls would be my favourite feature,” says Ashley, who wanted to give the walls an aged, textured look as if they had seen several different cans of paint over many decades. “First we did an undercoat in white, then painted them in Dulux Peppermint Green, a colour used a lot in the 40s. We then painted the walls again and sanded them with a belt sander, then put brown paint and water in a spray bottle and sprayed the walls all over. We purposely left some bits untouched to give the feel that they might have been just forgotten.”’
PHOTO WALL: “I wanted to create the feeling that the things in the laundry had accumulated over time in here,” says Ashley. “I suggested to the owners that they hang up old family photos, which people often have in drawers or cupboards forgotten about.” The owners gave him their old photo albums to take old family portraits from, now given a new lease of life as a beautiful feature wall. Some are in their original photo frames, others Ashley picked up from Big W – and look the real (old) deal here!
PROJECT LOWDOWN
The traditional-style outdoor light.
A rebuilt stable storeroom turned laundry, designed to look weathered and aged
A stately heritage-listed 1890s Victorian residence with the rebuilt stable in the bottom of the garden
Fremantle, Western Australia
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New Route 97 Bridge over Alloway Creek Open to Traffic
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The new bridge carrying Route 97 (Baltimore Pike) over Alloway Creek at the Germany-Mount Joy township line in Adams County, opened to two lanes of traffic at around 5:00 PM today. This bridge was replaced as part of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT) Rapid Bridge Replacement Project.
The new crossing is longer and wider than the one it replaced and is designed with a 100-year lifespan. Replacement work for this bridge was performed by Walsh Construction II of Chicago, IL.
With the new bridge open, motorists may notice a slight bump as they drive across the bridge until a polyester polymer concrete (PPC) overlay is applied to the deck. This is often the final step in completing box beam bridge projects. The PPC overlay is designed to protect the deck from the wear and tear brought about by Pennsylvania’s harsh winters and reduce the long-term maintenance costs.
The polyester material can only be applied when temperatures are consistently above 40 degrees, dry weather is forecasted and after the bridge concrete has cured for at least 30 days. An alternating traffic pattern will be controlled by flaggers when the PPC overlay is applied in July.
To find out when the overlay will be applied to this structure, visit www.parapidbridges.com/polyesterpolymerconcreteoverlay.html. In the event of unfavorable weather, this schedule may change. Any such changes will be posted on the website.
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Tracy Patterson: “Pacquiao is fighting mostly A+ fighters, and those guys are not gonna be easy to knock out!”
19 Submitted by Jenna J on Thu, 24 July 2014, 23:05
It is said that better technique can sometimes overcome greater skill. Former world champion, Tracy Patterson, and former Amateur boxer, Vinny Furlani, believe in that saying and have been implementing that into their coaching of boxers.
In this special ‘On The Ropes’ interview, I talk to both Vinny Furlani and former IBF champ, Tracy Patterson, about their newly released book titled, Typhoon Technique – Training, Technique & Titles. Tracy and Vinny talk about what boxing fans can get out of reading the book and share some of the stories included. Tracy Patterson also gives his thoughts on the two biggest stars in the sport, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Here is what Vinny Furlani and Tracy Patterson had to say.
Jenna J: Can you explain to the fans the new project that you have out right now?
Vinny Furlani: It’s called Typhoon Technique – Training, Technique & Titles. It’s a four phased book with subjects like boxing technique — I take the best style and technique out there that we learned from Floyd Patterson. Second, I talk about being in the gym and learning the sport. There’s a section called ‘Tracy’s Take’ and Tracy talks about fights that he’s had in the past, and fighters that influenced him.
Jenna J: What do you think people will get the most out of the book?
Tracy Patterson: It depends on what they’re looking for. If they’re boxing fans and they like reading the stories of a fighter, how a fighter lives and what motivates him to want to reach the heights that they do.
If you just want to learn boxing, the technique, as far as learning how to throw a jab, a right hand, and all the variety of punches and things that fighters do in their daily routine as they train in the gym, they’ll get a lot out of that too. It depends on the person and what they’re looking to get out of it. I think it will please just about anybody that likes the sport of boxing.
Jenna J: I want to get your thoughts on the last pupil that worked with Cus D’Amado, Mike Tyson. What were your thoughts on Tyson and what do you think he could have accomplished in his career if Cus had lived longer?
Tracy Patterson: I just think that he wouldn’t have been abused and taken advantage of the way he was toward the end of the career. Cus would have protected him from that. In fact, I believe Cus told Mike Tyson not to get involved with the promoter that he did. He ended up with someone that Cus didn’t want him to be with.
Everything that Cus told him that could happen with that person, happened. We live, we learn. I’m sure that Mike learned a great deal from it and he got passed it in time. But when you’re losing millions of dollars, and you don’t know where your money is going, I’m sure it hurt Mike and Mike probably felt a certain way about it, and he had the right to. All in all, I think that Mike learned from it and he moved on.
Jenna J: I would like to ask you both a few questions about the boxing scene. Floyd Mayweather will be fighting Marcos Maidana in a rematch. What do you think is gonna happen in the rematch?
Vinny Furlani: To be honest, I don’t want to see that fight again. Maidana put pressure on him but he can never beat Floyd, he’s not good enough. He beat up a guy like Adrien Broner because Adrien Broner just doesn’t have the skills of Floyd Mayweather. Floyd knows that’s a pretty easy fight.
I would much rather see a guy like Shawn Porter or Keith Thurman. Porter happens to be real strong, Thurman happens to be real fast — not quite as fast as ‘Money’ but I’d like to see him fight guys like that. Even a Manny Pacquiao, after beating Bradley I think he gets back into the conversation. I don’t want to see the same thing again, ‘Money’ might have a little easier time.
Tracy Patterson: Floyd’s definitely gonna have an easier time because Floyd is a very intelligent fighter. He already went twelve rounds with this guy and he lost three rounds of the first fight, and that’s not gonna happen again. He’s just too intelligent.
It may turn out to be an exciting fight at the end of the day, but I think that Floyd is gonna dominate that fight. Floyd Mayweather has a very good chin and his lateral movement is second to none. His instincts are still there, right on point. Me personally, I think that Floyd is gonna dominate the fight.
Jenna J: Tracy, as a trainer why do you think Manny Pacquiao hasn’t had a KO in 5 years? What do you think is different about him now, in terms of his training or technique that could cause him to lose power in the ring?
Tracy Patterson: I don’t think he’s losing power. I just think that he’s not catching the guys the way he was. I don’t think it’s a factor that he’s losing any power. He’s still very fast, if you got fast hands, you got some power coming behind it, because speed equals power.
It’s just a matter of him just catching these guys like he used to — and that he’s not doing. If he starts catching them the way he was, he can take them out. He’s also fighting mostly A+ fighters, and those guys are not gonna be easy to knock out. You’re gonna have to do something special to take a lot of those guys out.
Jenna J: How can people find the book Typhoon Technique how can they get their hands on it?
Vinny Furlani: The best way to get your hands on it is Amazon.com, it’s for sale at $19.50. You can also go to my website, artofboxingtrainlikeachamp.com, it’s available there. In addition to our book, we’ve got a partnership with the person who wrote the Cus D’Amato book, Confuse the Enemy, her books are on the website as well.
19 Responses to "Tracy Patterson: “Pacquiao is fighting mostly A+ fighters, and those guys are not gonna be easy to knock out!”"
Dranreb Datsboygym says:
TRACY knew it…that his fellow american in the body of DUCKWEATHER JR the moment he start to grow his tiny balls is sodangerous for him to face the real greatest fighter of all time the PACQUIAO!!!
nazeemshit says:
youre idiot filipino guy midget
red santos says:
yeah ur name really a shit!hahahaha!!!
prax says:
you are more idiot!
I’ll kick ur ass shit!
you’re idiot too… hehehe
rahman da man says:
Nazeemshit you know nothing about boxing! i seen you had posted previously that you like men to box with small trunks because you like to see they’re booty?? you sick tranny!
paul anderson says:
nazeemshit is shit…… gay like floyd the ducker…!
mikey says:
Jenna J…….why not also ask why little floyd didn’t have a knockout for 5 years? with the exception of poor little ortiz, everyone knows thats a poor bad acting for a knockout….only idiots believe thats a typical knockout, maybe you do.
edel says:
Mayweather is a good fighter no doubt about it but until he fights A class fighter his legacy is going down the drain. just my honest opinion. PEACE!
floydcott says:
good point and beside manny is small welter compare to clottey, mosley margarito etc..
Uglyduck2 says:
Always poor interview. Always.
Joel ocampo says:
I agree with Tracey Patterson that Pac hasn’t lost that much speed amd power but you also have to realize that his only knockout at 147 lbs was Cotto and De la Hoya. And those were stoppages (not a real KO). His real KOs were at 140 and lighter. I’ve never seen margarito receive a worse beating in the hands of pacquiao at 154lbs. But he didnt KO. Combine this factor and the fact that elite fighters have a learning curve, and to some degree, the age factor, pacquiao would have a hard time knocking out opponents.
flash pena says:
Good one Tracey, and that’s why Floyd ha no ball’s to fight the greatest fighter of all time Many Pacquiao and I know the fight will never ever happen, FLOYD, is the first ever ”COWARD” black american fighter in the History of Mankind….
John Wilkinson says:
FLASH PENA, YOU ARE ~SO…..FUNNY!!!!!!!!!~ Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
glen says:
Algieri is not an A yet. But pretty sure he would be C after Pacquiao is done with him.
Floyd is the #1 boxer in the world with too many excuses
Jenna J says:
I swallowed mayweather sr balls
Trainers RUIN as many a COMPETITOR as they (sometimes) HELP! That’s what I think! : )
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Rep. Alan Grayson 2.0: Less fire-breathing, more self-restraint
Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida waited just a few hours after being sworn in to go on MSNBC, a forum he used to become a national figure during a tumultuous first go-around in Congress, and declare his return.
“As Steven Tyler would say, ‘I’m back in the saddle again,’ ” Grayson smirked during the January appearance. And so he was off, ripping House Speaker John Boehner as “a weak, weak man.”
But six months later, the self-styled “congressman with guts” has managed what seems like an impossible feat of self-restraint.
Gone (largely) are the volcanic floor speeches such as one in 2009 describing the Republican health care plan as “die quickly,” and over-the-top sound bites such as referring to a female Federal Reserve adviser as a “K Street whore” or comparing former Vice President Dick Cheney to a vampire.
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Author: Markus Druery
Timber release LP
Steeped in enigmatic lyrics that could double for riddles, romantic exchanges between two equally talented vocalists and haunting harmonies between both the players and the instruments, Timber deliver a watershed album in The Family that promises to satisfy the pair’s longtime fans and newcomers alike. The most sensational quality that this record has to offer is its riveting tonality, which triumphs in the face of discordant rhythm and impossibly cerebral grooves with little hardship. Will Stewart and Janet Simpson flaunt their aesthetical chops shamelessly in these eight songs and show us why they’ve garnered the buzz that they have as an act in the last three years since their debut, and I for one think that this latest release amplifies their already unique and thrilling style to a whole new level. Continue reading “Timber release LP”
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Molly Hamner and The Midnight Tokers are Stuck in a Daydream
I don’t care much for albums with an inordinate amount of polish. Too often musicians working in the Americana vein will opt for glossy over authentic, but you don’t get any of that with Molly Hanmer. Her vocal and musical skills are unquestionable, but she also clearly pushes herself to dig as deep into a song as she can and isn’t afraid to put herself on the line. The opener to her Stuck in a Daydream album with the Midnight Tokers, “Take a Walk with Me”, has an unexpectedly rugged edge, but it’s mucho convincing. You can hear Hanmer’s passion boiling over in every line and the interplay between her and the band is fantastic.
That earlier mentioned authenticity comes through most strongly in the album’s third song “Fool’s Run (Different Song)”, but she expands its possibilities hitting a note of heartache any listener will appreciate. The payoff lines for this tune are just dandy and she never overplays them, just stressing the right emotional key to bring listeners deeper into the experience. “Old Number Seven” returns to territory she attacked so successfully with the album opener and she brings an additional amount of kick ass to this verging on rock. She pulls back the reins with the tender track “Love Song”, but dismiss any leanings towards cliché out of your mind – this is first class adult material with a hard won perspective and the musical acumen to back it up.
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John Bird’s organ work really sets the track “Come Back” on fire and the near blues shuffle push engages you physically while the lyrics are equally potent. She conjures up a strong Dylan cover with the little known “Outlaw Blues” from his Bringing It All Back Home album and deserves major props for renovating it to her style rather than lapsing into a tired Dylan imitation. The production is a particular strong suit here as well. “Drag You Along” affected me deeply – her unflinching look at life’s hardest questions is accompanied by first class musical backing and she gives herself totally over to the lyric.
“Worker’s Lament” has a lovely retro sound thanks to its accordion, but never sounds too removed from our modern experience. The lyrics have a number of surprising turns, as well, and Hanmer embraces them from the first line, throwing herself unreservedly into even the harmony vocal parts. It’s a great track to precede the clear musical fun of “Dead Happy” and the staccato guitar work counterpoints her melodic strengths very well. We are treated to a final surprise with the last song “Mama’s in the Spirit World Now”, a song that alternates between regret and truth, and has a lean arrangement clearly fitting her emotive talents as a singer. Molly Hanmer ends Stuck in a Daydream on a graceful, challenging note and it makes for one of the more involving listening experiences I’ve enjoyed this year. Let’s hope she collaborates more with The Midnight Tokers in the near future because I’m sure they could produce more works on par or bettering this outstanding full length album.
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The Appalachian Road Show (Barry Abernathy and Darrell Webb)
Barry Abernathy and Darrell Webb present Appalachian Road Show, the first joint musical effort between Abernathy, Webb and guest star Jim VanCleve on fiddle, is a multidimensional foray into the realm of bluegrass and its southern relatives constructed out of the trio’s love of the Appalachian landscape, and it doesn’t waste any time dispensing the rich melodies that the region is synonymous with. Abernathy commands our heart-strings with his lightning-fast banjo play, while Webb dictates the soulful harmonies with his mandolin and VanCleve manages the space in between the two. Each one of the songs we find on Appalachian Road Show’s debut affair is styled in a different element of southern comfort, but one thing that they all have in common is their authentic exemplification of country musicianship.
Though “Milwaukee Blues” and “Piney Mountains” are designed on different ends of the bluegrass spectrum, the emotional vortex created by their magnetic lyrics makes them instantly recognizable as being cut from the same musical cloth. Their shared tonality is what makes them the so similar, not their execution of melody. A common theme in this album is togetherness in spite of differences, something that has been holding Appalachia together through thick and thin for centuries, and a fine example would be the eloquently arranged three tracks that we start off with in this record. “Little Black Train” is the darkness of a laboring south personified; “Dance, Dance, Dance” is the bit of joyousness that the culture’s communal unity is known for; and “Broken Bones” beckons a period of discord, pain and suffering that shaped what the whole of our country looks like today. They couldn’t be more different, yet they’re able to affectionately share this album together.
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“Georgia Buck” is a great bluegrass shootout that gives “Lovin’ Babe” and “Old Greasy Coat” a run for their money on the sheer strength of harmony, but the latter two are much more sophisticated in their compositional layout. The last song on the record, “I Am Just a Pilgrim,” is much less a bluegrass song and more of a folk ballad, but it also features a classically refined arrangement that is magnified by the slick production. Whoever was in charge of operating the levels behind the glass with this album made sure that none of the instrumentals ever get smashed together, which makes these otherwise elaborately designed songs much more accessible to the typical music enthusiast.
You really get an idea about what matters most to both Abernathy and Webb in this record, and their relationship with Appalachia is portrayed not only through the pointed lyrics and their textured delivery, but also via the unpredictable rhythms that they’re driven by. A song as dexterously gripping as “Little Black Train,” which grows out of the spoken word in track one, is meant to get our adrenaline flowing through its combustible pace, but it’s malevolent lyrics are what really make it as hot a track as a burning ember in the fireplace. I’m impressed with what they’ve accomplished in this initial outing and am definitely curious as to where Appalachian Road Show goes next with this intriguing take on traditional bluegrass music.
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Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite – Strange Intuition
The second single from Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite’s album Canyon Diablo, “Strange Intuition”, accelerates the momentum the collaboration between producers/writers The Grand Brothers and singer/songwriter Dee generated with the album’s first single “Electrified”. The band cites a variety of influences for their material, but the latest single demonstrates no clear pedigree while still working well within the realm of electro-influenced rock. The hard-hitting, yet immensely stylish, approach to this single moves them further afield of the cookie cutter approach lesser outfits seize on as their entrance into the popular musical world, but Dee’s previous success with singles like “Miles and Miles (Living on the Edge)” and “Filter Factory” and the Grand Brothers’ track record as successful writers and producers proves to be a potent recipe for the outfit’s current and growing success. Continue reading “Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite – Strange Intuition”
Author Markus DrueryPosted on November 4, 2018 Categories Features, Music ReviewsLeave a comment on Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite – Strange Intuition
Kazyak release Reflection (LP)
Kazyak’s Reflection is the sort of album I think you’ll be able to keep returning for years to come and never fully exhaust its appeal. The band complied eight demos, b-sides, and outtakes to form this album, but this unlikely method for structuring anything more than a hodgepodge collection lacking rhyme or reason pays off, instead, for Kazyak in a big way. Patterns and connections aren’t always apparent in an artist’s work – a seemingly unrelated batch of songs may, long after their initial composition, assume different significance later on. There’s no question the songs included on this release share an over-arching consistency despite exploring wildly different styles. The uniting element is their daring. Kazyak excel at fundamentals, but they use that bedrock musical command to marry seemingly disparate styles into a cohesive whole. Continue reading “Kazyak release Reflection (LP)”
Author Markus DrueryPosted on November 4, 2018 Categories Features, Music ReviewsLeave a comment on Kazyak release Reflection (LP)
Opposite Day release new Music
The smoldering reverse echo of a guitar rises from the ethers in the opening bars of Opposite Day’s “Day of the Triffids” as if to warn us that there’s an ocean of chaotic discord just waiting to be unleashed behind this fragile dam. A bass with the legs of a spider dexterously wanders between the strut of the riffs that are literally growing around us, and before we know it we’re smashed dead center between a crunchy modulation in the tempo and the focused assault of the band. Opposite Day’s Divide By Nothing gets off to a furious start, but it doesn’t let up in any of the five tracks it dispatches at listeners who are bold enough to embark on the group’s latest progressive adventure. Continue reading “Opposite Day release new Music”
Author Markus DrueryPosted on October 27, 2018 Categories Features, Music ReviewsLeave a comment on Opposite Day release new Music
Abby Zotz – Local Honey
In an era when dirge and depression seem to dominate the pop charts to the point of leaving no room for anything other than music celebrating the bleakness of society, folkie singer/songwriter Abby Zotz offers up a piece of pure optimism in her new album Local Honey, and it couldn’t be coming at a more significant time. In all of the gloom and doom of modern music, a record as remarkably uplifting as Local Honey shines as bright as a shooting star and get us excited about the vibrancy of pop once more. Divided into eleven tracks that each contain a different element of Zotz’ sterling creative persona, this album is a must listen for anyone who has been feeling down and out about life and could use a little musical pick-me-up to get through the day. She might not be a household name yet, but if given the right platform I have a feeling that audiences from Canada and beyond are going to have a tough time resisting the charming harmonies and relatable lyrics of this up and coming pop sensation. Continue reading “Abby Zotz – Local Honey”
Author Markus DrueryPosted on October 16, 2018 Categories Features, Music ReviewsLeave a comment on Abby Zotz – Local Honey
Saint Jaimz release AWOL (Absent Without Love)
Saint Jaimz’s vocals immediately bring you into his world and heart and he isn’t even singing. Instead, “AWOL (Absent Without Love”) begins with Jaimz’s spoken word voice in a brief introduction that sets an early mood. This is near torch song R&B, a reflective rumination on the descent of a relationship holding together by pure inaction and long past its sell by date. It’s all part of Jaimz’s purpose in songwriting, to engage meaningful themes and stories through which he can communicates messages of intense personal meaning for him. He backs up those efforts with an equally strong commitment, evident in each second of this song, to marrying those messages to rich musical arrangements instead of glorified vehicles for his point of view. It’s the latest and greatest in a string of singles for this Californian and Army veteran. His intense personal commitment to the music reflects the wisdom he’s gleaned overcoming a number of trials in life and it gives his songwriting, even in its darkest moments, an affirmative slant all his own. Continue reading “Saint Jaimz release AWOL (Absent Without Love)”
Author Markus DrueryPosted on October 14, 2018 October 17, 2018 Categories Features, Music ReviewsLeave a comment on Saint Jaimz release AWOL (Absent Without Love)
Mikey See releases “Love My Body” (single)
Of every genre in modern music, R&B is arguably the most eclectic in its body of artists. From soul crooners to the furious high tech beats of club DJs, R&B has become a blanket term for virtually every kind of music that incorporates smooth, dance-inspired rhythms with the sizzle and brooding tinge of the blues. Mikey See, a rising star in the west coast indie pop scene, has often been described as one of R&B’s more experimentally minded young voices, and his single “Love My Body” definitely lives up to his burgeoning reputation as one of the most fearless artists in the entire genre. If urban music is truly in need of a hero right now, one won’t give in to the commercial interests of big marketing firms and archaic establishment figures who don’t want to see music progress unless it involves making a whole lot of money in the process, Mikey See is nominating himself for the position, and singles like this one are definitely enough to fuel his campaign. Continue reading “Mikey See releases “Love My Body” (single)”
Author Markus DrueryPosted on October 9, 2018 Categories Features, Music ReviewsLeave a comment on Mikey See releases “Love My Body” (single)
Bill McBirnie releases “Silent Wish” (LP)
The Silent Wish is a new, joint album from extreme flutist Bill McBirnie and jazz magnate Bernie Senensky, but to say it’s simply another record would be the understatement of the decade. The Silent Wish is a 12 song journey into the heart and soul of Canadian jazz as played like no others can, and if you’ve got the sonic capacities to take the leap, this listening experience is one you won’t soon regret. I’ve never been the biggest jazz fan in the world, but this album was so addictively hypnotizing I can’t help but nominate it for album of the year. Continue reading “Bill McBirnie releases “Silent Wish” (LP)”
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We have a separate curriculum called EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) system for the KG Level. It ensures the different skills that are essentially required for a child of 4 to 6 years. The Students in KG Section enjoy Smart Classrooms based on phonemes and expressionistic techniques. By the end of the year, they imbibe the skills of motor, fine motor, cognitive and aesthetic.
The students of Gr.01 to 08 follow the NCERT (CBSE) in full swing and the textbooks are selected on the basis of its student-friendly presentations. Along with CCE Programmes, students' scholastic and co-scholastic areas are tested and required enhancement programmes are suggested. Apart from the main languages like Hindi and Malayalam, the non-Indians are given the option of choosing Additional Englsih as their Main Language. As a suppot to the students who opt Malayalam/ Hindi as main language to learn Additional Hindi and Additional Malayalam in basic mode.
The students of Grade 09 and 10 follow the SCERT (Kerala Board) Curriculum. We chose the State Board as we found the syllabus of SCERT stands always unique and a model to other curricula in India and abroad. Stability and updated status are the major highlights of this curriculum. The present revision of Assessment Pattern of CBSE is the typical pattern of SCERT that has been following for years since its inception.
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EuclidSCP-3879 Flying FishRate: -6
Item #: SCP-3879
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3879-1 through -31, are to be kept in a 12 m x 8 m x 10 m semi-aquarium semi-terrarium glass tank. Three out of four of the walls are made of 10 cm of concrete. The interior is coated with a white impact absorbent plastic to reduce damage to the walls. The north wall is made of 5 mm of bulletproof glass, and is used for observation. Half of the tank is filled with sand, and a variety of artificial flora like miniature palm trees and ferns are planted through out land side of the tank. The sand must be at least 5 m in height. Ocean water fills on the other half of the tank to create a beach like landscape. 250,000 l of water will be filled on the other side of the tank. The will be bottom of the water is filled with artificial aquatic plants, a thin layer of sand, shells, and colorful rocks. Three (3) extra large aquarium filters must be placed in the water at all times, and must be regularly changed every three months. Water must be changed yearly. The temperature must be kept between 10 °C to 32 °C. Humidity must be at least 50% at all times. In an event of breeding, all eggs must be transported to the nearest cryogenic center for freezing. Incubation must be approved by two (2) level four (4) personnel. In an event of SCP-3879 attempting to breach containment area, three (3) kilograms of bovine meat must be dispensed on the opposite side of breached area, and repairs must be made immediately by three (3) class D personnel.
Every twenty-four (24) hours, two (2) kilograms of meat, fruit, or seafood must be dispensed into the containment area of SCP-3879. Anything left over must be retrieved and disposed of to prevent food poisoning to SCP-3879 due to spoiled food. A door on the east wall is to be only used by authorized personnel.
Description: SCP-3879 are large fish similar to Carassius auratus in color, and most anatomy. SCP-3879 has the average height, length, and width of 35.6 cm, 43.2 cm,and 22.9 cm, respectively. SCP-3879 has elongated pectoral fins, with an average of 15.4 cm in size. SCP-3879 have a quadruple caudal fin. X-rays confirm that the pectoral fin ray, the ray of the anterior dorsal fin, the caudal fin ray, and the neural spine are hollow, and contain an unknown lighter than air gas. Autopsies have been requested and are pending approval by O5-█. SCP-3879 posses small prominent teeth of an unknown quantity.
SCP-3879 are able to fly, and able to breathe in an outside of water. When in air, SCP-3879 have been observed to be fast, as the lowest speed recorded was at about 11.6 km/p/h. This speed slightly increases when in water. SCP-3879 seem to release some of the gas in their skeletons that not only projects them forward, but also allows them to reach lower depths. It is unknown how SCP-3879 replenishes the skeletal gas in its system.
SCP-3879 behave like Carassius auratus, as they swim against the glass wall, not acknowledging the existence of the glass. They are placid, and observers show signs of happiness whilst, and after viewing SCP-3879. Discussion for the use of SCP-3879 as a treatment for mental disorders like depression, anxiety, and PTSD continue. When ravenous, SCP-3879 will behave like Pygocentrus nattereri. They become hostile, and it is not recommended that anyone should enter the containment area after 16 hours since SCP-3879 have gone without food. They are not averse to eating anything biological. See experiment log below for details:
[Experiment log for SCP-3879
Approved by O5-█
Monitored by O5-██
Project Head: Dr. M. █████
Date: █/██/████
Test Subject: 1 kg of a variety of fruits
Procedure: 1 kg worth of apples, bananas, oranges, lemons, and pineapples were dropped into the water of the containment area.
Results: The citrus fruits were consumed last, and the bananas were consumed first. There was no incident.
Notes: "It appears that they are not too big on citrus. Have all citrus heavy fruits removed from their feeding cycle," Dr. M. █████.
Date: ██/██/████
Test Subject: An adult, deceased Sus scrofa domesticus
Procedure: The carcass was dropped on the land of the containment area.
Results: SCP-3879 filled their skeletons with gas, and floated to the carcass. The carcass was consumed without any incident. Bones were consumed shortly after all meat was eaten. Only blood was left behind.
Notes: "These things don't seem to be picky at all," Dr. M. █████
Date: █/█/████
Test Subject: 1 kg of live Sardinella longiceps
Procedure: The fish were dropped through a chute into the water of the containment area.
Results: After the fish were dropped into the water, they formed a school. SCP-3879 started to surround the fish, using the same hunting tactic as Tursiops. SCP-3879 surrounded the fish in a circle, and slowly started eating them from the outside of the school, to the inside. Only a little bit of blood was left behind.
Notes: "SCP-3879 shows signs intelligence. More tests are needed to measure this intelligence," Dr. M. █████
Test Subject: A live, adult, female Bos taurus
Procedure: The live cow was walked into the tank through the door on the land side by two (2) class D personnel. The class D personnel were instructed to run out the door and lock it after the cow was inside the tank.
Results: After the door was relocked, SCP-3879 surfaced and chased the cow for about 2 minutes. The cow was in the northeast corner showing signs of extreme distress and fear. The cow ran through the cloud of SCP-3879 closing in, killing SCP-3879-13, and injuring SCP-3879-29. The cow slipped into the water, and SCP-3879 followed. In the water, SCP-3879 bit the legs of the cow and dragged the cow under the waterline, drowning it, then consuming it. The blood made the water red, and it was quickly replaced within an hour.
Notes: "Oh my god. these things are fucking evil. I am in love with them. These are my new babies!" Dr. M. █████. O5-██ requested amnestics after observing the experiment. Thirty (30) SCP-#### specimens aremained. SCP-3879-29 recovered in about seventy-two (72) hours.
Test Subject:A live, adult Odontaspididae
Procedure: The shark was dropped through a chute into the water of the containment area
Results: SCP-3879 formed a school, and engulfed the shark. The shark quickly escaped, and attacked the school. SCP-3879 avoided the attack with tactics seen in schools of Sardinella longiceps, but SCP-3879-6 was consumed by the shark. SCP-3879 started circling the shark, avoiding the head. Blood prevented anymore viewing. The tank was drained. A shark skeleton stayed at the bottom of the tank, and was consumed shortly after by SCP-3879
Notes: "That was beautiful!" Dr. M. █████.
"I can't do this anymore. This is going to scar me," O5-██.
"You could use 3879 to help ease your stress," Dr. M. █████.
"I'd rather use a keter to help me with that," O5-██.
Test Subject: One (1) class D personnel.
Note: Test was aborted. Dr. M. █████ was reassigned to SCP-████ to prevent Dr. M. █████ from becoming obsessed.
Note: "If he stayed with this SCP, who knows what he would do? Better safe than sorry," O5-██.
Note: "You can't take me away from my babies! You can't! I need them!" Dr. M. █████ as he was being dragged away from the containment area of SCP-3879. He was then sedated, given amnestics, and false memories.]
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Home > Resources > National policy and guidance > Overview of Person-centred Care
Risk, safety and recovery: implementing recovery through organisational change
This webpage summarises a briefing paper developed by ImROC which examines the current approaches to risk assessment and management in mental health services, and calls for them to be changed so they are more supportive of individual recovery.
ImROC
National policy and guidance
The House of Care Toolkit
The House of Care describes four key interdependent components that, if implemented together, will achieve patient centred, coordinated service for people living with long term conditions and their carers.
NHS IQ
Any Town Toolkit
The ‘Any town’ toolkit, which uses high level health system modelling, allows clinical commissioning groups to map how interventions could improve local health services and close the financial gap. It includes self-management support and telehealth / telecare amongst the 'high impact interventions' it identifies which are already proven to have a significant impact.
Commissioning,
One person, one team, one system: Report of the Independent Commission on Whole Person Care for the Labour Party
The report describes the case for change and the need to achieve services where the needs of one person are addressed by people acting as one team, from organisations behaving as one system. It sets out how a more integrated system should look and how it can be achieved, including co-management and shared decision making.
Oldham J,
Independent Commission on Whole Person Care
Together for Health - a Diabetes Delivery Plan
This Delivery Plan for NHS Wales sets out new Welsh Government commitments to the public for diabetes care in Wales up to 2016. It focuses on supporting children, making education the priority as a means of supporting self-management, and establishing an information system to underpin services.
Personalising Healthcare: The role of Shared Decision Making and Support for Self-Management
This position statement sets out the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP) commitment to shared decision making and self-management support and describes its approach to promoting these.
Royal College of Physicians
Patient education programme for people with type 2 diabetes Implementing NICE guidance
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE clinical guidelines through commissioning, and is a resource to help health professionals in England to commission an effective, structured patient education programme for people with type 2 diabetes.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
The Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities
The charter sets out a summary of people's rights and responsibilities, and what they can expect when you use NHS services and receive NHS care in Scotland. The right to be informed, and involved, in decisions about health care and services is one of six explicit rights.
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Quality standard: Shared Decision Making
The standard sets out a quality statement, how it should be measured and its implications for service providers, health professionals, commissioners and people using services.
Transforming participation in health and care
This guide will help clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and other commissioners of health and care services to involve patients and carers in decisions relating to care and treatment, and the public in commissioning processes and decisions.
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The Temple »
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LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE REVIVAL MOVIE
Author Topic: LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE REVIVAL MOVIE (Read 7636 times)
Legends Explorer Alec
Alec Robert Borden
Re: LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE REVIVAL MOVIE
If the movie is a success, Nickelodeon just might start a 4th season!
Please sign this petition to have Legends of the Hidden Temple rebooted.
NikoMetsPlus
Quote from: TempleFan322 on July 25, 2016, 07:42:00 PM
You make a strong point. I just watched the 360 video they released, and they have a bunch of Easter Eggs in it, like the Steps Of Knowledge outside of the Temple, a yellow helmet, and most obvious, a skeleton wearing a Silver Snakes shirt and Kirk saying that "an explorer was so startled by a Guard that he fled, never to be heard from again" while in search of Henry the VIII's Great Seal, and we ALL know what happened in that episode :-)
The easter eggs are fun, and it tells me that the producers are paying attention. What I mean by that is, these aren't producers that watched a few episodes, took some themes from the old show, and made a movie. They've done all they can to try to connect to the "original" audience, and I wouldn't be surprised if they've read threads from this forum. I talk about how important the original audience is because frankly, that's what most important in this case.
There is a reason top rated magazines like Variety, E!, TMZ exc. have been talking about this, and it's because the original show was so important to a lot of kids growing up in that time period. Nickelodeon churns out movies like this all the time, but there has never been so much hype about a TV Movie before a release date is given.
One other thing, I always thought that if LOTHT was brought back for a fourth season, it would be a guy like Jeff Supthen or something like that, as he's young, and has hosted a lot of game shows (that frankly were failures). But now, I'm pretty confident in saying that Kirk would retain hosting duties (if he accepted) if the show continued. This is because there is now an incentive to keep him on, and that's the fact that he was in the TV Movie.
All in all, a lot of speculation, but there are so many more possibilities then there were a few months ago.
Yeah, these guys are hardcore fans of the show. I was extremely skeptic of the whole movie idea, but their vision of this has really turning me around, and their 360 video is really convincing to me so far. And I, like you and everyone else here, hope that it leads to a season 4 revival.
And going off my last comment: let's say we get the revival. Which type of Temple would we be seeing? The original or the current? Cause, at the moment given all we've been able to see, the new Temple is giving me the feel of shows like the UK's Jungle Run that has a team enter a jungle to collect tiny silver monkey statues in games which each statue giving them 10 seconds to enter the Monkey King's Temple and solve puzzles to get a Stone, Bronze, *ahem* Silver, and a Gold Monkey statue out in however much time they get.
Then again I'm jumping FAR ahead of everything. We haven't had any chance to see anything other than from the trailer and 360 video. But a guy can dream, can't he?
If a revival were to happen, I can 100% Guarantee you that it would be the original. Remember, while this is a kids show, this show only succeeds if the original viewers like this show, and pass it on to their kids, nephews exc. Search "Legends Of The Hidden Temple" on Google, and you already see people complaining about how the trailer didn't have enough Olmec or original content (even though I was very surprised how many things there were from the original).
Save the date! November 26!
Team: Green Monkeys
Episode: Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress
Room: Either The Shrine of the Silver Monkey, The Laser Light Room, or the Jester's Court
Contestant: Gator from the Mussel Shell Armor of Apanuugpak
Seen all 120 episodes of Legends
Yo Dawg, I heard how much you like the Green Monkeys.
Perfect Polly=World's "Smartest" Invention
I <3 Shaka Zulu! Drat That Zulu Drought!!!!!
Teams ranked
1. Green Monkeys 280 pts
2. Red Jaguars 270 pts
3. Silver Snakes 269 pts
4. Blue Barracudas 252 pts
5. Orange Iguanas 250 pts
6. Purple Parrots 239 pts
Kirk Fogg's Angel
Kirk Fogg's #1 Fan
I can't wait until the movie comes out. For the past few days I've been on this site: http://www.nick.com/legends-of-the-hidden-temple/ watching the videos they have on there.
My '90s Are All That forum: http://the90sareallthat.proboards.com/index.cgi
Movie can be watched here, I guess....
I thought it was going to be released later in the month....
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
THE ENITRE MOVIE IS AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE CHROME.
If I could quote a Fall Out Boy song really quick..... Saturday.... As in this Saturday is the Legends of the Hidden Temple movie!
Barracuda Fangirl
Watching this now. Anyone else joining me on doing this?
Watching. Loving it so far.
It just ended. It was freaking amazing!
I had a mini party at my dad's last night for the TV movie.
I can relate. I wore my Green Monkies shirt and had my hand made Pendant of Life on my arm during it.
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Meelup Family Beach .. Dunsborough south of Perth
What happens when you die?
The people who know the answer to that are dead,
and they’re not telling us anything.
This skit from Chris and Jack takes a look at what may be in store
for this one guy when he buys the farm.
It’s a little reminiscent of the classic scene of St. Peter meeting you
at the Pearly Gates to announce your final disposition.
Except it’s not like that at all.
They are out there!!
The Present,
A Beautiful Short Story
After a very successful festival circuit,
running on over 180 film festivals and winning more than 50 awards,
the creators of this magnificent short film
decided that it’s finally time to share ‘The Present’
with the rest of the world.
’The Present’ is a thesis short from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects
and Digital Post production at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
We need this in all elevators in the world...
Niagara Falls to go dry
The New York state parks department is considering shutting
down the American and Bridal Veil Falls for nine months
while it replaces two dilapidated pedestrian bridges
, possibly starting in 2019
Some interesting Canadian Facts
thanks Ron H
(REMI GAILLARD)
Remi Gaillard is a prankster but he sends a really strong message here.
Holland dairy cows are released
to pasture after a long winter.
Find the Duplo Dog in this horde of pandas.
Can you spot him?
The Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Prepare to be amazed as you watch Sister Rosetta Tharpe
as she performs “Didn’t It Rain” in Manchester, England in 1964.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is often referred to as
“The Godmother of Rock and Roll” or “The Original Soul Sister”
. Her songs were an influence on notable singers like
Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis,
and even Elvis Presley.
Rock On Sister.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Didn't It Rain
ed....amazingly Sister Rosetta appears on no Hall of Fame lists
Often the subject of a death hoax, actor Abe Vigoda died January 26, 2016
at the age of 94.
Vigoda was known for a number of roles,
especially his portrayals of Sal Tessio in the Francis Ford Coppola film The Godfather,
and for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish
on the television sitcom series Barney Miller from 1975 to 1977
and its spinoff show Fishin 1978, both on ABC.
Vigoda was reported to have died in both 1982 and 1987
and since has been the subject of many jokes in that regard.
He had a good sense of humor about the rumors.
He had been on hospice care recently until his death earlier today
at his daughter’s home in New Jersey.
Fish is now sleeping with the fishes.
taken from Bits and Pieces
Barney Miller - Landesberg,
Vigoda and Soo talk doughnuts
Season 3, Ep 4 "Bus Stop," aired October 14, 1976
Strange and Interesting Facts
Historical Video
Marlon Brando's Oscar® win for
" The Godfather"
10 REAL Photos That Cannot Be Explained
Captain and his Ship
Jacob Tremblay Wins Best Young Actor/Actress
2016 Critics' Choice Awards
In the midst of awards season, you may have missed the Critics Choice Awards
No worries, here is the highlight of the evening.
Jacob Tremblay was named Best Young Actor for his role in the movie Room.
He is nine years old.
Tremblay’s acceptance speech is more than adorable.
He’s well-spoken, humble, and gracious,
and there’s a few points that would only apply to such a young winner,
like the microphone being too tall and his plans for the trophy.
Emotional wedding Haka
moves Maori bride to tears, NZ
Interesting Eye Facts
Best of Zach King from 2015
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#308 - Corporations Are Externalizing Machines, The Way Sharks Are Killing Machines, 20-Oct-1992
The modern corporation defines our world. The invention of the modern
corporation has allowed us to become the wealthiest people in all of
human history. It has also allowed us--in just 100 years of industrial
enterprise--to march to the brink of collapse, rapidly destroying the
planet as a place suitable for human habitation.
Today, when the top 2 percent of us hold as much wealth as the bottom
90 percent, it is an open question whether our democratic form of
government can survive in any meaningful way. Here again, corporations
are key. How to control the behavior of corporations has become the
central question we must all address.
A corporation is a group of people who have been granted a bundle of
rights and privileges guaranteed by the government. The government
grants those rights and privileges by issuing a piece of paper, a
certificate of authority called a corporate charter.
Before there was a United States of America, kings granted corporate
charters, creating organizations such as the East India Company and the
Hudson's Bay Company.
As American colonists fought to throw off the rule of English kings
beginning in 1776, and created the world's first constitutional
democracy in 1789, they carefully placed the right to charter
corporations in the hands of state legislatures. Today every state
legislature still has the power to grant, to amend, and to revoke,
corporate charters.
Corporations chartered in other states are called foreign corporations.
Corporations chartered in other nations are called alien corporations.
Legislatures allow foreign or alien corporations to go into business in
their states through the same chartering process.
An important new booklet,[1] published this month, describes some of
the changes that have taken place in corporate rights, privileges, and
behavior, during the last 200 years. Called TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS:
CITIZENSHIP AND THE CHARTER OF INCORPORATION, by Richard Grossman and
Frank T. Adams, the booklet describes how citizens controlled
corporations before the civil war of 1861. Up to that time corporations
were chartered for a specific limited purpose (for example, building a
toll road or canal) and for a specific, limited period of time (usually
20 or 30 years). At the end of the corporation's lifetime, its assets
were distributed among the shareholders and the corporation ceased to
exist. The number of owners was limited by the charter; the amount of
capital they could aggregate was limited. The owners were personally
responsible for any liabilities or debts the corporation incurred,
including wages owed to workers. Often profits were specifically
limited in the charter. Corporations were not established merely to
"make a profit." Each corporation was chartered to achieve a specific
social goal that a legislature decided was in the public interest.
Early Americans feared corporations as a threat to democracy and
freedom. They feared that owners (shareholders) would amass great
wealth, control jobs and production, buy the newspapers, dominate the
courts and control elections.
After the civil war, during the 1870s and 1880s, these fears began to
be realized. Owners and managers of corporations pressed relentlessly
to expand their powers, and the courts gave them what they wanted.
Perhaps the most important change occurred when the U.S. Supreme Court
granted corporations the full constitutional protections of an
individual citizen. Congress had written the 14th amendment to the
constitution to protect the rights of freed slaves, but the court in
1886 declared that no state shall deprive a corporation "of life,
liberty or property without due process of law." Now corporations had
real legal muscle.
By the early 20th century, courts had limited the liability of
shareholders; corporations had been given perpetual lifetimes; the
number of owners was no longer restricted; the capital they could
control was infinite. Some corporations were given the power of eminent
domain (the right to take another's private property with minimal
compensation to be determined by the courts). Of course a corporation
cannot be jailed. It cannot even be fined in any real sense; when a
fine is imposed, it is the shareholders who pay it and it becomes just
another cost of doing business.
With limits on liability, perpetual life, and the same rights as every
citizen, corporate growth was guaranteed.
A corporation brings together three groups of people--investors
(shareholders), who are the legal owners; labor; and management, which
includes a board of directors.
In theory the shareholders are responsible for all decisions. But a
recent book on the modern corporation by Robert Monks and Nell Minow[1]
makes it clear that this theory has been an empty fiction for many
years. Ownership is now fragmented into shares so small that "the
concept of ownership has been diluted to the point of disappearance."
Increasing the number of shareholders reduces the incentive and ability
of each shareholder to gather information and monitor management's
Historically, labor has not sought control of decision-making, leaving
that to management. Instead, labor has settled for a growing share of
profits. In the past decade, labor's share and its power have steadily
diminished.
The board of directors is appointed by management. Its compensation is
set by management. The average corporation director puts in less than
three weeks each year but draws compensation ranging from $20,000 to
$60,000 or more.
"Since they are selected by management, paid by management, and--
perhaps most important--informed by management, it is easy for
directors to become captive to management's perspective," say Monks and
Minow.
Management has the Board of Directors in its pocket. This leaves but
one remaining check on management--the shareholders. Management is
directly accountable to the shareholders; at least that is what the
theory says. But the reality is quite different. Monks and Minow trace,
step by step, court case by court case, the disintegration of
accountability in the modern corporation. Particularly during the 1980s
(when Monks was a top Reagan appointee), corporate managers cut their
last remaining ties of accountability to shareholders.
People like to think that the power of management is balanced by the
power of shareholders. "This remembered sense of balance is so powerful
that it persists despite unmistakable proof that it no longer exists,"
say Monks and Minow. "Management accountability to shareholders is more
than an economically beneficial arrangement; it is the basis on which
we, as a matter of public policy, give legitimacy to the impact that
private entities have on our lives. We would no more create a private
entity without accountability than a public one; we don't want
corporate dictators any more than we want political ones. But today,
any remaining accountability is little more than a vestige of the
original contract, the last remaining trace of the myth that no one
seems to want to give up."
Monks and Minow describe in detail the tools that corporate managers
developed during the 1980s to diminish the decision-making power of
shareholders. They argue persuasively, and in detail, that today the
modern corporation is run by management chiefly for the benefit of
management. Though shareholders continue to benefit from profitable
decisions, shareholders no longer call the shots. Management rules the
roost.
But even management is not entirely in control. Monks and Minow argue
at length that the modern corporation has a life and a logic all its
own. The main goal of a corporation is to gather benefits for its
members, and to pass costs on to others--to "internalize" benefits and
to "externalize" costs.
"Despite attempts to provide balance and accountability, the
corporation as an entity became so powerful that it quickly outstripped
the limitations of accountability and became something of an
externalizing machine, in the same way that a shark is a killing
machine--no malevolence, no intentional harm, just something designed
with sublime efficiency for self-preservation, which it accomplishes
without any capacity to factor in the consequences to others."
What about government regulation? Monks and Minow argue that
governments do not have what it takes to control corporations. "In
fact, government is now as much a creation of business as the other way
around," they say. Historically, they argue, corporations have turned
government controls into corporate shields. And: "...the actual impact
of all the laws, all the regulations, and all the bureaucrats on large
corporations is surprisingly small."
What is left?
Grossman and Adams suggest that anyone concerned about justice--anyone
skirmishing with corporations to stop them from doing harm--should
focus attention on the corporate charter, the original source of
control created for us by the earliest Americans--a source of power
still available to us today, if we will only explore it and put it to
All state legislatures still have the right to grant, to amend, and to
revoke corporate charters. Legislatures are still responsible for
overseeing corporate activities through the chartering process.
Citizens can define and control corporations. It will require some
homework, examining state histories and precedents, examining the
charters of existing corporations, thinking creatively about how to
assert control, focusing, and organizing.
Grossman and Adams say, "Our right to charter corporations is as
crucial to self-government as our right to vote. Both are basic
franchises, essential tools of liberty."
WE STAND IN PERIL OF LOSING OUR LIBERTY AND OUR LIVES--THE HEALTH OF
OUR PLANET AND OF OUR CHILDREN--IF WE DO NOT LEARN TO CONTROL CORPORATE
BEHAVIOR. THIS MUST BECOME A CENTRAL FOCUS OF OUR WORK, LOCALLY,
NATIONALLY, AND WORLDWIDE. THE BEHAVIOR OF CORPORATIONS IS CENTRAL TO
EVERY DANGER THAT THREATENS US. THERE IS NO MORE CRUCIAL CHALLENGE THAT
WE FACE
--Peter Montague
[1] Richard Grossman and Frank T. Adams, TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS;
CITIZENSHIP AND THE CHARTER OF INCORPORATION (Cambridge, Mass.:
Charter, Inc., 1992). To inquire about copies, write: Charter, Inc.,
P.O. Box 805, Cambridge, MA [22140.]22140.
[2] Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minow, POWER AND ACCOUNTABILITY (N.Y.:
HarperCollins, 1991).
Descriptor terms: corporations; corporate charters; shareholders;
labor; corporate accountablity;
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Bank of England considers using palm oil for new £20 notes after animal fat fivers row
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By James Sillars, Business Reporter
3-4 minutes
The Bank of England is consulting on the additives used to produce its polymer banknotes after criticism of the use of animal fat in the new fivers.
The Bank used a discussion document on Thursday to say palm oil had been recommended as an alternative – despite environmental concerns over sustainability – for the production of new £20 notes due to enter circulation in 2020.
Animal rights campaigners and vegans were among those to speak out last year, starting a petition when it emerged the Bank’s new £5 notes contained a small amount of tallow – derived from beef suet.
A general view of Fifty, Twenty, Ten, and Five pound notes
Image: Old-style paper notes are gradually being replaced
The polymer – or plastic – note is gradually replacing old-style paper notes as they are more robust and much harder to counterfeit.
While the Bank said in February it would not be replacing the controversial fivers, or altering its plans for the launch of polymer £10 notes later this year because of the costs involved, it has been working with note suppliers to identify alternatives.
They formed the view that palm oil would be best, the Bank said, though it admitted concerns from a separate independent report it commissioned that production of the vegetable oil has been linked to rainforest destruction. Its is used in the production of hundreds of foods, including chocolate, and biofuels.
File picture of Bank of England governor Mark Carney holding the concept design for a £10note
Image: Bank governor Mark Carney wants an ethical note production policy
Commenting on the concerns, the consultation document said: “These can be potentially mitigated by the Bank’s suppliers acquiring additives that meet an associated certification standard for environmentally sustainable production.”
It was also minded to take account of any extra costs and sought responses by 12 May.
The document added: “The Bank will reflect upon the various religious, ethical and environmental considerations raised by the inclusion of animal-derived additives and palm oil as the alternative.”
Dr Emma Keller, agriculture commodities manager at World Wildlife Fund, said: “WWF is encouraged to see the thorough and extensive review that the Bank of England have conducted in response to the animal fat issue in new bank notes.
“Palm oil has benefits as it produces more oil per land area than any other equivalent oil crop. Worldwide demand is expected to double again by 2050 but this expansion comes at the expense of human rights and tropical forest – which forms critical habitat for a large number of endangered wildlife – unless it is sustainable.
“People don’t want the bank notes in their pocket to come with such a high environmental cost.
“The bank must only source RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) certified sustainable palm oil or none at all.”
Friends of the Earth campaigner Kierra Box said: “It’s good that the Bank is consulting, but surely it cannot be beyond the means of Threadneedle Street’s old lady to produce a bank note for the 21st century that doesn’t use controversial traces or additives.”
Almost 1M hectares ‘missing’ from land holdings of major palm oil companies
March 2017 News Update
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An Unlikely Business Makeover
Five-time tech entrepreneur, hyper-growth CEO, NY Times bestselling author and venture capitalist.
What organization offers the absolute worst customer experience? National Customer Shame surveys list utility companies and budget airlines, wireless carriers and shipping companies. But the overwhelming winner: The good old DMV, The Department of Motor Vehicles.
When you imagine walking in for your soul-crushing visit, you're instantly filled with dread. Long lines, rude service, bleak environment. The subject of jokes and parodies, we just assume that's the way it has to be.
But Chad Price had a different idea when competing for the private contract to run the DMV in Holly Springs, North Carolina. He wondered what would happen if he created the exact opposite experience of a typical government agency. Step by step, he studied conventional approaches and then set out to disrupt them.
Today, if you walk in his DMV branch (yes, he won the contract), you instantly need a double take to confirm you're in the right place. You notice the delicious gourmet cupcakes that are waiting for you on the counter. Perhaps you enjoy a fresh smoothie, cold-pressed juice, or one of the dozens of exotic coffee flavors they offer. There are fresh cut flowers, area rugs, and a lovely children's play area to entertain the young ones while parents conduct their business. Warm color tones, friendly smiles, comfy seating. Wait, is this really a DMV?
The experience isn't only pleasant, it's also efficient. Customers can use a mobile app to check in before their arrival, and later receive a text when their number is coming up. Walk-ins speed through the check-in process on an iPod and are alerted with updates during their wait. Locals love the place so much, they've been known to come in for coffee and cupcakes just to hang out and read a book even if they have no pressing business at the location.
I'm sure the bureaucratic establishment would have pointed out all the reasons such a transformation "couldn't be done." And yet, even the dreaded DMV came to life with a little imagination and creativity. What about cost, you may ask? The efficient tech, improved training, and profits from selling food goodies more than cover the extra expense, while converting customers from cringing haters to raving fans.
There is zero doubt which DMV will get the most business in the area or which company will get the next government contract to open additional outlets. In this case, Chad Price flipped DMV to mean "Department of Maximum Value," for both himself and his customers.
It's easy to feel stuck doing things the way they've always been done. But the Holly Springs DMV shows that the only real boundary our own imagination. Take a look at your most established notions and practices, and apply this same sense of creative wonder. You may just be blown away by the results as your customers line up and take a number for a hefty serving of originality.
Ready for your own business makeover? Grab a cupcake and spring into action.
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After finishing an incredible meal in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the best part of the experience may very well be the lagniappe (pronounced LAN-yap). While it sounds like a fancy seafood dish, a lagniappe is actually an unexpected gift. That special dessert, complements of the chef. The small box of chocolates for you to take home. Th...
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Early education in high-risk urban areas is a complex and seemingly overwhelming challenge. Often dubbed the "school to prison pipeline," kids in troubled classrooms with negative peer influences and little family support too often end up incarcerated or repeating the cycle of poverty. Despite committed teachers and administrators, these problem...
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The Japanese island of Okinawa boasts the highest life expectancy, and the greatest concentration of centenarians (people who live to 100), in the world. Their culture, rituals, diet, and environment have been the subject of extensive study as researchers try to crack the code of a longer, healthier life. When questioned why their people are ...
When We Stop Doing The Things That Made Us Great
Last weekend, I went to one of Detroit's most celebrated Italian restaurants. I'd been years ago and anticipated the same exquisite experience. Known for their impeccable service and inspired dishes, I was expecting them to nail every detail like they had in the past. Yet the very things that made them successful had obviously been significan...
The Hard Part
Whether you are running a startup, building a relationship, or rebuilding a community, there's an easy part and a hard part. One requires less work in the moment while the other unlocks the potential of your efforts and concurrently is your playground for personal growth. Those comfortable things that require little thinking, risk, or effort ...
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Think about how you shined during the interview where landed you your job. You were prepared to impress, fully engaged, and leaning forward with enthusiasm. Acutely aware that you were being evaluated, you made sure your answers were crisp and your questions were thoughtful. Simply put, you were ON. Unfortunately, that moment is the brightest...
One Word That Will Change Your Entire Outlook
As busy people, we often sprint from one obligation to the next. The mandatory client meeting, the business lunch, the kid's soccer game all while keeping your seven social media streams up to date, your boss happy, and your family fed. In the modern age, we can feel overwhelmed with all the things we just have to do. When the events in our liv...
In school, we're taught that mistakes should be avoided at all costs. We learn that getting something wrong somehow means that we're wrong as a human beings, that each mistake translates to a lower self-worth score. These dreaded slip-ups can be so hurtful that we learn to recoil from the very thought of stumbling, much like we avoid the hot sto...
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I was nearing the end of my three-mile run (I'm no marathon candidate), and was feeling awful. Tired, hot, sore, and ready to throw in the towel. Looking at the fitness app on my phone, I realized that I only had 10% remaining. As much as I wanted to quit, I forged ahead and completed the full run as planned. That moment of difficulty, angst, an...
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Cover Reveal! Final Mend by Angela Smith
This is the third and final book in this series by SARA author Angela Smith.
Book 1: Burn on the Western Slope.
Book 2: Fatal Snag.
And here’s Book 3: Final Mend.
You’ve met Garret and Chayton. Now it’s time to meet Jake.
A recovering alcoholic, Jake Inman has found a new, healthier addiction: training for his successful triathlon career. But when his manager is murdered and beloved goddaughter kidnapped, another obsession takes hold: doing whatever it takes to find Brandon’s killer and keep Amy safe. Jake turns to a private investigator for help in solving the case, and though he finds temptation in her whiskey-colored eyes, he knows he must resist his attraction, or risk losing his heart.
After a devastating case, Winona Wall has turned her back on her skills as a private investigator, preferring a quiet life as a part-time bartender. That is, until Jake storms into the bar, demanding her help in tracking his missing godchild. Unable to resist Jake’s charm, she reluctantly agrees. But even after Amy is found unharmed, Jake insists Amy’s mother was more involved with her kidnapping than the police suspect. When the situation takes a turn for the worse, Winona must trust her instincts in order to save them all – and avoid falling in love.
Read more at Angela’s Blog.
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Portal » SA Reptiles Home ‹ Board index ‹ General reptile discussions ‹ General Reptile Keeping
This is for anything with regards to reptiles which is not species specific or over a broad band of reptiles. Be it husbandry, caging, etc. you can post it here.
by Bushbaby » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:49 pm
This is a reference to just about anything and everything reptile / amphibain and Chelonian related.
AGAMA: Small lizards with a triangular head and short tail. Belonging to the family Agamidae. Agamas are diurnal
AGLYPHIC: Snakes that do not have fangs for venom delivery.
ALLELE: One of two or more possible different forms of a particular gene.
ALLOPATRIC: Not occurring together, but often adjacent
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE: Temperature of surrounding environment
AMELANISTIC: Lacking melanin or black pigment
AMPHIBIAN: An animal belonging to the vertebrate class Amphibia, including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians. Most species in this class have an aquatic immature stage and are terrestrial or partially terrestrial as adults.
AMPHISBAENID: Closely related to lizards, they have a burrowing lifestyle. A worm lizard of the suborder Amphisbaenia.
ANAL: The scale covering the cloacal opening. In snakes it is usually larger than the ventral scales. Referred to as a divided anal in some snakes because of them being paired. Can also just be a single plate.
ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK: A rare but serious complication is an acute serum reaction (anaphylaxis) with a sudden drop in blood pressure and collapse. The risk of this type of reaction in a healthy person is very slight but those with an allergic disposition, in particular a history of asthma or infantile eczema, should not receive serum unless it is absolutely necessary and then only with the greatest of caution.
ANERYTHRISTIC: Lacking red pigment.
ANURAN: A frog or toad.
ANTERIOR: Near the front
ANTIVENOM: Acts as a block against the toxic enzymes secreted by snakes during their bites. It is a serum produced from the antibodies of animals which have been injected with the serum.
AQUATIC: Residing in water
ARBOREAL: Residing mainly in trees
ASSIST FEED: To start a food item into a reptile’s mouth and then allow the animal to finish eating on its own.
AUTOTOMIZE: Ability to easily break or cast off a piece of the body, usually tail
AXANTHIC: Lacking yellow pigment
BASK: To lie in a warm area, as under a heat lamp or in the sun, in order to absorb heat.
BINOMIAl: A scientific name comprised of two parts, genus and species. Ex. Crotalus adamanteus. Crotalus is the genus for Rattlesnakes and adamanteus is the species name for the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake.
BLUE: Aee Opaque
BOID: Snakes belonging to the family Boidae. It includes all of the boas and pythons.
BRILLE: Unmovable spectacle covering the eye.
BRUMATE: To place an animal in Brumation.
BRUMATION: “Cooling” a herp by lowering its temperature for usually 2 to 4 months to approximate conditions during the winter period. This is not the true hibernation of mammals. Brumation triggers the physical changes that stimulate egg production in females, sperm production in males and the breeding response necessary for successful captive propagation.
BURROW: To dig underground for shelter or for the purpose of concealment or hunting for food. The tunnel created by a burrowing animal.
CANNIBAL, CANNIBALISTIC: An animal that feeds on others of its own kind.
CARAPACE: A turtle or tortoise’s upper shell.
CARNIVOROUS, CARNIVORE: Meat eater. An animal that eats the meat of other animals, or in the case of many reptiles, eats the whole animal.
CAUDAL: Relating to the tail
CHORIOALLANTOIS: Gas permeable membraneous layer inside the shell of a reptile egg
CILLIE: Ciliatus, as in Rhacodactylus
CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild flora and fauna. Entered into force in 1975, CITES is an international agreement designed to control the international trade in protected species of plants and animals. Participation of individual countries is voluntary.
CLASS: A taxonomic category for a group of related animals or plants that share common characteristics. This category is between phylum and order.
CLOACA: Opening to the exterior, it is the common chamber through which urinary, digestive and reproductive organs discharge their contents
CLUTCH: All eggs laid by a female at any one time
CODOMINANT: A mutant gene that changes the phenotype from normal when at least one mutant gene is present. The phenotype of a heterozygous individual is NOT the same as that of a homozygous individual. (See also dominant, recessive)
COLUBRID: A snake belonging to the family Colubridae. The common snakes, including King Snakes, Rat Snakes, Garter Snakes, Indigo Snakes, etc. The vast majority of these snakes are harmless to humans, but there also exists a subfamily of Colubrid snakes, the Boigid snakes, which are rear-fanged and venomous. The venom ranges in toxicity level from mild to extremely toxic. A gland called the Duvernoy’s Gland produces the venom of these snakes.
COOL: Brumate. To “cool” an animal is to place it in Brumation.
COSTAL GROOVE: A vertical groove in amphibians on the sides of the body between the front and back limbs. Usually there is more than one costal groove.
COSTAL SCUTE: The scales along the sides of the carapace of a turtle or tortoise.
CREPUSCULAR: Active at dawn and dusk
CROTALID: A venomous snake belonging to the sub:family Crotalinae. Pit vipers. These snakes have heat sensitive pits on the face and fangs in the front of the upper jaw that fold up against the roof of the mouth. Includes Cottonmouths, Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, Cantils, South American pit vipers and Asian pit vipers
CRYPTIC: Hidden or camouflaged
CYTOTOXINS: Venoms which destroy tissues. Common in adder species.
DERMAL: Referring to skin
DERMATITIS: Skin infection
DEWLAP: Flap of skin connected to throat region.
DIMORPHISM: Having two forms. Sexual dimorphism means that the females and males are different in appearance. Dimorphism is a special case of polymorphism, in which a species has more than one form.
DISECDYSIS: Some or all of the old skin did not shed off as it should have.
DIURNAL: Being active during the day
DOMINANT: A mutant gene that changes the phenotype from normal when at least one mutant gene is present. The phenotype of a heterozygous individual is the same as that of a homozygous individual.
DORSAL: Upper surface of the body.
DORSOLATERAL: Upper surface of the body bordering the backbone.
DOUBLE CLUTCH: To induce a snake to lay eggs twice in one season.
DOUBLE HETEROZYGOUS:(Double het): Being heterozygous for two independent mutant genes, such as albino and anerythristic.
DROP: To lay eggs, or in the case of a live:bearing snake, to give birth.
DRY BITE: A bite by a venomous snake in which no venom is delivered.
DUVERNOY’S GLAND: A modified saliva gland that produces a type of venom in Colubrid snakes, varying in toxicity from very mild to extremely toxic depending on species.
DYSTOCIA: See egg bound
ECDYSIS: Shedding of the skin.
ECTOPARASITE: Parasites that affect an animal externally by attaching themselves to the skin and sucking blood from the host animal. Mites and ticks are ectoparasites in reptiles. (See Endoparasite)
ECTOTHERM: An animal that cannot regulate its body temperature by an internal mechanism. Reptiles and amphibians are ectotherms. A “cold:blooded” animal. Ectotherms regulate their body temperature by utilizing warm and cool zones in their environment.
EFT: The terrestrial life stage of a newt.
EGG BOUND: A life threatening condition that prevents a female reptile from laying her eggs. It is usually caused by one or more (usually infertile) eggs adhering to the lining of the oviduct.
ELAPID: Snake belonging to the family Elapidae. They have fixed front fangs. Relating to cobras, rinkhals, mambas and coral snakes.
ENDANGERED SPECIES: An animal that is considered in danger of extinction. An animal that appears on Appendix I of the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
Endangered Species Act of 1973: A Federal Law that was passed for the purpose of protecting endangered and threatened species of flora and fauna. Enacted in December of 1973 and amended several times, most recently in 1988.
ENDEMIC: Pertaining to a specific area or habitat.
ENDEMIC SPECIES: A species native to a particular region.
ENDOPARASITE: Parasites of the circulatory, digestive or pulmonary systems of reptiles. These include a variety of round worms, tapeworms, flukes, and protozoans. (See Ectoparasite)
ENVENOMATION: Delivery of venom through bites or stings.
ESTIVATION: The lowering of metabolic rate during hot periods or droughts.
EXTINCT: A species in which all living examples have died. A species that no longer exists in life.
EXTIRPATE, EXTIRPATED: A species that has been eliminated or no longer exists in a particular area where it was formerly found.
FAMILY: Taxonomic category between Order and Genus.
FANG: Specialized tooth adapted for envenomation.
FILIAL: Generations of progeny in a genetic breeding project. Unrelated animals in the parental (P) generation are mated to produce the first filial (F1) generation. Two F1 individuals are mated (brother x sister) to produce the second filial (F2) generation.
FORCE FEED: To feed an animal by force. To use some mechanical means to deliver food to an animal’s stomach.
FOSSORIAL: Relating to burrowing and living underground.
FURNITURE: Limbs, hiding boxes, rocks, etc. are cage furniture.
FUZZY: A young mouse 7:12 days old. It has begun growing fur but has not opened its eyes.
GENOTYPE: The genetic code that produces a phenotype. The genes passed to subsequent generations.
GENUS: Taxonomic category between Family and Species.
GESTATION: The development of an embryo inside a female animal until it is fully developed and ready for birth. Gestation period: The period of egg development while the egg is still inside the female, before laying. The period of time it takes for an embryo to fully develop inside the female in live bearing animals.
GLOTTIS: The moveable stiff “tube” in the bottom of a snake’s mouth, which facilitates breathing while the snake is swallowing a prey animal.
GRAVID: Pregnant
HAEMOTOXIC: Venom affecting the blood especially coagulation and circulatory system’s functioning.
HATCHLING: New born reptile from the egg-laying species.
HEMIPENIS: Paired copulatory structure present in male reptiles.
HERP: A slang term for any and all species of reptile and amphibian. It is much preferable to “herptile”. Also used as a verb meaning to look for reptiles, amphibians or crocodilians. To go herping.
HERPER: A person who keeps, breeds, or collects reptiles or amphibians.
HERPETOCULTURIST: 1. A person who breeds reptiles or amphibians. Generally the emphasis is on developing new strains or morphs of a particular species or on refining and developing breeding techniques, but anyone who makes a serious effort to breed reptiles and amphibians can be referred to as a Herpetoculturist. 2. A person who keeps or has a serious interest in reptiles or amphibians and is an active participant in the community of herpetoculture through involvement and participation in clubs and organizations, shows, lectures and symposia, or online in message boards and chat rooms.
HERPETOLOGIST: A person who studies reptiles and amphibians. There is no specific degree in Herpetology in the United States, so a Herpetologist will usually have a degree in Biology and Zoology, with graduate work in the discipline of Herpetology.
HERPETOLOGY: Study of reptiles and amphibians.
HERBIVOROUS, HERBIVORE: An animal that eats vegetation or plant matter.
HETEROZYGOUS (Het): Having two different alleles of a particular gene in a gene pair. The two alleles may be different mutants or a wild type allele paired with a recessive mutant or a dominant mutant or a codominant mutant. For instance, a crossbreeding between an albino ball python and a normal ball python will produce offspring that have a normal gene paired with an albino (recessive) gene. These babies are heterozygous for albino. (See also homozygous, dominant, codominant, recessive.)
HIDE (Hiding box): Reptile cage furnishing which provides a secure place for the animal to hide. A cardboard box, upside:down flowerpot, etc. are used for hides.
HOMOZYGOUS: Having two identical alleles for a particular gene in a gene pair (both genes are the same). The genes may be two wild type alleles, two identical dominant alleles, two identical codominant alleles, or two identical recessive alleles. For instance, an albino ball python has two albino genes, making it homozygous for albino. A “super tiger” reticulated python has two tiger mutant genes, making it homozygous for the tiger mutant. (See also heterozygous, dominant, codominant, recessive.)
HOOK: A tool used for handling snakes, particularly venomous ones. A handle of varying length and composition with a hook at one end and a herper at the other.
HOPPER: A juvenile mouse 12-19 days old, after the eyes have opened but before weaning. Named because of their tendency to hop or jump.
HOT: A term used to refer to a venomous snake or lizard.
HUSBANDRY: The different aspects and techniques of caring for an animal.
HYBRID: To herpers, the progeny from a breeding between two species of the same genus or between two genera. When used by non herpers, it may also refer to the result of a man made breeding between two subspecies or two inbred lines, as in hybrid corn.
IBD: See Inclusion Body Disease.
IMPACTION: A condition where a looped intestine or a plug of some foreign matter makes the animal unable to pass waste material through the intestine to the outside. Often a fatal condition. It is especially common in smaller animals that are kept on a substrate of sand or other small particulate matter, and caused by accidental ingestion of the substrate.
INCUBATION: The control in temperature for the eggs to ensure continuous development.
INCUBATOR: A device used to incubate eggs.
INCLUSION BODY DISEASE: A normally fatal and highly contagious disease seen primarily in Boas and Pythons in which symptoms include neurological impairment, “star:gazing”, respiratory disease, and regurgitation. The disease gets it’s name because of Cytoplasmic Inclusion Bodies seen in certain tissues of infected animals upon microscopic examination. Inclusion Body Disease is thought to be caused by a retrovirus. Also known as IBD.
INFRALABIAL: The scales on the lower lip.
INTERGRADE: 1. An animal that comes from an area where the ranges of two subspecies meet and that shows some characteristics of both subspecies. 2. A baby from a man:made mating of snakes belonging to two different subspecies. It would be desirable to use a term such as “subspecies cross” for the man:made mating to separate the two definitions.
INSECTIVOROUS, INSECTIVORE: Feeding on insects. Insect eater.
INTERSTITIAL SKIN: Skin between the scales
INTRAMUSCULAR: Into the muscle.
INTRAVENOUS: Into the veins.
INVERTEBRATE: Any animal which lacks a back bone.
JACOBSON’S ORGAN: Pair of organs on the roof of the mouth, into which the tongue is pressed or passed over so as to smell and taste scent particles from the environment.
JUVENILE: A young animal, not yet sexually mature.
KEEL: Ridge on the dorsal scales of some snakes,
KEELED SCALE: A scale that has a narrow ridge (median ridge) running down the center from front to rear. Keeled scales give a reptile a somewhat rough appearance and feel
LABIAL: Relating to the lips or scales surrounding the lips.
LABIAL PITS: Heat sensitive pits present on the lips of Boas and Pythons.
LACERTIDS: Lizards belonging to the family Lacertidae.
LATERAL: Relating to the side of the body.
LEACHIE: Leachianus, as in Rhacodactylus
LITTER: The group of babies to which a live bearing snake gives birth.
LOCALE: Refers to the specific area from which a captive animal lineage originated. For instance, Biak Green Tree Pythons originated on Biak Island. Some Locales are very specific, such as Hiway 277 Gray Banded King Snakes are specific to the area surrounding a particular road in Texas.
LOREAL: The scale between the nasal scales and the preocular scales.
LOREAL PIT: Heat-sensitive pit located within the loreal scale on Pit Vipers.
LYMPH: Colorless fluid carried around the body by the lymphatic system.
MBD: See Metabolic Bone Disease
MEDIAN RIDGE: The ridge down the center of a keeled scale.
MELANISTIC: Having an excess of melanin or black pigment.
MENTAL GROOVE: The groove in the skin along the midline of the lower jaw. It allows great expansion of the lower jaw during feeding.
METABOLIC BONE DISEASE: A disease commonly seen in lizards and turtles that affects bone development resulting in malformed bones. It is normally caused by dietary or vitamin deficiencies.
METAMORPHOSIS: To change from one form to another, as in a tadpole changing into a frog.
MIMIC: To take on the appearance of a more distasteful or even venomous species as a form of self defense.
MONOTYPIC: A species with no subspecies.
MONOVALENT: Having titer against only one kind, as in Monovalent Antivenin. Only effective against the venom of one particular genus or species.
MONTANE: Mountain dwelling
MORPH: Usually refers to the different colorations and patterns produced by one mutation or a combination of mutations in a particular species. Snow Corns are one morph of Corn Snakes, and Motley Sunglow is another.
MOUTH ROT: See Stomatitis.
MUSK: A foul smelling substance produced by scent glands in the base of the tail of some reptiles. Discharging musk out the vent may discourage an attacker.
MYOTOXIN: A type of venom that causes muscle degradation especially skeletal muscles.
NECROSIS: The dying of cells in a specific area on the body. Common in cytotoxic envenomation.
NEUROTOXIC: A venom affecting the neurological and muscular functioning. Found mainly in cobras and mambas
NEONATE: A newly hatched or newborn animal.
NEOTENY, NEOTENIC: The characteristic of some salamanders of retaining larval features such as gills into adulthood.
NOCTURNAL: Active at night
NUCHAL SCUTE: The scutes, or scales, on a tortoise or turtle’s carapace located above the neck.
OCULAR: Referring to the eye. Ocular scales are those contacting the eye. They are divided into 4 groups, preoculars, supraoculars, suboculars, and postoculars.
OMNIVOROUS, OMNIVORE: An animal that eats both plant and animal matter.
OPAQUE: Used to describe the part of a snake’s shed cycle when its eyecaps are “cloudy”.
OPHIDIAN PARAMYXOVIRUS: A highly contagious virus related to Hantavirus that infects snakes in captive collections and is usually fatal. It is most commonly seen in Viperid snakes, but has been reported in others recently. Also known as OPMV.
OPHIOPHAGOUS: Feeding on snakes.
OPHIOPHILIA: A love of snakes.
OPISTHOGLYPHIC: Rear fanged snakes.
OPMV: See Ophidian Paramyxovirus
OPPORTUNISTIC: to take advantage of the situation or opportunity at hand. An opportunistic feeder is an animal that eats whatever is available.
ORDER: Taxonomic category between Class and Family
OVIPAROUS: Egg-laying
PAROTID GLAND: Each of the two large wart:like glands at the rear of a toad’s head. They secrete a milky, toxic substance.
PARTHENOGENETIC: The ability of females to fertilize her eggs in the absence of mating.
PHENOTYPE: The visible characteristics of an animal. The things about an animal which can be observed, such as outward appearance, physical characteristics, behavior, etc., which are caused by genes which can be passed on to subsequent generations. See genotype
PINKIE: A baby rat or mouse in the first seven days of life before it begins to grow fur.
PINKIE PRESS: A trade name for a device designed to facilitate force:feeding reptiles.
PIP: The act, by a baby reptile or bird, of cutting it’s way out of the egg using a special egg tooth or caruncle.
PIT: A heat sensitive organ in Crotalid snakes and some Boids. In pit vipers (crotalids) it is located between the nostril and the eye. In boids there are several located on the lips.
PLASTRON: The bottom shell of a turtle or tortoise.
POLYVALENT: Having titer against more than one type, as in Polyvalent Antivenin. Antivenin that is effective against the venoms of more than one species.
POP: To sex a snake by everting the hemipenes. Usually done on neonate snakes.
POSTOCULAR: The scales just behind the eye.
POSTERIOR: Relating to the rear part.
POSTOCULAR: Scale bordering the posterior edge of the eye.
PREFRONTAL: The single scale on the head of a reptile.
Prehensile: (Grasping) A prehensile tail describes a tail that is capable of grasping.
PREOCULAR: Scale bordering the anterior edge of the eye.
PREY: An animal that is captured and eaten for food. To capture and eat an animal.
PROBE: The tool used for sexing snakes, or the act of using a probe to sex a snake. It is usually made of surgical steel, is tapered and has a “ball:end” in most cases. There are various sizes for use on smaller or larger snakes. The probe is inserted through the vent to check for the presence of a hemipenes.
PROTECTED SPECIES: A species that is protected by law and cannot be legally captured or molested without a specific permit to do so.
PROTEROGLYPHIC: Snakes that have fixed front fangs. Elapid snakes are Proteroglyphic.
PTOSIS: Drooping of the eyelids. Common first symptom of neurotoxic envenomation.
RANGE: The geographic area in which a particular species is known to occur naturally.
RECESSIVE: A mutant gene that changes the phenotype from normal only when two identical mutant genes are present. When a recessive mutant gene is paired with a normal gene, the animal looks normal.
RECURVED: Relating to a tooth which bends backwards
REGURGITATE: Vomit. In reptiles, to bring partially digested food items back up from the stomach and out of the mouth. Usually caused by some irritation of the stomach by parasites or bacterial or viral infections, or by temperatures that are too high or too low.
REPTILIA: The taxonomic class of vertebrates that includes snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises and crocodilians. The reptiles.
RESTRAINING TUBE: A plastic tube normally used for the purpose of restraining venomous snakes so that medical procedures, etc. can be safely performed.
RETAINED EYECAP: A condition in which a snake fails to shed the transparent skin structure that covers each eye along with the rest of his skin.
RHOMBIC: Diamond shaped markings.
RIVERINE: River dwelling.
ROAD CRUISING: driving slowly on a road, usually at night, looking for reptiles on the road.
ROSTRAL: Relating to the tip of the snout of a reptile.
ROUGH: A term used to describe reptiles that have keeled scales.
SCALE: A plate-like covering found in reptiles and fish.
SCALE CLIP: To mark a reptile for later identification by clipping scales in a particular pattern.
SCUTE: An enlarged scale, especially in turtles, tortoises and crocodilians. The large scales on the head and venter of snakes are also sometimes referred to as a scute.
SERUM: Antivenin made from horse or sheep serum.
SERUM SICKNESS: An allergic reaction in humans to animal serum, often seen in cases of snakebite where antivenin is administered.
SIDEWIND: Sideways movement often used by desert snakes.
SHED / SHEDDING: Skin that has been shed by a reptile. See also, Ecdysis
SLOUGHING: The shedding of the skin.
SMOOTH: A term used to describe a reptile that has smooth scales.
SMOOTH SCALE: A scale that has no median ridge. Smooth scales give a reptile a glossy, shiny appearance and a smooth feel.
SPECIES: The taxonomic category that subdivides a genus into groups of a particular kind of animal.
SPECULUM, SPECULA: A device, usually a wire loop, designed to keep a reptile’s mouth open for the purpose of performing oral medical procedures or force feeding.
SPUR: A small appendage located on either side of the vent in Boas and Pythons. Vestigial hindlimbs. It is more pronounced in males.
SOLENOGLYPH: A solenoglyphic snake. A venomous snake that has moveable fangs, which fold up against the roof of the mouth when not in use. Viperid and Crotalid snakes are solenoglyphic
SQUAMATE: Relating to scaled creatures
STOMATITIS: An infection of the lining of a reptile’s mouth. It is usually caused by bacteria and is characterized by a cheesy discharge from the lesions and unwillingness to feed. Severe cases can cause death.
SUB ADULT: A juvenile animal that is nearing sexual maturity.
SUBCAUDAL SCALES: Ventral scales found between the vent and tip of the tail.
SUBCUTANEOUS: Below the skin.
SUBOCULAR: Scales just below the eye and above the Supralabial scales, in between the lip and the eye, as in Trans:Pecos Rat Snake. Not present in all snakes.
SUBSPECIES: A species distinguishable from other populations within the same species.
SUBSTRATE: Material used to cover the bottom of a cage. Newspaper, bark chips, Aspen chips, Cypress mulch and sand are commonly used substrates.
SUBSTRATUM: Non living material on which an animal feeds.
SUPRALABIAL: The scales on the upper lip.
SUPRAOCULAR: The scales just above the eye.
SYMPATRIC: Living within the same regional area without conflict and interbreeding.
TAXONOMY: Classification of animals or plants based on their natural relationships
TERRESTRIAL: Ground dwelling.
THERMAL GRADIENT: A gradual change in temperature from one part of a cage to another.
THERMOREGULATE: Moving from a warm area to a cooler one or vice:versa in order to regulate body temperature.
THREATENED: A species that is not yet endangered, but is in danger of becoming endangered. A species that appears on Appendix II of the Endangered Species Act or on a State List of protected species as having a Threatened status.
TONGS: A tool for handling venomous snakes. A handle of varying length with a lever at one end that is connected by a cable to jaws at the other end. The jaws are for gripping the snake’s body while keeping the animal a safe distance from the handler. Also known as a Grab Stick.
TRIAD: A group of three rings, usually red, white (or yellow) and black, encircling (or nearly so) the body of a snake and repeating for the length of the body, usually Coral Snakes, milk snakes and mountain kingsnakes.
TRI COLOR: Refers to the pattern of rings comprised of three colors, usually red, white(or yellow) and black found on Coral Snakes, milk snakes and mountain kingsnakes. These snakes are sometimes referred to as “Tri:colors”.
TRIO: Refers to a breeding group, usually 1 male and 2 females.
TRINOMIAL: A scientific name comprised of three parts, the genus, species and subspecies. Ex. Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis
TRIPLE HETEROZYGOUS (Triple het): Being heterozygous for three independent mutant genes.
TROGLODYTE: Cave dwelling.
TUBE FEED: To force:feed an animal or deliver medication by use of a tube and syringe.
VENOM: A toxic compound secreted by some animals for the purpose of defence or obtaining prey.
VENOM GLAND: A modified saliva gland, located at the back of the upper jaw in venomous snakes, which produces the venom. The venom moves from the gland to the fangs via the venom duct. Venom glands are present in Crotalid, Viperid and Elapid snakes.
VENEMOID: A naturally venomous snake that has been surgically rendered non venomous.
VENT: The opening at the end of the cloaca (see Cloaca) where urinary waste, intestinal waste, and eggs leave a herp’s body. Externally, it is usually on the herp’s underside and marks the end of the body and beginning of the tail, if there is a tail.
VENTRAL: Relating to the under side of the body.
VIPERID: Snakes belonging to the subfamily of true vipers, Viperinae. These snakes have fangs in the front of the upper jaw that fold up against the roof of the mouth, like crotalids. But they lack the crotalids’ heat sensitive pits. Examples include the Gaboon viper, puff adder, European viper, and others.
VIVIPAROUS: Giving birth to live young
WILD TYPE: 1. The most common phenotype in the wild population. 2. The genes required to produce the wild type phenotype. 3. The standard or normal allele for each location (locus) in the genome.
XANTHIC: Yellow or orange in color.
WEANLING: A mouse that is 19-25 days old, after it has been weaned off its mother’s milk.
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Librarians Discuss the Oscar Nominees
by Brandi Scardilli
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As he seeks to fulfill his dream of becoming a famous singer, art student Freddie rebels against his traditional Parsi family and joins the band that will become Queen. Adopting the surname Mercury, Freddie becomes a superstar as he and his bandmates create the exuberant music that electrifies audiences in the 1970s and 1980s.
Armond White writes in National Review, “The film goes for kitsch and ignores everything interesting about Freddie Mercury. … Bohemian Rhapsody hands us the puzzle of Mercury’s showbiz persona but shies away from insight about the man born Farrokh Bulsara. … His ethnicity and sexuality should be more than simple tokens of diversity.”
Moody says, “I don’t think Bohemian Rhapsody is the greatest film, but I love how Freddie Mercury’s story is really resonating with people.”
Sheri Linden writes for The Hollywood Reporter that the movie is a “conventional, PG-13 portrait of an unconventional band.” It balances “the tale’s darker facets” with the “sweet and upbeat” aspects of the story. “[T]his is a biopic that favors sensory experience over exposition. It understands what pure, electrifying fun rock ’n’ roll can be,” she notes. “The rough edges of Freddie Mercury’s story might be smoothed over in this telling, the indulgences and debauchery sugarcoated. … But, caught in a landslide of dispiriting headlines, at a moment when connection, curiosity and openheartedness feel like endangered species, the lingering exhilaration of that [final] concert scene is pretty darn magnifico.”
Lee says, “I’m kind of shocked at how well Bohemian Rhapsody is doing at award shows and regarding Oscar nominations. And I can’t believe [director] Bryan Singer got to make another movie, especially during a year known by the #MeToo movement.”
In the early 1700s, Queen Anne, in poor health and emotionally unstable, allows her most trusted confidante, Lady Sarah, to act as the de facto ruler of Great Britain during its war with France. Sarah’s control slips, however, when her cousin Abigail arrives at court and charms the queen.
David Rooney calls The Favourite a “wicked delight” and a “fabulously entertaining tragicomedy” in The Hollywood Reporter. The main characters are “played by a divine trio that bounces off one another with obvious relish. … Without a trace of didactic protofeminism, their roles speak volumes about the savvy required of women to use their influence in a bitterly divided political landscape, not to mention pursue their personal agendas.”
National Review’s Kyle Smith writes that director Yorgos Lanthimos “is not only a prodigious talent but a strikingly original one”—The Favourite is “bizarre” and “merely a revenge comedy,” yet “an amusing revisionist take on history.” He praises the script as “a delightful war of wits” and the performances as “top-notch.”
Lee agrees: “The Favourite is queer and equally about the three complicated women who star in it.” And Moody says, “I love that a stylized film about a slightly obscure time in history has done so well. Women that we don’t know a lot about [are] taking center stage and being complex characters.”
Dr. Donald Shirley, an accomplished concert pianist, hires Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip to drive him during his 1962 tour of the South as protection against the racism that he, as an African American, is certain to encounter. Despite their differences, Dr. Shirley and Tony discover that they enjoy spending time together and have much to learn from each other.
National Review’s Kyle Smith notes that Green Book “combines Hallmark Channel-style humor with a homily about racial tolerance carefully designed to appeal to awards-show voters, to whom no message movie can be too blunt as long as it is sending one of the five or so messages of which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never tires (boo racism, yay showbiz).” Additionally, he writes, “[T]his is a movie that wags its finger about prejudice while depicting Italian-Americans as walking meatballs. The point of tolerance, liberals sometimes seem to forget, is not to swing the cannons of derision around and fire broadsides at some other disfavored group.”
The New Yorker’s Richard Brody writes that Green Book “is an utterly ignominious nomination, replicating the racially condescending sentiments that brought ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ to the podium twenty-nine years ago.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy agrees that it isn’t breaking any new ground, writing, “Arriving in the wake of any number of edgy cinematic takes on racial issues, this [movie] represents a very middle-of-the-road liberal approach to a story that pretty much could have been told anytime since the 1960s. Distinctive and amusing turns by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali make Peter Farrelly’s first solo feature outing a lively and likable diversion.”
In contrast to Smith, McCarthy notes that Mortensen’s Italian-American accent is “perfect” and that he has “beautifully sunk himself into the role of a capable, don’t-mess-with-me wise guy.”
“I think this year’s Best Picture nominees aren’t offering the gripping, life-altering, or life-affirming experiences that we used to get in movies. These stories are lacking heart,” says Aloia. “Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book have been called out for their lack of honesty and integrity of storytelling. Green Book neglected to contact the living relatives to corroborate the story,” she notes—which may hurt its Oscar chances.
In Mexico City in the early 1970s, Cleo is a maid in the household of a middle-class doctor. She takes on increasing responsibility caring for the family’s four children during a time of personal and political upheaval.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy writes, “Blessed with an exceptionally acute sensitivity to the things of life, Roma is a memory film of unusual beauty that pushes to the foreground what is commonly left in the background. Alfonso Cuarón’s long-aborning, autobiographically inspired drama impressionistically re-creates the titular Mexico City neighborhood. … An immersive bath in some of the most luxuriantly beautiful black-and-white images you’ve ever seen, this is the work of a great filmmaker who exhibits absolute control and confidence in what he’s doing.”
Kyle Smith at National Review writes, “Roma is very much a critics’ picture, slow to develop and so subtle. …” When the main characters are both abandoned by men, “here the most salient of several themes … clicks into place, the one that is going to most deeply impress Oscar voters: These women (and to a lesser extent the kids) are victims of perfidious, violent, toxic masculinity.”
Deadline Hollywood writer Michael Cieply predicts, “In the heat of a border battle, [the Academy] can easily signal virtue by endorsing a film … about the travails of a Mexican maid and the family for whom she works.” Richard Brody echoes this in The New Yorker: “[T]he first Netflix movie to earn a Best Picture nomination … gives Hollywood a chance to pay homage to domestic workers without actually having to listen to what they have to say.”
“I do love it when films take chances,” says Cygnar. “Here’s a director who could pretty much make any film he wants. And what does he do following his Oscar win [for Gravity]? He makes a film set in his native Mexico, in Spanish, in black and white, telling the story of a housekeeper to a middle-class family. Sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that Hollywood is not only about green screens and car chases and explosions. Sometimes we need an unmarried, pregnant Mexican maid to remind us that Hollywood is about all kinds of filmmaking.”
Moody agrees: “Are we seeing a creeping acknowledgement that a white, western, English-language point of view isn’t the default?”
“I think the Best Picture should always be a reflection of the times,” says Justin Hoenke, director of Benson Memorial Library in Pennsylvania. “Netflix is the wave of the future as far as entertainment goes. This film [earning a nomination] clearly shows the shift happening.”
Hilburn agrees: “Netflix and Amazon Prime offer visually stunning, impeccably acted original series and films that are finally getting their due,” she says. “The Academy has been reluctant to recognize these films because of their nontraditional release, and many theaters have flat-out refused to show them. The internet is no longer in its infancy. The train is leaving the station, and the Academy can either take a seat or wave as it leaves them behind.”
Cobine notes that Roma’s “release by Netflix and its inclusion in the category is incredibly problematic to vast segments of the motion picture industry. There is no doubt that it is a resonant story, beautifully made, and the fact that it is a Mexican film set in Mexico is all the more surprising that it is included in the Best Picture category. It’s fascinating that there is a possibility that a non-American film could be nominated and even possibly win Best Picture for the first time in the history of the Oscars. If it wins, it will symbolize a rebuke to xenophobic American border policies and serve as a testament to the convergence of talent that is multi-national film production.”
Roma brings up another important issue for Cobine: “Academic libraries already find it challenging to acquire films for their collections. It’s alarming to think that some of the most celebrated films in the world will be left hanging in a sort of rights limbo in the years to come, as things currently stand. … As distributors of content, [Netflix, Amazon, and other] giant companies need to step forward and recognize that they have a role to play in cultural stewardship, not just access. We need a realistic solution for institutional access to films for educational use, and this year the Academy Awards, with the high-profile inclusion of Roma, makes that absolutely plain.”
When rock star Jackson Maine meets struggling singer Ally, he is impressed by her talent and encourages her to perform her own material despite her insecurities. Ally’s career quickly blossoms, as does her romance with Jack, although his alcoholism and ambivalence over her success jeopardize their relationship.
National Review’s Kyle Smith calls the movie “amazingly shallow, trite, and soapy” (and that is presumably not a pun on Best Original Song nominee “Shallow”). Smith does note that Lady Gaga’s performance is “stellar,” but that the character’s “arc is simplistic” and “a thing of cliché.” Aloia says, “While A Star Is Born is an emotional rollercoaster, I just wasn’t attached to these characters.”
David Rooney writes in The Hollywood Reporter, “There’s a lot to love in Bradley Cooper’s entertaining remake of A Star is Born, including his convincing portrayal of a hard-drinking country rocker in some electrifying concert scenes. … The first-time director’s grasp of pacing could be improved and the overlong movie can’t quite sustain the energy and charm of its sensational start. But this is a durable tale of romance, heady fame and crushing tragedy, retold for a new generation with heart and grit.” He acknowledges a missed opportunity in the movie’s failure to explore “the constricting ways in which women are packaged for success in the music industry and the narrow reality of what sells in contemporary pop.”
Dick Cheney rises from humble beginnings to the heights of politics, serving in cabinet positions, in the White House and in the House of Representatives, before becoming George W. Bush’s vice president. While wielding unprecedented influence in his new role, Cheney seeks to be the power behind the throne.
Director Adam “McKay’s movie is a classic case of Hollywoodsplaining, and it gratifies the industry’s self-image in a variety of ways,” writes The New Yorker’s Richard Brody. “It reduces a history of ideology—a tale of people working to advance repugnant principles—to a criticism of those people for being unprincipled; it’s a political movie for movie people who, when they hear the word ‘politics,’ think of office politics.”
Kyle Smith writes for National Review that “the film is a spastic mess, an angry upchuck. … It fails on all grounds except one: Christian Bale really is something as Dick Cheney.”
The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy liked it, calling the movie “scorchingly audacious.” It has “merciless humor” and is “so buoyant, its general mood so exhilarating, that it rarely seems like it’s resorting to cheap shots or gags for effect. It’s the work of a great, mordant tragi-comedian, someone whose primary skills lie in humor but, as he’s grown as an artist, has learned to plant his satiric skills in fertile dramatic soil.”
Lee says, “Vice left me feeling emotionally manipulated, but maybe in a good way? I thought the performances would be over the top, but they were incredible and campy in a way that moved the story forward.”
“I think Vice is a film with subject matter that is a bit out of sync with its time,” says Cobine. “I don’t know if it will receive kudos or see any immediate popularity right now, amid the fraught cultural moment we are experiencing, but it is a story that audiences, popular and academic alike, may very well be able to use to revisit to get a sense of the political and cultural climate in the 2000s.”
Brandi Scardilli is the editor of NewsBreaks and Information Today.
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It is perhaps the most iconic scene from one of the most iconic franchises horror has ever known. Yet the lasting wound inflicted upon TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE audiences forty-four years ago had more to do with a meat hook than a chainsaw.
While director Tobe Hooper and stars Marilyn Burns and Gunnar Hansen have enjoyed most of TCM’s notoriety since 1974, the most indelible images (and sounds) came not from Leatherface, but Pam, a character created by a then 22-year old actress from Houston, Texas named Teri McMinn.
What McMinn was able to accomplish in less than one minute is by any standard, underrated. McMinn went from sheer dread at the sight of Leatherface (Hansen) to crazed desperation in efforts to escape his clutches, before the horrified recognition of what was to come and finally (and as odd as it may seem to say), the subtle performance which followed Pam being plopped onto a hook designed for slaughtered animals.
That fleeting minute offered much to digest, and because its intensity was so unrelenting, it felt like a landed sucker punch that to this day, still takes this writer’s breath away.
Rather than over-the-top writhing shrills, McMinn communicated what our collective imagination was too frightened to conjure—incomprehensible pain—and as such, her reaction was almost one of disbelief.
Disbelief of what was happening to be sure, but also the agony that would have undoubtedly been coursing through Pam’s body. Truly study McMinn’s face and the whimpers which emanated from her throat and you won’t witness a contrived portrayal of misery, but rather an honest performance from an actress who dared to take a momentary glimpse at torture.
Hooper’s decision to deliver a quick, almost home movie style shot of McMinn’s feet as they hovered above a bucket to collect droplets of blood, then quickly panned to capture Pam’s excruciating and immobilized terror served as the icing on the proverbial cake.
It was heart-pounding and almost too real, and we have McMinn to thank for that.
For as much as Leatherface means to horror, memories of McMinn’s minute are what flood through this writer’s mind when conversations turn to THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.
That we’ve lost Hansen and Burns over the past few years is all the more reason to embrace the fact that McMinn owned a scene like few before or since.
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Joe Bob and ‘Dinners of Death’ Redefined Family
Before signing off on The Last Drive-In for what we believed to be the final time this past summer, Joe Bob Briggs noted that the Shudder marathon, as well as his Drive-In Theater and MonsterVision programs “tried to be the place to hang out for the weirdos and the misfits, and the people who felt left out of mainstream culture,” before touching on the myriad people who had shared tales of how he had saved their lives by giving them something to look forward to.
Some of it had to do with “horrible home” lives, and the ability to “lock the doors of their room when our silly show came on, and it would make ‘em feel able to face the next week.” Ever the gentleman, Briggs added that it was a “wonderful by-product” of shows intended to make people laugh and expose them to forgotten films. He then added, “I can’t take credit for that.”
I’m here to stump Joe Bob by saying yes. Yes, he can.
A common theme of both The Last Drive-In and Dinners of Death was the idea of communal experience, that stories were intended to be viewed together, to be shared and discussed with friends and strangers alike. In other words, like family.
The horror community is a small one, in many ways like a family, and that is exactly what I want to discuss here.
Be it because of depression or absence of actual family, the holidays can be a difficult time for people. I know—I fall under each category—and also know that I am not alone, not by a wide margin.
Whether direct or extended, Thanksgiving is a day for family, to gather around a table for a meal, to talk and laugh and love. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have that opportunity. Maybe they’ve moved and can’t return home for the holiday, they don’t want to burden their friends by “tagging along,” or their loved ones have passed away, or they simply don’t speak with family members anymore. Whatever the reason, it can leave people feeling worthless, and very alone.
But that’s where Dinners of Death and Joe Bob Briggs and Diana Prince come in.
The concept of giving folks something to look forward to still rings true, because for many (myself included), waiting for the clock to strike nine and Shudder’s Thanksgiving marathon provided those who were feeling alone something to hold onto, something to share.
As soon as Joe Bob opened the festivities with a crack about Wild Turkey only needing to be aged eight years and “do not make me tell you this again,” a smile found our lips, perhaps for the first time all day, and the stress of said day began to fade.
And as the drive-in Jedi began to regale us with tidbits about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and vehemently defended the career of Tobe Hooper, we felt connected to what he was saying (not just because it was true goddamn it), but because we too felt discredited and forgotten. All it took was a few short minutes of impassioned twang from a man we all adore to feel peace for the first time all day.
And it was shared. Not only on the screen, but on Twitter and Facebook. Not just with fellow fans who may or may not have been or felt alone that day, but thanks largely to Darcy the Mail Girl, otherwise known as Kinky Horror. She spent the entire marathon, nearly 10 hours, interacting with us as we watched. She laughed at our observations, shared images and stories (even the Drinking Game Fu I came up with while downing a turkey dinner at a restaurant by myself), answered questions, and just…kept us company as we enjoyed what was unfolding in and outside of Joe Bob’s “trailer.”
Many felt alone for most of Thanksgiving, but from nine o’clock on, we were anything but. Briggs and Darcy made sure of that. They gave us something to look forward to. Joe Bob and Prince gave us something to share. With a Drive-In Mutant family. They made what would have otherwise been a sad day one to smile about.
Briggs had said he couldn’t take credit for such things back in July, but to be honest, that burns my bacon. Yes he can. And he should. As should Prince.
A professor of mine once said that when it comes to art, if a person takes something away from it that its creator had never intended to be there, it’s still real. It still matters. Briggs and Diana gave something to all of us that can never be taken away, intended or not.
Maybe Joe Bob and Darcy hadn’t set out to give folks who were feeling alone a sense of inclusion and peace and family on Thanksgiving, but that’s exactly what they did. Something for which I, and many others shall be forever thankful .
For all those who feel as I feel — please — take credit for that.
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Sight Unseen — The Lasting Images of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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Tobe Hooper once said “I don’t believe in using too much graphic violence, although I’ve done it. It’s better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks with their minds.” The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is not one of the finest horror experiences ever put to film because of on-screen slaughter, but rather the suggestion of bloodshed. The long-lasting effect of Hooper’s direction was borne from the simple presentation of a scenario, the resulting (and very personal) nightmares were conjured entirely within the headspace of whomever laid eyes on it.
The concept isn’t exclusive to TCM, but certainly applies to John McNaughton’s tense tale of a week in the life of a sociopath, 1986’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Though it made its way around film festivals for years, the Motion Picture Association of America’s inability, or unwillingness to give it a straight R-rating delayed its limited theatrical release for 4 years.
As legendary film critic Roger Ebert noted, however, “This film deserves to be seen,” and over the course of more than three decades, it has become essential viewing for horror aficionados everywhere. And not for overt violence, although like Hooper, it had its fair share, but rather for what wasn’t seen.
Make no mistake, the reasons for suggestion in this case were partially due to budgetary and time constraints. However, McNaughton wanted to truly explore the inner workings of Henry’s (Michael Rooker) mind, as well as his relationship with Otis (Tom Towles) and Becky (Tracy Arnold), which meant that on-screen violence would have to be dispersed carefully, but to offer a true glimpse at the danger housed within the protagonist, the film would need to be littered with other misdeeds.
And that is where the power of suggestion entered the equation, in part through the utilization of brilliant music cues strewn throughout by film editor Elena Maganini. Portrait of a Serial Killer’s main theme is composed of the simplistic yet powerful piano chords of Ken Hale, Steven A. Jones and Robert McNaugton that matched Rooker’s icy glare, begging the question, what truly resided beneath the surface.
The horrors left in Henry’s wake were revealed through a series of pan shots, offering a peek behind a veneer that should never come into focus. Again, the issues of budget and time factored into McNaughton’s decision-making, yes, but ultimately the road followed was that which would make the greatest impact, and that avenue was paved by sound editor Cory Coken and post-production sound mixer Ric Coken. The audible screams of victims blended with Henry’s angry commands to “shup up!” underneath ghastly visuals painted a picture that turned blood cold, as viewers were burdened with whatever terror played before their mind’s eye thanks to the macabre melody dancing through their heads.
All which set up McNaughton’s final stroke of genius.
After Henry returned to the apartment to find Otis raping his sister, and the ensuing scuffle that resulted in Otis’ death, Henry’s instinct took over and he dismembered his friend’s body in the bathtub before hitting the road with Becky.
In a wink to the audience, another music cue foretold Becky’s fate, as “Loving you was my mistake” sprang from the radio before the pair reached their roadside motel.
The following morning, pulling to the side of a desolate road in the middle of nowhere, Henry exited his vehicle and waited for cars to pass before he opened the trunk. When it had reached its apex, it was accompanied with a single, ominous piano chord. To that point, there may have been hope that Becky had already been in the car when the vehicle pulled away from the motel, but in that moment, the audience knew.
Henry waited for another car to pass, then glanced over his shoulder to ensure no others were coming, lifted Becky’s blue suitcase, now her tomb, and laid it at the top of a ditch beside his car. Once again, the terrified shrieks of one of Henry’s victims echoed as the luggage connected with the earth below. McNaughton had cinematographer Charlie Lieberman hold the shot, and slowly zoom to the blood-smeared bag, a grotesque exclamation point on a film that has always carried an unsettling tinge of documentary.
As Henry pulled away and the camera closed in, all that was left were the curdling chords of Henry’s theme, and the remains of the one person it appeared Henry may have had the slightest sentiment for. Uncaptured and unpunished, the sounds perfectly encapsulated the unknown of where Henry, or those like him—who unquestionably exist—would head next.
The visceral images of McNaughton’s masterpiece proved too much for many audience members to endure when it first reared its head at film festivals decades ago, and abandoned it to what Ebert described as “the purgatory between [an] R and X [rating].” The film was too powerful and too well done to be contained for long, but for the violence we witnessed, including the devastatingly difficult to digest home invasion segment, it was the intonations left unseen that made Portrait of a Serial Killer so indelible.
They were haunting in 1986, and haunting today.
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Tom Mimnagh 18/11/2018 4:48pm No Comments
For many years AJ Styles seemed like he would always be most associated with TNA. Having never got past the try-out stage with WWE in any significant way, and having been a big fish in a small pond for so many years Styles seemed like he would be a lifer in the number 2 company. When he left in 2013, no-one believed he was bound for WWE, even though the story was widely known there was an offer on the table, but apparently, it was lower than Styles wanted. Fast forward to 2018 and Styles is one of the longest reigning WWE Champions of the modern era, having arrived directly on the main roster via a celebrated sting in New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2016. It really is quite the turnaround, and in no small part due to Styles eye-catching in-ring style and top-notch work rate. As such, WWE putting out a DVD showcasing his matches under the company banner should be no surprise.
Now, of course, it goes without saying that the match quality here is off the charts. AJ Styles is a very special talent, and he is capable of raising the quality of any match he is involved in, no matter the opposition. Happily, this DVD focuses on the real choice cuts from his WWE stint thus far, including his battles with John Cena at Summerslam 2016 and Royal Rumble 2017, his battles with Roman Reigns from 2016 including a cracking Extreme Rules match from the event of the same name. We see Styles have great matches with Jinder Mahal, Dean Ambrose, Chad Gable and many others, as well as his battles with Shinsuke Nakamura. His showdown with Brock Lesnar from Survivor Series last year (a personal favourite of mine as far as 2017 went) is also included showing the range of opponents Styles has been able to have absolute blinders with since he debuted in WWE in January 2016. Although all of these matches are available on the WWE Network, if you want all the best AJ matches from this run collected in one place, this DVD very much does the job.
It’s hard to pick faults in a release that has this much quality action, however, it does feel somewhat reliant on that. The interview segments between matches aren’t the most illuminating in terms of new information, and we don’t really learn that much about Styles as a person. I appreciate doing a documentary on his career, given that 90% was spent in TNA/ROH/NJPW is not as straightforward as it might have been for other roster members, but there were definitely ways around that. WWE has used ROH match footage before and even recently had TNA footage on the network, so it’s not exactly out of the realm of possibility, although I appreciate there are probably other reasons that may have contributed to that decision. It’s a small thing, but it’s the difference between this set being phenomenal (pun intended) and just very good.
AJ Styles - Most Phenomenal matches is a very enjoyable DVD set, with some big matches and some great moments. It really does provide an excellent showcase of the biggest matches from AJ Styles’ WWE tenure and if it’s purely match quality you are after you find much better. However, in the era of the WWE Network, I’m not sure that’s enough to justify the price of a release like this without going the extra mile, to anyone other than completionists.
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‘Up in the Air’ is Truly a Film for Our Times
Posted January 23, 2010 | Awards Shows | by Mallory Pickard | Comment
By Mallory Pickard
In light of America’s afflicted age of evaporating business and surging layoffs, “bad timing” was admittedly my first reaction to the synopsis of “Up in the Air,” a film whose protagonist voyages around the country as the Grim Reaper of corporate downsizing. Not only is Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) a one-man professional firing squad– he genuinely enjoys his work and the compact lifestyle that comes with it.
Leave it to Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking, Juno) to completely defuse said negative assumptions and demonstrate in top form that now is the perfect time to explore the current status of America, and more importantly, the American dream. Reitman stays true to his style of weaving acerbic observations on American ethos into lovable, tangible characters, but it is his directorial dive into themes of self-discovery and the archetypal corporate machine that elevates “Up in the Air” into Oscar territory.
Take for example the scene in which Bingham (Clooney) prepares his overly ambitious protege, Natalie (Anna Kendrick), for her first firing in another no-name office building in a no-name town. Enter a brilliant cameo by JK Simmons. Kendrick rolls out her well-memorized, hollow pitch about new opportunities and slides the severance packet across the table like a checkmate. He doesn’t take the bait, and Clooney calmly interjects with a pitch so perfect that the lines between inspiration and beautifully packaged nothingness become blurred: “How much did they pay you to first give up on your dreams?”
It is these moments that allow Clooney to flawlessly portray a man who packages unemployment in the promise of the American Dream so well that “firing” becomes a sort of self-discovery facilitation. In reality, Bingham fires complete strangers for faceless companies too cowardly to handle it on their own, and without any sort of follow-up– both professionally and personally, he is a man who embraces artificial intimacy as a crucial part of his weightless lifestyle.
The challenges to his anonymity come in the form of two women. Natalie (Kendrick) is a Type A college graduate who joins Bingham’s firm with ambitions of turning the layoff business into a social media platform. The idea threatens to ground Bingham indefinitely, and when the two begin sparring about decency and the layoff process, the boss (Jason Bateman) assigns her to the road. Clooney and Kendrick create a humorously dysfunctional corporate-father-daughter rapport which namely involves Kendrick scrutinizing (perhaps ironically) Clooney’s detached way of life.
Challenge #2 comes in the form of Alex (Vera Farmiga), a gorgeous fellow frequent flyer who is openly attracted to Bingham’s plastic collection of elite memberships and credit cards. The sultry chemistry between Farmiga and Clooney has all the trappings of old Hollywood romance, and her presence on the road completes Clooney’s stand-in family. This is most apparent in a scene where Natalie outlines her American Dream (the Ivy League version involving a one-syllable name i-banking husband), and Alex advises her on what to truly seek including someone from a good family and a man who wants kids. In rare form, Bingham refrains from commenting and listens instead with an amused and somewhat distant look on his face.
It is not until the final scene that Bingham realizes the vacancy of the life he has chosen. Clooney perfectly captures the moment in which his dream of mobility and freedom from the machine finally meets reality as he stares blankly at another airline departure screen. The montage of talking heads from the opening scene then returns (note Reitman chose real people, not actors, who had recently been laid off for the film’s bookends), but the discussion has shifted from losing a job to the sustaining power of love and family in spite of loss.
Up in the Air unflinchingly portrays a culture of material identity, omnipresent marketing, and increasingly robotic interactions that all serve as various degrees of escapism from the bleak economic climate and more or less from reality. It does not preach, and it does not pass judgment; it simply is. One thing is clear though– no matter how loyal you are to a company or an airline or a brand name, no matter how much you embrace material culture as your own, it is having a family or someone to love that will sustain us when it all falls down– even the American Dream.
The host of awards the film has already won (including the Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice Award for Best Screenplay along with NBR awards for Best Actor, Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Anna Kendrick) confirm that Reitman may have in fact chosen the perfect time to make Up in the Air. The film led the Golden Globes with six nominations, and most Oscar predictions are calling it a toss-up between Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and Up in the Air for Best Picture. I feel it undoubtedly deserves Best Screenplay, and given the impeccable cast, clean cinematography, and heightened relevancy, an Oscar for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture would all be well-deserved.
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Bridge of Weir’s Hidden Tunnels
Bridge of Weir is one of at least eighteen planned and unplanned villages in the old County of Renfrew which originated as cotton spinning settlements. The short stretch of the River Gryfe running through the village supported at least ten separate mills, thanks to the development of an ingenious system of dams, tunnels and lades. The last of Bridge of Weir’s mills disappeared with the demolition of Clydesdale Leather Works in the past decade. Although all the mill buildings may be gone, fieldwork is showing that most of the system of lades and tunnels which powered the mills still survives.
The village originated at a narrow rocky gorge, which provided a suitable bridging point of the Gryfe. The village straddles a geological boundary, between the plateau lavas of the Renfrewshire hills, and the flatter Carboniferous plain of the Cart Basin below. There is no actual waterfall, simply a succession of rapids, dropping nearly ten metres over a distance of some 500 metres. Traditionally the main fall powered a grain mill, the Mill of Gryfe. By the 1770s lint and waulk mills had been added.
The site was brought to the attention of cotton spinners by the enterprising Mill of Gryfe owner, who placed adverts in the Glasgow press in 1790. By 1794 the village had three large cotton mills. By the 1840s a dozen individual mill sites were in use, varying greatly in size, all powered by the Gryfe.
The key to the water system was a succession of five dams. The top dam served Burngill cotton mill and leather works. When the railway came, the viaduct had to negotiate not only the river, via a five-span skewed viaduct with segmental arches, but also the cotton mill and lade. The legs of the viaduct straddle the underground lade system which still survives in a brick-lined tunnel. The tunnel passes under the mill site and exits at an arch visible from the upstream side of the Bridge of Weir. Remote investigation with a camera has revealed that this leads into the original 1792 tailrace tunnel, cut through solid rock, with a vaulted masonry roof.
Burngill Tailrace
Further down, the second weir powered lint and cotton mills, but the dam was washed away in a flood many years ago. The next two dams or weirs are at the main fall on the river and served an upper and lower lade system. The start of the upper lade and a sluice gate still survive by the river path. This powered at least six mills, including two grain mills, two cotton mills, a saw mill and a bleachworks.
Corn Tunnel
The water from each mill discharged directly into the lower lade, which was also fed by its own dam, and then carried on to serve the big cotton mill. Brick tailrace arches can still be seen beside the rubble lade wall. Inside, remote photography again reveals long brick tunnels, leading back under the former mill sites. Further down the rock-cut lower lade are the walls and windows of an eighteenth century grain mill.
The lower lade leads to the site of the Laigh Gryfe cotton mill, the lowest and biggest in the village. The mill was burnt down in 1898, but a leather works rose from the ashes in 1905. This was built on the footprint of the 1794 cotton mill, from its lower walls. Until recently, two storeys of the original cotton mill survived facing the river. The leather works survived until 2002, when it was demolished.
When the site was redeveloped, despite its importance to the origins of village, no investigation was carried out of the eighteenth century mill walls, buried lade, wheel pit and tailrace. Fortunately photos survive of the brick arched tailrace which exited to the river. A short distance below the mill site is the fifth dam which served the cotton mill at Crosslee via a very long lade.
The full lade system may yet return to service as it has the capacity to generate a substantial amount of free power from the flow in the Gryfe.
© 2014 Stuart Nisbet
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Gabriel King
Gabriel Lamar King, 30, of LaPlace, was arrested for simple robbery after he robbed a 69-year-old woman at an ATM at Capital One in Reserve.
On Thursday, September 27, 2018, about 2 p.m., deputies responded to a report in reference to a robbery. The victim reported she had just withdrawn cash from the ATM when a male subject approached her. As she was opening her vehicle's driver door and attempting to enter the vehicle, the suspect, later identified as King, grabbed her arm and took the money from her hand. King then fled east bound on La. 44 in a vehicle. Shortly after, officers arrested King on Rosemary Court in LaPlace.
King is being held in custody in lieu of a $28,500 bond. He also is on probation/parole hold. Since 2006, King has been arrested more than 30 times on charges of burglary, criminal damage to property, aggravated assault, and illegal possession of stolen things as well as drug violations in St. John Parish. King could face further charges as the investigation continues.
Officers’ quick response and actions as well as the victim’s attention to details were instrumental in King’s arrest in only seven minutes after the call for service came in, Sheriff Mike Tregre said.
The detailed information the victim gave to officers as well detectives' review of surveillance cameras in the area enabling them to give responding officers the vehicle and suspect descriptions immediately led to this quick apprehension, Sheriff Tregre said.
“I want to commend all of the officers involved in the arrest of Gabriel King,” Sheriff Tregre said. “The radio traffic was crisp and clear. Everyone was laser focused. The vehicle used was located within minutes, and this habitual offender is off the streets of St. John Parish again. This was a total team effort and was another example of why crime in our parish has dropped drastically.”
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Delia Ciccarelli
Italian born, Delia Ciccarelli studied animation and illustration at university in Rome, before beginning work as a children's illustrator. Now, Delia?s portfolio boasts of delightful illustrations for several Italian and British publishers and design studios.
Delia takes as her inspiration observations of human facial expressions and body movement, which she then attempts to capture and frame in her work.
Delia's greatest love, after art, is travelling ? discovering new places and cultures for herself. An adventure lover, one of her favourite experiences was a visit to Mykines, one of the Faroe Islands, which is only reachable by helicopter or boat. On the island, Delia observed and drew the movements of birds and the motion of the ocean.
Delia currently lives in the green mountains of Abruzzo, Italy, where she is surrounded by inspiration for her illustrations ? creating characters and creatures that enchant her young readers with their timeless, almost magical, atmosphere.
To this end, Delia predominantly works with chalk, which allows her to capture a dreamlike representation of the surrounding world. Delia begins by sketching in pencil to capture the fine details of movement, before elaborating on the sketch with deft use of chalk.
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Season 8 - The Long Way Home: Part 2
Novice Witch
Season 8 - The Long Way Home: Part 2 Apr 10, 2007 0:32:52 GMT -5
Post by Girl Power on Apr 10, 2007 0:32:52 GMT -5
drufan said:
I thought this comic was interesting! Buffy's nightmare of decapitating Xander with a kiss made me wonder something. Do you guys think she avoids "normal" men because she worries about hurting them physically? What was Spike's crack about Parker? "Did you bruise the boy." Would be an interesting fear for her to have.
Dru, that's a great point! I hadn't thought about it like that.
Potential Slayer
Post by Kratos on Apr 10, 2007 9:16:43 GMT -5
Great issue. I liked seeing Giles and by the end Willow again.
Amy seems to have gotten a lot stronger, and next issue we see the wiccas throw down,hehe.
The nightmare was also very interesting, i believe Xander is the representation of Buffy's fear of having sex with a normal man.
The only time we ever saw a full unleashed Buffy in the throes of passion was during season6, with Spike.
We're talking about doing things that no normal couple could match up too. They brought down a house, have sex longer then 5 hours, so passionate that their legs are numb for a while,hehe.
That's why i think Buffy and Xander didn't have sex before, when talking about "this time", because if they did, then Buffy would have seriously damaged Xander. Also, there is no talk what so ever about love, only sex, also in the previous issue, Buffy missed sex, that sex.
The other part of the nightmare seems to be about Buffy's fears about the darkness inside her. She got to know about the true origins of the slayers in season7, but that doesn't mean that she has accepted it.
And last who the man is trying to help Buffy in the nightmare. His stance seems like Spike, the outfit however is shown on the cover to be very similar to Xander's. But that also doesn't make a lot of sense, because why hide his face then. And also we already saw Xander at the beginning of the nightmare. So it could be either Spike,Xander,Angel,Dracula, who knows.
Spike: "Take a long look, hero. I'm nothing like you!"
Post by on Apr 10, 2007 9:48:28 GMT -5
I finally got issue #2 yesterday. It took me a while, but I finally figured out that everything black framed was part of Buffy's nightmare. I did love Xander's little ducky pj's, so cute! With only 2 more issues to the arc I can't see how it's going to end. I like people's theory that the monstrosity boyfriend might be flayed Warren. I wonder what that symbol on people going to be?
Season 8 - The Long Way Home: Part 2 Apr 10, 2007 10:49:50 GMT -5
strawberry said:
I wonder what that symbol on people going to be?
Well it's a frown turned upside down, of course! Uh, turned upside down again...
Post by Kratos on Apr 10, 2007 13:34:31 GMT -5
I finally got issue #2 yesterday. It took me a while, but I finally figured out that everything black framed was part of Buffy's nightmare.
I hadn't noticed that, thank you.
Also, does anyone think that the variant cover for issue 3 will have a spoiler? And maybe that's the reason why they haven't shown it yet?
CowboyGuy
The Power That Is
SHIRTLESS WONDER![Mo0:16]
Post by CowboyGuy on Apr 10, 2007 13:37:14 GMT -5
Wow I never noticed the black either!! Great job pointing that out! So she was dreaming of Xander in that way then! And halfway through the dream, it turned to nightmare.
colonelforbin
Post by colonelforbin on Apr 10, 2007 15:42:01 GMT -5
admin said:
Grasping a bit aren't we??? Seriously I may end up hating Buffy if Joss pulls something so cliche. Please anyone, has no one ever had a dream about something that made no sence...man I would be a pretty messed up individual if I seriously wanted to sleep with everyone I ever had a dream about!!!
Who WOULDN'T fall in love with Xander? Hehe *happy sigh*
If one of the conditions Amy wanted was a weapons lab, does that make Adam more likely as the boyfriend? I'm not sure I can wait for all the answers, there are too many questions. I think I'd rather be surprised with a new unknown character for the boyfriend though. This comic is turning out to be really great, better each time I reread it.
I had a hunch it was Adam. But his body was left in the Initiative Labs about four years ago. I'm sure the natural decomposition process would have taken place during that time. So I doubt that it would be Adam.
Exactly, one of the biggest signs that a show is over the hill, has seen it's best time. Is when writers use the cliched,lame "best friend = boyfriend" storyline. I'm hoping that since Joss is such an experienced writer, he will not resort to such lameness. "keeping my fingers crossed."
I really don't get how any of you would find Xander and Buffy becoming a couple "lame" or "cliche". I think it'd actually be ANTI the Buffyverse cliches.
Last Edit: Apr 11, 2007 13:58:33 GMT -5 by mikey
I do want her to end up with Angel in the end. But I wouldn't be against Xander and Buffy hooking up. Or at least her having a secret attraction to him...
It's only human nature. He's the only man around other than Giles. But I think it would be the best if she kinda asked him out or something, and he turned her down. Like how in Season 1 she did that to him. But not in a mean way!
But thinking about it, I bet a million bucks that the dream was nothing more than a shock value added for us. And that Xander was just Buffy's manifestation of a "normal human" man.
But I think it would be the best if she kinda asked him out or something, and he turned her down. Like how in Season 1 she did that to him.
Only way this scenario could play out. Buffy should be alone this season...I'm so sick of Buffy whinning about her boyfriends!!!!
NOT a single season with Buffy NOT complaining about her guy problems...Keep Buffy single!(for a change)
"Buffy...ya know...I wanted to hear that 7 years ago. But not anymore. I love you, but we're best friends. You've got that sister-thing going on. Not so much with the hot stuff Buff."
...now we're thinking straight and gettin' it all together...actually that would be near perfect dialog!
It was a fun, shocking scene but that should be it.
chasmatic
In her fruitless kingdom...[Mo0:33]
Post by chasmatic on Apr 11, 2007 17:45:53 GMT -5
Great issue! But I can't believe we have to wait another month for the next one.
[img]http://chasmatic.prism-perfect.net/BuffyVsDracula.jpg[/img]
chasmatic said:
Someone should really start keeping count how many times that's been said 'round here!
To be honest maybe I've been in the comic game so long that it really snuck up on me and I was like "Oh, Buffy #2 hits today, sweet!" Almost no anticipation for me, well except for that moment every issue when I run out of pages!!!
Last Edit: Apr 11, 2007 17:50:16 GMT -5 by colonelforbin
Bennyboi
[Mo0:0]
Post by Bennyboi on Apr 12, 2007 8:50:33 GMT -5
Hey, everyone, I was just wondering... What would you guys think if Joss asked Jo Chen to draw a standalone issue during season 8, in the same style in which she has done the covers. I would so love this as her likenesses are spot on and it would bring us even more, back into the show!!!
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/bennyboi_91/BENNIBOI.png[/IMG] [br] [br]GENERAL VOLL: Sound off. Who's hurt. Stay calm dammit![br][br]BUFFY: No. Panic
Alyrenee
Kwisatz Haderach
There was a little girl who had a little curl...
Post by Alyrenee on Apr 12, 2007 11:50:13 GMT -5
Oh this issue made me both happy and very nervous! I have been a Bander hopeful from the very beginning...I always thought they would end up together. Now we have some hints at this...but knowing Joss, they will get together and it will be happiness, birds, trumpets tra la...then someone will die or tragedy etc... Very nervous.
The andrew stuff had me nearly spitting my burrito across the chipotle restaurant!
Last Edit: Apr 12, 2007 14:39:27 GMT -5 by Alyrenee
Stop touching my magic bone![br][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/alyrenee/alyreneebannercd8.jpg[/IMG]
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General Review Issue
Although home may be vulnerable, it is also beautifully resilient. The voice of our literature declares that in spite of disasters, this people and this place shall not be wholly destroyed.
— Karen Lord
Between mass media reports and social media reporting on the vulnerabilities and disasters of global proportions today, it is difficult to believe that literature, and literature about literature, still deserves our energy and attention. In the midst of the dire need for action that eases human suffering, one might ask, What is the point of reading speculative fiction? Or analyzing discourses of race and sexuality in the nineteenth century? This issue of sx salon does not set out to answer such questions—perhaps there are no definitive answers—but rather to offer evidence that this work exists, persists, and resists with an astonishing breadth and depth of imagination and analysis.
In this issue, we publish an extended reviews section. As such, we offer a snapshot of the myriad ways Caribbean communities have visioned, and continue reflecting on, ourselves and our worlds. From the ingenuity of fictive prose and the noteworthy efforts of translators and editors in making these visions available across linguistic—often colonial—divides, to the histories of US military and financial “interventions” in the region, these reviews of recent publications span the efforts of writers and scholars to tell our stories, all our stories. Together, these reviews indicate that in tandem with the lightning responses and the repeated, retweeted headlines of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, there remains an insistent imagination of another possible world. These writers demand we ask how we can learn from our histories and how we might realize different futures.
Alongside these reviews, in this issue we publish original poetry from Jacqueline Bishop and Brandon O’Brien, as well as an innovative interview with the ever-interesting Shivanee Ramlochan (please see her recent series “Here for the Unicorn Blood” for another way literature simultaneously offers safe space and nurtures revolution in the face of perilous inequity). Across the reviews, poetry, and interview, there is evidence of Caribbean humor and love, of our anger and strife; above all, there is evidence that our current moment is, unfortunately, not new and has roots in the histories of unequal forces of power at work in the discourses of dehumanization that have worked to reinforce the unequal structures of global power. We continue to write, read, and review the Caribbean because our hope is that in these words also lies the roots of interrupting the repetition.
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Introduction and Table of Contents—Kelly Baker Josephs
Women, Translation, and the Haitian Revolution—Siobhan Marie Meï
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Dance on the Volcano, trans. Kaiama L. Glover (Archipelago, 2016)
Empire, Independence, and the Future—Camille Alexander
Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni, eds., Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic, 2017)
Speculating the Caribbean—Jarrel De Matas
Karen Lord, ed., New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales of the Caribbean (Peekash, 2016)
A Road Cut through the Heart of the Caribbean—Rachel L. Mordecai
John Hearne, John Hearne’s Short Fiction, ed. Shivaun Hearne (University of the West Indies Press, 2016)
Dark Tales of Two Cities: San Juan de aquí, San Juan de allá—Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
Mayra Santos-Febres, ed. San Juan Noir (Spanish edition), trans. Alfredo Álvarez Nieves (Akashic, 2016)
Mayra Santos-Febres, ed., San Juan Noir (English edition), trans. Will Vanderhyden (Akashic, 2016)
Balm in the Horizon, Bounty in Ourselves—Suzette Spencer
Opal Palmer Adisa, Love’s Promise: Stories (Plumeria, 2016)
Nonfiction Reviews
The Comet and the Crisis—Mary Grace Albanese
Peter James Hudson, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
The “Rhetorical Oppositionality of ‘Black’ and ‘Jew,’” or The Complexities of Noncompetitive Memory—Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Sarah Phillips Casteel, Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Locating Corporeality in Another Corpus: The Creole Woman in French Caribbean Discourses—Jason Hong
Jacqueline Couti, Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 to 1897 (Liverpool University Press, 2016)
The 1914 US Occupation of Haiti and the Struggle for Caribbean Sovereignty—F. Joseph Sepulveda
Raphael Dalleo, American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism (University of Virginia Press, 2016)
Maryse Condé Speaks: The Death of Negritude and Other Life Lessons—Jonathon Repinecz
Françoise Pfaff, Nouveaux entretiens avec Maryse Condé, écrivain et témoin de son temps (Karthala, 2016)
Brandon O’Brien
Jacqueline Bishop
A Memorable Menagerie: Anu Lakhan (sort of) in Conversation with Shivanee Ramlochan
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Health channel, News, Texas State
Balnace and Gait Training Program, brain injury, Denise Gobert, InMotion Arm Robot, robotics, Texas State physical therapy
Texas State physical therapy program acquires arm robot
The Balance and Gait Training Program at Texas State University is set to become one of the top centers for rehabilitation training in the state with the acquisition of the InMotion Arm Robot.
Rehabilitation Medical Products of Austin facilitated the donation of the state-of-the-art device by Interactive Motion Technologies of Massachusetts.
The arm robot will be a boon to patients suffering hemiparesis—significant weakness on one side of the body—due to stroke or brain injury, said Denise Gobert, professor in the Department of Physical Therapy. Texas State will boast the only rehab clinic in Texas featuring the advanced robotics.
“This robot will allow a patient to practice using motion to strengthen their weak arm,” Gobert said. “To become a physical habit, the motion has to be repeated 10,000 times. The InMotion Arm Robot gives us the opportunity for mass practice.”
The successful Balance and Gait Training Program has already seen dramatic results in the area of lower-body rehabilitation. With reciprocal trainers and harness treadmills, participants in the regimen have not only recovered the ability to walk, but several can now also run, Gobert said. The program’s biggest shortcoming was a lack of upper extremity rehabilitation—something the arm robot rectifies.
“The patient is forced to use their weak limb with the robotic arm. It also helps them with hand squeezing,” she said. “It works by augmenting the strength of the person doing the exercise, but it resists unproductive movements” so that patients don’t fall into bad habits that could hamper their recovery.
The arm robot will be delivered Aug. 15 and be fully operational by Aug. 24, the start of the fall semester. Department of Physical Therapy students in the teaching clinic will learn to evaluate patients and work with the InMotion Arm Robot. Qualifying rehabilitation patients will be eligible for grant-funded physical therapy twice a week for up to 12 weeks free of charge.
For additional information on the Balance and Gait Training Program, contact Denise Gobert, Department of Physical Therapy at (512) 245-8351 or via email at dgobert@txstate.edu.
08/18/2010 Texas State announces new physical therapy program
01/06/2012 University clinic seeks patients for balance and gait rehab
04/06/2010 Doggett secures $5.4 million grant for Texas State
04/06/2010 Texas State receives $5.4m in federal health IT funds
05/29/2012 Texas State’s Criminal Justice gets designation as school
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Speedway in Lights
Animated 'Elf Vision' at Speedway In Lights when it opens Friday
Jeff Bobo • Nov 12, 2018 at 9:29 PM
jbobo@timesnews.net
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Speedway in Lights has grown every year for the past 22 years to now feature more than 2 million individual light bulbs, but in 2018 the number of bulbs will be increasing by only one.
That's the one light bulb in the digital projector that will be playing the Speedway in Lights’ new "Elf Vision" display.
As opposed to the event’s 250 displays comprised of 2 million light bulbs, Elf Vision is a series of short, festive animation films projected onto white screens shaped like a Christmas tree and a Christmas present.
Elf Vision was unveiled following a press conference Monday evening at Bristol Motor Speedway to kick off the Speedway in Lights season, which officially opens Friday and continues until Jan. 5.
All proceeds from Speedway in Lights benefits the Bristol chapter of Speedway Children's Charities (SCC), which has distributed more than $13 million to regional children’s agencies since 1997.
Aside from introducing Elf Vision, Monday's event was also an opportunity for Bristol SCC Executive Director Claudia Byrd to introduce The Pinnacle as this year's sponsor for the seven-week event.
"What first started as a small little drive-through mile-and-a-half event is now over five miles," Byrd said during a press conference held at the Bruton Smith Building. "We love it when families come out and go to Speedway in Lights and help make a difference in the lives of thousands of children in Northeast Tennessee and Southeast Virginia. This is our biggest fundraising event, and the money we raise stays right here in our community."
Byrd added, "The Pinnacle has been an amazing partner, and we are so blessed at what they have done for us, the support they have given us, and have been a true partner in every sense of the word."
The Pinnacle President Steve Johnson said that when presented with the opportunity to partner with Bristol SCC, he and his organization jumped at it, mainly because they share Byrd's passion and energy for helping children in need.
"My hope is that both of our successors one day are standing here in the future one day having a similar announcement, announcing our continued commitment to one another," Johnson said.
Speedway in Lights by the numbers
More than 200,000 guests from around the world will tour the light display this year which is a five-mile tour around the BMS and Dragway properties and comprised of about 2 million lights and 250 displays.
It takes BMS employees and volunteers approximately eight weeks to set up The Pinnacle Speedway in Lights. Most light displays feature energy-efficient, LED lighting. More than 150 miles of wiring are used, which could stretch from Bristol Motor Speedway past Pigeon Forge.
After completing the light tour, guests can visit Christmas Village presented by Eastman Credit Union in the Speedway infield to tour Santa’s workshop, enjoy Christmas carolers, check out a petting zoo, hop on some great carnival rides and take photos with your favorite characters.
Take to the high banks
Visitors to Speedway in Lights have the opportunity to drive their personal vehicles alongside the famed Bristol Dragway and on the historic all-concrete half-mile oval of Bristol Motor Speedway to experience firsthand that steep banking.
The Pinnacle Speedway in Lights costs $15 per car Sundays-Thursdays and $20 per car on Friday and Saturday nights. On busy nights, visitors can take advantage of Jingle Bell Lane, which provides a shorter wait time for entry for $45.
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Bach, French Suite No 5, Gigue / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
The Gigue is a lively and rhythmical Barok dance coming to France in the middle of 17th century from Britain's music and appears at the end of each keybord suite. It was a typical –conclusion of every French and English suite, during that period. A Gigue movement is usually in 3/8 or in one of its compound metres derivatives, such as 6/8, 6/4, 9/8 or 12/8, although there are some Gigues written in other metres sush as the Gigue from the first French Suite in D minor . This particular Gigue is a beautiful and genuine example of a rhythmical "triplet" feeling writing, light and full of sparkle in its articulation. It is a difficult part which demands accurate touch, exact sense of the strict pronounced rhythm, clarity of the phrasing and a special attention to avoid any mechanical in every beat accent, which refers directly to an exercise or a Czerny etude style. ------------------------------------------------- Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Views: 3290 Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Scriabin, Prelude, Op. 11 No 2 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
The Russian composer Alexander Skriabin was a musical figure still unrecognizable and questionable for many musicians and music lovers. He was a mysterious character with many intense elements of a turbulent soul. He was constantly searching through his music for the revelation of the truth, a new "messiah", a new tonal world, mysterious and unexplored. He was innovative and controversial. Like most of the composers of his time he was influenced by Chopin trying to revive the expressiveness and the noble melodic sound of the great Polish composer. This beautiful melancholic prelude reflects the inner gentle and fragile world of the young Scriabin. It belongs in a set of 24 preludes inspired from the legendary set of Chopin's monumental work. -------------------------------------------- Intimate Piano Pages / Vassilis Tsabropoulos Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Views: 11080 Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Bach, French Suite No 5, Sarabande / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
A typical slow dance from Spain, which usually follows the “Courante” and “Allemande” in every French or English Suite. This particular “Saraband” has a melancholic and meditative atmosphere, but not a sad or a dramatic character. There is a sparkle of life which brings a peaceful joy and love from God’s glory and creation through Bach's sincere and unpretentious spirituality. ------------------------------------------ Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Bach, French Suite No 2, Allemande & Courante / V. Tsabropoulos
Bach's main focus in the French Suites is the singing melody and to achieve this he carefully avoids the use of technically complex configuration and thick texture of contrapuntal analysis. The reduced and limited usage of contrapuntal writing is evident in the structure of the Allemandes,the beginning of each French Suite. The second French Suite is written in the c minor. The opening Allemande is a wonderful example of a continuous singing line melody in c minor dark environment.There is a same writing approach regarding the development of the melodic line if we remember the beginning of the C minor partita after the opening chords. This beautiful Allemande it could be seen as an Aria played by a wind instrument an oboe perhaps.Long legato phrases give a feeling of a continuing whispering, a constant sense of tranquillity and seriousness which must be kept to the end of the dance.The Courante as expected makes a contrast bringing more light to the scene with it's obvious rhythmic Italian- style dance character but still the air of melancholy and sadness dominates preparing the solemn entrance of the next beautiful Sarabande. ------------------------------------------ Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Akroasis TV Series (Holy Friday Episode) / Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Ακρόασις, Επεισόδιο Μ. Παρασκευής
Akroasis Greek TV series on Hellenic Television, based on Vassilis Tsabropoulos' music "AKROASIS", released by ECM Records. ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos ============================== "Ακρόασις" Σειρά 7 εκπομπών της ΕΡΤ με τον διεθνούς φήμης πιανίστα, συνθέτη και μαέστρο Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλο, βασισμένη στο ομώνυμο έργο του "Akroasis" που κυκλοφορεί από την κορυφαία Γερμανική δισκογραφική ECM. Το Ακρόασις είναι μια πιανιστική μουσική σουίτα που είναι εμπνευσμένη από τη βυζαντινή μουσική και βασισμένη στους ύμνους που ψάλλονται κατά τη διάρκεια της μεγάλης εβδομάδας. Ηχογραφήθηκε από την ΕCM records, κυκλοφορεί σε Ευρώπη κ Αμερική και έχει αποσπάσει πολλές διακρίσεις από τον διεθνή τύπο σαν παραγωγή. Το Ακρόασις σηματοδότησε το πρώτο διεθνές συνθετικό σόλο άλμπουμ του ΒΤ στην ECM. Είναι η πρώτη ελεύθερη μεταφορά του κλίματος και της κεντρικής ιδέας των βυζαντινών ύμνων για πιάνο μέσα από μια πολύ σύγχρονη κ ανανεωτική προσέγγιση της θεματολογίας Δεν αντικαθιστά τη μοναδικότητα του εκκλησιαστικού μέλους ούτε την φωνητική εκτέλεση των ύμνων από τους βυζαντινούς ψάλτες . Δεν έγινε για αυτό το σκοπό . Είναι ένα πολύχρωμο μουσικό μωσαϊκό που δημιουργεί το φόντο και το χώρο να πλάσει ο ακροατής τις δίκες του εικόνες και να σκιαγραφήσει τα δικά του σχήματα . Μέσα από την κατανυκτική ατμόσφαιρα των ύμνων δημιουργεί μία καινούργια μουσική γλώσσα επικοινωνίας και απευθύνεται σε κοινό και ακροατήριο που δεν είναι απαραίτητο να γνωρίζει τη θεματολογία κ το ύφος της μουσικής . Έχει παρουσιαστεί μέσα από τις συναυλίες του Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλου στις περισσότερες χώρες της Ευρώπης κ σε περιοδεία στην Αμερική.
Rachmaninoff, Prelude No 5, Op. 23 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Rachmaninoff, Prelude op. 23, No 5 ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
V. Tsabropoulos, The Promise (Concert in Bucharest)
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays his ECM composition "Gift of Dreams" (Concert in Bucharest) ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
CHOPIN - Valse Op. 64 No 2 (Vassilis Tsabropoulos)
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Chopin CD: August Symphony (Limited Edition by Metro in Greece) Valse, Op. 64 No 2
Rachmaninoff, Étude-Tableau No 4, Op. 39 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Rachmaninoff, Étude-Tableau No 4, Op. 39. ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Intimate Piano Pages / Promo Trailer
Intimate Piano Pages / Vassilis Tsabropoulos Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Premiere: Monday 20th November. NEW VIDEO EVERY MONDAY Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos ----------------------------------------------------------------- Intimate Piano Pages / Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος Ο Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος παρουσιάζει ένα νέο κύκλο βιντεοσκοπημένων ηχογραφήσεων κάποιων από τις πιο αγαπημένες του σελίδες των μεγάλων μουσουργών. Στη σειρά “Intimate Piano Pages”, με ένα νέο βίντο κάθε Δευτέρα στο επίσημο YouTube κανάλι του πιανίστα, συνθέτη και μαέστρου, έργα δεξιοτεχνικών και εκφραστικών απαιτήσεων κορυφαίων μουσουργών όπως Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy κ.α., θα ζωντανεύουν σε υψηλής ευκρίνιας και ποιότητας εικόνα και ήχο από τα χέρια του διεθνώς αναγνωρισμένου Έλληνα μουσικού. Πρεμιέρα: Δευτέρα 20 Νοεμβρίου ΝΕΟ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ ΚΑΘΕ ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ Μην ξεχάσετε να εγγραφείτε στο YouTube Channel του Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλου (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos), για να λαμβάνετε εγκαίρως ειδοποίηση για τις νέες αναρτήσεις. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Brahms, Hungarian Dance, No 5 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Greek National Symphony Orchestra
Vassilis Tsabropoulos conducts Brahms, Hungarian Dance, No 5 with Greek National Symphony Orchestra. ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
F. Liszt, Légende 2, St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
The internationally acclaimed Pianist Conductor and Composer Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays F. Liszt, Légende 2, St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots Legend 2, St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Water www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos
NEW! Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Variations on a sad song
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays his music: Variations on a sad song (2019) ------------------------------------------ Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Views: 283 Vassilis Tsabropoulos
D. Scarlatti, Sonata in B minor, K. 377, L. 263 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays D. Scarlatti, Sonata in B minor, K. 377, L. 263 www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos D. Scarlatti, Sonata in B minor, K. 377, L. 263 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Chopin, Prelude No 24 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos (Rehearsal)
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Chopin, Prelude No 24 . www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos
V. Tsabropoulos, Gift of Dreams (Concert in Bucharest)
Tribute Greek TV show dedicated to Vassilis Tsabropoulos (part 1)
Εκπομπή της ΕΡΤ - αφιέρωμα στον Βασιλη Τσαμπροπουλο (Μέρος Α) Παρουσιάζει η δημοσιογράφος Λένα Αρώνη. Tribute Greek TV show dedicated to Vassilis Tsabropoulos (part 1) ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Chopin, Nocturne in C sharp Minor (No.20) / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Chopin CD: August Symphony (Limited Edition by Metro in Greece) Nocturne Op. postume No 16
Akroasis TV Series (Holy Monday Episode) / Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Ακρόασις, Επεισόδιο Μ. Δευτέρας
Bach, French Suite No 2, Air & Minuet / V. Tsabropoulos
In the Baroque dance suite, the galanteries are pieces in the suite which are not "necessary" to the suite (unlike an allemande, courante, sarabande or gigue) but are included to break up the suite giving special colour and offer the chance to perform less familiar pieces. These extra movements usually follow the slow sarabande dance. In the second French Suite in c minor there are two examples of these additional pieces.The fresh and full of life Air and the gentle, light character Minuet. Bach demonstrates perfectly the individual character of each dance. Minuet is a dance in a stately manner. It is often short and simple often with only clear theme and little variation. In many suites there are two minuets, in such cases the first minuet is played with repeats, then follows the second minuet with repeats, then the first minuet is repeated (da capo) usually without repeats. There may also be a third minuet, in which case it is played with repeats after the first da capo, afterwards the first minuet is played again (usually without repeats) as a second da capo. With the Galanterien Bach expands his stylistic dimension. In the French Suites we find air, Anglaise, loure and polonaise, the types are not employed in the English Suites. Bach’s freer, stylized treatment of dances is also evident, the tendency which is even more apparent with Partitas. ------------------------------------------ Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Rachmaninoff, Prelude No 5, Op. 2 ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
V. Tsabropoulos, Night Flower / with ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays and conducts one of his ECM composition for piano and Orchestra, from his Evening Suite ''Night Flower''. ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Debussy, Valse Romantique / V. Tsabropoulos
Claude Debussy was the most prominent figure associated with Impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed. Valse romantique is a solo piano piece written by the French composer in 1890. The piece is divided in several small parts, in a late romantic style rather than the impressionism for which he is known. ------------------------------------- Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
CHOPIN - Nocturne op. 32, No1 (Vassilis Tsabropoulos)
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Chopin CD: August Symphony (Limited Edition by Metro in Greece) Nocturne opus 32, No 1
Bach, French Suite No 5, Gavotte / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Bach, French Suite No 5 ,Gavotte / Vassilis Tsabropoulos Intimate Piano Pages Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Rachmaninoff, Prelude No 4, Op. 23 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos (Rehearsal)
Rachmaninoff, Prelude No 4, Op. 23 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos (Rehearsal) ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Beethoven, Klavierstück WoO 61/ V. Tsabropoulos
Beethoven's works are always fachinating full of emotion and most of the times magisterial with a continuous struggle between the man itself and his perferct and ideal hero. It is very interesting to discover smaller works even a single page of his music making in order to understand more his inner world discovering his unknown musical intentions and inspirations. This small piece is a verdict of wisdom,a simple but a quite important statement ,mature in its structure avoiding any kind of extreme expression or virtuosity. It demands a certain degree of concentration, detailed sound control and an extreme attention to combine well the sad non optimistic atmosphere with the right amount of the strength and sincerity which always defines the music of the great composer. ------------------------------------------------- Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Bach, French Suite No 5, Bourrée / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Bach, French Suite No 5, BWV 816, Bourrée / Vassilis Tsabropoulos Intimate Piano Pages Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Εκπομπή της ΕΡΤ - αφιέρωμα στον Βασιλη Τσαμπροπουλο (Μέρος Β) Παρουσιάζει η δημοσιογράφος Λένα Αρώνη. Tribute Greek TV show dedicated to Vassilis Tsabropoulos (part 2) ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
CHOPIN - Polonaise Op. 26 No 1 (Vassilis Tsabropoulos)
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Chopin CD: August Symphony (Limited Edition by Metro in Greece) Polonaise Op. 26 No 1
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Rachmaninoff, Prelude No 7, Op. 23 ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos Documentary by Greek National TV (part 1)
Αφιέρωμα στον Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλο από την ΕΡΤ (Μέρος Α') Vassilis Tsabropoulos Documentary, by Greek National TV (ERT) - PART 1 ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
"7th Seal" (Video Clip) / Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Nektaria Karantzi
"7th Seal" Music: Vassilis Tsabropoulos Vocals: Nektaria Karantzi Video Clip directed by Nikos Soulis
Some of V. Tsabropoulos' best musical moments (Tribute Greek TV show video)
Some of the very best Tsabropoulos' musical moments Tribute Greek TV show video ========================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Akroasis TV Series (Holy Thursday Episode) / Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Ακρόασις, Επεισόδιο Μ. Πέμπτης
V. Tsabropoulos, Secret Garden
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays his composition "Secret Garden" at Athens Concert Hall ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Chopin, Prelude No 16 www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos
Chopin, Valse Op.64, No 2 / Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Intimate Piano Pages / Vassilis Tsabropoulos Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents a new series of video recordings of some of his most favorite piano classical literature pages. In the series "Intimate Piano Pages", with a new video every Monday on the official YouTube channel of the pianist, composer and conductor, sheer virtuosity works of great classical composers, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Debussy etc., will be presented in high image and sound quality, from the hands of the internationally acclaimed Greek musician. Do not forget to subscribe on Vassilis Tsabropoulos's Official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. www.tsabropoulos.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos talks about music and his life (Romanian TV Show - part 1)
Vassilis Tsabropoulos' interview in TV Cultural (Romanian TV Show) ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Recording Session with ECM records
Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Recording Session with ECM records ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Αφιέρωμα στον Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλο από την ΕΡΤ (Μέρος Β') Vassilis Tsabropoulos Documentary, by Greek National TV (part 2) ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
CHOPIN - Mazurka Op. 6 No 1 (Vassilis Tsabropoulos)
Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays Chopin CD: August Symphony (Limited Edition by Metro in Greece) Mazurka Op.6 No 1
Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος & Λάμπης Ταγματάρχης (Μέρος Γ)
Συνέντευξη του Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλου στον Λάμπη Ταγματάρχη, στην εκπομπή "Λαμπατέρ" (κανάλι NOVA) - ΜΕΡΟΣ Γ΄ 28/5/2013 Vassilis Tsabropoulos' Official website: www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No1 (1 mvt)/ V.Tsabropoulos (Dir. A.Cavallaro)/ GR National Orchestra
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No 1, 1st mvt Greek National Symphony Orchestra Soloist: Vassilis Tsabropoulos Conductor: Angelo Cavallaro ====================================== Watch the full episodes and find out the latest videos of V. Tsabropoulos' "Intimate Piano Pages" series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pEYCPq3oUBHtZm4AZ4rQ-B0kBBEXGHw (New video every Monday). Do not forget to subscribe on our official YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/tsabropoulos) to get a quick notification of new posts and videos. ====================================== www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos www.youtube.com/vtsabropoulos
Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος & Λάμπης Ταγματάρχης (Μέρος Β)
Συνέντευξη του Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλου στον Λάμπη Ταγματάρχη, στην εκπομπή "Λαμπατέρ" (κανάλι NOVA) - ΜΕΡΟΣ B΄ 28/5/2013 Vassilis Tsabropoulos' Official website: www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com
Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος & Λάμπης Ταγματάρχης (Μέρος Δ)
Συνέντευξη του Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλου στον Λάμπη Ταγματάρχη, στην εκπομπή "Λαμπατέρ" (κανάλι NOVA) - ΜΕΡΟΣ Δ΄ 28/5/2013 Vassilis Tsabropoulos' Official website: www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com
Akroasis TV Series (Holy Saturday Episode) / Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Ακρόασις, Επεισόδιο Μ. Σαββάτου
Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος & Λάμπης Ταγματάρχης (μέρος Α)
Συνέντευξη του Βασίλη Τσαμπρόπουλου στον Λάμπη Ταγματάρχη, στην εκπομπή "Λαμπατέρ" (κανάλι NOVA) - ΜΕΡΟΣ Α΄ 28/5/2013 Vassilis Tsabropoulos' Official website: www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com
A rehearsal's secrets...V. Tsabropoulos / Στα μυστικά μιας πρόβας..., Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος
The internationally acclaimed Pianist, Conductor and Composer Vassilis Tsabropoulos plays and conducts Bach, Haydn and Mozart with Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Athens. Excerpts of a rehearsal (2016) www.tsabropoulos.weebly.com www.facebook.com/tsabropoulos Video: Pavlos Simeon Cinematography - Vidit
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UK forwarders ‘facing several significant challenges’
‘Brexit saga’ just one of multiple issues currently impacting freight agents, says BIFA, highlighting driver shortages, e-commerce growth, rising costs of fuel and road tolls, and incoming low-sulphur fuel regulations
UK freight forwarding and logistics companies are currently “facing a number of significant challenges to their provision of freight and logistics services for international trade”, not only Brexit, the British International Freight Association (BIFA) will highlight this week at the Multimodal 2019 event in Birmingham.
Robert Keen, BIFA director general, said that “whist issues surrounding the ongoing Brexit saga are likely to be major talking points at Multimodal 2019, there will be plenty of other matters about which BIFA members are concerned on which the trade association is working hard.
“Driver shortages are playing out in higher input costs and threats to the longer term stability of the market. Ongoing e-commerce growth is leading to volatility for all operators in the Last Mile sector,” he highlighted.
“Fuel costs remain a continuing risk of doing business in the logistics industry, and the last year saw significant rises in the cost of fuel as well as tolls, which has squeezed margins for our members that are active in the European trailer services sector. The shipping sector is considering how it will handle the low sulphur fuel regulations which are due to be imposed on the shipping industry in 2020, and it would appear that their plans will lead to spikes in rates.”
Keen said all of these issues, and many more, will be in the thoughts of the freight sector “and our members will want to know what actions BIFA is pursuing on their behalf”.
BIFA will also be using the event to showcase its increasing involvement in recruitment and training. Carl Hobbis, BIFA training development manager, will be chairing a seminar that specifically addressed the issues involved in attracting, retaining and developing talent in transport, logistics and supply chain, and promoting the BIFA Young Forwarder Network, which BIFA launched earlier this year.
“We will also be using the event to further promote and encourage the take-up of the international freight forwarding specialist apprenticeship, which became available in 2018, in which BIFA played a lead role,” Hobbis said.
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TRINet Blog
TRINet Newsletter September 2011
MUNDRA -- The cost of the coast
by John on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 18:11
Conservation through democratic governance by Shiba Desor, Ashish Kothari, Nitin Rai
Can an adivasi community save the forests and wildlife they live amidst? According to the sentiments echoed by about 160 Soliga adivasis, the answer is a resounding yes. The occasion that brought them together from far flung podus (settlements) was a workshop organized inside the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka on 12-13th July. The workshop, facilitated by some civil society groups, focused upon framing a community based plan for forest management and wildlife conservation.
by John on Mon, 08/01/2011 - 06:07
TRINet Newsletter August 2011
This month we have a feature on the global status of renewable energy; links to some of the finest news stories on the environment in India; a book review:India's Environment History; about seismic wallpaper; a recycled school; videos of dragonflies that cross oceans; the melting glaciers of Bhutan; a rainwater harvesting miracle in India and much more.
Renewable Energy -- developing nations rising to the challenge
by John on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 11:48
Renewable Energy - Developing Nations Rising to the Challenge
In 2010, according to a Global Status Report by The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), renewable energy supplied an estimated 16% of global final energy consumption and delivered close to 20% of global electricity production. Renewable capacity now comprises about a quarter of total global power-generating capacity. Including the estimated 30 GW of hydro power added in 2010, RE accounted for approximately 50% of total added power generating capacity in 2010.
TRINet Newsletter July 2011
Oceans at Risk, say Scientists...
Leaping Clymene dolphins
... While Indian pelagic fisheries seem to thrive
The future of marine life in the oceans is bleak and marine degradation is happening at an unprecedented rate, if we believe a report released by the International Program on the State of the Ocean in concert with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, in April this year, at a workshop held at the University of Oxford, London. Meanwhile, in India, studies have shown some pelagic species have extended along the coast and are proving beneficial to fishermen. (more)
by John on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 15:08
...while Indian pelagic fisheries seem to thrive
The future of marine life in the oceans is bleak and marine degradation is happening at an unprecedented rate, if we believe a report released by the International Program on the State of the Ocean in concert with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, in April this year, at a workshop held at the University of Oxford, London.
We now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, within a single generation, the report said. Corals were particularly at risk from the bleaching effect caused by rising sea temperatures and from acidification, which deprive the tiny organisms of the calcium carbonate they need to build their homes.
The key points underlying this conclusion, according to this report, are:
1. Human actions have resulted in warming and acidification of the oceans and are now causing increased hypoxia.
TRINet Newsletter June 2011
Forests -- Nature at Your Service: World Environment Day 2011, India
TRINet Newsletter May 2011
This month we have the story so far on the controversial pesticide Endosulfan; how military debris threatens our oceans; about new digital maps of the Indian coast; a look at Vedanta and POSCO; nuclear tipping points; how India's new mineral policy is letting down adivasis; about sanitation in cities; a talk on the ancient ingenuity of water harvesting; open sourced blueprints for civilisation; a BBC Horizon documentary on What Darwin didn't know and much more.
by John on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 23:36
The End of Days for Endosulfan
India is the world's largest user of endosulfan, and a major producer with three companies—Excel Crop Care, Hindustan Insecticides Ltd, and Coromandal Fertilizers—producing 4,500 tonnes annually for domestic use and another 4,000 tonnes for export. The pesticide has been banned in two states - Kerala and Karnataka and this Friday, the ruling Left Democratic Front in Kerala called for a hartal across the state to press for a national ban of the pesticide. This month, TRINet looks at the history of endosulfan controversy in India and the struggle by civil society and environmentalists seeking for a ban on this controversial generic pesticide.
Endosulfan – the Story So Far
The Kerala Agriculture Department began planting cashew trees on the hills around Padre village in 1963 – 64 and in 1978, the Plantation Corporation of Kerala (PCK) takes over the estate. In 1981, regular spraying of Endosulfan begins – thrice a year and in 1991, a government appointed high power committee recommends Endosulfan not be used near water bodies and insists that bold labeling be adopted to prevent accidental usage near water bodies – probably the first official admission of the possible health hazards of this pesticide.
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Ochrosia oppositifolia
(Lam.) K.Schum.
There has been considerable dispute about whether Ochrosia and Neisosperma are distinct genera. We are following the treatment by Hendrian in Revision of Ochrosia (Apocynaceae) in Malesia; Blumea 49: pp 101-128; 2004 - here they are treated as two sections of the genus Ochrosia[
Revision of Ochrosia (Apocynaceae) in Malesia
Blumea 49: pp 101-128
Hendrian
http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/564983
A detailed revision of the genus Ochrosia in Malesia.
Bleekeria salubris (Rumph. ex Raf.) Hassk.
Calpicarpum lamarckii G.Don
Calpicarpum oppositifolium (Lam.) Boiteau,
Cerbera fruticosa Roxb.
Cerbera muricata Lam.
Cerbera oppositifolia Lam.
Cerbera parviflora G.Forst.
Cerbera platyspermos Gaertn.
Cerbera salutaris Lour.
Kopsia lamarckii G.Don ex DC.
Lactaria oppositifolia (Lam.) Kuntze
Lactaria salubris Rumph. ex Raf.
Neisosperma muricatum Raf.
Neisosperma oppositifolium (Lam.) Fosberg & Sachet
Ochrosia commutata K.Schum.
Ochrosia cowleyi F.M.Bailey
Ochrosia parviflora (G.Forst.) Hensl.
Ochrosia platyspermos (Gaertn.) A.DC.
Ochrosia salubris (Rumph. ex Raf.) Blume
Tree growing in native habitat
Photograph by: Lauren Gutuerrez
Photograph by: Lauren Gutierrez
Base of trunk
Developing fruits
Fallen, ripe fruits
Stem, showing latex seeping from point of damage
Ochrosia oppositifolia is a tree usually growing from 6 - 25 metres tall, though it can range from as small as 2.5 metres up to 45 metres, exceptionally to 60 metres. The bole can be 50cm in diameter, sometimes with small buttresses[
Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Vols 1 - 6
Soepadmo E.; Saw L.G.; Chung R.C.K. (Editors)
Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur.
A flora of the woody plants of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, often giving details of plant uses.
The plant is harvested from the wild for local use, mainly as a medicine but also for its wood and fibre. It is grown as an ornamental, being valued for the shade it provides[
Although we have no specific records of toxicity, it is worth noting that the sap of several species in this genus is toxic[
E. Asia - Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea to the western Pacific.
Coastal forest, bush or open localities, only occasionally far inland, often on limestone, at elevations up to 100 metres[
]. Coastal vegetation on sandy and rocky shores[
The fruits have a thick, fibrous mesocarp which allows them to float and be dispersed by sea currents[
The leaves are febrifuge, stomachic and tonic[
]. A leaf decoction is used to wash the abdomen of women after childbirth[
The seeds are used in the treatment of bilious disorders, in particular as an antidote to the effect of eating poisonous fish or crabs[
The bark is bitter, febrifuge and stomachic[
]. A decoction is taken to purify the blood, as an appetizer, purgative and carminative, and in high doses as an abortifacient[
The wood is febrifugal and stomachi[
]. Cups made from the wood will give a bitter taste to drinks when allowed to stand for some time. The drinks are then taken as a stomachic[
The root is used in the treatment of bilious disorders, in particular as an antidote to the effect of eating poisonous fish or crabs[
Research on active constituents in Ochrosia has focused on anticancer compounds following the isolation of the indole alkaloids ellipticine, elliptinine, 9-methoxy-ellipticine and isoreserpiline from the Asian species Ochrosia elliptica[
The main compounds present in the bark of Ochrosia oppositifolia are reserpiline, isoreserpiline and ochropposine. Numerous other indole alkaloids have been recorded in the bark, including epi-rauvanine, bleekerine, ochropposinine, reserpinine and isoreserpinine, but no ellipticine or derivatives[
The principal constituent of the leaves is isoreserpiline, with 10-hydroxy-apparicine and 10-methoxy-apparicine as minor compounds[
The silky down of the fruit yields a substance used for packing, wadding etc[
Useful Fiber Plants of the World
Dodge C.R.
USDA; Washington.
A rather dated, but very comprehensive catalogue of fibre plants from around the world. The book can be downloaded from the Internet.
The yellowish-white wood is hard. It is used for construction[
The wood is used for fuel[
Seed - if the fruits are planted without removal of the pulp then germination is poor and only takes place after about 8 months[
Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2019-07-15. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ochrosia+oppositifolia>
bill 02nd December 2015 11:02
you can eat the fruits
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Judging Juggling in Guadalajara
July 15, 2015 /0 Comments/in News /by Thom
This year, the International Jugglers’ Association (IJA) invited me to officiate their regional competition in Mexico. The IJA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the artform through stage competitions and a variety of other programs. I have a history with the organization, having served on their Board of Directors, producing their annual Video Tutorial Contest, and competing in a variety of their events for the past ten years. When we were on the Board together, Erin Stephens and I devised a way to export the stage competitions to circus events beyond the IJA’s main festival. Four years after the first IJA Regional Competition (IRC) was held, it was my turn to represent the IJA at the event.
This June, the third edition of the Periplo International Circus Festival took place in Guadalajara, Mexico. Run by the same organizational committee as its predecessor, the Barullo Circus Festival, the Periplo Festival hosted the fourth annual IJA Regional Competition in Mexico. Friends, Periplo is an absolute triumph.
The festival took place across two main venues – “El Foro;” a new training and thrust performance space owned by Periplo, and “Larva;” the Laboratorio de Arte Variedades, a giant theater space owned by the Mexican Government and their council for the arts. Periplo’s organizers fought to have the event’s first edition at Larva, and they were skeptically given permission by the Government. Juan Mendez Rosas (the festival producer) and his team must have impressed the coordinators at Larva, though, as he was called and asked to make it an annual production just after the event’s final gala show curtain closed. This year marks the third year of the festival, and the third year of their relationship with the Larva space.
Entrance tickets to this week-long festival was limited 100 jugglers, acrobats, hoopers, and aerialists. Juan explained to me that Periplo is working to differentiate itself from Cirkonvention, the annual circus festival just outside of Mexico City. Cirkonvention is an outdoor camping event on the same scale as the European Juggling Conevention, with attendance in the thousands. “Cirkonvention is great – it’s a big party,” Juan explained, “we want Periplo to be more about learning and workshops, though – it’s a festival where people train hard and focus.”
This ambition took fruition in the festival’s structure. Periplo is a week long event, with the first three days dedicated to special intensive workshops with invited guests. Cyrille Humen (contact juggling, Switzerland,) Marianna de Sanctis (hula hoops, Italy,) Jorge Reza (clown, Mexico,) and Jade Zeron (corde lisse, Mexico) were this year’s special workshop instructors. Other artists offered workshops throughout the rest of the week, with an extremely wide range of disciplines. The lineup included artists such as Chloe Walier (static trapeze, USA,) Leo Zevira (handbalance, Venezuela,) Nano (theatrical lighting, Mexico,) Rodrigo & Solene (hand to hand, Mexico,) and others – if you’re interested, you can see the full lineup here.
One of the festival’s main draws was the IJA’s Regional Competition (IRC), which was held on Thursday night. A field of eight entrants from Mexico, El Salvador, and Germany presented acts vyying for the gold medal (uh, gold embossed acrylic. Have you seen the IRC medals? They’re taking the IJA to the space-age.)
Although I was familiar with the IJA’s stage competition rules, this was my first time on this side of the judge’s podium. The IRC stage competitions are scored according to the 2014 IJA stage competition rules. There were some changes to this year’s World Chmapionships scorecard, apparently, due in some part to my mouthstick act being awarded a bronze medal in 2014.
The IJA competitions at the organization’s annual festival in the USA and Canada, have traditionally catered to the more “traditional” juggling formats of balls, clubs, rings, and diabolo – not to more esoteric forms of manipulation. The new scorecard includes points for “Representation of Juggling,” allowing judges to assert their own philosophies about what is or isn’t a juggling act – something that’s way more politically charged than folks outside of the juggling world might realize. I’ve got my own opinions, but I’ll leave that soapbox for another time!
Here’s the 2014 rubric, which is still used at the IJA’s Regional Competitions:
“Execution: Focuses on how well the competitor performs the routine from a technical standpoint. High marks should be awarded for completion of tricks without hesitation or difficulty. Competitor’s form and technique should be considered.
Entertainment Level: Overall appeal of the act.
Degree of Difficulty: Difficulty of tricks performed, as well as the inherent difficulty of the prop used. Degree of difficulty is determined by the type and number of objects juggled; the speed of the juggling; the types of throws, catches, balances, or other object manipulations; the complexity of combinations of juggling tricks; and the transitions between juggling tricks.
Theatrical Framing: May include but is not limited to overall routine, costume, music, speech, comedy, use of props, and staging. High marks will be awarded for successfully using theatrical elements to enhance an act. Low marks should be given if theatrical elements are detrimental or distracting to the act.
Creativity: New tricks, props, approaches to performing, and novel presentations that are performed well will receive high marks.
Element of Risk: The chance of a drop or mistake, and the difficulty of cleanly recovering from a drop or mistake.
Stage Presence: Ability to command an audience with confidence and an impressive style or manner.”
– From the 2014 IJA Stage Competition Handbook
Each one of the categories is given a score between 0 and 5 points, and is then multiplied according to a rubric (some categories are weighted more than others.) The figures are added up, and a final score out of 100 points is awarded. The scores end up being roughly 50 points for technical difficulty and execution and 50 points for appeal of the performance and showmanship. In the old days of the IJA (2015 marks the organization’s 68th birthday,) competitions were settled with judges arguing in a back room. Any attempt at scoring art “objectively” will have problems, but this model is more streamlined than the old one. The 2015 updates are another attempt at improving on this model.
Here’s a rundown of the event:
First up was Jafet Padawan, a 16-year old hotshot juggler from Toluca, in the outskirts of Mexico City. His act was technical and at times poetic, drawing heavily on inspiration from Jay Gilligan’s work. He ran cleanly through the act, finishing with a six club multiplex cascade.
Ana Morales, a Guadalajara native and coordinator of the local hoop festival, graced the stage next. She presented a modern hooping number full of delicate balances, contrasting fluid movement with sharp, twitching manipulations. She was a crowd favorite and a strong contender in the competition.
Balbino was the first import, coming to the festival all the way from El Salvador. Balbino is a seasoned traffic light juggler who blazed through an act showcasing his headbounce, balance, and unicycle skills. His finale was five clubs on a giraffe unicycle, he achieved it on his third try, much to the audience’s delight.
Ricardo Lopez presented an elegant club juggling number, demonstrating mastery of one, two, and three club contact juggling. His act set a tone similar to Florent Lestage’s number with a club and cane – eerie, beautiful, and full of gorgeous, uninterrupted sequences. For Ricardo’s final choroegraphy, he swung four clubs attached to a chandalier as pendulums, dancing the objects around himself and towards the audience. It was a lovely number.
If you’re interested in pendulum juggling, there’s a great article by David Cain on the IJA’s eZine about the discipline.
Ivan, a 22 year old contact poi juggler was up next. He presented his act accompanied by dubstep and the adoring screams of a sign-waving faction of the audience. His act had some errors in execution, but had nice movement and character. Watching it, you could see he’d been taking notes at Cyrille Humen’s special workshop in the early days of the festival.
Frix Elting, an expatriated German ball juggler, performed a completely bizarre and riveting number after Ivan. Covered in bandages and an arm stained with blood, she created an act full of improvisation, contact rolls, and good humor. She was accompanied by a guitar player on stage right, and playfully blamed him for more than one of her errors at the beginning of the act. Frix encountered several wardrobe malfunctions throughout her act due to the nature of her bandages, but this master improvisor took her exposed breast as an offer, rather than a problem to address and ignore. With this number, Frix took the silver medal.
Next, came Braulio Lopez with an eccentric gentleman juggling act. He swaggered in from off stage in a lime green suit, juggling right away – deftly paddidling an attache case on his finger. A flurry of activity had him juggling from one to six hats, balancing them on umbrellas, and running like a madman across the stage. Braulio’s act had an incredibly personal feel – the kind of performance style he’s honed on cabaret stages across Puerto Vallara, a resort town a few hours to the West of Guadalajara. His number was awarded the gold medal at the IRC by a landslide.
The trick he’s doing in this photo was really spectacular. The hat spins on the umbrella, the umbrella spins on his head… after the image was set, he pulled the umbrella down towards the audience and folded it up in one smooth motion. The change in space was incredibly dramatic, especially considering how simple the effect was. (Talking about images – that’s a great example of a “postcard.”)
Closing the competition was Dennis Vertti, a juggler coming from a traditional circus family in the Mexican countryside. An easy crowd favorite, Dennis wore a tight, bright, sequined costume and performed an extremely technical routine that brought the audience to its feet. He was traditional circus personified. Highlights from his act included a three ball one-up front handspring, a five ring ultimate pulldown, a flash of seven clubs, a seven ring breakdown (a la Anthony Gatto, fanning himself with a ring in his hand,) and a nine ring flash — so breathlessly perfect that he stood and waited until the final ring was about to hit the floor before catching it. Dennis won the bronze medal at the competition and the GBallz prize, awarded to the audience’s favorite act incorporating balls.
The competitors all fought hard, and all of the entrants should feel proud of the work they presented. The IJA’s regional competition, like the competitions at the main IJA festival, is designed to help push jugglers to create new, interesting, and technically interesting work. Over the past three years, the IRC has helped spur the careers of its medalists. A quick glance at the career of Fer Sumano, the 2011 gold medal winner, can attest to the program’s success. After taking first place at the IRC held at the Barullo festival in Guadalajara, she was invited to perform at events all across Mexico and the surrounding countries in Latin America.
Besides the IJA’s event, there were more highlights than I can relay in this article, but I’ll do my best to paint a few quick images for you.
– Dozens played combat on a closed off street outside of the Periplo Foro. No clubs? No problem. Some of the players juggled their shoes, instead.
– Ahogado sandwiches at streetside cafes – these are “drowned” sandwiches, covered in tangy red salsa. A Guadalajara classic, and an absolute must-experience for anyone going to Periplo next year!
– Andres Aguilar, the host of the first gala show, devised a clever way to close Cyrille’s set in the program. Andres invented a number of silly contact poi moves and did a short routine with them. At the end of the routine, the poi slowly floated into space, away from the stage, as Andres watched it leave with absolute sincerity and sentimentality. Little did anyone know, Andres had attached the prop to a thread leading to the theater’s rigging, and a technician was slowly hoisting the prop to the ceiling. Cyrille’s poi were suspended several meters above the stage for the rest of the week, reminding everyone of the magic that took place that night.
– Geovanni Paredes, a juggler from Puebla, Mexico, was a last minute addition to the final gala show. He’s a technical juggler who has a few unique stunts in his repertoire. He does an incredible trick with a tall perch pole. The pole has small platforms circling its length, leading up to a basket at the top. He bounces a ball from platform to platform, all the way up to the top. He nailed this finale trick, and the audience went absolutely insane.
Geovanni and I met in Riga, Latvia at the international circus festival there this past January – his pole has gotten even taller since then! (You can read about the Riga Cirks festival here!)
– Jorge Rezas, clown and second gala emcee, ad libbing after his tray of glasses was dropped on their way to the stage. His trick, “the most beautiful balance trick you will see today,” involved balancing some two dozen red champagne flutes in a pyramid on his chin… but the stagehand slipped on the dark stairs and the glasses went flying across and under the stage’s risers. Jorge, a master improviser, managed to have the audience on the edge of their seats with the one flute that escaped without breaking.
– Duo Cardio, an acrobatic duet from Mexico by way of France and Uruguay closed the final gala show with an incredible perch pole number. Solene climbed three stories up a pole (yes, stories) balanced on Rodrigo’s forehead, and manipulated a hat with her feet while in a handstand at the top. If that’s hard to imagine from this description, I understand – it’s hard to believe in person, too.
– Crazy latin dance parties with ten piece bands breaking out at the Foro late at night – with everyone clamoring to dance. I’ve never seen more hips wiggling than at Periplo.
– Bravisimo, a local clown troupe, did an absolutely incredible routine about flying into outer space in the Open Stage show. These guys will be at the Kansas City Juggling Festival this year, and you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to see them – they’re hysterical, compelling, and extremely polished.
– Chloe and I performed our paddleball act in the first gala show. As it turns out, paddleball isn’t something they’re familiar with. In the US, audiences respond immediately to their familiar children’s toy. In Mexico, the audience responds to the Americans playing with… whatever that is.
All in all, Periplo 2015 was an outstanding event. If you’re looking to take a trip next summer, I’d encourage you to visit Guadalajara, take in some shows, and cheer on the performers at the 2016 IJA Regional Competition in Mexico.
A version of this article first appeared on the IJA’s electronic magazine, eJuggle – http://ezine.juggle.org/2015/07/15/festival-review-periplo-2015/
Photos by Julio Lopez
Tags: arts festival, circus festival, guadalajara, ija, international jugglers association, international performer, juggling, juggling in mexico, larva, periplo, the life of a performer, touring juggler
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AKA: つぐもも
Genre: Harem/Fantasy Action/Comedy
Distributor: Currently licensed by FUNimation, also available streaming on Crunchyroll.
Content Rating: R (Nudity, Fanservice, sexual content.)
Also Recommended: Hayate The Combat Butler, if you MUST harem.
Notes: Based on manga by Yoshikazu Hamada.
Tsugumomo
One day Kazuya Kagami finds out that his mother's obi (kimono sash) is actually a tsukumogami- an inanimate object that has acquired life and the power to take human form, in this case the form of a girl calling herself Kiriha. While normally this apparently takes lifetimes to occur, ownership by someone with enough supernatural power can make it happen much more quickly- in fact, Kiriha originally came to life for Kazuya's mom, and helped her with her exorcism duties. Some people even radiate enough spiritual energy to enable "instant" tsukumogamis, called amasogis, to be created out of the strong desires of ordinary people. Kazuya himself is, it turns out, one of those sources of spiritual power, and is recruited as a "malison cleanser" (amasogi exorcist) to defeat the malign entities that his friends and classmates create out of their own wishes, in combination with his psychic energy.
When you think about it, there are some interesting ethical issues raised by this show, which the show doesn't really go into at all, because it's too busy with harem clichés and let's-push-the-envelope fanservice, along with Dragonball-esque battles- and, occasionally, a good joke or comically-themed episode. It's very much a kitchen-sink sort of show, and while some parts of the sink are definitely old, and encrusted with overuse, there are a few interesting gleams here and there, of parts more creatively wrought, so I was reluctant to throw the whole thing in the dumpster.
I think I'll mention my chief ethical concern with the show before I go on. At one point, after learning that his power is enabling others to conjure amasogis, Kazuya decides to wrap himself up in blankets in his room, and live there forever. Kiriha talks him out of it (well, talks AND coerces him physically- she typically uses carrot (fondling) and stick (kicking) approaches, both directed at his groin), but wouldn't Kazuya's idea actually be a valid approach? After all, Typhoid Mary was eventually locked up for the public's own good...and ESPECIALLY since all the people who unwittingly create amasogis from their desires- through Kazuya's power- are themselves punished for it, unless they can destroy their amasogis themselves, which is often far beyond their ability for the more powerful ones; Kazuya often is the only one who can do the trick. (Amasogis don't always take human form- sometimes they just possess objects.)
But Tsugumomo isn't really that concerned with all this; it mainly wants to be an over-the-top harem show. We have two scenes with naked women straddling an equally naked Kazuya in bed- with implications that something MIGHT have happened before they were caught. We have a scene in a bathtub, with all the females in the cast- including Kazuya's older sister- competing to "deflower" him. (Older sis, by the way, is a hardcore bro-con, and while the women in the tub sequence are under the influence of an amasogi-enhanced love potion, it's clear elsewhere in the show that older sis would be quite willing to introduce Kazuya to a woman's body anytime he asked.) We have Kiriha's frequent references to Kazuya's equipment, whether it's teasing references to his state of arousal or, again, her tendency when ticked off at him to kick him in that spot where it hurts the most- and she's classic moefang tsundere, so very little provocation is required to do the trick. (Exactly what she thinks about Kazuya, or exactly how she views herself in relation to him- except as a "partner" in amasogi exorcism- is kind of a mystery.) And we have a scene that made me profoundly uneasy: Kukuri, a "local god" (and the one who actually fought to force Kazuya to become a malison cleanser) is broke, and so has to go to ANOTHER local god, named Kanayama, for money- but Kanayama, who is female, actually loves molesting little girls, and Kukuri at least LOOKS like a little girl- and at this point in the story, Kiriha is also in the form of a little girl- so Kanayama has everyone play her horrendously rigged game of Concentration; if Kukuri or Kiriha match "money cards", they get the amounts on the cards, but if Hanayama matches her "molestation" cards correctly, she gets to perform whatever act is written on them. (One of the LESS unspeakable ones is "Neck nape licky licky".) Here, as elsewhere in the show, we're not SHOWN as much as is IMPLIED- but child molestation JUST AIN'T FUNNY, even if (1) they just LOOK like children, (2) it's performed by a woman, and (3) it's mostly off-camera. We're seriously pushing the limits here, in my opinion.
So why didn't I just give this thing one star? Because every once in a while, it actually made me smile, or showed a flash of cleverness in its plots. The smiles were from little things, like the trick Kazuya tried to play on Kiriha to keep her from following him to school.
There was one episode I liked in particular, in which an amasogi turns all Kazuya's classmates into participants in a dating sim game, and he has to consult the class otaku stereotype, one Osamu Osanai (who comes complete with huge glasses and bowl haircut) to help him navigate through this, and in particular "win the affection" of his childhood friend Chisato Chikaishi. (Yes, this is one of those shows where the characters tend to have first and last names beginning with the same sounds.) His "winning move" was actually kind of well thought-out, and I really liked this one, even if it DID have gratuitous fanservice tacked on as a kind of coda. Chisato, by the way, is one of those straight-laced scolding sorts; she likes to hit people with a paper fan when they do anything that offends her, though to be honest I often felt absolute agreement with her words, "Please disperse this supremely perverse harem immediately!".
I was also amused by the derogatory term Kokuyou, Kukuri's "shrine maiden", used for Kiriha, which I won't spoil by saying it here. Kokuyou is meant as an extreme contrast to the diminutive Kukuri; she's a gigantic woman- and particularly in the breast department, of course- whose detached, deadpan delivery somehow makes the insult even more effective.
An attempt to play things seriously, for a change, in Episode #9 was at least OK- it's effectively a "ghost story", even though Kiriha assures us there are no real ghosts, only amasogis.
Oh, I should mention the battles. Kazuya can fight with Kiriha through Kiriha's forming various things that cloth can (and a few things that you would think cloth COULDN'T.) While most of Kazuya's opponents are amasogis, one is a fellow malison cleanser, a girl named Sunao Sumeragi. Kazuya wonders what her complaint with him is, and he certainly can be forgiven for having no clue, for her "grievance" is actually twice removed (and really makes no sense at all). Besides her pointless grudge, she's also an egomaniac who mistreats HER tsukumogami, but nevertheless it looks like she's being set up for a much larger role in a second season of the show- a prospect that I have very mixed feelings about. Kazuya certainly has a lot of problems to deal with- besides all the aforementioned, his dead mom (who shows up in his dreams) was, for all her magical power, an utter flake; and his dad IS living, but has been browbeaten into submission by Kiriha.
I've got a few more observations to make as well:
(1) If someone is working through a lengthy magical chant designed to blast you into oblivion when it's done, you really AREN'T under any obligation to patiently wait for them to finish. Go on, be rude- you'll be much happier with the outcome, trust me.
(2) At one point, the contents of a bottle are all spilled, but later we see the bottle half full again. Can the contents regenerate? (Well, maybe here they COULD...)
(3) The opening song is one of those frenetic ditties that would seem to take minimal effort to compose; lots of piece-of-crap shows have those...
And this mostly IS a piece of crap. But not ALWAYS. Maybe a show that you really, REALLY want to utterly hate, but can't completely do so because it occasionally gets something right, is even more exasperating than one that's just a complete loss. — Allen Moody
Recommended Audience: Nudity, implied sexual situations (along with more suggestive dialogue), and child molestation. ADULTS ONLY!
Version(s) Viewed: Streaming on Crunchyroll
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Concert Review: Epic Kings and Idols Tour Featuring Katatonia + Devin Townsend Project at the Palladium in Worcester, MA
September 24, 2012 by B. Cross
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Epic Kings and Idols Tour
Featuring: The Devin Townsend Project, Katatonia, Paradise Lost & Stolen Babies
The Palladium – Worcester, MA
Reviewed by: Brian Cross
“Epic Kings and Idols” is a great name for a tour. It’s one that garners respect, but also demands that the acts therein live up to the name. That wasn’t a problem when the heavy metal roadshow came to Worcester.
Avant-garde metallers Stolen Babies hit the stage first, though their first song was plagued by sound problems. Everything but the snare drum and vocals were inaudible, a fact that vocalist and accordionist Dominique Lenore Persi poked fun at shortly thereafter. “We’re Stolen Babies, and welcome to our sound check!” Fortunately, everything was quickly fixed, and the rest of their oddball performance went off without a hitch. On any other tour, their music would seem out of place, but not here.
Following that was the criminally underrated Paradise Lost, longtime veterans of the British doom metal scene. Aside from playing choice pieces from their latest effort Tragic Idol, the band acknowledged their controversial synthrock phase by playing songs liked “Erased.” Love or hate that period of the band’s existence, the song (and the set) sounded fantastic live. Let’s hope this newfound spotlight will continue to shine on them so they’ll make more inroads stateside.
Then it was time for Katatonia, the Swedish masters of the melancholy. Their new record Dead End Kings formed the backbone of their set, but they went as far back as Discouraged Ones to mine material for their performance. In a live setting, songs like “Forsaker, “Teargas,” and “Buildings” arguably best the original studio versions. From Jonas Renske’s gloomy vocals to the thunderous riffs backing him up, Katatonia pulled out of all of the stops in order to put on a bleak yet heavy show. As far as dark metal performances go, these guys are tough to beat. Their sound simply can’t be understated.
Finally, the other co-headliner of the evening took to the stage: the legendary Devin Townsend, and his eponymous Project. But let’s back up a bit; during the stage change, a large projection screen was dropped, and the audience was treated to various photo manipulations of Devin. (Many of which included the infamous Chive photo.) He showed up alongside such luminaries as Batman, Axe Cop, the crew of the Millennium Falcon, 50 Cent, and more. The insanity didn’t stop there, of course. After the slideshow, everyone was entertained by ZTV, a station ostensibly run by Ziltoid the Omniscient. (If you don’t know who that is…for shame. Get thee to Google!) The tyrannical alien commented on various annoying viral videos like Pizza Boomerang and a poodle workout video. Yeah, you read that right. You really need to see it for yourself.
Finally, Devin and friends appeared in person, opening with “Supercrush!” before running through many of his solo albums. Devin’s modern masterpiece Epicloud just came out a few days before the show, but it seemed that everyone in attendance was well-versed in the new songs. (Yes, they played “Lucky Animals.” Are you at all surprised?) Devin and crew played a few unexpected pieces, too, like “War.” Everything was mixed with an impressive light and video show, and punctuated by Devin’s trademark humorous banter and lyric replacement. The man’s got a boatload of songwriting talent, but it clearly hasn’t gone to his head. He’s on stage to make sure everyone’s having a good time, and he’s thanking the crowd profusely. “Grace” was seemingly the show-ender, but Devin himself admitted that it cuts out too quickly. So, the band played a crushing encore in the form of “Bad Devil.” That’s the proper way to top off a show!
You really can’t argue with such an incredibly package of bands and styles on the same bill. The Epic Kings and Idols tour has only just begun, so don’t miss it when it rolls through your town.
Head here for all the dates and stay tuned for our interview with Katatonia!
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ERISA: The Law and The Code, Annotated, 2018-2019 Edition
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ERISA: The Law and The Code, Annotated is a desktop reference which contains the full, updated text of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), relevant portions of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and Public Health Service Act (PHSA), and more.
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The full, updated text of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, including ERISA provisions that parallel Internal Revenue Code sections. Following each ERISA section is a complete statutory history of the section, including provisions of amending statutes that relate to the section.
Pertinent sections of the Internal Revenue Code, together with a statutory history that tracks all amendments made since 2001, and provisions of amending statutes that relate to each section.
Selected provisions of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by the Affordable Care Act and other legislation, together with a statutory history of each section, including provisions of amending statutes that relate to the section.
The amendments made by the 2017 Tax Act, which made substantial changes to employee fringe benefits, executive compensation, health care, and IRAs.
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Text of ERISA - Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as Amended
IRC Excerpts - Selected Provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as Amended
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Indexes - Index to ERISA, IRC, and Related Regulations/ Index to PHSA
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Charity music quiz is a smash hit
Quiz host Justin Moorhouse, centre, with Jonny and Katie Kidd
The Democracy team put on our first ever charity quiz night – and raised an amazing £2,050 for the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
Comedian Justin Moorhouse was the host for a packed audience of 150 quizzers in Manchester’s Chorlton Irish Club.
Working on the belief that everyone’s favourite pub quiz round is the music round, we devised an evening where EVERY round was the music round.
The teams got stuck into TV and movie themes, missing words, one hit wonders, guess the sample and Manchester music rounds before Justin crowned a winner.
Everyone also dug deep to win some superb raffle prizes, including a night’s stay at The Mere hotel, passes to Zip World and Knowsley Safari, tickets to a recording of Loose Women, spa treatments, foodie hampers, toys and more.
We’d like to say a massive thank you to everyone who came along, to all those who donated raffle prizes and to Justin for giving up his time to be our star quizmaster.
Democracy is supporting Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital this year and aiming to raise £5,000 across the year. Already the team has competed in dragon boat racing at Salford Quays, completed the Three Peaks challenge, taken part in extreme racing challenges, volunteered for babysitting and even a spot of baking to raise the money.
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital was chosen to support our friends Jonny and Katie Kidd, whose son Dexter is benefiting from the specialist care that the hospital provides.
Help us reach our fundraising target here.
Learn more about the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital charity and the work it supports here.
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BIANCA THE TORTURE EXPERT
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject: BIANCA THE TORTURE EXPERT
by Amir Taheri
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/58481.htm
December 9, 2005 -- IT had all started as a rather pleasant, if not exciting evening. We had heard a speech from British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw once again trying to "explain" the evil of Islamofascim in pseudo-theological, rather than political, terms. But that had been compensated by the recitation of a poem of the great mystic poet Roumi by Iranian journalist Nazanin Ansari.
Apart from the usual contingent of "the great and the good," most of the 800 or so people present were media people and their friends, come to cheer or boo as the Foreign Press Association in London distributed its annual prizes.
The evening was of special interest to me not only because I had been one of the judges but also because so much of the news stories, articles, and radio and TV programs submitted for consideration dealt with issues that, in one way or another, had something to do with Islam and the Middle East. In fact almost two-thirds of the prizes eventually awarded went to items dealing with those issues.
But there was an even bigger reason why I was interested in the occasion. The FPA had decided to award its very first prize for a dialogue of cultures to Akbar Ganji, an Iranian investigative reporter who is on a hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison.
Together with several colleagues, I had been trying for months to persuade the Western media to take an interest in Ganji, a former Khomeinist revolutionary who is now campaigning for human rights and democracy. But we never got anywhere because of one small hitch: President Bush had spoken publicly in support of Ganji and called for his immediate release.
And that, as far as a good part of the Western media is concerned, amounts to a kiss of death. How could newspapers that portray Bush as the world's biggest "violator of human rights" endorse his call in favor of Ganji?
To overcome that difficulty, some of Ganji's friends had tried to persuade him to make a few anti-American, more specifically anti-Bush, pronouncements so that the Western media could adopt him as a "hero-martyr." Two years ago, similar advice had been given to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was made to understand one stark fact of contemporary life: You will not be accepted as a champion of human rights unless you attack the United States.
Ebadi had accepted the advice and used her address during the prize ceremony in Oslo to launch a bitter attack on the United States as the arch-violator of human rights. To the surprise of many Iranians, she had eulogized the 400 or so alleged terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay, but made no mention of the thousands of political prisoners, including some of her own friends and clients, who languish in mullah-run prisons throughout Iran.
Would Ganji adopt a similar tactic in order to get media attention in the West? The answer came last January and it was a firm no.
The result was that Ganji, probably the most outspoken and courageous prisoner of conscience in the Islamic Republic today, became a non-person for the Western media. Even efforts by the group Reporters Without Frontiers, and the International Press Institute, among other organizations of journalists, failed to change attitudes towards Ganji.
Hundreds of editorials have been published in major Western publications in sympathy with the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib. But, to my knowledge, there has been none in support of Ganji or the thousands of political prisoners held by the mullahs.
So, it was heart-warming to see the FPA honor Ganji as a champion of freedom. An audio-message from Ganji's wife, smuggled out of Iran, was broadcast, creating the evening's highest moment.
But then things went pear-shape as a petite middle-aged lady dressed all in black was invited to come on stage to make a symbolic offer of the award to an absent Ganji. (The mullahs had not even allowed Ganji's wife to travel to London to attend the occasion.)
The lady in question was introduced as one Bianca Jagger, whose title is UNICEF Ambassador. What her day job is, however, is a mystery to me.
She started by telling us about her recent trips to Tehran and Damascus, presumably the two capitals of human rights that she likes best, and how she had been told "by officials and others" that she and other Westerners had "no moral authority" to talk about human rights and freedom.
She then proceeded by saying it is all very well to remember Ganji but that should not prevent us from remembering "those held in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, and all other secret prisons" that the United States is supposed to be running all over the world.
The rest of the little speech had nothing to do with Ganji and everything to do with the claim that the United States is drawing an almost sadistic pleasure by practicing torture. I couldn't believe my ears.
There was this caricature of a "UNICEF ambassador" equating Ganji � a man who has fought only with his pen � with men captured armed in hand on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Those men at least had access to lawyers and could be visited by the Red Cross. Ganji's lawyer, however, had himself become a prisoner after trying to defend his client.
Nor is the Red Cross, or anybody else, allowed to visit Ganji.
I was also surprised that the "UNICEF Ambassador" had no difficulty in equating the United States, which, after all, is a democracy with checks and balances, with the Islamic Republic in which a self-styled "Supreme Guide" claims to rule on behalf of God.
In his "Nichomachaean Ethics," Aristotle warns against any confusion of categories when it comes to good and evil. Translated into modern discourse, this means that imposing a moral equivalence in the name of multiculturalism � or the Nietzschean scheme of transcending good and evil � is a sign of crass immorality.
Having swallowed my anger, I gave the "UNICEF Ambassador" a piece of my mind. She seemed surprised. No one had ever told her such things, especially not in a polite society of dinner jackets and long robes. "Is Ganji the same as the alleged terrorists in Guantanamo Bay?" I asked.
"Well, yes, I mean no, I mean yes," she mumbled. "But they are all prisoners, aren't they?"
Having witnessed the verbal altercation, a colleague from the BBC filled me in on the background of the "UNICEF Ambassador." It seems that she had once been married to a British pop singer. And that, of course, is enough to qualify you as a "UNICEF Ambassador" touring the world, attacking Western democracies and flattering the tyrants of Tehran, Damascus and Havana among others.
Well, it had been a good evening. In the end, however, as the lady's husband had once crooned: I could get no satisfaction.
Wow. And wow again.
The Western "news" media never cease to amaze me, even when I think I'm finally past the point of being amazed.
Well, it's interesting now to see the real story behind Shirin Ebadi's speech! It all makes sense now.
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HOUSE OF AFROS, CAPES & CURLS
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Black Lightning!!!
I think everyone thought Black Lightning was going to be cheesy. It was the suit. A character in the story comments that the Black Lightning looks like a member of Parliament and that was it.
So Jefferson Pierce, former Olympic gold medalist, who returned home and became a high school principal only after he was marked by police as a vigilante as he fought street crime and hasn't used his powers in 9 years. Raising two daughters and hopeful that his absence from crime fighting will woo his wife back to him.
In episode one, The Resurrection, I knew it was a wrap when we hit quotes by MLK, Fannie Lou Hamer a Harriet Tubman reference and a black man dressed in a suit, driving a nice car being pulled over by the police and all of that was before the first commercial break!
The use of the gang, The 100, is meh. How many gang stories will we have to endure? Though, I let this one pass because the gang gets us to Tobias Whale, who I for one am soooo fascinated by. He is played masterfully by Marvin "Krondon" Jones III. That's a bold claim after just a few uttered words, but his performance in those few moments was delicious.
Speaking of delicious, it's good to see Cress Williams aka Scooter! It's not his first foray into the genre and with so much of the story on his shoulders (until his daughters take more of the lead) it was a phenomenal pilot. Another cast member whose no stranger to the genre is Christine Adams who plays Jefferson's estranged wife Lynn. She's one of my favorite brit actresses and alum of my loves, Pushing Daisies and Doctor Who. She's a marvelous actor and I'm even more confident that the show will be great with her inclusion.
I'm anxious to see what they do with the story. It was such a strong opening and so much chocolate! Episode #2 is tomorrow...we shall see if it lives up to the anticipation brought on by the pilot.
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Five Southern West Virginia Communities Ready to Imagine Their New Future
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Lots of big news with the IAS program here at The Hub, where we are working to diversify the local economy of five communities in the West Virginia’s coalfield region.
The communities have been chosen and meeting dates are being set to get these citizens of southern West Virginia engaged and involved in the economic diversification planning process.
Throughout the month of July and early August, we will be holding large community meetings in Alderson and Madison, and Lincoln and Wyoming counties.
We’ll be finding out what sectors local people want to see grow and what strengths in their community there are for them to build upon.
At those meetings we’ll be finding out what sectors local people want to see grow and what strengths in their community there are for them to build upon.
Once the communities have formed teams around the sectors of their choice, we can start helping them to write a plan for projects that they come up with to grow the local economy.
But, let’s not forget about McDowell County, where folks have already been working in their sector teams.
Right now, teams are meeting to plan around Tourism, Local Food and Agriculture, Arts and Culture, Technology and Transportation.
These teams will all come back together to talk about what they have been working on at a large community meeting on Thursday, June 23 at 5:30 p.m. This meeting will take place at the National Guard Armory, 600 Stewart St, Welch. Locals, we will see you there!
If you live in any of these communities and want to get involved, please get in touch with me for more details.
Homesteading Idea Building Steam to Revitalize West Virginia’s Abandoned Buildings
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Community homesteading has captured my heart and my imagination. And it seems I’m not alone.
A flurry of social media activity surrounded this article introducing the concept. Readers overwhelmingly expressed how homesteading could help revitalize their communities. I even heard from a handful of out-of-state artists (one as far away as Seattle) interested in relocating to West Virginia.
You might also recall a bipartisan group of delegates from Kanawha and Fayette Counties introduced a bill during the 2016 legislative session to create a homesteading pilot program. Although the bill died, there’s a possibility it could be reworked and introduced again next year.
Why all the fuss?
Before and after of a home purchased through the Paducah Artist Relocation Program. Photo by Paducah Artist Renaissance Alliance.
Community homesteading programs encourage individuals and families to purchase, renovate, and reside in vacant and dilapidated homes by offering a financial incentive (e.g. loan, grant, tax break, or other monetary benefit). Potential benefits include:
Rehabilitation of vacant and dilapidated homes;
Rebuilding the tax base;
Economic diversification through sector development;
Substantial return on investment.
But what does homesteading really look like in practice?
It turns out homesteading can take many forms — and go by many different names. Check out just a few of the successful homesteading efforts from other states.
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Farnsworth Street – Detroit, Michigan
A grassroots efforts to stabilize Farnsworth Street by purchasing and rehabbing vacant homes one-by-one and farming the surrounding vacant lots — all done by individuals of modest means.
Over the years, rehabbers and community-minded renters and homebuyers worked out informal incentives, including reduced rent and seller-financed home sales, often in exchange for some agricultural work. Get a better sense of “the block that blight forgot.”
Artist Relocation Program – Paducah, Kentucky
The City of Paducah revitalized one of its most historic and most rundown neighborhoods by offering artists city-held properties for as low as $1. A local bank also offered low-interest loans with no down payment for the full cost of buying and restoring property.
The city has invested $2 million — a $14 return on every $1 invested.
Since the program’s launch in 2000, over 75 artists and residents invested more than $30 million to restore the neighborhood. The city has invested $2 million — and so received a $14 return on every $1 invested. For more information about Paducah’s success, check out this article.
Oil City Artist Relocation Program – Oil City, Pennsylvania
In a city of roughly 10,000 people, more than 30 are artists that have purchased homes through the Oil City Artist Relocation Program. Because the program connects artists with local realtors and existing financial incentives, the true key to its success is a national marketing campaign. Learn more about the impact the program and the arts have had on Oil City.
Greater Circle Living – Cleveland, Ohio
Over the past 10 years, Greater Circle Living has encouraged more than 300 employees of organizations based in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood to live near their workplaces by offering forgivable loans for down payment assistance and matching funds for exterior renovations.
Reach out to me at n.marrocco@wvhub.org if you’re interested in homesteading, or if you know of a similar program in West Virginia or out-of-state that we should spotlight.
From Wisconsin With Love: Sharing Placemaking Strategies That Work
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Kaycie Stushek, a Masters candidate in the Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be working with The Hub this summer. Here’s she explains what attracted her to West Virginia.
I value the tight-knit community I grew up in, and feel that same collective energy here in West Virginia.
In the stories I’ve read, and in each place I have visited here, there are hard-working people investing in, and building up, their communities. I feel lucky to join the West Virginia Community Development Hub at such an exciting time!
I came to The Hub with an interest in working with communities who are building their capacity in creative, innovative ways.
My background is in natural resources outreach and education, and I’ve spent the past eight years working with people to create lasting relationships with the natural environment.
My focus is in community development, environmental planning, and placemaking strategies. I came to The Hub with an interest in working with communities who are building their capacity in creative, innovative ways.
There is so much in West Virginia to explore by bike, and kayak, and tons of amazing local food, music and brews to enjoy.
I have already met some of the kindest people who are more than willing to share their stories and experiences with me, and can’t wait to meet more through The Hub.
Help Needed on the Front Lines of Rebuilding West Virginia’s Coalfield Communities
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We are looking for a VISTA!
The Innovation Acceleration Strategy (IAS) program is a year long community-based economic diversification planning process.
We will be working with five communities in Southern West Virginia who are ready, willing and able to start identifying what they want to see in their community, and planning on how to grow and build these sectors.
But, these communities will need support to make this project a success. That is where you come in!
Working with five communities in Southern West Virginia who are ready, willing and able to start identifying what they want to see in their community.
So, if you are ready to serve in helping communities collaborate among themselves, with local government and economic development officials and sector partners in their chosen fields, then apply for this VISTA opportunity.
You’ll help identify and work with community leaders, plan community meetings, help with vital sector research and potential funding opportunities, and work toward making these economic diversification plans a reality for southern West Virginia. Training opportunities are provided for you as well!
This is a full time, 40 hours a week position, and VISTA receive a modest stipend and an end of service educational award to pay for college or to pay off student loans. (Here’s everything you might need to know about VISTA…)
For more info or to submit a resume, contact me at d.taylor@wvhub.org.
Turn This Town Around: Whitesville and Ripley Team Up to Sow the Seeds of Change
Spreading the seeds of change: Marsha Shonk and Joshua Donohew.
Last month we reported on the terrific story of Marsha Shonk, an AmeriCorps VISTA for the town of Whitesville who has been dubbed the “Seed Queen,” thanks to the remarkable success of her new seed donation program.
To recap: Seeing many people out of work and wanting to help improve their community in some small but measurable way, Marsha asked seed companies for donations of seeds. The project garnered over $13,000 worth of seeds, many of which were spread far and wide in Whitesville. Things are now green and growing there.
The remaining seeds are now on their way to Ripley, a fellow Turn This Town Around community.
But that is not where the story ends. Marsha wanted to share the fruits of her labor. And so the remaining seeds are now on their way to Ripley, a fellow Turn This Town Around community, through Marsha’s VISTA colleague in Ripley, Joshua Donohew.
Both Marsha and Josh were placed in their respective communities by the West Virginia Community Development Hub’s excellent VISTA program.
It’s great to see the Turn This Town Around teams collaborating. Marsha’s seeds will be helping Joshua’s food project in Ripley. The phrase “seeds of change” is taking on a whole new meaning at The Hub!
Marissa Russell: The Negative Image Must Go
When I was a young, I would place a card on the back tire of my bike and pedal, noisily, through my neighborhood. I built forts and etched my daydreams on the concrete in chalk. I grew up in a safe, thriving community. I graduated from a good school with invested teachers, who prepared me to continue my studies at WVU. It wasn’t until I was older that I began to realize that not everyone would get the same opportunities that I had.
As a member of WVU’s debate team, I began to observe, and process widespread disparity in opportunity. Often, opportunity alone determines one’s circumstances.
Often, opportunity alone determines one’s circumstances.
This struck me deeply, and drives me to this day.
I researched rigorously, and traveled the country arguing for community-driven policy solutions. Then I came to realize that I had spent weeks, hours, whole days researching and advocating for solutions, but nothing had measurably changed.
I would spend the rest of my college career working with local nonprofits, and politicians attempting to level the playing field in tangible ways, mostly through workforce intermediaries.
West Virginians commonly refer to our little slice of the map as, “Almost Heaven.” Though, outside of West Virginia – to those who haven’t travelled through our Mountain Mama – our state is not as uniquely placed.
Despite the inconsistencies and falsehoods, the negative image of West Virginia tends to be the more indelible one.
Despite the inconsistencies and falsehoods, the negative image of WV tends to be the more indelible one.
That image could not be further from the truth. As our population ages, this problematic image will make it more difficult for West Virginia to retain young talent, and to attract it from elsewhere. Further, it will make it easier for others to ignore the positive things that are happening here.
We, all of us, must work to change it.
If we are to posit a more accurate image of West Virginia, it will take all of us from every corner of the state pulling together, and sharing our stories genuinely.
For the next year, I will be working with communities across the state to circulate positive, community-focused pieces about what is working here.
This is where you come in. If you are interested in discussing what’s working in your community, I would love to hear from you! I look forward to diving into this project with you, and spreading the insight that I gain from the experience widely.
New Story Teams Up With Tamarack Foundation To Screen Website Webinar for Artists
Photo by David Smith/MediaShift.org
Surprising things can happen when you get a bunch of creative, ambitious and passionate people in the one room. You identify a challenge, look at the thing from all different angles, bounce brave ideas off each other and, before you know it, whole new worlds open up. The previously unseen begins to take shape.
That’s the inspiration behind New Story: Changing the Narrative in West Virginia, taking place at WVU Reed College of Media Innovation Center on Thursday, June 9.
New Story + Tamarack Foundation = Creative Nirvana.
As it so happens, that’s the same day that the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts is hosting it’s Tamarack Foundation U Webinar: Demystifying Website Building for WV Artists & Creatives.
Oh no… calendar conflict? No way. We see creative artists as being a critical part of the conversation about changing the public narrative in West Virginia, and so we’ve teamed up with Tamarack Foundation to provide a dedicated space at New Story for those wanting to plug in to the webinar. (Just make sure you RSVP.)
Better yet, Tamarack Foundation Executive Director Alissa Novoselick will be there in person, to welcome participating artists and hang out during the webinar.
The brand-spanking-new Media Innovation Center has lots of great breakout spaces and comfortable rooms with big screens, one of which will be made available to artists wanting to participate in the webinar, which will be hosted by the very excellent Megan Bullock of MESH Design and Development.
Tamarack Foundation Executive Director Alissa Novoselick will be there in person, to welcome participating artists and hang out during the webinar.
For the first time, New Story will bring together some of the state’s most influential, innovative and forward thinking media and communications professionals and students, to highlight the changing media landscape in West Virginia, unearth creative new media projects and sites, and herald Appalachia’s most creative and determined narrative change-makers.
Already, many of Appalachia’s media leaders have signed on to participate, including WVU’s Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Appalshop, Louisville Public Radio, Elaine Sheldon, Catherine Moore, Weelunk, Appalachian Regional Commission, The Daily Yonder and New South Media, plus journalists, editors, filmmakers, media producers, researchers and community leaders from all corners of the state.
Want to go to New Story but also want to log in to the webinar? Hey presto, we made it happen.
Got that creative spark? Then this is where you want to be.
Learn more, and register, at newstorywv.splashthat.com.
Gazette-Mail: New Proposal to Resettle Syrian Refugees in Charleston
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By Erin Beck/Charleston Gazette-Mail
As Charleston’s population continues to decline, a refugee resettlement service is considering opening an agency in the city that would assist hundreds of refugees in moving to the area.
Episcopal Migration Ministries, a refugee-resettlement agency, sent Jeffrey Hawks and Allison Duvall to Charleston to learn more about the city this week. Hawks is a consultant for the organization, while Duvall is an employee.
The West Virginia Interfaith Refugee Ministry, a group that started to create greater understanding of the plight of Syrian refugees, is working to turn Charleston into one of the Episcopal Migration Ministry’s “resettlement communities.” The ministry has 30 of those communities in cities throughout the United States.
The agencies work with local organizations in each city to assist refugees with translation, food, clothing, housing, education, mental health support, medical services, job training and community orientation.
Read the full story at wvgazettemail.com
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Rock The Vote: Young West Virginians Turn Out for Democratic and Republican Primaries
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Almost 70,000 West Virginians between the ages of 17 and 29 voted in the West Virginia Democratic and Republican primaries this year, a notable increase on previous years.
An organization called, “CIRCLE” (The Center For Information & Research On Civic Learning And Engagement), has been tracking the civic acumen of America’s youth and their voting habits, in an effort to improve both. For more information, visit: civicyouth.org/2016nebraskawestvirginiaprimaries
In a report released by CIRCLE after the primary election, it was reported that an impressive 69,000 (25 percent) of West Virginians in this age bracket turned out to vote, surpassing the states of Florida (17 percent), Iowa (11 percent), and Virginia (18 percent), while lagging behind Wisconsin (33 percent) and New Hampshire (43 percent).
25 percent of West Virginians in this age bracket turned out to vote, surpassing the states of Florida, Iowa and Virginia.
Young voter turnout for split evenly between the two parties, with 35,000+ voting on the Democrat ballot and 33,000+ on the Republican ballot.
Seventy percent of young Democratic primary voters casted ballots in support of Hillary Clinton, with 25 percent supporting the eventual winner of West Virginia’s Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders.
On the Republican side, 63 percent of young voters supported GOP front runner Donald Trump. Despite the fact that Trump is the only presidential candidate remaining in the Republican nominating pool, young voters still casted ballots for candidates who had officially suspended their campaigns—12 percent voted for Ted Cruz and 6 percent for John Kasich.
Young voters are the future of West Virginia politics.
It is interesting to note that 19 percent of young voters in West Virginia’s Republican primary fell into the “other/no answer” category, making young people the largest age group to provide such a response.
Without any doubt, young voters are the future of West Virginia politics, and we can only hope to see continued growth in West Virginia’s voting youth in the future.
Columbia Journalism Review: Online, Local and Positive – One Community News Website’s Path to Profitability
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By Anna Clark/Columbia Journalism Review
What’s the right formula for a for-profit, local online news startup in a smaller market?
There’s probably no single answer to that question. But in north-central Ohio, the people behind Richland Source say they have a recipe that’s working for them. It includes original content that’s free to read, a diversifying revenue base anchored by digital ads, engagement with live events, a relaxed approach to the traditional “church-state” divide—and an unapologetically upbeat attitude about the local community.
The editorial vision behind the site, he adds, is “to tell the story of the community as a whole, rather than just the things that are challenging.”
Richland Source is headquartered in Mansfield, the seat of Richland County and a city of a bit less than 50,000 people located midway between Cleveland and Columbus. It’s a part of the Rust Belt that has faced a “slow-motion butt-kicking” over the course of a few decades, Jay Allred, the site’s publisher, likes to say.
But the editorial vision behind the site, he adds, is “to tell the story of the community as a whole, rather than just the things that are challenging.” Or as Larry Phillips, the managing editor, puts it: “Not everything in Mansfield, Ohio, is a disaster.”
Richland Source was launched in July 2013 with an investment from Carl Fernyak, the CEO of a local printer and copier supplier. Today, the site has six full-time editorial staffers, and is, Allred says, “on track” for a planned five-year path to profitability. It’s also expanding its reach: In March, the site launched Crawford Source, covering Richland’s neighbors to the west. This summer, it will move into Ashland County, over the eastern border.
“We believe it’s our obligation to put into the public record all of the things that people do in this community to make it a good place to live.”
The outlet delivers enterprise reporting on complicated local issues, like a recent multimedia piece exploring solutions to farmers’ flooding concerns. It also routinely covers council and school board meetings in Mansfield and Shelby, a nearby town.
But what most stands out about the editorial focus is an emphasis on uplift and community growth. “We believe it’s our obligation to put into the public record all of the things that people do in this community to make it a good place to live,” Allred says in a promotional video. That means plenty of features, local lore, schools, and youth sports, ranging from a piece about a day spent riding every Mansfield bus line to a story about a play written by a former high school basketball coach to a video series on how to prepare locally foraged food…
Read the full story at www.cjr.org
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Sory Kandia Kouyaté ‘La voix de la révolution’ 2CD (Sterns) 5/5
14th March 2012 ukvibe
Guinean singer-songwriter Sory Kandia Kouyaté tragically died at the relatively early age of forty-four, but still managed to pack some glorious recordings into his career and is rightly venerated, not only in his native country, but throughout West Africa and beyond. This terrific and extremely cohesive selection neatly divides his career up into two parts for the neophyte with CD one devoted to the more immediately accessible and shorter in length larger ensemble recordings while the second CD focuses on the more extended and traditional pared down sides that Kouyaté laid down between 1970 and 1973. As with other newly independent nations, the quest for authenticity reached into the musical sphere and in Guinea artists such as Kouyaté were openly encouraged to flourish. Between the ages of eight and ten, Kandia had joined the royal court of Mamou where he quickly gained a reputation for possessing a stunning voice and by the age of nineteen the singer had developed a fully matured mezzo-soprano voice. It is precisely the very dynamism of this voice that comes across to such wonderful effect on these recordings and sets the singer apart from his other contemporaries. From the first CD, the gently lilting groove of ‘N’na’ with some gorgeous laid back saxophone playing is one of several highlights and in general the musical accompaniment, percussion especially, makes this a very special listening pleasure. Sterns are to be commended for selecting numerous songs from two key album volumes entitled ‘L’Epopée du Mandingué that date from 1973. The second CD in contrast requires repeated listens and in small doses to begin to fully digest the undiluted sound on offer, yet more seasoned listeners will appreciate the virtuosity displayed on numbers such as ‘Siiba’ while the heartrendering twelve and a half minute take on ‘Douga’ is a fine way to open the more intimate side to Kouyaté’s work. Equally of interest are the significantly shorter pieces that date from 1961 with ‘Toubaka’ and ‘Nina’ outstanding examples of the singer’s earliest songs. As ever with Sterns classic re-issues, the inner sleeve is both lavish and colourful with original photos of the artist and album covers from the period with, in addition, informative bi-lingual notes on Kouyaté’s glittering career.
Vijay Iyer Trio ‘Accelerando’ (ACT) 4/5
US born of Indian parents, pianist Vijay Iyer followed a relatively slow progression from his 1995 debut, but this has rapidly gathered pace during the early noughties and his 2009 album ‘Historicity’ introduced him to a significantly wider audience with a 2010 Down Beat critics poll prize for small ensemble and also a 2010 Grammy nomination for best instrumental jazz album. Continuing with his tried and tested trio line up of Stephen Crump on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums, Vijay Iyer has chosen another highly eclectic selection that takes in the great piano jazz tradition with music from Duke Ellington and Herbie Nicholls, the great contemporary songwriting talents of British composer Rod Temperton as well as some excellent new material from the leader himself. If anything with greater familiarity between trio members there has come a willingness to take more chances and in this respect ‘Accelerando’ is an improvement upon the already excellent ‘Historicity’. For those not yet familiar with Iyer, his style is not dissimilar to, though by no means a carbon copy of, a cross between Andrew Hill and Thelonius Monk with other influences including Ahmad Jamal, Bud Powell and the earthier sounds of New Orleans formation the Meters. For lovers of melodic jazz with a slightly bitter-sweet twist, the unique interpretation of Tepmerton’s ‘Star of a story’, originally a hit for 1970s group Heatwave, but reprised to greater effect by George Benson on the ‘Give me the night’ album, works to perfection while ‘Human nature’, a favourite in the Miles Davis mid-late 1980s repertoire receives an extended nine and a half-minute version that changes in both mood and tempo as it progresses with a harder, funk-tinged feel on electric bass from Crump towards the end. Contrast this with the more avant-garde hues of a Henry Threadgill composition on ‘Little pocket sized dreams’ and you rapidly realise that Vijay Iyer has a breadth of musical knowledge that will make it almost impossible for him to be neatly categorised into one musical bag and he is all the better for this. Of the original pieces, all of which feature his signature sounding repeat phrasings, the title track and ‘Lude’ impress in particular and the album ends on a high with a seldom heard Ellington composition, ‘The village of the virgins’, taken from the 1970 ballet ‘The river’, the river in question being the Mississpippi. Here Iyer has inventively imbued the piece with gospel and R & B flavours. In fact there is a spontaneity to the trio’s performances here that is exemplary on this release and one longs to hear them in a live context in the UK at some stage.
Lars Danielsson ‘Libretto’ (ACT) 4/5
11th March 2012 ukvibe Leave a comment
Here is one of the year’s most pleasant surprises and a pairing of musical minds that definitely should be repeated. Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson has teamed up with one of the hottest new pianists on the block, Armenian Tigran Hamassayan (whose solo debut for Universal France last year was itself one of the end of 2011 discoveries) as part of a Premier League quality quintet, for an album that conjurs up the folk music side of the Scandinavian and Armenian countryside within a decidely chamber jazz envrionment. The title track in particular is a joy to behold, a piece of great lyrical beauty and an affecting bass solo from Danielsson. On the composition ‘Svensk Låt’ there are parallels with EST (and not only because EST drummer Magnus Ostrom performs throughout the album on drums) and this is an engaging piece featuring the most sensitive of solos from Tigran and a tune that remains long in the memory. Ostrom takes centre stage on the uplifting ‘Orange market’ with an extended solo from Tigran while there is a more austere and sedate ambience on ‘Hymnen’. In particular it is a revelation to hear Tigran in a jazz milieu and even though he has received a classic training, the pianist is ideally suited to jazz. With fine accompaniment from both guitarist John Parricelli and trumpeter Arve Hendriksen, the latter of whom excels on a delicate solo on the piece ‘Day one’, Lars Danielsson has fallen upon a wonderful and totally cohesive line up of musicians. If the quintet remains together for any lengthy period, it will surely produce some enthralling music. This sumptuous offering is, hopefully, the first of more to follow. Tim Stenhouse
Roberto Fonseca ‘Yo’ (Jazz Village/Harmonia Mundi) 4/5
Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca is known primarily for his participation in the more recent efforts by the Buena Vista Social Club collective, most notably the final album by Ibrahim Ferrer which he arranged to great acclaim. However, Fonseca is both an accomplished and rapidly maturing artist in his own right and his latest album finds him in relatively new territory, fusing Afro-Cuban jazz with a variety of African sounds from both west and north of this great continent. The result is a real slow burner of an album that takes a few listens to fully digest the intricate combination of genres, but becomes ever more accessible with each listen. Recorded in Paris, a number of African musicians have been enlisted to give this new project an authentic pan-African meets Cuban feel and they include some of the new stars as well as more established ones. An added bonus is the production on a few pieces of DJ Gilles Peterson along with remixes of the more danceable cuts and this is a definite attempt to appeal to a younger audience. A prime example of the successful fusion of styles is on the key number ‘Siete rayos’ which features lovely used of Cuban-style piano vamps, Afro-Cuban percussion and the inclusion of the stringed ngoni instrument. Factor in some Gotan Project-esque sound effects and this number may just be the ideal vehicle to propel the album to a wider public beyond world roots fans. Equally impressive is the acoustic piano led piece ‘El sonañdor está cansado’ with heavy bassline prominent. There are shades of Brad Mehldau in the playing of Fonseca on ‘JMF’ which then morphs into an Afro-Cuban montuno with Fonseca transferring to eery sounding organ that is akin to one of Charlie Palmieri’s classic 1970s sides on Coco. Senegal’s seminal Orchestra Baobab are evoked on ‘Quien soy yo’ with vocals from Assane Mboup and echo and voice effects that make this song a twenty-first century take on the great Afro-Latin bands of yesteryear such as the aforementioned collective and No. 1. North African rhythms are introduced on two songs, ‘Gnawa stop’ and ‘Chabani’. For the former, a mid-tempo piano dominated piece, Moroccan gnawa influences are weaved in with repeated riffs and handclaps while on the latter vocalist Faudel Amil delivers lovely wordless vocals. For some real diversity, the driving fender rhodes on ‘Rachel’ enters jazz-funk territory with hip-hop drum beat patterns into the mix. Those in search of dancefloor action should look no further than ‘Bibise’ with lead vocals from the new darling of the Malian music scene, Fatoumata Diawara, who recorded an excellent debut album for World Circuit last autumn. on this piece Senegalese kora player Baba Sissoko displays his virtuoso instrumental talents to full effect. A UK tour is imminent and begins on 23 March through to 1 April. It should be one of the most anticipated gigs of the year thus far.
Brad Mehldau Trio ‘Ode’ (Nonesuch) 4/5
9th March 2012 ukvibe
It may come as a surprise to some to learn that this is the first studio outing by the trio since the ‘Day is done’ back in 2005 and long-time fans will not this time be able to engage in the usual banter of which recent pop tune has been covered since this is an all original selection of compositions. That being said, the trio are in fine form, sounding as fresh as they did some seven years ago and the new pieces are of a consistently high standard. No more so than the deeply lyrical ‘26’ which is a deeply melodic piece on which Mehldau enters into an extended crescendo of notes with drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier in close pursuit. On the opener, ‘M.B’ the influence of Keith Jarrett can be heard and this number is a tribute to the late saxophonist Michael Brecker while the title track possesses an organic earthiness with Mehldau offering a delicate solo and there is moreover fine interplay between pianist and bassist. Blues inflections surface on the excellent ‘Kurt vibe’ while there is an unusual off-beat quirkiness to the ballad, ‘G.H’, another tribute, but this time to former Beatle George Harrison. Above all what really impresses with this trio is the apparent simplicity of the themes performed, both individually and collectively, and on ‘Twiggy’ one cannot but marvel at the constantly inventive percussion playing of Ballard in particular. Quite simply a piano trio performance of Champions League quality.
Caetano Veloso and David Byrne ‘Live at Carnegie Hall’ (Nonesuch) 4/5
Originally a spring concert from 2004 that was broadcast on National Public Radio, the American equivalent of the BBC, this live recording is a welcome collaboration between two veteran musicians who constantly keep their music fresh by entering into new musical dialogues. Here the concert is divided up roughly into three parts, the first two with the two musicians performing alone and the final section with joint vocals in English and Portugese. Caetano Veloso takes care of the first part of the performance and this is predominantly from his classic mid-late 1970s repertoire with a few classics before and after thrown in for good measure. Old chestnuts such as ‘Sampa’, ‘Terra’ and ‘O Leåzinho’ still sound as fresh as the first time they were aired while ‘Coraçåo vagabundo’ is quite simply one of Veloso’s most delightful and sensitive compositions of all. David Byrne performing acoustic is, perhaps, the welcome surprise here and classic Talking Heads material suc has ‘Road to nowhere’ is viewed in a new light when devoid of any instrumentation other than Byrne’s own guitar. In a recent interview David Byrne was quoted as being somewhat nervous at the prospect of sharing the stage with Brazilian giant Caetano Veloso, but, judging by the resulting music contained herein, he need not have been so anxious for this is very much a meeting of equals and kindred spirits. The two singers are on top form on a gorgeous rendition of ‘Um canto de Afoxé para o Bloco do Ilé’ which is sheer delight with Byrne very competently singing the original lyrics in Portugese. Veloso returns the compliment with aplomb on ‘(Nothing but) flowers’, where both singers enter into a humorous update on the lyrics in English and Caetano in particular delivers his trademark idiosyncractic vocals that are received with rapturous applause from an audience that is lapping the momentous event up for all it’s worth. The only downside of this recording is that thus far there has been no follow up studio album. David Byrne may have felt that he was going a little outside his own comfort zone, but his empathy for Brazilian music is all too apparent and a joint project would surely yield some precious offerings from two of the most open-minded musical minds on the planet.
Sizzla ‘In Gambia’ (VP) 3/5
Reggae musicians have at regular intervals toured Africa, most notably Culture and Pete Tosh, while no less than Bob Marley himself famously performed at the independence celebrations for Zimbabwe in 1980. Dancehall singers have been a good deal fewer on the ground, though in recent years Sizzla has shifted markedly to a more cultural stance. This new album is not in fact a live recording, but rather one recorded in a studio in Gambia, then mixed in Jamaica. One does wonder what served as the inspiration for the stay and why there was no collaboration with local musicians which is something of a lost opportunity. Several of the songs allude to being in Gambia, but somewhere along the line Sizzla decides that he is more interested in a performing a hybrid of contemporary r‘n’b and reggae rather than in fusing reggae and African styles. The singer is at his strongest on the uplifting lyrics and roots feel of ‘Blackman rise’ and on the falsetto-led vocals of ‘Feed the children’. Thereafter, Sizzla seems to lose the plot on ‘Woman of creation’ and ‘Where is the love?’ Does he want to record a whole album of this nu-soul material? If so, fine, but it does sit oddly here. A mixed bag of an album and not all in the reggae idiom.
I-Octane ‘Crying to the nation’ (VP) 3/5
6th March 2012 ukvibe Leave a comment
Jamaican singer I-Octane, real name Byiome Muir, hails from Sandy Bay in Clarendon and was passionate about singing from an early age. He first recorded at Penthouse studios of Donovan Germaine and there came into contact with singer Bunju Banton. Three years after his work with Penthouse, I-Octane was apporached by Arrow records and this resulted in a shift in style from dancehall to cultural roots and a first single ‘Stab vampire’. The singer is now an independent musician who has severed links with Arrow, yet has only been in the music profession for five years. This brings us bang up to date with the debut album on VP contained within. It is in fact his first full length album and features a mixture of styles. It works best on the lyrical and socially conscious material such as the excellent ‘Vanity will come’ and the instant hook of’ Rules of life’, both of which features session musicians. The second half of the album is not quite as strong and in parts the production is a little too slick for this writer with I-Octane’s voice subdued among a plethora of electronic instrumentation. Nonetheless the catchy single ‘L.O.V.E. you’ will appeal to a new audience while the duets with Alborosie and Tarrus Riley will atttract a more mainstream reggae public. I-Octane needs to decide which pathway he wishes to follow and then stick to that for a whole album. Greater success will surely beckon. Tim Stenhouse
Various ‘Sounds from the soul underground’ (Freestyle) 4/5
For some time now Freestyle records have been championing the new sounds of the dancefloor in myriad styles that range from Afro-beat to Latin, from jazz to soul, and from dub to funk so a compilation of these underground beats is very much the order of the day. Expertly compiled by Greg Boraman with detailed inner sleeve notes on the musicians concerned, this is a well balanced anthology of the label that showcases the recent and includes forthcoming sounds too. An immediate winner is the jazz dance piano vamps of Jessica Lauren on ‘Mr. G’, a keyboardist who first came to prominence during the 1990s on a well received Soul Jazz album, and then went off to do various sidewoman duties which included a stint with singer Barb Jungr among others. The new piece is merely a foretaste of her new album which will be released on Freestyle later in the year and there is a definite hint of Horace Silver in the use of Latin keyboard vamps. On another great tune, the neo-jazz dance number ‘Colours’ by Frootful, the enduring music of Johnny Lytle is conjured up with plentiful vibes over a heavy jazz beat. For an interesting contrast, northern soul flavours permeate the excellent vocal song ‘Hey girl’ by Jo Stance and one looks forward to hearing more of her. When disco went pear-shaped at the end of the 1970s, ‘boogie’ took over on the dancefloor during the early 1980s and ‘Something gotta give’ by Nick Van Gelder harks back to that era with vocals from Mazen. Going back further in time, jazz-funk ruled the roost during much of the mid-late 1970s and the Delicious All Stars bring this era back to life on the fine instrumental ‘Poker night theme’ while in reggae circles dub reached its zenith. However, even the likes of King Tubby had not thought of fusing roots dub with Ethiopian jazz and under the aegis of Dubulah, aka Nick Page, Dub Colossus have paved the way with a pioneering musical métissage that works and ‘Diaspora square’ is a fine illustration of this. Elsewhere the retro Afro-beat of the Riya Astrobeat Arkestra and the Afro-funk take on blaxploitation movie soundtracks from the Mighty Showstoppers impress and there is Latin funk from Ray Camacho and the Tear Drops on the pulsating ‘Movin’ on’. For connoisseurs of the harder Latin groove, look no further than some storming 1970s style descarga from Ray Lugo and the Boogaloo Destroyers on ‘Sol el ray’. All in all a terrific overview of a music scene that does not receive its full due from the mainstream music media. Tim Stenhouse
Eric Bibb ‘Deeper in the Well’ (Dixie Frog/Harmonia Mundi) 4/5
Acoustic blues and all round Americana musician Eric Bibb has impeccable musical credentials, being the son of folk singer Leon Bibb, with an uncle, pianist and composer in the MJQ, John Lewis, and counting among family friends Bob Dylan, the late Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger. Indeed Bibb junior belongs, along with Corey Harris and Keb Mo, to a generation that has grown up during the folk revival of the 1960s and has taken on board multiple influences both within and outside the established blues tradition. A recent apprearance on the latest series of the Transatlantic sessions on BBC4 revealed the singer-songwriter and guitarist to be interested in exploring all aspects of American roots music and this is precisely what he delivers on this supremely craftly new album. Alternative country, blues, folk and gospel come together effortlessly here and the sheer panoramic view that Eric Bibb is able to portray is breathtaking and definitely not something to be taken for granted. The key point here is that all his diverse influences slot naturally into a cohesive whole and that is the true sign of a individually-minded musician. A song that Bibb heard performed by Doc Watson and son Earl ‘Dig a little deeper in the well’ provides one of the many album highlights with fine fiddle playing and beautiful melodies. Folk-blues permeate the classic composition ‘Sinner man’ with some outstanding vocals while there are hints of Kelly Joe Phelps on the acoustic flavoured ‘No further’ with guitar and harmonica supplying some rock solid accompaniment, and the storytelling quality to Bibb’s music is emphasized on ‘Boll weevil’. A couple of contemporary standards receive the Bibb makeover with a warm and intimate ‘Time they are a changin’ which continues to be a relevant song while Taj Mahal’s ‘Every wind in the river’ is deeply melodic and further evidence that Bibb can make virtually any song his own. Eric Bibb achieves that most surprising of goals for listeners who view the blues as being obsessed with darkness and despair; he produces music that is fundamentally uplifting of the human spirit. This is an album that is likely to be on the end of year top ten lists, not necessarily for its innovative approach, but purely and simply for being one of the most enjoyable listening experiences of the year and that is recommendation enough.
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John Coltrane ‘European Tour 1961’ 7CD Box Set (Le Chant du Monde) 4/5
31st August 2017 ukvibe
The historical legacy of John Coltrane has been the subject of various bona fide studio recording re-evaluations in recent years, and more especially this year, which commemorates fifty years since he passed away. What though of his immense pantheon of live performances? Beyond the Village Vanguard sessions on Impulse!, official live albums are somewhat thin on the ground, and thus numerous bootlegs have surfaced of varying sound quality and dubious provenance, to fill the gap. Thankfully, an ethically conscientious label such as Le Chant du Monde has taken a less mercantile approach and has rightly sought to place these historically significant live concerts in some kind of logical order, properly annotated, with the best graphical illustrations as are currently available. A forthcoming 10CD box set will be devoted to Coltrane’s live output from 1962 alone, and this present collection is far from comprehensive for even 1961 since it does not include the UK dates that included Brighton, Birmingham, Glasgow, London and Newcastle. However, instead we are treated to two sets of concerts at the prestigious Olympia venue in Paris, and a series of concerts throughout northern Europe, including Germany and Scandinavia.
A key question is the actual disparate nature of the sound of the recordings and it has to be stated they are not uniform in quality, or even. Rather, Le Chant du Monde has digitally transferred the live performances and, in fairness, as the recordings progress in the box set, so does the quality. This was dependent in any case on the original master which tend to be radio broadcasts. Thus the Paris concerts are not of as clear a sound as those in either Germany or Scandinavia, whose radio stations tended to record them live on premier facilities available at the time.
That said, there is much to admire from what came to be known as the classic quartet (McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, Elvin Jones) with the major addition of Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute. His presence alone makes this compelling listening, and CD 7 contains bonus tracks from 1960 concerts in Germany that is a de facto Miles Davis rhythm section of the time, minus the leader. In practice, the mainly standard repertoire features Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums, with Oscar Peterson and Stan Getz guesting on individual tracks and almost thirty-five minutes of classic jazz, with an interesting reading of Monk’s ‘Hackensack’ and a medley of ballads.
Needless to say, several pieces are performed repeatedly, but the genius of Coltrane and his constituent band members was that they never played in quite the same manner and were sufficiently adept to find something new to say. This is certainly true of evergreen numbers such as ‘My Favourite Things’, which varies in tempo and length. Four contrasting takes on ‘Blue Train’, a crowd favourite for sure, while ‘Naima’ doubles in length in its two interpretations. It would be wrong to assume, however, that this was merely some endless blowing session. Coltrane was always an extremely sensitive musician and this is reflected here in his choice of standards for the quieter, more reflective moments. A delightful reading of Billy Eckstine’s ‘I Want To Talk About You’, is matched by a near twelve-minute take on ‘Delilah’.
One small caveat. The wonderful sleeve notes that have been carefully compiled with such loving detail are in french only. Wonderful for Francophiles such as this writer, but ideally these should be available in English too, particularly given that a wider jazz audience will be interested in finding out more about the recordings. A smaller 4CD ballad set of studio Coltrane recordings is available on the same label and for those just entering into the world of Coltrane, a useful starting point other than the key individual albums of which there are of course several.
Arthur Blythe ‘Lennox Avenue Breakdown’ / ‘In The Tradition’ / ‘Illusions’ / ‘Blythe Spirit’ 2CD (BGO) 5/5
30th August 2017 ukvibe
The first of the two double CD packages from BGO devoted to the Columbia recordings of the late Arthur Blythe between 1978 and 1981, these are by far the very best and, in the current absence of an over-arching anthology of his work, the first place of call to explore the alto saxophonist’s most accomplished work. Blythe arrived to much fanfare at Columbia after a brief stint with indie label India Navigation (who also recorded Pharoah Sanders at his most spiritual) and this was a major league line-up of musicians, reflecting the importance that Columbia placed on Blythe’s status within the world of jazz. A rhythm section to die for comprised bassist Cecil McBee, drummer Jack DeJohnette, with Guillermo Franco on percussion. What marked Blythe’s sound out was the absence of piano and instead guitarist James ‘Blood’ Ulmer adds a distinctive blues touch while the brass accompaniment was anything but conventional with Bob Stewart on tuba and James Newton on flute. Be that as it may, this collective worked and cooked up a storm with a sumptuous samba on ‘Down San Diego Way’, opening the album to a tumultuous start, and fine work between Blythe and Newton. The inclusion of Bob Thiele as co-producer with the leader undoubtedly contributed to the freshness of the sound and that is no better illustrated than on the title track. Sleeve notes by the one and only jazz writer and critic, Stanley Crouch, illustrate just what an important figure Blythe was considered at a pivotal time when jazz had endured a prolonged period in the doldrums, but was about to be on the up with the arrival of Wynton Marsalis, the resurrection of Miles Davis, and the reactivating of some of the key labels of the 1950s and 1960s with an extensive re-issue programme that would introduce seminal jazz recordings to a younger audience.
A follow up album, ‘In The Tradition’, was somewhat misleading and could just as easily have been re-titled in the plural since Blythe astutely realised that there were several traditions and that he could carve out his own niche by weaving in and out of these, which is precisely what he did do on the recording. A delightful duo between pianist Stanley Cowell and Blythe on Waller’s ‘Jitterbug Waltz’ reinvigorated the standard, while the self-composed ‘Hip Dripper’ was both catchy and soaked in the blues. Furthermore, the staccato rhythm of ‘Break Tune’ was anything but traditional in tone. A fast-paced interpretation of ‘Caravan’ features some lovely piano rolls from Cowell. More impressive of all, a complete reworking of Coltrane’s ‘Naima’, which receives a frenetic treatment with tension between the rhythm section throughout.
The second CD begins with ‘Illusions’ which is, in many respects, a summation of the first two Columbia recordings and includes separate line-ups with and without piano. If ‘Slidin’ Through’ represents the more reflective side to Blythe, then ‘My Son Ra’ is the most personal of compositions, not alluding to the great Sun Ra as one might have expected, but rather a tribute to Blythe’s own son, Rashied. Blythe cut two versions of this piece and this is the second. A final album here, ‘Blythe Spirit’, features some interesting choices of standard material such as a classy reading of Errol Garner’s ‘Misty’ that starts off slow, then develops into a mid-tempo number with Blythe soloing. As ever, Arthur Blythe was an extremely versatile performer and, as a whole, that is how one should view these wonderful recordings. Traditional gospel is illustrated on ‘Just A Closer Walk With Thee’ while even contemporary funk gets a brief look in on ‘Faceless Woman’. Highly recommended, terrific value and impeccable and extensive sleeve notes courtesy of Mojo writer Charles Waring, rightly situate Blythe in a wider historical context and his major contribution to the evolution of the alto saxophone post-Parker.
Wrongtom Meets The Ragga Twins ‘In Dub’ (Tru Thoughts) 3/5
Foreword.
Since the late 1960s…The answer was to simply use the instrumental cut of the tune as the B Side and call it the ‘version’, and by and large to this day remains the way with Jamaican 45s, saving the worry of the added expense in paying the band for a new recording and engineering costs for the flip side. As time went by, these simple ‘versions’, slowly but surely, became almost separate works in their own right, becoming dub versions. A whole new Jamaican originated art-form made by manipulating the original tracks used on the A Side mix, adding massive panned echos on a phrase or two from the original vocal track, dropping the bass line, echoing the drum track, heavy reverbs, filtering and all sorts of clever inventiveness with sometimes the version side simply being the drum & bass track riding solo; basically inventing the ‘riddim’, a word still used today with regards vocalists searching out their next backing track, also by adding new elements to the original recording, such as a saxophone part or organ shuffle over the existing version, dub certainly opened up possibilities with the mixing desk becoming an instrument in itself. The B Side became as revered as the A Side, especially for the ‘toasters’ or as they were originally called the ‘dee jays’.
Dub is all around today, not just in reggae or its inspired sub genres, its influence can be heard within the multi genre music world, and for those of us musicians who grew up musically in an era where dub albums from Jamaica and the UK (the mid 70s until the digital revolution in reggae music late 80s) were available in all record shops and were lovingly bought and studied, it remains a passion that one simply cannot shake off and its influence keeps on shining through almost 50 years after its emergence.
Over use of style?.. The plethora of DIY underground dub releases this past ten years or so has seen a few dozen absolute gems in innovation and content, idea’s and idiosyncrasies that firmly put such releases in the classic dub underground box, but there has also been over the past years a lot more releases, that in all honesty, are boring – ‘dub by numbers’, robotic loop dub releases with no originality of their own, copying by the book and not doing a very interesting job by doing so, seriously there are a lot of those out there.
Alores..
‘Just A Dub’ introduces the album ‘In Dub’ by London resident reggae and dub producer Wrongtom, an album of dub versions to The Ragga twins album ‘In Time’, a long-standing association between the two outfits with a healthy back catalogue of releases behind them. I freely admit to having never listened to the Ragga Twins album ‘In Time’, so I am purely listening to this as a stand alone dub experience. Entry track ‘Just A Dub’ has a traditional sounding vibe, very much like that of Manchester’s Breadwinners, indeed for a moment I thought I had clicked on the wrong album to listen to, after this first piece however the similarity between the two big producers end and the Wrongtom dub sound enters the ear canal with the next piece, ‘The Same Dub Twice’, a high-grade JA foundation riddim re working with tape echo passion, that early 80s dub sparseness in sound, straight forward riddim track with playful voice echo mixing, he certainly knows his era’s.
It’s the third track that suddenly jolts me into serious headphone listening mode with ‘And Dub The Body’, a robotic sounding digital groove dubbed like old and it works. On first listen perhaps by an untrained ear one will just hear a robotic riddim track resembling a classic foundation beat, the “My Conversation” riddim to be exact, one of the two dozen or so JA Riddims that have been be reused, and perhaps argumentatively overused, for decades. The trick is of course to add something new to this formula, a touch of innovation, technique or era illusion, because albeit digital in delivery this piece firmly sits very happily inside 1984 pre digital sound, it is a masterful ‘two era’s sound blend’ with clever use of reverb deep down in the mix and a surreal off key sounding piano hook-line illusion to that of the original JA foundation hook. This piece also using that (now) old chestnut of the double tracked ghost bass effect in the mix.
Next up will please fans of the UK early 80s dancehall scene with the vocalised dub ‘Dubble Trouble’ begging to be “pulled up and come back again my selector” Saxon Sound System circa ’83 style, and very pleasing to the ears, good fun. We are pretty much trodding over well and truly tested ground, I guess this album needs to be heard in tandem with its vocal original to be appreciated fully, it is very entertaining and has a real nostalgic ambience to it for a certain genre in time most especially the piece entitled ‘Dub Capacitor’, which has a pure Scientist mixing vibe, a master of emulation.
Is it an underground classic? Well it’s certainly not boring, and of course the album will be supported by a handful of dub luminaries and commentators of today’s reggae music from both the underground and uptown scenes, overall an album rooted in the 1980s minimalist reverb heavy UK dancehall dub into Ragga scene. Possibly relying a tad too much on foundation riddims?.. Does it matter? It depends on what you want from your dub music today.
Various ‘No More Heartaches’/’What Am I To Do?’ (Doctor Bird) 4/5
‘Skinhead’ or ‘Boss’ reggae may be a surprising and unusual sub-genre for some and one that may strike trepidation into the hearts of others. That need not be the case because in the late 1960s and early 1970s a whole sub-culture of British youths aping Kingston ‘rude boy’ attitude and sartorial style grew, and these two compilations are testimony to the sounds that these youths worshipped at the time.
Listened to in retrospect, they are superb examples of early reggae under producer Harry Johnson, and logically follow on from the rocksteady era with the smoother harmonies and slower sound of the rhythm section. If ‘No More Heartaches’ is the stronger of the two, that is because some key 45s were included and, for this author’s money, contains one of the most compelling singles ever cut in ‘Cuss Cuss’ by Lloyd Robinson. What makes the song so enticing is that in its use of percussion, it is a prototype of roots reggae. Elsewhere, harmony group The Beltones offer up the stunning title track, while another favourite comes from Glen Adams with the gorgeous production of ‘Rich In Love (version one)’, and Adams crops up again on ‘Lucky Boy’ as part of Glen and Dave.
The second album features another great harmony group in The Jamaicans with ‘Early In The Morning’, a terrific interpretation, while the lesser known Keble Drummond offers up a killer groove in ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’. Instrumentals by the likes of King Cannon on both compilations adds some variety to the tropical mix.
As usual with Cherry Red, attention to detail is the name of the game on this wonderful double compilation, with full cover album sleeves, a plethora of various 45 labels of the singles and promotional posters for the then fledgling Trojan label. This is as much a social history of working class youths as it is a chronicle of early Jamaican reggae, with incisive and perceptive notes by author Marc Griffiths and Andy Lambourn, and that makes both the listening and reading experience all the more pleasurable.
Marcia Griffiths ‘Naturally’/’Steppin’ (Doctor Bird) 5/5
As if re-issuing some of the classic soul, funk and Brazilian grooves were not enough, Cherry Red have now started re-exploring the reggae archives and the great news for reggae fans is that they have unearthed two pairings of absolute classic from the early and roots eras.
If one could look to a parallel with Aretha Franklin in the world of soul music, then singer Marcia Griffiths would almost certainly be the ’empress of reggae’, and this wonderful duo of albums from the mid-1970s is an ample illustration of her vocal talents. For those not aware, Griffiths began her career at Studio One with Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd at the helm, and cut some memorable sides on 45. Her career well and truly took off when she paired up with Bob Andy and their professional and personal relationship intertwined with a major pop hit in, ‘Young, Gifted and Black’, with strings added on, and this was one of the earliest and finest examples of reggae crossing over to a mass audience in the UK. A next stage comprised forming an integral part of the I-Threes who became the backing vocalists to the Bob Marley band of the mid-late 1970s once both Pete Tosh and Bunny Wailer had left to pursue solo projects.
It is during this period that Marcia Griffiths returned to solo duties and cut as Sonia Pottinger’s studios the albums contained within. While some of the songs were updated versions of Studio One material, others were newly composed and, as a whole, they are definitive examples of roots reggae and, crucially, from a woman’s perspective. From the first album, ‘Naturally’, the message laden, ‘Survival’ is a stunning number, as is, ‘Mark My Word’. Throughout, the accompaniment is top of the draw with crisp drums and the lilting sound of the horns. If one song were to sum up Marcia Griffiths in this idiom, then it would have to be the Bunny Wailer penned, ‘Dreamland’. Anyone who has witnessed Marcia Griffiths live, and this author attended a marvellous concert as part of the Africa Oyé festival in Liverpool a few summers ago, then they will realise that the two albums here amount to a de facto greatest hits package, so loved are the individual songs. It is truly gratifying to finally see them together on one CD and some of the Black Echoes and Black Music reviews of the albums are included. An essential purchase.
Fred Hersch ‘Open Book’ CD/DIG (Palmetto) 5/5
In the sometimes seemingly overcrowded world of the contemporary jazz pianist, it must be difficult to make a lasting impression. I often think of Hersch as something of an unsung piano hero. He’s been ploughing a jazz furrow for many years. It’s only comparatively recently, however, that he seems to have carved his name in the jazz cannon with a number of accomplished releases. His favoured musical context is that of the conventional jazz trio or as a solo pianist, an area which seems to me particularly difficult to excel in. We can all think of any number of solo piano albums which fail to hold our attention throughout.
I think of Hersch as a cerebral player. But more often now we hear a more vulnerable Hersch, perhaps more concerned with the emotional side of music rather than being quite so introspective.
‘Open Book’ is the pianists eleventh solo album. Solo piano is an intimate task. The performer is exposed in a way that would not be the case in a trio context.
The opening piece ‘The Orb’ has an almost bitter-sweet element to it, especially when one learns that it comes from Hersch’s autobiographical music/theatre piece ‘My Coma Dreams’. This is tender and heart-felt music. The music here is reminiscent of fellow pianist John Taylor.
The pace picks up with Benny Golson’s tune ‘Whisper Not’ where the pianist has great fun deconstructing and reassembling the familiar theme. Indeed, he manages to avoid playing the tune until we reach the final minute of the piece. Great fun. The Jobim tune ‘Zingaro’ is next, starting with an introspective and considered introduction before the tune’s familiar theme hovers into view, but once again subtly re-caste by the pianist. Very delicate.
The albums’ tour-de-force is a nineteen minute-plus Hersch composition ‘Through the Forest’. This is at once intensely melodic and at times dramatic music. I questioned if such a piece would hold my attention but it certainly did. ‘Plainsong’ is next and is another pure delight.
Thelonious Monk’s ‘Eronel’ follows and after the near classical-sound of the previous piece, is much more light-hearted in its approach. The pianist soon dispenses with the tune and is off again on a wonderous flight of fancy. The album concludes somewhat unexpectedly with a simple yet majestic reading of Billy Joel’s ‘And So It Goes’. This, almost hymn-like in its approach. A performance which cleansed the pallet following the multifarious delights exhibited throughout the rest of the recording.
If you are a fan of contemporary jazz piano of the highest order you will need this in your collection.
Lord Echo ‘Harmonies’ 2LP/CD/DIG (Soundway) 4/5
23rd August 2017 ukvibe
We had ‘Melodies’ followed by ‘Curiosities’ and now, arriving at that well discussed situation that can be called ‘A trilogy’ a new album release by New Zealand resident, DJ and all-rounder musician Lord Echo with his latest offering ‘Harmonies’, a ten track straight from the soul experience.
As I have read somewhere before, “Lord Echo’s music imagines a world where Reggae, African soul and Latin rub their shoulders together” all true, it does exactly what it say’s on the tin.. however his music generates much more than this, it is an ‘ambiance formidable’ as the French would say, We have extremely well presented relishes available on this album such as very authentic sounding Lovers Rock – that wonderful old ‘named in London’ genre of reggae – we have also that original Jamaican genre known as Rock Steady circa ’67/’68 it has been 50 years since that genre of reggae hit the dancehalls and lawn party’s in JA and Lord Echo along with his entourage do a pretty good job at it with the piece “Note From Home” featuring fellow New Zealander Toby Laing from the ‘Fat Freddy’s Drop’ outfit. We have Soulful flutes and floating vocals, idiosyncratic jazz funk workout’s, indeed Lord Echo provides quite a decent musical backdrop to a cool dinner party, preferably in the garden just after dusk or that late Saturday afternoon vibe at home, the album on in the background nice and bassey whilst grooming one’s feathers ready for the Saturday evening meet up in clubland city.
Oh what the hell, you’re already in the pre club pub zone and quite a few people are commenting on the cool music coming through the speakers as track one delights ears, the album presents itself with “Whoa, There’s No Limit’, a harmonious downtown soul dipped instrumental piece featuring harmonies by golden voice Mara TK which is followed by a latin inspired lift up piece “Life On Earth” again featuring Mara – and as is the first few tracks – in semi instrumental mode, the scene is set, the ambience is on groove lockdown. This is not only a nice background album it is also an upfront album, a difficult feat to pull off, to cater for all, but the scene is set and we continue with third piece “The Sweetest Meditation” and with this we are in 1970s disco vibe ultra funk mode sounding a touch of Doobie Brothers style perfectly blended into the mix, I swear I can hear their distinctive vocal style and vintage ’74 phaser setting disco/funk keyboards in this piece, the riddim track kicks in rather much like DeeLite’s ‘Groove Is In The Heart’ with Mara TK riding the harmonies in full passion after which the melodies give way for a very Ozric Tentacles sounding club groove, a very interesting blend it has to be said. The fourth helping offered is called “Makossa No.3” a flute and saxophone (Lucien Johnson) led tight groover, a pure instrumental.
The same cool sound ambience yet a change of genre next for track 5 “Low To The Street” featuring Lisa Tomlins on vocals, here we have a nice piece of Lovers Rock circa ’78 in essence, featuring a very cool and laid back double length organ solo which plays out the last minute or so of the piece.
The album is running in now at around twenty three minutes of pleasure, the next ten minutes however feel a bit disjointed by contrast to the previous 5 tracks with both “In Your Life” and “Just Do You” – they being fine pieces as stand alone tunes – sound a tad out-of-place with what’s gone before, non the less we arrive back on track with 8th offering “C90 Eternal” a horn led idiosyncratic discoTech workout and again for some reason I am receiving an Ozric vibe.
The album finishes with two reggae inspired pieces; track 9 being the aforementioned nicely done Rock Steady number ‘Note From Home’ and finally another Lovers Rock inspired piece entitled “I Love Music” with Lisa Tomlins. We have ourselves here a multi genre laid back groove of an album, an album to appreciate ensemble, ‘Harmonies’ by Lord Echo has a smooth production and very vintage sounding instrumentation, the vocal and harmony work is outstanding, c’est une bonne ambiance.
Taj Mahal and Keb Mo ‘Tajmo’ (Concord) 4/5
22nd August 2017 ukvibe
Pairings of musicians sometimes can be contrived and label-led, but not in this case and this is some of the most soulful contemporary blues you are ever likely to hear. Taj Mahal appears to be entering a whole new creative phase in his career and one in which he is solely interested in creating the music he truly loves. Recorded in Nashville and co-produced by the duo, Taj Mahal and Keb Mo team up for a thrilling excursion through various blues sub-genres and showcase their versatility in the process. Delta blues given a thoroughly modern reworking opens up the album on the Stax-influenced, ‘Don’t leave me here’, and this proves to be one of Taj’s finest vocal performances on the entire album, with some stabbing horns to accompany. Likewise, Keb Mo impresses on the mid-tempo soul-blues of, ‘Ain’t nobody talkin’, and here the Hammond B3 licks of Phil Madeira work a treat. In fact, there is an all-star cast of guest musicians on board including singer Bonnie Raitt, percussionist Sheila E and singer Lizz Wright.
A personal favourite is the pan-Caribbean and extremely percussive, ‘Soul’, with elements of blues, funk and reggae, and the horn section straight out of 1970s Earth, Wind and Fire. Gloriously uplifting music. Lizz Wright plays a largely supportive role on the laid back, ‘Om sweet om’, while there is some genuine acoustic folk-blues on the rousing hues of, ‘She knows how to rock me’, with call and response vocals between the main two vocalists. Catchy hooks, tight instrumental performances and a fine pairing of contrasting vocals predominate. The lovely combination of six originals is augmented by some interesting covers, no more so than a zydeco meets the blues interpretation of Pete Townshend’s, ‘Squeeze box’, with a strong, propelling beat.
This may just be a contender for contemporary blues album of the year and, with a little help, it could reach a wider audience and certainly deserves to do so.
Various ‘Mad Mats Presents Digging Beyond The Crates’ 2LP/CD/DIG (BBE Music) 3/5
For over 20 years, London’s BBE has used the services of many DJs, producers and taste makers in compiling their large catalogue of specialist compilation albums. And for this set Swedish DJ Mad Mats hand-picks a variety of music styles and flavours from jazz, soul, house and electronica for quite a full-bodied release. For the uninitiated, Mats setup Raw Fusion Recordings in 2002, which was home to releases by Freddie Cruger, Simbad and Povo, in addition to the still productive G.A.M.M. label – home to a series of re-edits and remix releases including eternal DJ favourite Red Astaire’s ‘Follow Me’. More recently, Mat’s Local Talk label has been one of the few decent house labels around, even offering vinyl 12” pressings of their releases.
This 16-track compilation avoids the trendy approach of having very expensive and rare vintage records that many similar products deliver, but rather it focuses on lesser-known titles both old and new that may have slipped through the net, so to speak. These include Bobby Hebb (the original composer of ‘Sunny’) and ‘Evil Woman’, a brilliantly addictive jazz vocal 45 piece, Intimate Disco and ‘Animations’ with its library disco production style from the not often talked about Ebonite label. Psalms ‘Take A Stand’ is a boogie-ish gospel release from 1984, although it sounds much older, but its use of Moog synth bass rather than electric bass and recorded live drums is a nice touch for the era.
Other worthy mentions include Skatalite saxophonist Johnny Moore and the rock steady instrumental ‘Big Big Boss’. This has been a favourite on the reggae scene for a while and is a firm DJ staple. Yvonne Gray ‘Keep The Music Alive’ from 1975 is a tight funky soul piece from California, by the writer who crafted Lou Rawls popular ‘Lady Love’ in ’77. And as mentioned, ‘Digging Beyond The Crates’ also unusually adds newer electronic releases, such as bumpy house single Ossie ‘I Hurt Yoo’ with its Singers Unlimited via Slum Village ‘Claire’ sample, the Dilla influenced hip hop instrumental ‘Badly’ by German beat maker Cuthead from 2015 and BSTC ’Jazz In Outer Space’ a disco fused house 12” from 2006.
Compilation albums of this type are always a valuable inroad into music that the listener may not be aware of and although a couple of the straighter house inclusions are rather weak and wouldn’t have been missed if omitted, the others are relatively solid additions. I also particularly enjoyed Bill Laurance (the second most famous keyboard player in Snarky Puppy after Cory Henry) and ‘The Pines’ from his 2016 solo LP ‘Aftersun’. I just wish more compilers would move into a more contemporary focus when creating their compilations. New releases will some day be old. So overall this a quite a strong release, with even the cover art which offers a nod to the design of Ernie Hines 1972 album ‘Electrified’ being well thought of.
Various ‘Soul Of A Nation: Afro-Centric Visions In The Age Of Black Power Underground Jazz Street Funk & The Roots Of Rap 1968-79’ 2LP/CD/DIG (Soul Jazz) 5/5
This 13-track compilation showcases how the Civil Rights Movement and the developing black nationalism environment of the 1960s went on to directly influence music culture within jazz, soul and funk aesthetics. Drawing upon various political themes and messages, ‘Soul Of A Nation’ displays how crucial this period was for black musicians, which has since become an influence for many other contemporary artists.
Featured material include jazz footwork classic ‘Mother Of The Future’ by Carlos Garnet from 1974, a universal favourite for decades with this version featuring the vocals of Dee Dee Bridgewater, which I feel just edges the more popular Norman Connors and Jean Carn version. Written by Garnet himself and recorded six months earlier than Connor’s ‘Slew Foot’ album, is also a touch looser than the Connors’ rendition. Jean’s former husband Doug Carn is also included with ‘Suratal Ihklas’, a track not taken from his Black Jazz catalogue, but from his lesser known 1977 album ‘Al Rahman! Cry Of The Floridian Tropic Son’ (released under the name Abdul Rahim Ibrahim). This quite funky number has a somewhat Roy Ayers feel within its production.
Readers of UK Vibe will be very familiar with Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’, the funkiest poem of all time taken from his 1971 ‘Pieces Of A Man’ album. Interestingly, it features a stellar line-up including Bernard Purdie on drums, Ron Carter on bass and Hubert Laws on flute. Oneness of Juju’s ‘African Rhythms’ from their debut album of the same name in 1975 is also a very well known addition to the compilation, but maybe Soul Jazz could have included the rarer alternative 7” version, as the album mix has appeared previously on numerous other compilations. The other more well known titles include the Roy Ayers classic ‘Red, Black and Green’ and ‘Black Narcissus’ by tenor sax heavyweight Joe Henderson, taken from his very fertile 1970s period with Milestone Records, where he never made a poor record.
Sarah Webster Fabio, the poet, writer and educator is an essential inclusion to the set with probably her most famous track, ‘Sweet Songs’, which has Sarah undulating over a super funky breakbeat rhythm track. Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra’s ‘Desert Fairy Princess’ contains all the hallmarks of a perfect spiritual jazz standard; an infectious 11-minute groove with luscious horns and flute, recorded live in a LA church in 1979. This and other Tapscott releases are taken from the Nimbus West label who have recently repressed some of their excellent back catalogue. Another worthy discussion point is Duke Edwards and the Young Ones ‘Is It Too Late’. Edwards, a percussionist who was at one time a member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, but this his only solo project includes this quite remarkable 10 minute emotional account of Edwards discussing the failure of humankind.
Being a Soul Jazz release, this collection features a healthy mix of obscure and more known cuts, but there isn’t a poor track amongst this compilation. This has obviously been very well curated, and yes, there are many omissions that could have been included, but hopefully there will be additional volumes in the future. And it is worth noting that this release coincides with an art exhibition at the Tate Modern, London also called Soul Of A Nation, which runs until 22 October 2017 and features the work of artists during this dramatic but crucial period in American history.
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Eric Olek’s shop, Friday Knights, has a temporary home at 433 Graham Ave. as part of Centure Venture’s PUSH program.
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Olek created his clothing line to fill a gap in local streetwear companies.
The pop-up format allows Olek to see if his line is well suited for retail.
In 2010, Eric Olek was inspired to get involved with Winnipeg’s hip-hop and nightlife communities. The creation of his clothing line, Friday Knights Clothing, allowed him to do this.
“One day I figured if I started a clothing line, I could actually put out designs that interested me and fill a gap in the Winnipeg fashion market, as there weren’t many streetwear companies making moves at the time,” Olek says. “The name came to me while I was mopping floors at a convenience store on a Friday night, wishing I was pursuing a passion instead.”
Olek has now opened two pop-up shops, the first through the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ’s Launch It! - an incubator program to help young entrepreneurs acquire a temporary space to sell their products. That’s where he met and partnered with artist Josiah Koppanyi, owner of Josiah Galleries.
“(The first) pop-up shop opened in June of this year,” Olek says. “They had an old Warehouse One on Portage Avenue that was sitting empty and Friday Knights, along with Josiah Galleries, was selected to breathe some life into downtown.”
After the first pop-up shop closed, Olek applied for the second through Centre Venture’s PUSH program and invited Koppanyi to join him on a joint pop-up opening venture.
“The biggest thing I like about a pop-up shop is having a branded headquarters to call my own,” Olek says. “There is no long-term commitment, which allows us to review our marketing efforts and sales to see if we are suited to make a go of retail in the future.”
The challenge, Olek says, is devoting his time both to the fixed, physical space of a pop-up shop while sustaining efforts as a full-time entrepreneur. Despite this, Olek is already scoping out possible spaces for the next venture.
“I hope we can land another pop-up shop after this, while there aren’t any other city initiatives that we haven’t already tapped into, there are a lot of vacant spaces,” Olek says. “One day I hope to have a fixed location for Friday Knights in Winnipeg or whatever city I end up in.”
Alesha Frederickson, former independent business operator and clothing designer of March & August Underthings, compares the experience of running her business from home and through pop-up shops.
“There were many pros and cons to working at home - it’s the most inexpensive way. It can be great because it’s right there,” Frederickson says, “but it can also be very stressful to have your work always around you.”
Fredrickson’s opinion on pop-up shops is mixed. She says they allow local artists a space to come together, but it is also difficult for buyers to try on garments in such a busy environment, discouraging them from waiting to try on the products.
“It was so amazing to meet people face to face, and for new people to see the product,” Frederickson says. “It really does cut into how much the makers earn on those days, and some people can’t justify the price of renting space with the price of the items they sell (but) it’s a hard balance to achieve.”
Friday Knights is collecting goods for Winnipeg Harvest in store at 433 Graham Ave. until Dec. 5 and will give 15 per cent off a purchase with a donation.
Published in Volume 71, Number 12 of The Uniter (November 24, 2016)
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Stuff I'm Working On
Advanced 3D modeling and sculpting.
Creating and maintaining Shader Library systems for visualization production pipelines.
Technical rigging and animation using 3D animation software.
Capable of providing direction for pipeline efficiency.
Encourages a creative and design-centered focus.
Expertise in both real-time and
pre-render software.
3D Modeling and Animation
Expert understanding of real-time game engines and their technical frameworks. E.g. Unity and Unreal
Realistic lighting and rendering for 3D scenes
Complex shader authoring
Primary Software
Modo, Maya, 3dsMax, ZBrush, Photoshop, Substance Designer & Painter, Quixel Suite, Photoshop, the Unreal Engine and the Unity Engine.
Visualization Designer, TEAGUE June 2018 to Present
Developed production pipeline for Physically Based Rendering assets for cross-use in both real-time and pre-rendered scenes, integrated the Substance suite. (Designer, Painter, and Alchemist)
Constructed entire library of shaders for real-time with Unity for use in photo-realistic environments, as well as shader and material support for specially built tools for quick design presentation and iteration.
Wrote code for Unity and Modo (C# and Python) and helped develop tools which aided in production automation and improving performance in real-time scenes with Unity.
Modeled and managed full environments in Unity for Virtual Reality with a focus on photo-realistic lighting and materials.
Participated in project pitch development to establish design, narrative, creative ideation, and content production management for delivered work for clients.
3D Artist, Microsoft (Turn 10 Studios, Forza) January 2012 to September 2017
Worked on 8 AAA Xbox titles and 2 PC titles, and continued to support those titles with development on Downloadable Content (DLC).
Modeled assets car production, created materials and texture assets, matched all assets to photo-realistic reference, rigged and animated cars for cinematics and gameplay mechanics, animated driver characters.
Developed techniques and tools to help speed up the flow of art production.
Software: Modo, 3dsmax, Deadline, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, ZBrush, Maya, Unity, Unreal, Photoshop, Quixel, PiXYZ, Perforce
Programming Languages: Python, C#
2009-2010: Vancouver Film School - 3D Animation and Visual Effects Graduate
Visual storytelling, narrative structure, shot composition
3D modeling, sculpting, life drawing
3D and 2D Character Animation
VFX Shot Composition
A Little Bit About Myself
My name is Alex Jamerson, born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States of America. Growing up with a fascination with film and video games, I became obsessed with learning how these products are made. This led me to attend and graduate from reputable Vancouver Film School in 2010, and afterward, landing a job at Microsoft working on the Forza Motorsport franchise for Xbox and Windows PC which got me started on my path of professional creativity and design.
My love of storytelling and technical development ended up leading me toward a new obsession with industrial design. Much of my spare time is spent sketching products like gaming peripherals, speakers, motorcycles and more, which usually lead to creating fully featured and real-world applicable products in 2D and 3D renderings.
I have over 5 years of experience in the video game industry as a 3D artist, and I have helped ship 6 AAA Xbox And Windows titles.
Alex Jamerson
Designer and Artist
Contact@alexjamerson.com
What I'm currently reading:
The Design of Everyday Things
Leonardo Da Vinci (Walter Isaacson)
Syd Mead: A Future Remembered
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