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__label__wiki | 0.953426 | 0.953426 | Rodrigo Alves formally warned by 'Celebrity Big Brother' for using n-word
Brian Lloyd
It's not even one day down, and already 'Celebrity Big Brother' has gotten itself in trouble.
Rodrigo Alves, better known as the Human Ken Doll, was formally warned by Big Brother last night after using the n-word twice during filming. Alves was brought into the Diary Room and reprimanded for his language and told that if he did so again, he would be removed immediately from the house. Alves apologised and said that he "had a lot to drink," and said that he was very "hangovered" (sic), however Big Brother said that it was giving Alves a formal and final warning.
Big Brother does not tolerate the use of highly offensive, racially charged language in the House. Rodrigo has received a formal and final warning and if he uses such language again, he will be removed immediately. Rodrigo has apologised for his comments. #CBB pic.twitter.com/NX8scGPUkW
— Big Brother UK (@bbuk) August 17, 2018
Meanwhile, Rylan read out a statement on Stormy Daniels' exit - or rather, non-entry - to 'Celebrity Big Brother', indicating that Daniels pulled out just five hours before the show was due to begin and cited the same reports from yesterday; namely, that she was in the middle of a divorce and custody battle, and that it prevented her from committing to the show.
The heavily scripted segment also added that reports that Daniels demanded more money, or that the producers intended to control Daniels so as to bring about a specific outcome, were "totally false," and that "no housemate is bigger than Big Brother." The segment also featured Daniels' pre-recorded VT, but seeing as how she's no longer in the show, it's all for naught.
Interestingly, there was no mention of Samantha Markle-Grant's non-appearance despite she herself saying that she's getting ready to appear on the series. Could it be that she'll join later on?
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__label__wiki | 0.988488 | 0.988488 | Ted Williams on 'Early Show': 'It was too much, too fast'
By Jeff Labrecque
February 09, 2011 at 03:16 PM EST
Laurie Sparham
Ted Williams, the Ohio homeless man who became a YouTube sensation due to his golden radio voice, returned to the CBS Early Show this morning to discuss his roller-coaster ride of sudden fame. Looking polished and more comfortable in front of the cameras, Williams reflected on his emotionally jarring recent experiences, including his decision to leave a Texas rehab center. “It was too much, too fast, and I was just not really focused on what I should be doing,” he said. “I felt scripted. I was doing live phone-ins (to TV shows) from rehab.”
Williams initially relapsed under the immense pressure he felt after his YouTube video made him a star. “The weight of the world was on my shoulders,” he said, with people in airports coming up to him, saying, “Hey Ted, don’t let us down.”
Williams is now living in a clean-living sober house in California, so he can simultaneously seek voice-over work. Though several job offers disappeared after he encountered personal troubles, Williams says there’s still opportunity. “Some of these offers have come back to the table under the provision that I do continue to live in a sober environment,” he told CBS’s Chris Wragge and Erica Hill.
Williams insisted that his public squabbles with his family have been resolved and that he’s dealing with the limelight much better now then when he was initially thrust into it, saying, “There’s no more of these five-minute interviews and waving on buses.”
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Considered one of the most important poster artists in the history of American cinema, Silvano Campeggi, known as Nano, worked for the most important Hollywood majors present in Italy after the Second World War. Those were the years of reconstruction and the gaudy, colour posters that covered the rubble were among the only beautiful things you could see, an invitation to hope and to start dreaming again.
Nano moved into the world of graphic design at a young age, thanks to his father Astolfo, a typographer and compositor for the Bemporad publishing house. There, he discovered printing techniques and typographic characters and learned how to draw faces and choose colours. He was a talented artist and the first person to become aware of his potential was Ottone Rosai, whose became his teacher and sent him to study illustration at the Scuola d’Arte in Porta Romana, Florence. It was a fortuitous encounter that forever left its mark on his style, which was free, innovative, synthetic, essential, intuitive and daring. He started painting, illustrating books and newspapers, and specialising in graphic technique at the Zincografica Fiorentina, which would later print many of his film posters.
After a brief time in Milan, where he spent time with the illustrator Luigi Boccasile, he moved to Rome. In 1946 he began painting for the cinema at the studio of the poster artist Luigi Martinati. For about 20 years, he dedicated himself completely to this activity, signing posters for over 3,000 films, including Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, Casablanca, Singin’ in the Rain, West Side Story and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Between the 50s and 60s, he became known as the artist to the stars, realising thousands of portraits, including famous ones for Humphrey Bogart, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Rita Hayworth, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.
From the 60s on, when the old art of film painters was in crisis as a result of rapid technological and cultural changes surrounding film promotion, Nano instead dedicated himself to illustration, portraits and, above all, painting. His work is conserved in the family archives, maintained by the woman with whom he shared his intense life and who made this exhibition possible.
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__label__cc | 0.734593 | 0.265407 | Graduate Alumni > David Harper (MFA 2011)
The Absurdity of Stilling
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I am drawn to the form and idea of memorials, those markers that formalize links between memory and present experience. My main fascination is for the ways in which people bring facets of these ritual systems and objects into domestic spaces in order to amplify their personal identification with them, or perhaps with the cultures that support them.
There is intense empathy in the will to memorialize, to lay down a particular meaning on an object that is not inherent to it—life as remembered in the ripe fig of an ancient Xenia painting, or death anticipated in a skull. In my work I am taking account of these empathic tendencies, both in the sense of identification with and understanding of an ‘other’, and in the sense of joining one’s own feelings to an object.
To frame these elements of my work, I refer to certain periods, modes of craft, and domestic embellishment that articulate peculiar links to an ‘ordered’ natural world – the presentation of taxidermy in the home or museum setting, for example. The pleasure of asserting control over what is uncontrollably “wild,” satisfying an urge to have the animal form present in our controlled spaces, reminds us of what we no longer have and no longer are. These eccentric fusions of nature and culture are the uneasy disguises of pathos and pride that allow us to recognize and even celebrate an animal’s mortality while deferring our own.
The figurative connection between nature and mortality is evident in both historical and contemporary environments; the memento mori surrounds us in myriad forms at all times. In my lifetime, however, its presence has been more or less sanitized, the natural world euphemized, along with its suggestion of the inevitable. Rather than experiencing our link to mortality, we celebrate our disconnect with the things of which we have no control over.
By creating elaborate objects and situations that combine common and unusual materials and historical techniques, I hope to amplify an ephemeral natural world with enduring monumentalization. I am attempting to engage the viewer in a dialogue on the metaphoric weight that the objects present both historically and emotionally. I have always tried to create work that addresses collective truths while retaining intimacy and reflection; so that the viewer can connect with the objects, and delve into my relationship with them.
As I negotiate my relationship with things like cloth, ceramics, animal hides within the precision of sculptural practices, I am aware that they carry their mix of material histories and social conditions with them. I point to these from my own present position, exalting and commemorating their origins even as I reshape and reposition the same materials to carry specific emotion or meaning. My main work is to narrativize the two, and to not have one story obscure the other.
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__label__wiki | 0.661258 | 0.661258 | The Mouth of the Wolf (2009)
The Mouth of the Wolf / Pietro Marcello / 2009 /
Active Ingredients: Mix of archival footage; Exploration of memory; Texture of images
Side Effects: Reenactments and interviews; Inconsistent use of styles
Memories both personal and nation collide in Pietro Marcello’s thoughtful evocation of the ghosts of the past, The Mouth of the Wolf. Cinema shares a mysterious link with memories. For Tarkovsky, both phenomena are moored to time, the medium on which we register our experiences as memories and the dimension unique to film art. It’s not surprising then that in Marcello’s film memories manifest themselves as forgotten fragments of footage, strange pieces of archival material resurrected to fill in the space between past and present. Marcello blends these cinematic ghosts with his own footage, both documentary and narrative, depicting the decades-long love between two men from Genoa. Through lengthy stints in prisons and hard years on the streets, the pair stays together, following in the footsteps, somehow, of the city’s founders.
The film begins with a beautiful prologue, an incantation of Garibaldi and his Thousand, who, restless as the pair we are to meet, left Genoa during Italian unification. It’s this legacy of constant motion and searching that Marcello seems interested in exploring through his use of archival footage, the longing that brings waves of migrants in huge ships and leads men to build cities and to destroy them. The connections, however, are never labored and Marcello allows us to expand the ideas he suggest through artful montage. When he liberally mixes footage old and new in wispy, dreamy sequences the film is at its best, though extended reenactments and interviews with his subjects mar the film’s momentum towards the end.
Despite a few missteps, The Mouth of the Wolf is a powerfully suggestive film. Like its characters, it strains and searches, finding deeply cinematic expressions for difficult cinematic questions. There are no answers to the questions Marcello poses, but like hazy memories they linger on.
[The Mouth of the Wolf plays for free at the Disappearing Act Film Festival in New York on Sunday, April 15th.]
2000s, 4 Stars, Festival
Andrei Tarkovsky, Docufiction, Documentary, Pietro Marcello, The Mouth of the Wolf
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__label__cc | 0.674177 | 0.325823 | What is the small room in the entrance of the flat called?
Where I live, many apartments are build in a way that after you open the door of an apartment, then you have a small room "entrance room" in which people can put their shoes or other things, and from there there are another rooms (such as kitchen and bedroom or living room etc.).
This room is variable in its size, but I'm asking about 6*2M room. Now we call it corridor, and when I translate this word to English it is called also corridor... Now the issue is that the definition in Cambridge dictionary for the word corridor is:
Corridor: a long passage in a building or train, especially with rooms on either side.
It seems that corridor in my language and corridor in English is not the same, and in English people call this place in a different name. What is this name for our corridor?
The following illustration demonstrates this area by the number 4.
Judicious Allure
Judicious AllureJudicious Allure
Not one hundred percent sure, but I think it's called an entrance hallway. It definitely can't be just a hallway because hallways are typically long, spacious corridors that connect apartments on the same floor.
Michael RybkinMichael Rybkin
It can be a 'lobby' depending on the purpose of the flat and the size of the room. It could be an "entry hallway" or an "entrance hallway", also "entry hall" or "entrance hall". It could be an "entrance room" or an "entry room". It could be a "foyer" - an entrance hall or other open area in a building used by the public, especially a hotel or theatre. (an entrance hall in a house or flat. "North America").
SovereignSunSovereignSun
If you read the entery in the dictionary that you linked to, then you we'll see that you cannot call the place that I asked about in the name lobby. It's for public places, like entrance rooms of buildings or hotels. Check it out. – Judicious Allure Dec 14 '17 at 9:21
You can call a public flat's entry room a lobby. Like a dentist's flat for instance. – SovereignSun Dec 14 '17 at 9:32
The word that comes immediately to mind is vestibule, though it feels fairly formal, often describing the architecture of churches or large buildings such as the White House.
ves·ti·bule ˈvestəˌbyo͞ol/ noun 1. an antechamber, hall, or lobby next to the outer door of a building. synonyms: entrance hall, hall, hallway, entrance, porch, portico, foyer, lobby, anteroom, narthex, antechamber, waiting room "brochures are available in the vestibule"
on Amazon in the UK I found a sign saying "please take shoes off" advertised as a "Home Vestibule Boot Room Sign". (As with many shopping sites, item titles are optimized to match as many search terms as possible rather than for grammatical correctness.)
A site talking about Japanese architecture said "The vestibule just inside the main entrance to a Japanese home is called a genkan." and went on to describe the formal etiquette of taking off shoes, waiting for admission to the house proper, etc.
arparp
Most people in Britain and commonwealth regions would call it the entrance hall or simply the hall (without any risk of its being misunderstood as a church, school or concert kind of hall). Likewise, the hall mirror, hall carpet, etc.
In these areas, (entrance) hall is the term used on building plans by council officials, architects, etc.
It would be regarded as peculiar or pretentious to call it a foyer or a lobby, both terms being used for those large, airy and rather wasteful functional areas at the entrance to office buildings, theatres and so on.
answered Jun 28 at 1:19
PangoldPangold
You could call it an entryway.
B.W.B.W.
Welcome to English Language Learners! Please edit to include an explanation of why this is correct; answers without explanation do not teach the patterns of the language well. See the Submitting Answers that merely answer the question discussion on meta. – Nathan Tuggy Dec 14 '17 at 3:31
This kind of thing is very localized and is usually handled via vernacular. Most of the suggestions provided here will work. It just depends on where you are. If you choose one of the provided answers, you will most likely be understood. The locals will correct you if you are too far off base.
EllieKEllieK
I believe anteroom sounds more fitting. We rented an old mansion in Connecticut. When entering the home there was a very small room about 5’x 5’ Then, A second door that opened into the grand foyer. I believe the purpose of the small room was to prevent the cold air from entering the home and also To prevent losing the warm air from inside the home. Also, my father was an ice cream manufacturer. He had a large room he would put a gallon of ice cream in to freeze once it had been made. Before entering the large freezer room there was a smaller room he referred to as the anteroom. I would think it would serve the same purpose to prevent the freezing air from escaping and to keep the warm air out of the freezer
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__label__cc | 0.618284 | 0.381716 | Posted on April 30, 2019 by Bob The Empire News Potato
MIAMI, Florida –
A young boy in Florida has being hospitalized after his brand new Apple AirPod earphones allegedly exploded in his ear.
Caleb Mitchell, 8, has been hospitalized with 2nd degree burns on his face and inside of his ears after his Airpods exploded. According to Mitchell’s parents, the young boy is lucky to be alive, but is not out of the woods yet.
“I can’t believe something like this could happen,” said Josiah Mitchell, a standup comedian and the boy’s father. “I didn’t think they could get hot or explode or anything like that. Yet hear we are. Get it? Hear? Because Caleb is pretty much deaf now. Oh shit, I crack myself up.”
Caleb supposedly always had his Airpods in his ear, other than the times where he was charging them. He would even sleep with them, and wear them even when not listening to music. “Airpod owners are obsessed” says Candice James, a therapist, “Airpod owners really think they’re hot shit because their headphones don’t have wires. Wow, you’re so cool. Fucking losers. I just feel bad for the boy here because his parents indoctrinated him into wanting these in the first place.”
As Caleb is recovering, technology experts warn Airpod owners to not use them so much.
“Just throw them out,” said tech expert Lee Xiu, “You’ll be a better person, Airpod owners are annoying.”
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REPORT: NFL Players Make Too Much Money; Risk $10k Fines To Wear Sub-Par Headphones
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina –
Just last week, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was fined $10,000 by the NFL for wearing a pair of Beats brand headphones during a press conference after the team’s win over the Chiefs. The fine was the first of its kind after a ban was placed on the product; the NFL has a deal with BOSE systems, and for the most part, players are required to either wear that brand of headphones, or none at all.
Yesterday, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton was also photographed wearing Beats by Dre headphones, apparently not giving one second thought to the fact that he, too, could end up fined the equivalent of what amounts to half of the annual salary of many of his fans.
“I think these players, they make too much money,” said Al Ross, a lifelong football fan in Boston. “I mean, first of all, they’re out there, spending hundreds of dollars on these stupid, shitty name-brand headphones, and then the NFL says ‘Sorry, you can’t wear those,’ and instead of replacing the aforementioned pieces of shit with the free Bose headphones the club would give them, they risk having to fork over $10,000 because they want to keep wearing them? I love football, but the players are dumb as a bunch of bricks, I tell ya.”
“Personally, I’m a huge fan of sub-par headphones that break every few months, that’s why I keep wearing them,” said Bo Roberts, second-string linebacker for the Chicago Bears. “They wanted to give me the new brand that the NFL deals with, but that’s dumb. My Beats work fine for the most part, if I jiggle the wire just right and tilt my head to one side. There’s no reason to get rid of them just yet – not because the offices tell us to, anyway. That’s stupid.”
The NFL has yet to comment on whether Cam Newton would also be fined for wearing his Beats headphones. In other related news, Skullcandy is literally begging any player that they can find, in any professional0 sport, to possibly wear their headphones in public, to remind people that they, too, want to be thought of us ‘cool.’
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__label__wiki | 0.777559 | 0.777559 | Pig Industry
Influenza: FAO monitors pigs, poultry and waterfowl in hot spots
Date of publication : 4/19/2012
Source : FAO
Disease surveillance is supported by USAID's Emerging Pandemic Threats programme
FAO recently launched projects in four Asian countries to step up defenses against influenza by moving beyond a focus on domestic poultry to instead address a range of threats posed by the ever closer mingling of humans, wild animals and, especially, livestock animals, and the potentially devastating influenza viruses they share.
On 23-24 February, FAO animal health experts from Bangladesh, China, Thailand and Viet Nam met with counterparts from national governments and research institutes, regional representatives from the World Organisation for Animal Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, France's International Research Center for Agricultural Development (CIRAD) and renowned universities and NGOs to hammer out the final details in the projects' work plans over the next year. The inception workshop was titled "Determining the Role of Livestock in the Potential to Introduce a Pandemic Influenza Virus."
The work falls within the larger umbrella of the USAID-funded Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program, established in 2009 to expand upon the lessons learned in combating the global pandemic of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, which spread to over 60 countries before being reined in. HPAI however remains entrenched in six countries - and five of them are in Asia. The EPT program addresses the growing array of diseases emerging from the animal kingdom that threaten human health, not just avian influenza.
The influenza pandemic threat is however no less imminent, says FAO, which continues to monitor for any possible emerging influenza virus that could threaten human health, food sources and livelihoods. The newly adapted program, dubbed "EPT Plus," will reflect the honing of FAO's surveillance of influenza viruses over the years, which now increasingly focuses on monitoring for pathogens with pandemic potential in the mixing of crowded human populations with domestic pigs, domestic poultry, wild waterfowl and farmed ducks. In Asia, the crush of these skyrocketing populations could encourage the emergence of new strains of influenza. And as human populations grow and grow in wealth, animal populations are burgeoning too to keep up with the demand for meat and dairy products.
The widening scope reflects FAO's tackling emerging diseases through a "One Health" approach. In One Health, the health of animals, people and the ecosystems that support them are inextricably linked, with even slight changes having repercussions for all of them.
Asia is home to 65 percent of the world's pig population, with China alone accounting for 50 percent of the world total. China and Viet Nam are home to 75 percent of the world's duck population. At the same time, there are seasonal migrations of wild birds that overwinter in these major animal production areas, often mingling with farmed wild birds and ducks that graze openly in rice paddies. On farms, chickens often mix freely with pigs. The close contact among all these species is a tinderbox that risks to produce a highly pathogenic influenza virus that one day could infect humans.
"If a pandemic avian influenza virus emerges in the Sahara, it's never going to matter," said Scott Newman, FAO wildlife epidemiologist and coordinator of FAO's activities under EPT Plus. "But in areas where pigs, birds and people are all living increasingly closer together, that creates the perfect environment for avian influenza viruses to infect pigs, a host where viruses may swap genes and suddenly be passed on to humans in a much more lethal form."
The number and range of potential hosts for influenza viruses living in daily direct contact/close proximity thus may encourage greater genetic diversity of influenza viruses, which multiplies the possible threats to human health, he said.
The program in the four countries will also monitor the major hubs of contact where, if people come into contact repeatedly over time with swine and poultry species, new viruses could emerge. Markets with live animals are one such hub.
The aim is to overlay various data to gain a deeper understanding of what drives the emergence of new influenza viruses with pandemic potential.
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__label__wiki | 0.84899 | 0.84899 | Accra Sports Stadium disaster
2001 stadium disaster in Ghana
Accra Sport Stadium disaster
police fired tear gas into the crowd, resulting in a stampede
The Accra Sport Stadium disaster occurred at the Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra, Ghana on May 9, 2001. It took the lives of 126 people, making it the worst stadium disaster to have ever taken place in Africa.[1][2]
3 Memorial
4 Similar events
Event[edit]
Ghana's two most successful football teams played that day, the Accra Hearts of Oak (The Phobians) Sporting Club and the Asante Kotoko (Porcupine Warriors) Sporting Club. Officials were anticipating crowd disturbances, and had taken extra security measures. Accra scored two late goals, and a referee called 2–1 Accra, resulting in disappointed Kotoko fans throwing plastic seats and bottles onto the pitch.[2][3][4][5]
The police responded by firing tear gas into the crowd. Panic and a stampede ensued as fans tried to escape. Gates were locked and the stadium's compromised design left a bottleneck, with fewer exits than originally planned. Ghana Institute of Architects called the stadium a "death trap." After the hour-long ordeal, it was found that 116 deaths resulted from compressive asphyxia and 10 fans died from trauma.[2][6][4][5]
A fan, Abdul Mohammed, had passed out from the tear gas and was moved to a morgue, thought to be dead. He regained consciousness after someone stepped on his foot, narrowly missing being buried alive.[4]
Reports claim that medical staff had already left the stadium, as the incident happened near the end of the match. Some gates were locked, preventing escape.[1][2][7][8][9]
An official inquiry blamed police for over-reacting with reckless behaviour and indiscriminate firing of plastic bullets and tear gas. It also accused some officers of dishonesty and indefensible laxity. Six police officers were charged with 127 counts of manslaughter. The court ruled that the prosecution had failed to make a case and that the asphyxia may have been caused by the stampede and not the tear gas.[5][10]
The commission of inquiry recommended improvements to stadium security and first aid facilities, and that nationwide rapid response teams should be set up.[10]
Accra Sports Stadium was renovated in 2007 according to FIFA standards. Politics may have deferred the National Sports Council's attention to the stadium and 15 years later it again is in disrepair.[5]
Memorial[edit]
Following the event Ghana's president, John Agyekum Kufuor, called for three days of mourning. The Ghana Premier Football League suspended play for a month.[5] Since 2001 corporations and philanthropists including former Asante Kotoko chairman from 1999 to 2003, Herbert Mensah, have memorialized this tragedy with a fund, the Stadium Disaster Fund, and a series of events in Kumasi.
The events include paying respects to families of victims and their 148 children, their invitation to the Otumfuo's birthday at Manhyia Palace, prayers in the local Central Mosque, donations to the needy, the laying of a memorial wreath and a memorial march called the "May 9th Remembered Street Walk." In 2016 an annual memorial "May 9th Cup" football competition was created.[2][4][11][12][13] Mensah has appealed to the government to memorialize that May 9th, to no agreement.[14] In 2017 the memorial events were themed "Embrace the Day."[2]
A bronze statue was erected outside the stadium of a fan carrying another fan to safety with the inscription title "I Am My Brother's Keeper" in honor of the victims of that tragedy.[4][5]
Fans who attend matches at the stadium now chant "Never Again! Never Again!" to remind themselves of that day.[15]
Similar events[edit]
Heysel Stadium disaster
Hillsborough disaster
^ a b "Prosecution closes case on stadium disaster". Ghanaweb. June 23, 2003. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
^ a b c d e f Afanyi-Dadzie, Ebenezer (May 9, 2017). "May 9 victims remembered 16-yrs on; Herbert Mensah urges discipline". Ghana News. Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
^ "Ghana mourns after football tragedy". BBC. May 10, 2001. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
^ a b c d e "May 9 2001: When the beautiful game became ugly in Ghana - Goal.com". Goal.com. May 9, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
^ a b c d e f "Fifteen Years After Africa's Deadliest Stadium Disaster, Not Much Has Changed". Vice. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
^ "Investigate the murder of the Ya Na -NDC". Ghanaweb. August 7, 2003. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
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by nichols33 | April 5, 2009 · 10:22 PM
Observations (4/5)
Brett Myers was throwing batting practice tonight. John Miller wouldn’t stop talking about how Myers doesn’t throw his fastball enough, but in this case, he is right. Myers throws change-up after change-up mixing in some sliders and hardly throws the fastball. And when he did tonight….it ended up in the 5th row. Myers battled back to give the Phils some innings but he looked more like the 2008 1st half Brett Myers rather than the 2nd half Myers. A disappointing first start to say the least. The Phils staff could be in big trouble if Myers continues to struggle. Hamels has already had some elbow issues, Blanton an average starting pitcher at best, Moyer is like 50 years old coming off a season of a near 5 ERA and Chan Ho Park (yes, remember him) is the 5th guy. Yikes.
Chipper Jones can hit. That statement shouldn’t surprise anybody, but it needs to be said. When watching a healthy Chipper you wonder how a pitcher can get him out.
The Braves are going to have trouble scoring runs this year. Their line-up is just not that good. When Chipper goes down, they only have one premium bat in that line-up with McCann. All others are average to below average.
So much for Charlie Manuel wanting to break up his lefty sluggers. He hit Utley 3, Howard 4 and Ibanez 5. Did he notice the Braves closer Mike Gonzalez is a lefty?
D Lowe was on tonight. I don’t understand how he is still so effective, I mean these guys know what he’s going to do. He’s going to keep the ball down in the zone and when he gets you in a pitchers count he is going to throw the slider down and away to righties. Yet it’s just ground ball after ground ball. He was on tonight.
McCann’s home run was a bomb. 2 -0 count and Myers hung a change up that McCann hit into the upper deck in right field.
Mike Gonzalez was hit hard. The Phils had some very good swings on him. He did make Ryan Howard look silly. 200 strikeouts anybody? Howard is off to a good pace at reaching that milestone.
A lot of activity on the waiver wire in all leagues today. Seems like every fantasy owner on the planet was looking at their teams today and making changes.
Filed under Observations
Tagged as Braves, Bret Myers, Brett Myers, Brian McCann, Chan Ho Park, Chase Utley, Chipper Jones, Cole Hamels, Derek Lowe, Jaime Moyer, Joe Blanton, Mike Gonzalez, Phillies, Raul Ibanez, Ryan Howard
NL Round Up
A quick trip around the National League team by team.
Oliver Perez (SP, NYM) Ollie is in the Mets doghouse after returning to the team from the WBC where he pitched horrible for Team Mexico. Mets coaches commented that he is “overweight” and did not do his conditioning during his time away froris m the team. Hopefully that explains his 6 BBs and 6 ERs yesterday.
Kenshin Kawakami (SP, ATL) The Japanese import got back on the mound yesterday and threw 5 innings of 1 hit, 1 ER ball. The injury scare appears to be behind him and Kawakami could be a very useful fantasy pitcher this season. Don’ t draft him as a starter but take a flyer on him for your bench.
Cameron Maybin (OF, FLA) Maybin is hitting .313 this spring and will hit leadoff for the Marlins. Spring stats normally are not indicative to how well a player is going to perform during the season but it is nice to see a kid of this talent having success against major league pitchers. A very nice sleeper in all leagues, but don’t be counting on him as a starter.
Jayson Werth (OF, PHI) It looks like Charlie Manuel likes Werth in the 5 spot in the lineup breaking up the left handed bats (Utley, Howard & Ibanez). This should create more RBI opportunities for Werth but also allow him to hit quasi-leadoff at least 50 times a game (after Howard homers) where he can get on and steal a bag.
Nick Johnson (1B, WAS) It appears as Nick Johnson will be starting regularly at 1B for the Nationals. He may be a nice pick up during the season but he should not be drafted in any league outside a NL only league. Dunn, Milledge and Dukes appear to be the OF with Willingham & Kearns on the outside looking in.
Ryan Braun (OF, MIL) The apparent minor injury Bruan suffered in the WBC looks like it could be something of concern. Braun is headed in for an MRI today after being pulled in the 4th inning yesterday for a pinch hitter. Bruan insists it’s nothing but the Brewers staff seems very concerned. Perhaps that is why Braunfell to me at pick #11 in a 5×5 league this past weekend. He should be a top 8 pick in all drafts even with this injury.
Jason Motte (RP, STL) Looks like Motte has a leg up on the competition for the closer role in St. Louis. Chris Perez has been injury and Motte has outperformed veteran Ryan Franklin thus far. If you take Motte in a draft take him after nearly all other closers are off the board. He may open the season as the closer but Perez will be given an opportunity at some point this season.
Andy LaRoche (3B, PIT) LaRoche will be the starting 3B for the Pirates this season and he is having a fine spring. The former Dodgers prospect is hitting .375 albeit mostly singles (13 singles, 2 HRs). He is a breakout candidate and should be stashed away on a bench in every league that has benches. Perhaps he is this year’s Carlos Quentin.
Kevin Gregg / Carlos Marmol (RP, CHC) The Cubs have yet to name a closer but are said to be close to a decision. Kevin Gregg has out pitched Marmol this year but it’s hard to ignore Gregg’s failures last season in Florida. If Gregg wins the job, it won’t be long before Marmol is given a shot. Fantasy wise, I would take Marmol but I’m seeing him go far to early in nearly every draft. He should be the 16th or 17th closer off the board, not the 10th.
Jonny Cueto (SP, CIN) Cueto threw 6 innings yesterday with 5 Ks and 0 ERs against a number of Red Sox starters. Cueto had an excellent spring last year andtook his lumps during the season. With a full year under his belt, expect better numbers from Cueto and draft him as your 4th starter at the earliest. He’d be a better gamble as your 5th.
Ivan Rodriguez (C, HOU) Don’t let Pudge’s torrid spring fool you. He had an outstanding spring last year hitting 6 HRs in the spring only to hit 7 HRs during the season. Rodriguez is nothing more than a backup catcher in the fantasy world and even then, you have better options (Napoli, Pierzynski, Navarro, Suzuki).
Kyle Blanks (1B/OF, SD) Did I read that right?!? The Padres are trying Kyle Blanks in the OF? This is a very large man who scouts have said may not even be able to play 1B and the Padres are trying him in the OF due to Adrian Gonzalez being comfortably set at 1B. While he may be relatively fast for a big man, don’t expect Blanks to find a permanent home in the OF. He may be San Diego’s 1B in the near future if the cost-cutting franchise decides to move Gonzalez. Blanks will probably have no fantasy value in 2009 but keep an eye on him for 2010.
Manny Ramirez (OF, LAD) Manny played the OF yesterday with no complications, he even man a slick play cutting off a ball before going to the wall holding the runner to a double rather than a would be triple. Manny will be ready when the season starts and will be an absolute monster when in the lineup. Manny should go late in the 2nd round or early in the 3rd in most drafts.
Ryan Spilborghs (OF, COL) Spilborghs appears to have the CF job in Colorado andis hitting .386 this spring with 5 SBs. He does not strike out and provides some speed that could be very useful to a fantasy team. Take a flyer on him late in the draft if you have a bench or a number of OF spots to fill in your starting lineup.
Matt Cain (SP, SF) Cain is really struggling this spring giving up 9 runs and 12 hits in his last 2 starts. Not that spring stats matter all that much to a guy that has a job but as you get closer to the start of the season you like to see young pitchers put together some solid starts especially when they disappointed as much as Cain did last year. Cain would be a solid 4th starter in most leagues but I’d be very nervous if he was my 3.
Filed under Injuries, NL News
Tagged as 1B, 3B, Adam Dunn, Adrian Gonzalez, AJ Pierzynski, Andy LaRoche, Astros, Austin Kearns, Braves, Brewers, C, Cameron Maybin, Cardinals, Carlos Marmol, Carlos Quentin, Chase Utley, Chris Perez, Closer, Cubs, Dioner Navarro, Dodgers, Elijah Dukes, Giants, Ivan Rodriguez, Jason Motte, Jayson Werth, Jonny Cueto, Josh Willingham, Kenshin Kawakami, Kevin Gregg, Kurt Suzuki, Kyle Blanks, Lastings Milledge, Manny Ramirez, Marlins, Matt Cain, Mets, Mike Napoli, Nationals, Nick Johnson, NL, OF, Oliver Perez, Padres, Phillies, Pirates, Raul Ibanez, Reds, Rockies, RP, Ryan Braun, Ryan Franklin, Ryan Howard, Ryan Spilborghs, SP, WBC
Hamels heads back to Philly for an elbow exam.
UPDATE (Tues 1:21 PM) by nichols33: Hamels’ elbow checked out ok. Word is that it is inflamation of the elbow, no structural damage. Hamels will take anti-inflammatory medicine. No time table on return, but Phillies are calling this “good news.” ESPN’s recap on the news.
Original Post: Bad news if you’ve got Cole Hamels in your keeper league or were eying him as your ace in your upcoming draft, he’s flying back to Philadelphia to have his elbow examined by the Phillies team physician.
Fantasy Baseball Advice: I noted in a previous post that I was concerned about Hamels suffering due to his exponentially larger workload last season, it looks as if this may be coming to fruition. The team is saying they don’t think it’s serious, no pain, just a little tightness in between innings, but with elbows, little problems balloon quickly. I’ve already got Hamels as my 7 overall starting pitcher, I will start to consider starters such as Beckett, Peavy, and Oswalt over Hamels if he is forced to sit out some time or something more serious develops. Keep an eye on this situation if you are considering Hamels with your 3rd or 4th round pick in the draft. No timetable has been set for his return.
Filed under Injuries
Tagged as Cole Hamels, Injuries, Phillies, SP
Utley or Kinsler?
It’s your pick in the draft. You’ve decided to go 2B, and all are still on the board. Who are you taking, Chase Utley of the Phils or Ian Kinsler of the Rangers?
Most rankings I’ve seen have Ian Kinsler as the #1 2B. At first I thought this was due to Utley’s offseason surgery and the lists possibly generated before the news came out that Utley will probably be ready for opening day. But I’m seeing mock draft after mock draft where Kinsler is going off the board first.
2008 Stats:
For me, so long as Chase is healthy and playing, I’ll take him over Kinsler. Kinsler has yet to put up a full season with no injury. Last year he did not play after Aug. 19th and the year before Ian missed all of July. Kinsler has the edge on speed and could possibly steal 30 bags this year, but Utley is good for double digit steals and his power is SICK when healthy.
Chase was on his way to an MVP season last year hitting 25 homeruns before the all-star break. Then he ran into some hip problems that severly reduced his power numbers in the second half because he could not turn on the ball. If Chase shows that he is healthy in some spring games, he should be the first 2B taken and he could go get the MVP award he was working on last season before the hip.
Who are you taking?
Filed under Draft Position, Position Analysis
Tagged as 2B, Chase Utley, Ian Kinsler, Phillies, Rangers
by notebookguy | March 4, 2009 · 6:34 PM
Big time players with question marks.
The first 5 rounds of any draft is key to building the core of your offense and pitching staff. Teams that lose one of their top 5 picks have a hole to dig themselves out of and though it can be accomplished, it’s easier to do your best to avoid being in that situation. Here are some players that will go in the first 5 rounds of your draft that may dissapoint. Average Draft Position(ADP) courtesy of mockdraftcentral.com.
Alex Rodriguez, 3B, Yankees, ADP 2.85
I have Arod ranked 5th overall right now behind Hanely, Pujols, Wright, and Reyes. I did have him 2nd overall behind Hanley until the steroids story broke and now there is word that he’s having trouble with his hip. The pressure of the steroid story and the hip injury make me shy away from him slightly and go with a surer bets in the top 4. I’m not saying avoid Arod, I would take him if he slipped to 5, but be wary of his situation with steroids and keep a close eye on the hip news.
Manny Ramirez, OF, Dodgers, ADP 22.85
The idiot savant of hitting turns 37 in May and plays in cavernous Dodger Stadium. Without the luxury of DH’ing to give his old legs a break you can expect Manny to miss time at various points in the season with a strained hamstring or sore knee as he did in Boston. Don’t expect a full season like his final 2 months for the Dodgers, you will be dissapointed. Take players like Prince Fielder, Carlos Beltran, Justin Morneau, Jason Bay, and Carlos Lee before Manny, you’ll get more production and less headaches. I’d wait till the 3rd round on Manny but he probably won’t make it out of the 2nd round.
Cole Hamels, SP, Phillies, ADP 40.58
The World Series Champion’s ace thew 265 innings last year including the postseason, an astounding 80 innings more than he pitched in any other season in his career. This is an extremely large jump in innings for such a young hurler and history tells us that players with this big a jump don’t fair as well the following season. He is only 25 years old and he is one of the best pitchers in the game, but don’t be surprised if that work load catches up with him a bit this year and the numbers are a little down or he misses some time. I think he’ll be one of the best pitchers in the game for many years, but this year I’d proceed with caution. Alternatives could be Brandon Webb, Roy Halladay, CC Sabathia, or Dan Haren safer bets with consistent innings over the last 3 years.
Jake Peavy, SP, Padres, ADP 45.21
Peavy was limited to 27 starts in 2008 due to elbow inflammation, 2 words you never want to hear in connection with your ace. Combine the recent elbow woes with a terrible offensive team behind him and you can see why I think Peavy will dissapoint those that take him as their ace. Webb, Halladay, CC, and/or Haren are better alternatives then the Pads ace.
Vlad Guerrero, OF, Angels, ADP 42.28
It’s tough to put him on this list. He guts it out almost every year with knee, shoulder, and back problems getting 520+ AB’s every year he’s been an Angel but eventually the injuries pile up too high and the player succumbs. I’m afraid that’s where we are at with Vlad the Impaler. Offseason knee surgery has him taking it slow this spring training and he lost his protection in the lineup with Mark Teixeira cashing his checks in the Bronx. So a weaker lineup, offseason surgery, and another year off the calender make Vlad riskier than ever. Great alternatives to Vlad are Nick Markakis, Curtis Granderson, Alex Rios, Corey Hart, Carlos Quentin, and Shane Victorino. All are younger and in or entering their primes, Vlad is well past his.
Tagged as 3B, Albert Pujols, Alex Rios, Alex Rodriguez, Angels, Brandon Webb, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Lee, Carlos Quentin, CC Sabathia, Cole Hamels, Corey Hart, Curtis Granderson, Dan Haren, David Wright, Dodgers, Hanley Ramirez, Jake Peavy, Jason Bay, Justin Morneau, Manny Ramirez, Mark Teixeira, Nick Markakis, OF, Padres, Phillies, Prince Fielder, Roy Halladay, Shane Victorino, SP, Vlad Guerrero, Yankees
by dtb23 | March 3, 2009 · 10:41 PM
Damaged Goods, Buyer Beware
By dtb23
Q: What’s more frustrating than wasting a draft pick on an under performing player?
A: Using that same pick on a player who is physically unable to take the field.
Injuries are a critical aspect of every fantasy league and can strongly influence a team’s position in the standings. Every owner needs to take this into account when they are preparing for the draft as well as managing their team throughout the season.
Freak injuries happen every year, like when Utley broke his hand when he was hit by a pitch. All you can do in this instance is do what the Phillies did. Find the best replacement you can and try to tread water while you wait for your fantasy stud to return.
Other injuries are more predictable. Certain players have a higher risk of missing time than others. The best way to avoid drafting damaged goods is to monitor your fantasy sources and check out the readily available injury reports. Here are some players you may want to avoid on draft day or at least move them down a few spots on your draft board;
C – Jorge Posada – Jorge is recovering from rotator cuff surgery on his throwing arm. His status for opening day is uncertain but the 37 year old catcher is on the decline and his days as a top tier fantasy catcher are over.
1B – Nick Johnson – Larry Bowa’s nephew is a great contact hitter but he has only recorded 500 at bats once in his career. He is currently recovering from surgery on his wrist.
2B – Chase Utley – The Phil’s GM, Ruben Amaro Jr, is so pleased with Utley’s speed of recovery that he has publicly stated Chase may be able to play in a few spring training games. If Chase continues his current pace it should be safe to draft him as the #1 second baseman in all of baseball.
SS- Rafael Furcal – Back issues are scary because there is no telling when there may be a reoccurrence. The prospect is even worse for a player who relies so heavily on his speed.
3B – Eric Chavez – Too many injuries to list. This player should not be drafted in any league.
OF – Carlos Quentin – Wrist injuries can be devastating to a power hitter. Expect his numbers to suffer until he regains full confidence in his surgically repaired wrist.
OF – Gary Matthews Jr – The OF will definitely start the year on the DL and will most likely miss up to 8 weeks to start the year.
OF – Milton Bradley – It’s too bad this guy can’t stay healthy. He is coming off of a career year and now that he is wearing a Cubs uniform could mean even better numbers across the board. The fact that he has already missed games due to injuries does not sit well.
Tagged as 1B, 3B, A's, Angels, C, Carlos Quentin, Chase Utley, Cubs, Dodgers, Eric Chavez, Gary Matthews Jr, Injuries, Jorge Posada, Larry Bowa, Milton Bradley, Nationals, Nick Johnson, OF, Phillies, Rafal Furcal, SS, White Sox, Yankees
by notebookguy | March 3, 2009 · 10:38 AM
Overrated and Underrated in the draft.
Every year there are players that go far too early in a draft and there are players that seem to slip too late. This list will help you avoid the pitfalls of wasting a high pick on an overhyped player and help you find talented players late in the draft. I’ve done hundreds of mock drafts this offseason, as my beyond patient girlfriend can begrudgingly attest to, and these are the overrated/undderrated players I’ve identified.
Talk of rounds picked in this article is based on a 5×5 15 team format. I will give you an Average Draft Position of a player, this is the number pick the player goes at on average at a draft at mockdraftcentral.com. Average Draft Position(ADP) Courtesy of mockdraftcentral.com.
Overrated:
Josh Hamilton, OF, Rangers, ADP 11.53
He is an immensely talented player but injuries and off the field issues make him far too big a risk to spend your 1st round pick on. He regularly goes ahead of great bats such as Ryan Howard, Mark Teixeira, and Lance Berkman in drafts and those players have none of the headaches Hamilton brings to the table. In the first round go safe, Hamilton’s upside is great, but you know you’ll get 1st round production out of those 3, you can’t say the same for Josh, you may, but why roll the dice?
Raul Ibanez, OF, Phillies, ADP 116.15
A late 7th/early 8th round pick in a 15 team draft for Raul Ibanez is not a good move for your team. I understand that he is moving to the band box in Philly but he’s 37 years old, people don’t have huge years at 37 years old unless it’s chemically induced. Also going to the NL eliminates the possibility of him DH’ing to give the legs a break, increasing the possibility of a DL stint, obviously his age plays into that as well. He goes around the same time as guys like Johnny Damon, Torii Hunter, and Andre Ethier and goes at least a round before guys like Brad Hawpe, Jason Werth, and Pat Burrell. All these players bring alot more to the table than Ibanez, let someone else make the mistake.
Miguel Tejeda, SS, Astros, ADP 116.43
I will not go anywhere near this guy at all, never mind in the 7th or 8th round. An “alleged” roid guy, an old 32 years old, and his possible deportation for legal troubles mixed in with steadily declining numbers across the board for years render this former MVP undraftable in my book.
Joba Chamberlain, SP, Yankees, ADP 99.56
I think Joba has great potential, but some arm injuries very early in his career, probably due to being jerked between the pen and the rotation, make him extremely iffy to make 30 starts, I think he makes closer to 20. A 20 start number 2 in your rotation isn’t going to help you win too many leagues. He goes the same time as guys like John Lackey and Felix Hernandez who are much safer bets and put up great numbers. Joba goes ahead of guys like Dice, Lester, Zambrano, M. Cain, and J. Vazquez all starters you know you’ll get 30 starts out of with very good numbers, pass on Joba.
Rich Harden, SP, Cubs, ADP 119.8
Similar argument that I made for Joba except this guy has a much longer history of injuries making it more likely for that trend to continue. The spot where he goes in the draft will likely make him the number 2 starter on a team, way too important a spot to take a risk on.
Underrated:
Jacoby Ellsbury, OF, Red Sox, ADP 59.21
Getting Ellsbury at the end of the 5th/beginning of the 6th round is an absolute steal. Jacoby is Jose Reyes in CF. A projected line of .290+ BA, 10-15 HR’s, 110+ R’s, 70+ RBI’s, 50+ SB’s is very reasonable and he may exceed those numbers. I understand Reyes has the position advantage over Ellsbury but I think other than position, they’ll end up looking very similar. Snag Ellsbury this year in the 3rd or 4th while you can, he’ll be a 1st or 2nd round pick next year.
Johnny Damon, OF, Yankees, ADP 114.13
The only Yankee OF of any worth this year is a great value in the 8th round. He is the only OF in the Bronx that will get 550+ AB’s and he’s a consistent 5 category contributor. His age is starting to factor in at 35 years old, but he’s averaged 560 AB’s over the last 3 years, going to the DL for the first time in his career last year, I think he’s got a year or 2 of good production left in him before he really starts breaking down. He’s going to be hitting at the top of a very good lineup and has averaged .286, 18 HR’s, 71 RBI’s, 101 R’s, and 27 SB’s in pinstripes over the last 3 years. Being a Sox fan, I don’t like the man personally, but you can’t ignore that type of 5 category production and Damon should be going earlier in the draft than he is.
Erik Bedard, SP, Mariners, ADP 179.6
Remember this guy? Bedard was probably a top 5 pitcher on most lists this time last year, now he’s going in the late 12th/early 13th round of drafts. I know missing last year is the cause of this and a shoulder injury is nothing to ignore, so be sure to keep an eye on him in Spring Training. Reports so far are encouraging. Keep this in mind: 13 W’s, 3.16 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, with 221 K’s all in the AL East in 2007, a great year for a pitcher in a bear of a division. Well worth a shot as a number 3 or 4 starter, but know the risks and pay attention to his Spring. You could get an ace in the 2nd half of your draft.
Adrian Beltre, 3B, Mariners, ADP 201.01
Now I realize the chemically induced Dodger year is far behind Beltre but he is an absolute bargain at 3B in the 14th round. Beltre regularly goes 100+ picks after Aubrey Huff, Ryan Zimmerman, and Edwin Encarnacion, he is more than capable of matching the numbers of these players 6+ rounds after they come off the board. Don’t forget that Beltre is in his free agent year, his other walk year he was an MVP candidate, don’t expect those numbers, but a line of .270, 25 HR’s, 90 R’s, 100 RBI’s, and 10 SB’s is attainable.
Chien-Ming Wang, SP, Yankees, ADP 218.6
The 15th round is far too late for the Yankees number 2 starter to go in the draft. He is not going to give you big K numbers but 18 W’s, sub 4 ERA, and a good WHIP make him very valuable. I expect his K’s to keep moving up as well. His injury was a broken foot which is fully healed and he’s looked good so far this spring. Scoop him up as your 4th starter and get 2nd starter production.
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Posted on June 20, 2016 November 9, 2018 by Finn Cullen
In last night’s session of Night’s Black Agents a vampire nearly houseruled the system spontaneously by so clearly failing a stability test it took the Director- me- aback.
Okay so vampires don’t make stability tests, nor did I roll one. But it sure as hell felt like he failed one.
Here’s a bit of backstory to set the context.
In 1917 Captain Nathaniel Soames was crippled during a shell attack in Belgium during the Great War. His pelvis and legs were shattered and he was paralysed from the waist down, surviving only because he was dragged back from No Man’s Land by a cockney infantryman Private Harry Sparrow.
Sparrow was an up and coming gangster in the immediate post war years and he was startled to be approached one evening by his former Captain, Soames, healthy as can be and offering Sparrow anything he wanted to set the balance straight. Sparrow asked for prosperity for his band of miscreants and Soames promised him a century of unhindered dominance over the East End. The Chapel Boys, as the gang became known, started to piece things together over the next hundred years and stories spread in whispers about the nature of the aid they occasionally received. The imminent arrival of the end of that promised century is weighing heavily on the minds of their bosses.
Anyway… in addition to keeping his word of honour to the Chapel Boys, Soames has been hiding a secret of his own. In the mid 20s, adjusting badly to his new undead state, he became obsessed with the young daughter of a family who were his neighbours in life. Little Dorothy Coleridge (she hated the name Dolly even then) caught Soames’ attention as a spark of lively energy that he’d lost contact with. He turned her, making her like himself, condemning her to an immortal life in the body of a twelve year old. Her mind broke and she became cruel and savage. Soames confined her within a private asylum guarded by his loyal servants and Renfields who occasionally roamed the streets of London to find playmates for Dolly, playmates who would soon become prey.
Soames tried to put his mistake from his mind, but in the way of some vampires he found it easy to grow obsessed and less easy to move on from his mistakes. Dolly preyed on his mind. He rarely visited if ever but he never got over her and what he and done to her (and his hopes for what she could have been).
So… when our bold heroes, Rowan and Hans located the asylum while following up reports of missing girls taken from the poorer parts of London, when they confronted Dolly – which led to Hans being ripped apart by teeth and claws and left half dead – and Rowan staked her, reducing her to foul dust and decay… you can imagine Soames would not react well.
He ditched the job he was undertaking (of which more later) and returned to London, tearing witnesses and leads apart to try to find out who was responsible for the death of his inappropriate immortal paramour.
It came to a head with his hands round Hans’ throat in a side courtyard in the Tower of London with Soames hissing in his face. “Tell me who killed Dolly and I’ll give you a swift death.”
That was Rowan’s cue to appear on the scene.
“I killed her,” she told Soames, grinning, “Staked her through her itty-bitty heart.”
The combination of the phrase and the way Rowan’s player said it hit me/Soames like a hurled brick. I actually froze on Soame’s behalf.
“You know,” I said, “I think he just failed a Stability Check.”
And that probably saved their lives in the conflict that followed, throwing Soames off balance and giving our heroes a moment or two to act while he just howled at them in fury.
They made it out alive, and Soames melted away into a crowd of angry ravens after a short and intense encounter but the high point was certainly that moment when the Vampire took the Stability rules unto himself and was found wanting.
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By Ryan Kane on July 5, 2010
By Guest Writer Ryan Kane.
Speculation has recently emerged that Jose Mourinho is set to offer Rafael van der Vaart and Fernando Gago in part exchange for Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard. Let’s face it – Its not going to happen. It has become clear in recent years that the prospect of an increased salary was never before enough to draw the tenacious midfielder from his role as captain at Anfield. So why now?
Despite their disappointing Premier League campaign last term, Liverpool have it all to play for going into the 2010/11 season with Jamie Carragher stating last week that the clubs “main priority” is to make it into the Champions League. Meaning they would need to once again join the race along with the likes of Man City, Arsenal, Aston Villa and Tottenham if they are to challenge for a top 4 finish.
Many on Merseyside feel that newly appointed manager Roy Hodgson is the right man to take Liverpool forward as the club attempts to build on the dismal performances of last term. Newly appointed Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has been clear to state his interest in Gerrard, singling out the England midfielder as his main target this summer. The reported part exchange offer of Rafael van der Vaart and Fernando Gago will leave Hodgson with room for thought, albeit any fan on Merseyside would opt for the passion and leadership that the so-called “irreplaceable” Steven Gerrard bestows to the side.
Gerrard, who has made 366 appearances for Liverpool to date, has three years remaining on his Liverpool contract and is said to be valued in the region of £30 million. The 30-year old talisman last year signed a two-year deal on top of his previous deal which ran for another two seasons keeping him under contract at Anfield until 2013. The Liverpool skipper reiterated his desire to stay at the club in 2005 when he snubbed a multi-million pound move to Chelsea, instead opting to sign a new four year deal at Anfield. A year prior to that, Liverpool’s Michael Owen made the illustrious switch to Real Madrid for an estimated £8 million.
Liverpool fans were once again assured of Gerrard’s commitment to the club last week following a statement from Jamie Carragher. The central defender said he was “confident” that both Gerrard and Fernando Torres would “still be at the club next season”.
Real Madrid have also been linked with a move for Chelsea’s Ashley Cole whilst Liverpool are said to interested in obtaining the services of Japan’s Yashuhito Endo following the midfielder’s impressive World Cup campaign.
Of course it’s rubbish. Let’s face it, LFC have no friends in the media including the online blogs, they are all out to do Liverpool as much harm as possible. Thankfully most of us ignore the rubbish.
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Ofcourse he is going, i thought the only thing people were in debate about was what fee he could command. He didn’t leave for Chelsea because Liverpool gave him an improved contract, therefore he stayed because he got more money.i hope he dives against atletico again lol
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Never Too Late To Mend (March, 1937)
Released in March, 1937: (running time 66 minutes) A Victorian era tale of an amoral English Squire who takes great pleasure in the destruction of people that get in his way.
Directed by David MacDonald
Written by Charles Reade and H.F. Maltby
The Actors: Tod Slaughter (Squire John Meadows), Jack Livesey (Tom Robinson), Marjorie Taylor (Susan Merton), Ian Colin (George Fielding), Laurence Hanray (Lawyer Crawley), D.J. Williams (farmer Merton), Roy Russell (Reverend Mr. Eden), John Singer (Matthew Josephs), Cecil Bevan (prison inspector), Douglas Stewart (prison inspector), Mavis Villiers (Betty), Leonard Sharp (prisoner Bradshaw), Jack Vyvian (the innkeeper)
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When I was a young boy watching cartoons on the snowy black and white television at home, I remember one about an evil man with a long black moustache that would take a young lady's home away from her because she couldn't pay the mortgage. And it was probably a different cartoon, but I can remember seeing a young lady tied across the railroad tracks as a train was fast approaching. After I grew up a bit, I discovered that there really were 'evil' men that seemed to take pleasure in the misfortune of others, but usually they were colored with a bit of humanity, making them more complex than merely good or evil. But this movie is different . . . . set in Victorian England, we meet one of the most devilishly evil men that motion picture screenwriters of 1937 could imagine.
Actor Tod Slaughter was the perfect person to cast in the part of the evil Squire John Meadows, wealthy land owner somewhere in rural England. I could describe some of his dastardly schemes, but in this case I do not want to blunt their effect by telling you ahead of time what is to come. If you watch this in a place where it is possible, get ready to hiss and boo at the screen, because you do not want to hold in your feelings, it will be therapeutic to let it out and express your contempt for this rogue. I found myself compulsively munching my warm buttered white kernel popcorn without thinking between long, loud hissing at the manipulative Squire. Only a few minutes from the end, I found myself unusually tense as it looked like the evil squire would never be stopped. But have no fear, the writers of this story masterfully with the title line, "It's Never Too Late To Mend, fourteen hundred and sixty one, fourteen hundred and sixty two. . . . "
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Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Balkans
Glick weighs in on Kosovo and not surprisingly, sees it as Bostom and Williams and Gorin and Atlas does). Another intellectual leading light sees the terrible mistake we are making in supporting an Islamic state in the heart of Europe.
KOSOVO’S STARK WARNING Caroline Glick
Additionally, the prosecution of Albanian war criminals is "hampered
by the unwillingness of the local population to testify" against them.
This is in part due to the fact that "there is still no specific
legislation on witness protection in place."
The fledgling
failed-state of Kosovo is a great boon for the global jihad. It is true
that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam.
But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used
as bases for al-Qaida operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo
Liberation Army have direct links to al-Qaida; and that the Islamic
world as a whole perceived Kosovo’s fight for independence from Serbia
as a jihad for Islamic domination of the disputed province.
According to a 2002 Wall Street Journal
report, al-Qaida began operating actively in Kosovo, and in the rest of
the Balkans, in 1992. Osama bin Laden visited Albania in 1996 and 1997.
He received a Bosnian passport from the Bosnian Embassy in Austria in
1993. Acting on bin Laden’s orders, in 1994 his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri
set up training bases throughout the Balkans including one in
Mitrovica, Kosovo. The Taliban and al-Qaida set up drug trafficking
operations in Kosovo to finance their operations in Afghanistan and
beyond.
In 2006, John Gizzi reported in Human Events
that the German intelligence service BND had confirmed that the 2005
terrorist bombings in Britain and the 2004 bombings in Spain were
organized in Kosovo. Furthermore, "The man at the center of the
provision of the explosives in both instances was an Albanian,
operating mostly out of Kosovo… who is the second ranking leader of
the Kosovo Liberation Army, Niam Behzloulzi."
Then, too, at its
1998 meeting in Pakistan, the Organization of the Islamic Conference
declared that the Albanian separatists in Kosovo were fighting a jihad.
The OIC called on the Muslim world to help "this fight for freedom on
the occupied Muslim territories."
Supporters of Kosovo claim
that as victims of "genocide," Kosovar Muslims deserve independence.
But if the Muslims in Kosovo have been targeted for annihilation by the
Serbs, then how is it that they have increased from 48% of the
population in 1948 to 92% today? Indeed, Muslims comprised only 78% of
the population in 1991, the year before Yugoslavia broke apart.
recent years particularly, it is Kosovo’s Serbian Christians, not its
Albanian Muslims, who are targeted for ethnic cleansing. Since 1999,
two-thirds of Kosovo’s Serbs – some 250,000 people – have fled the
The emergence of a potentially destabilizing state in
Kosovo is clearly an instance of political interests trumping law.
Under international law, Kosovo has no right to be considered a
sovereign state. Even UN Security Council Resolution 1244 from 1999,
which the KLA claims provides the legal basis for Kosovar sovereignty,
explicitly recognizes Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo.
Israel, Kosovo’s US-backed declaration of independence should be a
source of alarm great enough to require a rethinking of foreign policy.
Unfortunately, rather than understand and implement the lessons of
Kosovo, the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is working actively to ensure
that they are reenacted in the international community’s treatment of
Israel and the Palestinians. Today, Israel is enabling the Palestinians
to set the political and legal conditions for the establishment of an
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__label__wiki | 0.585388 | 0.585388 | Hereditary angioedema is a disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of severe swelling (angioedema). The most common areas of the body to develop swelling are the limbs, face, intestinal tract, and airway. Minor trauma or stress may trigger an attack, but swelling often occurs without a known trigger. Episodes involving the intestinal tract cause severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Swelling in the airway can restrict breathing and lead to life-threatening obstruction of the airway. About one-third of people with this condition develop a non-itchy rash called erythema marginatum during an attack.
Symptoms of hereditary angioedema typically begin in childhood and worsen during puberty. On average, untreated individuals have an attack every 1 to 2 weeks, and most episodes last for about 3 to 4 days. The frequency and duration of attacks vary greatly among people with hereditary angioedema, even among people in the same family.
There are three types of hereditary angioedema, called types I, II, and III, which can be distinguished by their underlying causes and levels of a protein called C1 inhibitor in the blood. The different types have similar signs and symptoms. Type III was originally thought to occur only in women, but families with affected males have been identified.
What does it mean if a disorder seems to run in my family?
What is the prognosis of a genetic condition?
Hereditary angioedema is estimated to affect 1 in 50,000 people. Type I is the most common, accounting for 85 percent of cases. Type II occurs in 15 percent of cases, and type III is very rare.
What information about a genetic condition can statistics provide?
Why are some genetic conditions more common in particular ethnic groups?
Mutations in the SERPING1 gene cause hereditary angioedema type I and type II. The SERPING1 gene provides instructions for making the C1 inhibitor protein, which is important for controlling inflammation. C1 inhibitor blocks the activity of certain proteins that promote inflammation. Mutations that cause hereditary angioedema type I lead to reduced levels of C1 inhibitor in the blood, while mutations that cause type II result in the production of a C1 inhibitor that functions abnormally. Without the proper levels of functional C1 inhibitor, excessive amounts of a protein fragment (peptide) called bradykinin are generated. Bradykinin promotes inflammation by increasing the leakage of fluid through the walls of blood vessels into body tissues. Excessive accumulation of fluids in body tissues causes the episodes of swelling seen in individuals with hereditary angioedema type I and type II.
Mutations in the F12 gene are associated with some cases of hereditary angioedema type III. This gene provides instructions for making a protein called coagulation factor XII. In addition to playing a critical role in blood clotting (coagulation), factor XII is also an important stimulator of inflammation and is involved in the production of bradykinin. Certain mutations in the F12 gene result in the production of factor XII with increased activity. As a result, more bradykinin is generated and blood vessel walls become more leaky, which leads to episodes of swelling in people with hereditary angioedema type III.
The cause of other cases of hereditary angioedema type III remains unknown. Mutations in one or more as-yet unidentified genes may be responsible for the disorder in these cases.
Learn more about the genes associated with hereditary angioedema
SERPING1
How can gene mutations affect health and development?
This condition is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder.
In some cases, an affected person inherits the mutation from one affected parent. Other cases result from new mutations in the gene and occur in people with no history of the disorder in their family.
What are the different ways in which a genetic condition can be inherited?
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Genetic Testing Registry: Hereditary angioneurotic edema
Genetic Testing Registry: Hereditary angioneurotic edema with normal C1 esterase inhibitor activity
Genetic Testing Registry: Hereditary C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency - dysfunctional factor
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C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency
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OMIM: ANGIOEDEMA, HEREDITARY, TYPE I
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Cichon S, Martin L, Hennies HC, Müller F, Van Driessche K, Karpushova A, Stevens W, Colombo R, Renné T, Drouet C, Bork K, Nöthen MM. Increased activity of coagulation factor XII (Hageman factor) causes hereditary angioedema type III. Am J Hum Genet. 2006 Dec;79(6):1098-104. Epub 2006 Oct 18.
Cugno M, Zanichelli A, Foieni F, Caccia S, Cicardi M. C1-inhibitor deficiency and angioedema: molecular mechanisms and clinical progress. Trends Mol Med. 2009 Feb;15(2):69-78. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2008.12.001. Epub 2009 Jan 21. Review.
Dewald G, Bork K. Missense mutations in the coagulation factor XII (Hageman factor) gene in hereditary angioedema with normal C1 inhibitor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 May 19;343(4):1286-9.
Gösswein T, Kocot A, Emmert G, Kreuz W, Martinez-Saguer I, Aygören-Pürsün E, Rusicke E, Bork K, Oldenburg J, Müller CR. Mutational spectrum of the C1INH (SERPING1) gene in patients with hereditary angioedema. Cytogenet Genome Res. 2008;121(3-4):181-8. doi: 10.1159/000138883. Epub 2008 Aug 28.
Krishnamurthy A, Naguwa SM, Gershwin ME. Pediatric angioedema. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 2008 Apr;34(2):250-9. doi: 10.1007/s12016-007-8037-y. Review.
Martin L, Raison-Peyron N, Nöthen MM, Cichon S, Drouet C. Hereditary angioedema with normal C1 inhibitor gene in a family with affected women and men is associated with the p.Thr328Lys mutation in the F12 gene. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007 Oct;120(4):975-7. Epub 2007 Sep 7.
Pappalardo E, Caccia S, Suffritti C, Tordai A, Zingale LC, Cicardi M. Mutation screening of C1 inhibitor gene in 108 unrelated families with hereditary angioedema: functional and structural correlates. Mol Immunol. 2008 Aug;45(13):3536-44. doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.05.007. Epub 2008 Jun 30.
Wouters D, Wagenaar-Bos I, van Ham M, Zeerleder S. C1 inhibitor: just a serine protease inhibitor? New and old considerations on therapeutic applications of C1 inhibitor. Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2008 Aug;8(8):1225-40. doi: 10.1517/14712598.8.8.1225 . Review.
Zuraw BL. Clinical practice. Hereditary angioedema. N Engl J Med. 2008 Sep 4;359(10):1027-36. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcp0803977. Review.
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Re: [1494] Stay Here
Post by Dragonix » Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:25 pm
Con wrote: ↑
@Dragonix: The awkwardness is super cute to watch!♥ Funny to think this is a very fast moving relationship for their age, by Japanese standards... ^.^;
Oh, absolutely. Though honestly, Yuki has always struck me as having a slightly more "American" thought process about things (even more so than Piro, who is ACTUALLY American. ), so maybe this feels normal for her?
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Post by Yl33 D4 N00b » Sat Sep 30, 2017 4:10 pm
Wasn't Yukata's mom a MG at some point earlier in her life? Maybe I'm wrong.... If so, I wouldn't say she was in any real danger. I think she needed to give him a "reassurement kiss" in panel five...........
My MAL profile, not as a noob, though.....
Post by paarfi » Sat Sep 30, 2017 4:40 pm
Yl33 D4 N00b wrote: ↑
Wasn't Yukata's mom a MG at some point earlier in her life?
The hinting is strong that she is Nurse Angel Ririka. That show came out around the same time as Meimi's Saint Tail and Cha-san's Akazukin ChaCha. So it fits with Meimi's circle of magical girl friend's from teh old days. It also fits with her comment about how she can't just wave a magic baton to make everyone better like she used to in [1415].
Post by shadowrider » Sat Sep 30, 2017 10:40 pm
Okay, The innuendo in the first panel wasn't all that subtle. HeeHee.
Though I think both Yuki and Yutaka are not quite ready to take the next step in their relationship, yet.
So it's Keep calm, stay there in the room, and let Yuki take care of the clothing, and also saving Ririka.(and probably some of the others also.)
Someone needs to generate a poster for that. ;P
~shadowrider
Post by Con » Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:45 pm
Something like this Shadowrider?Show
♕
@Yl33: As paarfi pointed out, Ririka isn't as capable as she used to be... she may have some powers still but we don't really know. And we've seen no evidence being a MG makes you immune to explosions (though maybe harder to catch with them!).
@Dragonix: Maybe that's why Yuki was so interested in Piro... She wanted an American style romance! My own pet theory has been that her romantic feelings for Piro activated her MG powers, but once they were on she was naturally drawn to someone who actually felt romantically for her, Yutaka. (literally drawn to, counting the fall from the power line!) ^3^
@iffy: The explosion in 1489 could have been anything, but Largo got another bomb in 1467 that we never saw go off. Doesn't really prove anything, just noticed it.
darrin
Post by darrin » Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:43 pm
@darrin: Un-stealing the pants feels right, or maybe stole Yutaka into the pants... or maybe even stole his pantslessness?
Oh my, a Thief of the Abstract... that could be quite pretty in a certain scary way. Instead of just "I want object X to be at location Y, never mind the intervening points," it would be "I want the universe to be in state Z, and don't hassle me about the details." Potentially much more overpowered than Fred may actually be willing to deal with. Also Yuki herself said "All I good at is... steal stuff," so presumably that's what it "feels" like to her on some level. (Then again we have no way of knowing what else she's tried to do so far. )
So I won't actually go and believe that yet, but I will definitely be keeping my eyes open for new and interesting things Yuki demonstrates herself able to do.
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Post by Fujii Yakumo » Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:56 pm
darrin wrote: ↑
Oh my, a Thief of the Abstract... that could be quite pretty in a certain scary way. Instead of just "I want object X to be at location Y, never mind the intervening points," it would be "I want the universe to be in state Z, and don't hassle me about the details." Potentially much more overpowered than Fred may actually be willing to deal with.
Well, Inspector Sonoda's magical-girl detector is indicating that a "potentially catastrophic grade" magical girl is nearby in strips 1107 and 1108. (No wonder he turned the alarm off. )
Yuki ain't no slouch in the magical-girl department. And being able to put the Universe into "state Z" (as Darrin put it) would definitely "pin the needle" on the Inspector's meter. (Made by Fluke, no less. )
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Post by Yl33 D4 N00b » Tue Oct 03, 2017 2:13 am
If Fred really wanted to make Yuki OP, he'd have her go back in time, and yoink Miho off the pirate ship........
iffy
Post by iffy » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:33 pm
That bomb seemed more of a gag and shortcut illustration, but with Largo who knows. Although if Erika brought in helpers, she'd probably stop him from blowing them up. And moreso from destroying the rest of floors and foundation of hospital.
It's not established we've not gone back in story time, but more and more interlocking indications are we haven't. Or at least it fits that we did not.
Figuring out the times, the problem to start with is we don't know where Yuki went for how long when. She kisses Yutaka, and then? Lots of stuff happens, and we return to her only knowing it's after we last saw her. How much after, oh no who can tell. Even perhaps given her fretting so much about the mg love-power attack, it was close to when she did it. But that was last chapter, that's over. So then after she'd napped or slept, if she did that even, and then started back berating herself. Or she'd been all night self-doubting. Very not detailed. Also, where she is, we don't know where that was either, just it's a communication array up high. Not much help determining specifics. Neither is it clear when she put on different clothes. Home? On the way there or here? They were under the last set? She had them in an interdimensional rift?
I was operating at first with the initial comic's apparent calm and lack of destruction, the comm array sitting was aroundish the time Miho woke up, or some minutes later when Piro tells Miho she not only didn't die but has been cyborg-fixed. Although we know maybe probably almost certainly Yuki's landing was after a lengthy but quick flight, the lack of intervening travel gives the impression at least that it was close, or closer rather than farther. While we don't and can't know how close or far, it's at the least possible she was blocks away and didn't see hear notice anything. That there was already lots of destruction, just not evident to her or us. That the initial rampage isn't what Yuki sees, that it has already happened. The intervening destruction seems more extensive than if things had just started too. Which then what Yuki notices and then sees in the last panels of if he doesn't see mewould be sometime after Kimiko confronts Miho, takes over, is defeated, and Piro carries her away. More than that, depending on what that explosion was, Largo blasting a wall with a rocket or the TPCD or who knows, it could also be after Piro finding Megumi, her getting the keys then getting the car, returning, and taking them away. 10 minutes, 30, an hour and a half, whatever whichever took.
Still, whatever the fighting is in wellness check it could be after Miho is replaced but before the "escape". However IIRC we've never previously backtracked in time to show alternate happenings during a chapter, just non-story inserts, flashbacks, descriptions. It would then seem more likely we went back to Yuki in real time as others have been suggesting, and indeed as comic supports to the extent it doesn't establish otherwise and there are many clues or better. That Yuki has not been doing anything special to wind back to, no important side trips, no sudden insights, and Yuki was clueless about the hospital fighting until she saw whenever Largo and Erika are doing now. Doesn't know about the plot to end a Miho story without her dying again like always, or where Miho's been taken to now, or what anyone has been doing. Except now she knows where Yutaka is and perhaps soon Ririka, and maybe after a while others.
Post by darrin » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:34 pm
Now why does that immediately suggest to me a plot catastrophe along the lines of "The Wedding of River Song"...
iffy wrote: ↑
It's not established we've not gone back in story time,
Well, yeah, it's also "not established" that Yuki isn't carrying seven and a half frogs in her left pocket. But, you know, burden of proof and all that.
but more and more interlocking indications are we haven't. Or at least it fits that we did not.
... IIRC we've never previously backtracked in time to show alternate happenings during a chapter, just non-story inserts, flashbacks, descriptions.
Huh, that's pretty much exactly what I said in the discussion thread in the first strip of this scene, and elaborated on in subsequent discussion threads, to your repeated poo-pooing. But I guess now that it's you saying it instead of some random dumbass it must be +1 insightful.
Post by iffy » Wed Oct 04, 2017 5:40 pm
The point was that story comic has not yet clarified if what we saw in 1492 was the fighting around 1468 (we went back in time) or if 1492 shows the fight continuing after 1482 and the events up to 1488 (we did not not go back in time).
1492 did do at least one important thing, it pretty well established we did not return to the start of Miho's rampage in 1444, using material not previously shown that provided a new perspective that was pretty clearly lacking information-wise in 1489 even if we felt otherwise as you did even without more information, other than say the explosion going out. A great guess as it turned out, even if we still don't know exactly what it was, we have a better idea now when. So 1492 is another frame of reference, another way to determine not just when that was happening, but how much if any destruction was already there. Which initially I did not, until it was pointed out with story-comic-supported information, realize what importance there was in 1492, at least as far as when it was happening and how extensive the destruction already was.
In the face of that new story-supported information, and partially also based upon Erika calling in reinforcements in 1468 and assuming they arrived around 1482-1488, my adjusted guesses and current tentative conclusion about time. If we didn't go back to the start of the destruction to see another perspective on events, then we probably didn't go back at all. Of course, my tentative conclusions are fully unimportant, as is is unimportant if they turn out to be correct in what way or not. Do events make these things factually correct later? Hopefully. Either way, it will be interesting to see. But of course our guesses don't establish anything. Only story comic can answer questions or establish fact (or somewhat close to it) as it is all that is able to provide context. Happily, it doesn't do such context and perspective all at once, which allows discussion and philosophizing about it here, some of which will be correct for the wrong reasons or wrong for the correct reasons. Or half of each. It's always risky drawing conclusions from things we don't know we don't know though, after all, we're guessing, not stating as fact. We can't know fact until it gives that (or something close to that) to us. Or fails to give any and leaves everyone guessing about questions that have no answers and things that remain unestablished or nonexistent.
When and where did Yuki change clothes, and what does she have in her pockets, there's no answer unless story provides at least clues to fill in, if not outright examples. Where was she, that depends on what happened between 6&7, two panels that lack all information. Well, maybe blinking out in 6 says far, another guess, but supported by her actions in panel 8&9 where she is surprised. Which makes none of any of it true. Likelihood doesn't mean much when things are so often nothing like they seem. So then we can only guess that given her speed she was farther and so hadn't noticed any destruction or smoke or things out of place prior to the next to last and last panel. That's more solid than it was before we learned there was a lot of destruction she hadn't noticed; yet still we didn't know that before 1492 told us.
Huh, that's pretty much exactly what I said in the discussion thread in the first strip of this scene, and elaborated on in subsequent discussion threads, to your repeated poo-pooing.
Indeed, your impressions and feelings on the timeline and about the info does match what we can fill in with what we found out in 1492. But the argument was not against your take, but if the comic supported it with clear supporting helpful information and of what sort to what extent. An argument against the information, that 1489 itself alone either didn't establish those things, or even seemed to give an impression it was before the destruction (rather than just Yuki having not seen heard felt the destruction). But please forgive me if you thought I was discounting how you were perceiving 1489; it was about what it was telling us. Given 1492, it would seem more likely we went back to Yuki in real time, especially in light of the lack of previous rewinds that far to see another character. Although the lack of previous examples of such alone tells us not much; when combined with all the rest though, it tends to say a whole lot more. In hindsight at least.
But I guess now that it's you saying it instead of some random dumbass it must be +1 insightful
I'm just summarizing what 1492 added to the mystery, has nothing to do with who says it. A summarization all can somewhat agree with, while we wait to see how we're off in what we've decided. I don't have many of my own opinions separate from the ones story comics provide, where story tends to point, until ideas are ultimately shown near matching to how things are, or get adjusted some other way. That's what we discuss. I don't much care what the answers are, but if they aren't how they seem, the only real answers or rejections are in story comic. Which often we don't get anything near conclusive until later, sometimes much later. (What is the significance of the CoE pass Kimiko gets in 113? Wait a bit.)
If we say Miho was killed in 1123, maybe she was, maybe she wasn't. I don't know, nobody does, nothing has ever clearly established it -- but the details and circumstances and likelihoods have adjusted numerous times since 1123. The discussion in 1124 wasn't the one in 1125 or 1271 or 1279 . There's no answer to what happened, although we do know she had gotten out of the way of some number of killballs at the end of 1000, the CoE folks thought she was dead (which she was not when Yuki finds her in 1248) and thought she was someplace special and odd (which she was when Yuki finds her in 1248), Miho keeps talking about dying and going away in painful manners (yet 1350 seems not a big deal, the story about Kotone has her in bed sad and waiting), Meimi says something was sad but there's no clear answer to what exactly that means (dying, running away, a change in how things are, nothing to do with Miho, other). So did she get away? Die? Gap? Sort of die, respawn, get cloned, nothing like any of those. Well now,that's a curious unanswered set of questions. Nobody is right or wrong about how they feel it is, but no story comic fully supports or rejects most any given feeling either. Pointing that out, or talking about it, isn't personal. We don't really care what the truth is, it's about having a good idea of what the truth is whenever possible.
Although I do admit I thought it would be nice to go back and see what Yuki had been doing, and am rather saddened it turns out so far she hadn't been doing anything. But that's how it is, which is cool too.
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Post by Sareth » Wed Oct 04, 2017 7:01 pm
Rate this is going, Yuki's gonna wind up stealing more than just his pantslessness...
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Post by WarGiver » Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:03 pm
Sorry people I held off with this as long as I could, but I am afraid I have to say it....
She unpantsed him...
(In some areas saying that "you were pantsed" or similar means someone removed your pants)
terrible joke I admit but its enough of a groaner I had to post it.
Post by Sackett » Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:00 pm
Well iffy, I think there was the comment Yuki's mother made in 1488 about Yuki having snuck out of her room. Consider that Meimi actually encouraged Yuki to get involved in Miho's problems, instigating the whole Yuki following Miho and injuring Yukata plotline that ended with Miho in the hospital with a pacemaker.
With that knowledge, it seems very unlikely that Meimi would be expecting Yuki to be in her room unless Yuki had returned home and changed (maybe even a quick shower or a nap). I mean, we have no idea how long Miho was unconscious right?
Still I am not certain that 1489 is after Piro fled the scene, just that it cannot be any earlier than 1466, and it might be a later explosion.
We might not even ever find out, as it may be difficult to tell the difference (since it could only be five minutes in real time).
WarGiver wrote: ↑
I thought pantsing and unpantsing are like flammable and inflammable, words that mean the same thing despite the addition of a prefix making you assume they would be opposites.
Post by WarGiver » Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:47 pm
Sackett wrote: ↑
Traditionally there is no prefex to my knowledge.
as to timeline wise I do think we are in situation where she went home first, her change of clothes is the only thing that makes sense.
Post by paarfi » Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:34 pm
Fred has been shading the next comic this afternoon. With any luck he'll get it done and posted to his patreon tonight or tomorrow.
Post by darrin » Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:51 pm
paarfi wrote: ↑
Excellent, really looking forward to more Yuki and/or Yutaka goodness (have been a Yutaka fan since forever now ).
Post by iffy » Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:38 pm
No way to really tell. Also no way to tell (from story comic or anything much else) but I took Meimi's comment to be in the now only. As in, that since Yuki wasn't in her room, Yuki must have snuck out. Certainly yes (and especially after encouraging Yuki) Meimi wasn't at all surprised, took it rather blasse blasse. But I didn't get the impression Meimi necessarily said it because she knew Yuki had been back. Just that Yuki wasn't there and oh must have snuck out. Which isn't too detailed on when Yuki might have been back or if she hadn't been back at all.
We have a lot of gaps with Yuki last and this chapter, aside from pretending to be Miho, plopping Miho at the apartment for Kimiko and Piro to find her, going to kiss Yutaka, doing something or another, showing up at some point this morning. Was that something or another between last chapter and this one home, with sleep, shower, new clothes, breakfast? Or maybe a nap on a building, a yoink of food and clothes, a zip through a bathhouse, and back to the radio tower to yell at herself... :iiam:
Well, after me getting lots of unconfirmed things in 1489 off (sure maybe the winking out in 6 and dropping in in 7 say "very quick but farther away," and sure maybe the foom in panel 9 says "explosion was from inside," at least in retrospect). The 1489 things that aren't clarified until some of it becomes clearer in 1492. When we see that 1492 is after Largo gives Erika the tire iron (which also bypassed me through a couple of the middle guessing rant iterations). That puts lots of top spin on the explosion, being 99.99% not Miho and 99.99% is Largo. From that, we have a pretty clear fit of when that would have been.
So again it's that 1492 fills in that in 1489 Yuki only hadn't seen Miho's rampage and attempts by the TPCD and whatever happens with Junpei and then Kimiko. Not that there was no destruction to see, just that she didn't see it yet, pretty much just like us. It's pretty clear from 1492 that most (all) of the destruction was already there, and Yuki in 1489 was just too far to hear it or notice it. If the destruction wasn't there already by 1489, it would require all that went from 1444 to about 1468 to have taken place between when Yuki sees the foom and is going over in 1492 first panels. It would require compressing all events from Miho ripping out of bed in 1444 to Largo giving Erika the pipe in 1467 to some number of seconds or less, which seems a bit much even for MT. : grin : : wink : That would then be true probably regardless of how long Yuki had been where we first see her in 1489 (sometime from right after kissing Yutaka, to a couple minutes ago, minus some getting new clothes on time) and regardless of the specific distance to travel before landing near hospital. The panel 3&4 stuff in 1492 would then be at the earliest 1467/1468. It could be (and if there was no rewind it would be) after {1482 to 1488} though, with Erika's fans continuing to fight zombies or a horde and so on after the "escape". Wherever they went to, wherever Junpei is. Which an ongoing fight has other ramifications probably for how well the substitution and subterfuge worked, which might seem so far to be not well. Or well, just with a lot of inertia after. It also seems to make sense as to why we've returned to Yuki after she's perhaps gotten some rest, not that there's been that much time between 1444 to 1488 necessarily.
The only real questions that remain (short of a bunch of things destroying all the tentative conclusions so far) are: A if this is soon after 1468 B between 1468 and 1488 C after 1488.
I am mostly guessing after 1488 somewhat because no history of such rewinds (now that we pretty much know we didn't go all the way back, why go back at all) but in large part because Erika called in help and did so for some reason. Nobody has been acting like it's winding down. It's not been very long since mecha and more were trying to stop the van (and whatever else) plus there was not much indication anything was done and ending on the fighting part between various factions. Even after Miho dying, it kept going, just as it continued while Piro was carrying away the body, and Megumi was driving in, and more. The indications are so far the fighting, whyever and whatever, isn't going to stop on its own.
Post by iffy » Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:48 pm
A summary then.
Taking 1489 to 1492 as very close in time as a given, and considering the state of hospital and events as shown in 1492, then now is one of right after 1468, between 1468 and 1488, or after 1488. That there was no indication the fighting was slowing or over would suggest that the fighting is still ongoing, which would fit pretty well into it being after 1488.
If we are still live and moving ever forward then what's happening now with Yuki and Yutaka is after 1488, after all of the escape, Miho arguing with {Junpei's mother?}, and a magicalgirl'd zomzom-person. And so whatever Miho's death was supposed to have solved didn't appear to have. At least not as far as the authorities (and potentially the involved fans and any mystically created hordes) are concerned. Perhaps it's not about that any more, a situation that's just grown larger. Or perhaps things are not quite as they seem, again. Perhaps both and more.
Which on a metaish level, those involved most closely (at the least Erika, Largo, Megumi, Piro, Kimiko, Junpei, Komugiko, Yakugashi) know Miho isn't dead. On an even more Meta, we certainly know Miho isn't dead. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1293 |
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Both propane and charcoal briquets pollute the taste of your meat. That’s why serious barbecuers use either pellets made from select hardwoods or natural lump charcoal, containing only hardwood. Those two approaches are epitomized by Traeger and Big Green Egg, respectively. But, is one better than the other? The answer surprised us.
The Traeger is a wood pellet grill. In it, pellets are drawn from a side-mounted hopper into a central burn chamber by an auger, then ignited by a hot metal rod. Those mechanisms run on electricity, so you’ve got to plug it in. It offers precise, digital temperature control integrated with meat thermometers. To operate it, all you have to do is fill the hopper with pellets, turn it on, and dial in whatever temperature you want—anything from “smoke” to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
In contrast, the Big Green Egg is a strictly analog experience. The Japanese Kamado-style grill is a big, egg-shaped ceramic box that facilitates exact temperature control via adjustable airflow. Its shape and materials both distribute heat evenly and hold in moisture. The Egg is more capable of hitting both extremely low temperatures (150 degree smokes are possible) and extremely high ones than a typical charcoal grill. My regular steak cooking method on it involves 1,200 degree sears. It’s also capable of holding whatever temperature you want for extended periods. Once you’ve started it and stabilized the temperature, it’s easy to set it at 200 degrees and walk away for eight hours while your brisket smokes. It’ll hold that temperature evenly for that much time or longer.
For this test, I wanted to try a side-by-side comparison on the same cut of a difficult-to-perfect meat: venison backstrap. I’ve owned the Egg for two years now, and Traeger sent over this Lil Tex Pro for the test in December. I’ve used both extensively for grilling everything from dove breasts to venison to antelope heart, and even regular ol’ ribeyes, smoking, searing, and roasting them for large dinner parties or just meals for me and Wiley. Once or twice, I’ve even cooked veggies on them. So, while we’ll be comparing both grills’ on that piece of venison, this review will also be drawn from wider long-term experience on both products.
I put an arrow through this blacktail one day last fall just before dark, gutted it, then carried the deer off the mountain with a few friends, before butchering it that night with the aid of a 13-year-old girl. I was rusty and screwed up the first six inches of the first five-foot backstrap I pulled out of it. As luck would have it, that also happened to be the piece of meat I pulled out of the freezer the night before the test. So not the prettiest presentation, but still a great tasting hunk of venison utterly free from the gaminess that results from non-immediate kills and tardy meat processing.
For a marinade, I riffed on Traeger’s own recipe, adding some lemon juice and skewing heavy on the wine.
Like other wild game, venison is incredibly lean and, as a result, very sensitive to cooking temperature and time. It takes much more careful attention to temperature than you’re used to from making chicken or steak, and typically lower temperatures for less time. Overcook it by even a few degrees and it’s ruined.
I cut this hunk of backstrap in half, evenly, and set out to achieve a perfect 130 degree medium rare on both grills.
The Cooking Process
For the Traeger, I followed their own recipe exactly. To start, you plug the grill in, open the lid, turn it to smoke, and wait five minutes for the grill to warm up. Then you dial in whatever temperature you want. You don’t have to futz with a lighter or vents or anything like that, there’s just a switch, a dial, and a digital temperature display. For venison, Traeger calls for a 20 minute cook time at 450 degrees. You “sear” the meat for a few minutes on each side, then stick the thermometer probe in it and wait for 130 degree to display.
I put quotes around “sear” because this is a big limitation on this grill. With a maximum achievable temperature of only 450 degrees, you’re not getting the kind of quick, high temperature effect you’d achieve on the Egg or with a cast iron pan on a stove top. For a dinner party the other night, I used that cast iron to put a more significant sear on two antelope shoulders before roasting them in the Traeger for an hour at 300 degrees. Those results on thicker cuts of meat were absolute perfection, but with a thinner slice of meat, I wanted to follow Traeger’s directions exactly for this test.
Because the Traeger is combusting unburnt wood, it produces a significant amount of smoke throughout its cooking cycle. This is the reason why different varieties of wood are available—the smoke plays a big role in the flavor of the meat.
To start the Egg, I first cleared out all the ash in its trap to ensure best-possible results, then loosely stacked large lumps of natural charcoal in its fire pit. As I went, I put six Vaseline-coated cotton balls where they could best ignite the charcoal. I touched those off with a long barbecue lighter, then left the lid open and the bottom intake vent wide until the charcoal was strongly lit. It’s not until that point that you can close the lid and begin manipulating temperature via the adjustable intake and exhaust.
Because airflow is your only tool to adjust temperature on the Egg, forced induction can be a major help in more quickly varying temperature or achieving extremely high temperatures. A huge variety of accessories are available for Big Green Eggs, but most are very expensive. Instead of a purpose-made, clip-on fan, I simply employ a $9 hair dryer for blowing extra air into the grill.
This aids with startup, helping you achieve a complete burn earlier on, but it’s also how I quickly bring the Egg up to very high temperatures for searing. To cook the venison, I used the same method I use for a good ribeye: a quick sear on both sides at 1,200 degrees, then pull the meat off and allow it to decompress while I shut the vents on the Egg and bring it down to 300 degrees. There, I stabilize the temperature and cook the meat for about an additional 10 minutes per side, inserting a meat thermometer and checking its temperature until desired results are achieved.
You can use wood chips to flavor meat on the Egg, but I typically only do that for smoking. You buy those separately, soak them in water overnight, then put them on the coals just before you’re ready to cook, so it takes some additional planning.
Cooking Times
It takes the Traeger about 20 minutes to come up to 450 degrees and the venison needed about 20 minutes of cooking time. So figure 40 minutes minimum—a few more if you’re not standing right there, turning the dial up to 450 as soon as the pellets start smoking.
Giving the Egg a little TLC before starting it (cleaning ash, carefully stacking charcoal) takes a minute or two, but is a big help in helping it rapidly light and achieve high temperatures. Figure 10 minutes from putting the lighter down to reaching 1,200 degrees, if you’re using that hair dryer or another, less redneck method of forcing air in. From there, it’s 30 seconds per side for searing, then a 20 minute wait for temps to come down with vents closed. Then 10 minutes a side. Total: also about 45 minutes.
You could use a similar method to Traeger’s with the Egg and simply bring it to, and keep it at, 450 degrees. That’d knock off both that 20 minute wait time and a few minutes from the startup. The ability to quickly get going and get up to temperature is a big advantage the Egg can have, depending on how you use it.
With a stronger sear and meat that appears to be juicier, I initially thought the Egg had taken a solid victory. But, largely due to my own incompetent butchering, the Traeger ended up cooking an end of the backstrap that was, well, messy. So, it doesn’t look as impressive but it actually tasted better. While both grills produced meat that was moist and well cooked, it surprises me to say that the Traeger produced notably more tender results. Both pieces of meat were good, but the Traeger’s was tastier.
Price, Ease of Use, and Other Considerations
The grills featured here are not equivalent in size. This doesn’t impact their ability to make great meat, but it does affect the price. The pictured Big Green Egg is the $559 small and has only 133 square inches of cooking real estate. Traeger’s $800 Lil Texan Pro has a 22-by-19-inch main grilling surface (let’s discount the second, smaller top rack for now) for 418 square inches to cook on. That makes it loosely equivalent, in terms of the amount of meat you can get on there, to the $1,200 Big Green Egg XL.
While the Egg can use any natural lump charcoal, Traeger strongly recommends that you stick to its own brand pellets. Neither fuel source is quite as universally available as propane canisters or charcoal briquets, but neither is terribly hard to find, either. Both are available at my local hardware store and you can buy both from Amazon Prime, with free delivery. I haven’t noticed more cost in fuel for either grill—you can be pretty economical with both if you’re good about only lighting them when you’re ready to cook, then shutting them down immediately when you’re finished.
You don’t need to clean ash out of the Traeger with the same regularity as the Big Green Egg, but it does still collect it. You’ll never need to clean any grease out of the Egg as residual heat burns it off, but you will need to regularly clean grease from the plate under the grill of the Traeger. Both are made from corrosion-resistant materials and show no signs of wear or tear from living outside for extended periods, but both also benefit from being covered, if only to keep them clean.
You’ll need an outdoor outlet or long, three-prong extension cord for the Traeger. With the egg, you only need to be able to reach it with that hair dryer.
The Traeger is ready to smoke, grill, or roast out of the box. To smoke on the Egg, you’ll need the $110+ plate setter accessory, a metal dog bowl to hold water under the grill, and a separate bag of wood chips.
If you’re using the Egg at high temperatures, you’ll go through lid gaskets with disappointing regularity. I fitted a $33 aftermarket, high performance gasket to mine, but after three months, it’s already shot.
I haven’t burned myself once on the Traeger. Using the Egg, I’d advise a hefty set of leather work gloves. The height of flames and amount of sparks I get to come out of the top of the Egg with that hair dryer (or leaf blower!) routinely reach dangerous levels. I wear my Egg scars with pride.
Which Grill Is Right for You?
If you want to reliably grill meat to perfection with little effort, then you’ll want the Traeger. It produces consistent, reliable, great results, every single time. While it uses wood as a fuel source, it provides digital control, simplifying the grilling process and making it positively foolproof.
You could tackle a smoked brisket—a notoriously difficult thing to barbecue, and an expensive hunk of meat—for the first time on a Traeger with near a 100 percent expectation of success. On the Egg, I got lucky and produced a perfect brisket on my first try, created a second one that wasn’t quite as good, and totally ruined my third. But the challenge is a big part of the Big Green Egg’s appeal.
A Big Green Egg requires a significant learning curve just to cook simple things, but encourages experimentation and artistic expression with your cooking. While the tenderness of the venison it cooked may have fallen behind the Traeger, this time, that’s simply encouraged me to develop and try new grilling processes until I nail it. That might cost me a few pieces of meat, but that benefits Wiley. As an analog experience, the Egg is fun to use, will often burn you, and offers unlimited cooking possibilities. If you treat cooking as an art form, and enjoy playing with fire, you’ll want the Big Green Egg.
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Recommendations on handling Hawai‘i’s public worker retirement commitments as the Baby Boomer generation prepares to enter retirement.
Beth Giesting discusses the funding of pensions for government workers
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How Hawaii is spending its money, 2018-19
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State budgets, particularly for the executive branch, showcase our government’s priorities when it comes to spending money on social programs, capital improvement projects, and operations for its various departments.
Will Hawaii always be the “Health State?”
Good health isn’t just a result of having health insurance. Public policy affects health outcomes for people across the state, and we should make forward-thinking reforms to expand access to housing, nutrition, early childhood education and more, if we hope to keep Hawaiʻi at the top of the national health rankings.
Highlights from Governor Ige’s proposed state budget for 2019-21
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__label__wiki | 0.649999 | 0.649999 | Grace and Guilt: Endless Nightmares for Kennedy Secret Service Agent
One of the Secret Service agents who was with President Kennedy when he was shot has written a book about it. Gerald Blaine’s The Kennedy Detail is newly out, and the forward was written by fellow agent Clint Hill.
I ached for Mr. Hill, now in his late seventies, when he admitted that his guilt over his inability to prevent President Kennedy’s death had consumed decades of his life. I never had thought about the responsibility felt by Secret Service. But when you think about the “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?” question that marks a generation, imagine if the answer were “in the car behind him” or “climbing onto the back of his limousine.”
Hill did an interview at Dealey Plaza in Dallas; I quote it in part:
Hill spent decades wallowing in guilt after the assassination.
“I went down to the basement with alcohol and cigarettes and stayed there several years,” he says, and ran those six seconds over and over again in his mind. He broke down on “60 Minutes” in 1975, saying President Kennedy’s death was all his fault.
We really do carry our guilt and sorrow a long time. It’s humanly impossible to just let it go.
There are on which people can apologize to others. Right now on Thepublicapology.com, there are apologies about someone’s children sneaking into a neighbor’s pool, a woman having mistaken a former classmate for a teacher at a high school reunion and an irate parent calling the police over a babysitter’s choice to spank a child. And the site suggests that we all check in regularly to see if someone has apologized to us.
I probably won’t spend much time scanning for my name on there, but the proliferation of such sites does bolster the opinion that people carry around burdens for a long time. If someone is suffering guilt over her child sneaking into the neighbor’s pool, think how Mr. Hill must feel about President Kennedy’s death and the ensuing national grief and loss of innocence it unleashed.
For me, this story brought up a couple of things. First of all, it corroborates my view that we all should be treating each other gently. I can think of times when I was out and about looking and seeming as normal as I ever do (which may not be particularly normal, but it’s what I’ve got), yet feeling horrible inside for one reason or another. A stranger honking at me in traffic was enough to reduce me to tears. I wanted to scream, as they say in the South where I was raised, “Be sweet!”
And the other thing I feel deeply on reading Hill’s interview is sadness that anyone goes around with unnecessary guilt when “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” as Romans says. What a waste it is when we live without cashing a zillion dollar check written out to us. Jesus came to bend the bars of our prisons, to set the oppressed free, to rescue us from fortified cities. Many of them are in our heads, hearts, minds and memories.
Grace is a shocking, scary thing. We can scarcely believe it’s true. But when we begin to, we can creep up the basement stairs, ever so gingerly. And come into the light.
Mr. Hill apparently found some catharsis when he was able to return to Dallas in 1990 and review the physical surroundings and realize that he had done all he could do and that at least he (the only agent who could say so) had a chance to try.
I only wish he’d not suffered so long for something none of us could have done any better than he did, and I wish he’d not felt burdened by the yoke of slavery of never messing up, in big or small ways, that so many of us feel. It’s a heavy one. It steals years.
~ by Cary on November 23, 2010.
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Great post, as always! The apology website reminds me of a confessional booth. Saying sorry, albeit very difficult, always feels good, especially when the person on the other end (God) says “you are forgiven.”
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by: Nichole Gunn August 31, 2011
Recognizing that global channel partners and supporting solution market strategies are now a fundamental element in the information technology (IT) arena, Quest Software recently announced the implementation of a new globally unified partner program, Quest Partner Circle.
The program debuted in July at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference held in Los Angeles.
Quest is a California-based designer of global IT management strategies and has over 100,000 customers worldwide. The company’s new three-tier program offers its referral and distribution partners and resellers the opportunity to sell all of Quest’s products and services.
Quest Partner Circle is designed to unite the company’s 4,500 partners within a “single global framework.” A focus of the program is to provide partners with enhanced opportunities to bring customers greater value, and it will also provide a closer partner alliance with Quest.
The program’s channel partner tiers are Elite, Premier, and Registered, and are geared to offer technical training, rewards focused on specialization and revenue, increased sales, and global deal registration. Another feature of the program is transparency – there are clear-cut rules, along with a “predictable investment model for pricing, discounts, services and opportunity management.”
In the press release, Quest’s vice president of Worldwide Channel and Alliances Michael Sotnick explained, “Unifying our global partner program under a single worldwide framework is a tremendous step forward for Quest, our partners and our customers." He added that the new program “will empower our partners to work more closely and successfully with us and grow their businesses to address evolving customer requirements."
Vice President, WW Specialist Sales, Enterprise Partner Group, Microsoft Larry Orecklin provided a supporting quote in the press release, “As a long-standing and award-winning ISV partner, Quest is recognized for its expertise across the entire Microsoft solution portfolio and its focus on vital emerging technologies, including cloud services, virtualization, and identity and access management.”
Another supporter of Quest’s new partner program is research manager for Software Channels Research with IDC's Software Business Solutions Christine Dover, who is a proponent of unified channel partner initiatives, such as the Quest Partner Circle. She explained that these programs “allow companies to effectively incorporate existing products and services across their entire solution stacks and integrate newly acquired companies and technologies to fuel mutual growth"
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Bharat bandh today by trade unions: All you need to know
Bharat Bandh: The 48-hour-long national strike will start from midnight of January 7 and is likely to have a major impact in Left-dominated states of Kerala and West Bengal
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Bharat Bandh: 10 central trade unions have called for the nation-wide strike on January 8, 9. (Express Photo: Shuaib Masoodi)
Bharat Bandh today: A two-day-long nationwide strike has been called by central trade union against the alleged repressive policies of the Narendra Modi-led union government. The strikes will start from midnight of January 7 and are likely to have a major impact in Left-dominated states of Kerala and West Bengal.
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Apart from traders, the strike will also be joined by farm unions under the aegis of the Left peasant wings on January 8-9. “AIKS and Bhumi Adhikar Andolan will observe ”gramin hartal”, rail roko and road roko on January 8 and 9, the day trade unions are observing the nationwide general strike. This move is against the Modi government’s failure to address rural distress issues, to save rural farmers” lands from the corporates. The farmers will extend all support to the ensuing general strike,” Hannan Mollah, general secretary of the CPI(M)-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha was quoted as saying by PTI.
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Bharat Bandh: Who is part of national strike?
The strike has been called by a consortium of ten central trade unions and has received support from organisations like the AITUC, CITU, HMS, AIUTUC, TUCC, AICCTU, along with employees in the banking and insurance sector. Farm unions like All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) cand Bhumi Adhikar Andolan are also part of the strike.
The trade unions have supports of almost all major independent federations of central employees, state employees and the employees of banks, insurance, telecom, and other service sectors representing the workers and employees of all the industries and services including transport services, both in organised and unorganised sectors.
“As many as 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) have joined hands to go on a two-day nationwide strike from tomorrow. We expect 20 crore workers to join the strike. “This is the largest number of workers from formal and informal sectors joining the strike against anti-people and anti-worker policies of the BJP-led central government,” Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary of AITUC, told reporters in a joint press conference of the 10 CTUs.
Also Read : Kerala HC on hartal: Seven-day notice mandatory, liability for damage on parties
National strike: What are trade unions demanding?
The central trade unions during the convention held in September 2018 had given the call for a nation-wide strike accusing the government of “arrogantly ignoring” the 12-point Charter of Demands on minimum wage, universal social security, workers’ status and including pay and facilities for the scheme workers, against privatisation of public and government sector including financial sectors. Laying out their demands, the convention at the time also denounced the “communal and divisive machinations in society being carried on with the active patronage from the government”.
The effect is likely to be most visible in the state of Kerala which is Left dominated. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra)
“The government has failed to create jobs and grossly ignored unions’ 12-point charter of demands. The Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on labour issues has not called unions for any discussion since September 2, 2015 strike. This has left us with no other option but to go on strike,” Kaur said.
Who is opposing the Bharat Bandh?
While central trade unions gear up for the two-day strike, several trading organisations have denounced the call expressing that they will keep their shops open during the hartal. The effect which is likely to be most visible in the state of Kerala which is Left dominated, however, officials in the Kerala Trade and Industries Coordination Forum said that they will not participate in the in the strike. Similarly, the Kerala Hotel and Restaurants Association, Kerala Travel Mart Society, Kerala Textile and Garment Dealers Association and Bakers Association will also stay away from the strike on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in TMC ruled West Bengal, CITU on Sunday said it would put up resistance if the state government makes attempts to foil its proposed bandh. CITU state president Subhas Mukherjee on Sunday said that their workers will be on the streets to resist any attempt by the state government to foil the shutdown. “The state government has felt that the bandh will be successful this time and that’s why they are making attempts to foil it. The TMC has never spoken in favour of the people. If they try to foil the strike, we will definitely resist it. This time the bandh will be successful,” Mukherjee said.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. – Big data software solutions and infrastructure provider Sysorex (NASDAQ: SYRX) today announced that its Lilien Systems division has been selected as one of the 65 Prime Contract Holders under the Chief Information Officer – Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS) contract by National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC).
CIO-CS, a multiple-award Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), is a 10 year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a maximum value of $20 billion with a one 60-month base period from May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2020; and one 60-month option period from May 1, 2020 to April 30, 2025. As a CIO-CS Prime Contract Holder, Lilien is among a handful of companies allowed to fulfill task orders from federal, civilian or DoD agencies seeking to acquire IT commodities and solutions.
The CIO-CS contract is Sysorex’s third such contract award in the past two months. In March, Sysorex was awarded a subcontract on the $249 million Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) contract from the US Army. In early April, it received an award on the NASA SEWP V contract.
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Letter from Johannes Mauritus Goetschius to Henricus Dubois requesting his appearance for a third and final time, dated August 19, 1765
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Rochdale Youth AFC came to us needing a new website for their youth teams, the existing site was falling short as it wasn’t responsive and didnt allow the coaches to update training plans or even inform both players and parents of the matches coming up for each age group. The website was to act as a hub to house all the information content as well as inform both players and parents of the standards the club expects.
We started by creating the websites identity by using the colours that are traditionally associated with the football club. By using the blue colour of the Rochdale team colours, which is a fairly striking blue we then used a green as a highlight colour for key elements of the website. We had a fantastic library of images to use from the teams plus we built in some video content to the site which linked to the clubs social media platforms, this allows fans more access to the runnings of the club.
The site is an information site, housing information on details from what to do if a player is sick or injured, the vision and values or success stories of academy players who have gone on to play for the club. Serious amounts of information, so there was a big challenge to make the site look welcoming and easy for the viewer to navigate to find the relevant details they needed.
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From the producers of the ‘Twilight Saga’ comes a thrilling and horrifying story of troubled young women who find themselves trapped in a mansion meant to heal them from emotional and psychological wounds in “Down a Dark Hall.”
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Based on the classic gothic YA novel of the same name by Lois Duncan – author of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” – and produced by Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight, The Host), “Down A Dark Hall” is a supernatural thriller directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Buried), from a screenplay by Mike Goldbach and Chris Sparling, and stars Anna Sophia Robb (Soul Surfer, The Carrie Diaries), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Victoria Moroles (Teen Wolf), Noah Silver (The Tribes of Palos Verdes), Taylor Russell (TV’s Falling Skies), Rosie Day (Outlander), and features a truly memorable turn by the iconic Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Vols. I & II).
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So, why did Dravid quit?
Posted on 15 September 2007 by blogesh | 2 comments
Of course only Dravid would know the real reason why. But there is nothing stopping us from speculating. So, here are a few theories –
Captaincy has affected his batting: Statistics will show that his test average did indeed dip (44.51 compared to a career average of 60.12 when he is not captaining the side), but he has looked the same solid wall that we know even when he is captaining the side. Even his test strike rate has been good of late and his ODI average and strike rate have improved as well. Sometimes your batting form cannot be judged by statistics alone…
The pressures of captaincy were too tough to handle: I don’t buy into this theory. Dravid is a tough character and I don’t think he would have found the pressures of captaincy too tough to handle. Before Tendulkar relinquished the captaincy a few years ago we could clearly see he wasn’t enjoying it – Dravid’s body language displayed no such signs. (For the record, under Dravid’s captaincy India have won 8 out of 25 games – a win ratio that is not too bad for an India team.)
Dravid wasn’t getting the support of the seniors in the team: I would have believed this statement right after the WC debacle. But since Greg Chappell’s departure and the two test series wins, everything seems good in the dressing room.
So, if it is not all this, then what is it? I actually think that after the World cup debacle, Dravid wanted to quit the captaincy. He must have felt disappointed in the way the grand plans he had laid down with Greg Chappell for Indian cricket had come crumbling down. The media and public reaction would have hurt him even more. The only reason he stayed on was probably because Indian cricket was at cross roads and he didn’t want to desert it as a captain. With the England series win, he probably thought that Indian cricket is now at a much better position and it is time for someone else to take over. It also gives him a chance to concentrate on his batting with two tough series of Pakistan and Australia around the corner. By quitting the captaincy now, he also leaves on a winning note.
This might well be his reason, or maybe it was something else. But since India haven’t groomed anyone else to take over from Dravid, he could have stayed on at least for another year as captain. But once someone has decided that he doesn’t want the job, it is time to move on and pick a new captain.
-Mahesh-
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Tagged Dravid, India, Test cricket
Alternatives to the bowl out
Posted on 15 September 2007 by sanjaysub | 2 comments
I like the idea that there should be no ties in the T20 format. But is the bowl out the the best solution. Yesterday for instance as the bowl out was going to begin, I kep commenting about how it would be impossible for bowlers to miss the stumps and that it was a ridiculous idea. But the Pakistanis did miss and India hit. But then I started thinking of some other methods. Now in football for instance we do have the concept of extra time. Extra time is where both teams have an equal opportunity to play the game as they would normally. Bringing this into cricket I think we should have the following format.
1. Both teams get to bat a maximum of 5 overs per side. Afterall 30 minutes of extra time in a soccer game is one third of the total time.
2. There should be a toss to decide who bats or bowls first.
3. Each bowler will get a maximum of 1 over.
4. There will be a power play of 1 over.
5. Rules for victory remain the same as in the regular game.
This way both the batsmen and bowlers get the chance to participate in the tie breaker.
Hit out
Here is another alternative to the bowl out.
5 different bowlers each bowl one ball. They will be faced by 5 different opposing batsmen.The only chances of scoring are boundaries, sixes, wides and no balls. The team that scoresmost runs wins.
— Sanjay
Is it really a tie?
The first instance of a tie in Test cricket was the famous Brisbane match between Australia and the West Indies. It was even released as a film and reading or watching it always gave me the impression that West Indies had won the match. But it was a tie wasn’t it? Why were only Windies celebrating and not the Aussies? Simple, a tie is a victory for the bowling side. It means that they managed to prevent the batting side from winning. Fast forward to the Chepauk tie between India and Australia, the Aussies were jumping with joy as if they had won the World Cup. Yesterday was again a classic case of India feeling just one up because they prevented Pakistan from winning. The nature of the game is such that everytime there is a tie, even though the teams were matched evenly, even though the scores are level, even though nothing can separate the teams at the end of the game, the bowling side celebrates, and emerges as a moral victor!
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What a match!
Posted on 15 September 2007 by sanjaysub | Leave a comment
Yesterday was a classic Indo-Pak encounter with all the thrills and spills and the added drama of a bowl out to decide the winner after the teams were tied.
The Indian innings – The team got off to a disastrous start. I cannot understand the position or inclusion of Gambhir. Ideally Uthappa should open.They should have played one of the all rounders like Joginder Sharma, Rohit Sharma or Yusuf Pathan. But that was not to be. Gambhir and Sehwag failed, Yuvraj played too early and Asif was too good for Karthik. Uthappa played a terrific innings, Dhoni stood calm and Pathan belted a few to get us to 141, a decent score that would ensure that India atleast qualified ahead of Scotland on the runrate. PS: Agarkar normally spends about 2 overs in the batting crease in any form of cricket and I think the T20 suited his style of batting!
The Pakistan innings – They chose not to send Afridi up the order. A clear indication that they did not want to knock India out by scoring the runs in 14.4 overs. Generally Pakistan’s strategy of not sending Afridi up the order is quite baffling. But RP Singh started well, Sreesanth was fast and straight and Agarkar gave away his quota of boundaries. Still Pakistan lost wickets because of some good bowling by Irfan Pathan and a special thanks to Younis Khan who got Kamran Akmal runout especially after narrowly failing to do so the previous over. Harbhajan started a brilliant spell and with the dismissal of Afridi in the 17th over the match was almost sealed. Bajji thinking that the match was won, tossed one up and Arafat sent it out of the ground. This is T20 and there is just no time to think or settle. Bajji who had bowled so flat and into the blockhole relaxed just that bit. 29 from 2 overs and it was still India’s game. But we had Agarkar who was just dishing out length balls to be walloped for boundaries and suddenly the equation had completely shifted. 17 from the Agarkar over and 12 was needed from the last Sreesanth over. 4 balls later the match was over as the scores were tied. But Sreesanth, bowling round the wicket beat Misbah, who had played an excellent innings, Dhoni got the field in for the last ball, Misbah missed a pull shot and got run out to tie the match! A terrific finish to a fascinating contest.
The bowl out – ICC has come out with new bowl out to resolve ties instead of splitting points or going by the older ‘lesser no of wickets lost’ rule. India seemed to have prepared for this because they had 2 bowlers lined up who did not even bowl in the match. While Sehwag, Bajji and Uthappa(!) hit the stumps easily, the Pakistanis missed and the match was ours! A memorable victory and Pakistan still cannot beat us in World Cup match.
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If you’re a Drake fan (or have just been on the internet lately) then you’ve undoubtedly heard of the “In My Feelings” dance challenge. The phenomenon started after Instagram star Shiggy posted a video of himself dancing to the Scorpion song. Since then, everyone — and we mean EVERYONE — has been getting in on the action. However, it’s all over now because Will Smith officially crushed it, and the rest of us can just go home.
Stars like Shay Mitchell, Sterling K. Brown, and Kevin Hart have all taken part in the viral #InMyFeelingsChallenge, but it looks like Smith is the real winner after releasing his epic version. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air took his dance to the top of Budapest’s Széchenyi Chain Bridge.
"Last day in Budapest. I woke up #InMyFeelings," Smith wrote on IG on July 12th. "I’ma Keep It (100)... I was TERRIFIED up there. That’s why my dance moves is all STIFF! Haha #InMyFeelingsChallenge #DoTheShiggy."
“There is no way this is legal,” he says in the clip, before showing off his moves. Unsurprisingly, Smith’s video quickly went viral and earned the stamp of approval from tons of celebrities, including Drake himself, who commented, “Wow the video is done.”
The actor’s son, Jaden Smith, also commented on the video, writing, “You killed this” and “I’m Done dad.” Justin Timberlake wrote, “FTW!” while Ciara commented, “You are Legend.”
It’s safe to say that the ONLY person who might be able to dethrone Smith is Kiki herself!
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Game #8 Review – Chargers @ Browns
A win is a win, no matter if the final score is 52-51 or 7-6. The Browns were able to eke out a victory on Sunday after a hard-fought game. It was definitely a team-win; as all units were relatively productive against the Chargers. While it may not have been pretty at times, the Browns were able to up their record to 2-6 amidst heavy winds and rain in Cleveland Browns Stadium. I loved the teams’ response to Pat Shurmur’s speech following the game. The coach was about to give the team off Monday, but the players spoke up and stated they wanted to come in and work instead.
Offense: I thought Brandon Weeden played pretty good, considering the circumstances. He only had 129 through the air, but once again his receivers could have added to that total (dropping a few catchable passes in bad weather). Two things that the signal caller was guilty of (which frustrated the fans), was overthrowing wide-open targets and getting his passes tipped. The former was painful, as many felt Weeden had corrected his mistakes (of missing targets) from the beginning of the year. Hopefully, this was an anomaly and will not occur the rest of the season. The defensive linemen of the Chargers were able to swat the football at the line of scrimmage, almost intercepting a few. This was concerning, as the Browns quarterback and linemen had worked hard to avoid these. Weeden did take two sacks, which hurt the team, but also avoided a couple as well. Several of his better decisions occurred when he threw the football away, as opposed to trying to force something that simply was not there.
This was the type of performance Browns’ fans were hoping to see out of Trent Richardson – twenty-four carries for 122 yards. The running back carried the load on Sunday, and more importantly, had the lone touchdown of the game. The Chargers had not allowed a 100-yard rusher in their last eleven games – this streak ended at Cleveland Browns Stadium. I hope this gets the attention of Pat Shurmur that the team should employ the running game more in future contests. With the hard rain coming down, I anticipated a poor snap or a fumble happening during a rushing play – neither of which occurred for the Browns. One turnover for the team, and it might have cost the franchise a victory. Montario Hardesty and Chris Ogbonnaya contributed very little (seven yards on four carries), but Richardson was the story of the game.
I was not expecting the wide receivers to put up big numbers in the pouring rain and heavy wind. Josh Gordon led the unit, with three receptions for forty-six yards. He was unable to catch a difficult pass in the end zone, but he continued to get open and made plays when opportunities arose. After dropping a huge pass on third down, Greg Little had a pair of second half catches and a nice block on a running play – not a great game, but the young veteran continues to be involved in the offense. Unfortunately, a pair of rookies took a step back this week. Travis Benjamin did not have a reception and fumbled an end-around toss from Josh Cribbs. Also, Josh Cooper dropped the only pass thrown his way – ending a promising fourth-quarter drive. I look forward for both to bounce back next week; the offense will need all their weapons for the important matchup with the Ravens. Tight ends Jordan Cameron and Ben Watson each came up with a big catch; they did not have gaudy stats but they helped move the chains on a day where that was difficult.
The offensive line continued to show that they can pave the way for the Browns’ running attack. It was great to see the unit open up holes; Shaun Lauvao even helped push Richardson toward the end zone. I have confidence that this can happen regularly this year – if they can run on the second-ranked run defense they should be able to do the same against other teams in the league. The Chargers threw multiple blitzes on passing plays, but fortunately the line was able to protect Weeden (for the most part). I cannot remember when one lineman was clearly beat by a defender on a play – the only time the opponent was able to make it difficult for the offense was when multiple players occupied the same gap. The group for the Browns continues to get better, and I want to see this trend continue next Sunday before the team hits their bye week.
Defense: The Browns defense played a tremendous game – the unit faced a very good offense in the Chargers and prevented them from scoring a touchdown. They held Ryan Mathews under 100 yards, a feat I was not anticipating (especially with Athyba Rubin being inactive for the contest). Several players stepped up and made big plays for the Browns; one of those was rookie Billy Winn. The sixth-round draft selection played very well; recovering a fumble and sacking Philip Rivers. Juqua Parker (who has been rather quiet as of late) kept pressure on the opponent and made some nice stops on third downs. John Hughes had four tackles – leading the way for the defensive line. Assuming Rubin and Phil Taylor get healthy and can play next week, the group has an opportunity to make it difficult for the opposition to try to gain yards on the ground.
The three leading tacklers for the team were linebackers – D’Qwell Jackson had fourteen, James Michael-Johnson tallied ten, while Kaluka Maiava came away with nine. The collection did not have really any impactful plays (i.e. sacks or multiple tackles for losses) but they prevented long rushes, which was extremely important. Another great thing that the group accomplished was the limiting of tight end Antonio Gates. The veteran has had big games against the Browns in the past, but only had two catches for fourteen yards on Sunday. Ronnie Brown led the Chargers in receiving with seven catches for eighty-five yards; the linebacker corps clearly had their issues with the veteran running back. This appeared to be the only weakness for the group on Sunday – hopefully they do not allow Ray Rice to do the same next week.
I thought T.J. Ward played his best game of the year against the Chargers – his stop on an early, crucial 4th down and one halted the momentum of the Chargers. The University of Oregon alum was in on several passing plays and put a solid hit on Rivers. Joe Haden and Usama Young both played pretty well in coverage; every time the opponent threw deep, the duo was around the football and prevented receivers from making plays. Haden also came away with eight tackles, the last line of defense helped limit Mathews and other rushers from breaking a long run. Buster Skrine had a decent game – coming away with four tackles. His deflection on fourth down sealed the game for the Browns, and plays like that will help him continue to see a fair amount of playing time.
Special Teams: The kicking game was a non-factor for the Browns; it would have been adventurous to see Phil Dawson try a kick in the weather though. Alas, a touchdown was enough to win the game for the team. Reggie Hodges had another tough outing but was able to pin the Chargers down nside the five-yard line once. Josh Cribbs had a few moderate returns, nothing exceptional – but he avoided a costly mistake. The Browns almost caught a huge break when Eric Weddle bobbled a punt late in the game. However, he was able to recover it and gave his offense a chance to score.
Coaching: The play calling was definitely more balanced that in previous weeks – most likely dictated by the weather. It will be interesting to see if Shurmur gives Richardson the football a fair amount going forward. Defensively, I thought there were several aggressive plays called for the secondary. Dick Jauron figured pressure would cause Philip Rivers to not play as well as he could, and that appeared to be the case.
Posted by edubs1983 on October 29, 2012 in NFL Season
Preview of Game 8 – Chargers @ Browns
Game #8 Preview – Chargers @ Browns
Back to the friendly confines of Cleveland Browns Stadium; the team heads home for a couple games before their bye week. Up next is the San Diego Chargers, who will be coming off their own bye week – the veteran team is seeking to get over their recent loss against the Broncos. However, the Browns’ opponent is also facing allegations of using stick‘em; an illegal adhesive that receivers use to allow them to hold onto the football. The storylines are there for a contest that many may not follow.
Offense: I would be surprised if the Browns switched up their offensive philosophy this week. Brandon Weeden continues to get better each week and the upcoming opponent has had its issues against the pass. The Chargers allowed over 300 yards and three touchdowns in their most recent game two weeks ago. Granted that was against Peyton Manning, but I believe the Browns can have similar results on Sunday. The deeper passes we saw to Greg Little and Josh Gordon should continue – they were successful (for the most part) last week. Additionally, the shorter throws to Josh Cooper and Travis Benjamin were efficient as well; the crafty receivers were able to find an open space on the field and run away from defenders. Unfortunately, the opponents have a better secondary than the Colts and the wide receivers will face a sizeable challenge. I hope the Browns refuse to play conservatively though; they only way they will get better (and more importantly see success) is to take chances and try for the “big play”.
The status of Trent Richardson will determine whether the Browns run the football a fair amount or just sparingly. When given opportunities in the past two games, the rookie was not running the way most were expecting. Plays appeared to be wasted, as the team was unable to move the football. If Richardson does not look to be near full health (in this week’s practice), I would rather see the Browns activate Brandon Jackson to complement Hardesty and Ogbonnaya. The team could then employ a steady rotation, giving the offense a few options while keeping the opponent guessing. In their last game, the Chargers largely shut down the Broncos running game (fifty-seven total yards), but that was likely due to the team needing to pass as they trailed the entire first half. Worst-case scenario – I look for efficiency out of the Browns’ running attack (i.e. preventing the team from 3rd and ten, etc). If one of the rushers can bust a long run, that is an added bonus. Also, if that occurs, I look forward to Shurmur sticking with that player, as the potential for further success would be present.
Facing the likes of Eric Weddle, Quentin Jammer, and Antoine Cason – Peyton Manning was able to hit three different wide receivers for touchdowns. This can be comforting for Browns fans, as it demonstrates that the Chargers can be thrown upon despite having an overall skilled unit. I love the way the Browns’ coaches are calling plays that tailor to the strengths of the receivers. Josh Gordon is a burner and can catches deep passes, while Josh Cooper may not be the fastest on the team but he can run precise routes and get open consistently. Coming off one of his better performances, the Browns should continue to employ Greg Little in the offensive game plan. The team looks like they finally have a guy or two that can stretch the field, while the younger veteran appears to be a beneficiary – making plays on under routes. Each game Mohammed Massaquoi misses, the chances that he will be re-signed at the end of the year is reduced. I want to see the University of Georgia product come out with fire and passion and give the team a reliable target, but he must be healthy for that to be possible. It’s imperative the tight ends must make the most when passes come their way, especially in the red zone. An added touchdown from Jordan Cameron or Ben Watson would be huge for the offense.
In terms of pressuring quarterbacks, it appears to be Jekyll and Hyde for the defense of the Chargers – they had no sacks two weeks ago and three in the prior contest. Shaun Phillips, Jarrett Johnson, and long-time veteran Takeo Spikes have been heading up this department in 2012. The offensive line for the Browns has been doing their job well the past few games; Weeden has been able to get passes away without fear of being hounded by defenders. Alex Smith (provided he is activated this week) may be used to help out with rushing linebackers coming off the edge. I want to see this unit push back the defenders on running plays – openings can be made for Hardesty, Ogbonnaya, and whomever else is carrying the ball. You have to go back a few weeks, but Jamaal Charles had a solid contest a few weeks ago against the Chargers (eighty-eight yards and a touchdown).
Defense: Seeing what the Colts were able to do last week, fantasy football owners of Ryan Mathews will (more than likely) be excited for this week’s matchup. The running back has been averaging just over sixty yards on the ground and thirty receiving yards per game this season. He and veteran Ronnie Brown make up an attack that could create difficulties for the Browns’ front seven. There are two ways the team can force their opponent to throw the ball on almost every play – stop the run and get a lead. Second-year pro Phil Taylor is returning from injury and practicing this week, but unfortunately he will not play. As a result, the rest of the front four must improve and do it quickly for the former to come true. Outside of the Giants’ game, the latter has not been seen this year. Among the disappointment of the defense, the Browns have not put much pressure on opposing quarterbacks. This can happen; as Rivers was taken down four times last game. Jabaal Sheard and Frostee Rucker must play the part of Elvis Dumervil and Von Miller though, which is a very tall order.
Antonio Gates continues to be one of the best tight ends in the game and is the number-one threat in the Chargers’ passing game. The linebackers will have their hands full and there’s a good chance they give up a big play or two to the Kent State alum. Craig Robertson, who may have the task of guarding Gates, has made a couple plays in the passing game but has also looked slow while covering receivers. I hope the Browns shade the safeties toward that side to help Robertson out in these situations. D’Qwell Jackson and James Michael-Johnson did not play exceptionally last week. There’s a good chance the two will be coached to focus more on stopping the run – I want to see them getting around offensive linemen and making crucial stops. Overall, the Chargers have shown an ability to score points in bunches as well as being stagnant for long stretches. The latter starts with the defense keeping their opponent out of rhythm – beginning with the quarterback.
Philip Rivers is the wildcard in this contest; forcing him into mistakes will be one of the biggest keys to victory (for the Browns). He threw four interceptions in his last contest – one was returned for a touchdown. The veteran has been susceptible to these over the last couple of years, and the defense must capitalize. Pressure from the secondary will be very important – I liked the corner blitz used last week; it was effective (leading to a turnover). I hope these continue for the Browns; utilized properly and the opponent will have less time to run their routes and make plays. Last week, the team played well in defending the pass – an eye will be kept on this aspect of the game to see whether they keep it up or take a step backwards. Joe Haden and Sheldon Brown must render the top two leading targets (Michael Floyd and Robert Meachem) ineffective. Buster Skrine, T.J. Ward, and Usama Young are a few athletes who must continue their solid play – they did well last week but will have to come up in run support and stop a marginal receiver like Eddie Royal.
Special Teams: It seems when it rains, it pours, for the special teams. When one group is not doing its job, other units miss assignments as well. They must be very close to flawless in this match-up, as the Browns are expected to have their issues both offensively and defensively. The coverage units have somewhat cleaned up their act – if a silver lining exists. The special teams must now eliminate their mistakes (i.e. penalties, blown assignments, etc.) that have plagued this team.
Coaching: After it appeared Shurmur managed the offense well against the Bengals, the opposite occurred last week. I hope the staff can find the weaknesses in the Chargers’ defense in order to gauge a proper plan of attack. More importantly, I hope the coach takes risks (especially in critical spots) in terms of play calling. Defensively, I want the Browns to make it miserable for Philip Rivers. He has lost games as a result of not having time to throw – the defense must do its part.
Prediction (My Record: 4-3): I see Weeden and the offense continuing to progress and putting up some points, even if Richardson does not play. I think the run defense will struggle once again while Phil Taylor sits out. The Chargers will pull this one out 31 – 27 and the Browns’ frustrations continue.
Game 7 Review – Browns @ Colts
Game #7 Review – Browns @ Colts
One step forward, two steps back – I believe this was the worst game played by the Browns this season. Considering their opponent, I was shocked and disappointed by the fact the visitors were defeated in almost every aspect of the game (and by an inferior squad). I was hoping the positive momentum from last week would carry over, but instead a new losing streak begins for the Cleveland Browns.
Offense: Brandon Weeden played a very good game, which would have been great if not for a dropped touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter. Instead, the rookie threw for two hundred sixty-four yards and two touchdowns –while completing 25 of his 41 passes. He avoided sacks, turnovers, and even ran for a first down; Weeden’s game appears to be progressing nicely. On a couple of misfires, Weeden threw it away from the defender (avoiding a possible huge mistake) and lived to see another down. Once again, he was put in a position to throw the ball more than he should have, but the signal caller held up well and spread the ball around (to nine different receivers). Weeden targeted both Joshes (Gordon and Cooper) on multiple occasions, and the pair led the way in terms of yardage. My confidence with the Browns’ passing game has grown exponentially this season – the quarterback can heave it all over the field and get long gains.
I did not realize that running the football was optional; apparently this will be the case for the Browns in 2012. Trent Richardson is still not 100% and that was evident – he had eight carries for eight yards and two catches for eleven yards. At least the coaches took him out of the contest earlier than they did last week; I would expect the team to be careful to not risk further injury with their rookie rusher. Montario Hardesty had twenty-eight yards on seven carries (a 4.0 yard average) – I was disappointed he did not have more carries in the second half. I believe he could have had a decent game, as he continued to show his nose for any opening (created by the offensive line) and made the most of each carry. Chris Ogbonnaya added three receptions for seventeen yards and had a six-yard carry. This offense cannot afford to be one-dimensional; they must consistently run the football every contest. Whether the offensive line is dominating, or the team simply needs to put themselves in manageable situations, carries should be given to whomever is healthy and can produce.
Greg Little came to play on Sunday; the second-year veteran found the end zone for the second time this year (matching his total from last season). He came away with six catches for fifty-two yards; I look forward to seeing if he can keep this up in the coming weeks. I think Josh Cooper is a keeper and I hope he sticks around with the team; the rookie made some nice receptions and appears to be a dependable target. Josh Gordon, once again, had a touchdown on a long route. He is the team’s deep-threat and defenses will have to make adjustments to account for him. His drop was crucial and may have cost the team a victory, but I am not going to kill him over it. He owned up to the heartbreaking situation (not using the sun as an excuse) – we can root for this becoming motivation for Gordon. Ben Watson and Jordan Cameron combined for four receptions; the offense is clearly not centered on the tight end position. The only difference between this week and last week was that they did not come up with the huge grab.
Protecting Brandon Weeden was a priority for the offensive line, and the unit did exactly that. All game long, there was time and room for the Browns to throw – the play calls are working in that respect. It’s hard to determine whether the line would have been productive in the running game as well. I thought John Greco filled in admirably for Jason Pinkston and the team did not miss a beat without their starter (who may miss the remainder of the year). No one on the Colts defense had more than six tackles, and Robert Mathis and Cory Redding were inactive for the contest. I do not think the remaining defensive linemen would have been able to win in the trenches on a consistent basis (assuming more running plays were implemented).
Defense: The most depressing/disappointing thing from this game was how effective the Colts running game was. Vick Ballard and Delone Carter were doing their best impressions of Walter Payton and Barry Sanders; the Browns made the duo look exceptional (combining for over 140 total yards). Against a unit that has struggled mightily all year long, the Browns failed to shut down their opponent on the ground. I understand there are injuries along the front four, but the defense should be better against a runner who has had sixty-seven rushing yards through the first five games. Losing the battle upfront is deflating enough, but the Browns were not playing the Washington Redskins of the 1980s and their fantastic offensive line. Frostee Rucker and John Hughes led the way with three tackles each – this unit is not tackling, thus proving the opponent was moving the ball down the field regularly. It will not get any easier the next couple of weeks for the defensive line; hopefully Phil Taylor returns as soon as possible to give these guys a boost.
Continuing with the theme of futility on defense, the linebackers did not do much to encourage the fans. Throughout the game, no pressure was put on Andrew Luck, and the only sacks came from either the secondary or were caused by excellent coverage (and the defense getting to the quarterback after several seconds). The Browns are severely lacking a playmaker (or two) in this unit and have been forced to play late-round picks and undrafted veterans due to injury and ineffectiveness. James Michael-Johnson was invisible again – being in on just one tackle. On a positive note, Craig Robertson and D’Qwell Jackson totaled six tackles each, with Jackson notching a pass deflection as well. I thought Kaluka Maiava played one of his better games this season; garnering a sack and a hit on the quarterback.
It was not going to be easy covering Reggie Wayne, and the veteran had a solid performance (six catches for seventy-three yards). The only other receiver to have a decent game for the Colts was Donnie Avery – the Browns pretty much held everyone else in check. They allowed less than 200 yards passing and no touchdowns, which can win many contests in the NFL. Granted, they faced a rookie quarterback with a talent-depleted unit, but perhaps it can be something to build upon (in future contests). The three leading tacklers for the Browns were Sheldon Brown, Buster Skrine, and T.J. Ward – they did a good job tackling running backs who blew past the front seven. In the second half, the defense finally woke up and shut down the Colts’ offense. Joe Haden was not challenged and therefore did not have a big impact on the game (likely a wise decision by the opponent).
Special Teams: A couple of holding penalties by Ray Ventrone killed the Browns’ in the field position battle and caused drives to start inside their own twenty yard line. The team was able to overcome one of these, via a Greg Little touchdown. Following the score, the snap during the extra point was not held properly and the team failed on the PAT. Reggie Hodges also had a poor, twenty-yard punt after the Browns refused to go for it on fourth and one. Overall, the Browns’ special teams got dominated, and even being marginally better could have contributed to a victory.
Coaching: The major topic emanating from the defeat was Pat Shurmur’s decision to punt rather than try a fourth and one (late in the game) from the 39-yard line. Owner Jimmy Haslam was visibly frustrated, and the faithful in section 615 were not amused as well. Additionally, Shurmur shied away from the running game in the second half (while the team never trailed by more than eight points). I understand if the game is out of hand, but the head coach has been making some head-scratching decisions this season.
Game 7 Preview – Browns @ Colts
Browns @ Colts – Game #7 Preview
Can the Browns continue their winning ways on the road on Sunday? The 2011 team was able to pull off a victory in Indianapolis, but both teams have a couple new faces this season (starting at. quarterback). Once again, I will be in attendance – I hope my presence (along with officially playing their first game under new owner Jimmy Haslam) will inspire the Browns to a victory. Last week’s contest was hard fought, and the Browns must excel in all three aspects of the game to maintain success.
Offense: For the first time, the Browns employed the running game more and reduced Brandon Weeden’s role against the Bengals – resulting in his fewest pass attempts (twenty-nine) this season. This proved to be a great game plan for the rookie quarterback, who largely avoided mistakes (outside of an early tipped pass). Last week, the Jets were able to put up thirty-five points on the Colts with only nineteen passes and forty-four rushing attempts. I would not be surprised if the Browns used similar play calls this week; Weeden will still throw several passes, but the team will likely employ the run to set up passing plays. Converting on third down (seven of seventeen last week) and hitting a few deep throws will be key for a successful performance. The signal caller must keep his passes high (and away from defenders) following the release to avoid negative plays. The Colts only have two interceptions this entire season, but the Browns should not take their opponents lightly; they still have a rookie quarterback who has succumbed to errors.
Shonn Greene and Joe McKnight combined for over 230 yards rushing for the Jets last week; together they were able to gash the Colts on the ground. Montario Hardesty’s performance last week gave Browns fans faith that he can enter the game and produce, even if he has not been active for several weeks. The trio of Richardson, Hardesty, and Ogbonnaya could do a number this week – provided all three are healthy and are put in the best position to excel. If the rookie and veteran from Tennessee can each have ten to fifteen carries, along with Ogbonnaya getting a couple receptions, the running back unit will likely cause problems for the opposition. I look for the Browns trying to get an early lead in this contest; thus allowing the team to rely heavily on the run until the defense can stop them – pitting their strength against the opposition’s perceived weakness.
Although the Colts barely allowed one hundred passing yards last week, it was largely due to the Jets’ success in the running game. I have faith the Browns will be able to have a big game through the air. Josh Cooper’s first-game production and Josh Gordon’s recent success have shown that the Browns can move the ball in crucial situations, as well as score on long plays. Implement Mohammed Massaquoi and Travis Benjamin (both returning from injuries), and the unit can become dynamic. A consequence of multiple receivers stepping up has been the elimination of entitlement for Greg Little. The days of guaranteed playing time and opportunities for the young veteran are all but gone – he now has to prove he belongs on the field and is deserving of the football. Last week, the tight ends of the Browns enjoyed success in many ways – Alex Smith did a great job blocking, while Jordan Cameron had a huge reception and Ben Watson recorded a touchdown. Employing multiple weapons here will make it extremely difficult for the opposing, relatively young linebackers.
In the two victories for the Colts, the defense was able to get to the quarterback – notching a combined nine sacks. It is imperative that the Browns offensive line keeps the team out of unfavorable situations. Last week, the Browns had third and long a couple times and played conservatively (i.e. runs and short throws), and the team ended up punting as a result. Several of these series almost cost the Browns the game; they cannot face longer yardage to gain consistently – whether it is due to sacks allowed or by penalty. The offense can eliminate the latter by playing under control and blocking out the home crowd’s noise. Sacks have largely not been an issue, as the Browns typically only lose ten to fifteen yards per game in these situations. John Greco filled in well last week after Jason Pinkston left the game with an illness. Going forward, I believe he can be an important part of the interior line that helps the offense produce yards (and more importantly points).
Defense: Well, the bounce back game occurred for the defensive line; the Browns held the Bengals to a low rushing output (less than eighty yards total). The Colts, in defeat, had forty-one total yards on the ground last week. In the upset of the Packers, Donald Brown lead the team with eighty-four yards, as the franchise rushed for 119 total. In keeping with trends, the Colts do not have a dominant “feature running back” (whom have given the Browns fits this year). Billy Winn, John Hughes, and Athyba Rubin (assuming he’s healthy to play) must eliminate this part of the opponent’s offense and force rookie quarterback Andrew Luck to throw a majority of the time. The past two weeks saw the Colts give up eight sacks – Frostee Rucker, Jabaal Sheard, and Juqua Parker, (among a few others) should be able to get into the stat sheet after tacking the opposing quarterback. If the Browns can do what other teams have done to Luck and his offense as of late, they will get off the field and give Weeden and the offense more opportunities to score.
After facing a great tight end last week, the Browns will go against rookie Coby Fleener (a second-round draft selection). The talented, Stanford product has been averaging almost four receptions a game for over thirty-six yards. This may not seem like much, but he brings a big-play ability (catching and running for long gains). As a result, the Browns may have to use safeties to keep up with the speedster. Fellow tight end Dwayne Allen and running back Vick Ballard are also threats in the receiving game; the youth and speed of the linebackers can help the Browns guard these athletes however. It’s been reported that Scott Fujita has a neck injury and will miss several games (at the very least); the lineup of D’Qwell Jackson, Craig Robertson, and James Michael-Johnson will likely lead the unit for the remainder of the season. I anticipate this group continuing to grow – i.e. being in the best position possible during both running and passing plays. Doing so limits the opposing offense and can potentially create turnovers with physical and instinctual play.
Joe Haden has another tall order this week, with the task of covering long-time veteran Reggie Wayne. The star from the University of Miami has proven he is still one of the NFL’s best – averaging slightly over eight catches and 118 receiving yards per game. Wayne can create a huge passing day for Luck, as well as pull coverage away from reliable targets like Donnie Avery and rookie T.Y. Hilton. If Haden can play they way he did against A.J. Green last week (sans the one long pass), the Browns will have somewhat hindered the Colts’ passing attack. I believe Buster Skrine and Sheldon Brown can keep up with the remaining wide outs – they both had solid performances last week and I can see something similar occurring. Combining the opponent’s inconsistent rushing attack with the uncertainty of wide receiver output (except for Wayne), and I look for safeties T.J. Ward and Usama Young to be extremely active this game. Dick Jauron should employ Ward in rush and blitz schemes to disrupt Luck’s timing – especially on the quicker throws. Young will, more than likely, be asked to help in matchups where the Browns appear to be at a disadvantage. He came away with interceptions in each of the past two weeks; I anticipate the veteran being around the ball again on Sunday.
Special Teams: The Phil Dawson-Adam Vinatieri matchup is a tough one to call; both are fantastic kickers who will likely thrive in their opportunities. The remaining special teams for the Colts are good – they employ several younger returners who get decent yardage but have yet to get “the big one”. The Browns have limited their opponent the last few weeks in the return game; whenever it seems they have room to run, a player like Josh Cribbs is there to take down the runner. I look for better punts this week by Reggie Hodges – perhaps a change of scenery (i.e. indoors) will help the veteran. Assuming the offense can move the ball, Hodges may get opportunities to keep the Colts inside their ten yard line. This has not happened too often this year, but if last week was an indication, he is able to get the job done.
Coaching: As stated, I hope the Browns use their multiple running backs early and often to move the football. Sprinkling in several throws of different distances is important too, including the successful slant route (which the Bengals took away last week). Getting many receivers involved will be paramount for the offense – so long as the throws are not forced. Having many options at Weeden’s disposal keeps the defense guessing, and the Browns need this. I am optimistic the defense will utilize many blitzes and rushes; making it hard for Luck and their offense. This should be one of the few weeks where playing man coverage will work to the Browns advantage.
Prediction (My Record: 4-2): I think this is where the Browns are finally able to build off a victory; there’s a lot of positive momentum currently in the locker room and around the franchise. After getting a huge win for coach Chuck Pagano, the Colts had a letdown last week. I see the opponent playing somewhere in the middle this week and the Browns earning a 31-23 victory.
Review of Game 6 – Bengals @ Browns
Game #6 – Bengals @ Browns Review
Alas, the Browns finally get into the win column; I hope to see many more of these this season. Production came from many different areas and players, some of which were not expected. The young roster stepped up and added to the fans’ hope for this team going forward. What was encouraging was the Browns’ ability to fight back when it seemed the team had little hope to get points – let alone a victory.
Offense: On his 29th Birthday, Brandon Weeden did not disappoint. The rookie quarterback had a more-than-efficient performance; throwing for 230 yards and two touchdowns. His lone error came on a batted pass in the air, resulting in an interception. Only minimal adjustments appear to be necessary for the Oklahoma State product – mainly keeping his passes high while releasing the ball. Weeden hit eight receivers, including his college teammate and the third-string running back. It’s evident that the quarterback is good enough to get multiple receivers involved -regardless of who it is. This is a sign of a good quarterback; a signal caller will not always have his “go-to guy” in the lineup, he will have to make do instead. Granted, this isn’t Eli Manning missing Hakeem Nicks or Aaron Rogers without Greg Jennings, but it is a good sign when undrafted free agents can come in and make an impact in the passing game.
As expected, it was tough sledding for Trent Richardson (when getting carries). The rookie had only thirty-seven yards on seventeen runs before leaving the game with a stomach injury. It appeared holes were not made from the offensive line, but the runner was also not running with the authority fans have been used to. Fortunately, Montario Hardesty filled in well – gaining fifty-six yards on fifteen carries. His production was unexpected, but it was a huge boost to the offense as it struggled early on. The second half (where Hardesty played a majority of the time) saw the Browns score a pair of offensive touchdowns and two field goals. This was much more than the lone score in the first half; the running game was not dominant but it put the team in manageable situations where they could get points.
The story of the Browns’ receiving unit centered around the Joshes; the rookies had the first and second most yards for the team. For the second week in a row, Josh Gordon hauled in a long touchdown strike – this one went for seventy-one yards. Consistently hitting on these is huge for the offense; Gordon can be the team’s number one receiver if he keeps making similar plays. Josh Cooper, an undrafted rookie also from Oklahoma State, had a pair of grabs for thirty-nine yards. His totals were not flashy, but it appeared as if the professional game was not too quick for him. I envision fairly solid performances going forward – the youngster will have chances now to study his production and determine the best way to match up with cornerbacks. Greg Little had a few catches and found himself back into the receiving (statistical) category. It wasn’t much, but perhaps he can build off this when heading into next week’s game. Alex Smith was used strictly as a blocker and was not targeted, but Jordan Cameron had a huge catch in the red zone before the Ben Watson touchdown. The tight ends worked well together and helped give the offense another option when it needed one.
The offensive line was not as stellar as they were last week, but the drop-off was not that significant. Weeden was sacked twice on his twenty-nine passes – not great but not terrible either (the best part was that the quarterback protected the ball during these instances). As the season progresses, the line has performed adequately or better in pass protection; I feel this will continue to strengthen. As stated previously, the Browns running attack was not very productive. Geno Atkins and Domata Peko each had five tackles and were around the ball when Richardson was rushing. The run blocking by the offensive line (especially the interior) has been up-and-down in 2012 – hopefully next week will be a bounce back game for the group.
Defense: Sunday’s game was another one that lacked a pass rush by the Browns. Until the Bengals were forced to throw, the defensive front could not make it hard for Dalton in the pocket. Jabaal Shard had a deflection, while Juqua Parker hit the opposing quarterback – otherwise there was little for Browns fans to be excited about. Emmanuel Stephens led all defensive lineman with two solo tackles – this low output cannot occur if the Browns’ defense wants to be successful. Rookies John Hughes and Billy Winn had rather quiet games, combining for three total tackles (granted they faced many double teams). The defensive play of the game occurred when Winn picked up Andy Dalton’s fumble and ran down the field – essentially ending the game. The team needs to get Athyba Rubin back as soon as possible; he would vastly help against opponents in the running game. Granted the team gave up only seventy-six total yards, but this could have been even lessened with another solid athlete in the middle.
Craig Robertson led the linebacker corps with seven tackles. The veteran played fairly well, with the exception of being unable to cover Jermaine Gresham on his fifty-five yard touchdown. He does have his limitations, but the first-year player can be a viable member of this unit (in 2012 and beyond). D’Qwell Jackson had a decent game (with six tackles) following his concussion; he was in on coverage a few times but was unable to be disruptive in the opponent’s passing game. James Michael-Johnson and Kaulka Maiava had rather quiet games, combining for just five tackles. I’m willing to cut rookie Michael-Johnson some slack, as it was the first time he saw extended action at linebacker. Covering tight ends and limiting runs should be two of the primary responsibilities for linebackers. On Sunday, the Browns’ unit underachieved in the former and was decent in the latter. They face another good tight end next week; I hope they are up for the challenge.
There was a sizeable improvement in the play of Buster Skrine from the first meeting against the Bengals. The second year athlete from Tennessee-Chattanooga had a team-high eleven tackles and nearly an interception. He was not burnt deep (which was key); the same could be said about Sheldon Brown. The longtime veteran was in on three pass deflections and had an interception and a touchdown. His number of snaps may be reduced throughout the season, but I am confident when he is in there in passing situations (provided he covers the secondary or tertiary target). Joe Haden slipped and gave up the long A.J. Green touchdown grab in the second half. However, the cornerback also had a huge interception in the third quarter. I did not expect Haden to play a flawless contest; he certainly did not but will get back to where he needs to be in the coming weeks. Besides an interception from Usama Young, the Browns’ safeties did not make a huge impact on the game as well. What T.J. Ward did best was blanket Gresham while others could not – he was relatively able to reduce a playmaker’s role.
Special Teams: I think that it is safe to assume the Browns won the special teams battle on Sunday; Josh Cribbs had a sixty-yard punt return, setting up a field goal. The former quarterback had a couple nice kickoff returns as well; his average of 31.5 yards was much higher than Brandon Tate’s average of 20.3 yards. Reggie Hodges continued his woes in the punting game; the veteran averaged only 44.3 yards (compared to a 50.6 yard average to his counterpart). He did have a nice punt downed at the five-yard line late in the contest however, making it extremely difficult for the Bengals offense.
Coaching: The offense awoke in the second half, while the defense contained the Bengals – outside of one deep pass to A.J. Green. It appeared correct adjustments were made at half time. This has been a criticism of Pat Shurmur, perhaps he and his staff have finally gotten it and are able to figure out the best way to attack their opponent. It will be interesting to see if this was a one-time occurence, or if continues on a weekly basis.
Game 6 Preview – Bengals @ Browns
Game #6 – Bengals @ Browns Preview
The Browns will have their first chance at revenge this season when they face their in-state rivals to the south. Hopefully the combination of returning back home (with yours truly in attendance) and getting Joe Haden back will bring the locker room together and inspire the franchise. Being the only defeated team in the NFL, the Browns need to get their monkey off their back ASAP; another opportunity to do so presents itself on Sunday.
Offense: Down in Cincinnati, the Browns’ rookie quarterback had a good performance (twenty-six of thirty-seven for 322 yards and two touchdowns). The Bengals have been without their first-round draft pick cornerback, Dre Kirkpatrick, who could make it tougher for Weeden if he finally gets to see the field Sunday. The Browns are facing a defense who, just last week, lost to a rookie quarterback in Ryan Tannehill. The passer threw for only 223 yards but, more importantly, he did not turn the football over. I believe the Browns can build off their last performance against Cincinnati – provided Weeden learned from his two mistakes in New Jersey. Against the Giants, it was refreshing to see the team finally come out and take an early lead; the offense did that by both the run and pass. That can continue this week – I am hoping for quick strikes or a deep throw, similar to the one we saw to Josh Gordon.
Although the Dolphins had two touchdowns on the ground last week, they were limited to sixty-eight rushing yards against the Bengals. To me, Trent Richardson is a much better running back than Reggie Bush and Daniel Thomas, but the rookie may find yards hard to come by on Sunday. One concerning statistic: the longest run the Bengals have given up the last two games is thirteen yards. Nonetheless, Pat Shurmur must continue to run the football – getting away from this game plan has been second-guessed due to missed opportunities by the offense (during advantageous situations). Like all the games so far, the rushing totals will be important, but it will neither win nor lose the game (single-handedly) for the Browns. I anticipate that both the starter and Chris Ogbonnaya will record a couple receptions and gain decent yardage as well; this has been one of the most consistent parts of the offense.
I look forward to seeing how Jordan Norwood and Josh Gordon respond to their success of last week. The two, young receivers had excellent games – in terms of touchdowns (two) for Gordon and receptions (nine) for Norwood. I hope the Browns’ game plan includes several routes featuring the two wide outs; the pair can get the offense going. Mohammed Massaquoi and Travis Benjamin have been battling hamstring injuries, and they both might be available to help the team. Should this occur, expect to see several plays we did not see last week (i.e. quick hitches and deeper slants). The more receivers that are healthy for the Browns hurts the chances that Greg Little will be involved. It is nearing make-or-break time for the North Carolina athlete; he has yet to prove to be one of the best eleven on the field (at one time). Little showed some promise at the end of last season, but that has not resurfaced in 2012. As far as tight ends go, veteran Alex Smith may return from his concussion sustained a few weeks ago. Outside of a couple receptions from Ben Watson and Jordan Cameron, this unit’s production has fallen off since Smith’s injury.
The offensive line will look to continue their success of giving Weeden time to throw, as well as making it easy for Richardson to run. The Bengals recorded two sacks last week, six the week prior, and two against the Browns in week two – it appears their defensive front will attempt to bring pressure, it just comes down to how well they can get by the offense. Geno Atkins, the defensive tackle, accounted for three takedowns of Blaine Gabbert – Alex Mack and the two young guards must focus primarily on the third year veteran. If the Browns can limit their number of sacks to two or fewer (assuming there are no related turnovers as well), the offense should avoid dire situations. They must eliminate holding penalties as well; these have continually killed drives. In the running game, defensive end Michael Johnson and tackle Domata Peko have routinely been in on tackles. I liked the way Mitchell Schwartz has come along the last few weeks; he has been giving Browns fans hope that Richardson will have room to run after getting the hand off.
Defense: After a extremely poor performance, the Browns’ defensive line has a chance to redeem themselves on Sunday. They gave up over two hundred forty yards rushing last week, but will now face a team who has not had a one hundred yard rusher this season. Recent history has shown the Browns have struggled against elite runners (LeSean McCoy, Ahmad Bradshaw, C.J. Spiller – pre-injury), while holding serviceable backs (BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Bernard Scott) in check. This fact should be rather obvious, but it can help calm fans’ worries. The matchup against the Bengals includes defending a good (not great) running back; reserve rusher Scott is injured and will not be able to carry the ball, as well. It will be up to the front four to put the defense in manageable situations, thus allowing the team to get off the field and get the ball to the offense. John Hughes and Frostee Rucker both played well in the first meeting (ten tackles and two sacks); hopefully the two with Cincinnati ties can play inspired again. Billy Winn and Jabaal Sheard need to step up as well – each had solid performances two weeks ago but have underwhelmed otherwise.
D’Qwell Jackson’s status for this contest will be vital for the defense – he left the previous contest with a concussion, while the defense suffered. The former Maryland standout totaled three sacks the last time the Browns faced the Bengals; he was the only linebacker to get to Andy Dalton on a consistent basis. There was no evidence of this last week, as little pressure came from the front seven and zero sacks were recorded. The defense must take Cincinnati out of their comfort zone if they want to be in the game – disruption needs to come from multiple players as well. Craig Robertson has done pretty well in coverage and may be responsible for Jermaine Gresham (who had a quiet game last meeting). Depending on the availability of a few secondary members, a couple linebackers (L.J. Fort or James Michael-Johnson) will likely see more action this week. The opposite is true should the opponent get comfortable in the passing game.
Andy Dalton put on a clinic against the Browns last meeting (throwing for over 300 yards and three touchdowns). The defensive unit was without their best player, and the younger members could not keep pace with the wide outs. Even with Joe Haden returning, I expect the defense to surrender a fair amount of passing yards. The difference has to be in avoiding the long plays that plagued the secondary (i.e. two touchdowns of over forty yards). Dimitri Patterson will likely be out this game with his ankle injury; therefore Buster Skrine will again see a fair amount of action. He has given up a few big plays this season but continues to fight week-to-week. Unlike the last contest, I believe the Browns will have an opportunity to force interceptions against the Bengals. They are not facing a quarterback with the skill level of Eli Manning – they go against a second year veteran who has been mistake-prone (i.e. he threw an interception to D’Qwell Jackson in week two).
Special Teams: Many fans cannot forget the eighty-one yard punt return touchdown given up by the Browns to “Pac Man” Jones. Fortunately, the team has not had any similar gaffes in the weeks following; they must ensure this continues on Sunday. The units have played relatively well (outside of a rare turnover). The special teams were the difference in the first meeting and a critical part of last week’s game – the Browns have got to get an edge here if they want to secure the victory.
Coaching: Last week’s game led to scrutiny from both the fans and media regarding play calls. Following the contest, Shurmur appeared agitated and was verbally sparing with reporters. The altercations could intensify this week, especially if the Browns’ offensive falters in critical situations. As previously stated, winning will cure all of this, and hopefully the head coach can finally break down a victory. Defensively, I look for more man-to-man coverage than their has been the past few weeks; Haden will likely guard A.J. Green, but a few of the younger veterans might need help from the safeties. Forcing Dalton into mistakes will be attempted by dialing up more blitzes.
Prediction (My Record: 3-2): I thought the Browns would defeat the Bengals the previous meeting and was wrong. Call me crazy, but I am picking the Browns to win again (hopefully I get it right this time). I think the Browns go to 1-5 after a 24-20 triumph.
Review of Game 5 – Browns @ Giants
Review of Game #5 – Browns @ Giants
Well the quick start did not help the Browns get their first win of the season. The young team jumped out to an early fourteen-point lead, but mistakes and turnovers allowed the defending champs back in the game. Two things that were reinforced (to me) during this contest were that the Browns have the talent to play with any team and inconsistencies will continue on a weekly basis for the franchise.
Offense: Looking at Brandon Weeden’s stats (291 yards passing with two touchdowns and two interceptions); it appears the quarterback had a fairly good outing. This was true for the most part, but a couple mistakes cost the team dearly. Driving the team down the field with a seven-point lead, the signal caller threw an interception (on third down and one) – this was returned several yards and set up a Giants’ touchdown. As stated previously, this team is not good enough to overcome errors like this and still get a victory. On a positive note, Weeden threw a couple of nice passes – including a sixty-two yard touchdown (it feels like forever since we have seen one of these). It is evident that the Browns are a pass-first team; the offense is reliant upon the quarterback’s ability to move the ball. The Browns have shown indications of success here this season – however, other deficiencies of the team have made it difficult for sustained success.
Another stellar outing occurred for Trent Richardson – this has been the norm, even though the rookie had fewer than twenty carries once again. He tallied eighty-one yards (averaging almost five yards a run) and also had five receptions for forty-seven yards. It seems automatic that the rookie will account for over one hundred total yards every game; he appears to be the most reliable player on the offensive unit. I wish the team had given him a few more carries in the first half (when they had a lead). Richardson was running hard and getting several yards on each handoff. Chris Ogbonnaya had an average game, with three receptions for forty-seven yards. He continues to help the team, even if it is not by a huge sum. Hopefully, the reduced number of carries will help the pair of backs later on in 2012; less wear-and-tear will mean the duo might maintain their health throughout the season. This has not been the case the last couple of years.
With Mohammed Massaquoi and Travis Benjamin sitting out, the wide receiver who stepped up and made an impact was rookie Josh Gordon. The former Baylor athlete had only two catches, but they accumulated eighty-two yards and a pair of scores. Fans might have finally seen his ability to make a big play, as he hauled in the long touchdown pass in the first quarter. Jordan Norwood was thrown to nine times and caught all of them for eighty-one yards. He improved greatly from last week and proved he can be a viable receiver in the NFL. The injuries and up-and-down play from others caused the team to use Norwood – I hope this continues the remainder of the season, even while others are available. Once again, second-year veteran Greg Little came away without a reception. I’m not sure how he breaks out of this apparent “sophomore slump”, but he is killing the potential of this offense when he is not making any plays.
The offensive line has put together two solid performances back-to-back; the unit did not allow a sack of Brandon Weeden on Sunday. They also provided openings for Trent Richardson to run through – the guys upfront have improved vastly over the past month. They will continue to be relied upon if the offense is expected to move the ball efficiently and score points. Joe Thomas had a tough matchup with Jason Pierre-Paul but limited the stand out for the most part (two tackles and one pass deflection). What is frustrating, is the continued lack of production during third down and short yardage to gain – once again Richardson was stuffed on third and two (leading to a field goal). This likely lead to the play call of a pass on the next third and one – and the resulting ill-fated turnover. If the team cannot convert these regularly, they will have to come up with a surprise play call and “outthink” their opponent. This is what occurred, but the Browns were unable to catch the Giants off guard and it cost them.
Defense: The Browns’ defensive front (collectively) may have played their worst game of the season; not only did the unit fail to garner a sack of Eli Manning, but they allowed the Giants to run the football with ease. Ahmad Bradshaw had two hundred yards on thirty carries – shades of the 2011 defense were there (and that is not a good thing). Ahtyba Rubin had the best game (statistically) of the defensive lineman with five tackles but left the game with an injury. If he is unable to play next week, the defense will definitely suffer against the Bengals. Billy Winn, Jabaal Sheard, and John Hughes all took a step back from the prior week – they each had a few tackles but were unable to make a big play the entire contest. Lack of production and surrendering many yards caused the team to play reserves Ishmaa’ily Kitchen and Emmanuel Stephens, who played just as average as the rest. Expect to see a healthy rotation of lineman over the next few weeks, while the team endures a long, physical season.
This same will likely occur in the linebacker unit as well; D’Qwell Jackson left the Giants game with a concussion. The veteran was having a decent game (with five tackles), but like most of the front seven, did not stand out during the contest. L.J. Fort and Craig Robertson recorded ten and seven tackles respectively, although some of those occurred on special teams. These two, along with Scott Fujita and James Michael-Johnson, may have to play more than they have been recently (depending on Jackson’s availability). They were somewhat effective in the passing game; tight end Martellus Bennett was limited to three catches for thirty yards. The linebackers have shown this season they can play well overall; it was not evident in New Jersey, but perhaps they can get back on track next week.
The secondary will get a shot in the arm with Joe Haden returning next Sunday; Eli Manning and Victor Cruz tormented the Browns’ cornerbacks (sans Haden) all game long. Dimitri Patterson’s injury did not help things either – depth is being tested and the Giants exploited their opponent’s weakness. Buster Skrine accrued nine tackles and had three pass deflections, but he gave up several receptions as well. Veteran Sheldon Brown had a quiet game – he was not asked to be in one-on-one situations however (thus avoiding a potential “big play”). Usama Young tied Fort with the team-high ten tackles, as well as a pass deflected, and an interception. He appeared to be the only bright spot of the secondary; T.J. Ward played so-so and the team threw in rookie Johnson Bademosi (who made a play or two) while Tashaun Gipson was unable to play due to injury. Hopefully the Browns learned, from their first meeting, how to defend their upcoming opponent; if not, it could be another tough outing for the secondary.
Special Teams: Following an interception and a touchdown surrendered by the team, the Browns had no margin for error. Josh Cribbs’ fumble on the ensuing kick return really hurt the team – this was magnified by the impending touchdown scored by the Giants. Otherwise, the veteran had a few nice returns. The Browns’ kicking and coverage units consistently did their job, but the special teams will be remembered, in this game, for the mistake than their positives.
Coaching: Again, it’s easy to second-guess the play calling by Pat Shurmur when the team is losing. Whether the team runs or passes, they must execute and eliminate errors. This did not occur a couple of times and the team suffered as a result. Defensively, the team simply could not compete with the Giants – it did not matter whether Manning threw the ball or if Bradshaw carried it, the Browns were giving up yards.
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__label__cc | 0.699299 | 0.300701 | Sean Doherty: Saturday Morning Bloodsport
Jack Robbo was on another level at The Box today. Photo: WSL/Cestari
COASTALWATCH | SEAN DOHERTY
The Margaret River Pro, Day 3
Winter is coming. On Wednesday.
Winter might technically already be here – today is June 1 in the Antipodes – but in Margaret River real winter isn’t far away. Anyone who has spent any time in the great southwest over winter knows how bleak an outpost it can be. Months on end of getting punched in the face by the Indian Ocean. Anyone with good sense and the means simply flee to the far north at Gnaraloo, or the far-far north over to Bali. The danger when the they moved the Margaret River window back to late May to avoid the salmon run and the swimming teeth that follow it, was that they were racing the onset of winter. Winter gets here Wednesday, and they’ll need to be out of here by then.
After the poolside event in Bali and the pool toy surf and the afternoon in-losmen massage, this morning was a kick in the teeth. Before the sun was up Leo Fioravanti was getting carted off by the meatwagon, his right arm dangling by cords. The swell was so strong that the traditional entry to The Box – from behind the peak – wasn’t really there. You had to get right under them, paddling blind into a howling offshore, and trust the universe.
This was a spot of Saturday morning bloodsport.
Throwing them into The Box this morning created a unique situation. Few of these guys in the field have clocked any meaningful time here, so they were going to need to learn in real time, on the fly, over reef with teeth.
Italo Ferreira pondered this as he hung in the lip early this morning. Paddling into the stiff offshore, staring at the black reef, no knife, no grab, he scrambled into it but then found himself standing inside the tube, facing the beach, arms winding up the windows, wondering what to do next. “I get in… I get out!” He jammed his board and kind of willed himself out of the thing. And that was it. Italo cracked the code. Made every wave from that point.
Johnny Florence meanwhile had form at The Box. As the original ‘90s slab, The Box has long been a honeypot for travelling Hawaiians, and since John turned the southwest into his personal studio he’s clocked up plenty of hours up there. He got his waves today but could still have lost if Jack Freestone had come out of his last wave. It was Seabass who was the first guy to look truly comfortable out there though. As an old ‘QS warrior, Seabass has posted up in Margies for a decade and has the place dialled. He’s also ever so slightly unhinged, which helps. His time out at The Box dates back to the days when Chris Ward would drive across the Nullarbor – alone for three days – to surf it.
Some guys love it here… Gabe Medina not so much.
Australians have had some fun at his expense since last year when he personally insulted all of Australia by publicly professing, if he had the choice, thanks all the same, but he’d rather not get eaten alive by a giant prehistoric fish. Gabe made the mistake of saying what everyone else was thinking. “Just get out there mate!” Came the chorus from all of Australia. “We surf with them all the time!” (We don’t.) But his southwest trepidation has been as much about The Box as it has the local marine life. He didn’t look comfortable at all against local Jay Davies out there two years ago and didn’t look comfortable for most of the heat today against countryman, Caio Ibelli… who conversely seemed to be having the best day of his life. Gabe looked like he didn’t want to be there at all… until he actually got a sick one, by which stage he was toast.
Your correspondent received an Instagram bollocking from Kelly Slater after his final day report from Keramas last week. Kelly didn’t like the passage that he was “refusing to go out gracefully”. It wasn’t meant to be pejorative. Quite the opposite. He posted that I love my little jabs. I asked him if he’d actually read the whole piece. He hadn’t. He apologised and we moved on. I told him I want to see him do well this year and I meant it. I want him to get to Pipeline with something to surf for. Could you imagine Kelly needing to win Pipe to make the US Olympic team? Woah mama. Ink would be spilled. The point I was making with the whole going out gracefully thing, was that if this is Kelly’s last full year he’s not doing what, say, Parko did last year – simply turning up at each event for a royal wave, a couple of waves, some beers and a goodbye. Kelly is still here to win, and at a couple of points this year it hasn’t been graceful… but increasingly that’s changing.
It changed on finals day in Bali and it changed again yesterday afternoon on the Margies right. Surfing to avoid last place, Kelly kept his Bali groove. Nobody on tour is surfing better, tight in the pocket right now. The pocket today at The Box was the size of a shipping container, over dry reef, but Kelly rolled through in the same fashion. The Margies event is always (with the exception of JJF on a burner) won by an outsider… and with a wholesale cleanout of seeds today it’s setting up that way again. Kelly winning, as strange as it sounds, would be an outside result.
It was during Kelly’s heat when Kelly climbed aboard one of the skis mid-heat that we heard, for the first time in several years, an acknowledgement that former head judge Perry Hatchett was actually out there on the ski working water patrol. He’s done it for years. Perry, you might remember, had his papers stamped by the old ASP. No one was sure why. Perry’s still not sure why today, nine years later.
By the time the electric teeth of Conner Coffin paddled out the offshore wind had dropped and it was turning into a bluebird day. When Conner pulled into a crystal cavern alongside a dolphin pod there was a collective orgasm inside WSL headquarters at Santa Monica. Back at Margaret River it was the cue for a furious spruiking of wineries and dolphins and magical caves to keep the sponsor – WA Tourism – happy before a baby dolphin was bitten in half by something bigger. WA Tourism, of course, is run these days by another familiar face… former ASP CEO Brodie Carr.
Conner has long lost the pretty boy tag. He threw himself into the big day at Pipe last year, and he went hard again today. A bloodthirsty koala bear.
Jack Robinson lives just back on the river, checks the surf by drone, and was special against Toledo. The Box is a set of sequenced moves which, if started in the right spot, should end with you being chundered into the channel two seconds later. Jack has this sequence mastered, and today shucked and jived his way to the best heat of the year so far. The heat was over as a contest after 10 minutes, and if the contest stays at The Box in days ahead he’ll win with embarrassing ease, a famous win for Australian surfing.
Maybe this is the key to restoring Australian surfing dominance… venues where we don’t need to turn. In these dark days for Australian surfing without a living Australian soul in the men’s top 10, Jack Robbo remains a faint ray of hope for Australian exceptionalism. Having traded out dad Trev Robbo for girlfriend Julia, added some muscle and dropped some octaves, he’s looking a lot more comfortable in tour company.
Toledo’s demise meanwhile saw the Brazilian Storm, in this event, be downgraded to a mild high pressure system centred over the Margaret River car park. After three months away, they’re homesick as hell, but in saying that this event is clearly not their schtick. With the exception of Italo they all bit the dust today… all except for Jadson who bit the reef. In what would turn out to be the final heat at The Box for the day, Jadson scorpioned on his last wave and was pinballed around the inside reef, and eventually surfaced next to Leo’s arm. There was serious concerns for his welfare until he came up clutching his ass.
Jadson’s ass prompted a move across to mainbreak to finish the day. The judges hadn’t seen a single turn all day and it showed. They made a mess of the Duru/Crisanto heat, judged the whole heat within a single point range, stopped weighting the first turn, and in the process barbecued the Frenchman. Duru was displeased. Pottz was pissed. We can only hope that as it did with Johnny Florence two years ago, surfing wins this thing.
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andré Ford
During the short six-to-seven-week life of a factory-raised broiler chicken, the bird is crammed into close quarters with thousands of other chickens selectively bred to mature at an unhealthily fast rate.
Given the broilers' uncomfortable living conditions and the ever-growing demand for poultry, Royal College of Art architecture student André Ford has proposed that we instead turn to vertical chicken farms, where lobotomized birds are obliviously raised by the thousand. Explains Ford of these vast Matrix-like structures:
As long as their brain stem is intact, the homeostatic functions of the chicken will continue to operate. By removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken, its sensory perceptions are removed. It can be produced in a denser condition while remaining alive, and oblivious.
The feet will also be removed so the body of the chicken can be packed together in a dense volume.
Food, water and air are delivered via an arterial network and excreta is removed in the same manner. Around 1000 chickens will be packed into each 'leaf', which forms part of a moving, productive system.
Ford sees this project as "pragmatic, not cynical." Despite the environmental costs and cramped conditions of industrial livestock farming, consumer demand for chicken remains high, so farmers might as well make the doomed birds' existences as easy as possible:
I think it is time we stopped using the term 'animal' when referring to the precursor of the meat that ends up on our plates. Animals are things we keep in our homes and watch on David Attenborough programs. 'Animals' bred for consumption are crops and agricultural products like any other. We do not, and cannot, provide adequate welfare for these agricultural products and therefore welfare should be removed entirely.
Earlier in the project I was proposing the chickens would be rendered unconscious, or desensitized by complete removal of the head but this has since been revised. Desensitisation will be achieved by a surgical incision that separates the animal's neocortex, responsible for sensory perceptions, and its brain stem which controls its homeostatic functions. The head remains intact.
Ford has yet to build an actual zombie chicken honeycomb, which would drive his point home further at the expense of any onlookers' sanity.
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China to create special credit line for imports from Iran
Beijing, China is scheduled to create a special line of credit for exports of Iranian products to the country, according to Iran's Minister of Economy Farhad Dejpasand.
Dejpasand, who has travelled to China to attend a joint economic commission meeting, made the remarks on Tuesday in an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) correspondent in Beijing.
He said that during the commission meeting earlier in the day, the two sides explored different ways for promotion of trade and economic relations between Tehran and Beijing, including creating the mentioned line of credit by China.
The Chinese minister of commerce, who chaired the Chinese side, vowed to allocate facilities to Chinese tourists who are willing to visit Iran, Dejpasand said.
China sends around 100 million tourists to different parts of the world each year and if just two percent of them visit Iran, they can play a key role in fulfillment of Iran's economic and social goals, the Iranian minister added.
The 17th IranChina Joint Economic Cooperation Commission convened in Beijing on Tuesday was cochaired by Iran's Minister of Economy Farhad Dejpasand and Chinese Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan.
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Bridget Petty, commercial director of JPS Limited said: “Gracious Made is a really interesting business and we were delighted to help support them produce and mail their first ever catalogue.
“Over the last year we’ve worked on some brilliant projects and welcomed a host of new brands to our portfolio.”
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Temporal Flux in the visual poetry of Karl Jirgens
OK, let’s keep this moving. I want to discuss the traditions of visual poetry with Karl Jirgens as well as his own work, and his poem, Heraclitus, seems a perfect place to start. Everything flows.
What is here? How should we read? Let’s start from the top.
I + I = H
Visually, two I’s joined together with a plus sign become an H. The ‘I,’ the subjective self, becomes H, the Heraclitean changeable self. I is another: I is a river and the self is the ever-flowing water. Or vice versa: The self is a river and “I” i-dentifies with the flow. “I me a river.” Eau-de-vie.
But language shifts. Signs shift. The flow of the name: Heraclitus and the French form of this Greek, Heraclite, skid through time, down the page, become liquid: rivers which are both I’s (I-lands) and the vertical arms of H. The H which begins Heraclitus. The movement of names Mesmer I’s our two eyes. Motion on the page is time. Time is a blur of objects, names, or signs.
Joined by Greek in English. Plato recounts Heraclitus in Cratylus: τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ…οὐδὲνμένει (“Ta pantarei…ouden menei”) Everything flows, nothing stands still. The I’s have it. Become an H. (And BTW, Jirgens removes a word from Plato’s Cratylan recounting of Heraclitus’s aflowism—καὶ / kai: ‘and.’ He’s nonplussed about the “and.”
Even words flow from one orthographic system to another. From one set of signs to another. I-is-another. Me:ander. H is breath. Panting. Ta Panta. Voweling. The EIOU in the center of the Heraclitean quote. Like breath or tide in quotidian.
And it’s hard to read H in visual poetry without thinking of bpNichol’s H which is also an I turned on its side.
Greek to English. And now to French.
Je bois cette [sic] eau brulant [sic] comme ma vie
Ma vie que je bois comme un eau-de-vie
I drink this burning water (alcohol) as [I drink] my life
my life that I drink like a water of life/fountain of youth/alcohol.
It’s from Apollinaire’s Zone, changed from the second into the first person. The continued play of the self. You are another ⇔ I is another. Nothing stands still.
[And BTW, what the H? bpNichol quotes this poem in his famous Translating Translating Apollinaire.]
What burning waters does the “I” drink: the changeable waters of time? You can never drink the same brandy twice. Life is intoxicating. You see double: the before and after. The now and then. You slur your words as the tongue furs and time unfurls. Go with the flow. Of time. Of words. Of signs.
GB: Karl, I’m very interested in how this poem locates itself in literary time—in a stream of references. Could you speak about how you engage tradition through quotation and paraphrase and how you alter the context of the sources? I know you’ve been interested in Dada, Surrealism, and the early avant garde.
KJ: Thanks very kindly for asking. Yes, both literary time and time itself are depicted in this piece. I paraphrased Heraclitus’ “Panta rei, ouden menei” (Everything flows, nothing abides). I deliberately removed the “kai” (“and”) from Plato’s recounting of Heraclitus’ maxim because there is no need for a conjunction when speaking of a continuous flux of time. There is of course an irony in the piece, because the only thing that does continue or “abide” is change itself. I combined the quotation from Heraclitus, and another from Apollinaire’s Zone (from Alcools), to gesture towards self-destruction combined with creation. Apollinaire’s line has a double-edge, much like the “H” because it speaks of drinking the waters of life, but with each sip of that burning water one inexorably moves towards death. And so, the quote from Apollinaire is deliberately divided, separated into two parts by Heraclitus’ statement on the flux of time. Simultaneously, the two “I” figures in the “H” with its typographic sine-waves are joined by Heraclitus’ statement about the flux of time (I + I = H). So, the piece speaks of both joining and division by virtue of temporal flux.
In addition, we have the actual “I” (the self, the author, etc.) and the “I” represented in textual format. But this second (represented) “I” alludes to the fact that the signifier is not the thing itself. The (implied) actual “I,” and the “I” represented both allude to the “Treachery of Images,” as exemplified in Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” So, there are indeed two “rivers” that flow in any representation or artistic expression. I could add to this by saying that the piece’s construction exploits Duchamp’s Dadaist principle of re-contextualization (i.e., moving a thing from one context into another, thereby altering its meaning). So, I re-contextualized statements by Heraclitus and Apollinaire. Also, the piece also adopts a neo-Cubist strategy in that it strategically juxtaposes several spatio-temporal reference points simultaneously on a single surface.
GB: One of the goals of this commentary series is to explore how one might ‘read’ a visual poem. I’ve unfolded one way to possibly read your poem above. Could you comment on how you see reading the visual poem and what strategies one might bring to such a reading?
KJ: Yes, when shaping this piece, I did have an imagined audience in mind. In a way, you are an ideal reader, Gary, because you’ve astutely identified a range of nuances. Walter Ong once said that “the audience is always a fiction,” and in a sense I had a fictionalized readership in my mind, when shaping the piece. So, the I + I = H was intentional. And we have the “eye” who creates, and the “eye” of the reader. Also, I wanted several “windows” of thought to open up in the piece. The quotations from Heraclitus and Apollinaire, the combined I + I = H format, the sine-wave typography, and the physical placement of the elements all gesture to the flux of time and life. There is a connection to liquid imagery generating a sense of rhythmic flow. So, while there is a kind of narrative disjunction in the piece via the different “voices,” there is also co-relative integrity through the network of liquid images, alluding to the ancient idea that “you can’t step in the same river twice.” The reference to Apollinaire’s Alcools, and the computer-assisted typography help connect to the present day.
GB: Though you play with the visual representation of words, in this poem, you maintain several conventions of textual reading: reading from the top down and left to right, and an alignment against an implied vertical/horizontal grid (the words of the text are presented ‘right-side-up’ and relatively normatively in terms of size, font, spacing, and indeed the fact that they form words.) How do you see the relationship between the visual and the textual in this piece and in writing in general?
KJ: Great question. The sine-wave like typography used to compose the H itself, the reference to Apollinaire’s burning water, and the Heraclitian idea of flux, are all juxtaposed, whether in conventional textual format, or through modified typographic stylistics, towards a single purpose. So, all of the elements in the piece are in a dialogue about the fluid pulsations of what we think of as “time.” Through the juxtapositional strategies this piece transcends conventional textual modes because it incorporates several different ways of talking about the cycles of time with gestures to the rhythms of days, years, and human life-spans “ma vie que je bois comme une eau-de-vie”). But in other ways, it deploys conventions of textuality with standard format left-to-write composition. However, much of the piece arranges itself in the mind after one reads it, particularly when one recognizes the inter-connections between the elements (sine-waves, Apollinaire’s burning water, Heraclitian flux, etc.).
GB: You have had a longstanding interest in time and its representation in your work. Indeed one of your fiction collections is entitled A Measure of Time. Could you speak a bit about this?
KJ: Of course, time is probably an illusion if one adheres not only to contemporary understandings of physics but also to perceptions of indigenous peoples, such as the Hopi, whose language is confined to the present tense. And, if linear time as such, doesn’t exist, and instead we are all part of an ever-expanding moment that arises from what we call the “Big Bang,” then, that moment is omnipresent and universal. So, while things metamorphose, fundamentally, they are still the same things, composed of the same atomic particles. The juxtapositional strategies that I deploy in this piece simply offer several angles or perspectives on the idea of flux, and that’s why I like to think of it in neo-Cubist terms. In a sense, the piece is both analeptic and proleptic, simultaneously scanning the past and the future, which are both part of a single moment. The ancient Hindus call the duration between one Big Bang and the next, a “Kalpak.” Now, imagine a series of Kalpaks which are nothing more than a musical beat in the dance of Nataraja or Shiva, as part of a rhythmic cycle of universal destruction and re-creation; a musical pulsation. Such pulsations are evident on the tiniest sub-atomic levels, and are integral to the immense patterns of “all that there is.” One could use fractal theory to expand on this topic.
GB: Anything else you’d like to say further about this piece? Or visual poetry in general?
KJ: I do enjoy visual poetry very much because it appeals to different parts of the brain when compared to more conventional forms of textual expression. Right lobe. Left lobe. The old cliché; there’s nothing right in my left lobe, and there’s nothing left in my right lobe. Hah. And, I guess, it might help to know that this piece was first published in Quebec City’s exciting contemporary art periodical, Inter (edited by Richard Martel and company), upon invitation for a special issue on Heraclitus. However, it also happened around the passing of bp Nichol, so it ended up being an homage to bp, whose favourite letter, the “H,” is a partial palindrome if read from left to right or right to left (although not a perfect palindrome, like an “O”). So, it is also an homage to Nichol. I think one of the strengths of visual poetry lies in the initial visual impact of such expressions, and then, one needs to look at them again, because there is often more going on than immediately meets the eye. If it’s effective, then, visual poetry should make you think, get you on a different wavelength.
Karl Jirgens is the author of both fiction and scholarly studies. His scholarly articles on postmodern and postcolonial literature appear widely in international journals, His theatre/performance works have been presented nationally and internationally. Jirgens has edited Rampike, the international literary journal of post-modern art and writing, since 1979. He is an associate professor in the Dept of English Language, Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. He is currently writing a novel as well as a scholarly study on the interface between literature and digital technology. Jirgens is also a grand-master of the martial art of Tae Kwon Do.
Karl Jirgens
!Languageye: (close <reading [the v{is}ual] poem>*)^
How does one 'read' a visual poem? What is the relation between reading & looking? Where do the eyeyes go? What does the brain rain in n? What are the pertinent or exciting aspects of a particular poem? How does it do its 'work' (and what, in fact, is its work?) How does it relate to other forms or traditions of poetry, language use, or visual art?
In this series I'll talk looking with practitioners of visual poetry. I'll speak, each to eech, with looking impractitioners, parishioners, plasticians, scops and scribes of light and sight, visionquestioners and sign pointers, graspers and gaspers of the grapheme. Maybe we'll even chart the pretty polygraphemes where polysemes to want not just a cracker glyphanger, but prolly to be seen reflected in the true panoptical sighs of the languageye view of the langscape.
Visual poetry? We'll look into it.
GARY BARWIN is a writer, composer, multimedia artist, educator and performer. His publications include five poetry collections, including Franzlations: The Imaginary Kafka Parables (New Star) written with Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley, The Obvious Flap (with Gregory Betts, BookThug) and The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House). He is also the author of two fiction collections, a collaborative novel, and several books for children. His blogs are here and here and his website is garybarwin.com Recordings of his work can be found at PennSound. Barwin currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his family where he is being worked over by Yiddish for Pirates, the great Canadian Jewish pirate novel.
Jacket2 Commentaries feature invited posts by poets and scholars who take a close, serial look at poetry scenes, archives, poetic concerns, or theoretical clusters. Commentaries, although curated, are not edited by Jacket2 staff. We welcome your comments. Send queries and notes to Commentaries Editor Jessica Lowenthal or contact us at this page.
It's poetry but it ain't
Objects in visual poetry can be read closer than they appear
Dan Waber's 'Another Tool for Discovering your Favorite Letter'
When is a text not a text?
derek beaulieu's 'Prose of the Trans-Canada'
A 1:1 scale road map of language
Beyond eco-slave names: gibb(ev(er)y(where(aware
A conservation with a rawlings
A gumbo of mumbo jumbo or a sub-rumba via Christopher Columbo
The visual creole of John M. Bennett
Cover versions: Reading outside-in in Erica Baum's 'Study'
Not sultans of poetry but thralls to its charms: Christian Bök’s 'Odalisques'
'How much can you tweak English before it malfunctions?'
'QAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE': The visual poetry of Mike Cannell
Wise Ys: Stephen Nelson's 'Dance of Past Lives'
Metaphors, metaphorms, metavores, letters which reach
Inking outside the fox: type writing itself
'MITSUMI ELEC. CO. LTD.' by Eric Schmaltz & The Plastic Typewriter by Paul Dutton
Beyond the (fl)oral tradition: Folk art, Hungarian, and the visual poem
Helen Hajnoczky's 'Magyarazni'
Fabulist of the surface
Márton Koppány and the shimmer of meaning
Outsourcery: biography by any other's name
kevin mcpherson eckhoff's 'Jumble' from his 'Their Biography'
The Re(a)d Yarn
Narrative in the visual poetry of Satu Kaikkonen
Copy/pasting the physical world
The bookworks of Ragnhildur Jóhanns
Two different eyes colliding
Nico Vassilakis on the poetics of looking
Talking doesn't always make things clearer
Christopher Willes' visible Negotiation with the invisible
Translation 2.0
Eric Zboya’s At the Heart of a Shipwreck
Ecstacist of the pwoermd
Geof Huth, wreading and the single word poem
Writing social plastics
Cultural polymers in the visual poems of Adam Dickinson
Squaring the vowels
On the visual poetry of Judith Copithorne
Page, don't cage me
The visual poetry of Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse (in) between page and screen.
Amaranth Borsuk
Brad Bouse
electronic poetry
Judith Copithorne
'pataphysics
Geof Huth
pwoermd
conceptual writing
eric zboya
Christopher Willes
nico vassilakis
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Viper on Griffin’s state-of-the-teamfights: “It’s the individual skills of the players as well as the trust between the players.”
Ashley Kang
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On 23rd of January, Griffin defeated Hanwha Life Esports with a 2-0 match score and continued the team’s dominating win streak in the LCK. In the first game, Griffin fell back behind HLE but turned the game around through a series of teamfights and Viper’s clutch performance that awarded him a Pentakill. In the second game, Griffin continued to dominate over HLE led by a pocket pick Fiddlestick support.
After Griffin’s victory, Ashley Kang interviewed Viper, the AD carry of Griffin. Viper discussed the Pentakill in Game 1, his philosophy around teamfights, how his defeat at 2018 LCK Summer Split finals impacted him and a message to DAMWON Gaming.
Viper, why are you so good?
[laughs] I just played the game as usual, and the game worked out in our favor.
I’d like to talk about your Pentakill in Game 1 against Hanwha Life Esports. You scored a Pentakill as Kai’Sa and turned a difficult game around. What’s your first-person perspective of that event as you landed the Pentakill?
The enemy Urgot was separated from the rest of the team. That allowed for a good opening for a teamfight. No one in the team spoke, but we all knew that it will be a good teamfight, and we went all-in. Our skills and crowd controls landed well. It was a chaotic fight, but everyone did their job. Before I noticed it, I had a Pentakill. Sword-hyung, he kept telling me “Penta, Penta, we have to give Viper Penta!” and handed it to me on a silver platter. So I ate the delicious meal.
You used your cleanse and Flash perfectly, you somehow dodged the Urgot ult…
I saw it and dodged it. I saw Urgot Flash in and ult, so I Flashed to dodge it.
https://korizon.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/AT-cm_385104831.mp4
There was at one point an 8k gold difference between you and HLE. In the current meta, it’s difficult to turn the game around once the gold difference has passed a certain point. Many viewers, at that point, had already accepted that Griffin might lose for the first time in the Spring Split. However, you never gave up.
I told the team that the game is still winnable as long as we take it slow. That we should cool our heads and play our best. So we got our spirits up once again and kept going.
It is true that it’s difficult to turn a game around in the current meta. There are assets like turret shields. Objectives are much stronger now. When there is a gold gap between the two teams, it continues to snowball. However, the game also has mechanisms in place which allow you to make a comeback, such as the execution gold. A team can turn the game around even with just one teamfight. We clung onto that idea, and we patiently waited and bid our time until it was the perfect moment to open a teamfight.
Speaking of teamfights, I also want to ask about Griffin’s state-of-the-art teamfights. Even when Griffin is behind, there is trust that Griffin can somehow make a comeback.
It’s true that we execute our teamfights well. However, the variables that feed into a teamfight are also important factors. There are teamfights that are impossible to win no matter how well the teamfights go. One must be able to find the best moment for a teamfight. A potential teamfight might have a bad outcome, so you must back away and create a situation where a teamfight has a good result in 5 minutes from now. I think our ability to see an opening for a good teamfight and set one up is just as important.
Of course, the individual skills of the players must be backed up in order for a team to win a teamfight. Also, the individual players must have trust for one another. A team must have the ability to create a good teamfight set-up in order to be better at teamfights.
And in Griffin, anyone can make a shotcall for a teamfight. It is sometimes the top laner, or the mid laner, or myself. Sometimes it is the support that sees an opening [for a fight].
I’m winding on about teamfights [laughs]. Teamfights are about the individual skills of the players as well as the trust between the players, these are two important factors. So we try to focus on these two.
You mention “trust” often. Trust seems to be a recurring theme for the team. Where does this immense trust that Griffin players have for one another come from?
It’s a theme that our coach [cvMax] puts a heavy emphasis on. cvMax always speaks to us about trust within the team. So that shapes our team towards that direction. I’d say that our coach is a big influence there.
Photo by Ashley Kang for Korizon
The performance that Griffin has been showing in the LCK has been impressive, to say the least. As the result, there are more eyes watching you than ever. The lines for your fan meetings have grown longer, and the chants for Griffin at the beginning of the match are louder every day. How do you feel about this?
I am grateful. It’s been a long journey for us, from the Challengers Korea stage to where we are now. It makes the long journey worth it. I’m thankful that there are more fans than ever watching us, and I remind myself to work even harder.
Do you feel any pressure about more fans and audience watching your games?
I won’t say pressure, however…From a third person perspective, it might look like we’re playing an exciting match. However, for us in the middle of it all, every teamfight is a grueling battle (laughs). Sometimes, I wonder how our matches would look like to an audience. To watch these teamfights and to be at the center of it are two different dimensions. I remember watching the LCK as an audience, getting hyped over good teamfights. However now that I’m a part of those teamfights, there is pressure and weight on my shoulders. However, the fun part has not gone away.
What is the goal of Griffin for the 2019 LCK Spring Split?
Our goal is always the championship. Last year, we climbed all the way to the LCK Summer Split finals [KT Rolster] then were defeated. We finished our last season as the second placed team. So the championship is our goal at the moment. I’d like to win the split.
It does sound like the defeat [against KT Rolster] in 2018 has impacted you. It seems to have driven you and Griffin to be even more motivated.
Ah, of course! Always… (pause) I believe that the losing team always takes more out of the match. Because we’re all humans, we have emotions. The victorious team might get drunk on the high of the victory and miss the things that they have to reflect on. While the defeated might work harder in order to not repeat that feeling again. I keep going back to these memories [of defeat] and try to work harder.
The next match is against DAMWON Gaming. In a recent interview with ESPN Esports, ShowMaker said that Griffin is the one team he would like to beat. He referred to the fact that DAMWON has never won against Griffin before. What is your response to this?
If you finally come out victorious against an adversary that you had always been defeated by, it can become a platform for growth. So it is a mindset that everyone should have. That is what one should believe in. I’d also like to prepare hard, and deliver a match that is fun to watch.
Head honcho of Korizon. Often going by the name "The girl who translates Korean stuff", her passion is to bridge the language and cultural gap between the Korean esports scene and the English-speaking audience around the world.
Fly on defeating Griffin and what brought him back as the starting mid laner for Gen.G
Nuguri says that DAMWON Gaming found its confidence with the winning streak
Faker hopes to have his revenge on all the LCK teams that beat SKT so far
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Malware Evolution Calls for Actor Attribution?
What makes one novel strain of malicious software more dangerous or noteworthy than another? Is it the sheer capability and feature set of the new malware, or are these qualities meaningless without also considering the skills, intentions and ingenuity of the person wielding it? Most experts probably would say it’s important to consider attribution insofar as it is knowable, but it’s remarkable how seldom companies that regularly publish reports on the latest criminal innovations go the extra mile to add context about the crooks apparently involved in deploying those tools.
Perhaps with some new malware samples, the associated actor attribution data is too inconclusive to publish —particularly when corporate lawyers are involved and such findings are juxtaposed to facts about a new code sample that can be demonstrated empirically. Maybe in other cases, the company publishing the research privately has concerns that airing their findings on attribution will somehow cause people to take them or the newfound threat less seriously?
I doubt many who are familiar with my reporting will have trouble telling where I come down on this subject, which explains why I’m fascinated by a bit of digging done into the actor behind a new malware sample that recently received quite a bit of media attention. That threat, known variously as “Rombertik” and “Carbon Grabber,” is financial crimeware that gained media attention because of a curious feature: it was apparently designed to overwrite key sections of the hard drive, rendering the host system unbootable.
News about Rombertik’s destructive ways was first published by Cisco, which posited that the feature was a defense mechanism built into the malware to frustrate security researchers who might be trying to unlock its secrets. Other security firms published competing theories about the purpose of the destructive component of the malware. Some argued it was the malware author’s way of enforcing licensing agreements with his customers: Those who tried to use the malware on Web addresses or domains that were not authorized as part of the original sale would be considered in violation of the software agreement — their malware infrastructure thus exposed to (criminal) a copyright enforcement regime of the most unforgiving kind.
Incredibly, none of these companies bothered to look more closely at the clues rather clumsily left behind by the person apparently responsible for spreading the malware sample that prompted Cisco to blog about Rombertik in the first place. Had they done so, they might have discovered that this ultra-sophisticated new malware strain was unearthed precisely because it was being wielded by a relatively unsophisticated actor who seems to pose more of a threat to himself than to others.
AFRICAN PERSISTENT THREAT
As much as I would love to take credit for this research, that glory belongs to the community which has sprung up around ThreatConnect, a company that specializes in threat attribution with a special focus on crowdsourcing raw actor data across a large community of users.
In this case, ThreatConnect dug deeper into centozos[dot]org[dot]in, the control server used in the Rombertik sample featured in the original Cisco report. The Web site registration records for that domain lists an individual in Lagos, Nigeria who used the email address genhostkay@dispostable.com. For those unfamiliar with Dispostable, it is a free, throwaway email service that allows anyone to send and receive email without supplying a password for the account. While this kind of service relieves the user of having to remember their password, it also allows anyone who knows the username to read all of the mail associated with that account.
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__label__wiki | 0.523174 | 0.523174 | Amanda Knox Returns to Italy for First Time Since Acquittal to Attend Wrongful Conviction Event
Posted 8:44 AM, June 13, 2019, by Associated Press
Cecilia Vega interviews Amanda Knox on "Good Morning America," Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (Credit: Paula Lobo/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Amanda Knox, a former American exchange student who became the focus of a sensational murder case, arrived in Italy Thursday for the first time since an appeals court acquitted her in 2011 in the slaying of her British roommate.
Knox arrived at Milan’s Linate airport en route to the northern city of Modena, where she is scheduled to participate Saturday in a panel discussion on wrongful convictions.
She was accompanied by her mother and fiancee, and escorted by plainclothes officers. She kept her eyes down as she exited the airport and did not respond to reporters’ questions.
The killing of Knox’s roommate in the university town of Perugia, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, on Nov. 1, 2007 attracted global attention, especially after suspicion fell on the photogenic Knox, and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.
Kercher’s nude body was found under a blanket in her locked room; investigators said her throat was slit and she had been sexually assaulted.
Knox’s October 2011 acquittal – following a lower court conviction that brought a 26-year prison sentence – was one step in the long legal process that saw multiple flip-flop rulings before she and Sollecito were definitively acquitted in 2015 by Italy’s highest court.
Knox’s slander conviction and three-year sentence for having wrongly accused a Congolese bar owner, however, remained intact.
In all, Knox spent four years in jail, including during the investigation, before her 2011 acquittal freed her to return to her native Seattle, where she has lived since. An Ivorian immigrant, Rudy Guede, is serving a 16-year murder sentence for Kercher’s slaying.
Europe’s human rights court in January ordered Italy to pay Knox 18,400 euros ($20,000) in financial damages for failures to provide adequate legal and translation assistance during her early questioning.
The European Court of Human Rights noted that Knox “had been particularly vulnerable, being a foreign young woman, 20 at the time, not having been in Italy for very long and not being fluent in Italian.”
After the decision, Knox, who has been active in raising awareness around wrongful convictions, wrote on her blog that the court’s ruling meant her slander conviction was unjust.
Before traveling to Italy, she published an essay titled “Your Content, My Life,” about the decision to accept the panel invitation from the Italy Innocence Project. She talked about the impact intense media coverage and social media amplification had on her case – and continues to have on her life.
“While on trial for a murder I didn’t commit, my prosecutor painted me as a sex-crazed femme fatale, and the media profited for years by sensationalizing an already sensational and utterly unjustified story,” Knox wrote. “It’s on us to stop making and stop consuming such irresponsible media.”
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KATC’s Senior Spotlight: St. Martinville’s Beau Courville
By: Michael Carter
(KATC) — This week’s Senior Spotlight features St. Martinville senior soccer player Beau Courville. Now in its fourth season of competition, Courville is the only player to have started in all four of St. Martinvillle’s initial soccer seasons.
As the only freshman starter during that inaugural Tigers soccer season, Courville has gone on to become St. Martinville’s co-captain and the team’s most prolific scorer over his high school career.
Off the field, family members say he communicates with his teammates about practice time, game times, arrival times and uniforms. In school he maintains a 4.1667 GPA and is enrolled in exclusively honor and AP classes.
Always humble, Courville credits the close bonds he shares with his teammates as the recipe behind his success.
“Friendship is a big part of it,” Courville said. “[We’re] all close and we all are friends so it plays a part into the games. [Because] we’re all close and it just helps us out in the games tremendously.”
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Favorite New Dance Works in 2017
December 29, 2017 Local Dance News, People and Places, Published, UncategorizedAlbert Drake, AT&T Performing Arts Center, Avant Chamber Ballet, Bombshell Dance Project, Bridget L. Moore, Bruce Wood Dance, Charles Santos, Contemporary Ballet Dallas, Dallas Arts District, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas Dance, Dallas Dance Events, Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet, Danielle Georgiou, Danielle Georgiou Dance Group, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Emily Bernet, Joseph Thalken, Joshua L. Peugh, Joy Atkins Bollinger, Justin Locklear, Katie Cooper, Kimi Nikaidoh, LakeCities Ballet Theatre, Sean J. Smith, Shanon Tate, Taylor Rodman, Texas Ballet Theater, TheaterJones.com, TITAS, Winspear Opera Housekddance
Donkey Beach from Danielle Georgiou Dance Group. Photo: Mark Lowry
It has been another eventful year for dance in Dallas. TITAS brought a whopping 11 national and international dance troupes to Dallas in 2017, including Bridgman Packer Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers, Ballet BC and Malpaso Dance Company. Dallas dance institutions Texas Ballet Theater and Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) tie for second with five programs each. DBDT also experienced its first season without founder Ann Williams at the helm and as DBDT’s programs have shown new Artistic Director Bridget L. Moore is not afraid to take news risks while also respecting the company’s modern roots.
And as for the smaller companies, Bruce Wood Dance and Dark Circles Contemporary Dance both had stellar years with numerous premieres by special guests and their own company members. Avant Chamber Ballet is still pushing the boundaries of ballet with its Women’s Choreography Project while both Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet and Contemporary Ballet Dallas continue to build stronger and more consistent works.
We also saw the continued evolution of local dances festivals here in Dallas, including the fourth annual Dallas DanceFest, the fourth annual Rhythm in Fusion Festival and the second annual Wanderlust Dance Project. We have also seen many of the young dance professionals in the area forming their own dance companies, projects and movements, including Emily Bernet and Taylor Rodman of Bombshell Dance Project, Adrian Aquirre who is founder of Uno Mas Dance Company and Madison Hicks who is the founder of Moving Forward Dance Project.
So, you can see progress has been made in Dallas, but going into 2018 funding and tickets sales remain at the forefront of everyone’s mind no matter the size of your dance company. We have seen some companies cut costs recently by looking in-house for new choreographic ideas as well as seeking lesser priced venues for performances. I expect to see more of this happening in 2018 as well as companies getting more creative with their marketing, including social media, to promote their upcoming shows.
And as I reflect over the last year I can’t help but notice that once again most, if not all, of the dance premieres I got to preview were produced by some of my favorite local dance people, including Joshua L. Peugh (Dark Circles Contemporary Dance), Danielle Georgiou (Danielle Georgiou Dance Group), Sean J. Smith (Dallas Black Dance Theatre), Emily Bernet and Taylor Rodman (Bombshell Dance Project) and Albert Drake (Bruce Wood Dance). I love the uniqueness these artists bring from their training, travels and artistic influences to their own creative processes; but the one thing they all have in common is they all treated me to a truly memorable experience, which is why they, along with a few others, have made it on my list of favorite new works by local choreographers.
In no particular order, here are my favorite new works made locally in 2017:
Donkey Beach by Danielle Georgiou
Nothing made me laugh as much as Danielle Georgiou Dance Group’s (DGDG) Donkey Beach did back in June as part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project. Inspired by the beach movies of the 1960’s, Georgiou along with Justin Locklear (music and lyrics) and Ruben Carrazana (script) used live surf rock music, popular dance moves like The Twist and The Mashed Potato as well as a slew ‘60s slang to transport audiences to one amazing beach party. And as only DGDG can do, the cast kept us laughing with their catchy song lyrics and quick-witted comebacks while also drawing our attention to controversial topics such as sexual orientation and gender neutrality in subtle and thoughtful ways.
Meant to be Seen from Bombshell Dance Project. Photo: Lynn Lane
Meant to Be Seen by Emily Benet and Taylor Rodman
In their Dallas debut this fall, Emily Bernet and Taylor Rodman of Bombshell Dance Project showed audiences what they are all about in what I believe to be their signature work, Meant to be Seen. In this eight-minute duet the former Dark Circles Contemporary Dance members relied on their instincts and experimental partnering as well as classical and modern dance stylings to show audiences that female dancers are also capable of handling the more aggressive and robust dance moves generally associated with male dancers. Performing to text and music by their movie icons Marilyn Monroe and Aubrey Hepburn, Bernet and Rodman cleverly added a hip, feminine vibe to balance out the more powerful movements in the piece.
Hillside by Joy Atkins Bollinger
Bollinger proved not to be a one hit wonder with her second visually moving work, Hillside, which premiered at Bruce Wood Dance’s RISE performance back in November. Like her first work Carved in Stone, in Hillside Bollinger relied heavily on her artistic eye, including stunning lighting effects and three-dimensional architectural shapes as well as a large cast to bring to life her narrative of a woman’s journey through the ups and downs of life. Bollinger accomplished this feat with long, swooping body movements, authentic human connections and a sloping 32-foot-long 5-foot-wide replica of a hillside. Kimi Nikaidoh also gave a masterfully performance as the lead character with her unyielding body control and raw display of emotions.
HALT! by Joshua L. Peugh
Peugh returned to his light-hearted roots with plenty of finger jabs, pelvic thrusts and leg twitches in HALT!, part of the Dark Circles Contemporary Dance’s Spring Series: Bleachers last May. Inspired by watching the fencing competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, Peugh took common fencing techniques such as lunges, attacks and advancements and added in his signature loose-limbed jumps, heavy walks and primal positions to put a modern spin on this centuries old sporting event. The matching white outfits and fencing masks added an air of mystery, which only heightened the viewers’ anticipation.
Albert Drake rehearsing Chasing Home for Bruce Wood Dance. Photo: Brian Guilliaux
Chasing Home by Albert Drake
The Bruce Wood Dance company member has found his groove as a choreographer if his latest work, Chasing Home, which was part of the company’s Journeys performance last June, is any indication. With an original score by Joseph Thalken, the work focused on the communal acts of a wedding, including the after party featuring the dabke, a Middle Eastern dance, as well as a friendly game of soccer to represent the day-to-day activities of those currently living in refugee camps. Drake incorporated a slew of dance styles, including Graham technique, soccer drills, B-boying, classical ballet and Irish step dance. The most poignant moment in work came from Emily Drake and David Escoto. The couple’s swooping arm and leg movements and nuanced gesturing were clearly in Wood’s style, but the vulnerability and sensuality present in the couple’s partnering was uniquely Albert Drake.
Interpretations by Sean J. Smith
Last February, Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) company member Sean J. Smith was tasked with putting together a work highlighting the company’s 40 years of dance innovation and community outreach, which was then presented at DBDT’s annual Cultural Awareness Series. With a dancing background that includes jazz, tap, ballet, modern and classical, Smith incorporated all of these styles along with video and audio recordings that featured DBDT alums and faculty members to create Interpretations. The choreography flowed seamlessly from slow and methodical to fast and daring with an emphasis on musical accents and individual showmanship. I personally enjoyed the big band dance section at the end in which the men of DBDT defied gravity with numerous leaps, turns and foot slides.
Somewhere in Between by Shanon Tate
Shanon Tate’s depiction of the relationship between sisters in Somewhere in Between at LakeCities Ballet Theatre’s Director’s Choice last spring resonated strongly with me. Tate beautifully captured the complex nature among sisters in a number of poignant duets against a three-dimensional floral stage setup designed by Tom Rutherford. The familiar chords of Antonio Vivaldi played through the speakers as the three couples pulled, twisted and fell away from another while also engaging in a number of tender embraces.
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Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Art imitates life Exhibit
Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything, but some segments of the general public are not yet aware of that.
The Art imitates life exhibit is an exhibit that you see on the 2nd floor of our One Market office in San Francisco as part of our Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) collection:
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Taichung City, Taiwan // more
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One of the world's most innovative and influential architects, 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Toyo Ito, has been making us reconsider the role of buildings in our lives for decades. With his unique brand of conceptual architecture, he seeks to reflect the complexity of contemporary life, where simple cubes are incapable of containing the diversity of modern society.
World-renowned architect, Toyo Ito, designed the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House as a sound cave featuring huge cavernous spaces consisting of curved walls without any supporting columns.
His latest statement is the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House. Combining philosophy with design, Ito's project is a three-theater, 2,000-plus-seat performing arts center that contains, in addition to theater spaces — workshops, restaurants, cafés, and a roof garden. The opera house was designed as a massive sound cave, meant to echo the process of past societies creating settlements in caves, adding necessary functions as the communities grew. To characterize the space as an amalgamation of diverse activities rather than a more traditional theater complex, Ito organically integrated the areas of the opera house. For example, inside the theaters, audience and performer spaces are also blended, providing viewers with a sense of sharing time with those on stage as a group while giving performers the feeling of being enveloped by the audience. Ito's vision of a fluid, partially open, complex form where visitors meander through intentionally labyrinthine, cave-like arches is meant to mirror a forever-changing, always-evolving living city, so much so that Ito will never consider the building to be truly finished, even upon completion of construction.
The project uses highly advanced technology and structures to create a loose framework that provides a flexible and adaptable space from which inspiration can be drawn by those who use it — or those, like us, who simply marvel at it.
To achieve his complex vision, nothing short of a new system for building had to be created — The Emerging Grid — a method by which rigid, inorganic spaces become soft, organic ones. As designing by hand was impossible, an entirely new optimization algorithm for structures had to be created.
AutoCAD and Maya were used with The Emerging Grid — an optimization algorithm that converted rigid, inorganic spaces to soft, organic shapes — resulting in curved walls created using sprayed concrete and inlaid floors.
Although Ito was excited by the fact that through technology, architectural form can now reflect the complex balance that can be seen in the fluidity of a dynamic moving body or in a growing plant, that doesn't mean that it's easy to build.
Formed of 50 curved walls connected with inlaid floors and a core service wall, the main structure's complex organic shapes could only be reinforced with sprayable concrete normally used for building tunnels.
Computer technology is indeed beginning to free architecture from the bounds of Euclidean geometry.
Autodesk has always been an automation company, and today more than ever that means helping people make more things, better things, with less; more and better in terms of increasing efficiency, performance, quality, and innovation; less in terms of time, resources, and negative impacts (e.g., social, environmental).
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What do you think his testimony will have? Will it finally convince Pelosi to begin impeachment hearings?
Well, Mueller said he would add nothing beyond what he said was his statement, namely, the Mueller Report. But, since few read it, his reading sections for the public to hear may make a difference. I am looking forward to the Intelligence Committee hearings, since we know next to nothing regarding the counterintelligence aspect to the investigation.
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Prison is not a good place... yikes
How can ya not love this guy?! He's such a card, such a funny, funny fellow. Lol. Remember when Putin ordered an attack on the United States? Lol, that was such a hilarious moment in our history, was it not? I know it cracked me up at the time. Here Vlad and Donnie share a good laugh over election interference. Har. Har. America First, hahaha.....
And then this:
It’s Hilarious because, you know, Putin has killed journalists who he disagreed with. Normalizing the extermination of critics is yet another sign of our democracy fading.
Yet, I’m sure the conservatives on here will still defend this. They’ll claim that we’re being alarmist. They’ll accuse us of making unfair comparisons to despots of the past and how they killed off journalists. And then they’ll make scumbag perpetrators of fake news out to be victims of a vast liberal “socialist” deep state that’s trying to silence conservatives.
Rinse, wash, repeat for anyone who has just a basic understanding of history in authoritarianism.
Was just about to post this story.
It just never ends with this guy. We empowered the trashiest most incompetent person in our country in its most important position.
Reason number 12,874,892,997,734,230 why he needs to go.
Also, imagine the fit that righties would be having if this were Clinton or Obama.
Unfortunately for you the righties learned their lesson from the lefties. When dirt came out against Clinton we thought it was a big deal, but we were told that it didn't matter. And the left was correct in the sense that Clinton's crimes against women had virtually no impact on his presidency. The left didn't really care about any of this stuff until Trump came along, and suddenly it's a national emergency to them. Spare me.
That said, both Trump's reaction to the claim and this woman's behavior are truly bizarre. Can you imagine being accused of sexual assault and saying that it didn't happen because she's not your type? But that was no weirder than her cooky interview with Anderson Cooper. Holy whackadoodle!
I predict that they are going to eventually wish they hadn't done this. When a democrat asks a question about the investigation he's going to refer them to a page in the report. When a republican asks him about when he came to his conclusions and why he didn't wrap up the investigation once he reached them, why he hired a bunch of liberal lawyers and HRC campaign donors to investigate, why he didn't investigate any of the leads that went left (such as figuring out where Steele got his info and why search warrants were issued using the unverified dossier as evidence), etc. anything could happen. It will be very interesting to see how he answers. They will probably also ask him where he came up with the "does not exonerate" legal standard. I will be very interested to hear the answer to that one.
More hilarity.
Ron Mexico Well-Known Member Contributor
Society in general has become less tolerant of sexual assault and taking claims more serious than when Bill Clinton was in office. That change started before Trump got elected. It's been happening more and more regardless of political affiliation. There have been plenty of "liberal" people shamed and had the spotlight put on them.
In fact Trump has been let off the hook more than most people. Mostly due to the fact that there is just so many negative things he says and does.
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I love how you support a president who actually publically jokes and buddy's up to the guy who launched an attack on our country. Actually turns the fact of that attack into an opportunity to joke about it, make light of it, in front of the whole world, with the man who ordered that attack. And you can't see anything absolutely revolting about that. Instead, you run off to see if you can possibly find some equivalency involving Obama. You are unable to come to the defense of your country, or even expect your president to do so, in those circumstances. You are remarkable, sir.
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No doubt that Trump has gotten off the hook more than most people. Not sure that he's been let off.
Thank you, I guess. I am less alarmed by Trump making a joke than I am about Obama suggesting he will circumvent the wishes of American's on an accidentally open mike. Much less alarmed. I can honestly understand why Trump feels the way he does about the media. IMO there are large numbers of media members who do their job in a highly partisan, highly politicized manner. Many people here claim this media bias is a figment of my imagination. I think many of those same people are quite satisfied with the media bias because it aligns with their political leanings. The bias might even be invisible to them. It does not bother them that conservatives are treated so differently than liberals because they believe that conservatives deserve to be treated differently than liberals.
I think it's weird that all of you guys even watch or listen to the media.
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Trump is such a ****ing *****.
Sucking on Putin this morning and now getting on all 4s for Kim. Just a complete and utter *****.
I remember a time when our presidents weren’t trying to suck up to the world’s worst leaders.
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I love how republicans who only watch Fox News are experts on what “the media” says.
It’s like me claiming that I know anything about soccer when all I do is watch basketball and football.
Republicans just whine these days it seems. If the media isn’t bullying them it’s mark zuckerberg. If they’re not bullying them it’s colleges. If it’s not colleges bullying them it’s women... it just never ends, life must be so hard for conservatives.
What about the bias of the most watched cable news network in America? Fox. They are virtual state media in prime time. State media is Trump media, propoganda media. And for our president, any media critical of hm is "the enemy of the people". Yet you cannot see the mind set that such a declaration creates in the minds of his followers. Apparently, because you believe it. You don't blame Trump. Yet every president in our history has at times faced an adversarial press. It's part of the function of that free press to speak truth to power. But you do not understand that, I can only assume by now. You don't blame Trump. For you, any press that is shining a light on this presidency really is the enemy of the people. And broadcasting lies and hoaxes, no real light at all.
Yet there's Fox, on your side, incubating narratives, fake news screaming "fake news!" to the masses, "they're trying to take down your president", and on and on the bs flies. To be sucked up. All the while a gangster winging his way and stroking his ego endlessly. But they don't count. It's the liberal media that's the enemy, not Fox, no not Fox, not State Media. Authoritarians need State Media. They don't like the kind of media that looks too close, won't just go away, damn pests. No, let's leave Fox out of this, they're the good guys. Hannity, icon of truth, justice, and the American way.
Fox. The leaders. Where the right wing conspiracy theories that Trump loves have incubated. Fox, where the Deep State bullcrap that Trump and Barr and Hannity and Breitbart as nauseum have all embraced, lives on daily, as the response to any deeper look at Trump. The gangster. That's right, a gansta in the Oval Office. And you don't want an adversarial press. You want the compliant press, friend to authoritarians everywhere, and at all times.
Trump has the leading cable news outlet in his pocket, and you're pissed at the ones actually speaking truth to power. Beautiful. And yeah, I know, you believe the Deep State bs instead, so of course, your bias is just fine for you. And the enemy of the people need to shut up because we have a stable genius at the helm. Of course.
Look at the rest of the story from yesterday's how ya been, Vlad. This exchange just before the smiles over election interference. It's perfect, just perfect....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...tin-joke-reporters-fake-news-g-20/1598685001/
OSAKA, Japan – President Donald Trump expressed exasperation with the media in a conversation with Vladimir Putin on Friday and spoke approvingly of the fact that the Russian president does not have the same problems with the media that he has.
The president's remarks drew blowback on social media from critics who noted that journalists in Russia have been killed.
"Fake news," Trump said during a meeting with Putin at the G-20 summit in Japan as journalists filled into the room to cover the leaders' remarks. "You don't have this problem with Russia, We have. You don’t have it."
Putin responded in English, according to a raw video feed of the exchange.
"Yes, yes," he said. "We have, too. The same."
Trump has for years blasted U.S. media as "the enemy of the people." Still, the praise for the Russian president on the point was a remarkable comment for a U.S. president. More than three dozen journalists have been murdered in Russia since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists
Many people here claim this media bias is a figment of my imagination. I think many of those same people are quite satisfied with the media bias because it aligns with their political leanings. The bias might even be invisible to them.
A bit further clarification. When I'm satisfied with the bias I see on a network, or read in a journalistic essay, it's because, IMHO, I think the commentator, the guest, the writer, whoever it be, has spoken the truth. I like truth. I think I see and understand the truth of what's going on. "Political leanings" can go pound salt. I already know what they are. I like truth. Could I be wrong? Sure, probably everyday about something. But not about this, and call me an arrogant **** for saying that. I don't care. If I believe it "aligns" with the truth of the matter at hand, I'm quite satisfied. There's nothing really wrong with bias if it aligns with the truth of the matter.
And, as for the bias being invisible? Nope. I don't watch the cable networks to the degree I did earlier in Trump's presidency, but I find it rather easy to recognize the bias. It's not at all difficult. I recognize overkill, cute remarks, the jokes between like minded people, yep, I get it easily enough. Sometimes it turns me off, but I try to keep the bigger picture in mind.
Yep, there is a lot to be said for "Gunsmoke" reruns.
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Media is everywhere. This is media right now. I'm affecting you with my bias this very second. You are now infected fish. Dirty.
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I’m so tired of the liberal media NY Times who just silence conservatives. Conservatives don’t have a place to go anymore to spout their opinions! And in Bret Stephens’ case, where can he go to spout his white nationalism? Darn that liberal NY Times! They’re de-platforming conservatives left and right! | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1419 |
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Kenny C. Mok, Michiko E. Taga
Kenny C. Mok
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Michiko E. Taga
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01282-12
Phenolyl cobamides are unique members of a class of cobalt-containing cofactors that includes vitamin B12 (cobalamin). Cobamide cofactors facilitate diverse reactions in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Phenolyl cobamides are structurally and chemically distinct from the more commonly used benzimidazolyl cobamides such as cobalamin, as the lower axial ligand is a phenolic group rather than a benzimidazole. The functional significance of this difference is not well understood. Here we show that in the bacterium Sporomusa ovata, the only organism known to synthesize phenolyl cobamides, several cobamide-dependent acetogenic metabolisms have a requirement or preference for phenolyl cobamides. The addition of benzimidazoles to S. ovata cultures results in a decrease in growth rate when grown on methanol, 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate, H2 plus CO2, or betaine. Suppression of native p-cresolyl cobamide synthesis and production of benzimidazolyl cobamides occur upon the addition of benzimidazoles, indicating that benzimidazolyl cobamides are not functionally equivalent to the phenolyl cobamide cofactors produced by S. ovata. We further show that S. ovata is capable of incorporating other phenolic compounds into cobamides that function in methanol metabolism. These results demonstrate that S. ovata can incorporate a wide range of compounds as cobamide lower ligands, despite its preference for phenolyl cobamides in the metabolism of certain energy substrates. To our knowledge, S. ovata is unique among cobamide-dependent organisms in its preferential utilization of phenolyl cobamides.
Cobamides function as enzyme cofactors for a variety of metabolic processes in most animals, protists, and prokaryotes, although their biosynthesis is limited to a subset of prokaryotes. Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) (Fig. 1A) is the best-studied cobamide and is a required micronutrient in humans. Two coenzyme forms of cobalamin exist, in which the upper ligand is either a methyl group (methylcobalamin) or 5′-deoxyadenosine (adenosylcobalamin). Methylcobalamin facilitates methyl transfer reactions involved in processes such as acetogenesis, methanogenesis, and methionine synthesis (1). Adenosylcobalamin facilitates radical-based rearrangements and cleavage reactions in the catabolism of substrates such as glycerol, ethanolamine, and various amino acids (2). The role of the upper ligand in catalysis by cobamide-dependent enzymes has been well studied. However, the significance of structural variability in other parts of the cobamide molecule is less clear. Differences have been found within the nucleotide loop (3) and in the lower ligand (Fig. 1). Variations in the lower ligand are the main source of diversity in cobamide structure, as 16 cobamides with different lower ligands have been reported (4), yet many questions remain regarding the effect of the lower ligand on the function of the cofactor.
Structures of cobamides and lower ligands. Chemical structures of cobalamin (A), [Cre]Cba (B), and lower ligand bases (C) studied in this work are shown. R represents the upper ligand, which may be a methyl or 5′-deoxyadenosine group in the cofactor forms or a cyano group in the vitamin form. Full chemical names of each lower ligand base are shown in panel C, with their abbreviations used in the text in parentheses. Corrinoids are defined as compounds that contain a corrin ring. Cobamides (Cba), corrinoids that have an upper and lower axial ligand, are discussed in the text with the abbreviation for the lower ligand in brackets, for example, [Cre]Cba for p-cresolyl cobamide.
Variations in lower ligand structure can influence the Km for the cofactor in cobamide-dependent enzymes. For example, the Km of the methylmalonyl coenzyme A (CoA) mutase enzyme of Propionibacterium freudenreichii subsp. shermanii, glutamate mutase of Clostridium tetanomorphum, and methionine synthase of Arthrobacter platensis are influenced by the structure of the lower ligand (5–7). In addition, coordination of the lower ligand to the central cobalt ion can affect the reactivity of the cofactor (8, 9). Coordination to the cobalt ion depends on the structural conformation of the cobamide when bound by the enzyme. One subset of cobamide-dependent enzymes, which includes diol dehydratase and ribonucleotide reductase, binds the cobamide in the “base-on” form, in which the lower ligand is coordinated to the cobalt ion via a lone pair of electrons from a nitrogen atom, as shown in Fig. 1A (10, 11). In enzymes that utilize the cobamide in the “base-off” form, such as methionine synthase and methylmalonyl-CoA mutase, the lower ligand is bound by the enzyme but is not coordinated to the cobalt ion (12, 13). Instead, a histidine residue in the protein is often coordinated to the cobalt ion (12, 14).
Many cobamides, including cobalamin, can exist in either the base-on or base-off form, and the structure of the lower ligand affects the equilibrium between the two configurations in solution (15, 16). An exception is the phenolyl cobamides, which exist exclusively in the base-off form because the lower ligand lacks a lone pair of electrons and thus is unable to coordinate to the cobalt ion (Fig. 1B). This inability to coordinate to the cobalt ion limits the reactions that phenolyl cobamides can catalyze. For example, phenolyl cobamides do not support the growth of Salmonella enterica on 1,2-propanediol or ethanolamine, which require enzymes that function with the cobamide in the base-on configuration (17). Furthermore, the phenolyl cobamide p-cresolyl cobamide ([Cre]Cba) (Fig. 1B) acts as a competitive inhibitor in vitro for the enzymes diol dehydratase, glycerol dehydratase, and ethanolamine ammonia lyase, all of which bind cobamides in the base-on form (18, 19).
To date, the acetogenic bacterium Sporomusa ovata is the only organism reported to produce phenolyl cobamides (20, 21). S. ovata is capable of metabolizing a variety of substrates to acetate (22), and many of these metabolisms appear to be cobamide dependent. S. ovata was proposed to use a cobamide cofactor for the metabolism of methanol and the phenyl methyl ether 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate (Fig. 2) (23, 24). Growth on each of these substrates is associated with the production of distinct corrinoid-containing proteins (23, 24). These proteins are thought to catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from methanol or 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate to tetrahydrofolate (THF) to form 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (Me-THF) (Fig. 2) (24). The subsequent steps of methanol and 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate metabolism in S. ovata have not been characterized. However, based on studies of the metabolism of similar substrates in other acetogens (25–30), it is likely that the Me-THF is then used for the synthesis of acetyl-CoA via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, which requires a corrinoid iron-sulfur protein (CFeSP) (31). Thus, the cobamide-dependent reactions that catalyze methyl transfer to THF effectively substitute for the “methyl branch” of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (Fig. 2) (31). In this model, Me-THF is additionally required to generate the reducing equivalents necessary for the “carbonyl branch” of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway via oxidation to CO2 (29). Homoacetogenic growth on H2 plus CO2 also uses the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (Fig. 2) (31).
Model for cobamide requirements in acetogenic metabolism in S. ovata. The metabolism of methanol, 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate, H2 plus CO2, and fructose to acetate requires the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (box). The “methyl branch” of the pathway is bypassed in the metabolism of methanol and 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate by substrate-specific sets of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups to THF to form Me-THF. Betaine metabolism is also proposed to involve methyl transfer to THF. Me-THF oxidation (not shown) provides the reducing equivalents (e−) necessary for the reduction of CO2 to CO (“carbonyl branch”) during methanol and 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate metabolism to acetate. H2 serves as the electron donor in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway during homoacetogenic growth on H2 plus CO2. The oxidation of Me-THF is also required to produce the reducing equivalents for the reductive cleavage of betaine to acetate. Fermentation of fructose to pyruvate requires the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway. The CO2 and reducing equivalents generated from the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA can be utilized in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. Proposed cobamide-dependent enzymes are represented by black ovals. This model is based on metabolic studies of S. ovata and other acetogenic bacteria (22, 25–30, 33, 47).
Unlike methanol, 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate, and H2 plus CO2, the metabolism of fructose does not appear to be entirely dependent on cobamides (Fig. 2). The fermentation of fructose likely occurs via the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, which does not require cobamides (32). This pathway produces pyruvate, which is subsequently converted into acetyl-CoA. However, the CO2 and reducing equivalents generated during this reaction can also be converted to acetate via the cobamide-dependent Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (Fig. 2) (29).
The role of cobamides in betaine metabolism by acetogens is less clear. It was proposed that S. ovata reductively cleaves betaine to form acetate (22), which does not appear to require cobamides (Fig. 2). The reducing equivalents necessary for this reaction are thought to be generated via methyl transfer from a fraction of the betaine to THF followed by oxidation of Me-THF to CO2, similar to the metabolism of methanol and 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate (22, 33).
In each of these proposed metabolisms, the cobamide-dependent reactions involve the transfer of a methyl group. Crystallographic and biochemical studies have shown that cobamide-dependent enzymes that catalyze methyl transfer reactions, such as methionine synthase of Escherichia coli and those involved in methanol metabolism in Moorella thermoacetica and Methanosarcina barkeri, bind their respective benzimidazolyl cobamides in the base-off conformation (12, 25, 34), suggesting that a phenolyl cobamide would be a suitable cofactor for these metabolisms in S. ovata. A sequenced genome would enable a more detailed analysis of the cobamide-dependent enzymes present in S. ovata.
In the present work, we have analyzed the cobamide requirements of S. ovata in the metabolism of a variety of growth substrates. We found that S. ovata is capable of synthesizing benzimidazolyl cobamides when provided a benzimidazole base, yet these cobamides do not support growth on 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate and result in impaired growth on methanol, H2 plus CO2, and betaine. To our knowledge, this is the first observation of a cobamide-dependent organism for which phenolyl cobamides function more effectively than benzimidazolyl cobamides.
Media and growth conditions.S. ovata DSM 2662 was grown anaerobically under an atmosphere of 80% N2 and 20% CO2 at 30°C without agitation in medium adapted from the betaine standard medium described previously by Möller et al. (22). Energy substrates were provided at the following concentrations: 124 mM methanol, 20 mM 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate, 50 mM betaine, and 50 mM fructose. Vitamin B12 was omitted, and the media were reduced with a cysteine-sulfide solution at 0.01% (wt/vol). Media for homoacetogenic growth were prepared under an atmosphere of 80% H2 and 20% CO2. 5-Hydroxybenzimidazole (5-OHBza) was a gift from Terence Crofts.
Growth assays.Cultures of S. ovata were prepared with a 1% inoculum of stationary-phase cells. Optical density at 600 nm (OD600) values of cultures with methanol were measured following growth to saturation after 64 h of incubation. The OD600 values of 200-μl aliquots from each culture were measured in a 96-well plate on a BioTek Synergy 2 microplate reader, and values were normalized to a path length of 1 cm. Dose-response curves and 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) values were generated with a sigmoidal curve fit in KaleidaGraph v4.0 (Synergy Software).
Corrinoid extraction and analysis.Cells were collected in early stationary phase for the extraction of corrinoids (64 h of incubation with methanol, 75 h with 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate, 72 h with H2 plus CO2, 50 h with betaine, and 62 h with fructose). Extraction of corrinoids from S. ovata cultures was performed as described previously, adjusting for culture volume and cell pellet weight (35). Analysis of corrinoid extractions was performed on an Agilent Technologies 1200 series high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system equipped with a diode array detector. Samples were injected onto a Zorbax SB-Aq column (5 μm, 4.6 by 150 mm) at a flow rate of 1 ml min−1 at 30°C. Mobile phases used were 0.1% formic acid in water (solvent A) and 0.1% formic acid in methanol (solvent B). Samples were separated by a gradient of 25 to 50% solvent B over 3 min, followed by a gradient of 50 to 75% solvent B over 8 min (method 1), or by a gradient of 25 to 34% solvent B over 11 min, 34 to 50% solvent B over 2 min, and 50 to 75% solvent B over 8 min (method 2). Concentrations of cobamides were determined based on integrated peak areas at 525 nm in comparison to standard curves generated by using purified cobamides. Concentrations of the purified cobamides were determined spectrophotometrically by measuring the absorbance at 361 nm and using a molar extinction coefficient of 28,060 mol−1 cm−1 (36).
Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) analysis of corrinoids was performed on an Agilent Technologies 6410 liquid chromatograph-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. Samples were injected onto a Zorbax SB-Aq column (5 μm, 4.6 by 150 mm) and separated at 0.5 ml min−1 using method 2 as described above. Phenolyl cobamides and p-toluidinyl cobamide ([p-tol]Cba) were detected by using an MS2 scan with the fragmentor set at 135 V. Benzimidazolyl cobamides were detected by multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) with a collision energy of 45 V. Signature transitions unique to each cobamide were monitored. For cobalamin, a transition from a precursor ion of m/z 678.3 to a product ion of m/z 147.1 was monitored. The precursor and product ions for the other benzimidazolyl cobamides are as follows: 671.3 and 133.1 for 5-methylbenzimidazolyl cobamide ([5-MeBza]Cba), 664.3 and 119.1 for benzimidazolyl cobamide ([Bza]Cba), 679.3 and 149.1 for 5-methoxybenzimidazolyl cobamide ([5-OMeBza]Cba), and 672.3 and 135.1 for 5-hydroxybenzimidazolyl cobamide ([5-OHBza]Cba), respectively.
Benzimidazoles inhibit S. ovata growth on methanol by inhibiting [Cre]Cba synthesis.A previous study showed that S. ovata could not grow with methanol as the energy substrate in the presence of 500 μM 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole (DMB), the lower ligand of cobalamin (Fig. 1) (37). Based on this result, it is likely that this growth inhibition is due to the production of cobalamin and that cobalamin does not support the cobamide-dependent functions of S. ovata. Moreover, if the toxicity of DMB were due to its incorporation into a cobamide, a similar effect would likely be observed with other benzimidazoles. To test these hypotheses, growth of S. ovata on methanol was measured in the presence of a range of concentrations of each of the five benzimidazoles shown in Fig. 1C. As expected, all of the benzimidazoles inhibited growth in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 3A). Different concentrations of each benzimidazole were required to inhibit growth, with IC50 values ranging from nearly 500 μM for 5-OHBza to less than 1 μM for 5-MeBza and DMB (Fig. 3A).
Addition of benzimidazoles results in growth inhibition and production of benzimidazolyl cobamides. (A) Growth of S. ovata was measured as the OD600 values of cultures grown for 64 h on methanol in the presence of a range of concentrations of each benzimidazole. The IC50 values for each benzimidazole are listed in the inset. Each point represents the average of three independent experiments, and error bars represent standard errors. (B) HPLC traces of corrinoid extractions from S. ovata grown with and without each of the five benzimidazoles tested in panel A are shown. Benzimidazoles were added to S. ovata at the following concentrations: 5 μM 5-MeBza, 100 μM DMB, 500 μM Bza, 2 mM 5-OMeBza, and 4 mM 5-OHBza. The identities of the corrinoids confirmed by LC/MS/MS are labeled as follows: 1, [Cre]Cba; 2, [5-MeBza]Cba; 3, cobalamin; 4, [Bza]Cba; 5, [5-OMeBza]Cba; 6, [5-OHBza]Cba. mAU, milli-absorbance units.
To determine whether benzimidazolyl cobamides are produced when S. ovata is grown with benzimidazoles, corrinoids were extracted from cultures provided with inhibitory concentrations of each benzimidazole and analyzed by HPLC and LC/MS/MS (Fig. 3B). In the absence of a benzimidazole, S. ovata synthesizes [Cre]Cba as its primary corrinoid, which can be seen by HPLC analysis as a pair of peaks (Fig. 3B), as observed previously (21). Although the production of both [Cre]Cba and phenolyl cobamide ([Phe]Cba) by S. ovata was reported previously (21), only [Cre]Cba was detected under our growth conditions. When inhibitory concentrations of benzimidazoles were added to S. ovata cultures, [Cre]Cba was almost completely absent in every case, and a benzimidazolyl cobamide was produced (Fig. 3B). These results show that S. ovata can attach benzimidazoles to form benzimidazolyl cobamides and suggest that these cobamides do not support growth on methanol.
Dose-dependent shifts in cobamide production result in growth inhibition on methanol.The link between cobamide production and growth inhibition was further investigated by examining the levels of each cobamide when S. ovata was grown on methanol in the presence of various concentrations of each benzimidazole. In each case, a dose-dependent inhibition of growth with increasing benzimidazole concentrations was accompanied by a parallel decrease in the concentration of [Cre]Cba (Fig. 4). Additionally, when either 5-MeBza or DMB was added, the concentration of the corresponding benzimidazolyl cobamide increased as the concentration of [Cre]Cba decreased (Fig. 4A and B). A similar result was observed with the addition of Bza, 5-OMeBza, or 5-OHBza, except that an increase in the corresponding benzimidazolyl cobamide occurred at subinhibitory concentrations (Fig. 4C to E). These results indicate that growth inhibition by the addition of benzimidazoles can be explained by the loss of [Cre]Cba production and, in some cases, possibly by an inhibitory effect of benzimidazolyl cobamides.
Correlation between growth inhibition and cobamide content in S. ovata grown on methanol with benzimidazole bases. OD600 values of cultures grown for 64 h with a range of concentrations are shown for the following benzimidazoles: 5-MeBza (A), DMB (B), Bza (C), 5-OMeBza (D), and 5-OHBza (E). The concentrations of [Cre]Cba and the benzimidazolyl cobamide corresponding to the benzimidazole added ([bza]Cba) are shown for each culture.
Addition of Cre rescues growth and restores [Cre]Cba production.The inhibition of growth on methanol upon addition of benzimidazoles led us to hypothesize that restoring the synthesis of [Cre]Cba in the presence of a benzimidazole would result in the rescue of growth. Indeed, we observed that the addition of Cre restored growth on methanol in media containing an inhibitory concentration of 5-MeBza in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 5A, filled circles). Specifically, in the presence of 20 μM 5-MeBza, the addition of at least 5 μM Cre completely restored growth. Analysis of the corrinoid content of these cultures showed an increase in [Cre]Cba production with increasing Cre concentrations that was accompanied by a nearly complete loss of [5-MeBza]Cba (Fig. 5A, open symbols). This was a reversal of the phenotype seen when S. ovata was grown with increasing concentrations of the benzimidazoles. The addition of 10 μM Cre to the media was also sufficient to restore growth and [Cre]Cba production on methanol in the presence of inhibitory concentrations of each of the other four benzimidazoles tested (Fig. 5B and C).
Rescue of benzimidazole-induced growth inhibition by addition of Cre. (A) OD600 values of cultures grown for 64 h on methanol with a range of concentrations of Cre in the absence (♦) or presence (●) of 20 μM 5-MeBza. Concentrations of [Cre]Cba (□) and [5-MeBza]Cba (△) are shown for the cultures containing 5-MeBza. (B) OD600 values for S. ovata cultured with inhibitory concentrations of benzimidazoles in the absence or presence of 10 μM Cre. Concentrations of the benzimidazoles are as follows: 10 μM DMB, 100 μM Bza, 250 μM 5-OMeBza, and 1 mM 5-OHBza. OD600 values for each point in panels A and B represent the averages of three independent experiments, and error bars represent standard errors. (C) Concentrations of [Cre]Cba and benzimidazolyl cobamides in the cultures from panel B. −, no Cre added; +, 10 μM Cre added. Gray bars show concentrations of [Cre]Cba; white bars show concentrations of benzimidazolyl cobamides corresponding to the benzimidazole added ([bza]Cba). Corrinoids in panels A and C were extracted from the culture with the median OD600 value of the three independent experiments.
These results suggest that it should also be possible to rescue growth by providing S. ovata with its native corrinoid, [Cre]Cba. A previous study showed that S. ovata may be capable of importing corrinoids, as corrinoids derived from exogenously supplied 57Co-labeled [5-OHBza]Cba were detected in the cell-associated fraction (38). However, under our growth conditions, the addition of [Cre]Cba at levels as high as 1.4 μM, five times higher than the endogenous level, did not rescue growth, and [Cre]Cba was detected only in culture supernatants (data not shown).
Growth on other substrates is inhibited by benzimidazoles to various degrees.S. ovata is capable of utilizing a variety of growth substrates, many of which are thought to include steps that require cobamides (Fig. 2). To determine whether the addition of benzimidazoles also leads to an inhibition of growth on other substrates, we performed growth curve analyses of S. ovata grown on four other substrates in the presence and absence of 5-MeBza, the benzimidazole that we found has the greatest effect on growth on methanol (Fig. 3A). For comparison, we also analyzed growth on methanol, and as seen previously, growth was significantly affected by the addition of 5-MeBza (Fig. 6A). Specifically, when 5-MeBza was present, the growth rate was approximately 5-fold lower than that in the absence of 5-MeBza, but the cultures reached a final OD600 level nearly as high as that of cultures lacking 5-MeBza. Growth on 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate was more severely impacted by the addition of 5-MeBza, as stationary phase was reached at a considerably lower cell density than in the absence of 5-MeBza (Fig. 6B). Growth on H2 plus CO2 was modestly affected by the addition of 5-MeBza, with a 1.5-fold reduction in the growth rate and little effect on the final OD600 level in stationary phase (Fig. 6C). A similar result was seen for growth on betaine, in which the addition of 5-MeBza resulted in a 1.4-fold reduction in the growth rate (Fig. 6D). In contrast, growth on fructose was essentially unaffected by the addition of 5-MeBza (Fig. 6E).
Effect of 5-MeBza on growth and cobamide production on different energy substrates. (A to E) Growth curves of S. ovata grown in the absence or presence of 25 μM 5-MeBza on the following energy substrates: methanol (A), 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate (B), H2 plus CO2 (C), betaine (D), and fructose (E). Each point represents the average of three independent experiments, and error bars represent standard errors. (F) [Cre]Cba and [5-MeBza]Cba levels in cells taken from early-stationary-phase cultures of S. ovata grown on the different energy substrates listed (64 h of growth with methanol, 75 h with 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate, 72 h with H2 plus CO2, 50 h with betaine, and 62 h with fructose). −, no 5-MeBza added; +, 25 μM 5-MeBza added.
The corrinoids present in cultures grown on each of these substrates were analyzed to determine whether [5-MeBza]Cba was produced, as we observed for growth on methanol. In each case, the addition of 5-MeBza resulted in the production of [5-MeBza]Cba and loss of [Cre]Cba (Fig. 6F). However, during growth on betaine, the concentration of [5-MeBza]Cba produced was approximately half of the level of [Cre]Cba produced in the absence of 5-MeBza, introducing the possibility that a decrease in overall cobamide levels was the cause of the growth defect. We ruled out this possibility by analyzing growth on betaine with the addition of Bza, which resulted in the production of [Bza]Cba at 50% higher levels than [Cre]Cba. A similar inhibition of growth was seen during exponential phase, indicating that the growth defect on betaine in the presence of 5-MeBza can be explained by the production of a benzimidazolyl cobamide rather than a reduction in the overall cobamide level (data not shown). Together, these results show that benzimidazolyl cobamides have various effects on different metabolic pathways in S. ovata, likely due to differences in the required cobamide-dependent enzymes.
Can S. ovata synthesize and use cobamides containing other natural and unnatural lower ligands?Since our results showed that the structure of the lower ligand affects cobamide function in S. ovata, we next investigated the range of lower ligand structures that could be accommodated. Because S. ovata is unable to import cobamides efficiently from the environment under our growth conditions, and because we do not have a mechanism to inhibit the endogenous synthesis of Cre, we tested whether S. ovata could synthesize and utilize cobamides containing alternative bases as lower ligands by determining whether compounds other than Cre could rescue growth in the presence of a benzimidazole. The compounds tested include those that are structurally similar to either Cre or benzimidazoles, with various sizes and chemical properties (Fig. 1C). Growth on methanol was monitored in cultures containing each of these compounds in the presence of an inhibitory concentration of 5-OMeBza. We saw that only Phe and 3,4-dimethylphenol (DMP), the two compounds most similar to Cre, rescued the growth of S. ovata in the presence of 5-OMeBza (Fig. 7A). Similar results were obtained with inhibitory concentrations of 5-MeBza, DMB, and Bza (data not shown). An analysis of corrinoid extracts from these cultures showed that Phe and DMP were incorporated as cobamide lower ligands (Fig. 7B).
Use of alternative substrates as lower ligands in S. ovata. (A) OD600 values of S. ovata grown on methanol in the presence of 250 μM 5-OMeBza and the following compounds: 10 μM Cre, 1mM Phe, 100 μM DMP, 2mM 2-APC, 2 mM p-tol, 1 mM Ani, 1 mM Ind, 500 μM 2-MeInd, and 1mM Imi. Each bar represents the average of three independent experiments, and error bars represent standard errors. (B) HPLC analysis of corrinoid extracts of S. ovata grown on methanol with the substrates shown. The identities of the corrinoids were confirmed by LC/MS and are labeled as follows: 1, [Cre]Cba; 2, [5-OMeBza]Cba; 3, [Phe]Cba; 4, [DMP]Cba; 5, [2-APC]Cba. A novel corrinoid (peak 6) was detectable only by HPLC in extracts from the culture grown with p-tol.
The remaining six compounds tested were unable to rescue growth (Fig. 7A). This could be either because they are not efficiently attached to form the corresponding cobamides or because they do not function as cofactors in methanol metabolism. To distinguish between these two possibilities, we first analyzed the corrinoids present in the cultures shown in Fig. 7A to determine whether the compounds can be attached as lower ligands. HPLC analysis revealed that no novel corrinoids were produced, suggesting that the compounds were not attached (data not shown). However, in the absence of 5-OMeBza, attachment of 2-amino-p-cresol (2-APC) was observed, although [Cre]Cba was not eliminated from the cultures (Fig. 7B). The addition of p-tol in the absence of 5-OMeBza also resulted in small amounts of a novel corrinoid that was detectable by HPLC (Fig. 7B). This experiment could not test whether [2-APC]Cba or [p-tol]Cba can be used by S. ovata, as neither compound is attached efficiently enough to be the major corrinoid present. Aniline (Ani), indole (Ind), 2-methylindole (2-MeInd), and imidazole (Imi) were not attached at any appreciable level (data not shown), and thus, it was not possible to determine whether S. ovata can utilize cobamides containing these compounds as lower ligands.
Although S. ovata has long been known to produce phenolyl cobamides, the functional significance of this unusual class of corrinoid cofactors remains poorly understood. Here we have shown that S. ovata is capable of attaching externally supplied benzimidazoles to form benzimidazolyl cobamides, yet these cobamides function poorly compared to phenolyl cobamides under most growth conditions. At least three cobamide-dependent methyltransferase enzymes are predicted to be required for the acetogenic metabolisms investigated here. Our results suggest that these enzymes are adapted for the use of phenolyl cobamides to various degrees in S. ovata. To our knowledge, S. ovata is unusual in its preference for phenolyl cobamides, as benzimidazolyl or purinyl cobamides are used by all other organisms known to require a cobamide cofactor for methyl transfer reactions.
Studies of several other acetogens have shown that growth on H2 plus CO2 requires the cobamide-dependent CFeSP enzyme in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, while growth on methanol and phenyl methyl ethers is each thought to require both the CFeSP and another cobamide-dependent methyltransferase enzyme (Fig. 2) (26, 27, 29, 30, 39). The phenotype of S. ovata grown on H2 plus CO2 with 5-MeBza suggests that S. ovata CFeSP functions best with phenolyl cobamides but can also use benzimidazolyl cobamides. The greater effect of 5-MeBza on growth with methanol than on H2 plus CO2 likely also reflects a preference for phenolyl cobamides by a cobamide-dependent enzyme that catalyzes methyl transfer from methanol to THF (Fig. 2). Likewise, the dramatic effect of 5-MeBza on growth on 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate may be due to a stringent requirement for a phenolyl cobamide by a cobamide-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the demethylation of 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate (Fig. 2). Similar methyltransferases involved in the metabolism of methanol and phenyl methyl ethers have been characterized in other organisms, but unlike in S. ovata, these enzymes have been shown to utilize benzimidazolyl cobamides in vivo or are capable of using cobalamin in vitro (25, 27, 28, 40–42).
We expected the cobamide requirements for growth on fructose to be similar to the requirements for growth on H2 plus CO2 because fructose metabolism is thought to be dependent on the CFeSP of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (Fig. 2). However, unlike growth on H2 plus CO2, the addition of 5-MeBza did not impair growth (Fig. 6E). This may be explained by a lower dependence on cobamides in fructose metabolism, as only one of the six carbon atoms of fructose is thought to be metabolized via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (29).
Although a requirement for cobamides in betaine metabolism has not been shown previously in acetogens, the modest effect of 5-MeBza on growth on betaine suggests that cobamides are involved. Reductive cleavage of betaine to acetate requires reducing equivalents generated from the oxidation of Me-THF (22, 33). Although the majority of the carbon in betaine is converted to acetate by reductive cleavage (22), the formation of Me-THF suggests that a fraction of the acetate could be produced by the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, which requires a cobamide for the CFeSP (Fig. 2). Additionally, the methyl transfer step from betaine to Me-THF is analogous to cobamide-requiring steps in methanol and 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate metabolism, so a cobamide-dependent methyltransferase could also be involved in betaine metabolism. Together, these results support the model shown in Fig. 2, in which at least three cobamide-dependent enzymes with varying dependence on phenolyl cobamides function in acetogenic metabolism in S. ovata.
The inability of S. ovata to use benzimidazolyl cobamides as effectively as phenolyl cobamides in several acetogenic metabolisms is intriguing given that benzimidazolyl cobamides, like the phenolyl cobamides, are able to function in the base-off configuration. The requirement of S. ovata for phenolyl cobamides could be due to a role of the phenolic lower ligand in binding of the cobamide to the enzyme, as is the case for DMB in the binding of cobalamin to glutamate mutase of C. tetanomorphum (43). The cobamide-dependent enzymes in S. ovata may be adapted for binding cobamides with smaller phenolic lower ligands and may not bind the bulkier benzimidazole bases. Indeed, we found that three phenolic compounds, Cre, Phe, and DMP, were the only compounds that function as cobamide lower ligands in methanol-dependent growth of S. ovata. In addition to facilitating binding to the enzyme, phenolic lower ligands may also have another, as-yet-unidentified, role in methyl transfer reactions in S. ovata.
It is interesting that benzimidazoles are readily attached as cobamide lower ligands by S. ovata, as their structures differ considerably from those of the phenolic compounds. The ability of S. ovata to produce both phenolyl and benzimidazolyl cobamides is likely due to the activity of ArsAB, a CobT enzyme homolog shown to activate DMB in addition to Cre and Phe for attachment to a cobamide precursor (17). The various levels of attachment of different lower ligands that we observed in this work may reflect differences in the substrate specificity of ArsAB or another enzyme involved in lower ligand activation or attachment or differences in the ability of these compounds to enter the cell. Our results suggest that phenolics or aminobenzenes containing a p-methyl group are attached more readily than the corresponding compounds lacking a p-methyl group. In addition, the preference for phenolic compounds compared to aminobenzenes indicates that replacing the hydroxyl group with an amino group significantly hinders attachment to the corrin ring. Notably, aminobenzenes, which are more structurally and chemically similar to phenolics than are benzimidazoles, are attached more poorly than benzimidazoles. This analysis may contribute to the understanding of the mechanism of the ArsAB enzyme, which has the unique ability to catalyze the formation of both O- and N-glycosidic bonds in the activation of lower ligand bases.
It is curious that S. ovata has the ability to produce benzimidazolyl cobamides when provided a benzimidazole base, given the detrimental effect of benzimidazolyl cobamides under some growth conditions. The absence of a mechanism to exclude benzimidazoles from incorporation into cobamides may indicate that the natural habitat of S. ovata does not contain concentrations of free benzimidazoles sufficient to alter the levels of cobamides produced. Alternatively, S. ovata may have retained the ability to synthesize benzimidazolyl cobamides because the environments that it inhabits are abundant in substrates whose metabolisms are not particularly affected by benzimidazolyl cobamides, such as betaine and fructose.
Although S. ovata is the only organism known to produce phenolyl cobamides, these cobamides are abundant in mixed microbial communities, including those in which S. ovata has not been detected. For example, [Cre]Cba was found to comprise 16% of the corrinoids present in human feces (44), 20 to 34% of the corrinoids in bovine rumen (45, 46), and 70% of the corrinoids present in a trichloroethene-degrading enrichment community (Y. Men, E. C. Seth, S. Yi, T. S. Crofts, R. H. Allen, M. E. Taga, and L. Alvarez-Cohen, unpublished data). Given the ubiquity of phenolyl cobamides and their unique chemical properties, it will be important to understand the functions of this class of cobamides both at the enzymatic level and in the context of their functions in microbial communities.
This work was supported by NIH grant R00-GM083303 and NSF grant MCB1122046 to M.E.T.
We thank Yujie Men, Shan Yi, and Lisa Alvarez-Cohen for assistance with LC/MS/MS; Cameron Thrash for assistance with anaerobic culturing; Sydney Kustu, Steven Lindow, and John Coates for helpful discussions; and members of the Taga laboratory for critical reading of the manuscript.
Received 18 July 2012.
Accepted 12 February 2013.
Accepted manuscript posted online 15 February 2013.
Address correspondence to Michiko E. Taga, taga{at}berkeley.edu.
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Intimidation of Librarians Must Stop
Submitted by Walter on July 24, 2008 - 9:32pm
The current effort gaining steam which would seek to use the tactics
of intimidation and propaganda in order to squelch free speech and
force a uniformity of thought at the Council and organizational level
must be stopped.
The underhanded effort is a clear violation of several core principles
as outlined in The Library Bill of Rights and the stated Policies of
the ALA regarding intellectual freedom. The current Chair of the
Intellectual Freedom Committee, Kenton Oliver, has written about this
"practice of gagging and deriding members who dissent" in Ohio
Libraries, and Councilors are encouraged to read excerpts of that
article added just below.
This authoritarian course of action being promoted by a relatively small
number of librarians seeks to criminalize efforts to engage in open
dialogue with ALA Council candidates about their positions. Serious
but unsubstantiated charges of fraud and ethical violations
have been publicly leveled at librarians, who are then provided no
opportunity to respond. What is worse, those using these tactics
refuse to respond to repeated public challenges to debate
these issues in open library forums, and some are now even seeking
to use the implied threat of legal action in an unprofessional attempt
to shut down the free exchange of ideas.
I invite all the ALA Council and ALA membership to resist these
censorious reactions to the exercise of prima facie democratic rights.
Resist the "rehearsed responses" to unpopular ideas that W. H. Auden
warned against. It is a very troubling trend when elected leaders who
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Anthony Lewis Urges ALA Not to Ignore Jailed Librarians
Submitted by Walter on January 27, 2008 - 8:36pm
Now anyone can hear just what famed-author, Anthony Lewis, said at his speech for a Freedom to Read fundraiser at the ALA Convention in Philly. His remarks begin at minute 34:40 on this podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/NCCPrograms/%7E3/221187849/anthony_lewis_01_14_08%2864%29.mp3 from the National Constitution Center.
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Acc. to ALA: Johnny Damon STILL a RED!
Submitted by Walter on October 27, 2007 - 3:48pm
(See blog for links:
http://4freadom.blogspot.com/2007/10/johnny-damon-still-red-sox-according-to.html
It has been over year since the ad-hoc group, "Librarians for Yankees Rights", petitioned, threatened, cajoled, and pilloried the ALA mini-wigs about showing preference to the REDS in baseball.
The ALA STILL has pictures of the great Yankee batter, Johnny Damon, in a Boston Red Sox uniform, flashing on their website along with other posters of role models who urge reading.
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"Burn the Damn Koran"
Submitted by Walter on July 28, 2007 - 1:46am
An individual burning a book may be a crime against common sense but there is no violation of common law or the Constitution. Indeed, burning books is a Constitutionally-protected form of free expression. People and organizations are free to burn books if they want to (unless they violate a local fire department permit!). I don't have the time to defend this position in more detail, but I bring it up because of the recent publicity stunt of a gay artist atheist zealot who torched a rare Koran. Gay.com reports:
Charles Merrill, the out gay artist who gained notoriety for editing the Bible with a black marker and a pair of scissors, now says he's made what he called a statement against Muslim homophobia by burning an antique Koran valued at $60,000.
"The purpose of editing and burning Abrahamic Holy Books is to eliminate homophobic hate," Merrill, 73, said in a statement from his gallery, the Broadway Gallery in New York City. "Both ancient books are terrorist manuals."
While I think his comments about the Word of God are over-the-top, and without merit, I for one am glad he burned a Koran. Given the sorry state of support for free expression in the face of Islamic support for turning Western nations into Sharia thought-control camps, people need to be reminded that the choice of free expression is far to be preferred than Islamic totalitarianism.
I say, "Burn the Damn Koran" if you want to. Of course, I think it is far better that people in the West actually read it.
You may say "Burn the Bible." So what.
Here is what I do NOT agree with. You will notice I said very carefully, in defense of burning books, that INDIVIDUALS or organizations have this right. Governments or laws should not concern themselves with such legal actions by citizens. However, it would be a crime, as it was in Cuba, for an official court to order books burnt, or for a political party or a person acting on behalf of a government, to order or call for books to be burned. That most certainly would be a violation of the principals of free speech, and a dangerous way to proceed, in domestic politics or diplomatically.
If I had a Koran worth 60,000 grand I'd probably auction it off and use some of the money to help the families of Christians and others who are murdered by Islamist regimes, acting under what they consider the dictates of the Quar'an.
I have no problem with people in Pakistan wanting to burn copies of Satanic Verses. It is when groups or governments send hit squads into other nations with order to kill authors like Salmon Rushie that we have to stand up and fight back, and squarely defend the principals of rule of law and freedom of expression.
If the West wiggles and wobbles on this core issue, this would be a denial or our heritage of liberty.
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Join The Book Burning at ALA in DC
Submitted by Walter on June 22, 2007 - 1:20pm
All librarians are invited to join a memorial book buring and press conference at 12 Noon on Saturday the 23rd. We will be gathering in front of the DC Convention Center.
Come join the picket line from 10 to 1 PM as we hold pictures of imprisoned librarians in Cuba and have a memorial book burning of the books which have been burned by court order in Cuba....a burning which leading ALA officials continue to ignore or deny.
Details are at: http://4freadom.blogspot.com/
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Rory Litwin & SRRT Plan Propaganda Campaign
Submitted by Walter on April 13, 2007 - 1:25am
Here is Rory Litwin, a Council member of the ALA, working in cohoots with another Councilor, fishing for well-marketed titles for political propaganda sessions in order to reel in more naive support for their non-library agendas....the circus goes on.
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ALA's Right Wing "Progressives"
Submitted by Walter on March 30, 2007 - 3:17pm
Just back from the annual Board Meeting of Amnesty International USA, Freadom Co-Chair, Steve Marquardt, has these very insightful comparisons between the so-called "Progressives" who formulate ALA Cuban policy, and the behavior of "Right Wing" ideologues.
Right Wing Characteristics of the ALA Progressives, or
Why the So-Called ALA Progressives are really the ALA Right Wing regarding Cuba
1. Unlike flakey human rights types who advocate the freedom to read anywhere and at any time with no regard to geopoliticallectual "contexts," the ALA Progressive takes a cautious, prudent, conservative and context-sensitive posture to avoid unwarranted categorical condemnation of book burning and naïve unthinking advocacy of freedom for imprisoned promoters of questionable, subversive and useless books.
2. The ALA Progressive avoids association with such radical groups as the French Communist Party, which in knee-jerk fashion immediately called for release of the imprisoned Cuban dissidents. The PCF stubbornly holds to that unyielding position.
3. The ALA Progressive understands the need for law and order and respects the right of nations to "take a bite out of crime" and to crack down, get tough and send a message to their respective criminal elements. In Cuba this message includes the death penalty, which is also in force in 38 of the most Republican states of the USA. The US Trading With the Enemy Act has a maximum sentence of ten years for accepting non-informational items from Cuba. Cuba's version of this law is twice as severe, doubling that sentence to 20 years for receipt of informational (as well as non-informational) items and for both receiving information and sending information out of the country.
4. The ALA Progressive apparently considers the context of book burning in Cuba to be similar to the same events in Nazi Germany 70 years ago, in the sense that in both cases the burned anti-patriotic books were those in the possession of cosmopolitan anti-patriotic elements who threatened to stab the current regime in the back, despite the regime's nearly universal popular support.
5. The ALA Progressive joint committee members who authored the Cuba approved by ALA Council in January 2004 expressed "support and assistance to the Cuban library community in safeguarding free access to … the Internet," an access then as now among the most unfree and restricted in the world, to a degree that would be the envy of any school board in the Bible Belt.
6. The ALA Progressive is pro-business, advocating the 19th century colonialist principle that freedom follows the vanguard of economic enterprise. This belief in the primacy of business activity – that intellectual freedom and other freedoms must be preceded by free trade – is evident in their belief that if only the embargo is lifted, then Cuba's political prisoners will be released.
7. The ALA Progressive respects and approves the role of the armed forces in domestic society, viewing with basic approval the achievements of the only two remaining regimes in Latin America led by figures who parade about in military uniform.
8. The ALA Progressive views sympathetically the family-centered Mafia approach to leadership, which retains control within the family by passing national executive authority on to close family members, such as a younger brother.
9. The ALA Progressive understands the need for a fundamentalist belief system that guides a purpose-driven life within the Church of the Revolution and protects the mass of the faithful by separating heretics into institutions that can encourage them to repent their false beliefs, by means of torture if necessary.
10. The ALA Progressive in the Office for Intellectual Freedom shares the same proclivities to covering up crimes, as demonstrated by conservative administrations from Nixon through G.W. Bush. The sealing of Bush archives and the closing of EPA libraries is echoed in the ALA OIF restrictive selectivity in posting news of book burnings, as shown by its (January 2007) posting of five (5) violations of Harry Potter titles, but not the incineration of a Martin Luther King Jr biography or any other titles in the six (6) independent libraries destroyed by order of Cuban provincial courts.
11. The ALA Progressive in the Office for Intellectual Freedom has said, "I cannot rely solely upon … a website funded by grants from the U.S. government." Perhaps if the website were hosted not by the federally compromised Florida State University, bur rather by the ultraconservative Hillsdale College (which refuses even federal work study funds for students) it would be trustworthy.
12. Like banana republics that ratify the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and every UN human rights convention that comes down the pike, while ignoring oppression of indigenous peoples, minority groups and dissenting voices, the ALA Progressive adopts eloquent Intellectual Freedom language while voting down the calls for the physical freedom of dissidents imprisoned for pursuing their nonviolent interest in studying and expanding their conscientiously held ideas.
© Steve R. Marquardt, 2007
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Librarians: Liberate Hillary's Thesis!
Submitted by Walter on March 2, 2007 - 8:06pm
(this challenge was just posted to this blog:
http://4freadom.blogspot.com/2007/03/librarians-for-open-access.html)
How to Liberate Hillary's Thesis?
We hear a LOT from librarians about the need for open access in a democracy (I concur)...and a lot of complaints about how copyright laws infringe on the right of the public to know. I sympathize with much, but do not concur with all of that bellyaching, BUT,
How about the librarians of the land leading an effort to liberate Hillary Clinton's senior thesis to the public? Here is how it would work: start the sign up in the comments if you wish to join.(At freadom or here)
In the excellent MSNBC article, the author writes:
"Besides being available for reading, but not copying, at the Wellesley archives (on the fourth floor of the library, Monday through Friday), the thesis can be read at your local library — one library at a time, that is. A single copy, on microfilm, can be ordered from Wellesley on a 30-day interlibrary loan.
While the traveling copy raises the possibility that someone could check out the microfilm, photocopy it or retype it, and post the text on the Internet, doing so would run the risk of a lawsuit."
The journalist also reported:
The attempt was unnecessary, said a copyright specialist, professor Laura N. Gasaway of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With or without the mark, an unpublished work is protected as soon as it's written, and the protection extends until 70 years after the author's death, Gasaway said. Readers can comment on the thesis, or publish limited quotations from it, but anyone who publishes the text could be liable for statutory damages of up to $150,000.
Of course, it's not clear whether a presidential candidate would want to draw even more attention to her writings on an old radical by suing.
OK, so how about someone, I'm game to begin with, gets a copy of the microfilm, makes a copy of the whole thing, and sends that copy to about 20 different librarians who stand for open inquiry? Then, each of them publishes 5 pages on their own website, which would appear not to violate copyright laws. Then, the public wanting to read the whole thing could click from site to site and read it all.
If the copying of the thesis and sending it to others would leave one open to lawsuit, then the microfilm would have to circulate 20 times to participating players, who would make copies of their own.
A quicker way to do this would be to have 20 librarians and journalist in New England go to Wellsely one after the other and copy their five pages in the archives. Then they can each post that to their own websites.....
Let's Liberate Hillary's Thesis, in the spirit of Alinsky and the core values of librarianship and democracy. Let the PEOPLE into the archives to judge for themselves!
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Judith Krug's Extreme Falsehoods Corrected
Submitted by Walter on February 13, 2007 - 5:41am
Perhaps some or most of the members of the ALA's IRC Committee are unaware of the falsehoods which Judith Krug and Don Wood have tried to slip by them, most recently in their recent astonishing comments at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, where the chief watchdog (NOT) for our liberties, said she was going to dig her heels in.
Great: Books are burned, whole library collections are destroyed, innocent librarians are tossed into the Cuban Gulag, Martin Luther King is trashed as an anti-communist, son-of-a-dissident, black-ass upstart bitch, and Mrs. Krug is more concerned about her petty fights with Bob Kent, and covering up for the obvious ideological bias of Don Wood, who deletes all dissident posts from his ALA blog, just like Castro tries to delete dissent in Cuba. That is my editorial on this remarkable situation, all DOCUMENTED below, in words less "scurrilous" than mine...
Any member of the IFC, or the IFC for that matter, who can point out the factual errors in this analysis is welcome to post those comments here or send them to me. WE won't delete your viewpoint, like the head piglets over at the ALA's OIF Animal Farm do. (For the RECORD: note my sarcastic designation of head piglets--- it is NOT the ALA Council, nor current or past Presidents, it is specifically the elites who run the show at the Office of Intellectual Fiction.)
From: Steve Marquardt
Date: Feb 12, 2007 9:22 PM
Subject: Cuba discussion in ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee
To: Barbara Jones , "Barbara K. Stripling" , Beatrice Nichols < [email protected]>, Bowie Kotrla , Carrie Gardner , "Catherine C. Collins" < [email protected]>, Douglas Archer , Erin Rushton , "Gail A. Weymouth" , Helen Ruth Adams , Jack Forman < [email protected]>, "James K. Teliha" , Jim Scholtz , "Joyce L. McIntosh" , Judith Krug , "June A. Pinnell-Stephens" < [email protected]>, "Karen R. Lemmons" , "Kathleen D. Krepps" < [email protected]>, Kendall French Wiggin , Kenton Oliver , "Lara L. Rudolph" , "Margaret A. Rohdy" , Marta Deyrup , Michael Sawyer , Michael Wright , Neal Wyatt , "Robert P. Holley" , Ruth Newell < [email protected]>, Samantha Hines , "Stephanie C. Sarnoff" , Suzan Parker , "Sybil L. Boutilier" , Yvette Tetrault Johnson < [email protected]>
Members of the ALA IFC and IFRT,
The recent blog report of the meeting of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee contained statements that indicate a astonishing grasping for any excuse available to avoid facing the truth of book burning in Cuba. I have pasted below the blog notes of the recent Midwinter meetings in Seattle by Greg McClay, posted at http://www.shuch.ws/wordpress/, and I have added my own comments of explanation and rejoinder. There will be one or two follow-up e-mails containing attachments relative to some of the points made below. I welcome any responses. -- Steve Marquardt9383 123rd Avenue SELake Lillian, MN 56253-4700(320) 664-4231Amnesty International USA Legislative Coordinator for Minnesota(Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Amnesty International.)
The Notebook blog comments of January 2007 at the ALA MidWinter meetings of the Intellectual Freedom Committee, in Seattlehttp://www.shush.ws/wordpress/
BLOG: Day 2 PrologueJanuary 21st, 2007… quote of the day goes to Judith Krug [Director of ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom]: I've dug in my heels… I refuse to be governed by people with an agenda!
COMMENT: I thought the Office for Intellectual Freedom agenda was also our "pro-independent librarians" agenda – defending intellectual freedom and the freedom to read, and opposing book burning.
BLOG: Heh. The Intellectual Freedom Committee was a hoot.D2 IFC I con't – CubaJanuary 22nd, 2007BLOG: (Don't roll your eyes, just read.) Less than half way through the meeting we had two guests, John Berry (the former ALA President one, not the LJ one or the Native American one) and (I believe) Michael Dowling, Director of the International Relations Committee ( http://www.ala.org/ala/iro/internationalrelations.htm). Krug announced that "Cuba wouldn't die", despite her inclination to "drown it".
COMMENT: Was this a Freudian slip or a conscious and considered choice of word? "Drown" is indeed the fate of tens of thousands of Cuban rafters, of whom certainly half and perhaps and many as 75% have failed to survive at sea long enough to be rescued, this is an appalling choice of word. Fidel Castro in 1994 said that since 1989, "51,076 Cubans tried to leave and 13,275 made it." ( U.S. New and World Report, September 26, 1994, page 26). Many were intercepted and others interred and returned by the US Coast Guard, but the estimates of those drowned since 1959 vary widely, from 16,000 to 100,000. For the Director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom to choose this word to respond to the support by ALA members for the freedom to read initiative in Cuba is most regrettable.
BLOG: But staff at the Office of Intellectual Freedom was "taking a beating on this" and she wanted to make sure the committee was informed of what was going on. [John W.] Berry talked a little about IFLA (ALA=USA, IFLA=UN) and its group FAIFE [Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression] (the international equivalent of the Intellectual Freedom Committee). Dowling gave some background on IFLA and FAIFE expressing 'deep concern' over the jailed librarians in Cuba.
COMMENT: The demands from Amnesty International, International PEN, Human Rights Watch and others seeking release of the prisoners have been reiterated several times since their first publication, usually on the anniversary of the trials. In contrast, ALA's expression of "deep concern" has not been the subject of a report or press release since its adoption in Council on January 14, 2004. Is this "deep concern" or Deep Six? You decide.
BLOG: Both gave a fairly detailed account of the Cuba situation with the jailed librarians and certain parties involved with it, specifically Robert Kent ( http://www.friendsofcubanlibraries.org/ ). What seems to give them the most pause is the fact that the US gov't has provided a number of grants to Cubans to assist in regime change and that 8 of those grants, totaling $2 million dollars, were given to support the independent librarian movement.
COMMENT: This is true. The USA also provided legal assistance to human rights defenders during the Argentine "Dirty War," employed sanctions against apartheid in South Africa, joined the AFL-CIO is support of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, and pressured the USSR on human rights through the vehicle of the Helsinki Accords.
BLOG: They are also highly suspicious of Kent's income, his lack of interest in moving up the ladder at his place of work,
COMMENT: Of the seven people I consider most vocal in opposition to the freedom to read in Cuba, only one has "moved up the ladder" to become a library director, or even an assistant director. As for Bob Kent, he joined Amnesty International in 1983 and has contributed much time to human rights work through his local AIUSA Group. Many times during my 24 years as a library director I thought it would be more fulfilling to be a cataloger or acquisitions librarian once again and thus have more time for human rights and less for time for reports, meetings, proposals, budget reviews, more meetings, performance evaluations and other such stuff.
BLOG: … and his ability to travel to all the IFLA conventions around the world and apparently are trying to find a money trail that leads from our government to Kent's wallet.
COMMENT: If Bob Kent were a government agent, he would have been provided with much more effective training in diplomacy and tact. See also the ALA International Relations Committee action on January 24, 2007, at the conclusion of this report.
BLOG: Back to the librarians in jail, Berry said they took unnecessary risks in accepting the funds and that even other Cuban dissidents had warned them against doing so.
COMMENT: What funds? Sentencing documents from the Cuban courts posted at the "Rule of Law and Cuba" web site of Florida State University contain no documentation of direct cash receipts by the arrested persons from the US Interests Section in Havana. The sentencing documents allege receipt of funds from points in North America from a variety of sources and by a variety of means. Some independent minded people were paid for news articles, just as are freelance journalists in the USA. Whether other remittances are from friends, colleagues, co-conspirators or family members remains uncertain. See the following e-mail, "Cuba: funds received bu dissidents arrested in March 2003."
BLOG: (Side note: during the conversation Krug gave some her own background in dealing with international issues. Prior to FAIFE's existence back in the 70's she was involved in ALA's handling of an issue concerning a Raisa Polatnik (sp?) who was arrested in Russia by the KGB for having some type of book collection. This led to Krug's convincing IFLA to create FAIFE and thereby fluff off international issues like this to them. Bleg: more info on the Polatnik issue would be appreciated.)
COMMENT: I've not been able to track down this person or story.
BLOG: The reason this whole discussion took place is because it has been learned that materials confiscated by Cuba from the independent librarians were destroyed, possibly burned. Book burning. And it has been requested that this info be posted on ALA's book burning page (multiple posts on the issue at Freadom's blog, http://4freadom.blogspot.com/. Krug refuses to do it at this point (see quote of the day). Why? In part the players involved.
COMMENT: Two of the three most prominent players – Bob Kent and me – have a total of 49 years' volunteer leadership service to Amnesty International. Clearly players not to be trusted?
BLOG: Also in part the documents that say the books were destroyed came from a website funded by one of those grants up above. Berry: "You never entirely know who's being truthful."
COMMENT: My first thought here, as a recently retired land grant university library director, was the fear of misinformation that may be rife in the grant-supported Agricultural Extension and Experiment Station bulletins. Then I thought of the disinformation that has crept into any and all federally funded research. But the potential for corrupted information is greatest in those libraries participating in the FCLP – the Federal Depository Library Program. Just think about it!
BLOG: Without an "impartial" source stating it, they won't go up. Irony being that in a communist country there are no impartial sources to provide such information.
COMMENT: Amnesty International, a Nobel Peace Prize winning organization known for its nonpartisan independence, has accepted the Cuban court sentencing documents as valid, citing them 73 times in its June 2003 report on the crackdown in Cuba. The court documents contain an order to destroy a biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winning civil rights hero, Martin Luther King Jr. Online publication of the documents on the Florida State University web site was reported in at least two Florida newspapers and an Associated Press release in September 2004. Yet ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom continues to demand a "legitimate" newspaper article specifically about the book burning as its price of recognizing this crime against the freedom to read. If Amnesty were a newspaper and published an extended 3000 word article on this subject, OIF ould be satisfied. Instead, Amnesty in 2003 published a 31,500 word report bolstered by 237 footnotes ( http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003?open&of=ENG-CUB) and the ALA OIF refuses to accept this as "legitimate" validation of the court documents and the orders contained therein!
BLOG: During discussion the idea about the confiscated books being burned was played down. Berry said that other items like faxes and copiers were also destroyed, according to the documents, so it wasn't really book burning as we think of it.
COMMENT: Not true – books were destroyed but hardware was given to various government agencies. A spreadsheet documenting follows in my next e-mail, subject line "Cuba: books burned, hardware to government agencies." HAS ANYONE BESIDES ME READ THE SENTENCING DOCUMENTS, much less ANALYZED THEM? Two librarians on the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee – Bowie Kotrla and Lara Rudolph – work at the FSU libraries. Have they ever given them a look, or crossed campus to check out the history and validity of the documents?
BLOG: Someone else actually said the US does the same thing with some confiscated materials from raids and that we must have burnt books as well. Of course I would think how the destruction is seen might be influenced by what the person was arrested for, but that's just me.
COMMENT: Is there any documentation of US authorities destroying books because of subversive content? Have US authorities raided any US libraries and seized and destroyed their contents? Where is this documentation? Remember, a major newspaper report will be required by the ALA OIF.
BLOG: Don Wood also spoke up to play down the book burning website, saying it was really only a site for high school students to get research material from. Its not meant to be comprehensive.
COMMENT: It's comprehensive regarding Harry Potter, a fictional person who merits five (5) book burning entries. As regards posting the destruction of a Nobel Peace Prize winner's biography, well, editorial judgment is being exercised. Even during the current Black History Month, the score is Potter 5, King 0.
BLOG: Krug was extremely perturbed by the end, referring to Kent's "tactics" as "beyond the pale". (Kent wasn't the only person mentioned, two other non-ALA members were discussed but I didn't catch the names she gave and didn't want to make assumptions) She was tempted to say something else but kept it in check. Happily, near the end of the conversation a couple people in the room did tell their personal stories. One had actually visited Cuba and been told by an elderly gentleman that when he and his diabetic wife spoke up against Castro her medicine stopped coming and she died. (The dangers of Universal Healthcare?) Another had gone to China and, in response to Berry's discussion about his own visits to the official Cuban libraries, talked about how the Chinese libraries looked good at first but once you spent some time looking they were very superficial. Another member discussed how easy it is to find similar library issues in other countries. Summation: Obviously there's a lot of confusion on the Cuba issue, but then that's usually what people say when they don't want to deal with it. Cuba gets special attention because it's a communist country that's a stone's throw from Florida. People are literally dying to try and get here from there. For all the focus that was once on Elian Gonzalez let's try not to forget that his mother died in an effort to get him here. That's not what normal people do unless they're in a very extreme environment that they have to get out of. That should make us take note. Do gov't monies blur the issue and make everything suspect? I'm not sure that's true but it's the kind of thing that gives most people pause. In general we like everything to be above board. Espionage is for dime store novels. Do I think less of Robert Kent? No, but hopefully he'll respond to some of this. What about Krug? Well, let's put it this way. Her and Berry were very agitated about the pro-independent librarian side using each other as sources, sort of looping back into one another and creating a false sense of legitimacy.
COMMENT: The number of sources cited in this and the following e-mail message's attachment are as follows: "pro-independent librarians" = 2; other sources = 10. Speaking for myself – a Ph.D. in History addicted to footnotes and a former Copyright Office steeped in proper attribution – I always try to provide citations for the facts, because the facts are on the side of human rights and intellectual freedom. Let's stick to the facts.
BLOG: Krug refuses to deal with international issues because they don't fall under the 1st amendment.
COMMENT: The OIF has "issues" with international book burning, as shown on its "Book Burning in the 21st Century" web site, where you may find news of book burning in Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Republic of Georgia. This accords with ALA Policy 53.1.12: "The American Library Association believes that freedom of expression is an inalienable human right, necessary to self-government, vital to the resistance of oppression, and crucial to the cause of justice, and further, that the principles of freedom of expression should be applied by libraries and librarians throughout the world. Adopted 1989." [Emphasis added by S.M.]
BLOG: She encouraged IFLA to create FAIFE in order for them to deal with issues that we would see as anti-human rights. However IFLA is made up of countries from all over the world, many of whom have little interest in the ideals we hold dear (they haven't done much on the Cuba issue either, or issues like it). Krug has created her own moral loop, saying she doesn't have to deal with international free speech issues because there is FAIFE even though FAIFE is made up of countries that aren't really interested in international free speech issues. Its exactly like Democrats and the UN. Maybe she's naïve, but the fact she seems to reserve her anger for those opposed to dictatorships instead of dictators makes me think less than kind things about her.
COMMENT: Maybe it's a fondness for historic preservation – preservation of the last of the military dictatorships that once dotted the Latin American landscape and the Caribbean seascape. Only one of this species remains and it is endangered by the freedom to read movement.
BLOG: In any case, the damage is done. IFC and Cuba don't mix. The International Relations Committee should be pressured and ALA should stop relying on IFLA and starting speaking out on all the most egregious acts against libraries and librarians around the world, simply, directly.
COMMENT: As long as IFC maintains a web page reporting on book burnings worldwide, there will be continuing appropriate and "legitimate" requests to post the destruction of six entire independent library collections on that web page.
BLOG: D6 ACIII con't International Relations Committee CD #18 January 24th, 2007 +a follow-up item on the Cuba issue, CD#18 specifically mentions the US Gov't Accountability report that discusses the 8 grantees supporting the independent librarians in Cuba. CD#18 specifically says that the International Relations Comm will be submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain information about those grantees: "who they are, how much funds were received, what were the grants for, and reports on their activities."
COMMENT: This initiative is welcomed. It was suggested in July 2006 by one of the persons working for the release of prisoners and the posting of the book burning news. The following web site shows the National Endowment for Democracy initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean: http://www.ned.org/grants/05programs/grants-lac05.html#Cuba, Foreign Assistance: U.S. Democracy Assistance for Cuba Needs Better Management and Oversight. "Highlights" document: http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07147high.pdf. Entire report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07147.pdf. Report Abstract: [ http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/summary.php?rptno=GAO-07-147&accno=A63388]. As the search for the money trail to Bob Kent's wallet begins in earnest, I urge persons on the IFC and the IRC to search also through the sentencing documents at http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/, in order to avoid further incorrect statements about the dissidents and the reasons for their imprisonment.
COMMENTs by Steve Marquardt.
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Gorman Supports Intellectual Freedom
Submitted by Walter on February 3, 2007 - 1:17pm
Speaking for myself, and not in my capacity as co-chair of FREADOM, I would like to respond to the accusations that Bob Kent has made about M. Gorman.
I would like to point out, for the record, these positive statements that Gorman has made in the past, some of them with direct reference to Cuba.
1.During the Codrescu Q&A, Presidential Keynote event at the ALA Midwinter Conference in San Antonio, TX, 22 Jan. 2006, re: Cuba:
"... the people in prison, these people should not be in prison. They should be freed immediately. They should never have been sentenced, sent to prison for the activities connected with any kind of dissemination of information or literature."
2. From "The value and values of libraries: a Talk given at the Celebration of Libraries," Oxford, England, September 20, 2002.
"It seems to me that libraries stand, above all, for the enlightened and rational notion that human beings are improved by the acquisition of knowledge and information and that no bar should be placed in their way. We stand for the individual human being pursuing whatever avenues of enquiry she or he wishes."
3. In answer to a specific question about Cuba when he was a candidate for ALA President, Thursday, December 18, 2003:
Question: As a librarian and as a visitor to Cuba back in 2000, I am wondering what you, as candidate for ALA President, believe ALA should say or do regarding the crackdown on the persons who set up independent libraries in Cuba.
Gormans answer, later that same day: I am utterly and unalterably opposed to restrictions on freedom of speech and experession [sic] by any government or government agency in any country. I believe in intellectual freedom and the right of free expression and wish those were available to all people in all countries.
All librarians who feel the same way are respectfully invited to join the FREADOM Train in our effort to get high school and college students actually reading and discussing the books which tyrants have burned.
See: http://www.4freadom.org/RBBStatement.html
Secondly, I would like to point out that there is no proof whatsoever that Mr. Gorman saw Mr. Kents follow up question at the Chronicle of Higher Education live chat. A question that I sent to the editor, asking if Mr. Gorman will join a growing number of librarians in endorsing the Read A Burned Book campaign, was also not in the list of questions asked. Saying that the guest “remained silent� about something he probably never even saw is not justified.
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Entire ALA Leadership JAILED
Comrades,
That's EXACTLY what would happen here if our so-called "fascist" government were to treat the ALA free-speechers the same way dissent is treated in Cuba. Here, from the very latest Amnesty International report, release today. Most of the ALA Council members committ these crimes on a weekly basis.
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http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAMR250032007
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The Cuba List for World Readers
As part of FREADOMs new International Read A Burned Book Campaign, high school and college students are encouraged to read one of the Top Ten books burned in Cuba.
See http://www.4freadom.org/AuthorsRBB1.html
The list is based on the court evidence of the trials in which thousands of books were ordered burned, after whole library collections were confiscated, with no warrant, and the directors were jailed.
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Invitation to Leslie Burger
(This question and invitation was just emailed to ALA President, Leslie Burger, and posted to FREADOM's blog)
Dear Mrs. Burger,
Last year, during the Banned Books week, you were quoted in a nationwide press release as follows:
"Throughout history, there always have been a few people who don’t want information to be freely available. And this is still true," said ALA President Leslie Burger. "The reason more books aren’t banned is because community residents - with librarians, teachers and journalists - stand up and speak out for their freedom to read. Banned Books Week reminds us that we must remain vigilant."
We would like to ask the same question that Honorary Lifetime ALA member did earlier this month in a letter to you. He wrote to you on January
Leslie Burger
ALS President
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon Street
Dear Leslie,
CIF maintains a "Book Burning" web page. However, despite repeated
requests, it has failed to provide links to Amnesty International and
OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ reports concerning the
destruction of books and other library materials in Cuba. Court
documents indicate judicially ordered “incineration� of myriad items,
largely confiscated from bibliotecas independientes.
Please explain why ALA/OIF refuses to acknowledge such bibliocide.
Sanford Berman
4400 Morningside Road
Enclosed: “Books Known to Have Been Burned in Cuba in 2003�
The last document he referred to is the one Amnesty International activist, ALA member and library director, Emeritus, Steve Marquardt, Ph.D, compiled, which is part of our new "Read A Burned Book" campaign.
Mrs. Burger, you are the President of a great organization that tries to speak up for those who are silenced. Don't you understand that the librarians and teachers and journalists in Cuba who do stand up to actual BOOK BURNING (not merely banning) get beaten, or jailed, or exiled?
We hope you will lead by example and sign this statement. But, if you do not wish to support this Intellectual Freedom effort of FREADOM's, could you at least explain why?
Walter Skold
Poet, Librarian, Journalist
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Join Read A Burned Book Campaign
Librarians, authors and civil libertarians are invited to sign onto the Read A Burned Book campaign, which will be officially launched very soon. The statement and current list of signatories is below. Anyone wanting to add their name can please email libertas(@)dialmaine(dot)com
"There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them"
Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996
We, the undersigned authors and librarians, voice our support for the
“Read A Burned Book� campaign, and we urge freedom-loving people around
the world to read the books which tyrants burn.
We especially urge young people in all lands to read and discuss the books
which were ordered “incinerated� by judges subservient to Fidel Castro in
2003. The paper of books written by Guillermo Infante, George Orwell,
Martin Luther King Jr., Carlos Franqui, Vaclav Havel, Oswaldo Paya, Pope
John Paul II and many others may have been burned, but their words have
flown like birds to the minds of those who yearn to be free.
Tyranny in any nation cannot long survive, nor easily arise, when the
people demand to freely read. We look forward to the day when the people
of a truly-independent Cuba will thrive in a land where books are not
burned, independent libraries are not destroyed, and journalists are not
jailed.
Signatories:
Carlos Franqui, Cuban Revolutionary, Author "Family Portrait with Fidel",
editor of Carta de Cuba literary journal.
Prof. Carlos Eire, Yale; Author "Waiting For Snow in Havana", Winner of
Amb. Armando Valladares, Poet and Author of "Against All Hope", former
prisoner of conscience in Cuba and US Ambassdor to the United Nations
Human Rights Commission.
Humberto Colas & Berta Mexidor, Founders, Independent Library Project of
Cuba, ALA Members
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Author of Lupe Solano Mystery Series and
recipient of the Flamingo Award.
Nat Hentoff, Internationally-respected Journalist, Jazz Critic, and Civil
Andrei Codrescu, Poet, Novelist, and National Public Radio columnist,
recipient of ACLU Freedom of Speech Award.
Sandy Berman, Maverick Library Author and Honorary Lifetime member of
Steve Marquardt, Ph.D, Co-Chair FREADOM and South Dakota State University
Dean of Libraries Emeritus
Beth Hill, Asst. Professor, University of Idaho, Librarian & ALA Council
Steve Fesenmaier, Librarian, ALA member
Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz, Former Solidarity activist and Librarian
Walter Skold, Poet, Librarian, and Co-Chair of FREADOM
Werner A. Lind, Assistant Director, Easley Library, Bluefield College ,VA
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Sandy Berglar-in-Chief
Liar, liar, socks on fire.....
From WSJ, in light of final report from House Goverment Reform Committtee:
One incident is particularly suggestive. By his fourth and final visit to review documents and prepare for testimony before the 9/11 Commission, the Archives staff had grown suspicious of how Mr. Berger was handling the documents, so they numbered each one he was given in pencil on the back of the document. When one of them--No. 217--was apparently removed from the files by Mr. Berger, the staff reprinted a copy and replaced it for his review. According to the report, Mr. Berger then proceeded to slip the second copy "under his portfolio also." In other words, he stole the same document twice.
This gives the lie to Mr. Berger's story that he was taking the documents for his own convenience, to assist with his preparation for testimony to the commission. If that were the whole story, one copy of document 217 would surely have been sufficient. That document was an email pertaining to a draft of the Millennium After-Action Report on the attempted bombing of Los Angeles International Airport. The episode suggests that Mr. Berger had some other motive for removing No. 217, even if he was ultimately unsuccessful in doing so. But neither his April 2005 plea agreement, nor the Congressional report, nor the report of the Archives' Inspector General shed any light on what that motive might have been...
"The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn. On Tuesday, the House Government Reform Committee released its report on Mr. Berger's pilfering of classified documents from the National Archives.
The committee's 60-page report makes it clear that Mr. Berger knew exactly what he was doing and knew that what he was doing was wrong. According to interviews with National Archives staff, Mr. Berger repeatedly arranged to be left alone with highly classified documents by feigning the need to make personal phone calls, and he used those moments alone with the files to stuff them in his pockets and briefcase."
Now that Congress has released a final report, and it has such damning conclusions in a matter involving our nation's most-sensitive archivist positions, maybe the MSLP (Main Stream Library Press) will deem it newsworthy...
O, shucks, Sandy Burglar is not a lying Republican so maybe he'll just continue to get a library pass from them....
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Cuba Book Burning Questions STILL unanswered
Submitted by Walter on January 6, 2007 - 3:30am
If government-ordered book burning is OK with you, you need read no further. Have a nice day.
If, however, ALA's refusal to post such news on its "Book Burning in the 21st Century" web site concerns or at least puzzles you, then I ask for your help in restoring the integrity of ALA.
Cuban courts in April 2003 ordered the incineration or destruction of the entire holdings – thousands of items – held in six independent libraries. You can read the documentation for yourself as follows, as the Rule of Law and Cuba web site of the Florida State University, by using the following key words:
http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/documents-matanzas-9e.cfm. Search for "incineration."
http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/documents-santiago-6e.cfm. Search for "incineration."
http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/documents-sancti-spiritus-4e.cfm . Search for "destruction."
http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/documents-matanzas-2e.cfm . Search for "incineration."
http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/documents-havana-10e.cfm. Search for "destruction."
http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/documents-ciegodeavila-2e.cfm . Search for "destruction."
After 18 months of repeated requests to post news of this crime against intellectual freedom on its web site devoted to "Book Burning in the 21st Century" ( http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/21stcentury/21stcentury.htm)
ALA has yet to do so. We have supplied a paragraph for posting, complete with links to the court documents (see final page of attachment), but Don Wood of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom continues to say that he needs verification of the book burning from a major news source (despite posting news on his web page from small local newspapers). We have sought this coverage, but there is understandably little interest in "news" that is now nearly four years old!
Reputable and objective verification does exist in the total of 151 direct references to Cuba's sentencing documents in the comprehensive reports published by Amnesty International ( http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003?open&of=ENG-CUB)
and the Organization of American States ( http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/2006eng/CUBA.12476eng.htm ). The details are in the attachment.
This issue is important to the reputation of our profession and the integrity of our Association. Reasonable people can differ about the legitimacy of Cuban laws allegedly violated by persons operating independent libraries and accepting information materials from the US Interests Section in Havana, but if government-ordered burning of thousands of "subversive" books is not worthy of mention, then our professional association has indeed turned a new ethical corner.
I urge you to send a letter, preferably a letter on your letterhead and in your own words, asking ALA President Leslie Burger why, given reputable and objective documentation at the international level, the Office for Intellectual Freedom refuses to post news of the book burning in Cuba. Even a quick e-mail will help.
Please send the letter SOON – preferably no later than January 11, to be sure that she gets it before leaving for ALA MidWinter in Seattle.
The ALA President's address is:
Leslie Burger, ALA President
AND please send a copy of your letter to the editorial page editor of the Seattle Post Intelligencer or the same officer at The Seattle Times, in the hope that they also may pose the same question during the ALA MidWinter conference:
Editorial Page Editor
101 Elliott Ave. W.
James F. Vesely
(Letter from:
Steve Marquardt, Ph.D.
9383 123rd Avenue SE
Lake Lillian, MN 56253
Dean of Libraries Emeritus, South Dakota State University
Amnesty International USA Legislative Coordinator for Minnesota
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Hello, OIF Blog..Anyone Home????
For more than two days the folks who run the new OIF blog have censored the very first comment that was posted there. Why is that? Why are the folks there afraid of a simple question, which I post below? Is this going to be the way they start off such a good venture -- by refusing to post the first comment to a blog that is dedicated to dissent, questioning, and freedom of speech?
Here is the question they seem to wish readers not read:
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Cascada Video: which library filmed at?
Submitted by Walter on December 30, 2006 - 6:18pm
Does anybody know which library the Cascada video was filmed at?
Jack has posted it and here is the UTube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXLbXyXy6M
I know it is old news, the song anyway, but a quick search did not reveal which library it was shot in, only that it took them all night to shoot and they had to have the place cleaned up by daylight.
It almost looks like a room in the NYPL, but she is from Germany....
She never came to MY library school for a class?
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Where is LJ/AmL on S. Berger?
Submitted by Walter on December 28, 2006 - 1:09am
Jack asks this very pertinent question about why the silence on S. Berger from the establishment library press? I'm willing to say "let them have Christmas off, that is why no news," but, when the 12 Days are over, let's bet : Will there be coverage of this story? Also, if the theif in question had been a high-ranking Republican, is there someone who doubts whether the Archives official who nabbed him would be on the cover of LJ/AmL?
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What Santa Does With the letters?
Ever wonder what the ole fraud does with the letters he gets from kids?
This new documentary finally answers the questions.
Remember, Santa ain't noth'n but a ho!
WARNING--if you do happen to believe in Santa, this short expose is not for you!
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10 things about S8E1 of Game of Thrones
from 94wip.radio.com
The first episode of the final season of Game Of Thrones aired on Sunday night on HBO, and it was probably the most anticipated TV season debut ever.
Here are 10 things about episode 1. Warning: Spoilers.
10. It was a necessary, set-up episode
Some may say not much happened, but with the Battle of Winterfell expected to be episode 3, I didn't expect many fireworks in the first two episodes anyway. I'm guessing episode 2 will end with them getting ready to fight the Night King's Army in episode 3.
9. The Jon and Ayra reunion was everything we've been waiting for
8. Cersei and Euron
Cersei is going to pretend Euron is the father of her child, now that Jamie is out.
7. The Jon and Dany love story
They're really developing the Jon and Dany love story, with that long dragon riding scene. It seems to me they're setting us up for one of them sacrificing themself for the other.
6. Ayra and Gendry
There was also some foreshadowing of them developing a significant relationship at some point.
5. "You gave up your crown to protect your people. Would she do the same?"
Samwell Tarly to Jon Snow about Daenerys. The answer is currently no, but could Jon rub off on Dany by the end to change that answer?
4. I thought Bronn was going to die for a second
But instead, they asked him to kill Tyrion and/or Jamie. Remember, Tyrion once told Bronn if he was ever tempted to kill him, he'll beat the offer.
3. What the heck was that weapon Ayra asked Gendry to make?
2. "I'm waiting for an old friend"
Bran is pretty weird and annoying, but he's watching everything.
1. There's been no better character arch and development than Jamie Lannister
In my opinion, Jamie is the most complex and interesting character of the entire series. I mean the guy had sex with his sister (the show's biggest antagonist) and threw a kid, Bran (the brother of the show's biggest protagonist), out of a window crippling him and you still root for Jamie, I know you do.
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There’d almost be nothing as satisfying for a band than releasing one of the year’s best releases to only follow it up with a sold out home town show just weeks later. For Sydney two piece Polish Club, this is exactly what they’ve managed to do in the past month. Playing to a loyal and vocal home crowd at Sydney’s Manning Bar, Polish Club played one of the most fun and honest shows I’ve attended in a long time.
Opening the night were conglomerate Approachable Members of Your Local Community. Only knowing the band via their hard-to-miss name, they played a tight 30 minute set, which was topped by new single, the synth dream “One I Need”.
Acting as main support for the entirety of the tour is Perth four-piece Dulcie. With tight three-way harmonies and fantastic hooks, Dulcie got the vibe of the room moving to their sweet indie-pop sounds. Playing a sweet cover of Methyl Ethel‘s “Ubu” as well as their own new single “Own Ground”, the girls of Dulcie can hold their heads high knowing they crushed their set; they’ve surely picked up a few more fans on the back of this tour.
Polish Club have slowly but surely been building a name for themselves over the past few years. They unintentionally became known for their aggressive two-minute tracks. At the root of it, that’s exactly what they were: a band that loved playing loud music that was over before it really started.
There wasn’t anything wrong with that. But in reality, Polish Club always seemed destined to make music with a greater depth, more thoughtful lyrics and match it with a killer live show. Here on their ‘Meet Me At The Iguana’ tour, this has come to fruition, and they’ve managed to deliver one of, if not the most, fun live sets I’ve been to in a long time.
Opening up with “We Don’t Care”, the instantaneity of the chorus and crowd yelling it back to the band set the set on course for the lofty heights it reached very early and managed to maintain for its 75 minute run.
With the tour named after and inspired by the title of their brilliant second album Iguana, it was fair to assume that a large chunk of the set was going to be new material. It’s quite a ballsy move to make, especially with it only having been released weeks before. But with big balls, come big rewards.
They’re a band that seemingly don’t take themselves too seriously. It’s actually refreshing to see. Too often, the banter between band members on stage either feels forced or a little bit like an inside joke that the audience isn’t in on. Not here. The jokes were genuine; JP and Novak felt like your best mates, and the audience were proud parents watching them absolutely smash it.
The strength in Novak’s vocals, matched with the relentlessness of JP’s drumming were, and definitely are, the strength of Polish Club. The filthy guitar at the end of “Iguana” was an early highlight, while “Goddamn!” and its ridiculous keyboard progression continued the trend of starting the set off with bangers.
Throwing it back to older tracks “Beeping” and the almost (read: not really at all) doo wop sounds of “Don’t Fuck Me Over”, Polish Club treated the oldest of fans and thanked them for their loyalty. Coming quickly back into their Iguana era, classic-in-waiting “Breakapart” was a personal favourite, while the three part harmony that opened “Sun”, while surely being a piss take, was done pretty well.
The second half of the set was a little more varied in material, as “Beat Up”, “Gimme Money”, “Come Party” (with a little “Seven Nation Army” thrown in for good measure), and “Divided” all got a run. Listening to their older material, you realised how far Polish Club have come in a relatively short time. Their songwriting has gone to a new level on Iguana, while their musicianship and performance has improved beyond belief.
Running “2 Scared” into a sort of off-the-cuff cover of MGMT’s “Electric Feel”, their self deprecating humour made you like them just that bit more as they joked about being the new NSYNC, before thanking and paying their respects to a definitely not dead Darren Hayes as they belted out the Savage Garden classic “Truly, Madly, Deeply”.
The most sentimental moment of the night came in the form “Clarity”, as JP explained that this was his Dad’s favourite song and they’d be playing it for him that night. Closing on “Able”, Polish Club thanked the crowd for turning up on what was a super busy night for gigs in Sydney and disappeared into the abyss that was probably the Manning Bar green room.
Reflecting upon it now, it’s safe to say Polish Club delivered the best set I’ve seen this year. Things are only starting to gear up for the band, and I’ll more than happily jump on the bandwagon.
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“Notting Hill” is a critically acclaimed romantic comedy released in 1999. The film follows the love story of London bookstore owner William “Will” Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) and famous American actress Anna Scott (portrayed by Julia Roberts), who fall in love despite their opposing lifestyles. Take a trip down memory lane as we revisit the box office hit through its real-life filming locations—from Will’s iconic blue door on Westbourne Park Road to Anna’s press conference venue at The Savoy.
Portobello Market
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The film starts at Portobello Market, a vibrant street bazaar, where vendors and locals cross paths as they shop for fresh produce during weekdays. On weekends, the area transforms into a vast heirloom haven selling, as Will warns, “millions of antiques—some genuine and some… not so genuine.” Scour through thousands of stalls, which also peddle fashion items, second-hand goods, and fresh food. Be wary of your valuables, though—this London institution attracts pickpockets looking for a different kind of steal!
Portobello Road, London, United Kingdom
280 Westbourne Park Road
Spot Will’s legendary blue door at 280 Westbourne Park Road! The entryway was so famous that it was auctioned off for charity after the film’s success—much to the confusion of “Notting Hill” buffs searching for it. You’ll be happy to know, however, that the current owners of the property have brought the door back to its original charming color, so snap as many pictures as you wish!
280 Westbourne Park Road, London, United Kingdom
The Ritz London
Will visits Anna at The Ritz London, where she stays under the codename “Flintstone.” Will is mistaken for a journalist from “Horse & Hound” (an equestrian magazine) and is thrown into interviews with the cast of Anna’s film “Helix,” which he knows nothing about. Step into the luxurious halls of the five-star hotel—which serves one of the city’s finest afternoon teas—and feel as giddy as the couple does when they agree on a first date.
150 Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom
91 Lansdowne Road
Admire the pretty Georgian exterior of the residence at 91 Lansdowne Road, which served as Will’s friends Max (played by Tim McInnerny) and Bella’s (portrayed by Gina McKee) house. Here, Anna is introduced to the gang and welcomed wholeheartedly. While the home is private property, it still deserves a stop to remember the endearing scenes during Honey’s (Will’s sister, played by Emma Chambers) birthday celebration.
91 Lansdowne Road, London, United Kingdom
Rosmead Garden
Will and Anna trespass into Rosmead Garden, a private communal space that’s part of the Ladbroke Estate. It may be tempting to cross over the wall as our protagonists did, but heed our warning: the fence is far higher than the movie makes it out to be—and you really shouldn’t be trespassing anyway! You’re still afforded a beautiful view into the yard (sans June and Joseph’s bench) from outside, but die-hard fans may gain access during the Open Garden Squares Weekend—an annual event where restricted green areas are opened to the public.
Ladbroke Estate, Rosmead Road, London, United Kingdom
Nobu (Old Park Lane)
Nobu, one of the most prominent Japanese restaurants in the world, provides the setting for the date where Anna confronts a group of men trash-talking her. Thankfully, a meal in the minimalist joint comes without the hullabaloo—just a scrumptious spread of Sushi, Sashimi, Kushiyaki, Yakimono, Tempura, and more. The place gets packed, so book ahead. Try to spot real-life Anna Scotts here, too, since Nobu is a favorite of international celebrities.
COMO Metropolitan London, 19 Old Park Lane, London, United Kingdom
Print Room at The Coronet
After failing to find his glasses, Will watches “Helix” with Anna at then-just-called Coronet (which was a cinema at the time) while donning ridiculous goggles. Today, the place is now known as the Print Room—a theater that holds cultural and theatrical performances. Leave the wacky eyewear at home, and catch an off-West End show, a poetry reading, or a stage play, depending on the season.
The Coronet, 103 Notting Hill Gate, London, United Kingdom
Kenwood House
It’s quite apparent why Kenwood House was chosen to backdrop Anna’s Henry James period film. Enter the architecturally remarkable manor to discover a world-class collection of paintings, jewelry, and miniatures in its elegantly designed halls. The surrounding parkland, which is populated by eye-catching flora, marvelous sculptures, and a few wildlife critters, is also a sight to behold.
Kenwood, Hampstead Lane, London, United Kingdom
The Savoy
We must admit—our hearts were racing when Will rushed to The Savoy to win Anna back. Its Lancaster Room staged the press conference where the couple realizes their love for each other, leading Anna to announce that she would be staying in the United Kingdom “indefinitely.” The opulent Parisian-style venue is reserved for big events, while the rest of the five-star hotel is equally glorious. Daydream about “Notting Hill” over a delightful afternoon tea spread at the gorgeous Thames Foyer.
Strand, London, United Kingdom
Empire Cinema (Leicester Square)
During the film’s ending montage, we see Will and Anna attend a movie premiere at the Empire Cinema on Leicester Square. End your “Notting Hill” adventure on a high note by watching a film in the now Cineworld-operated theater, but let’s face it—nothing’s going to beat Will and Anna’s love story.
5-6 Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom
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__label__wiki | 0.730045 | 0.730045 | GarageBand.com raises $2.5 million; develops ‘iLike’ service
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:33 pm 14 Comments
GarageBand.com announced today it has secured its first round of institutional investment, a $2.5 million dollar equity financing from an all-star roster of strategic investors including Vinod Khosla and Bob Pittman. The company is preparing to launch “iLike,” a new social music discovery service targeted at the iPod and MySpace generation, and is currently soliciting trial users at http://www.iLike.com
Khosla Ventures and partner David Weiden led the round, with additional new investors including: Bob Pittman, co-founder of MTV and former head of AOL; Herbert Allen III of Allen & Company; and other individuals from the music, internet, and media industries. Vinod Khosla and Bob Pittman will join the company’s Advisory Board alongside such luminaries as Talking Head Jerry Harrison, legendary producer Sir George Martin, and David Goldberg, head of Yahoo! Music.
“We love to back great entrepreneurs,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, in the press release, “and we believe this is a great team to redefine how consumers discover music.” Mr. Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and former general partner at Kleiner Perkins, has previously backed such successes as Juniper Networks, Nexgen, Cerent, Excite, Netscape, AOL, Amazon, and Google.
“We couldn’t have dreamt of a better roster of investors,” said Ali Partovi, CEO of GarageBand.com, in the press release. “Vinod Khosla and Bob Pittman are inspirational figures in our industry. Our new investors bring terrific experience to the table and I look forward to working with and learning from each of them.”
The new iLike service will expand the company’s existing services by including mainstream artists, incorporating links among friends, and offering tools targeted at the iPod and MySpace generation. These new services — to be offered at http://www.iLike.com — will include a companion app for iTunes that allows consumers to organize their digital music libraries and discover new artists based on their listening habits. iLike will help consumers discover music based on what they and their friends like.
http://www.garageband.com/
Ampar
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 6:04 pm
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I can only twice that. As of listening habits etc. I’d say that Pandora is a revolution. If Apple don’t buy them – M$ will. Just think how cool it would be to have Pandora inside iTunes – as opposed to that extremely shitty suggestions shelf in iTMS that always shows exactly the stuff you don’t like.
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Last.fm rocks my socks.
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By Zoe Tate
Event review
The seventh edition of Advertising Week Europe kicked off with a variety of thought-provoking seminars amongst industry leaders and cultural icons, delving deep into topics, trends and issues that are critical to discuss within our industry.
Lessons from marketing experts
Josie Naughton shared how she utilised social media to support vulnerable groups neglected when the humanitarian crisis unfolded in Calais. Iceland's Lucinda Granton was challenged with penetrating a previously untapped demographic, developing and executing their Gen Z strategy. With 20 years of experience in marketing and advertising, Paul Davis shared his views on the evolution of the CMO role.
‘You don’t need to spend loads of money and have a big budget. You just need to be authentic and honest’ - Josie Naughton Co-Founder & CEO, Help Refugees
‘Always remember, at the end of every engagement is a real person with real wants and you need to understand what they want. Put the customer in front of mind and step away from your brand for a second and put it together with creative content’ - Lucinda Granton Project Management Graduate, Iceland
‘We’re in a period of massive change, consumer marketing is shifting in a pace we’ve never seen before. We’ve shifted our culture from a thinking culture to a learning culture - don’t be a know it all be a learn it all’ - Paul Davies Consumer Marketing Director, Microsoft
The values of diversity
Minister for Sport Mims Davies and British athlete Dina Asher-Smith discuss the scale of ambition for women’s sport and reveal a ground-breaking editorial initiative. Syl Saller looks at why brands like Diageo care about the make up of their creative teams and why this step-change must fast-track the industry's drive for equality.
‘The more people you’ve got around the table with the different voices and backgrounds the more change and opportunities there are’ - Mims Davies Minister for Sport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
‘It’s always good to have diverse journalists who bring a different dimension to the stories they’re writing and that’s how it inspires lots of different people. You want a variety of people to tell it in a different way and create different perspectives on content’ - Dina Asher-Smith, British Athletics
‘The only way we can create change is men and women working together to take charge. If you’re not happy about the diversity within your organisation, then what are you going to do about it? You have more power than you think’ - Syl Saller Chief Marketing Officer, Diageo
Lisa Hogg of TOMS and Amy Hooper of Good-Loop prove it's possible to help the lives of millions of people around the world while creating a for-profit sustainable business model.
‘You need to back up the ethics your standing for otherwise it is just marketing. Did Nike’s Kaepernick advert raise money for black lives matter? If you’re going to do ethical marketing there has to be an impact then you can do the KPI's’ - Lisa Hogg EMEA Marketing Director, TOMS
‘Brands are a way for us to consume consciously in an age of uncertainty. You can make a difference through the money you spend’ - Amy Williams CEO, Good-Loop
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HyperJar's Sarah Warby shares her view on workplace hierarchy. Caitlyn Ryan of facebook talks about the impact of a lack of flexible working on women's careers and the negative perception of 'returners' and Twitter's Bruce Daisley explains how idiot bosses ruined work for the rest of us by encouraging long working hours and the negative impact of open-plan offices.
‘It’s a shame if job titles matter in the workplace, they cause hierarchy and get in the way of clear thinking’ – Sarah Warby Chief Growth Officer, HyperJar
‘Don’t think of your career as a ladder where you feel the threat of someone taking your position. Think of it like a climbing frame. You can sit on a side platform for a bit’ – Caitlin Ryan Regional Creative Director EMEA, facebook
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__label__wiki | 0.77613 | 0.77613 | Building the Beast: Revelations from Trevor Baptiste’s understudies
May 11, 2018 Sasha Kandrach 2 Comments
Photo courtesy of Denver Athletics
It’s undisputed that Trevor Baptiste is the best faceoff guy in the country, arguably in the history of the sport of lacrosse. Even his opponents will attest to his uncharted domination. He has redefined the role of a faceoff specialist. Any team that plays against the University of Denver Pioneers knows the matchup will be a challenge, particularly skewed at the X. For most teams, attempting to temper Baptiste is an obstacle they will only face once, maybe twice a season. But imagine that battle as a daily role, taking on the “Beast Baptiste” every single day — that is the reality for Denver’s alternate faceoff specialists Ryan Harnisch and Sean Penna.
Practice-after-practice Harnisch and Penna take the X at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium and compete against Baptiste. There’s an element of uniqueness to the daily test. On one hand, it’s humbling to have the opportunity to play against the best at every practice. On the other, it can be crushing. But Harnisch and Penna don’t complain or allow frustrations to overcome them — the backups have embraced their role and the daily challenge.
“To me, it’s like getting in the ring every day with Muhammad Ali,” DU head coach Bill Tierney said. “It’s like, ‘Why would I do this? But I do it because I’m going to get better. I’m going to help Trevor get better. Which helps our team get better.’ That’s the kind of attitude that Sean and Ryan have.”
Harnisch and Penna are distinctive in their individual faceoff techniques and qualities. Harnisch is a sturdy 5-foot-9, 175-pound junior who utilizes his explosive strength and tenacity. Penna is a sophomore sized at 5-foot-7, 155–pounds who works the X with a quick and methodical approach.
Both players have risen to the occasion through emulating what the upcoming opponent might look like and test Baptiste’s abilities. The transferral has not only improved their individual performance but has enhanced Baptiste’s.
“It’s a unit. It’s a faceoff unit,” Baptiste said. “If I win a bunch, they win a bunch. I know all of the hard work they put in just getting me ready for the game and giving me a look at what I’m going against. It’s huge. It’s definitely irreplaceable.”
“University of Denver lacrosse is built around a team concept,” Tierney said. “When you look at the faceoff team, Trevor has two teams. He has the guys that play on the wings, that’s his game-day team. Harnisch and Penna are his sideline team. Every time he comes to the sideline they tell him what’s going on. Trevor takes care of the business, but they tell him what’s going on the wings. They tell him what they think the [opposing] faceoff guy’s strategy is. They tell him what he could have done better or where the open guys are. Their input in a game is just as important as the wings in the active part.”
Harnisch (left) and Baptiste (right) facing off during practice – photo courtesy of Denver Athletics
During games, Harnisch and Penna like to think of themselves as the backup quarterbacks, they read the play and analyze opposing tactics to consult with Baptiste.
“I value their opinion so much,” Baptiste said. “If I’m having a bad day or just lost a few faceoffs in a row Ryan and Sean are the first guys I’m going to. They always have great answers.”
With the days numbered of having Baptiste as a faceoff weapon, Harnisch and Penna continue to help Baptiste and their team. And Baptiste simultaneously improves the pallet of his predecessors.
“Confidence. When I see Trev out there he is very calm and relaxed,” Penna said. “I think if I can do the same I’ll be in a good position.”
“They’re big shoes to fill,” Harnisch said. “Seeing his grit and determination every day. He works pretty hard. That’s something to try to match — if there’s really anything I can emulate.”
The unwavering commitment and relent from Harnisch and Penna is a testament to the values of the program and unity of the team. This level of devotion is vital in the postseason, but more importantly, leaves a lasting impact in the players’ lives.
“I always say to our guys; skill and athleticism fade away over the course of time, but teammates never do,” Tierney said. “They’ll always be remembered as guys who had a chance to be great faceoff guys, but they’ll always be remembered as great teammates. At the end of the day in ten years, twenty years, thirty years from now — when guys have families — you look back at the bigger picture opposed to one game. That will shine. I give those guys a lot of credit.”
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Erica Payne’s ‘F*ck Tea’ Campaign Reveals More About Her Character Than the Tea Party’s
Posted: December 22, 2010 in Media Bias, Politics, Tea Party
Tags: Agenda Project, Andrew Breitbart, Democracy Alliance, Erica Payne, Fox News, George Soros, Glenn Beck, Mitch McConnell, new democrat network, Obama, profanity, Progressive, propaganda, rob stein, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, SEIU, simon rosenberg, t-shirts, Tea Party
[original post 8/13/2010]
Congratulations, Tea Partiers! You know you’ve become a genuine threat to the Progressive movement when they start making t-shirts about you.
The Agenda Project has launched “F*ck Tea”, an anti-Tea Party campaign that aims to “dismiss the tea party and promote the progressive cause.” Check out their nifty little video promoting their positive cause:
As Agenda Project founder Erica Payne explained to Politico’s Ben Smith:
“We will be launching new products in the next several months to help people all over the country F*ck Tea. Products like a Glenn Beck Bowl Buddy (Beck B Scrubbin) and others are perfect holiday gifts or just a great way to say, ‘I love you and our country’ to your spouse, friend or family.”
The website features a variety of t-shirts and mugs imprinted with the slogan “F*uck tea,” and Ms. Payne infers there will be more to come in the future. It also splashes a host of unsourced “Tea Party Facts” across the left side of the page, in an attempt to demean and minimize those who belong to or support the Tea Party movement, and imply that those who don’t are somehow of superior intellect based solely upon said “facts.” Meanwhile, the site dotingly highlights the word “progress” as “a movement toward a goal; advancement; growth; development; continuous improvement,” calling it “The Real American Party.” Frankly, I see nothing “real” about this or about any of the progressive people involved in it.
Now, I’ll admit, I’m one conservative constitutionalist who embraces the “F” word as part of my regular vocabulary, as much of a shock as that may be to leftists who may have already stereotyped me otherwise. But I was not aware that the word had become synonymous with positive development and improvement. (What a relief!) If brandishing the “F” word across my chest and gallivanting in public is a sign of intellect and the new symbol of the party of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, then I’m more than happy to save my $22.50, thanks. (Besides, if one’s cause were so important that such a word absolutely had to be used, the Libertarian in me wonders, why not just spell it out?) Also somewhat amusing about the entire venture is that the very people railing against the tea parties and against capitalism are shelling out over $20 a shirt for someone’s concocted-idea-turned-business-venture. It’s the very Capitalist tale that so many of the progressive left heartily opposes.
SEIU, HuffPo and Media Matters: Is an Unholy Alliance About to Unravel?
Posted: December 22, 2010 in Anna Burger, Labor Unions, Media Criticism, People, SEIU
Tags: Anna Burger, Arthur Delaney, Bank of America, business roundtable, Democracy Alliance, domestic terrorism, Erica Payne, financial reform, Fortune Magazine, Greg Baer, Huffington Post, John Podesta, John Vandeventer, K Street, Media Matters, Moveon.org, National Action Network, Nina Easton, protest, rob stein, Robert Scheer, SEIU, SEIU Local 1021, Tea Party, Treasury Department, union thugs
If you haven’t read by now all the headlines on this story, you’ll want to start at the beginning and read the first post, SEIU Storms Private Residence, Terrorizes Teenage Son of Bank of America Exec. Because as each day passes, new facts are popping up. The story seemed so outrageous at first. After all, the thought of over 500 screaming and chanting protesters surrounding a Bank of America lawyer’s private residence while the man’s teenage son, home alone, hid frightened inside a bathroom – it’s just so extreme, even by SEIU’s standards.
I knew something was up when the following day, Fortune magazine editor Nina Easton, a neighbor of the targeted residence, published an account of the incident and was almost immediately attacked by what seemed like practically a coordinated dogpile of writers from several specific sources.
In almost mirror fashion to the Town Hall events last August, when both the Huffington Post and Media Matters seemingly tried to cover up and dismiss the violent acts that SEIU committed against Kenneth Gladney, the same players were again out in full force. As our Larry O’Connor wrote, both outlets behaved less like journalists and more like arms of the SEIU press office, dismissing SEIU’s bad behavior and attacking an innocent party with fabricated conflicts of interest as a method of distraction and intimidation.
Bob Borosage, Erica Payne, and John Podesta
And now we learn this: Erica Payne, the guest who was invited to appear Friday on Megyn Kelley’s Fox News show and proceeded to blame the Tea Parties for the behavior of SEIU? She was co-founder of Democracy Alliance, the very organization that spawned and is a donor to Media Matters. SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger is also the Vice-Chair of its Board. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1465 |
__label__wiki | 0.500186 | 0.500186 | Genetic Causes of Intellectual Disabilities: Fragile X Syndrome
Tammy Reynolds, B.A., C.E. Zupanick, Psy.D. & Mark Dombeck, Ph.D.
Fragile X syndrome is the second leading genetic cause of intellectual disabilities (ID, formerly mental retardation). However, it is the leading genetic cause in males. It involves a genetic anomaly of the FRM1 gene. This is located on the X (sex-determining) chromosome. This gene normally occurs as multiple copies. However, with Fragile X, the code is repeated in excess. People can be carriers of Fragile X without any symptoms. In other words, family members may have excessive repeats of the gene. However, the repeats are not enough to cause ID. Fewer repeats mean fewer problems.
Fragile X is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities in males. If females have a working copy of the FRM1 gene, the abnormal copy is not expressed. Even so, Fragile X remains a significant cause of ID in both females and males.
There are several physical features of Fragile X. The face is elongated and the ears are large. The forehead tends to be larger than normal. The jaw has a pronounced shape. People with Fragile X are generally large in stature, but with poor muscle tone. Males tend to have abnormally large testicles. This becomes evident during adolescence.
Behavioral features include a reluctance to make eye contact. They may engage in odd, stereotyped movements. Other behavioral traits include hyperactivity, tremors, and poor coordination. Their social and communication skills are not well developed. They tend to be withdrawn and shy. Similar behavioral symptoms are characteristic of autism. People can receive a diagnosis of both ID and autism. There are three subtypes of Fragile X. The first is easily detected. It is expressed at birth. The cognitive deficits are more severe. This type is shares many symptoms of autism. This includes social avoidance, repetitive movements, and severe delays in speech and language.
A second type of Fragile X affects a person's sense of balance. They also have tremors and memory deficits.
The third type is Fragile X-related Premature Ovarian Failure (POF). It is limited to females. The ovaries do not function correctly. This leads to infertility and early menopause.
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The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) Diagnostic Criteria for Intellectual Disability
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Historical & Contemporary Perspectives of Intellectual Disabilities
Historical And Contemporary Perspectives on Intellectual Disabilities
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History of Stigmatizing Names for Intellectual Disabilities
History of Stigmatizing Names for Intellectual Disabilities Continued
Reducing the Stigma of Intellectual Disabilities: The Evolution of Modern Medical Explanations
Paving the Way to a Modern Conception of Intellectual Disability: Advancements in Intelligence Testing
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Social and Political Controversies Associated with Intellectual Disabilities
Reproductive Rights for People with Intellectual Disabilities
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Intellectual Disabilities and Supportive Rehabilitation: Developing an Individualized Support Plan (ISP)
Educational Supports and Individual Educational Plans (IEPs)
The Choice of Educational Settings: The Pros and Cons of Mainstreaming Children With Intellectual Disabilities
Effective Teaching Methods for People With Intellectual Disabilities
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) and Intellectual Disabilities
Physical Therapy and Sensory Skills Training
Individualized Support Plans: Adaptive Functioning & Life Skills
Supported Employment and Integrated Work Sites
Supported Housing and Community Integration
Therapies for Intellectual Disabilities and Outdated/Unproven Treatments
Support for Families of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Additional Support Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families: Community Supports
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Talking with a library lobbyist about “selling the library”
Jason Kramer, New York State Higher Education Initiative Chrysanne Lowe, Corporate Brand Elsevier | Aug 01, 2008
Earlier this year, I had the great pleasure of meeting Jason Kramer, the executive director for the New York State Higher Education Initiative, an association of the state's public and private academic and research libraries. Jason brings a skillset not often taught in library school and a practical perspective on growing the impact and influence of libraries in today’s society.
— Chrysanne Lowe, Vice President, Global Customer Marketing, Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA
Chrysanne Lowe: Jason, please tell us a bit about your background.
Jason Kramer: Let me start by telling you what isn’t in my background. I am not a librarian, researcher or businessman. My background is in politics. I’ve had a few policy research and management positions, but my real experience is in government relations, public affairs and political communications
In terms of practical experience, what does that mean?
I have worked on and run many campaigns. I have lobbied legislators; worked with the media; courted donors; written speeches; created TV, radio and print ads; and so on. All of this is a fancy way of saying I try to influence people. I try to sell them something, like an idea, a piece of legislation or a candidate.
And what are you selling today?
I “sell” libraries to the state government. More specifically, I work to inform education policy makers about the critical role of academic and research libraries to academic enterprise, research and development and our state economy.
In 2007, you became the NYSHEI executive director. Please can you give us an idea of how your role fits into NYSHEI's work?
Founded in 2002, the New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) is an association of public and private academic and research libraries in New York. Among our 130+ members are nine ARL institutions. At least in New York, professional advocacy for academic and research libraries is a very new idea. Hiring someone like me is an admission that academic and research libraries must be “sold.” Hiring a professional like me demonstrates the determination of NYSHEI libraries to make certain that key off-campus decision makers understand the value of academic and research libraries — and support them.
Yours sounds like a challenging role.
Selling libraries is both easy and problematic. It is easy in the sense that libraries have no natural predators. No one hates libraries. But while academic libraries have no passionate enemies, too many libraries have cultivated no passionate allies. When I first visited legislative leaders and other key policy makers, I was stunned to learn these people never heard from academic libraries, did not quite know what they were and consequently never thought about academic libraries, including at budget time.
“Achieving your self-interest is often a matter of helping someone else achieve their self-interest.”
Out of sight is out of mind.
Yes. In nearly every way, NYSHEI is starting from scratch. A culture shift was needed, in New York academic libraries and at the state’s capital.
In the political world you are in ascendancy or decline. Competition is part of life. Winning voters is like winning customers or retaining patrons. Every day you must work to earn them and keep them. The moment you stop, someone else will come along to woo them.
How have librarians reacted to this approach?
Most librarians don’t view the world in this way. Perpetual competition is not in their DNA. The library is synonymous with stability and longevity. But born from this sense of institution, there‘s a risk that complacency can set in. Libraries should not wait for students and faculty — their customers — to come to them and they cannot wait for campus and state decision makers to support them.
What’s the result of this complacency?
In 1996, the New York state government appropriated US $1.8 million to support academic libraries. In 2007, the state increased its appropriation to academic libraries from the previous year. The result was a return to $1.8 million. Over those intervening 10 years, costs continued to go up while state support was stagnant or shrinking. This year, as last year, the governor again proposed a cut in funding for academic libraries. What happens is that the libraries find themselves increasingly stressed to acquire the resources needed to fulfill their mission.
So what are you and NYSHEI doing about all this?
NYSHEI’s approach is to adopt the notion of libraries as a means to an end, not the end itself. Libraries are wonderful. Everyone likes them, but so what? What good is that in a competitive world of finite budget dollars with hundreds of lobbyists, thousands of organizations and millions of political dollars vying for limited attention? If librarians and their corporate partners want to see library budgets grow, they must identify who can make that happen. Then identify what these decision makers’ interests are, and find a way to explain to these decision makers that their needs and libraries’ needs are one and the same.
How are you applying these ideas?
The crook Willy Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. He replied, “Because that is where the money is.” In New York, the state budget is growing to $127 billion. So, in the spirit of Willy Sutton, NYSHEI has turned its eyes to the New York state government. Doing so, we don’t talk about “library things.” No one cares about collection size or FTEs or whatever. In the political world, folks do not care about libraries. Instead they care about things like jobs. Jobs support families and communities and create tax revenue. Jobs are what voters want and the voter is the decision maker for the politician.
How is NYSHEI talking about libraries and jobs?
We speak of libraries as not holding books and periodicals, but information resources. We’re cultivating the idea of libraries as a vital information infrastructure, as necessary for economic advances as power utilities are for manufacturing. Information resources are the raw materials of research. We talk about creating a COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS statewide information infrastructure which will power innovation and lead to patents and licenses, revenue and jobs. We argue that our information infrastructure will support faculty research, thus making recruitment of top-shelf talent more likely. This is not revolutionary thinking. But it needs to be spelled out. Academic and research libraries connect campus and state decision makers to the things they want. We are the means to their end, and therefore worth an investment.
Your work may not be revolutionary, but it is impressive. I hope Elsevier can help you in this endeavor.
We at NYSHEI are thankful to have partners like Elsevier to face this challenge with. Everyone has an interest — NYSHEI, the state government, campus presidents, Elsevier and other publishers, and librarians and researchers. Achieving your self-interest is often a matter of helping someone else achieve their self-interest.
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Jason Kramer
New York State Higher Education Initiative
kramerj@nyshei.org
Chrysanne Lowe
Vice President, Corporate Brand
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While some heavy-eyed ShipRockers decided to sleep in, others got an early morning start on the Norwegian Pearl and waited in line for the first meet-and-greet of the cruise. Halestorm, Hellyeah, We Are Harlot and Red Sun Rising all were on hand for photo ops with fans in the swanky Spinnaker Lounge.
Cali rockers of Stitched Up Heart also had a meet-and-greet with fans later in the day but they kicked things off early on with a lively set outside on the Deck Stage. Elsewhere, Avatar completely stole the show with their set. There was a fan poll where ShipRockers could vote for a band they wanted to see that hasn’t played the cruise yet, overwhelmingly ShipRockers chose Avatar and for good reason. The band's ringleader, Johannes Eckerström, had his infamous grin from ear to ear that could put both the Joker and Cheshire Cat to shame. The crowd sang out loud to “Hail the Apocalypse” and watched in amazement as the entire band unleashed song after song. From beginning to end, Avatar mesmerized fans with their force and we can only hope that the band has a cruise of their own in the future.
The vigor on the Deck Stage continued as Hellyeah were the final band to perform on outdoor stage. Frontman Chad Gray spewed lyrics to “Hellyeah!” to start the set only to have (fake) blood spewed in his face for “Sangre por Sangre (Blood for Blood).” If Gray’s high jumps didn’t impress you then bassist Kyle Sanders continuous dread banging should have. Hellyeah poured their sweat and blood and they definitely made their mark on ShipRocked.
If all the music performances were an overload for you, there was also an abundance of activities. You could’ve eaten your heart out at a variety of restaurants or work off the calories by going bowling. You could participate in a friendly competition of Deck Wars with members of Nonpoint and stimulate the mind with a hilarious, chaotic game of Bingo with 10 Years.
But for most of us the music wasn’t enough so we headed to Stardust Theater for We Are Harlot fronted by former Asking Alexandria vocalist Danny Worsnop. The band cranked out catchy new tracks from their self-titled debut album.
Seether headlined the Stardust Theater on the second night and after years of seeing the band, this was one of the best Seether performance to date. Frontman Shaun Morgan didn’t just belt out the “Gasoline,” “Rise Above This,” “My Disaster” and “Needles” but he felt and headbanged to every heavy riff. The rest of Seether kept the packed theater pumped up for the rest of the night.
The Atrium Stage was the place to be to discover up and coming bands. Two piece act, the Standstills, the very young members of Doll Skin performed in the Atrium earlier while the very dynamic Islander hit the stage later in the day and talented Red Sun Rising took the stage at midnight. For ShipRockers who wanted to burn the midnight oil there was a DJ on hand, as well as late night and early morning karaoke.
The third day separates the veterans from the newbies as we wake up (or sleep in) in Costa Maya Mexico! Check out our recap and gallery of the second day of ShipRocked 2016 and stay tuned for coverage of the third day!
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"Housing First is an approach to homelessness that prioritises providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness quickly, thus ending their homelessness and serving as a platform from which they can pursue personal goals and improve their quality of life."
National Alliance to End Homelessness (USA) Blog by Sharon McDonald, 21 June 2019
Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001
"Homelessness in major cities, especially severe crowding, has risen disproportionately in areas with a shortage of affordable private rental housing and higher median rents."
"Governments must find ways to urgently increase both the supply and size of affordable rental dwellings for people with the lowest incomes. We also require better integration of planning, labour, income support and housing policies targeted to areas of high need."
The Conversation article by Sharon Parkinson, Deb Batterham and Margaret Reynolds, 30 May 2019
3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here’s how they did it
Nine more have ended veteran homelessness. It’s part of a national program called Built for Zero that uses a data-based approach to help officials figure out exactly who needs what services. Now it’s launching in 50 more cities.
"Communities in the program use a coordinated approach. Bergen County, New Jersey, with a population of nearly 1 million, was the first in the country to end chronic homelessness, reaching the goal in 2017. (Six months earlier, it had also ended veteran homelessness.) The county created a “command center” that brought together various organizations working on homelessness, and then began using real-time data about each person experiencing homelessness so that everyone could work together to get them housed. Like many places, Bergen County also committed to a “housing first” approach, meaning that people move into permanent housing as a first step before also getting help with finding a job, mental healthcare, or other issues."
Fast Company 'World Changing Ideas' article by Adele Peters, 11 March 2019
Find and Connect receive their first international award.
A big congratulations to Find and Connect on receiving their first international award (the Society of American Archivists Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award), and the only successful project outside of the US and Canada to win this prestigious prize.
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Homelessness: Australia’s shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues
"Exactly a decade ago in 2008, the Australian government committed to an ambitious strategy to halve national homelessness by 2020. Through stepped-up early intervention, better homelessness services and an expanded supply of affordable housing, the problem would be tackled with conviction. Instead, as succeeding governments regrettably abandoned the 2008 strategy, homelessness in Australia has been on the rise."
"Last week’s federal budget offered no response to this concern. And the problem is fast getting worse, as highlighted in our new Australian Homelessness Monitor, prepared for independent community organisation Launch Housing. Emulating a respected UK annual monitoring project, this report is a comprehensive national analysis of the state of homelessness in Australia together with the potential policy, economic and social drivers of the trends across the country."
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Wealthy Tax Concessions Costing $68 Billion a Year
“Our report shows that characterisations of the poorest Australians as a burden on the economy are inaccurate and, if we are to worry about unnecessary imposts on the budget, there is a very strong case for reducing tax concessions and other direct benefits to our wealthiest citizens,” Anglicare Australia Executive Director Kasy Chambers.
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Five-year homelessness funding to provide more stability
For the first time since 2013, an agreement between the federal and state governments has been reached to provide funding in a five-year blocks to let agencies plan long-term to fight rising homelessness.
In Queensland, that means assured five-year funding for 89 non government organizations to provide 170 specialist homelessness services.
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South Australia to opt in to National Redress Scheme for sex abuse victims
South Australia will opt into the National Redress Scheme for sexual abuse survivors after a deal was struck to recognise the state’s already established compensation scheme, Premier Jay Weatherill says.
Mr Weatherill had previously held out from opting in to a national scheme, arguing SA should not have to “pay twice” because other states had been slow to set up redress schemes.
The federal scheme provides much greater compensation for victims, granting payments of up to $150,000, as well as access to psychological support.
In contrast, the state scheme’s compensation is capped at $50,000 for cases before 2015, and $100,000 for cases after that.
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The PM and premiers forgot about sexual abuse compensation
"When the nation’s premiers and chief ministers fronted the media on Friday, following their COAG meeting with the prime minister, there was one notable issue missing from the post-meeting remarks.
It’s almost impossible to imagine the horror that was inflicted on these children, and the psychological burden they’ve carried since.
And yet now the very governments and institutions that let them down in the first place are squabbling over the cost and political implications of establishing a national scheme that will provide little more than token compensation."
The New Daily article by Paula Matthewson, 9 February 2018
Statement on past mental health practices – The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
"The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists commends the Queensland Government's acknowledgment of the past harmful mental health treatment of children in state care, and supports its commitment to meaningfully reconciling with all those affected."
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Finance for the construction of new dwellings rose by 2.4 per cent in May, adding a fourth consecutive month to its current run of growth. Total housing finance grew by 1.3 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms over the same period.
“As a leading of indicator of future residential building activity the latest data supports Master Builders positive short term outlook for housing construction,” Matthew Pollock, Master Builders Australia’s National Manager Economics and Housing said.
“Restrictions by the regulators to curb investor activity have begun to bite, with investor’s share of new housing commitments falling by 1.4 per cent in May and adding to the fall of 2.3 per cent recorded in April,” he said.
“As intended the restriction on investors has made more room for first home buyers in the market. The number of first home buyer commitments jumped by the biggest margin in more than 12 months, recording 8,439 new commitment in May, the highest number of first home buyer commitments since October 2014, moving back above a 14 per cent share of total commitments for the first time since July 2015,” Matthew Pollock said.
“However, taking a broader outlook, with net migration of more than 200,000 people locked in to the Budget forward estimates, there is a risk that if housing finance commitments enter a softer period that new housing supply will once again fall short of demand,” he said.
“To keep pace with population growth we will need to build more than 180,000 new home per year for at least the next five years. To fill the housing shortage which currently sits at more than 100,000 homes, and to ensure that shortages in the stock do not put upward pressure on house prices, we will need to build even more new homes,” Matthew Pollock said.
“If managed well the housing boom could continue for a few more years yet and offer a much needed source of growth and jobs as we navigate through the tail end of the resources boom. But regulatory reforms are urgently needed to support a more efficient supply of new housing construction going forward,” Matthew Pollock said.
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“The Dreamer awakes.
The shadow goes by.
The tale I have told you, that tale is a lie.
But listen to me, Bright maiden, proud youth.
The tale is a lie; What it tells is the truth.”
— Author Unknown, Traditional folktale ending
When we are children and an adult reads or tells us a story from the realm of “fairy tales” or folklore, a profound logic seeps into our psyche that never leaves. An aspect or a key moment in one of these stories becomes a core foundation of our identity. It seems impossible that some bit of a childhood story has worked its way so deeply into our perception of logic. When given a period of time to “digest” this idea it no longer seems impossible. It is valid truth. This is not a bad thing. The illogical silliness of some old folklore bears a great deal of truth that is easier for a child to grasp when told in the form of a “Once Upon A Time..” context. Folklore, mythology and fairy tales are grounded in some subversion of truth. It isn’t the fox in Little Red Riding Hood or the witch in Hansel and Gretel that scares us and merges into our logic. It is the deception perpetuated by these character archetypes that grabs our tiny minds and never lets go.This is an important understanding for every human being: Don’t trust strangers. It is certainly a crucial idea that every child must understand.
On the flip-side of this logic, sometimes those terrifying allegories form such a strong hold within our minds it aids in a perpetuation of illogical paranoia.
Horror is fast approaching…
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Unfounded feelings or suspicions that can linger with us well into our adulthood. While it is absurd to think your Grandmother or anyone upon whom you depend could morph into a fanged sort of demon intent on eating you, it doesn’t mean that in a crisis of an elder’s illness you won’t have a nightmare in which this happens. This is the subconscious creating a metaphor out of the stressors involved in your worries for and about her care. On a conscious level, that a walk in the woods might seem fun but something inside you worries that it could easily become a walk into unspeakable dangers. A jump into the ocean for a swim can sometimes be met with a fear that somewhere just below us, John Williams’ musical notes are trying to warn us of that giant shark that is about to attack. We know that the forest and the ocean contain dangers, but these are dangers that are very low from a realistic perspective. This is when those parables, allegories, metaphors and movies come to the surface of our adult identities. It is easy for many to push back these illogical concerns, but for some it gets a bit more murky.
Exploring fairy tales, folklore and mythology is nothing new for filmmakers. They often hold the same sort of spell over us as do the stories that inspire them. Movies have always played a strong role in my life. Partly because I grew up constantly seeing them, but also because I desperately needed to escape my reality. My father was insane. It was mistaken for “eccentricity” at the time. But he was a scary man. He was brilliant at deception. For the first nine years of my life, I viewed him as constant threat. But that is a whole other blog. For now, let’s stick with the fact that my father was insane and he had no clue regarding “appropriate boundaries.” The few boundaries he had were skewed at best.
Interestingly, it would be my greatest source of fear who led me to the power of movies and the escape they offered. This started very early in my life. He seemed to have no idea as to what was acceptable for a child to see. Naturally, as child I didn’t mind this at all. But often I would see images and stories that left me feeling deeply confused and afraid. Children are far aware that culture gives credit. A child may not be able to articulate an understanding, but they understand much more than most think. I can remember my father making a last minute decision that we were going to the movies. My mother was not home. As we walked up the ticket counter he must have requested one adult and one child. I’m not sure, but I the woman behind the ticket counter became quite upset, “Sir, this is not a movie for a child! How old are you, sweetie?” I still remember the shocking way her tough voice suddenly took on a honey-dewed sweetness. Before I could form an answer, I felt the seemingly giant hand of my father firmly clenched my head. “His age is none of your business. How much do I owe you?”
“Do you know what she did, your cunting daughter?”
Linda Blair inciting heart attacks and long lines at the box office.
William Friedkin, 1973
The Exorcist did not scare me at that time. To be honest, I was just confused. My biggest concern regarding the movie was trying to understand why people around us seemed so disturbed. When I whispered, “Her voice don’t match her lips.” was greeted with hushes from all corners. It would be years later that the horrific side of this film became apparent to me. As a child, it seemed more silly than scary. I understood I was not tell mom we saw it. Later my father took me to the drive-in. Drive-in’s always showed movies in “double bills.” Pay one price per head and see two movies. The movies were usually older and more obscure than what one would find in a traditional cinema. As my father adjusted the speaker to his window the show began. The first movie was about vampires. Later I realized that this was Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers. I’m not exactly sure how old I was, but I am thinking I was about 8. Once again, I wasn’t particularly scared. To be honest, I remember being more concerned about this odd dude who walked around my father’s car. My father pulled out his pistol and the odd man quickly vanished.
The second feature would have a much dramatic impact and it intoxicated my tiny brain. It was scary to me, but it seemed to require my attention. I might not have been able to state what the film was about, but I suspect I understood it better than most of the adults sitting in their cars. This girl was in trouble and none of it was her fault. I was worried for her. And the images that were projected on that outdoor screen were searing into my being. I did ask my father about it. He said something to the effect that it was an artsy-fartzy movie. He was bored and wanted to leave, but I begged him to stay and let us watch it. It would be years later that a friend’s older cousin produced a beat-up old VHS tape for us to watch. The images were pretty muddy, but these were the same ones I had seen as child. I was pulled into the screen of my friend’s television. As I watched it all flow out too quickly for my stoned consciousness to read the blurry subtitles my friend kept muttering, “What the fuck? No, Matty! What the fuck? Make it stop!” She rolled around laughing. Occasionally sneaking a peak, she would scream in a sort of mocked horror.
The movie we were watching was Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Returning to this film with a clear and adult perspective, it is easy that my childhood reality lent this surreal film a great more power than it intended.
Jan Curík | Cinematography
Shot in 1969 and released in 1970, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders marks the end of The Czech New Wave. No doubt it ended up on a double-billing with another old movie at the drive-in. I’m not sure where my friend’s cousin got his tape. I would be in my 30’s before it was even remotely “restored” and released via DVD. After a good deal of work, Criterion has recently re-issued a pristine version with improved subtitles. Watching Jaromil Jireš’ bizarre movie within the context of the 21st Century is challenging. Based on Vítězslav Nezval 1930’s Surrealist novel, the entire production is almost drenched in Gothica.
“Sirin and Alkonost, the Birds of Joy and Sorrow” by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1896
Was thought to have had an impact on Vítězslav Nezval
Nezval was key member of the Czech Surrealist Movement, and Jireš’ utilizes his dialogue and adheres to Nezval’s core aesthetics. Nezval wrote the following in his “Forward” for his book, Valerie and her Week of Wonders:
“I wrote this novel out of a love of the mystique in those ancient tales, superstitions and romances, printed in Gothic script, which used to flit before my eyes and declined to convey to me their content. …If, with this book, I will have given [the readers] an evocation of the rare and tenuous sensations which compelled me to write a story that borders on the ridiculous and trite, I shall be satisfied.”
Nezval’s book still holds interest, but it is far more complex than the movie it would inspire. At times the book seems like it is intended to be comical, but then takes a twisted turn to the grotesque. It is filled with narratives of the Gothica tradition. It is also creepy in the use of eroticism. Unlike the book, the film adaptation forms an immediate tie to the Pohádka. This is the term for the Czechoslovakian concept of “fairy tales” which is more than a little different from our perceptions of parables. The Pohádka holds an important place in Czech culture and is often steeped in religious ideologies. From what I’ve been able to gather, the “Evil” characters are even more cruel and the “good” characters are quickly identified as victims who may or may not take vengeance. The victims may not even survive. I apologize if I offer a weak definition of Pohádka. Please feel free to leave a comment to correct or clarify my description.
Jaroslava Schallerová as Valerie, the dutiful granddaughter practices her piano lessons.
The plot is deceptively simple: a beautiful 13 year old orphaned girl has her first period and, as she starts her path toward womanhood, she is confronted with a series of horrify and menacing people and situations. These individuals and the circumstances in which she meets and experiences them is in a world that may or may not be strictly limited to her imagination. Poor Valerie seems to be living in a sort of disorienting dream state.
The film begins with a beautiful young girl napping in some form of surreal post-hippie gazebo. In the first of many “forms” a thief arrives. Dangling upside down he magically slips Valerie’s earrings off. She awakens just in time to see him running away. She runs after this thief to determine his identity and why he took her earrings. Valerie seems more intrigued than upset. As she roams about her village people began to take a grotesque formations. We have already met her grandmother. Grandma is strange from the first moment she enters our view. Valerie seems to realize that something is not quite right with Grandma, but she doesn’t let on. Later as she floats in a small pool of water in her village’s fountain. As she prepares to emerge from the water, she becomes entranced by the water’s ripples. The thief returns. This time he magically slips her earrings back on. Seemingly content she begins her walk home.
A First Menses has never appeared this easy or so pretty as Valerie admires her blood drips on the daisies.
In what must be the oddest cinematic depiction of a female’s first menstruation, Valerie notices drips of blood falling on the daisies over which she gently glides. She does not appear alarmed or upset. She simply marvels at the beauty of the red blood droplets on the flowers. She then dashes home to the safety of her pristinely white and innocent bedroom. She falls into a deep sleep. It is very hard to know if the rest of what we see is a nightmare or her reality.
Valeris is becoming suspect of her Grandmother.
Her ghostly Grandmother begins to form into a sinister threat. Other females enter her world who seem to share her Grandmother’s face. And each new version of Granny offers a new level of terror. Her yearning to know who her parents were takes on an odd level of horror. As she looks through her Grandmother’s dining room window she sees a procession of interesting and happy-looking people. Her Grandmother states that these are the missionaries and that they will be providing sleeping quarters for one of the priests. As Valerie looks at the people she begins to notice a number of things that seem “off” but most noticeably is a horrific looking man hiding his face behind an equally disturbing mask.
Oh, not to worry. He is just a former lover of Grandma’s.
Cinematography | Jan Curík
This “man” looks more like a monster than a person. But Grandma dismisses Valerie’s concerns. There is no need to be alarmed. Granny reveals that this vile creature is just a former lover.
Valerie receives an invitation to a sermon for all of the village virgins. Valerie, being a virgin and a “good girl” goes to the sermon. It isn’t long before Valerie meets the man who took and returned her earrings. He proclaims his love and desire for Valerie. The physicality of this man has changed twice already. Valerie seems hesitant, but she clearly finds this form attractive. He warns that the monster she saw is not some just some former lover of her Grandmother but true Evil in human form.
Before long Valerie discovers that this monster might be her father. And that the boy who seeks her affections might be her brother. Or, her father. Identities change so often that we are more confused than Valerie. When she returns home where she is led to a secret chamber. She is forced to witness her Grandmother in a series of sadistic and perverse sexual tortures for her “former lover” who now looks like a priest. From Valerie’s perspective it is hard to know if Granny is ‘getting off’ or in jeopardy. This sadistic priest is called Gracian. This vile priest proves to be one of the most cruel of Valerie’s world. When Valerie refuses to give in to his disgusting sexual advances which quickly turn to the threat of rape, he conspires to have the whole village turn against Valerie. He claims she is a witch entrancing everyone with her beauty. They attempt to burn her at the stake! Oh, poor Valerie! What is she to do?
Wait? Is this really my week of wonders or are all my friends and family trying to burn me at the stake??!? Oh, poor Valerie!
Fear not, despite the flames and rope — Valerie never seems too concerned with this situation. She makes fun of the priest and spectators who were once her friends and neighbors. She magically escapes the fate of the burning stake only to find more horrific challenges ahead. It would seem that her creepy old Grandma has made a pact with Evil. She will surrender Valerie to him in exchange for the return of her youth and beauty. It all gets quite upsetting for little Valerie. Upon learning of her Grandmother’s cruel pact with Evil, she discovers that her recently wedded neighbor has been assaulted by a vampire! But not before this adult neighbor attempts to seduce Valerie. As with most of Valerie’s interactions, she is just curious enough to allow an erotic opportunity to start, but then she immediately finds a way to break free of the erotic commitment. This is the case regarding what appears to lesbian sex is actually feeble attempt to suck Valeri’s blood for strength. Oddly, once Valerie manages to calm her “friend” they both seem to fall asleep. Or that is what appears to happen.
Oh, Valerie! Trust your instincts! Your Granny wants your youth and beauty!
Valerie’s week of “wonders” is really turned into a week of confusion. She soon learns that her parents are quite alive. When they show up, Valerie notices that her mother looks just like her Grandmother, her father looks just like her would-be suitor who she had originally thought might be her brother. And as for the Evil Monster, like the others who populate her world, he is continually vacillating his intentions.
For Valerie, evil becomes the one constant that is seemingly always wanting to kill, seduce or trap her.
He is clearly some sort of vampire. But just as soon as he seems hellbent on sucking away all of her life’s blood, he is more interested in seducing her. Then, and without warning, he seems intent on raping her. Just when Valerie thinks she know what this Evil Monster wants, he offers to save her. Valerie is amongst every sort of imaginable identity of harm and danger. Possible familial connections turn toward incest, neighbors become enemies in the form of potential lovers or vampires or just plain old ghouls. Every one she encounters is loaded with vile intent.
All while filmmaker, Jaromil Jires, fills her world with symbolic colors, constantly alternating tones and metaphors of all shapes and sizes. From beginning to end the movie is a total trip into stunningly beautiful and ugly oddness. The strange appearances of the actors and Jan Curík’s stunning cinematography make it almost impossible to look away. Is should be noted that Ester Krumbachová served as the film’s Production Designer. Film buffs will note that she was also responsible for the look of Vera Chytilova’s groundbreaking 1966 film, Daisies. Her work here is actually more impressive.
Wow. This is some week alright…
I’ve essentially been making fun of this truly amazing movie. But it is clearly intended to make us laugh as much as it makes us squirm. Valerie and her Week of Wonders is a surreal view of the implications of pending womanhood. The most surprising thing is this film is made by a man based upon the book by another very famous male writer. So is this is a limited male perspective on the challenges of women? Being a male, I’m not qualified to answer. At times the film’s depiction of women is most certainly grounded in a male perspective. However much of what the film explores feels relevant to the all-too-real threats that constantly loom over women.
As soon as the lead character receives the biological sign that “womanhood” is shortly pending, everyone around her seems to shift in motivations and interests regarding Valerie’s identity. Men seem intent on either seducing, molesting or raping her. And if that is not the intended goal, the sexual is over-ruled to hurt, theft, torture or murder. The women in Valerie’s world change as well. Women now seem to view her as a threat to their own individual identity and worth. Or they desire her in sexual ways that she can’t quite understand. She is an innocent, but those in her world no longer view her as such. She is now essentially “an object” on which they feel free to project love, lust, desire, anger, jealousy, pain, degradation, humiliation and even death. Valerie is no longer a sweet little girl. Valerie is now a potential prize or victim.
Beautiful Innocence is now an object available for the taking. Or so they think…
It is important to note that Valerie manages to escape and conquer all the challenges that come her way. She is no one’s victim. She sometimes falters as she attempts to understand or is sometimes even partially pulled toward some of the eroticisms — but those are fleeting moments. Valerie is steadfast in protecting herself. Her goal is to survive. And to survive with her dignity in place. Jaromil Jires offers one scene twice in the film: a small group of sensually enraptured women are engaging in an intense but somehow banal level of erotic play in a flowing stream of water. These women seem taken over by sensual delight in every aspect of themselves, each other, the sheer clothing that covers that wet bodies. They tease each other with soft kisses and even attempt to catch the fish swimming by to drop down their “barely-there” dresses and skin. We see Valerie walk past the stream twice from opposing sides of the stream. Our Valerie is clearly amused and passively interested in what these sultry lady-girls are up to. However, when one or more of these women notice Valerie and invite her to join them — Valerie becomes embarrassed or troubled and rushes her way past them. In between her her views of these lusty maidens, she runs across the river. As she crosses she notices the horror of one of the men from her world left for dead in the rapids of the stream that lead to these water vixens. Is there a connection to their perpetual state of wet eroticism and the dead man just a ways up stream?
Uh, oh. What fresh hell is this?
Sadly, Valerie’s “wonders” or “curiosities” is most likely going to be longer than a week. This surreal dreamscape now might be her fate. It is hard to determine the intention of the film’s ending. As her horrifying and eroticall-fueled week comes to an end, all she wants to do is escape back to the safety of her pristinely innocent bedroom that has been bathed in warm white light. Her bedroom may be small, but it contains all she loves and treasures. True, Valerie awakes in her own bed. The problem is that her bed is now placed in the wilderness of her villages’ forrest. It is here we leave her. Alone in her bed surrounded by the natural elements of the forrest. The ending is as beautiful as it is disturbing.
The dilemma Jaromil Jires’ film presents for modern viewing is almost as challenging as Valerie’s week. The part of “Valerie” was played by a 6th grade girl, Jaroslava Schallerová. The movie has no problem in sexualizing this child. Filmed in what can best be described as “dewey erotic lighting” — the actress is often semi or nude and constantly being pulled into sexual intended kisses and caresses. The film veers into the realm of the inappropriate in the way this child actor was filmed.
Valerie in the privacy of her innocent room strikes an alluring pose.
The current view of Film Scholars is that Jires did not film the girl as a “sex object” but more as a “symbol of innocence” trapped in a world filled with sexual desires and constant threat. This defense is weak. I’m not able to buy-in or agree with this attitude.
In defense, the film never even approaches the level of “pornography” or “soft core adult entertainment,” but it does go too far. The actress now in her early 50’s has always been proud of her fleeting moment of fame. Her mother was present for the entirety of the shoot. A fairly recent interview with the adult woman discusses some of these concerns. Adding to my own conundrum regarding the way a child was filmed is the fact that I still admire Louis Malle’s 1978’s Pretty Baby. Brooke Shields was 13 when she appeared as a prostitute and is filmed nude several times. Pretty Baby is highly regarded in the world of film. Because no male touches her while nude, it falls into the legal realm. Brooke Shields, a highly educated and clearly intelligent woman does not look back on the experience as negative. Both of these women appear to be healthy and unharmed.
Welcome to the adult world in which your earrings as well as your innocence are up for grabs.
I still wonder if either Ms. Shields or Ms. Schallerová would allow their 12 or 13 year old daughter to be in these films.
Louis Malle’s 1978 film, Pretty Baby, created some controversy at the time it was released. But it never generated any legal doubts that Brooke Shields was exploited. It remains a potent film, that feels suspect.
I would not. I somehow suspect they would not either. Audiences should be warned that this envelope is pushed. Though no where near to the point that Louis Malle pushed it in 1978.
Despite this ethically concern, I can’t help but love the artistry and the film itself. It is a highly effective surrealist attempt to capture both the human psychological and emotional experience of gaining a mature understanding of the world. A world that will very quickly become her/his own. In many respects the morphing of the familiar into the unknown or monstrous is resonating. Of course this lies at the heart of many fairy tales. And Valerie and her Week of Wonders never strays too far from a world that feels like that of twisted folklore. The film is edited and shot in ways that allow the viewer to constantly find new ideas or points with each viewing. It applies a circular sort of logic which invites multiple interpretations. Valerie and her Week of Wonders is a totally unique cinematic experience.
Now we fast-forward 44 years later and approximately 250 miles away to a modern-day village in Germany. Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai is a newer but equally puzzling re-examination of “identity” within a fairy tale-like world.
Trying to catch a wolf without harming it. But will that satisfy the deceptive wolf?
Till Kleinert, 2014
Cinematography | Martin Hanslmayr
In his amazing and jolting directorial debut, Til Kleinert is exploring deception in a more familiar setting. It also should be noted that there is a growing concern in parts of Germany regarding wolves. For decades the German Wolf was near the point of extinction. In the last decade these wolves have returned to the point of near over-population. This has generated valid concern for the towns that exist near forested areas. While much of our fears regarding wolves is out of proportion to reality, when they start roaming in packs or are hungry — the question of “proportional fear” becomes trivial. We catch a glimpse of the German village in which this story takes place at the beginning. The homes are gathered closely together as if in group formation. The modern windows have metallic-like shades that close from the inside. This is not uncommon in Europe, but to our eyes it seems kind of creepy. This village would appear to be formed out of a shared fear of the woods that surround it.
Our innocent hero appears to be a sincere, kind, gentle and lonely man. There are also hints that he hides his intentions very well. He seems almost stubbornly stern when it comes to expressing himself. Jakob may be young but he is a grown man. He is a cop. And he takes his job more than seriously. Jakob seems truly dedicated to protecting the law those who reside in his environment. His village is experiencing a series of minor but annoying mishaps relating to a wolf. It seems the filmmaker’s intent that we notice that this community’s shared fear is aimed at a wolf — there seems to be no clear articulation of the plural version of wolf. This appears to be a fear of one wolf. Jakob does not seem to fear the wolf like his village. He seems more concerned about trying to stop the wolf from bothering the villagers. We first see him tying up sheer-thin bags of bloody raw meat from low hanging branches to allow easy access. Jakob appears to hope that these bags will satisfy the wolf and prevent it from lurking out into the village. Or not? We are presented with an unanswered question regarding our hero’s actions. Is this an attempt to keep the wolf out of the village or is this merely an attempt to feed the wolf.
Jakob’s concerns relating to this wolf are very different than his fellow residents. The threat of this wolf is taking on a strange level of horror. Knocking over outdoor trash containers and the alarmed barking of family dogs is resulting in a seemingly illogical reaction. Jakob not only seems perplexed by the level of fear this wolf is causing, he is at a loss at just how concerned everyone seems to be. Michel Diercks plays Jakob with a cautious and thoughtful performance. Diereses’ performance seems to hint at something that the viewer can’t quite understand. His concern for the wolf’s safety seems as odd as the villagers fear. Kleinert frames his story within the context of being afraid of something “out there” that is not only on the prowl but poised for menace.
Something is out there. Just beyond the trees. Is it a wolf? A werewolf or something altogether different?
Der Samuari
One evening as Jakob starts to leave the sherif office for home, he discovers a package delivered to his attention. The package is actually addressed to “Lonely Wolf.” And so the tale begins. Jacob receives a phone call. A whiskey and cigarette damaged female voice advises him of the address to which he needs to deliver the package. It is difficult to articulate why the phone call is so erie. Part of it is in the delivery of what is said and the other part is the way in which Jacob reacts. As we hear the caller’s voice it is clear that she is flirting, but also daring the cop to follow her directions. The package is for her and she strongly urges that he must deliver it to her. There is a tinge of cruelty in her chuckle as she provides her address.
Jacob seems more curious than concerned. It is a disturbing moment in a horror film that very quickly pushes the boundaries of tension to surprising level of creepy horror. As Jakob approaches the dilapidated old cottage occupying carrying the thin long package which he has been “advised” to deliver, a unexpected unease fills us. You don’t want Jacob to go in. You want him to call for ‘back-up.’ The cottage not only looks sinister, it feels sinister. Carrying the box up the seemingly grimly rotted stairs he soon meets the owner of the voice that called him. Sitting crouched in front of an old dresser mirror, her face is hidden. It is clear that she has been applying a great deal of make-up. An abandoned doll hangs by a noose. Pictures from fashion magazines hang around this obviously well muscled person. The pages have been defaced and are fading away. The room is damaged from years of neglect and water damage. It is impossible not to note that what appears to have been yellow wallpaper has been illogically covered with streaks of red. Blood red.
Pit Bukowski is getting ready to really give the villagers something to panic about…
It is difficult to pin-down what it is about this movie that is so unnerving. The two lead actors are great. The film is incredibly well styled. But Till Kleinert finds a way to really get under our skins. The villagers’ fear is not misplaced. Indeed, there is something waiting in the woods to roam out after sunset to wreck havoc upon their quiet little village. But is it not the wolf they have imagined. This wolf is a man made-up and wearing an elegant sort of long slip. The true object of fear is a homicidal and feral transvestite. As this visage pulls the huge samurai sword from Jakob’s package, we instantly know that this “something” is no longer happy merely causing havoc and generating this mini-societal fears. This is our wolf and it has a blood-lust of epic proportion. If you are thinking this subversion of fairy tale is mired in what can easily issue a reaction of concern, you are correct. Only the most homophobic of viewers will not feel a pang of “Political Incorrectness” warning flags poking at them from the screen. Before the audience has a chance to become offense, Kleinert’s film literally jumps into a frantic level of strange and undeniably fascinating horror film.
Jakob is fully aware of the potential for danger as this almost feral, androgynous and seductive figure carefully caresses her new weapon. He tries to talk this self-proclaimed Samurai out of jumping out of the house. Jakob attempts to apply logic that somehow feels confused. Der samurai seems to take on a sort of perverse beauty in his elegant white slip as well as a sense of supernatural strength. She has no time or interest in listening to Jakob’s concern and protests. She has an axe to grind with this tiny village cloaked away within the German forests. She is out for vengeance and blood.
Pit Bukowski as Der Samurai who takes no prisoners.
As tensions mounts so do the ever expanding Surrealist stylings. Der Samurai is almost unrelenting in generating our guilt and fear. And while the gore goes to extremes, it is intentionally unreal. Jakob follows this raging “wolf” down deserted streets filled with her violent vengeance. Everything has been slashed and torn up. And Jacob has forgotten his gun. It gradually becomes clear that the kindly Jakob is not as much “hunting” this wolf down, he is starting to encage in a grim sort of dance. This is both figurative and literal.
Facing the werewolf or an identity long repressed? Or maybe not.
Cinematography| Martin Hanslmayr
As we follow this pursuit or dance, more and more of the the villagers are being laid to brutal waste. It may be silly and even look “unreal” but Der Samurai has entered into a truly disturbing frenzy. To be honest, there were more than a few times I had to ask myself, “Did that just happen?” And just as the audience thinks that it has got the whole thing figured out, Till Kleinert turns it all around again. This demented twist on the “fairy” tale continues to escalate along with our unease and fear. Jakob has no choice. He must stop this dance and slay this maniacal “wolf” in tranny clothing. As he approaches to to take this mythical evil creature down, we discover that Der Samurai has shed the costume. Ravenously eating the contents Jakob’s blood-drenched meat bag, Der Samurai is nude. It is a deliberate choice that Kleinert shows that our nude monster is now packing more than a huge sword. His “excitement” has swelled to form the potential for a whole other type of “swordplay”. This is only one of many darkly comic and inappropriate moments in the movie. Jakob is clearly more afraid of a penis erection than a samurai sword or the muscular threat of this wolf who we now know was only hiding in monster’s clothing. This is a problematically loaded bit of metaphor.
Feeding the wolf or attempting to put out the fire with gasoline. It doesn’t matter. Der Samurai is ready to fight our hero.
Jakob would at first seem to want to repress or stifle the beast that threatens his village. But in the end he must face the evil and destroy it. Once again a sort of circular logic is displayed. We do not know where this tale has taken us. The final shot of the film is as confusing as it is entertaining. The grande finale is really as surprising as it is awesome. As Jakob appears to go on full attack of the monster terrorizing the quiet village, the musical score gives sway to a silly and diametrically opposed pop song by The Ark. Suddenly Der Samurai slips into a sort of parody of 1980’s Rambo-like hero anthem. On paper is seems like a truly ludicrous idea, but in practice it is a magical way to relieve the audience tension and remind us that we are seeing a sort of fairy tale. The lessons of which only really reveal themselves after we achieve some distance from the work. Is there actually a wolf at all? Is our “hero” also our “monster?” It is unclear. Once again the Surrealistic circular logic prevents an established answer. However one very realistic idea is formed: When a society oppresses the individual and that individual gives in and represses their own identity — the results can be catastrophic. Eventually the needs of the “self” must be addressed in one way or another. More than likely the self will assert in a skewed ideology that not only matches the societal ideology, but surpasses it.
Slaying the Beast of the Village? Or not?
Der Samurai is wide open for interpretation. I’ve heard and read it described as “Queer Surrealist Horror” to a “perverse reworking of ‘The Big Bad Wolf.'” I do not agree with either label. This is a sleek and effective spin on folklore presented in both a Surrealist and Absurdist way. ,While Til Kleinert is willing to risk his metaphor and parable being misunderstood as “self-loathing” or “homophobic” or “misogynistic,” it clearly is not. Kleinert is willing to trust the intelligence of his audience to understand the film. This film is far too smart, polished and subversively rebellious to be considered as inappropriate art or offensive. This is a spin on a fairy tale and folklore is taken to an unexpected place. It is a thrilling and unforgettable film. Kudos to ArtSploitation for releasing it via VOD, DVD and Blu-ray. The Artsploitation label usually restricts itself to gore horror of the lowest denominator, but in this case they have helped secure the release of a valuable work of Art Horror.
One thing is for sure: There is ‘something’ on both sides of that window. And neither offer a ‘happy ever after’
Like Valerie and her Week of Wonders, Der Samurai is more of an experience than a typical narrative film. It washes over you. You are left both exhilarated and confused. Both of these film present themselves with a non verbalized, “Once upon a time…” and bring us to the conclusions that while the world offers us “choices” they are seldom easy to chose. To deny the reality of the deceptions that hide along our life paths is not only problematic — it is dangerous.
And like most fairy tales, these are not for children. In truth, the origins of fairy tales and folklore were really simple ways to explain the complexities of human existence and survival. These parables attempted to explain what is often unexplainable.
At the end of a journey, we may find our way back to bed. But our bed has been moved to a place than can offer no happy ending or safety. More to the point: there is no such thing as a “happily ever after.”
Fairy tales do not always offer happy endings. When viewed as initially intended, there was never such a thing as Happily Ever After.
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Despite the so-so trailer, I went to see Nebraska at this year’s New York Film Festival with high expectations: a new Alexander Payne film, a movie shot in black-and-white, and Dern!
I appreciate Payne’s past efforts, notably The Descendants, and, chiefly, Sideways; they both won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay. But I think more than Payne’s consistent growth as a director, it was Bruce Dern (yes, the father of Laura Dern) that most excited me about the film. I’ve enjoyed Dern’s work from Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte; Coming Home; Smile; Family Plot; Silent Running, and—thanks to DVDs and streaming—to his multiple guest appearances on The Big Valley and Gunsmoke. (Just for fun, I suggest watching Darn’s 1983 opening monologue on Saturday Night Live—currently streaming on Netflix—to further understand his misunderstood career). Nebraska exceeded my trailer-muted expectation by systematically engaging my interest, and consistently surprising me on many levels.
With a script by Payne’s fellow Nebraskan Bob Nelson, Nebraska centers on Woody Grant (Dern), a cranky septuagenarian, a husband, a father of two grown men, and an average Midwesterner who’s spent too many years at the bottom of a bottle. Woody walks with an unsteady gate, occasionally shows signs of senility, and is convinced that he’s won a million dollars in a magazine sweepstakes. His son David, played by SNL’s Will Forte, grudgingly agrees to humor his father and embark on a road trip from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska, to claim the fictional million dollar prize.
Bruce Dern, Will Forte
With several films shot in black-and-white this year (notably Frances Ha and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing), 2013 is proving to be quite a year for glorious black-and-white films. Nebraska effectively uses its black-and-white cinematography to focus our attention on the story, to emphasize the wide Midwest landscape, and to add a layer of consistency that cements the film’s many moments of comedy and drama into one balanced visual tone. Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael shot the film using an anamorphic lens to capture the vastness of Nebraska’s landscape and big skies that, coupled with black-and-white, centers our attention on Midwest details: plowed fields, cold cemeteries, chipped paint on an old decaying house, and the National Geographic-like lines and gray stubble of Bruce Dern’s face—a landscape itself filled with history. While Nebraska was shot in digital format, it has an authentic celluloid look, achieved by using a technique in postproduction that added a layer of film grain. One walks away wondering why more films aren’t shot in black-and-white. The absence of color in Nebraska doesn’t take away from the film’s reality but rather heightens it and directs our attention to the colorful characters and the oddly engaging story. This classic look enhances an early-winter urban environment that most likely wouldn’t have been as attractive in color.
June Squibb
Bruce Dern, who won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival last May, delivers a very un-Dern-like performance. He is effectively understated, controlled, poetically unattractive, unsentimentally touching and funny—even hilarious. Dern’s Woody Grant is a gift that caps a very long and creative career. If it were possible to capture a standing ovation and mold it into gold medal, Dern’s Woody Grant is the gold. Should Dern win the Oscar for Best Actor, it will be for a fine, well-crafted performance, not one of those lifetime achievement Oscars. Another knockout performance is delivered by relatively unknown June Squibb (About Schmidt, also directed by Payne), as Woody’s wife, Kate. She enters the film in a seemingly minor role that one expects to fade as the film progresses. But rather, she returns to surreptitiously capture our attention and nearly runs away with the movie. Kate heightens the film‘s humor by surprising us with one wickedly hilarious line after another. As I’ve not seen About Schmidt, I sat there thinking who is this amazing actress and why have I not seen her before? In a brief, final moment on screen, Squibb gently carves another dimension to her character when she shows her tough-love devotion to Woody, who is in the hospital. You realize that this unrestrained, tell-it-like-it-is, cantankerous wife is devoted to Woody; she’s the reason why he’s made it this far in life. No one else in the world has the strength and experience to tolerate him, which Kate has.
With Nebraska’s nostalgic black-and-white look, restrained yet sharp-edged humor, its timeless theme of father-son relationships, cast and crew have created a melancholy-comic portrait of Middle America that, like its lead actor, should prove to age gracefully.
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Paltan vs Laila Majnu box office collection report: Bad Monday for JP Dutta’s war drama and Sajid Ali’s love saga
Mirror Online | Updated: Sep 11, 2018, 02.47 PM IST
Blame it on Bharat Bandh or bad reviews on social media, the collection of this week’s releases – Paltan and Laila Majnu – witnessed a massive drop on Monday.
Registering a fall of over 50 percent, JP Dutta’s war drama Paltan earned only Rs 60 lakh on its first Monday, September 10. After a weak opening and further bad weekend, the film’s total collection has reached only Rs 5.6 crore, as per trade portal BoxOfficeIndia.com.
The Sajid Ali directorial, Laila Majnu, earned Rs 20 lakh yesterday, taking the film’s total collection to Rs 1.75 crore, the portal claimed.
Paltan vs Laila Majnu day 2 box office collection report: JP Dutta’s multi-starrer war drama takes leap over Sajid Ali directorial
This week’s Hollywood release, The Nun, fared better than both the Bollywood films at Indian market. With a total four-day collection of Rs 30.57 crore, the horror flick earned Rs 3 crore on its first Monday, which is incidentally higher than Laila Majnu’s total collection. Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao’s horror comedy Stree, which released on August 30, continued to have a strong hold at the ticket window with earnings of Rs 3.25 crore on its second Monday. The film has earned Rs 84.16 crore so far and is inching towards the coveted Rs 100-crore club.
This week turned out to be a sore one for the box office as none of the releases matched up to the desired trade numbers. The movie trade business is looking forward to the Abhishek Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal-starrer Manmarziyaan, which is slated to release on September 14.
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Ikea Donates Toys to UNICEF for Children Affected by Emergencies around the World
Aine Creedon
July 25, 2013; UNICEFusa.org
On the assumption that toys are not simply a fun way for kids to spend time; but are tools for stimulating the minds of young children, the IKEA foundation has donated two million dollars to UNICEF’s Early Childhood Development for toy distribution to children affected by emergencies around the world. The IKEA Foundation has decided to provide eight toys from the current children’s range sold in IKEA stores worldwide for each kit. The donated products will be distributed among children under the age of six living in difficult circumstances. They include finger puppets, school scissors, colored building blocks, a pad and a roll of paper, and a shape sorter.
Playing is how children learn, and their experiences affect their brains’ development. According to World Health Organization research on children’s psychological development, deficiencies in psychosocial stimulation may result in limited potential in school, poor employment chances, lifelong disability, and mental problems. That is why it is important to provide children affected by emergencies with stimulating materials. Young children absorb the images that surround them, and the UNICEF’s ECD kit permits them to return to a sense of normalcy.
This could encompass the 1.5 billion children living under extreme conditions in camps for refugees and displaced people. Among the crises to which UNICEF is currently responding are the nutrition crisis in the Sahel, and Mali’s complex emergency; the conflict and refugee crisis in Syria; malnutrition and displacement in Somalia and South Sudan; cholera and recruitment of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; flooding in the Philippines and Colombia; instability in Central and Eastern Europe; and the cyclone, heavy rain, and reduced harvests in Madagascar. Young children, having experienced such stressful conditions, need help coping, and playing helps children integrate pain, fear, and loss.
The ECD kits aim to satisfy the needs of young children and support healthy development and learning under emergency conditions.
IKEA is, according to this report, UNICEF’s largest corporate donor. On a side note, NPQ has discussed the fact that corporations are increasingly giving gifts in kind instead of cash, and this is true for IKEA as well.—Laura Auketayeva
Aine Creedon is Nonprofit Quarterly's Digital Publishing Coordinator and has worn many hats at NPQ over the past five years. She has extensive experience with social media, communications and outreach in the nonprofit sector, and spent two years in Americorps programs serving with a handful of organizations across the nation. Aine currently resides in Denver, Colorado where she enjoys hiking with her dog Frida. She is serves on the advisory board for the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network Denver and is the Marketing Liaison for YNPN Denver's Professional Development Committee.
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Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the newly-created regions would be given their fair share of development if the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) wins the 2020 general elections.
He noted that the NDC is a party that is known for promoting massive development across the country, and would not disappoint the people of the six new regions in terms of infrastructural development.
Mr Mahama said creating new regions would not guarantee automatic development in those areas, adding that it was important that Ghanaians vote for the NDC in the 2020 general elections so it can continue its infrastructural development.
Addressing delegates of the NDC in the Sefwi-Bekwai Constituency of the Western Region as he started his four-day campaign tour of the region, Mr Mahama said the NDC is known for developing the country and promised to develop the Western North Region, whose creation, he said, was supported by the NDC.
“I know that by God’s grace, it will be an NDC government that will bring the needed development to the Western North,” he said.
On the upcoming presidential primary of the NDC on 26 January 2019, Mr Mahama urged the delegates to endorse his candidature to enable him to bring the NDC back to power.
He expressed optimism that the NDC will return to power in the 2020 polls and urged the members to unite and work hard for victory.
For his part, the party’s Constituency Chairman at Sefwi-Wiawso, Mr Kwaku Shaibu, urged Mr Mahama not to be a father-for-all in the event that he wins the 2020 general elections, since, in his view, the Akufo-Addo government has been vindictive and, thus, must be paid back with its own coin.
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Britney Spears’ Team Stunned By ‘Unapproved’ Question On ‘Good Morning America’
Before Britney Spears agreed to appear for an exclusive sit-down interview with Good Morning America, all questioned had to be pre-approved by her team and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned they were stunned by an unapproved question that left the pop star panicked.
The interview “absolutely had conditions in place about what Sam Champion could ask her. The formal sit-down interview took place before Britney appeared live on Tuesday from the desert,” a source told Radar.
“Britney’s team panicked when Sam deviated from the pre-approved questions and asked her who her first kiss was. There was a brief moment of panic from Britney’s team, but she handled it like a pro.”
According to the insider, pre-approved questions have always been a demand from Spears’ team.
“Britney doesn’t do any interviews with any media outlets that don’t agree to the conditions set forth by her team,” the source said.
“This is done to protect Britney, and so she won’t be asked any awkward questions.”
The 31-year-old mother-of-two made the exciting announcement about the latest phase in her career after she got helicoptered into the morning show, with as many as 1,000 fans (dressed as schoolgirls) on the ground cheering on the pop princess.
“This is such a sweet thing to do. I don’t even know what to say,” Spears said. “I’m speechless … this is shocking.”
Team Spears also “set a time limit on the interview with Britney. It had to be controlled,” the insider added.
“The interview took place in under 30 minutes, not including hair, makeup and lighting.”
Also footage of Britney on Miley's new MTV documentary were released last night by MTV
The clip shows Britney Spears & Miley recording a song in the studio. Miley tells Britney about her MTV performance before the whole mess happened.
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Skyscraping Ho Kaeo Tower, Phu Pha Thoep and Kaeng Kabao, Eight Ethnic Minorities, Famous Sweet Tamarind, Large Ancient Kettledrum, Origin of Lam Phaya, Stunning View of the Mekong River, Gateway to Indochina.
The founding of Mukdahan dates to the late Ayutthaya period, over 200 years ago, when the site of the new town was selected at the mouth of Huai Muk on the bank of the Mekong River in 1767. The town was completed in 1770 and named “Mukdahan” (moonstone or pearl) according to a propitious sign that appeared while the town was under construction. Even today the locals call the town “Mueang Muk” or the pearl on the bank of the Mekong.
For most of its existence, Mukdahan has been a significant gateway to Indochinese countries. The local people of Mukdahan have had a long relationship with the people in Savannakhet province of neighboring Laos, with whom they share a 70 km long Mekong River border. Further, Mukdahan is home to 8 ethnic minorities; namely, Thai Isan, Phu Thai, Thai Kha, Kraso, Thai Kaloeng, Thai Yo, Thai Saek, and Thai Kula. The area also has abundant natural beauty. Mukdahan is also a famous province for producing high quality Mudmee silk.
Mukdahan, the pearl on the bank of the Mekong, has been an historical gateway to Indochinese countries, and the population of the province reflects this: 8 different ethnic minorities live in Mukdahan; namely, Thai Isan, Phu Thai, Thai Kha, Kraso, Thai Kaloeng, Thai Yo, Thai Saek, and Thai Kula. Mukdahan has abundant natural beauty and is also famed for its high quality Mudmee silk.
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Air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned coaches regularly leave from Bangkok's Mo Chit 2 Northeastern Bus Terminal on Kamphaengphet 2 Road throughout the day. Telephone 936-2852-66, 537-8005 for more information.
Trains leave Bangkok's Hua Lumphong Railway Station throughout the day for Ubon Ratchathani.
Thai Airways operates daily flights to Nakon Phanom or Ubon Ratchathani from which visitors can get a bus to Mukdahan.
Although not a major center for tourism, Mukdahan has a variety of accommodation options.
Although one of the quieter tourist destinations in Thailand, Mukdahan features many historical, natural, and cultural attractions, including beautiful temples, rock paintings that are thousands of years old, and prehistoric fossils. The following are some of the most popular attractions in Mukdahan:
As one of the less frequently visited tourist destinations in Thailand, Mukdahan has limited activities for visitors to participate in other than visiting the natural and cultural attractions around the province.
Most restaurants on Mukdahan serve a variety of cuisines, including Thai and international foods. Most guesthouse and resorts have restaurants that serve both. The following are some of the restaurants on MMukdahan
As in most provincial capitals, Mukdahan features a central market where locals can buy everything from groceries to household appliances and visitors can shop for clothing and other necessary supplies. In addition to the shopping venues listed below, there are often locally produced handicrafts available at central markets, the occasional night market, and from village workshops in smaller towns throughout the province. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1543 |
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May 31, 2017 file photo, security forces inspect the site of a massive suicide attack, that killed over 150 according to the Afghan president, in front of the German Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. A letter drafted by a senior Islamic State militant and obtained by The Associated Press points to a growing power struggle within the groupÄôs Afghan affiliate, pitting notoriously fierce Uzbek fighters against Pakistanis seen as too close to that countryÄôs powerful intelligence service. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
Posted By: Gerard Taylor 11. June 2017
Organization demands a halt to forced expulsion to Afghanistan
The Afghanistan Committee have demanded that the Government bring an immediately stop to the forced expulsion of asylum seekers to Afghanistan.
The aid organization is very concerned that a number of young Afghani asylum seekers have recently disappeared from asylum reception centers in Norway.
The committee believes that Norwegian authorities consider it more important to give examples of the costs of young Afghanis’ upkeep and health care than to take into account a worsened security situation in Afghanistan.
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‘We cannot sit by and watch young people being sent from the country back to a very uncertain future, at risk of abuses and violations of their rights,’ said the Afghanistan Committee chairperson, Beate Fasting.
She reminds the Government that Norway is bound by several international agreements and conventions.
‘With the asylum policy now facing people from Afghanistan, we are deeply concerned that Norway is presently in violation of several of these conventions.’
In a prolonged statement, the committee’s annual meeting showed that they were firmly united in opposition to the government’s asylum policy, and called for ‘the Government to reflect on international law, and long-term coherence in Norwegian policy toward Afghanistan and other vulnerable states.’
About the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (from their website)
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NAC is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious and member-based organization. Our mission is to assist the Afghan people to rebuild and develop the country.
The cornerstone of our organization is the fundamental belief in the principle of freedom, independence and a better life for the Afghan people.
The purpose of our organization is to support the long term interests of Afghanistan and we aim to contribute to strengthening the basis for development and self-sufficiency through knowledge, strengthening of democracy and human rights, sustainable management of resources, and improved health for all citizens.
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John Grisham Apologizes for Remarks on Child Porn
CNN – John Grisham is taking back statements he made about Child Pornography and Sex Offenders.
In a recent interview with the UK’s Telegraph, the lawyer and prolific author of books and Hollywood adaptations such as “The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief” and “A Time to Kill” sparked outrage when he expressed his belief that some people who view child pornography online are receiving punishments that don’t match the scale of the crime.
“We have prisons now filled with guys my age, 60-year-old white men, in prison, who’ve never harmed anybody (and) would never touch a child,” Grisham said during a conversation about high U.S. prison rates. “But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons and went too far and got into child porn. … They deserve some type of punishment, but 10 years in prison?
“There’s so many of them now, sex offenders … that they put them in the same prison, like they’re a bunch of perverts or something.” He then used an old law school friend as an example: “I have no sympathy for a real pedophile. But so many of these guys don’t deserve harsh prison sentences. A friend of mine, this was 10 years ago, was drinking, and his drinking was out of control. And he went to a website, and it was labeled, 16-year-old wannabe hookers or something, some stupid website. And it said 16-year-old girls. So he went there and downloaded some stuff.
“It was 16-year-old girls that look 30… He shouldn’t have done it. It was stupid. But it wasn’t 10-year-old boys, and he didn’t touch anything.” To Grisham’s recollection, the website his friend visited was actually a sting operation to capture sex offenders. He said his friend was then sent to prison for three years. Those comments and the nature in which Grisham discussed the very serious issue of child pornography incited a flood of hurt, disappointed and angry reactions from fans.
“The day that you came out in an interview and said that watchers of child porn get too stiff of a penalty for it (you said 10 years was too much) makes you someone that I cannot support nor no longer want to read,” a reader named Kendra Benefield Lausman shared on Grisham’s Facebook page; another posted that she’s taken her entire Grisham library to her “burn barrel” with the intent to set the books on fire. “How do you think child porn is made?” a poster named John Kelly asked on Grisham’s page. “Someone is still getting hurt you imbecile. I’m sad to say that I will never purchase, nor consume, one of your books ever again. I am disgusted.” After the uproar began, Grisham issued an apology.
“Anyone who harms a child for profit or pleasure, or who in any way participates in child pornography — online or otherwise — should be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” the author said in a statement. “My comments made two days ago during an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph were in no way intended to show sympathy for those convicted of sex crimes, especially the sexual molestation of children. I can think of nothing more despicable. I regret having made these comments, and apologize to all.”
That may not be enough for some of his former followers. “You clearly said in the interview that people (like your drunk friend) who look at child porn don’t deserve severe punishment,” Facebook user Raylene Jolly Wheeler posted in response to Grisham. “Not sure how you can backtrack that statement.”
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Tracy Kendrick says:
If you look at the porn, you are just as guilty as to touching that child.
mandy smith says:
Well, this tells me there are other sick minds out there like the one of the judge I just posted on this morning. . . https://healingbeyondsurvival.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/judge-says-child-rapist-didnt-mean-to-hurt-the-3-year-old-he-sodomized/
Blackhorn33 says:
Yes Mandy, there are a whole lot out there, countless more than when we were Children. Nine months ago the indifference puzzled me, and I was told it was because some people get really upset reading about it…. what a line of crap.
Now days, I figure the percentage of people who would or does have sex with a Child is most probably about 75% of every adult on earth.
Don’t get me started, Robert. The problem is so pervasive, not really hiding in place site if you have your eyes open at all or aren’t in a vegetative state. If you’re not aware then you might be part of the problem . . .(not that some people don’t live in a bubble!)
Mandy, I totally agree, and I sure wouldn’t want, or dare get you started.
OH, I found you on Twitter:)
Lol. Glad you found me on Twitter- I’m all over the place 😅
It took some looking, but I guess you know that.
I suppose you are already laughing at the fact that obviously I know nothing about Twitter, nor Tweeting.
Maybe I can find an obsolete copy of Twitter 101….
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Haha! You may delete some of my twitter 101 replies here Robert. My computer kept showing they weren’t sending. I guess they were after all. I really wasn’t trying to push Twitter 101 at you! 😀
I thought you were just testing your spamming abilities
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October 24, 2008 | 5:31pm
In their last NBA preview issue, Sports Illustrated picked the Knicks to finish with 45 wins and a playoff berth. One year later, SI is smelling the coffee, selecting the Knicks to finish 13th in the 15-team East, ahead of only the Nets and Miami.
SI called the Knicks “a stale roster of ill-fitting parts.” Wisely, SI ditched making record predictions
Meanwhile, at the shootaround this morning before tonight’s preseason finale vs. the Nets, Mike D’Antoni said he will go back to the original starting five, with Jamal Crawford back at shooting guard over Stephon Marbury. The lineup for opening night probably will be Crawford-Chris Duhon-Quentin Richardson-Zach Randolph-David Lee.
D’Antoni went back to Crawford as a starter because he felt he hurt his confidence by benching him vs. Boston. Crawford, somber before that game, regressed in the bench role, looking shattered in that first half when he came in.
. On Crawford, a rival scout told SI in the Knicks preview, “There’s no toughness in (him). If he’s your best scorer and the uy leading hte offense, you’re in trouble. Plus, he can’t guard anybody.”
That lineup of Marbury-Duhon-Nate Robinson-Wilson Chandler-David Lee didn’t make much sense. In fact, those five were never on the court together in practice or in a game before D’Antoni started them. Strange. Isola from crosstown had it right when he wrote D’Antoni sent a message to Crawford that Marbury could be the starting shooting guard at any time.
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__label__wiki | 0.656718 | 0.656718 | Austrian jihadi bride beaten to death after trying to escape ISIS: friend
By Chris Perez
November 24, 2015 | 3:46pm
Samra Kesinovic, before and after leaving Austria to become a jihadi bride. Europics
One of the two teens who fled Austria last year to become a “poster girl” for ISIS has been beaten to death after trying to escape the group’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, reports say.
A Tunisian woman who had been living with Samra Kesinovic, 18, says the young girl was killed by Islamic State extremists after she tried to flee recently, according to The Local Austria.
The pair were married to ISIS militants once they arrived.
Kesinovic and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, made headlines in April 2014 when they ran away from their homes in Vienna and shacked up with militants in Syria.
The gal pals had traveled to the war-torn nation with the hope of becoming “jihadi brides” — and they later married two of the ISIS militants upon their arrival.
Photos posted to social media in the following months showed the pair wearing black burkas and wielding AK-47s.
Officials said earlier this year they believed Selimovic had been killed during a skirmish in Syria.
The girls were just two in a long list of young, female Austrian nationals who have joined the bloodthirsty terror group in recent years.
The European country is a well-known target for ISIS recruitment, and the mastermind behind this month’s Paris terror attacks was even busted at a checkpoint in northern Austria in September. He claimed to be on vacation.
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For the safety of enumeration, 79.6% of prestigious hospitals made the national average and only 34.7% of their attached hospitals.
Previous studies suggest that patients are likely to have a significant impact on hospital affinity status, the authors explained. One survey study indicated that respondents would prefer to opt for complex respite care in a US hospital carrying a link to a high level cancer center. Another study found that half felt that hospitals were high quality and their close associates providing similar care and that they were the same.
“Nearly a third of respondents willing to travel an hour for advanced in-patient hospital treatment changed their level of choice for a smaller local hospital if they connected to t top-level hospital, "they wrote." As a result, there is a concern that some US public could share the trade as a mark of equal care.
To examine the cross-departmental analysis, the Beea group examined the results of 29,228 Medicare patients who underwent surgery for cancers of the colon, the eophagus, lungs, pancreas, and the stomach from 2013 to 2016 at senior hospitals. cancer, how it was rated at U.S News and World Report, as well as the hospitals in their network. The authors explained that up to one-third of the complicated surgeries for Medicare recipients were made by the highest-rise cancer hospitals and their associates in 2016.
In an annexed report, Lesly A. Dossett, MD, MPH, from the University of Michigan, wrote in Ann Arbor, “in general, there is no network connection to their theoretical capacity for better quality in patients who have receive surgery. "
However, she warned that the investigation had only examined slim slice of cancer care, and noted that the results do not apply to less complex operations for breast cancer of the breast, protest, skin, or skin cancer. thyroid. She also noted a number of important constraints in the inspection. Researchers did not change for other types of cancer treatment such as chemistry and radiation, nor did they change for the treatment of "obscene final cancer, or screening, surveillance and live care," she said.
“In addition, it appears that it is not possible or feasible for every patient in the geographical area of the brand to be handled at that center,” Dossett wrote. The first step is to understand what patients are being treated as less well than at care and could receive high quality care at the smaller joint. ” t
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Eaglets in Semi Final
Three-time champion, Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets booked their place in the semi-finals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in UAE with a 2-0 win over Uruguay in Sharjah.
Taiwo Awoniyi – deputising for the injured Success Isaac – scored both goals in a game that was a true test of the Golden Eaglets’ title aspirations. The African favourites will now meet Sweden in the semi-final round, in a replay of their 3-3 Group F draw.
Uruguay had the first chance of note after only six minutes when Enrique Etcheverry crossed low through the penalty area. The impressive Leandro Otormin got a boot to the ball, but could only direct his effort wide of goal. It was a false dawn for the 2011 runners-up, however, as the Golden Eaglets took the game by the scruff of the neck after 18 minutes.
The Nigerians, who scored 18 goals in their four games heading into the quarter-final round, opened the scoring from a fabulous piece of creative interplay.
Kelechi Iheanacho, scorer of five goals at these finals, laid a wonderful through ball, perfectly weighted, from deep in midfield that was latched onto by Taiwo Awoniyi. The striker made no mistake, hitting home to the back post for his second goal of the tournament.
Stunned into action, the South Americans had a decent spell shortly after. Kevin Mendez and Otormin both tested Dele Alampasu from distance with powerful efforts. But it was Nigeria who controlled most of the possession and created the more dangerous chances.
Captain Musa Muhammed’s cross from the right after 34 minutes was only just missed on the doorstep by the tall and rangy Awoniyi.
The second half started with a flurry of chances for Nigeria, Awoniyi and Musa Yahaya both going close to scoring after creating space for themselves at the edge of the penalty area. Uruguay were hanging on, absorbing wave after wave of Nigerian attacks.
In the 68th minute, Iheanacho turned and fired from the edge of the box only for his shot to come flying off the back of a brave Uruguayan defender.
The knockout blow finally came in the 79th minute, and it followed the same pattern as the first Nigerian goal. Iheanacho picked up a perfect pass at the edge of the area from Chidiebere Nwakali and carried the ball toward goal with an elegant touch.
The Uruguayan defence collapsed on the No10, but he had the presence of mind to pull the ball across the face of goal, where Awoniyi stabbed home inside the far post to send the fans into hysterics.
Manu Garba’s Nigeria now move on to their seventh U-17 World Cup semi-final, where they will face another thorough examination in the form of the organised and talented Swedes in Dubai.
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In Leipzig, Porsche has opened its doors to more than 250 car enthusiasts. Among them is one of the biggest fans of all: Magnus Walker.
The sound of the engines at Porsche’s race track in Leipzig is music to his ears, and a grin spreads across his face at the sight of the numerous Porsche vehicles. For Magnus Walker this is a true love affair – a love that started in his childhood. In Los Angeles, he has made his personal dream come true. The 50-year-old is the proud owner of a large collection of the cult model 911. From the engine compartment to the rear wing, the Porsche enthusiast knows his vehicles inside and out. Each once represents a mood, a chapter in his life.
Now the fashion designer, investor, collector and hobbyist is visiting the Porsche factory in Leipzig for the first time. His first stop: the pit lane.
Many thanks to @porscheleipzig & ALL That attended this mornings book event , I got to meet some great people , dRive the tRack & touR the factory - Prost & cheeRS 👍🇬🇧🇩🇪🏁👍 - @porsche - photos by @sebastiankubatz -
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Then to the production area – here, Walker takes a look behind the scenes at Porsche. In Leipzig, the sports car manufacturer produces the Macan and Panamera model lines, 650 vehicles leave the plant every day. Work is completed in three-shift operation. “It is impressive to see that even in a high-tech series production environment every detail is considered and customer wishes can be implemented directly, like in a workshop,” Walker enthuses.
During a tour of the assembly, the 50-year-old gets an insight into the world of production
The final stop in the assembly hall is the “marriage”. This is the automatic assembly of the body and underbody. “This process step reminds me of a poster from my childhood. It showed a dismantled 911 930 Turbo. I loved it,” he recalls.
Magnus Walker describes his moving journey from a working-class child from Sheffield to an “Urban Outlaw” in his autobiography “Dirt Don’t Slow You Down”, which he presents in the customer centre at Porsche Leipzig during his tour of Germany. 250 vintage car enthusiasts are waiting for him.
More than 250 car enthusiasts await the American in the Porsche customer centre
At the end, each visitor had the opportunity to test the Porsche Leipzig race track in their own vehicle. Over a length of 3.7 kilometres, the FIA-certified track includes replicas of eleven famous features from the world of motor racing – including the “corkscrew”, a legendary section of the Laguna Seca race track, Monza’s famous “parabolica” and the “carousel”, the steep curve on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
Back in the pit lane, Magnus Walker inspects each vehicle closely. He is accompanied by Sebastian Wilfert, an instructor at Porsche in Leipzig. The two quickly become absorbed in conversation. About what? Technical data, motor sport experiences and Porsche. What else could it be.
Model Range Panamera: Fuel consumption combined 9.5 – 7.5 l/100 km; CO2 emissions 217 – 171 g/km
Model Range Macan: Fuel consumption combined 9.7 – 7.2 l/100 km; CO2 emissions 224 – 167 g/km
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BUSTED: Undercover media sting reveals Twitter targeting conservatives and independent media for censorship via “shadow bans”
For some time now conservatives, along with supporters of President Donald J. Trump, have suspected they were being targeted for censorship by the social media giants such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Thanks to James O’Keefe and his undercover media sting operation Project Veritas, we learned this week that for certain Twitter engineers have been developing algorithms that use “machine learning,” keywords and other techniques to perform “shadow bans” on users who are Trump supporters and Republican voters.
In the video, which consists of several undercover episodes, Abhinov Vadrevu, a former Twitter software engineer, discussed a strategy, called “shadow banning,” that to his knowledge, the social media platform still uses.
“One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don’t know they’ve been banned because they keep posting and no one sees their content,” he said. “So they just think that no one is engaging with their content when in reality, no one is seeing it.”
In another segment Twitter Software Engineer Steven Pierre said Twitter was developing automated censorship processes as well as banning, The Daily Caller reported.
“Every single conversation is going to be rated by a machine and the machine is going to say whether or not it’s a positive thing or a negative thing,” said Pierre. “And whether it’s positive or negative doesn’t (inaudible), it’s more like if somebody’s being aggressive or not. Right? Somebody’s just cursing at somebody, whatever, whatever.
“They may have a point, but it will just vanish… It’s not going to ban the mindset, it’s going to ban, like, a way of talking,” he added. (Related: Hate, abuse and fake news: Zuckerberg admits Facebook is broken and contributes to an “anxious and divided” world, says he plans to fix it in 2018.)
Olinda Hassan, a policy manager for Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, explained that the platform’s engineers were developing a system of “down-ranking” “sh*tty people.”
“Yeah. That’s something we’re working on,” said Hassan. It’s something we’re working on. We’re trying to get the sh*tty people to not show up. It’s a product we’re working right now.”
And just who are the sh*tty people? Former Twitter Engineer Conrado Miranda that tools are already being utilized that censor pro-Trump or conservative content. “That’s a thing,” Miranda says when asked about such capabilities.
Also, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer Pranay Singh said the shadow ban algorithms could be engineered to target right-leaning content specifically.
“Yeah you look for Trump or America, and you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck,” Singh explained. “Then you look and parse all the messages, all the pictures, and then you look for stuff that matches that stuff.”
He confirmed: “I would say a majority of it are for Republicans.”
Former Twitter content reviewer Mo Norai said there are “unwritten rules” from top management that permitted them to be harder (censor more) on pro-Trump content.
“Yeah, if they said this is: ‘Pro-Trump’ I don’t want it because it offends me, this, that. And I say I banned this whole thing, and it goes over here and they are like, ‘Oh you know what? I don’t like it too. You know what? Mo’s right, let’s go, let’s carry on, what’s next?’” Norai said. “Twitter was probably about 90 percent Anti-Trump, maybe 99 percent Anti-Trump.”
He added: “A lot of unwritten rules, and being that we’re in San Francisco, we’re in California, very liberal, a very blue state. You had to be… I mean as a company you can’t really say it because it would make you look bad, but behind closed doors are lots of rules.”
Once again O’Keefe and his staff have done yeoman’s work in exposing the disgustingly hard-Left bias of the “mainstream” media and its various social media platforms.
Free speech? Nah. Not if upsets the true fascists and speech Nazis at Twitter and other social platforms.
Here’s what needs to happen: Congress should take up new legislation that prevents this kind of blatant, purposeful censorship — a first amendment for social media, if you will. Otherwise, nothing will change and conservatives will continue to be treated this way online.
Read more of J.D. Heyes’ work at The National Sentinel.
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Amelia Gray Hamlin, the 18-year-old daughter of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Lisa Rinna and actor Harry Hamlin, said that had she not publicly revealed her eating disorder, she would have relapsed.
“When you’re in recovery from an eating disorder, it’s so difficult to continue pushing through even when you have bad days where you just want to go back to your old habits,” she said in a new piece for Glamour. “Sharing my story has helped keep me accountable. I want to be a role model, to be strong for all the people who look to me.”
In March of 2018, the model posted on Instagram about her eating disorder, which garnered “likes” from over 38,000 fans. Since then, she has remained vocal on her social media accounts about her progress in the hopes that her voice and her platform can help others.
Amelia said that when followers respectfully stopped commenting about her body on her accounts, they turned to Rinna’s and accused her of triggering her daughter’s issues. “To have people saying she didn’t do enough hurts my heart so much,” Amelia said. “If they could only see how much I rejected her help and how much I pushed her away — it hurts me for her.”
Amelia also said that she can’t watch the footage from “Real Housewives” in which she was battling her anorexia head-on. “I just can’t relive it. I’ve come so far, and it would make me too sad to see how I used to act,” she said.
“Recovering from anorexia — and doing it in the public eye — made me realize just how important confidence is,” she said. “When you truly love yourself on the inside, the way you carry yourself is so different. I think that’s when the judgment stops — when they realize that nothing they can say about you or your body will make a difference.”
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by YLH | December 2, 2009 · 12:33 pm
Has Pakistan Arrived?
By Brigadier (ret) Simon Samson Sharaf
In an emotional and controversial address to his constituency, the President of Pakistan, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari referred to the country as Sindhu Desh. In his fiery and reactive speech, this was perhaps the only silver lining. Deliberately or otherwise, he had touched a very sensitive issue of nationhood.
The politicians of Sindh unlike the Unionists of Punjab have been more Pakistani in many ways than they are accredited. Jinnah, the Syeds, Qazis, Soomros and Bhuttos are but to name a few. Reviewing the annals of history, we are pleasantly reminded that Pakistan was never the realization of one ethnicity, sect or mindset. It was a struggle based on the aspirations of diverse groups and still remains so. Continue reading →
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by YLH | August 2, 2009 · 6:56 pm
Lal Salaam to Comrade Sobho Gianchandani
Reading about the demise of Rana Chandar Singh made me think of another old Pakistani from the Hindu community who has lived and served the people in this country without so much as a thankyou note. I reproduce here an interview the old war horse gave Newsline last year. Gianchandani sb feels that Pakistan will over look his achievements but we at PakTeaHouse want to salute him twice- first a Lal Salaam for his contributions to the Communist and progressive causes in Pakistan and second a Sabz Salaam for being a son of the soil.-YLH
At age 88, Comrade Sobho Gianchandani is one of the oldest living communists in the subcontinent. He has seen it all, done it all – and still believes that communism will return to the world in a big way. In this wide-ranging interview conducted at his Larkana home, where he lives with his family, the “son of the soil,” as he refers to himself, takes Newsline on a reflective journey into the past. From his days at Shantiniketan to his involvement in the politics of pre-Partition and post-Partition Pakistan, it’s been an action-packed life. Continue reading →
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__label__cc | 0.658314 | 0.341686 | ADEOPAPPOSAURUS
(ad-e-o-pap-po-sore-us)
meaning: "Far eating lizard"
Named By: Ricardo N. Martinez in 2009
Time Period: Early Jurassic
Location: Argentina, San Juan Province - Canon del Colorado Formation
Size: About 3 meters long
Fossil(s): Several individuals, represented by partial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Massospondylidae |
Adeopapposaurus (meaning "far eating lizard", in reference to its long neck) is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Canon del Colorado Formation of San Juan, Argentina. It was similar to Massospondylus. Four partial skeletons with two partial skulls are known.
The type specimen, PVSJ568, includes a skull and most of a skeleton to just past the hips. The form of the bones at the tips of the upper and lower jaws suggests it had keratinous beaks. The fossils now named Adeopapposaurus were first thought to represent South American examples of Massospondylus; while this is no longer the case, Adeopapposaurus is classified as a massospondylid. Adeopapposaurus was described in 2009 by Ricardo N. Martinez. The type species is A. mognai, referring to the Mogna locality where it was found.
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__label__wiki | 0.565912 | 0.565912 | 480. Later Elaborations on Plato’s Cosmology
Plato’s cosmology did not die with him but was developed and given new life by his followers such as Aristotle, who broadcast a sharpened image of the prime mover at the center of a universe of stars moving about him in a procession of celestial grandeur.
A Latin translation of the Timaeus found fertile ground among Neoplatonist philosophers in Alexandria in the third century of our current era, philosophers who subsequently joined Plato’s idealism to Jewish, Christian, and Roman thought, producing a grand image of the heavenly host spread before the mind’s eye for human guidance and edification.
Dionysius (Denys, Dennis) the Areopagite (Pseudo-Dionysius, second century CE, six centuries after Plato), a Neoplatonist with a theological bent, has left us an ornate depiction of the cosmos combined with a religious structure mirroring the heavens in the hierarchy of the Christian church here on Earth.
Dionysius depicted God’s retinue in heaven as divided into a celestial hierarchy of three tiers of heavenly minds placed there for our instruction and imitation here below (a scheme similar to that proposed by the Sumerians–see Post 474).
The purpose, then, of Hierarchy is the assimilation and union . . . with God having Him Leader of all religious science and operations, by looking unflinchingly to His most Divine comeliness, and copying. . . its own followers as Divine images, mirrors most luminous and without flaw, receptive of the primal light and the supremely Divine ray, and devoutly filled with the entrusted radiance, and . . . spreading this radiance ungrudgingly to those after it, in accordance with the supremely Divine regulations. . . .
All of which culminates in a grand summary that emphasizes the power that drives the stars in their harmonious orbits:
He, then, who mentions Hierarchy, denotes a certain altogether Holy Order, an image of the supremely Divine freshness, ministering the mysteries of its own illumination in hierarchical ranks, and sciences, and assimilated to its own proper Head as far as lawful. (From The Celestial Hierarchy, Caput III, Section II, 1899, http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/areopagite_13_heavenly_hierarchy.htm, Accessed Nov. 2, 2013.)
For Dionysius, Plato’s cosmos had become a divine holy order immediately accessible to those who would not only contemplate, but obey the directives of its radiance. A strongly prescriptive and mystical tone had crept into the story, comprehensible only to those instructed in decoding such language. But behind the language, the stars can still be seen to shine as clearly and brilliantly as they do overhead on a moonless night through dry air.
The Neoplatonists gave stellar radiance a finely divided and philosophical series of orderly distinctions which they bound into a philosophy centered on a single, luminous, but hidden central God surrounded by ever-larger ranks of heavenly powers, commonly regarded as angels or angelic messengers, the whole troupe of heavenly luminaries being divided into a concentric hierarchy of ever-finer gradations that were meaningful to the informed (indoctrinated) mind.
Dionysius carried his argument to finer levels than most of us care to consider, as if he got points for the number of distinctions he was able to make, creating a lot of confusion and overlap in the process under the guise of devotional scholarship.
His overall scheme, however, divided the celestial hierarchy into three levels, each level composed of three further sub-levels. Beginning tightly around the “Divine Hiddenness” (or prime mover) at the center, the celestial powers or angels are divided into,
a highest, brightest, and hottest circle of Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones;
a second circle farther out divided into somewhat lower, dimmer, cooler groupings of “Heavenly Minds,” Lordships, Powers, and Authorities, or alternatively, Dominations, Virtues, and Powers;
with a lesser group of angels in the outer reaches of heaven, those concerned with human welfare and obedience, encompassing Principalities, Archangels, and Angels.
And complementing the celestial hierarchy in heaven, Pseudo-Dionysius depicted three Earthly triads intended to enforce the dictates of heaven upon the faithful below:
symbolic sacraments—Baptism, Communion, and Consecration of the Holy Chrism;
holy orders—Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons;
together with Monks in a state of perfection, Initiated Laity in a state of illumination, and Catechumens in a state of purification.
These Pseudo-Dionysian hierarchies were a late melding of Neoplatonic ideas with orthodox Christian theology to produce a mystical union of ideas and ritual acts as a blend of philosophical and theological strands to produce a wholly spiritual system of human belief rooted firmly in a personal faith, often embracing incompatible aspects, very much like the state Plato found himself in while penning the Timaeus as his last word on creation of the universe and its cosmology.
Shining through the mists of such doctrines, however, is the awe with which people in every age have gazed upon the stars. Our reward is not so much hearing what the stars would say to us if they could speak, but ideas which we unabashedly put in their mouths so that we take from them what we need to hear.
That is the essential point to be made regarding our perennial engagement with the stars: we make of them what we will, and call it the truth. And that is exactly how our minds work, finding little else but variations upon what we are looking for, be it confidence, comfort, succor, authority, charity, gentility, or whatever quality we need to balance the turmoil (chaos) of daily life. The stars are up there for our free and personal use. Living the difficult lives we do here below, we rely on their guidance as needed.
In my next two posts I will wrap up this section on our popular engagements with baseball, Roget’s Thesaurus, and the stars by seeing our take on the stars through Mediaeval times into the space age of today. Then in future posts I will shift to discussing where I hope to have taken readers on our wayfaring together over the past 150 or so posts, leading to the conclusions I will leave you with regarding my views of consciousness, mind, and engagement as draw from the personal journey I have made across the past eighty-two years.
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479. A Gleaming Mirror in the Sky
What intrigues me about Plato’s dialogue Timaeus is how hard it is to reconcile the observable order of the universe with human understanding of that same order. The problem is much like our modern struggle to fit our experience of our own minds with our understanding of the brain that is thought to be largely responsible for those minds in the first place.
In the Timaeus,
First, there is Plato who authored the dialogue to explain his understanding of the cosmos as essentially harmonious.
Second, there is the narrator, Timaeus, in whose words the cosmos is presented and explained.
Third, there is the mythical craftsman, Timaeus’ agent for creating the stars, planets, and Earth as one coherent system.
Followed by the mechanical (and problematic) model of the cosmos from which the craftsman works as a kind of armillary sphere, a model derived from human study of the cosmos itself.
And of course the several translators of the Timaeus, each of whom applies his own perspective and familiarity with Plato’s use of the ancient Greek language.
Taken together with the cosmologies of other ancient philosophers, all leading to the confusion in my mind resulting from my effort to fit Plato into my discussion of what our engagements with the stars reveal about our impulse to find meaning in the stars, whether we know anything about them or not.
And now I have to consider the effects on any of my readers who might try to make sense of the ongoing engagement between human minds and the stars.
The central problem comes down to a glitch in Timaeus’ presentation of the relationship between stars, planets, Earth, and human’s viewing the stars overhead.
The thrust of Timaeus’ argument is that the stars and constellations as mapped onto the cosmos all share in the same coherent system as demonstrated by their harmonious, circular motions.
Except that Earth rotates west-to-east on its axis, while the stars seem to pass east-to-west about the celestial pole.
The two motions in opposite directions cancelling out any need to explain the apparent motion of the stars. Earth’s rotation explains the illusion.
While exactly that explanation is the essential point of the whole cosmic structure that Timaeus presents on Plato’s behalf in insisting on a world soul that unifies the so-called universe as one coherent system driven from the center by godly force.
The celestial craftsman takes pains to create a system in which stars-planets-Earth all move in rational order in conformity with the idea of circular motion in the same direction being the only proof and criterion for the system as a divine whole.
But that isn’t how the universe works. The stars appear to move one way, while Earth rotates in the opposite direction. Plato and his creator-craftsman can’t have it both ways. That wouldn’t fit with Plato’s idea of the world-soul uniting stars-planets-Earth into one perfect system.
So what did he do, the greatest philosopher of all time? He had his cake and ate it too. He let the discrepancy ride for what it was. He shrugged and walked away. That is, he left behind him the unsubstantiated faith that everything would work out all right.
Which is consistent with his belief in men and women forming two mutually exclusive orders of society despite all evidence to the contrary. He doesn’t quibble about both men and women being necessary parts of a unified system. He just settles for a duality as how society is structured in his day with women on a lower level than men.
The moral of this tale is that the more elaborate philosophical systems become, the more likely they are to be inconsistent within themselves, the more prone to error, the more apt to be wrong. And the philosopher more apt to muddle through vaguely because having gotten in over his head, he has no choice but to become an apologist for his own way of thinking.
Even the greatest philosophers are fallible human beings. Particularly when trying to prop-up the foundations of false or dubious beliefs. Beliefs so perfect they ought to be true. It is far easier to believe that the apparent motion of the stars along circular routes through the heavens is due to observers on Earth moving counter to those routes, making the harmonious motion of the stars an illusion projected by human minds onto the heavens.
It was an illusion for the Sumerians, an illusion for the Greeks, and is today an illusion for us, even though we take photographs of star trails by putting cameras on tripods pointed upwards while leaving the shutter open for hours on end.
But it was not an illusion for the priests and philosophers whose livelihoods depended on a cosmological system maintained by adherence to that mistaken belief. Adherence to an idea in their minds being projected onto the stars because it suited the stories they told about a prime mover driving the stars through the heavens, about stars forming the retinue of such a divine being, about planets being angelic messengers bearing commands and prophecies straight from the prime mover to his faithful flock below, and about members of that flock having an obligation to discover profound meaning in precisely the appearances of those relative motions as seen from below.
Whoee! what a ride it is to go to such lengths to devote your one life to such wrong beliefs. And to defend such beliefs against all who doubt them. Or even to burn them as heretics at the stake, as we nowadays kill them with bursts of fire from AK-47s or drone-fired rockets.
Would those who so earnestly instruct us believe in an untruth or out-and-out lie? Unthinkable. Heretical. Grounds for doing battle to stamp out all such contrary beliefs. The rest is the history of the world as told by-and-to gullible human minds.
The stars are a gleaming mirror in the sky giving us back a reflection of our own enticing yet mistaken ideas and beliefs.
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474. The Supposedly One-turning Universe
Projected onto the stars, the meaning that some of our distant ancestors found in their orderly procession was that they were compelled as one body by a prime mover, alleged source of, and driving force behind, the rational, harmonious order of the universe.
The notion of a prime mover was wholly a fiction in human minds, a product of deluded imaginations in not being able to detect their own planet’s motions because as a people they moved with the Earth and had no reference other than the stars to gauge that impression by.
So if the stars seemed to move, that was enough to convince them that that must be the true state of affairs. Many believed it, and said so. Opening the door to a myriad of profound consequences, which still persist among us today.
Wars have been fought, millions killed, heretics burned at the stake as a result of such beliefs, or, rather, the denial of such beliefs. Those deadly consequences, as residing in human minds as matters of orthodox faith and belief, are what I am concerned with in these several posts dealing with our human engagements with the stars as I develop the big picture based on my reading and experience.
Along with the concept of one turning in reference to the nightly round of the stars, several other concepts accompany that of the prime mover; the idea of harmony as the essentially rational and defining characteristic of the stars moving in unison to constitute a cosmos in contrast with a disordered chaos; and the idea that deviation from harmony was a message played like notes against a musical scale intended to call people on Earth back into harmony with the circling stars.
The five visible, star-like planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), as well as sun and moon, did not share in the disciplined rotation of the stars, but travelled their own ways among them along a broad pathway of their own in the middle reaches of the stars overhead. That pathway was not random but stuck to a middle way along a particular band of stars that ancient peoples visualized as forming twelve houses or constellations, the band coming to be known as the ecliptic, the celestial path among the stars along which the messenger planets (Greek angelos, messenger) traveled and, when those paths coincided, conjunctions and eclipses might occur.
The twelve, thirty-degree zodiacal houses (constellations) along the ecliptic were deified as domains ruled in monthly succession by twelve godlike figures, together forming the ring of zodiacal signs marking the progress of the seven angelic messengers.
No one realized that that background of stellar houses was far behind the moving planets, so had nothing at all to do with them because it seemed to observers on earth that the stars and planets were equidistant, so that the luminous messengers traveled among and briefly resided in stellar houses that existed solely in human imagination.
Once the stars became animated by ancient humans projecting their quest for order onto the cycling radiance overhead, the stage was set for conception and projection of prime movers, creators, supreme beings, and rulers of the (supposedly) one-turning universe.
The stars and the messengers weaving among them bore whatever meanings arose in those who projected their minds in beseeching the cosmos for guidance in conducting their Earthly lives and affairs. Temples and sanctuaries such as those structures at Göbekli Tepe, Stonehenge, and in Sumer at the head of the Persian Gulf were in many instances built as stellar observatories to mediate the traffic of signs between heaven and Earth, local authorities assuming the office of translator of heavenly messages so their followers would receive the proper message and behave accordingly.
So did religion become a fact of life on Earth in binding human labors to the will of the gods above, or most particularly to the will of the prime mover who set the cosmos in orderly motion for the purpose of inviting humans, if they knew what side their bread was buttered on, to partake in the rational order exemplified by the stars overhead.
Sumerian minds, looking up from their marshy homeland in the delta of the combined waters of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, became famous for conceiving of such deities (shining or radiant ones, later depicted with haloes) some five- or six-thousand years ago.
Among other gifts to their descendants, the Sumerians are now famous for leaving behind them a great trove of statuettes of worshippers with folded hands and dilated, dark-adapted eyes, only much later to be discovered by archaeologists within the past 150 years.
The figures depict worshippers in the grips of a variety of fraught human situations beneath the stars at night, looking to be told by the messenger stars what to do because that was their duty, to heed the will of Sumerian gods.
What the Sumerians invented—along with cuneiform writing on clay tablets; an extensive literature of poetry, myths, lamentations, hymns, and wise sayings; and religion built around a priestly profession as we know it today—was an intricate system of awe so lustrous as to have a compelling effect in organizing the behavior of a people who sought answers to their most pressing problems from the seemingly informative movements of the planets weaving among the orderly motions of stars along the ecliptic.
The Sumerians placed not one but three gods in the heavens, one for each of the three regions: celestial polar region, residence of the creator and prime mover, Anu: zodiac against which the seven messengers moved, ruled by Enlil, king of the gods; and outer fringe thought to be closest to Earth on the outskirts of the cosmic dome, home of Enki, source of divine wisdom.
It was a great scheme by which the Sumerians mapped out the heavens some 5,400 years ago, a scheme still with us today in the doctrine and structures of the church. The essential teaching of that scheme was “On Earth as in Heaven,” a notion backed up by the seasonal return of the sun to the same house along the ecliptic, signing the start of a new year and another round of the liturgical calendar. Genius; pure genius. Because it was true: human affairs on Earth do run according to a calendar dictated by the seasons, and the seasons by the stars.
The hitch is that it wasn’t that the stars were moving according to the prime mover’s plan, so seeming to dictate to people what they should be doing with their limited bodily energies; those stellar motions were really due to Earth’s daily rotation about its axis and simultaneous orbit around the sun. There was no prime mover at the celestial pole. There was no godly king of kings managing the motions of planets along the ecliptic. There was no divine wisdom filtering down from the stars for human guidance.
We already had the seasons to alert us to our proper annual labors; the stars were incidental to what we already knew. They were an offshoot, not the source of our wisdom. The stars told us nothing we didn’t already know.
It was the Sumerian priesthood that maintained that the heavens were the center of Sumerian life on Earth, and that the people needed their lofty interpretation of signs and directives—otherwise they’d be out of a job. Priesthoods offer the best job security on Earth if they can convince flocks to behave as they already know they should.
There is a font of circular reasoning at the heart of every religion. And we have such a plethora of religions precisely because each one has to develop a convincing rationale for the people to support the local priesthood in its annual rounds of reasoning.
These comments are what I was talking about in developing the big picture of our human engagements with the stars. For much of my life I have read Joseph Campbell, Samuel Noah Kramer, E.O. James, and James Frazer, and others of similar bent in bringing ancient ideas to life. For me this has been recreational reading to accompany my fascination with fossils and the expanding literature of evolutionary biology. Looking both to the past and the future, I was doing my best to keep pace with the world I lived in, which was expanding at an ever increasing rate.
My bookshelves today are lined with such books, testament to the interests that have sustained me throughout adult life. Now that my life is winding down, the residuum of my reading takes on a greater importance because I see so much harking back to a more comfortable (because familiar) world rather than a willingness to enter the next stage of human development and understanding. If I do not contribute to that understanding, why have I lived through the past exciting years?
So here I sit at my computer keyboard in Bar Harbor, Maine, blogging about what matters to me at my time of life, adding my thoughts and observations to the great flow of human engagement with our Earthly surroundings.
Should I live so long, you can expect that I’ll have more to say about our stellar engagements tomorrow.
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__label__wiki | 0.575165 | 0.575165 | Chef Jeff Tunks and Burger Tap & Shake photos: Scott Suchman David Guas burgers photo: Johny Autry
Improve Your Grill Game: Local Chefs and Experts Offer Summer Grilling Tips
April 30, 2016 /in Eat/Drink /by Jake Emen
With warmer weather finally with us, it’s officially grilling season. This year, though, it’s time to kick up your grill game a few notches. Say goodbye to overcooked, lifeless burgers, or those same old hot dogs, with expert insight from some of DC’s finest behind the grill.
“Part of improving your grilling skills comes with knowing your piece of equipment,” says David Guas, chef and owner at Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery, and host of the Travel Channel’s American Grilled series. “Knowing how to gauge your grill’s temperature comes with practice and experience. It’s also always helpful to remember that you can control the power and intensity of the flame by increasing or decreasing the amount of oxygen exposure.”
You need to take care of your grill, too. “Not cleaning the grill properly before cooking” is one of the most common mistakes that Chef Roberto Hernandez of Toro Toro sees.
“It is very important to have a clean and well-oiled grill before cooking any meats,” he says. “This will prevent the proteins from sticking to it, and also will give you those nice grill marks like you see on TV.”
One of the most important aspects of grilling is knowing when your food is actually done.
“Experienced cooks can tell the doneness of a steak simply by touching it,” Hernandez adds.
That’s going to take some experience, of course.
“If you are new to grilling, I would suggest using a meat thermometer as an initial gauge,” Guas says. “Then once you know the internal temperature, you can use your hand to determine the doneness. Eventually, as you become more familiar with your grill and the cuts of meat you are working with, you won’t even need a thermometer.”
Hernandez advises that a medium rare steak is between 130 and 135 degrees, and medium is between 140 and 145 degrees. Go beyond that and you’re “killing your steak,” he says. Once you know the basics, you can also learn how to do more with your grill.
“A common mistake home-grillers can easily make is forgetting to zone the charcoal,” Guas says. “It is really important to create zones within your grill so that you can create grill marks with direct heat, and then utilize the indirect section of the grill to cook things thoroughly.”
Another technique to learn is smoking with different types of wood. Guas encourages creativity but offers a few suggestions, such as using the fruitiness and sweetness of cherry and apple woods for chicken and fish, hickory wood for larger cuts of meat or certain fish such as salmon, and strong mesquite smoke for Texas-style barbecue.
“But you have to be careful, because the strength of its flavor can overpower many foods,” he warns. “I often blend a medium wood like hickory with a sweeter wood like cherry or apple to balance the flavor.”
Mastering the Burger
The burger is the centerpiece of most summer cookouts, and despite its seeming simplicity, it takes some experience and insight to truly master. Chef Jeff Tunks of Burger Tap & Shake will help set us straight.
“Quit playing with your meat when making burger patties,” he advises. “Avoid over-handling and working the grind together. The reason being the heat from your hands will begin to melt the fat and affect the final product. The best burgers are a loosely packed patty, which allows the fat to melt and gives the patty a better texture.”
Once the burger is on the grill, avoid hyperactive over-management and let the grill do its job.
“Less is more during the cooking process,” Tunks says. “So try to avoid over flipping, pressing [and] touching. Be patient and let it achieve a good sear and char. You want a juicy burger.”
When using ground beef with less than 20 percent fat or other lean meats, be sure not to overcook burgers in order to preserve their flavor.
“You really need to cook between medium rare and medium,” says Tunks about lean meat burgers. “Anything more and you are gambling with a dry burger. Also, let the burger rest a minute before adding it to your toasted bun so that the juices can redistribute.”
That resting rule applies to all meats.
“Have you seen those commercials where they are slicing a piece of beef and it’s running juices all over the cutting board? That is because the meat was not well-rested before slicing,” Hernandez explains.
Toppings, Marinades & Seasonings
On the burger front, there’s no need to get fancy with spices.
“When it comes to seasoning, the key is to keep it simple,” Tunks says. “Apply kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper liberally on both sides. Adding salt and pepper after you start the cooking process will never taste as good as a pre-seasoned burger.”
The best way to expand flavor is to get creative with toppings.
“It’s all about the toppings,” says Tunks. “Some favorite recent combinations include garlic and black olive, tzatziki with feta, Korean gochujang BBQ sauce with kimchi, fire-roasted hatch chilies and smoked onions with chipotle.”
As far as steak goes, keep in mind that marinades aren’t always necessary.
“I always like to remind people that a quality cut of beef does not need to be marinated,” Guas says. “I love the simplicity of preparing beef with coarse salt and black pepper, especially with a skirt steak or ribeye. Marinades typically come into play when you have a tougher cut like tri-tip or game, like quail and pheasant.”
When you are creating a marinade, follow this simple rule from Guas.
“As a guiding principle, I tend to treat a marinade like a salad dressing. It should consist of three parts oil with one part acid.”
For sauces, Guas recommends a summertime staple from his own home.
“A family favorite on the grill is skirt steak with chimichurri sauce,” he says.
Expand Your Repertoire
You know your grill, you’ve mastered the burger, and your marinade and topping game is strong. Now let’s expand your repertoire with different meats or overlooked cuts.
“I recommend a cut of tri-tip beef,” Guas suggests. “It’s a cheaper cut of beef, but delicious and packs an impressive amount of flavor.”
On the other end of the spectrum, Guas has a favored special occasion splurge in mind as well.
“In my opinion, you simply cannot top a cowboy cut bone-in ribeye,” he says.
Hernandez suggests a splurge of his own for those willing to pay.
“I would definitely go for an A5 Wagyu beef,” he says. “Wagyu is categorized in 12 levels [of] marbling, A5 being the perfect ratio between fat and muscle. Pretty expensive product, but trust me when I tell you it is worth every penny.”
For a more everyday type of selection, Hernandez has something else in mind.
“I would say my favorite meat for grilling is the hanger steak,” he says. “Back in the day, butchers would save this cut for themselves. All around, it’s the perfect steak for the home griller.”
When the sea beckons, Guas offers a few more choice picks.
“It’s also hard to beat trout or local Chesapeake rockfish,” he says.
You can get more adventurous with your burgers, too.
“At Burger Tap & Shake, we really have fun and a lot of success with our Burger of the Month,” Tunks says. “In the past, we have featured lamb, venison, duck, rabbit and wild boar. My personal favorite, which I cook weekly at home, is bison – always at medium rare.”
Check out the chefs’ locations, listed below.
Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery: Two area locations in Arlington, VA and Capitol Hill; www.bayoubakerydc.com
Burger Tap & Shake: Two area locations in Tenleytown and Foggy Bottom;www.burgertapshake.com
Toro Toro: 1300 Eye St. NW, DC; 202-682-9500;www.RichardSandoval.com/ToroToroDC
Chef Jeff Tunks and Burger Tap & Shake photos: Scott Suchman
David Guas burgers photo: Johny Autry
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By parkercountyblog on May 1, 2017
The Christian Science Monitor, by Patrik Jonsson
A shift in thought –The week Trump becomes the first president to address the NRA in more than 30 years, a new poll shows a majority of gun owners do not support some of the gun lobby’s more aggressive positions.
April 28, 2017 Atlanta—Jesse Nolte once had a federal firearms license so he could legally sell guns. As a younger man, he competed in cowboy action shooting contests – shooting pistol, rifle, and shotgun in quick succession – which he calls “lots of fun.”
But Friday may be a highlight of his gun-carrying career.
The Pittsburgh native was awaiting President Trump’s speech here at the 2017 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in downtown Atlanta – the first time a sitting president has addressed the chief gun lobby since President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
With Mr. Trump already rolling back Obama-era gun regulations, Mr. Nolte says the National Rifle Association has gone from playing defense to offense. “They’re flying high,” he says.
As for himself, however, he says this may be his last convention.
He’s in part looking for a break from a lifetime of focusing on guns. But most important, Nolte says he is for the first time confronting a paradox brought into focus by last year’s election: Many of his own beliefs about gun safety don’t jibe with the NRA’s “go for broke” political strategy. He, for example, would support expanded background checks, as well as limits on people with mental illnesses purchasing weapons.
Most of all, he says, he doesn’t like the idea of being “fleeced” by the organization’s fund-raising, some $30 million of which went into backing Trump in the 2016 election.
The hesitation of people like Nolte, gun policy experts say, underscores the fact that American gun owners are not always in lock step with the NRA. In fact, one new poll shows that a majority of gun owners do not support some of the gun lobby’s more aggressive positions, including legalizing silencers and getting rid of gun-free zones around schools.
“The NRA talks about broadening its base and spreading guns more broadly into society, so [Trump’s speech] would seem like a great marketing and political opportunity,” says Bob Spitzer, a political science professor and gun culture expert at the State University of New York, Cortland. “But I would put big question marks around this idea of normalization and diversification of gun culture. Yes, that is the NRA’s goal and drive: to press as many guns into as many hands as possible. But if you look at the long-term change, it’s not clear that they’re really being successful in terms of actually increasing the percentage of nontraditional gun owners carrying and using guns.”
Nevertheless, as perhaps 80,000 Americans descend on Atlanta, Trump is headlining the conference at a time of unprecedented success for the gun lobby and its political capital.
Concealed-carry permits have gone from 2 million to 15 million in the past two decades. The Pew Research Center last year found an uptick since 2014 in people who self-report gun ownership.
Georgia is part of this shift toward more permissive gun rights, primarily in states that vote (or can swing) Republican. Here, NRA members now can legally carry in churches, bars, and even at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world’s busiest tarmac.
Trump already has unraveled some Obama-era regulations on guns. He backs making it easier to buy silencers, and has put his support behind an NRA-backed bill that would federalize concealed-carry rules, something now handled individually by states.
And Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is seen by NRA supporters as a boon for new constitutional reviews of gun measures.
At the same time, there is also evidence that the appeal of guns has broadened beyond Republican men. For example, 58 percent of Americans say gun ownership does more to protect people from crime than put people at risk.
The Liberal Gun Club, an educational and social group, reports a 10 percent increase in membership since Trump’s election. Democratic candidate Rob Quist in Montana has crafted a number of advertisements featuring guns. As many as one out of four people who identify as Democrats own guns, according to recent surveys.
“You know who decides what normal is?” NRA broadcaster Colion Noir said recently, in support of making it easier to buy silencers. “The people with the loudest voice.” Mr. Noir, who is African-American, represents what many see as a new breed of gun owners.
Yet the average NRA member still looks a lot like the average Trump voter – a lot like Mike Fitz, in fact.
Mr. Fitz, a white gun owner and retired firefighter from New York, says, “We’re still mostly older white guys who have lived long enough to realize that cops aren’t going to be there when you most need them, but your gun is.”
But perhaps the biggest challenge for an emboldened NRA is that most Americans – even gun owners like Nolte and Fitz – aren’t necessarily in lockstep with what are perceived by many as extreme measures, including ending gun-free zones, such as around schools. Perhaps in reflection of that, sponsors called the silencer bill “The Hearing Protection Act.”
A poll released this week by Americans for Responsible Solutions, which promotes greater gun safety, suggests that the NRA is out of step with gun owners on issues ranging from silencers to gun-free zones. For example, 88 percent of gun owners surveyed support requiring people who want to carry concealed firearms to obtain a permit, and only 24 percent wanted silencers deregulated.
Another study found that of the 90 percent of Trump supporters who prioritize gun rights, 74 percent also favor expanded background checks – something the NRA has fought against.
As for the gun-buying boom? Without a Democrat in the White House – which gunmakers and shop owners used to spur sales – Americans are buying fewer guns, meaning gun manufacturers are scaling back production.
At the same time, fully half of Americans live in states that have enacted major gun regulations in Obama era. That gives incentive to the NRA to keep fighting, says Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at the UCLA School of Law.
“No, we are not at peak gun,” says Mr. Winkler, author of “Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.” “The courts have yet to address the biggest issues in gun politics today – the right to carry outside your house, what kind of permits can be placed on such activity, and whether bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are constitutional.”
At the Georgia World Congress Center, gun enthusiasts could find the latest tactical gear, see concerts by country music stars, and people-watch for celebrities.
For many gun owners, the annual NRA trek “is like church, a pilgrimage,” says Nolte. And despite his own misgivings, he expects the voices of Americans with guns on their hips to remain influential.
“The NRA plays the long game,” he says. “They know that even Trump could turn on you.”
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Deep-sea algae may be 'living fossils'
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the US and Belgium say two types of deep-sea seaweed may be representatives of ancient forms of algae previously unrecognized.
The two seaweed species grow at depths of around 210 meters below the surface, which is extremely deep for photosynthetic organisms and may mean they could be "living fossils" of the earliest known green plants.
The seaweeds, from the genera Verdigellas and Palmophyllum, are also found in shallower water but generally under overhanging ledges where there is less light. Samples of Verdigellas umbracola were taken from the western Atlantic Ocean, while the Palmophyllum samples were taken from waters around New Zealand.
Leader of the research team, Professor Frederick Zechman of California State University, said the seaweeds, which had already been identified, seem to have special chlorophyll pigments that enable them to use low intensity blue light and live in deeper waters than most photosynthetic algae. Zechman said the algae were also unusual in that they are multicellular but there appears to be no meaningful interaction between individual cells, which form part of a gelatinous matrix that takes on shapes such as stalks.
In the paper, published in the Journal of Phycology, Zechman and the team from across the US and Belgium described their genetic analyses of the DNA in the nuclei and chloroplasts within the algae cells. The genetics revealed the species have much older origins than previously suspected.
The scientists expected the algae to be members of the Chlorophyta, the group (known scientifically as a clade) to which all other green algae except those with the most complex structures belong. The other clade includes the land plants and the most complex green algae (charophytes or stoneworts). The Verdigellas and Palmophyllum algae belonged to neither clade, but instead appeared to be members of an extremely ancient group of green plants.
Zechman said the algae should be assigned to their own Order, the Palmophyllales, because they are so different from other algae. He added that a comparison of the gene sequences of the algae to the same genes in other plants revealed that the algae are among the earliest, if not the earliest, diverging green plants, originating before about a billion years ago when the two groups of plants diverged.
Zechman said the findings could change vastly the scientific view of the ancestor to all the green plants in the world today, which is at present assumed to be a single-celled aquatic plant able to move around with the help of a flagellum (tail). The key to the amazing longevity of the Verdigellas and Palmophyllum may be the depth at which they live, since in deep water there is less variation in temperature, less stress from wave action, and fewer grazing herbivores.
Billion-year revision of plant evolution timeline may stem from discovery of lignin in seaweed
More information: An Unrecognized Ancient Lineage of Green Plants Persists in Deep Marine Waters, Journal of Phycology, DOI:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00900.x
Frederick W Zechman: fresca.calstate.edu/faculty/2038
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At the Law Office of Graham C. Fisher, LLC, we know that the government frequently bullies people accused of crimes, using the threat of harsh punishment to intimidate and coerce guilty pleas. We believe it is our duty to balance the scales for the accused. When clients place their future in our hands, this is a responsibility we take extremely seriously.
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He listens carefully to each client and endeavors to fight for their unique priorities in their case. He is committed to giving each client thorough and honest counsel every step of the way and uses his experience as a trial lawyer to fight tirelessly for his clients.
Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR- Juris Doctor, 2006
Reed College, Portland, OR- Bachelor of Arts, 2001
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National Criminal Defense College, Trial Practice Institute, 2008
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The criminal justice system defines people by their worst moment; we take pride in telling our clients’ stories and making the system see them as they are.
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Glory Jane: Episode 24 – The Home Run King Rides Again
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Chun Jung Myung, Glory Jane, K-Drama, KBS, Kim Yeong Gwang, Lee Jang Woo, Park Min Young, Recaps, Seo In Wu, Yoon Jae In
Yoon Jae In made three wishes at the beginning of the drama – to find her family, to become like Florence Nightingale, and to find true love. I made one wish for Glory Jane – that this drama not end lamely. What do you think happened?
This episode pretty much just tied up loose ends and wrapped everything up (it was Christmas time, after all). It looks like things are back to normal (and by the way, Seo Jae Myung is way dead – not just a little dead, then) and Jae In is back to her smirking, giggling self. She announced to Sales Team 1 that she was taking herself out of the running because she was going to become a nurse. It’s nice that she had that to fall back on – that and her extensive property holdings (I hope she still has them). Sales Team 1 seemed to take that in stride – in fact, it looked like they didn’t really care at all. They can be a hard bunch to read, you know? I think Cha Hong Ju had the most honest response when she said that she’d now look to Jae In for free health care. Come on, you know everyone was thinking that.
Since Seo In Wu and Kim Yeong Gwang also opted out – the former to take over the Geodae Dragons and plot against In Cheol, the latter to become the Home Run King of Korea and get the girl – Geum Bok was the last man standing for the open recruitment. Would he have made it otherwise? I hardly think he hit the nail on the head – figuratively, that is, since they strangely made him do it literally. That wasn’t as random, though, as Kim Jin Ju’s spontaneous coffee shop romance.
In Wu and Yeong Gwang’s friendship seems to have survived the Hour of Pain, and In Wu made good on his promise to get Yeong Gwang back into the minors (really Yeong Gwang?). So this episode was really about Yeong Gwang getting back in the game (what game?) with the help of Sales Team 1, which apparently is where former Geodae baseball players go to die. I almost died when I found out that Joo Dae Sung had been a pitcher for the team – there’s just no way, right? He’s multifaceted, but now he won’t wreck or ravage his hair. So there followed the Training Montage which was just an extended series of scenes of Yeong Gwang missing the ball, often in slow motion for that added shameful effect. But by the end, he was actually the pinch hitter in a major game for the Geodae major league team. Was Sales Team 1 behind the slew of convenient injuries? That would have been much more exciting – that, or thinking that all of the injuries happened because In Wu, the new owner, lacked virtue.
I actually thought the screenwriter would be kind of perverse and have him strike out, but once the magic key sparkled, you knew it was in the bag. That and the fact that this episode’s theme was “9 end, 2 outs” which is a particularly favored metaphor in K-dramas for the underdog making a comeback at the last moment. There was even a drama called 9 End, 2 Outs which was on the lame side but still kind of worth it since Lee Jung Jin was so cute in that one. But still, way to go, Kim Yeong Gwang! He realized his childhood dream of playing for the majors and getting Jae In. After proposing a few times in one episode, that is. I though Jae In was a little cruel just to keep staring at him after each proposal. Not to mention – awkward! But she was a good, demanding girlfriend who kept her promise. What would she have done if he hadn’t won the game? Probably just stare at him some more.
Since Yeong Gwang got Jae In, In Wu busied himself with bringing down Chairman In Cheol who had gotten too big for his britches. It helped that Gyung Ju-Nuna helped him out, but theirs was a marriage of convenience rather than love. I’m glad that she helped to get him arrested for embezzlement (how lame – at least Jae Myung had slush funds), and I’m glad he knew right away it was her, but it would have been nice if she had gloated a bit more, or kicked him. Tacky, but more satisfying, no? Since there would be no In Wu-Gyung Ju loveline (can you imagine those family gatherings?), we left In Wu hanging out with Jae In’s mom of all people, taking lovey-dovey pictures and sending them to Jae In. Ok, kind of random. Well, they must have known each other growing up and Yeo Eun Joo must see him like a son. No, still very creepy. Poor In Wu – did you think that would make Jae In jealous? Please don’t tell me that’s what you thought. She was too happy, anyways, working and being Yeong Gwang’s Number 1 Fan (who didn’t show up to his big game).
And that was Glory Jane. Anyong.
Ok, so I still have a few things to say about the drama. First of all, I don’t think it was awful, and I certainly didn’t hate it, but I was a little disappointed since I had such high expectations. I have absolutely loved two of the screenwriter’s previous dramas (Dal Ja’s Spring and Formidable Rivals), and I even enjoyed her makjang mega-drama, Bread, Love, and Dreams. I’ve also liked Park Min Young a lot since Sungkyunkwan Scandal, and I thought that she was likeable enough to carry a drama. So what happened?
I think that the acting in this drama was one of the weakest points. Son Chang Min who played Seo Jae Myung was positively terrible to the point of being a major distraction. Is he usually a comedian? How else to explain why he was so bad in a dramatic role? They say a story’s only as good as its villain, so maybe he was the one to blame for this drama. The supporting cast in general was pretty bad, such as Yeong Gwang’s mom (I still don’t get the point of the granny’s illness). And the supporting characters, like Yeong Gwang’s dad, were mostly just stupid and frustrating. But not even in a funny way.
Of course Sales Team 1 is exempted, though even Kim Sung Oh (Joo Dae Sung) was better in Secret Garden. I feel he was wasted here, but he’s got a following so I’m sure we’ll see him again. Maybe never as more than a character actor, but I’m cool with that. But who knows – if Lee Min Ki can be a leading man (and I love Lee Min Ki – Kang Tae Bong!), then Kim Sung Oh shouldn’t worry too much.
I was a little surprised that Park Min Young couldn’t really carry the drama (terrible, but true). She was much better in the ensemble cast of Sungkyunkwan Scandal (loved it), and even City Hunter was a better fit for her since Lee Min Ho dominated that drama. To be fair, I think it’s mighty hard to pull off a Candy-type character like Yoon Jae In, so points for effort. I’m curious as to what she’ll do next – I hope it’s something that showcases her funnier, earthier side. But she should be taking a break – I think she’s been working non-stop since Sungkyunkwan Scandal.
Chun Jung Myung was surprisingly good, but out of sync with the rest of the cast so it was kind of wasted. I might even consider watching him in What’s Up Fox? which I had been avoiding because it was supposed to be a little raunchy. Maybe The Duo would be better – I love period pieces. Lee Jang Woo had a hard role to deal with, but I’m sure he’ll make it to first guy really soon since he’s gotten pretty popular. Right now he’s hosting KBS’ Music Bank and he’s on the variety program We Got Married where he’s “married” to idol Ham Eun Jung. I wonder if he put his hair back to normal.
I can’t help but feel a little sad whenever I see the “Last Episode” sign pop up in a drama. Unless I hated the drama – in that case I’m usually happy. But there’s always the next drama to look forward to, which you always hope will be even better than the one you have just finished. Maybe I’m as hopelessly optimistic as Jae In. I really shouldn’t have been so hard on her, I guess.
Glory Jane: Episode 23 – The End of Seo Jae Myung’s World
Glory Jane, K-Drama, KBS, Kim Yeong Gwang, Recaps, Seo In Cheol, Seo In Wu, Seo Jae Myung, Yoon Jae In
This episode saw one villain fall, Seo Jae Myung (Son Chang Min), only to see another one rise, more terrible than the last. For it looks like Seo In Cheol (Park Sung Woong) has been the true dastardly villain all along. And with only one more episode to go, it doesn’t look like he’ll be getting a very satisfying comeuppance. Especially not when Yoon Jae In (Park Min Young) does nothing all episode.
My main emotion in this episode was supreme irritation and anger, all directed at the useless and idiotic Prosecutor Oh (Noh Kyung Joo). I hadn’t even realized how much I had cared about Kim Yeong Gwang (Chun Jung Myung) until he almost died because the lamest prosecutor ever decided getting Seo Jae Myung was more important and timely than a man’s life. This drama really has been a searing indictment of the Korean justice system, I think. Did the screenwriter make her that ineffectual on purpose, or is the actress playing her just out of energy? Because, really now, 17 years of doing nothing? -5,000 points, Prosecutor Oh.
I know Seo In Wu (Lee Jang Woo) is partially to blame for one of the dumbest plans ever (outrun thugs…for 1 hour), but it’s so much more satisfying to blame the lawyer. Luckily, and it was through luck since no human intelligence was involved, Yeong Gwang was saved in the nick of time and the Man with the Scar was arrested. Of course he said that Jae Myung ordered all of the violence – but really, In Wu, you believed him? Have you never seen a gangster movie where the lackey lies and takes a “break” in prison to save his boss? Come on! At least In Wu got in some good kicks before the police carted off the Man with the Scar.
Of course it was In Cheol (or maybe his dad – the family never got along) who did everything. Just because he hated Uncle Jae Myung. Admittedly, he had reason to – the poor relation never has fun – but he’s been so sneaky and cowardly about everything since then that you don’t feel the least bit guilty for hating In Cheol and hoping that Sales Team 1 (they need a better name – that is striking fear in the hearts of no one) will bring him down.
Jae Myung has probably had better days. All in one fell swoop, his entire Geodae world was taken away from him: because of sneaky loudspeaker fun (how not hi-tech of them) the entire company knows that he looks down on everybody who works there, someone randomly threw an egg at him (more nonsensical violence), he was arrested because of his slush funds and tax evasion, he found out that he’s been raising the person who had endangered his son multiple times, and then I think he died. It was at the very end and a little inconclusive, but it pretty much looks like he died. He had that mystical moment when he imagined that he had actually saved Yoon Il Gu all those years ago (was that the true love story all this time?), and then his hand fell – doesn’t that mean death? Who knows, no one really stays dead in this drama anyways.
Sales Team 1 did some more behind the scenes machinations, and even used baseball codes. I had nearly forgotten that this drama was originally about baseball at all (remember – baseball?) – so you know it’s near the end when they bring up things from episode 1. Gil Dong has even returned and all is forgiven since he was just trying to protect Heo Yeong Do. But really, having the secret revelation of Geum Bok’s be that he heard everything while hiding behind a column is just goofy and sloppy storytelling. I like to think that Joo Dae Sung (Kim Sung Oh) was the most worried about Yeong Gwang – he certainly looked distressed when he saw him all bloody and mangled. But that might have just been the germs and dirt. I admit I thought they were pretty cold-hearted, toasting champagne as Yeong Gwang went in and out of a coma, but they should take their celebrations when they can get them.
Besides, Yeong Gwang probably didn’t even care since Jae In was finally by his side. He was even on the point of proposing, when his whole family barged in (it’s ok, Yeong Gwang, you have one more episode). But wait – where’s Gyung Ju-nuna? It looks like having her brother in peril has finally woken her up, and so she does some snooping of her own in In Cheol’s office where she finds her father’s cell phone. Will she be the dark horse who takes down In Cheol once and for all? Does she get the significance of the phone? Does anyone at Geodae know how to keep their things hidden in a safe?
So it looks like there’ll be some kind of In Cheol smackdown in the next episode – or at least I’m hoping there will be. I will be a little annoyed if he just kind of gets away with everything because everyone chooses to be the bigger person. Not that I’m a vengeful person or anything, but no one likes getting played the way In Cheol played everyone. And the drama could really use some sense of closure. Come on, Drama – basha!
Glory Jane: Episode 22 – The Hidden Card
Chun Jung Myung, Glory Jane, K-Drama, KBS, Kim Yeong Gwang, Lee Jang Woo, Park Min Young, Recaps, Seo In Cheol, Seo In Wu, TV, Yoon Jae In
I know Seo In Cheol offered to be Yoon Jae In’s hidden card in this episode, but I think the real Hidden Card Award goes to Seo In Wu and his wacky crime-solving partner, Kim Yeong Gwang. When they did a fist bump, you knew In Cheol didn’t stand a chance.
I should just get this out of the way right now: I am so very beyond creeped out by In Cheol (Park Sang Woong) and Kim Gyung Ju (Kim Yeon Joo) and their white bathrobe hotel room interludes. I thought that after shocking us in an earlier episode they’d stop, but yesterday found them in the same fluffy white robes. Nothing happened since In Cheol was sulking over having been found out by Seo Jae Myung – he hadn’t even had time to reapply his hair gel, he was that upset. The chairman saw the real CCTV footage of In Wu’s attack by the Man with the Scar and told his nephew, “You’re finished.” That’s like one of the worse things someone can say in a K-drama, so we can forgive In Cheol for forgetting his grooming.
And why was In Cheol found out? Because In Wu finally stepped up and became the not-so-evil mastermind he always had in him. It wasn’t the most complex plan, but I make allowances for his extensive injuries. He and Yeong Gwang worked together for everything – getting arrested, provoking In Cheol, and keeping things from Jae In – even though Yeong Gwang wasn’t always informed of the plan. His trust in In Wu was poignant. In Wu is mostly interested in capturing his kidnapper because there’s a timeliness to this since the statute of limitations is about to run out (oh no, the statute of limitations!), but he also has no qualms about messing with his father either.
I don’t blame him for being more concerned with his kidnapping. I had no idea it had been so extensive – something crazy like 15 days or something of being confined and assaulted. [Sidenote: Why do K-dramas love this? They did something similar in the recent Marry Me, Mary! with Kim Jae Wook’s character. I don’t know – maybe it’s as real as stock subscriptions.] In Wu still doesn’t know who orchestrated the kidnapping since at the time it occurred there was an investigation of Geodae – both the chairman and In Cheol’s family could have benefited from the respite the kidnapping afforded. But In Wu’s smart and the drama’s about to end – I think he’ll figure it out.
Yeong Gwang continued to be the comic relief, having a ball in jail – he’s gotta have his ja jang myun (black bean noodles). I was a little surprised to see the ja jang myun – is it not the season for oxtail soup?
Sales Team 1 was shocked to see him behind bars, but his Yeong Gwang-iness assured them that he was ok. I could see why Joo Dae Sung was so disgusted by him – Yeong Gwang is kind of shameless. And now it looks like Geum Bok is included in all the Sales Team 1 powwows. So maybe that means he should stop talking about open recruiting. And I loved the scene where Heo Yeong Do looks out onto the Seoul nightscape and smirks over the havoc he intends to wreak (Defecting executives – really? That’s all?) – it was very City Hunter of him.
Jae In was pretty passive this episode, just supplying a lawyer here and there (how smart of her to buy them in bulk), and giving away her shares. At least she found Yeong Gwang’s ill grandmother – though I really don’t see the point of that storyline in general other than to make Jae In think that she should go back to nursing. But still, she seems to have more contact with In Cheol than with either of her suitors. I wonder why they didn’t do more with an In Cheol-Jae In loveline since I think they hinted at it earlier. I get the impression that Gyung Ju is kind of jealous of her non-boyfriend’s interest in Jae In, but maybe that would be too many men for Jae In – the Korean title is Yeong Gwang’s Jae In (it’s a pun), not Yeong Gwang’s/In Wu’s/In Cheol’s Jae In. But In Cheol must have thought about it – if he becomes the chairman marrying her would solidify his position. But seeing him rifle through her bear backpack made me think that their feelings might be more platonic.
The episode left off with Jae In and In Cheol revealing Jae Myung’s slush fund and tax evasion, while Korea’s calmest prosecutor sat at her desk wondering whether to go after Jae Myung (who isn’t going anywhere) or prevent Yeong Gwang from getting killed by the Man with the Scar. Decisions, decisions. But seeing Yeong Gwang look so exhilarated while running reminded me that he probably enjoyed playing ball more than this paper pushing position. Who knows what he’ll end up doing? But I have a feeling that we don’t have to worry about him.
Glory Jane: Episode 21 – The Sales Team 1 Show
Cha Hong Ju, Chun Jung Myung, Glory Jane, Joo Dae Sung, K-Drama, KBS, Kim Sung Oh, Kim Yeong Gwang, Lee Jang Woo, Lee Jin, Park Min Young, Recaps, Seo In Cheol, Seo In Wu, Seo Jae Myung, TV, Yoon Jae In
Episode 21 already! But there’s still lots to do for Yoon Jae In – like taking care of Seo Jae Myung and Geodae. And she really shouldn’t leave Kim Yeong Gwang hanging.
It worried me that in this episode most of my reactions were mirrored by Kim Yeong Gwang. Not that I think he’s dumb or anything, but I just never thought we’d ever see so eye to eye. After Jae In made her provocative announcement about the shares, he really summed up my thoughts in a voice-over which basically amounted to: I don’t get why you’re doing this, but you’re so happy so whatever. I get that the hero or heroine always has to return the conglomerate to the employees, but to be honest I’m not watching k-dramas for their faithful depictions of Korean business practices.
Jae Myung spent most of the episode hitting his henchmen and threatening to kill Jae In, so he probably enjoyed himself. Seo In Cheol also confronted Jae In to no avail – except that he sounded kind of goofy when he said her name. And I was a little disappointed that he wasn’t more menacing when he lost his temper and hit the table. I guess he’s one of those gentle giants after all. At least Seo In Wu is out of the hospital and allying himself with the prosecutor to take everyone down, especially In Cheol am thinking. Because nobody puts In Wu in a box.
Even though he’s only been out of the hospital for 2 seconds, In Wu still found the opportunity to live it up in an elevator with Jae In (you kind of admire his wiliness), as Yeong Gwang watched the blinking elevator light stop at the fifteenth floor. It was as if he knew that In Wu was cuddling with Jae In even though my first thought on seeing a stopped elevator wouldn’t be touchy-feely times – I’d think more of taking the stairs in case of an emergency. But this whole triangle is starting to confuse me – I know, only starting to? Maybe I am as bad as Yeong Gwang after all. But I thought it was understood that Jae In and Yeong Gwang like each other, and now that they know they aren’t siblings, what’s the problem? Why is she still standing next to In Wu? In some ways In Wu has been written as the traditional first guy who gets the girl, but in other ways not. I’m still pretty sure she’ll end up with Yeong Gwang, so maybe they’re just trying to drag things out? Or has In Wu developed a strong following that will result in a love coup? That has been known to happen in K-drama land.
I liked Sales Team 1 the best in this episode, and probably even in the entire drama even though I still think it’s a little weird. Jae Myung broke their little dream team apart, sending Cha Hong Ju to customer service and Joo Dae Sung to the dusty basement – I’ll never forgive the Chairman for that last one. Though I still don’t think Geum Bok’s response was that warranted when he lost it on one of the henchmen (who looks more like a mild-mannered lawyer than a henchman). That was another really awkward scene of almost violence that I couldn’t really get behind. Did the former loan shark really think that was the worst the Chairman could do? Did he not hear about what happened to Jae In’s dad?
Heo Yeong Do put up with it, but it was obvious that he had something up his loud, cufflinked sleeves. And sure enough, it was Protest Time at Geodae. The Sit-In/Demonstration is such a time-honored tradition in the K-drama (Iljimae comes immediately to mind) though I admit that the first time I heard mention of the famous student protests in Korea in a movie (The Host) I thought it was a weird thing to include. But now I’ve come to accept that Koreans like to see their protests and demonstrations in their entertainment. I wonder what the screenwriter’s background was since she has written about this quite a lot.
But the protest wasn’t enough. Yeong Do also sicced his two best warriors (that’s how I saw it, at any rate – in some ways this drama feels like a saeguk) on the company. Hong Ju took pictures and put up incriminating posters, while Dae Sung went comment-happy on the Geodae website (how very Cha Do Wu and Mazinger of him). But Yeong Do took the leading role by pretending to get sick when the Henchmen tried to cart him off. As he lay on the gurney, he told Yeong Gwang that life is a show, and people should enjoy it. Yeong Gwang agreed and continued with the protest. Until he got arrested for the assault of In Wu, that is.
I’m not too worried about the arrest since this rite of passage happens all the time in dramas – the tofu industry must be very thankful. But also because it’s obvious that this was planned between him and In Wu as a way to bring Jae Myung and In Cheol down, and to help Jae In. But Jae In was too busy giving away her shares to notice.
I think it’s pretty obvious that my favorite member of Sales Team 1 is Joo Dae Sung. I felt for him when he couldn’t impress his crush, Cha Hong Ju, even though I guess Yeong Gwang was right (if not a little backwards) to put her out of harm’s way when the henchmen attacked them instead of linking arms with her. I have to say that I don’t know why the Cha Hong Ju actress, Lee Jin, isn’t as big as her former Fin.K.L. band mate Sung Yu Ri. I think she’s a better actress and pretty too, so what’s the problem? I wonder why she didn’t sing for this OST since Fin.K.L. sang the main songs for All About Eve – one of the best drama OSTs ever. And I wonder who Hong Ju will end up with. If she’s not careful, Dae Sung may move on to someone who appreciates him more.
And note to Jae In – please get a grown up bag.
Glory Jane: Episode 20 – Smoke Gets In… Wu Almost Killed!
As I thought, Yoon Jae In returned to her heroine-appropriate ways in this episode, while Seo In Cheol pitted his will against his cousin Seo In Wu. Kim Yeong Gwang was elsewhere once again.
Yeong Gwang seriously considered Mr. Hwang’s offer about putting himself up as collateral for a loan to Jae In. Even though Mr. Hwang threatened to turn him into a shoe shine or loan shark for life, Yeong Gwang agreed, revealing in the process that he has a very vivid imagination and a rich inner life. I think the actor Chun Jung Myung is actually sleazy so the loan shark persona suited him pretty well.
Mr. Hwang agrees to think about the loan on the condition that Jae In come to see him before 7:00 AM the next day. Yeong Gwang gets Boss Heo Young Do to tell Jae In to visit the old man while he makes a spectacle of himself hiding from her. She rushes down the stairs only to be waylaid by the increasingly brazen Seo In Wu, who seems to have only good memories about the cocktail party since there were fun, kissy times for him. So messed up. She brushes past him, though not as quickly as I might have done if I had a 7:00 AM deadline.
Of course she makes it just in time to piss Seo Jae Myung off, for he is Mr. Hwang’s other guest. She is catnip to elders, so of course Old Man Hwang sides with her and apologizes to Jae Myung for giving his money to Jae In instead of him – classy. Later he tells Jae In about her human collateral and she is furious and kicks Yeong Gwang for valuing his life so cheaply. He of course thinks that he is being wise with his spending, so they are at an impasse. Jae Myung is also furious and tells In Cheol to take care of him – break his legs, etc.
For the first time (and it’s really about time) Yeong Gwang’s nuna tries to look out for her little brother by going to In Cheol and asking him not to hurt Yeong Gwang. In Cheol lies of course, and thinks of the night when he was responsible for her father’s death. He is officially the worst boyfriend ever. In Wu even goes to In Cheol asking him to lay off, or at least to choose a side, after he hears that someone in Sales Team 1 has been targeting Yeong Gwang. I totally agree with his advice. It’s kind of poignant how In Wu actually is smart – I think he’s cleverer than In Cheol. But he just doesn’t know what to do with himself, exactly. That might change after In Cheol makes a move against him, just to scare him a little.
In the previous episode there had been a little bit over how Yeong Gwang might have forgotten to take an order from a client. Honestly, this whole sports clothing bit is too weird to mention. Anyways, Young Do ends up sending Yeong Gwang to the basement as punishment, and there someone sets off a smoke bomb. He wanders around, coughing, until he runs into In Wu, who was worried about him. But only because that would make his Jae In upset. By the way, I’ve been wondering why In Wu has been dressing like an Edwardian dandy. I know his mom’s been picking out his clothes, but still.
This smoky basement leads to many revelations. First, In Wu comes face to face with a childhood terror – the same man who was present at his earlier kidnapping. The audience recognizes the thug as one of In Cheol’s men – is anyone really surprised that In Cheol’s family was behind the kidnapping? – but I doubt that’s of any comfort to In Wu as he gets whaled on with what looks to be a ski pole (was that the reason for making Geodae a purveyor of sporting goods?).
Second, Yeong Gwang finally finds out who the spy is – Ko Gil Dong-ida! I thought this was going to be the case since they were making it too obvious with Geum Bok, his loan shark friend. But those two friends had a nice bonding moment – Geum Bok was quite overcome at the thought that Yeong Gwang trusted him all along.
As the Geodae building was being evacuated, Jae In realized that her two men were trapped in the basement, so she ran after them, only to discover a bloody In Wu. The rest of Sales Team 1 finds them, for they were responsible for the basement-Thunderdome. I don’t think she took any comfort after learning that the whole smoke bomb thing was a huge Just-Kidding test from Sales Team 1 in order to “smoke out” the spy. There really wasn’t an easier way to do this? -5 points, Sales Team 1.
In Cheol manipulates the CCTV in order to make it look like Yeong Gwang attacked In Wu, and tells Sales Team 1 to fire him or risk getting shut down. But Sales Team 1 presents a united front, helped by the fact that they bring in 30% of Geodae sales. Yeong Gwang also tells him later that he knows In Cheol was involved in his father’s death, and subjects him to further Yeong Gwang-weirdness like this:
Meanwhile, In Wu is in the hospital, visited by his father and Jae In. As with the cocktail party, I think he’s kind of enjoying himself. He might be even more optimistic than Jae In, only focusing on the lovey-dovey/skinship side of things. At least he remembers who beat him up. I hope that he connects the dots to In Cheol soon.
Jae In has decided to drop her Black Jae In persona and goes back to Geodae and looks for her magic charm. A kindly old security guard has already found it and gives it back to her (like the symbolic key to Geodae and her happy future), along with nice stories about her father which fortify her. She even declines the money from Mr. Hwang. Now that she is “back” she goes to Young Do and together they hatch a plan: Jae In will give her 50% shares to all of the employees of Geodae.
This giving shares to the employees thing has cropped up in a few k-dramas recently, like 2009’s Brilliant Legacy. I don’t know how common that is in Korea, but I doubt it would fly with the chaebol system in place. I don’t have anything against chaebols – k-dramas wouldn’t be much fun without them.
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Empowering transnational queer community across languages via translation
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The Queer Translation Collective (QTC) represents a vision of a collective in the generative process of creating a community between living and dead queer subjects, recuperated or still waiting to be unsilenced. As practitioners, we reject the notion of a single monolithic human history. As Queering Translation Practitioners, we embrace the cyclical nature of indigenous temporalities and deny the denial of the coevalness of parallel histories, epistemologies and ontologies. In this way, we enact resistance to those hegemonic forces that seek to naturalize, pathologize and commoditize all human experience.
This manifesto, written by graduate student, Jon D Jaramillo as the culmination of his specialization in translation studies at the University of Oregon, is the product of many years of multidisciplinary study and research in Romance Languages, Translation Theory and Queer Theory. This manifesto is grounded in Marxist, Benjaminian and Kuschian philosophical and political reflections in dialogue with many contemporary feminist, gay, lesbian, transgendered, and queer theorists who have interrogated normalizing discourses and built theoretical artifices that assist us in the onerous task of radically existing in a ubiquitous hegemony of power that seeks to assimilate and homogenize all difference. This manifesto is by no means definitive, rather it is a “work in progress,” in a continuous state of “becoming.” The manifesto serves as a point of departure for discussion and exploration.
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Queer(ing) translation (QT) is a political process that emphasizes bodies. It is a practice that emphasizes alternative bodies on the margins of exclusions, abjections, and oppressions, in movement, in transformation, and in a fluidity of expressions, embodiments, and manifestations. QT practice challenges and complicates the grammar of identity with synonyms, antonyms, and rhetorical dissonance. It rejects the binary use of gendered pronouns that erases same sex desire. It embraces pronoun playfulness. It underscores the relationship between translation and Walter Benjamin’s trans-living, the survival or “living on” of an original text rendered in translation.
Trans-living allows queer subjects previously silenced or erased to be recuperated. It recognizes those who have become before while embracing those that are yet to become, so that they, the readers, can engage in dialogue and create community with them, through our translations, even if they are already dead. Therefore, QT envisions community as being enacted concretely and intersubjectively maintained. Therefore, QT practice is an invitation to a mestizo like consciousness that asserts coexisting paradigms. It beckons us to inhabit the liminal spaces between words, and to erotic encounters with liaisons of meaning between the lines.
QT practice embraces entanglements, messiness, ambiguity, restlessness, angst, exuberance, performance and extravagance. It makes visible the invisible, (un)silences the silenced, and restores what has been erased. The discomfortable aspects of a text are made clear in the light of criticality, thereby achieving one of the goals of discomfortable writing, to unsettle the eye and open it to the unexpected. It applies techniques, using an anti-homophobic lens, to destabilize and denaturalize gender and sexual norms.
QT practice represents a heightened degree of reflexiveness and self-awareness, so it can affirm the political sovereignty of cultural diversity, gender, race, sex, class, ethnicity, disability and indigeneity. It reveals and accentuates productive cosmologies rendered invisible by the glossy sphere of capital’s indifference, which it forces upon subjectivities through normative and essentializing binaries. Rather than acquiesce or conform, it questions, it (de)normalizes, as it seeks to authenticate its radical exteriority to hegemonic thinking, decadent and moribund philosophy and global capitalist systems. QT enacts a resistance to the alienation and isolation that results from the epistemic rupture produced in such systems of knowledge, by emphasizing the movement of bodies in the process of becoming, rather than the illusion of being a static someone. QT practitioners recognize that in that static illusion of civilized, economically empowered, progress and development, lay the objects of patriarchal imperial desire, whose seduction is hegemonic, biopolitical, and necropolitical, because its power is nourished by the survival image of coloniality: the coloniality of power, of gender, of being, of sexuality, of ganglia, DNA, and even the coloniality of the essence of being. QT practice does not create a discourse of otherness that (re)inscribes colonial domination, but rather it affirms the existence and coevalness of separate histories. It enacts interactional spaces wherein the parameters of queer experience can be intensified, expanded and enabled.
QT practice embraces the embodiment of affectivity, it does not reject the rational, rather, it seeks to bust rationality’s complacency and challenge its historicity and its authority. Therefore, QT practice embraces a vital synesthesia that sees, hears, touches, smells, and feels; it honors intuition and reveals inner emotional, spiritual and intellectual truths. For just as Karl Marx recognized, in his theory of history, that each system carries with it the seeds of its own destruction, QT practitioners recognize the fecundity of those seeds so that, arising from the destruction, new ways of living, thinking and being in the world will sprout.
QT practice recognizes that waves of feminist, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed, asexual, and questioning subjects have chipped away at hegemonic power and carved a vital space, which QT practitioners seek to fill, inhabit, and share. Although it may sometimes seem that we are passive subjects in an objectified world, which establishes identity in relation to objects on the outside, QT’s dynamic practice does not enact paralysis, it does not reject the object, rather it rejects the reduction of being turned into an object. Therefore, QT practice renders a liberatory sense of identity, spaciality and temporality.
QT practice embraces intersectionality and recognizes that the entire spectrum of identities and subjectivities shine together, while capturing the density of living that peopled spaces present as a challenge to hegemonic organizational hierarchies. In QT’s ambiguity, we witness a not-definable, on the move, body-to-body collective activity that pulls the cosmos towards a renovation of life and an understanding of identity as being constituted within—not without. QT practice engages intercultural, transgendered, intersubjective living, collapsing the whole of history into the here and now of the time space continuum. By engaging in the how of modality rather than the why of causality, QT implicates its practitioners and adherents in the concrete (re)creation of community and habitat in the here and now of producing and performing life. It represents the modality of authentic being as the movement of a living and resplendent social organism. Therefore, QT practice embraces ultratranslation, discomfortable translation and language justice as it seeks to enact intersectional justice by revitalizing the imagination’s ability to render a transnational, trans-living, community.
QT practice interrogates what liberation truly means, it questions what our own prejudices are and how they will get in the way of our listening and understanding of the text. It interrogates how we can decolonize our thinking and our identity. It interrogates how we engage in liberatory collectivity, while gathering our changing practices into new traditions we carry into the future. And finally, QT practice must be experienced and experimented to be comprehended, it, therefore, should not, and cannot be codified, canonized, colonized or contained.
Belizário, Fernanda. “For a Post-Colonial Queer Theory: Coloniality of Gender and Heteronormativity Occupying the Borders of Translation.” Gender, Human Rights and Activisms Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress in Cultural Studies (2016): 385. Estudos Culturais. Universidades Do Minho E De Aveiro, Sept. 2016. Web. 13 Mar. 2017.
Benjamin, Walter. “The Task of the Translator.” Selected Writings. Ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1996. 253-63. Print.
Dinshaw, Carolyn. Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999. Print.
Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Héctor. Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations. Zed Books, 2016.
Foucault, Michel. “Truth and Power.” The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon, 1984. 51-75. Print.
Giustini, Deborah. “Gender and Queer Identities in Translation. From Sappho to Present Feminist and Lesbian Writers: Translating the past and Retranslating the Future.” Thesis. Norwich: University of East Anglia, 2015. Academia.edu, Spring 2015. Web. 13 Mar. 2017.
Hofer, Jen, and John Pluecker. A Manifesto for Discomfortable Wrtiting / Un manifiesto para la escritura discómoda. Los Angeles: Antena, 2013. Print.
Kusch, Rodolfo. Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América. Trans. Maria Lugones and Joshua M. Price. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. Print.
Love, Heather. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Lugones, Maria. “Translator’s Introduction.” Introduction. Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América. By Rodolfo Kusch. Trans. Maria Lugones and Joshua M. Price. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. lv-lxx. Print.
Marx, Karl. Preface. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. New York: International, 1972. 3-5. Print.
Mazzei, Cristiano A. “Queering Translation Studies.” Thesis. University of Massachusetts – Amherst, 2014. Master’s Thesis 1911. ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, Feb. 2014. Web. 13 Mar. 2017.
Mbembé, Achille. “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15.1 (2003): 11-40. Project MUSE [Johns Hopkins UP]. Web. 11 Dec. 2015.
Sappho. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. Trans. by Anne Carson. New York: Vintage. 2003. Web. 13 Mar. 2017.
Vallega, Alejandro A. “Américan Thinking.” Philosophy 607 Kusch. University of Oregon, Eugene. 6 Oct. 2016. Reading. Quotes and paraphrases drawn from class discussions held over an 8-week period beginning with the first class-meeting on the date specified in the citation.
Vallega, Alejandro A. Introduction. Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2014. 1-15. Print.
Queer Translation Quotes
“You may forget, but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.”
[From If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2003), translated by Anne Carson. New York: Vintage.]
“Translation is planned rewriting…translation represents one of the most privileged tools for the negotiation and reproduction of gender and identities. It evokes the current discursive conflict between female and male, between gender normativity and queer identities, and performativity.”
—Deborah Giustini
“At the same time, the queer body is the condition of meaning. As a limit, is the body that is racialized, who is male or female or neither, is the body that has sex, loves and negotiates its physical boundaries within the boundaries of their identity. The body is the place of identity, oppression and resistance.”
—Fernanda Belizário
“It is crucial to consider different sexualities and bodies when discussing identity in translation. Analogous with translation, diverse sexualities have always occupied a secondary position in mainstream society, often trying to negotiate a space for themselves in opposition to heteronormative culture, always articulating their visibility and invisibility in society. Therefore, it is only logical that these two important fields of human experience and knowledge, Queer Studies and Translation Studies, should work more closely together in order to inform one another and benefit from each other’s research and insights.”
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Gschaider-Reichhart, Eva (2018) Optical and optogenetic control of proliferation and survival. PhD thesis, IST Austria.
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The aim of this thesis was the development of new strategies for optical and optogenetic control of proliferative and pro-survival signaling, and characterizing them from the molecular mechanism up to cellular effects. These new light-based methods have unique features, such as red light as an activator, or the avoidance of gene delivery, which enable to overcome current limitations, such as light delivery to target tissues and feasibility as therapeutic approach. A special focus was placed on implementing these new light-based approaches in pancreatic β-cells, as β-cells are the key players in diabetes and especially their loss in number negatively affects disease progression. Currently no treatment options are available to compensate the lack of functional β-cells in diabetic patients. In a first approach, red-light-activated growth factor receptors, in particular receptor tyrosine kinases were engineered and characterized. Receptor activation with light allows spatio-temporal control compared to ligand-based activation, and especially red light exhibits deeper tissue penetration than other wavelengths of the visible spectrum. Red-light-activated receptor tyrosine kinases robustly activated major growth factor related signaling pathways with a high temporal resolution. Moreover, the remote activation of the proliferative MAPK/Erk pathway by red-light-activated receptor tyrosine kinases in a pancreatic β-cell line was also achieved, through one centimeter thick mouse tissue. Although red- light-activated receptor tyrosine kinases are particularly attractive for applications in animal models due to the deep tissue penetration of red light, a drawback, especially with regard to translation into humans, is the requirement of gene therapy. In a second approach an endogenous light-sensitive mechanism was identified and its potential to promote proliferative and pro-survival signals was explored, towards light-based tissue regeneration without the need for gene transfer. Blue-green light illumination was found to be sufficient for the activation of proliferation and survival promoting signaling pathways in primary pancreatic murine and human islets. Blue-green light also led to an increase in proliferation of primary islet cells, an effect which was shown to be mostly β- cell specific in human islets. Moreover, it was demonstrated that this approach of pancreatic β-cell expansion did not have any negative effect on the β-cell function, in particular on their insulin secretion capacity. In contrast, a trend for enhanced insulin secretion under high glucose conditions after illumination was detected. In order to unravel the detailed characteristics of this endogenous light-sensitive mechanism, the precise light requirements were determined. In addition, the expression of light-sensing proteins, OPN3 and rhodopsin, was detected. The observed effects were found to be independent of handling effects such as temperature differences and cytochrome c oxidase dependent ATP increase, but they were found to be enhanced through the knockout of OPN3. The exact mechanism of how islets cells sense light and the identity of the photoreceptor remains unknown. Summarized two new light-based systems with unique features were established that enable the activation of proliferative and pro-survival signaling pathways. While red-light-activated receptor tyrosine kinases open a new avenue for optogenetics research, by allowing non-invasive control of signaling in vivo, the identified endogenous light-sensitive mechanism has the potential to be the basis of a gene therapy-free therapeutical approach for light-based β-cell expansion.
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Were later MS-DOS versions still implemented in x86 assembly?
Recently, Microsoft published the source code of old MS-DOS versions on GitHub.
What is odd in my opinion is the use of x86 assembly language for everything. The assembly language would not be my first choice for implementing an operating system. At the time MS-DOS was created, the C programming language had already been invented in Bell Labs, offering a good compromise between low level and high level programming.
Was this assembly language approach used also in the newest versions of MS-DOS in the 1990s?
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The MS_DOS ABI (if we can call it that) is an assembly register interface. It would be quite inconvenient to implement that in C. – tofro Oct 7 '18 at 13:21
"The assembly language would not be my first choice for implementing an operating system." -- But someone did anyways, a fully graphical, multitasking OS that can run from a floppy: menuetos.net. While it's not exactly the same thing as Windows/Linux/MacOS (more primitive/flickers, etc), it's a cool proof of concept of how much space can be saved when you use only assembler. – phyrfox Oct 7 '18 at 15:28
"The assembly language would not be my first choice for implementing an operating system." Because you're young, and have no appreciation for #1 what it means to have to run in 16KB of RAM, and #2 how hard it is to write a compiler that optimizes so well that it's better than hand-coded assembler. – RonJohn Oct 8 '18 at 5:22
RAM is the issue, entirely. You don't say why assembly language wouldn't be your first choice, but my guess is that you feel it would be easier to code in C or some other higher-level language, and it would be. However, when programming resource-limited computers, ease is not the primary goal; space efficiency, speed of execution, or some combination of these two factors will be the main considerations. Consider that some computers had one kilobyte or less of RAM versus gigabytes now, and even the very last version of MS-DOS had to run nicely on 640kB systems (the first, 16 kB!). – Jim MacKenzie Oct 8 '18 at 14:40
@LightnessRacesinOrbit reverse-ageism is a time-honored tradition. I can't wait until I need a cane and can start smacking deserving idiots with it! – RonJohn Oct 9 '18 at 16:57
C did exist when DOS was developed, but it wasn’t used much outside the Unix world, and as mentioned by JdeBP, wouldn’t necessarily have been considered a good language for systems programming on micros anyway — more likely candidates in the late seventies would include Forth and Pascal. SCP developed DOS in assembly for a few very pragmatic reasons:
The last design requirement was that MS-DOS be written in assembly language. While this characteristic does help meet the need for speed and efficiency, the reason for including it is much more basic. The only 8086 software-development tools available to Seattle Computer at that time were an assembler that ran on the Z80 under CP/M and a monitor/debugger that fit into a 2K-byte EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory). Both of these tools had been developed in house.
As you’ve seen from the code available for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.11, these versions were also written in assembly language. That code was never entirely rewritten, so there never was the opportunity to rewrite it in a higher-level language; nor was the need ever felt, I suspect — assembly was the language of choice for system tools on PCs for a long time, and system developers were as familiar with assembly as with any other language.
Other languages were used in MS-DOS releases. BASIC was used for a number of demos of various kinds over the years; but they hardly count as “core” utilities. Microsoft’s Pascal compiler (sold as IBM Pascal) was available early on, and could have been used — but it produces binaries with tell-tale memory problems which none of the MS-DOS tools exhibit, as far as I’m aware.
Some tools added in later versions were developed in C; a quick look through MS-DOS 6.22 shows that, for example, DEFRAG, FASTHELP, MEMMAKER and SCANDISK were written in C (some of these tools were licensed from other companies such as Symantec). FDISK is also a C program in 6.22; I haven’t checked its history to see if it started out in assembly and was rewritten (in early versions of DOS, it wasn’t provided by Microsoft but by OEMs). As No'am Newman mentions, the OS/2 Museum page on DOS 3 lists ATTRIB.EXE as the first program provided with MS-DOS to have been written in C.
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It gets even more interesting when one adds DR-DOS to the picture, but the question did not ask about that. It's worth disputing the question's implied premise that at the time people generally accepted that the C language was the language to use for implementing operating systems. That was by no means a given. There were people who implemented operating systems in Pascal, for example. (-: – JdeBP Oct 8 '18 at 13:41
@JdeBP do you know what languages were used in DR DOS? OpenDOS’ kernel was all assembly, but its COMMAND.COM was partly written in C. I haven’t looked into the rest of the system... – Stephen Kitt Oct 8 '18 at 13:58
Let's not forget that MS-DOS included a complete IDE for working in assembly on the computer that allowed for editing of even the currently executing program without the need to re-compile, re-link, and re-execute to see the results. DEBUG – Gypsy Spellweaver Oct 9 '18 at 4:07
@Gypsy believe it or not, that’s how I learned to code assembly on PCs, along with EDLIN! Before that, I hand-assembled 6502 assembly for use in DATA statements in BASIC on 8-bit Ataris... So DEBUG was a huge improvement. – Stephen Kitt Oct 9 '18 at 19:26
The DEFRAG utility you mention was originally part of Norton Utilities (called SPEEDISK) and licensed by Microsoft. SCANDISK was similarly based on Norton Disk Doctor. – Ed Avis Oct 11 '18 at 10:10
From The OS/2 Museum page about DOS3: "The new ATTRIB.EXE utility allowed the user to manipulate file attributes (Read-only, Hidden, System, etc.). It is notable for being the first DOS utility written in C (up to that point, all components in DOS were written in assembly language) and contains the string “Zbikowski C startup Copyright 1983 (C) Microsoft Corp”, clearly identifying Mark Zbikowski’s handiwork."
I realise that this doesn't really answer the question, but gives an idea of how DOS was implemented. Also remember that the operating system had to be as small as possible so as to leave room for user programs, so the resident part of COMMAND.COM would have stayed written in Assembly.
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MS-DOS (by which I mean the underlying IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS files) was written in assembly through the first half of the 1990s.
In 1995 for Windows 95, which was bootstrapped by what you would call MS-DOS 7.0 (although nobody ran DOS 7.0 as a stand-alone OS), I did write a small piece of code in C and included it in the project. As far as I know, it was the first time C code appeared in either of those .SYS files (yes I know one of those SYS files became a text file and all the OS code ended up in the other one).
I remember sneaking a look at the Windows NT source code at the time to see how they had solved some issue, and I was impressed at how even their low level drivers were all written in C. For instance they used the _inp() function to read I/O ports on the ISA bus.
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Nice answer. Didn't IBM release a (very different) PC-DOS 7.0? – Davislor Oct 8 '18 at 4:25
In addition to the Basic Input/Output System and the Basic Disk Operating System, MS-DOS also comprises the command processor and the housekeeping utilities (superuser.com/questions/329442); and those are also in the Microsoft publication referred to in the question. As such, the use of C code in one of the housekeeping utilities in MS-DOS in 1984, per another answer here, does mean that MS-DOS (the whole actual operating system, not a partial subset of it) had not been wholly written in assembly for more than 10 years prior to that. – JdeBP Oct 8 '18 at 13:14
Do you know any more from that mysterious problem, why the MS-DOS couldn't read DR-DOS floppies? – peterh Oct 8 '18 at 15:33
I tended to run MS-DOS 7.0 as a standalone OS by installing Windows 95 and modifying the boot configuration so it left you at a DOS prompt. You could still launch Windows by saying 'win'. You could also make bootable floppies with MS-DOS 7.0, I think. – Ed Avis Oct 11 '18 at 10:12
@EdAvis - I've used a standalone MS-DOS 7 installation via boot floppies made with format a: /s from a Win95 machine (and probably then copy c:\windows\command\*.* a: to get the utilities), so I agree that that worked too. – Jules Oct 12 '18 at 0:25
Low Memory ==> Assembly Language
In the early days every byte mattered. MS-DOS was, in many ways, an outgrowth of CP/M. CP/M had a fairly hard limit of 64K. Yes, there were some bank switching in later versions, but for practical purposes for most its popular lifetime it was a 64K O/S. That included O/S resident portion + Application + User Data.
MS-DOS quickly increased that to 1 Meg. (but 640K in practical terms due to IBM's design decisions) and it was relatively easy to use the 8086 segmented architecture to make use of more than 64K memory, as long as you worked in 64K chunks.
Despite the 1 Meg./640K limit, plenty of machines started out with a lot less RAM. 256K was typical. The original IBM PC motherboard could hold from 16K to 64K, though most (and all the ones I ever worked with myself) could hold from 64K - 256K. Any more RAM went on expansion cards. RAM was still rather expensive in the early days - plenty of machines did plenty of useful work with 256K (or less!), so keeping the resident O/S components to a minimum was very important to allow for larger applications and more user data.
Can an optimizing C compiler get really close to hand-coded assembly language in memory usage? Absolutely. But they weren't there in the early days. Plus, compilers (in my mind, until Turbo Pascal came along) were big & clunky - i.e., needed plenty of RAM and disk space and took a long time to compile/link/etc. which would make developing the core of an O/S even harder to do. MS-DOS wasn't like a strip of paper tape loaded in via a TTY to an Altair (the first Microsoft Basic) but it was small and efficient for what was needed at the time, leaving room for applications on a bootable floppy and in RAM.
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COMMAND.COM (the command-line interpreter) loaded in the top 32K of RAM and could be overwritten by a large application if necessary. In the twin-floppy days, it was a PITA if that was the case - one finished up putting copies of COMMAND.COM on the data disks. DOS was so small, it wasn't worth writing in C. Even large applications like Lotus 1-2-3 were written in assembler. 1-2-3 version 3 was the first C version and it was slower and had more bugs than version 2. – grahamj42 Oct 7 '18 at 20:27
@grahamj42 "DOS was so small, it wasn't worth writing in C" - actually I would argue the opposite - because it was so small, it had to be assembler to keep it as absolutely small as possible in the early days. Large applications were initially in assembler to - every cycle counts on a 4.77 Mhz. 8088, and every byte counts in 256K (or often less). As you move on to 6 Mhz. 80286, 640K, etc. the overhead of a high-level language (both CPU cycles & bytes) becomes more acceptable. Bugs - any major rewrite has 'em :-( – manassehkatz Oct 7 '18 at 20:41
"the original IBM PC motherboard could hold from 16K to 256K" -- a quick correction: the original motherboard held 16K-64K (1-4 banks of 16K chips). It was quickly replaced by a version that held 64K-256K (1-4 banks of 64K chips) after IBM realised that the 16K configuration wasn't selling well. See minuszerodegrees.net/5150/early/5150_early.htm for more details. – Jules Oct 8 '18 at 7:43
Low Memory ==> Assembly Language or Forth // (There were options. ;) – RichF Oct 8 '18 at 17:31
From my point of view, compilers are still big and clunky. I'm currently compiling GCC 6.4 on an old Pentium MMX. I expect it to finish sometime in early November. – Mark Oct 8 '18 at 23:55
C would have been really inefficient to write the operating system for a number of reasons:
First, initial compilers for high level language used 16-bit pointers on MS-DOS, only later adding support for 32-bit pointers. Since much of the work done in the operating system needed to manage and work with a 1MB address space, this would have been impractical without larger pointers. Programs that took advantage of compiler-support for larger pointers suffered significantly on 8086 since the hardware doesn't actually support 32-bit pointers nicely!
So second, code generation quality was poor on 8086, in part because compilers were less mature back then, in part because of the irregular instruction set of the 8086 (re: many things, including the above mentioned 32-bit pointer handling), and in part because in assembly language a human programmer can so simply use all the features of the processor (e.g. return value in CF flags (Z-bit) along with return value in AX, as is done with the int 21h system calls). The small register set also makes the compiler's job harder, which means it would tend to use stack memory for local variables when a programmer would have used registers.
Compilers only use a subset of a processor's instruction set, and accessing those other features would have required an extensive library or compiler options and language extensions that were yet to come (e.g. __stdcall, others).
As hardware has evolved it has become more friendly to compilers; while also, compilers have improved dramatically.
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Also, I just want to add that even if the code generation quality was good, assembler is sometimes helpful just because it's easier to debug when there are problems. Compilers can and do do all sorts of weird things in the interest of speed; sometimes you want to err on the side of readability/understandability later on. – Kevin McKenzie Oct 10 '18 at 1:33
So not C, but the C compilers? – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Jan 20 at 15:20
You need to understand that C wasn't a good compromise between low-level and "high-level". The abstractions it offered were tiny, and the cost of them was more important on the PC than on machines where Unix originated (even the original PDP-11/20 had more memory and faster storage than the original IBM PC). The main reason why you'd choose C wasn't to get useful abstraction, but rather to improve portability (this in a time where differences between CPUs and memory models were still huge). Since the IBM PC didn't need portability, there was little benefit to using C.
Today, people tend to look at assembly programming as some stone-age level technology (especially if you've never worked with modern assembly). But keep in mind that the high-level alternatives to assembly were languages like LISP - languages that didn't even pretend to have any relation to the hardware. C and assembly were extremely close in their capabilities, and the benefits C gave you were often outweighed by the costs. People had large amounts of experience and knowledge of the hardware and assembly, and lots of experience designing software in assembly. Moving to C didn't save as much effort as much as you'd think.
Additionally, when MS-DOS was being developed, there was no C compiler for the PC (or the x86 CPUs). Writing a compiler wasn't easy (and I'm not even talking about optimizing compilers). Most of the people involved didn't have a great insight into state-of-the-art computer science (which, while of great theoretical value, was pretty academical in relation to desktop computers at the time; CS tended to shun the "just get it working, somehow" mentality of commercial software). On the other hand, creating an assembler is pretty trivial - and already gives you lots of capabilities that early compilers for languages like C did. Do you really want to spend the effort to make a high-level compiler when what you're actually trying to do is write an OS? By the time tools like Turbo Pascal came to be, they might have been a good choice - but that was much later, and there'd be little point in rewriting the code already written.
Even with a compiler, don't forget how crappy those computers were. Compilers were bulky and slow, and using a compiler involved flipping floppies all the time. That's one of the reasons why at those times, languages like C usually didn't improve productivity unless your software got really big - you needed just as much careful design as with assembly, and rely on your own verification of the code long before it got compiled and executed. The first compiler to really break that trend was Turbo Pascal, which took very little memory and was blazing fast (while including a full-blown IDE with a debugger!) - in 1983. That's about in time for MS DOS 3 - and indeed, around that time, some of the new tools were already written in C; but that's still no reason to rewrite the whole OS. If it works, why break it? And worse, risk breaking all of the applications that already run just fine on MS-DOS?
The API of DOS was mostly about invoking interrupts and passing arguments (or pointers) through registers. That's an extremely simple interface that's pretty much just as easy to implement in assembly as in C (or depending on your C compiler, much easier). Developing applications for MS DOS required pretty much no investment beyond the computer itself, and a lot of development tools sprung up pretty quickly from other vendors (though on launch, Microsoft was still the only company that provided an OS, a programming language and applications for the PC). All the way through the MS-DOS era, people used assembly whenever small or fast code was required - compilers only slowly caught up with what assembly was capable of, though it usually meant you used something like C or Pascal for most of the application, with custom assembly for the performance critical bits.
OSes for desktop computers had one main requirement - be small. They didn't have to do much stuff, but whatever they had to keep in memory was memory that couldn't be used by applications. MS-DOS targeted machines with 16 kiB RAM - that didn't leave a lot of room for the OS. Diminishing that further by using code that wasn't hand optimized would have been a pointless waste. Even later, as memory started expanding towards the 640 kiB barrier, every kiB still counted - I remember tweaking memory for days to get to run Doom with a mouse, network and sound at the same time (this was already with a 16 MiB PC, but lots of things still had to fit in those 640 kiB - including device drivers). This got even worse with CD-ROM games; one more driver to fit in. And throughout all this time, you wanted to avoid the OS as much as possible - direct memory access was the king if you could afford it. So there wasn't really much of a demand for complicated OS features - you mostly wanted the OS to stand aside while your applications were running (on the PC, the major exception would only come with Windows 3.0).
But programming in 100% assembly was nowhere near as tedious as people imagine today (one notable example being Roller Coaster Tycoon, a huge '99 game, 100% written in assembly by one guy). Most importantly, C wasn't significantly better, especially on the PC and with one-person "teams", and introduced a lot of design conflicts that people had to learn to deal with. People already had plenty of experience developing in assembly, and were very aware of the potential pitfalls and design challenges.
LuaanLuaan
Aside from the historical answer, which is just "yes", you also have to keep in mind that DOS is magnitudes smaller than what we'd call an "OS" today.
What is odd in my opinion is the use of x86 assembly language for everything.
On the contrary; using anything else would have been odd back then.
DOS had very few responsibilities - it handled several low level components in a more or less static way. There was no multi-user/-tasking/-processing. No scheduler. No forking, no subprocesses, no "exec"; no virtualization of memory or processes; no concept of drivers; no modules, no extensability. No USB, no PCI, no video functionality to speak of, no networking, no audio. Really, there was very little going on.
See the source code - the whole thing (including command line tools, "kernel"...) fits into a handful of assembler files; they aren't even sorted into subdirectories (as Michael Kjörling pointed out, DOS 1.0 didn't have subdirectories, but they didn't bother adding a hierarchy in later versions either).
If you count the DOS API calls, you end up at roughly 100 services for the 0x21 call, which is... not much, compared to today.
Finally, the CPUs were much simpler; there was only one mode (at least DOS ignored the rest, if we ignore EMM386 and such).
Suffice it to say, the programmers back then were quite used to assembler; more complex software was written in assembler on a regular basis. It probably did not even occur to them to rewrite DOS in C. There simply would have been little benefit.
"they didn't even need to be sorted into subdirectories" MS-DOS 1.x didn't even support subdirectories. That was only added in 2.0. So development of 2.0 would pretty naturally not have used subdirectories for source code organization. It's like how, these days, when building a compiler for an updated version of a programming language, any newly introduced language constructs likely don't get used in the compiler source code until the new version of the compiler is quite stable. – a CVn Oct 8 '18 at 11:24
@MichaelKjörling, phew, thanks for that addition. My first contact with DOS was on an Schneider Amstrad PC, I think (no HDD but two floppies, though I cannot recall if they were 5 1/4" or already 3 1/2"; and I certainly do not recall the version of DOS). I do recall vividly how I once tried out all the DOS commands... up to and including RECOVER.COM on the boot disk. The disk certainly had no subdirectories after THAT one, and I learned the importance of having backups. :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recover_(command) Good old times. – AnoE Oct 8 '18 at 13:33
@MichaelKjörling Were not directories only added in 2.20 or something like that? – Rui F Ribeiro Oct 9 '18 at 19:12
@RuiFRibeiro I don't think so; my understanding is that directories were introduced together with hard disk support in 2.0. Either way, though, the point remains valid: (sub)directories were not supported in the 1.x releases, so would likely not have been available during significant portions of the development that led up to 2.0. The only way I can see that subdirectories would have been available is if development was done on some other platform and the resulting source code only cross-compiled. – a CVn Oct 10 '18 at 8:02
Yes, directories were added in 2.0 (not later). – Stephen Kitt Oct 10 '18 at 13:10
Yes - C has been around since 1972 but there were no MSDOS C compilers until the late 80s. To convert an entire OS from Assembler to C would be a mammoth task. Even though it might be easier to maintain, it could be a lot slower.
You can see the result of conversion when you compare Visual Studio 2008 to VS2010. This was a full blown conversion from C to C#. OK - it is easier to maintain from the Vendor's point of view but the new product is 24 times slower: on a netbook, 2008 loads in 5s, 2010 takes almost 2 minutes.
Also, DOS was a 16-bit OS in a 20 bit address space. This meant that there was a lot of segmented addressing and a few memory models to choose from (Tiny, Compact, Medium, Large, Huge): not the flat addressing that you get in the 32-bit/64-bit compilers nowadays. The compilers didn't hide this from you: you had to make a conscious decision as to which memory model to use since changing from one model to another wasn't a trivial exercise (I've done this in a past life).
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Assembly to C, and C to C# cannot really be compared, as C# is a JIT'd GC'd memory-safe language, whereas C is very close to Assembly in the features it provides, being just easier to write and maintain. Anyway, "entire OS" for MS-DOS is quite little code, so converting it to C, either completely or partially, wouldn't be such a large task. – juhist Oct 7 '18 at 10:58
@juhist Try actually doing some of the conversion yourself, then tell us whether it was really a large task or not. (Oh, and make sure you regression test every edge and corner case, just to be sure your C version doesn't change the behaviour of anything, not just what the (buggy and incomplete) user documentation says is valid! – alephzero Oct 7 '18 at 11:42
It is an answer; it starts with "Yes". – wizzwizz4♦ Oct 7 '18 at 16:04
June 1982 is post-launch by a bit over a year (and so well after key development work) but it is not by any stretch of imagination the late 80's – Chris Stratton Oct 7 '18 at 17:41
Chris Stratton points out one problem with this answer, that its dates for availability of C compilers are quite wrong. (By the late 1980s, not only were there C compilers for MS-DOS, there were even ones for both MS-DOS and OS/2 1.x.) Another is the idea that conversion is "a mammoth task" that needs to happen in one fell swoop. The reality was that contemporary C (and indeed BASIC and Pascal) compilers supported both linking to assembly language modules and in-line assembly language, and one did not have to make an either/or exclusive choice. Or indeed do the whole operating system at once. – JdeBP Oct 8 '18 at 13:26
Answering the question - yes.
For the rationale: there's very little gain in rewriting functioning code (unless for example you have portability specifically in mind).
The "newest version" of any major program generally contains much of the code of the previous version, so again, why spend programmer time on rewriting existing features instead of adding new features?
another-daveanother-dave
Welcome to Retrocomputing! This answer could be improved by supporting evidence. For example, specifying which version your answer refers to, and giving a link to source code. Although your rationale is valid, it doesn't count as evidence. – DrSheldon Oct 7 '18 at 15:35
High level languages are generally easier to work with. However, depending on what one is programming, and one's experience, programming in assembler is not necessarily all that complex. Remove the hurdles of graphics, sound, inter-process communication, and just a keyboard and text shell for user interaction -- it's pretty straight-forward. Especially with a well-documented BIOS to handle the low level text in / text out / disk stuff, building a well-functioning program in assembler was straight-forward and not all that slow to accomplish.
Looking backward with a 2018 mindset, yeah it might seem strange to stick with assembler even in the later versions of DOS. It was not, though. Others have mentioned that some tools were eventually written in C. Still most of it was already written and known to operate well. Why bother rewriting everything? Do you think any users would have cared if a box containing the newest DOS had a blurb stating, "Now fully implemented in the C language!"?
RichFRichF
It's interesting to note that the direct inspiration for the initial DOS API, namely CP/M was mostly written in PL/M rather than assembly language.
PL/M being a somewhat obscure language and the original Digital Research source code being unavailable due to copyright and licensing reasons anyway, writing in assembly language was the most straightforward course for direct binary compatibility. In particular since the machine-dependent part of the operating system, the BIOS, was already provided by IBM (it was very common to write the BIOS in assembly language anyway, even for CP/M, for similar reasons).
The original CP/M structure consisted of BIOS, BDOS, and CCP (basically what COMMAND.COM does) with BIOS implementing the system-dependent parts, BDOS implementing the available system calls on top of that, and the CCP (typically reloaded after each program run) providing a basic command line interface.
Much of the BDOS layer was just glue code, with the most important part that was more complex being the file system code and implementation. There were no file ids indexing kernel internal structures: instead the application program had to provide the room for the respective data structures. Consequently there was no limitation on concurrently open files. Also there was no file abstraction across devices: disk files used different system calls than console I/O or printers.
Since the core of MS-DOS corresponds just to what was the BDOS in CP/M, reimplementing it in assembly language was not that much of a chore. Later versions of MS-DOS tried adding a file id layer and directories and pipes to the mix to look more like Unix, but partly due to the unwieldy implementation language and partly due to a lack of technical excellence, the results were far from convincing. Other things that were a mess were end-of-file handling (since CP/M only had file lengths in multiples of 128) and text line separators vs. terminal handling (CR/LF is around even to these days).
So doing the original implementation in assembly language was reasonable given the system call history of CP/M that DOS initially tried to emulate. However, it contributed to drawing the wrong project members for moving to a Unix-like approach of system responsibility and mechanisms. Microsoft never managed utilizing the x286 16-bit protected modes for creating a more modern Windows variant; instead both Windows 95 and Windows NT worked with the x386 32-bit protected modes, Windows 95 with DOS underpinnings and Windows NT with a kernel developed new. Eventually the NT approach replaced the old DOS-based one.
NT was renowned for being "enterprise-level" and resource consuming. Part of the reason certainly was that it had bulkier and slower code due to not being coded principally in assembly language like the DOS-based OS cores were. That led to a rather long parallel history of DOS- and NT-based Windows systems.
So to answer your question: later "versions of DOS" were written in higher languages, but it took them a long time to actually replace the assembly language based ones.
Regarding 286 protected mode, Microsoft did manage to use it in a successful Windows variant: Windows 3’s standard mode uses 286 protected mode (as does, effectively, enhanced mode, albeit under a 32-bit VM controller). – Stephen Kitt Oct 9 '18 at 8:01
Re open files: at some stage, a structure called IIRC the 'system files table' which allowed the possibility of a program - or rather, the computer as a whole - to have 20 files open. TSRs which used files would have to copy this table, enter their own files into the table, then restore the original entries. – No'am Newman Oct 9 '18 at 8:13
@No'am yes, that is the SFT; see here (and the links at the bottom) or here for details. You could have more than 20 entries. – Stephen Kitt Oct 9 '18 at 19:34
"PL/M being a somewhat obscure language" ... obscure or not, PL/M was actually the only high level language supported by Intel's 8086 SDK at the time work on "QDOS" was started, so if Patterson had wanted to use it he could have done. – Jules Oct 12 '18 at 0:31
I see many factors that make C programming uncomfortable for MS-DOS development:
Many of the interface MS-DOS offered was targeted at assembly language anyway, like direct use of AX-DX registers to pass arguments and replies to system calls
direct use of the (software) interrupts to call system services
use of the 'carry flag' to report error during system calls, which can be efficiently set/cleared/tested at assembly level and is missing from the C programming model altogether.
all of the above also applies to calls to the BIOS functions that the MS-DOS will have to do to use low-level "drivers".
it has to run real mode programs, which had to split code among multiple segments. The C execution environment model assumes one segment for the code and one for stack+data. C compilers of the era had complex behaviour to emulate that, sometimes by restricting the program to 64K. As a service to third-party software, MS-DOS must be able to work with buffers/strings located anywhere, forcing it to use exotic FAR pointers and the like all over the code.
Later versions of MS-DOS will still be facing the same constraints about BIOS, established interfaces and real mode addressing, so assembly might still be preferable over C for them.
PypeBrosPypeBros
While this may be true, I don't see how it answers the question of whether versions of MS-DOS were implemented in Assembler. – Chenmunka♦ Oct 10 '18 at 10:40
@chenmunka: edited. Hopefully, that should make it clearer. – PypeBros Oct 10 '18 at 14:04
"The C execution environment model assumes one segment for the code and one for stack+data." Possibly (I haven't checked), but real-world DOS C compilers certainly weren't limited to one code segment and one combined stack/data segment. Both the Large and Huge memory models gave you multiple code and data segments; also Compact gave you a single code segment but multiple data segments, while Medium gave you a single data/stack segment with multiple code segments. Only Small and Tiny were limited to one of each type; Tiny being a single segment overall (CS=DS=SS), Small being CS != DS=SS. – a CVn Oct 19 '18 at 18:04
Indeed (congrats for remembering all those model names). They likely weren't available when earliest DOS came out, but I guess Borland C (in 1987) had them. whether it would be comfortable to code the terminate-and-stay-resident part of MS-DOS or the additional tools with those modes ... I don't know. – PypeBros Oct 24 '18 at 14:40
In response to a few comments, I revised my answer to contain a short version without my personal interests included.
Question: Was this assembly language approach used also in the newest versions of MS-DOS in the 1990s?
TL;DR version: (I also give my 'rant' below for anyone interested. I thought it might spur some good discussion.)
No ... but they kept it as long as they could.
This is akin to "Would you cut off your legs just because you bought a new car?"
Assembly was preferred for optimizing efficiency and would not have been discarded without good reason. Nearly every line of code mapped directly to a machine code instruction. This was a marvel and allowed intimate control over the computer's resources.
It was 'normal' for programmers to use assembly back then. Assembly closely mirrored machine code and was as close as most humans could get to communicating directly with the computer. For anything that constantly made calls directly to hardware, this was the 'go to' language.
Higher level languages with convenient syntax and builtin help for common functions all had to be interpreted or compiled. This step could introduce errors, or at the very least would use general algorithms or methods that likely would not be the most efficient in every situation.
Constraints were different then - memory and storage were very scarce. Processing power and bus speeds were never enough. Optimized, bug-free code was the main goal.
Because assembly was common, it was easy. People thought in terms of interrupts, memory addresses, and flags. Still time consuming, but not particularly difficult.
This was cutting edge stuff. It was the best that could be done within the constraints of cost and materials that came with the ambitious of goal of an actual working computer that people could have in their home or office.
Programs were small enough that one person could write, debug, and optimize if needed. There were no huge communities of coders, no internet, and few minimal BBS forums. It was a frustratingly solitary activity. Portability and reusability were not quite as important.
Things have changed dramatically since then ... it has been exciting to be a part of it so far. After all these years, questions like this bring up 'big picture' thoughts for me. Maybe it's just me ... if watching the cultural shifts that mirror the computer revolution is too dull, I'll delete this and move on.
I suppose it is hard to imagine nowadays, but programmers were used to writing in assembly language, even straight machine code sometimes. For many tasks, there just wasn't anything else. It was the way things happened and it was miles better than punchcards or hand wiring circuits.
You have to imagine the context. It is something like people today trying to understand just how important the library was before there was internet or even modems. You could not just "google" something. If you wanted to know, you had to a) figure it out, b) find a book, or c) ask an expert. If you happened to be in a small town, you were stuck with (a) and "reinventing the wheel."
What is the cost of this convenience? People back then were much better at figuring out how to learn something. This is something I know for sure. I've been a teacher for nearly 20 years. I've seen it happen. I even have data, but any glance at the forum topics will give you the answer. Because it was a challenge to find information or knowledge about a subject, it took a lot more thinking and planning. People gained some wicked high level thinking skills just learning how to change spark plugs, testing a capacitor, or even trying over and over to find the best way to fix a flat on a bicycle.
The easy availability of information has led to less developed information gathering and information assessment skills. People 'just google it' but have no idea how to judge which information is true or reliable. Without frustration, failure, and practice, they don't know what to value and many end up valuing nothing at all.
We have a tragic subset of depressing people now who are so unwilling to put forth even the smallest amount of effort that they won't even use Google to look something up. They answer, "I don't know!" This answer isn't allowed anymore. "I don't know" just doesn't make sense when anything that is known or has ever been known is at our fingertips. Willful ignorance must be the insidious disease of the people whose lives are just too easy.
I'm suggesting that coding has become something similar. There are tons of front end tools, font services, tag managers, and huge libraries available ... all just to make a website. In back end services, there are tons of resources to manage databases, do scientific calculations, and manage systems. Cars can drive themselves. Social media accounts can be completely automated. Soon, computers will be coding themselves ... and they will do it better than us almost immediately.
In many modern situations, programmers don't have to really concern themselves with memory management, device access, reading ports, managing interrupts, optimizing hard drive access times, or any of the lower level things that actually make a computer work. It has become more and more 'symbolic' and 'virtual.' Programmers are nestled cozily in a soft bed of libraries and environments that take a lot of the critical thought and creativity away from the activity. I suppose soon we will just sit in front of a computer, or have a conversation while walking in the mall with one, and just ramble on about our creative ideas while the computer implements them in real time somewhere around the world.
I'm not sure whether it is better or worse, but it is definitely different. Would I prefer to code a modern application in assembly language? Nope. Not even a little bit. Do I find it handy that there are software libraries and wonderful communities of open source developers working together? Yes! What used to be a frustratingly solitary activity is now something that is shared.
In the sharing, something beneficial has been added. Extra value has been created that wasn't there before. Just like in the Youtuber community, the rising tide lifts all boats.
BUT, for the people who never had to do all that thinking and make it fit in 4k of RAM, my anecdotal observations say that they have lost something valuable and I don't know if anything has been put back into the system to replace those lost critical thinking skills.
We have gained a wonderful social commodity but at the cost collective creativity and problem solving skills.
How it will work out ... I certainly do not know, but it is a fun ride.
SkeptycalSkeptycal
This just reads as a rant, not as an answer to the question. – Chenmunka♦ Oct 10 '18 at 14:54
@Chenmunka Yes, this is a rant. An arguably valid one, but doesn't answer the question except hint at it in the most indirect way. – manassehkatz Oct 10 '18 at 14:56
OK, I'll edit it. I'm fairly new to posting on here, so ... workin' on it. – Skeptycal Oct 11 '18 at 15:49
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