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Madonna News Archives for July 2005
Rumour : Documentory to premiere on TV ?
For a variety of reasons, Madonna’s documentary feature did not go to the Cannes Film Festival, and it has become clear that it’s not going to be screening at the Venice cinema jamboree either.
So where will it get shown? Um, television.
The singer and her many associates have decided, or rather been advised, that the film – which is a behind-the-scenes and in-front- of-the-scenes look at her last tour – would work better on the small screen.
At one point, the Cannes czars were going to give Madonna a place on the jury and show the documentary as a work in progress.
Cannes festival boss Thierry Fremaux told me he had seen three hours’ worth of footage but, in his view, “it wasn’t ready”.
Others have seen more footage, and it appears that wasn’t ready, either.
Documentaries about artists’ exploration of their work often come across better on the box than on the big screen.
One tends to want to doze at the cinema, whereas at home one can hit the pause button while pouring a glass of cranberry juice to stay awake.
One wag commented last night: “What’s happened to Madge? Is she too busy feeding her chickens to sort this thing out?”
Some films that will be at the Venice Film festival include Proof, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Casanova, with Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller.
Sienna is hoping to attend the festival for Casanova’s world premiere screening on September 3, but first she will have to work out whether it would be feasible to miss a performance of As You Like It, which is running at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.
While I’m on the Sienna topic, it’s worth remembering that Jude Law is one of the few actors in this country whose work has been honoured with Oscar nominations.
And by the way, the producers of Casanova want to know if they are booking a suite in Venice for one, or two.
source : dailymail
The Sexiest Music Videos – Justify My Love at #6
Christina Aguilera’s Dirrty has clinched the title of sexiest music video.
Eric Prydz’s Call On Me, which featured a women’s aerobics work-out, came second behind Aguilera, whose video was set in a boxing ring.
Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, which stars scantily-clad women clutching power tools, was third.
Nerd’s Lapdance was fourth, followed by tATu’s All the Things She Said, famous for its lesbian clinch in pouring rain.
Madonna’s erotic black-and-white video Justify My Love came sixth, followed by Kylie Minogue’s Spinning Around, in the online poll for FHM Music TV.
Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker – which features a girl-on-girl fight – was eighth, followed by Britney Spears’s Toxic, and Narcotic Thrust’s I Like It.
FHM Music TV spokeswoman Vikki Timmons said of the winning video: “David LaChapelle created this erotic masterpiece in a sweaty boxing ring.
“Dirrty oozes sex appeal from start to finish. Christina is one of the sexiest women in music.
“It was a tough decision for the public to make but I think few would dispute the winner.”
FHM Music TV is presenting the Top 100 Sexiest Music Videos of all time on Channel Q, co-hosted by Myleene Klass and ex-England footballer Lee Sharpe. More than 150,000 votes were cast in the online poll.
source : launch
Liz Rosenberg on album rumours
Don’t believe those reports that Madonna is teaming up with Christina Aguilera. “Christina is working on an album in the [same] building [as Madonna] but they have not seen each other,” – Madonna’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, tells The Scoop. She went on to debunk another rumor. “Gwen Stefani is not guesting on the record either. It’s all Madonna, all the time ” a total dance record called ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor.’ No ballads, no messages. Her fans will go insane when they hear it. It’s back to Madonna the queen of the dance floor.”?
Madonna is “Hung Up”
Madonna has announced details of the first release from her new album, “Confessions On A Dancefloor”.
The comeback single will be “Hung Up”, which has been produced by Stuart Price, aka Jacques Lu Cont, reports madonna.com. An autumn release is expected.
Lu Cont is understood to have produced “Confessions On A Dancefloor”, Madonna’s first new album since 2003’s “American Life”. The album is apparently currently being mixed in Los Angeles.
According to reports, Madonna will shoot the album cover next month with Steven Klein, who is also expected to direct the video for “Hung Up”.
Producer Lu Cont was the musical director for Madonna’s “Re-Invention Tour” last year and also co-wrote the track “X-Static Process” from “American Life”.
source : launch.com
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Madonna.com : Album and Single Confirmed
Madonna.com is happy to announce the name of the first single off of the new album is called Hung Up (produced by Stuart Price). The album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, will be released this fall. Stay logged in to Madonna.com for more exciting album news!
That’s no lady, that’s Madonna
Madonna is the new Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, albeit more To the Manor Bought than Penelope Keith’s dowager. She has been shot in jodhpurs (only with a camera, not a 12-bore) enjoying British aristo pleasures and wafting grain around the lawn of her Wiltshire pile wearing a catwalk gown.
Her transformation from one who played the pop ho to one who might bank at Hoares is complete. So if I were her husband I’d be very nervous. Guy Ritchie might have anticipated retirement as a squire as his film career nears the end of its reel, but how long before the old girl wearies of green wellies? The chanteuse has talent, above all, for reinvention; the material girl is a mercurial woman. When she masters one look, she is soon shopping for the next. By the time toffs pile round for the start of the pheasant season she may even have adopted peasant chic ” as long as it keeps her in the manner to which she has become so very accustomed.
source : timesonline.co.uk
“Like A Duchess” – Vogue Article
“Who would have thunk it?” says Madonna with a laugh. “The last thing I thought I would do is marry some laddish, shooting, pubgoing nature lover”and the last thing he thought he was going to do was marry some cheeky girl from the Midwest who doesn’t take no for an answer!”
Speaking in carefully modulated tones, dressed with faux-bourgeois sobriety (this afternoon in Issa’s prim satin blouse with a print of flying ducks, black Kate Hepburn pants, and Marc Jacobs teal lizard shoes), a flotilla of charming, noiseless assistants close at hand and a courtly husband making polite but distracted small talk, she has the air of an Edwardian dollar princess”the moneyed American belles who were married off to impecunious British nobles in the golden age”and the fragile beauty and substantial real estate to match. But no one understands metamorphosis better than Madonna; she even named her 2004 tour “Re-Invention.” That tour is the subject of Madonna’s documentary I’m Going to Tell You a Secret, directed by Jonas A
kerlund and to be released later this year. In some ways the new movie is a pendant to 1991’s Truth or Dare, which a mellower Madonna now admits “in some ways is hard for me to watch. I was a very selfish person. You go through periods of your life where the world does revolve around you, but you can’t live your whole life that way. On the other hand, I kind of admire my spunk and directness!”
Click here for the full article.
Rumour : Madonna to produce a movie about Dusty Springfield
Madonna and her quest for movie success continues at a fast pace… but she is now planning to hit the screen as a producer. While she may have been the undisputed star of the recent Live 8 show in London, as far as movies are concerned, Madonna’s star doesn’t shine so bright.
But she plans to rectify this by making a big-screen version of the life of Sixties singing legend Dusty Springfield – who scored worldwide success with tracks like I Only Want To Be With You. Madonna told my mole: “In order to work at the level I want in movies, I have to create my own vehicles. This is a story I can relate to well.”
Not only will she produce the movie, but she’s also hinted that she will take a small role… that of Dusty’s manager. Fans of Musical Madonna, take note that her new album – provisionally called Confessions Of A Dance Floor – will be out towards the end of October this year.
source : sky.com/madonna.nu
When it’s too late for lusty, a rock chick can be formidable
Summertime, and the living is easy . . . so naturally American Vogue prints a photo-shoot of the English countryside, showing how the cream of English society disports itself during our brief but ravishing belle saison.
Now, who is this patrician figure, clad in buttermilk chiffon and cashmere, her wheat-blonde hair curled into immaculate waves, laughingly enacting a Petit Trianon charade of feeding her flock of happy hens from a dainty porcelain bowl, while in the background there looms the rose brick frontage of some small but perfectly formed English country house?
Here she is again, on horseback this time, dressed in hacking jacket, breeches and a slightly peculiar pair of boots. Last and prettiest of all is the set piece with evening dress and small children. A flowing silk skirt, the creamy smile of a woman who knows that she has fulfilled her destiny in every possible way, and two angelic moppets, a little girl in fairy frills, a small boy in chain mail, brandishing a sword as big as himself.
So go on, who is she, the girl in the pictures? Matriarch, countrywoman, grande dame. I give you one guess. The hens are the clinching detail. It’s the Duchess of Devonshire, isn’t it? Archive pictures from the Thirties, showing her at the height of her beauty. Odd about wearing chiffon to feed the poultry, but that’s eccentric Brits for you, right?
Wrong. The rose-and-blonde aristo, posing so charmingly with hens, hunter and lovely home is, in fact, none other than the Material Girl herself — Madonna, fetchingly got up for the photographer from American Vogue as Our Lady of the Manor. Fancy that!
Not, it is true, that Madonna’s latest incarnation comes as a total surprise. Between her dizzying variety of personae — the nasty-mouthed dominatrix in spiky fetish gear, the studious seeker after Kabbalistic knowledge, the sweet, Prada-clad librarian of her book launches — Madonna has been offering for some time periodic glimpses of herself in tweeds and wellies as the Country Wife.
Still, isn’t it a trifle rum that she chooses to offer up this vision of herself as an English gentlewoman at a time when the English gentry has never been more unfashionable or more energetically reviled? Do you think she’s losing the keen edge that has kept her ahead of the game for so long? Well, no, of course she isn’t. In fact, I think what she has done is to take a long, keen-eyed look into the future to see what awaits her there, and come up with a wonderfully pragmatic solution.
I’m always amazed when I read the things that fat, ugly, balding male journalists allow themselves to write about Madonna, their fabulously well preserved contemporary. “Menopausal” and “the old girl”, were a couple of the milder descriptions that appeared after her performance at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park. Yeah, right, Mr Love God, and just look at you, I always think, on reading the painfully misogynistic prose of these barrel-shaped boobies.
However, I suspect that the secret of the Madonna phenomenon is a certain restlessness which ensures that she doesn’t sit around fulminating about patronising press but is instinctively always moving on to the next thing, and the next, and the one after that. The trouble is that, at 46, you begin to run out of next things.
However fabulously well preserved, an intelligent woman (and Madonna is certainly that) knows that there is no mileage after a certain point in pretending to be luscious. The result is simply sinister, as a brief tour d’horizon of Botoxed and desperate former beauties will confirm. So, what’s the alternative?
In the States there is no alternative. Unless you’re Barbara Bush, you just carry on getting thinner and thinner, more and more wide-eyed, sadder and madder, until you vanish altogether. You’d think Madonna might have been able to thrive in France, where allure is reckoned to be ageless, but the French are so intolerant of eccentricity (and their music scene is so peculiar). Besides, she’s married to an Englishman.
So, what have the Brits to offer a 46-year-old rock star — apart from an unpleasant claque of paunchy, sex-starved male journalists? Actually, more than you’d imagine. One always thinks of Latin nations as being supremely matriarchal, but in Britain we entertain a long and robust tradition of pale, willowy beauties who deal with the transition from flower-like nymph to middle age and older by becoming Formidable.
Even luckier for Madonna, our version of Formidable comes in an assortment of incarnations. There is Rock Chick Formidable, as modelled by Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull and Jane Birkin, all of whom are quite as much adored now — wrinkles, shattering life experiences and all — as they were in their dewy prime.
But if Madonna is too grand for that slightly down-at-heel form of celebrity, luckily we do a fabulous line in straight-up Dowager Formidable, which might suit her down to the ground. Consider the picture of the 50-year-old Queen Mary, or (to bring the matter up to date) Lady Annabel Goldsmith. Observe the wonderful posture, the ineradicable self-belief, the immense quantities of diamonds (or glitter of some sort, at any rate), and tell me if you don’t see there the very pattern of the Material Girl in later life.
Looking again at those Vogue pictures, I think Madonna has made a clever choice. At 46 she is still pretty enough to conceal the power behind the charm. Catch her again in 30 years’ time and she’ll have turned into one of P. G. Wodehouse’s aunts. Rock chick, bellowing to rock chick, like mastodons across the primeval swamp.
Rumour : “Hung Up” the first single from Confessions on a Dancefloor
from MadonnaTribe : MadonnaTribe has heard some fresh and exclusive news about Madonna’s upcoming album.
The Queen of Pop is currently in Los Angeles mixing her album with Stuart Price and the first single to be released from the new album is called “Hung Up”. In mid-August Madonna will shoot the album cover in the UK with Steven Klein who will also direct her new video, also shot in August and also in the UK.
from DrownedMadonna : As DrownedMadonna revealed some weeks ago, Madonna and Stuart Price are currently mixing her new album in Los Angeles. We have been told that one of the possible songs to be chosen as first single is called “Hung Up”.
Chris Martin plays for Madonna
Chris Martin played a song for Madonna with his wife Gwyneth Paltrow at a recent party in the English countryside, according to reports.
The Coldplay singer and American movie star were invited to a party hosted by the Queen Of Pop at her home at Ashcombe Manor, in Tollard Royal on the Wiltshire-Dorset border.
Madonna has revealed in an interview with Vogue magazine that all the guests were asked to contribute a song, poem or piece of acting, leading to Martin and Paltrow’s song.
Apparently they were joined by Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella in a rendition of “American Wife”, a reworking of Madonna’s “American Life”.
Madonna said the party was to mark her fourth wedding anniversary. She explained: “Gwyneth did a fantastic rap and Stella sang background vocals and, well, Chris played the piano.”
Elsewhere at the showbiz knees-up, Sting reportedly played a lute, while Madonna herself performed a scene from the play “The Town Wench Or Chastity Rewarded”.
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The Trump campaign is growing more concerned about Elizabeth Warren
a new old threat
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One might recall President Trump declaring in an April speech that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020 presidential candidate, was "finished." Now, though, Trump's re-election campaign team considers Warren a legitimate threat and is reportedly ready to make her a target, Politico reports, based on conversations with multiple Trump advisers.
Trump aides and their allies at the Republican National Committee are reportedly digging up opposition research and deploying camera-wielding trackers in the hopes of halting Warren's momentum. They also reportedly plan to label her a "liberal extremist." Trump's advisers are reportedly concerned by Warren's disciplined style mixed with "populist-infused" speeches and her potential ability to win over suburban female voters.
The change in tune doesn't mean the Trump campaign won't continue to focus its energy on the current frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, as well, Politico reports; but they're just less certain he'll face off against the president in the general election now.
Warren's prospects looked rough out of the gate, but the senator has polled well recently and has even surpassed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), long considered Biden's top challenger, in some of the latest tallies. Tim O'Donnell
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A Window into the Future: A WINDOW...
A Window into the Future: A WINDOW OPENS by Elisabeth Egan
By Ronnie Alvarado
One of my favorite daydreams consists of picturing my future self. These reveries usually feature the same idealized-yet-somewhat-attainable portrait: Me as a 40-year-old high-powered book editor, living a comfortable life in the suburbs with a financially successful spouse, three kids and a dog. I have great friends, a strong relationship with both my parents, and manage to read a new book every week. It’s a portrait of my life that meets every criteria of success that I have ever had for myself, an idealized picture that I fully think would make me quite satisfied.
So when I began reading Glamour editor Elisabeth Egan’s debut novel A WINDOW OPENS**, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the protagonist, Alice Pearse, was living the exact future that I’d always dreamed of: a middle-aged book worm making a home in the suburbs with her loving husband and kids; a strong woman who was successful in all aspects of her life. I was enthralled --- this was the smart and indulgent read that I’d been craving. But as the narrative slowly unfolded, it became quite evident that Alice’s life was not the literary fairy tale that it appeared. Yet this bubble-bursting realization didn’t stop me from loving A WINDOW OPENS any less; if anything, it made me love to the novel even more.
When A WINDOW OPENS begins, Alice Pearse is truly living the proverbial dream life. Working part-time as books editor at the women’s magazine You (Glamour’s fictional equivalent), Alice is able to spend her days divided by reading, writing book recommendations, driving her eldest child to swim practice, and organizing bake sales. But when her husband, Nicholas, quits his high-powered, lucrative junior partnership at a law firm, Alice must return to working full-time, assuming the role of her family’s primary breadwinner. In true fairy tale fashion, Alice uses her incredible publishing connections to find an amazing job almost immediately. The position is with Scroll, a new bookselling venture that provides a luxury book-buying experience, complete with complimentary scones and first editions of Dickens and Twain available for purchase. Alice’s role is specifically to read widely and then recommend books that Scroll can add to its inventory. Talk about a dream job. But when Alice’s job begins to consume her life, her harmonious family life disintegrates around her, and she quickly learns that the real world isn’t the stuff of fairy tales.
A WINDOW OPENS is by no means a masterpiece. Propelled by the day-to-day life of a suburban middle-aged woman, the novel can easily be classified as highbrow chick-lit and most definitely won’t be compelling to readers who are not fanatical about books. Its conflicts are predictable, but that doesn’t diminish the pleasure that a 20something bookworm can experience while reading it. A WINDOW OPENS is filled with the little references to great books that any devotee of literature loves to indulge in. For example, when describing the audience of a debut author reading, Alice observes them, and herself for that matter, through the following literary lens: “The cozy upstairs room was already abuzz with intelligent-looking people who looked like they’ve been born in a John Cheever story, educated in a Donna Tartt novel, and now lived the full Jonathan Safran Foer life --- or so said their tote bags, touting food co-ops and imperiled far-flung outposts of the New York Public Library.”
This description is exactly how I had always imagined my future self and my imaginary colleagues. (Although my education was definitely more along the lines of PREP meets THE MARRIAGE PLOT, and I’m definitely in the Nicole Krauss camp.) It is the little descriptions and side comments specifically referencing books --- a rant extolling the merits of Virginia Woolf; a magnet on Alice’s fridge asking WWHD, or What Would Hamlet Do --- that make A WINDOW OPENS a must-read for bookwormish 20somethings looking for their next non-guilty pleasure.
Spending 300 plus pages with Alice Pearse in A WINDOW OPENS was a literary experience that I soon won’t forget. Journeying with her through failures and triumphs has only made me even surer of the type of woman that I want to be in 15 years. Smart, strong, compassionate and well read, Alice Pearse is the perfect role model for every young woman who, like me, thought that Bridget Jones was too obsessed with her boy problems, or has grown out of identifying with Matilda.
**A WINDOW OPENS will be available at a bookstore near you Tuesday, August 25th.
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September's Books on Screen roundup includes the feature films Unbroken: Path to Redemption, Bel Canto and Little Women; the series premieres of "The Miniaturist" on Amazon Prime Video and "You" on Lifetime, along with the season two finale of USA's "The Sinner"; and the DVD releases of Adrift and The Seagull.
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The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
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Adventures In Selling Experimental Video Art: An Interview With Undervolt & Co.
by Marina Galperina on November 25, 2014 Newswire
Single: Johnny Woods, Breakaway
About a year ago, artists Yoshi Sodeoka, Johnny Woods and Nicholas O’Brien launched Undervolt & Co., a video label like no other. They began to distribute collections of experimental video artworks created for their label, giving artists an alternative to the existing binary of models—dumping their work online for free or dreaming of that illusive, baller limited edition gallery sale. Their model offers their work to the public as low-priced downloads of well-curated, original, high-quality “albums” or video bundles, 20 to 60 minutes in length.
From a playlist of pulsating psychedelic geometry set to symphonic feedback to glitchy nightmares from Baltimore, the bodies of work represented by Undervolt & Co. are varied and fresh, each artwork’s visual and audio components intertwined.
Undervolt & Co. set out to fill a void in experimental video art representation with the help of the internet and a hope to someday grow into “a significant video archival institution.” They saw their dually experimental efforts actualized on and off line.
Art F City recently caught up with Johnny Woods and turns out they’re still not really sure what they’re doing, but it seems to be working out pretty well.
Why did you conceive Undervolt?
Originally, the idea was to create a format for longer experimental video works or collections of work. These tend not to work so well with streaming sites. We also wanted to find a way to add value to these more substantial projects, which we refer to as “albums”. They are typically 20-60 minutes in length. If this were ten years ago, we would just be releasing DVDs, but in the relative demise of that format we felt we needed something else to help disseminate these more substantive works.
How many releases have you done now that it’s been almost a year since your launch?
We currently have ten album titles available. In addition to the albums, we’ve started releasing “singles” which are shorter, individual videos that don’t necessarily fit into a larger body of work and can be a nice introduction to some of the artists we plan to do albums with in the future.
Single: Adam Ferriss, Moss Merseles’ Melodie. Working entirely with code, Adam Ferriss constructs surprisingly organic digital worlds. Building upon his webGL experiments and spectacular still images, Moss Merseles’ Melodie takes the viewer on a ride through cascading feedback.
What have you learned about digital and video art distribution through this experience?
I think the biggest thing I’ve learned is that nobody really knows how any of it works yet! We try different things and see if they work. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, but we are very open to the fact that we do not know how distribution will work in our post-internet age. It’s exciting to see what people are trying, and taking little bits from different strategies to see if they work for us.
How do you curate your roster? What sort of work do you represent as far as its sensibilities, forms and unique qualities?
Our number one criteria is work that shows commitment. Part of our mission is to create an archive of work that can last, and we like to encourage our artists to take their time and make something substantive. For better or worse, the nature of the internet forces a sort of disposable way of thinking: artists feel pressured to keep their Tumblrs and Vimeos full of content. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, but we are trying to find a space on the internet for another way of thinking about content. I guess the most important thing for us is that the artist has the focus and practice to create such a work.
Album (trailer): Peter Burr’s SPECIAL EFFECT explores “The Zone”, a space from Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, in which our rules of physics are suspended. This environment is traversed through a hypnotizing blend of live action and various animation styles.
I think a lot of our artists are pretty different. We have some releases that use found footage, some that are completely abstract, some using CGI and other animation forms, some that have a narrative structure, and some that are completely free-form. We do look for a strong audio-visual connection, however.
Where have these pieces ended up offsite?
One of the biggest surprises this first year was seeing how important events and screenings could be for the label. I don’t think we were really expecting that to be as successful as it has been. Just in the last year we have done events in Croatia, Portugal, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Portland, San Francisco, and Baltimore. In Pittsburgh, we were asked to be a part of the VIA Festival, which was especially wonderful since they were able to bring a number of our artists out to do live performances. Those artists had never met before, and it was a really amazing experience. At the end of the day, we are trying to help promote our artists and encourage their practice, so these sort of events are just wonderful to be a part of.
Album track: Sabrina Ratté, Littoral Zones. One of four videos in the collection which explore the visual and sonic relationship between modular synthesis and simulated space.
What are you planning next?
We have a couple big things coming up, but unfortunately I can’t talk about them quite yet. I can generally say that we will have probably between 7-10 album releases in 2015, a lot of events, and more releases with physical elements. [Undervolt will be screening experimental videos from their artist in the First Look 2015 film series at the Moving Image Museum.]
For Sabrina Ratté’s album [the last album Undervolt released], we had a limited edition poster option that people really enjoyed, and that was our first time doing something like that. Generally speaking, we are very content to take our time and let things evolve organically. We learned a lot in this last year, and will continue to do so as we move forward.
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Nikki Bella Surprises Fiance John Cena and Takes Him to Prom...
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Nikki Bella gave her fiancé John Cena the sweetest surprise on Friday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Cena was on the show promoting his new film Blockers, about a group of kids who decide to lose their virginity on prom night and their parents who try to stop that from happening.
When host DeGeneres asked Cena about his own prom, he admitted he’d never been, saying he was “dead broke” and chose the night to earn some money instead of attending the traditional dance.
To rectify this loss, the 34-year-old Total Bellas star was hiding backstage and DeGeneres put on a prom redo for Cena, 40, with his future bride as his date.
“I hate surprises but I love this one!” Cena declared, rushing over to Bella to give her a sweet kiss.
The couple ended up being king and queen of the prom, taking several cheesy photos and slow dancing a foot apart while laughing with one another.
“We can’t dance like this at our wedding!” Bella insisted.
Earlier in the episode, Cena opened up about proposing to Bella during WrestleMania.
“I was super nervous, but I was definitely ready to ask her and that’s a big change of opinion for me. It took me a long time to get to that point, five years,” he admitted.
Cena noted that his nerves were mostly centered around the fact that he didn’t know how the enthusiastic WrestleMania audience would react.
“Sometimes they control the program,” he said. “So I didn’t want 75,000 people to stand up and go, ‘No, no, no!’ Because as performers we often get up in the moment and I didn’t want her to look around and [see that].”
Thankfully it all worked out and the couple is in the process of planning their big day.
“We are both planning that and by that I mean I say ‘OK’ to things she asks,” Cena quipped.
He also noted that while he has some nudity in his new film Blockers and has previously been nude in the comedy Trainwreck, Cena has to get the OK from Bella first.
“I do now,” he joked of asking Bella’s permission, adding, “because for the Trainwreck one I did not. I was like, ‘Ah, it’ll be fine!’ I was wrong. So that was a problem and that ended up being a tough discussion and now we review all the material that is thrown in my direction and we come to the conclusion that it will be OK.
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Ready to smackdown! Wrestler Nikki Bella shows off muscular ...
She hasn’t missed a beat in her transition from the ring to the ballroom.
And the hard work continued Sunday as WWE diva Nikki Bella, 33, was seen headed to practice for the fifth week of Dancing With The Stars with her professional partner Artem Chigvintsev, 35.
The gorgeous grappler looked to be in phenomenal shape ahead of Monday’s outing, as she wore a tight black unitard that showcased her ample bust and toned arms, as well as white Adidas sneakers.
She was a barefaced beauty with minimal makeup with her black locks parted and pulled into a ponytail as she made her way to practice toting a swanky red purse and a plastic bag full of other accessories. Chigvintsev, a native of Russia, kept it casual with a blue T-shirt, jeans and navy blue Adidas sneakers, chomping on an apple ahead of rehearsal.
The theme for Monday’s episode will be Disney Night, as the remaining nine couples will take to the dance floor to perform to the tune of Disney songs past, present and future.
The beauty is looking forward to her routine, as she’s slated to perform a Jazz dance to Remember Me from the upcoming Pixar film Coco, which is slated to hit theaters next month.
The 5ft6 entertainer, who’s engaged to pro wrestling mainstay John Cena, took to Instagram over the weekend to give her fans a glimpse of what to expect on Monday, as she took in a private screening of Coco with Chigvintsev, giving the animated film a rave review.
‘It was SO cute! The story, the music, the animation! I just loved it!’ she said, noting that she noticed that Chigvintsev was crying while taking in the movie. ‘Sorry Artem I had to share! It was adorable lol.’ On Sunday, she posted a shot from rehearsals for the show, saying she was ‘beyond excited’ to take the floor, ‘and couldn’t be happier than dancing to’ the number from the upcoming film.
The other pairings in the running this season include: Vanessa Lachey and Maks Chmerkovskiy; Terrell Owens and Cheryl Burke; Victoria Arlen and Val Chmerkovskiy; Drew Scott and Emma Slater; Nick Lachey and Peta Murgatroyd; Sasha Pieterse and Gleb Savchenko; Lindsey Stirling and Mark Ballas; Jordan Fisher and Lindsay Arnold; and Frankie Muniz and Witney Carson.
Dancing With The Stars airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.
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Ward: St. Ishmael's
In the latest Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) this area was ranked 1,019 out of 1,909 in Wales, where 1 was the most deprived and 1,909 the least.
This is broken down further by income; employment; health; education, barriers to services; housing; living environment; and community safety.
Overall: 53% Better than 53% of areas in Wales
Income Deprivation: 76% Better than 76% of areas in Wales
Employment: 75% Better than 75% of areas in Wales
Health: 82% Better than 82% of areas in Wales
Education: 62% Better than 62% of areas in Wales
Barriers to Services: 0% Better than 0% of areas in Wales
0% Complete (poor)
Housing: 44% Better than 44% of areas in Wales
Living Environment: 49% Better than 49% of areas in Wales
Community Safety: 81% Better than 81% of areas in Wales
Full details of the Index of Deprivation are available from the Wales Government Website: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2014.
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Home News Ranjan claims MS accused MR over murder incident
Ranjan claims MS accused MR over murder incident
June 4, 2015 - 16:03
President Maithripala Sirisena accused former President Mahinda Rajapaksa of being involved in a murder incident in Hambantota some 20 years ago, a Deputy Minister claimed.
Deputy Minister of Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Development Ranjan Ramanayake said that President Sirisena had personally told him that Rajapaksa was a suspect over the murder incident.
“President Sirisena was a witness to that incident,” Ramanayake claimed.
Ramanayake said that this was one of the reasons why the President did not want Rajapaksa to be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
“He was in jail but was later freed with the assistance of UNP member John Amaratunga,” Ramanayake told a local radio station today.
Ramanayake said that anyone who has doubts over what he is saying can directly ask President Sirisena if the story is true.
“I asked the President if I can reveal this to the media and he said yes,” Ramanayake added.
According to Ramanayake the President has said that everyone in Hambantota and even senior UNP members are aware of the allegation against Rajapaksa.
Ramanayake said that if the families of the victims come forward the case against Rajapaksa can be brought back into the open.
He also noted that the new Government has launched investigations into several cases which had been closed by the former Government and if required even the case against Rajapaksa will be investigated. (Colombo Gazette)
http://colombogazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AAAA-RANJAN-.mp3
Nimal June 5, 2015 - 18:07 at 18:07
Killing anyone in the island should be investigated and punished and no one is above the law.
Concerned Citizen June 5, 2015 - 11:21 at 11:21
Are we going to revisit the Batalanda killings during the time the UNP was governing? Since some of those leaders are still in active politics, this might be a good idea to clear some questions.
freddy June 5, 2015 - 09:37 at 09:37
Wow very timely lie you brought this up with the consent of another liar MY3. lies abetting lies.Idiots the country is down the drain and people are fighting for survival and you all cannot solve this major problem,expecting to eat your lies to survive. you people should not be in Parliament.Period.
dil June 5, 2015 - 07:44 at 07:44
It’s a pity Rajapakshe saved this country! Shouldve let it rot like all the previous leaders did! Sad to see the current President is being made a puppet by good for nothing scum bags like this guy who haven’t got a political future for any good he has for the people and only act of survival is to open the rusty mouth and say whatever he feels! People need to make a decision in the next election and it’s very important for our country’s future!
wasalaya June 5, 2015 - 05:01 at 05:01
Ranja, you forgot to say about thousands of killing by the UNP and some young men were burnt alive with tyres around the head. You very silent about this??
Lion June 5, 2015 - 04:39 at 04:39
People like John Amarathunga is also as bad as MR. One day they will have to answer these crime committed by them,
Perakum June 5, 2015 - 04:25 at 04:25
Mr, Ranjan, We have lots of files to send you to consider, How about Batalanda case? Everybody knows about background of both sides of politicians. However Mr. Rajapaksa save the country to live you, me and everyone. Majority people still like him. I don’t think that you can change people’s thoughts about former president. Don’t be a “Wandibattakaya” in politics. What ever you say and done can be used against you in court in the future. We don’t want to hear anyone’s past. Country needs to move forward. Please be a gentleman in politics and do some good things sake of the citizens.
Jaya June 5, 2015 - 03:27 at 03:27
All this talk about non-bending head is a joke.
Rajapakse offering LTTE sea planes: http://www.thesundayleader.lk/archive/20060507/politics.htm
The 48hr cease fire was an example of bending head:
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=124949
The armed forces did not lose this time around, previously they did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_operations_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Civil_War
Credit goes to the fighting men and the belief and training instilled from about 2000:
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/06/21/sec20.asp
http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2013/May-June/Welch.html
http://businesstoday.lk/cover_page.php?issue=202
Justinian June 5, 2015 - 03:24 at 03:24
Ranjan
You are brave and outspoken and we need politicians like yourself.
Rajapakse committed the murder and a crime is a crime. There is no prescriptive period to for a crime and please do all what you can do to bring this murderer mahinda to be dealt with according t of criminal justice.
I now believe he must have for hundreds of people murdered during his period as the president.
Please do not allow him to go Scott free after committing all the henious crimes on innocent victims.
This is a budhist counter by where justice must prevail.
jay June 5, 2015 - 01:25 at 01:25
Hey, Jada BaLLO, tell that UNGREATFULL PARAYA MY3 TO LODGE A COMPLAINT!!! IF HE BASTERED CAN!!!
mel June 5, 2015 - 00:09 at 00:09
If this is true Sirisena must also be arrested along with MR for keeping silent and not reporting a murder. Those who look on while a crime is committed can also be culpable. If Sira doesn’t want MR to be PM because of that crime of 20 years ago, what was he doing accepting him as president and working closely with him like bosom buddies? What a hypocrite. And his new trusted buddy is this nitwit Ranja? What a joke. It will be very interesting to hear Siribiris give evidence in court against MR. So go on Sira get the police moving. We can’t wait for this new drama.
surasena June 4, 2015 - 22:43 at 22:43
How old the incident is hardly matters. Once a murder is always a murder, willing to kill again.
warnakulasuriya June 4, 2015 - 22:30 at 22:30
mr monky.
Sumanadasa June 4, 2015 - 17:32 at 17:32
Sirisena is playing the final Trump Card, it appears he does not have any more left. Everyone knows Rajapksa had some corruption and also notorious past, but he rescued the country and did not bow to foreign powers. His strong personality helped to defeat Tiger Terrorists and that is the main reason people still behind him apart from massive development projects launched when in power. A President acting like a scarecrow or a deputy Cow-Minister will not have an advantage for Sri Lnnka. Please get lost.
Matara Nimal June 4, 2015 - 21:42 at 21:42
Indeed what a coward this president is. He didn’t utter a word for 20 long years about the alleged incident, instead he kept supporting MR. In fact there are clips on Youtube where MS screams like a parrot on cocaine praising MR. MS goes on and on and on referring to MR, this is our God, this is the best president, this is the man who saved us from terrorism, this is my man , blah blah blah and what not. If what now he says is true, instead of all that, he should have said this. As the government’s inability and corruption and the same old tactics are getting exposed, and MR is becoming popular again, MS is trying different tricks to keep MR out of the scene because he is scared of MR. Basically, MS had a majority of only 4 lakhs of votes including 9 lakhs from the North in the presidential election. With TNA contesting separately, and with the dwindling support now, MS knows he and his government cannot expect that support anymore either. So they want all the tricks in the world to trap that guy out, shame on you president..
Lankan June 4, 2015 - 23:10 at 23:10
Sumanadasa,
You don’t have any principles do you? Maybe one day, when you or your family get done by one of these Rajapakse thugs, you will start to sing a different tune!
Piranha June 5, 2015 - 00:14 at 00:14
Rajapaksa is not just a murderer he is a mass murderer. That’s how he won the war against the Ltte. He didn’t care about killing thousands of civilians. The sinhala Buddhists are worshipping a mass murderer and want him back in power! What kind of Buddhists are these people? Lord Buddha is turning in his grave!
Well said sir
Bindu June 5, 2015 - 05:02 at 05:02
Sumanadaa, you are holding the wrong end of the stick. Tigers were not defeated by Rajapakses it was General Sarath Fonseka and his men who brought the demise of the Tigers. Rajapakse would never have even stepped into the war zone. He is the biggest coward who only liked to project himself as the hero. People like you should jump into the Beira
gemba June 5, 2015 - 07:56 at 07:56
It doesn’t mean ex.precident can kill people.at that time he was not the precident of the country.so why can’t sue him.you are a born idiot man.
Abraham June 4, 2015 - 16:55 at 16:55
This story is true. But very old, This incident happened during R. Premadasa regime. John Amaratunga was Member of UNP, not a Minister.
Sapumal June 4, 2015 - 16:48 at 16:48
Well done Ranjan, You have all the courage to expose this at least. We Could have bring this long time a go. But Jhon Amarathunga or even UNP didn’t talk about this. I would like to refer this case when a journalist interviewed former CJ Sarath N. De Silva in a one occasion he clearly explained with case numbers. He said it was a case with eye witness and clear evidence to send him for life in prison , but he was fortunate to get a pardon with political influence at that time. It happened in 1985 nmore than twenty years ago. Rasika Jayakodi in his article on 15/04/2015 “Mahinda Rajapaksa’s past shows he is capable of dividing his party, if it behefit him politically”( DBS Jeyaraj.com)
he says “Another highlight of his tumultuous political career was the by-election of Mulkirigala in which his elder brother Chamal Rajapaksa contested as the SLFP candidate. The election was characterized with violence and it was a blatant display of ‘fire-power’. Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was helping his brother’s election campaign, was arrested in connection with a shooting incident in Mulkirigala and was remanded for three months.
It was later revealed that Rajapaksa cell-mate was an Australian smuggler. The Australian national had asked the youthful politician what he would be doing when he left prison, to which Rajapaksa had said “go back to politics”. In response, the Aussie had said he would “go back to smuggling” after his time in prison.”
So ranjan You are correct find out the first case number. Second is during the “kalawana” by election. he lost and regain his civic rights due to defamatory speech alone with Sarath Muttetuwegama against Abeyrathne Pilapitiya ( Mahinda was the first respondent in the landmark case Rajapaksa Vs Gunasekera (Kalawana Election petition – 1983) whose the Supreme Court upheld his argument- But with the political support of then president JRJ)
Puusa June 4, 2015 - 22:05 at 22:05
Well, Very interesting. If this is true both MR and MS should be persecuted. Especially MS as he is supposed to have witnessed the incidence. This is dynamite and both MR and MS will loose civic rights then! John Amaratunga and all others involved should also be tried for preventing the course of justice.
If we are to probe these goons there will be a new parliament!!!
Remember Ranjan does not have a clean track record either!
punchinilame June 4, 2015 - 22:52 at 22:52
and related to MR being accused as a murder, a Canadian
resident quoted some villagers from down South the story of his murdering his 1st wife and how the investigations were stopped by Ranil, with the ASP loosing the file thereafter….??? No mention has been made about a 1st wife in MRs Biography, which would be so as this incident if true.
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Home News IGP urged to ensure security for former President
IGP urged to ensure security for former President
The office of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has written to IGP N.K. Illangakoon, raising fears over the security of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Rohan Weliwita, the media secretary of the former President, told the IGP in the letter that there was a concern over the failure to provide police security to Rajapaksa at an event in Hambantota yesterday.
He said that top police officers in Hambantota had been informed in advance about the events Rajapaksa was attending in the area yesterday.
Weliwita reminded the IGP that Rajapaksa has been under threat from the day he defeated the LTTE after 30 years of war.
With Rajapaksa now set to contest the Parliament elections next month Weliwita urged the IGP to ensure adequate police security is given to the former President when he attends public events. (Colombo Gazette)
Ceylonese July 13, 2015 - 08:59 at 08:59
If Rajapakse thinks he is still loved and respected by the masses and wants him back in power then he wouldn’t need any security. If there was a lapse in security and concern for his safety in his hometown Hambantota then he can’t be very popular in the rest of the country as well.
dharmapalap July 13, 2015 - 07:39 at 07:39
mr Rajapaska is not entatil the security .then the same treatment for others. democratic country. election is a democratic. there is no LTTE.please stop communal talk.
Booth July 13, 2015 - 06:15 at 06:15
This is all for Rajapakse attracting public attention, he himself have created fear amongst the masses for political comeback, current president does not talk about security issues because he knows he has nothing to fear about. We Srilankans are so unfortunate to say that we don’t want Rajapakse anymore after his great leadership to bring back peace to the country after 30 years of terrorism, but after that he and his clan cleaned up the country’s wealth and governed with thugs, now MR we ask you to stay away from bringing more disaster to the country and people please vote which ever the way you please, but not bring back these MR thuggery to rule our mother land
Ashantha July 13, 2015 - 04:18 at 04:18
What a Selfish Bastard.
mlke July 13, 2015 - 04:09 at 04:09
Safety and security needed for all Sri Lankan if MR come to power after General election of Parliament. He will create the country of family rule, authoritarianism, corruption and communalism
sue July 13, 2015 - 02:29 at 02:29
God help Sri Lanka if the UNP wins.
JO-JO July 12, 2015 - 23:17 at 23:17
Not only for former president but also for the present president security has to be enhanced considering the changes in the political situation at present. They are both at high risk from the UNP and the western countries who wanted regime change and who now realize their plans are going awry.
Carlton July 12, 2015 - 22:11 at 22:11
The adequate police security should be given to all Sri Lankan citizens in case MR wins the election. Only God can help Sri Lanka and its people.
Lanka Watch July 12, 2015 - 23:43 at 23:43
Calton – This is supposed to be a smooth election, following the rules under ‘Yalpalanaya’ govt and
now it looks like it is a survival of the fittest contest.
after MS did a shameful somersault while giving nominations Police now an independent identity under 19A and should be neutral and ensure a calamity free election.
The ex president already has around 350 men to protect him day & night while the current President
has less men. It is laughable that the ex President’s
office wants more men to handle him so that there
will be more hands clapping at the political meetings.
YourMum July 13, 2015 - 03:24 at 03:24
It’s true what you say! Only God can help. May God help your mother and mothers like your mother to not to produce any more babies like you… Because Sri lanka will be divided very soon if there are more of your kind.
Ran July 12, 2015 - 20:46 at 20:46
So what about other candidates
Other candidates didn’t win the war for the country so…they haven’t done sh#t for the country. So they don’t diserve any security.
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This piece is a tribute to Benazir Bhutto on her birthday and like all in Pakistan who either loved her or hated to love her will think of her or not depends on how one thinks. She is no more and the world goes on down the path it is on, where it has survived with many considered indispensible gone.
It is maybe the irony of reality and nature that we carry on after our grief and sorrow of losing someone near and dear. But as I sit in my jail cell in Central Prison Karachi as a victim of power drunkenness and persecution for coming in the way of our current political leader’s designs of keeping us in the dark for their personal petty interests. My situation is gravest to my family and I but when I think of Benazir Bhutto my problems feel so little and pale. She meant so much to us and I truly adored her when she was alive and more now.
Her leaving us in the way she did shook us at the time and today, after so many years, as I sit down and make a silent prayer for her, celebrate her being and birthday. I am shaken as I eat the sweets, which I should not be eating being a borderline diabetic, as I try to pen down all that she means to me and all of Pakistanis. It is a real pity and quite sad that we, in Pakistan, have become so cynical, sarcastic and skeptical that we do not respect or celebrate our greats.
This piece is an attempt to share my very personal thoughts on what Benazir Bhutto means to me and why she is the most unique amongst our leaders and the world over. We all know who she was and that she became the first elected Muslim woman Prime Minister in the world. She did many things for us and as said earlier, we all loved her or hated to love her, she gave us hope and strength, just as her great father did too, but she did what no leader ever did. She came back to Pakistan, even though she was very threatened. The question is that she everything, a good life, great kids, wealth, recognition, stature, safety of London and yet she came back. She was attacked and miraculously survived where hundreds of lives were cut short and maimed. She did not get scared and went deeper into the country. She was asked not address the public gathering, but she did and her words and euphoria captured on tape says it all in her last address to her ardent followers. She literally was glowing at the showering of love of the people present in LiaqatBagh. They cheered her and could not get enough of the queen of their hearts and minds.
They surrounded her and chanted slogans of “Zindahai Bhutto, Zindahai” and being the daughter of the one and only Z. A Bhutto, she responded to their chants and in great public pressure, just for them to have a moment more, she rose from her armored vehicle by getting the roof latch opened and emerged to respond to the massive out pouring of love and affection. She waved and was so much at home with her followers and passionate supporters. The footage of her wave and gratitude is forever etched in our memories. She came out, just when she had finished her rally and impassioned speech, the speech where she looked straight into the eyes of our enemies and said ‘we do not fear you and believe in destiny’. Her words, the way they were said, need to be played over and over again to showcase what a fearless leader she was and how crystal clear her thoughts were. She said it all and the crowd got charged and no one that was present in Liaqatbagh that day will ever forget her appearance, her glow and the overwhelming joy of getting the response she truly expected.
It was against her security detail protocol that she felt she could not leave the venue without thanking her supporters and so she came out of the roof and waved at her followers. She did not care about what and who awaited her as she only felt the love of her people and took the risk to return the love she got. Amongst chants those who were present for another purpose did what mercenaries do and attacked from far, near and literally everywhere and all we saw was her going down in her bulletproof vehicle, which sped away as all hell broke loose. It was hours later when news broke out that she was no more amongst us.
To date there have been so many questions; why did she come out of the jeep as she had already delivered her impassioned speech and it was a great rally, no one would have objected or minded her having left the venue just as all leaders do after their thing. It was not the case for the one and only Benazir Bhutto, she had to respond by gracing her supporters one last glance of her presence and letting them know that she too loved them as much as they loved her. It was this gesture of maternal like love that caused us all Pakistanis to become a rudderless ship, for the queen of our hearts on whose scarf were pinned our hopes and aspirations. She was sent to her eternal abode from within the crown who loved her mostly, but included those who hated her so much that they sent mercenaries tasked to change the course of our history and so to of the world. No one, no one leader comes to mind who sacrificed his or her life for the sake of love, for it was nothing but the love of her people, just as a mother does her children. But then again, if you know of any leader in the history of the world who lost his or her life for the sake of love of his or her people, please do.
As at the outset I have stated we Pakistanis either love her or hated to love her may sound like an exaggeration but it has taken me many years to gather the fact and that too in a place where she was too once incarcerated. What a leader, she certainly was in a hurry and said much, which now on reflection depicts that she maybe did know the limits of her time and so said much, which no one said in Pakistan. Is it not surprising that only her amongst our leaders talked of a new social contract? Maybe most political leaders do not even understand what a social contract is, for all they know is contracts that enrich them and make them Richie rich.
Benazir Bhutto did not need riches; she was born rich but dressed simply and gracefully held our culture and traditions. She has left us, it seems frozen in that moment where she responded to the mass out pouring of love and affection for her and now must be watching in utter bewilderment of no one trying to pick up the torch and show us the way out of this loveless state. All eyes are now at her children to stand tall and make Pakistan realize its true potential as she followed her great father, who is the founder of the real Pakistan state coming into being on 16 December 1971.
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New Dental Assistant Program Offered in NH
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A new dental assistant program is starting next year at the New Hampshire Technical Institute.
The Expanded Function Dental Auxiliary certificate program starts in May.
The New Hampshire Dental Society, the American Dental Association and Northeast Delta Dental are providing financial support to help make this program possible.
Dental assistants who have completed the program would be allowed to place restorations under the supervision of a licensed dentist. EFDAs currently work in more than two dozen states.
The curriculum includes 50 hours of classroom training and 100 hours of pre-clinical training. Once training is complete, the student can register with the Board of Examiners to begin working as an EFDA.
“Once they complete their training, EFDAs can perform a number of restorative and preventive procedures. Operating under the supervision of a dentist and as part of the dental team, EFDAs’ impact will be statewide.” said Peter Welnak, president of the dental society.
Neb. Group Asks Probe Of For-Profit Colleges
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A public interest group wants the Legislature to examine the practices and performance measures of for-profit colleges operating in Nebraska.
The U.S. Department of Education has accused some for-profit colleges of predatory practices, including fraud in some cases.
Nebraska Appleseed said in a report that more information is needed to determine whether the colleges operating in the state are “engaging in problematic practices that have been discovered in other areas of the U.S.”
Nebraska Appleseed says tuition costs at Nebraska’s for-profit colleges are nearly seven times higher than that of community colleges and twice as high as the state’s public college and university system.
Audit Finds Students Owe La. College $2.9M
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An audit finds students owe South Louisiana Community College $2.9 million as a result of the college’s inadequate collection procedures.
The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s report says failure to establish adequate collection procedures increases the risk that the accounts will become uncollectible.
Auditors found that while the college does have a policy to send students three collection letters prior to reporting them to the Attorney General’s Office for nonpayment, the policy wasn’t always followed.
Personnel turnover and a switch to a new payment system played a role in some of the auditors’ findings, SLCC Vice Chancellor for Student Services David Volpe wrote in the college’s response to the findings.
Volpe says new process should be in place by March 31.
Mass. Colleges Collaborate on Degree Programs
BOSTON (AP) — Anna Maria College and Quinsigamond Community College are offering future students a 2-for-1 deal of sorts.
The Worcester-area schools recently announced an agreement in which students can first earn an associate degree in public service majors at Quinsigamond, then be guaranteed admission to Anna Maria for their junior and senior years and a chance to complete a four-year degree.
Majors include criminal justice, fire science and emergency management, human services and social work.
The schools say the total cost to students for both degrees would be $40,000, a relative bargain.
The initiative is called Higher Education and Active Responsiveness through Transfer, or H.E.A.R.T. for short. The schools plan to begin accepting students into the program for the fall 2016 semester.
Miss. College Hires Jeffries as Athletic Director
PERKINSTON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has hired Robin Jeffries as its new athletic director.
Jeffries has been at St. Patrick Catholic High School, where she is athletic director and girls basketball coach, since 2012. She has previous collegiate experience which includes serving as women’s basketball coach at both Millsaps College and Sprint Hill College.
She also worked as senior women’s administrator during her tenure at Millsaps.
Jeffries graduated from Brookhaven Academy and played basketball at Mississippi State University from 1985-1988.
Kansas College To Build Fire Training Tower
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A south-central Kansas community college is building a training tower for aspiring firefighters.
The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1TQdIPV ) reports that the Butler Community College’s Board of Trustees approved a more than $170,000 investment in a training tower last month.
The tower will be three stories tall with a rooftop. The school said in a news release that it will allow fire science students to train more extensively in a realistic environment.
El Dorado Fire Chief Steve Moody said previously, firefighters had to train in houses that were in the process of being demolished.
The tower is expected to be completed and in use by midspring.
La. Fundraising Shortfall Delays Building Plans
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Fletcher Technical Community college has raised less than 40 percent of the money it needs for a planned $5.1 million career center.
Administrators tell The Daily Comet (http://bit.ly/1RygX0W ) that means a delay is likely in plans to begin construction next year.
Plans started in 2013, after the state Legislature allocated money to 13 community and technical colleges statewide. The law requires a 12 percent match — or $550,000 to get $4.5 million in state money.
Fletcher’s new chancellor, Kristine Strickland, says the college has raised about $200,000.
She says raising the remaining $350,000 is one of her top priorities. She’s the third chancellor since the law was passed.
Officials say the proposed center would include advising offices, study labs, a bookstore, testing and other student-related services.
Sign Language Program Earns Accreditation
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Oakland Community College’s sign language interpreter program has been awarded national accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education.
The program offered at the school’s Highland Lakes campus in Waterford Township is one of one five sign language interpreter degree programs in Michigan and the first to be accredited. The Detroit News (http://detne.ws/1PjtzaH ) reports that the accreditation comes as advocates for the deaf community say Michigan faces a pressing need for sign language interpreters.
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights says more than 1.2 million deaf people live in Michigan, which has some of the nation’s toughest testing requirements for interpreters, and only one in every three sign language interpreter positions is filled.
Oakland Community College’s sign language interpreter degree program lasts three years. About 1,300 students are currently enrolled in the program.
Study: Half of Ill. Students Need Remediation
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — New data shows about half of Illinois high school graduates going on to the state’s community colleges need remediation in at least one subject.
That data was released by the Illinois State Board of Education.
It shows 48.7 percent of graduates who enrolled in the community college system needed remedial instruction to prepare them for entry-level college coursework.
The highest remediation rate was in math, with about 41 percent needing additional preparation in the subject.
For the first time, that information is being reported with Illinois Report Card data.
State Superintendent of Education Tony Smith says that information, along with the test known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, will help educators address the college readiness of their students.
Tenn. Panel Seeks To Expand Training Program
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Higher Education Commission is asking lawmakers to expand a $10 million grant program that paired employers with colleges to develop academic programs tailored to the needs of local job markets.
According to The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/1RayFb9 ), the commission said in a report released that Labor Education Alignment Program has grown substantially, but needs to receive more funding and attention during the upcoming legislative session.
The program doled out the grant funding to 12 different coalitions late in 2014.
The report says that thousands of students across 51 counties were reached by the first wave of grant funding, including 13,363 students who participated in extracurricular programming, including internships, clubs or training.
The commission says that funding a larger number of coalitions moving forward would help expand the program’s impact.
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Remembering AliRemembering Ali
Gvozdyk stops injured Ngumbu in 5th, keeps title
107dDan Rafael
Collazo vs. Benavidez Jr. set for Aug. 17 in L.A.
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Vargas beats Kameda by unanimous decision
2dSteve Kim
Dubois makes powerful statement vs. Gorman
2dNick Parkinson
Joyce outpoints Jennings to stay unbeaten
Kovalev may move on as Canelo talks hit snag
3dDan Rafael
Stevenson KOs Guevara in thrilling homecoming
Why Shakur Stevenson needs to put on a show in Newark
5dMark Kriegel
Ryota Murata shines in TKO of Rob Brant. Now what?
4dDan Rafael and Steve Kim
Murata avenges loss, regains secondary title
Andrade calls out Canelo, GGG after easy win
16dDan Rafael
Joseph Parker stops Alex Leapai, wants heavyweight unified titlist Andy Ruiz Jr. next
Commey floors Beltran 4 times, gets TKO in 8th
17dSteve Kim
Can Tyson Fury be a major crossover star in America?
Fury still lineal champion with TKO of Schwarz
Gvozdyk retains WBC title due to Ngumbu injury (1:11)
Oleksandr Gvozdyk retains his WBC light heavyweight title against Doudou Ngumbu after Ngumbu was unable to continue with a lower leg injury. (1:11)
Dan RafaelESPN Senior Writer
2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism
ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005
Five years at USA Today
PHILADELPHIA -- Coming into the first defense of his light heavyweight world title, many wondered if Oleksandr Gvozdyk would be able to put aside the near-tragedy of his title-winning effort on Dec. 1 against Adonis Stevenson. As it turned out, there was no need for concern.
Gvozdyk scored a fifth-round stoppage victory when Doudou Ngumbu could not continue because of a right calf injury in the fifth round on Saturday night in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card before a sold-out, standing-room crowd of about 1,350 at the 2300 Arena.
Gvozdyk appeared to handle Ngumbu with little issue before the stoppage but was not thrilled with the way the fight went and the unusual ending.
"It wasn't what I expected, but I did my best," Gvozdyk said. "Sometimes, this happens [in boxing]. It is what it is."
Gvozdyk started well when he nailed Ngumbu with a solid right hand in the first round, during which Ngumbu showed the style that was expected -- an awkward one with a lot of herky-jerky movement.
Oleksandr Gvozdyk, left, stopped Doudou Ngumbu in the fifth round after Ngumbu could not continue due to a right calf injury. Matt Heasley for Mikey Williams/Top Rank
Gvozdyk got through with a left hook in the fourth round and later with a right, but he had trouble landing combinations because Ngumbu was moving so much.
Gvozdyk continued to stalk him in the fifth round when Ngumbu suddenly came up limping. Ngumbu injured his right calf and grabbed onto the ropes to steady himself.
For whatever reason, referee Eric Dali gave him time to recover, ruling an accidental foul, even though there was no contact and the fight should have been stopped. Eventually, Dali stopped the fight at 58 seconds when it was clear Ngumbu could not walk off the injury.
Ngumbu (38-9, 14 KOs), 37, a Congo native living in France, eventually sat down in his corner and began to cry because of his disappointment with the outcome.
Final punch stats
Gvozdyk 47 of 204 (23%) 18 of 100 (18%) 29 of 104 (28%)
Ngumbu 18 of 108 (17%) 3 of 33 (9%) 15 of 75 (20%)
-- Courtesy of CompuBox
According to CompuBox statistics, Gvozdyk landed 47 of 204 punches (23 percent) and Ngumbu landed only 18 of 108 (17 percent).
Ngumbu viewed the fight as his first and probably only shot at a world title. It was a fight he took so seriously that he also broke down in tears at the previous day's fighter meeting with the ESPN broadcast crew. Asked about the importance of the bout, he explained that it would mean he could better financially support his mother and other family members still in Congo, as well as his wife and children in France.
Gvozdyk, nicknamed "The Nail," won the title when he traveled in December to Quebec City, the home region of long-reigning world champion Adonis Stevenson, and rallied for a brutal, 11th-round knockout victory. Stevenson had suffered a catastrophic brain injury and was rushed to the hospital, where he had surgery, spent weeks in a coma and nearly died.
The Oxnard, California-based Gvozdyk (17-0, 14 KOs), 31, a 2012 Ukrainian Olympian, entered the defense against Ngumbu having been peppered in the days leading up to the fight with questions about his state of mind given that difficult situation. But while he wished Stevenson well and was happy that his previous opponent is recovering, Gvozdyk insisted it would have no impact on how he went about his business in the ring in his second fight with trainer Teddy Atlas.
The fight came on the same day that there was good news from the Stevenson camp. His promoter, Yvon Michel, was ringside and told ESPN that Stevenson was allowed to go home for the weekend for the first time from the rehabilitation center he has been in. He will return to the rehab center during the week but continue to go home on the weekend, Michel said.
Before the fight, Gvozdyk declined to discuss the possible major fights for him with a victory. But now they are possible -- and likely to be easily made -- because Top Rank also promotes fellow world titleholder Artur Beterbiev (13-0, 13 KOs), who will defend his belt against Radivoje "Hot Rod" Kalajdzic (24-1, 17 KOs) on May 4, and co-promotes titlist Sergey Kovalev (33-3-1, 28 KOs), the biggest name in the division.
Top Rank also promotes super middleweight titlist Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez (39-0, 25 KOs), who is moving up to light heavyweight on April 12, and co-promotes former light heavyweight titlist Eleider "Storm" Alvarez (24-1, 12 KOs), who lost his belt to Kovalev in their rematch on Feb. 2.
So, Gvozdyk will not lack for notable opposition, and Top Rank said it is likely there will be at least one unification fight before the end of the year. That is what he wants.
"My goal is to unify titles," he said. "I will wait to see what my team tells me to do next."
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RECEP ERDOGAN BLAMES THE OUTSIDE WORLD FOR HIS CORRUPTION SCANDALS
The Turkish overlord goes cavorting around again, looking for nickel-and-dime excuses for corruption in his government:
The political crisis shaking Turkey spilled over into the country’s ties with the rest of the world on Saturday, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed outside forces for the country’s worst corruption scandal for years and appeared to threaten the US ambassador.
Speaking at a rally at the Black Sea town of Samsun, the prime minister attributed the investigation into the scandal – which involves allegations of millions of dollars of bribes, smuggling, the fixing of tenders and illegal construction – to a plot “with international dimensions” against his government.
Oh, do tell us about it. To be sure, it's nothing of the sort, but even if it were, he'd be asking for it with his track record of bigotry against infidels.
Any hostility he may have voiced against the American ambassador in Turkey should be cause for concern too, and just shows that even a leftist government in the USA won't make him cooperative.
Turkey’s relations with the US hit a peak in 2009, when President Barack Obama praised the “model partnership” between the two countries.
But ties have become tense with differences over Egypt, where Mr Erdogan called for the West to denounce the coup against former President Mohamed Morsi, Syria, where the Turkish prime minister wanted a Kosovo-style campaign against President Bashar al-Assad and Washington’s concerns about the Turkish government’s crackdown on mass protests.
I suppose the reason he's against Assad is because the Syrian overlord isn't Islamist enough for his tastes.
“I presume this will work with Erdogan’s core constituency,” said Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations of the prime minister’s latest remarks. “There’s a reservoir of anti Americanism in Turkey and this is going back to the well.” He added, however, that despite frustration with Mr Erdogan Washington still sought co-operation with Turkey because of the country’s strategic importance.
Too bad. They could save themselves a lot of money and other hassles by not wasting their time maintaining ties with such an awful politician. And honestly, what importance does Turkey really have at this point anyway?
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM SOUNDS LIKE
PIERS MORGAN:
Piers Morgan @piersmorgan
Just as the 2nd Amendment shouldn't protect assault rifle devotees, so the 1st Amendment shouldn't protect vile bigots. #PhilRobertson
FASCISTS LIKE PIERS MORGAN BELIEVE ONLY PEOPLE THEY LIKE DESERVE THEIR INNATE AND UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
AS IF "FREE SPEECH" ONLY APPLIED TO SPEECH YOU LIKED.
THE CODIFIED PROTECTION OF SPEECH IS IMPORTANT PRECISELY TO PROTECT SPEECH SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE - AND WANT SQUELCHED.
WHAT'S INSANE ABOUT THIS IS THAT PIERS MORGAN IS NOMINALLY A MEMBER OF THE PRESS AND SO YOU WOULD THINK HE'D SUPPORT FREE SPEECH.
BUT HE IS MORE WEDDED TO LEFTISM THAN HE IS TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT, OR THE SECOND - OR ANY AMENDMENT OR HUMANS RIGHTS THEMSELVES.
THIS IS PRECISELY WHY THE MEDIA IS SO DANGEROUS NOW, AND WHY THE MEDIA HAS MORPHED INTO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A STATE-RUN MEDIA.
IF WE WANT TO PRESERVE LIBERTY, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO END THE STRANGLEHOLD THE LEFT HAS ON THE MEDIA.
PIGS FLY: NYTIMES REPORTING OBAMACARE SCREWS THE MIDDLE CLASS!
FRONT PAGE / NYTIMES:
"New Health Law Frustrates Many in Middle Class
Many Americans who don't quality for health care subsidies are facing steep premium prices."
OBAMACARE HAS DONE MORE HARM TO MORE AMERICANS THAN ANYTHING IN HISTORY EXCEPT FOR ACTS OF WAR.
WE'RE IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS?
MEN VERSUS BOYS
ALPHA MALES VERSUS BETA MALES.
WILL REGGIE FLY TO HAWAII?
I THINK SOMEONE IN THE PRESS OUGHT TO ASK OBAMA HOW HE FEELS ABOUT MSNBC'S ENDORSEMENT OF GAY ANAL INTERCOURSE.
"MR. PRESIDENT, DO YOU LIKE TO GIVE IT OR GET IT?"
OBAMA CHECKS IN WITH HIS BOSS
IT'S GETTING NASTY OUT THERE....
THERE'S ONLY ONE REASON WHY THE NSA SNOOPS ON EVERYONE: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
IF THE NSA AND CIA AND FBI WEREN'T HOBBLED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THEN THEY COULD FOCUS ON THE ENEMY AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE.
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON ISLAMISTS AND MUSLIMS FROM WELL KNOWN ISLAMIST STRONGHOLDS OR WHO HAVE VISITED KNOWN ISLAMIST MOSQUES, THEY SNOOP ON EVERYONE.
THIS HURTS EVERYONE BECAUSE IT REDUCES EVERYONE'S PRIVACY AND BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF SNOOPING ON EVERYONE THEY GET TOO DAMN MUCH INFO.
IF THEY FOCUSED ON THE ENEMY, THEN THEY'D END UP WTH MORE ACTIONABLE INTEL AND THEY WOULDN'T BE VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF INNOCENT AMERICANS.
REPEAT: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS THE REASON WE HAVE LESS PRIVACY AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S THE REASON WE ARE LESS SAFE.
IF WE WANT TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY AND REMAIN FREE, THEN WE HAVE TO DEFEAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
PC IS AN ALLY OF THE ISLAMISTS AND THE ENEMY OF LIBERTY.
Isaiah 5:20: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
Isaiah 5:20 -
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
AND THEN THERE ARE THESE LIES DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROMNEY - LIES THAT GOT HIM RE-ELECTED:
NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT LIED SO BLATANTLY, SO FREQUENTLY OR WITH SUCH HORRIBLE RESULTS.
LIES ARE NOT CAUSED BY INEPTNESS.
DECEIT IS NOT THE RESULT OF INCOMPETENCE.
FALSEHOODS DO NOT ARISE SPONTANEOUSLY.
OBAMA IS A LIAR, WRAPPED IN A DECEIVER, INSIDE A PERJURER.
HMMM: IN THE FINAL WEEK OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, THE STATE-RUN MEDIA IS SPINNING THE ECONOMIC NEWS AND TELLING US THE ECONOMY IS DOING JUST GREAT
THEY FAILED TO ADEQUATELY REPORT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN SALES OF HOMES, OR THE SUDDEN SURGE IN INVENTORIES, OR THE WEAK BRICKS'N MORTARS RETAIL SALES, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN CONSUMER SPENDING.
BUT THEY SPIN EVERYTHING AS IF THE ECONOMY WAS HUNKY-DORY:
Revision Shows U.S. Growing at Fastest Rate Since 2011
The Commerce Department on Friday revised up its estimate of 3.6 percent to 4.1 percent, saying business spending was stronger than it originally thought.
WHERE AND WHY AND HOW HAS THE INCREASE TAKE PLACE?
ZERO HEDGE GETS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MATTER:
Earlier today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis surprised everyone by announcing a final Q3 GDP growth of 4.1% compared to 3.6% in the first revision (and 2.8% originally), driven almost entirely by the bounce in Personal Consumption which rose 2.0% compared to estimates of 1.4%.
As a result many are wondering just where this "revised" consumption came from. The answer is below: of the $15 billion revised increase in annualized spending, 60% was for healthcare, and another 27% was due to purchases of gasoline. The third largest upward revision: recreation services. On the flip side, the biggest revision detractors: transportation services and housing and utilities.
In other words, the BEA thought long and hard what it could revise and decided on the following: in Q3 the US economy was revised to the strongest since 2011 because Americans, it would appear, were gassing up more to visit (and pay) their doctor, and then going to the movies.
IT'S A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH PEOPLE WILL FEEL LIKE SPENDING MORE MONEY.
I DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK.
BURIED IN THE ABOVE/LINKED-TO ARTICLE:
Economists expect growth to slow in the fourth quarter, in part because some of the upswing has resulted from businesses building up their inventories.
SOME?!?! BS. NEARLY ALL: BBC: But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said...
PEOPLE KNOW THEIR OWN ECONOMIC SITUATION IS REAL NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD ABOUT THE GENERAL ECONOMY.
PEOPLE KNOW THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION SUCKS - NO MATTER WHAT THE DOL/BLS TELLS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA AND NO MATTER HOW LITTLE BAD NEWS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA TELLS THEM.
LIKE THE FACT THAT THE NYTIMES AND THE REST OF THE STATE-RUN MEDIA STILL HASN'T RUN AN AP NEWS-ITEM FROM YESTERDAY ABOUT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT.
WHEN THE RETAIL NUMBERS ARE REPORTED IN JANUARY, WE WILL FIND OUT IF 2014 WILL BRING US ANOTHER CONTRACTION OR NOT.
I THINK WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER RECESSION AND THAT OBAMACARE WILL MAKE IT WORSE.
THE LEFT'S ANTI-ZIONISM
Caroline Glick wrote about the beliefs embraced by leftists, such as anti-war sentiments, which lately includes hostility to Zionism, and how sensible people could/should deal with it.
SWEDISH PARLIAMENT TAKES DOWN NUDE JUNO PICTURE TO AVOID OFFENDING BOTH MUSLIMS AND FEMINISTS
I don't know about the feminists, but when it's the Religion of Peace they decide to appease, you know something's wrong:
A nude painting named Juno, which was painted by baroque artist G E Schröder and has hung in the dining room of the Swedish Parliament for 30 years has been taken down for fear of offending the sensitivities of feminists and Muslim visitors, Swedish newspaper, The Local reported on Thursday.
Explaining the ban on the baroque breasts, a source from the parliament said: "You have to think of the foreign guests, especially those from Muslim countries."
Yeah, you just simply have to. Again Sweden has made a joke out of itself in their pointless quest for political relevancy.
STATE-RUN MEDIA FAIL TO REPORT TODAY'S AWFUL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS REPORTED BY THE DOL/BLS
THE NEWS AS RELEASED AT 8:30AM TODAY BY THE DOL/BLS:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week's figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week's revised average of 330,250.
GOOGLE NEWS RESULTS THIS EVENING - [NOTE: NOT ONE SINGLE MAJOR MSM NEWS OUTLET REPORTED THE NEWS]:
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THE STATE-RUN MEDIA DO NOT REPORT NEWS THAT HURTS OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES.
THEY ARE NOT NEWS AGENCIES; THEY ARE MERELY A PART OF THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST MACHINE.
AS PART OF THE MACHINE, THEIR TRUE PURPOSE IS NOT AN INFORMED ELECTORATE, BUT A BRAINWASHED ELECTORATE.
AND IT'S WORKING.
I LIVE AND WORK IN NYC, AND NOT A SINGLE LIBERAL ACQUAINTANCE I KNOW HAD HEARD ABOUT ANY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER, LET A LONE A BAD ONE.
YET THEY ALL THINK THEY ARE WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE NOT WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE BRAINWASHED DUPES.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THE LEFT CAN GAIN AND HOLD ON TO POWER - THE POWER THEY NEED TO INFLICT THEIR DYSTOPIAN TYRANNY UPON US ALL.
IT IS PART-AND-PARCEL WITH HARRY REID'S ANTICS IN THE US SENATE - HAVING "GONE NUCLEAR" AND DONE AWAY WITH THE FILIBUSTER ON NOMINATIONS IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR LEFTIST AGENDA.
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA:
USE THE IRS TO HARASS THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
REWRITE THE LAWS BY EXECUTIVE FIAT.
LIE TO CONGRESS.
INSTRUCT US ATTORNEY'S NOT TO ENFORCE THE LAW.
LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER AND OVER ABOUT KEEPING THEIR INSURANCE.
OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES ARE LAWLESS FASCISTS.
WE MUST END THEIR REIGN OF TYRANNY ASAP.
IT'S 2014, OR NEVER.
BJ CLINTON ARGUES WE NEED AMNESTY TO KEEP OUR POPULATION GROWING...
CNS VIA WZ:
Former President Bill Clinton says if U.S. lawmakers realized the economic impact of having the country’s population growth coming to a halt, it would energize immigration reform, “because it’s the only way to keep our country growing.” Clinton made the comments while discussing immigration reform earlier this month on the America with Jorge Ramos program. “I think that we're trying to pass immigration reform. The country needs it. If – I wish that all these members of Congress who oppose immigration reform, and who feel threatened by it, had been with me on my recent trip to Asia,” Clinton said.
“And they – and Japan and China where they're worried about the population growth just coming to a halt. And what it's going to do to them economically,” Clinton continued. “And I think it would give a lot more energy to immigration reform in America. The – we're going to have to do it, because it's the only way to keep our country growing. And the sooner we do it, the better.”
THIS IS TAUTOLOGICAL BULLSHIT.
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TAKING AWAY JOBS AND DRIVING WAGES DOWN, THEN WAGES WOULD BE HIGHER AND MARRIED COUPLES WOULD HAVE MORE KIDS BECAUSE THEY COULD AFFORD TO HAVE MORE KIDS.
BY ACCEPTING THE 11 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HERE, THE LEFT HAS LOWERED OUR WAGES AND OUR BIRTH RATES.
ONE REASON THE LEFT FAVORS LOWE WAGES AND AN INFLUX OF NON-WESTERN IMMIGRANTS IS THAT THE LEFT WANTS TO TURN THE USA FROM "THE EXCEPTIONAL NATION" AND "THE INDISPENSABLE NATION" - ( AT LEAST TO THE FREE WORLD!) - INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION.
WE NEED TO STOP THIS AND WE NEED TO STOP IT ASAP.
FALK SHOULD BE FIRED, BUT WE CAN'T BE OPTIMISTIC IT'LL HAPPEN
Elliot Abrams has written about why the UN HRC member Richard Falk should be thrown out of that already corrupt organization:
The special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories of the United Nations Human Rights Council is an extremist named Richard Falk. Falk is an embarrassment to the council and the U.N. whose only activity is to use violent and extreme language to denounce Israel -- most recently for "a criminal intention that is genocidal."
Canada has denounced Falk for these remarks and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said this: "Canada completely rejects and condemns the appalling remarks made by Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur to the Palestinian territories, in which he accused Israel of 'genocidal' intentions.
"Canada has previously called for Falk to be fired for his numerous outrageous and anti-Semitic statements, and these comments underscore once more the complete and total absurdity of his service as a U.N. special rapporteur.
"I call on the United Nations Human Rights Council -- once again -- to remove Falk from his position immediately.
"Not only do these comments undermine the fundamental values of the United Nations, they also belittle the terrible genocides that have tragically taken place throughout history and around the world."
Baird's comments are commendable, but unlikely to do much good. The UN is still bound to keep Falk - who's also a 9-11 truther - in place, probably for life. The UN has long been otherwise useless, and proved that in the long run.
IDF KILLS 2 JIHADISTS IN JENIN
Some success in dealing with local jihadists in Jenin:
Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations in Judea and Samaria overnight.
In the first incident, Israeli troops were fired upon during an arrest operation in the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday night. The troops returned fire, killing one Palestinian.
The incident began around 10 p.m. on Wednesday night when Israeli counter-terror forces entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest an Islamic Jihad operative who had planned attacks on transportation arteries in Judea and Samaria. A disturbance broke out and Palestinians opened fire on the Israeli soldiers. The soldiers then responded with return fire, wounding several Palestinians.
In addition to gunfire, the soldiers were also attacked with improvised explosive devices, an Israeli military spokesperson said.
The wanted Islamic Jihad operative was not captured in the operation. No Israeli soldiers were wounded.
Two of the wounded Palestinians were transported to Haemek Medical Center in Afula. One died of his wounds en route to the hospital.
And he can now appear before the highest court.
EVERY VERSION OF ISLAM IS BAD
The UK Spectator wrote about the trial of the two jihadists who murdered Lee Rigby in Woolwich. But while they do have some good points to raise, it becomes problematic when the writer says that:
...the murder of Drummer Rigby had everything to do with Islam: a nasty, bigoted, backward version of Islam to be sure, but a version of Islam nonetheless.
That's basically implying that "true" Islam isn't backwards, when in fact it is, and the two savages proved it themselves when they quoted from the Koran during the trial. But, this head-in-the-sand act is something we've come to expect from most mainstream news companies.
The jihadists deserve to get a death penalty, but this being a European country, I doubt they'll ever get what they really need to be given.
THE 10 TRUTHS MAINSTREAM COMICS AVOID ABOUT ISLAM
Cartoonist Bosch Fawstin writes on Pajamas Media about ten truths mainstream comic publishers refuse to acknowledge about Islam, which he used to adhere to himself before he woke up and understood what it was really like.
WHAT IF THE SHOE WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT?
Mr. Phil Robertson has been "suspended" from the "Duck Dynasty" television program that he created, because his "personal views in no way reflect those of A+E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely." What exactly did he say to the GQ interviewers?
It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
What if the shoe were on the other foot? What if Ian McKellen, George Takei, or any other openly gay media star had said the opposite:
It seems like, to me, a man's anus—as a man—would be more desirable than a vagina. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! He’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
Would there have been any repercussions? Wouldn't every pundit and commentator in the mainstream media have applauded his courage, and noted that he was merely expressing his own preferences and desires, which should be fully respected and valued as much as anybody's? Mr. Robertson situated his own preference in the framework of his belief in Christianity and the teachings of the Bible. That also offended the mainstream media.
Now if he had quoted from the Noble Holy Qu'ran of course, whose adherents hang homosexuals in the streets of Teheran, that would have been just fine . . . to contradict him would have been Islamophobia . . . .
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS!
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS
In a de facto sense this is simply true.
The chief powers of Congress are the power of the purse and the power of oversight.
Congress no longer has either.
Congress doesn't even pass a budget anymore - (and we seem to be stuck spending 35% more now than in 2008 even though neither our nation's population or our economy has grown by 35% and we can't afford to spend this much each year and go into this much more debt each year).
And - because Congress allows Obama's executive branch members to lie with impunity when appearing for testimony - Congress no longer has any real oversight.
In addition, the president now picks and chooses which laws he wants to enforce and even rewrites them by executive fiat.
And all the while the NSA, and CIA and FBI spy on us.
WE NO LONGER LIVE IN A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.
WE LIVE IN A FASCIST STATE.
I agree with Rand Paul, Clapper's perjury to Congress is a more serious crime than Snowden's treachery and treason.
THE FED IS STILL PUMPING
It appears the markets and most economists welcome the fact that the FED is reducing QE3 from $85 billion per month to $75 billion. It is good news, and long overdue.
Had the elected leaders of the world been more responsible it could have happened sooner. BUT let's not forget the fact that $75B/month is still almost a trillion $ per year!
I would be surprised if QE will be entirely off the table in less than 6 months to a year. Is the economy really that strong? or is this move really a PR stunt on by the FED? Remember, this is more like the Captain of a ship who just told the passengers that things are improving - we are only pumping 75000 gallons instead of 85000 gallons to stay afloat...
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DON'T BELIEVE THE SPIN-MEISTERS: THE ECONOMY IS NOT DOING WELL
THE BBC SPITS OUT THE STATE-RUN MEDIA'S SPIN IN THE HEADLINE: US economy grows faster than thought
The US economy grew at an annual pace of 3.6% in the third quarter of the year, up from an initial estimate of 2.8%, revised figures have shown.
The growth rate was the fastest since the first quarter of 2012.
EVERYTHING IS GETTING BETTER, RIGHT?
THEY BURY THE REAL TRUTH WAY DOWN IN THE ARTICLE:
But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said....
The pace of growth in consumer spending - which accounts for about two-thirds of US economic activity - slowed from the previous quarter.
Consumer spending grew at a revised annual pace of 1.4%, down from 1.8% in the April-to-June period and the slowest rate since late 2009.
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS HEADED FOR A MAJOR CORRECTION NEXT YEAR - IT'S ALL BAKED IN THE CAKE:
ENERGY IS STILL VERY EXPENSIVE.
THE US CONSUMER WILL HAVE EVEN LESS DISPOSABLE INCOME DUE TO OBAMACARE.
EUROPE IS BACK IN RECESSION.
WHEN CHRISTMAS RETAIL NUMBERS COME IN - AND IF THEY ARE AS BAD AS I THINK THEY WILL BE...
AND WHEN INSURANCE COMPANIES ANNOUNCE NEW RATES DUE TO THE COLOSSAL OBAMACARE DISASTER....
WELL, THAT WILL TRIGGER A CORRECTION AND A STAMPEDE FOR THE EXITS.
BETTER BRACE YOURSELF NOW.
HOT AIR: In October, the level of new claims went below the 300K barrier, at least momentarily. Today, however, it’s back up to 379,000, about where it was eight months ago:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week’s figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 330,250.
WE ARE HEADED FOR A RECKONING AND IT AIN'T GONNA BE PRETTY.
SORRY MR. PODESTA, OBAMA IS MORE LIKE THE REV. JIM JONES THAN ANYONE ELSE IN ALL USA POLITICS...
... AND OBAMA'S FOLLOWERS HAVE LONG BEEN CALLED "KOOL-AID DRINKERS" FOR JUST THAT VERY SAME REASON.
WE'VE MADE THAT EXACT COMPARISON MANY TIMES HERE AT TAB.
MORE HERE AT POWER LINE.
PC POLICE AT A&E CENSOR CHRISTIAN VIEWS
IT'S NOT JUST CHRISTMAS THAT'S UNDER ATTACK; IT'S CHRISTIANITY ITSELF.
IOW: PC & LGBT OVERRULE INRI.
NO WONDER OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GENOCIDE THAT MUSLIMS ARE PERPETRATING AGAINST CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE:
Genocide warning as Christian-majority Central African Republic overrun by Islamists
Russian church warns of "genocide against Christians" in Syria conflict
AT LEAST 205 CHRISTIANS KILLED BY MUSLIM IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
IRAQ: 'CHRISTIANS ARE FINISHED HERE'
Islamic Terror Attacks on Christians [just the last 4 months]:
Minya
Barkin Ladi
Ashigashia
Ashrafieh
Sadad
Rantis
Haffar
Warraq
Kilifi
Jaramana
Zangang
Dorawa
Sahel Selim
Dalga
Maaloula
Maalula
Kunte-Kuru
Gura Dabwam
Adu
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PREDICTION: OBAMA'S NEXT MOVE: GIVING COP-KILLER MUMIA A PARDON!
JUST SAYING....
THE ANTI-COP BS GOING DOWN NOW ALL OVER THE USA AIN'T NEW; IT'S AN OLD FAV' FROM THE LEFT.
"OFF THE PIG!"
"FREE MUMIA!"
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND HIS AG SUPPORT THEM!
WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE ELECTED AN ACOLYTE OF SAUL ALINSKY AND BILL AYERS AND JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.
OH. WAIT. WE. DID.
LESBIAN RABBI IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPPORTS SHARIA
A bizarre story comes from New England:
A story from New Hampshire reminds us once again that liberals are often willing to commit suicide to prove how liberal they are.
It would be hard to imagine a more ridiculous scenario than a lesbian rabbi making a public stand in favor of adopting Sharia Law as the new ruling principles of any American state, but Rabbi Robin Nafshi of New Hampshire has done just that.
With the type of smug ”I’m a liberal, so I’m smarter than you” hubris only the sickest of liberals can muster, Rabbi Nafshi scolds her fellow Granite Staters in a piece she has curiously titled “The Misguided push to ban Sharia Law.”
Of course, the Rabbi takes an obligatory shot at Republicans as she whines that the final point in their statement of Party principles says, “Take any and all actions possible to protect against the implementation of any part of Sharia Law in New Hampshire, including legislation outlawing Sharia law.”
Her hollow argument makes a comparison between Sharia Law as the Muslim way of life and Halakhah, the Jewish way of life. This idiot must think that Jews cut the heads off homosexuals and blow up non-Jews in belief that doing so will ensure their place in paradise. Sure thing rabbi–not a dime’s with of difference, right?
If she's a Reform, she's one of the dumbest and most revolting in the business, shaming the religion she has no business being part of and shilling for one that would suppress her too. No wonder the Reform movement's collapsing today.
JOSHUA DYSART GOING TO KURDISTAN, BUT UNDER UN SPONSORSHIP
The comics writer Joshua Dysart has announced on his site he's traveling to Iraq's Kurdish region for goals of research. While it would seem like he's taking up a noble mission to help Kurds suppressed by Iraq's Islamofascists, his choice of whom to travel and work with isn't great:
For over a year now I’ve been in contact with some people at the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization concerned with hunger and food security. We’ve been plotting to tell some stories about the complexity and necessity of feeding the world’s displaced people in an engaging way. Now we’re finally getting started and soon I’ll be leaving for northern Iraq. There, I’ll begin researching the current situation facing Kurdish refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict and the violent push of the Islamic State. The situation is incredibly dire, especially with winter coming. In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq the temperatures can range from 40 degrees Fahrenheit down to near 0 this time of year.
He's right that ISIS are the evil entity, and that nobody innocent should have to starve, but why does he think a political organization that's been Islamofascism's worst enabler - with some of the worst violators of human rights sitting on their own security councils - are the kind of people he should be associating himself with? The UN was also guilty of involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal, and one of their worst members of recent was Richard Falk, an anti-Israelist and 9-11 Truther. Falk's offenses even include blaming America after the terrorist attack at Boston's marathon. Why associate himself with an organization that's not what some used to think it was, if it ever was at all?
Dysart's mission may be for a good cause, but he shouldn't be working with members of the UN to fulfill it, since they're some of the most dishonest people you can find, and willfully employed some pure scum on their payroll. If he were smart, he'd look for a better relief organization to travel to Kurdistan with.
WOW: NASA CO2 MAP SHOWS BIOMASS BURNING IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA RELEASES MORE CO2 THAN US AND EU INDUSTRIES!
Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) has returned its first global maps of the greenhouse gas CO2.
The satellite was sent up in July to help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed.
This should help scientists better understand how human activities are influencing the climate.
The new maps contain only a few weeks of data in October and November, but demonstrate the promise of the mission.
Clearly evident within the charts is the banding effect that describes how emitted gases are mixed by winds along latitudes rather than across them.
Also apparent are the higher concentrations over South America and southern Africa. These are likely the result of biomass burning in these regions.
THE REGIONS THAT ARE RED HAVE MUCH MORE CO2 THAN THE OTHER REGIONS.
THE RED REGIONS ARE HIGH CO2 PRODUCING REGIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOREST FIRES, AND BECAUSE THEY BURN A LOT OF WOOD AND DRIED MANURE AS FUEL: WIKI:
Dry animal dung is used as a fuel in many countries around the world. It is a source of Green fuel used by more than two billion people.[1][2] However, it might have some disadvantages, such as air pollution.[3] As a cheap bioenergy source, it has gained growing interest.[4]
Burning issues: tackling indoor air pollution, 7 May 2011 by The Lancet: "According to WHO, 2 million people die as a result of the smoke generated by open fires or crude stoves within their homes every year. Indoor air pollution has been definitively linked to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, the risk of which is doubled by exposure to indoor smoke. More than 900 000 people die from pneumonia caused by indoor air pollution every year. 500 million households worldwide—roughly 3 billion people—rely on solid fuels, such as wood, animal dung, or coal, for cooking and heating. These fuels are usually burned in a rudimentary stove, or in a traditional open fire. It need not be a problem, at least in terms of health. But only assuming the fuel is completely combusted—wood must be dry, and the stove must work efficiently—and there is plenty of ventilation, a spacious chimney, or a sizeable window. In those places where the use of solid fuels prevails, however, these conditions rarely apply, and the consequences can be severe."
"Yet, 'despite the magnitude of this growing problem' notes WHO 'the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution have yet to become a central focus of research, development aid, and policy making'....But the past year has had some encouraging advances."
"In September, 2010, the UN Foundation launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves....The Alliance—a public-private initiative—brings together partners from the range of specialties across which the issue of indoor air pollution sprawls. There is public health, of course, but also energy, international development, female empowerment, climate change, technology, and business."
"The real benefits will be seen by switching to cleaner fuels and cleaner stoves. Improved stoves—those fitted with fans, for example—combust fuel more efficiently, have lower emissions, and require shorter cooking times."[1]
IF THESE REGIONS HAD MORE INDUSTRIAL POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRICITY THEN THE PEOPLE BURNING MANURE AT HOME FOR COOKING AND HEATING FUEL COULD USE ELECTRICITY INSTEAD,
TO REDUCE CO2 THE WORLD NEEDS MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION, NOT LESS.
EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE LEFTIST AGENDA.
IF CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA WERE NOT REALLY AN ATTACK ON THE WEST'S INDUSTRIALIZATION - AND AN ATTEMPT OF THE LEFT TO GAIN CONTROL OVER IT, THEN THEY'D BE SUPPORTING MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA.
THE FACT THAT THEY AREN'T PROVES THEY ARE NOT REALLY AGAINST MAN-MADE CO2, AND THAT THEIR CO2PHOBIA IS MERELY A STRATEGY TO GAIN POWER OVER THE ECONOMY.
HERE'S THE REAL REASON OIL HAS CRASHED: SAUDI'S AND GULF STATES PREPARING FOR IAF STRIKE ON IRAN
1 - THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF IRAN AND HANDLING OF SYRIA:
THE WSJ - 9/26/13:
The Obama administration's handling of overtures on Syria and Iran have outraged regional ally Saudi Arabia, which is signaling it wants to do more to boost the power of armed Sunni rebel groups on the ground in Syria as the U.S. pursues diplomacy.
Saudis fear that Syrian President Basher al-Assad will use the time afforded by U.S.- and U.N.-backed diplomacy on Syria "to impose more killing and to torture its people," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Thursday night in New York, in a warning that was overshadowed by the attention paid to the weekend's first public contacts in three decades between the presidents of Iran and the U.S.
Accordingly, Saudi Arabia wants "intensification of political, economic and military support to the Syrian opposition…. to change the balance of powers on the ground" in Syria, Prince Saud said in his remarks to the Friends of Syria group, a coalition of Western and Gulf Arab countries and Turkey that supports the Syria opposition against Mr. Assad. The state-run Saudi Press Agency carried a transcript of his remarks.
The Saudi government has had no public comment so far on the groundbreaking phone call Friday between U.S. President Barack Obama, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as the main military protector of its interests, and new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as its main threat.
Asharq al Awsat, one of Saudi Arabia's leading newspapers, led its front page the morning after the phone call with a photo of Mr. Rouhani, bowed over with laughter.
1A - REUTERS - 18/22/13:
In unusually blunt public remarks, Prince Turki al-Faisal called Obama's policies in Syria "lamentable" and ridiculed a U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons. He suggested it was a ruse to let Obama avoid military action in Syria.
"The current charade of international control over Bashar's chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious. And designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down (from military strikes), but also to help Assad to butcher his people," said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family and former director of Saudi intelligence.
1B - HAARETZ - 3/27/14:
“Why are you abandoning your allies?” fumed Faisal Abbas, editor of Al Arabiya News’ English website, in an op-ed published in Arabic. “You” referred to the United States – and, more specifically, President Barack Obama, who arrives in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a state visit. Abbas, who reflects the prevailing opinions of the Saudi royal court, lists a large number of missteps that he believes characterize the Obama administration. The most important one is the interim deal signed last November with Iran regarding its nuclear program, as well as the present negotiations over a final agreement.
“Has Washington forgotten the long-standing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the war on terror?” Abbas asks. “Has it forgotten that it was Iran that destabilized Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein? That it’s rocking Lebanon and Bahrain, that it supports Hezbollah and has captured three islands in the Persian Gulf that belong to the United Arab Emirates? An American strategy that ignores all these to placate Iran, while negotiating over its nuclear ambitions, raises grave concerns.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t have written a more scathing article.
1C - THE GUARDIAN - 3/28/14
The US President's flying visit – no more than an evening in the Saudi king's palace – is his first since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, which drove an initial wedge between Washington and Riyadh.
Ever since, relations have tangibly soured on every front, with the US outreach to Iran and ambivalence on Syria particularly irking Saudi leaders who believe arch foe Tehran has been empowered at their expense. So bothered has Riyadh become by what it sees as naive appeasement of Iran, that it now seems ready to project itself regionally without US cover.
"The US has underwritten the regional security order for the past 70 years and it sees now as a good time to disengage?," one senior figure put to the Guardian recently. "We will have to do it all ourselves."
2 - RALPH PETERS, TODAY:
This week, oil fell through the price floor of $60 a barrel and gas at my local filling station was $2.26 a gallon.
That’s great news for commuters and almost every business, but wonderfully bad news for our ugliest enemies.
If oil prices remain low through next year, the effect on rogue governments, from the Russian Federation to Venezuela, will go from damaging to devastating.
But Western economies (and China’s) stand to benefit, with cheap oil possibly tickling Europe’s snoozing markets awake. Even most underdeveloped states will get a welcome break.
This price plunge has been driven by Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s dominant power. While it’s true that part of Riyadh’s actions respond to the energy renaissance in North America, the greater motivation is breaking Iran’s will.The Saudis believe they can no longer rely on the US to contain Tehran’s imminent nuclear threat, so they’re out to do what our lukewarm sanctions couldn’t.
IN MY OPINION, IT'S NOT THAT THE SAUDIS THINK THEY CAN BREAK IRAN ECONOMICALLY WITH A SERIOUS DROP IN OIL RICES.
IN MY OPINION, THE SAUDIS AND THE GULF STATES, UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF A RELIABLE AND COURAGEOUS ALLY IN THE USA, (WHICH IS THE CASE SINCE OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE) - ONLY ISRAEL CAN DESTROY THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.
THEIR GREATEST FEAR OF SUCH AN ATTACK WAS WHAT IT WOULD DO TO OIL PRICES AND TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY:
PRICES WOULD TRIPLE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER AN ATTACK - IN PART JUST BECAUSE OF FEAR, AND ALSO BECAUSE IRAN WOULD MOST LIKELY BE ABLE TO LAUNCH A COUNTER-ATTACK THAT WOULD DEMOLISH A GREAT DEAL OF THE GULF STATES' OIL INFRASTRUCTURE.
THOUGH SOME MIGHT THINK THAT THE HOUSE OF SAUD LIKES ANY HIGH PRICE, THE FACT IS THEY REALLY JUST LIKE THE HIGHEST PRICE THEIR CUSTOMERS CAN AFFORD.
A $300/BARREL PRICE WOULD DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
SO THEY HAVE BEEN STEADILY BRINGING THE RICE DOWN SO THAT AFTER THE IAF ATTACKS - AND AFTER OIL TRIPLES - IT WILL ON;Y REACH $130-150/BARREL FOR A FEW/SEVERAL MONTHS, A PRICE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY CAN LIVE WITH.
SO... IF I WAS IRAN, THEN I'D BE VERY VERY WORRIED. SCARED EVEN THAT AN IAF ATTACK WAS IMMINENT.
MORE SCARED THEN SONY.
PREDICTION: THE IAF WILL ATTACK ON A NEW MOON - PERHAPS THE ONE IN MARCH - 3/20/15...
HERE'S WHY LEFTISTS DON'T CARE THAT OBAMA VIOLATED THE LAW TO BAILOUT THE CASTRO REGIME
OBAMA HAS BROKEN THE LAW... AGAIN, AND THE LEFT DOESN'T SEEM TO MIND.
THEY LIKE THE NEW PRO-CASTRO POLICY.
WE CAN DEBATE THE VALUE OF AN EMBARGO.
BUT THEY SHOULD WANT ANY CHANGE IN POLICY TO BE DONE LAWFULLY.
THE BI-PARTISAN CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT OF 1992 - PASSED BY CONGRESS AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE PRESIDENT - PROHIBITED ANY CHANGE IN CUBA'S DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE STATUS UNLESS AND UNTIL THE PRESIDENT REPORTS TO CONGRESS CERTIFYING THAT CUBA HAS MADE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS AND THAT CUBANS HAVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.
OBAMA CLEARLY VIOLATED THIS LAW.
OBAMA'S MOVE IS LAWLESS.
IT VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW.
BY DOING IT IN SPITE OF THE LAW - AND IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE LAW, OBAMA IS ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR AND NOT THE PRESIDENT OF A DEMOCRATIC, CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
OBAMUNISTS SHOULDN'T SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.
IT COULD ALLOW A PRESIDENT NAMED CRUZ OR PALIN OR WALKER ACT BY FIAT AND CANCEL LAWS THEY LIKE - SUCH AS GUN CONTROL, OBAMACARE OR THE EPA OR THE INCOME TAX, FOR EXAMPLE.
WHY ARE THEY SO BLIND TO THE DANGER F THESE LAWLESS, DICTATORIAL PRECEDENTS?
SIMPLE;
LEFTISTS ARE SO CONSUMED WITH POWER...
AND SO UPSET THAT THEY'RE LOSING IT -
BY LOSING THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE ...
AND SO MANY GOVERNORSHIPS AND STATE HOUSES,
THAT THEY RE WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING OBAMA DOES...
THAT EITHER TRANSFORMS US INTO A MORE SOCIALIST NATION...
OR BRINGS US CLOSER TO A CLOWARD-PIVEN COLLAPSE ...
THAT DESTROYS ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS AND CLEARS THE DECK ...
FOR AN ENTIRELY COMMUNIST STATE.
CONGRESS MUST NOT LET OBAMA'S LAWLESS CUBAN GAMBIT STAND.
TWO ARTICLES ON TODAY'S BBC NEWS SUMMARIZE WHY WE ARE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST JIHADISM
TODAY'S BBC NEWS::
1 - Boko Haram unrest: Nigerian militants 'kidnap 100 villagers' - 33 dead
THIS ARTICLE USES THE WORD "ISLAMIC" ONCE, AND NEVER USES THE WORD MUSLIM.
2 - Geert Wilders faces charges over 'anti-Moroccan' speech:
Mr Wilders, who leads the Party for Freedom (PVV), has often expressed his distaste for Islam and mass immigration.
In response to the prosecution, Mr Wilders described the charges in a statement as "a travesty".
"The public prosecutor would do better to devote his time to prosecuting jihadis instead of me," he said.
Mr Wilders made his comments during a political meeting in The Hague.
Asking supporters in a cafe if they wanted fewer Moroccans in the country, some responded by chanting "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!"
The politician then replied: "I will fix it for you."
AS JIHADISTS SLAUGHTER AND ENSLAVE THOUSANDS EACH WEEK ALL OVER THE GLOBA, THE AUTHORITIES IN THE WEST USE THEIR COERCIVE POWER TO ENFORCE SHARIA.
WE CANNOT DEFEAT THE ENEMY IF OUR POLITICIANS ATTACK OUR PATRIOTS INSTEAD OF OUR ENEMIES.
MOST OF OUR POLITICIANS HAVE AS MUCH COURAGE AS THE WHINING, PHONY, MENDACIOUS TWO-FACED EXECUTIVES AT SONY WHO JUST CAVED INTO NORTH KOREA.
WE NEED TO EMPOWER MORE POLITICIANS LIKE GEERT WILDERS AND NIGEL FARAGE AND MARINE LE PEN IF WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT THE LIKES OF BOKO HARAM AND ISIS, AND AL QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN AND THE FILIPINO MLF.
EU REMOVES HAMAS FROM BLACKLIST
A court for the EU has given its support for Hamas' barbarism by excising the jihadist gang from their blacklistings:
The European Union's second-highest court on Wednesday annulled the bloc's decision to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations, but temporarily maintained the measures for a period of three months or until an appeal is closed.
The General Court of the European Union said the contested measures were not based on an examination of Hamas' acts but on imputations derived from the media and the Internet.
The court said it was nevertheless maintaining the effects of the measures in order to ensure that any possible future freezing of funds would be effective.
Uh uh, I don't buy their defense here. How do we know they haven't been giving Hamas some money and kickbacks under the table? This is nothing more than a show of weakness.
Israel is concerned Hamas may use the opportunity to renew its activities in Europe.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Hamas to be immediately returned to the terrorist blacklist, saying Israel was not satisfied with the EU's explanation that the removal of Hamas from the list was merely a "technical matter."
"The burden of proof is on the European Union," Netanyahu said. "Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization, with the stated goal, in its charter, of destroying Israel. We will continue to fight against it with determination and strength, so that it will never achieve this aim."
Again, their defense for this pathetic cave-in does not work at all, and if they're really serious, they should return them to the blacklist immediately.
THIS CUBAN RESET WILL BE AS GOOD FOR US THE RUSSIAN RESET - in other words, it will suck
WHY DID OBAMA PRESS THE CUBA RESET BUTTON NOW!?!?
Simple: The Castro Regime was more likely to fall now than ever.
Obama is rescuing them.
He's not for peace; he's on the other side.
TED EXPLAINS IT ALL HERE:
SONY APPEASES GENOCIDAL NORTH KOREAN TYRANNY
TGWP: Sony Bows to North Korea: Cancels Release of ‘The Interview’
Appeasement always just encourages more bad behavior.
ROB LOWE GETS' IT:
In a tweet on Wednesday, actor Rob Lowe compared Sony's decision to cancel the scheduled Dec. 25 release of "The Interview" to the strategic mistake that is widely blamed for emboldening Nazi Germany just before World War II. Lowe said the cancellation of the movie, which followed a massive hack on Sony studios, would have made former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "proud."
I cannot wait to see what's next.
If we had a patriot in the WH, then he'd have a screening of the movie this weekend!
UPDATE: The WH doesn't have a clue as to what's next. TYPICAL.
AMERICAN LEFTISTS LIE AS FREELY AS ISLAMISTS
The Apostle said:
“Who will rid me of Ibnul-Ashraf?” Muhammad bin Maslama, brother of the Bani Abdu’l-Ashhal, said, “I will deal with him for you, O Apostle of God, I will kill him.” He said, “Do so if you can.” “All that is incumbent upon you is that you should try” {said the Prophet to Muhammad bin Maslama}. He said, “O Apostle of God, we shall have to tell lies.” He {the Prophet} answered, “Say what you like, for you are free in the matter.”
AND SO THE RIGHT TO LIE - TAQQIYA - WAS ESTABLISHED BY MUSLIMS.
RATHERGATE, DUKE LACROSSE, UVA RAPE, CLIMATE CHANGE; HANDS UP IN FERGUSON, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTHCARE PLAN... (THE RECENT LIST IS ENDLESS) ... ALL HAVE THIS IN COMMON WITH THE TAQQIYA.
LEFTISTS - LIKE ISLAMISTS - ARE FREE TO TELL LIES IF THEY THINK IT WILL HELP THEIR CAUSE.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
THEY HAVE TO:
THE TRUTH IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE.
UNBELIEVABLE: ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 1200 YEAR OLD SUV IN CALIFORNIA!
SUCH A FIND IS UNBELIEVABLE BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
RECENT ARGUMENTS THAT THE CURRENT DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA IS THE RESULT OF MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE JUST AS UNBELIEVABLE:
A new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Griffin & Anchukaitis concludes that the 2012–2014 drought in California was its most intense in at least 1,200 years.
The study used drought reconstructions from tree-ring cores, from the North American Drought Atlas (NADA) and from cores Griffin & Anchukaitis collected from blue oak trees in southern and central California. Blue oak tree ring widths are particularly sensitive to moisture changes. ...
... The study compared today’s drought conditions in California to those reconstructed over the past 1,200 years using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), an estimate of available soil moisture. The data showed that California is experiencing its most intense drought in over a millennium, the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years, with single year (2014) and accumulated moisture deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry years … In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record (-14.55 cumulative PDSI), more extreme than longer (4- to 9-year) droughts.
WHAT CAUSED THIS HORRIFIC DROUGHT 1200 YEARS AGO? SUV'S? MAN-MADE CO2?
OR COULD IT HAVE BEEN NATURAL EVENT? YA THINK?!?!?!!?
UNLESS ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND A WHOLE BUNCHA 1200 YR OLD SUV'S, I'M GONNA HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WAS NATURAL.
AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS ONCE AGAIN, TOO ALL THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS:
STFU.
THE NLG CONNECTION TO OWS, FERGUSON AND THE NATIONAL POGROM ON COPS
An adjunct prof of poetry at CUNY was arrested for assaulting a cop after the anti-cop march in NYC - his name is ERIC LINSKER.
Linsker's lawyer is big time NATIONAL LAWYERS' GUILD operative- Martin Stolar. The NLG is an old time, bigtime communist lawyers' group which is pro islamo-terror; Lynn Stewart was another big-time NLG lawyer and she was convicted of helping al Qaeda.
Linsker's lawyer - Stolar - was the NLG's point man against the NYPD's mosque surveillance program which NYC Mayor deBlasio shutdown as one of his first acts.
Holder - [whose law-firm (prior to being selected by Obama to be his AG) aided Gitmo detainees, just as the NLG did] - and Sharpton and deBlasio must all know each other via the WORKING FAMILIES PARTY - the party that propelled deBlasio's career and which is the creation of the SEIU and ACORN and which is the successor party to the explicitly socialist party "The New Party" which fwas also founded by comrades of race-hustler Jesse Jackson, was the first party line Barry Obama ever ran on.
The NLG and Stolar also were central to OWS movement which tried to shut down ur nation's financial system and painted all capitalists as evil - much like the anti-cop movement is trying to paint all cops as evil.
IOW: MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: the nation-wide and NYC anti-COP movement is a coordinated left-wing attack - a left-wing which has actively sought to defend islamo-terrorists and which is pro-CAIR, who returns the favor - a front for the Muslim Brotherhood operation.
Also note that LINSKER IS A BDS/ ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST; he signed up here: http://www.usacbi.org/endorser...
So are they all anti-Israel.
Leftist groups like REVCOM, OWS, CODE PINK do NOT SPONTANEOUSLY protest; they plan and coordinate their agitprop and their protests and their lawfare.
And they are working hand-in-glove with people in the Working Families Prty including Mayor deBlasio and USAG Holder and Al "Tawana" Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Obama/Jarrett has defended them and attacked the cops. And Soros finances some of them.
All this is aimed to advance socialism and Islam.
REPEAT: neither the Trayvon Martin tumult or the Ferguson riots or the current pogrom against our cops were spontaneous.
They are part of a concerted effort by leftist politicians and their comrades to undermine our ability to defend our civilization in order to replace it with a pro-islamic socialist one.
UPDATE: MUCH MORE HERE.
UPDATE2: SEIU IS DEEPLY INVOLVED - AND ONE OF ITS ACTIVISTS ASSAULTED A COP DURING A PROTEST.
MARZ TURNS AUSTRALIAN TERROR SIEGE INTO GUN CONTROL MISHMASH
Ron Marz puts on his know-it-all acts again, addressing the terrible hostage crisis caused by an Iranian jihadist that went on for 16 hours at a chocolate store in Sydney:
People saying "If Australia hadn't banned guns, maybe #sydneysiege wouldn't be happening" are really too stupid to even be on the internet.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 15, 2014
Curious how Marz can't at least argue that, if less Islamofacists were allowed into countries that value civility, there'd be less situations of the sort that plagued Sydney today. The jihadist, who can now rot in hell, was arrested earlier this year for sexual assault, was also arrested as an accessory to his ex-wife's murder, and faced punishment for sending obscene letters to the widows of soldiers who died in Afghanistan. And the authorities let him walk around free. Why doesn't Marz rail against an incompetent, kowtowing justice system?
Once again, Marz misses the chance to make arguments with more sense.
JIHADIST HELD HOSTAGES IN AUSTRALIAN STORE
The crisis has been stopped, and the jihadist, who came from Iran, is now dead, but tragically, so are at least 2 other people. From ABC (via Jihad Watch):
The gunman who had been holding people hostage inside a chocolate store in downtown Sydney has been killed, Australian police confirmed to ABC News.
And two other people have been killed, a highly place Australian source told ABC News.
The suspect had previously been identified as Man Monis by local news reports, and the manner in which he died still remains unclear but New South Wales police have confirmed his death. The identities of the two others killed were not immediately revealed.
Police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in the early hours of Tuesday morning, local time, and three injuries have been reported, including one policeman.
Explosions of what were believed to be flash bang grenades were heard when police stormed the shop and while there were many loud noises, it is not clear if or how many shots were fired by either police or Monis during the face off.
At 10:19 a.m. ET, a group of at least seven heavily armed police officers went into the Lindt cafe under the cover of loud bangs of what local news Channel 9 is calling stun grenades. Shortly after the police stormed the café, at least two hostages emerged, looking visibly shaken.
A few minutes later, a few paramedics were seen entering the café behind police officers with medical packs — followed by at least two stretchers. The explosive police action came shortly after a new wave of hostages emerged from the shop.
Monis was believed to be a self-proclaimed Islamic “sheikh” who is known to Australian police because he was allegedly involved in dozens of counts of sexual assault, according to Australia’s 9News.
He was born in Iran as Manteghi Bourjerdi and migrated to Australia in 1996, according to the station.
This just confirms further why immigration from Islamic countries has to be curtailed according to religious ideological background.
PIGS FLY: BBC ADMITS ARCTIC ICE IS NOT DISAPPEARING, AND THAT THERE IS NO SIGN IT EVER WILL
BBC: Arctic sea ice volume holds up in 2014
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco
Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise.
While global warming seems to have set the polar north on a path to floe-free summers, the latest data from Europe's Cryosat mission suggests it may take a while yet to reach those conditions.
The spacecraft observed 7,500 cu km of ice cover in October when the Arctic traditionally starts its post-summer freeze-up.
This was only slightly down on 2013 when 8,800 cu km were recorded.
Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume.
And while the ice is still much reduced compared with the 20,000 cu km that used to stick around in the Octobers of the early 1980s, there is no evidence to indicate a collapse is imminent.
IOW: ALL THE HYSTERICAL PROCLAMATIONS THAT THE ARCTIC WAS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR WERE TOTALLY WRONG.
AS IS ALL CO2PHOBIC, CLIMATE ALARMISM.
MEANWHILE, LAST WEEK THE UN'S CLIMATE ALARMISTS HAD MANY NATIONS SIGN CO2PHOBIC PROMISSORY NOTES TO REDUCE CO2.
A TOTALLY IDIOTIC ACT THAT WILL - IF EVER CARRIED OUT - DO NOTHING FOR THE GLOBAL CLIMATE.
BUT IT WILL RETARD ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD AND THEREBY HARM A BILLION POOR PEOPLE.
MAN-MADE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE THIRD BIGGEST AND MOT HARMFUL HOAX EVER PERPETRATED UPON THE HUMAN RACE - AFTER SOCIALISM AND ISLAMISM.
Erdogan's brownshirts make mass arrests of opposition media
MORE PROOF THAT TURKEY DOESN'T BELONG IN NATO, LET ALONE THE EU.
VIDEO: THIS BLACK WOMAN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!
She uses some mildly offensive language.
Telling the truth does these days...
CROSS-DRESSING JIHADISTS SHOT IN YEMEN.
BEHEADING. CROSS-DRESSING.
IS THERE ANYTHING THE JIHADISTS WON'T DO?
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS WILLING TO JOIN A LABOR COALITION
The Likud's attacked him for willing to sit in a coalition with Labor:
The Likud attacked Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday, after he made comments saying that he is not ruling out sitting in a future coalition – whether with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Isaac Herzog.
The Likud, in a press release, said that this proves that voting for Liberman takes votes away from the right and contributes to the left.
The prime minister's party stressed that "it is clear that anyone who wants a broad, strong government headed by Netanyahu, based on the right and center-right, should vote Likud under Netanyahu this time."
Lieberman's already demonstrated his ties to corrupt businessmen like Martin Schlaff, and that's one more reason why he's ultimately bad news, not unlike Aryeh Deri from the Shas party.
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Australian Music History
Recording the Golden Age of Australian Live Music
Roadcrew
14 comments / May 18, 2010 / Philip Edwards / Bands – J
The History of Jupiter ……….so far
Jupiter formed in 1976 in Sydney Australia
Ron Mazurkiewicz and Philip Edwards had played together for many years in a well respected band called Elmtree. The band had been through many incarnations and was heading towards a more Jazzier Fusion focus and so needed the talents of a great guitarist which led them to Dieter Kleeman who was playing with local band “Forever”.
It certainly was a meeting of the spirits for these 3 musicians who quickly realised that they were well suited to be playing together. Next they needed that special bass player…………..
By placing an advertisement in the paper they thought there would be a line a mile long of talented bass players eager to join this new outfit…..
The one and only Bass player who answered the advert was Phil Laycock, which in hindsight was a great relief to the other members as he was perfect for the job of completing the new line up now called Jupiter.
It didn’t take long to have a wide ranging repertoire of tunes drawn from their musical influences. This included the likes of Chick Corea, John Mclaughlin, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, to name a few. Eventually the list would include some memorable original tunes like Full Moon, Camellia and much more.
Gradually, after being isolated for months in a small house on the outskirts of rural western Sydney the band ventured out to hit the traps with their new and innovative style of music.
Jupiter didn’t fit into the normal jazz scene, they were to rocky, they didn’t fit into the rock scene as they were to jazzy. They had to forge ahead by astounding people at places like French’s Wine bar in Oxford Street, and the Pinball Wiz at Circular quay.
Once at one gig out of town they were told they would not get the full fee promised as their singer had not turned up…… these early days of Jazz/Fusion instrumental music were tough but the band continued to develop a strong loyal following of people who needed more than the usual 3 chords, without the tradition of some Jazz gigs.
The band contributed to the sound track of a surfing film called ‘Drift Away” and played live at the old Regent theatre in George St Sydney. One of the last bands to play there.
The ABC radio station “JJ” as it was then called were having a series of live performances and were inundated with requests for Jupiter to play a “Live to Air” concert. This occurred in late 1976 and was a wonderful night for all concerned this helped the band to develop a wider audience.
The band recorded reel after reel at Atlantic studios in Sydney’s Earlwood with a goal of releasing an album. Unfortunately trying to get backing to release this material proved all to hard and eventually the band broke up with members going in vastly different directions.
Jupiter have just had a 34 year reunion. Although Ron Mazurkiewicz and Philip Edwards have jammed regularly over the last 10 years or so, its only been the occasional session that Dieter has been able to play with them. Phil Laycock has been busy and had not been seen for some time. So it was April 2010 that the lads were able to get together in the same studio at the same time.
It was at Atlantic studios in Earlwood that Jupiter spent so much time recording and generally fooling around, so it was wonderful they should have their reunion in the same studio.
Phil Laycock arrived, and within 5 minutes had his bass out and was encouraging the rest to get started, well what a night, the very special feeling that a band such as Jupiter created had not been lost, just faded a bit. Gradually the tunes came back and a fantastic night was had.
The evening was recorded and filmed for a future project.
It was a massive surprise when Phil Laycock reminded us all that we were filmed at Frenchs wine bar in Oxford St around 1977, it was even more surprising when he told us that he had the video tape.
The tape was quickly passed to Philip Edwards, who is now involved with video production, and immediately he had to find someone with a machine that could play a “Helical Scan 1 inch video reel to reel tape”. Eventually finding someone with a old machine, the tape was baked to remove 30 years of moisture and turned into a digital file.
Jupiter are now watching themselves play a gig recorded over 30 years ago, and it has been a fantastic find.
Gradually this will be part of a documentary of the band that we are putting together and soon will be available for all to see.
Thanks to all those people that still remember the band and the effect we had on them…. all good we hope
The journey continues….
Ron Mazurkiewicz – Keyboards
Phil Laycock – Bass
Philip Edwards – Drums
Dieter Kleeman – Guitar
14 comments… add one
Mark Gibson May 23, 2010, 9:54 am
I have it on good authority that Dieter Kleeman played one of the more famous versions of the Triple M theme. Does anyone know if that’s correct?
Colin Gardiner February 11, 2013, 5:55 pm
Dieter did play the “TRIPLE M “theme song I can assure you .
Brian Last June 8, 2010, 12:14 am
Yup he did the second one championed by Uncle Doug Mulray – there is even a video clip of it somewhere ..
dieter now plays with the Urban gypsies and The robertson Bros . He also is a sometime player with the Bodacious Cowboys .
Of all the musos I have known And had the pleasure to sing with I would have picked him easily as the one to get international acclaim — yep he’s that good …
Rob Prior April 6, 2011, 3:01 pm
Wow, what a great article about a superb band.
How can I purchase the dvd of the band from 1977?
Rob Prior
Philip Edwards April 6, 2011, 9:15 pm
Hi Rob, thanks for your very generous comments, we loved the band also. Right now I am still editing the old video, firstly finding someone who had a machine that would run a half inch Helical tape. (This was pre VHS) It will take a little time and the rest of the band will then decide what we do with it. I may put up some short bits of it on youtube as a few people have shown interest in seeing this piece of musical history. Please keep in touch and I will let you know if and when some footage is up for viewing or purchasing. Regards Philip Edwards
Rob Prior April 7, 2011, 10:30 am
Philip, have you contacted Barry Leffler to see if he has a machine to run the half-inch helical tape? His company Lefflerpost, located at Crows Nest, has stacks of vintage production gear. My brother John and I have been very happy with Barry’s services. Their website is http://www.lefflerpost.com.au. On a different note, do you remember when our band Conic Section and your band Jupiter went in a band competition in one of the huge barns at the Flemington Markets site in 1977? I’m very keen to see the Jupiter footage! Regards, Rob
Craige bailey June 1, 2019, 6:14 pm
The Flemington market gig I sure was in 1976 , they played in the middle of a huge shed , on the side, with bands playing all around. A small group of friends watched but little seemed to come of it. They had regular Thursday night gigs at Frenches. I think they played Jan Hammer numbers from OH Yeah ?. I seen dieter play bass in one off gigs in Liverpool town hall.
Steve Hunter October 18, 2011, 2:25 pm
I was a big Jupiter fan in 76/77 & used to see them all the time at French’s Wine Bar on Oxford St . A decade or so later , Dieter Kleeman was in my band for a few years & contributed his fantastic composition ‘Facing it’ to my 1989 album ‘Homebase’.
Michael Tait October 19, 2011, 12:12 pm
Hello, I remember going to see Jupiter at French’s, Sunday arvo rings a bell. I remember being very impressed with them and in particular Dieter’s playing as I was right into Return To Forever and Al DiMeola’s playing and Jupiter did a few covers of their material. Very fond memories, Philip Edwards have you put anything on Youtube yet ? I did a search and couldn’t find anything but if you have a link would be appreciated … cheers
Peter Crane November 27, 2012, 5:33 pm
I was in a band ‘Rainshine’ that had a saturday afternoon slot at French’s and we followed Jupiter. I still remember their spot and I remain impressed. I would be keen to view any footage. Jupiter – excellent.
Hey Phillip , I would love to be kept up to date , I only got to see Ron now & again & was unaware that all this was happening . Great to see , please fill me in with progress thank you . Col .
Michael Tan (alias Tann, now Tanner) November 19, 2015, 10:23 pm
hi phil …long while between drinks …eh?
http://www.rockhistoryaustralia.blogspot.com
Mary parkyns May 17, 2016, 4:56 pm
Hi Phillip ,Would love to purchase any available footage of Jupiter . Regards Mary,
John Kozor October 25, 2017, 6:29 pm
Love all the nostalgia about old sydney bands, does anyone remember what became of the Sandmen a club group playing around the cross circa1970, and the rhythm beats circa, easy beats Beatle village Taylor square, love to know any feedback, John
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MMA/Boxing (Moderator: Firmino of the 909) »
The MMA Article Thread
Author Topic: The MMA Article Thread (Read 3658 times)
Lord of The Curry
There are a lot of mma and mma-related pieces floating around out there. Some good, some bad, some just plain crazy. A lot of times we get links to these but they're lost in the shuffle, figured we could use a seperate thread for them and a place where we can link or test out our own posters writing.
To start us off an absolutely incredible story by Karim Zidan from Bloody Elbow about a guy who spent 12 years trapped in an mma cult. Must read shit.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/8/20/9115921/longform-coach-cultist-mma-mind-control-fear-cult-victim-tale-heavyweight-konstantin-gluhov?utm_campaign=zidansports&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Re: The MMA Article Thread
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2555141-justin-wren-the-big-pygmy-returns?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
Justin Wren is a good dude. He's a good, good dude.
Fan of Sports with Integrity
PosterFest 2014 Winner
Your POV
Keep on posting these, good reads.
I don't really scour MMA sites anymore, but if something great/at least cool comes my way like the stuff above, I'll post it in here.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/8/28/9091777/viral-ko-video-spurs-state-investigation-into-unsanctioned-mma-events
Mookie Alexander of Bloody Elbow has been reporting on these guys for a while, the whole thing is crazy shady.
Some classics:
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/3/24/8259545/in-search-of-strange-brew
Even after getting his story told, he's still not Jason Thacker in the title/keyword/URL
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/3/13/5499090/the-eagles-of-bettendorf#4064019
GOAT story about one of the GOAT gyms, the legacy of which still stands tall today with Lawler defending a UFC title against the new breed.
I'd kill for a comprehensive feature on the life and legacy of Sakuraba, but most articles I've seen are kinda superficial.
The Thacker article is one of the most interesting and sad mma pieces I've read in a long time. Mindenhall absolutely killed it with that one.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2559845-randa-markos-on-growing-up-in-domestic-violence-and-physical-abuse
This was.....not an easy read. But something everybody should read.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/72327098/mark-hunt-fighting-the-past
Hunt-O
Just Call Me Dan
Holy shit. That is insane. I wonder if the suicide of his brother is what he was struggling to deal with right before that Werdum fight in Mexico. What a remarkable guy.
If it was you wouldn't have known it. He was torching Werdum before getting caught.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Opinion-The-End-of-a-Phenomenal-Long-Con-94871
Jordan Breen actually churning out more then art-school drivel. Hows about that.
ViciousFish
I'm not a huge fan of Breen but that was pretty good. Especially the line near the end about the rules not applying to Vitor.
Quote from: Lord of The Curry on April 06, 2009, 11:30:08 AM
Matt, don't be a fag. Post some huge cocks.
It must have been torture for him to not drop some random early 90's underground hip-hop reference.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Mauro-Ranallo-Battling-a-Stigma-95907
Wow. Just.....wow. Talk all the shit you want about his broadcasting style but as a human being you can't question his character.
I knew he had Bipolar, but didn't know it was that bad. I'll never like his commentary but I gotta respect The Mauro as a person.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/11/27/9798748/the-night-we-faced-jose-aldo-ufc-194-conor-mcgregor
Another must-read from Shaun Al-Shatti. I knew Aldo was a bad man but listening to guys talk about the long-term damage fighting him has done....holy shit.
I know the writer said he may just be getting started, but I have a hard time believing that with all the fights he's been in over ten years.
I can understand why Cub Swanson turned down an interview request but wonder why Edgar wouldn't talk to him.
Probably feel too connected, most of the guys who spoke will never fight Aldo again. Even Mendes and Llamas, I doubt they get another shot. But they both seem like humble guys.
Honestly, that's like 5 good articles with all the awesome quotes. A lot of real insight from the best in the business, plenty of real talk.
Some of this stuff seems like common sense to me, but it's bothersome how the narrative in the greater MMA world forgets some of it, like
Lamas: Unfortunately in this sport, the fans only see you as good as your last performance. It doesn’t matter, all the great accomplishments you’ve done in the past. If you lose a fight then all of a sudden you suck. Not all the fans are like that, but a lot of them are because we have a lot of fans who aren’t… I wouldn’t say very educated on the sport or the fighters. Unfortunately it’s like that.
Lamas: In Brazil he’s a superstar. I think that’s all that really matters to him. That’s his home. That’s his country. Like me, I wouldn’t care how people in Europe or wherever perceive me. I’m never going to be there so I’m never going to be around those people. I’m here in America. So I think it hurts him in America or other English speaking countries because the fans don’t really get a chance to get to know him, but that’s where he’s from.
I agree completely with all that, it bothers me that people expect Aldo to be all this shit he doesn't need to be. He's not the promoter.
The first part is what bothers me if he loses. A lot of people will shit on his legacy, Dana White fostered that kind of reputation tbh
It's no different than Ronda.
I think the only fighter that really avoided a huge backlash about their legacy was Anderson. Then he took Thai dick medicine and he got his backlash.
I'm not sure how much backlash towards Rousey has to do with people trying to discredit her prior opponents. I think it was more people being happy she got KTFO'd because of how she comes across.
I saw so much "She was never any good to begin with" everywhere. And a lot of it was casuals but there was a lot of bailing off the Ronda train onto the Ronda Sucks train, even by "hard cores".
Those people are called "morons".
Firmino of the 909
Anyone who thinks she isn't great is pretty stupid. She does only have one flaw that's able to be exploited by only the absolute highest level of boxer/kickboxer..
To think of this generation being around when guys like Ali, Foreman, and Frazier were fighting, I dunno, I don't think I could handle all these critiques and hot takes.
koab [8:27 PM]
damn i thought you guys were good little cucks who would shit themselfs so a POC could peacefully protest
That was a great article on Aldo, and it reminded me how much damage he did to Hominick and Florian.
To what you guys were saying earlier too, I did like Faber's quote about how it was hard to fight against World Champion caliber fighters. I sometimes am guilty of that during fights, wondering why guys are not "going for it" more.
This article made me excited for the fight in two weeks.
Jeremy Botter wrote a hell of an article on the injury problem in UFC and what they're doing about it.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2594909-the-cost-mmas-injury-epidemic-and-how-the-ufc-is-seeking-to-fix-it
Good article but the cynic in me can't help but wonder how much influence UFC had on Botter writing it. Seems a tad fishy that in the wake of all the bad press they've been getting lately that all of a sudden a very pro-Zuffa piece emerges.
To me, that's the worst thing about MMA fans. We've been given so many reason to hate Zuffa that most can't or are unwilling to accept that they don't hate the fighters. It seems half of them think Dana sits in his office and pulls names out of a hat and ruins those guys' lives.
Yeah, they do some pretty shitty things but they're still the company that takes the best care of the fighters. If you replaced everything Zuffa-centric in that article with Bellator, there'd be a lineup of people on their knees ready to blow Coker.
I don't think they hate the fighters who work for them. I think they take advantage of them to a criminal degree because they can.
Then fighters can find another job or sign somewhere else.
They still pay more than any organization in North America (I'm not familiar enough with Asia and Europe), provide health insurance and offer the Athlete Summits to educate the fighters. Bellator has exponentially more money behind it and does none of these things. But Coker isn't Dana so he gets a pass.
NoCalMike
Welcome to Prime Time, bitch!
Bellator (and other orgs) troubles are besides the point though. UFC is the big dog and strives to stay that way and be known as the industry standard. Do some people go overboard in their hatred/love for Zuffa. sure. However that doesn't mean there aren't legitimate problems with their business model.
"Pays the fighters the most" doesn't mean a whole lot, it just means other companies pay even worse.
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misogynist at heart
Quote from: Lord of The Curry on December 03, 2015, 03:26:09 AM
Wow. What a crazy story.
I'm shocked he hasn't been canned by WSOF already. There is clearly a conflict of interest in terms of his role with the company and his as a fighter manager.
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/espnwrousey/in-exclusive-interview-ronda-rousey-says-not-losing-holly-holm
Long story short: ESPN sent a reporter to Australia to follow Rousey and take a bunch of high-res photos of her because they assumed she would win. She didn't and they still needed to use the photos. Thus, this article was born.
That is a pretty great article. I really appreciate the articles that just report. No opinions, no skewing just in in-depth look. You don't get a lot of that anymore.
Ronda not congratulating Holm or giving her any praise is in no way surprising. But hey, she was on the money when she said that people were happy she got really hurt.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/1/22/10722814/until-the-last-light-leaves-london-shawn-tompkins-sam-stout
Shaun Al-Shatti breaking my Southern Ontario heart with the story about how Team Tompkins came to be and how Sean's death completely devastated the team.
That was a great article, I wish they addressed some of the drug rumours.
Sam tells you that he’s not really retired. That, for whatever it’s worth, it is the opposite. "One of the hardest things is financial stress," he says. "I have a daughter, and now I have no income. I’m unemployed. I wish I could say I made enough money to really retire, but that’s not the case. It’s not that I wasn’t smart with my money or anything like that. It’s just the sport. It’s not enough. The money we’re making is practically blue-collar money. Once you’re done, it doesn’t mean you get to relax for a little while. It means you’ve got to get right back on the grind and start fresh in something completely different, as a coach or whatever. That’s been one of the hardest things."
That's fucking depressing.
They aren't rumours. I have family in London that have partied with Shawn, he was a blow-head.
And it kinda addresses the drugs in a soft way, the line about he could be out all night and still be up for 6 am to help guys cut weight was a pretty telling one IMO. Probably still wired from the night before.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/5/27/11719628/in-the-shadow-of-the-monster-kevin-randleman-ufc
Junior year, 1993. There is no stopping this ghost in the red and white singlet. The shredded ligament in his knee is nothing more than a distraction, a discomfort, because this is winning time and motherfuckers like him feast on greatness. But then, a pop – his jaw is broken. He can barely clench his teeth. He calls time and thumps the side of his head. Once. He is a madman. Twice. He is a surgeon. The bones in his skull snap back in place, and with a jaw wired shut, he thrashes the next four men he faces. Back-to-back NCAA champion. Immortal before he leaves the mat.
For years, Monster Wrestling Academy was the pride of Kevin’s post-fighting life. He loved teaching the kids. He loved spending time on the mats. Yet like so many positive things around The Monster, he talked about it only when asked. "Kev was so generous and giving," says Baroni. "I lived in Vegas and I didn’t know for the longest time that he had this whole program where he was helping all these kids.
"All these little kids and all these wrestlers. Hundreds of kids that no one ever knows about. He’s not a bragger."
excuse me there's uhhh umm somethin in my eye
Yeah, just got done reading that article and man....got choked up a few times during the course of it.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/6/16/11941778/at-age-33-john-howard-finally-freed-by-diagnosis-of-autism?utm_campaign=mmafighting&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Shaun Al-Shatti killing it once again. Props to Doomsday for being open about this.
http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/a-history-of-nonviolence/
great article on Greg Jackson. BZ will appreciate all the Breaking Bad references.
War Machine's trial got postponed till February of next year, worth reading this article:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2560140-a-monster-among-us-the-dark-descent-of-war-machine
Safe for work?
No disgusting, violent pictures. I read it at work, I think you're good.
I mean there is a pic of him in a fight punching someone, but I think that's the same as any other MMA article. The worst picture was probably this one at the bottom
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/8/12/12424062/heart-of-the-209-ufc-202-nate-diaz
posting in this thread because it's worth saving in this library. soooo good.
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Crazy! Lou V. Rode the Rockies in Colorado
June 8, 2014 May 14, 2018 CycAdmin3News-USA / News-World / United States / World
June 8, 2014–Winter Park, CO.
By Lou Villarosa–As told to Jen Benepe
Lou Villarosa pictured yesterday in Boulder, CO, before the stage today where he rode in wind, rain and snow for 75 miles and 10,500 vertical feet.
It was a total ascent of 10,500 feet, and in the last hour I was starving. And we gotta go out again tomorrow.
We started at around 7 AM this morning in Boulder, CO.
About a week ago, I had a bad cold, and had to take antibiotics. But my doctor gave me the go-ahead.
We rode for 9 hours and 75 miles.
We had wind, we had hail, we had lightening, and we had snow. You name it, we had it.
Lou Villarosa rides the Rockies.
The only thing we didn’t have was a tornado.
Yes, in the middle of summer. It’s horrible.
I am 63 years old, and I normally live in Florida. Hah!
It’s called Ride the Rockies, and this is day one. It’s a 6-day event, and it’s 473 miles total.
A 69-year-old woman who has done this about 10 years in a row told my friend this was the hardest Ride the Rockies she has ever done.
There was no problem with the down hills. But it’s snowing right now in Winter Park, and the temperature is 28 degrees fahrenheit.
Tomorrow it’s going to be cold in the morning, but I am dead on my ass.
The only picture I have is when we were waiting for the bus and I was hyper thermic. One woman was put in the emergency vehicle because she was blue.
Another report coming tomorrow, I gotta go eat.
Boulder, Colorado, Jen Benepe, Lou Villarosa, Ride the Rockies, Winter Park
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India is known to be the biggest producer of motion pictures in the world. The biggest USP of Indian Films that sets it apart from World Cinema is the inclusion of song and dance sequences in them. Despite a weak content, several Films have done stupendous business, solely on the strength of its music. Music sales are a major avenue of income for Film Producers and the sale of Audio rights is a major revenue earner. The Audio companies also actively participate in the promotional and marketing strategies of these films.
According to his aptitude or liking, a person can mould or fit himself in various branches of Sound Recording and Engineering:-
1. Sound Engineer for live shoot during Filming of a Movie or a Television programme.
2. Song and Music Recording.
3. Mixing Engineer for Dolby DTS Surround sound.
4. Handling Sound System in live outdoor events.
5. Sound Designing for Film effects.
6. Recordist at a Radio Station, especially FM Stations or to produce software for broadcasting, eg. Ad-commercials, Corporate Documentary films etc.
7. Maintenance or Service Engineer for equipment.
8. Designing and establishing sound Recording Studios with proper aesthetics, acoustics and ambience.
Sound Engineering is not a profession that can be taught in a conventional academic way. It is a collaborative art form and to do it well requires a combination of technical skill and theoretical knowledge, as well as practical and aesthetic abilities.
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"NASCAR On Fox" Off To A Good Start
That big sigh of relief you heard on Saturday night was the entire NASCAR Nation exhaling as the NASCAR on Fox guys took to the airwaves for the Bud Shootout.
After a tough summer, a rugged "Chase" and a very long winter the new NASCAR TV season had dawned just the way network executives like it. There was plenty of controversy, good storylines, and the one thing that everyone really needed. Good TV coverage had returned to the sport, just in the nick of time.
As the returning veterans of the NASCAR TV package, Mike Joy lead a crew of announcers who have established their own individual identities with the American public. There are no question marks, no one to get angry at, and no facts are in doubt.
The conversations from the Infield Studio are done by men who actively participated in the sport, and give good-natured grief to the one host who has not. The relationsips between the entire on-air crew are displayed for all to see. There might be some kidding, but this group has checked their egos at the door. The resulting level of communication is outstanding.
Fox makes good HD pictures, brings a good graphics package, and seems to have put their 3-D animation feature on-the-shelf. This on-air package, without a lower third "ticker" on the screen, worked cleanly and without a problem.
This time at Daytona, the Fox Producer and Director chose to show all cars equally, although Dale Junior will always be the story when he is at the front. It still is a little tough with all the cameras not to turn-up a replay or two, but that issue should be put to bed by the Daytona 500 weekend.
Mike Joy was in fine spirits, and led a group that enjoys the pace and enthusiasm that Joy can seemingly maintain for the length of any race. There just cannot be enough said about the importance of the play-by-play announcer setting the tone for the entire broadcast. This was a cast of characters that enjoys racing, and it showed.
With laps winding down, the Fox Director borrowed from the "old school" approach and kept the cameras wide so the size of the lead pack and the speed of all the cars could be seen clearly by the viewer. Allowing Kevin Harvick to directly comment on the action was a good compliment to the regular Fox voices.
While the graphics for the in-car cameras were large, the sound from the same location was outstanding. The audio mix was a key part of this program, and never did anything but push the announcers to talk over the actual natural sound of the event.
Timely replays are tough to insert in live action, but Fox kept them to a minimum and never interrupted with any in-action promos or celebrity interviews. The focus on racing was a welcome change from the disjointed TV effort during The Chase of 2007.
The final three laps after a restart were a nice way to finish the broadcast. Darrell Waltrip was outspoken and clear in his analysis. His points about the rear spoiler of the COT keeping the cars from crashing was just fundamentally interesting. Old DW was on top of his game, and the fact that Junior won was just icing on the cake.
Fox returns with pole qualifying on Sunday at 1PM Eastern Time, and then the countdown clock to the 50th running of the Daytona 500 gets down into single numbers. With the Bud Shootout as a warm-up, NASCAR fans can breath a little easier. The "pros" are back in town, and we even saw the entire field finish the race.
On a Saturday night in February, it was just nice to be able to watch good NASCAR TV again. Maybe, this year could be the shot-in-the-arm that NASCAR really needs.
In-Progress At Daytona: Bud Shootout On Fox Sports
The veteran NASCAR on Fox team returns Saturday night to cover the Bud Shootout at 8PM Eastern Time. Finally, NASCAR racing action returns live to prime time TV.
Mike Joy continues to anchor the Fox Sports coverage, joined by Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds in the booth. On pit road will be Krista Voda, Matt Yocum, Steve Byrnes and Dick Berggren. Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond will also be along for the ride in the Hollywood Hotel.
With the race profile heightened because of the practice accidents and the Kurt Busch vs. Tony Stewart feud, this pre-season special will be a big draw for TV viewers.
SPEED has provided a full day of live coverage from Daytona, including Cup practice and the ARCA race. This included the NASCAR on Fox crew calling the practice session, and it was clear that they were confident and prepared for this evening's race.
As racing returns, fans will once again be watching for several TV production issues. Last season, the NASCAR on Fox Director chose to only show the winning car cross the finish line. Despite the roar of the fans, this practice continued throughout the entire package. It should be interesting to see what the production team chooses to show the viewers at home on the final lap.
Fans also had their fill of the "Fox 3-D" animated replays, which often showed-up to only state the obvious. This system from Sportvision uses GPS to duplicate in an animated fashion the locations of the cars on the track and then creates a replay effect. Even with the limited field in the Shootout, this effect was used last season with less than stellar results. Perhaps, we will see the updated version Saturday night.
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"RaceDay" Debuts On SPEED For 2008
Saturday evening at 6PM, the franchise is back for SPEED. Over the last season, the Daly Planet has called this program "SPEED-a-palooza" and the "Super WalMart of NASCAR." There were lots of good reasons why.
RaceDay is one of the most-watched programs on SPEED, and was used in 2007 by the network in one of the most controversial scheduling decisions ever made in NASCAR TV history.
After airing in the timeslot just before the NASCAR on Fox team took to the air, RaceDay suddenly changed course when the NEXTEL Cup coverage moved to TNT and then ESPN/ABC. This two hour live show was moved to go head-to-head with the pre-race shows of those two networks.
For the first time, NASCAR fans were forced to choose TV networks as two live pre-race shows were on-the-air at the same time from the same track. Ultimately, between the personality struggles of TNT and the credibility struggles of ESPN, SPEED came out on top. Later this season, that competition is going to be interesting to watch.
As the program returns to the air, John Roberts again steps into the host role and is joined by Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace. This trio has a fascinating dynamic simply because of the completely different personalities involved. The bottom line is that it works for the viewers.
Wendy Venturini continues to re-define the role of pit reporter, and her ability to interact effectively with the wide range of personalities in the sport assures viewers that SPEED is always in the news mix in the garage area. She is again joined by Bob Dillner, who had a good pre-season with his testing coverage and continues to be a consistent performer.
Hermie Sadler and Randy Pemberton continue to be utility players for this series, with Hermie's on-track features a solid addition to the program. Pemberton is in the middle of a professional comeback, and his knowledge of the key players in the sport served him well last season.
Rutledge Wood is a wild card, and with this program taking on an even higher profile in 2008, it will be interesting to see if SPEED includes him regularly in this show. Riki Rachtman will not be a regular part of the show, and will not participate in the weekly winner picks. He remains an anchor for NASCAR.com's internetTV coverage.
The debut edition of the program should be interesting, with good storylines for the Bud Shootout, Daytona 500 pole qualifying, and the ARCA race that directly precedes the live show. Remember, lots of the top NEXTEL Cup cars are now in the ARCA field as NASCAR has adopted the COT full time.
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In-Progress At Daytona: "NASCAR Live" and Saturday Cup Practice on SPEED
The SPEED schedule begins on Saturday at 10AM Eastern Time with a thirty minute edition of NASCAR Live.
The main host for this program is John Roberts, although SPEED has multiple announcers on-site and several sets operating simultaneously.
On-track practice for Sprint Cup cars begins at 10:30AM and will be followed by another edition of NASCAR Live at 12:30PM.
After lunch, practice resumes for the Cup Series at 1:30PM, and SPEED ends the afternoon portion of this live coverage with a final wrap-up edition of NASCAR Live at 3PM.
Normally a general news program updating events at the track and happenings in the garage, today will be different. It should be interesting to see if SPEED is drawn into the media feeding frenzy about the Tony Stewart vs. Kurt Busch accident. The network did a good and balanced job Friday dealing with the events.
This post will serve to host your comments about the TV coverage. This is not a blog about racing, but the TV and media coverage that surrounds it. This should be a good example of watching a network balance the features and events they have prepared in advance with the breaking news about possible sanctions on two drivers and other teams working to prepare cars that arrived at the speedway during the night.
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Discovered in 2003, during the excavation of the east end of Lichfield Cathedral’s nave, the Lichfield Angel is a remarkable survival of early medieval sculpture. The carved limestone panel, which is dated to around 800 A.D., comprises three separate fragments which are thought to have formed the corner of a shrine chest, possibly that of St Chad (d.672), whose remains were reburied in a church on the site in the late seventh to early eighth centuries. The assembled pieces, which feature the finely carved figure of an alighting archangel, retain a unprecedented amount of their original painted decoration.
Given the Angel’s exceptional importance, it was proposed to commission a carefully sequenced and integrated programme of recording, examination and analysis which would inform decisions about the panel’s long-term conservation, as well as its display and interpretation. This preliminary phase of investigations, which has been funded by a substantial grant from the Pilgrim Trust.
Careful documentation of the panel components, including high resolution digital imaging and close range 3-D laser scanning, has now been completed. These records will enable monitoring of the condition of the panel over time and afford a better understanding of the way the panel was made. The data will also assist in the provision of interpretative material showing how the fragments might originally have fitted into the St Chad shrine chest.
A detailed condition assessment has also been undertaken and further research instigated into the object’s physical history. Findings from these non-invasive investigations have informed scientific analysis of the Angel’s stone and its extensive remaining paint layer, and examination of the ways in which the materials were used. Recommendations for the long-term conservation of the Lichfield Angel have been based on the findings of these informative preliminary investigations. (Emily Howe, Lichfield Angel Project Co-ordinator)
All images Copyright David Rowan.
Top View of three fragments (colour corrected)
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Introducing the Founders
Posted Dec 20th, 2011
Paul Wildman
Paul has an extensive track record in the areas of: Learning Systems Development inc. Artificer Learning (Bush Mechanics), Bioneering, Anticipatory Action Learning, Adult and Community Education (ACE), Strategic Planning, Futures Studies, Business and Organisational Intentionality and Learning. From 2001 onwards, he has been working at Kalgrove1, a company specialising in Child Care and Adult Learning. (The company is about Kids and Adults Learning, and it’s based in a Grove of gum trees – hence the name.) Kalgrove’s philosophy is that learning is an engaged process that comes from the lived life of the student, through a strong practical commitment to helping generate in children, students and communities a Life Long Love of Learning.
Paul is also a board member of Golden Years Senior’s Care Centre2, and of the National Federation of Parents, Families and Carers3. He and his wife are also long time members of th Nundah branch of Lions International.
From 1989-2001 he worked in the Adult and Vocational Educational area concentrating in Apprenticeships and Traineeships interfaced with TAFE Qld – ultimately ending up as Deputy Commissioner for Training and Director Employment Directorate. Before hand, he lectured in 1994-97 at Southern Cross University where he developed a Master’s specialisation course in Futures Studies (FS) (then the only online version in the world).
He has published four CD-ROMs, contributed 10 chapters and some 45 articles in these and related areas. Interests include bike riding, boating, healthy diet, grandchildren minding and spending the past three years on building his own bush mechanic exemplar project in the marine services industry – as well as developing a theoretical and practical understanding of this specific type of advanced Anticipatory Action Learning called Artificer Learning which, in Australia is called Bush Mechanics, and publishing therein. Artificers are the step beyond Artisan and are expert generalists in a number of related fields. They bring a methodical and ingenuous approach to solving everyday dilemmas with an eye to assisting today the development of a better world tomorrow for our children.
He has overseas experience in management development and futures including in Tonga, India, Malaysia, Africa and Singapore and Papua New Guinea.
Paul can be contacted via email on paul@kalgrove.com .
Jim Prentice
Jim always sought social activism as a way of relating to the world, initiating his interest in anti-war actions, early environmental and community concerns within the urban landscape. He engaged such matters as freeway construction with its division of communities and ineffective and destructive technologies applied to urban transportation and likewise Indigenous issues, although his own cultural community often is the offender.
Most recently he helped his local media to revise its implicit racist mindset as applied to the problem of why young Indigenous children use railway tracks with calamitous consequences. A tragedy and its aftermath led to wider community reflection on transport policing. The Indigenous use them to walk to various places – not least because no one else does. In fact, the community learned in this campaign young people do this more widely due to fare costs and service limits. However, in the poorer and often prejudiced white community Jim lives in, this walking led to a calamity which proved just another avenue for denigration of the local Indigenous. Jim’s faith in learning through action was vindicated, if the events deeply saddened and racism proved its vicious presence. Jim’s doctorate is in local history.
Jim’s interests in anti-war, environmental issues, women’s and men’s rights and duties took him back to university in later life after stints as taxi driver, Naturopath and Acupuncturist, Asian traveller and would be gardener: even mower of those great symbols of nature’s subservience – the suburban lawn. Jim has also worked in Aged Care for 15 years. However, at University social movement theories, sociology and practices reignited his interest in ideas. He has taught in Australian politics, identity and culture for the last 15 years at several universities while still engaged in Aged Care to a limited but significant degree, which gives him a unique perspective.
His hope for the eZine is that it allows others to engage in practice or doing good works (if not necessarily those or only those of Biblical sanction), reflecting on them, finding a forum for constructive criticism and dialogue and building local actions. Giving oneself practical hope and the world meaning, through resistive action and thought seems a worthwhile project given what is around. He hopes that this eZine project will become yours too.
Jim may be contacted via email: at jimprentice@optusnet.com.au .
1 http://www.kal.net.au/ This site also contains information about Artificer Learning/Bioneering and Bush Mechanics.
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3 http://www.civilsociety.org.au/federation/index.htm
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Dr. Paul Wildman, CRAFT founder, speaks at the Woodford Folk Festival. Hear from the former Australian Chair of the Millennium Project and learn about the state of the future. You can catch him at the following times:
Tuesday, 27th December 2011, 4:00pm at the Greenhouse; and,
Wednesday, 28th December 2011, 4:00pm at the Greenhouse.
Click here to access his power point presentation for the talk.
Dr. Paul Taylor also speaks at the Woodford Folk Festival on the Biochar Revolution. Learn about how waste mass can be used to repair soil, enhance food output, and produce energy. You can catch him on Saturday, 31st December 2011, 2:00pm at the Greenhouse.
CRAFT should not be confused with Craft Australia: "the peak national advocacy organisation for Australian contemporary craft and design". However, both organisations are on the same wavelength. This eZine sees itself as having a slightly overlapping role with Craft Australia and was intending to establish this link after the first three issues.
However, after serving the CRAFT community of Australia since 1971, Craft Australia is being defunded from November 2011. This decision was announced at the end of October as the outcome of a minor review of the key organisations that are supported by this agency. There are two arguments alleged for this decision: Craft Australia was too reliant on Government support and was not meeting the needs of the sector. Craft Australia has challenged both arguments.
If you wish to challenge this decision, you can sign this petition: Help save Craft Australia!
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Interview with Nelson Demille
Posted by Elise Cooper on Sep 19, 2017 in Interviews
THE CUBAN AFFAIR
THE CUBAN AFFAIR, Nelson DeMille’s twentieth novel, has the newly created character Daniel (Mac) MacCormick adjusting to civilian life. After serving two tours in Afghanistan he has sought out a more peaceful lifestyle in Key West Florida. He is now a charter boat captain of a 42 feet deep-sea fishing vessel, The Maine, which takes tourists and fisherman on excursions. Having made a name for himself and needing his military skills, three Cuban-Americans make him an offer to have the Maine participate in a ten-day fishing tournament to Cuba. But the real reason they need him is to help find and return sixty million dollars left behind by the refugees. The covert plan is to embed Mac and one of the Cuban-Americans, Sara Ortega, into Cuba as part of an educational tour under the auspices of Yale University. The action ratchets up as Mac and Sara are on the run from the Cuban authorities and need his gruff first mate, seventy-year-old Vietnam veteran, Jack Colby, to help in the rescue.
Elise Cooper: Since you wrote a new set of characters can you compare Daniel (Mac) MacCormick to John Corey?
Nelson DeMille: Corey is not a kid anymore. Mac is much younger. He is also an Afghanistan veteran while many of the main characters in earlier books were Vietnam vets. Mac is more educated and from a different class than Corey. I did not want to create the same character; although in some ways they have the same personality and dry wit. Another difference is that John Corey lives in law enforcement while Mac lives in the civilian world. John fought terrorists while Mac is apolitical and more cautious.
EC: What about the female lead Sara Ortega?
ND: I based her on a number of Cuban Americans who I knew. I patterned her on those I knew around me, third generation Cuban-Americans who are aware of what happened to their parents and grandparents. I tried to make her more American than Cuban, which is why she always corrects people who refer to her as Cuban, and she responds Cuban-American.
EC: There is a character named Richard Neville, a best-selling author. Was he based on anyone in particular?
ND: Sometimes I like to write myself into my books. I also did it in the book Up Country. It is similar to what Alfred Hitchcock did with his movies.
EC: Is it hard to write a political thriller?
ND: When you are writing political contemporary fiction events can change. With this book, from when I wrote it to when it is published, the world changed quickly. For instance, Castro died, Obama left office, and Trump was elected. I have to keep my fingers crossed about events.
EC: You have some interesting quotes in the book. One is about the hot water in your hotel. Please explain.
ND: This is true. We only had hot water in our hotel some of the time. I cannot imagine how the Cubans must live. The hot water was in the tub, not the shower so I decided to write about it. Nothing is readily available.
EC: I doubt Cuban President Raul Castro will read this book. It is not a great endorsement for tourism. Two quotes in particular hammer this home: “Once a vibrant city that was suffocating under the weight of a rotting corpse,” and the Ministry of Interior is known as “Ministry of Torture and Repression.”
ND: This is not another Caribbean Island, but a police state. What really stands out is the poverty and that there is no free press. Everything is entirely controlled. There are a lot of human and civil rights violations.
EC: You also speak about the actions of the Castro Brothers?
ND: The system they created does not guarantee property rights. The Cuban regime seized private property and is saying they have no intention of returning Cuban citizens’ property, and we are not pushing them. Most of the people who came to Miami when the Communists seized power left houses, factories, and huge businesses. They want their property back, and that’s going to be a big issue as normalization moves forward. It is a repressive regime with a subjugated population that isolates the people.
EC: Is this novel going to be made into a book series?
ND: I really like the characters, but right now the publisher wants it as a stand-alone. I hope this is not set in stone.
EC: What about your next book?
ND: It will be an upscale version of my other series Gold Coast. Regarding John Corey he is definitely on hold. If there were to be a TV series based on his character I might think of writing a book to solve some issues.
Felix Orcullo
The Cuban Affair is quintessential DeMille – unputdownable! But look out for The Cuban Affair Numero Dos. Mac and Sara return to Cuba to finally retrieve the $60M from the cave!
This sequel should be called: The Cuban Bounty.
Ron Hoffman
I am only a third of the way through and cannot put it down. Frankly, Mac is a good deal–way more–interesting than is John Corey. The insights on Key West, Havana and sex are wonderful, well observed and amusingly presented in both dialogue and background. Bravo, an enjoyable novel which will endure, well, for a few months at least! BTW, I think the Tin Man already is a symbol of the Democrat (Democratic Party for my many friends who are blindly Democrats) Party!
Tonie Newman
Mr. DeMille:
Just finished TCA and could not put it down! You may need to fast forward your next as I need another fix. However, the ‘Hollywood’ ending was just that…more dramatic would had Mac driving to Maine and perhaps accepting a text. I think the ending was discussed and S&S won! Remember you are the author!
What publishing date can I look forward to?
Paul R Pizzo
I am a long time Demille fan and bought this book because of lifelong interest in Cuba.
Having traveled in Cuba both before and after the destruction of this beautiful island I could not agree more with Demille’s description of the woeful state of Cuba. I encountered places where running water service was intermittent, forget hot water.
But the scarcity of decent food for the average Cuban was the most distressing.
Most tourists do not see the woeful state this once prosperous country is in now.
Finally, my thanks to Mr. Demille for his courageous service to our country and the former republic of South Vietnam.
Paul R.Pizzo
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An offbeat look at state and local politics
Redwood City in denial over canal behind flooded trailer parks?
Posted on December 18, 2014 by Aaron Kinney
The flooding of two Redwood City mobile home parks last week was a PR debacle for city officials, who initially declined Dec. 12 to help the residents pump the filthy water off their property. They changed their mind that evening, after TV and newspaper reports aired the residents’ anger and concerns arose about health risks posed by the standing water.
But they dug themselves into a deeper hole Tuesday when they submitted a letter to the editor claiming this newspaper was wrong to report that the bayfront canal behind R.C. and Le Mar trailer parks was “fairly choked” with vegetation, and went so far as to email misleading and selective photos of the channel. They were forced to scramble when we sent them our own photos backing up our description of the canal, whose purpose is to channel storm water to San Francisco Bay. But they continued to maintain that the canal is unobstructed.
The city is responsible for keeping the canal clear of blockages, and removes vegetation once a year. But the city didn’t take that step in 2014, claiming it wasn’t needed.
Clearly, the primary cause of the flooding Dec. 11 and Dec. 12 was the monster storm that sent torrents of water pouring into the low-lying bayfront areas of Redwood City. But city officials appear sensitive to the perception that marsh grass could have contributed to, or exacerbated, the flooding — so much so that they’re willing to bend reality and language to suit their demands.
In his letter, City Manager Bob Bell claimed that, “Although the view over the fence from the mobile home shows vegetation on the banks, the canal itself is unobstructed.” He said the city didn’t clear out the canal this year because the work wasn’t needed.
When challenged on that assertion, city spokesman Malcolm Smith sent a pair of photos. The first showed literally the only section of the canal near the trailer parks that is clear of marsh grass. The second showed the western bank of the canal, but very little of the canal itself.
Here’s the first one they sent.
This photo, provided by the city of Redwood City, shows a section of the bayfront canal that is free of vegetation. Most of this segment is north of the Redwood City trailer parks that flooded Dec. 7.
And here’s the second one.
This photo, provided by the city of Redwood City, shows a portion of the western bank of the bayfront canal by R.C. and Le Mar trailer parks.
Incredulous, we sent them this one, taken directly behind Le Mar Trailer Park.
This photo, taken by Bay Area News Group reporter Aaron Kinney, shows a segment of the bayfront canal directly behind Le Mar Trailer Park in Redwood City.
Then we went back out and walked the levee behind the trailer parks to double-check our work, and again confronted Bell and Smith with our findings. They took a few hours to reply, and when they did, they were spinning furiously.
Smith thanked us for the “the opportunity to clarify and expand” on the information they’d provided. He conceded that Bell had not visited the canal himself before sending the letter to the editor. He acknowledged there is “some vegetation in part of the creek.” But he said the city is sticking to its position: the canal is not obstructed by vegetation and water flow is not impeded.
The segment of the canal behind the trailer parks is about 375 feet. We walked that part and more, about a third of a mile from where the canal starts north of R.C. Mobile Park down to where it makes an turn to the east near another trailer park, Redwood Mobile Estates. We determined that roughly 70 percent has moderate to extensive marsh grass in the channel.
Here’s a couple photos from that tour.
This photo, taken by Bay Area News Group reporter Aaron Kinney, shows a segment of the bayfront canal behind R.C. Mobile Park in Redwood City.
This photo, taken by Bay Area News Group reporter Aaron Kinney, shows a portion of the bayfront canal south of the R.C. and Le Mar trailer parks in Redwood City. Wild artichokes grow next to the canal.
Is the canal obstructed? You can judge for yourself.
To see Tout videos of the canal behind the trailer parks, go to Twitter.com/kinneytimes or www.tout.com/u/kinneytimes.
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Tom Mulcair
Voters warming to NDP
“If I were a Liberal, which I am not, I would be concerned about this group of people who are opposed to Mr. Harper, and going back and forth between ourselves and the Liberals, (and who) are now increasingly saying Tom and the NDP are the people that can and should form the government,” he said.
Broadbent is a loyal party man, of course, and loyal party men can generally be relied upon to say things are looking up for their party.
The Conservatives launched new attack ads aimed at Trudeau on Monday, and you can be sure their polls are better than the ones you read in the paper. That suggests the real threat comes from the Liberals.
Broadbent says Mulcair will connect because of his policies: $15-a-day daycare, a $15 minimum wage and an increase to corporate tax rates.
The polling done by the Broadbent Institute shows Canadians support those ideas.
“Time after time we find on almost every issue, a majority of Canadians are social democrats,” he says. “On tax policy, on Canada pension, a whole range of issues that are reasonably described as social democratic, there is a significant majority of Canadians that are on that side.”
Broadbent says the long-term trend shows voters are warming to the NDP.
“One of the things that is happening now, and we’ll see if (it) persists in the election, is where some of those (voters) were split in their partisan positions, they’re increasingly coming behind the NDP.”
The biggest challenge for the NDP is not convincing Canadians that it has good ideas, or isn’t wacky, but that the party can take power in Ottawa.
“On a national level, they’ve never won,” Broadbent says. “Can they really win? Can they really pull it off on the national level?”
http://www.wiartonecho.com/2015/05/25/broadbent-voters-warming-to-ndp
Sean in Ottawa
Ok so this is the second crap job in analysis from Postmedia "journalists"
They conclude that an attack ad on Trudeau means that the Conservatives see the Liberals as the greater threat.
And if you don't know much about politics and are not much of a journalist you might think this is logical but of course it isn't.
Attack ads are to knock votes off one party to bring them to yours.
You target the voters you think you might be able to reach.
So the Conservatives target the Liberals becuase they perceive that there are Liberal - CON switchers and they have a message that they think could convince those people to come to them.
For now they do not target the NDP -- perhaps becuase they do not want to acknowledge that the NDP is a threat. More likely they do not think that the NDP is a likely target for voters they can break off and bring to the conservatives.
For the Conservatives-- they do not ahve to even decide who is their threat at this point. What they have to decide is which party they might be able to get votes from with an attack ad and how to do it.
In a 3-party race the Conservatives can beat the Liebrals by taking from them or they can beat the NDP by taking votes from the Liberals. They may assume that NDP voters are mostly beyond their reach and not worth an ad right now. This has nothign to do with how they rank their threats but how they rank their potential to move voters in an ad.
I get that some unsophisticated people in the population might screw up this analysis. But two journalist form the same paper doing a group stupid? Looks like an agenda. For some reason they want the people to think the Liebrals remain the prime threat.
Question is what is the game? How does it help or hurt Harper or Mulcair?
Perhaps it is a back attempt to stop the bleeding from Trudeau and keep the NDP and Liberals even.
Perhaps it is to minimize the NDP by not acknowledging thier momentum.
Perhaps they believe that the NDP is not a threat and are merely projecting that into the article.
Perhaps they have not considered how a 3-way battle works.
Or perhaps these two experienced journalists are just not that good at their jobs.
Lots of speculation.
Trudeau's Uninspired Platform Makes Mulcair the Obvious Choice
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The NDP surge
HLA-ABC • 4 hours ago
I follow federal politics very closely. I watch the House of
Commons on TV almost daily, I pay attention to what all the parties do and say.
I read the bills this government introduces. I was not attached to any party a
few years ago, but I have learned all I need to know: Harper is the worst Prime
Minister we’ve ever had, and he is quietly destroying all the things that we
spent decades building, the things that made Canada so great.
This election, the most important thing will be to end his
regime. True conservatives should encourage the party to return to its roots
and rebuild. I believe the NDP would be the best choice for the next
government, for the reasons described in this article and, most importantly,
because they will bring in proportional representation, which will prevent
another tyranny from a fake majority government, and because they will reverse
the path to privatization that Harper has put our national healthcare on.
Canada was once about fairness, integrity, community, succeeding together instead of
tearing others down. I want that back. The NDP came second in our riding last
time. I think they can win this time. Canada needs it.
http://www.intelligencer.ca/2015/05/26/colin-mackay-the-ndp-surge
You could say the same here in Canada about the way the way mainstreet press cover Mulcair and /or the NDP
The media’s sickening Sanders double standard: How the socialist brings out their true colors
Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign reveals how skewed our attitudes toward wealth and taxation have become
Bernie Sanders held his first major presidential campaign event in Vermont yesterday afternoon after kicking off his 2016 bid with a delightfully offbeat Capitol Hill press conference. The tone of the coverage surrounding Sanders’ campaign doesn’t necessarily reflect it, but Vermont’s independent senator is actually pulling in a decent share of the Democratic vote. As of this writing, his support in national polling has climbed up into double digits, and the last few polls out of Iowa and New Hampshire put him at around 14 or 15 percent in those states. Of course, those numbers have to be measured against those of his chief rival, Hillary Clinton, who dominates both nationally and in the early states with more than 50 percent.
So Sanders is a long shot, but he’s not without a sizable bloc of support. In fact, when you crunch the numbers, Sanders is outperforming the combined support of several GOP presidential wannabes. The Bernie 2016 boomlet is clearly a bit puzzling to reporters, who don’t seem to know what to do with Sanders beyond treating him as a foil to Hillary, and so they default to doing nothing, even as every utterance of GOP candidates who are polling below 2 percent merits its own headline. There are clear double standards at play, and one of them pertains to how reporters cover a candidate who is unreservedly liberal versus how they cover “proudly conservative” Republicans. This dynamic is sometimes subtle, and it emerged during an interview Sanders gave with CNBC’s John Harwood.
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/27/the_medias_sickening_sanders_double_stan...
The usual Liberal CBC attempt to smear the NDP job - not one word about what Mulcair said
NDP leader Tom Mulcair speaks to CUPE convention
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-leader-tom-mulcair-speaks-to-cupe-co...
The news just seems to be getting better and better for the NDP these days.
NDP leader Tom Mulcair visits Waterloo Region to bolster local support
The city was awash in orange Thursday as NDP Leader Tom Mulcair paid a visit to support acclaimed federal candidate, Waterloo city Coun. Diane Freeman at a nomination meeting.
"She's got star candidate written all over her," Mulcair said of the New Democrat's newest candidate in front of hollering supporters at Knox Presbyterian Church.
"She is just the type of person I need to play a key role," he said.
The main room inside the uptown Waterloo church was bursting at the seams with close to 300 people crammed in the overheated space and spilling over into the hallway.
Several supporters fanned themselves with bright orange NDP placards.
Freeman has served on Waterloo City Council for three terms as Ward 3 councillor and announced her desire to step in the political game earlier this month.
Individuals seeking nomination had 15 days prior to Thursday's nomination meeting to submit their names and await approval. Freeman was the only one to come forward.
"For a decade I was a card-carrying Liberal," she said to a full house. "My priorities and the Liberal's priorities just don't match up."
The engineer is also known as an avid cyclist and cycling infrastructure advocate.
She is the founding president of the Butterfly Learning Centre, a non-profit child-care.
Freeman was also once president of the Professional Engineers Association, a post that has only been held by six women, she said.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5650847-ndp-leader-tom-mulcair-visit...
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2015/05/29/beard-i...
Brachina
This person who wrote that letter is a tool.
montrealer58
Brachina wrote:
If someone in Quebec wrote a letter like that about the similarly bearded Premier Couillard would they get charged with some offence?
What would they be charged with, her opinion is foolish, but freedom of speech allows that. As much as I disagree with her opinion she is entitled to it.
Do a google search on Mulcair's beard, the fact that his beard is such a point of controvery is goofy. His face, his choice.
She's right - the beard needs to go, and the tie as well.
socialdemocrati...
They used to say the same thing about Jack's moustache.
Authenticity matters. That's something you can't get by caving into the media groupthink.
Someone needs to start a save the beard petition, no one tames a Grizzily! :-)
mark_alfred
The beard and the tie gives him a distinguished and wise demeanor. So it should stay. For comparison, here's a photo of Mulcair without the beard or tie:
socialdemocraticmiddle wrote:
Exactly -- if he shaved it now he would look weak. If that was somethign he wanted to do -- he should hsve done it long ago.
Only way he could do it now would be after the election for a fundraiser. Otherwise he would look like he was being weak and superficial.
Canadian flags to fly at half-staff for Parizeau
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who went toe to toe with Parizeau many times in Quebec’s National Assembly, described Parizeau as a “statesman.”
“He was a statesman who spent his life working in the best interest of the population,” Mulcair told reporters. “I know very few people who dedicated their lives as much as he did to serve the overall population well.”
Mulcair pointed out that in the first PQ government under former Premier René Lévesque, Parizeau contributed to a number of progressive initiatives including the creation of Quebec’s automobile insurance fund, Quebec’s Caisse de Depot pension fund and Quebec’s anti-scab law which was born out of violent labor conflicts that marked the province’s history.
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2015/06/02/canadian-flags-to-fly-at-half-mast-fo...
More infrastructure cash for cities at heart of NDP’s urban strategy
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair to pledge extra cash in speech to Canada’s mayors
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/04/more-infrastructure-cash-f...
Tom Mulcair promises to restore search and rescue operations
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/tom-mulcair-promises...
Le NPD promet 1,5 milliard de plus par année aux villes
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/politique-canadienne/201506/...
A very sad and dejected Liberal's point of view.
Keep it simple and blunt Tom.
Buy the biggest ORANGE padlock for the Senate doors you can find.
Why the NDP benefits most from embarrassing Senate expenses
The Auditor-General is revealing embarrassing spending by some members of the Red Chamber. Teeth are going to be grinding among voters, who have run out of patience for excuses.
As of this moment, only one of the main parties owns a position that will have any political sex appeal, and that’s the NDP.
Long on the record favouring abolition of the Senate, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair will pounce on his opponents, ridiculing them for seeming unwilling or unable to defend the interests of riled-up taxpayers.
Of course, it’s easy to say let’s abolish the Senate – and probably impossible to do. Not to be unkind to the NDP, but in coming up with their position, they may not have spent much time figuring out how they could accomplish it, if elected.
The practicality of the idea, however, will be of scarcely passing interest for fed-up Canadians. Abolition is a blunt instrument, and people will like the sound of blunt.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/why-the-ndp-benefits-most-f...
They must be choking as they write this, and this was written before the latest EKOS poll out today showing the NDP in first place leading the last place Liberals now by 7% :
Mulcair, in with a chance
Rachel Notley’s sweep has reminded us, as one pollster says, ‘there’s an alternative to the alternative’. Suddenly, the NDP has a shot.
The NDP first approached Diane Freeman late last year to ask the three-term city councillor in Waterloo, Ont., to run for them in the coming federal election. “I said, ‘No, I’m a card-carrying Liberal,’ ” Freeman says. “But I promised that I would think about it, and I did.” By early this year, she was intrigued enough that, when NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair called her, she asked to meet him. Not only did Mulcair agree, he arranged to introduce her to top members of his campaign team when the civil engineer was next in Ottawa. That made an impression. So did Mulcair’s way with his office Nespresso machine. “The first thing he did was offer me a cup of coffee,” Freeman says, “and then he made it himself.”
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/mulcair-in-with-a-chance/
They can recycle the silly padlocks they have had to remove from the bridges in Paris.
Spy-watchdog chair Pierre Blais’s credentials questioned by Mulcair
The chair of Canada’s spy-watchdog committee is an inappropriate choice for the job, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has told Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a letter.
Pierre Blais, who recently retired after being a judge for 16 years and was minister responsible for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the 1980s as a Conservative cabinet member, was named head of CSIS’s review body in May.
The Opposition Leader said in his letter (scroll to the bottom of this story to read the full letter)that when he was consulted before Mr. Blais’ appointment, he urged the Prime Minister to pick another candidate.
“We have ideas of nominees to propose for this important position,” the letter said, adding that “we strongly believe SIRC must be independent from the government of the day. Mr. Blais, a former Conservative cabinet minister, doesn’t fulfill this minimal requirement.”
The NDP’s correspondence was sent to the Prime Minister in March, weeks before the announcement, and recently obtained by The Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/spy-watchdog-chair-pierre-b...
Mulcair promises to give cities extra cent from gas tax
Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau also promised more money when he spoke at the convention on Friday.
But Mulcair says successive Liberal and Conservative governments have made empty promises and failed to make a dent in what he called "Canada's infrastructure deficit."
He says the gas tax transfer is one of the best tools to help cities with their long-term needs.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair-promises-to-give-cities-extra-cen...
Mulcair promises city housing costs reform
NDP Leader says that if elected, party will make living in cities like Toronto and Vancouver more affordable
Outlining some of the NDP’s platform for the upcoming election, Mulcair also said if elected the NDP would by 2019 commit a total of $5 billion a year to municipalities’ “core infrastructure” needs and funding for public transit.
“Despite their empty promises, successive Liberal and Conservative governments have failed to make a dent in Canada’s infrastructure deficit,” Mulcair told the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting. “When they do finally invest, it’s often inadequate with too many strings attached.”
He said an NDP government would co-operate with municipalities to increase investments in key infrastructure projects, creating tens of thousands of construction and manufacturing jobs.
“And we’ll remove funding barriers so that you can focus on building stronger hometowns instead of filling out forms,” he told FCM members, who responded with a round of clapping. There have been complaints about the complex approval rules to obtain funding under some recent federal government infrastructure programs.
Mulcair also received hearty applause from several hundred convention goers when he said an NDP government would restore door-to-door mail service for all those who have lost it under Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government.
The NDP will be shortly outlining its election pledges to “ensure that cities and communities have the tools they need” to confront climate change and work toward more environmentally sustainable economies, Mulcair added.
An NDP government would also continue Ottawa’s investment in federal social housing projects, committing $440 million next year, the party said.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/06/mulcair-promises-city-hous...
Finally urban areas are going to get some much needed support.
Mulcair makes big infrastructure promise to Edmonton crowd
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/06/06/mulcair-makes-big-infrastructure-p...
Thanks NR. That's great news.
Here's more good news from Mulcair!
Mulcair demands PM ask Pope to apologize for church's role in residential schools
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair-demands-pm-ask-pope-to-apologize-...
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair wants more affordable rentals in Vancouver
http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/1389862/ndp-leader-thomas-mulcair-wan...
What happened to Ari24
Federal NDP promises $5 billion in new transit funding to the Lower Mainland over 20 years
http://www.straight.com/news/466151/federal-ndp-promises-5-billion-new-t...
Things really appear to be going Tom's way, n'est pas?
Often it's better to have low expectations but in Tom & the NDP's case not necessarily so, as Tom needs to raise his profile and what better way of doing so than this, eh!
Mulcair seen as likely winner in leader debates: survey
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair-seen-as-likely-winner-in-leader-d...
And Tom's correct.
If you want change - just like in Alberta, vote NDP!
As election looms, Mulcair casts Liberals, Conservatives as ‘old-time parties’
With an October federal election looming, NDP leader Tom Mulcair is apparently playing the age card. After his party’s Wednesday caucus today, Mulcair repeatedly referred to those other, “older parties,” and, once, “those old-time parties,” in an apparent shift in pre-election rhetorical tactics. It was especially evident in Mulcair’s savaging of the Senate in the
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2015/06/10/as-election-looms-mulcair-casts-liber...
Northern PoV
This election is a toss up at this stage - it could go anywhere - but (alas) it is likely to end up as a re-run of 2011 - when Harper squirms and cheats his way to majority. (Cameron won his with just 37%)
Tom's Senate advantage is based on wishful thinking to gain votes. It will wither quickly in the light of day: "Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says Senate creates regional balance for his province" is just the tip of the Iceberg - who wants years of constitutional wrangling?
The Trudeau plan to quick-fix the appointment process ... while we keep our focus on real issues may resonate more with the public - memories of Meech malinger on ...
It is a long time till Oct.19 Lots can and will happen. I don't support any party today (C51 & Bill Blair changed my mind on Justin).. however I will vote for the candidate in my riding that is most likely to defeat the CON.
Tom just did an amazin' interview on Power Play with Don Martin which is going to boost the NDP even further North in the polls.
The chances now of the front running NDP, forming a majority government, are increasing with each passing day.
Nanos on the same show said voters are now kicking the tires of the NDP, liking what they see, and Mulcair himself is now surging in the polls.
Mulcair wants rid of Senate ‘trough’
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/5671957-mulcair-wants-rid-of-sen...
Allegedly some difference of opinion between Mulcair and some union leaders on the usefulness of the Senate: http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/5674497-mulcair-unions-at-odds-ov...
I think that if the Senate is gone, then politicians in the House of Commons would be more careful. Rather than the PMO passing reckless bills for the sole purpose of making a statement, knowing that they can later order their cronies in the Senate to kill such a bill, that instead the PMO and MPs would be more serious.
Union leaders in Ontario need to get their act together
Either they want Harper gone or they don't
If they do they need to tell their members to vote NDP the one party that has any chance of defeating Harper which is being confirmed by all the Canadian pollsters except the flakes
Union leaders in Ontario need to get their act together Either they want Harper gone or they don't If they do they need to tell their members to vote NDP the one party that has any chance of defeating Harper which is being confirmed by all the Canadian pollsters except the flakes
Agreed. Ontario, particularly the GTA, needs to drop the Libs and support the NDP so that Harper can be decisively turfed. Activists and labour need to get on board with the NDP full tilt and not look back.
The union deal won't be done in Ontario while certain leaders are bought off by the Liberal Party. The NDP will have to offer something better.
Provinces willing to reopen Constitution to reform Senate
http://globalnews.ca/news/2047889/provinces-willing-to-reopen-constituti...
Mulcair has the Seante issue in the bag. It's time to move on to economics which will finalize the NDP victory in the election.
Raffi, famous children's entertainer, tweeted: "prime minister Mulcair ~ has a nice ring to it"
http://www.ndp.ca/news/overheard-week-prime-minister-mulcair-has-nice-ri...
How Thomas Mulcair could become prime minister
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/loewen-how-thomas-mulcair-co...
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair makes his case to be Prime Minister
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-june-17-2015-1.311666...
Mulcair's Ottawa rally being livestreamed right now.
http://www.ndp.ca/live/rally-for-change?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newd...
takeitslowly
Tom Mulcair on facebook have been advertising for a few days now, he said "I’m about to take the stage in Ottawa. Watch the NDP Rally for Change live here"
and the link doesnt work!
I hope he didnt disappoint alot of people, its not acceptable. Does the NDP not have money to hire tech people?
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Greymouth Star : January 18th 2019
www.greystar.co.nz PHONE 769 7900 Stephen Hewson A lack of self confidence is undermining the Silver Ferns concedes former captain Casey Kopua. After another loss to hosts England in their opening match of the Q uad series match in Liverpool earlier in the week, the Silver Ferns must beat the world champion Diamonds if they are to stay on track for pre-tournament goal of two wins from three goals set by coach Noeline Taurua. The Silver Ferns have won just two of the eight tests they have played under Taurua and with the World Cup looming in July New Zealand’s fortunes need a desperate boost. Back in the side after a three year absence Kopua admits “there are patches where everbody has doubt. “There are also girls in the team, including myself, who haven’t played together before either so there is a lack of real time connection as a group but things are moving for ward everytime we get together.” Kopua though is adamant fear of making a mistake rather than simply playing is not something that is hindering the side. “No that is something that is strongly talked about by the coaches — “ it’s not what you can’t do it ’s what you can do’. Kopua said players are encouraged to try things, “other wise you are just playing safe netball and not showing the strength of the individual.” Ahead of the Quad series Taurua stated anything less than two wins from three games would be unsatisfactory. That leaves the side having to beat Australia on the weekend and back-up a day later with a win over South Africa. “It’s not an ideal situation, having to win two from two, but it adds a bit of hype and accountability for us and we simply need to do whatever it takes to get the win. Failing to chalk up a win against either England and Australia in this tournament would be a major setback with the World Cup just a few months away. Kopua maintains not beating Australia on Sunday does not automatically write them off as world cup contenders. “I think we have the right processess and strategies in place and it ’s just a matter of executing that from paper to training to a match. “There’s enough time for everybody to be doing something everyday to make themselves a better player and better person between now and the world cup.” New Zealand’s first world cup match is against Malawi Friday July 12th. — RNZ Friday, January 18, 2019 Wellington The Warriors will not look outside their walls for Shaun Johnson’s replacement, with an extended trial to find a rookie halfback already well under way. Coach Stephen Kearney said the salary cap space opened up by star playmaker Johnson’s departure for the Sharks will not be used to import a new No 7. Instead, the club is running a three-man trial for the role through the course of the off- season and are unlikely to make a decisive call on Blake Green’s halves partner until a week out from the opening round. Warriors and Kiwis junior Chanel Harris-Tavita, 19, is believed to have his foot in the door for the starting role although like his rivals — Hayze Perham, 19, and Adam Keighran, 21 — has not played a first grade match. “All three young men obviously sense there’s an opportunity and we’ve been putting them in as Greenies’ other half different each week,” Kearney said. “So they ’re getting a run with Green. The three of them are tracking along nicely. At this stage we’re happy with the guys we’ve got.” Assistant coach Stacey Jones, the former Warriors halfback great, is working closely with the trio. Each has spent time running in a shadow starting team but Kearney said he is unlikely to narrow down his favoured contender until the completion of trial games against the Melbourne Storm and Wests Tigers. “I couldn’t say at this stage, it changes from session to session,” he said. “In terms of a final decision we won’t do that until we have to.” The Tigers trial game in Whangarei on March 2 falls two weeks out from their opening match against the Bulldogs. — AAP AUSTRALIAN OPEN Melbourne After blacklisting Bernard Tomic, Lleyton Hewitt has issued a stern warning for Nick Kyrgios to lift his game if he wants to play Davis Cup again. Late last night following his Australian Open doubles exit, Hewitt sensationally declared Tomic would never play Davis Cup while he remained captain. He alleged the former Australian No 1 had physically threatened he and his family and also tried to blackmail him in relation to Davis Cup and wildcards. Hewitt said he could “absolutely” see Kyrgios returning to the Davis Cup fold but that he needed to change some of his behaviour. Hewitt said Kyrgios currently was not meeting the “cultural standards” set by Davis Cup coach Tony Roche and himself but the door remained open. Australia’s qualifying tie next month in Adelaide is against Bosnia and Herzegovina. The former world No 1 said he wanted the Australian players to always give 100% to the sport and also be great role models. “ You have to enjoy going out there and playing and what Nick said in Brisbane and not actually wanting to be there at the tournament, I think that hurts one of our Australian events,” Hewitt said. “Nick and I have had a great relationship but standards have to be set and the role I’m in you have to have standards. He’s got some work to do to get up to those standards. All I want guys to do is commit to the sport, work hard and want to play for Australia and I don’t think that ’s too much to ask.” Kyrgios has twice in recent weeks had a dig at Hewitt’s courtside support of the country’s No 1 Alex de Minaur above other Australian players. Kyrgios also lashed out on Twitter at Hewitt ’s former coach Roger Rasheed and former AFL champion Gerard Healy with Hewitt talking to him about his use of social media. “That ’s one of the standards we can’t put up with just for the culture of Australian tennis,” Hewitt said. “I don’t think it ’s a good look I’ve spoken to Nick about it and he understands that but whether he learns from it, that ’s another thing.” Hewitt said he was disappointed comments from a “clown” like Tomic had overshadowed the efforts of emerging young stars at the Australian Open such as de Minaur, Alex Bolt and Alexei Popyrin. He said he was not surprised by their success because he has seen their hard work this pre- season. “For me it’s satisfying seeing those guys get results ... I look at those guys and there’s a lot of good stories. We’ve got some exceptional players doing some exceptional things.” — AAP Melbourne Garbine Muguruza claimed a 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-5 win over Johanna Konta early today to reach the Australian Open third round and etch in her name into the record books as the winner of the latest starting match in the tournament ’s history. With a log-jam in scheduling caused by two men’s five-setters earlier last night, 18th seed Muguruza and Briton Konta were kept from playing their first point until 12.30am local time in front of a smattering of hardy fans at Margaret Court Arena. The start was more than half an hour later than Daria Gavrilova and Elise Mertens’s second-round match at last year’s tournament, which began a minute before midnight. At the end of a high-quality duel, former Wimbledon champion Muguruza pounced on Konta’s ser ve at 6-5 in the deciding set, grabbing a match point with a backhand winner before forcing a forehand error to seal the win. “ I mean, I seriously can’t believe there are people watching us at 3.15. Like who cares?,” twice grand slam champion Muguruza said on court. “ Very tough (match), I think Johanna was also playing very good. We play for you guys other wise why are we here, for what?” Muguruza told the few remaining fans in the terraces. While the two-hour 42-minute match did not wrap up until 3.12am, it was still well off the record for the latest finish. Australian Lleyton Hewitt’s third- round win over Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis at the 2008 tournament lasted until 4.34am. Muguruza will play Swiss Timea Bacsinszky for a place in the fourth round. Meanwhile, Serena Williams is one match closer to a historic 24th career major after making light work of Eugenie Bouchard to move into the third round. A seven-time winner at Melbourne Park, the 37-year-old blasted past the Canadian 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and 10 minutes last night. Williams will now meet Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska before a potential fourth-round clash with either world No 1 Simona Halep or sister Venus. In a ruthless showing, Williams broke ser ve six times and cracked 20 winners — double that of Bouchard — but said it was not as easy as the score suggested. “Genie has been to the finals of Wimbledon. She has been to the semi- finals of other grand slams so I said ‘alright Serena, you have to come out hot and firing’,” Williams said. — Reuters Melbourne Eleven years after beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win the 2008 Australian Open title, top seed Novak Djokovic bested the Frenchman again at Melbourne Park to reach the third round early today. The world No 1 Serb claimed a clinical 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 win over wildcard Tsonga at Rod Laver Arena, a match that finished after midnight and failed to live up to the players’ intriguing rivalry at the year’s first grand slam. A 20-year-old Djokovic edged a fourth-set tiebreak to claim his maiden Grand Slam crown in 2008 against then 22-year-old Tsonga. Two years later, the Frenchman turned the tables in a five-set classic in the 2010 quarter- finals, crushing Djokovic’s hopes of a second Melbourne trophy. The players have had a different trajectory since the swashbuckling days of their early twenties but the gap has grown much wider in the past year. While 31-year-old Djokovic is seeking a third successive grand slam title and a record seventh Australian Open crown, Tsonga’s ranking has slipped to 177th after his 2018 season was cut short by knee surgery in April. The gap was on full show as Djokovic cruised to victory in just over two hours, setting up a mouth-watering inter-generational clash with Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov. Yet there was still enough of the old magic on show from the burly Tsonga, whose 33-year-old legs scrambled hard to set up the shot of the night, a stunning forehand winner down the line from around the net. Djokovic said he was a “a bit more ner vy ” than usual playing against Tsonga, even if plenty of seats were vacant at centre court, with the late hour caused by a scheduling logjam. “ P laying on the centre stage against Jo, who I consider one of the greatest rivals that I had throughout my life, my career,” Djokovic said. “ Because of his injuries, he dropped his ranking, but the ranking is definitely not showing the right picture of his quality. I’m glad to see him playing. I hope that he can get back where he deser ves: at the top of the tennis game. ” Shapovalov is only 19 but very highly regarded. The Canadian said he would be studying up on fellow left-hander Rafa Nadal’s game in a bid to compete with the Serbian 14-times Grand Slam champion. “Good,” shrugged Djokovic. “ Everyone has access to YouTube. Doesn’t worry me at all... Nadal and him, yes, I mean, the only thing they ’re sharing I think is the left hand. “ I don’t think they share many similarities in their game. I think it ’s quite different. ” Meanwhile, Japanese No 8 seed Kei Nishikori has edged past towering Croatian Ivo Karlovic in a super-tiebreak to advance to the third round of the Australian Open. Karlovic ser ved 59 aces in the match — but crucially just one in the deciding tiebreaker — as Nishikori hung on to win 6-3, 7-6 (8- 6), 5-7, 5-7, 7-6 (10-7) in a match lasting three hours and 48 minutes. Nishikori will play either German Philipp Kohlschreiber or Portugal’s Joao Sousa in the third round tomorrow. — Reuters Wellington The exodus of top New Zealand rugby players to Europe continues with Hurricances prop Jeffery Toomaga- Allen joining English club Wasps. A one-test All Black, Toomaga-Allen’s departure was confirmed this morning by the Coventry-based side. The 28-year-old will join fellow former All Blacks Lima Sopoaga and Malakai Fekitoa and former Hurrricanes team- mate Brad Shields at Wasps. The news also comes after wing Nehe Milner-Skudder and midfielder Matt Proctor also announced European deals. Toomaga-Allen will make the move at the end of the 2019 Super Rugby season and said he felt Wasps were a fantastic club with a lot of history. “I want to help the club compete at the very top of the Premiership and European competitions, and hopefully I can be part of something special in winning trophies.” Wasps director of rugby Dai Young said bringing someone of Toomaga- Allen’s calibre to their club was great news. “Jeff is a solid scrummager while also being strong in defence, and like most New Zealanders, he is gifted with ball in hand so he’s a terrific all-round player. We’re looking for ward to him joining us next season as he’ll provide a real wealth of experience to the front-row.” Toomaga-Allen’s lone test for New Zealand came against Japan in 2013, while he also featured in a pair of tour matches on the All Blacks end of year tour in 2017. He has racked up 101 games for the Hurricanes and been a regular fixture in the Wellington Lions front-row since 2012. — RNZ Hewitt puts Kyrgios on Davis Cup notice Muguruza shines in late match Warriors halfback trial under way NRL LEAGUE NETBALL Lack of self-confidence undermines Ferns Silver Ferns vice captain Casey Kopua. TENNIS PICTURE: Getty Images Garbine Muguruza in action against Johanna Konta in their late match ending at 3am at the Australian Open in Melbourne. Djokovic dominates Tsonga Wellington The All Whites will play the Republic of Ireland for the first time in November. New Zealand Football has confirmed the match against Ireland who are ranked 33rd in the world will be played in Dublin on November 14th. The All Whites are ranked 122nd in the world. 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teasteVie
S4344...
LeRoy Tuscher (4), sophomore, and
Elmer Goetz (21) and Gene Schlekeway (13), seniors have been
outstanding players on the NSTC team this year.
Gary Shipley (15), junior, were
regulars during the entire NSTC basketball season.
Huron Edges Northern In Thriller
Huron college knocked Northern
out of contention for the S.D.I.C.
title by defeating the Wolves 79-
75 at Huron last Friday night.
The difference in the game can
probably be told by the shooting
percentages. The Wolves put in
a cold evening as they connected
on only 29 percent of their shots.
The Scalpers on the other hand
put in quite a warm evening as
they shot a hot 46 per cent.
Northern gained an early advan-tage,
but the red hot Scalpers
started to hit consistently and they
also did some very excellent re-bounding.
The Scalpers forged
ahead at half time 40-38. The sec-ond
half was close for most of the
period, but the Wolves could not
quite catch the Scalpers, who had
built up a 12-point lead early in
the period.
Elmer Goetz, great Northern
center, ended his S.D.I.C. play with
a brilliant performance as he
dropped in 30 points. Roger Pries,
who led the last ditch drive, tallied
Vern McKee, Scalper guard, had
25 markers to lead the winning
faction. The entire starting Scal-per
five hit in double figures.
Carberry Talks
On Health
W. E. Carberry, Chairman of the
Health and Physical Education De-partment,
will talk to the teachers
of Spink County, Saturday, Febru-ary
26 in Redfield, South Dakota.
His subject will be health teach-ing
in the grades.
PRIES HITS 38 IN WIN
Roger Pries, Watertown sopho-more
forward, set a new Northern
individual scoring record at Yank-ton
as he burned the cords with
38 points in Northern's 88-72 win
over the Greyhounds.
Pries' 38 points eclipsed the old
record of 36 points which was set
by Del Mansfield in the 1948-49
Maurice Nielson and Kay Besan-son
led Yankton with 16 and 14
markers respectively.
The Wolves were never in
trouble as they got an early lead.
Northern led at half time 47 to 32.
Coach Clark Swisher used his en-tire
squad and 12 of them hit the
scoring column.
PUPS TAKE TWO
The Northern freshmen added
two more victories to their win col-umn
as they downed the Westport
Indees 65-51, and the Aberdeen
School of Commerce by a count of
Against the Westport quint Nor-thern's
Wolf Pups were never
threatened as they built up a com-manding
35-20 half time lead. Ray
Huber led the Pups, who put in a
very cold evening, with 15 points.
Schaunaman led the losers with 24.
Ethan Hanks, freshman from
Miller, led the frosh attack against
the Commerce five as he dumped
in 34 points. Bert Leidholt and
Junior Pereboom had 21 and 19.
Del Gab led the School of Com-merce
with 27 markers, fifteen of
them coming from the charity
stripe.
The Northern Wolves kept their
title hopes alive by knocking the
Southern Pointers from second
place on a 82 to 74 count.
it was the final home appearance
for the Wolves' Elmer Goetz and
Gene Schlekeway. Both of the
seniors played outstanding ball.
Goetz led the Wolves' offensively
with 27 points while Schlekeway
tallied 15. The two seniors were
abley supported by a couple of
sophomores, Jim Cordts and Roger
Pries. Cordts tallied 18 and Pries
put in 14.
Southern put on a good show and
stayed with the Wolves until the
very end. Miller and Westling were
standouts for the Pointers. Miller
hit for 19 and Westling dropped in
16, most of these on long shots
from the corner.
Southern hasn't won a game on
the Civic Arena court in the last
five years.
Wolves Defeat
DWU 80-60
Northern put on a brilliant sec-ond
half to turn back Dakota Wes-leyan
80-60. This win kept the
Wolves in the thick of the confer-ence
race for the title.
Northern's victory was their
fifth in a row. The Bengals from
Wesleyan put on a hot first half,
and led the Wolves by two, 35-33,
at the intermission.
Dick Roth led the Bengals with
24 points. George Smith, a re-serve
added 15 points. Northern
had five men in double figures as
Elmer Goetz and Gene Schlekeway
led the Wolves with 14 apiece. Jim
Nygaard, a reserve guard, bagged
six longs that helped break up the
Wesleyan defense. Jim Cordts
and Bill Hauck, another reserve
both added 11 points.
STATE TOPS
NORTHERN 59-57
South Dakota State edged the
Northern Teachers here 59-57 be-fore
the largest home crowd of the
season. It was a furious battle
right down to the wire with the
Wolves trying desperately to get
the tying basket.
State got off to a fast start and
held a 6-0 lead before Northern
managed to score. The Wolves'
offense opened up and they went
ahead of the Jacks 9-8. The lead
changed hands several times and
finally the score was tied at 20 all.
The Jacks then spurted ahead 26-
20 and held the lead at halftime
State dominated the game for
the first 7 minutes in the second
half running up a 43-31 lead. The
Wolves struck back with 10 quick
points to narrow the margin to 3
points. The lead changed hands 3
times in the last 4 hectic minutes
with Northern just missing tying
the score. Northern missed 3 shots
in the last attempt to put the game
into an overtime.
Elmer Goetz, hitting his old fa-miliar
stride, connected with 20
points for the Wolves. The rest
of the scoring was well divided.
Cordts and Nygaard had 8 apiece
Virg Riley, outstanding State
forward, tallied 17. Cal Eisenbraun
and Dean Antoine counted 15 and
About a month from now quarterly grades will be out. It is pretty
nice to have your name listed as doing a good job. In most cases it
has meant hours of study, attendance at classes and doing the work
assigned in the class room.
Did you ever ask yourself this question ? How much does it cost ?
You, your parents, or someone else or perhaps the GI bill has furnished
the cash to pay your way. Let me be one of the first congratulate you
for making the honor roll. You deserve all the credit that is in store
But all of us won't make the headlines. The headlines that some
of us make are on the list sent out to all teachers as soon as grades are
published at mid-quarter. There are too many names listed as D's and
F's. In the great majority of cases names appear that really shouldn't
be there. Is it thoughtlessness ? Is it the don't care attitude. Is it
the way they live ?
Do these students who have low grades recognize the fact that it
cost the state over $400 per year to give them the privilege of attend-ing
a state institution. Do these students realize that it costs someone,
parent or otherwise between $750 and $1000 to keep them in school ?
There is no reason under God's heaven why student's can't show
more appreciation for the opportunities afforded them. Don't think
for one minute ours is the only school that is on the spot. What has
been said above can be said of all—to a certain extent.
So—let us get down to business. Let's get our money's worth.
Winter Quarter — 1955
9:15 A.M.—All Freshman Communication Classes (Eng.
101B) Place to be announced by the English
10:40 A.M.—All 1st period classes which regularly meet
on Tuesday.*
12:05 P.M.—All 3rd period classes which regularly meet
on Monday.
2:15 P.M.—All 5th period classes which regularly meet
on Tuesday.
3:40 P.M.---All 4th period classes which regularly meet
5:05 P.M.--All 4th period classes which regularly meet
Thursday — March 3, 1955
9:15 A.M.—All sections of History of Civilization (100B)
taught by Dr. Rodine. Place of examina-tion
to be announced by him.
10:40 A.M.—All 6th period classes which regularly meet
2:15 P.M.—All 2nd period classes which regularly meet
3:10 P.M.—All 1st period classes which regularly meet
Friday — March 4, 1955
8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.—All 5th period classes which regularly meet
9:25 A.M. to 10:40 A.M.—All 7th period classes which regularly meet
10:50 A.IVI. to 12:05 P.M.—All 6th period classes which regularly meet
1:00 P.M. to 2:15 P.M.—All 7th period classes which regularly meet
Since all classes meet several days in the week, this schedule re-fers
to the first meeting of the week.
Northern Trips SSTC 82 - 64
8:00 A.M. to
10:50 A.M. to
1.00 P.M. to
2:25 P.M. to
10:50 A.M. of
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DELICIOUS AND TASTY
CHOCOLATES £.7. CANDIES
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Box Chocolates and small
treat packages.
10c to $1.35
Bittner Pharmacy
102 S. Main and 424 S. Main
Come and See Our
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Transcription teasteVie S4344... The Exponent February 25, 1955 Page 3 LeRoy Tuscher (4), sophomore, and Elmer Goetz (21) and Gene Schlekeway (13), seniors have been outstanding players on the NSTC team this year. Gary Shipley (15), junior, were regulars during the entire NSTC basketball season. Huron Edges Northern In Thriller Huron college knocked Northern out of contention for the S.D.I.C. title by defeating the Wolves 79- 75 at Huron last Friday night. The difference in the game can probably be told by the shooting percentages. The Wolves put in a cold evening as they connected on only 29 percent of their shots. The Scalpers on the other hand put in quite a warm evening as they shot a hot 46 per cent. Northern gained an early advan-tage, but the red hot Scalpers started to hit consistently and they also did some very excellent re-bounding. The Scalpers forged ahead at half time 40-38. The sec-ond half was close for most of the period, but the Wolves could not quite catch the Scalpers, who had built up a 12-point lead early in the period. Elmer Goetz, great Northern center, ended his S.D.I.C. play with a brilliant performance as he dropped in 30 points. Roger Pries, who led the last ditch drive, tallied 15 points. Vern McKee, Scalper guard, had 25 markers to lead the winning faction. The entire starting Scal-per five hit in double figures. Carberry Talks On Health W. E. Carberry, Chairman of the Health and Physical Education De-partment, will talk to the teachers of Spink County, Saturday, Febru-ary 26 in Redfield, South Dakota. His subject will be health teach-ing in the grades. PRIES HITS 38 IN WIN Roger Pries, Watertown sopho-more forward, set a new Northern individual scoring record at Yank-ton as he burned the cords with 38 points in Northern's 88-72 win over the Greyhounds. Pries' 38 points eclipsed the old record of 36 points which was set by Del Mansfield in the 1948-49 season. Maurice Nielson and Kay Besan-son led Yankton with 16 and 14 markers respectively. The Wolves were never in trouble as they got an early lead. Northern led at half time 47 to 32. Coach Clark Swisher used his en-tire squad and 12 of them hit the scoring column. PUPS TAKE TWO The Northern freshmen added two more victories to their win col-umn as they downed the Westport Indees 65-51, and the Aberdeen School of Commerce by a count of 96-69. Against the Westport quint Nor-thern's Wolf Pups were never threatened as they built up a com-manding 35-20 half time lead. Ray Huber led the Pups, who put in a very cold evening, with 15 points. Schaunaman led the losers with 24. Ethan Hanks, freshman from Miller, led the frosh attack against the Commerce five as he dumped in 34 points. Bert Leidholt and Junior Pereboom had 21 and 19. Del Gab led the School of Com-merce with 27 markers, fifteen of them coming from the charity stripe. The Northern Wolves kept their title hopes alive by knocking the Southern Pointers from second place on a 82 to 74 count. it was the final home appearance for the Wolves' Elmer Goetz and Gene Schlekeway. Both of the seniors played outstanding ball. Goetz led the Wolves' offensively with 27 points while Schlekeway tallied 15. The two seniors were abley supported by a couple of sophomores, Jim Cordts and Roger Pries. Cordts tallied 18 and Pries put in 14. Southern put on a good show and stayed with the Wolves until the very end. Miller and Westling were standouts for the Pointers. Miller hit for 19 and Westling dropped in 16, most of these on long shots from the corner. Southern hasn't won a game on the Civic Arena court in the last five years. Wolves Defeat DWU 80-60 Northern put on a brilliant sec-ond half to turn back Dakota Wes-leyan 80-60. This win kept the Wolves in the thick of the confer-ence race for the title. Northern's victory was their fifth in a row. The Bengals from Wesleyan put on a hot first half, and led the Wolves by two, 35-33, at the intermission. Dick Roth led the Bengals with 24 points. George Smith, a re-serve added 15 points. Northern had five men in double figures as Elmer Goetz and Gene Schlekeway led the Wolves with 14 apiece. Jim Nygaard, a reserve guard, bagged six longs that helped break up the Wesleyan defense. Jim Cordts and Bill Hauck, another reserve both added 11 points. STATE TOPS NORTHERN 59-57 South Dakota State edged the Northern Teachers here 59-57 be-fore the largest home crowd of the season. It was a furious battle right down to the wire with the Wolves trying desperately to get the tying basket. State got off to a fast start and held a 6-0 lead before Northern managed to score. The Wolves' offense opened up and they went ahead of the Jacks 9-8. The lead changed hands several times and finally the score was tied at 20 all. The Jacks then spurted ahead 26- 20 and held the lead at halftime 31-25. State dominated the game for the first 7 minutes in the second half running up a 43-31 lead. The Wolves struck back with 10 quick points to narrow the margin to 3 points. The lead changed hands 3 times in the last 4 hectic minutes with Northern just missing tying the score. Northern missed 3 shots in the last attempt to put the game into an overtime. Elmer Goetz, hitting his old fa-miliar stride, connected with 20 points for the Wolves. The rest of the scoring was well divided. Cordts and Nygaard had 8 apiece to follow. Virg Riley, outstanding State forward, tallied 17. Cal Eisenbraun and Dean Antoine counted 15 and 12. About a month from now quarterly grades will be out. It is pretty nice to have your name listed as doing a good job. In most cases it has meant hours of study, attendance at classes and doing the work assigned in the class room. Did you ever ask yourself this question ? How much does it cost ? You, your parents, or someone else or perhaps the GI bill has furnished the cash to pay your way. Let me be one of the first congratulate you for making the honor roll. You deserve all the credit that is in store for you. But all of us won't make the headlines. The headlines that some of us make are on the list sent out to all teachers as soon as grades are published at mid-quarter. There are too many names listed as D's and F's. In the great majority of cases names appear that really shouldn't be there. Is it thoughtlessness ? Is it the don't care attitude. Is it the way they live ? Do these students who have low grades recognize the fact that it cost the state over $400 per year to give them the privilege of attend-ing a state institution. Do these students realize that it costs someone, parent or otherwise between $750 and $1000 to keep them in school ? There is no reason under God's heaven why student's can't show more appreciation for the opportunities afforded them. Don't think for one minute ours is the only school that is on the spot. What has been said above can be said of all—to a certain extent. So—let us get down to business. Let's get our money's worth. EXAMINATION SCHEDULE Winter Quarter — 1955 Wednesday March 2, 1955 9:15 A.M.—All Freshman Communication Classes (Eng. 101B) Place to be announced by the English Division. 10:40 A.M.—All 1st period classes which regularly meet on Tuesday.* 12:05 P.M.—All 3rd period classes which regularly meet on Monday. 2:15 P.M.—All 5th period classes which regularly meet on Tuesday. 3:40 P.M.---All 4th period classes which regularly meet on Monday. 5:05 P.M.--All 4th period classes which regularly meet on Tuesday. Thursday — March 3, 1955 9:15 A.M.—All sections of History of Civilization (100B) taught by Dr. Rodine. Place of examina-tion to be announced by him. 10:40 A.M.—All 6th period classes which regularly meet on Monday. 12:05 P.M.—All 3rd period classes which regularly meet on Tuesday. 2:15 P.M.—All 2nd period classes which regularly meet on Monday. 3:10 P.M.—All 1st period classes which regularly meet on Monday. 5:05 P.M.—All 2nd period classes which regularly meet on Tuesday. Friday — March 4, 1955 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.—All 5th period classes which regularly meet on Monday. 9:25 A.M. to 10:40 A.M.—All 7th period classes which regularly meet on Monday. 10:50 A.IVI. to 12:05 P.M.—All 6th period classes which regularly meet on Tuesday. 1:00 P.M. to 2:15 P.M.—All 7th period classes which regularly meet on Tuesday. Since all classes meet several days in the week, this schedule re-fers to the first meeting of the week. 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Today Watcher
Cinema Beyond Time
21 favorite films of Lars von Trier
Станислав Дединский , 7 september
Danish film director and screenwriter
1. India Song, director Marguerite Duras, 1975
2. The Mirror, director Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974
3. Det gode og det onde / Good and Evil, director Jørgen Leth, 1975
4. Det perfekte menneske / The Perfect Human, director Jørgen Leth, 1967
5. Il portiere di notte / The Night Porter, director Liliana Cavani, 1974
6. In Search of the Castaways, director Robert Stevenson, 1962
7. Billy Liar, director John Schlesinger, 1963
8. Viaggio in Italia / Journey to Italy, director Roberto Rossellini, 1954
9. La notte / The Night, director Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961
10. Il fiore delle mille e una notte, director Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
11. I racconti di Canterbury, director Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1972
12. The Lady from Shanghai, director Orson Welles, 1947
13. Touch of Evil, director Orson Welles, 1958
14. Providence, director Alain Resnais, 1976
15. Gertrud, director Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964
16. Barry Lyndon, director Stanley Kubrick, 1975
17. Sommarnattens leende / Smiles of a Summer Night, director Ingmar Bergman, 1955
18. Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries, director Ingmar Bergman, 1957
19. Såsom i en spegel / Through a Glass Darkly, director Ingmar Bergman, 1961
20. West Side Story, directors Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961
21. Singin' in the Rain, directors Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952
«Trier on von Trier», by Stig Bjorkman, 2005
30 hateful films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Stanley Kubrick: «If you understand a movie, it means we have failed»
«O Captain, my Captain!»
10 favorite films of Andrei Tarkovsky
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Borderland Books
Home » Writing » Novellas » Passing Strange
Tor.com, New York, 2017
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.
Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.
Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself.
WINNER, World Fantasy Award
WINNER, British Fantasy Award
WINNER, Gaylactic Spectrum Award
Finalist, Nebula Award
Finalist, Locus Award
Finalist, Bisexual Writers Award
Finalist, Mythopoeic Award
This is a deftly crafted tale of love, solidarity, and magic brought full circle. Klages folds history and the modern world into a thoroughly satisfying novella that’s rich in detail, warm in regard, and clever in execution.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Ellen Klages deftly weaves science, magic and religion in this historical fantasy with a strong vein of pulp. A moving and genuine love story.
Partly a meticulously researched portrait of gay life in 1940s San Francisco, partly a magical fantasy about the power of women working together, partly a doomed romance, partly even a tribute to a particular erotic tradition of pulp magazine art. Passing Strange is Klages’ best adult work to date, both wildly romantic and genuinely moving.
—The Chicago Tribune
A masterpiece of queer fantasy, this novella is ultimately as charming as it is playful, with moments of heartbreaking drama. Klages pulls off a neat trick in building an urban fantasy world suffused with real queer history, using the magical elements in parallel to the lives of the women at the center of the story. The author is one of the voices expanding ideas of what sci-fi and fantasy can be, and the genre is so much better for it.
Klages deftly weaves each thread to a climax both bittersweet and empowering while demonstrating historical knowledge and immense fondness for her subjects and setting. For fans of speculative fiction with a strong sense of place.
A tightly written plot and an unyielding sense of wonder… Passing Strange is a quick, enchanting read.
—Romantic Times
© 2019 Ellen Klages. Site design by Clockpunk Studios.
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A former movie theater you probably never knew existed
With Maya Cinemas coming to Wynnewood Village, you may already know that this will be the second theater to open in the shopping center since it was built in 1949. But decades before Angus Wynne brought the Wynnewood Theater to our neighborhood, the Sunset Theater was showing silent films at 1112 S. Hampton Road. You’ve probably driven past M.S. Hardware, Lumber & More several times without realizing that it entertained moviegoers before most of the homes in Elmwood and Hampton Hills were built.
A commenter on the website Cinema Treasures by the name of Bob Johnston pieced together a timeline of the Sunset, which likely opened in 1922 and closed in 1949 with a showing of Bride of Vengeance starring Paulette Goddard and John Lund. In 1944 it had been the target of vandalism as well as an unfortunate prank where the marquee letters had been rearranged to spell out obscenities.
A couple of years after closing, the owners attempted to operate a drive-in using the adjacent parking lot. However, this required a permit that city council denied due to objection by residents along Hollywood Ave. It was remodeled by new owners in 1955 but somehow closed again the next year. Finally, the building was set to be repurposed as a bowling alley but a fire on July 21, 1957 damaged the structure and put an end to those plans.
Watch a clip from Bride of Vengeance below:
SUNSET THEATER TIMELINE
1922: Opens (estimated from 1957 story in the Dallas Morning News indicating it was 35 years old)
1929: Silent films shown only two days per week due to competition from talking pictures
1944: Vandals damage seats and rearrange marquee letters to spell out obscenities
1949: Shows "Bride of Vengeance" on final night
1953: Permit denied to operate drive-in theater on an adjacent parking lot
1955: Remodeled and reopened under new owners
1956: Closes a second time
1957: Building damaged by fire after it had been leased to a bowling alley operator
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Official video of Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games emblem（full length）
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Beijing Footsteps: Central Business District
Beijing int'l cultural, creative industry expo opens
China Focus: BRICS media leaders gather in Beijing for practical cooperation
Beijing aims high in robotics
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Beijing plans to develop into a global center for robotics by 2025 and has issued an industry blueprint at the ongoing World Robot Conference.
The capital aims to receive 12 to 15 billion yuan (1.8 to 2.25 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue from the robotics industry by 2020 and 60 billion yuan by 2025, according to the plan.
The city hopes to have 10 leading robotics companies, 10 R&D headquarters and become a world-leading robotics base by 2020.
China has seen a boom in industrial robots in recent years, recording average annual sales growth of 35 percent. In 2016, China manufactured 72,000 industrial robots, around a quarter of global output.
Beijing is home to around 240 companies specialized in artificial intelligence, with over 7,800 related patents. Beijing Economic Technological Development Area, which hosted the conference, has about 100 robotics companies.
The city's robotics industry is speeding up its development and prioritizing the integrated application of industrial robots, according to Zhang Boxu, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology.
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evidenza, Geopolitics
Brexit showdown Monday
by Kathryn Johnston • 30 November 2017 • 1 Comment
In Hamlet, Marcellus, an officer of the palace guard, seeing the ghost of the dead king, walking over the palace walls, observes, ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’.
Shakespeare would be spoiled for choice for a location for those words today – whether in Brussels, Washington, Westminster.
Or indeed, at Stormont, where the Northern Ireland Assembly has failed to agree a plan for government and has not met this year.
The crisis came after the late Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein (SF) Deputy First Minister of the NI Assembly, resigned at the start of this year in a failed bid to force Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) First Minister, Arlene Foster, to step down from her position to be questioned openly about her party’s involvement in a failed renewal heating scheme.
Last June NI voted 56% to 44% to Remain in Europe, but the failure of the DUP and Sinn Fein to strike a deal has meant that Northern Ireland is left, impotent and without a voice, while remaining the only region of the UK to have a land border with an EU state – the Republic of Ireland.
The situation is further complicated by the £1bn slush fund deal that the DUP wrested from British Prime Minister last year, the price for the party’s support for the minority Tory government at Westminster.
Last week, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced an extra £3bn in his budget speech – for Brexit preparations alone. That is the exact same sum that he offered to the National Health Service in England for this winter period.
A few days later it was revealed that Damien Green, de facto Deputy to Theresa May, Damian Green, offered Conservative Party funding to pay for the salary of a senior DUP employee after the confidence and supply agreement had been completed in the summer.
Mr Green’s future is already in the balance pending a Cabinet Office investigation into his conduct. He is accused of having pornography on a parliamentary computer and of making inappropriate advances to a young activist, both of which he strongly denies.
The Times said that over the summer the DUP asked for a party adviser paid from government funds. This was in addition to the £1bn deal between the Tories and the DUP to prop up the minority Conservative government.
The special adviser proposal was turned down by Sue Gray, the government’s head of propriety and ethics, who works in Mr Green’s department. However, The Times suggested that Mr Green and Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, had discussed what to do about the role once Ms Gray had turned it down. It was agreed that the Tory party would pay directly for the position.
So far, Downing Street has not commented on the discussions or on whether the prime minister was aware of Mr Green’s offer, but said that the proposal had never resulted in any payments going ahead. Mr Green’s office said it did not comment on private conversations.
To quote Shakespeare again, this time in the words of a witch in Macbeth ‘By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.’
Right on cue, enter Donald Trump. Yesterday he retweeted three inflammatory videos from a British far-right group.
The first tweet from Jayda Fransen, the 31-year-old deputy leader of Britain First, claims to show a Muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches.
This was followed by two more videos of people Ms Fransen claims to be Muslim.
Britain First was founded in 2011 by former members of the far-right British National Party (BNP). They have grabbed attention on social media with controversial posts about what they deem “the Islamification of the UK”.
Fransen is already on bail facing four charges of causing religiously aggravated harassment; last weekend she was arrested in London by Police Service of Northern Ireland detectives and flown to Belfast for questioning about remarks she made at a rally in front of Belfast City Hall in the summer. She is due to appear in court in Northern Ireland in December charged with using threatening and abusive language in connection with a speech she made at an anti-terrorism demonstration in Belfast on August 6.
http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/psni-charge-britain-first-deputy-13924297
Trump was swift to snub international criticism. He tweeted, ‘@Theresa_May, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom.’
Earlier this year, Trump claimed credit for – of all things – inventing #fakenews.
‘Look’, he boasted, ‘the media is fake. The media is – really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with – is fake’.
But fake news – like death and taxes – has always been with us. Those who would spin the earth on its axis for their own advantage know how swiftly a lie goes worldwide.
Last year Tory Leave campaigners travelled around in a battle bus, painted with slogans saying that a Leave vote would mean £350 million extra per week for the NHS.
Then Boris Johnson told us all that the British Government wouldn’t pay a penny in an EU ‘divorce settlement’.
Yet just over a week ago, Theresa May announced that the UK settlement would be £20 billion.
Now it is common knowledge that the British government are prepared to offer the EU £50 billion on Monday 4 December, as a starting bid, which will inevitably rise further.
This is money for nothing.
We are going to pay a bare minimum of £50 billion for a worse trading relationship with our largest economic partner than we have now.
We are going to pay for higher prices and soaring inflation.
We are going to pay for a weaker NHS and less money for public services.
Bring on former First Minister of Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) leader, Arlene Foster.
She said this week: ‘What we don’t want to see is any perception that Northern Ireland is in any way different to the rest of the United Kingdom.’
Does she mean like being the only region of the United Kingdom which doesn’t have equal marriage?
Like being the only region of the United Kingdom where abortion is illegal?
Like having the highest rate of homelessness in the United Kingdom?
Or like being the only part of the United Kingdom which has a land border with the EU?
So why was Foster so worried about any perception of difference between NI and UK?
‘That would cause us great difficulties in relation to trade, because of course the single market that really matters to us is the market of the United Kingdom.’
But the Republic of Ireland is Northern Ireland’s main export market, not the UK, is it not?
When she was pushed for an answer, Mrs Foster said ‘no, it’s not’.
Until, in the face of persistent questioning, she admitted:
‘Well of course – external trading partner.’
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty lays bare the reality of fake news.
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’
In January, Yanis Varoufakis warned that fears that Ireland may end up as ‘collateral damage’ in negotiations between London and Brussels are ‘well-founded’.
He repeated this warning on Bloomberg this week.
‘This is not a theoretical argument.
‘Peoples’ lives, in Northern Ireland, in Ireland generally, depend on maintaining the Good Friday Agreement, the Belfast Agreement, on maintaining the absence of a border…
‘But I must remind you that it was the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, before the Referendum in June 2016, who unequivocally promised that there would be no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic…
‘You cannot simultaneously propose to keep the border and do away with it.’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-11-29/varoufakis-on-brexit-negotiations-ireland-greece-video
In other words, Theresa May must stop speaking out of both sides of her mouth.
By Monday, the deadline set by the EU for the submission of further British proposals on the Brexit divorce bill, EU citizen’s rights and, crucially, the border, it may all be over, bar the shouting.
And the crucial question may have been settled – ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’
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Moderate Moroccan Islamists win election, coalition talks seen tough
Abdelilah Benkirane, secretary-general of Morocco's Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) speaks during a new conference at the party's headquarters in Rabat, Morocco early October 8, 2016. (Reuters)
Reuters, Rabat Saturday, 8 October 2016
Morocco’s moderate Islamists have won parliamentary elections, beating a rival party critics say is too close to the royal palace in a tight race that will complicate negotiations to form a coalition government.
The government has only limited powers, but Friday’s ballot for the House of Representatives was a test for the constitutional monarchy five years after Mohammed VI devolved some authority to ease protests for democratic change.
After five years in government, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) won 125 seats while the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) party took 102, according to final results announced by the interior minister on Saturday.
The conservative Istiqlal party took 46 seats.
Under Morocco’s system no party can win an outright majority in the 395-seat parliament and the winner must form a coalition government.
The king, who retains most executive power, chooses a premier from the winning party, but building a coalition promises to be tough for the PJD.
With its main rival PAM scoring high and ruling out an alliance, the Islamists potentially need to partner with at least three other parties to secure a majority.
Reform agenda
Since being appointed prime minister in 2011, PJD leader Abdelilah Benkirane has pursued economic reforms to reduce the budget deficit and tackle subsidies. The PJD has been popular for its anti-corruption message.
“The PJD has proven today that being serious and truthful ... and being faithful to the institutions, especially the monarchy, is a winning currency,” Benkirane told reporters.
PAM, founded by a close friend of the king who is now a palace adviser, had presented itself as a liberal alternative to Islamists. Critics say it was used by the royal establishment, always uncomfortable with sharing power with Islamists, to roll back PJD influence.
“We were expecting more seats but ... our modernist project has done well despite all attacks,” Khalid Adnoun, PAM spokesman said. “There will be no alliance with PJD. If they get their coalition, we will be in the opposition”.
During its early years in office, the PJD was in coalition with Istiqlal, but the conservative partner dropped out in 2013, it said, to protest over economic reforms that hit Moroccan spending power.
That makes another PJD alliance with Istiqlal tricky.
A fourth party, the centre-right National Rally of Independence or RNI - part of the outgoing coalition and which won 37 seats in Friday’s ballot - has also ruled out another partnership with the Islamists.
Other smaller parties are highly fragmented and only secured a few seats.
Lone Islamists
When protests erupted in 2011, the king called a referendum on a constitutional reform ceding some powers to the elected government and guaranteeing more rights. He also increased social spending and used security forces to curb protests.
Since then, Moroccan leaders have presented the kingdom as a model for economic stability and gradual change and a welcome target for foreign investment in a region where violence and political upheaval have become the norm.
The PJD is one of the only remaining Islamist parties leading a government after such parties took power following the Arab Spring revolts that toppled long-standing leaders in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia.
But Morocco’s main Islamist opposition group, Justice and Spirituality, and left-wing organizations, which led protests for change in 2011, have boycotted elections in protest over the king’s tight grip on power.
Campaigning for Friday’s vote was tarnished by accusations that the royal establishment was unfairly backing PAM though the interior ministry organization of the poll. Palace officials denied any favoritism.
Hours before polls closed on Friday, the PJD accused local officials under the control of the interior ministry of trying to influence voters at the polls. The ministry has dismissed some claims but said it would investigate others.
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PLA's military medical expert team to Sierra Leone returns after completing mission
China Military Online
Li Jiayao
By Li Yuanyuan and Guo Chen
Beijing, July 11 (ChinaMil) -- The third PLA medical expert team to Sierra Leone, with members with the Fifth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital (PLAGH) and the School of Military Medical Sciences under the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, returned to China on the evening of July 8, after successfully completing the one-year aid mission.
Since arriving Sierra Leone in June 2018, overcoming unfavorable factors such as tough natural conditions, the expert team built the center for tropical infectious disease control and prevention aided by the PLA into the most modernized infectious diagnosis and treatment center with best equipment and medical environment for the Sierra Leone military, and the country's first healthcare institution to fully apply information-based medical care management process.
According to Xu Zhe, head of the expert team, over the past year, the team diagnosed and treated more than 1,000 patients, admitted more than 280 to the hospital, provided emergency medical assistance to more than 50 severely sick persons and helped the Sierra Leone military to successively build 6 new infectious disease monitoring sentinel points, which have effectively enhanced the Sierra Leone military’s capabilities to monitor, prevent and control infectious diseases.
Xu said that the expert team also actively participated in medical and healthcare exchange activities, carried out activities such as Ebola prevention and control technology training, severe infectious disease treatment drill, engaged in health publicity and education, and promoted the development of healthcare services in Sierra Leone.
Before returning, the expert team was awarded the China-Sierra Leone Public Health Cooperation Medal by the government of Sierra Leone, which symbolizes solidarity and friendship between the two countries.
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controlla on Sun Oct 02, 2016 11:41 am
First and middle name: Lily Reina
Gender: Lily is simply female, pronouns being she/her.
Sexuality: Lily's sexuality is unknown.
Appearance: Lily Rose Depp.
General Persona: Happy go-lucky, immature, like she doesn't have a care in the world. She may be 15, but mentally she's the age of 10.
Description of One Significant Past Experience: Due to her being sedated for fighting too hard (and panicking), she doesn't remember much of her past life. Only bits and fragments of this one moment that plays over and over in her head.
Which Earth Child: Reina is the sunlight child.
Interests: She loves playing games.
Relationships: Reina has no romantic interests, but is extremely close to Cara, as it seems she is the only one who cares about her.
Other: Reina is autistic, which is something the other earth children -- aside from Cara and Elektra -- do not know. It's mainly the reason as to why she acts like a brat, and likes to get what she wants. Autism is a developmental disorder that affects the ability to communicate and interact normally, so autistic kids have trouble being social, and interacting in that way.
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Angelique Meili Yeung
( NOBODY CAN BE HAPPY ALL THE TIME ! )
━━━━ ( THAT'S NOT MENTAL HEALTH, THAT'S CRAP ! )
ANGELIQUE M. YEUNG
TWENTY-FIVE · FEMALE · PANSEXUAL
Full Name: Angelique Meili Yeung. Her first name meaning "angelic", her second name meaning "graceful and beautiful".
Age: Angelique is 25, being born on December 25, 1991.
Sexuality: Angelique is pansexual, physically in love with pans. Kidding, she's attracted to all kinds of people.
Nationality: Angelique is Chinese-French-American(if that actually makes sense lol), being raised by a Chinese mother, and a French father. But she was born in America. Boston, to be exact.
Appearance: As shown above, the face claim is Adrianne Ho, a model.
Personality: Angelique is intelligent, compassionate, hard-working, has good medical instincts, and a natural flair for medicine. Other than that, Angelique is also easily distracted and indecisive, and oftentimes outspoken.
She describes herself as "dark and twisty" due to her negativity. This is most likely because of the childhood she's had. Angelique tends to see things in shades of gray, unlike most people. Some may consider her depressed, which causes her to have less friends. Angelique is also a borderline alcoholic, her favorite drink being tequila. She adores tequila. She also has an undying love for anything caffeine, and if you give her something related to coffee she'll be very happy. (unfinished)
Specialty: Though most people would expect her to go into general surgery like her mother, she's actually peaked an interest in OB/GYN/Neonatal.
Are you an intern, attending, or resident?: She is a surgical intern. Starting the roleplay, it will be her first day as a doctor.
Short Biography: Angelique had a Chinese mother, who was a workaholic surgeon, and a French father, who was a deadbeat. When Angelique was young, her father, Simon, would bring her to Massachusetts General Hospital to visit her mother, Daiyu, at work. The first time Angelique got to see her mother perform surgery, she was extremely young.
Angelique's parents' marriage was troubled, although a part was due to Daiyu spending too much time working and normal everyday problems. But a large part was due to the fact that Daiyu was having an affair for years, with one of her colleagues and best friends, Dr. Webber. Their marital issues proved too great and eventually Simon left the home when Angelique was five years old. He tried to visit her on several occasions, but eventually after getting nowhere, stopped and subsequently started a new family with his new wife, Mariana.
When Simon left Daiyu, she continued her relationship with Webber, although he still had a wife, Adele. Although Richard tried to conceal his relationship with Daiyu, Adele always knew, so if she was in their company, she would just play with Angelique. Eventually, Richard broke off his relationship with Daiyu, as he felt he was being the better man, by walking away from Daiyu, with Meredith only meters away, riding on a carousel. Meredith vaguely remembers her mother's pregnancy with Webber's child after he broke it off. In the memory, Daiyu made it clear she did not want to even look at the child. Shortly thereafter, Daiyu accepted a fellowship at Seattle Grace Hospital. She relocated to Washington state with Angelique, and Simon lost all contact with his daughter. As an adult, her only childhood memory of Simon was giving her cereal in the morning.
She went to college at Dartmouth, and despite excessive drinking and partying, she graduated. Following her graduation, Daiyu suggested Angelique find another direction in her life, as she told her that she didn't have what it takes to survive medical school and make it in the surgical world. Following an argument about Angelique's future, Angelique spent two months traveling in South America with her then best friend Cara Thomas, who also hated Daiyu. Her mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease and placed into a nursing home in Boston. Daiyu's diagnosis gave Angelique the push she needed to go to medical school. After graduating from medical school, Angelique moved back to Boston from Seattle and into her childhood home in order to begin her internship at Mass General. She was the only one who knew about her condition, other than the nursing home staff, who were bound by contract to keep Daiyu's condition confidential. Daiyu also made Angelique promise not to tell anyone.
Relationships: She is somewhat friends with all the interns, but a friendship will form between Elise, another intern, and herself. She has a drunken one-night stand with Carla Murphy, an attending. All other relationships will develop in the roleplay.
Other information: Her only nickname is Angie, and only very close friends/possibly Carla will call her that.
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rider angel santiago -- teenage paramedic
controlla on Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:25 pm
fc. lindsey morgan
"i swear to god hanson, if you don't get out of my face in the next 10 seconds--"
rider angel santiago. 18 years old. nicknames; R, ride, angel. she's currently a paramedic, but on her way to get higher certification. rider is the chief teen medic, and is responsible for almost everything they do. if someone screws up on a call, its on her. so, she's naturally somewhat of a hardass. she doesn't let anything get by her, unless it's really minor. rider is very authoritative, and when she's around all of the medics, or in the work place, all the medics seem to respect her, whether it be grudgingly or actual honor. but when she's not in the workplace, she's pretty chill. she's almost like a normal teenager. almost. she's funny, very sister-like, and kinda free-spirited. she loves to cook, and adores her job. the other medics like to describe her as 'being on a sarcasm pill 24/7,' while she says its only her 'inner-chief' talking. however, if she doesn't get her coffee in the morning, she will be very rude, even if you didn't do anything.
Re: "nobody can be happy all the time. that's not mental health, that's crap."
controlla on Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:36 am
“ aye! get your ass off of the hood of my damn car! ”
A I D A - S T E P H A N I E - A B E L L A R D
HEAD MEDIC x ➙ x EIGHTEEN · FEMALE · HOMOSEXUAL · HAITIANx
aida stephanie abellard. 18 years old. born in port-au-prince, haiti. haitian, fluent in french, creole, and english. nicknames; aids, abellard, steph, chief, stone-hearted bitch. she's currently a paramedic, but on her way to get higher certification. aida is the chief teen medic, and is responsible for almost everything they do. if someone screws up on a call, its on her. so, she's naturally somewhat of a strict person. she doesn't let anything get by her, unless it's really minor. aida is very authoritative, and when she's around all of the medics, or in the work place, all the medics seem to respect her, whether it be grudgingly or actual honor. but when she's not in the workplace, she's pretty chill. she's almost like a normal teenager. almost. she's funny, very sister-like, and kinda free-spirited. she loves to cook, and adores her job. the other medics like to describe her as 'being on a sarcasm pill 24/7,' while she says its only her 'inner-bitch' talking. if she doesn't get her coffee in the morning, she will be very rude and salty, even if you didn't do anything. however, when they go on a call, she's all business. she barks out orders, and makes sure no one screws anything up. despite being nicknamed the stone-hearted bitch, even if the other medics don't know it(they usually do), she considers them her brothers and sisters, and cares for them deeply. obviously, she likes all the people she treats(why wouldn't she? they're usually nice. usually.)
elizabette rhia lopez --
controlla on Mon Jan 16, 2017 6:09 pm
For my roleplay, Save, Protect, and Serve.
PORTRAYED BYxxxxxxxxxEMERAUDE TOUBIA
❝ GET UP, GET UP, GIRL, SHE'S A DANCER! ❞
ELIZABETTE RHIA LOPEZ
LEADER ➙ EIGHTEEN · FEMME · BISEXUAL · ❝NOVEMBER❞
notes;
- smooth, sly. focused, determined.
- born in may of 1999.
- the month she was weaned away from her mom and taken into the CIA was november, so the adults just started calling her that.
- strong, and intelligent. very observant.
- very good actress. can be somewhat dramatic.
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Messy Lesson: How Liars are setting the blueprint for electro transformation
by J.R. Moores March 18th, 2014
I believe it was Ziggy Stardust who sang “it ain’t easyyyyyyy / it ain’t easyyyyyyyyy / it ain’t easyyy... to pull off the musical reinvention of going all electro”. What a self-fulfilling prophesy that turned out to be, as Mr Stardust discovered when he created the satirical washed-up rockstar character “David Bowie” and produced a drum ‘n’ bass album while dressed in a Union Jack overcoat.
Indeed, the act of “going electro” can so often reek of desperation, opportunism, cynicism, ineptitude, insincerity, insecurity, artificiality, charlatanism, unscrupulousness, creative constipation, etc., etc., etc. Yet there is one band who have pulled off this demanding trick with rare and enviable aplomb. Liars’ Mess is the second record of the trio’s “dance” phase, following the bold makeover of 2012’s WIXIW. If large sections of that last record were characterised by a downbeat Kid A-ian sparkle, Mess is mostly a maxi-throb take-no-prisoners arty pulse monster.
“They say I’m not a teacher”, frontman Angus Andrew chants on ‘Vox Tuned D.E.D.’ Au contraire, Liars! Fellow musicians can learn much from your ingenious transformation. Not learn how to be commercially triumphant, per se. Not like that number one Keane album that sounded like Simple Minds. We’re talking artistic/critical/muso success here. I don’t know how healthy or desperate Liars’ finances are. And who cares, so long as they’re able to keep making records? What matters is that, seven albums into their remarkable career, Liars remain one of the most enigmatic, creative, and mind-shaggingly exciting bands on the planet. Here are a few lessons that Liars’ music can teach other groups who might be considering a wee trek down the perilous path of “introducing electronic elements into our sound”:
i) Think progression rather than transformation
Looking back, the shiny synth-tastic vibe of WIXIW shouldn’t have come as such a shock. Despite their prior records having been rooted in traditional organic instrumentation, Liars’ career was marked by a distinct creative restlessness with a devoted commitment to swim ever forward. Tracks such as WIXIW’s ‘Flood to Flood’ and ‘Brats’ (see embed below) or the new album’s ‘Vox Tuned D.E.D.’ and ‘Pro Anti Anti’ are infused with the same inherent, unhinged tribal spirit of Liars’ earlier material. They just look a little more futuristic on the surface. He may be dressed up in tin cans and baking foil, but deep down Robocop is still Alex J. Murphy.
(Of course it helps if you’re as brilliant as Liars to begin with. Just try to make your electro conversion look kinda natural, like what New Order did. As tempting as it is, don’t suddenly release a single that sounds like a shit Eurythmics b-side.)
ii) Keep the DIY punk ethos in mind
Remember that slogan from the punk era, “here’s three chords now start a band”? Well here’s a second-hand synthesiser with one of keys missing and gaffer tape holding in the battery, now make an album! Do It Yourself! Learn from your mistakes. Keep the pungent, haphazard errors in the final edit instead of autotuning them into oblivion (see point iii). Exploit the originality that blossoms from amateurism. You know, like back when you first picked up a guitar and didn’t know what the hell you were doing and you came up with some really cool, peculiar and unprecedented riffs, rhythms and sounds and then when you started touring and mingling with other professional musicians you suddenly felt inadequate about your talent, approach and equipment so just to fit in you signed up to Club Axe-Wank, studied some scales and learnt what “key” actually means and then soon enough all your compositions started to sound like U2 or the Eagles or Dire chuffin’ Straits. You can’t turn back the clock. You can’t unlearn those things. But you can pick up a charity-shop synth and start all over again. And when you start to become proficient at that, when you start to sound less like Seattle’s Crypts and more like Birmingham’s Duran Duran, it’s time to chuck away the synths and begin anew with the bassoon or the clapsticks or the penny whistle. “I hope you never learn to play music,” Andrew sings towards the end of Mess. Shrewd advice for himself and his own band.
p.s. You ought to resist chartering some über-producer to sort everything out for you. Don’t hire Skrillex. He couldn’t help Korn and he can’t help you. (To reiterate, I’m talking artistic success here. If you aspire to be a cosmic commercial sensation I’d suggest hiring Pharrell, Nile and those silly French droids.)
p.p.s. Admittedly, there are exceptions. The DIY electro tracks on Mogwai’s latest disappointment (Rave Tapes) are cack-handed Errors-lite bodges of robo-fluff. Conversely, Primal Scream’s astute hiring of wunderkind producers is exactly what’s saved them throughout their career from being little more than a nonsense-spouting pub-rock laughing stock.
iii) Seek out the brown sound
It’s a great shame that freaky oddball duo Ween never made a full-bore electro record. The closest they came was a collaboration with Reinhard “Crazy Frog” Raith on the Friends EP (that title track, BTW, is an absolute triumph, guaranteed to put a smile on anybody’s face. It’s since gained a bonus underlying poignancy, thanks to Ween’s inimical split). “Brown” was the adjective that Ween used to describe sounds that were “fucked up in a good way”; glorious mistakes that were stumbled upon because the battery was dying in a distortion pedal, for example. Even though Liars are clearly gaining confidence and skill in utilizing their electronic equipment, after the tentative experimentation of WIXIW, Mess is still brimming with brown. Amid wobbly synths backed by drums that throb, thump and splash, Mess opens with a distorted Angus Andrew monologue demanding that you “take my pants off... smell my socks... eat my face off... take my face... give me your face...” There’s a short break later in the track where the music stops and we just hear a coughing sound. You can’t get much browner than that. The appropriately-titled Mess is covered in cockeyed, fruity, and inimitable noises that bounce, swarm and splodge around inside the listener’s lugholes like a weird-but-welcome ear enema. Even the slower tracks are enchantingly warped. The ballad-like ‘Can’t Hear Well’ is deformed by its quivering effects into something beyond a ballad and the album’s closing number is bathed in desolate distortion and lighter, rosier twinkles.
I think this attitude may have been what Dave Grohl was getting at in that documentary about how he has accumulated the wealth to flippantly purchase a sound-desk of which he is sentimentally fond. As Grohl preaches, it is vital to remember that accidents and mistakes and not using computers are crucial to the creation of good art (unless, erm, Trent Reznor is fondling the mouse). It’s a noble message, even if every Foo Fighters record since 1995 has been coated in more polish than Joan Rivers’ fingernails. Do as Grohl says, not as Grohl does.
iv) Bangerz not clangers
Even more than its predecessor, Mess is loaded with what Miley Cyrus and her ethnically-sourced homies might deem “bangerz” (or perhaps not - Mess is probably a little out-there for those who think radicalism involves prancing about in your pants, tonguing industrial hardware and wailing generic pop ballads). Your electro record needs to get the blood pumping, like PRML SCRM did on XTRMNTR. You can’t just widdle out some half-baked substandard synth-pop, like Primal Scream did on Beautiful Future.
When the Manic Street Preachers asked themselves “how will we fill that void over at stage-right left by our iconic lyricist, sloganeer and mime-guitarist Richey Edwards?” and came up with the answer “Nick Nasmyth on keyboards” it was downhill from there. Did you ever manage to sit through the entire 46 vanilla minutes of the Manics’ self-proclaimed “elegiac pop” album Lifeblood? Of course not. By the end of track four, you’d torn it out of the CD player, hurled it into the next door neighbour’s recycling refuse box, and stormed off in the direction of Wales to hunt down and reprimand all those responsible. And rightly so. Had the Manics, on the other hand, used their keyboards to reinvent Generation Terrorists as bruising middle-aged transgender electoclash, they might have been onto something.
v) Be signed to Mute
Barely an interview goes by where Liars don’t praise the virtues of Mute. Liars have been signed to Mute since 2004 during which time they’ve presented their label with witchcraft-exploring and percussion-worshipping concept albums, more song-based but still esoteric post-punk opuses, and now this newfangled electro gubbins. Any standard record label would’ve got confused, agitated and distraught long before now, dropping them quicker than a hot non-genre-specific potato. “What the f!@% you doing? Which direction you heading in now for Christ’s sake? Who’s your demographic here? What do we even call this? WIXIW? And how exactly is that f!@%ing pronounced? We can’t market this shit.”
Almost every Depeche Mode record has been released by Mute and its boss Daniel Miller also co-produced their first five. His label has released influential records by the likes of Erasure, Yazoo, Moby, Add N to (X), and Goldfrapp (not to mention indier stuff like the Bad Seeds). Clearly, Miller is an open-minded pioneer who knows his electro onions. Miller provides Liars with creative freedom and cherished feedback. He is so valued, in fact, that one of Liars’ ten commandments for creativity is “THOU SHALT LISTEN TO DANIEL”
Unfortunately, I don’t know how you actually go about getting signed to Mute in the first place.
Maybe buy Vince Clarke a pint and ask him to put in a good word or something?
Related: Join the conversation and hear the stream of Liars' new album Mess over on our forums.
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Board index ‹ Drowtales world ‹ Path to Power ‹ Conference Hall ‹ the view from the sidelines
Re: the view from the sidelines
by 3Power on Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:47 am
Ahahahahaha.... no.
You basically want to make three people in charge of key parts of the game and make it so only those people can talk to the GM? You have the ranked system all over again.
Also, exactly where do the qualifications for these "sub-GMs" come from? A GM runs the game, A GM knows what happens if the players do X, splitting that role among 4 people only ensures chaos in the upper echelons.
In the end, I am still seeing an attempt to give certain community members power over other community members.
Your concern seems to be (once again) a paranoid belief that one single action would unmake the clan and that without some sort of executive position in place to veto said action, this would inevitably occur. You are (unsuprisingly) ignoring the fact that such positions in the previous game, ranks, did more harm than good in this regard, wherein your office in particular caused a great deal of problems in the game by refusing to take any relevant action whatsoever. We cannot afford to have a single paranoid officer stall the entire game process because of her personal opinions on matters.
Majority rules, if the majority is stupid, then we get our just reward. It's that simple.
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by blackshade10 on Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:55 am
In my mind, it's the GM who determines this(the qualifications) and if you are a "sub-GM" you are not permitted to play the game until you stop being a GM. That removes an aspect of "Conflict of Interests".
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by thealbinobutterfly on Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:21 am
I keep understanding what i'm reading as, in terms of what the issues lay to: "we don't want leaders. we were unhappy with the ranked systems."
i am trying to say: " we need leaders, because what we had before was a flawed system that was not efficient. we should not scrap the idea of there being leaders entirely, that is an extreme. what we need is a system in place where there can be structure, and again, efficiency."
Trey'la, you bring up a good point that if we as a whole make bad decisions we will suffer. On this, we agree completely. The difference from before to what we may be facing in ptp 2.0 is, we had some, if flawed, structure before. As it stands we'll be scattered to do as we will D&D style, it seems. I would like to prevent us making collective bad decisions by a system being put in place that is not, as you think, a chokehold on our freedoms as players. It would be a support system to which there exists a chain of command as well as powers put in place to reduce negative impact on the game from bad decisions that may use resources or put the clan at risk, such as combat/warfare.
However, it is not intended and should not be used as a power grab. My original postings said that this system was originating from my belief we can't have just one GM. If for any reason thalar would run into any problems we, as players, will suffer in our game. We should agree to respect thalar's excellent track record, but understand that she is just one person with a life of her own, not managing a handful of people but 250. my reasonings stem from both person belief and personal experience beyond path to power. To share, There have been studies done by both the military and business corporations on how far you can push someone's limits as a leader. They found that with a prime leader, maximum person management stops at 30 people for each person. This means that optimally, to reduce stress on everyone, we should have 8 GM's. This does not mean that we, as players of path to power, need 8 main leaders but rather 8 avenues of buffer to work through to optimize ourselves for ptp 2.0.
Putting aside studies, facts, etc:
Blackshade, you say that if we had the additional 3 gm's i mentioned (warfare, economics, politics) that if they did not play the game, it would remove conflict of interest: on this i agree. we have already seen these accusations flung at madea, it is a solid part of our community out-of-game history. But as i understand it, Thalar will continue to play her character in-game.
This can go one of two ways:
one way is: as i mentioned before, we will see disgruntled players begin to hold it against Thalar, who no longer has the "good cop bad cop" routine with madea. She can even claim she can handle what we as the community will throw at her, but i severely doubt she will be able to maintain that for long, or, it will simply take one bad day to bring it all crashing down. This would be the same if we had those three GM's i suggested play as well.
second way: Thalar and the three gm's i suggested do not play. They become simply a managerial part of the game, to influence the game itself directly to remove a conflict of interests.
However, what i am suggesting is that we give the power to Thalar, and the three gm's i suggested.Thalar is part of drowtales staff, so her position would unlilkely ever be removed- however, the three GM's can't be expected to stay around forever, nor could we expect a removal of human greed/vanity/pride. The three GM's would be working under Thalar and she can remove them at any point in time if she feels they are doing a bad job. And under those three GM's, we would have a system similar to the one we have in ptp 1: guild leaders who act as the ranked had, but they can only bring major decisions forward to represent their group of interest, e.g., warriors represent scouts and warriors. foods & services represent harvesters, crafters, smiths, techs, etc. these guild leaders are exactly that- meant to lead in-game, the other players. It would not necessarily mean they get extra privellege, but rather that, for gameplay sake, if Anjhali was to go and counsel the clan on major decisions such as: "are we going to war with X Clan?" we would see the warriors guild leader at front with whomever was also involved within the warriors. They are figureheads, in essence, nothing more, but with duties to represent the interests of the group they are elected for.
thealbinobutterfly
I'm still vehemently against having leaders, as I've little interest in being told how to run things by someone. The idea that me and my friends can work together independently on projects we like without a ranked decreeing that it's not worth that sections time in their eyes is something that I WANT in PtP2. Plus, I want to avoid all the unnecessary drama that comes with the elections. Don't say it won't happen- it will.
blackshade10 wrote: I'm still vehemently against having leaders, as I've little interest in being told how to run things by someone. The idea that me and my friends can work together independently on projects we like without a ranked decreeing that it's not worth that sections time in their eyes is something that I WANT in PtP2. Plus, I want to avoid all the unnecessary drama that comes with the elections. Don't say it won't happen- it will.
firstly, wow, you read fast, that large post is barely 45 seconds old.
I understand that there is a lot of disinterest in what we had before. I think from it, even at the time, there were people hurt by being unable to lead or be "heroes" or "leaders". There was a lot of vying for attention and a lot of power grabs. So i agree, it would happen, it's inevitable people will see the system as a chance for them to have influence on the game.
But, you have to understand there is a flaw to having none at all: On the other side of the coin, if we had no leaders at all and just the one leader: one person in charge will do the same thing. to re-post:
What it comes down too is that no official system should exist for leaders- natural leaders shall blossom. Some will not want to follow others, and will go off with others- that's alright. That's fine. They should not be forced to wade through a leader they dislike because the majority supported him or her. If I want to follow a leader because I think he's right- then it works fine. A mechanical system is unnecessary.
And yes, I do read very fast.
blackshade10 wrote: What it comes down too is that no official system should exist for leaders- natural leaders shall blossom. Some will not want to follow others, and will go off with others- that's alright. That's fine. They should not be forced to wade through a leader they dislike because the majority supported him or her. If I want to follow a leader because I think he's right- then it works fine. A mechanical system is unnecessary.
I can see that you are letting ptp 1 ruin what i am trying to convey here.
It's a romanticized thought but, think about this scenario:
You have natural leaders. these leaders will want control, or you will have the leaders who people flock to and listen. these are the two types of leaders that basically exist, anywhere.
with the softer leader, people will support him or her, but there are other leaders, as the first i explained, who will want control and there will be people who support that type of person as well. This is where the clashes ensue, and have already been ensuing in our community for years.
With a system in place where there is established positions for both types of leaderships to fill, its not a matter of you "waiting", it's a matter of who can do the job best. And this is why i said, it would be a vote-in, vote-out system, with thalar ultimately in charge of those types of decisions. What we lacked and what caused a bad taste in everyone's mouth was a lack of execution on who was genuinely doing a ruddy job and no one bothered to try to vote people out- and when they did- it caused drama.
If you implement a system from the get-go with established rules and lines, you won't run into as many problems as implementing it later. If you establish a system with a chain of command procedure, things become mroe organized and run more efficiently. but to dismiss the entire argument based on, "it won't work at all, it will inevitably have flaw at one point", is just to say that "the sky is blue and eventually it will rain." there is no such thing as a perfect system, anywhere, but we can't jump from extreme to extreme either.
Again: We should agree to respect thalar's excellent track record, but understand that she is just one person with a life of her own, not managing a small handful of people but 250. Having no support system in place for her will be asking for failure, as well.
by minalia on Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:09 am
It's very unlikely that all 250 people will be active and participate..at best half will be mere spectators and other half with be active players..and that half of active players will most likely never bother to read the forums or read the shoutbox.
by Catriana on Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:35 am
Xenon, forgive me for not reading every reply of yours, as some of them were long and there's only so many ways you can say the same thing. I know it's probably been a little frustrating to double back.
There is nothing wrong with having leadership in a game. Every large game has them. Every online game has someone you can go to for issues. But that's the thing, you go to them for issues, and they keep folks from abusing the game, but they don't run the show. The difference with PTP1 is that the ranked did run the show, were paying extra to do so, and not all of them were qualified to do this for various reasons. It was an up and grab Charlie Foxtrot, leaving things open for corruption and in some cases, conflict. And when I say corruption, I mean from all sides. The amount of savagery that ensued the moment a position opened was absolutely ridiculous and disgusting to watch. It didn't take me long to decide I didn't ever want to be a Ranked, because being above such a heavily flawed system (where ranked decisions could pretty much be ousted by the clan, making their efforts pointless) was simply too much of a headache.
The only thing I ever debated on running for was a possibility of a merchant, because I have an actual educational background (albeit small) concerning business. But I digress, this really isn't my point.
I will have to disagree on there needing to be leaders in this game for it to run, however, I do not believe Thalar should be running the show by herself. It's taxing to run anything alone, but my idea is less controlling and more moderating/mediating.
- I believe that the forums should hold forced utilization. In order to post your suggestion, you MUST present it first and gather supporters. Unlike before, where arguments could go on and on, a member(s) would need only so many supporters to back them. Remember, all decisions must be approved by Thalar anyway, so sitting around a bitching at each other for days on end will be eliminated. You don't have to agree, it doesn't matter. What will matter is the group presenting the idea and whether or not Thalar thinks it works. If you cannot gather...say 3-4 extra individuals (Kern says the more the easier it'll be, but one or two people isn't going to get a job done, let's face it) then you should not be posting your option.
- What is needed is mediators/moderators, not leaders. Individuals who can watch the mass chaos and bring it some order, NOT try to control mass actions. Someone who keeps in contact and, after working with Thalar, will have an understanding of what could and could not go through. They could offer suggestions/advice, and if they know something is going to automatically get rejected due to whatever reason, they can put the smack down on it early, with a viable explanation, and move on. Of course, these would be individuals Thalar trusts to speak as her voice, but if members are that pissy about it, they'll know where to go.
Kern's system allows for anyone to post a suggestion no matter how ridiculous, because if it doesn't gather supporters it won't go through and GM has final word. This is flawed, because it means more work for Thalar when something can be set up and established to dampen the blow, so to speak. You can split suggestions up by Work Field, with a few moderators for each section.
Another way is to treat suggestions/plans like you would for a RP character submission: You present the plan/character, get advice from helpers or other members, gather supporters, and the Moderator gives you the OK before the deadline. In the end, no moderator can honestly STOP you from posting if Kern's system stays in place, but some organization is needed, I agree with Xenon on that.
As for how moderators are selected, that should be the GM's job. If she wanted, she could have individuals submit applications and select who she thinks would be best. I think Thalar is a great leader, and would choose wisely from the list. This keeps power hungry people at bay.
And before the "I bet you want to apply for this yourself" accusations come out: I have a writing career I'm working on. I have a novel due out this June and I'm currently writing full time. I also will be managing other things, I do not have the time nor the patience to deal with you all in a position of power. Especially for free. ♥
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Catriana
the system i presented doesn't have to be taken as the end all, from this conversation i only want us to see that there is a need for -something- in place rather than -nothing-. so, thank you, catriana~
*nods* I figured as much. It seemed like you wanted a solid discussion on how to establish some organization to the chaos and presented your idea, which was derailed and smacked down with accusations of vying for power and other such nonsense that had nothing really to do with your goal/agenda. I didn't see too many people offer any real support/expansion of what you were trying to do, so there be my .02
So yeah, I definitely agree with you, there needs to be something in place.
by Tamo Shua on Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:08 am
This is a pretty active forum. Addressing some concerns all players have, the most important is control. In this new social experiment we all have control. We can, will do what we want, when we want, and how we want. Kind of cool.
Now unlike ranked system in ptp1 we must try to convince others of a what we consider a worthy project, large or small. We must show it’s worth with thought. Those who want to join in on a project in the making will, those who wish to do something else will. We now have to keep track of our own stuff. If I gather books I have to know what they are, how many and in what condition there in ect. Bean counters will be happy.
The rest seem to be just words vying for, or to convince others of control of the group, be it the clan or sub house within the clan, or just a group or relic hunters, let’s try the system in ptp2 at least for a time, then decide if we wish a leader. In the end remember we can do what we want, even choose or make a leader. Granted as said before they will be temp leaders, lasting only as long as the good idea lasts. Personally I do not what to start with a small group of players with the power to delegate. It rubs me the wrong way, is to me, too open to abuse, and can silence another player on the most basic of questionable morals.
In the end and at this moment we are like Neoguri, a base, what we add to it is what we will become.
At the last take this will you. This is a game, we have paid our monies, and expect to be entertained.
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by James Rye on Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:36 am
I also don´t want more or less leaders with the power to stop player projects at once aka one opinion over many.
I remember that Kern wrote that *key positions* in PtP 2.0. will be filled by NPCs so that we have a Warmaster NPC and an Ambassador NPC while An'Jhali as pour Illhar is the last instance.
So players probably won´t be able to take over such powerful positions and if Thalar wants help then it´s up to her who to select to help her and what their work will be. It would be better if it´s only guiding/advising and not interacting/rejecting at the players idea.
For example lets take the Sargs. In PtP it happend three times that several people, sometimes over 10 persons wanted that we meet with the sargs leader for diplomatic issues. However, that never happend as the one in Ambassador charge delegated it further away cause it wasn´t a urgent case. That´s nothing against you, Xexe, as i think as well that back then there were first no good opportunity to talk to them and second it was to risky to do so for your own and your escorts lives.
However, there were people who wanted that talk to happen and it was asked three times.
Now in PtP 2.0. those people could select one or some of their group to meet with them to act as diplomats. As long as those 10 people vote for it, it will get through.
But here it is where we need guiding and advising, interacting and rejecting like in the beta shouldn´t be there as it destroys the 10 people motivation to play any further if their moves/plans/ideas are always ignored by one or two persons.
In PtP 2.0. there should be someone telling them, that can be Thalar or one of he selected *admins*, that this is a risky idea and can be very dangerous for their CS lives. If that willaffect the 10 peoples determination or not an if they still do this action or not, should still be up to those 10 individuals.
The biggest problem i see for myself in PtP 2.0 is not in the *action* department aka do we need a few people as leaders who tell the rest who are not what to do and what not, but in the *ressource* deaprtment.
It looks like this:
Ressource jobs - Tool/stuff making jobs who use ressources - jobs who use those tools
Ressource jobs would be like miner, harvester and most likely as new one: wood cutter
Tool/stuff making jobs are Smiths, Techs and Crafters
Jobs who use those tools/ressource are Warriors, Scouts and Builders
Now here comes the problem. We see that we need miners and harvesters so that smiths and techs get enough ore, gems and other stuff so that warriors gets their armour and scouts their crossbows. We kow that smiths can build some toold for harvesters to make their work easier as well as techs can build some tools to make miners being more efficent. Warriors will protect and scouts scout the area.
But now what if follow scenario will happen:
We got 10 unit of ore in the store room, of the 8 miners we got only 4 turned in their action to get more ore. With their tools each miner makes 2 units rsulting in 8 extra units.
Now the smiths turn those 18 units into steel resulting in 9. But here comes the problem, the scouts demand more arrows as they don´t have enough for their upcoming feral hunt, but some smiths are already busy making steel while the rest had promised/works already together with the techs to turn those 9 steel bars into golem stuff to build a golem.
What if other remaining smiths says *sorry, i´m busy making armour.* or *making arrows is boring, i already promised to build on that golem*. The scouts would stand there with no arrow at the end of the turn though the ressources where there, the ones who could make them didn´t as well as they couldn´t make arrows as the steel bars were already used for the techs golem.
In PtP 2.0 i believe we might get into such situations some times were not enough ressources needs to be split between several projects OR one or two projects needs to be halt for one or two turns.
Now a way to avoid that would be that some players who are harvesters be miners for this turn so that enough ore can be produced to be turned into enough steel. But we know that if this will result that the harvesters first can´t do their original job as well as gain no level/exp in their original job.
This is where the Multis (many chara Player) and Sings (one chara Player) would come in as Kern already mentioned that feature.
The multis got one main and maybe two sub charas. If those multis see that there´s a problem in another job branch, they can halt their main and use one of their sub to help out there.
Fpr example a warrior main who also is a smith sub and a crafter who´s a miner sub. The crafter player let his crafter rest a turn as he can only use one of his charas, so that he can help getting more ore. The Warrior will not train/patrol this turn as he sees it more important to make arrows for the scouts as smith though that´s not his main chara
The SIngs aka the ones who only use one chara aka only one job are high-leveled specialists, so a level 10 smith who decides to make arrows will be able to make 10 in one turn while a level 2 sub smith can only do 2. Also a high-level warrior/crafter may be able to do the share of their colleagues who are helping out in other jobs, so could a level 12 crafter do the extra work of the now missing level 6 crafter who helps out as level 3 miner right now.
That´s just how i see it. If we get many projects/different ideas we gonna need a ressource system to avoid that some groups ge superior control over those or deny other new groups the ressources they need.
That´s where admins could come in if Thalar needs them.
I say for now, we should wait till PtP 2.0 starts and wait if Thalar cannot do the whole work in the first month.
But as someone already said, only half of those 250 plays and around half of them are more then 3 times per week in the forum. So i believe Thalar will be able to do most work.
Let´s wait and see and discuss till then how we want to name our new home/settlement. It needs to be a new name instead of Ther'avare, something fitting our new made home above under the sun and in the forrest.
@Catriana
Good luck on your writing career.
by blackshade10 on Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:04 am
With all due respect Xe, no, I'm really not letting PtP1 ruin what you're trying to say, not in the slightest. I just believe that leaders are those who make themselves leaders- and that happens when you can rally support for something and it succeeds.
Thus, I really don't see the need for what you suggest is all. Cat's idea seems interesting, and I think that'll also simply develop on its own(Much like how Taruna is doing it right now. She's not a rank anymore, but she still has gotten people who want to be warriors together and organized them, all on her own.)
by Catriana on Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:41 am
blackshade10 wrote: With all due respect Xe, no, I'm really not letting PtP1 ruin what you're trying to say, not in the slightest. I just believe that leaders are those who make themselves leaders- and that happens when you can rally support for something and it succeeds.
**nods** My biggest thing would really be the forced utilization of the forums. Because many folks just join and don't contribute unless they want screen time, and that's to throw in some random LA option. Eventually Kern just started ignoring them, but the times he didn't kinda screwed us. I think the forums should play a larger role in the game's functions, because it's the only official way to communicate, which is important for working as a team. Beyond that, it's all up to how Thalar wants to run it.
The only thing about folks coming in and taking a natural leadership position is they're not working 'officially' and, more than likely, aren't working with Thalar. Being 'official' matters here. Yes, Taruna isn't getting a lot of crap because the game really isn't going anywhere...but once PtP2 starts, the more ambitious folks will start stepping in and on her toes...and what can she do about it? In the end, her voice doesn't mean much when it holds no 'official' weight. She'll still hold some control with those who are loyal to her, but that's about it.
In the end, some 'official' form of organization should be used, just to keep people from being overly ambitious and starting forum wars in a vie for power over another 'natural' leader.
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MONASTICISM IN THE WEST (by Jordan Aumann O.P.: Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition )
There is little documentary evidence of monasticism in the West before the middle of the fourth century, at which time it was already flourishing in the East.(1) However, since there was constant communication between Rome and the centers of monasticism in Egypt, Palestine and Alexandria, it is probable that Christians in Rome knew about the monastic movement. What is certain is that St. Athanasius visited Trier during the time of his first exile between 336 and 338, and he was in Rome in 340. His Life of Antony, which had such a great role in the popularization of the monastic life, was quickly translated into Latin for Christians in the West.
On the other hand, it is possible that monastic life in the West could have developed without any direct influence from the East. The ascetics, virgins and widows were already observing some of the practices proper to a monastic life style. Eusebius even speaks of an ascetic living in solitude as early as the middle of the third century.(2) But one of the distinguishing elements of monastic life was absent in the first few centuries of the Church in the West, namely, separation from the world. The early ascetics preferred life in community to a solitary life separated from the world. Consequently, although we cannot say with certainty that monastic life in the West was strictly an importation from the East, during the fourth and fifth centuries eastern monasticism was a dominant influence on the development of monastic communities in the West.
ORIGINS OF WESTERN MONASTICISM
Writing in the 380's, St. Jerome states that the name "monk" was held in contempt, probably because of certain male and female ascetics who were excessively charismatic and lacking in discipline.(3) At the same time he spoke favorably of the monastic life of certain noble Roman ladies for whom he served as spiritual director. In spite of some opposition to the ascetical movement, St. Jerome fostered this type of life during his three years in Rome.
Another promoter of the ascetical life was St. Ambrose (+ 397) whose own sister Marcellina began to live the ascetical life in Rome in 353 and later moved to Milan.(4) As bishop of Milan, he was the patron of a community of men near Milan, and it was here that St. Augustine first encountered anything resembling the monastic life.
It has been said that Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli from 344 to his death in 371, founded the first monastic community in the Latin Church. However, since he was exiled to the East in 355 for refusing to sign the condemnation of St. Athanasius at the synod at Milan, it is likely that he established the community after his return from the East in 363.
St. Paulinus of Nola was also a founder of monastic life. Born in Bordeaux around 353, he married Therasia, a Spanish lady and devout Christian. When their only child died in infancy, they decided to dedicate their lives to asceticism, continence and prayer. They left Barcelona and settled at Naples in 395, where they organized a fraternitas monastica composed of relatives and friends, all from the upper class. Paulinus had been ordained a priest -- possibly before leaving Barcelona -- and after Therasia died in 4o8, he became bishop of Nola. He was in contact with most of the ecclesiastical figures of his day, for example, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Martin of Tours, St. Augustine and St. Honoratus.(5)
St. Martin of Tours completed his military service in 356 and in 360 he went to Poitiers with St. Hilary, where he formed a semi-eremitical community. In 371 he became bishop of Tours, the first monk-bishop in the West, and he promoted monasticism until his death in 397. Having been formed in the monastic life by St. Hilary, who was a great admirer of St. Athanasius and eastern monasticism, St. Martin founded numerous monasteries, among them the famous ones at Ligugé and Marmoutier. So great was the veneration paid to St. Martin as a founder and patron of monastic life that St. Benedict dedicated a chapel to him at Monte Cassino.(6)
Shortly after the death of St. Martin, a monastery was founded by St. Honoratus between 4oo and 410 on the island of Lerins, near Cannes. The monks were for the most part educated men from the upper class and as a result numerous bishops were chosen from their ranks. The monastery at Lerins became a focal point of religious culture for several centuries, producing such eminent figures as St. Caesarius (+ 542), author of monastic rules for men and for women, and Vincent of Lerins, author of the Commonitorium, a treatise on Catholic doctrine.
Meanwhile, St. Jerome, who had become so unpopular in Rome that he left for Palestine after the death of Pope Damasus in 3 84, founded and directed monasteries for men and for women until his death in 420. The monasteries followed the Rule of St. Pachomius, and in 404 St. Jerome translated the Rule of St. Pachomius, his Monita, and his letters into Latin. Previously, Rufinus, onetime friend of St. Jerome, had translated the Rule of St. Basil and the Historia Monachorum in Aegypto into Latin. In this way both St. Jerome and Rufinus exerted a great influence on monasticism in the West.
JOHN CASSIAN
In John Cassian (+ 435) we have the greatest exponent of the monastic life and the most influential figure prior to St. Benedict. Most likely he was born in the Balkans in 36o and took the name of John as a remembrance of his teacher and patron, St. John Chrysostom.
With his friend Germanus, Cassian entered a monastery in Bethlehem in his youth, and after a short time he went with Germanus to visit the monks in Egypt. He visited the famous monasteries of Cells, Nitria and Scete, and in the last-named place most probably met Evagrius, who died in 399. The two friends returned to Bethlehem and later made a second visit to Egypt. In 400 they were in Constantinople, where Cassian was ordained a deacon by St. John Chrysostom. When Chrysostom was sent into exile in 405, Cassian and Germanus travelled to Rome to plead his cause with the Pope. The next fact that we know for certain is that Cassian was in Provence by 415 and had been ordained a priest. Here Cassian entered upon a very productive work. Since the days of St. Martin of Tours many monasteries had been founded in the area of Provence, but there was no specific rule of life universally accepted and therefore no uniformity of monastic observances. With his background of experience in eastern monasticism and his acquaintance with the various types of monastic life, Cassian was considered an authority on the subject. Not only did he respond to questions and give advice, but he founded a monastery for men near Marseilles -- very likely the Abbey of St. Victor -- and one for women.(7)
His spiritual teachings are contained in his Institutions and Conferences. In the former treatise, Cassian speaks of the monk's garb, prayer and psalmody, ascetical practices, and the eight capital sins that had been enumerated by Evagrius.(8) In the Conferences he discusses the nature of monastic life, prudence, the three renunciations, sources of temptation, prayer, Christian perfection, charisms, chastity and spiritual knowledge.
According to Cassian, the purpose of the monastic life is the interior perfection of the individual monk, and this perfection is not found in the monastic manner of life as such, but in the virtues of the monk himself. The essence of perfection is charity, and the perfection of charity is reached by the way of asceticism. Yet Cassian repeats time and again that the monk is not to seek ascetical practices as a goal in themselves; rather, he is to aspire to the positive spiritual values that are made possible by negation. The asceticism of the monk should pass through three successive phases until the monk attains the perfection of contemplative love:
The tradition of our Fathers and the authority of Scripture teach us that there are three kinds of renunciation which each of us must endeavor to carry out with all his strength. The first is to reject all the pleasures and all the riches of this world. The second is to renounce ourselves, our vices, our wicked habits, and all the unruly affections of the spirit and of the flesh. And the third is to withdraw our heart from all things present and visible and apply it only to the eternal and invisible .... We shall then arrive at this third renunciation when our spirit, no longer weighed down by the contagion of this animal and earthly body, but purified from the affections of the earth, is raised to heaven by continual meditation on divine things, and is so taken up with the contemplation of the eternal truth that it forgets that it is still enclosed in fragile flesh and, ravished in God, it finds itself so absorbed in his presence that it no longer has ears to hear or eyes to see and it cannot even be impressed by the greatest and most perceptible objects.(9)
Thus, the fruit of asceticism is for Cassian the gift of contemplative prayer. Indeed, the practice of prayer is so essential to Christian spirituality, says Cassian, that just as there can be no prayer without the virtues, so there can be no true virtues without prayer. In the Conferences he distinguishes four kinds of prayer: the prayer that asks pardon for sins, which is proper to beginners in the spiritual life; the prayer that makes good resolutions to God, which is characteristic of those who are progressing in the spiritual life; prayer for the salvation of souls, which is practiced by those who have grown in charity and love of neighbor; the prayer of thanksgiving for graces received, which is proper to those who contemplate God in what Cassian calls the "prayer of fire."(10) And as if to stress that contemplative prayer is not to be identified with a pagan gnosis, Cassian insists that it has its source in the reading of Sacred Scripture and it leads the monk back to Scripture. The one and only perfect good is "the contemplation of God, which must be placed above all merit, above all the virtues of the just, even above all that we read in St. Paul of what is good and useful."(11)
The monastic movement was not without its detractors, however, who found a powerful leader in the ex-monk Jovinian. In his efforts to stem the tide of asceticism, he preached and practiced a Christian life that was so sensate and worldly that St. Jerome branded him "the Christian Epicurus."(12) Jovinian's attack on monasticism led to his denial of the virginity of the Mother of Christ and a rejection of the practice of celibacy among the Latin clergy.(13)
At the other extreme we find the heresy of Messalianism, against which St. Augustine wrote the treatise, De opere monachorum. The basic error of Messalianism was the contention that since monks had left all things for a life of solitude and prayer, all forms of manual labor must be rejected in favor of recollection, silence and prayer.(14) In spite of the attacks on the monastic life, it continued to flourish, although in the West it would undergo radical adaptation, especially at the hands of St. Augustine.
St. Augustine (354-430) has been hailed as the father of theology in the West and the greatest doctor of the Church. His theological accomplishments were so great and so varied that he is at once the depositary of the theological tradition of the East and the source of a new theology for the West. In many areas, such as the theology of creation, the problem of evil, ecclesiology, the virtue of faith, and eschatology, his teaching has been accepted as practically definitive. He attained an insight into the doctrine of the Trinity that no Greek Father had ever equalled, and his theology of grace still dominates our theological investigations.
St. Augustine developed a theology of the spiritual life that was rooted in charity, perfected in wisdom and intimately united to Christ and the Church. In order to understand his teaching, it is helpful to review briefly the doctrine on original sin and grace that emerged from his struggle with the Pelagians.
The fundamental principle that lies at the heart of Pelagianism is the autonomy of human liberty. Man was created free, and although his freedom is a gift from God, it is so essential to man that he could not exist without it. Having given man this freedom, God cannot intervene without destroying it, and therefore man is his own master; his freedom "emancipates" him from God. Man's free choice is the sole determinant of his actions and whether he chooses good or evil, the act proceeds entirely from his own free choice.
Moreover, since man was in no way affected by original sin or its effects, according to the Pelagians, man is fundamentally good and his free will suffices to keep him sinless. For the Pelagians grace was not considered a principle of divine life within the soul nor a power that affects man's faculties interiorly; it is something exterior to man. The teaching and example of Christ assist our power to do good, but the actual willing and doing are exclusively in our own hands. And since man can achieve holiness by his own efforts, it is of obligation that he do so. Every good act is of obligation; there are no counsels, nor is there any real need for prayer of petition. There is no distinction between mortal sin and venial sin, for all sins are equally serious. All that remains is duty and obligation: what a man can do, he must do.
St. Augustine's response to the Pelagians can be summarized as follows: Out of divine goodness, God created the world and man; the latter was created for an intimate union of personal fellowship with a personal God. To this end, God created our first parents in the state of innocence and endowed them with preternatural gifts of bodily immortality, immunity from sickness and death, infused knowledge and perfect integrity. Their state in relation to sin was posse non peccare, and after attaining glory, their state would be non posse peccare. In spite of all his gifts, man committed the original sin, not because God's prohibition conflicted with man's desires, but because man as a creature was subject to change and therefore able to turn away from his true good. The root of the sin was pride; man wanted to be his own master. As a result of his fall, Adam was placed in the state of non posse non peccare. His love of God was changed to love of self; his intellect was clouded with ignorance and his will was inclined to evil; he lost the subordination of his lower powers to reason; he was doomed to die; sexual concupiscence became the strongest inclination of his flesh. And since Adam sinned as the father and head of all humanity, all men were in Adam when he sinned, and all men have inherited his sin as well as its effects.
Since original sin, the human race is a mass of corruption. Man still retains a restless longing for God and for the good, but his freedom to accomplish the good is lost; therefore, without God's help, man can only sin. Justification and salvation are exclusively the work of God. The first requisite for justification is faith in Christ, but faith is impossible without the "prevenient" grace of God. It is not a question of man's accepting or rejecting God's gift of grace and faith, for if that were so, everything would ultimately depend on man and not on God. That a man accepts the grace of God is due to the grace of God.
St. Augustine defended the reality of sanctifying grace against the Pelagians by stating that justification implies a positive element besides remission of sins, some new reality inhering in the soul. He speaks of this reality as a divine adoption, a divinization of the soul which thereby becomes an image of God, a participation in the justice and holiness of God himself. Thus, commenting on Romans 5:5 : "The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us," St. Augustine says: "Indeed, the love of God is said to be diffused in our hearts; not the love whereby he himself loves us, but the love whereby he makes us lovers of him; just as the justice of God whereby we are made just through his gift.... This is the justice of God which he not only teaches through the precept of law but he also gives through the gift of the Spirit."
It is, however, on the question of actual grace that the teaching of St. Augustine seems ambivalent; at least, it has been interpreted in contrary senses. Certain expressions seem, for example, to deny man's freedom under grace: "God works in us, to will and to do"; "God's will and grace always obtain their effect in us"; "Whichever delights us most, that we must necessarily choose." And yet, the entire treatise De gratia et libero arbitrio was written by St. Augustine as a defense of man's freedom. According to Portalié, three fundamental principles are at the basis of St. Augustine's theology of actual grace: 1) God, through his grace, is absolute master of all the determinations of the human will; 2) man is as free with grace as he is without it; 3) the compatibility of these two principles rests on the mode of divine government.(15)
In view of his teaching on grace, wherein St. Augustine valiantly defended the gratuitousness of grace and the freedom and responsibility of man's cooperation with grace, his teaching on the spiritual life likewise places great emphasis on these two elements. First of all, St. Augustine requires docility to the Holy Spirit, through humility, faith and the practice of prayer; secondly, he demands a response to grace through the imperation of charity, which bears fruit in good works. From the subjective point of view, charity is the summation of the entire moral life and it is likewise the essence of Christian perfection: perfect charity is perfect justice.(16) Indeed, Scripture commands nothing else but charity. And this charity is for Augustine nothing other than the love of God for himself and the love of self and neighbor because of. God.(17)
However, the perfection of charity is attained only after the soul is strengthened and purified by the practice of the virtues; and even then it is always a relative perfection, since there is no terminus to charity. "We shall have perfect charity," says Augustine, "when we see God as he is. For there will be nothing more that can be added to our love when we have attained vision."(18) Here on earth, however, "it is the property of perfection to recognize that it is imperfect," yet "the more you love, the more you will be raised up."(19) When the soul's love reaches its perfection, the soul enjoys intimate union with God, since love by its very nature tends to become one with the beloved. At this point the soul enjoys that true wisdom which for Augustine constitutes mystical contemplation.
In the treatise, De quantitate animae, St. Augustine lists seven stages through which the soul normally passes as it advances to contemplation. The first three stages refer to the vegetative, sensitive and rational levels of human life. But the Christian does not begin to make true progress toward perfection until the fourth stage, which is that of virtue, accompanied by purification. The fifth stage is called tranquillity, to denote the peace that follows from control of the passions. The sixth stage is called the entrance into the divine light (ingressio in lucem), in which the soul seeks to penetrate the divinity; there, if it succeeds, it passes on to the seventh and final stage which is that of habitual union and indwelling (mansio).(20) That this last stage is truly mystical contemplation and not the philosophical contemplation of a neo-Platonist is evident from St. Augustine's commentary on Psalm 41:
But is the God for whom [the soul] seeks, something like its own spirit? Certainly, we can see God only by means of the spirit; and yet God is not what our own spirit is. For the spirit of the prophet seeks something that is God, so that, having found him, he will no longer be exposed to the scorn of those who say to him: "Where is your God?". . . .
Seeking my God in visible and corporal things, and not finding him; seeking his substance in myself, as if he were something similar to what I am, and not finding him; I perceive that my God is something superior to my soul. Then, to succeed in attaining to him, "I meditated on these things and I poured out my soul above myself." How indeed can my soul attain what it must seek above itself if my soul does not pour itself out above itself? If it remains within itself, it will see nothing but itself, and in itself it will not see its God . . . . "I have poured out my soul above myself" and there remains nothing more to lay hold of other than my God Indeed, it is there, it is above my soul, that the house of God is.(21)
In the doctrine on the contemplative and the active life, St. Augustine surpasses all the theologians who preceded him, and together with St. Gregory the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas, he must be recognized as an authority on the subject. In De civitate Dei, Augustine discusses the active and contemplative aspects of wisdom: the active part pertains to the cultivation of virtue and the contemplative part refers to the consideration of truth. In Contra Faustum he symbolizes the active life by Leah and the contemplative life by Rachel, but in such a way that the active life is taken for man's mortal life on earth, in which he lives by faith, and the contemplative life is reserved for eternity, where man will enjoy the eternal contemplation of God. This same notion is found in St. Augustine's commentary on the Gospel of St. John: "The active life is signified by the apostle Peter, the contemplative by John. The first is wholly carried out here until the end of this world, and there finds an end; the last is deferred, to be completed after the end of this world, but in the world to come it has no end."(22) However, St. Augustine also treated of the contemplative and active phases of life here on earth and he maintains that no man can be exclusively active or exclusively contemplative, but that these two types of operation alternate in the lives of individuals.
There are two powers set before the human soul, the one active and the other contemplative. Through the former one makes progress, through the latter he attains his goal. By active power he labors to purify his heart for the vision of God; by contemplative power he is at rest, beholding God. Therefore, the one consists in observing those precepts by which we must toil in this temporal life, while the other fills us with truths concerning that everlasting life to come.
Consequently, the active power is engaged in struggle, but the contemplative power enjoys repose .... A second consequence is that in this mortal life the active power consists in the pursuit of a good manner of living, but the contemplative power consists especially in faith and, for a very few, in some partial vision of the unchangeable truth, seen through a mirror in an obscure manner (I Cor. 13:12).(23)
When comparing the active with the contemplative life, as he does when he speaks of Martha and Mary, St. Augustine does not hesitate to give the superiority to the contemplative life. "Martha chose a good part, but Mary the better .... She has chosen to contemplate, to live by the word."(24) He repeats the same doctrine in Sermon 179;
Martha's part is holy and great, but Mary has chosen the better part, for while her sister was solicitous and working and attending to many things, Mary was quiet and sat still and listened. Mary's part will not be taken from her, but Martha's will, because the ministering to the saints will pass away; to whom will food be given, where no one is hungry? Mary's part will not pass away because she found her delight injustice and in truth, and this will be her delight in eternity.
From the active and contemplative exercises of life, St. Augustine turns his attention to the various ways of living. He states that there are three modes of life: the life of contemplation or study of the truth, the life dedicated to human affairs, and the life which is a combination of the two. In attempting to decide which of the three forms it is best to choose, St. Augustine insists that the choice should be determined by the degree to which any one of the three will facilitate the attainment of a man's ultimate end.
As to these three modes of life -- the contemplative, the active or the composite -- although a man may choose any one of them without detriment to his eternal interests, as long as his faith is preserved, yet he must never overlook the obligations of truth and duty. No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget the service he owes to his neighbor; nor has any man a right to be so immersed in the active life that he neglects the contemplation of God.(25)
St. Augustine's teaching on the three modes of Christian living was carried into practice, for it was he, says Pourrat, who "began the cenobitic life for men in Africa."(26) Indeed, Bouyer advises that "the work of Augustine directly related to spirituality should not be considered apart from what might be called his work with regard to institutions, particularly in the domain of the monastic life."(27)
Unlike John Cassian, St. Augustine did not promote an eastern type of monasticism; rather, he introduced a new form of cenobitic life. He had first come into contact with the monastic life at Milan and in 386 he retired with a few companions to a, quasi-monastic retreat. When he returned to Tagaste, North Africa, in 388, he continued his cenobitic life; then, after his ordination to the priesthood in 391, he founded his first monastery. The members of the community were called "servants of God" and they held all possessions in common.
When St. Augustine became a bishop in 386, he converted his household into a monastery, insisting on the common life and the renunciation of all personal possessions. He likewise made this a condition for ordination to the priesthood in his diocese. One of the motivating factors for Augustine's insistence on the common life, personal poverty and celibacy was not only the obvious advantage of the mutual support that the clergy could offer each other, but also the proper environment for a life of study and reflection. However, as Bouyer observes, "this common life little by little abandoned its contemplative purpose to become directed toward an ideal of pastoral service.(28) In this way, a foundation was laid for the later emergence of the canons regular and the mendicant friars.
Three separate treatises on monastic life have been attributed to St. Augustine: Obiurgatio, Praeceptum and Ordo monasterii. The task of determining the origin and authenticity of these documents has been one of the most challenging investigations in patristic research. Although there is still some disagreement, it is generally believed that the Praeceptum or Regula ad servos Dei, known as the Rule of St. Augustine, is an authentic work, composed most likely in 397 for St. Augustine's community at Hippo. The Obiurgatio, addressed to a community of virgins at Hippo, is also probably authentic. Later a feminine version of the Regula ad servos Dei was added as an appendix, and this is Letter 211 . The Ordo monasterii is now attributed to Alypius rather than to St. Augustine and the Rule of St. Augustine as it now stands consists of the opening sentence of the Ordo monasterii and the rest is the complete text of the Praeceptum.(29)
St. Augustine's concept of monastic life was firmly rooted in the description of the "vita apostolica" found in Acts 4:32-35. In accordance with the western mentality, he had the highest regard for the common life, admonishing the members of the community to be of one heart and one mind in God, because the purpose of their coming together was to exercise fraternal charity. St. Augustine goes so far as to give his own original interpretation to the Greek word monachos, which means one, alone or solitary:
Since the Psalm says: "Behold how good and how pleasant it is that brothers should dwell together in unity," why then should we not call monks by this name? For monos is "one," but not one in just any way; for an individual in a crowd is "one" and although he can be called "one" when he is with others, he cannot be monos, that is, "alone," for monos means "one alone." Hence those who live together so as to form one person, so that they really possess, as Scripture says, "one mind and one heart," . . . can properly be called monos, that is, "one alone."(30)
The monastic practices in the Augustinian community were the traditional ones: community and personal prayer, silence, humility, austerities, obedience, celibacy, poverty, but the emphasis was always on fraternal charity. As one author puts it: "If the basic observances were the same as in the East or in Europe, there was nevertheless a difference of tone in the monasticism of Augustine. His concern with the value of community led to an emphasis upon the relationships of brothers to one another, whereas the Egyptian tradition was more concerned with the relationship of each individual to God via the spiritual father."(31)
The influence of St. Augustine on monasticism was extensive, especially in France, Italy and Spain. Even the Rule of St. Benedict contains traces of Augustinian doctrine.
Later the Rule of St. Benedict was likewise influenced by Augustine; though here the actual quantity of literary borrowing is rather discreet, the qualitative influence of Augustine's thought, derived not only from his rule but from numerous other works as well, is extremely significant. While the [Rule of St. Benedict] remains primarily in the tradition of Egypt as mediated by Cassian and the [Regula Magistri], the second most important influence upon it is that of Augustine, whose humaneness and concern for fraternal relationships have contributed to the [Rule of St. Benedict] some of its best known and most admired qualities. It has rightly been said that "with the Rule of Augustine western monasticism entered upon the road which led to Benedict.(32)
Early in the fifth century -- in 410 to be exact -- the civilized world was shocked at the news of the fall of Rome at the hands of Alaric. Soon all of Italy was ravaged by the Goths, while the Vandals pillaged North Africa and in 455 invaded the city of Rome. During the reign of Theodoric, from 493 to 526, there was an era of relative peace, but in 535 the eastern emperor Justinian waged war throughout Italy in an attempt to regain the West. The Goths were defeated in 553 but in 568 the Lombards waged a destructive war before settling in the north of Italy.
At the same time, the Church was torn apart by heresies. The Christological controversies were centered in the East but because of the close political and ecclesiastical ties between the East and the West, the Holy See had to exert great effort to preserve orthodoxy. In the West the most serious challenges came from Pelagianism and the controversies about grace, the semi-Pelagian teaching that posed a problem for monastic asceticism, and the effects of the Arian heresy.
Such was the civil and ecclesiastical turmoil during the lifetime of St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547), called the father and legislator of western monasticism. Born of an illustrious family and educated in Rome, he retired to a life of solitude at Subiaco, about forty miles from the city of Rome. Three years later he reluctantly accepted the invitation of some monks to act as their spiritual director but when they refused to follow the monastic observances, Benedict returned to Subiaco. There he attracted followers and within a short time he had organized twelve monasteries of twelve monks each, somewhat similar to the lauras of St. Pachomius in the East. As yet there was no basic rule for the government of these small monasteries, although each one was subject to a superior and all were under the direction of Benedict.
According to one account, a neighboring priest named Florentius exerted every effort to discredit Benedict and to poison the minds of the young monks. Whether that was the reason for his departure or not, Benedict went with Maurus, Placidus and several companions to Monte Cassino, eighty miles south of Rome, and there, in 529, began the construction of a monastery. Later, he sent monks to establish another monastery at Terracina. St. Benedict spent the rest of his life at Monte Cassino and died in 547, a little more than a month after the death of his sister, St. Scholastica, abbess of a monastery of nuns near Monte Cassino.(33)
Unlike Caesarius, Cassiodorus and other monastic figures of the period, St. Benedict is not mentioned by any of his contemporaries nor in any literature that can be dated earlier than the end of the sixth century. He does not even identify himself in the Rule, and hence it cannot be used as a source of information about him until his authorship can be otherwise established. Nor has he left any other writings. For our knowledge of him, we are entirely dependent upon a single source, the Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great.(34)
The Rule of St. Benedict is the most influential document in all of western monasticism, for although there were numerous other monastic rules in this period, it was the Rule of St. Benedict that the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 817, proposed as the basic rule for monastic life. It is not, as some have asserted, an entirely original innovation, but it draws on a number of previous sources such as St. Pachomius, St. Basil, Cassian, St. Augustine and the Regula Magistri.(35) St. Benedict had a gift for synthesizing the essential elements of these diverse sources, with the result that his Rule is at once a faithful continuation of the monastic traditions and practices and at the same time a personal contribution to the necessary adaptation of monasticism to contemporary needs.
The Rule of St. Benedict can be divided, as was the Regula Magistri, into two main sections: the Prologue and the first seven chapters consist of spiritual doctrine; the remainder (chapters 8-73) provides regulations for the life and discipline of the monastery. Most of the first section is taken almost literally from the Regula Magistri, and it begins with the well-known phrase, "Listen carefully, my son, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart." Then follows the challenge: "This message of mine is for you, then, if you are ready to give up your own will, once and for all, and armed with the strong and noble weapons of obedience to do battle for the true King, Christ the Lord."(36) The central concept in the Prologue is that the monastery is a "school for the Lord's service," and St. Benedict concludes the Prologue with the words:
Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God's commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love. Never swerving from his instructions, then, but faithfully observing his teaching in the monastery until death, we shall through patience share in the sufferings of Christ that we may deserve also to share in his kingdom. Amen.
In the first chapter of the Rule St. Benedict lists four types of monks: the cenobites, who live in community under a rule or an abbot; the hermits or anchorites, who have lived in the monastery for a long time and are now sufficiently strong to live a life of solitude in the desert; the sarabaites, self-willed monks who followed their own inclinations instead of living according to a monastic rule; and the gyrovagues, who are constantly on the move, drifting from one monastery to another and never settling down in one place. After stating his preference for the cenobitic monastic life, St. Benedict discusses the qualities and duties of the abbot, the regulations concerning the community council, and then offers a series of maxims for the spiritual life. The first section concludes with an explanation of three fundamental virtues required of a monk: obedience, the practice of silence, and humility.
The first step of humility, then, is that a man keeps the fear of God always before his eyes and never forgets it .... The second step of humility is that a man loves not his own will nor takes pleasure in the satisfaction of his desires .... The third step of humility is that a man submits to his superior in all obedience for the love of God . . . . The fourth step of humility is that in this obedience under difficult, unfavorable, or even unjust conditions, his heart quietly embraces suffering and endures it without weakening or seeking escape . ... The fifth step of humility is that a man does not conceal from his abbot any sinful thoughts entering his heart, or any wrongs committed in secret, but rather confesses them humbly . . . . The sixth step of humility is that a monk is content with the lowest and most menial treatment, and regards himself as a poor and worthless workman in whatever task he is given . . . . The seventh step of humility is that a man not only admits with his tongue but is also convinced in his heart that he is inferior to all and of less value .... The eighth step of humility is that a monk does only what is endorsed by the common rule of the monastery and the example set by his superiors . . . . The ninth step of humility is that a monk controls his tongue and remains silent, not speaking unless asked a question .... The tenth step of humility is that he is not given to ready laughter . . . . The eleventh step of humility is that a monk speaks gently and without laughter, seriously and with becoming modesty, briefly and reasonably, but without raising his voice . . . . The twelfth step of humility is that a monk always manifests humility in his bearing no less than in his heart...(37)
In the second section of the Rule the lengthiest treatment is devoted to liturgical prayer, chapters 8-20. In this section also the original contribution of St. Benedict to monastic life is much more evident, especially in his discussion of fraternal relationships among the monks, his sense of community, his insistence on prudence as a necessary virtue for the abbot, and his concern that the monk fulfill his monastic duties for spiritual motives. In order to attain his goal as a contemplative, the monk must devote himself to three daily activities: liturgical prayer, lectio and some type of labor.
Besides the traditional night office (after midnight), the monks assembled seven times during the day for common prayer consisting of psalms and readings from Scripture. In addition, approximately four hours each day were devoted to lectio, which included prayerful reading of Scripture or commentaries by the Fathers and monastic authors, private mental prayer, and the memorizing of biblical passages. The labor prescribed by the Rule was for the support of the monks and also to provide help for the needy. There is no mention in the Rule of work as related to the apostolate, nor is there any academic or scholarly motivation given for the reading of Scripture and the Fathers. Since most of the monks were laymen as was St. Benedict -- there was no priestly ministry and St. Benedict laid down detailed regulations concerning the admission of priests to the monastic life (chapter 60) and the ordination of monks to the priesthood (chapter 62).
As if to emphasize that the monastic life is a "school for the Lord's service," as stated in the Prologue, St. Benedict concludes the Rule with the following words:
The reason we have written this rule is that, by observing it in monasteries, we can show that we have some degree of virtue and the beginnings of monastic life. But for anyone hastening on to the perfection of monastic life, there are the teachings of the holy Fathers, the observance of which will lead him to the very heights of perfection. What page, what passage of the inspired books of the Old and New Testaments is not the truest of guides for human life? What book of the holy catholic Fathers does not resoundingly summon us along the true way to reach the Creator? Then, besides the Conferences of the Fathers, their Institutes and their Lives, there is also the rule of our holy father Basil. For observant and obedient monks, all these are nothing less than tools for the cultivation of virtues; but as for us, they make us blush for shame at being so slothful, so unobservant, so negligent. Are you hastening toward your heavenly home? Then, with Christ's help, keep this little rule that we have written for beginners. After that, you can set out for the loftier summits of the teaching and virtues we mentioned above, and under God's protection you will reach them. Amen.(38)
The magnificent history and apostolic zeal of the monks of Ireland can be summarized in the life and works of St. Patrick and St. Columbanus.(39) St. Patrick (+493), of course, is the patron of Ireland and the founder of Irish monasticism. Born in 389 -- some say in Scotland; others, in France -- he was taken prisoner by pirates and at the age of sixteen found himself in servitude as a shepherd in Ireland. Six years later he escaped and found his way to France, where he received an education in monastic schools, either at Marmoutiers, founded by St. Martin of Tours, or at Lerins, founded by St. Honoratus. After being ordained a bishop, he was sent to Ireland by Pope Celestine and worked zealously for the conversion of the Celts. He founded numerous monasteries, the most famous being that at Armagh.
The Church in Ireland developed along the lines of the clan and the way of life in the local churches was almost monastic. Both monks and nuns accompanied St. Patrick on his missionary journeys and throughout the centuries the Irish monks were famous for their evangelization of foreign lands. The Celtic monks also cultivated a love of learning, so that Ireland became known as the isle of saints and scholars.
During the sixth century monastic foundations were made in Ireland in rapid succession: St. Enda established a monastery in the Aran Islands near Galway; St. Finnian founded Clonard; St. Brendan, the abbey of Clonfert; St. Columcille, the monastery at Derry. Later, St. Columcille crossed over to Scotland and founded Iona, from which St. Aidan went to Northumbria to make the foundation of Lindisfarne. Finally, St. Comgall founded the famous monastery of Bangor in Ulster, which sent out the greatest of the Irish missionary-monks, St. Columbanus.
Born around the year 540, St. Columbanus led a group of Irish monks to France, where he founded several monasteries which became centers of learning and evangelization. Since the Irish abbots were not subject to bishops, in due time Columbanus came into conflict with the French episcopate and both for that reason and for criticizing the royal family, he was expelled from France. He made his way across the Alps to Switzerland and to Italy, and at Bobbio he founded a monastery. He died there in 615.(40)
St. Columbanus composed the Regula monachorum but it was such a severe rule that the Columban monks soon began to transfer to other monasteries in Europe or adapt their monastic observances to a more moderate norm. Gradually the monasteries founded by St. Columbanus in France, Switzerland and Italy adopted the more moderate Rule of St. Benedict. They did so not only because the Regula monachorum was too rigorous and demanding, but also because St. Benedict's legislation enabled them to adjust more easily to the Roman liturgical practice and thus abandon the Celtic liturgy.
Meanwhile, in England, St. Illtud founded a monastery on the island of Caldey and an abbey in Wales at the beginning of the sixth century. His foremost disciples were St. Gildas, who later emigrated to Brittany, and St. David, patron of Wales. Then, in 596, Pope Gregory the Great sent forty monks from his former monastery on the Coelian Hill in Rome, with the superior Augustine at their head, to evangelize England. The monks settled at Canterbury with the king's permission but almost immediately a conflict arose between the Roman and the Celtic liturgical practices. This tension subsided, however, in 664 when the English Church allied itself with the Roman faction.
St. Gregory (+604) is the first monk to become a pope and throughout his pontificate he never lost his nostalgia for the monastic life. Thanks to his influence, Benedictine monasticism became, as Cayré puts it, "the conquering army of the Roman Church."(41) When the need arose, Gregory did not hesitate to ordain monks to the priesthood and even to assign them to apostolic work. As regards the spiritual life, his teaching on the active and contemplative life, on the grades of spiritual progress, and on contemplation is especially significant. More than the other Fathers of the Church, he devoted much of his writing to pastoral concerns, and especially directives for the pastoral ministry, the requirements of candidates for the priesthood, and the apostolate of preaching.
Born around 540 of a noble family, he became prefect of Rome in 570. Five years later he converted his home on the Coehan Hill into a monastery and was the founder of six other monasteries in Sicily. It has frequently been stated that Gregory was a Benedictine monk but the truth of the matter is that we do not know what the monastic observance was at St. Andrew's on the Coelian Hill. According to Peifer, "it is an anachronism to speak of Gregory and his monks as `Benedictine' in the later sense of that term, for in the sixth century a rule did not serve as a detailed code regulating the life except in the monastery for which it was written. Monasteries frequently made use of several rules, taking from each what they found suitable."(42)
In 579 Gregory was sent to Constantinople as papal nuncio, where he continued to live the monastic life, and in 586 he returned to his monastery in Rome. Named a deacon to Pope Pelagius II, Gregory was elected Pope in 590 and reigned for fourteen years.(43) As pope he worked unceasingly for the conversion of the pagans; he combated the vices of his contemporaries; he defended the temporal possessions of the Holy See and the primacy of the Bishop of Rome. Although a contemplative by temperament, Pope Gregory dedicated all his efforts to live up to his preferred title, "Servant of the servants of God." In spite of his demanding pastoral work, Gregory left an extensive literary production: 85o Letters, a moral treatise entitled Expositio in Job or Moralia, his famous Regula Pastoralis on the priesthood, some homilies on the Gospel and on Ezechiel, and most important, the Dialogues. Known as Dialogorum Libri, the last-named work was written in the form of a conversation with his deacon, Peter, and it presents the spiritual and moral teaching of Pope Gregory in the form of stories about the saints of Italy. It is in this work, for example, that we have the best and practically only source of information about St. Benedict.
Although he belongs to the patristic age, St. Gregory exerted an influence on the entire medieval period. He wrote for all -- laity, monks and clergy -- and the primary sources of his doctrine are Scripture, St. Augustine and Cassian. If one attempts to discover what dominated the vital synthesis of his doctrine, he will find that it is the basic problem of the states of life. Like his predecessors, St. Gregory gives the superiority to the contemplative life. He is, in fact, as Leclercq calls him, "the doctor of contemplation."(44)
Before considering St. Gregory's teaching on the active and contemplative life, it is useful to recall his teaching on the stages of progress in the spiritual life. In the first stage the Christian strives to combat vices and gain control of the passions. The second stage is a. period of growth in virtue, and especially the moral virtues, although the theological virtues are also necessary, since without them nothing is pleasing to God. Finally, all the virtues are brought to their perfection by the actuation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.(45) St. Gregory is, in fact, with St. Thomas Aquinas and John of St. Thomas, an outstanding authority on the theology of the gifts of the Holy Spirit."(46)
As did his doctrine on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Gregory's teaching on the types of life influenced theology throughout the middle ages. For him, the active life pertains to the operations of the moral virtues which, in turn, dispose the soul for contemplation. The contemplative life is the area of the theological virtues, leading to the perfection of the virtues through the actuation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Thus, the operations of the active life are listed as follows: "to give bread to the hungry, to teach the ignorant the word of wisdom, to correct the erring, to recall to the path of humility our neighbor when he becomes proud, to care for the sick, to give to all what they need, and to provide those in our charge with the necessities of life."(47) In the contemplative life, on the other hand, one preserves with all his strength the love of God and neighbor but he "rests from all external activity and clings only to the will of the Creator, so that the mind takes no pleasure in doing anything but, having spurned all cares, may be aglow to see the face of its Creator."(48)
Of the two lives, the active life is necessary for salvation, says St. Gregory, since no man can be saved without good works, but the theological virtues are necessary for merit. Therefore, Gregory's distinction between the active life as the life of the moral virtues and the contemplative life as the life of the theological virtues should be understood in the sense that in the latter the theological virtues are more clearly manifested. And of the two lives, says St. Gregory, "the contemplative life is greater in merit than the active . . . . Although the active life is good, the contemplative is better."(49)
Since the Christian life should be patterned after Christ, the contemplative life is possible for men of every state and condition. Christ himself, says St. Gregory, gave the example of both the contemplative and active life in his own person; "he gave his faithful ones an example not to neglect the care of their neighbors through love of contemplation, nor again to abandon contemplative pursuits by being too immoderately engaged in the care of their neighbors."(50) And since St. Gregory realized the difficulty involved in keeping the two types of activity in proper balance, he warns preachers not to neglect service to others because of their devotion to contemplation and not to neglect contemplation because of involvement with the apostolate.(51)
St. Gregory never lost sight of the fact that the precept of charity is twofold, and therefore the contemplative activity which fosters intimacy with God should never be completely separated from the apostolate which provides service to one's neighbor. Indeed, the active life serves as a preparation for the contemplative life and likewise is a consequence of the contemplative life. The Christian should therefore be "able to pass to the contemplative life and yet not abandon the active life .... And he who arrives at contemplation does not abandon the activity of good works whereby he is able to be of use to others."(52) And although relatively few persons may actually attain to contemplation, it is of its nature available to all:
It is not the case that the grade of contemplation is given to the highest and not given to the lowest; but often the highest and often the most lowly, and very often those who have left the world, and sometimes also those who are married, receive it. If therefore there is no state of life among the faithful from which the grace of contemplation can be excluded, anyone who keeps his heart in custody may also be illuminated by the light of contemplation, so that no one can glory in this grace as if it were extraordinary. It is not the high and eminent members of the holy Church only who have the grace of contemplation, but very often those members receive this gift who, although by desire they already mount to the heights, are actually occupying lowly positions.(53)
St. Gregory sees God and man as the two contrasting terms that are united by man's salvation through Christ and in the Holy Spirit. Aided by God's grace and his own ascetical practices, man can traverse the path to God which terminates in contemplative prayer. Along this "way of salvation" Christ is the Mediator, Model, Redeemer and Intercessor, and St. Gregory advises all Christians to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, both in his humanity and in his divinity, in his sufferings as well as in his glories.(54) But the work of man's salvation is perfected by the Holy Spirit, whom Christ sent after he had ascended to his Father. The Holy Spirit is the gift par excellence and he works in man by his sevenfold gifts. And when the Holy Spirit works in the soul through his gifts, whereby man is led successively from fear to wisdom, the soul is able to enjoy union with God through contemplation.(55)
From the time of St. Gregory's pontificate until the middle of the eighth century, Christianity enjoyed a tremendous expansion throughout all of Europe. As could be expected, there was a long period of adjustment, adaptation and confusion as Christianity absorbed the cultural and temperamental differences of the Saxons, the Franks, the Visigoths, the Lombards and others. But there was also discernible a basic unity which enabled the various races, in spite of accidental differences, to embrace the one, catholic faith.
Leclercq mentions certain factors that contributed to the unity of Christian life during this period.(56) First of all, the Roman Church and monasticism preserved a unified Christian heritage that could be presented to races of people who had no strong traditional culture that had to be rejected and replaced by Christianity. Secondly, the literary sources that nourished this vast evangelization were less abundant and less varied than in other periods. There were treatises of a practical nature, with counsels on asceticism, the practice of prayer, and Christian virtues, but most of them bore the imprint of the teaching of St. Gregory the Great. Even the two outstanding authors of the period -- St. Isidore of Seville and Bede the Venerable -- were greatly indebted to St. Gregory the Great.
In spite of the ambiguity of words which were used to designate the various classes of Christians -- priests, monks, nuns, laity -- the distinctions laid down by St. Gregory the Great and St. Isidore of Seville were still observed. Each state of life retained its own identity and there was a gradual development of a spirituality proper to each. Thus, there were two classes of the laity: the ordinary faithful and the more fervent or devout Christians. The first class, whose form of Christian living was classified by Bede as vita popularis, received a basic instruction on the duties of Christians prior to their baptism; they were given a preparation for marriage, with emphasis on the indissolubility and the purpose of marriage and the duty of fidelity; they received the rest of their religious formation from the ordinary preaching of the clergy. But their knowledge of the faith was rudimentary at best and many of them were greatly attracted to magic, superstition and the occult or preternatural.
The "fervent" Christians, however, constituted an elite and they normally grouped themselves around the churches or monasteries in order to live a penitential life, either for their own past sins or as a voluntary way of life. Both men and women embraced this type of life, which consisted in attendance at the Divine Office in a church or monastery, the practice of private prayer, and a life of austerity. They dressed simply and often the unmarried took the vow of celibacy while the married observed continence. They thus constituted a class of Christians that was clearly differentiated from the "ordinary faithful" and resembled very much the "third orders" and the secular institutes that would come into existence much later. Since many of these "penitents" were uneducated, they were given their own "little office," made up of a litany of Christ or the Blessed Virgin or a specified number of Our Father's and Hail Mary's. The prayers of lay brothers in later centuries and the Rosary itself seem to have their origin in the prayers of the penitents.
Thanks to St. Gregory the Great, the spiritual life of the clergy was guided and protected during this period of confusion and adjustment. What gradually emerged was a grouping of the diocesan clergy around their bishop, both for pastoral work and for the celebration of the Divine Office. Priests were assigned to a designated church for the administration of the sacraments, the liturgy, and preaching; community life was encouraged for the safeguarding of celibacy and for common prayer and liturgy; great stress was placed on the necessity for personal holiness in the life of the priest. A letter written by Bede the Venerable to Egbert of York in 734 contains directives which are typical of the spiritual program for the clergy of the period.(57) Bede also advised priests to instruct the faithful in the recitation of the Creed and the Pater Noster of the Mass in the vernacular and to encourage the faithful to frequent Communion.
However, the predominant influence in the spirituality of this epoch was still monasticism, especially Benedictine monasticism. This was true not only because the monks gave Christians the example of a life of asceticism and virtue, but because a large number of the bishops were selected from among the monks. Once again, two forms of monasticism emerged -- the cloistered monk and the wandering evangelizer -- and Dom Leclercq points to Bede the Venerable and St. Boniface as outstanding examples of the two types. (58)
In the areas of ascetical practices and prayer, we should note the following developments during this epoch. The severe asceticism of the ancient monks and hermits, preserved to a great extent among the Irish monks, gradually gave way to the asceticism of service to neighbor and manual labor. The corporal works of mercy were offered by the bishops as suitable manifestations of Christian love and asceticism. Yet, the individuals who devoted themselves to these services were still motivated to a great extent by the spirit of penance and a fear of the last judgment.
The prayer life of this period was still communal and liturgical. For all classes of Christians the spiritual life was nourished by the Mass, the Divine Office, homilies, the reading of Scripture, and the teachings and sermons of the Fathers of the Church. The Psalter was the basis even of private prayer and meditation, and the more difficult psalms were synthesized in a few verses and interspersed with prayers or "collects." Many of the hymns that are still preserved in the Divine Office were composed in this period, as were numerous litanies.
"In spite of what it lacked," says Dom Leclercq, "the period was a truly formative and fruitful one for the Christian West, and left a definite mark on later centuries."(59)
1. For further details on western monasticism, see L. Bouyer, The Spirituality of the New Testament and the Fathers, tr. M. P. Ryan, Desclée, New York, N.Y., 1960; M. Wolter, The Principles of Monasticism, tr. B. R. Sause, B. Herder, St. Louis, Mo., 1962; R. Lorenz, "Die Anfänge des abendländischen Mönchtums, im 4 Jahrhundert," in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 77, 1966.
2. Eusebius, Historia ecdesiastica, 6, 43, 16.
3. St. Jerome Epistola 127; cf. J. N. D. Kelly, Jerome, Harper & Row, New York, N.Y., 1975.
4. Cf. A. Paredi, Ambrose: His Life and Times, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 1964.
5. Cf. J. Lienhard, Paulinus of Nola and Early Western Monasticism, Hanstein, Cologne, 1977.
6. Cf. J. Fontaine, Vie de Saint Martin, Ed. du Cerf, Paris, 1967-1969; N. Chadwick, Poetry and Letters in Early Christian Gaul, Bowes & Bowes, London, 1955.
7. Cf. O. Chadwick, John Cassian, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2 ed., 1968.
8. Cassian enumerates eight capital sins, as did Evagrius. St. Gregory the Great substitutes envy for pride and combines sloth with sadness. There are seven capital sins according to common teaching: pride, sloth, covetousness, lust, anger, envy and gluttony.
9. Conferences, 3, 6.
10. Conferences, 9, 9-15.
11. Ibid., 23, 3.
12. Cf. Adversus Jovinianum, I, I.
13. In the Latin Church clerical celibacy was not obligatory until the fourth century, when the Council of Elvira (Spain) imposed it on subdeacons, deacons and priests. The custom spread throughout the Church and eventually became a universal law for the Church in the West.
14. Cf. I. Hausherr, "L'erreur fondamentale et la logique du messalianisme," in Orientalia Christiana periodica, I, 1935, pp. 356-36.
15. Cf. E. Portalié, A Guide to the Thought of St. Augustine, tr. R. J. Bastian, Regnery, Chicago, Ill., 1960.
16. De natura et gratia, 70, 84.
17. De doctrina Christiana, 3, 10, 15-16.
18. De perfecta justitia hominis, 3, 8.
19. Sermo 170, 8; cf. Enarratio in Ps. 82, 10.
20. De quantitate animae, 33, 70-76. In his commentary on the beatitudes and on Isa. I I:2, St. Augustine divides the stages according to the gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning with fear of the Lord and terminating with wisdom.
21. Enarratio in Ps. 41.
22. Tractatus in Joann. , 124, 5.
23. Cf. De consensu evangelistarum.
24. Sermo 169.
25. De civitate Dei, 19, 19.
26. P. Pourrat, Christian Spirituality, tr. W. H. Mitchell and S. P. Jacques, Newman Press, Westminster, Md., 1953, Vol. I, p. 164.
27. Cf. L. Bouyer, The Spirituality of the New Testament and the Fathers, tr. M. P. Ryan, Desclee, New York, N.Y., 1963, p. 495.
28. Cf. ibid., pp. 498-499.
29. Cf. L. Verheijen, La règle de Saint Augustine, Etudes Augustiniennes, 2 vols., 1967.
30. In Ps. 132, 6.
31. C. Peifer, "Pre-Benedictine Monasticism in the Western Church," in The Rule of St. Benedict, ed. T. Fry, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn., 1981, p. 63.
32. Cf. C. Peifer, art. cit., p. 64; R. Lorenz, art. cit., footnote 1 supra.
33. Cf. F. Cabrol, Saint Benedict, Burns & Oates, London, 1934; J, McCann, Saint Benedict, Sheed & Ward, New York, N.Y., 1937; J. Chapman, Saint Benedict and the Sixth Century, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1972; T. F. Lindsay, St. Benedict: His Life and Work, Burns & Oates, London, 1949; I. Schuster, Saint Benedict and His Times, B. Herder, St. Louis, Mo., 1951; T. Maynard, Saint Benedict and His Monks, P. J. Kenedy New York, N.Y., 1954.
34. C. Peifer, "The Rule of St. Benedict," in op.cit., p. 73.
35. For discussion of relation between Rule of St. Benedict and Regula Magistri, cf. C. Peifer, art. cit., pp. 79-90.
36. All quotations from the Rule of St. Benedict, ed. T. Fry, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn., 1981.
37. The Rule of St. Benedict, ed. T. Fry, pp. 191-201.
38. Ibid, chapter 73.
39. Cf. J. F. Kenney, The Sources for the Early History of Ireland, New York, N.Y., 1929; J. Ryan, Irish Monasticism: Origins and Early Development, Talbot Press, Dublin, 1931; L. Gougaud, Christianity in Celtic Lands, London, 1932.
40. Cf. J. Wilson, Life of St. Columban, Burns & Oates, London, 1952; F. MacManus, Saint Columban, Sheed & Ward, New York, N.Y., 1952.
41. Cf. F. Cayré, Manual of Patrology, tr. H. Howitt, Desclée, Paris, 1930, Vol. 2, p. 237.
42. Cf. C. Peifer, art. cit., p. 78. However, L. Cilleruelo maintains that the members of St. Gregory's monastery were refugees from Monte Cassino after its destruction by the Lombards. Cf. "Literatura espiritual de la Edad Media," in B. J. Duque and L. S. Balust (ed.), Historia de la Espiritualidad, Juan Flors, Barcelona, 1969, Vol. I, p. 685.
43. Cf. F. H. Dudden, Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought, Russell and Russell, New York, N.Y., 2 vols., 1967.
44. Cf. J. Leclercq, F. Vanderlbroucke, L. Bouyer, The Spirituality of the Middle Ages, Burns & Oates, London, 1968.
45. Cf. Moralia, 2, 76-77; 31, 87; 35, 15; In Ezech. , 1, 4, 8; 1, 7, 7; 2, 4, 4.
46. Cf. G. C. Carluccio, The Seven Steps to Spiritual Perfection according to St. Gregory the Great, Ottawa, 1949.
47. Hom. in Ezech., 2, 2, 8.
48. Ibid., loc. cit.
49. Moralia, 6, 61; Hom. in Ezech., 1, 3, 9.
50. Moralia, 29.
51. Cf. op. cit., 6, 56.
52. Hom. to Ezech., 11, 11, 12.
53. Op. cit., 2, 19, 20.
54. Cf. Moralia, 31, 104; Hom. in Ezech., 9, 31; 2, 1, 16; 2, 10, 21.
55. Cf. Hom. in Ezech., 2, 77; Moralia, 18, 81.
56. Cf. J. Leclercq et al., op. cit., chapter 3.
57. PL 94, 657-658.
58. Cf. J. Leclercq et al., op. cit., pp. 57-60.
59. Cf. ibid., p. 67.
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9 September 2011By Rebecca Thomson
Aurora Fashions is trialling mobile payment in eight shops in a move potentially leading to self-checkout.
The group, which owns Oasis, Warehouse and Coast, has introduced the system at stores including Oasis in Covent Garden.
Staff anywhere in the store can scan products using a device worn around the neck.
The system, provided by BT Expedite, then allows the transaction to be completed at the till point, with an iPad connecting to the Chip and PIN device via a Wi-Fi network. It is designed to reduce queues as staff take customers directly to pay once the product has been scanned.
Aurora group strategic development director Ish Patel said the trial was the “beginning of a journey” that could lead to it allowing customers to serve themselves.
“We’ll be looking to start challenging how we lay stores out. That might mean truly mobile devices that take payment and send electronic receipts, and it could potentially mean self-checkout.”
Staff can also use the devices to check stock availability both in store and online.
The group is exploring other ways of using the iPads, including allowing customers to take pictures of themselves in clothes they are trying on, and uploading images to the internet.
Patel said Aurora would see how the devices perform over Christmas before deciding on a roll-out. Two stores from each fascia – Oasis, Warehouse and Coast – as well as Karen Millen, which Aurora runs as a separate business, are using the devices: six in London and two in Oxford.
Aurora is also refurbishing Oasis’s London flagship on Argyll Street.
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ICHABOD PERRY CEMETERY
NW quarter of Section 24 - Brown Co. Illinois - Mt. Sterling Twp
Photos of Ichabod Perry Farm and Cemetery
BEATTY Anna Laura 08 OCT 1869 09 JUN 1871 1y 9m 1d -Dau of TW & AG Beatty
* MARSHALL Jennie Perry 26 FEB 1850 27 FEB 1880 29y 11m 29d -Dau of Ichabod Perry & Martha 'Patsy Bell
* MARSHALL Perry 19 JAN 1877 09 MAR 1883 6y 1m 21d -Son of JW & Jennie Bell Marshall
* PERRY Ichabod 28 JUN 1815 01 JAN 1898 82y 6m 3d -husb of Martha 'Patsy Bell -son of Edmund Perry & Rachel Bridges
* PERRY Martha 'Patsy Bell 01 JAN 1818 07 JAN 1892 73y -wife of Ichabod Perry -dau of Robert Bell & Jane Anderson
* PERRY Marshall 25 MAY 1855 06 AUG 1862 7y 2m 12d -son of Ichabod Perry & Martha 'Patsy Bell
* PERRY Louisa E Perry 06 MAR 1870 24 AUG 1876 6y 5m 18d -son of Ichabod Perry & Martha 'Patsy Bell
* WRIGHT Sarah E Perry 24 MAR 1852 25 DEC 1888 Dau of Ichabod Perry & Martha 'Patsy Bell
* WRIGHT Jennie Perry 28 DEC 1873 01 MAY 1876 Dau of JE Wright & Sarah E Perry
HISTORY OF THE ICHABOD PERRY CEMETERY
This burial ground is on a timbered knoll north and west of where the Ichabod Perry home was. Several years ago the stones were straightened and reset and a stout fence put around it.
Ichabod Perry was born Jun 18, 1815 in Claiborne Co. TN, and when 16 years old came with his father Edmond to Brown Co. Illinois. Ichabod attended the common schools in rural Tennessee and in 1836, when he came of age went for a few years to the Territory of Iowa, but returned and in 1838 married Martha 'Patsy Bell, daughter of Robert and Jane Anderson Bell. Their son, Luke was killed at Stone River, January 1863, and son John died in Andersonville Prison August, 1864; Oliver H (1915-Co. 84 Ill. Reg. Inf); Lewis Cass (1845-1906); Ethan Allen (1847-1919); and Mary Ward (Mrs. W.S.) 1855-1941) survived their parents and all are buried in the Mt. Sterling City Cemetery.
Ichabod at one time owned 800 acres of land in Mt. Sterling Township, in Brown County, Ill., and he was proud that he had 80 acres for each of his children. From this land each of his sons received their first farm. His home, which is no long standing, was a two story house, a large white country residence which was of unusual construction; the stairway which connected the two floors ran between a wide double-tiered porch, in front and outside the building, to the upper floor. The Perry boys never forgot the trips to bed on cold nights and the descent on cold mornings.
Although Ichabod was reared a strict Baptist, he was a Universalist in faith. He joined with the Republican Party well before the Civil War and was an early advocate of freeing the slaves. Ichabod was a free-thinking, well-read man who was held in highest esteem by family and acquaintances. Her served two terms as Justice of the Peace.
Mr. Ichabod Perry met a tragic death which occurred under extremely sad circumstances. On an icy New Year's morning of 1898, leaving unnoticed, despite the warning of his daughter, Mrs. Ward, he went in to the barnlot. He was knocked down and gored by an angry bull, or as another version goes, he may have fallen or had some sort of seizure while near the hog pens. Anyway, the hogs had found the body before Mrs. Ward discovered that her father had left the house. He was buried three weeks later in the family cemetery located on his land, along side where also rest his wife, some of his children and grandchildren. It was named the Ichabod Perry Cemetery to distinguish it from the larger PERRY Cemetery in Cooperstown Twp. NOTE: The ground must have been frozen for the burial to have been three weeks later.
I am sad to report that in June 1998, when Charlotte and Linda visited this cemetery, it was in terrible shape. It has not been tended to in years, and the weeds and brush has grown as tall as the stones, and a very large tree has fallen over and is laying from one side to the other. Some of the stones are broken and laying flat on the ground. It is fenced but you also have to walk in very high brush to even get to the cemetery. It is not possible to see the cemetery from the road, or even from the pond. I hope some one sends me a report in the future that a weed-eater, at least, and hopefully a chainsaw, to cut the fallen tree, has been used to clean up this cemetery. ...CR
Compiled and submitted by Charlotte Ramsey with info from Charlotte Ramsey and Linda George Maniaci
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Play Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown Free This Weekend
Players who have been thinking about giving Crytek’s online multiplayer bounty hunting game a try can do so for free this weekend on Steam. During the free weekend—which will begin on Thursday, June 13th at 10 am PT/1 pm ET/ 7 pm CEST and run until Monday, June 17th at 10 am PT/1 pm ET/ 7 pm CEST—Hunt: Showdown will also be on sale for 20% off.
Hunt’s free weekend follows the recently released Update 6.1, which added the most frequently community-requested feature: the FOV slider. Update 6.0, which was released in May, added a new boss, new lore book, new weapons, and new traits, as well as a slew of performance tweaks.
It has been over a year since Hunt’s initial Early Access release, and during that time, the Hunt development team have released 18 updates and patches. These updates have included a new map, two new times of day, additional AI, Quick Play mode, challenges, and over a dozen new weapons. As the game continues in its development journey, more additions are on the horizon.
About Hunt: Showdown
Hunt: Showdown is a competitive first-person bounty hunting game that packs the thrill of survival games into a match-based format. Set in Louisiana in 1895, the game boasts a mixture of PvP and PvE elements that creates a uniquely tense experience. It’s not just the creatures who are a threat—it’s every Hunter on the map. In the classic game mode, a match of Hunt pits ten players—playing solo or in teams of two—against each other as they race to take out gruesome beasts for a bounty they must collect and get off of the map, while Hunt’s quickplay mode offers a shorter match for solo players to scavenge for weapons as they compete for a diminishing pool of bounty. The higher the risk, the higher the reward–but a single mistake could cost everything. Hunt is available now on Steam. For more information, visit https://www.huntshowdown.com/.
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Olympic Torch coming to Ireland
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It’s been rumoured and talked about for a long time but finally confirmation was received today that the Olympic Torch will visit Ireland when it is en route to the London 2012 Games as part of the Olympic Torch Relay next year. The proposal for a short visit on June 6th was ratified by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at their Executive Board meeting in Lausanne this morning.
The Olympic Flame will take a trip around Northern Ireland between the 3rd and 7th June 2012. It will arrive in Dublin on the morning of June 6th having crossed the border. From the start point in Dublin, Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through the city and proceedings will culminate in a mid-morning celebration event at a central location in Dublin. Details of it’s route have not yet been confirmed or released but all the same it’s very exciting news.
Sebastian Coe, Chair of the LOCOG said:
“We are delighted to take the Olympic Flame to Dublin on the morning of 6 June. This is a historic opportunity to showcase the wealth of sporting talent from across the Republic ahead of the competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games”
To read more on this exciting news, visit the press release on the Olympic Council of Ireland website.
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About Crooked Island ( )
Area: 2.36 sq. km, Population: 1,200
Kat O ( )
The Hakka first settled on the island, then called Gu Chau (lone island), during the early Qing dynasty. There are two schools of thought as to why the island was renamed Kat O, one being that the inhabitants used the word kat, meaning prosperity, for luck, the other being that there was an abundance of mandarine (also pronounced kat) trees growing on the island. The British later called it Crooked Island inspired by its shape.
There are six villages on the island: Tung O, Chung Kan O, Sai O, Kat O Sheung Wai, Au Pui Tong and Chek Kok Tau inhabited by members of the Lam, Tsang, Chow, Yau, Cheung and Chung clans. Fishing was the major industry.
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Old Cannons
There are three old cannons found on the island: two in front of the police station and one not far away under a tree towards the coast. The inscriptions on the body of the cannons are no longer legible due to corrosion, but judging from their shapes and makes, they were manufactured in the west in the 19th century.
Pak Kung Shrine
This is a shrine dedicate to Pak Kung, a deity who protects a village from evil.
The Lam, Tsang and Chow Clan Halls
All built in early Ching and renovated in recent years. These are where the clansmen meet to discuss clan affairs and pay respect to their ancestors.
Tin Hau Temple
The temple was built in 1736 and is the largest temple on the island.
Qing Monument
Installed in 1802, this documented the ruling of the provincial government, based on the appeal of the fisherfolks, prohibiting land lords from levying 'unreasonable' taxes on their tenants.
Water & Moon Temple
The temple was built during the 8th year of the Emporer Tsien Lung's reign (J'ing Dynasty) and was renovated in 1992. Both inside and outside the temple are plagues on which were inscribed names of donors. A number of these donations were in British pounds, showing that the islanders moved to the UK just as villagers from other New Territories areas.
Old Pearl Farm
{mospagebreak title=Getting There & Away}Getting There & Away
From Wong Shek Pier
On weekends and public holidays, the 96R (Kowloon Motor Bus) runs directly from Diamond Hill bus terminus (just above the MTR station) to Wong Shek Pier. Bus fare cost HK$17 for an air conditioned bus and HK$11 for a non aircon one. Alternatively, the 96R also stops outside the Ngau Chi Wan Market above the Choi Hung MTR station. The bus ride takes about 70 to 90 minutes, depending on traffic.
On weekdays, take bus 94 from Sai Kung town to Wong Shek Pier.
From Wong Shek Pier, you can hire a water taxi to Crooked Island. Taxi fare cost around HK$300-450 per round trip (a taxi can take up to 3 passengers, legally), subject to bargain. The ride takes 30-40 minutes and can be bumpy if the sea is rough. The water taxi will refuse to take you to Crooked Island, if the sea condition is bad. Ring the operators before your trip.
Operators:
Sing Kee (also services Tung Ping Chau, Grass Island, doesn't speak English), Mr. Ho Yau Sing, phone: +852 9178-0495 or +852 9731-5685.
From Ma Liu Shui (Chinese University)
From Ma Liu Shui, you can charter a yatch to Crooked Island. The journey takes 2 hours.
Mr. Lee, phone: +852 9376-2800 or +852 2664-3229. Charges: HK$2,500 during off-season for a 'small' yatch (maximum 30 passengers) for 8 hours.
{mospagebreak title=Places to eat}Places To Eat
Need to reserve. About HK$650 for a set menu (8 courses) for 10 people.
Crooked Island Ale, brewed by the South China Brewing Company, celebrates the name.
The 500 fishermen and their families living on Ap Chau, an island near Kat O, are all members of the True Jesus Christ Church, headquarters in Taiwan.
North-East New Territories Countryside Series Map, 4th edition, 1995. Survey & Mapping Office, Lands Department.
Leung Wing Hang, Spectacles in Hong Kong Countryside, 1998.
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Afghan teen to appear in court for Amsterdam station attack
A 19-year-old Afghan man who was shot and wounded by Dutch police after allegedly attacking bystanders at Amsterdam’s Central Station will briefly appear in court on Monday, police said. The suspect, identified by authorities as “Jawed S.”, “will appear before a judge and until then no further details will be released,” the Amsterdam police said in a statement on Sunday. Two American citizens — both believed to be male — were seriously injured when a knife-wielding man attacked bystanders around noon on Friday at the busy station next to the Dutch capital’s historic city centre.
Amsterdam stabbing suspect had 'terrorist' motive, officials say
An Afghan man shot by police at Amsterdam’s central station on Friday after stabbing two American tourists had a “terrorist” motive, city officials said on Saturday. The suspect, who was identified as a 19-year-old Afghan with a German residence permit, was questioned on Saturday in hospital where he was being treated for gunshot wounds to his lower body. “First statements made by the suspect indicate he had a terrorist motive,” Amsterdam city council said in a statement.
2 Americans Stabbed on Train in Amsterdam in Alleged Terrorist Attack
"Based on the suspect's first statements, he had a terrorist motive"
The Latest: Amsterdam attack suspect had 'terrorist motive'
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Latest on stabbings at a train station in Amsterdam (all times local):
Two US citizens stabbed in possible terror attack at Amsterdam station
Two bystanders who were seriously injured in a knife attack at Amsterdam's Central Station are US citizens, the US ambassador said Saturday. "We are aware that both victims were US citizens and have been in touch with them and their families," Pete Hoekstra said in a statement. Police shot and wounded a 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit. He stabbed the two people at the Dutch capital's busy station in the city centre on Friday. "We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive," Amsterdam police spokesman Frans Zuiderhoek told AFP. Earlier witnesses described scenes of panic as gunshots rang out and thousands of commuters and tourists were evacuated from the rail terminus shortly after midday on Friday. "A man in the west side tunnel of Amsterdam Central Station stabbed two other people and directly after that he was shot by the police," another police spokesman Rob van der Veen said, adding terrorism was not being ruled out by investigators. Security official stands guard outside Amsterdam's main railway station. Credit: Remko De Waal/AFP "The two people are very badly injured, and they were brought to the hospital," he said. "We are looking at all scenarios, also the worst scenario, which is terrorism." One witness said he saw a young man "stumble" into his flower shop at the station with a bleeding wound to his hand. "Shortly afterwards I heard some shots and I know something has gone badly wrong," Richard Snelders told the ANP news agency. A while later he saw another man lying on the ground nearby, he said. "The first thing that comes up in your mind is that it's a terror attack. After all, you are at Amsterdam Central Station. There was a lot of panic," Snelders said. Police quickly arrived at the scene with video images showing police ordering the suspect in English to "stay down" after he had been shot. Images posted on social media showed security guards ushering passengers towards exits and paramedics arriving at the scene with stretchers. Police spokesman Zuiderhoek said the knifeman's condition was not life-threatening, but that he had been shot in the lower body. "At this moment he is under police custody in hospital. He is being questioned about his motive," Zuiderhoek added. Profile | Geert Wilders Dutch police were also in close contact with their German counterparts in regards to the suspect's background, he added. Two platforms at the station – located in the Dutch capital's historic canal-ringed city centre – had been evacuated and closed off to passengers, police said, and were reopened for rail traffic two hours later. A special police department opened a routine probe into why police shot the man. The Netherlands has so far been spared from the slew of terror attacks which have rocked its closest European neighbours in the past few years. But amid a number of scares and reports that people linked to some of those attacks may have crossed briefly into the country, top Dutch security and intelligence officials have stressed that the threat level is substantial. Police declined to speculate on the reasons for Friday's incident, but the Afghan Taliban in a statement Thursday called for attacks on Dutch troops following plans by Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders to stage a Prophet Mohammed cartoon competition in the Dutch parliament. Wilders, who received several death threats has since cancelled the competition which has angered Muslims and sparked protests, saying he wanted to "avoid the risk of making people victims of Islamist violence". Around 250,000 people travel through Central Station every day, according to statistics provided by the Amsterdam.info travel guide.
US ambassador: Victims in Amsterdam stabbing are Americans
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Two people wounded in a knife attack at the Dutch capital's busy main railway station on Friday are both American citizens who were visiting the Netherlands, the U.S. ambassador said Saturday as police investigated possible motives, including the possibility it was an extremist act.
Police investigate possible terror link to double stabbing at Amsterdam station
A knife attacker on Friday stabbed two people at Amsterdam's Central Station before being shot by police in a suspected terror attack, Dutch police said. The suspect was identified late on Friday evening as a 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit. "We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive," Frans Zuiderhoek, Amsterdam police spokesman, told AFP. Witnesses described scenes of panic earlier as gunshots sounded and thousands of commuters and tourists were evacuated from the rail terminus shortly after midday. "Around 12.10 a man in the west side tunnel of Amsterdam Central Station stabbed two other people and directly after that he was shot by the police," another police spokesman Rob van der Veen said, adding terrorism was not being ruled out by investigators. "The two people are very badly injured, and they were brought to the hospital," he said. "We are looking at all scenarios, also the worst scenario, which is terrorism." Policemen and forensic scientists are at work after a stabbing incident at the central station in Amsterdam Credit: REMKO DE WAAL/AFP One witness said he saw a young man "stumble" into his flower shop at the station with a bleeding wound to his hand. "Shortly afterwards I heard some shots and I know something has gone badly wrong," Richard Snelders told the ANP news agency. A while later he saw another man lying on the ground nearby, he said. "The first thing that comes up in your mind is that it's a terror attack. After all, you are at Amsterdam Central Station. There was a lot of panic," Snelders said. Police quickly arrived at the scene with video images showing police ordering the suspect in English to "stay down" after he had been shot. "It happened really quickly," Mr Snelders said. Images posted on social media showed security guards ushering passengers towards exits and paramedics arriving at the scene with stretchers. Mr Zuiderhoek said the knifeman's condition was not life-threatening, but that he had been shot in the lower body. "At this moment he is under police custody in hospital. He is being questioned about his motive," Mr Zuiderhoek added. Dutch police were also in close contact with their German counterparts in regards to the suspect's background, he added. Policemen are at work after the stabbing incident Credit: SEM VAN DER WAL/AFP Initially, police said that the station – located in the Dutch capital's historic canal-ringed city centre – had been evacuated and closed off to all rail traffic. However, police shortly afterwards issued an update to say there was "no talk" of a complete evacuation and that only two platforms had been closed off to passengers. A special police department opened a routine probe into why police shot the man. The Netherlands has so far been spared from the spate of terror attacks which have rocked its closest European neighbours in the past few years. But amid reports that people linked to those attacks may have crossed into the country, senior Dutch security and intelligence officials have warned of an elevated risk. Passengers are pictured outside the Central Railway Station in Amsterdam Credit: GERMAIN MOYON/AFP Police declined to speculate on the reasons for Friday's incident, but the Afghan Taliban in a statement Thursday called for attacks on Dutch troops following plans by Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders to stage a Prophet Mohammed cartoon competition in the Dutch parliament. The plan angered Muslims and sparked protests before Mr Wilders, who received several death threats, announced he was cancelling the competition, saying he wanted to "avoid the risk of making people victims of Islamist violence". About 250,000 people travel through Central Station every day, according to statistics provided by the Amsterdam.info travel guide.
A Look Into Anne Frank's Amsterdam Home Where She Wrote Her Diary
June 13, 2017 Sexual Health
Her diary of her time in captivity in the home continues to be read by millions around the world.
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Love Songs Don’t Lie: the Death of Romance, and a Valentine’s Day Playlist
February 12, 2016 Noëlleholidays, love, music, playlist Leave a comment
Romance is dead. It was a devastating realization for someone who grew up on stories like the Phantom of the Opera and Wuthering Heights. I spent my childhood swishing around with stars in my eyes, writing my own love story in my head–my soulmate would see me in the opposite box at the opera, across a ballroom crowded with waltzing couples, drinking espresso at a sidewalk cafe, and instantly fall in love with my tumbling waves of raven hair, my fiery russet eyes, my almond-creme skin. He would find me irresistibly charming, witty, talented, and whisk me off to Paris, or New York, or Carpathia to love me til death and beyond. Every year, I waited for it to happen. It wasn’t an if, it was a when…
But ten years later with a string of volatile, unstable relationships behind me, I had lost faith. Romance was just another fairy tale, something reserved for novels and cinema, not something that happened to real people in everyday life and anyone who said otherwise was delusional. Those who had magical stories about meeting their partners were embellishing for presentation. There was no Heathcliff, there was no Erik, and my youthful ideas about true love were an embarrassing blip that time would eventually strike from the record. The stories I once loved now seemed pathetic. I told myself that it was all in the spirit of childhood fantasy, that I had simply grown up. So I swapped sighs for cynicism and swept it all behind me.
And then, one day, I found myself crying on 1st Avenue. It had suddenly occurred to me that I had resigned myself to a life of dull mediocrity, where things were convenient and accessible. Love songs and sonnets aren’t created from ambivalence. I had been moved to tears by a love song, one I had heard hundreds of times before—I realized that the romantic had never died, I had simply hidden her away. Romance is delicate, fragile. It can be wounded easily, and takes time and care to recover. I’ve always advocated self-invention, creating art out of life, yet I had completely ignored that particular plot point, leaving it all to chance in an often-hostile setting. But I also don’t believe in coincidences—standing that morning on the sidewalk, blinking back tears as I listened to lyrics, I knew something had been set in motion. I had opened up to the Universe, and the Universe never misses an opportunity to set things right.
If we’re being completely honest, part of me never stopped believing in love: I’ve always thrilled at vampire stories, paranormal romances—hell, I even stalked out wedding blogs. And despite a lifetime of truly disastrous events, Valentine’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. But since that fateful morning, I can fully count myself among the faithful. I love hearing about how couples met, I emotionally invest in relationships between fictional characters, and there have been many, many repeat performances of my sidewalk waterworks. It may sound sappy, naive, or radically uncool, but I believe my life is richer for it. It can be scary to open yourself up to something that might feel like nothing more than a pretty idea, but if you don’t take the risk, you’ll never see the reward. Believe me, I know what it’s like to be hurt, disillusioned, let down—it’s been worth every second of sadness to appreciate the happiness that can come from putting your trust into another human being, and watching the magic that happens when two people believe in a feeling.
This Valentine’s weekend, whether you find yourself banding together with friends, painting the town with a lover, or comfortably at home with family, consider your emotions. Where do they come from? Are they from the heart, from the core of your soul? Have you dredged whatever deep, labyrinthine recesses you hide under the surface? Or are you sitting safely in the shallows, feeling from the surface? Open up. The Universe is listening.
If you need some inspiration, I put together a Spotify playlist to serenade you. Inside, you’ll find some heartbreaking love songs, some smoldering seductions, songs for soulmates, and just-for-the-moment lovers. No matter where you are, there’s magic to be found: it turns out, love songs don’t lie.
Illustration from the Shadowscapes Tarot, by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
Radical Self Love Salon, Plotting a Beautiful Revolution with Gala Darling
July 15, 2014 Noëlleevents, inspiration, love Leave a comment
Buried under old clothing and long-forgotten textbooks, I recently found two stray pages from an old journal. It was my habit to “introduce” myself to each new notebook, explaining a little about who I was and why I chose to write there–there was a certain romance to journaling, as if each notebook was not only a time capsule, but a public one, unearthed decades or even centuries in the future and transporting someone else into my life. These two pages were my introduction. I wrote about how I was likely perceived by others, who I was from an entirely detached perspective. Not even half a page in, one thing became absolutely clear: the girl who wrote this journal did not love herself. She didn’t even like herself. There was nothing blatantly self-loathing written, no mention of body hatred or bullied shame, just the complete and total detachment of someone entirely uncomfortable in their own skin. “I am completely unremarkable,” 19-year-old Me wrote. “I have no delusions about my identity. There is nothing that makes me special.” I actually cried, not because of any memories stirred up or hurtful words written, but because I genuinely felt bad for the girl who penned these pages.
Somehow, though, those had been feelings that persisted throughout my life. In fact, up until very recently, the idea that I could love myself was fairly repulsive to me. Why should I love myself? What have I done to deserve it? Maybe, if I accomplished this or finished that or adhered to this or became that, maybe I could love myself. But not now. I put all of my self-worth into my accomplishments, and the fact that I didn’t have a glittering professional resume or tales of globe-trotting adventures or my dream apartment in a breathtaking city meant that I hadn’t done anything to prove my value–not to society, and not to me. I was unremarkable, and worse yet, I was downright boring.
I don’t know when it happened. I can’t tell you what day it was that the sparkling little feeling crept into chest. I’m not sure the exact moment it started dancing in the throat, tickling at my brain. I’m not sure when I started to have hope. But suddenly, after nearly thirty years, possibly a third of my life in the rear-view mirror, I started to matter to myself. Big time. It’s no longer about what I’ve done or haven’t done–there are other measures of a person, and I’m finally starting to register on my own radar.
Yesterday, in a room filled with pink rose petals and bright July sunlight, I heard this sentiment echoed seven times over. It was fresh, exciting, magical–as so many other groups before us, we had gathered together to discuss a revolutionary concept, joining forces to break new ground. Unlike the salons of my childhood history books, however, we weren’t discussing the fate of the nation or the latest schools of contemporary art: we were discussing Radical Self Love. To the uninitiated, Radical Self Love is Gala Darling’s revolution–it’s about remembering who you are and falling in love with that person, over and over again. It’s about being your own greatest love. “Isn’t that just a serious case of narcism?” you may ask–the answer, truly, is no. As Our Lady RuPaul would say, “if you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” And sadly, too many of us trudge through our daily lives hating everything about them–our jobs, our families, our friends, our cities–when the source of all that unhappiness really is self-loathing.
In a sunny white room nestled deep in New York City, the eight ladies of the first ever Radical Self Love Salon sat on mismatched pieces of furniture, pulling oracle cards and consulting each other’s opinions and experiences as we plumbed the depths of the fears that opposed us. We meditated and grounded our energies, imagined our best selves and showered our heads in magenta rose petals. And when we finally figured out just what stood in the way of being those magnificent creatures we had envisioned, we burned those hurtles to a crisp. We left that room as stronger people, women fully aware of our capacity to shine brightly. The world is our proverbial oyster, but we aren’t just specks of sand in a briny soup–we are all ready stunning pearls. Radical Self Love is knowing that. And while 19-Year-Old Me might have felt unremarkable and defeated, I know now that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Magic Monday: Everyday Symbolism — You’ve Got This
June 9, 2014 NoëlleEveryday symbolism, love, magic 1 Comment
Normally, when a stranger on the streets of New York City approaches me, or asks me to do something, I ignore them. It’s an ingrained trait, handed down from one hardened city-dweller to another. But on Tuesday night, re-discovering one of my favourite neighborhoods through the fresh eyes of a friend, things felt different. Maybe it was the optimism of the still-glowing skies at nearly 9PM, or the electric haze of summer post-rain, but when a stranger in shining black shoes stepped out from under the awning to grab my attention, I gave it to him–“Look!”
There, arching a perfect 180 degrees over Tomkins Square Park, was a vibrant, neon rainbow. I gasped and thanked him for pointing it out to me, and while I initially rounded the corner towards our original destination I found myself drawn back to the edge of the sidewalk, angling my phone towards the sky to capture what I could only see as a brilliant sign from the universe: things are going to be all right.
I choose to see things differently. I look carefully at my surroundings, I find messages and meaning everywhere. There is constant reassurance from the universe all around–even when you’ve made the wrong choice or need to rethink your plans, there are clues everywhere. Recently, I had a series of particularly rough days. I felt alone, exasperated, and just plain bad. Armed with my Nikon D-series, I lay in the dirt outside my classroom shooting some of the plants and odd fields of abandoned construction supplies. Back in the lab, I realized I hadn’t gotten all my exposures as I wanted them and headed back out to the exact spot I was crawling around for the last half our only to find a mammoth goose feather in nearly the exact spot I had been. There were no geese to be seen, and I had only been inside for about five minutes.
My grandfather was a particularly insightful Pisces who knew What’s Up. About a year before he died, he told my mother that when he wanted to get in touch, his sign would be feathers. At his memorial service, we gave each person in attendance a peacock feather to remind them that while people we love might move on and change state, they are never gone. The next day, my cousin–who graciously opened her home to the service–called us, excited and just a little uneasy, because she found several bright, beautiful feathers laid out on her front porch. “I think Jack was saying thank you.” That mammoth goose feather brought me to a similar state of confused excitement, tearfully decoding the message as I dropped back into my place in the dirt–in this case, I think Jack was saying “you’ve got this–just hang in there.”
We all go through tough times. With Mars recently coming out of retrograde and Mercury slipping back in, things have been more than a little wonky lately. But don’t worry: you’ve got this–just hang in there. The signs are all around you.
Cosmetics, Love Lists, Monthly Picks
Metamorphosis 79.0 – May Monthly Picks!
June 10, 2011 NoëlleBobbi Brown, Inglot, lists, love, Make Up Forever, OCC, picks, zoya Leave a comment
May was considerably harder to settle on than any month previously, perhaps because my out-of-commission camera forced me to be later on this post than usual. Things started to blur together–did I start loving these products in May, or early June? Did I even get this in May? Or am I mistaking June for May since I keep writing “5/?/11” on all checks at work?
But after much consideration, I’ve narrowed it to these selections which I enjoyed throughout most of the month. I haven’t included face or complexion products since otherwise, this list would be a boring beige-coloured wasteland (my picks would have undoubtedly been OCC Tint, Bobbi Brown Corrector and Creamy Concealer, Bobbi Brown Pressed Powder, and Lamas Beauty Eye Repair Complex–boring to look at, right?) and it’s much more interesting to see the Sea of Coral I’ve lived in this May.
It probably all started with Zoya Nail Polish in Elodie. On the website, it looks like a soft, almost pastel melon shade but as you see, it’s really a vibrant coral-orange. It’s a gorgeous, fun shade that applies creamy and opaque in about three coats (I use many much thinner coats to avoid bubbling and “VNL”–visible nail line–so it should only take normal people three coats to achieve perfection). I also discovered creme blush (finally!) and fell head over heels for Bobbi Brown Pot Rogue in Cabo Coral. Applied to my skin or foundation pre-powder, it blends to a very pretty peachy coral. It appears rather intense but after it’s been set it’s quite subtle–best of all the colour is completely buildable! It’s also lip-safe and can be used as lipstick in a pinch.
I wore this Inglot palette Monday through Friday for most of May. It’s neutral, it’s versatile–I can use the two beiges and the taupey grey for a very clean, neutral eye or have at the greys for a graduated smokey effect. This doesn’t mean I’ll never wear red eyeshadow to the office again, but it does give me a work-friendly option.
I know that OCC Lip Tar made it’s way onto the list last month, too, but this time it’s Interlace. It is hands-down the perfect nude in my collection and makes any look instantly more chic. I like to apply it lightly, blot off any excess, and set it with a clear or nude gloss (like BITE’s Prosecco or MAC Cremesheen Glass in Lightly Prancing). Bobbi Brown High Shimmer Lip Gloss in Citrus was my go-to gloss this month, living exclusively in my purse and swiped on almost every day. It’s a beautiful peachy-orange shimmer in a clear base and while it’s on the stickier side, it is the longest-wearing gloss I have ever owned. I have swiped it on at 9AM only to find my lips are still shimmery and a little tacky at 7PM when I’m driving home. Considering my lips are on the drier side, I find it highly moisturizing.
And last but not least, the product that has everyone and their mother talking, Make Up Forever Aqua Liners in 10 Iridescent Red and 04 Diamond Lagoon Green. I know, everyone has raved about them to no end but honestly they’re that great. They don’t budge for DAYS if not properly removed and they come in such a variety of bold, powerful colours they really are perfect for the bright eyeliner trend that’s been so hot this season. Of the 16 shades available, I scored 10 for 50% off at the Makeup Show. If you don’t get them with a pro discount or show special, they’re a bit pricey at $23 a piece. But I would have paid it anyway–the formula and applicator remind me a bit of MAC’s Superslick liners, but thicker and with a longer felt tip “brush.” Personally, I wish these had an actual brush and a shorter top for application, but I love them anyway. In May, the green was pretty much my everyday liner shade, while the red was for those days I really needed a pop of colour to get me through the day.
And there you have it. My May was a bright blur of corals, not quite Spring but not quiteSummer either. What products did you love in May? Have you made the jump to your Summer look yet, or are you still clinging to Spring?
Metamorphosis 65.0 – April Monthly Picks!
April 29, 2011 Noëllebutter LONDON, eyeshadow, illuminator, Inglot, Korres, lists, love, nails, picks, skin care, theBalm 2 Comments
Wow! April was a major haul month, between the IMATS, Beautylish event, and Sephora sale, I’ve had a lot of new things to try out and play with. But there have been a few things that I’ve come back to again and again this month–here’s what I’m loving:
I managed to snag a 20 palette from Inglot at the IMATS for a pretty impressive discount, but even at full-price, this would probably rank amongst my best beauty buys of all time. These shadows are buttery, blendable, and amazingly pigmented all in the convenience of a palette. I don’t travel often, but this would definitely be a go-to item for future trips–such beautiful colours all in one place! I also got my hands on quite a number of OCC Lip Tars at that show, and Anime has quickly become one of my favourite lip colours. It’s a bright, bold neon pink that dries matte and stays on my lips for almost 9 hours at a time, even through food and drink!
After thoroughly loving theBalm blush I received from Beautylish, I purchased Mary Lou-Manizer during the Sephora %15 Off Sale. The texture of these products is just amazing for pressed powders–they’re soft and blendable, but not at all dusty. The luminizer is a beautiful shade of pale-golden beige that’s just right for highlighting my skintone. I also grabbed Korres Wild Rose Mask during the Sephora sale after reading up on the benefits of rose for complexion-brightening. I’ve only used this mask twice now, but it’s an absolutely luxurious experience–not only does it smell amazing and leave my skin feeling soft and moisturized, I swear my skin glows after using it.
Anyone who follows my Twitter feed knows how badly I’ve been dying to try butter LONDON. Lucky for me, my local Ulta started carrying their line and my ever-wonderful, amazingly attentive mother picked these up for me. I have a full review forthcoming, but I’ve been wearing this combo for a few days now and it is by far the shiniest, smoothest, most luxurious polishes I own. This colour, Blagger, was definitely on my list, but I likely wouldn’t have gotten the top and base coats simply because I all ready have so many–but I’m glad I did try them, because I really don’t have anything comparable! The top coat is impossibly shiny and the base coat is a creamy beige that dries matte, giving the polish a nice surface to adhere to. After five days of intense typing, working out, hand-washing, and my own personal nailbiting/picking habit, this remains chip-free and gorgeous. I think I’ve found my Holy Grail nail system!
What have you been loving this month?
Cosmetics, Love Lists
Metamorphosis 52.0 – Creme de Menthe, a minty-green love list!
April 5, 2011 Noëllecolour, Evil Shades, lime crime, lists, love, meow, seasons, Shiro Cosmetics 4 Comments
Every few weeks or so, I come down with some sort of colour-bug. Certain colours stick in my head and I just can’t get enough of them. These past few weeks it’s been mint green. In all honesty, mint has always been one of my favourite colours. I think my synesthesia is partially to blame, but the creamy, soft texture of mint has always struck a chord with me. (In fact, “Menthe” was an early web-moniker of mine.) But for Spring, it’s really hard for me to pin-point a better colour: it’s fresh, it’s delicate, and it goes well with everything. Lately, I’ve been pairing it with lilacs and corals.
Here are some of my favourite mint-coloured products at the moment. Full reviews of these products are forthcoming, I promise!
Shiro Cosmetics‘ Kawaii Shadow in Banzai is a very pale mint green with strong blue tones. The satin texture makes it perfect for highlighting or as a base for darker shadows. It’s fairly opaque on its own though it can be built up or blended out. I’ve been using this in the inner corners of my eyes for a bright pop of minty colour!
Evil Shades‘ Faerie Garden is a slightly darker green, more of a fresh mint than a creme-de-menthe. On site, it’s described as “primary green with golden shimmer,” but I’d say it’s a slightly blue-toned green with a shimmery finish. I usually pat this on my lid with a flat brush for a sweet, herbal green base.
I’ve really never been a body-shimmer type of girl, but I’ve really been loving Meow Cosmetics‘ Wildcats powder in Jungle Cat. I was obviously hesitant when I ordered a green body-powder, but it blends beautifully to the barest, palest minty sparkle. Like mint frosting for your skin! I use a large, flexible Taklon kabuki brush to dust this powder over my chest, shoulders, cheekbones, and brows for a very subtle highlighting effect. (It also works nicely mixed into a pump of body lotion or sunblock!)
I have to admit, I haven’t yet had a chance to wear Lime Crime‘s Mint to Be lipstick out of the house yet! Of course as soon as it arrived, I ripped it open and slathered it on, but I just haven’t had an appropriate occasion for it otherwise. Like most of the reformulated Lime Crime lipsticks, this is perfectly opaque and creamy when properly applied. I suggest covering your natural lip colour for truest-green results.
For a little bit of not-quite-swatchy fun, this is a shot of my pigment-encrusted hand after opening up and fiddling with all the jars for these shots. You can see quite a bit of Jungle Cat on my fingers and a bit of Faerie Garden on my palm.
Obviously, wearing all these beautiful minty products together might be a little green-overkill. As I said above, they pair beautifully with lilacs and lavenders (like Sugarpill’s Paperdoll or Weekender), peaches and corals (like Morgana Cryptoria’s Peach Daiquiri and Evil Shade’s Faerie Kisses), even bubblegum pinks (like Sugarpill’s Birthday Girl).
What colours are you loving for Spring?
Metamorphosis 50.0 – March Monthly Picks!
March 30, 2011 Noëlleblush, Brazen, cosmetics, eyeshadow, lip gloss, lists, love, meow, nails, picks, wylde ivy, zoya 4 Comments
I decided a few weeks ago that I wanted to do a sort of product feature. Weekly seemed kind of ridiculous, and seasonal seemed too infrequent, so monthly sounds good. I’ve got thirty-odd days to think up new features, and that’s perfect.
This month, my picks are all products I got in March. I’m not sure if that will always be the case, but this month it certainly is. When I get new products, I tend to test out every aspect of their usage especially if I’m reviewing them so I get really attached to a lot of products.
My first pick is Wylde Ivy‘s Silken Body Oil in Little Shop in Salem. It’s like a nifty little moisturizing perfume that goes on smooth, soaks in quickly, and leaves you smelling wonderful all day. The oil itself is made from a combination of Coconut and Jojoba oils with addition oils from various fruit seeds. I particularly like it in this scent because it’s a light incense-y blend that’s sweet and a little dusty and layers perfectly will all sorts of other fragrances. Plus, it doesn’t give me (or anyone else around me) a headache after too long, as most fragrances often do.
Zoya Nail Polish in Dannii is a soft pink-purple with an amazing multi-coloured sparkle. I’m always amazed by the depth of colour in Zoya polishes, which is why they’re my favourite hands-down. This particular colour is great for spring–it reminds me of newly-budding flowers.
For some reason, I was all about the metallic eyes this month. Meow Cosmetics‘ Heiroglyph from the Egyptian Treasures Collection was definitely one of my go-to shadows. It’s described on-site as “metallic chartreuse with verdigris overtones and metallic gold undertones,” but I see it as a darkened, antiqued gold.
You’ve seen how beautiful Brazen‘s Cherry Bomb lip gloss is. If you haven’t, go read my review right now. It’s richly pigmented but still layerable, it’s smooth and creamy, and it stays put for hours. I haven’t seen this listed in the shop yet (which is live again after a brief hiatus!), but the owner is always more than happy to do custom listings if something you want is “out of stock.”
I’ve never been a blush girl, but lately I seem to be obsessed! The more unusual, the more shimmery, pigmented, sparkling, or complex the colour, the more I love it. Meow Cosmetics’ PINK, Inc blushes are really gorgeous. They apply like a dream, they’re incredibly blendable, and they have just the barest hint of shimmer that really bring them to life. My favourite is definitely Slip. On site, it’s described as “bright warm coral PINK with a slight refreshing twist of citrus peach,” but it definitely reads as a light coral-y peach. I ordered it in the 10g size, though I sort of feel like I should have gotten the larger jar.
–and there you have it! Five items I fell absolutely head-over-heels for this month. Also, all $10USD or less.
What have you been loving this month? Products, foods, music, websites, events?
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Euro Games Technology notched up another success in Spain, increasing the number of its machines in the reputable Orenes Group’s gaming facilities with the first installation of Premier Curved cabinets in Gran Casino de Castellon. The partnership between the companies has evolved over the years with a number of deliveries of the slot bestsellers P-24/24 Up and P-24/32V Up with the Egypt Quest jackpot in most of the operator’s casinos. Now it reaches a milestone, introducing the P-42V St Curved model to the players, equipped with the Orange and Green Collection gaming mixes and with the Premium Link jackpot that is compatible with all types of slot machines. “The Premier Curved model is a top performer in many countries and I am confident that it will not make an exception for Spain,” commented Kristian Kostovski, director of EGT Spain. “Orenes Group is an operator known for its impeccable services and the elegant Gran Casino de Castellon is a place worth visiting, if you are in search for classy entertainment. I am delighted that EGT was chosen to diversify their product offerings and am glad to acknowledge that the shown initial results of the machines is another success in a row, taking into account the performance of the previously installed EGT equipment.” Orenes Group has been a major participant in the recreation industry in Spain for over 40 years and has achieved a leading role in the casinos, bingos, amusement arcades, sports betting, hotel terminals and online gaming sub-sectors. “We aim to offer the latest and the most original products to our players, because their enjoyment is our sure bet” shared Paco Zahinos, director of Gran Casino Castellon. “The newly delivered cabinets of EGT came out to be a sure bet as well. Thanks to them we welcomed more guests in our casino who mostly appreciated their contemporary design, curved displays and variety of games. The cabinets have a very high occupancy rate which makes us also ponder several more installations with EGT Spain in near future.” The P-42V St Curved model has refreshed the gaming halls of many operators around the world. Combined with the Collection series mixes of 48 various titles each, it becomes a valuable tool for players’ maximum satisfaction. The cabinet features a 42-inch portrait-oriented curved monitor with integrated touch screen and an optional 27-inch overhead topper. It ensures high comfort with its ergonomic design that also attracts from afar with its ambient LED illumination, highlighting the machine’s contour. The Premium Link system may connect all EGT and other manufacturers’ slot models to participate for common mystery and symbol-driven progressive jackpots. It is easy adjustable to different operators’ requirements and adds more thrill to the game. “The installation in Gran Casino Castellon is the next stage of our progress in Spain,” concluded Mr. Kostovski. “In future we will keep on relying on new and high performing homologations for the country, like the trendy Premier Curved product line.”
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The last taboo
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Special summer camp for kids with alopecia
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Letters to a baby who was lost before she lived
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Confessions of a serial mistress
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Dating One Direction
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Life and death in Afghanistan
Three soldiers lost their lives during my time at Camp Bastion. Our brave troops save their tears for lost comrades until the end of their tour. But mine fell freely while I was there.
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Missing my soldier son
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Luke's longing for daddy
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The story behind the scandal
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Real life M*A*S*H
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My Three Degrees
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NASA Studies Most Important Planet
The Applied Sciences Program at National Aeronautics & Space Administration a feature at the IEEE international humanitarian conference in Silicon Valley
DALLAS (Oct. 7, 2013) – Dr. Christine Lee, an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow for the NASA Applied Sciences Program will be a feature speaker in Silicon Valley when IEEE presents their humanitarian conference two weeks from today.
Lee works closely with program managers in the water resources application area. NASA is in the news most recently for interplanetary exploration with moon shots, stunning Mars landings, and a probe that recently left our solar system. But NASA mainly “studies the most important planet we know of,” says Lee, “our own.”
Lee spoke by Skype on the ScienceNews Radio Network program Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason from her home in Foggy Bottom near D.C., not able to work because of the recent government shutdown by republicans. On the program Lee described NASA’s Capacity Building Program. The broadcast originates in Dallas, Texas, and can now be heard Webcast and archived for its world audience. A photo of Lee at work in the field in Kenya can be seen at a related story in the Examiner here.
Lee received her Ph.D. (2010) in environmental engineering at UCLA, developing rapid methods for measuring microbial contamination in coastal urban watersheds. Her postdoctoral work at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory included studying microbial communities in extreme environments such as those in Mt. Kilimanjaro glaciers and in the Antarctic Dry Valley soil as part of an astrobiology lab. She has conducted fieldwork in Southern California as well as Bangladesh, Tanzania, Mexico, and Antarctica.
The third annual IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) is October 21- 23in Silicon Valley. Registration has been ongoing for several weeks.
For five years Lee was an active participant and student leader in Engineers without Borders, also a partner with IEEE at this event, during which she founded a computer refurbishing and education program for local high schools and had the opportunity to travel to Guatemala to set up a computer lab in a community center. Lee received a Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Fellowship in 2008-09 and co-authored a funded proposal for the EPA People, Planet, and Prosperity Student Design Competition in 2009-10.
River Blindness Breakthrough
New early detection of neglected tropical disease to be highlighted at the IEEE international humanitarian conference in Silicon Valley
Dallas (July 15, 2013) – A rapid test for river blindness that is a breakthrough for the control and elimination of this dreaded tropical disease will be presented at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) October 21- 23 in Silicon Valley.
River blindness, or onchocerciasis (pronounced on-cho-sir-sy-ah-sis) has been largely neglected because it has no cure while afflicting a million people in Africa. Black fly bites carry the microbe that forms itchy worms in the human skin and results in blindness after years of suffering. The new test has been developed by PATH of Seattle, WA. It will be manufactured and distributed by Standard Diagnostics.
Drugs produced by Merck can kill the enfant worms in early detection, but only control adult worms that live for up to 15 years. Those afflicted must know when it is safe to stop the treatments. This new diagnostic field test uses only one drop of blood and will “monitor the transmission of the disease,” says Tala de los Santos, group leader for diagnostics at PATH. “The test can help provide the evidence” for when the drug administration can be safely stopped” in already afflicted victims.
Speaking by phone from her office in Seattle, de los Santos made her report today on the ScienceNews Radio Network program Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason. The program originates in Dallas, Texas, and can now be heard Webcast and archived for its world audience. A photo of de los Santos working in her lab can be seen at a related story in the Examiner.
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that works in more than 70 countries delivering lifesaving vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and devices in collaborative programs with communities.
This is the first time PATH has been featured at the cross-discipline conference on the world’s urgent human necessities. IEEE’s GHTC will be held October 20 – 23, 2013 in Silicon Valley, San Jose Airport Garden Hotel, California, the third annual. More information on technical sessions, registration for the conference, hotel reservations and exhibiting is available at the website www.ieeeghtc.org.
Google to Keynote Humanitarian Conference
Government solutions giving way to social media revolutions in disaster relief to be highlighted at the IEEE international humanitarian conference in Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA (July 2, 2013) – A treat for those attending the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) October 21- 23in Silicon Valley will be a keynote address by Google’s Nigel Snoad.
A brilliant young Australian, Snoad is Product Manager, Crisis Response and Civic Innovation at Google; also a core team member at Random Hacks of Kindness.
Snoad believes that through everyday tools like Twitter, Google searches, open data, Smart Search, etc., current methods of crisis response will change for the better. “Citizens are being empowered with the information so they can look after themselves and protect their families and neighborhoods, and work with each other,” said Snoad, speaking by phone from his office in New York City on the ScienceNews Radio Network program Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason. The program originates in Dallas, Texas, and can now be heard Webcast and archived for its world audience.
On the program Mason asked Snoad if there was rather a real danger from social media in the spreading of dangerous misleading information. “Error correction and rumor correction tends to travel faster than the bad information,” answered Snoad, “there’s a pile of research on this.”
Snoad went on to predict a future dramatically different from today’s reliance only on government solutions. “The more that we can do to enable citizens to work together, to understand what’s happening around them, communicate, listen to the authorities-the better off they’re going to be and the stronger our communities and neighborhoods are going to be,” said Snoad, “that’s an awesome thing.” A photo of Snoad can be seen at a related story in the Examiner.
This is the third annual cross-discipline conference on the world’s urgent human necessities and will be held October 20 – 23, 2013 in Silicon Valley, San Jose Airport Garden Hotel, California. Organizers report the website is active “around the clock” with thousands of visitors from all continents except Antarctica. More information on technical sessions, registration for the conference, hotel reservations and exhibiting is available at the website www.ieeeghtc.org.
FEMA Changing Structure Dramatically
The IEEE international humanitarian conference in Silicon Valley will showcase revolutionary changes developing inside the federal relief agency
San Jose (June 18, 2013) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been quietly undergoing dramatic changes in operations, and details of its new structure will be a feature at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) October 21- 23in Silicon Valley.
“It seem mistakes of the past that have haunted FEMA are gone,” says Colonel Mason, managing editor of the ScienceNews Radio Network, a reporter covering the conference. “A whole new way of thinking, a whole new structure is being built into FEMA since the terrible mistakes of Katrina (the hurricane that hit New Orleans in 2005).” Mason points to FEMA response from hurricane Sandy that hit the northeast last year and recent tornados in Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma that has garnered high praise from those state’s governors.
A major addition at FEMA has been the designation of a new officer, Chief Innovation Advisor (CIA), who brings a formally stilted structure down to street level where it can do the most good very rapidly. “The best solutions are generated by the people and communities who are closest (to the disasters),” says Desiree Matel-Anderson, the CIA who will be presenting at the conference.
Also working with FEMA and presenting with Matel-Anderson is Willow Brugh of MIT Media Labs and Geeks without Bounds, who told Mason the new relief structure is using “a wider, deeper pool of empowered citizens in a flattened organization.” Brugh made her comments by phone on the ScienceNews Radio Network program Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason. The program originates in Dallas, Texas, and can now be heard Webcast and archived for its world audience. See photo and Examiner story here.
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Humanitarian Engineering Gains New Recognition
Awards nominations deadline fast approaching to celebrate achievements in the field of global humanitarian engineering
San Jose (May 17, 2013) – The closing for nominations in Global Humanitarian Engineering Awards is coming up rapidly. The international awards will celebrate outstanding contributions to humanitarian engineering.
The two award categories for 2013 are: Global Humanitarian Engineer of the Year and Global Humanitarian Project of the Year. Nominations close June 2nd 2013, and the awards will be presented in Silicon Valley at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference October 21-23.
Press coverage of the conference exhibits and presentations will be carried extensively on the ScienceNews Radio Network program Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason, produced in Dallas, Texas.
The awards started with Rebecca Dracup and Andrew Perren, two engineering students at the University of Western Australia in 2012. Until now it has been very difficult to find stories of success about engineering and engineers in the humanitarian and development sectors so they created the Global Humanitarian Engineering Awards (GHEA) with the help of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference and Engineers Without Borders Australia.
“We opened nominations on May 1st 2013 and are hoping to attract nominations from every corner of the world”, Perren said.
To nominate or learn more about GHEA 2013 visit http://www.ieeeghtc.org/global-humanitarian-engineering-award.
Fantastic Med Devices New Reality
Hand-held diagnostics; drastic cuts in medical expenses; nano engineering to abolish diseases; everyone aging well into our 100s; all to be revealed at humanitarian technology conference
DALLAS (April 29, 2013) – Use of hand-held diagnostic scanners often fancied on sci-fi movies such as Star-Trek are now a reality and will soon be common in remote world areas, and then everywhere. That and other fantastic life advances will be featured at the influential IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology conference (GHTC) in Silicon Valley this fall.
The science fiction type quality of our diagnostic tools is being built into our mobile phones. “The cellphone itself is an amazing platform,” says Aydogan Ozcan, leading the Bio and Nano Photonics laboratory at UCLA. Dr. Ozcan will make his presentations as keynote speaker at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2013, October 20-23, at the San Jose Airport Garden Hotel, California.
“The optical components on the cellphone are very advanced, doubling in megapixels every two years,” says Ozcan. We “can easily convert (them) into advanced microscopy or diagnostic tools. Bench top versions of the same technology are expensive and bulky.” The same tests can now be done in the field which make these cellphone devices ideal for remote areas of the world.
Ozcan spoke by phone from his office at UCLA on the ScienceNews Radio Network program, the Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason. The program originates in Dallas, Texas, and is now archived and Webcast for its world audience. On the program Mason asked Ozcan if he sees a time when the molecules of diseases will be manipulated at the atomic level to make them harmless. “That is the holy grail of telemedicine,” answered Ozcan, “I think that is the revolution we are going to see.”
And Ozcan even predicts a time frame. “This next decade will be quite fascinating,” he says, “we are going to increase our lifespan to routinely 100s in the next decade or so.” Ozcan points out that everybody caries a cellphone so health management of an aging population will be extremely important. And Ozcan says this will dramatically cut medical expenses because prevention is so much less costly than treating chronic illness. [A photo of Ozcan at work can be seen at this Examiner link]
This is the IEEE flagship third annual cross-discipline conference on the world’s urgent human necessities, sponsored by NASA, UNESCO, Engineers Without Borders, Engineering for Change, and will be held October 20 – 23, 2013 in Silicon Valley, San Jose Airport Garden Hotel, California. Organizers report the website is active “around the clock” with thousands of visitors from all continents except Antarctica. More information on technical sessions, registration for the conference, hotel reservations and exhibiting is available at the website www.ieeeghtc.org.
Humanitarian Conference Gets New Global Sponsor
Engineers Without Borders has joined list of sponsors for the IEEE Global humanitarian conference coming to Silicon Valley
DALLAS (Mar. 18, 2013) – Dedication to humanitarian relief worldwide continues to grow each year as the influential IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) moves to San Jose, California. Organizers report the website is active “around the clock” with thousands of visitors from all continents except Antarctica.
Now the respected relief organization, Engineers Without Borders (EWB), has joined a growing list of conference sponsors. With world challenges “there’s one thing that I know, and that’s change is going to continue to happen,” says Catherine Leslie, executive director of EWB, “if it’s not global warming it’s going to be something else.”
Leslie spoke by phone from her office in Boulder, Colorado, on the ScienceNews Radio Network program, the Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason. The program originates in Dallas, Texas, and is now archived and Webcast for its world audience. [A photo of Leslie at work can be seen at this Examiner link.]
On joining with IEEE to sponsor the GHTC, Leslie told Mason “I don’t want to see the status quo anymore. When I went to Nepal on the ‘80s it kinda looks the same today in some of those communities, and I don’t want that to happen in the next twenty years.”
This is the IEEE flagship third annual cross-discipline conference on the world’s urgent human necessities, sponsored by NASA, UNESCO, Engineers Without Borders, Engineering for Change, and will be held October 20 – 23, 2013 in Silicon Valley, San Jose Airport Garden Hotel, California. More information on technical sessions, registration for the conference, hotel reservations and exhibiting is available at the website www.ieeeghtc.org.
http://www.examiner.com/article/humanitarian-conference-gets-new-global-sponsor
Silicon Valley Leading Global Relief Initiatives
Technology to cure world’s greatest human problems being launched globally from the valley with IEEE humanitarian conference
DALLAS (Mar. 4, 2013) – The decision to move the influential IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology conference from Seattle to San Jose this year is to align with scientific relief capabilities already operating in the valley. “There’s a good synergy in the Silicon Valley already for humanitarian type efforts and issues,” says Keith Moore, chairman of the 2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, “we’ve got a lot of folks who are on fire, anxious to build the future.”
Before moving to San Jose, California, the first two years saw the conference held in Seattle, Washington. After those successes, the conference was courted by major locations worldwide. Producers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), accepted bids from many dynamic cities before this year choosing a Valley location.
The plan “is to keep it in North America right now for the main conference, and have satellite conferences,” said Moore, who is also considering Europe and Africa next year, “but this year there is a conference planned called the South Asian Satellite Conference” in India for August.
Moore spoke by phone from his HQ location on the ScienceNews Radio Network program, the Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason. The program originates in Dallas, Texas, and is now archived and Webcast for its world audience. [A photo of Moore working with field relief agencies in Malawi can be seen at this Examiner link.]
The conference organizing committee has issued a call for papers. Sought are scientists, engineers, technology professionals, academics, foundations, government and non-government organizations, field project managers, industry, investors, and other individuals engaged in humanitarian work, to discuss and develop solutions for present and future humanitarian needs.
http://www.examiner.com/article/silicon-valley-leading-global-relief-initiatives
Global Humanitarian Conference Calling for Technical Papers
Technological solutions to cure the world’s greatest human problems eagerly sought for conference in October
DALLAS (Jan. 17, 2013) – The organizing committee for the 2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) has announced a call for papers on technology for the benefit of humanity.
Sought are scientists, engineers, technology professionals, academics, foundations, government and non-government organizations, field project managers, industry, investors, and other individuals engaged in humanitarian work, to discuss and develop solutions for present and future humanitarian needs.
Press coverage of the conference exhibits and presentations will be carried extensively on the ScienceNews Radio Network program Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason, locally produced in Dallas,Texas.
This is the IEEE flagship third annual cross-discipline conference on the world’s urgent human necessities and will be held October 20 – 23, 2013 in Silicon Valley, San Jose Airport Garden Hotel, California.
In following the Conference theme of Technology for the benefit of humanity, topics include [but are not limited to]:
Health, Medical Technology and Telemedicine
Disaster Warning/Avoidance and Response
Water Planning, Availability and Quality
Power for Off-Grid Users
Power Infrastructure/Off Grid Power/Renewable—Sustainable Energy
Connectivity and Communications Technologies for Remote Locations
Technologies (data/voice) for Remote Locations
Agricultural Technologies
Applying Science, Engineering and Technology for Sustainability
Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities
Submission – Deadline for Full Paper Submission: May 11, 2013
The Conference Program will include submitted paper sessions, plenary and invited talks, tutorial sessions, poster sessions, student paper and poster contests, photo and video contests, a young professional project contest, and many opportunities for social and professional networking. More information on technical sessions, registration for the conference, hotel reservations and exhibiting is available at the website www.ieeeghtc.org.
Photo by IEEE member Jay Pearlman of training villagers in India last year for understanding technology – maps and remote sensing images for water harvesting can be seen here at The Examiner.
http://www.examiner.com/article/global-humanitarian-conference-calling-for-technical-papers
GHTC 2012 Post-Conference Press Release PDF
IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference –
is a voice amplifier and a forum for hot technological, social, and philosophical debates
The 2nd annual IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference – GHTC 2012 attracted over 250 attendees to Seattle October 21-24, bringing together individuals from 22 countries who are working to improve the lives of the billions of people around the world living at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
GHTC offers humanitarian workers and technologists across the globe an opportunity to interact, learn and collaborate, to build a community that can, because of these connections, create more efficient and effective humanitarian efforts. The conference was supported by over 35 organizations.
In addition to numerous technical papers, the conference held several tutorials on such topics as “Village Energy Systems” and “Building Affordable Wireless Networks,” and eleven panels on such topics as “Designing for Sustainability”, “Societal Impacts and Benefits”, and “What Works and What Doesn’t”.
The conference featured a number of plenary speakers. Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO, noted that “opportunities for collaboration with the engineering community are huge, not only in the new UNESCO Engineering Initiative, but throughout our efforts in disasters, water, environmental sciences and in education… One of our meta-goals is to mobilize collaboration on scientific topics that require large-scale multinational cooperation.” Gertjian van Stam, LinkNet Zambia, pointed that “the challenge is for technology to be introduced and utilized in the right manner, and with the right timing. Technology is a tool to help people. We need not just invest in technologies but also in relationships.”
Peter Staecker, 2012 IEEE President-Elect, set a vision to “harness the creative power of IEEE … and to bring a positive, meaningful and long-term impact on the welfare of significant populations.” At the same time Krista Bauer, GE Foundation, emphasized importance of deeper corporate involvement in the humanitarian projects saying that “GE has a strong volunteering tradition and volunteering is encouraged. People do want get involved. There is passion and a lot of interest.”
GHTC 2012 also hosted the Hoover Medal Award Ceremony, honoring N.R. Narayana Murthy, who founded Infosys in 1981. The Hoover Medal was established in 1929 and recognizes the civic and humanitarian achievements of engineers.
Verona Wong, Publicity Chair 604-415-6000 vwong@ieee.org
Inessa Pearce, PR Chair & Webmaster 425-737-3411 inessaprc@gmail.com
GHTC 2012 Press Release August, 2012 PDF
Preliminary Program Released, Advance Registration Ends 7 September.
Global Humanitarian Technology Conference – GHTC 2012
October 21-24, 2012 Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA
A unique event, GHTC fills the need for a major international annual conference in the humanitarian technology sphere, attracting a large international audience, covering a wide range of important topics, and facilitating communication, networking and coordination across the humanitarian technology community.
Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 meeting, the 2nd annual GHTC will again bring together communities and individuals – engineering, science, technology, industry, academe, government agencies, NGOs, charities, funders – interested in applying technology to develop effective solutions for the challenges facing the world’s underserved.
GHTC has extensive and vibrant technical programs, unparalleled visibility for humanitarian work and projects, exceptional networking opportunities, and a varied social program which will include on October 23 a presentation of Hoover Award to Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Limited. The medal is a prestigious award for engineers, honoring individuals who tirelessly apply their extensive knowledge in the humanitarian field.
Numerous papers will be presented at the conference. A sampling of paper presentations includes: “Empowering smallholders and local food markets with smartphones and social networks”,” Improving maternal labor monitoring in Kenya using digital pen technology: a user evaluation”, “Technology transfer to rural population through secondary schools : the Vigyan Ashram experience”. Four parallel half-day tutorials will be given preceding the conference on October 21 including “Building affordable wireless networks for research, education and humanitarian use”, and “Innovation process for the Base of the Pyramid”. Keynote speaker Byron Reese will talk about the world’s massive accumulation of data seen as an unexpected benefit in ending nations’ penchant for war. “You end war when you make peace a more attractive opportunity for everyone. Technology is making war extremely expensive and peace extremely profitable.” said Reese on the ScienceNews Radio Network.
Conference Chair Paul Kostek stated that “the Program Committee has done an extraordinary job of assembling this year’s program that addresses the leading issues, activities and technology applications in the humanitarian field. In addition, four tutorials give deeper understanding for real world solutions from the people that did the field work. We have a diverse group of keynote speakers from NGOs, government organizations and industry with Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director General for National Sciences, UNESCO, as an opening ceremony speaker. Their experience and range of topics will help set the stage for each day of the conference. We are also pleased that the Hoover Medal will be presented at the conference to Mr. Naravara Murthy, Founder of Infosys Limited.”
GHTC 2012 is organized by IEEE ieee.org, the world’s largest technical professional society with over 400,000 members in over 160 countries, advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
For more information on the preliminary program and to register, see http://www.ieeeghtc.org/. The advance registration fee is $500 for IEEE members, $550 for non-members and $200 for students and IEEE Life Members.
Gim Soon Wan, Publicity Chair 978-749-3358 GimSoon@ieee.org
GHTC 2012 Press Release March, 2012 PDF
Now Available: CALL FOR PAPERS
GHTC 2012 is organized by IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society with over 400,000 members in over 160 countries, advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 meeting, the 2nd annual GHTC will again bring together communities and individuals interested in applying technology to develop effective solutions for the challenges facing the world’s underserved. Engineering, science and technology are vital components of humanitarian development in a broad range of areas and there is an important need to recognize and emphasize this in the world’s development agenda.
Conference Goals:
Foster exchange of information and networking in the humanitarian field
Focus attention of businesses on emerging market opportunities and related technology enablers
Impact in positive and meaningful ways lives of disadvantaged billions of people around the world
Promote science, engineering and technology as key to development of solutions for disadvantaged communities and attract young people to these professional fields
GHTC 2012 will cover a wide range of topics that include, but are not limited to:
Health, Medical Technology, Telemedicine
Disaster Warning, Avoidance, and Response
Power Infrastructure/Off-grid Power/Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Connectivity and Communications Technologies (data/voice) for Remote Locations
Applying Science, Engineering and Technology for Environmental Sustainability
Participate in an extensive, vibrant, and varied technical program: presentations, keynote and invited talks, discussion sessions, tutorials, exhibits, and the Forum Hall for meeting other attendees
Learn, exchange information, share experiences and network with other interested and dedicated individuals
Gain visibility for humanitarian work and projects
Find new resources and ideas
Student Paper Contest. We are looking for sponsors.
Humanitarian Photo/Short-Video Contest. We are looking for sponsors.
Coming in 2013:
Young Professional Project Competition. We are looking for sponsors.
Inessa Pearce, Publicity Team 425-737-3411 inessaprc@gmail.com
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Some piano for your listening regimen
I’ve been doing a lot of long, uninterrupted work sessions lately, so I’ve been getting deep into instrumental modernist classical and new-classical work to accompany them. (“Canto Ostinato” by Simeon Ten Holt blows my mind.) Mattias Phillips‘ Provisations is a solo piano work that fits into that listening regimen: the short pieces here range from high modernist abstract (“She doesn’t like it”) to classical delicacy (“Decision”) to Liszt-esque romantic-era blitzes (“Everyday Labor”) to minimalist-influenced pieces (“Moral Hangover”).
Phillips shows off his breadth as a composer here; that diversity will help listeners who may not be as familiar with solo piano work. This album does not feel like 14 tracks of the same thing; there are obvious peaks and valleys throughout the work. The tunes themselves maintain a passionate energy. Phillips notes that these are more than impromptu improvisations but not much more; the thrill of creation is still audible. It will be interesting to see if further work from Phillips hones in on one of the many styles he puts forth here and goes longform on it, or continues in the “diverse short piece” vein. Either could be interesting. A whole album of solo piano music probably isn’t what readers of this blog usually are listening to, but I think y’all could dig this.
Canto Ostinato
Mattias Phillips
Provisations
Simeon Ten Holt
Quick Hits: Strangers by Accident / Holy ’57 / Deer Scout
Strangers by Accident‘s five-song EP establishes the male/female duo as somewhere between the wistful, major key acoustic pop of the Weepies and the spartan acoustic delicacy of Joshua Radin’s early work. They can get a little bit noisier than either outfit (“Straight to Space,” “Borderline”), but their sweet spot is a bright, clear, open sound garnished with a twist of sadness (or two).
“Steal” is the opener and the tone-setter, with a single acoustic guitar, a tambourine, two vocalists, and ambient guitar marking out the sonic space that the duo explore for the rest of the EP. Standout “Borderline” opens as the quietest track: the lyrics are poignant and unafraid to take on the darkness in the world, like a Rocky Volotato song. It grows to one of their noisiest, with a raucous electric guitar line crashing in intermittently. “Busted Heart” and “Hold Me Down” are both just great acoustic pop songs; sometimes you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to make a really great car. If you’re into the Civil Wars, The Local Strangers, or other classy male/female duos I’m not familiar with, you’ll love Strangers by Accident.
O by Holy ’57 owes an incredible debt to the carefree first two albums of Vampire Weekend. The four tracks here are all sun-drenched and wrapped in the swaying-yet-choppy rhythms that Ezra Koenig and co. virtually trademarked. Holy ’57 trades out the helter-skelter guitar runs for tropical synths, making a sound even more upbeat and sunshiny than VW did. The songs bounce, leap, skip, and twirl their way through my speakers, making it impossible not to smile.
The topics fit with the vibe: “Venice, CA” is about having youthful adventures in the titular city, “1.9.9.0” deals with a breakup and/or social failures by a nostalgic longing for the ’90s, and “Jep Shuffle” builds its chorus around a dance (although it doesn’t tell you how to do the Jep Shuffle, just that it exists). That last track is the unavoidable track: it’s a nigh-on-perfect summer pop song, with verses that build, a chorus that pays off in spades, and rhythms that make me want to move. It’s a sin that this song isn’t everywhere, because it is awesome. Those looking for a song to close out their summer with need to look no farther than O, where there’s at least one (if not three!) tunes that can do that for you. Awesome.
Deer Scout‘s customs is a slight, intimate object: Dena Miller’s four-song EP barely breaks 10 minutes. But in those 10 minutes, her unadorned songwriting makes a statement. She opens with “holy ghost,” which is nothing more than delicate guitar picking, earnest alto vocals, and beautifully complex lyrics. Fans of the dense stylings of Lady Lamb will see similar sparks here. The song is beautifully balanced: there’s not much to it, but it all sounds vital and immediate. It grabbed my attention and didn’t let go.
“little state” and “up high” feature strumming more and have more of a distinct song structure, recalling Waxahatchee’s early stylings. Although there are referents, Miller’s vocal melodies are put together in her own way (the interval jumps on the chorus of “little state,” the confident delivery of everything in “up high”); she is establishing herself as a songwriting voice here. The short set closes with “train song,” which splits the difference between the dense lyrics and fingerpicking of the opener and the concrete song structures of the center two pieces. Her voice is excellent here as well. Fans of women singer/songwriters, intimate sketches, and minimalism will find much to love in customs.
deer scout
Dena Miller
Holy '57
Jep Shuffle
Strangers by Accident
The Jonah Project: Shiver-inducing emo-rock
The Jonah Project‘s self-titled EP packs more emotional punch into 16 minutes than most emo albums can get into a 40 minute full-length. The quartet, headed up by Drift Wood Miracle‘s Bryan Diver and Jvno‘s Tristan McGee, tell the story of Jonah from the Bible in a powerful, moving way. The EP has four songs, one for each chapter of the book, and each shows off a different side of their sound.
“Jonah 1” is a keys-led piece that leans toward the wistful side of the emo spectrum. The band does ratchet up to some screaming guitar noise at the end of the track, but this one is more focused on the lyrics depicting why Jonah ran and his emotional response upon realizing that he can’t run from God. (It’s a little-discussed element in the story, at least when I was growing up: Jonah expects that God will forgive the people that Jonah hates if Jonah follows through on God’s call. Jonah doesn’t want that to happen, so he flees.) Diver’s vocals lead the way with some dramatic, memorable lines.
“Jonah 2” also opens up with keys, but Tristan McGee takes over lead vocals in a spoken-word format. I tend to hate spoken-word, but this fits over a roiling, churning instrumental mix that feels more like MeWithoutYou than bad stereotypes of spoken-word. The first time I heard McGee holler out in anguish “Salvation belongs to the Lord!” I got shivers. (Even more rare, I got shivers the second and third time. It’s intense.) The winding, syncopated opening guitar riff of “Jonah 3” powers one of the most inventive rock songs I’ve heard in a long time. It sort of feels like The Collection’s rhythmic background, only punctuated with stabs of electric guitar chords and overlaid with chiming, heavily reverbed, floating guitar notes. It stumped my expectations.
“Jonah 4” caps off the set with more interplay between acoustic guitar, chiming electric, chunky chords and even group vocals. The drums are particularly exciting here, as Aaron Allred somehow manages to keep up as the rest of the band whips through mood change after mood change in rapid succession. The lyrics evocatively draw the story to a conclusion, with Jonah struggling to grasp the concept of grace. The whole thing comes together brilliantly, showing off a quartet that’s astonishingly tight for being brand-new. They’re writing some new material, so perhaps we’ll get to hear more from this impressive outfit. If you’re into early ’00s Deep Elm emo (Brandtson, Appleseed Cast, Pop Unknown, etc.), you’ll love this EP.
Appleseed Cast
Brandtson
Bryan Diver
Deep Elm Records
Drift Wood Miracle
Jvno
Pop Unknown
Tristan McGee
August MP3s: Loud / Quiet / Loud
1. “New Moon” – Namesayers. The lead guitar here is angular, cranky, and brittle, contrasting against the swirling, low-key psychedelia laid down by the rest of instruments and Devin James Fry’s mystical croon. It makes for an intriguing rock that sounds like midnight in the desert with a big bonfire going. (Which is pretty much what the title and the album art convey, so this one has its imagery and soundscapes really tight in line.)
2. “O Zephyr” – Ptarmigan. It’s tough to be a serious alt-folk band without sounding over-earnest or overly ironic. Ptarmigan finds the perfect center, where it sounds like a bunch of people who love folk and have something to say are making their noise how they want. Fans of River Whyless, Fleet Foxes (often violators of the over-earnest, but nonetheless), and Barr Brothers will enjoy this.
3. “Axolotl” – Lord Buffalo. Lord Buffalo specializes in primal, pounding, apocalyptic pieces that build from small beginnings to terrifying heights. This is an A+ example of the form.
4. “A Miracle Mile” – St. Anthony and the Mystery Train. Equally apocalyptic as above, but in a more Southern Gothic, Nick Cave, howl-and-clatter style of indie-rock than the all-out-sonic assault. A wild ride.
5. “Spring” – Trevor Ransom. A tone-poem of a piece, illustrating the arrival of spring with found sounds, distant vocals, and confident piano.
6. “Not Enough” – Sunjacket. This inventive indie-rock song draws sounds and moods from all over the place, creating a distinct, unique vibe. There’s some Age of Adz weirdness, some Grizzly Bear denseness, some giant synth clouds, and more.
7. “Bushwick Girl” – CHUCK. A goofy, loving parody of NYC’s hippest hipsters in appropriately creaky, nasally, quirky indie-pop style.
8. “Ghost” – Mood Robot. Chillwave meets ODESZA-style post-dub with some pop v/c/v work for good measure. It’s a great little electro-pop tune.
9. “Da Vinci” – Jaw Gems. All the swagger, strut, stutter, and stomp of hip-hop and none of the vocals. Impressive.
10. “Disappearing Love” – Night Drifting. If the National’s high drama met the Boss’s roots rock, you’d end up with something like this charging tune with a huge conclusion.
11. “Black and White Space” – Delamere. Britpop from Manchester with a catchy vocal hook and subtle instrumentation that comes together really nicely.
12. “Plastic Flowers” – Poomse. Predictions of human doom over crunchy guitars give way to a densely-layered indie-rock track with claustrophobia-inducing horns. If you’re into Mutemath or early ’00s emo (non-twinkly variety), you’ll find some footholds here.
13. “Lake, Steel, Oil” – Basement Revolver. There’s something hypnotic about Chrisy Hurn plaintively singing her heart out as if there isn’t a howling wall of distortion raging around her.
Age of Adz
Barr Brothers
Basement Revolver
Devin James Fry
Lord Buffalo
Mood Robot
Namesayers
Night Drifting
St. Anthony and the Mystery Train
Sunjacket
Trevor Ransom
August Singles: Acoustic
1. “The Devil Bird” – Albert af Ekenstam. An unhurried, expansive acoustic-led song reminiscent of Leif Vollebekk or Gregory Alan Isakov’s work.
2. “The Beast That Rolls Within” – Dietrich Strause. A troubadour’s confident vocals, abstract lyrics, and gently rolling guitar make Strause an artist to watch in the vein of Joe Pug and Josh Ritter. This song is excellent.
3. “I Love Immigration” – This Frontier Needs Heroes. Refocuses the talk of immigration by pointing out that unless you’re a Native American, literally everyone in this country is the relative of an immigrant. As Brad Lauretti and I are both descended from Italian immigrants, I felt a special resonance with this charming, shuffling, upbeat acoustic pop tune with a deeply important message.
4. “Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin” – The Chairman Dances. The finely detailed lyrics of the Mountain Goats paired with indie-pop that has a wider range, from dreamier at one end to more formal and Beatles-esque at the other. But there’s still a great “hey!” thrown in. Always a good yawp, you know. Highly recommended.
5. “A Lonely Road” – Jordan O’Jordan. It’s hard to make rattling banjo chords sound delicate, but O’Jordan’s oh-so-sweet voice tempers the rough edges and creates a warm, immersive song. (Toss-up on the “ahs” section: some people are going to think it’s lovely, and some are going to wonder what just happened. Just so you know.)
6. “Fingers Crossed” – The Marrieds. Bright, clear, female-led acoustic-pop with a little more Americana than the Weepies but not as much as the Civil Wars. It’s remarkably pretty, especially when the strings come in. You could dance to this at a wedding.
7. “Suite pour Justin” – Yves Lambert Trio. Traditional Quebecois folk music includes accordion, fiddle, guitar and percussion, in case you (like me) didn’t know. It sounds sort of like a mix of bluegrass and Zydeco, which is incredibly rad. The rest of the album includes vocals in French; this one’s instrumental. The musical quality is elite, so if you’re an adventurous listener I would highly recommend checking the whole album out.
8. “Generation, Love” – Jon Reynolds. Doo-wop, Beach Boys harmonies, and old-school rock’n’roll vibes come together to be pleasantly, nostalgically retro, while yearning for love instead of hate (a very modern concern).
9. “How Quickly Your Heart Mends” – Courtney Marie Andrews. This woman has the female version of Jason Isbell’s voice. I kid you not: the stress on certain syllables, the swoops in volume, the vocal strain on the fronts of lines…it’s all there. It’s awesome. The songwriting is a great trad-country vibe, but whoa. That voice. Check this out.
10. “Brink of Love (ft. Ladysmith Black Mambazo)” – Vian Izak. While we’re on the topic of love, why not indulge in a adult alternative acoustic tune that includes a hugely famous African choir? (You may know them from Graceland, only one the best albums of all time.)
11. “The Other Side” – VACAY. A romantic folk-pop song with some solid falsetto; a little less Lumineers and a little more adult alternative.
12. “the fall” – Andrea Silva. Somewhere between haunting and lilting, Silva’s vocal performance is an enigmatic, engaging figure over an acoustic guitar.
Albert af Ekenstam
Andrea Silva
Brad Lauretti
Courtney Marie Andrews
Dietrich Strause
Jon Reynolds
Jordan O'Jordan
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
The Chairman Dances
The Marrieds
This Frontier Needs Heroes
Vian Izak
Yves Lambert Trio
Two Countrymen: The Hasslers / Will Bennett and The Tells
The Hasslers‘ State Center and Will Bennett and the Tells‘ Wichita have a few things in common: an expansive view of country music, a perceptive eye toward life in the flyover states, and melodies you’re going to be humming for a while. As a ex-pat Midwesterner, I have a deep affection for both these records that goes beyond their excellent music.
Both albums drew me because of their state-specific lyrical content. State Center mentions my native Oklahoma and highway I-19; Wichita is named after the largest city in Kansas and references I-35 (the spine of the great plains states). Both albums mention far-off places (Hasslers: San Jose; Tells: Ann Arbor, Manassas) but are firmly concerned with the inner workings of life in the flyovers. The Hasslers’ detailed stories of hard drinkin’, tough livin’, and bad lovin’ are the sort of jam-packed, witty, and clever lyrics that beg to be called incisive and literary; Will Bennett’s wry ruminations on relationships point out elements of love that don’t get discussed much (“She’s Got a Problem”) along with those that do (“Paloma,” “I Hope You Hear This on the Radio”). Both bands prominently discuss that they need to be inebriated to dance. Welcome to the Midwest.
Where the two albums diverge is in the way they treat country music. The Hasslers’ country-inspired music leans toward indie-pop and folk, while the Tells’ music is more of a country-punk creation.
The Hasslers’ music is an impressively smooth fusion of country, indie-pop and folk; they’re so adept at handling the genre mashing that it’s hard to pick out exactly where one stops and the other starts. Opener “Falling Out of Love” segues directly into “Tall Orders,” creating a nearly-8-minute tune that features lazy horns, an easygoing full-band vibe, and a zooming organ solo. “Oh My Dear, Oh My Darling” is a straight-up country song, complete with pedal steel, walking bass, and saloon-style piano. (“What Is Wisdom Anyway” reprises this turn.)
“Loves Company” is the standout ballad, merging folk verses into a pretty country chorus. “I did” is a beautiful solo acoustic tune that draws on indie-pop and even some acoustic singer/songwriter tricks. “Little Blue House” sounds like Counting Crows meets Old Crow Medicine Show in the most raucous possible mashup. Each song has individual charms, which is a rare thing. There’s a lot going on in State Center, but the whole thing has a warm, comfortable feel that keeps it cohesive.
Even though the songwriting and instrumentals are brilliant, Matt Hassler’s vocal performances are even more stellar. He has the sort of lithe, evocative voice that can sell any line, whether it’s a wisecrack, a confession, or an observation. By the end of the album, I felt like I was friends with him–both through his lyrical candor and his precise, careful, delivery, he worked his way into my heart. It’s a remarkable album-long performance that should not go overlooked; rarely are artists able to capture this level of quality over a whole album.
Will Bennett and the Tells start off Wichita with “I Hope You Hear This on the Radio,” which sets up a country-punk template for a lot of these tunes: traditional country arrangements sped way up with high tenor, pop-punk-esque vocals. Following tracks “She’s Got a Problem” and “The Villain” slow down the tempo to show that this really is a country band, and both are great successes; “The Villain” has one of the most indelible vocal melodies set against a snare shuffle and an acoustic guitar strum.
Still, it’s tunes like the punchy “Somewhere Down in Texas” and the bouncy “Paloma” that stick most with me. The mid-tempo rockers, like “Ann Arbor” and “Jolene” (every country band needs a song about Jolene), are also tight–Bennett’s vocal melodies are crisp and memorable wherever he deploys them, so each of the songs have that going for them. The good-natured quality of the album–much of it is in the major key–make it perfect summer festival or summer cookout music.
If you’re looking for a country album to pair with the dog days of summer, both of these would fit the bill excellently. Both have great lyrics, strong vocals, and melodies that could turn out to be the engine in your song of the summer.
State Center
The Hasslers
Will Bennett and the Tells
JPH – Songs of Loss
Mourning itself is so personal that it is largely insulated from standard interpretation of people’s actions: unbeatable legends stumble and expectations falter. It is so hard to deal with that some people would rather call it a mental illness. Some people write albums in response. Grief albums are not common (at least, not near as common as breakup albums), but they do exist. The Collection’s Ars Moriendi is a revelatory example. However, grief albums are uncommonly hard to review. How do you explain the sound of someone’s ache, nevermind judge whether it’s good or not? Yet people who write about music are called upon to do this from time to time, and JPH‘s Songs of Loss is the latest call to somehow muddle through.
Songs of Loss would be hard to explain even if it weren’t so openly dealing with the loss of the artist’s father. The music itself draws a triangle between outsider atonality and erratic rhythm (“Song 7,” “Song 2”), ambient electro-acoustic music (“Song 8,” “Song 4”), and atypical but recognizable singer-songwriter work (“Song 1,” “Song 6”). Each individual song leans toward one point of the triangle, but the traces of each influence stamp themselves on every piece. Imagine if LCD Soundsystem had committed to only using acoustic instruments but still wanted to make the same sort of rhythms, or if Jandek had become dancier. These are strange things to try to imagine, I am aware.
There’s one other connection to LCD Soundsystem: “Someone Great” is the rare song that sees an artist obviously deep in the mourning process turning out complex, idiosyncratic work that fits within a pre-existing ouerve. (“I Hope You Die” by Wye Oak also falls in this category.) JPH’s work here is raw with grief: the lyrics of each tune, insofar as they exist, are specifically about questions of death and dying. But the work is also carefully developed within a specific vision. Jordan Hoban’s modus operandi on this release is to create a drone and manipulate what goes on atop it. However, the drones are unusual, as “Song 0” loops a hiccuping tom-and-snare-rim beat; “Song 3” puts a distant casio on repeat; “Song 6” uses a chanted lyric stream as the base for dissonant piano; and first part of “Song 8” builds a complicated ostinato from accordion, shaker, and palm-muted guitar. The 8 and a half minutes of “Song 8” are almost minimalist in a Reich-ian way, as the guitar noodling on top of the structure is almost more “variation” than riffing.
On top of those structures Hoban’s whispery voice alternates between talking, singing, and whispering. This is a very personal record, and so I am not going to talk about the lyrics at all beyond that. The overall effect of the instruments + lyrics is much different than a standard album. I am not much for the “art can create empathy with other people” argument, because not much art has ever made me feel like I was walking in other people’s shoes. However, the atypical musical environment and close proximity with the lyrics about death made me aware that I would definitely not have thought to create this. I am aware of being very near someone else’s experience of grief. But it’s not an overtly crushingly sad release; the sadness is omnipresent, but often in the spaces between the background and the frontmatter. There’s a palpable sense of absence that Hoban has carefully cultivated. Songs of Loss is an unique album that lets you enter into a grieving process both artistically and emotionally. That’s valuable time spent, regardless of whether you’ve been through a death recently.
Jandek
Songs of Loss
Daniel G. Harmann: Occupying a Distinctive Songwriting Space
Daniel G. Harmann has been recording, solo or with previous band The Trouble Starts, for the last 15 years. It is not surprising that Slowing Down spends time exploring and investigating the intricacies of the sound he’s created over that time span. His early days as a lushly-orchestrated indie rock songwriter meet his crunchy guitar side and mingle with the sparseness he cultivated all along the way. What results is a thought-provoking album of distinctive indie rock.
Harmann’s most distinctive feature is his voice: he has a sonorous tenor that swoops, swoons, quavers, and warbles elegantly. He is fond of rapid interval leaps and drops in his vocal lines, which gives his melodies an inherently dramatic quality. In his early work (The Books We Read Will Bury Us), the songs were built around these giant moments, but here Harmann integrates his vocal stylings into the arrangements much more. Opener “Carbondale” buries his voice in a shoegaze-like way under a barrage of percussion and synthetic sonic haze, but that’s an extreme case. “Hesitations” is as much about the martial stomp of the drums and synth as it is his voice; the melancholy of “Volition” is powered equally by the guitar performance and his pipes.
That trio of tunes holds down the rock end of the spectrum here; on the other end lie delicate tunes “Dues,” “Zocalo” and “Tectonic.” Harmann has always shown an affinity for the acoustic guitar and has often released guitar and voice songs (Westroy Sessions); here he’s polished those skills to a shine. But Harmann’s acoustic songs are not standard singer/songwriter fare. The unique vocal melodies he is fond of give the work surprising twists and turns. “Dues” is as pretty a song as Harmann has penned in his long career, challenging my personal favorite “Last Swim of the Year” for the crown.
The central piece of the album is “Endless,” which brings together his rock interests and his beauty-minded writing in one package. It starts off with a brittle, distorted slice of guitar work before dropping into mid-tempo minor-key rock. His voice soars over the guitar twice: once as lead, once as ethereal backup. The ghostly vocals usher the transition from the minor-key verses to the major-key “chorus,” where the gritty guitar returns with a bright, muscly, uplifting vibe. It strongly echoes early ’00s Deep Elm Records work, like the White Octave, Appleseed Cast, and the like. After the chorus, the guitar fluctuates again, sending the song out on a chunky, powerful riff and repeating square synth. It’s breathtaking, showcasing the nuance and thoughtfulness that can come from 15+ years in the game. It’s a bit noisier than his early work, but there’s a direct line between then and now in this tune.
If you’re into serious indie-rock, Slowing Down should be on your to-hear list. Harmann has spent years tweaking and refining his sound, creating a distinct sonic space for himself. Those interested in clear, strong songwriting voices will have much to celebrate in Slowing Down.
Daniel G. Harmann
The Books We Read Will Bury Us
The Trouble Starts
The White Octave
Westroy Sessions
Sean Duncan’s Impressive Debut
Sean Duncan’s first solo release Saturated Diluted is a surprising blend of acoustic and electronic elements. Some tracks (“Vultures With Human Hands”) show a heavy ‘80s electronic influence, while others (“The Story of Betty”) give off more acoustic/singer-songwriter vibes. Nevertheless, Saturated Diluted maintains a consistent aesthetic with the beauty of Duncan’s vocals and lyrics.
The instrumentation of Saturated Diluted is unexpected; each track has a sound all its own. The first track, “Everything is Sinking Pt 1,” sets the groundwork from which the album then takes off. The song feels very typical singer/songwriter at its start, with heavy use of the acoustic guitar. Yet, as the song progresses, more electronic elements are introduced. At about three-quarters into the track, there’s a quick build to an explosion of sound with the addition of the drums and electric guitar. Long-forgotten are the acoustic vibes from the beginning of the track. From that eclectic beginning, each song that follows goes off in its own direction.
The final track of the album, “Everything is Sinking Pt 2,” opens with spacey synth sounds and is quickly paired with the electric guitar. The track continues in this way until almost 2 minutes in, where everything fades away. We are left with the acoustic guitar and vocals, which doesn’t last very long. Once the chorus arrives, a heavily percussive outburst of sound takes over with the lyrics, “Everything is sinking … Everything is dying”. (At this point in the track, I really wish I had better speakers to get the full effect.) Towards the track’s end, the explosive instrumentation slowly fades away as the acoustic guitar closes out the song. The album could not be ended any better.
Along with the diverse instrumentation, the crisp vocals and thoughtful lyrics glue the album together. Sean Duncan’s voice has the tonal qualities of Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard. The clarity of Duncan’s voice enables listeners easy access to the lyrics of the album. “The Story of Betty” provides the best example of the beautiful, raw lyrics. The track tells the story a lonely woman “all by herself / with just her thoughts / to keep her company”. As the song progresses, we find out that a man that was coming to meet her arrives and the song closes with the lyric– “he kisses her goodnight/ as he pulls her finger from/ the trigger.” It is unclear whether that means Betty committed suicide, and the ambiguous nature of the lyrics serve to make it even more poetic. The primarily acoustic guitar instrumentation pairs well with the thought-provoking lyrics.
Sean Duncan’s self- written, recorded, mixed and mastered album Saturated Diluted is an impressive combination of unique sounds, solid vocals, and gripping lyrics.–Krisann Janowitz
Saturated Diluted
Sean Duncan
Al Scorch: Ragged, rowdy, frantic, immediate
Al Scorch‘s Circle Round the Signs combines country-rave-up fervor, frantic banjo playing, and an assured sense of melody that creates one of the most immediate, electric offerings I’ve heard all year.
Opener “Pennsylvania Turnpike” is a madcap 2:21 that feels even shorter than that, as Scorch blazes his way through the tune with barely-contained abandon. If you miss the ragged, rowdy first four Avett Brothers records, you’ll have found a new best friend by the time that “Everybody Out” makes it to your ears: Scorch’s unhinged voice manages to make klezmer music even more vital than it already intrinsically is. (Potentially because this klezmer outfit contains a bone-rattling banjo.) If you’re not convinced, the wild, staccato, who-cares-about-time-signatures center of “Want One” could not be closer to a lost Mignonette song–in the best way possible. It pains me a little to think how many banjo strings Scorch goes through. (But only a little–never change.)
Scorch does have a balladeer hiding inside himself: “Lonesome Low” is a swaying singalong with female vocals and an unforgettable vocal melody, while “City Lullaby” is exactly what it sounds like. And these songs are definitely great, but it’s the rocket-speed approach to songwriting that is the real treasure here. After the ballads, we get “Slipknot” (an old-time band on uppers) and closer “Love After Death” (an album highlight that combines his frantic approach with a real sense of loss over friends that have died). Scorch can slow down, but he’s at his best when he’s blazing. If you’re into any sort of acoustic music, this is a must-hear. Highly recommended.
Al Scorch
Circle Round the Signs
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Indie Game Story
An indie game about developing indie games!
Author Archives: Tom
First UI Preview! aka Screenshot Saturday!
We’re really excited to finally show a preview of next alpha’s UI. We’ve been working on it a lot in the last months and kept it secret all the way but today’s the day!
You’ve been linked here and you’re wondering what is this game? Go check our “About The Game” page!
So here’s this week’s Screenshot Saturday entry!
UI Preview
If you put some attention to the details in this screenshot, you’ll notice a few unannounced features. Some might or might not be in the next alpha, such as time controls, etc.
There’s still a few tweaks to add, but all in all we’re really satisfied with the results. It’s going to be even more cooler once it’s integrated in the game and you’ll be playing with it 😉
Meanwhile, Indie Game Story has been slowly forging its own game genre playing between standards simulation games and story-driven RPGs. I’ve been planning for the whole month and I think we really found something no one did in the past, a way to make you feel like a real indie game developer. That’s the RPG side, the morale, the depression, the determination, the consequences coming with each aspects. We’re working on a totally immersive player experience based on your own character (you’ll have to pick a character at the beginning which is the reason why people are donating. You can have yourself drawn in the game with your own name!
We hope that you’re as excited as we are about this one, this is the first time we show the UI which is a big deal for us.
We published a Roadmap last week, giving you the opportunity to sneak on the game’s development, with detailed feature list, percentages and more goodies! Go check it out, it’s definitively exciting to look at!
Stay tuned for even more awesomeness coming in the next weeks! Thanks for reading and don’t forget to like our Facebook page and follow our Twitter feed!
This entry was posted in Development Blog on May 3, 2013 by Tom.
Alpha 2 Roadmap is live!
Today I finally make the Alpha 2 Roadmap public!
Coming from social networks and wondering what the heck is Indie Game Story about? Please check out the About The Game page!
This implies two things:
I openly share the way I’ll attack the development. (see FAQ)
I openly share what I’m developing and its progress.
If you check the roadmap page, you’ll see a top progress bar which is used to show the overall progress and then there’s categories with their own progress bars that demonstrate wether or not those specific features are ready.
Stay tuned on that page as it will be updated weekly with plenty of different things. Sometimes I will post screenshots for features, sometimes it will be videos, etc.
There’s still no estimated date for the Alpha 2 yet, but just for a heads up alpha registration should open by next month.
Things are getting into shape lately, I’ve been writing a lot of story-related stuff and I also rethought major parts of the game to add even more personality, challenges and fun to it.
Expect a constant flow of surprises from now on!
Thanks for staying with us, we really love our community!
PS: By joining forums, you’re automatically getting exclusive access to stuff so join the fun now! There’s even new goodies available right now! You can read the announcement here.
This entry was posted in Development Blog on April 25, 2013 by Tom.
So what now? Here’s what’s coming up next!
After announcing our new engine last week, let’s see what you should expect in the coming weeks.
A Roadmap!
We are currently building a roadmap for our next alpha. It will list all game features and content that the alpha will feature with more details and that roadmap will get updated weekly with the actual progress. That way people will be able to watch the development progress and that will answer lots of questions you might have about next alpha.
New Account System + Next Alpha Registration
We’ll migrate from our current Google Docs-based alpha tester registration to a new and better system that will handle and validate testers account. It will also handle game keys which will be required starting next alpha as well as game downloads.
It will probably be linked to forums accounts if I have enough time to develop such behaviour.
Another Surprise?!
I usually don’t really like surprises, but what’s coming up next just need to stay in the dark until it’s fully ready for public release. So expect another big change for Indie Game Story, one change that will change the game forever.
Is it a new mascot? An Atari release? Maybe we hired a super crazy Russian developer who will develop the whole game in a night and we will release it next week? Hum I doubt so but think about something that will change the image of the game 😉
Stay tuned, more on that surprise to come later this month!
Game has been rewritten, here’s what that means!
Wondering what’s this game? Take a second and check out our About page!
First I’d like to begin with, I am so excited! It’s been a little over a full month since our Indiegogo campaign which went super fine. During that campaign month, the game lived its first “alpha testing“. During that testing session, we discovered that many aspects of the game needed improvement and lots of work sometimes because of the 2D engine not being able to crunch enough numbers for the game to be enjoyable. This caused me a lot of worries which is why during the last month:
The game has been totally rewritten from scratch with a new engine.
Yes that’s right, what you played has been trashed. It’s been a long painful learning month but I’m extra proud of the results and the game will look & shine as good as it primary was inside my head.
But wait it’s not over, trashing what has been done brings another advantage: The whole game concept went back to the planning board. Don’t worry though, it’s still the same game, basically the same goal and for the same audience.
Last week I published a GIF of what the new engine looks like, here it is:
Lights & Shadows Demo
Ready to see what brings these changes? Check this out.
Changes the game rewrite brings:
Introduced new camera & zoom controls! Now you can move the camera around using WASD and the mouse scroll to zoom in/out.
New engine now renders lights & shadows!
Better GUI (graphical user interface) in the game, bringing cool features such as resizable windows, and lots of stability.
New engine is faster & stronger now supports hundreds on-screen employees at runtime compared to the old engine was supporting only 20!
New Time Manager, days will now use a complete time-based system instead of the old simple day-based system. (That means there will be date AND time in the game)
Better collisions and AI. Employees will try to find a way of getting where they need to go by themselves and won’t stop pushing everything in the way to get to that destination (pushing other NPCs not objects!)
Fullscreen support (any resolution) & Resizable game window!
Better debugging & logging features for alpha/beta bug reporting.
Lots of new possibilities for introducing mods to the game! (More details will be announced in the future about that one).
Changes to the game concept/story:
Please keep in mind that these are planned changes/features and might not be part of the next alpha.
You’ll now have to select a primary character who will later become the CEO of your game studio.
Game will be more story-driven, based on that selected primary character.
More decision-oriented and event-driven (hard choices to make which might result in breaking an employee’s heart for the good sake of your studio, etc).
Introducing more advanced Artificial Intelligence for employees. They will now move by themselves and will be wise enough to decide wether they should work or leave the office.
Contracts & Employee Attributes have been scrapped and are in an ongoing brainstorm (details might end up in a next Vision article, stay tuned)
Game will now have a day/night cycle, so employees will have to leave at night and get back to work the next morning, etc.
New character classes will be introduced such as IT Guys and Janitors. (Janitors will work during a night shift (during the night)).
Want more details about the new engine?
The new game engine is basically Unity. But as some might already know, it’s a 3D engine and we’re building a 2D game. So a lot had to be developed such as 2D path finding, 2D pixel perfect cameras to have that perfect 2D look, 2D lights, character animations, character movement and so much more. So yes basically it’s Unity but with a whole layer of goodies made by myself and some awesome helpers I had while learning the whole thing.
The game is now programmed using C# but uses JSON for many of its data-related applications. Which means there’s a good chance of supporting super simple JSON mods 😉
Want to try the new engine?
A demo of the engine is available right now, featuring a very simple demo of the starting area with lights & shadows, basic character movements (click on character, right click to move), camera controls, basic time display and a FPS display to monitor performance.
You can download it here! It’s only for Windows right now, having a problem? Please go on our forums, we’ll make sure to fix your issue!
What about the future?
The game is now going back to its “less secretive” state, even if there’s still lots of stuff to announce but since that other stuff isn’t ready yet we’ll hold on a little before announcing anything else.
Looking to know when will be the next alpha? All I can say right now it’s that development is going very fast and we might open up alpha tester registration next month 😉
That’s a lot of changes for the past month, I hope you understand why the month has been silent. I really needed to concentrate on that hard task of rewriting the game but now that it’s over and all the changes are on the table, development updates, vision articles and all that good stuff will come back live every weeks!
Comments? Suggestions? Please join us on the forums, we really throw a bunch of goodies to the community so if you like the game take a second to check them out. (That lights & shadows demo GIF have been there since last week so there’s definitively things you’ll see on the forums that you won’t ever see on the blog and you’ll get a chance to chat with the whole team!)
I really cannot wait for next alpha testing session! Stay tuned.
Thanks for your patience, and for being awesome fans!
Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter at @IndieGameStory2 and myself the game developer at @TommyBergeron!
Starting Area Update!
Hey fellow IGS fans!
This week’s Screenshot Saturday is a second draft for the starting area. It now features new awesomely lame things such as a water heater, a washing machine, etc.
UPDATE: Here’s the final draft before integrating it into the game!
Starting Area Final Draft!
Why? Because it’s where you start, it’s crappy, it’s not an office, and it’s the hard way to start your indie game developer career. Like we’re all doing in real life. I want the game to be fun but still to simulate an indie game developer’s life kinda accurately. It may not be how we all began but it’s how most of us did begin 😉
Hope you enjoy the new shot, stay connected for more soon!
This entry was posted in Development Blog on March 30, 2013 by Tom.
And it all started moving again!
Development Update #4
Hacking for a Living
“Get Yourself In The Game” Showdown!
Current State of Development – June 2013
I haven't showed sign of life for a really long time Tom,… — croc12
So you changed the Game Design. Did you played MadTV? It looks… — SiENcE
Great! I didn't know MadTV but it looks awesome! It reminds me… — Tom
You know MadTV? You should really take a look at this game!!!… — SiENcE
Thanks for asking. From the About The Game page ( http://indiegamestory.org/about/ )… — Tom
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Innu Nation Grand Chief Comments on Innu Development Limited Partnership Review and RCMP Investigation
Sheshatshiu, Newfoundland and Labrador - February 10, 2014 – Today, Innu Nation Grand Chief Prote Poker spoke out about their organizations’ position on the October 2013review ordered by the Board of Directors of the of Innu Development Limited Partnership (IDLP) into payments made to former executives of that organization and the related ongoing RCMP investigation. “We are obviously disturbed by what we are hearing in the media and like all of our members, we are anxious to get to the bottom of these issues,” stated Mr. Poker.
The IDLP exists to serve the economic interests of the Mushuau and Sheshatshiu Innu. Its Board of Directors is duly appointed by the elected Band Councils of the Innu communities of Sheshatshiu and Natuashish. While the Innu Nation Executive is also elected by the people of these same communities, the Innu Nation has no involvement in appointments to the Board of Directors of IDLP or in its day-to-day operations. We have no legal right to officially release the findings of Mr. Noseworthy’s report or the results of the RCMP investigation. These responsibilities and the right to take any subsequent action, rests with the IDLP and the elected Band Councils of the individual Innu communities.
“The Innu Nation is pleased with the transparency shown by the IDLP Board of Directors in having an independent review conducted and with their decision to engage the RCMP to look further into Mr. Noseworthy’s findings. These are positive steps that indicate to us that the IDLP Board is taking measures to better protect the interests of our people and we applaud them for this. Like everyone, we await the outcome of the RCMP investigation, however the Innu Nation does not feel it is productive to speculate on these findings,” stated Prote Poker, Grand Chief of the Innu Nation.
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Liederkranz is back. This smelly cow-milk cheese was extinct cheese from 1985 - 2010, but has been brought back to life in Wisconsin.
Liederkranz was first created in the late 1800's by a cheesemaker in Monroe, New York, named Emil Frey. The cheese was developed to imitate Limburger to fill the demand by German immigrants for the cheese.
Production stayed in New York for several years. Due to various ownership changes, production began in Ohio in 1926. In 1929 the company making Leiderkranz was acquired by the Borden Company who continued to make the cheese until 1981. After a fire damaged their plant, Borden decided to no longer make Leiderkranz, and production was again started in Ohio by the Fisher Company. In 1985, due to bacterial contamination of a batch of cheese, the Fisher Company ceased making Leiderkranz.
Several years went by, and many believed the cheese and its bacterial cultures needed to make it had gone extinct. Through a couple more ownership changes, Leiderkranz became available again through the DCI Cheese Company in Wisconsin.
A close cousin to Limburger, Leiderkranz is made in small rectangular blocks from cow's milk. It has an edible, pale yellow or tan crust, with a semi-soft, pale interior. The cheese is smelly, though many describe it as slightly less pungent than Limburger, and somewhat creamier. The label says that Leiderkranz is "A mellow yet robust cheese".
The bacteria involved in making Leiderkranz is different than the one used in making Limburger. Leiderkranz is a smear-ripened cheese, meaning that a bacterial solution is applied periodically to the rind of the cheese during maturation.
The cheese is served with rye bread, dark ales, and sometimes fruit.
Below is a video put on YouTube by the DCI Cheese company about Liederkranz.
Liederkranz is rising in popularity, but is harder to find than Limburger. You are more likely to find it in the eastern half of the United States than in the west. If you live somewhere it's not readily available in grocery stores, you can find it online at amazon.com.
Janine kocher 2016-07-29 23:06:40
Are there any stores in Ohio that carry the Liederkranz cheese, or other places can purchase?
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Barry Pulskamp 2016-12-19 19:22:52
Just found it today at Jungle Jim's in Fairfield, Ohio.
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margery schuler 2016-10-19 10:56:07
I enjoyed Liederkranz as a child many,many years ago and glad that it is back. Where can I buy it in Maine? I live in the Lewiston-Auburn area.
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JOSEPH ORNATO 2017-02-01 22:23:28
Where can Liederkrantz be bought in Tampa, Florida?
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Jeanne Zeltner 2017-05-07 16:43:56
I am curious as to where I can order Leiderkranz online. I live in SAN Diego county, CA.
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Fred 2017-07-21 17:19:53
You can not find this in Dallas, Texas. I am going to try to order by mail
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R.C.Balogh 2018-01-26 14:41:22
Found this 3 years back, at a shop and save chain store in Bridgeview Il. They discontinued it, so luckily I found Limberger / made in Austria, which is milder than most U.S. made Limberger. Guess I creep out store personnel when I ask if they handle anything stronger than swiss cheese. Do you have na list of stores in so.west Chicago suburbs that market Leiderkrantz.
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Bolt Turns Down Malta Approach – For Now
Posted by Neil-Monticelli Harley-Rüdd on October 18, 2018 Bolt Turns Down Malta Approach – For Now2018-10-18T09:05:50+00:00 under News/Sports
Author: Neil-Monticelli Harley-Rüdd
Jamaican icon staying Down Under in bid to win football contract
Usain Bolt, the wannabe professional footballer, has turned down a lucrative two-year deal from Maltese champions Valletta FC to stay in Australia.
The 32-year-old, on trial with A-League outfit Central Coast Mariners since August, is determined to try to win a contract with the club.
Yet the fastest man to ever set foot on the planet, having retired from a glittering career in athletics last year, was approached by Abu Dhabi-rollbanked Valletta FC this week to ply his trade on the tiny island of Malta.
The eight-time Olympic champion could have been enticed by the opportunity of competing in next year’s Champions League with Valletta FC, but has declined their offer.
Bolt bagged a brace in a recent pre-season friendly for Mariners, but a decision as to whether he will be offered a contract by the club remains in the balance with a decision due in December or January.
However, it has been suggested that the Malta approach was merely a publicity stunt for Valletta FC and to force the hand of Mariners to sign Bolt. His marketable value off the pitch far exceeds his value on the pitch despite his incredible pace. The two factors holding back a contract offer are his lack of technical ability and his financial demands.
Ricky Simms, Bolt’s agent whilst he is in Australia, stated: “Usain does not wish to pursue this Malta opportunity.
“There is a lot of interest in Usain playing football, we regularly receive similar approaches.”
Valletta FC chief executive Ghasston Slimen is aware that if the Jamaican superstar doesn’t win a contract Down Under, then he could be coaxed to the Mediterranean island to pursue his dream of playing top-flight football.
He said: “We wish Usain Bolt all the best with his football career. The Valletta FC offer is always on the table.”
The Mariners are believed to be waiting for Football Federation Australia to decide whether it will contribute to a potential and highly lucrative contract to sign Bolt.
But Mariners head coach Mike Mulvey is trying to distance himself from these negotiations and is concentrating on his side kicking off their season against Brisbane Roar this Sunday.
He explained about the approach for Bolt from Valletta FC: “I haven’t been involved in all that, I’m really not interested in it to tell you the truth. I’m interested in the players I’ve got in my squad, who I’m very happy with.”
But he was quite dismissive about Bolt and added: “He’s been great among the guys and I was happy for him last week with the two goals he scored, but we move on.”
Bolt won’t be moving on quite yet, but at least has a back-up plan with Valletta FC should the Mariners contract fail to materialise.
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Jamaican icon staying Down Under in bid to win football contract Usain Bolt, the wannabe professional footballer, has turned down a lucrative two-year deal from Maltese champions Valletta FC to stay in Australia. The 32-year-old, on trial with A-League outfit Central Coast Mariners since August, is determined to try to win...
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JEMU - The Java Emulation Platform
JEMU is an Open Source Java Application designed to emulate various computer systems, with the ability to run as an Applet within a browser.
The JEMU architecture is based on CPU and Device classes, allowing individual devices to be encapsulated in Java classes for re-use in other systems (e.g. a 6845 CRTC controller is used in both the BBC Model B and the Amstrad CPC).
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19-Feb-2007 Lots of new stuff in this version, including more accurate BBC cursor emulation, ** NEW ** ZX Spectrum emulation (not extremely accurate yet, but good enough for a few games to work). Improved VZ-200 and VZ-300 renderer with enough accuracy to handle split screen accurately. New source also available from the downloads section. Have fun!!
05-Aug-2006 Just 4 years since I did any updates. I've had a few new things in the pipeline, just waiting for an excuse to get them done. So here it is, the latest version, now with decent sound, better emulation for both the VZ and the CPC, and now emulation of the BBC Model B and Sinclair ZX80/81. There's still a glitch or two in the monitor emulation for the ZX80/81, visible in the supplied Space Invaders, but I think that's probably down to timing on the ZX interrupts or something. Still some keyboard bugs to iron out for the BBC in order to get Elite and Rocket Raid working properly, but Revs works perfectly, except for the cursor.. Does this show in the real game?
On another note, the new source is available for download, and this page should now work on either IE or Firefox, so long as you have Java 1.4 or above installed.
01-Jun-2002 Ok, finally got the CPC emulation up and running. I haven't done the AY (sound chip) emulation yet, just the IO ports for the CPC keyboard, that's why there's no sound with the CPC emulation. The home page (this page) has been modified to use JavaScript to get the available Computers and Games from the Applet itself. I think I've got the JavaScript working Ok now in both IE and Netscape 4.7. I haven't tested it with Netscape 6. Latest source is also available for download. Have fun.
23-May-2002 Sound output should now be working on the VZ emulation. Also added the Computer and Game selection boxes above. To run a game, press "Reset", select a game, then you may have to type RUN.
22-May-2002 The full web site is now up and running with the latest version of the emulator Applet on this page, and the latest source code available for download. The first computer to be emulated is the Dick Smith VZ-200 or VZ-300. This was my first computer, and is a Z80 based computer developed by Video Technologies. Double-click for the debugger.
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Little Dresses for Africa - Dresses BY Kids FOR Kids
I love it when the girls take off with a project. Such was the case with the Little Dresses/Little Britches for Africa project the girls ran with this month.
A little back story: when we signed up with our new 4H club, the first discussion with the club leader went something like this.
"Welcome to the club. We're glad to have you. So, what can you lead?"
"Ummm...(thinking of all the agricultural skills I absolutely do not have)...how about photography?"
"Great. Do you sew?"
Not a pause. Not a breath, and certainly no indication that I sew.
"A little bit."
"Can you lead our sewing project? We could really use a leader."
I'm thinking about my 12 year old who knows, at this point, more about sewing than I do.
"Sure. But only beginning sewing."
"GREAT! That's fine."
So here I am, planning the year with lessons like "How to Thread Your Machine," and "How to Turn Corners." I figured we'd move on to bags, and eventually a nine-square mini quilt, perhaps finally take on the statewide sewing service project, Little Dresses/Little Britches for Africa a project of the California 4H State Fashion Review.
I printed out the pattern on my random day of planning, showed it to E and she was off and running. I didn't propose that she even try it now. But she was ready to make something. Now.
Three dresses later, V jumped in to the mix.
The girls had it mastered.
Good thing, because who shows up at our first sewing project meeting? Another little girl with more sewing experience than anticipated.
"So, what kind of sewing have you done," I ask innocently.
"I've made a couple of dresses and skirts."
My first thought: "I'm doomed!"
I have her thread her machine, my machine, E's machine. E threads everyone's machines. Then, together, the girls run straight on with the dress project under E's direction.
Community service project? Check.
Year-end project? Check.
Plans for the rest of this year? They're in the works.
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Pumpkins on the Farm
I had wanted to grow our own pumpkins, to have a bumper crop of tomatoes, an overwhelming supply of squash. Instead, this year, we learned a lot about gardening in the country, and we picked up our pumpkins from local farmers who have already learned a thing or a thousand about living with varmints and Nature beyond the 'burbs.
While we carved, I thought about the lessons learned this summer growing season. I thought about the 41 squirrels we caught and placed on our offering rock, far from the house, for the raptors and coyotes to enjoy. I remembered the 9 gophers I trapped and used to train the growing barn kittens about fresh dining opportunities available to them. I remembered the grasshoppers, the heat, the tomato horn worms, the clearly insufficient watering methods.
And I started planning for next year.
Next year, I shall plant an abundance of vegetables in hopes that Nature will take its share, but will leave a bit for our family. I plan to continue building upon the drip irrigation system I started this year, then water more frequently during our hottest months. I'll be diligent about the gophers that make a beeline for our garden, and I'm hoping to become a better shot where those squirrels are concerned.
And we shall have tomatoes and squash and carve pumpkins we grow for ourselves.
4H - Jumping Right In
Leaving our old 4H club was really tough. Our daughter was on the board, the leaders were dynamic, the kids were active, and there were some tight-knit friendships blooming. Rather than mourn our loss, however, we opted to jump right in to the club in our new community.
First up, after signing up for projects, of course, was our first community service project with our new club - rejuvenating the club's community welcome sign. No one was jumping at the task, and while I'd intended to sit back this year and just learn how the operation ticked, it seemed they needed someone to jump in.
So, one fine, sunny day, the girls and I pulled up on the side of the road just outside town, climbed through the barbed-wire fence, and ripped off the old sign from its incredibly sturdy framework. We had plenty of looks, but not a soul stopped to ask what the heck we were doing defacing the community's welcome sign. I guess a woman and two girls climbing out of a minivan hardly look suspicious.
While the club was prepared to replace the wood and pay for paint, we discovered that the original plywood had been pretty well sealed by that old peeling paint. We finished scraping off the loose stuff, then were joined by one of the club's other newest members and his mom for a stencil-and-paint session.
The following day, the girls and I returned to the scene where I discovered a few things:
- nails which have had the tips ground off are VERY tough to reuse;
- said nails are particularly difficult to use when they don't align with holes;
- I hadn't checked the holes before orienting the art/text (it never occurred to me they might vary from one side to the other - whoops!)
- we hadn't taken into account the space the frame would take away from our sign.
The end result: we did get the sign hung, and no one will be able to tell dull nails worked their way into the wood, but rather than being spaced out in lovely fashion, the bottom edge of the frame serves as a bold underline to the meeting dates and times.
But it's legible, it's autographed, and it should serve just fine for another decade.
Growing Up Outdoors
There is just nothing like spending time outside. And where there's a tree, there needs to be a swing, or a low branch to use as a step. This daughter of ours understands that fact of life to her core.
Though we have the big rope swing across the little valley, these swings from our old play structure were begging to be hung again. This one found its way to a tree just outside our front door where it gets quite a bit of use. The other is still looking for a branch low enough for us to reach, but high enough to offer pendulous play.
Big Excitement in California - RAIN!
I've always gotten pretty excited by rain. Shoot, ANY change in weather thrills a kid raised on the Central Coast of California where the average temperature year-round is somewhere pretty darn close to 70 degrees. But after our first summer on the new place, after watching our grass turn to sticks, then fall to the dirt in a matter of weeks, after day upon day of temperatures well over 100 degrees, this first rain was particularly thrilling. Of course, starting with a thunderous boom helped.
Our first rain of the season woke me shortly after 6 a.m. with an incredible clap of thunder. Moments later, hail was tapping at my window and stomping on my roof. I grabbed the camera and headed outside, but it was pretty darn dark. I managed a couple of shots before running for cover.
Once the hail turned to rain, it took only about half an hour to fill our rain barrels. There's an open barrel on the back porch just because the "V" of the roof dumps loads there. There's a covered barrel along the other side. V lined up a previously uncommitted garbage can to the overflow spout of that barrel, then another which we filled after I showed her how a siphon worked.
Over the course of the day, we took measurements, took care of chores, watched the animals - largely unfazed, played with the siphon and rainwater, then started our first fire of the season in our stove, and hunkered down on the couch to read.
In the end, we received 1.5" of rain in about 24 hours. We call that a good start!
PB&J Birthday Fakeout
Here's a little something fun to do for a dyed-in-the-wool PB&J lover.
Bake a cake in a bread tin.
Slice as you would other home-baked bread.
Make butter cream frosting, and add just a little TINY bit of cocoa (for color) or actual peanut butter.
Spread the "peanut butter" on two slices of "bread." Slather on some jelly if you'd like.
Serve on a plate with typical lunchtime sides. (I chose carrots.)
Serve, sit back, and watch the response.
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Remember when every movie based on a comic book was in its own stand-alone universe? When the world it built was one both familiar and fantastic, and somehow unique? Disney Animation does, too, offering the city of San Fransokyo, and the origin story of its protectors -- Big Hero 6.
Not that this animated take on a relatively minor Marvel comic book doesn't understand its relationship to the superhero genre and Marvel in particular. Big Hero 6 still has its nods to the Marvel Universe, with at least a couple of characters making cameos, and the exuberant genre-loving school mascot Fred (T.J. Miller) who gives everybody their code names.
In fact, because of its restrictions as an origin story, your enjoyment may vary.That's the problem with our modern mythmaking -- that hero's journey almost always has the same beats. So the storytellers have to find those details that make it stand out.
Yes, Hiro (Ryan Potter) follows the path that many have before him, in both superhero origins and Disney movies. Living upstairs from an eclectic restaurant run by his Aunt Cass (Maya Rudolph), Hiro is a boy genius spending his time hustling robot fights instead of using his powers for good.
His older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) lures him into his college robotics lab, where Hiro can see the possibilities of going back to school and maybe making the world a better place. (And coincidentally meets a group of students -- and Fred -- with personalities and inventions that could become powerful weapons for fighting crime...)
On the eve of Hiro's greatest triumph, a tragic accident occurs and... well, we all knew it was coming.
But a team of screenwriters led by Jordan Roberts found a decent enough twist in Baymax (Scott Adsit), the robot left behind by Tadashi. Instead of being the bad-ass giant robot that the scenic design would imply (both Hiro and Fred have collections of toy kaiju and mecha in the background), Baymax is ...inflatable.
Round, almost featureless, and designed to cuddle, Baymax's programming requires him to soothe and treat hurts, even, it turns out, emotional ones. If playing superhero will help Hiro mourn the loss of Tadashi, then Baymax will submit, even if it's clear he doesn't comprehend all of what is happening.
Despite its predictability, Big Hero 6 has everything it needs to resonate with families. For once, it's a superhero movie that actually is appropriate for the whole family, particularly the children to whom all superheroes are marketed.
In its design, this Disney film offers enough to stir imaginations. The story emphasizes problem-solving and the possibilities of technology -- though, of course, there's a dark side to that or there could be no villain. Baymax becomes armored through Hiro's computer design work and a 3D printer. It's coming, people.
San Fransokyo immediately becomes a great setting for superheroes, futuristic yet familiar, and a subtle message about where our culture is headed -- one great glorious mish-mash of styles and beliefs just somehow fitting together. (Okay, maybe it's NOT headed that way, but wouldn't it be nice?)
This movie also takes a leap forward in computer animation. One of the benefits of keeping Pixar and Disney Animation separate, even though John Lasseter oversees both, is that it feels like they're still competing with each other, making leaps forward in technical ability to see what the other guy will do in response. Here, the lighting of scenes is amazing, with backgrounds that are so photo-realistic it's almost jarring to have an animated character run across them.
Action scenes are a relief, because for this superhero battles don't switch from highly paid actor to stuntman to CG -- everything is one. It's freeing to watch Baymax and Hiro fly over the Golden Gate and dodge fish balloons (which I assume you'll be able to do in the videogame); no egos had to be salved in the creation of these sequences. This is a superhero movie with no distractions, other than "will there be any stuffed Baymaxes left at the Disney Store?"
Unlike the Marvel comic, those that become Big Hero 6 aren't already possessed of mutant power (yes, it was once vaguely related to X-Men). Instead, the "family nicknames" aspect of characters like Wasabi (Damon Wayans, Jr.) and Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez) has a charm about it that takes away the literalness of their eventual armored abilities.
And yet, what will make the group Big Hero 6 memorable has yet to come. A regular 2D animated series would probably explore more -- Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and Go Go get short shrift in favor of Hiro and Baymax. And even when he's just a voice, T.J. Miller won't be ignored.
The original team was created by Man of Action, the artistic consortium that also hatched Ben 10, so it's obvious that Big Hero 6 is meant to keep on going. But the movie is also very different from what Man of Action did for Marvel -- despite comic book origins, this is the fabled Disney Version all the way.
Really, that's okay. Big Hero 6 is charming, exuberant, and kid-friendly. It's also familiar, but that can be comfortable. I am satisifed with my care.
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Our Wonderful World
The world we're living in is so complex and full of mysteries that every day there is something new for me to learn.
Unfortunately, no one can learn everything since we're only here for a certain number of years. The realization that we're not here forever has sometimes made me terrified and also help me appreciate the things around me. Nothing in the world last forever.
I don't mean to sound philosophical. I take it as a way to remind me of practicing appreciation. As we grew up, we got used to everything the world has to offer and we slowly lose curiosity towards the world. This can be very dangerous, because without curiosity and appreciation of the world, it's impossible for one to improve and thus the world will not advance. It's those who have a curious mind discovered and created wonderful things for us to enjoy.
This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!
Unfortunately, no one can learn everything since we're only here for a certain number of years.
The realization that we're not here forever has sometimes made me terrified and also help me appreciate the things around me.
The realization that we're not here forever has sometimes made me terrified and also helped me appreciate the things around me.
Nothing in the world last forever.
Nothing in the world lasts (or: will last) forever.
I don't mean to sound philosophical.
I take it as a way to remind me of practicing appreciation.
I take it as a way to remind me tof practicinge appreciation.
remind me to practice
“X reminds me of practicing Y” means “X 会让我想起过去曾经做过 Y 的时候”
As we grew up, we got used to everything the world has to offer and we slowly lose curiosity towards the world.
As we groew up, we geot used to everything the world has to offer and we slowly lose (our) curiosity towards the world.
Or you could keep these verbs unchanged and change the other verbs to past tense:
had to offer
slowly lost
This can be very dangerous, because without curiosity and appreciation of the world, it's impossible for one to improve and thus the world will not advance.
This can be very dangerous, because without curiosity and appreciation forf the world, it's impossible for one to improve and thus the world will not advance.
It's those who have a curious mind discovered and created wonderful things for us to enjoy.
It's those who have [a curious mind / curious minds] who discover(ed) and create(d) wonderful things for us to enjoy.
Since “those” is plural, I would make “minds” plural, too.
Since “have” is present tense, I would make “discover” and “create” present tense, too.
Thank you for your correction!
Mar 2, 2019 12:09 Eileen
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THIRST: a weekly story blog
A waterborne disease has sprung up in every corner of the globe, decimating the human race. Eli McShane, a young survivor, journeys toward Colorado and the rumored location of a clean water source.
In matters of life or death, what do you thirst for?
If you’ve just discovered the THIRST: weekly story blog, welcome! Click here for a list of previous chapters, if you’d like to get caught up.
I type one chapter per week in conjunction with the #WeWriteBooks series I’m writing over at www.GoTeenWriters.com. If you’re an author, come join in the fun. Otherwise, enjoy the story.
EPIC Blood of Kings Sale–40% off the paperback prices
Posted by Jill Williamson on Dec 7th, 2018 in A weekly story blog, Jill Williamson's Blog, Novel Teen, Podcasts | 2 comments
It’s a book sale! My publisher has put the Blood of Kings paperback books on a special sale. On Amazon only, By Darkness Hid, To Darkness Fled, and From Darkness Won are each only $9.99 for a limited time. That’s a little over 40% off the cover price!
There is a bit of a trick to this. Right now, a third party seller has the “buy” box on Amazon, so I’ve made special links so that you can find the seller with the $9.99 new price (who is oddly Amazon itself).
This sale starts now and runs through next Saturday, December 15.
Here are the links:
By Darkness Hid: https://amzn.to/2QDceRt
To Darkness Fled: https://amzn.to/2QlOWjV
From Darkness Won: https://amzn.to/2L4LJzd
Punctuation 101 is here!
Posted by Jill Williamson on Oct 2nd, 2018 in A weekly story blog, Jill Williamson's Blog, Novel Teen | 0 comments
Punctuation 101 is here at last! This is a book for fiction writers. This is a handy reference that you can keep close by so you don’t have to page through the massive Chicago Manual of Style, which I love, but that index alone is twenty-nine pages long! Trust me. I used it as a reference to check my facts as I wrote Punctuation 101, and I spent a lot of time trying to find things in that index…
Why write a book on punctuation? Well, it all started back in 2011 with an idea, then a series of blog posts on goteenwriters.com in 2012 and 2013. I saw so many of the same mistakes in the manuscripts of beginning writers, I wanted to lay out the rules in an straightforward and easy-to-understand way. The posts were a hit. And many of those teen bloggers said, “You should write this as a book, Jill!” And I thought, ooh. That would be a lot of work.
It was a lot of work! I would spend some time writing it, then I would get SO BORED of commas or semicolons or em dashes that I’d quit and work on something else. But every time this happened, I eventually went back. I’d poured too much time and effort into this project to just walk away. And while it was boring for me to write it and rewrite it again and again, I knew it would be a help to you all. Still, I needed to take some serious punctuation breaks throughout the year, because one can only take so much punctuation at a time, you know?
But I finished, and I am SO HAPPY! *dances* Punctuation 101 is here to stay. Grab your copy. Dog-ear the pages with rules you need to reference. (My trouble area is capitalization in titles. Who can remember all that? Seriously?) And then write your novel without worrying about the rules. Because we all just want to write stories, right? I know I do.
Author: Jill Williamson
Genre: Writing
You don’t need to be an expert in grammar and punctuation to write great novels, but you do need to learn the basics. This handy reference book includes all the need-to-know punctuation rules for fiction writers, and it’s presented in a clear, user-friendly format with many examples for the visual learner—including some from popular novels.
Are you tired of paging through massive style guides or scouring the internet for information on em dashes, colons, or which words to capitalize in a title? Punctuation 101 will save you time and energy, which you can spend writing your novel.
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Pre-order The Profile Match and Get a Vinyl Mission League Logo Sticker!
Posted by Jill Williamson on Sep 14th, 2018 in A weekly story blog, Jill Williamson's Blog, Novel Teen | 0 comments
To celebrate the release of The Profile Match (the final book in the Mission League series), I had some stickers made!
I will mail one to anybody who pre-orders a copy of The Profile Match. If you’ve already pre-ordered, click here and fill out the form: I pre-ordered. Send me a sticker!
You can pre-order in the following places:
Paperback Copies
I only have paperback copies available for pre-order from my author store. They’re listed at a special pre-order price of $10, which is about $5 off the regular $14.99 price. I will autograph these, so if you would like the autograph personalized, be sure to write me instructions in the note section when you check out.
Order The Profile Match in paperback from Jill’s Author Bookstore!
Ebook Copies
You can pre-order the ebook from these etailiers:
Once you’ve pre-ordered, click here and fill out the form: I pre-ordered. Send me a sticker!
The Profile Match Cover Reveal
Posted by Jill Williamson on Aug 31st, 2018 in A weekly story blog, Jill Williamson's Blog, Novel Teen | 0 comments
Ahh! Here it is! The cover for The Profile Match, the FINAL book in the Mission League series. 😭
Spencer looks so adorable in his tux with his bow tie a little crooked . . .
He has to dress up WAY too much in this book. Plus, I was thinking he needed to wear a suit on at least ONE of these book covers, right? I mean, James Bond almost always wears a suit. I’m just saying . . .
Gah! I can’t stop looking at it. ❤
Let’s look at all six together.
Now let’s look at the full cover.
Ahh . . . okay, moving on.
Much gratitude to Kirk DouPonce for making six covers (!) for this series and to Jeremy Gwinn for modeling as Spencer. What a gift they’ve both been to me. ❤
I’m SO EXCITED to finish Spencer’s story. Spencer was my very first character ever from my very first novel. You know, the novel everyone tells you is the one you learned on and you should put it in a drawer. The first book in this series, The New Recruit, was my sixth published novel. I just couldn’t let go of Spencer. I kept hearing his sarcastic voice saying, “You put me in a drawer, I’ll get out on my own.” And so it’s been FOURTEEN YEARS of writing this fellow. He should be married with kids by now. But I’ve kept at it, squeezing in one of his books where I could. He has been very patient. And I’ve finally reached the end of his tale. I’m so proud of him and how much he’s grown. If you read The New Recruit, you will know what I mean. One of my favorite book reviews ever said this of Spencer: “[He] looks at life in an interesting manner as an unbeliever and there was one line where he basically calls a girl unattractive and I was ready to wring his neck. But it passed and he ended up respecting that same girl, which elevated him again in my book.” ❤ Yeah . . . that’s my boy. 😂
The release date is October 15, 2018.
Here is the summary:
When Spencer Garmond’s friend is kidnapped, the young Mission League agent-in-training decides he’s had enough. Determined to stop the criminals he suspects are responsible, he petitions the Los Angeles Field Office to give him the lead on the case. Now he’s investigating his favorite actress, the movie director who pretended to be his dad, and even his own uncle. Weird much?
As he struggles to find the connections between this unlikely group of suspects, he uncovers a clue that could create a worldwide scandal. When the Field Office steps in, Spencer realizes he’s not really in control of the investigation at all. Can Spencer trust God to bring about justice, or will his need to be in control jeopardize the very people he’s trying so hard to protect?
The Amazon pre-order link is: https://amzn.to/2Ny3lEa
I have put the ebook on a pre-order sale for $2.99 for the month of September. In October, I will raise the price. FYI, this will probably be the lowest price I’ll sell this book, since it’s the last in the series. So if you want an ebook copy, best pre-order it early to save.
And here is the link to add the book on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41570561-the-profile-match
What do you think of the cover?
What Are Storyworld Shorts?
Posted by Jill Williamson on Oct 2nd, 2017 in A weekly story blog, Jill Williamson's Blog, Novel Teen, Podcasts | 0 comments
I started a new website.
You might have seen my countdown to October 4, 2017. Well, this is what I’ve been working so hard on. I created a writing website primarily to host my YouTube videos and podcast versions of those videos to make it easier for listeners to find them.
They are short writing videos or podcasts in which I teach lessons on the craft of writing. I will post one new video and podcast a week. Over the years I have posted sporadic YouTube writing videos, and I loved it. I always wanted to do so more regularly, so this is something I’ve been wanting to do for a loonnnggg time!
Storyworld Shorts are by nature short. Over time, the episodes will build upon one another and eventually give you a thorough understanding of how to write a novel. Some of the topics/series I will discuss in weeks to come are:
-How to come up with a great idea
-Creating compelling characters
-Different types of plots
-How to outline and plan your novel
-How to add themes to your story
-Tackling a major rewrite
-How to edit your book
I’ll also be doing a monthly Q&A Live video, in which I’ll answer listener questions.
To learn more and to watch the first video, visit StoryworldShorts.com.
There’s a Teen Track at This Year’s OCW Fall One-Day Conference in Portland, OR
I have been invited to teach two workshops for teens at the fall Oregon Christian Writers one-day conference in Portland on October 21. This will be a really neat opportunity for teens who love to write. We’re going to learn about how to create characters, plot a novel, and how the publishing industry works. The conference is offering a special rate of $20 for writers under the age of twenty, which is a really great deal. (The non-member adult price is $75.) Please help spread the word to teen writers in the Portland/Vancouver area. We are going to have so much fun. You can see the full schedule online at http://oregonchristianwriters.org/fall-2017/.
“Don’t miss it! @OregonWriters is hosting a Teen Track, led by @JillWilliamson at this year’s fall conference.”
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Here are the descriptions of my two workshops:
“What Every Character Needs.” (Teen Track, part one)
A great character can live in a reader’s mind forever. These are the kinds of characters we want in our books. In this class, we’ll go through a step-by-step process to help you create authentic characters that your readers will never forget. We’ll discuss character backstory, motivation, tags, archetypal roles, interactions with other characters, and tools to help you keep track of it all.
“Secrets of a Great Plot.” (Teen Track, part two)
What is a plot, anyway? What is its purpose? And what makes that three-act structure so successful? Are there other ways to create a strong story? In this class, we’ll discuss the secrets of a great plot, look at some alternative plot structures, and talk about the different ways to keep things moving when your story is too short, seems to have stalled, or is just plain boring.
I hope to pack the place with teen writers, so feel free to help me spread the word. Here is a link to my teen flyer. Print and share with as many as you can. Thanks so much!
THIRST: Chapter Twenty-Four. . . Will Eli and friends make it to Dr. Bayles before Enforcers catch them?
Posted by Jill Williamson on Aug 10th, 2016 in A weekly story blog | 10 comments
In conjunction with the #WeWriteBooks series I’m writing over on the Go Teen Writers blog, I’m posting the chapters for THIRST on my website. Subscribe by clicking here. And if you’ve just discovered THIRST, click here for a list of previous chapters, if you’d like to get caught up.
More confessions. I’m having a VERY rough week. Too much going on. Trying to get kids ready to start school and stuff too. King’s Blood is due Sunday. Going on a day trip Thursday. Will be at two writer’s conferences next week. All that to say, I did the best I could with this chapter. It needs help and love. But this was always a first draft experiment, so I knew it wasn’t going to be beautiful. Please also keep in mind that I finished this in the wee hours of the morning and did not have time or the ability to keep open my eyes long enough to spell check it. So there are likely many typos. I will fix these later.
Thank you for your grace. I appreciate you, readers!
With that, here is the final chapter of THIRST! Will Eli and his friends make it to Dr. Bayles before Enforcers catch them?
What we were doing was insane. I knew that. But the alternative was to spend six months in rehab—likely longer now that we were about to bust into the Champion’s residence with guns.
A couple blocks away, Dad pulled off the road and around to the side of the pickup bed. “What’s the plan? We can’t exactly waltz into Champion House on a good day, and two guns isn’t going to be enough power to face off with all the Enforcers who work there.”
“If you drive around back, I can lure him out,” Hannah said.
“How?” I asked.
“He has been asking to spend time with me,” Hannah said slowly. “I’ve always turned him down, but I’ll say I’ve had a change of heart and want to talk.”
“Eww,” Logan said.
“It’ll work,” Hannah said. “Trust me. I’ll bring him out to the truck, then you guys have to take it from there.”
“Where are we going to take him?” I asked. “And how is he going to operate or whatever?”
“I have a bag of medical supplies in the back that I stole from the hospital,” Hannah said.
“Then we take him with us,” Dad said. “If we can get past the fence, they might not find us. Chances are they wouldn’t monitor outside the fence.”
“But how to get past the fence?” I asked.
“This truck has a toolkit,” Dad said. “It’s got everything I need.”
“Which is…?” I asked.
“Cable cutters and some thick, lineman’s electrical gloves.
“You’re going to cut through the fence?”
“That’s right I am.”
Seemed like as good a plan as any, so we climbed back into the truck and Dad drove up to Champion House. This time Hannah and I got in the cab with my dad.
My heart was throbbing. Adrenaline pounded in my ears. It was dark, and Dad took the delivery driveway that went around back of the house. He parked close enough to the back entrance so that it wouldn’t look strange, but far enough back that the back of the pickup with Zaq, Lizzie, and the kids would be out of the porch lights.
“Wait here,” Hannah said, getting out.
“What if someone comes out to talk to us?” I asked.
“No one will,” Hannah said. “They don’t patrol outside the fence. How about you guys get out of the cab. I’ll pretend this is my truck and start to get in the driver’s seat. When he—”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “You drive a Waste Management truck?”
“He won’t notice.”
“Yes, he will.”
“When he starts to get in the passenger side, you guys sweep in with your guys and look scary.”
I frowned, thinking this just about the dumbest plan I’d ever heard. Hannah walked away then, and my Dad didn’t stop her. The engine ticked as it cooled down, which made me think of the seconds on a clock tick, tick, ticking as Enforcers tracked us to this very spot.
“This is a dumb plan,” I said.
“It’s all we’ve got, son,” Dad said. “We should get out. And we’ll need Zaq’s help to nab Dr. Bayles.”
It suddenly seemed beyond insane. We were going to kidnap this man. Point a loaded gun at a person to make them come with us. I pulled aside the sliding window on the back of the cab.
“Hey, Zaq,” I said. “Get out. You’re muscles are needed.”
We argued about what to do. Dad wanted us out of sight around the back of the truck, but I thought that was too far and would give Dr. Bales time to react before we could reach him. Zaq volunteered to jump out of the bed, but Dad was worried he’d get hurt. We settled on Zaq in the bed with the rifle. He’d stand and point it. Dad got behind the truck, and I hunched down on the floor of the passenger’s side with the handgun.
It was not a good fit for my legs.
It seemed like Hannah took forever. I started to worry that they’d arrested her or Dr. Bayles had coerced her to stay for dinner. I pictured her at a fancy table seated between Loca Champion and Tracy, laughing at something Tracy had said.
Where did I come up with this stuff?
I set the handgun on the seat. Then decided to hold it. The cold metal and how heavy it was started to freak me out. Handguns were for killing.
I reached out to set it back on the seat when I heard voices drawing near.
Laughter. Hannah and some guy.
I gripped the gun and aimed it at the door.
“It’s nice that your roommate loaned you her truck, but we can take my car,” the man said. “It’s a Lexus.”
“This will be faster,” Hannah said, opening the driver’s side door.
The passenger’s door creaked open. I tensed, ran my thumb over the safety to make sure it was on.
The doctor was so busy looking at Hannah, he didn’t see me until he kicked me in the leg. He frowned, looked down, and his forehead wrinkled up.
“What is going on—” He stiffened, lifted his hands in the air.
“Back up,” Dad said. He was holding the rifle against Dr. Bayles’s back. Zaq must have handed it to him.
Dr. Bayles backed away from the truck. “I demand to know what—”
“Shhh,” Dad said. “One more word and I hit you with my gun. Eli, get out.”
I squeezed out from my hiding place in a very ungraceful like manner. I climbed out of the truck and Dad prodded the doctor forward.
“Get in the middle,” he said.
The doctor got in and started scooting. Hannah, I saw, had gotten in the bed. She was currently sitting beside Lizzie, rummaging through a backpack.
“Cover me, Eli,” Dad said.
I stood in the open doorway, pointing the handgun at the doctor. Dad handed Zaq the rifle and ran around and got in the driver’s side.
“Cover him through the back window,” Dad told Zaq. “Eli, you sit right beside him.”
Great. I was still the handgun man.
Soon we were on the road again.
“Why doesn’t Hannah have a tracker?” I asked the doctor.
“That’s what this is about? The trackers? Why do you care?”
“We don’t want to be tracked,” I said. “Why doesn’t Hannah have one?”
“Because she’s smart enough to know she’s been injected with one. We didn’t inject trackers into any of the doctors or nurses.”
Dad drove around the U at the bottom of Summit Road. In the distance, a riot of police lights were headed their way.
“Hold on!” Dad yelled.
He slowed and drove right off the road. There wasn’t much vegetation at the foot of this high desert mountain, and Dad drove right over the steppe, four-by-fouring his way around the sides of two condo buildings.
I watched in the rear-view. It looked like the cop cars were going to continue on to the Champions, but then one stopped and turned slowly off the road.
Dad had a great head start, though. On the other side of the condos, he picked up speed in a parking lot, then turned onto Hunter Hill Road. He followed that to Snowmass.
No sign of the cop car. We’d lost him, it looked like.
“They’ll be expecting us to go for the gate again,” Dad said. “So we take another path.”
“What path?” I asked. “The north gate?”
“Well go to the fence. Same place Logan got shocked. But we need to split up. I’ll drop you at the bottom of the slope. Run over to Waste Management, see if the garbage truck is still there. If so, drive it to the fence. I’m going to lure them away.
“I don’t want to split up.”
“I’ll be fine. Trade guns with Zaq. He and Lizzie stay with me. You take the kids.”
Just past the hospital, he drove into the lot at the Crested Butte Mountain Resort and wove his way through the alley roads that outlined each resort. He stopped outside the snowboard rental shop, and I slid out, holding my gun on Dr. Bayles.
Zaq got out and I told him the plan. We switched guns, and before I was ready, Dad, Zaq, Lizzie, and Dr. Bayles were driving down Crested Butte Way. I could hear the sirens, could even see them flashing in the dark sky, but I didn’t know where they were.
“Is that a helpcopter?” Logan asked.
I heard it too. “Come on,” I said. “We need to get out of sight.”
Logan with Davis, Hannah with Shyla, and me with Cree, we each grabbed a kid’s hand and jogged around another set of condos toward Whetstone and the Waste Management building.
“I can’t believe it’s still here,” I said. “Keys too.”
“That’s what you get when you make Enforcers out of untrained civilians,” Logan said.
“They were too busy chasing us,” I said. “And why would we come back for this truck?”
“Can we all ride up front this time?” Shyla asked, pinching her nose.
“Yes we can,” I said. “But first let’s get some of our stuff out of the back in case we don’t have time again.”
We rearranged, piled in, and I steered away. We were golden all the way to Gothic. Then I figured we had maybe five minutes before someone saw a mysterious dump truck heading north.
Try thirty seconds. I swear, even with ten Enforcers on the trip to Dallas, Enforcers were trailing after our garbage truck like bees chasing a pot of honey.
“Papa Bear to Cub, come in.” The walkie talkie squawked.
“Logan, answer that. It’s my dad.”
“I hear you loud and clear Papa Bear,” Logan said. “This is Chewbacca Slim. What the word? Over?”
“Chewbacca Slim?” I asked.
“It’s my call sign,” Logan said. “It’s a cool name.”
“Change in plans,” Dad said. “We’ve got too many enforcers in the way to keep the plan going. Head back to our old homestead and take the Gunsight trail.”
“Tell him okay,” I said.
“Affirmative, Big Daddy, over and out,” Logan said.
What followed next can only be described as a car chase. Through the tiny town of Mount Crested Butte, some two dozen Enforcer cars chased one big blue dump truck. We headed north on Gothic, but I could see a major roadblock in the distance. Thankfully, I was able to veer right on Cinnamon Mountain Road and wind through the back streets just a bit. Cinnamon Mountain Road to Anthracite Drive, to Winterset Drive, and back onto Gothic.
No sign of the road block ahead. I whooped. “They set up that road block too early.”
It was tempting to just keep going on Gothic and try for the main gate, but my dad and the others were back by our old house and I didn’t want to risk losing them. I took a sharp right onto Prospect Drive and punched the gas. The dump truck took a moment to pick up speed, but once it got going, it really cruised.
Gunsight Pass crossed Prospect Road just before the second major switchback. I slowed some as I ran down through the ditch. Inside the cab, we rattled about inside the cab, and I had to slow down to fifteen on the narrow dirt trail.
I bounced through the rutted trail, and when I came to a copse of thick spruce trees, the branches of which scraped the sides of the truck, I stopped .
“Get out, quickly. I’m leaving this to block the road.”
We exited into a tangle of branches. I heard the Enforcer cars behind, still revving their engines over the rutted trail.
I swung the tent over my shoulder and pulled Cree with me. My heart was beating so fast I could hardly breathe. I saw the fence up ahead, saw that it had been cut open. Beyond the curling, severed wires I could see Lizzie, and Zaq with the rifle trained on Dr. Bayles.
Where was my dad?
I handed Cree’s hand off to Hannah’s free one. “Get through!” I yelled. “Hurry!”
Hannah and Logan ran ahead, but I turned around, gun gripped at my side, scanning the land behind me for Enforcers, my dad, anything else that might be a problem. The empty police cruiser.
A helicopter.
It was on the ground, hidden by the backside of the copse of trees I’d driven through. It looked empty. No pilot. No passenger. Enforcers were working their way through the trees. They’d be here soon enough. Where was my dad? We needed to get out of here.
“Stop right there, Mr. McShane.”
The voice pulled my gaze back to the police cruiser. Mr. Tracy was standing behind it with Jaylee, a gun trained on her head.
What? How!
“You look surprised.” Tracy grinned, then lifted a walkie talkie up for me to see. “I found this in my office. It didn’t take my techs long to repair it. Then I heard everything you said. Payback isn’t so great, is it?”
“What are you doing with Jaylee?”
“She’s the one you like, isn’t she?” Tracy asked. “I remembered she had wanted to go along with you when you searched for your house. You were going to leave her behind?”
“I told him I didn’t want to go,” Jaylee said.
“Oh, but I can see it in his eyes, girl. He wanted you to come.”
“What is the matter with you?” I asked, sickened that he would haul Jaylee out of her house to try and use her against me. “Am I really that big of a threat to you?”
“Everyone accepts me. Everyone but you and your little group. You think you’re better than me, but you’re not. And I will make you submit.”
I saw my dad then. He was behind Tracy, creeping closer. I kept talking, hoping to further distract the man. “How are you going to do that? You going to shoot Jaylee? You think—”
Dad lunged at Tracy and grabbed his arm. “Go, Eli! Now!”
Jaylee screamed ran toward the enforcers. “Help!” she cried. “Please help me.”
I wasn’t leaving my dad. I trained my gun on the men, but they were too close for me to take a shot.
“Eli, go!” Dad yelled.
I couldn’t go without him. Was he nuts?
A gun fired.
My heart jolted. Both men went down. I ran toward them just as Enforcers crested the hill.
“Catch!” Dad pitched something at me over the cruiser. I had to jump to the left to catch it.
The walkie talkie.
Dad stood up, hooked Tracy’s arm around his neck. “Elias McShane, don’t make this a waste,” he said. “You go take care of your friends. I’ll catch up soon. I promise.”
“Dad, come on. You don’t have to do this.”
“Yes, I do, Eli. And you have to go. Now.”
“I love you, kid. Now, get out of here.”
“Dad, please.”
He hobbled toward the first Enforcer, waved one hand. “Hey! I need some help here.”
I turned, picked up the tent, and ran.
We hiked just inside the trees by the East River. We’d used the walkie talkie to call Reinhold and tell him what happened, but he didn’t want to talk over the radios. Instead we made plans to meet in a few days. We only had the one six-man tent, but it was a chilly night and a pile of eight bodies packed like sardines wasn’t the worst thing in the world.
Lizzie had finally stopped crying, but only because she’d fallen asleep. She said she didn’t blame me, but I wasn’t so sure. Dad had only stayed behind to wait for us. And then he’d sacrificed himself for me.
Where was he right now? Had Tracy died? If so, what would they do to my dad?
“We need some logging blades,” Zaq said, drawing me back into conversation.
Everyone was asleep but the two of us. We talked about how we might try and build a house. Zaq thought logs were the way to go, but I’d rather find some lumber. Not that I knew how to build with lumber.
I wanted to talk about going in to get my dad back, but I knew what Zaq would say. I’d just have to wait and see. Dad would find us eventually, right? It had to be a lot easier for one guy to break out than nine people.
“I want to marry your sister,” Zaq said.
That got my attention. “Are you nuts?”
“No. I talked to your dad about it once. He seemed to think it was a good idea.”
“He did?”
Zaq’s voice went soft. “You think it’s a bad idea?”
“No. That’s not what I meant. I just… How? It’s not like there’s any churches or anything.”
“I’m asking for your blessing, Eli. And I’m trying to ask if you will marry us.”
“Me?” The fool was exhausted. That had to be the problem. Tomorrow morning, I doubt he’d remember this conversation.
“Lizzie’s got a Bible. You could wing it okay. Plus, well, you’re el presidente, man. There’s no one higher. Will you lead us?”
“That’s it?”
I sighed. Oddly, I wasn’t scared. I felt safe in the forest by the river. Out here, I knew what to do. “Yeah, I’ll lead us,” I said. “But not by myself. This isn’t going to be like Tracy. We’re a team. And I need every one of you to help me.”
“You got it, boss,” Zaq said.
It was the first time in a long time that Zaq calling me boss didn’t bother me. I could do this. We could do this. Together.
The [Temporary] End
Jill here. I realized at 1:32 this morning that I completely forgot Dr. Bayles!!! and the trackers in their arms. [Gah! So sad.] Clearly I am too tired to be writing climactic endings to books. THIRST needs a lot more work. Welcome to the world of rough drafts! Stories have never come out perfect for me on the first try. Rewrites are magical.
Also, I’ll likely write an epilogue of some kind for the final book. I’m not sure what exactly I want to show yet or how far in the future the epilogue will go. Just know that there will be one. But it’s very late. And I need to go to bed. So it will have to wait for the rewrite.
Thanks so much everyone for hanging in there with me and reading along! I apologize for the very messy last few chapters. They need a lot of work, and I’ll get to rewriting them eventually. Probably not until late this year or early next. I’ll keep you posted here on my website.
THIRST: Chapter Twenty-Three. . . Arrested again. What will happen to Eli now?
Posted by Jill Williamson on Aug 2nd, 2016 in A weekly story blog | 8 comments
Okay, so the ending is not coming together the way I originally planned. This isn’t uncommon for me when writing a first draft. I had to take some time to brainstorm what was broken with the story and how I could fix it. All that showed me that I’m going to need to make some significant changes in the rewrite to make this story build up to a major climax at the end.
Right now the book is kind of rambling along, and I don’t like that. Also, my antagonist doesn’t appear in the story until past the halfway point, which is strange, but I think the thing that bothers me most about THIRST is that it feels like two separate books. I have the “discovery of the Pandemic” story. Then I have a separate “arrive in Mount Crested Butte and try to make a life of it” story. We shall see whether or not editors agree with me on that later on. Perhaps it would be best to make it into two books. I don’t know…
For now, to finish these next two chapters, I’m going to write as if I’ve already made some changes, though I won’t actually make them until I go back to rewrite. The changes are:
Pretend that the characters have already tried to sneak past the chainlink fence that now encloses the town. They found out that the Enforcers also wove two strands of ElectroBraid through the chainlink. This, while not a deadly amount of current, was still enough to deter Eli and his friends from attempting to get through the fence.
When Eli is arrested and taken in to get his blood tested, just before his x-ray he will see a second nurse, who gives him some kind of shot. This is set up for something that will pay off in this chapter. J
Hannah is the only character I gave a task to, since she had been in med school and my first draft required the help of doctors and nurses. In the rewrite, I will instead give everyone tasks (aka jobs). Here are the jobs I’ve planned so far:
Mr. McShane (Eli’s dad) will work as a mechanic.
Zaq will work as a lifeguard at the Champion’s swimming pool parties.
Lizzie will work as a seamstress in repairing and designing costumes for the Champions.
Logan will work as a computer tech on the Grid.
And Eli will be tasked as a garbage man, which is sort of a punishment from Mr. Tracy, since Eli keeps getting in trouble. But you, the reader, will have seen Eli work a day on the job and get to know some of the drivers. Eli is not a garbage truck driver. He’s one of those guys who rides on the back and dumps individual trash cans into the back.
So. As you read these last two chapters, pretend that you know the fence is electrified and that everyone got jobs when Hannah got hers. I will make all this so during the rewrite.
And now, on with the story…
Arrested again. What will happen to Eli now?
I had fasted before only a couple times in my life. The 30-Hour Famine was a favorite of my youth pastor. But going out food for a full week?
The week in rehab crawled by. Each day I desperately anticipated my small glass of water. Carelle Lawler’s obnoxious sessions didn’t help. When I was finally released, I felt like I could drink an entire lake and eat a herd of cattle.
I was released into the lobby of the rehab facility and bade to use a computer there to contact a ride. I sent everyone I knew a message on the Grid, and still it was another twenty minutes before Dad stopped the truck out front to pick me up. When he heard how Tracy had starved me, he nearly drove the truck to the Champion compound to give the man a piece of his mind.
“It doesn’t matter, Dad,” I said. “Tracy doesn’t care about right and wrong. He wants to be in control, and he wants everyone to obey without question.”
“It’s time to leave this place forever,” Dad said.
“I was thinking the exact same thing.”
We had barely stepped foot in the house and my dad started yelling for people to gather in the kitchen for a meeting. Everyone was home but Hannah. Once we’d all settled around the table and I was nursing a glass of apple juice and some crackers, my dad spoke.
“Eli and I are done with this place,” Dad said. “Who is with us?”
Hands shot up around the table. Unsurprisingly unanimous.
“It’s not going to be easy out there,” Dad said. “We’re going to be roughing it for a really long time. Maybe forever. That means hunting our own food. Living off the land.”
“What about water?” Logan asked.
“We don’t know for sure,” Dad said. “I figure on hiking north, looking for creeks coming off the mountain. I hope we’ll find one that’s clean. If not, we’re going to have to scavenge for a while and collect rainwater.”
“Maybe wait this place out,” I said. “At the rate they’re going, they might just kill themselves off.”
“They might,” Dad said, “but we can’t pin our survival on that hope.”
“Won’t they think to look for us by the river?” Zaq asked.
“Maybe,” Dad said, “but I don’t think they’ll waste too much time looking for us. They’ve got more important things to worry about. If we can get out of this place, we’ll be free.”
“Tracy will try and stop us,” I said, then filled them in on the conversation we’d had in the basement of the rehab facility. Then I told them about the guns I saw down there. “If we could get those guns, it would really help.”
Dad shook his head. “Not worth it. You get caught trying to get those guns, they lock you away for six months. We’ve got two guns left. Those will have to do for now. Once we’re settled, we can scavenge more.”
“So all we need is an exit plan,” Zaq said.
“Yeah, none of us got on the Denver trip,” Logan said. “How are we going to get out of here?”
“I still think the garbage truck is the best plan,” I said.
“And I agree,” Dad said. “Eli’s can pop the distributor cap on one of the trucks just before he leaves for the night. In the morning, when it won’t start, they’ll call me in to take a look. I’ll make up some complicated problem. They’ll rework the route for the day, leaving the truck behind for me to fix. I’ll drive it to the shop, but that night, I’ll steal it.”
“The house is too far away from the southern gate, so we’ll meet Dad at the public tennis court on Glacier Lily Way. There are no streetlamps there, so I’m guessing it should be deserted.”
“I thought we didn’t want to go south?” Zaq said.
“We don’t,” I said, “but we can’t think of a better way to get past the gates. We’ll just have to circle around the mountain and hike to the river from the other side.”
“What are you going to tell the guard at the gate?”
“They won’t ask anything,” Eli said. “The long distant drivers sometimes don’t leave until after dark.”
We sat around, hashing out all the details. Once we felt good about the plan, everyone split up to gather supplies. I ate a peanut butter sandwich, which gave me a stomachache, then took a nap. By the time I had slept it off and come downstairs looking for more food, the whole day had gone by.
Hannah, Lizzie, and Logan were in the kitchen making hamburgers. It smelled amazing.
I walked up to the counter, soundless, and helped myself to a slice of cheese.
“Ice cream,” Lizzie said. “And chocolate.”
“I’m going to miss video games,” Logan said.
“Doritos,” Hannah said. “I love Doritos.”
The things we’d be leaving behind when we moved into the woods. “I’m going to miss cheese,” I said. Unless we could figure out how to make it. Even if we did, it wouldn’t likely taste the same. “I bet we can still play video games, Logan. We just need to siphon gas and get a generator. Then we’ll have electricity.”
“How long will it take to scavenge the games I want, though?” Logan asked. “I should have brought my games from—”
The CB crackled. “This is Grizzly Adams to base. You got your ears on?”
I sprinted to the CB and yanked the receiver to my mouth, nearly pulling the unit off the table. “Yes! Hello, Grizzly Adams. This is base. Where are you? What took you so long?”
“Say ‘over,’” Logan said, standing right beside me.
“Over,” I added.
We stared at each other, waiting for the static to clear. It finally did. “That a story for another day. Calling to say that the original plan is good. I repeat. The original plan is good. You guys still in Alcatraz?”
“Yeah,” I said. “We’re ready to—”
“You have to wait until he says ‘over,’ Eli,” Logan said.
“Didn’t catch that, base. Please repeat.”
“Shh!” I said, turning my back on Logan. “We’re ready to find a new home,
I said. “Any recommendations?”
“It’s like anywhere else in the world. Best places are always on the water or in the hills.”
“He means by the river or in the mountains,” Logan said.
“Thank you, Sherlock,” I said.
“You going to stop by for a visit, Grizzly Adams?” I asked.
“No can do. I’ve made my home on the cliffs of paradise. You know where that is?”
I turned around and looked from Logan to Lizzie to Hannah. “What’s that mean?”
The girls shrugged.
Logan said, “He’s saying he lives in a paradise.”
“You copy that, base?” Reinhold asked. “Can you find my address?”
“Hold that thought, Grizzly Adams,” I said, then to the others, “Any other ideas?”
“He’s on a cliff, obviously,” Logan said.
“Maybe,” Hannah said. “He said the best places were on the water or in the hills, and cliffs would be in the hills.”
“Ha!” Logan said, as if Hannah agreeing with him was a pass for some kind of intelligence test.
“The ski map!” Lizzie ran into the kitchen and returned with the framed ski map that hung on the wall.
We all crowded around, scanning the colorful map for the words.
“Right there.” Hannah tapped the paper. “Paradise Cliffs.”
I pressed the call button. “We found you, Grizzly Adams.”
“Glad to hear that. You people serve your time yet?”
“Affirmative,” I said. “Our sentence is all most up. We’ll be sure and look you up fist chance we get.” I caught Logan staring at me. “Over.”
“Sounds like a plan, base. Catch you on the flip flop. Over and out.”
I set the receiver back in the cradle, then turned to the others. “There’s clean water outside this fence, just waiting for us.”
The girls squealed and hugged each other. Logan offered me a high five. I slapped his hand.
“It won’t be long now,” I said. “We’re almost home.”
At dinner than night, I started a small war when I told everyone that we should tell Jaylee and Krista about the plan.
“After Krista turned you in?” Lizzie asked.
“Yeah, Eli, that was so cold,” Zaq said. “I don’t think you can trust her.”
“I’m afraid I agree, son,” Dad said. “They might turn us in.”
“And even if they didn’t,” Hannah said, “they won’t want to leave. You know they won’t.”
I did know. “It just feels wrong to leave without telling them anything,” I said. “How about I just say we’re thinking of leaving soon, and see how it goes? If they act interested, I’ll tell them I give them more information once we know it. Then I’ll bring it back here for a vote. But if they don’t care, well, then I’ll know.”
No one objected to this plan, so I set off alone in my truck to visit the Snowcrest Condos.
No one answered. Considering it was prime party hours, I shouldn’t have been surprised. I decided to wait a while. I ran over to the restaurant and grabbed myself a milkshake to go, then sat in my truck, sipping it, savoring it.
Was this the last milkshake I’d ever have?
If we could find some cows… I wondered if any animals had survived the Pandemic. If we could find a cow or even a goat, we could have milk. Grains would be much harder to produce. I was pretty sure that flour and sugar would last a while if we could keep it in airtight containers, but once we ran out, we’d need to learn to grow our own or do without.
Do without sugar. Zaq might die.
I was so caught up in my reverie, I almost didn’t notice Krista entering the apartment with a takeout box. I pondered my next move and decided to talk to Krista first. She probably knew where Jaylee was.
I’d barely reached their door when it opened and Krista stepped out.
“Gosh!” She clapped her hand over her heart and scowled at me. “You scared me to death, Eli! Knock next time.”
“I was just about to.”
She looked me over, smirking. “Your face healed fast.”
“No thanks to you.”
“You got what you deserved, Eli. What do you want?”
“To talk to you and Jaylee.”
“I’m going out. Jaylee is resting.”
“She’s here?”
“That’s what I said.”
Had she looked through the peephole, saw it was me, and ignored me? Or had she been sleeping? “It will only take a minute,” I said, then plowed on ahead before she could try and brush me off again. “We’re thinking of leaving.”
Krista gave me a dirty look. “You can’t leave.”
“Well, we’re thinking of trying anyway,” I said. “We wanted to let you know and see if you were interested in coming with us.”
“You guys are crazy,” Krista said. “Why would you want to leave? This place is great!”
“I know it seems good now,” I said, “but the people in charge, they don’t have your best interests at heart. They’re in it for themselves. And it’s going to get worse.”
“I don’t think it’s bad, so worse wouldn’t mean much to me.”
“Where do they have you tasking?” I asked.
“At a clothing store.” She struck a pose. “I got this outfit there. Cute, huh?”
This was going nowhere fast. “Can I talk to Jaylee?”
“Whatever. Just be nice, okay. She doesn’t need your lectures.” She walked past me. I caught the door and turned around, but she was already halfway down the first flight of stairs. “Later, Eli!” she called, waving one hand above her head.
I took that as a no, she would not be joining us.
I found Jaylee on the couch, tucked under a pile of blankets. She looked awful. Her hair was tangled and frizzy, her eyes puffy and red.
“Hey,” I said.
“I’m not coming with you, so don’t ask.”
“You heard that?”
“It’s not that I don’t want to come, Eli. I mean, I wouldn’t have before, but now I would. Still, it doesn’t matter, so I’m staying here.”
“I’m infected, Eli. With the Thin Plague.”
“What!” I lost my breath for a moment and sank onto the end of the couch. “How?”
“I caught it from Riggs who supposedly caught it from one of Liberté’s dancers.”
“Oh, Jaylee.” I didn’t know what else to say. I just sat there, arms pimpling with a chill that didn’t want to leave.
She burst into tears.
“Hey.” I swallowed my own sadness and scooted beside her. “Jay, I’m sorry.”
She threw herself at me, hugging me tight. I just held her while she cried. It was the saddest thing that ever happened to me. Sadder even then learning about my mom, helping Zaq deal with his family, or having a funeral service for Cree’s mom. All those people were dead. But Jaylee was still alive. She had to live each day knowing she was dying, knowing her choices had brought this upon her. It was too horrible to think about.
“How long do they give you?” I asked.
She shrugged. “Dr. Bayles says he doesn’t know much about this new strain, and that’s what I have. It seems to work faster than HIV or even AIDS. But it’s not the same disease either, really. It’s a new thing. But he says that since I didn’t have any health problems before, I might last longer than the other four.”
The first four Thin Plague deaths, she meant.
Again I fought back the emotions that threatened to undo me. Jaylee’s eyes met mine, saw the moisture growing there, and she started bawling again.
So I stayed with her for an hour or so and cried with her, prayed with her. And the weird thing was, she let me.
“You probably think I wasn’t listening all those years in youth group,” she said, “but I was. I know the truth. I’ve said all the right prayers. Me and God, we’re like this.” She held up two fingers, twisted. “So while you probably think, ‘Oh poor Jaylee is dying,’ just remember that I’m going to meet God before any of you perfect Christians get a chance to. I’ll be first this time.”
“We’re not perfect,” I said.
“But you try to be. You always try. And you never give up trying. And that’s what kept you alive longer than me. I’m glad you’re getting out of this place, Eli. You’re right to. The moment I found out I was infected, people stopped inviting me to parties. I don’t have any friends anymore. Because I got sick living their way. What does that mean?”
“That they were never very good friends to begin with.”
“Krista is. She takes care of me.”
“I’m glad. Are you sure you don’t want to come with us?”
She shook her head. “Krista needs me more than I need her. I’m hoping that my situation will knock some sense into her so she doesn’t end up like me.”
“That’s a good mission, Jay.”
“I think so.” She smiled, and I swear, I had never seen her more beautiful. It was a different kind of beauty, though. A pure beauty. Innocent. Vulnerable. Honest.
“Pray for us, Jay?” I asked. “If we get caught, Tracy is going to put me in rehab for six months.”
She squeezed my hand. “I’ll pray, Eli. And this time you’ll make it out.”
The next night as I left my shift, I removed the distributor cap and took it home with me, gave it to my dad. We had everything ready to go, and only when it was fully dark did we pack up the back of the truck. My glorious, powerful, amazing truck. I would miss it, but I supposed we could always find another truck someday if and when we needed one. Right now, we needed to get out of here and build ourselves a place to hole up for the coming winter. Colorado winters were not light, and we Arizonans were not used to the cold.
We still had the two walkie talkies that had been left in the vehicles, so I put those in my backpack. Dad had given me both guns, so the rest of my pack was filled with ammo.
At dusk, we drove over to the tennis court on the south side of town and got out while we waited. We didn’t have any tennis equipment, but Shyla, Davis, and Cree made a game out of walking along the while lines on the court. That, thankfully, kept them occupied and out of mischief.
We heard the dump truck before we saw it.
“Man,” Zaq said. “That engine is so loud.”
“Good,” I said. “It will hopefully muffle any noises we make riding in the back.”
“I can’t believe I’m going to ride in the back of a garbage truck,” Lizzie said.
We saw the truck then, stood in a group, watching it roll nearer. Dad pulled into the lot at the tennis court and circled around to park beside my truck. The door opened and he climbed out.
“We ready to do this?”
I looked from Zaq, to Logan, to Lizzie, to Hannah, then nodded. “We’re ready.”
Dad got back in the truck and activated the hydraulics to raise the tailgate. It reeked horribly, which was no surprise but still shocking to the senses. With six of us, we moved our gear from the bed of my pickup to the back of the garbage truck in two trips. I gave Dad his gun and one of the walkie talkies, which he clipped it to his front shirt.
“If you need anything, talk loud,” he said. “I can’t hear much in that cab.”
“I won’t need anything,” I said. “It’s going to be fine.”
Dad gathered us at the end of the garbage truck. We all linked hands, and he prayed that God would set us free and ultimately keep us safe.
We climbed inside the cargo box, and a few seconds later, Dad ran the hydraulics and the tailgate lowered. It was pitch black in there. Zaq held a flashlight, which kept Cree and Davis calm. And then we were off. Two right-hand turns and the truck sped along Gothic. None of us said a word. We just sat there, feeling the rumble around us.
When the truck slowed, I knew we were at the gate. I held my breath and prayed. “Please let us through, please let us through!”
I heard the muffled squawk of a megaphone but couldn’t make out the words. The truck accelerated, reeled to the left, then twisted in what felt like a major U-turn.
“What’s happening?” Shyla asked.
I pressed the button on the walkie talkie and yelled, “Dad? We okay?”
The walkie talkie crackled, and Dad’s voice broke through. “Half dozen squad cars at the gate. Told me to pull over.”
“How could they know?” Zaq asked.
The walkie talkie fizzled as Dad continued, “Something about tracking us. They’re probably tracking everyone.”
“How could they track us?” Lizzie asked.
I thought back to that other nurse, the one that had given me that vitamin shot. “I knew there was no such thing as a vitamin shot!”
Lizzie gasped. “Yes! That was weird.”
“Did you know about this, Hannah?” Logan asked.
“No,” Hannah said. “I never got a vitamin shot.”
“We need to get the trackers removed,” I said, “or we’ll never get out of here!”
“Can you do it, Hannah?” Lizzie asked.
“Conceivably, but I don’t know where the trackers were put or how they work. Dr. Bayles would know. He’s the only one who knows all the new medical procedures.”
“Then he’s the one who needs to take them out.” I pushed the button on my walkie talkie and yelled, “Dad, we need to go to the hospital to get these trackers out.”
“No,” Hannah said, grabbing my arm. “Dr. Bayles will be at Champions house tonight. All day he was bragging about being invited to dinner.”
“Change of plans, Dad!” I yelled into the walkie talkie. “We’re going to the Champion’s house to see Dr. Bayles.”
Dad didn’t answer, but the garbage truck swerved hard to the right, knocking me into Logan.
“I need to lose these cops,” Dad said. “I’m going to drive to Waste Management, park the truck with a bunch of others, and shut us in the garage. That should buy us enough time to get out and run. There’s a pickup out behind the garage with keys in the ignition. We’ll take that up to the Champions.”
We held on to each other as the garbage truck rocked around corners. Behind us, sirens wailed and the flashing red and blue lights somehow seeped in through the cracks in the truck and glimmered off the inside walls of the cargo box.
The tailgate started rising before the truck stopped. We paired off the kids: Shyla with Hannah, Davis with Lizzie, and Cree with me. Lights blinded us in a flash as the tailgate rose high enough to reveal the patrol cars on our tail. They first was about twenty yards back. I doubted we were going faster than thirty at the moment.
The truck turned sharply to the right and bucked over an indentation in the driveway. Dad accelerated and we shot inside a garage, the door already closing on the Enforcers.
“Go, go!” I yelled, and we scrambled from the back all at once.
We ran around the side of the truck toward my dad, who was holding open a door. I dragged Cree through the door, lifted him up into the tailgate of the truck parked there.
“Lay down!” I heard Dad say, and we all fell flat on our backs, except Cree, who lay on his belly, his head resting on my chest like a pillow.
The truck screamed to life and peeled away. I held Cree tight and prayed, waited, listening. The lights of Waste Management faded. Darkness fell over the bed of the pickup. I didn’t hear any sirens. Didn’t see any lights.
We’d escaped!
But they could track us. It wouldn’t be long until they found us again.
END OF CHAPTER
Will they make it to Dr. Bayles before Enforcers catch them?
THIRST: Chapter Twenty-Two. . . Plans to escape go awry
Posted by Jill Williamson on Jul 26th, 2016 in A weekly story blog | 4 comments
Plans to escape go awry.
I spent the next few days working with my dad on our map of the town. We had been monitoring the Enforcer shifts at the different gates and had stumbled onto a pattern. Four Enforcers were on patrol at each gate with the exception of the night hours of midnight to six a.m. and the 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. lunch hours.
Night was our best option, though we still hadn’t agreed on whether we’d take the northern or southern gate.
“The south gate will put us on the road back to Durango,” Dad said.
“Yeah, but it will also take us through Crested Butte and past a more populated area. That leaves us open to the possibility of trouble from outsiders. If we go north, we can drive around the top edge of the mountain, set up a camp, and start looking at creeks that pour into the East River. Could be we find one with safe water and can live right in the shadow of the compound without them even knowing it.”
“They’d know,” Dad said.
“Well, maybe they wouldn’t care,” I said. “I know I’ve caused my share of trouble for them. I’m thinking if we can get out of here, they’ll write us off.”
“Good riddance, eh?” Dad said on a sigh. “You could be right. It’s a gamble. But everything is these days. My biggest concern is that going north traps us. We’d be at the end of the road with no way out.”
“We could hike to Ashcroft if we needed to,” I said. “That would get us to roads that lead to Aspen or basically anywhere. But, Dad, there’s no place to go anyway.”
“We’re completely isolated in this compound,” Dad said. “For all we know the government survived and has started to rebuild and we don’t have a clue.”
“Dad, the Champions don’t want to live in Colorado. They’d much rather be in a big city, close to a major airport and a lot more people to cheer at their concerts. Plus they’d want to get Liberté’s friend to a hospital rather than sending some scavenging team all the way to New Jersey. If the world was coming back, the Champions would be the first ones out of here.”
“You’re right, son. I forgot about the New Jersey trip. I will say that the northern gate has a lot less traffic. If we were able to get past it, it would take Enforcers longer to reach us.”
“Okay, so who goes out of the gates each day?” I asked, wanting to at least settle on the start of a plan before Hannah got home. “Enforcers and garbage men?”
“That’s it mostly. Some trucks have gone south, come back in with bigger trucks and scavenged supplies. None of the trucks go north. Not even the garbage guys go north. The closest landfill in in Gunnison.”
Looking at the map, I saw that he was right. We needed the garbage trucks. We could haul a lot inside one, and odds were high that no one would want to look in back. “If we take a garbage truck, maybe we could take it all the way around. Drive south out of Crested Butte, then take the 738 north as far as it goes. It would put us on the north side of the East River, but we’d still be really close.”
“That’s the way Reinhold was supposed to go,” Dad said. “I’m hesitant to take that same route when we haven’t heard back from him. Could be there is something that way that doesn’t want to be found, like those warlords.”
“But where else could we go, Dad?”
He studied the map and wrinkled his brow. “Maybe we could hike out. My guess is the fence doesn’t go all the way around the mountain.”
“Zaq and I hiked it weeks ago. It goes up as high as the Teocalli ski lift, runs south along the Horseshoe trail, then cuts across the Upper Park where it hits Aspen Park Road, which if follows to the switchback. Then it comes down the mountain to the west of Peakview Drive, then cuts west until it reaches Saddle Ridge Ranch Road.”
“So that’s out,” Dad said.
The door opened and Hannah came in. So much for presenting her with a perfected escape plan.
“Did you guys hear about Liberté?” she asked.
“Did she break a nail?” Zaq asked.
“She’s infected. It’s all over the Grid.”
We weren’t exactly Grid people in this house, but for this, I could make an exception. I opened Lizzie’s laptop that she’d left on the kitchen counter and refreshed it. “With the HyrdoFlu or the new thing?” I asked as the page loaded.
“The new thing,” Hannah said. “They’re calling it the Thin Plague because it thins the blood and kills the immune system.”
“And there’s no cure?” I asked.
“Not yet. Doctor Bayles wants to try an antiretroviral treatment.”
“That’s for HIV,” Zaq said. “What makes him think that would help?”
“The Thin Plague is bloodbourne,” Lizzie said. “Right?”
“Yes. Doctor Bayles thinks that people who were infected with the HIV virus who also contracted the HydroFly didn’t die because the two viruses mutated into one.”
“But now they’re dying,” I said.
Hannah nodded.
“Liberté has HIV?” Logan asked.
“She got it from her friend Barkley Kipp,” I said, reading the article on the Grid.
“The dancer who was sick,” Lizzie said.
“That’s why they sent that team to Jersey,” Logan said. “They must have been looking for HIV meds.”
“I overheard Doctor Barkley talking on the phone,” Hannah said. “They lost contact with the Jersey team.”
“How does that happen?” Zaq asked.
“There are more people out there,” Logan said. “More warlords with guns. Anything could have happened.”
That was a scary thought.
I kept reading the article. “Hey, this says they’re putting together a Technology Research Team to go to Denver and find medical supplies that might prolong the lives of infected individuals.”
“They need antiretroviral,” Logan said. “For the HIV.”
“And the Thin Plague,” Lizzie said.
“There’s no guarantee the antiretroviral will work on the Thin Plague,” Hannah said. “It’s just a theory at this point.”
“See?” Logan said. “I told you something like this would happen.”
“When did you ever tell us that?” Zaq said. “No, don’t tell me because it wouldn’t be true anyway.”
“Why are you mad at me?” Logan asked.
“I’m not mad, I’m just tired of you acting like you know everything.”
“Well, excuse me for trying to be helpful. Someone has to have a—”
“I’m volunteering,” I said, loud enough to cut through Zaq and Logan’s random argument. Only when everyone looked my way did I continue. “This could be our way out.”
“That’s dumb, Eli,” Lizzie said. “Did you forget how badly you wanted to get out of Phoenix? Denver will likely be just as bad.”
“I wouldn’t be going to Denver,” I said. “If I can get outside the gate, I can sneak away from the team and find my way back here. On the other side of the fence. I can test the water north of the mountain and know for sure whether or not it’s worth the risk. If it is, then I can find some bolt cutters and work out the best place to cut through the fence. Then I come back in and take you all back with me.”
“I still can’t believe we can’t find any bolt cutters here,” Logan said.
“Keep looking,” I said, “but I’m going to sign up.”
“Me too,” Zaq said. “The more of us who sign up, the better the chances of one of us getting chosen, right?”
“Right,” I said. I clicked on the button that said “volunteer” and entered my log in information.
The Denver Technology Research Team members were to be announced at the next Morning Party. It was the first time I’d even been excited to attend one, besides the time we scoped out Champion House with hopes of breaking in. Before they announced the lucky ten souls chosen for the adventure to Denver, Tracy thanked all who had gone in to have their blood tested.
“The patience and kindness y’all showed our medical staff was so impressive. We are thrilled to have such wonderful citizens living in this community. Give yourself a hand.” He began to clap.
As the audience joined him, I began to realize how very naïve I’d been to think Tracy would choose me for anything but an all-expense paid visit to rehab.
Sure enough, after the applause had died down, Tracy let the joy fade from his face. “Unfortunately, not everyone here shares the same values. We had eighteen violators who did not appear for their blood test last week.
Someone booed, which caught on, and a chorus of negativity rang out.
“I understand how you feel,” Tracy said. “I was disappointed, to say the least, and decided that it was important for you all to know who is causing trouble in our little utopia.”
My cheeks burned as the faces of those who had not yet been tested for the Thin Plague flashed across the big screen.
Hannah put her arm around me and tugged my sweatshirt hood over my head. “Don’t want that eye suffering a relapse,” she said.
As the faces of violators flashed across the screen, I stood on the grassy lawn, surrounded by my friends. With each face that appeared, the crowd grew more agitated, booing and catcalling some nasty names. Most the people were old—my dad’s age or above. I appeared about halfway through. A few faces later I recognized Andy Reinhold followed by Kimama Reinhold. It hadn’t occurred to me that they’d still be on the Grid, but how would Tracy’s people know they were gone when we had been collecting their rations each day?
The slide show ended, and Tracy calmed the crowd by announcing the chosen ten for the Denver trip. None of our group was chosen. In fact, I recognized five of the ten names as Enforcers. I wondered if Tracy had scared up some new recruits of if the Enforcers would be shorthanded in the coming weeks. Perhaps this Denver trip would work to our advantage after all.
I pondered this as we left the field and headed for our truck. We had just passed through the gate when I heard my name.
“Hey, Eli!”
I looked up and met Krista’s gaze. She was sitting on the hood of a red truck with some girl who wasn’t Jaylee and an Asian guy.
“Hey,” I said, nodding.
“He’s one of the violators!” she yelled, turning to knock on the windshield behind her.
The Asian guy slid off the hood and started toward me. He was shorter than me, but ripped. He walked slow, like his muscles actually weighed him down.
I doubted that was true.
The truck doors opened and two big dudes climbed out. A white guy with gauges as big as half dollars and a Samoan, who looked like he played for the NFL. All three were heavier than I was, muscular not fat, with bulging arms and massive shoulders.
Zaq pulled me to his other side, putting himself between me and the muscle. “Run ahead to the truck, Eli,” he said.
“I’m not running from anyone,” I whispered, annoyed. I wasn’t about to run away scared from anyone.
The guys stepped toward me. The first one—the Asian guy—batted Hannah aside. She stumbled from the force and ran into Lizzy. “Out of the way, ladies, before you get hurt.”
Lizzie ran around the guy and got all up in his face. “Excuse me, but who do you think you are to push around a girl?”
He shoved her this time, and she knocked into Zaq, who caught her around the waist and spun her behind him. “Is there a problem, man?” he asked.
I was always glad Zaq was on my side, but in moments like these he often made me look incompetent.
Asian guy pointed at me. “You’re hiding a violator. We don’t like his kind. We’re trying to get along in this place.”
“Then let’s go our separate way,” Zaq said. “We’re happy to get along.”
“I don’t think so,” Asian guy said, reaching out and slapping my cheek.
“Cut it out,” I said.
Zach put a hand against Asian guy’s chest, and the next thing I know both were blurring in front of my eyes, arms locked, spinning like wrestlers on a mat.
I inched back until I saw gauges guy coming at me. Desperation fueled a few punches, and I swung wildly. When my fists did manage to land, the impact was soft and weak. My knuckles stung, anyway, though I don’t think I did any damage.
Samoan came at me too, and as his fist graze my cheek, I think it shred some skin as it went. My dad darted in front of me and punched the Samoan in the jaw. The dude staggered, and Logan took that moment to assist by kicking in the back of his legs. The big guy’s knees buckled, but he managed to keep his feet and twist around to threaten Logan, who sprinted away like a scared Chihuahua.
For a brief moment, things seemed almost even, despite the fact that Logan had fled and I weighted a good fifty pounds less than anyone out there.
Zaq and my dad held their own, keeping the worst of the fighting away from me. Time passed by in a mess of bodies and hands and shoving and pain. Lizzy and Hannah helped here and there, kicking someone in the back, pulling hair, slapping ears. Dad knocked gauges guy flat, but he was getting up again. If Zaq and Asian guy hadn’t practically been throwing one another around, threatening to flatten anyone in their path, Lizzie probably would have started throwing punches. I heard someone yell Enforcers. Samoan guy elbowed Lizzie in the ear and sent her sprawling, which snapped Zaq away from Asian guy. I heard Zaq scream but I didn’t see what happened since Asian guy, suddenly abandoned, charge me.
Asian guy grabbed my arm. I swung around, trying to break his grip but he pinched my nerve and used his other hand to punch my face. I moved my head just in time to take a blow to the ear, and the next thing I knew, I was on the ground shaking from another taser attack.
By the time I could move again, some Enforcer I didn’t recognize cuffed my hands behind me and shoved me into the back of a squad car. I was alone. I hadn’t been lucid enough to see what had happened to my dad and Zaq and the others. I felt some drool trickling from my mouth, but when I wiped it away with my shoulder, it was actually blood oozing off a fat lip. My face stung, and there was a sharp pain in my stomach that spiked if I moved too much.
I didn’t recognize the driver. “Where we going?” I asked, and my voice came out weak.
He didn’t answer.
The town was so small, it only took a glance out the window for me to know where we were headed. A few turns later the car stopped in the parking lot of the rehab facility.
I wonder if they offered cards for frequent visitors.
The driver got out and opened the back door, motioned to me. “Let’s go, kid.”
I sighed and wiggled my way out, which wasn’t so easy with my hands cuffed. Inside, rather than taking me to the booking room, he took me on a hike. We wound through a series of hallways, then went down a flight of stairs. On the basement level, a narrow hallway stretched out across the length of the building. An Enforcer was coming out of a door, and as we passed by, I saw inside. Guns. Lots of guns.
It looked to be where they were keeping the guns they’d confiscated. I glanced back over my shoulder at the door as the Enforcer pulled it closed. I didn’t see a lock. Nothing more than a key in a doorknob.
Wonder if Logan could pick it?
The Enforcer shoved me forward. We entered a plain, cinderblock room with a beat-up laminate table in the center and two chairs. The Enforcer made me sit behind the table. I perched on the edge of the chair to leave room for my hands. The Enforcer left me there. It seemed weird that I was down here all alone. I figured Carelle Lawler would come in at some point and lecture me, but this was a day of surprises. About five minutes later Mr. Tracy himself swept into the room. He shut the door and sat across from me.
“Mr. McShane,” he said. “You do cause a lot of trouble, you know?”
“I want a lawyer,” I said.
“Lawyers died with the rest of the world,” Tracy said.
“You can’t just change the law,” I said. “This is a free country.”
“Are we really going to do this again?” Tracy asked. “The United States of America was a free country. But it died. It’s history, like Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union. And the Safe Water Mountain Refuge is my territory. Here, I decide what’s law.”
“I thought Loca and Liberté were in charge,” I said.
“They’re figureheads, like the royal family of England. Here I’m the prime minister. The president. The Commander in Ch—”
“The dictator?”
His lip curled, but he managed to force a smile.
“Why am I down here?” I asked. “I’ve been here before. I know the drill. Put me in my cell and send Ms. Lawler in to try and brainwash me.”
“It’s not going to be so easy this time, Mr. McShane.”
“I didn’t do anything wrong.”
“You missed your blood test and started a fight at the morning party.”
“I started the fight? You’re the one who flashed my face on the big screen. You practically begged people to go beat me up.”
“If the citizens of this town are upset at you, perhaps you should try a little harder to fit in. This is your third infraction, Mr. McShane. This time you will remain here for one week.”
“One week without water? I could die.”
“You will get one, eight ounce glass of water per day. You will get no food. The goal is to make you miserable enough that you will fall in line.”
“Look, you don’t want me here,” I said. “I don’t want to live here. Why should we continue to annoy each other? Open the gate and let me out. Then I won’t be your problem anymore.”
“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” Tracy said. “That’s too bad. Despite how much you annoy me, I can’t let you leave. One person gets to leave, then everyone wants to leave.”
“Gee, I wonder why? Maybe it’s because you’re a psychopathic dictator.”
“Next time you’re arrested, Mr. McShane, you will be sentenced to six months here. I promise you it won’t be pleasant.”
That sobered me. I didn’t doubt he was serious. But if we were going to break out of this place, I couldn’t get locked up for that long.
Tracy smiled. “From the look on your face, I see we understand each other. You will be transported to the medical center where you will be tested for the Thin Plague. You will cooperate fully. Then you will be brought back here to begin your week’s incarceration. Have a good day Mr. McShane.”
And he left me there alone, pondering my pathetic life in this place.
My wrists were burning from the handcuffs by the time the Enforcer led me into the medical center. We walked right through the waiting area. A nurse behind the counter nodded to the Enforcer and he took me right on back. One pro to being arrested: no waiting.
The Enforcer led me to a small exam room. He took off my cuffs, told me to put on the paper dress, and shut the door. I sat there for five minutes, thankful to have some alone time. Five minutes passed, and I got up, opened the door, and peeked into the hall. The Enforcer was standing just outside. He glared at me and pulled the door shut. I went back to the exam table, ignored the paper dress, and sat down on the crackly paper. Another five minutes passed before the door opened, and Hannah walked in. Her eyes met mine, widened. Other than that, she looked at her chart as if she didn’t know me.
“Mister, um… McShane. Let me inform you that this exam room is for criminals. Do not try anything. The Enforcer is right outside the door.”
Oh, so I was a criminal now? Wonderful.
“One blood test, coming right up,” she said. “Though you look like you could use a little more medical care than that. What happened to you?”
Ok-kay, weird. “Yeah, I got in a big fight. You should have seen the other guys. There were four of them, you know. None of us walked away.”
“Actually, the enforcer said everyone walked away but you.”
“Way to kick me when I’m down,” I said.
She smirked, which made me feel good, that I’d cracked through whatever act she was performing here.
“How are you feeling? You face hurt?”
“Any pain elsewhere?”
I wanted to say no, but the pain in my stomach put up a fight. “My stomach is a little sore.”
“Show me where.”
I sat up straight, winced, and ran my hand over the sore spot.
“Could be you have a cruised rib.” She picked up a blood pressure cuff and wrapped it around my arm. “You didn’t undress.” She smirked as she squeezed the ball and the cuff tightened.
I smirked back. “No, I didn’t.”
“At least take off your shirt, so I can listen to your heart and examine your ribs.”
I didn’t really want to take off my shirt in front of Hannah. I’d just gotten by butt kicked by a bunch of macho men. Did she need to rub it in? I didn’t have a logical reason to refuse, though, and I didn’t want anyone thinking I wasn’t cooperating with the staff here. Plus, the ache in my side was killing me.
I started to pull my shirt over my head, but halfway there pain shot through my side. I froze with my shirt tangled around my head and made a pathetic whimpering sound.
I felt Hannah’s hands on my back. She pulled the shirt the rest of the way off. I snagged it from her and held it balled up in my in my lap. “Thanks.”
She pressed the cold stethoscope against my back in several places, telling me to breathe in and hold it, then breathe out. She moved to my front and did the same on my chest. Then she asked me to lie down. I did, and the paper crumpled under me. I felt weird with my legs hanging off the end of the table at my knees. Hannah put her fingers against my stomach and pushed in several places. I tried to be tough, but she read my muffled grunts and pushed again in that spot.
“Whose side are you on, anyway?” I asked.
Another grin. “I think you have a bruised rib,” she said. “You should have an x-ray to make sure it isn’t broken.”
“I don’t want an x-ray.”
“Don’t be stupid, E— Mr. McShane. The technology is available. Use it.”
I said no more. She continued her examination, took my blood for the test, and the whole thing kind of impressed me. She was way smarter than me. I felt like a kid compared to all the things she knew. It didn’t help that my dad had fought that last battle far better than I had. It suddenly seemed ridiculous that my dad thought that she and I would make a good couple. What could I offer someone like her? A patient to practice on. That was about it.
It kind of made me sad. She was a pretty incredible person. I remembered how she’d pulled up my hood that morning, trying to help me hide my face. I didn’t know what to make of it. Did she like me? Or was she just mothering me, the way Lizzie did sometimes?
I was taken to the x-ray room, then brought back to the criminal exam room to wait wait wait. Hannah finally returned to tell me that two of my ribs were bruised, likely because that Samoan guy had Karate-chopped me in the gut. Hannah gave me some painkillers and sent me on my way as if we didn’t know each other at all.
The enforcer hooked my cuffs again and led me out. Some people were coming down the hall, so he moved me over to the right to wait. A nurse led a female patient past us. She was dressed in a paper gown and pink socks. Our eyes met.
It was Jaylee.
The Enforcer pushed me onward. I looked over my shoulder, but the nurse led Jaylee into an exam room. What was she doing here? She didn’t look sick. I hadn’t seen her face on the list of violators this morning, so she likely wasn’t here for a blood test.
Later. I’d ask Hannah tonight.
I turned back, shifted my cuffed hands and remembered I wasn’t a free man.
Fine. I’d ask Hannah in a week when I got home.
Stupid Tracy, anyway. As soon as I got out of here, I was planning my escape. I was more than done with this place.
Will Eli finally escape in the next chapter?
Broken Trust Cover Reveal
Posted by Jill Williamson on Jul 20th, 2016 in A weekly story blog, Jill Williamson's Blog, Novel Teen | 18 comments
Pardon this interruption of THIRST chapters for a special announcement.
Calling all Spencer fans!
You’ve all been waiting SO PATIENTLY for Broken Trust, the third full-length novel in the Mission League series. I had planned for Broken Trust to release last year. Then life happened. Major. I’ve noticed that life doesn’t really care about my plans. It does what it wants.
Spencer waited patiently at first. Then he started to get mad. “Tell my story, Jill!” he said. “You promised!”
“But, Spencer. Life happened,” I told him.
“So? You left me with a torn ACL. Therapy is only supposed to take 9-10 months. This is getting ridiculous.”
That was fair.
So I worked on Broken Trust little by little. And finally. FINALLY I managed to finish the book. Broken Trust is now with the editor. (Yay!) She will send it back as soon as she can. Then I will publish it!
Spencer says you will not be disappointed. He promises action and adventure. In Alaska.
And this cover to get you all excited.
The Profile Match (Mission League, book 4) - First draft
Minikins - First draft
Onyx Eyes - First draft
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And So
Exactly What Happened
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My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2011)
I just started reading the second of Ferrante’s four “Neapolitan Novels,” so I should say a few words about this first one before my memories of it fade. All the NYRB types freaked out so hard about these books that I figured I’d give them a whirl, and I enjoyed this first one very much, though I guess I don’t see quite what all the fuss is about. Well, I take that back, I think that the rationale for the fuss is that there’s so little fussiness in Ferrante’s style. We have here an exceedingly rare thing, a contemporary novel with a near-religious respect for realism and simplicity, without a formalist or stylistic flourish in sight. There’s a moment, about two-thirds through, where the narrator Elena is talking about the prose style of a letter from her friend Lila, and she goes on, quite movingly, about Lila’s pellucid prose, and then you suddenly realize that its Elena’s own pellucid prose that you’re reading, or rather Ferrante’s, and that right there is really the most engaging drama of this text, the drama of experience clearly expressed. Nothing particularly fascinating happens to either of the two main characters Elena and Lila. They’re bright aspirational girls bound by socio-economic situation designed to keep them stupid and stationary. Promises of escape come in many forms — industriousness, education, marriage, sin, social climbing — but the implicit message of Ferrante’s simple and elegant style is that being able to see, understand, and express your situation and your self clearly is probably at once the most viable and most powerful means of transcendence available. Sure, I’ll buy that, and so I bought the next three volumes and I look forward to them.
I’m getting ready to teach my “Uses of History” class this fall, where we read literary works which incorporate or respond to historical events, so that’s on my mind as I read anything and everything these days, and I’ll say I’m a little disappointed by Ferrante’s superficial engagement the historical circumstances of her characters. We get some small allusions and references, but surely the political and economic confusion and energy of postwar Italy could seep into the narrative a bit more.
There’s a nice big rabbit hole of reality v. representation to go down with these books, if you’re into that sort of thing, thanks to the fact that the author writes under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante and has not made her (or, unlikely but possible, his) identity known. So you have a budding writer (Elena Greco) for a narrator, and the author (Elena Ferrante) is herself a character, and one of the main dramas of the story is that Elena Greco deeply suspects that her friend Lila, who’s abandoned her education in favor of marriage, is actually the better writer. Is this an autobiographical novel or an entirely fictional one? We don’t know. So who is the titular brilliant friend? The author’s friend Elena Ferrante, the persona in which she writes brilliantly? The author’s “friend,” her brilliant character and perhaps avatar Elena Greco? Lila, Elena Greco’s brilliant friend of whom she is so jealous? In a lovely twist, we find out late in this book that the phrase originates with Lila to describe her Elena. Fun to think about — I’ll be interested to see how these dynamics play out in the other books.
Edit 7/28/16: Having surveyed the entirety of this large canvas, I come away not thrilled or delighted or amazed, but mighty satisfied and faintly suspicious. I’ll explain. Mighty satisfied because it’s a great story, lucidly told, with ample subtle psychological insights and a pleasingly comprehensive and rich sense of a great many characters’ lives. A little suspicious because I still can’t quite tell if there’s more to it than that. You could very nearly head off into a reading where you stipulate that Lila never existed except as a projection of Lenu’s anxieties (about her intellect, her past, her family, her choices), and then find yourself bound to acknowledge that wait, Lenu doesn’t exist either, she’s a character in a book, and then . . . I get about that far, and I don’t know that it’s worth pursuing, or right to pursue, but somehow I feel there may be a there there, in this novel about a novelist. Luckily it’s not my job to say anything smart here; if it were I’d be anxious myself. What I can dumbly testify is that I was wholly engaged through all 1500 odd pages of this series and wish it hadn’t ended.
Filed under: 2010s, Books
ambition, bildungsroman, childhood, Italian, italy, Naples, Napoli, postwar Europe, pseudonyms
Have you finished the series yet? I just did, yesterday. I’m still not sure I’m behind all the hype, even after avidly devouring all four. Yes, they were unputdownable. Are they great literature? I’m just not sure. At the very least, they’re forcing me to re-think what my criteria for that category is….
100 pages into the last of them. It’s making me think about a lot of stuff, both in terms of form and content. Form-wise, I note that the metafictional qualities are so understated, unlike in American pomo fiction where metafictional elements tend to be all lit up with “look at me! I’m clever!” kind of energy. The protagonist writes books (which we can’t read, of course) that seem to blend feminist criticism and personal narrative, but it takes me some time to be like, hey wait, ARE THESE THOSE BOOKS? So that’s kind of cool. In terms of content, it’s a unique perspective on the development of postwar Italian politics, and a particularly unique perspective on the excitement (and contradictory currents) of European second-wave feminism (Googling some of the texts Elena reads sends you down a Wikipedia rabbit hole to people like Carla Lonzi, about whom I’m glad to have learned . . . “Spit on Hegel” indeed!) — how often does that happen? I like how the world feels so alien to me and yet is made so intelligible by Ferrante, without it ever seeming like she’s explaining anything, per se. As for the greatness of the “literature,” depends indeed as you say on your criteria — I think there’s a much stronger tradition in 20c continental fiction than there is in England/America of the essayistic/autobiographical novel which sounds more like talking than writing, e.g. Christa Wolf, Thomas Bernhard, Michel Houellebecq, Karl Knausgård, etc. That said, there really is a lot of quite subtle psychological realism for fans of that sort of thing, too — I’m sure I’m not the only academic for whom Lina’s descriptions of her sense of herself as an intellectual imposter ring too painfully true! — In short I’m finding plenty to engage me both in style and substance . . . PS THANKS FOR READING MY BLOG xoxo
One of the things I most enjoyed about them was breathlessly following the trajectory of her career, rooting for her to keep going against all (childbearing) odds, etc. And then, as you say, I would suddenly remember, “Well, I AM reading these books after all. It must have worked out!” Slyly vertiginous. I also found very effective the way she withheld information about the political situation around her, gradually filling us in as the character Elena got more sophisticated and knowledgeable. Sort of Maisie-like. And the brutal honesty about her own use of cheap rhetorical tricks…. Okay, maybe I’m talking myself around to thinking they’re truly great after all. I certainly can’t stop thinking about them! (And thank YOU for letting me natter on and think out loud….)
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ances (STARS Alliance, Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions, Access Computing, Alliance for African American Researchers in Computing, and NCWIT). Over 300 researchers, educators, and practitioners have signed a petition supporting the SIGBP; 75 people expressed interest in SIGBP leadership. The initial leadership team will include: Monica Anderson, Maureen Biggers, Brian Blake, Ann Condon, Juan Gilbert, Richard Ladner, Bobby Schnabel, George K. Thiruvathukal, Manual Perez Quinones, and myself. Endorsement letters have been received from 16 organizations, including ACM SIGCSE, ACM SIGITE, ABI, CDC, CRA-W, NCWIT, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. We received NSF funding for SIGBP startup.a The committee held several meetings and community forums to inform the vision of the SIGBP, as summarized next.
The scope of a SIGBP is to provide an overarching international community to highlight, support, connect, and strengthen the diverse array of existing BP communities, activities, and research. The mission is to advance innovation and discovery by increasing and broadening participation in computing. The SIG will promote research, technologies, practices, and policies for increasing the participation of women, underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities in computing.
SIGBP members will be researchers, practitioners, educators, and policymakers from academia, industry, government, K– 12 schools, and the non-profit sector within a variety of interests, including computing, psychology, sociology, ethnic and gender studies, education, and human resources.
The SIGBP goals are to foster collaboration, dissemination, and support among organizations, programs, and people seeking to broaden participation in computing, with a fourfold focus on research, practices, awareness, and professional development, as follows:
˲ Advance research on the factors behind lack of participation. The SIG- a NSF Award 1042372 (T. Dahlberg), 1042337 (G. Thiruvathukal), ACM SIGBP: Forming an ACM Special Interest Group to Scale the Impact of BPC Activities.
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BP will provide greater opportunity for computing researchers to publish in a computing venue. This will provide a referencing mechanism to research with an explicit focus on BPC, research on broadening participation in science and engineering that is relevant for computing, and publications in the many disciplines that inform BPC research, such as education, psychology, gender studies, ethnic studies, educational technologies, student services, and human resources. SIGBP peer-reviewed publications will make the outcomes of BPC research more visible to computing researchers and practitioners who are not already connected to BPC activities.
˲Evaluate and promulgate effective practices for increasing participation. The SIGBP will provide a central community to find information about organizations, activities, publications, awards, other communities and portals with a BP mission. Examples of BP practices to be disseminated include models, frameworks, and strategies for recruiting and advancing people along the pipeline from K– 12 to college to the workforce.
˲Advocate beneficial institutional or government policies. The SIGBP will raise awareness among policymakers and the public at large, by seeking to inform and engage the computing community in emerging efforts to address policy.
˲ The SIGBP will advance the academic and career development of students and professionals in computing by providing an index to the many opportunities to participate in programs with goals to broaden participation.
SIGBP activities will include:
˲ Sponsor an annual SIGBP sym-
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1. Chubin, d. E. and Johnson, R. Y. A program greater than the sum of its parts: The BPC alliances. Commun. ACM 54, 3 (mar. 2011).
2. Etzkowitz, H., Kemelgor, C., and Uzzi, B. Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
3. Ladner, L. Opening remarks. Commun. ACM 52, 12 (dec. 2009).
Teresa A. Dahlberg ( Teresa.dahlberg@uncc.edu) is a professor of computer science and Associate dean of Undergraduate Programs and Administration for the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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The Carson City School District's (CCSD's) Communications Department and Public Information Officer exists to manage communication for the district and the Board of Trustees with their respective internal and external audiences. We are committed to helping the district achieve its strategic plan of providing quality education that prepares all children for a successful future. Our mission is to establish positive relationships and credibility between CCSD and its audiences through the timely and accurate dissemination of information. The department also serves as a crucial link between the media and the district in both proactive and reactive news situations.
Please click here to review the 2017-2018 Strategic Communications Plan. This communications plan serves as a guide for CCSD communication strategies. It ensures the communications efforts align with the district’s Strategic Plan and meet the district’s public relations and school communications Accepted Practice, the district Policy No. 901 for Public Relations, Policy No. 265 and Regulation No. 265 for Social Media Application and Policy No. 904 for School Visitors. It also guides the district as it communicates key messages effectively to all its audiences.
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Home » News » Mennonite Church USA follow-up to Churchwide Statement on the Abuse of Child Migrants
Tammy Alexander, legislative associate for domestic affairs at the Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office, leads Immigration Advocacy 101, a seminar offered at the 2019 Mennonite convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
By Kayla Berkey
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Mennonite Church USA) — “As a denomination we seek connections with immigrant communities in our contexts and support those in sanctuary and the thousands of families whose loved ones have been deported,” reads one of seven commitments in the Churchwide Statement on the Abuse of Child Migrants, passed by the Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly on July 6. Read more about how the resolution came together at the convention here.
Several congregations and organizations shared ways they have offered solidarity with immigrants at seminars during the convention, and delegates called for additional resources and actions on how to respond to the current immigration crisis during their assembly.
Rosa Ortez Cruz took sanctuary from deportation over a year ago through a partnership between Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (CHMF) and The Church of Reconciliation, a Presbyterian church, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. “When we talk about sanctuary, it’s a specific kind of civil disobedience using the memo that directs ICE not to trespass on church properties,” said Isaac Villegas, pastor of CHMF.
“This feels like a poignant moment in the history of our church’s relationship to the nation state in this country, especially related to the government determining who can be our neighbors,” said Villegas. “As the church, we can’t help but put our bodies where our faith is and say that we welcome as part of the body of Christ the people whom the government wants to deport.”
Edith Espinal has been living in sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite Church in Columbus, Ohio, since October 2017. The church’s website lists ways for others to provide support. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently sent a letter to Espinal, and about ten others in sanctuary including Ortez Cruz, fining her for $497,777 for overstaying her deportation date, said Joel Miller, pastor at Columbus Mennonite Church.
John Garland, pastor at San Antonio Mennonite Church, presents at the day-long training at MennoCon19, Welcoming immigrants in 2019: Tangible ways to put your faith into action.
“I think it’s significant that the churchwide statement recognizes that abuse and family separation is taking place all over the country, not just at the borderlands,” said Miller. “Our experience with Edith in sanctuary has opened our eyes to the extreme measures ICE is taking around our own community in Central Ohio to pursue and deport undocumentable mothers and fathers. It is heartening that we as Mennonite Church USA can have a collective witness of hospitality toward migrants and against cruelty.”
Others who presented seminars at the convention included Rachel Ringenberg Miller, pastor at Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas, where they are actively waiting to host someone in sanctuary and are preparing to host Pause for Justice for Immigration, an upcoming prayer vigil in collaboration with local churches in Wichita on July 13. Together with Zion Mennonite Church in Elbing, Kansas, Shalom Mennonite also started a visitation program for women detained due to their immigration status, where they visit Chase County Jail twice monthly to pray, share stories and offer support to the women.
Mitzi Moore also shared from San Antonio Mennonite Church, where the congregation has used space in their building in a variety of ways to respond to the needs of refugees and migrants. RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services), which has gained national attention for its work to provide legal representation and reunite immigrant families separated at the border, has a long-term relationship with San Antonio Mennonite Church and Mennonite Voluntary Service, a program of Mennonite Mission Network.
“I find hope and strength in this long history of a people who have decided that they will follow God, follow Christ’s example of love for the world, even if it means getting in trouble with the people who hold power in the world,” said Villegas. “This history of civil disobedience as part of the Mennonite tradition feels like a guiding light to me.”
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has been collecting donations for immigration detainee care kits that provide clothes and items for basic human needs to people when they are released after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol and ICE. They have also led learning tours along the border to bring awareness and provide tools for advocacy and engaging others in migration issues.
“We said back when we passed the Churchwide Statement on Immigration in 2003 and 2014 that we would commit to a number of concrete actions,” said Byron Pellecer, associate conference minister for Western District Conference, and a member of the team who worked on the recent resolution. “We have accomplished some of them, but there is still a lot work to do.”
Several of these actions still need our urgent attention, Pellecer said, including learning about the political and economic situations that push and pull people’s migration to the U.S., advocating for just and humane immigration policies for immigrants and refugees by contacting our elected officials, and partnering with immigrant congregations to plan church services or community events.
“The best way for congregations to become involved in immigrant justice in their communities is to form relationships with those most closely affected by and engaged in the work and listen for needs,” said Miller.
For congregations and small groups interested in faith formation resources, MC USA’s Radical Hospitality: Responding to the Issue of Immigration, a free six-week curriculum, is available for use in English and Spanish. Immigration and the Bible, a Bible study produced by Mennonite Mission Network, introduces biblical foundations for the care and support of immigrants.
“The church recognizes our call to practice radical hospitality to the most vulnerable among us in these urgent times,” said Sue Park-Hur, denominational minister for Transformative Peacemaking. “MC USA will prioritize this commitment by continuing to share resources on immigration, offering learning tours, highlighting stories from across the church, and providing worship resources to help connect how our actions are rooted in our faith.”
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The Girls Who Pry Open Doors and Climb Over Walls
We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm
by Lola Lafon
translated from the French by David and Nicole Ball
Seagull Books, 2014
Sworn Virgin
by Elvira Dones
translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford
And Other Stories, 2014
In identity novels — stories about the search for one — the adventure novel is a common path. Identity is a reward the hero sets off to claim, so that he can then have success and a place in the world. Even when the story isn’t a fable or a fantasy novel, that is the hero’s life: he departs and returns, bringing home identity and self-knowledge. The use of the male pronoun is intentional. That is the standard in these narratives. In the face of this, Lola Lafon’s We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm and Elvira Dones’ Sworn Virgin are very much stories of female protagonists seeking their own identities. In both, identity is not out there to be claimed but something that they must define. Outside influences seek again and again to violate their boundaries of personal definition, to force another, undesired, definition onto them.
Lafon cuts straight to the heart of this difference in establishing an identity:
It’s the restful legend of the impossible escape and its consequences, a legend at once so sweet and sad that we’ve been chewing on it since childhood. Watch out. You’re going to hurt yourself. Oh, a falling bird, don’t look. The story of the threat that awaits girls who venture out to places where they’d been told never to go, the story of girls who pry open doors and nights, climb over walls, walk through forests, streets, and parking lots.
Men are encouraged to go open those doors, climb those walls, and through that, achieve the full life that comes with self-defined identity, on the other hand, and these two novels fight against this, woman are taught passivity. These heroines refuse that. Lafon and Dones write women who find ways to push back those external forces, to evade or to slip through cracks.
Dones’ Sworn Virgin is the story of a person with two names, two identities, and the emergence of a third. Hana Doda is a young woman in Albania, trying to be a successful student while also a faithful daughter to her adopted parents, her aunt and uncle. Before she can finish her studies, her aunt passes and her uncle falls ill. Leaving school, caring for him, Hana makes trips from the country to the city for medicine. These trips are dangerous for a woman, and in the traditional perspective of the village (“the threat that awaits girls”) is unbecoming behavior. Her uncle, against earlier promises, arranges a marriage for her, to secure her the only future he can imagine. Hana wants to refuse the marriage, but loves her uncle and will not embarrass him before his death. Breaking from the role his role her would do that. His misogyny outweighs his love as he tells her, “A woman who is not married is worth nothing.”
To protect herself from unwanted marriage, escape the threats of the masculine world, and make her uncle proud of her, Hana turns to an old and rare Albanian tradition: that of the sworn virgin. This means living as a man, dressing as a man, drinking and smoking as one, and hunting. Subtly, we see her treat a visiting female friend, Blerta, differently: blunt, crude, making sure she knows which of them is in control. The confinement is that she must never go back and always remain a virgin, or be punished by death. The day she makes this choice, she scratches the date into a wall, marking her rebirth as Mark Doda. It’s her first rebirth; there are others to come.
Rebirths appear again in We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm. This death and rebirth, the woman as phoenix, seeking to be born into an identity that allows her to soar and escape that cycle is the uncovered path of both books.
When Sworn Virgin opens, Hana is at the Washington airport, arriving in America to again begin a new life. Crossing the border to a new land and culture, gender boundaries are permeable again: “Even the village knows he left holding the passport of a woman.” In one sentence, Doda is both man and woman, both Hana and Mark. Borders matter in these books, create dangerous places and save places, and it is in the crossings that identities are molded. In her village in Albania, she was without question, without complications a man. Before that, she was a woman, with those specific roles. In the city, she remains defined by the roles of a woman, but they come with new possibilities, studying and poetry. In the United States, Doda finds more avenues towards freedom, but obstacles remain, and choice does not automatically make her free. It is a world reflected in We Are the Birds when the narrator concedes that they are “[r]avaged by a modern sadness.”
Doda arrives as Mark, with plans to be Hana again, or for the first time. She turns to a cousin, Lila, and her family: Albanians who have become Americans. The family is welcoming, though unable, to understand the struggle of Doda’s identity. They want to be integrated Americans, do not want to stick out, and have bought into the culture and economy of their new land—though the young daughter provides a more progressive perspective. This family situation sets her path far apart from the three heroines of Birds. There, family is chosen, banded together to rage against the culture and economy that threatens them, banded together. It is the world that family wants to change, whereas Doda’s biological family wants her to change. At one point, her cousin tells her, “No one will give you a job if you look weird.” Weird is bad, a job is good, participation mandatory. Facing the product culture of the United States, on her first night in her new and temporary home, she’s afraid to even use the white towels for fear of ruining them.
Through a death and a rebirth, the family of three in Birds comes together. This time it is bodily, with the very first words, a fragment standing alone, dedicated to the beat of the body, “Your heart.” These words are narrated by someone who, in the most prominent facet of her identity, a dancer, must be in tune with her body. This opening is a letter by the narrator to her dear friend Émile. Émile’s heart stopped suddenly, nearly killing her. She is slowly brought out of a coma, out of ashes to life.
The fear of loss is heartrending, the narrator’s vulnerability coming from openness to her emotions. The world is set against the three and would rather they not have emotions, or have the wild excess it expects as a weakness of women. When the three instead show again and again that their emotions run to their core and are a strength, when they forge weapons from their passions to turn against the world with, the world is frightened. In a time of political unrest, they become anarchists, both joining others and acting on their own, scattering their messages in graffiti across Paris.
During the uncertainty of Émile’s recovery, the narrator befriends a figure both knew from their repeated trips to the theatre, a fellow theatergoer they named the Little Girl at the End of the Lane. The Little Girl gives the narrator a name, Voltairine (in honor of a 19th-century feminist and anarchist), the only name she has in the book. This naming is her own rebirth, and begins her break from the private and passive world she shares with Émile into active engagement against the world alongside the Little Girl, and eventually Émile. This birth shades her original identity from us. That identity, an unnamed immigrant—one who seeks to cross borders, living off the grid in France, afraid of the state—makes her that much more vulnerable.
These two births are, heartbreakingly, not the first cycle of the phoenix for either Voltairine or Émile. The two met in a support group for woman who have been raped—a word that, like victim or survivor, Voltairine is reluctant to use, for all the unwanted meanings it brings: “I don’t particularly want to claim the status of victim.” Together — “Our bodies bonded” — they neither let that become their identity nor do they hide from the fire, so they the rise from ashes: “We do each other the courtesy of not imagining what happened to the other one. We’ll never bring up those men who decreed, that year, the end of the first part of our lives.” What is a present and acknowledged threat in Sworn Virgin is here a fact of daily existence.
The threat of rape is the most fearsome tool of control against leaving the house, against seeking identity. It is a threat made not by those who rape, but by the entirety of culture, by those who “mean well.” Their experience with rape and its aftermath is inescapable for Voltairine and Émile, and Lafon does not hold back on the experience of life after: not the aftermath, the anger, the self-blame, the destruction of trust of self and others, the way that friends and the court system fail those who have been abused by rape. Yet Birds is not a novel about rape itself. There is no message or morality behind the open confrontation of rape culture. It is instead a story of lives in which rape exists as experience, the aftermath ever ongoing, sometimes barely visible, other times threatening to dominate a life. That this is exceptional is frightening.
Though more difficult to confront, rape and rape culture are not separate from other aspects of their lives, of the ways the world acts on them, or the ways they seek to act. They were raped, in different contexts, and they are never allowed to forget. A man, met the day before, friendly, respectable, kicking protestors out from their sleeping spot: “his eyes catch, snap up a piece of warm meat when a girl gets dressed in front of him.” Lafon acknowledges one of the great yet subtle horrors in the way rape is portrayed in film and books. Rape is threatened/enacted so the man can protect / avenge his lover. It is a lazy way to define a “complex,” scarred woman. This is rape as spectacle, as shock, “Women who are merely raped do not arouse empathy.” With Voltairine and Émile, we do have empathy for their suffering through rape, but more so we have empathy for their ongoing engagement with the world, for their lives and selves apart from that assault.
It is an inescapably bodily experience. It is a complication that Hana is able to avoid, perhaps because she escaped rape, escaped someone taking so much control of her body that she needed to abandon it. Hana is a virgin and does not believe she has fully experienced her body. Voltairine has been made to feel sex and violence blended. Intimate blending of bodies in love or simple pleasure has instead become “an execution, not a sexual act.” Yet others, her rapist, courts, friends, will insist that it remains the latter.
It is through her life, her chosen path as a dancer, that Voltairine comes to terms with her body. She loves dancing, takes pride in the effort, control, and beauty of ballet. She dances for herself and for Émile. Through it, she knows her body. In the control, the strength of her body, it is an act of resistance and dominance. But the dangers are undeniable: the damage of tightly wrapped toes; the demand to be thin; her teacher coming to conflict with the politics of the government and being forbidden to teach. Threatening, condescending, to Voltairine is the insistent sexualization of dance.
This sexualization is also a demonization. Her bodily act, asexual, for herself, is transformed, against her will, into a filthy sex act for others. They do not want to let her definition live. A detective, female, sneers at her, asking if she dances topless. It isn’t the first time this belief that she cannot be anything but a stripper, her dance a performance for males instead of art for itself is encountered. Alongside this, her dance returns to that fear instilled in women: “I go down stairs like a grandmother with stiff legs, so strongly has the fear of falling been instilled in me.” Dance is, like sex, a bodily act that brings pleasure, so it is made into something to be feared, then controlled by others.
Sexuality is a necessary facet of Doda’s identity creation in Sworn Virgin also. As Mark becomes more and more alive as Hana, sexuality becomes increasingly a part of life. Hana knows she has desires, that her body craves pleasure, but all she has been shown is sexuality as a force directed towards her, not enacted with and for herself. In Albania, on her last trip to the city, the man giving her a ride home attempts to rape her. She stabs him in the chest — an act of defensiveness which in his eyes makes her nothing but a “Peasant woman! Mountain bitch!” Then it’s on to America, land of open sexuality, land of sexual pursuit and freedom, where Lila pushes Hana towards man after man, playing the role of matchmaker.
Lila is trying to help her cousin, but this too is a trap. The set-ups are a Westernized version of arranged marriages. Lila wants Hana to be sexy, Hana wants to be “normal and acceptable.” In her sexual hesitancy, in her first attempts to masturbate, she seeks security within herself. Lila only offers “sexy” as an outward move, to pull others, namely men, in. Lila, a woman who clearly takes pride in how liberated she is from her conservative past, shows her boundedness. We’re heartbroken for her, and hope Hana does not listen, when she tells Hana “a woman learns to get pleasure from masturbation after she has had full sex. You need a man to find out what you really feel, to see whether you feel pleasure.”
With body and sexuality as the base, the forces of order want clearly delineated lines to box in women like Hana and Votairine. Until arriving in America, Hana lived her life in two ways: clearly differentiated masculine and feminine. In the modern world, those boundaries erode and confuse, to the frustration of those around her. In Birds, boundaries ruined from the beginning. Voltairine, Émile, and the Little Girl at the End of the Lane reject the role of woman that the world tries to give them. The forces of traditional order — the police, a boyfriend, and ex-boyfriend — through arrests, threats, rape try to push them back into a matched conception of women. In Sworn Virgin, those who have faith in order are unsettled by Hana, and in Birds, they feel so threatened as to become violent. Hana is mostly isolated, desiring Lila as an ally, even as she shows that she believes in woman as defined by others. The insular group of Birds allows them to retreat to their own private world, and then strike out. When their private identities are enacted in public, the world fears them.
The order, dominant male culture, rape culture, is terrified of anything that threatens the illusion of a unified existence. Those who are used to having their way are the most easily threatened, with the most to lose. Any loss reminds them that they too are vulnerable. So if women set out an adventure to win identity, those women could take something men are used to being given. When the Little Girl at the End of the Lane spray-paints on Voltairine’s former boyfriend’s door the date he raped her, he calls, frightened, for himself of course, pretending it is for her, and apologetic, somehow making himself a victim of “that night, the worst in his life.”
Power, physicality, threat, these belong on the side of order, of men and the women who side with them. For them, it is part of their identity, cultured, allowed, and encouraged. One night, picked up walking in the rain, Voltairine and the Little Girl become unsettled at the leers, the physical pressure of the three men who stopped to supposedly help them. The hints, the why are you here all alone, why do you adventure into the wild, become too much. A request to stop is laughed at, mocked. The two sides meet at the line of decency. Mocking, laughing at the women who fear the threat of the male, their casual wielding of control, is acceptable, allowable, normal behavior. The escalation, the next step, the Little Girl’s stab in the neck with a pen to ensure the women are freed, is to men a horror, a crossing of the line. Their escalation is excusable by society, but a woman breaking from passivity to end it is shocking to them, and punishable. These moments are the women insisting on their adventure.
Voltairine, Émile, the Little Girl at the End of the Lane, and Hana are all asked to play roles, to be Woman. Hana is supposed to learn from her cousin, to perform, even as Lila’s daughter shows an advancing, youthful and modern feminism. The Little Girl is considered mentally and emotionally unstable by those who know her. Her boyfriend uses this to turn care into control. She writes endlessly, pieces sometimes understandable, other times less so. She is ordered to take medication, which leads to the consideration of the word patient: “One who is subjected to something who is the object of an action” or “The person of thing who is subjected to something, who is passive.” When she seems to become more and more unstable, it’s like a challenge from Lafon. Will we give up on her, decide she is mad and like others in her life, deny her experiences and thoughts? Or will we side with her, even if she becomes a risk to herself?
These women are tasked to be a patient, not to be cared for, healed suffering, but to be passive, defined by a world that wants to do with them as it will. They all refuse this. Voltairine and the Little Girl pursue the radical, and it brings them suffering and loss, but not defeat, and Émile finds her own path. Hana Doda finds happiness with her fullest life in her body, safe and whole. She does find herself a man, but one who gives space for her individual experience, one who does not want to define her. Most importantly, he is calm living with confusion, a lack of clarity. For all of these women, poetry matters, ambiguity is necessary to thriving life. Borders clearly drawn and defined are deadly, a trap. They want porous borders, flexible selves. The world of order cannot tolerate this because then women, people, become unpredictable, untamable, but it is in liberated identities, selves that cross borders to meet other border-crossing selves, that people come to life. Adventures are only possible when walls are climbed, forests explored, and the heroines shaped and created along the way.
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Book Blast ~ "The Complete Amish Wedding Series" by Becca Fisher
The Complete Amish Wedding Series This boxed set features all six books in the Amish Wedding series including:
Amish Wedding Rebecca Lapp has her life back together after a tough break up. She's found a new man and is finally happy once again. But when her ex comes back into town wanting her back, Rebecca will be forced to make a decision that will change her life forever.
An Amish Widower's Heart Two years after Henry King loses his wife in a freak accident, he's still trying to cobble his life back together. But he knows that if he doesn't stop lingering on the past, he'll have no future. But can he love again? And just how far is the journey back to happiness?
The Amish Late Bloomer Almost all of Elizabeth Stoltz's friends are married with kids. Elizabeth meanwhile finds herself back on the dating scene again after a crushing heartbreak. And she quickly finds out that being single at twenty-one year old leaves few options for finding the perfect guy. But Elizabeth is determined to find the love of her life. Will Elizabeth be able to find the love she's been looking her whole life for, is it already too little too late for her?
Beachy Amish Romance After a rough break up, Benjamin Stoltz moves from Lancaster to the Florida Amish community of Pinecraft looking for a fresh start. But Benjamin soon realizes that finding romance in Florida has some unique problems of its own.
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"I don't ever want this moment to end," Hannah King said. "Neither do I," Henry King replied. It was a brisk fall day. The kind that made you want to snuggle close to someone you loved. For Hannah and Henry, that was easy. They lived for each other. They were a match made in heaven. And when they were together, it felt like paradise. Hannah and Henry had been married almost two years. And yet the honeymoon phase was far from over. They still had that glow about each other. An undeniable chemistry. The couple had heard that marriage was work. That everything wouldn't go as smoothly as they expected. They didn't find that to be true though. For Hannah and Henry, the married life was amazingly simple--even for an Amish couple. After work, they always tried to watch the sunset together. It was a tradition, carrying over from their first date. And Lord willing, they caught a glimpse of the sun dancing across the sky as much as they could. "Do you think it's always going to be like this?" Hannah asked. "Gott is the only one that knows for sure. But I sure hope so," Henry remarked. "You know, I've been thinking a lot about the future," Hannah said. "Only good things I hope," Henry replied. "Are you kidding? I have you. What could go wrong?" Hannah asked. "That's my line," Henry joked. "I figured you wouldn't mind me borrowing it," Hannah replied. "You can borrow it anytime you want if you're going to use it on me," Henry said. "Why don't we go back to talking about our future?" Hannah joked. "It's funny. My parents always brought me up to stay in the present. To just appreciate what was in front of me," Henry explained. "Well, I certainly like what's in front of me," Hannah interrupted. "Thanks to you though, I've found myself starting to look to the future," Henry admitted. "Look at you, living dangerously," Hannah joked. "I wish I could be more like you. Looking at the world with nothing but hope in my eyes. But I was raised to keep my feet on the ground. To not let my head drift into the clouds. So optimism is all new to me," Henry said. "Don't worry. I'm with you every step of the way," Hannah replied. "I can't think of a better guide," Henry remarked. "But now that I'm changing your mind about the world, how does the future look now?" Hannah asked. "As bright as can be," Henry said. There were certain memories that Henry could never forget. That became burned into his brain. For Henry, that conversation with his wife was one of them. And although the conversation happened over a year ago, it was still as fresh in Henry's mind as ever. It was the last good memory he had of his wife. The next day she died of a freak brain aneurysm. It was all such a shock. Completely out of the blue. There were no warning signs. No symptoms. In the middle of a conversation a blood vessel in her brain just blew and she collapsed to the ground. There was no way to prepare for the a tragedy like that, especially when it was such a freak occurence. Henry turned to Gott for an explanation, but received none. And he'd been trying to cobble his life back together ever since. It was all such a complete tragedy. The best thing in Henry's life was taken from him in an instant, without warning and without reason. Not to mention that Hannah was only twenty-three years old. She had so much to look forward to. So much in her future. There should have been children on the way. Glorious days spent in the park. Vacations at the beach. And holidays with relatives. It would be a simple life. But it would also be a joyful one. It just wasn't meant to be though. Even a year after her death, Henry woke up in disbelief that Hannah was gone. And despite having the whole bed available to him, Henry only slept on his side. He never dared to inch his body to Hannah's side. It was just a force of habit. He knew that it defied logic. That Hannah wouldn't be returning to claim her side of the bed. Still, it was the little routines that gave Henry comfort.
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Keith Olbermann on (Un-)Real Americans
I missed this exceptional Special Comment last night, so I'm thrilled to find it in my In box today, courtesy of Truthout.
But first, a small Special Comment of my own:
Thank you, Mr. Olbermann, for once again bringing out your famous angry edge: when one is attacking the three-headed monster--say hello to racism, fearmongering, and new-millennium-McCarthyism!--that is the current incarnation of the McCain campaign, only the very sharpest weapons will suffice.
Okay, here's the transcript:
KO: I have frequently insisted I would never turn the platform of the Special Comment into a regular feature. But as these last two weeks of this extraordinary, and extraordinarily disturbing, presidential campaign project out in front of us, I fear I may have to temporarily amend that presumption.
I hope it will be otherwise, but I suspect this will be the first of nightly pieces, most shorter than this until further notice. And thus a Special Comment tonight about the last five days of the divisive, ugly, paranoid bleatings of this Presidential race, culminating in the sliming of Colin Powell for his endorsement of Sen. Obama.
There was once a very prominent sportswriter named Dick Young whose work, with ever-increasing frequency, became peppered with references to "my America."
"I can't believe this is happening in My America;" "We do not tolerate these people in My America;" "This man does not belong in my America." His America gradually revealed itself.
Insular. Isolationist. Backwards-looking. Mindlessly flag-waving. Racist. No second chances. A million rules, but only for the other guy. Dick Young died in 1987, but he has been re-born in the presidential campaign as it has unfolded since last Thursday night.
In that time, Gov. Sarah Palin, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer, and Rush Limbaugh, have revealed that there is a measurable portion of this country that is not interested in that which the vast majority view as democracy or equality or opportunity. They want only control and they want the rest of us, symbolically, perhaps physically out.
Gov. Palin:
"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington D.C.," you told a fund-raiser in North Carolina last Thursday, to kick off this orgy of condescending elitism.
"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."
Governor, your prejudice is overwhelming. It is not just "pockets" of this country that are "pro-America" Governor. America is "pro-America. "And the "Real America" of yours, Governor, is where people at your rallies shout threats of violence, against other Americans, and you say nothing about them or to them.
What you are seeing is not patriotism, Governor. What has surrounded you since your nomination, has been the echoing shout of mob rule. Indeed, that shout has echoed to Minnesota, where the next day an unstable Congresswoman named Michele Bachmann added to the ugly cry.
"I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America, or anti-America. I think people would love to see an expose' like that."
For nearly two years, Ms. Bachmann, who made her first political bones by keeping the movie "Aladdin" from being shown at a Minnesota Charter School because she thought it promoted paganism and witchcraft, has had a seat in the government of this nation, a seat from which she has spewed the most implausible, hateful, narrow-minded garbage imaginable.
Well, Congresswoman, you have gotten that "expose'" you wanted, have you not? Though not perhaps in the way you imagined.
Since giving voice to your remarkable delusion that there are members of Congress who are "anti-America," and the extraordinary tap-dance of sleaze and innuendo about Sen. Obama which followed, the challenger for your house Seat, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has been inundated by donations - $7,000 in the three days after you spoke.
Because the America you perceive, Congresswoman with its goblins and ghosts and vast unseen hordes of traitors and fellow travelers and Senators who won't ban "Aladdin" exists only in your head, and in the heads of the others who must rationalize the failures in their own lives and of their own policies as somebody else's fault as a conspiracy to deny them an America of exclusionism and religious orthodoxy and prejudice, about which they must accuse, and murmur, and shout threats, and cleave the nation into pro-America and anti-America."
And back it comes to the McCain campaign.
And Sen. McCain's talking head, Ms. Pfotenhauer, who on this very network Saturday, and seemingly without the slightest idea that dismissive prejudice dripped from every word, analyzed the race in Virginia.
"I can tell you that the Democrats have just come in from the District of Columbia and moved into northern Virginia," she said. "But the rest of the state, 'real Virginia,' if you will, I think will be very responsive to Sen. McCain's message."
Again, a toxic message. The parts of the country that agree with Nancy Pfotenhauer are real; the others, not. Ms. Pfotenhauer, why not go the distance on this one? It was Sen. McCain's own brother who called that part of Virginia nearest Washington "communist country."
Cut to the chase, Madam. No matter the intended comic hyperbole of Joe McCain. This is the point-isn't it? Leave out the real meaning of "Communism," Madam, Joe McCain reduced it to a buzz-word; it has no more true definition right now than does "Socialism," or the phrase "a man who sees America like you and I see America."
It's about us and them. The pro and the anti. Never mind, Madam, that the bi-secting of this country you would happily inspire, means taking a tiny crack in a dam and not repairing it but burrowing into it.
It is not enough that Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama might differ. One must be real and the other false. One must be pro-America and the other anti. Go back and, as your boss Rick Davis said today, "re-think," Mr. McCain's insistence not to drag the sorry bones of Jeremiah Wright into this campaign. And whatever you do, Ms. Pfotenhauer, allow no one enough time to think about the widening crack in the dam.
And now all of this comes together to attack Colin Powell. "Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race," writes Rush Limbaugh, the grand wizard of this school of reactionary non-thought.
"OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with." It is not conceivable that Powell might reject McCain for the politics of hate and character assassination, or just for policy.
In the closed, sweaty world of the blind allegiances of Limbaugh, one of "us" who endorses one of "them," must be doing so for some other blind allegiance, like the color of skin.
The answer to this primordial muck, must be addressed to one man only. Sen. McCain, where are you? I disagree with you on virtually every major point of policy and practice. And yet I do not think you "anti-America." I would not hesitate to join you in time of crisis in defense of this country. Fortunately you did not echo this chorus of base hatred. But neither have you repudiated it.
What is "pro-America", Senator? Is it pro-America to call a man a racist because he endorses a different candidate? Senator, you have based your campaign on many premises, but the foremost (and the most nearly admirable) of all of them, have been the pitches about "reaching across the aisle," and putting, as your ubiquitous banners reed, "country first."
So when Colin Powell endorses your opponent, you say nothing as your supporters and proxies paint him in this "Anti-America" frame and place him in Gov. Palin's un-real America. Sen. McCain, did not Gen. Powell just "reach across the aisle?" Did he not, in his own mind at least, "put country first?" Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to, if not applaud, then at least quiet those in your half of our fractured political equation?
Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to say "enough" to Republican smears without end? Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to insist that, win or lose, you will not be party to a campaign that devolves into hatred and prejudice and divisiveness? And Sen. McCain, if it is not your responsibility, whose is it?
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180 tracks from 1968 have been recommended.
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Sunshine Among Us performed by Eternity’s Children 1968
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Ahh, how much I love Eternity's Children's sounds...
A week ago, I bought their CD where 25 songs in, as my bootleg's mix was terrible and no main vocal on Lifetime Day! Anyway, now I enjoy its perfect tracks, especially Lifetime Day, Your World and this song Sunshine Among Us. I do love Sunshine..'s catchy melody, beautifully thick effected harmonies and groovy backing rythm section including keyboards.
By the way, the liner notes says " However, each year, on the day before Thanksgiving, Bruce Blackman leads members of various Eternity's Children lineups at a benefit in Greenville, Mississippi featuring reunions of the area's best-loved acts" wow...this year also?!?!...I really wanna join the event!!
from Eternity's Children (Tower)
29 Aug 03 ·luna: Bruce Blackman comes to The Krakerjacks Annual re-union. He is an invited guest, it is an event every nite-b4-thanksgiving that we;The Krackerjacks, have a big throw down in own,and Bruce's hometown. Charlie Ross is our Bassist; nothing what-so-ever to do with the children or Starbuck.We're all seasoned musicians, and have been together since 1981.
29 Aug 03 ·luna: PS Now that I'm fully awake,let me state that Bruce is a very good friend of ours,as we've all been around him, or played in groups with him since the 60's. He is a musical genius. He is also a very talented writer. The best keyboard player I've ever known. The Biloxi days seem like a dream now, man, we had some fun! Just wanted to clear that up! We all love ya, Bruce.
02 Sep 03 ·493440: Bruce: I don't know who you are Luna but I appreciate the nice comments. By the way, that crap in the Eternity's Children liner notes about me leading you guys in G'ville is totally bogus. I have no idea where that came from at all, certainly not from me. The whole Biloxi/Children thing is a vague memory to me as well. And by the way, the Krackerjacks kick ass!
07 Sep 03 ·luna: You know me, Bruce; I'll tell you when I see you again. You've always amzed me, and I admired you from a distance. I was the one yall left behind when The Omen started at the Fiesta. See ya soon!
22 Mar 05 ·cks6: Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of the Krackerjack's CD entitled "Rockin in the Delta"? Please email me at [email protected] if you have any information. Thanks!
02 Jan 07 ·Andelyn: Hi everyone. Had to jump in here. I spent many of my 'growing up' years in Greenville, MS. My brother, Allen Graves, was a member of the Lancers mentioned here. I recognize a lot of the names surfacing in the posts here.
06 May 08 ·eyazoo: Looking for a Krackerjack CD...any one would do. I love them and would especially like to get one with that "green grass" song. I grew up in Yazoo county and my step-dad actually played with them for a while....so I had a CD, but it has disappeared (I think someone took it). Anyway, It would be great if the Krackerjacks could post something on their myspace page about purchasing CDs.
An Angel Is Love performed by The Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra 1968
The song I have been eager to get since I saw a movie "Barbarella" about 6 years ago. Finally I got the soundtrack CD. I do love the theme tune, Barbarella, too, but this somehow makes me feel "America", the place I have been longing for.
What mekes me feel so? Bob Crewe's sexy and gorgeous vocal? Cool horn and brass arrangements? widely spreading atomosphere? Everything is attracting reminding me of the scene where Pygar is flying after getting his new wings!
from Barbarella Original Soundtrack, available on CD (Harkit Records HRKCD 8004)
23 Oct 02 ·n-jeff: Its hard to pick just one track off an LP thats this good. It took me ten years to track down my copy, and I had to pay full collectors price for it, but it was worth every penny. By the way, I don't think thats Bob singing, is it? He sings on one of his other LP's and its not too, er, memorable.
24 Oct 02 ·masayo: According to the liner notes, "Bob Crew was persuaded by producer Dino de Laurentiis to sing on the wonderful end cue, 'An Angel is Love'." But I haven't listened to his other songs, so I can't say it's definitely his voice, though...
24 Oct 02 ·n-jeff: Liner notes, blimey. Top song even so.
19 Oct 03 ·heinmukk: truly great song. but i have to say, that i like the theme tune more. but it's maybe because i only listen to it while watching the intro with jane fonda undressing. best intro scene of a movie ever! and jane is supersexy, isn't she?! candy!!
11 Mar 04 ·skooba: Does anyone know where could download mp3s of the Babarella soundtrack? Any other recomendations welcome.
11 Mar 04 ·delicado: It's in print on Harkit Records. Here's one of many places you can buy it: http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/barbarella.htm.
12 Mar 04 ·olli: probably my favourite soundtrack ever. has to agree with heinmukk though, the title tune is better. the version in the actual movie is a bit different from the soundtrack version, probably worth ripping from the dvd if you can get your hands on it. I also love the track "fight in flight", it probably has one of the coolest combos of funk guitars and string arrangements there is.... there�s a rerelease of the album with some bonus tracks by the young lovers out, (some pretty standard easy listening cover versions of existing tracks, nice if you're a completist though.) dont remember wich label it�s on though.
I Think It’s Going To Rain Today performed by Dusty Springfield 1968
Recommended by FlyingDutchman1971 [profile]
The lady may have left the stage, but her spirit lives on in her recordings, and this is among her finest!! Sadly unreleased in the US for 28 years, this gloriously somber song was included in the 1995 anthology box set. Dusty sings with a sadness in her voice as she vocally paints a picture of a dreary day. While the overcast sky fails to crush her spirit, it does provide an opportunity for introspection and reflection. She is accompanied only by piano and orchestral strings which give this song a beautifully sad sound that make it perfect for playing on a rainy day.
from the Dusty Springfield Anthology (Mercury/Polygram 553501), available on CD (Mercury/Polygram 553501)
22 Apr 04 ·delicado: I must say, this is a quite brilliant recording; thanks for mentioning it! I heard the original Randy Newman version the other day, but to me, neither the arrangement or vocal performance were a patch on Dusty. Not that I'm biased or anything!
I Say A Little Prayer performed by Aretha Franklin 1968
Ms. Franklin tears into yet another great song and delivers a performance that is second to none! Poor Dionne Warwick's version doesn't stand a chance against the queen of soul!! Aretha sits at the piano and turns out a beautiful and emotional hymn to love. Hallelujah, sister soul!
from Now (Atlantic 8186)
available on CD - Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul, the Atlantic Sessions (Box Set) (Atlantic R2 71063)
01 Oct 05 ·Flippet: My favourite recording of Aretha's. An awesome song and an awesome recording!!
Dream A Little Dream Of Me performed by Cass Elliot (a.k.a. Mama Cass) 1968
Does anyone NOT like this song?!! A great nostalgic feel and that glorious voice... A perfect moment in music history!
from Dream A Little Dream (Dunhill DS 50040)
available on CD - Dream A Little Dream: the Cass Elliot Collection (MCAD 11523)
03 Mar 04 ·inbloom44: *sighs* How I adore Mama Cass.
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Mystery Foto#30 Solved:The First Road Test of Long Island Motor Vehicle Company’s “Montauk” in 1901
Alene Scoblete, a librarian and archivist for the Rockville Centre Public Library, needed help in solving this weekend's Mystery Foto.
Alene: "Among the many photos in our archives is the one named "The Merrick Road in Winter." It looks as though the motorists are posing in front of a painted backdrop, rather than actually motoring down Merrick Road. I posted this photo on Cars of 1900 - 1930s on Facebook and most posters thought it was a one-off, homemade horseless carriage. A patron of mine who is a car enthusiast thinks that, because of the retractable roof, the light and the undercarriage, that it was not homemade, but made by a company in the late 1800s. This same patron suggested that I contact you to see if you wanted to weigh in and/or post this on your website for others to weigh in. Please have a look at this photo and let me know. Thanks so much! "
Through the amazing research of Sam Berliner III and Ariejan Bos, Alene your Rockville Centre Mystery Foto is no longer a mystery.
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
-Identity the vehicle:
The "Montauk"was a 4-passenger gasoline surrey built by the Long Island Motor Vehicle Company in Brooklyn. This was thefirst vehicle built by this company and was designed by engineer Charles Rockliff.
The Long Island Motor Vehicle Company was incorporated in New York State with $100,000 capital (equivalent to $2.8 million today.). The directors of the company were Rockliff, A.R. Pardington and F.G. Webb.
-What was the date of the photo?
Based on the caption of the photo in A.R. Pardington's archives, the image was taken on January 6, 1901 during the first road test of the vehicle. The road test was 63.5 miles from Brooklyn to Rockville Centre. Alene, this is the reason the photo is in the Rockville Centre archives! The photo was taken by photographer H.B. Fullerton, who later became director of development (PR) for the L.I.R.R.
-Who were the occupants?
As described in Fullerton's 1901 The Automobile Magazine article (discovered by Ariejan Bos), there were four passengers in the vehicle during the road test; F.B. Webb (the driver). designer Charles Rockliff, Pardington and Fullerton.
The rear passenger was A.R. Pardington. The fourth passenger was H.B. Fullerton who took the photo. Both F.G.Webb and A.R. Pardington were officials for the Vanderbilt Cup Races. Pardington was the first general manager and a vice-president of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
Kudos to both Sam Berliner and Ariejan Bos for their spectacular research in solving this Rockville Centre Mystery Foto!
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 25, 1901
"STARTLING AUTOMOBILE TESTS"
"A Brooklyn Inventor Perfects a Great Fuel Saving Vehicle."
"F.G. Webb handled the vehicle during the test and H.B. Fullerton. chairman of the good roads committee and A.R. Pardington were passengers and statisticians."
Standard Catalog of American Cars (1805-1942) by Beverly Rae Kimes and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
"The company's principal activity was a garage for the repair of vehicles, but it stood ready to fill any orders form customers desiring to have an automobile built. Early in 1902 Charles Rockcliff, who served as the firm's general manager, reported that two such cars were then being built.."
Submitted by Sam Berliner III
Found in the Pardington archives in the Handley Collection at the Smithtown Public Library. Reference: Sam Berliner III's wonderful website.
TEST RECORD,
DISTANCE: 63.5 (Miles)
TIME: 5 Hours 12 Minutes
(MILES) PER HOUR: 14.22 MPH
(AVERAGE) PER MILE: 4 Minutes 55 Seconds
PASSENGERS. 4 (Webb, Rockcliff, Pardington & Fullerton)
WEIGHTS: WAGON 1,800 (Lbs) PASS. 690 (Lbs)
FUEL: 4.5 GALLONS
COST: $0.63 ($0.14 per gallon)
MILES PER GALLON: 14.11
COST PER MILE: $.01
COST PER PASS: 1/4 CENT
WATER: 6 GALLONS
NO BREAKS
Submitted by Ariejan Bos
The Automobile Magazine, Volume 3, 1901
Sixty Miles for Sixty Cents Over Long Island Roads
By H. B. Fullerton
Fullerton was looking for an American name for "automobilist and chauffeur."
Merrick Road was described as "being almost level running through many beautiful villages."
"The writer recently made a trip, which was virtually a test of a new motor vehicle traveling over the improved streets of Brooklyn and good roads of Long Island."
"The vehicle was as four passenger surrey built by well known Long Island names, the surrey for instance, being called "Montauk."
"Mr. F.G. Webb, Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Long Island Automobile Club, handled the steering lever throughout the run. Mr. Charles Rockcliff, the engineer of the company wasone of the party..."
"The number of passengers carried was four, the fourth beingMr. A.R. Pardington, of New York and New Jersey Telephone Company."
The cost of gasoline was 14 cents per gallon! The average miles per gallon was 14.11. The average speed was 14.22 miles per hour.
"During the whole trip no horse was unduly harmed, in fact the horses of Long Island seem to be growing used to the automobile, or at least, automobiles do not seem to create as much consternationas the bicycle did in 1896 an 1897."
The Horseless Age, October 30, 1901
The Horseless Age, March 26, 1902
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Jul 25 2015 rich 10:56 AM
Being a big fan of history. The black beast is a top pick in my automotive favorites.
Hi Rich, thanks so much!
Jul 25 2015 Ted 11:14 PM
All I can say about this one is the the car was built about 1830, I think it’s electric powered and I recognize one of the two people,a driver in the Vanderbilt Cup Races,but can’t name him. I tried anyway
Jul 26 2015 S. Berliner, III 12:54 AM
Gotcha, this time, Howard! This has been on my LI page 3, http://sbiii.com/longis-3.html#liautomf, since at least 2003! That’s Hal Fullerton at the right, our boy, Arthur Pardington at the left, and F. G. Webb in back, taken by Hal on Jan 6th, 1901. The auto was the first built by the Long Island Motor Vehicle Company and this was it’s test drive. Supporting documents from the back of the photo or a copy are on my web page. Click on my image for a huge 8” x 10” copy. Sam, III
Jul 27 2015 Greg O. 10:02 AM
I’ve run out of time and officially giving up!
I’ll just throw out a guess here and say that the man on the right looks like Louis Chevrolet in the passenger seat of a De Dion-Bouton in 1900/1901.
The man on the left? Another stab in the dark and I’ll guess maybe A.R. Pardington?
Jul 27 2015 Howard Kroplick 8:03 PM
From Ariejan Bos:
Interesting mystery, especially as it appears to be a product from the Long Island Motor Vehicle Company. I vaguely could remember, that the car was recognized before and was mentioned in a LI-related website: http://sbiii.com/longis-3.html#liautomf
The photo appeared in the March issue of The Automobile Magazine Vol.3, 1901, describing a journey across Long Island with this car with a.o. driver H. B. Fullerton and passenger A.R. Pardington (involved in the LIMV Co.). This specific car was a surrey with the model name ‘Montauk’ (they used Long Island names for all their models). It was a motor car (not a steamer), but for specifications I must dig deeper. The Standard Catalog by Beverley Rae Kimes only mentions later products (from about 1902). The company was not a real car producer, but built on order. How many cars they built is unknown, but will not have exceeded more than a dozen or so, probably even less.
Article from The Automobile Magazine is above.
The Long Island Motor (Vehicle) Company remains rather obscure. The article in The Automobile Magazine, which describes the testing of a vehicle from this company, is in fact the first evidence of the company’s existence I could find (together with your find of course). Apparently this vehicle was entered for the Long Island Endurance Run on April 20, 1901, but it didn’t show up (no reason given) (The Horseless Age: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000852669t;view=1up;seq=89).
In The Horseless Age of October 30th,1901 p.647, the incorporation of the Long Island Motor Company (now without ‘Vehicle’) under New York laws was announced (directors Rockliffe, Pardington and Webb).
On March 26, 1902 it was announced that Pardington had almost finished his new belt-driven vehicle.
If this was the same vehicle as the one entered in the Long Island Endurance Run of April 26, I don’t know, but seems logical. The 24 hp car with driver Chas. Rockliffe received participant nr.64 and was by far far the heaviest vehicle in the contest with 3,500 pounds, but it could carry 6 persons (The Horseless Age: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039811511;view=1up;seq=521). If the car actually participated is not clear. In the report of the run (The Horseless Age: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039811511;view=1up;seq=531) it was written that no.64 was ‘failing to put in an appearance’. However, the car was seen during the run by several other participants: making repairs just beyond Manhasset (p.525), before reaching Bayside standing with engine or transmission trouble (p.531), between Bayside and Flushing (p.532, where the car was called patrol car) and between Lake Success and Queens, where the car was being towed (p.533). My guess is therefore that it made it to the start too late because of mechanical problems, started anyway and that these problems lasted during the run itself.
After this event I couldnt find any info on the company, which is more or less in align with the info in Beverly Rae Kimes and Henry Austin Clark. Jr.‘s Standard Catalog of American Cars (1805-1942).
Jul 27 2015 Greg O. 10:11 PM
I’m a little confused, maybe I’m missing something. One sticker on the back states; ‘Passengers 4’, but the other sticker only names the 3 men seen in the photo. Could the unseen/unknown photographer be the 4th passenger? And unless there was a self timer, how could Fullerton be IN the photo as well as being photographer?
From Howard Kroplick
Greg, H.B. Fullerton was the photographer for this photo and also the fourth passenger.
Jul 28 2015 Ted 1:25 AM
This was certainly a very detailed mystery? Thanks to Sam and Ariejan,did a great job, I enjoyed reading it all
Jul 28 2015 frank femenias 1:31 AM
Good stuff Howard. A powerhouse of info to take in and sort in the historical timeline. Outstanding work guys! I’m working on the photos actual location and boiled down to 6 possibilities
I decided to go back and check out the sites that Ariejan had,I could only get into one of them,the other 3 I couldn’t.I don’t know how to do it,don’t want to download too much,what I saw on the first one was good
Jul 28 2015 Art Kleiner 5:48 PM
Great information on this one. Ran out of time and energy tracking this one down.
Jul 28 2015 Howard Kroplick 10:12 PM
From Alene Scoblete:
Howard this is amazing information! I am so pleased and impressed with the results! Thanks so much!
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Watch: How Military Skills Translate to the Tech World
by Cat Cheney
The Got Your 6 Storytellers exemplify all that veterans have to offer.
When Don Faul, head of operations of Pinterest, first went from serving as an Infantry and Reconnaissance leader in the U.S. Marine Corps to seeking opportunities in Silicon Valley, he nearly gave up.
“I didn’t get too many calls back. I didn’t get too many interviews. I didn’t get great feedback from the companies that I was interviewing with,” he says.
The self-described gadget geek nearly came to the conclusion that the tech world might not be for him, but one opportunity led to another, eventually putting Faul in a position to lead. He points to several charts in his talk, speaking about what it takes to go from a flat line to an upward curve. Having joined Facebook in early 2008 before going on to help Pinterest become of the leading social networking companies, Faul knows a thing or two about growth.
“It took me a long time to realize that those skills and experiences that I learned in the Marine Corps were just as relevant at Facebook and Google and Pinterest as they were on the battlefield,” he says.
Watch his talk to learn why leadership is so central is to building a successful company around a culture of sustained innovation.
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Rediff.com » News » Ayodhya Verdict: Waqf Board decides to move SC
Ayodhya Verdict: Waqf Board decides to move SC
Virtually throwing a spanner in the works of a possible reconciliation, the Sunni Central Waqf Board has decided to take the Ayodhya legal battle to the Supreme Court.
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He emphasised, "I am the sole spokesman of this Board and nobody other than me is authorised to speak on behalf of this organization."
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On the possibility of a negotiated settlement of the contentious issue, he said no person had been authorised by the Board to explore talks in this regard.
"If any person is negotiating with other parties, he is doing so on his own," Farooqui said.
Hashim Ansari, one of the litigants in the case, on Sunday claimed he had initiated talks after being asked by the Sunni Wakf Board.
"At its meeting, the Board resolved if any proposal of an out-of-court settlement is made by any party, it will be considered by the Chairman and appropriate decision will be taken after consultations among Board members," Farooqui said.
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Behaviour Based Safety
Saturday February 28, 2009 is International Repetitive Strain Injuries Awareness Day.
The VTHC had this to say on the eve of International RSI Awareness Day:
RSI Day is an opportunity to promote injury prevention and raise awareness about the prevalence of RSI and their effects. To stop these injuries, we need to eliminate monotonous, repetitive and stressful work. work at fast speeds and poor work organization (unnecessary overtime, cutbacks and layoffs, substandard equipment, lack of worker control).
The first RSI Awareness Day was February 29, 2000. That day was selected because it was the only non-repetitive day of the year, like this year's RSI Day. The day is recognized on February 28 in non-leap years.
What is RSI (OOS)?
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is a generic term used to cover a number of overuse injuries affecting the soft tissue (muscles, tendons and nerves) of the neck, back, shoulders, arms, hands and, in some cases, the lower limbs as well. These are almost always work-related, although other factors may also be involved.
'RSI' is not a recognised medical condition and the term does not lend itself readily to use as a medical diagnosis. The phrase is similar to 'sports injury' in that it describes how the injury was sustained, but says nothing about the injury itself.
There are a number of recognised conditions, such as carpel tunnel syndrome, that are RSI injuries.The causes of RSI conditions include repetition, force and awkward or static posture. Poor workplace ergonomics and job design are significant factors in the development of these injuries.
Symptoms include numbness, tingling, sharp pains, dull aches, weakness, loss of grip and restricted movement of limbs.
Some myths about overuse injuries
Myth 1: Overuse injuries are just in your head
Just because there is no 'visible' trauma does not mean an injury is non-existent. Those who say this have obviously never suffered from overuse injuries. Countless researchers have shown that these injuries not only exist, but can be extremely debilitating.
Myth 2: Women are more vulnerable to overuse injuries
Workplace studies show when men and women are exposed to the same working conditions, the development of overuse symptoms is similar. However, often women continue to do most of the jobs at higher risk for overuse injuries.
Myth 3: Work and the natural effects of aging cause aches, pains and stiffness. This is inevitable and should be ignored.
Studies demonstrate that workers do not develop overuse injuries when jobs are properly designed. Pain is a signal generated by injury or disease. Ignoring symptoms does nothing to change the working conditions or lessen the impact of overuse injuries.
Work shouldn't cause pain and if it does, it needs to be fixed. The elimination of work hazards which cause overuse injuries and pain is the goal
What to do about RSI
Employers have a duty to provide a safe and healthy workplace.
The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2007, Part 3.1 Manual Handling set out the duties of your employer to identify and control any hazardous manual handling tasks. Regulation 3.1.3 Review of risk control measures includes a provision that the employer must review any 'risk control measures' in place in the workplace after receiving a request from an OHS Representative. In addition, the employer has a duty to consult on measures taken to eliminate or control a risk, and Regulation 2.1.5 sets out how to involve OHS Representatives in this consultation.
You can access these sections of the the regulations (as well as a summary) by going to the Regulations page.
Employers have a duty to prevent overuse injuries by eliminating repetitive tasks and awkward working positions, ensuring that work stations and equipment are suitable for the tasks and do not cause injuries or pain, providing sufficient staff and resources for the job and for proper rest breaks and ensuring that hours of work and work loads do not put workers under constant pressure. There is no excuse for overuse or work strain injuries.
Workers can act together to prevent work strain and overuse injuries. Workers, delegates and health and safety reps can:
identify any overuse symptoms that people are suffering
identify which parts of the job are causing the most common overuse injuries and pain, and how and why
work out solutions, with both short and long term time lines
put pressure on the employer or management to take action
hold regular health and safety meetings with members to monitor progress
involve all workers, including casuals, part timers and contract or agency workers
If the employer is unwilling to listen or to make improvements, it may be necessary to use other methods, for example:
Issuing a Provisional Improvement Notice (PIN),
Calling in a union official (under s58(f) if you're an HSR or calling in an ARREO who has a right of entry permit issued under Part 8 of the OHS Act) or
Calling in a WorkSafe Inspector - ring WorkSafe's Advisory Line on 03 9641 1444 or 1800 136 089
Victorian Unions are also highlighting the need for uniform laws throughout Australia that are of the highest possible standard.
Read more on Overuse injuries, or RSI in the Strains and Sprains section of the website.
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Davis, George W. (Washington) 8
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 8
Chester, Pa. 9
Christianity, History 11
Christian Education 9
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Religion 7
Bible, O.T. 6
Bible, N.T. 5
Catholic Church 2
Theology, Doctrinal 2
Agape 1
Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas 1
Christian Theology for Today 1
Facing the Challenge of a New Age 1
Judaism 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Education 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Friends and Associates 1
Mysticism 1
Plessy vs Ferguson, 1896 1
Protestantism 1
Segregation--law and legislation 1
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JOG-INP, Julian O. Grayson Papers, In Private Hands
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FORR-PSC-P, Fellowship of Reconciliation Records, 1943-1973 , Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa. 2
GAM, College Archives, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. 2
JK-INP, Joe Kirkland Papers, In Private Hands 2
OGCP-MBU, Office of General Counsel Papers, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 2
SWWP-RWWL, Samuel W. Williams Papers, 1932-1974, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga. 2
BEMP-DHU-MS, Benjamin E. Mays Papers, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1
BRP-DLC, Bayard Rustin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 1
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DCFMC-GAM, Dean of Chapel's Files, College Archives, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. 1
DHSTR-WHi, Donald H. Smith Tape Recordings, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 1
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Reference Materials : History
The Zapatista Uprising (20 Years Later) Produced by Luis Chaparro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAw8vqczJw
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb (1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19kvUiHvAE
Last Speech by Mother Teresa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uwuPu7ueo
‘On Experiments in Art and Technology’ by Robert Whitman
‘A Week with Gandhi’ by Louis Fischer
English: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/a-week-with-gandhi#page/1/mode/2up
Spanish: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/es/a-week-with-gandhi#page/1/mode/2up
‘Mahatma Gandhi’ by Romain Rolland
English: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/fundamental-workdetail/mahatma-gandhi-by-romain-rolland#page/1/mode/2up
Spanish: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/es/fundamental-workdetail/mahatma-gandhi-by-romain-rolland#page/1/mode/2up
‘Satyagraha in South Africa’ by M.K. Gandhi
English: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/mahatma-gandhi-books/satyagraha-in-south-africa#page/1/mode/2up
Spanish: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/es/mahatma-gandhi-books/satyagraha-in-south-africa#page/1/mode/2up
‘Indian Home Rule’ (Hind Swaraj) by M.K. Gandhi
English: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/mahatma-gandhi-books/indian-home-rule#page/1/mode/2up
Spanish: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/es/mahatma-gandhi-books/indian-home-rule#page/1/mode/2up
‘The Last Journey’ produced by The Gandhi Smarak Nidhi and Films Division
English: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/videos-on-mahatma-gandhi
Spanish: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/es/videos-on-mahatma-gandhi
‘Gandhi, Nehru & Modern Art’ by Films Division
‘Dawn of Gandhian Era’ by Films Division
‘Then Came Gandhi’ by Films Division
‘Gandhi an Emerging Reality’ by Films Division
‘Mani Bhavan’ by Films Division
‘We Remember’ by Films Division
‘A Boundless Ideal’ by Films Division
‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’ by M.K. Gandhi
English: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/mahatma-gandhi-books/the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth-volume-one#page/1/mode/2up
Spanish: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/es/mahatma-gandhi-books/the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth-volume-one#page/1/mode/2up
Gandhi the 20th Century Prophet
A documentary Film by A.K. Chettiar made in 1940
Part 1 (1/4) – Part 2 (5/5)
Mahatma – Life of Gandhi
Produced by the Gandhi National Memorial Fund and Films Division
Part 1/5 – Part 5/5
‘His Memory We Cherish’ by Films Division
‘A Voyage of self discovery’ by Films Division
‘India’s struggle for freedom: Swadeshi for self reliance’ by Films Division
‘Lead, kindly light’ interpreted by Marian Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qowPmXI1qds
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Features / Games
Winners Don’t Use Drugs: The Story Behind Gaming’s Classic Warning
Arcades are ‘my thing’, I just love them, I have my own arcade machine that I’ve been restoring/modifying, most of my childhood holiday memories are based around what arcade machine I played at the time. Billingham in the north of England, aged 8 I played The Simpsons, Center Parks Resort, aged 15 I played Time Crisis 2, Florida, aged 14 I played copious amounts of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. I could carry on, but my point is that my formative years were spent over paying the odds for a single go on a machine, in retrospect arcades were the brick and mortar start of In App Purchases.
Winners Don’t Use Drugs – William S Sessions, Director, FBI
Arcade games From 1989 to 1999 all carried a warning, “Winners Dont Use Drugs”. This was on all North American arcade machines built-in that time and thanks to lazy developers or shady imports my British childhood was treated to them as well. In the 1980’s America started to really get wise to it’s burdening drug problem, the 70’s drugs of choice like weed and acid were falling out of fashion but crack and cocaine were taking over. Trickling from the elite classes at the start of the decade down to the suburbs and ghettos by the end of the 1980’s the American government wanted to stop the demand for drugs and ruin the whole supply aspect of the trade.
Robert Fay, American Amusement Machine Association President, was approached by Sessions to start incorporating a public service announcement on all arcade games. Quite quickly Sessions and Fay had managed to get 17 of the 20 largest arcade game producers to sign up and display this message on their ‘attract screen’. The attract screens are the demos and copyright blurbs that cycle through to stop screen burn and to entice kiddy winks to spend their money.
In an amazing turn of events Sessions was actually fired by President Clinton 5 years before the public service announcement was taken down from arcade machines, as such for the last few years people’s only really knowledge of who the Director of the FBI was quite out of date. He was removed from his post after numerous allegations about the use of FBI property like limos and jet planes and the way him and his wife used tax payers money.
In reality the fact that this was such a common sight for some many of my and older generations it seems surprising that in this day and age of satire and cynicism in the games industry that this hasn’t gone through the meme-machine or been parodied more often.
In recent memory there have only been two examples Blood Dragon, the Far Cry 3 total conversion, and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World game. They each took different angles with the presentation of their mockery, Blood Dragon [Above] went for a great subtle nod to the classic phrase, presented in such a way that those in the know get the reference and those oblivious to the origin still get a typical and classically funny Blood Dragon line.
Scott Pilgrim’s approach was a lot more in your face with a flat-out copy of the original screen, skewing it slightly to reference one of the evil exs. Evil-ex number 3 claims, and has, received powers from the enlightenment of veganism. Play Scott Pilgrim Vs The World game on XBLA or PSN and you’re rewarded with this screen.
The warning died a death ever so slightly before arcade died themselves. People were home gaming, playing online and the developers just weren’t there for, what was essentially, building a new console for every game. Arcades can still be found knocking around sea-side towns, but the games are few and far between, now the only warnings we get in arcades are the “Do Not Choke” labels on the toys in the claw machines.
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Frontlines of Ebola
in News, People
Attempts to stop the spread of the worst outbreak of the disease in history. [20 photos total]
Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia August 17, 2014. (REUTERS/2Tango) #
Liberian security forces stand in front of protesters after clashes at West Point neighborhood in Monrovia August 20, 2014. (REUTERS/2Tango) #
A Liberian woman stands as health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014. (REUTERS/2Tango) #
The marketplace of West Point stands empty after clashes in the West Point quarantined neighborhood of Liberia's capital Monrovia, August 20, 2014. (REUTERS/James Harding Giahyue) #
Residents flee during clashes in the West Point quarantined neighborhood of Liberia's capital Monrovia, August 20, 2014. (REUTERS/James Harding Giahyue) #
Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014. (REUTERS/2Tango) #
A boy stands near posters displaying a government message against Ebola at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014. (REUTERS/2Tango) #
A worker cleans a newly erected UNICEF tent at the expanded ELWA Ebola Treatment Centre, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, in this handout photo courtesy of UNICEF taken August 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Ahmed Jallanzo/UNICEF/Handout via Reuters) #
A U.N. convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire August 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Luc Gnago) #
Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices to ensure it does not pose a health risk to others and stop the chain of person-to-person transmission of Ebola, into a grave in Kailahun, Sierra Leone July 18, 2014. (REUTERS/WHO/Tarik Jasarevic/Handout via Reuters) #
A man has his temperature taken using an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria August 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde) #
A volunteer walks at a cemetery near the Mediciens Sans Frontieres treatment centre in Kailahun July 18, 2014. (REUTERS/WHO/Tarik Jasarevic/Handout via Reuters) #
Health workers, wearing head-to-toe protective gear, prepare for work, outside an isolation unit in Foya District, Lofa County, Liberia in this July 2014 UNICEF handout photo. (REUTERS/Ahmed Jallanzo/UNICEF/Handout via Reuters) #
Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres put on their protective gear before entering an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment center in Kailahun July 20, 2014. (REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard) #
Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment center in Kailahun July 20, 2014. (REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard) #
Medical staff take a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient at the government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone July 10, 2014. (REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard) #
Health workers take blood samples for Ebola virus testing at a screening tent in the local government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, June 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard) #
Health workers carry the body of an Ebola virus victim in Kenema, Sierra Leone, June 25, 2014. (REUTERS/Umaru Fofana) #
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The Grand Pavilion
DE4 3NR
mail@peakmines.co.uk
May opening times
Summer walks
Don't miss our summer walks around some of the old mining villages and sites.
They are very popular and the first walk in Upperwood is already fully booked!
We have got some special miners at the Museum over Easter.
These Easter Chick Miners are busy digging away to find some minerals.
If you spot them take a photo to show the Museum staff and claim a small treat!
Temple Mine in March
Please 'phone 01629 583834 before making a special visit to Temple Mine as it may not be open each weekend in March.
Coming up in Spring 2019
Check out our facebook events for full details.
February Half-Term Fun!
February half-term at the Museum means FUN, FUN, FUN!!
The Museum will be open 11am until 4pm every day of the half-term from Saturday16th February through to Sunday 24th February.
There will only be mine tours at 1pm on Saturday 16th February and Saturday 23rd February - call 01629 583834 to reserve places on it.
There is plenty to keep all of the family happy from the mouse hunt through to the mock tunnels to clamber and crawl through.
Only £15 for a family ticket (2 adults & 3 children) to the Museum!
Only £25 for a family ticket to the Museum AND Mine!!
Temple Mine Maintenance
During February we shall be doing some essential maintenance work both inside and outside Temple Mine.
First on the list are the panning tanks which have come to the end of their lives after over 30 years!
But don't worry, you will still be able to pan for minerals including (fools') gold as we are having new ones built.
We will need to close the mine for some of the work so in February the mine will only be open on Saturdays with the mine tour at 1pm.
Call 01629 583834 to reserve places on the mine tour.
February Heritage Talk
'Phone 01629 583834 to reserve tickets to this talk on Tuesday 5th February 2019.
It is going to be a bit chilly in the lecture theatre even though the heater will be on so wrap up warmly!
There is still time to join our Elf on the Shelf hunt!
Pop down on a Saturday or Sunday between 11am and 4pm and help us find him.
Explore Cromford Village on our Heritage Walk.
Our summer walks are very popular - the next walk is on Tuesday 14th August at 7pm.
We will be exploring the village of Cromford, just down the road from the Museum.
Cromford is famous for Richard Arkwright's cotton mills but there were also a lot of mills along the Via Gellia producing other materials.
Find out about the argument the lead miners and Arkwright had over the rights to a water supply.
Explore the street built for the mill workers and discover why some lead miners preferred being underground rather than in the mills, even though their housing was much poorer quality.
Walks are £3 each and tickets must be bought in advance from the Museum.
If 2 or more tickets are bought we can take payment over the 'phone 01629 583834.
Visit again & again & again!
If you are wondering what to do with the children in the long school holiday bring them along to the museum and mine.
Younger children love doing the mouse hunt and playing in the digger, older ones love the climbing shafts and tunnels.
Everyone loves panning for minerals after the mine tour!
When you Gift Aid your ticket remember you can come back as many times as you like for a whole year - so that sorts out the October half term as well.
Local Heritage Walk
The next local heritage walk is on Tuesday 24th July.
Local historian Tony Wood will lead a group from Matlock Bath to Cromford through beautiful countryside, past cotton mills and grand houses.
Tickets are £3 each in advance.
Magpie Mine Heritage Open Day 2018
Don't miss out on the Magpie Mine Heritage Open Day this year on Sunday 16th September.
Members of the Peak District Mines Historical Society will be running free guided tours of the surface remains of Magpie Mine.
Tours start at 11am and run through the day with the last tour at 4pm.
We hope to see lots of you there!
Matlock Bath Village Walk
The first of our 4 summer time walks is on Tuesday 10th July. Local historian Tony Wood will lead you on a walk around the village of Matlock Bath unravelling the history of the lead miners, the spar workers and the thermal waters.
Tickets are £3 each and need to be bought in advance at the Museum. Card payment can be taken over the 'phone for 2 or more tickets - 01629 583834
Planning to go on all 4 walks? Take advantage of our joint ticket and pay £10 (saving £2).
Walks often end close to a pub so you may like to join us for a drink afterwards!
Heritage Walks
We are running a series of heritage walks in the Matlock area through the summer.
Our local historian will explain about the growth of the villages, the occupations of the residents and about the buildings.
Each walk starts at 7pm and will be completed by around 9pm.
Tickets must be bought in advance from the Museum (open 10 'til 5 each day) and cost £3.
If you plan to go on all of the walks then buy all 4 tickets together for £10 - a saving of £2!
For more information pop into the museum or 'phone on 01629 583834.
Certificate of Excellence 2018!
We have just been awarded the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence 2018!
That makes it two years running.
If you have visited please leave a review.
Bank Holiday Fun, Laughs and Squeaks!
The Museum Mouse Hunt* is one of the activities that is particularly popular with our younger visitors. The mice are very cute and cuddly and very good at hiding.
This Whit Bank Holiday we have an extra little treat for children who can find all of the mice - bring the sheet to the front desk and our lovely staff will give you a special sticker!
Happy Mouse Hunting!
(*Please note - no mice are hurt in the Museum Mouse Hunt!)
Fantastic Fossils
We run Fantastic Fossil activity sessions for school groups, and groups such as Brownies, Cubs, Scouts and Guides.
Last week we had an evening group who learnt about how fossils are formed, examined different fossils, made detailed drawings of them and models in salt dough of what the living creature was like.
To finish off they went on a fossil hunt around the museum to find the answers to a quiz.
Did you know that before people understood about fossils they thought belemnite fossils were bolts of lightning that had hit the ground?
Not sure what a belemnite is? Come on a Fantastic Fossil activity session!
The picture is one of the salt dough models of an ammonite.
Come down to the Craft Fair this weekend!
This weekend we have a Craft Fair in the Pump Room next to the museum.
The Craft Fair always brings a bit of sparkle and fun to Matlock Bath!
Entry to the fair is free.
Don't forget to also pop in and have a look in our shop. We have rocks and minerals, books galore, Blue John jewellery from Treak Cliff Cavern, numerous conserves from Mrs Bridges and much, much more.
Geology weekend to commemorate the life of Dr T. D. Ford.
On the weekend of the 2nd-3rd June there will be an event held at The Dome in Buxton to commemorate the life and work of Dr Trevor Ford.
On the Saturday there will be a series of talks on some of the many aspects of geology that Dr Ford had an interest in.
Attendance is open to all and free of charge.
On the Sunday there is a programme of field excursions which includes guided tours of Magpie Mine.
Attendance is open to all and free of charge but visits do need to be booked on the Saturday.
If you would like a copy of the poster emailing out please contact the museum on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Our latest arrival...
We have just had a new artefact delivered - a lead ingot or 'pig' of lead as they are sometimes called.
The ingot was discovered in a ship wreck in to the West of the English Channel but unfortunately the ship has not been identified.
The ingots were stacked neatly on the sea bed just as they would have been in the ship. This stack of ingots had then been colonised by eels.
Four ingots were brought to the surface and after the crustaceans had been cleaned off the smelter's stamp became clear T.S. Co Ld SPAIN. This was the Thomas Sopwith Company Limited who had lead mines, plants and a smelter in Linares, Spain.
The area around Linares was well-known in the Nineteenth century for lead smelting and casting with the main companies being owned by British men.
To see more photographs and information about the ingot and Thomas Sopwith go to the Peak District Mines Historical Society facebook page - www.facebook.com/pdhms
We plan to have the ingot on display with information about Thomas Sopwith in the museum in the next couple of weeks.
A big thank you goes to Odyssey Marine Exploration for recovering the ingot and to the Receiver of Wrecks for re-homing it with us.
Rock & Mineral Treasure Hunts.
In the geology zone of the museum there are hundreds of different rocks and minerals from around the World.
We know that this area often fascinates our younger visitors, so with them in mind we have made two treasure hunts.
One is for beginners - aimed at age 6 and under.
The second treasure hunt is much more of a challenge! Take a look through the drawers and cabinets and see how many points you can score.
You will find the laminated sheets on the side in the geology zone. Happy rock hunting!
As part of the Matlock Bath Through Time exhibition we have a new board game for families to play.
Can you safely make your way from the Grand Pavilion building where the museum is now based to the Victoria Tower at the top of the hill?
This area of the museum lots of family activities including building bricks to use to re-create some of the local buildings, eye spy cards and picture challenges.
There are also the dressing up clothes which are popular with all ages.
TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
In 2017 the Peak District Lead Mining Museum was awarded the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence.
We think that our miner looks pretty good wearing the flag!
Check out the reviews on TripAdvisor and Google and do leave a review after your visit.
Stained glass window
Have you seen our stained glass window? It is looking glorious in the sunshine.
It represents old Matlock Bath and the lead mining in the lower part.
Then in the top panes there is modern Matlock Bath with a motorbike wheel, an ice cream, a plate of fish and chips and a couple of the fish from the thermal pools.
It was created as part of the Heritage Lottery Funded new exhibition called Matlock Bath Through Time.
Heritage Talks
The Winter-Spring programme of heritage talks were rounded off by a talk by John Barnatt. John spoke to a capacity audience about the Ancient Mines of Matlock Bath. The heritage talks, which are held at the mining museum, are joint fundraisers for the museum and the Matlock Bath Heritage Group.
This season there have been talks on the High Peak railway, the quarries of Wirksworth, the minerals of the Peak District and the Arkwright family.
Talks begin again in October starting with a talk on the Cromford canal.
UPDATE - The 2018 Magpie Heritage Day will be on Sunday 16th September 2018!
Free guided tours start at 11am, last tour 4pm.
More details to follow!!
Discover the history of the 'best preserved example' of a lead mining site in the Peak District, hear about the Magpie Murders and the Widows' curse, and learn what we are doing to conserve this site for future generations.
First tour starts at 11:00am, last tour 4:00pm
Blacksmithing demonstrations
Further information on www.pdmhs.com
Lead Mining talk
Lead Mining in Matlock & Three Miles Around
Tuesday 16th May 2017 @ The Peak District Lead Mining Museum
A talk by Lynn Willies.
Find out about the lead mining heritage of the Matlock area. The talk will include information on the lead mining industries of Darley Dale, Matlock, Matlock Bath, Cromford, Bonsall, Wirksworth, Crich and villages in between!
Tickets are £6 (£5 for PDMHS members & Friends of the Pavilion) Under 18s are half price. Price includes tea and cake!
Tickets are available in advance or on the day from the museum. 01629 583834 for any additional information. Wheel chair accessible.
A joint fundraiser for the Peak District Lead Mining Museum and The Matlock Bath Heritage Group.
Spooky Tales In The Mine 28th October 2016
28th October 6pm
Join us for a nightime tour of Temple Mine where you will hear some spooky tales about old Derbyshire miners.
Followed up with panning for gold by moonlight!
Aimed at children aged 8-11 this is a family friendly Halloween event.
Tickets MUST be bought in advance from the Mining Museum.
£5.00 adult
£4.00 child/concession
£15 for 1 adult and 3 children
All children must be accompanied by an adult, maximum of 3 children per adult.
Peak District Mining Museum, Matlock Bath.
Fantastic Fossils Evening
On Friday 13th May as part of the ‘Museums at Night’ festival the Peak District Mining Museum in Matlock Bath opened their doors after closing time to lots of excited families.
The theme was ‘Fantastic Fossils’ and visitors were encouraged to have hands on fun.
Children were able to get up close to real fossils with magnifying glasses, make salt dough models of fossils and break open dinosaur eggs.
Families explored the museum at night, dressed up as miners and crawled through tunnels.
Upcoming events at the museum include:
‘Fish in the bath’ 18th and 19th June – a free event for all the family.
‘The real minecraft’ – a guided tour of the mine with a ‘minecraft’ theme plus more!
‘Spooky tales in the mine’ – a guided tour of the mine aimed at children 8yrs+
Exciting news from our friends over at 'PDMHS'
Magpie Mine wins Heritage Lottery Fund support
The Peak District Mines Historical Society has received £74,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to carry out essential repairs to one of the oldest buildings on the Magpie Mine site, the Square Chimney
Ever since it was formed in 1959, the Peak District Mines Historical Society (PDMHS) has tried to record and preserve the fast-disappearing evidence of the lead mining industry in Derbyshire and further afield. Magpie Mine, between Bakewell, Monyash and Sheldon, where mining has taken place for more than two centuries, is one of the best examples of a former lead mining site.
The buildings at Magpie Mine, constructed from the local limestone, suffer from the severe weather conditions experienced on this exposed site. A survey, funded by Natural England and carried out for the Society in 2013, identified that the buildings will require some £¼-million pounds-worth of repair work to maintain them in a safe and viable condition for the future.
The priority for repair is the Square Chimney. This is one of the oldest structures on the site, having been built in 1840 to serve a steam-powered winding engine. The original boiler house and engine house have long since gone, but the chimney was retained and re-used to serve another winding engine. The survey reported that although the Square Chimney appeared from the outside to be in reasonable condition, an internal examination using modern rope-access techniques revealed that some of the inner skin of stonework had fallen away. The examiner reported: 'I could see daylight through the gaps between the stones.'
The Heritage Lottery Fund grant will enable the Society to employ conservation experts to repair the Square Chimney, the associated ground-level flue, and a small building at the base of the Chimney.
The restoration will be carried out using traditional techniques, including the use of lime mortar, and it is planned to complete this work in the summer of 2016 so that the lime mortar can start to cure before the onset of frosty weather.
The HLF Grant will also be used to improve the information that is provided to visitors to Magpie Mine. A series of display panels in the building at the base of the chimney will explain the history and development of the Magpie Mine and the work carried out on the Square Chimney. They will also describe the ecology of the area, with information about the wild flowers (including unusual lead-tolerant species) that can be found on the site.
http://www.pdmhs.com/
Fantastic Fossils!
We have something really exciting coming up.
This year we will be taking part in the nationwide Museums at night event!
Friday 13th May 2016 5pm - 7pm.
Explore the museum after hours and find out more about fantastic fossils! Climb through the museums tunnels and dress up as a miner! We will have some fantastic fossils to touch and see. Get up close with a magnifying glass! Lots of fantastic fossil themed activities to take part in and you even get the chance to make your own fossil!
Discounted tea and coffee for grown ups!
£5 per adult, children go free to this one night only event. (Up to 3 children admitted per adult)
Part of the nationwide Museums at Night event http://goo.gl/zgR8Zy
Please contact the museum by phone (01629 583834) or email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) to reserve your ticket.
If you have visited the museum recently then you will know that there is lots of hard work taking place in preparation for our ‘Matlock Bath Through Time’ project.
One of the windows in the museum is going to be transformed into a beautiful leaded glass window that will reflect the different aspects of Matlock Bath. We are really lucky to have two talented leaded glass artists working on this project.
But we really want to say a big thank you to Heaps Arnold who have very kindly donated all of the lead and solder needed for the construction of the window.
HeapsArnold
Museum Open Daily
The museum is now open every day of the week from 11am-4pm, with tours of Temple Mine running at 12 noon and 2pm. Remember to call ahead to secure a place on a tour and bring sensible footwear if you plan to go underground!
The Great War - Life in the Bath
The Great War - Life in the Bath, an exhibition investigation life in Matlock Bath during the years around Would War One, opens Saturday 9th August until Sunday 21st September in The Pump Room. The exhibition has been co-curated by the museum and Matlock Bath Parish Council, with contributions from the community of Matlock Bath, including some imaginative artwork by pupils of Holy Trinity Primary School. The exhibition is free entry and open every day from 10am until 4pm.
(Picture courtesy of the Tony Holmes Collection)
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The X-Man In Name Only
Since What If? #31 is split between two alternate reality stories, the one dealing with Wolverine killing the Hulk doesn't have a lot of breathing room to tell its tale, and so has to cram a great deal into just twenty pages in order for everything to be resolved by the end. As a result, you might come away from this story with the impression that there really wasn't much to it--but is that really so surprising? After all, taken at face value, there normally wouldn't be much follow-up material available to make into a story, would there?
Let's look at it this way. Wolverine was sent in to take out both the Wendigo and the Hulk--and Wolverine doesn't seem like the type of operative that his superiors would want to turn loose on such a mission with the idea of tying his hands in any way. And so, in pitched battle, rather than capturing the Hulk in accordance with his original directive, he's forced to use deadly force against him. That's probably no skin off the military's nose--and when the Hulk is dead, then what? Wolverine returns to base and waits for new orders, that's what. Is anyone really going to miss the Hulk's rampages? Are the Avengers even going to avenge him, given the circumstances and abruptness of his departure from the team? There will be those few who mourn the tragedy of the event, such as Betty Ross and anyone who knew Bruce Banner--but for the most part, Wolverine's Dept. H will clamp the lid on the whole thing in terms of Wolverine's involvement, and it'll be case closed.
So, at first, there's no real development to be found with Wolverine from that point, while the book is easily closed on the Hulk. To us, of course, the death of the Hulk is something more of a jaw-dropper:
The real pivotal event that this story now depends on can be found in a bar on the outskirts of Quebec, where Wolverine is celebrating his victory (even if no one else is privy to that information):
His murder of a civilian sends Wolverine hurrying back to base to get the help of his friend and immediate superior, James Hudson. You'll notice that Wolverine is still attempting to fight his killer instinct. We know that, later, he would come to terms with his nature and develop more of a moral code to live by:
That rationale would have effectively ended this story before it began. Instead, Wolverine considers himself a fugitive after he gets no help from Hudson:
So with Wolverine out of options, and with all the groundwork essentially laid, the story picks up speed and begins to throw developments at us at a breakneck pace.
First, Wolverine is taken notice of by Magneto, who recruits him for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants:
And before you can say "danger room," Magneto has Wolverine inserted into the X-Men as a mole who will pave the way for the Brotherhood's attack:
Now that Wolverine is with the X-Men, you can probably guess the chain of events that will now take place. To begin with, Wolverine proves himself to be a valuable member of the team, though he's beginning to have second thoughts about his mission:
In fact, how odd it seems that a former government agent like Wolverine would align himself with the likes of Magneto. Regardless, Wolverine later sabotages Cerebro, so that Magneto's approach can't trigger an alarm. Though Wolverine's mission is further complicated with his growing feelings toward Jean Grey, to the point of making her safety a dealbreaker with Magneto:
To salvage his relationship with Wolverine, Magneto tells his agent that he really means the X-Men no harm, and only wishes to bring them into the fold of his Brotherhood. But when he launches his attack, his true colors begin to show, and Wolverine switches sides after an attempt on Jean's life:
With just a few pages before the story's end, Wolverine then joins the team in fighting back, and all that remains is the big battle with Magneto and the Brotherhood. Mastermind, Unus, and Lorelei are dealt with by the regular X-Men, now that the Brotherhood no longer have the element of surprise, and Wolverine takes out the Blob:
That leaves just Magneto. And in true What If? fashion, it's here that Wolverine "pays" (in Marvel coin) for his earlier encounter with the Hulk:
Magneto also slumps to his death, and the story ends as many of these What If? tales do: leaving us to pick up the pieces, some of them involving the Hulk. (You remember--that big green guy who took up most of this issue's cover space?) For instance, the story has no room to account for Marie Cartier and Georges Baptiste, who played such a crucial role in the original Wendigo story (and, in fact, interrupted Wolverine's assault before it could presumably reach the point it did here). Also, a later revelation of the Hulk having a healing factor of his own would have prevented his demise in this story, as it did in other Hulk/Wolverine clashes; in fact, who's to say it didn't do so in the original story? How else was the Hulk surviving relentless slashes by adamantium claws?
In effect, the story took the quickest path to reach the point where Wolverine lies bleeding out on the floor, a hero to the X-Men--brushing aside the fact that Wolverine followed Magneto's orders of his own free will, and only changed his mind when the woman he was falling for was threatened with harm. Maybe it was really the Hulk we should all have been rooting for.
Labels: Hulk, Magneto, reviews, X-Men
Joseph said...
Despite its many plot holes, I was always fond of this What If issue. It was actually the issue that hooked me on Wolverine some 30 years ago. That said, the story is pretty ridiculous.
Plot holes the Blob could stroll thru!
I doubt the Avengers would feel any great passion to avenge the Hulk's death...but the Defenders might. He was very active "non-member" at that time. And Dr. Strange's mystic skills would pierce any Dept. H cover-up easily enough.
At least the universe didn't end, like 92% of "What If" stories did.
The Magneto/X-Men part of the story is basically the first arc of Ultimate X-Men.
With A Little Help From The FF
Web-Swing Your Way To A College Degree
Huddle Up!
Jane Foster, She-Devil
Who Needs Your Crummy Job!
Rumbling With Roy!
The Coming of the X-Sentinels!
The Asgardian Artistry of Keith Pollard
My Client, The Hulk
The Exodus of the Champions
Then Came The Monster!
It Pays To Be An Avenger
The Fearful Secret of Bucky Barnes!
To Boldly Seek The Skrulls
...Without Fear Or Favor
The Death-Trap of Mr. Freeze!
Demon In A Bottle!
These Are The Heroes Who Lunch
Strange Artistry
Mmmmmm -- Marvel Pasta!
The Scourge of the Super Skrull!
No Sanctuary From The Power Cosmic
Uncouple Those Heisenberg Compensators
The Torch That Lives In Perpetuity
The Premiere of the Second-String Avengers
The Super-Villain's Answer to Chapter 11
Revenge of the Wolf-Man!
The Frankenstein Surfer!
Man Trap!
"I shall now render you--INVISIBLE! Oops..."
Watch Out For Marvel Girl
The Resounding Thud of--Factor Three
Shop 'Til You're Dropped
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Yikes! Things look dire for the Human Torch, after a battle with the Eel leaves him with a miniature radioactive atomic pile to deal with!
Otherwise known as (what else?) "Project X," the miniature "atomic pile" (machinery which would later become better known as a nuclear reactor) was developed by famous inventor Charles Lawson, who rigged its satchel with a safeguard that the Eel unfortunately didn't consider in his theft of the device:
Once the Torch defeats the Eel, he has the same problem the Eel did--the imminent detonation of a deadly atomic blast, which his flame molecules have already alerted him to. (Wait--so his flame molecules are like a fiery spider-sense?) We've already seen the bomb go off--so the surrounding area is likely toast (and charred toast, at that), unless the Torch's desperate plan succeeds. But what's he doing all the way up in the stratosphere? Let's rejoin him just after the crucial moment and find out:
Unknown to Johnny, though, the powerful blast has blown open the door to another case of:
The place to probably start dissecting Johnny's totally whack plan is his decision to zoom into the stratosphere to initiate it--a minimum altitude of 33,000 feet. Let's first assume that Johnny even made it to the stratosphere. That means that Johnny will have to exert his power downward 33,000 feet (assuming he didn't zoom higher!) in order to catch the blast before it had a chance to scorch the surrounding area. To give you an idea of what kind of distance we're talking about here, look up in the sky and see if you can imagine where the ozone layer is--then raise your sights another 10km. Or have a look at the space shuttle Endeavour as it hovers near the upper limit of the stratosphere (about 50km):
It should go without saying that the oxygen Johnny needs to sustain his flame (to say nothing of remaining alive) would have been exhausted well before reaching the stratosphere.
But this is mostly nitpicking. If I were a teenager, and I had a split-second to come up with a plan for dealing with the repercussions of an atomic blast--one that involved soaring to a great height--"stratosphere" is probably the word that would have first come to mind for me, as well. Suffice to say that Johnny is heading to a really high altitude.
That leaves us with the second part of his plan. Let's say for the sake of absolute LUNACY argument that Johnny can extend his power that far, that he can absorb the magnitude of heat and radiation released by an atomic explosion, that he can force the blast to radiate upward rather than outward across the land. If by some lapse of reasoning we accept all of that, then he would surely have done the same thing when the rest of the Fantastic Four was in danger from the detonation of a Q-bomb that the Wizard was going to use to destroy them. But in both cases the question would persist: How is this kid still alive? This little stunt would be better suited to X-Ray of the U-Foes, and even his chances would be 50-50.
After absorbing the full force of the atomic explosion, not only has Johnny avoided his skin being instantly sheared from his bones, but he also has plenty of power left to reach super-nova level force and expel the harmful forces at a safe altitude:
(Whoops--guess it was the stratosphere, after all.)
And as Johnny's life hung in the balance, it fell to Reed to dust off a half-completed project and work out its bugs in time to pull Johnny back from the brink of death:
Fear not, all's well that ends well for Johnny "Atomic Pile" Storm, whose power made a mockery of science but whose fellow residents near Ground Zero aren't complaining.
Labels: Fantastic Four, weird science
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Forbidden Talmud: Hookers and Rabbis (NSFW)
July 11, 2011 By punktorah
Forbidden Talmud showcases the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) Talmudic texts that they “forgot” to teach you in Yeshiva. This week, the story of hookers, rabbis and tzitzit.
It was taught: R. Nathan said, There is not a single precept in the Torah, even the lightest, whose reward is not enjoyed in this world; and as to its reward in the future world I know not how great it is.
Go and learn this from the precept of tzitzit (fringes). Once a man, who was very scrupulous about the precept of tzitzit, heard of a certain harlot in one of the towns by the sea who accepted four hundred gold [denars] for her hire. He sent her four hundred gold [denars] and appointed a day with her. When the day arrived he came and waited at her door, and her maid came and told her, ‘That man who sent you four hundred gold [denars] is here and waiting at the door’; to which she replied ‘Let him come in’. When he came in she prepared for him seven beds, six of silver and one of gold; and between one bed and the other there were steps of silver, but the last were of gold. She then went up to the top bed and lay down upon it naked.
He too went up after her in his desire to sit naked with her, when all of a sudden the four fringes [of his garment] struck him across the face; whereupon he slipped off and sat upon the ground. She also slipped off and sat upon the ground and said, ‘By the Roman Capitol, I will not leave you alone until you tell me what blemish you saw in me.
‘By the Temple’, he replied, ‘never have I seen a woman as beautiful as you are; but there is one precept which the Lord our God has commanded us, it is called tzitzit, and with regard to it the expression ‘I am the Lord your God’ is twice written, signifying, I am He who will exact punishment in the future, and I am He who will give reward in the future. Now [the tzitzit] appeared to me as four witnesses [testifying against me]’.
She said, ‘I will not leave you until you tell me your name, the name of your town, the name of your teacher, the name of your school in which you study the Torah’. He wrote all this down and handed it to her. Thereupon she arose and divided her estate into three parts; one third for the government, one third to be distributed among the poor, and one third she took with her in her hand; the bed clothes, however, she retained.
She then came to the Beth Hamidrash of R. Hiyya, and said to him, ‘Master, give instructions about me that they make me a proselyte’. ‘My daughter’, he replied; ‘perhaps you have set your eyes on one of the disciples?’ She thereupon took out the script and handed it to him. ‘Go’, said he ‘and enjoy your acquisition’. Those very bed-clothes which she had spread for him for an illicit purpose she now spread out for him lawfully. This is the reward [of the precept] in this world; and as for its reward in the future world I know not how great it is. Talmud Menachot 44a
Why as this text not taught?
It would appear that the attitude towards sexuality, and possibly even towards prostitution was more open in some ways during the Talmudic era than it is today. While not condoning the man’s behavior, Rabbi Hiyya does not appear shocked; on the contrary, he is prepared to accept the former prostitute as a convert and to reward his student by sanctifying their marriage. During the time period between the end of the Talmudic era and current time, Jewish attitudes towards sexuality became far more conservative, particularly under the influence of Christianity in countries in which Jews were living. This text simply does not align with the attitudes towards sexuality that are often promulgated in Jewish schools.
What is the lesson to be learned and why should this text be taught?
The Torah is, in the words of Deuteronomy, “not in heaven.” It is meant for the real world with all of its challenges and temptations. This text teaches us important lessons: in the world of the Rabbis not all behavior was pure; that those whose behavior strays can find their way back (or, in the case of the prostitute, can find their way in) to a more upright life; that the symbolic actions we use to remind us to be holy (kippah, tzitzit, etc.) have value.
Arnie Samlan is a rabbi, Jewish educator, social worker and Scratch DJ Academy grad. A regional director of The Jewish Education Project in NY, he is also founder of a new venture, Jewish Connectivity, which works to link Jews and Jewish texts to one another to re-ignite Jewish life and creativity (Twitter: JewishConnectiv)
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True Blood and The Bible
June 13, 2010 By punktorah
OK…what’s NOT Jewish about this? Four ways that True Blood is using images from the Torah to sell you vampire sex.
(1) They’re in the Garden of Eden. But obviously, if you look around, there’s some crazy stuff going down. The idea that human beings (I use the term ‘human’ loosely for some of the characters) can be in a state of perfection, and somehow screw it up, is about as Biblical as it gets. Humanity’s failure to be in co-existence with malevolent peace is a constant theme in the Hebrew Bible, whether you’re talking Adam and Eve, or even the Exodus, where G-d throws down miracle after miracle, but the Hebrews still won’t stop complaining.
(2) There’s a freakin’ snake. Enough said.
(3) The snake’s head is near Anna Paquin, who represents purity (hence the white dress). She’s in danger from all this, and is being sacrificed, hence the altar-like broken tree. But the snake’s tail is between the legs of Jessica Hamby/Deborah Ann Woll. This falls in line with “blame the victim”, that although the serpent is the tempter, the woman is the one that ate of the tree and is really the one to be at fault. The snake coming from her body shows that she, not the serpent, is at fault. Also, Anna Camp (Sara Newlin) is wearing red, like Woll. The two faces of the feminine are shown here. The woman who commits the sin (Eve) is shown in the submissive form (aka ‘spread eagle’), reflecting the idea that her curse is the pain of child birth. The woman with power, however, stands upright (Sara Newlin) and is the feminine power of Lilith, the woman who does not have pain because she did not submit in the first place.
(4) Two white characters, and two black characters. Notice the two guys standing together. Their legs are in the exact same position, one knee sticking out. But the legs are opposite: like the contrast of the color of their skin. The couple in the background are looking in the same direction, but their legs and arms are going in opposite ways. This is duality: another common theme in the Bible. Good versus evil, right versus wrong, G-d and Mankind, tree of knowledge and tree of life, the natural world and the supernatural world. Through their skin tones, the artist is making a nod to this overwhelmingly large issue.
Or maybe I’m over thinking this…
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Parshat Acharei-Kedoshim (Weird Sex Stuff)
April 26, 2009 By punktorah
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMr80rGYnk
Filed Under: Community Member Blogs, Jewish Text (Torah/Haftarah/Talmud), Podcasts & Videos Tagged With: bible, Counterculture, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, kink, law and order SVU, Parsha, Punk, rebel, Religion, sex, Torah
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Great Horror Game Downloads
Comic Books, vampires, Video Games
Resident Evil 5:Lost in a Nightmare—The first of the RE5 download levels is now up on PS3 and Xbox360. This is the story of how Jill dies before the events of RE5. It clocks in under and hour or so and hackers back to the original game play of the first game.
Castlevania Adventure A New beginning—This is a remake of the classic game for the Nintendo Game Boy. this is also the hardest of all the Castlevania games. One big issue is it had no sub weapons and made it very frustrating on top of how hard the enemies were. It stars Christopher Belmont. He would star in the sequel and in the Belmont Legacy comic Book thru IDW. You can check it out on the Wii Ware.
av_timerFebruary 22, 2010
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Tag Archives: Marina and the Diamonds
Video October 20, 2014 rdr_admin
Marina and the Diamonds – Froot
Welsh songstress Marina and the Diamonds has just graced us with a brand new gem to sink our teeth into. The disco-y “Froot”—stylized as “FROOT”—is the new title track from her upcoming album of the same name. Always the generous spirit, Marina, born Marina Diamandis, released the song 10 days ago, on her birthday, October 10th. “Froot” sees Marina comparing herself to a ripe fruit, ready to be picked by the man she’s been waiting for. The song’s organic and lush lyrical imagery is in sharp contrast to the shimmery, digitized synths washing in and out of the five and half minute-long track. With tongue-in-cheek rhymes, elastic vocal runs, and catchy hooks, Marina has struck a happy medium between her indie-pop debut LP from 2010, The Family Jewels, and 2012 electropop concept album, Electra Heart. Whether or not “Froot” has enough juice to propel itself into stateside radio, as her single “Primadonna” could only graze, is yet to be seen. Regardless, the song is gaining traction and hype in the blogosphere, and has certainly earned itself a cozy place on my regular rotation.
Jamie Coughlin
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Special Report: Cycling
Ward 1: Vote for Neighbourhood Greenway on Magill-Pearl-Kent
This active transportation infrastructure is gentle, integrates nicely into an existing neighbourhood, balances the needs of different modes, and provides significant improvements for walking, cycling and local quality of life without inconveniencing any
By Ryan McGreal
Voting has just begun for the Ward 1 Participatory Budget, which has a final list of projects under consideration for funding in 2018. I would like to draw your attention to an idea I proposed which made it onto the final list: a Neighbourhood Greenway on Kent, Pearl and Magill streets. It is Project #5 on the list.
A neighbourhood greenway (sometimes called a bicycle boulevard or a bikeway) is a low-volume residential side street that allows local automobile traffic but is designed to give priority to walking and cycling and to deter automobile through traffic.
According to the Portland Bureau of Transportation: "Neighbourhood Greenways are residential streets with low volumes of auto traffic and low speeds where bicycles and pedestrians are given priority."
Greenways are low-stress, friendly streets that make cycling accessible to people who are not comfortable cycling in mixed traffic or in painted lanes on a busy street.
Map: neighbourhood greenways in Portland, Oregon (Image Credit: PBOT)
The first greenways were built in the early 1980s when German cities began building fahrradstraße or bike-priority streets. They are currently in use in several North American cities, including Vancouver, Minneapolis, Austin, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and Montreal.
Through trial-and-error, other cities have settled on a number of design elements that have proven to be effective at calming vehicle traffic and encouraging more walking and cycling.
Greenways were actually proposed in the original Shifting Gears cycling master plan for Hamilton that was approved in 1999, but none were ever built.
Successful neighbourhood greenways have a number of common features:
Low automobile traffic volumes - this model makes the most sense on already-quiet side streets, and a well-designed greenway further reduces vehicle traffic
Traffic calming and speed management - physical design elements encourage slow, safe vehicle speeds and deter cut-through driving, like bumpouts, speed humps, chicanes, pavement markings and street art
Physical barriers - design elements that force automobiles to turn but allow walking and cycling to proceed, like diverters, road-blocking bollards and sections of off-street path
Safe intersection crossings - signs, signals and design elements give priority to people walking and cycling across intersections with busier cross-streets
Destinations and Network Connections - effective greenways connect to local destinations as well as a broader city-wide network of accessible cycling routes
Wayfinding - signs, markings and even branding guide people through the greenway network to destinations
Physical barriers at Hughson and Guise allow walking and cycling but prevent cut-through driving
Magill-Pearl-Kent
Based on the common features of successful neighbourhood greenways, the north-south corridor encompassing Magill Street, Pearl Street and Kent Street makes an excellent candidate for Hamilton's first neighbourhood greenway. This route meets the preconditions for a neighbourhood greenway and already includes many of the design elements that would be installed as part of a greenway construction.
These are minor residential side streets that are already used mainly for low volumes of local automobile traffic.
Most of the intersections with busy cross streets are already controlled with traffic signals.
There are already three physical barriers that divert automobile traffic but allow walking and cycling traffic to proceed.
The route provides safe connections to a community school, two parks and the Locke Street urban commercial district.
The route connects with several existing cycling routes.
The local Ward 1 Councillor, Aidan Johnson, is supportive.
Capital funding is available through the Ward 1 Area Rating capital budget.
It would not take a huge amount of work to incorporate the additional design elements needed to establish this corridor as a neighbourhood greenway. The following sections look at specific points along the corridor to suggest specific design elements at each point.
Because it would be the first such street in Hamilton, it will be important to pay attention to the branding, wayfinding and public engagement/communication piece of the project. Most Hamiltonians will be new to the concept of a neighbourhood greenway and it is important to explain clearly how they work so that everyone can understand the benefits to all road users - including people who live on the street and use a car for some trips.
Route and Points of Interest
The following route is proposed, with additional notes about the identified points of interest below:
Proposed Greenway route with points of interest
1) York Boulevard
York Boulevard is equipped with east- and westbound buffered bike lanes, making this an important network connection for the greenway. The eastbound bike lane leads directly downtown and cross the new Bay Street Cycle Track. The westbound lane leads to the Dundurn bike lanes and the bike lanes into Burlington.
The intersection of York Boulevard with Magill Street on the north and Pearl Street on the south is currently an uncontrolled crossing for pedestrians with a sidewalk across the grass median on York. Due to the median, vehicles on Pearl or Magill must turn right onto York and cannot drive across. As such, the median already serves as a traffic diverter for the greenway.
York boulevard, view from Pearl Street (Image Credit: Google Street View)
York boulevard, view from Magill Street (Image Credit: Google Street View)
As an uncontrolled crossing across a wide (three lanes on each side of the median), high-volume designated minor arterial street, this intersection is not currently walking- or cycling-friendly.
Legally, pedestrians or cyclists crossing here would have to wait for a gap large enough to allow motorists to yield, but realistically most drivers do not understand their responsibility to yield to pedestrians who are in the process of travelling across an uncontrolled crossing so this location is dangerous.
The most obvious solution here would be to install a pedestrian crossover (PXO) from Magill to the median and another PXO from Pearl to the median. Due to the high volume and speed of traffic on York, the PXO should include flashing overhead amber yield lights, highly visible pavement markings and abundant signage.
Another, more expensive option would be to install fully signalized, pedestrian-activated crosswalks from Magill to the median and from the median to Pearl.
2) Minor Intersections
On residential side streets, stop signs are often used at intersections in an attempt to deter automobile speeding and reduce the incidence of angle and side-impact collisions. The proliferation of stop signs is an aggravation for people driving cars, but it also acts as a major physical deterrent for people on bicycles, who must travel under their own power.
An often-cited article by physics professor Joel Fajans and transportation journal editor Melanie Curry calculates that the typical commuting rider produces around 100 watts of power and can travel around 20 km/h, but that their average speed declines by 40 percent on a street with a stop sign every 100 m. (Joel Fajans and Melanie Curry, "Why Bicyclists Hate Stop Signs", ACCESS #18, Spring 2001, p. 29)
There is a better alternative to stop signs for a neighbourhood greenway. The American National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTA) recommends the use of mini-roundabouts on residential side streets. "Mini roundabouts and neighbourhood traffic circles lower speeds at minor intersection crossings and are an ideal treatment for uncontrolled intersections."
Cyclist navigating mini-roundabout (Image Credit: NACTA)
NACTA recommends a combination of pavement markings, signage and raised islands with plantings to maximize both the safety and attractiveness of these mini-roundabouts. Specifically:
Zebra crosswalks to clarify where pedestrians should cross and that they have priority
Sharrows to guide cyclists through the intersection
Yield signs at the curbside before the intersection and on the island
Shrubs or trees to beautify the roundabout and increase traffic calming effect
Mini-roundabout (Image Credit: NACTA)
I believe the minor residential intersections along Pearl and Kent may be excellent candidates for mini-roundabouts. These will dramatically increase the route's accessibility to cyclists of varying levels of fitness and skill, while effectively calming vehicle traffic, deterring cut-through driving and allowing full access for local vehicle traffic.
Combined with plantings, they will also make these streets more visually attractive, which will increase the greenway's appeal to local residents.
Here is a preliminary mock-up of how a mini-roundabout might fit on the greenway, in this case at Pearl and Florence:
Mini-Roundabout at Florence and Pearl (Image Credit: Google Maps)
The design will force motorists to slow down to navigate around the roundabout without actually having to come to a stop. This achieves the goal of traffic calming without enraging motorists and inducing aggressive accelerating between stop signs. Likewise, it allows cyclists to navigate the intersection safely by slowing down but not having to stop, thus reducing the perception of wasted effort to start moving and accelerate after a complete stop.
Realistically, the vast majority of drivers and cyclists already effectively treat stop signs as yields, violating the law in a manner that seems justifiable to each individual. Drivers often accuse cyclists of routinely blowing through stop signs, which provokes the inevitable response that drivers also routinely blow through stop signs.
Instead of fighting human nature and preserving a design in which most users routinely break the law, it seems better to redesign the intersections in such a way as to legitimize what people are already doing and make it safe.
Another possible option would be to adopt the "Idaho Stop" rule in which cyclists can treat stop signs as yield signs. However, this would require the Provincial Government to change the Highway Traffic Act and the Ministry of Transportation has indicated that such a change is not under consideration at this time.
Proposed sign (Image Credit: Sean Burak)
3) King Street
The walking/cycling connection across King Street is already in place. Almost exactly a year ago, the City recently painted crosswalks and installed full traffic signals at King and Pearl, with the signals cycling in synchronization with the timed signals on the rest of King Street.
Fully signalized intersection at King and Pearl
4) Main Street
Likewise, the City recently finished upgrading the intersection at Main and Pearl to full signalization, synchronized with the timed signals on Main Street. The new traffic signals have been activated and this connection across Main Street is now also in place.
Fully signalized intersection at Main and Pearl
It's worth noting here that just six years ago, both King and Main were uncontrolled crossings at Pearl. In this way, Councillor Johnson will be continuing and building on the groundwork laid by his predecessor, Brian McHattie, who regarded this proposed greenway route as an important active transportation corridor to develop.
5) Rail Overpass - Pearl Street Bridge
In October 2014, the new Pearl Street Bridge over the CP railway leading to Hunter GO Station officially opened. This was the culmination of several years of community advocacy and political effort to secure funding to replace the old bridge, which was no longer safe. The new bridge cost $770,000 to build (including the cost of demolishing the old bridge) and is designed to last 75 years.
Pearl Street bridge
Crucially, the new Pearl Street Bridge is a walking- and biking-only connection across the railway, which means it also serves as a diverter for automobile traffic on Pearl that might otherwise try to use the street as a cut-through route.
6) One-Way Section
The section of Pearl between Main Street and Tuckett Street is currently one-way southbound. The easiest solution here is simply to remove the one-way signs and allow the street to be two-way. To be sure, it is fairly narrow - but traffic volumes along this stretch are tiny and there is enough room for two cars to slow down and pass each other. Another option would be to install a northbound contraflow bike lane.
7) H.A.A.A. Park
There is a pathway into H.A.A.A. Park right at the south end of Pearl where it turns into Tuckett Street. That pathway runs diagonally through the park and exits on the south side of the park at Charlton Avenue West and Kent Street. This is yet another existing physical barrier that forces automobile traffic to divert off the greenway route but allows continuous walking and cycling access.
In addition to the park, this location provides direct access to Ryerson Middle School the Hamilton Tennis Club. A very short trip west on Tuckett Street connects directly to the Locke Street South commercial district, including the Locke Branch of Hamilton Public Library.
South of Charlton, the greenway continues along Kent Street, which is a minor residential street with low traffic volumes but relatively high cycling, walking and jogging volumes.
8) Charlton and Herkimer
Charlton Avenue is equipped with a westbound bike lane between James Street South and Dundurn Street South. Likewise, Herkimer Street is equipped with an eastbound bike lane between Dundurn and MacNab Street South. These parallel bike lanes are an important cycling connection between Kirkendall and Durand Neighbourhoods which were recently designed and installed in close cooperation with the respective neighbourhoods.
9) Aberdeen Avenue
One of the first new pieces of active transportation infrastructure to be installed since the Public Works Department began to embrace a changing transportation design culture is the pedestrian-activated signalized crosswalk at Kent Street and Aberdeen Avenue, which was installed in 2012 after considerable neighbourhood advocacy and political effort.
This works well for pedestrians, who are able to push a button to engage the signalized crosswalk at the northwest and southwest corners, but it is less accessible to cyclists. Telling people to dismount and walk their bikes across an intersection is not an effective way to encourage cycling.
One option for this would be to add bike sensors in the road on Kent to activate the crosswalk signal, as the City has done at Studholme and Aberdeen (among various locations). Another option is to add crosswalk buttons that are accessible from a cyclist on the street.
The great thing about the Magill-Pearl-Kent corridor is that nearly all of the major pieces are already in place.
Perhaps most crucially, driving patterns already support its use as a neighbourhood greenway. There will not be a steep learning curve for drivers to start using alternate routes, because it is already not a through route due to the physical discontinuities at York, CP Rail and H.A.A.A. Park.
And with Ryerson School and the park right on the route, Pearl and Kent are already significant pedestrian corridors with high levels of foot traffic. (After the crosswalk was installed at Aberdeen and Kent, pedestrian traffic across this intersection more than tripled.)
This would be a fantastic way to showcase a new approach to active transportation infrastructure that is gentle, integrates nicely into an existing neighbourhood, balances the needs of different transportation modes, and provides significant improvements for walking, cycling and local quality of life without having to inconvenience any set of street users.
It is a political "win-win" with a very reasonable cost to implement.
Ryan McGreal, the editor of Raise the Hammer, lives in Hamilton with his family and works as a programmer, writer and consultant. Ryan volunteers with Hamilton Light Rail, a citizen group dedicated to bringing light rail transit to Hamilton. Ryan writes a city affairs column in Hamilton Magazine, and several of his articles have been published in the Hamilton Spectator. He also maintains a personal website, has been known to share passing thoughts on Twitter and Facebook, and posts the occasional cat photo on Instagram.
By Wentworth (registered) | Posted March 22, 2018 at 08:47:37
Would be a nice west end bookend for the Red Hill Valley Trail (Mud & Paramount to Nash & Van Wagners)
By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted March 22, 2018 at 09:07:33
Related, I put in two requests for a similar greenway that many cyclists already use - Head/Victoria Park/Napier:
#2 "Cycling Improvements In Strathcona" which if you read the details, focuses on the popular Head/Napier route.
#25 "Push-button Crossing on Queen/Napier".
Comment edited by Pxtl on 2018-03-22 09:35:21
By JasonL (registered) | Posted March 22, 2018 at 11:35:22 in reply to Comment 122697
I voted for these, as well as the Greenway above. All 3 would be massive wins for the entire west side of downtown. Well done!
On the Idaho Stop, it really feels like so many of these interventions like blocking neighborhoods are unnecessary when stop signs do the job pretty well... but stop signs impede cycling, the Idaho Stop really feels like the best solution.
Even without going full Idaho Stop, I wish the ministry would support a simple "All-way stop where cyclists are exempt" special signage to support greenways. Then the city could identify specific side-roads as being greenways, implement cyclist-exempt all-way-stops along the route, and create a cycling-and-pedestrian friendly route with nothing but road signs. Obviously that would be a half-measure, but it would make so many greenways (like my Napier route) into easy low-hanging-fruit.
I certainly prefer the Idaho stop to round-abouts here in Hamilton. Maybe in Europe it's different, but we all know that without stop control for car drivers here, it'll be mass mayhem. Our high speed car culture is awful. Our design standards would provide a roundabout too small and drivers would learn to keep full speed while whizzing around the slight bend. No thx
By KevinLove (registered) | Posted March 22, 2018 at 09:56:01 in reply to Comment 122698
I disagree. In my opinion, the best solution is to systematically remove rat-running "cut-through" motor vehicle traffic from ALL residential neighbourhoods. This was what done in The Netherlands. See this blog post and video for a description and example of how this is done:
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/201...
Key quote from the description: "Residential streets in The Netherlands rarely work as through roads for cars, even if they were originally designed to do so."
As a result, it is very rare for a cyclist to encounter a stop sign in The Netherlands. There is only one in the video, at the 7:20 mark.
Comment edited by KevinLove on 2018-03-22 09:56:38
By Borrelli (registered) | Posted March 22, 2018 at 09:15:22
Sweet idea--did City Staff give you any idea of the estimated cost for the whole route?
By KevinLove (registered) | Posted March 22, 2018 at 10:46:14
The article Ryan referred to, "Why Bicyclists Hate Stop Signs," may be found here:
https://nacto.org/wp-content/uploads/201...
By mdrejhon (registered) - website | Posted March 22, 2018 at 15:31:54
This is an excellent idea, and if I was living in Ward 1, I would be giving my vote for this already as one of the favourites.
I now ride my bike more often than drive during my work commutes even during this winter, as part of my first-mile commute (to GO) -- it gives me a three kilometer exercise everyday.
I live in Ward 3 myself, and we need more viable north-south cycleways. The new Bay cycle track and the existing Hughson Bike Route are my current favourites but we need more further east and west.
Comment edited by mdrejhon on 2018-03-22 15:34:37
@MDRejhon on twitter. Original founder of Hamilton LRT Advocacy. Spouse of @ABureauWard3.
One problem with this proposed greenway is that it is not in the City of Hamilton's Cycling Master Plan. However, Locke Street is, as may be seen in the above link at Appendix A, item 12. Locke from Main to Aberdeen is scheduled for bike lanes.
Locke Street is a busy shopping, cafe and commercial street, like Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam. Isn't that video what Locke Street should look like?
This definitely not an either/or issue. We can have a greenway as Ryan proposes and also transform Locke Street per the existing Cycling Master Plan.
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A Proposal For A Revised Akrama Sakrama
Our Governor HL Bhardwaj declining to give his nod for the Governments proposed Akrama Sakrama legislation puts the spotlight back again on this controversial legislation. It is not the first time that such a legislation has been attempted – to legalize the many illegal constructions that have sprung up around Bangalore over the last several years and it’s not the first time that a large number of people have joined the debate on this – either opposing it or supporting it. Even the very highly respected Lok Ayukta Justice Santosh Hegde has joined the debate and opposed it.
Akrama Sakrama is proposed as a program to legalize – the many illegal constructions that have come up in and around Bangalore – with the ostensible objective of helping the poor householders who have built some/most of these illegal homes.
However there is a misconception and a deliberate misleading view that all such illegal constructions pertain to the Urban Poor and lower Income class residents. There are many illegal constructions by crooked real-estate developers, crooked Middle and high income home owners in Bangalore city and in the outskirts that will also be direct beneficiaries of Akrama Sakrama. There’s clearly no justification at all for this group that includes crooked real-estate developers and other violators (apart from the very poor) to be benefited at all, at the cost of the good law abiding citizens and residents of the city.
Currently there are following types of violators in our City
1. Those that build on land that doesn’t belong to them Eg Government /City land. (Encroachments)
2. Those that build in zones that are not designated for development in the CDP/RMP and therefore do not have any building plan approval. (Illegal layouts etc)
3. Those that build on their owned land , without any building plan approval
4. Those that build on their owned land, in excess/violation of their approved building plan
Moral risks/hazards of condoning illegalities and violation
No modern city can grow without adequate and strong zoning regulations and strong oversight of these zoning and building planning. Otherwise,there will be chaos. Also no government or city can or should send a message that its better to be law breakers and law abiding citizens.
It cannot be the case of anyone (and if it is then its untenable and indefensible) that all violators have to allowed to go scot free by paying a fee. It also cannot be the case that regularizing such violations is a way to generate revenue for the city. That is a dangerous argument –because its like saying legalize smuggling and criminals because by taxing them, governments can make money. Civilized society is about living by rules and off course helping the poor and destitute with deliberate and directed assistance. So there is a clear need to make sure any legislation or program such as this has a clear and narrowly defined objective of ensuring that the poor get their homes and rich and others don’t get away scot free. Therefore if an Akrama Sakrama is to be proposed – it has to clearly focussed only on the poor and strong qualification criterion that ensure that beneficiaries are only the poor and deserving.
How to REALLY help the Poor
The argument being made by some is that regardless of the nature of the violations, its important to help the poor get some homes. The fact is this argument has some merit because the state and city has done very little to create habitation and housing capacity for the poor in the last many years and the poor have had to resort to creating housing for themselves - which in many instances tend to be illegal in one of the four categories above.
Therefore the criterion that will ensure that only the poor will benefit from this.
a. The housing/dwelling in question should be 350 sft or smaller.
b. The family must be living in that for some period (ie it didn’t come up in the last few weeks or years) – Evidence of living there like Water and Electricity bills for last 4 years etc.
c. These must be on owned land and must be either violation 3 or violation 4 from above.
For all violations 1 and 2 for all types of residents, there cannot be any condoning. But the poor that have created habitations (350 sft or less) under violations 1 and 2, should be supported by a longer term solution - of being provided a Government backed Housing credit program, entitling them to credit/loan towards purchase of a home by a private developer or a government layout. They should be given a period of 18 months to relocate. This will cost the government and taxpayers – but that’s the cost of many years of negligence to the problem of housing for Urban Poor that we have to pay.
Other Aspects that must be included in Akrama Sakrama
a. Continuous Home building for Poor:
In addition this revised Akrama Sakrama must have a program of home building for the Poor through home credit for poor and directly building layouts that addresses the increasing need for habitation capacities in our city.
b. A strong enforcement framework for the future.
This revised Akrama Sakrama must also have a section on enforcement from the Cutoff date. The enforcement section must create punitive penalties for all those who build in violation of rules . Inspectors must be given enforcement and demolition powers that are strong in law.The penalties must apply to violators and at the same time the Cities Government officials who are responsible for enforcement of zoning and building rules/regulations.
This revised legislation would address the issues of housing for Poor (past and future), ensure a strong compliance regime for the future and also ensure that crooked developers and home owners don’t wrongly benefit at the cost of all law abiding residents of our city.
Government policy and law must have as its objective that – “Law breaking is the exception and not the general rule and not the other way around”.
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Minister Murphy’s statement on March homeless figures
Minister Murphy’s statement on
the March homeless figures
Mr. Eoghan Murphy TD, Minister for Housing, Planning & Local Government, today (30 April 2018) published his Department’s March Homelessness Report. The report, based on data provided by housing authorities, captures details of individuals accessing State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities.
The figures show that there are 126 less people accessing emergency accommodation. This is made up of 17 adults, 19 families and 109 dependents. Family presentations have also dropped by almost 50% in the Dublin region from 261 in February, to 135 in March. However, a categorisation error has been discovered and this matter is addressed below.
National Figures March 2018
Homeless Adults 6,035
Homeless Families 1,720*
Dependents 3,646
*Adults associated with these families are included in the 6,035 figure
Commenting on the figures Minister Murphy said: “While the level of presentations remains a challenge the drop in the number of families presenting to our emergency accommodation services in Dublin is welcome, as is the significant work that is going into prevention. I want to thank everyone for their increased efforts over the last period.
“On the publication of the January homeless figures, I stated that I had asked the Dublin Region Homeless Executive to investigate increasing numbers with a view to preparing a detailed report and recommendations. This report is almost finished. However, in the course of this work more recently in relation to the preparation of homeless figures for March, significant mis-categorisations have been discovered, which have overstated the total number of people that are in emergency accommodation in the State today.”
“A number of local authorities have erroneously categorised individuals and families living in local authority owned or leased housing stock, including in some instances people renting in the private sector but in receipt of social housing supports, as being in emergency accommodation. To date at least 600 individuals have been identified as having been categorised as homeless and in emergency accommodation when they are not. Some but not all of these individuals have been removed from the total numbers, but work continues with Local Authorities to gauge the total extent of the issue. It is quite clear that the current reporting model needs to be reformed as such errors undermine our ability to properly understand the extent and nature of the problem, as well as inform policy decisions around solutions. The Dublin Region Homeless Executive has been doing a more detailed piece of work on reporting as part of the review which I commenced earlier in the year and I hope to publish their report and recommendations once I receive them.”
“We continue with our significant task of finding sustainable tenancies for the families and individuals currently in emergency accommodation, and we know that we are going to continue to face a serious challenge as people continue to present to our homeless services in large numbers. The Inter-Agency Group which I established last September is due to present a report to me shortly on how best to address the varied and complex issues before us.”
Minister Murphy pointed to the significant increase in social and private house building that is currently underway, and which is necessary for sustainable solutions. “Earlier this month I published details of the increasing social house building programme under Rebuilding Ireland, and people will be aware from our 2017 report that Rebuilding Ireland is ahead of its social housing provision target – some 26,000 social housing tenancies were created and supported last year. This is just on the social housing side – every indicator on the private residential building side is showing dramatic increases in housing supply.”
The Minister also referred to the reduction in rough sleepers recorded in the Dublin Region Homeless Executive’s Spring Count. “In the recent count of rough sleepers taken in the Dublin region, we saw a 40% reduction since last November – there are now just over 100 people sleeping rough in Dublin, in many ways the most vulnerable people when we talk about homelessness. Housing First is the solution here and a five-year implementation strategy for Housing First will be published in June and will contain measures to extend the programme nationally.” Housing First enables people who may have been homeless and who have high level of complex needs to obtain permanent secure accommodation with the provision of intensive supports to help them maintain their tenancies.
Read the report in full here
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Girls Varsity Soccer reaches NYSAIS semi-finals for second year in a row
Abigail Salzhauer
Filed under Lions' Den, Showcase
This past Friday, the Girls Varsity Soccer team played in the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) semi-finals. This is the fourth year in a row that they have made the playoffs, and after three consecutive years of winning the Ivy League, the team lost 0-1 to Riverdale.
The team had an 11-3 record this season winning their third straight Ivy League title Coach Tim Sullivan said. They worked more as a team this year than in years past Maya Scholnick (12) said. The team spent practices doing drills to help them with areas they had struggled with in past games, Scholnick said.
“We practice for every single game throughout our season like it’s the most important game. So, when it came down to practicing for the playoffs, our practices didn’t feel that different since our intensity is always there throughout the season,” Jane Frankel (12) said.
The ten seniors on the team all lead by example and created a fun and hardworking atmosphere during practices, Kiara Royer (10) said.
“The NYSAIS games were no different for us than any other game this year. We prepared every day to achieve success. I am not only proud of our results but very proud of the way the team approached every day,” Sullivan said.
The keys to the team’s success during the tournament were focusing on playing simply and keeping possession, Scholnick said.
“We worked more as a team this year and tried to play to our strengths, like the speed we had up top, and we had amazing talent in every position so we were able to work very well off of each other,” Scholnick said. The team also worked on, “crossing the ball back across the six for our center mids to run onto it for a one time shot,” she said.
“Although we lost a lot of starting seniors from last year, everyone worked their hardest to compensate. If we lacked the skills for something, we made up for it with heart and the belief that we would win for each other is what drove the team forward, especially in the NYSAIS games,” Royer said.
“100 percent of our heart and love for not only the game, but for one another was the driving factor of our success this season. We definitely had talent, but at the end of the day the whole league is talented, so it came down to who wanted to win the game more and we always came out on top,” Frankel said.
“Even though it was disappointing that we lost in the semis, I think it was more of a sadness that the season was over rather than the loss because we had such a fun season together,” Royer said.
“Of course it was heartbreaking to lose, but that heartbreak mostly came from knowing that I wouldn’t be playing with these girls every day after school. Everyone worked their hardest during the game which is all we can do at the end of the day, so as sad as it is to have lost it, we ended it the same way we played every game and there were absolutely no regrets,” Frankel said.
Lions' Den
Track Team stumbles in Ivy Championship and NYSAIS
Ultimate frisbee team loses in sub-ultimate conditions
Captain Ben Metzner: hitting it out of the park
Inside the Fitness Center: Go behind the scenes of school athletics – Kevin Valluzzi: Maestro of the Fitness Center
Inside the Fitness Center: Go behind the scenes of school athletics – Colin Barile: The lesser known Coach Barile
Crew team finishes choppy season
Undefeated golf team takes a swing at league title
Girls Varsity Lacrosse defeats Dalton
Boys Varsity Tennis undefeated
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Dalton Domino Daddys Mud Press Release
“There's plenty of pull-no-punches honesty in ‘Daddy's Mud’” (The Boot) – Dalton Domino Releases Video For Devastating New Single
Watch the video for “Daddy’s Mud” here
New album Songs from the Exile is out August 23rd on Lightning Rod Records
June 20, 2019 – Dalton Domino is one of the best young songwriters out there, and his devastating new single “Daddy’s Mud” (and its powerful accompanying video) is a great example of why. The song, a standout from Domino’s upcoming album Songs from the Exile (out August 23rd on Lightning Rod Records), covers a range of emotional territories - broken homes; young parents doing the best they can under the tremendous weight of responsibility; resentment that grows from the strife family break ups can cause - but ultimately the most cutting lyrics are the one's Domino sings about himself. And the simple yet moving video brings Domino's barbed, self-aware lyrics into greater focus.
At the end of the song though, there’s introspection, hope and acceptance. As Domino tells The Boot, “’Daddy’s Mud’ is about coming to terms with the parts of yourself that you cannot change. It’s okay to be you."
Written during a period of closeted addiction and released during the clear-eyed clarity of Domino's sobriety, Songs from the Exile mixes hope with heartache, melody with melancholy. It's an album about the damage we sometimes inflict upon ourselves, with 13 clutter-free country songs that were recorded during a series of live takes. It’s a masterful album that finds Domino harnessing his considerable talent as a songwriter and justifying outlets like Rolling Stone Country and The Boot tagging him as an artist to watch.
Domino will be announcing a slew of tour dates in support of Songs from the Exile soon.
Pre-order Songs From The Exile here.
For more information on Dalton Domino, please contact Rob Krauser at REK Room Media, rob@rekroommedia.com or 917.703.8361.
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In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, this is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word "phonation" implies voicing, and that voicelessness is the lack of phonation.
The International Phonetic Alphabet has distinct letters for many voiceless and modally voiced pairs of consonants (the obstruents), such as [p b], [t d], [k ɡ], [q ɢ], [f v], and [s z]. In addition, there are diacritics for voicelessness, Template:Unichar and Template:Unichar, which is used for letters with a descender. Diacritics are typically used with letters for prototypically voiced sounds, such as vowels and sonorant consonants: [ḁ], [l̥], [ŋ̊].
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Voiceless vowels and other sonorants
Sonorants are those sounds, such as vowels and nasals, that are voiced in most of the world's languages. However, in some languages sonorants may be voiceless, usually allophonically. For example, the Japanese word sukiyaki is pronounced [su̥ciɐci]. This may sound like [sciɐci] to an English speaker, but the lips can be seen compressing for the [u̥]. Something similar happens in English with words like peculiar [pʰə̥ˈkʰjuːliɚ] and potato [pʰə̥ˈtʰeɪtoʊ].
Sonorants may also be contrastively voiceless, not just voiceless due to their environment. Standard Tibetan, for example, has a voiceless /l̥/ in Lhasa, which sounds similar to, but is not as noisy as, the voiceless lateral fricative /ɬ/ in Welsh, and which contrasts with a modally voiced /l/. Welsh contrasts several voiceless sonorants: /m, m̥/, /n, n̥/, /ŋ, ŋ̊/, and /r, r̥/, the latter represented by "rh".
In the Moksha language there is even a voiceless palatal approximant /j̊/ (written in Cyrillic as <йх> jh) along with /l̥/ and /r̥/ (written as <лх> lh and <рх> rh). The last two have palatalized counterparts /l̥ʲ/ and /r̥ʲ/ (<льх> and <рьх>). In the Kildin Sami language there is also /j̊/ <ҋ>.
On the other hand, although contrastively voiceless vowels have been reported several times, they have never been verified (L&M 1996:315).
Lack of voicing contrast in obstruents
Many languages lack a distinction between voiced and voiceless obstruents (stops, affricates, and fricatives). This is nearly universal in Dravidian languages and Australian languages, but is widely found elsewhere, for example in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Finnish, and the Polynesian languages. Consider Hawaiian, which has a /p/ and /k/, but no /b/ or /ɡ/. In many such languages, obstruents are realized as voiced in voiced environments, such as between vowels or between a vowel and a nasal, and voiceless elsewhere, such as at the beginning or end of the word or next to another obstruent. This is the case in Dravidian and Australian languages and Korean, but not in Mandarin or Polynesian. Usually, these variable sounds are transcribed with the voiceless IPA letters, though in Australia the letters for voiced consonants are often used.
It appears that voicelessness is not a single phenomenon in such languages. In some, such as the Polynesian languages, the vocal cords are required to actively open to allow an unimpeded (silent) airstream. This is sometimes called a breathed (/ˈbrɛθt/) phonation (not to be confused with breathy voice). In others, such as many Australian languages, voicing ceases during the hold of a stop (few Australian languages have any other kind of obstruent) because airflow is insufficient to sustain it, and if the vocal cords open this is due to passive relaxation. Correspondingly, Polynesian stops are reported to be held for longer than Australian stops, and are seldom voiced, whereas Australian stops are prone to having voiced variants (L&M 1996:53), and the languages are often represented as having no phonemically voiceless consonants at all. In Southeast Asia, when stops occur at the end of a word they are voiceless because the glottis is closed, not open, and so these are said to be unphonated (have no phonation) by some phoneticians who considered "breathed" voicelessness to be a phonation.[1]
Yidiny consonants
b d ɟ ɡ
m n ɲ ŋ
r ɽ
Semivowel
Yidiny consonants, with no underlyingly voiceless consonants posited.[2]
^ Jerold Edmondson, John Esling, Jimmy Harris, and James Wei, "A phonetic study of the Sui consonants and tones" Mon–Khmer Studies 34:47–66
^ R. M. W. Dixon. (1977). A Grammar of Yidiny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.
Glottal states (from open to closed)
Voiceless Breathy voice Slack voice Modal voice Stiff voice Creaky voice Glottalized Ballistic
(full airstream) (murmur) (intermediate) (maximum vibration) (intermediate) (restricted airstream) (blocked airstream) (fortis)
Supra-glottal phonation
Faucalized voice ("hollow")
Harsh voice ("pressed")
Strident (harsh trilled)
Non-phonemic phonation
Falsetto
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Song Xi was the only woman at the table in the largest private room of Guangde Building. The men were toasting over and over again under a cloud of cigarette smoke. For a moment, she felt as though she was back to a few months ago. At that time, she had also sat in this very room, the hostess surrounded by numerous admirers. Now, she was not even a guest but an accompanying person who had to smile apologetically.
Life seemed to have played a big joke on her.
“Song Xi, what are you thinking about? Give a toast to General Manager Chen.”
The Vice President beside her had spoken, pulling her back to reality. She followed the Vice President’s gaze and looked to her right. Chen Hao, the young master of Yida Medical Company, was sitting there. The hospital recently needed to purchase a lot of medical devices. Yida Medical Company was not the only choice, but Chen Hao had kept coming to the hospital to woo her, and everyone at the hospital knew about it. Therefore, the hospital leaders had come up with the idea to make her attend the dinner. In front of his beloved woman, Chen Hao will surely not charge too much.
After some hesitation, Song Xi picked up her glass and smiled at Chen Hao. “General Manager Chen, a toast to you.”
Chen Hao looked at Song Xi who had come straight from work. She had no makeup on but was still much more beautiful than those coquettish women outside. He just liked her purity.
The corners of his mouth turned up as he said, “General Manager Chen? Please don’t be so formal with me or I’ll feel like I’m being treated as a stranger. I will call you Xiao Xi, and you can just call me brother.”
Song Xi smiled faintly and raised her glass again while tactfully refraining from calling him anything. “Our hospital urgently needs this batch of medical devices. Can you do us this favor? I will toast to you, and you can drink at will.”
Having said that, she drank almost half a glass of wine as she tipped her head back.
Seeing this, Chen Hao smiled wider. “Since Xiao Xi has drunk up, Brother will have to join you. Cheers to you.”
As the crowd cheered, he downed half a glass of wine as well.
Song Xi had drunken her fourth half glass. She had a big capacity for liquor, but she was now drunk. Not knowing when the dinner will end, she dared not show her drunkenness.
It had not been ten seconds since she put down the glass, and she still hadn’t caught her breath when someone suddenly made a proposal. “How about Doctor Song and General Manager Chen drink wine with crossed cups? ”
Everyone immediately made sounds of agreement.
On this occasion, Song Xi could not possibly refuse. She peeped at the Vice President near her, and he signaled her to help out. Suddenly, she felt disgust and despair. Before coming here, the Vice President had reassured her that it was merely a dinner party and that he would definitely protect her. But now?
Everyone else was completely absorbed in sucking up to Chen Hao, so he was naturally super pleased. Someone stood up and poured less than half a glass of wine for him and then filled Song Xi’s glass to the brim. “Doctor Song, General Manager Chen cannot resist the charms of a beautiful woman. Just say some nice words to coax him. Never mind a price reduction, he might even give it to you for nothing.”
Upon hearing that, the room was filled with guffaws of laughter.
Chen Hao laughed so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits. He greedily stared at Song Xi’s face and said, “Xiao Xi, it’s as simple as that. If you drink wine cross-cupped with me once, I will reduce the price by ten percent.”
While waiting for Song Xi’s response, the Vice President who was sitting beside her could hardly sit still. He was vexed that he could not lift the glass for her. Fearing that she would drop the ball, he smiled obsequiously and said, “Thank you, General Manager Chen. Thank you so much.”
As Chen Hao lifted his glass, everybody turned their eyes to Song Xi. At this moment, numerous thoughts floated in her head. The most prominent was: “Can I put on a solemn face and walk away? Can I quit the job at the hospital?”
In just a second, she came to her senses. “Of course I can’t.”
She gritted her teeth and stomped her foot. “I guess I better drink. It’s no big deal. I’ve been humiliated enough over the past few months anyway.”
Without raising her head, she unconsciously cast a sidelong glance at the man who was sitting across her. He was wearing a plain black shirt and was smoking. Through the haze of white cigarette smoke, his handsome appearance could be seen indistinctly. She kept looking over at him. He had stayed silent, but Song Xi just couldn’t ignore him.
Qiao Zhisheng.
Before agreeing to attend the dinner party, Song Xi never thought that Qiao Zhisheng would be there. She had come tonight with the Vice President to ask Chen Hao for help. Meanwhile, Qiao Zhisheng was probably sitting there because Chen Hao was looking for a favor. He saw that she had drunk a lot of wine with Chen Hao, but he did not say a word. Apparently, he did not want to meddle. In other words, he was waiting for her to make a fool of herself.
By now, Chen Hao had been holding his raised glass for several seconds. Everybody could see that there was something wrong with Song Xi. The Vice President was winking at her stealthily. Sometimes, it takes just a thought to make a decision. At this moment, there was only one thought in her mind. She had no one to turn to but herself. No matter whom she surrenders to, it must be the same for her.
Just as Chen Hao was about to lose face, Song Xi reached for her glass, turned sideways to him, and forced a smile. “It’s a deal. If I drink a glass of wine, you will reduce the price by ten percent.”
Chen Hao was overwhelmed. “I will keep my promise.”
While speaking, he reached out his arm, ready to cross arms and drink cross-cupped wine with her. Her whole body was still, including her arm. There was a buzzing sound in her ear as if her dignity had fallen to the ground and broke into pieces.
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