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Extreme Horror
Conguise Chronicles: The Rise of the River-Man: An exciting horror action adventure L. S. O'Dea
Available Through May 10 at
Welcome to the Conguise’s Laboratory Level Five....
In a world filled with human-animal hybrids, Guards are bred to serve the Almightys until they’re no longer wanted.
Mutter waits for his execution. It’s inevitable. He was a fighter and he lost. No one wants an ex-fighter. He’s too big, mean and ugly. Death will be the only way he gets out of this cell, but then the unthinkable happens. An Almighty visits in the dead of night and offers him a chance to leave. A chance to live.
All he has to do is obey and Guards were bred to obey.
When Mutter is taken to his new home, something isn’t right. There’s food and a bed but there are sounds and smells from the other cages. Things that move like nothing he’s ever encountered.
For the first time in his life, he’s afraid. Afraid of the creatures that lurk nearby. Afraid of the shots his new master is giving him.
He knows he’s supposed to obey, to always follow their rules but if he doesn’t escape, he’ll become food for one of those things in the other cages. Or worse... turn into one of them.
"A fascinating glimpse into the world of the Lake of Sins." J. Urbanczyk
A WINTER SLEEP Greg F. Gifune
A WINTER SLEEP, the new novel from Greg F. Gifune.
In a haunted hotel on the outskirts of a forgotten town, a bizarre group of tenants guard a horrible secret. A troubled man on the run, with nothing left to lose, drives aimlessly along dark highways in search of redemption. A little boy, brutally attacked and left for dead, realizes the strange power his agony has granted him. An enigmatic homeless man with nightmares he can no longer control, lost in a violent dreamscape only he understands, watches and waits. As a snowstorm traps them all within the walls of the old hotel, where madness and depravity run wild, from the shadows, a new reign of lesser gods begins, and an aberrant evil fights for survival amidst the cold terror of a desolate winter, and the bloody dreams of the hopeless and the damned.
Cover art by Wendy Saber Core.
"One of the best writers of his generation, Gifune is the author everyone should be reading"
--Brian Keene
"Gifune is the best writer of horror and thrillers at work today"
--Christopher Rice
"Gifune is among the finest dark suspense writers of our time"
--Ed Gorman
A Suburban Haunting: An extreme psychological horror Matt Shaw
Critically acclaimed bestselling author, Matt Shaw - #1 bestseller in Horror Fiction with hundreds of 5 star reviews - brings you:
A SUBURBAN HAUNTING
When Craig's uncle passes away, he didn't shed a tear. The pair hadn't spoken for a couple of years now after a family row and - with that in mind - Craig didn't bother to attend the funeral. However, soon after, he is cornered by his uncle's solicitor with some unexpected news. Despite the pair not speaking, Craig had been left his uncle's house. At first Craig believed it to be a generous gift and, perhaps, a way of saying sorry from beyond the grave but he soon realises all is not as it seems and the house is less a gift and more a curse...
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Turning Grace (The Turning Series, Book 1)J.Q. Davis
Available Through March 09 at
Life or death?
It all seems to be the same for Grace…
Grace is a 17-year-old who enjoys all the normal things in life: Her best friend, boys, and school. But when she begins to see and feel physical changes, she worries something might be wrong.
And when she finds herself gnawing down on a neighborhood cat, she realizes something is definitely wrong.
She tries to ignore it and balance her weird, uncontrollable, and increasing appetite for anything raw along with the awkwardness of being an everyday teenager the best she can, but a mysterious doctor soon enters her life.
He claims Grace is half human, half zombie and seems to have all the answers. Maybe even a solution.
The question is...should she trust him?
Clock's WatchMichael Reyes
Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it.
Tales of dark pulp fantasy and horror.
Clock's Watch:
Chaos creatures attempting to breach our world possess the body of a young mother! Can a strange observer stop the threat from beyond, or will it spill out into Coney Island to devour all that's in its path?!
The Black Balloon:
Spending his final days near Coney Island, Stefano Murphy has been noticing a mysterious character: Clock! Will Murphy's past finally catch up with him, or will a demon Clock is hunting get to him first?!
Narrioch:
In his past as guardian of Narrioch, Clock has foiled the plans of powerful entities... The defeat of Mudiret has bought only a brief respite, and Clock soon finds himself the target of its master's wrath!
The Indigo Mushroom:
Extra-dimensional entities have tampered with our universe, an alien mineral intelligence has arrived on Earth, and Clock's buddy Sal has lost his job! Can Clock stop the vanguard of a mechanical invasion?!
The Cut Worm Forgives the Plough:
A lover's tiff between Danny and his girlfriend reaches the next level when Maria is possessed by a demon! Can Clock reconcile the couple or are the blood and bodies strewn on the dance floor just too much!?
Crockett:
Clock hoped to have put the past behind him, his memories hidden as a perk of his job... But when the Indigo Mushroom calls out to him, Clock must confront a demon from his past or be destroyed by it!
Clock's Watch. An anthology of heroic dark fantasy and terror. Illustrations by Sean Bova, Jay Campbell and MV.
FaunaDavid Benton
In the depths of the Amazon rainforest a shaman utters a dire warning foretelling the string of grisly and seemingly unconnected animal attacks that become more and more common around the globe. In a few days time the attacks become a massacre and all life on Earth moves toward a single purpose: the culling of the human race.
"When Mother Nature's angry, she's a bitch! Fauna will have you gripping the edge of your seat from the first page to the last. This is a non-stop eco-thriller and cautionary tale that will leave you looking at your pets with a different eye. This is also the best book I've read all year! Read it now! But maybe lock the doors and windows first."
--John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and Redemption
"We should have known that decades of messing with Nature would come back to bite us -- with a vengeance... In David Benton's exciting, realistic thriller FAUNA our world has finally decided we're the problem, and it's had enough of us. How would we cope if our apocalypse had fangs and four legs and didn't shamble at all? Reminiscent of Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" in approach, FAUNA will raise your neck hairs and chill you to the bone."
--W.D. Gagliani, author of Savage Nights and the Nick Lupo Series
"The animal kingdom runs amok in David Benton's wildly entertaining Fauna. Exciting, action-packed and disturbing in all the right ways, this man-versus-beast saga gallops at a fierce pace with bloodthirsty menace. Benton's scenes unfold with a cinematic crispness and intensity that keeps the pages turning. This book will leave bite marks!"
--Brian Pinkerton, author of Anatomy of Evil
"In Fauna, David Benton takes you on a globe-circling thrill ride through a gone-crazy world where the animals have taken charge and want revenge. It's equal parts fantastic escapism and white-knuckle horror--a riveting read from the first page that touches on many of the ways humankind uses things and takes them for granted."
--Christian Larsen, author of The Blackening of Flesh and Losing Touch
"[Benton] combines the visceral brutality of an Ed Lee or Richard Laymon with the globe-trotting skills of James Rollins, resulting in an exciting romp that evokes The Zoo by James Patterson, but with a message."
--Cemetery Dance
Crows (Crows Series Book 1)Grace Harney
Annie Murphy can sometimes tell the future. It's the past she has trouble with.
When her brother's witch-girlfriend goes missing days after an invocation ritual, Annie has every reason to suspect him. But he says he didn't do it, and Annie isn't about to send another innocent man in her family to jail.
When a confrontation with her brother Johnny turns violent, Annie flees into the worst blizzard to hit the area in years. Led by her Sight, she arrives at a rundown inn where she meets Crow. Another powerful psychic--and a witch that can control her namesake birds--Crow seems to be hated, feared, respected and loved, all at the same time. Soon Annie begins to wonder about things. Like why Crow appears to be connected to every suspicious disappearance over the past fifty years in the small town of Raven City. Why Johnny's missing girlfriend might be one of them. Why Crow has walked free every single time. And if Annie doesn't stop her, why she might again.
The Housemates: A Novel of Extreme TerrorIain Rob Wright
TEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION IN CASH. ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH.
What at first appears to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare imaginable. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as 'The Landlord', he is forced to compete not only for the money but for his life.
And the life of his best friend and mentor, Harry.
Damien can trust no one, that much is clear, especially now that a list of crimes has appeared on the wall: CHEAT, MURDERER, ABUSER, WHORE, TRAITOR, TRICKSTER, PEDDLER, PREDATOR, CRUSADER, THIEF.
What does the list mean, and who is the Landlord? Only time will tell, but Damien must make sure that he ends up the winner, because all of the losers are dead.
Let the games begin. Are you ready?
Broken Doll (Broken Doll Series Book 1)Zoe Blake
Available Through February 08 at
My last memory is of the accident.
The rancid smell of gasoline and the silence...the deafening silence.
Then there was only darkness...and him.
I am his captive.
His broken doll.
There is no escape.
No hope.
No one is coming to save me.
This is a twisted, dark horror novella. There is no HEA. You have been warned.
The Nightmare Room (The Messy Man Series Book 1)Chris Sorensen
Winner Best Debut Novel, Indie Horror Book Awards
Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018
12 of the Best Scary Audiobooks of 2018, Insider
New York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter's ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface.
They move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town—a house purchased by Peter's father at auction and kept secret until now—and start to settle into their new life.
But as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur—mysterious voices haunt audio tracks, malevolent shadows creep about the house. And when an insidious presence emerges from the woodwork, Peter must face old demons in order to save his family and himself.
Burying the Honeysuckle GirlsEmily Carpenter
Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother's tragic, premature death--and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea's ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She'll find you, I think, but if she doesn't, you find her.
Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn't expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she's not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors' lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history…and the part she's meant to play in it.
Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman's emotional journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance.
The Woods: A NovelMilo Abrams
Is there something looking back at me? Is there something there waiting for me?
At the edge of the woods behind his father's house, James Callum thinks he sees a monster. His father thinks he's interested in watching the deer, but James is more interested in what's watching him. For a twelve-year-old city boy, the intense openness of the Ohio countryside is like another world. The fields stretch forever, the summer heat is unrelenting, and the thick woods at the edge of the property hide untold secrets.
When no one believes he's seeing a monster, his entire world unravels, leaving the frayed strands of his identity entangled with the mystery of the monster in the woods. With the help of his friends Jack and Owen, James risks his life, family, and friendships to prove the monster is real and uncover the truth behind it.
In THE WOODS, Milo Abrams pierces the veil of curiosity with an almost unbearable build-up of suspense and emotion. Don't go outside. Don't look into the backyard. There's something in the woods.
DOA III: Extreme Horror AnthologyVarious Authors
After six years and more than fifty authors, the Unholy Trinity is complete. This third installment in the DOA series offers thirty stories from the originators of splatterpunk as well as the newest voices in extreme horror.
You'll laugh...you'll cry...you'll vomit
Don't say we didn't warn you.
Stories from Bentley Little -Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee - Shane Mckenzie - Wrath James White - Richard Christian Matheson - Kristopher Triana - T.M. McLean - Sean Eads & Joshua Viola - T. Fox Dunham - John Skipp - Luciano Marano - Ryan Harding - Kristopher Rufty - Daniel I. Russell - LLoyd Kaufman & Lily Hayes Kaufman - David Sandner - Betty Rocksteady - C.M. Saunders - K. Trap Jones - Hal Bodner - Adrian Ludens - C. Cameron Rossi - Alistair Rennie - Airika Sneve - Christoph Weber - Garrett Cook - Eric J. Guignard - Jeff Strand - Jaap Boekestein - John McNee.
Octopus: An Extreme Horror NovelMatt Shaw
H.P Lovecraft left Him sleeping at the bottom of the South Pacific ocean. Now, Matt Shaw attempts to awaken Cthulhu.
With mounting debt, and her career not going in the direction she'd hoped for, Jessica Ann took a modelling job at the Larsen's lavish party.
What should have been an easy evening soon takes a nightmarish turn when she finds herself embroiled in an insane plot to awaken The Old Great One...
Black HannisC. J. Faust
Available Through January 27 at
Are you afraid of the dark? The only thing she fears is the light, so burn them all... but it won't be enough. Monsterizing the fem-dom motif with brutal and brilliant style, C.J. Faust creates a force of evil like nothing you've experienced before.
In the summer following their high school graduation, five American friends head to merry old England for a celebration of their adulthood, and a last chance to spend time together before college and life pull them in separate directions. But the growing pains that come with coming of age, and the challenges of the world these millennials are poised to inherit (issues of seeking acceptance, racial bias, difficult grown-up choices, and the unfortunate fact that time and distance can wear down even the best cemented friendships)--these are small concerns compared to the storm of horror that awaits them.
The boogeyman is not a man at all; and Thatch, Tyrone, Kadara, Nia, and Big-Marc are about to find out for themselves what this means when their vacation of fun, sun, and sex appeal is transformed into a nightmare of supernatural depravity and a desperate struggle to survive.
Part grim fairytale and part coming of age story, Black Hannis is an unflinching visceral nightmare to keep readers squirming till the last page.
The Haunting of Cabin Green: A Modern Gothic Horror NovelApril A. Taylor
One of PopSugar's Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.
One of Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018.
One of Ranker's 2018's Scariest Horror Books.
One of BoredPanda's 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.
#1 Amazon Best-Seller in Ghosts, Gothic, U.S. Horror, & LGBT Horror.
"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down." - The Horror Report.
"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-twentieth century techniques." - The Inquisitr.
"A haunting tale." - PopSugar.
Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected. A terrifying slow-burn that combines the literary Gothic prose of Shirley Jackson, Ambrose Bierce, & Thomas Tryon with the "what's really real?" aspects of The Shining. Cabin Green has also been compared to the devastation of Hereditary and the socially progressive, ambiguous approach of Paul Tremblay.
Going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancée was Ben's first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, "There's no such thing as an evil building." Now he's caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.
This modern Gothic horror story takes the reader directly into Ben's hellish experience. Is he crazy? Is a ghost haunting him? The only way to find out is to make it to the end of this deep, dark thrill ride that's filled with more twists than a roller coaster.
Revised Edition!
TOP VOTE GETTER: Best Horror/Suspense - The Kindle Book Review (TKBR) Reader's Choice Awards 2018.
RUNNER-UP: Best Overall Book of 2018 - TKBR Reader's Choice Awards
SEMIFINALIST TKBR's 2018 Jury Award for Best Horror/Suspense
Content Warning: Contains gore, sex, profanity, & deeply disturbing psychological themes. This isn't a fluffy horror story; it's true, descriptive Gothic horror that's emblematic of the destructive nature of grief & also contains societal/political/religious critiques. For mature readers only.
Inspired by a real-life, spooky green cabin in Northern Michigan that's so well-hidden it can't be found by GPS! This book also contains a disturbing section that was inspired by real-life events.
"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down. Taylor did an excellent and meticulous job creating this story, forming imagery...invoking real emotion on the part of the reader." - The Horror Report
"A breath of fresh air...instilling such a deep, feral fear of the unknown that Shirley Jackson would be proud. Taylor doesn't pull any punches, and she refuses to play it safe, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of." - Mangled Matters
"Sucked me in from the first page... Taylor pulls the rug out from under her readers... a well-structured and integrated climax. I read this book in one sitting... fighting the urge to turn on all the lights." - Connal Bain, Author of Blood Moon Fever
"Unique... the author depicts the grieving process amazingly well. The story is claustrophobic... and what an ending. All of the flashbacks and delusions suddenly make sense... [it's a] sucker punch." - HorrorTalk
"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down..the crazy whirlwind that ensues is enough to make even the biggest horror fan a bit dizzy...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-20th century techniques." - Inquisitr
"Filled with so much grief and craziness that I might need therapy." - BoredPanda
"A literary treat...it is written so intelligently that the very plot may leave some who are not well versed in abstract twist endings confused and wanting...very progressive. A modern horror classic." - Amazon Reviewer
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Deadlocked Dollhouse (Locked House Hauntings Book 1)Mixi J Applebottom
A cursed dollhouse. Seven stages until murder. What can this father do?
Mark's always been a bit insecure as a father, his own childhood sucked. He's been terrified he will ruin his perfect daughters. So he buys them presents and hopes he won't screw them up.
They certainly won't forget this dollhouse.
He doesn't know how to stop it, and all he wanted to do was be a good father.He was worried that they'd grow up to hate him, now he's worried they won't grow up at all.
You'll love this terrifying countdown, can he stop himself?
Try Mixi J Applebottom's latest novel.
Caught: Book One of the Oneiros LogM.L.S. Weech
Nothing is at all what it seems, and for four strangers, they'll have to discover why before they're driven over the edge of madness. Within them are the keys to free themselves. They'll need to traverse a landscape of horrors and fettered secrets.
Unknown to these prisoners, another four desperately hunt for their own freedom-a freedom denied them by the tormenting existence of a monster. They will have to rely on all of their talents and each other to defeat the beast.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to all of them, the spider huddles at the center of its web, plucking its many gossamer strands as it waits...ready to pounce.
The Darwin EffectMark Lukens
After six people wake up from suspended animation, they will find out what survival really means.
Six people are awakened from suspended animation on a spaceship in the middle of a three-hundred-year journey to colonize a distant planet. At first they believe MAC, the onboard computer, has malfunctioned. But MAC tells them he was supposed to wake them up . . . it was part of the program.
They can't re-enter suspended animation, there's only enough food for a few months, MAC won't let them communicate with any other ships, and they are too far away to return to Earth.
Cromartie, the unelected leader of their group, tries his best to keep the others calm, but soon they are at each other's throats with panic. After one of them is found murdered, Cromartie and Sanders form an alliance. Cromartie tells Sanders that he thinks he may know the answer to their problems, but after another one of them is found murdered, Cromartie and Sanders must act quickly if they want to survive.
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ColdwaterMichael Hamm
Available Through December 14 at
Jenna and her father Rick, who works for the EPA as an investigator, are summoned to an ancient Tobacco plantation deep in the heart of Louisiana. Little do they realize, that beneath the majestic mansion lies a sinister evil, which has been waiting and festering for over a hundred years. In the gathering darkness, Jenna begins having strange visions of the plantation's sordid past, people who have an intimate connection to Jenna's family. Within days, the blackness begins growing larger and larger, sweltering… forcing demon infested dolls and other ancient horrors to begin roaming the grounds, and eventually into the town of Coldwater.
Captured and tortured by the foul creatures that rule the warrens under the mansion, Jenna escapes and finds that the entire town is covered by a virulent storm that is pummeling the landscape. Along the way she finds unlikely allies in her quest to save her father, who has also been captured by the horrid demons. As she travels deeper into the darkness of the mansion's past, she begins to realize the visions she's having are genetic memory, showing her the terrible and tragic past of a diseased hamlet, and of the twisted family that rules over it.
If she is to survive, she must swallow her fears and trust an enigmatic professor, who lives in the guest houses surrounding Ivy Haven manor. But, as she is to soon learn, there is more to the strange man than meets the eye, and in the end, he may be leading them all to their death.
Mr. SnuffJon Athan
Russell Wheeler, an enforcer-turned-contractor, spirals into a violent tailspin when his daughter is slaughtered for a snuff film. With his limited resources, including his trusty framing hammer and his criminal connections, Russell hunts the people responsible for his daughter's vicious death. He finds himself digging into the pits of hell, delving into a world of unimaginable depravity...
Jon Athan, author of The Harbinger of Vengeance and Sinister Syndromes, invites you to join the lucrative snuff industry. A world of opportunity, lust, riches, and death awaits you...
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (John Dies at the End 2)David Wong
From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.
You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.
You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection -- the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like.
You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and neighbors get mind-controlling skull spiders? We're all about to find out.
Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it.
Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.
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Dark Matters: 17 Twisted & Disturbing TalesG. Donald Black
Why would a mother murder her four children with a smile on her face? What sinister end awaits the regulars of the local watering hole? When Beverly Havermore rubs elbows with other members of high society, what ghosts from her past come to haunt her? Could a curse be behind the mysterious speech problems plaguing an otherwise healthy Benjamin Anatole?
The answers to these alarming questions can be found in this collection of seventeen nerve-racking, and at times darkly humorous, short stories that are guaranteed to chill the bones of even the most sensible reader. From a man choosing obsessive masturbation over infidelity to a trailer park gossip queen who receives a troubling diagnosis that she can't accept, this diverse assortment of unsettling narratives tells the stories of characters so vivid, you'll swear you've met them in person – and maybe you have.
In G. Donald Black's short fiction debut, he demonstrates why he won't stay an independent author for long. These stories, with their richly crafted characters and twisting plots, will pull you in and take you places you'd never dare to go. So curl up in your favorite chair, turn on the reading lamp, and prepare to have your skin crawl. Enjoy the ride!
The Van: An Extreme Horror StoryTim Miller
Andy and Bridget like to travel. Their windowless van is their home. Speeding across the Texas countryside they pick up hitchhikers and weary travelers who see the pair as a nice couple showing southern hospitality. However, Andy and Bridget are not what they seem. In their plain looking van, there is no telling which town they will pass through or who will they pick up next.
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Madrid sack Lopetegui after miserable run
By Ellsamwise King on October 30, 2018
Real Madrid have sacked manager Julen Lopetegui and put B-team coach Santiago Solari in temporary charge.
The Madrid board is split over Lopetegui’s successor. The president Florentino Perez had wanted former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte but his demands for a two and half year contract and for a team of up to five assistants could make Belgium coach Roberto Martinez a more viable option.
The club are also considering leaving Solari in charge of the first team until next month’s international break before making a permanent appointment.
Conte is not the choice of the current players with captain Sergio Ramos saying: ‘Respect needs to be earned not imposed,’ when he was asked about the appointment of a disciplinarian manager.
Former Everton and Wigan coach Martinez is keen to get back into club management after reaching the World Cup semi-finals with Belgium.
The club are also taking into consideration Conte’s falling out with Eden Hazard who they are interested in signing next summer if he continues to run down his contract.
Conte has won the league in Italy and England but his confrontational style caused problems with Diego Costa and with Hazard who grew tired of being played out of position and then being accused of a lack of commitment.
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Slovaj ZİZEK
Why Hitchcock Is Still Our Contemporary?
There are pieces of classical music which, in our culture, became so deeply associated with their later use in some product of commercial popular culture that it is almost impossible to dissociate them from this use. Since the theme of the second movement of Mozart‟s Piano Concerto No 20 was used in Elvira Madigan, a popular Swedish melodrama, this concert is even now regularly characterized as the “Elvira Madigan” concert even in editions by serious classical music editions like Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft… But what if, instead of exploding in an Adornian rage against such commercialized music fetishism, one makes an exception and openly confesses the guilty pleasure of enjoying a piece of music which is in itself worthless and draws all its interest from the way it was used in a product of popular culture? My favorite candidate is the “Storm Clouds Cantata” from both versions of Alfred Hitchcock‟s The Man Who Knew Too Much.
When, in 1934, Hitchcock was preparing the first version, he hired Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960), an Australian composer, pianist and conductor, to write a piece of music especially for the climactic scene at Royal Albert Hall. (A curious anecdote: on 31 July 1918, Benjamin‟s aircraft was shot down over Germany by the young Hermann Goering, and he spent the remainder of the war as a German prisoner of war.) The music, known as the “Storm Clouds cantata”, on words by D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (called by Auden “that lonely old volcano of the Right”), is also used in the 1956 remake, one of Hitchcock‟s underrated masterpieces. Bernard Herrmann, who was given the option of composing a new cantata, found Benjamin‟s piece to be so well suited to the film that he declined. Herrmann can be seen conducting it during the Royal Albert Hall scene - the sequence runs 12 minutes without any dialogue, from the beginning of Storm Clouds until the climax, when the Doris Day character screams.
Although the Cantata is a rather ridiculous piece of late-Romantic kitsch, it is not as devoid of interest as one may think. Already the words are worth quoting:
There came a whispered terror on the breeze
And the dark forest shook
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And on the trembling trees
Came the nameless fear
And panic overtook each flying creature of the wild
And when they all had fled
Yet stood the trees
Around whose heads
The night birds wheeled and shot away
Finding release
From that which drove them onward like their prey
The storm clouds broke and drowned the dying moon
The storm clouds broke
Is this not a minimal scenario of what Gilles Deleuze called an “abstract” emotion-event: peace full of tension which grows unbearable and is finally released in a violent explosion? One should recall here Hitchcock‟s dream of by-passing the narrative audio-visual medium altogether and provoke emotions in the spectator directly, manipulating through a complex mechanism his emotional neuronal centers. To put it in Platonic terms: Psycho is really not a film about pathological or terrorized persons, but about the “abstract” Idea of Terror which is instantiated in concrete individuals and their misfortunes. In the same way, the music of the “Storm Could Cantata” does not illustrate the words, and even less does it refer to the cinema narrative; on the contrary, it directly renders the emotion-event.
It is in this spirit that the pages on Hitchcock in my Looking Awry should be read: as an attempt to subtract from Hitchcock‟s films all their narrative content and to isolate the intensity of their formal pattern. If we want to do a serious socio-critical reading of Hitchcock, we should discern social mediation already at this purely formal level. So let me add to the analyses contained in the book a new example of how a hidden social mediation sustains formal paradoxes. One of the most revealing, although apparently trivial, features of Alfred Hitchcock studies is the extraordinary amount of factual mistakes – much greater than the (already low) cinema studies standard. These misrepresentations concern narrative elements as well as formal features of a film: how often, when a point is being made through a detailed description of the exchange of subjective (point-of-view) and objective shots and the cuts
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between them, when we take care to check it on video or DVD, we discover with surprise that the description is simply false. And, since the theoretical point of the analysis based on such misperceptions is often very perspicuous, we are tempted to adopt the attitude (falsely) attributed to Hegel: »If facts do not fit theory, so much worse for the facts!« The outstanding cases of such persisting misrepresentations concerns one of the most famous scenes in Vertigo: the magic moment when, in Ernie‟s restaurant, Scottie sees Madeleine for the first time.1 More precisely, the misrepresentation concerns the status of two shots.
After seeing the entrance to Ernie‟s from the outside, there is a cut to Scottie sitting at the bar counter in the front room of the restaurant and looking through a partition into the large room with tables and guests. A long panning shot (without a cut) then takes us back and to the left, giving us an overview of the entire crowded room, the soundtrack reproducing the chatter and clatter of a busy restaurant – we should bear in mind that this, clearly, is not Scottie‟s point-of-view. All of a sudden, our (or, rather, the camera‟s) attention is caught by a focal point of attraction, a fascinum which fixes our gaze, a bright dazzling stain which we soon identify as the naked back of a beautiful woman. The background sound is then drowned out by Hermann‟s passionate music, which accompanies the camera in its gradual approach to the fascinum – we first recognize Elster, Madeleine‟s husband, facing us, and from this fact we deduce that the woman must be Madeleine. After this long shot, there is a cut back to Scottie peeping at Madeleine‟s table, and then another cut to Scottie‟s point-of-view and what he sees (Madeleine covering her back with her jacket and getting ready to leave). After Madeleine and Elster leave their table and approach Scottie on their way out, we get another famous shot. Scottie sees that the couple is getting close and, in order not to betray his mission, he looks away towards the glass across the partition of the bar, just barely peeping over his back. When Madeleine comes close to him and has to stop for a moment (while her husband is settling things with the waiter), we see her mysterious profile (and, the profile is always mysterious – we see only the half, while the other half can be a disgusting, disfigured face - or, as a matter of fact, the »true« common face of Judy, the girl who, as we learn later, is impersonating Madeleine). This fascinating shot is thus again not Scottie‟s point-of-view shot. It is only after Elster rejoins Madeleine, with the couple moving away from Scottie and approaching the exit from the restaurant, that we get, as a counter-shot to the shot of Scottie behind the bar, his point-of-view shot of Madeleine and Elster.
The ambiguity of subjective and objective is crucial here. Precisely insofar as Madeleine‟s profile is not Scottie‟s point-of-view, the shot of her profile is totally subjectivized, depicting not what Scottie effectively sees, but what he imagines, that is, his hallucinatory inner vision (recall how, while we see Madeleine‟s profile, the red background of the restaurant wall seems to get even more intense, almost threatening to explode in red heat turning into a yellow blaze – as if his passion is directly inscribed into the background). No wonder, then, that, although Scottie does not see Madeleine‟s profile, he acts as if he is mysteriously captivated by it, deeply affected by it. What we get in these two shots which are subjectivized without being attributed to a subject is precisely the pure pre-subjective phenomenon. The profile of Madeleine is a pure appearance, permeated with an excessive libidinal investment – in a way, precisely too subjective, too intense, to be assumed by the subject.
We thus get, twice, the same movement from the excess of subjectivity without subject to the standard procedure of what in the cinema theory is called »suture« (the exchange of objective and subjective shots, when we are first shown the person looking and then what he sees). Through such »suturing« the excess is domesticated, clearly located within the subject-object mirror relationship as exemplified by the exchange of objective shot and point-of-view counter-shot. And it is in order to erase the intensity of this subjectless-subjective shot, displaying a kind of acephalous passion, that the large majority of interpreters, from Donald Spoto and Robin Wood onward, strangely insist, in their detailed description of the scene at Ernie‟s, that the two excessive shots render Scottie‟s point-of-view. In this way, the excess is contained, reduced to the level of the standard exchange of objective and subjective shots.
What we encounter in this excess is the gaze as object, free from the strings which attach it to a particular subject. We all know the uncanny moments in our everyday lives when we catch sight of our own image and this image is not looking back at us. I myself remember once trying to inspect a strange growth on the side of my head using a double mirror, when, all of a sudden, I caught a glimpse of my face from the profile. The image replicated all my gestures, but in a weird uncoordinated way.
It is in such weird experiences that one catches the gist of what Lacan called gaze as objet petit a, the part of our image which eludes the mirror-like symmetrical relationship.
When we see ourselves from outside, from this impossible point, the traumatic feature is not that I am objectivized, reduced to an external object for the gaze, but, rather, that it is my gaze itself which is objectivized, which observes me from the outside, which, precisely, means that my gaze is no longer mine, that it is stolen from me... This eccentricity of the objet a has unexpected temporal consequences, which bring us back to Hitchcock: in his admirable text on Vertigo, Jean-Pierre Dupuy deployed a temporal logical paradox:
“An object possesses a property x until the time t; after t, it is not only that the object no longer has the property x; it is that it is not true that it possessed x at any time. The truth-value of the proposition „the object O has the property x at the moment t‟ therefore depends on the moment when this proposition is enunciated.”2
One should note here the precise formulation: it is not that the truth-value of the proposition “the object O has the property x” depends on the time to which this proposition refers even when this time is specified, the truth-value depends on the time when the proposition itself is enounced. Or, to quote the title of Dupuy‟s text, “when I‟ll die, nothing of our love will ever have existed”. Think about marriage and divorce: the most intelligent argument for the right to divorce (proposed, among others, by none other than the young Marx) does not refer to common vulgarities in the style of “like all things, love attachments are also not eternal, they change in the course of time”, etc.; it rather concedes that undissolvability is in the very notion of marriage. The conclusion is that divorce always has a retroactive scope: it does not only mean that marriage is now annulled, but something much more radical – a marriage should be annulled because it never was a true marriage. And the same holds for Soviet Communism: it is clearly insufficient to say that, in the years of Brezhnev “stagnation” it “exhausted its potentials, no longer fitting new times”; what its miserable end demonstrates is that it was a historical deadlock from its very beginning.
How is this circle of changing the past possible without recourse to travel back in time? The solution was already proposed by Bergson: of course one cannot change the past reality/actuality, but what one can change is the virtual dimension of the past – when something radically New emerges, this New retroactively creates its own possibility, its own causes/conditions. A potentiality can be inserted into (or withdrawn from) past reality. Falling in love changes the past: it is as if I ALWAYS-ALREADY loved you, our love was destined, “answer of the real.” My present love causes the past which gave birth to it. The same goes
for LEGAL POWER: here also, synchrony precedes diachrony. In the same way that, once I contingently fall in love, this love was my necessary Fate, once a legal order is here, its contingent origins are erased. Once it IS here, it was always-already here, every story of its origins is a myth, like the Swift story of the origin of language in Gulliver’s Travels: the result is already presupposed.
In Vertigo, it is the opposite that occurs: the past is changed so that it LOSES objet a. What Scottie first experiences in Vertigo is the LOSS of Madeleine, his fatal love; when he recreates Madeleine in Judy and then discovers that the Madeleine he knew already was Judy pretending to be Madeleine, what he discovers is not simply that Judy is a fake (he knew that she is not the true Madeleine, since he recreated a copy of Madeleine out of her), but that, because she is NOT a fake – she IS Madeleine -, Madeleine herself was already a fake – objet a disintegrates, the very loss is lost, we get a “negation of negation.” His discovery CHANGES THE PAST, deprives the lost object of objet a.
Are, then, today‟s ethico-legal neoconservatives not a little bit like Scottie in Hitchcock‟s Vertigo: in wanting to recreate the lost order, to make a new distinguished Madeleine out of today‟s promiscuous and vulgar Judy, they will be sooner or later forced to admit not that it is impossible to restore to life Madeleine (the old traditional mores), but that Madeleine WAS already Judy: the corruption they are fighting in modern permissive, secular, egotist, etc. society was there from the beginning. It is like with Zen Buddhism: those who criticize the Westernized New Age image and practice of Zen, its reduction to a “relaxation technique,” as the betrayal of the authentic Japanese Zen, obliterate the fact that the features they deplore in the Westernized Zen were already there in Japanese “true” Zen: after World War II, Japanese Zen Buddhists immediately started to organize Zen courses for business managers, during the World War II their majority supported Japanese militarism, etc.
In true love, after discovering the truth, Scottie would have accepted Judy as “more Madeleine than Madeleine herself” (he DOES that just before the rise of the mother superior…): here Dupuy should be corrected. Dupuy‟s formula is that Scottie should left Madeleine to her past – true, but what should he have done upon discovering that Judy IS Madeleine? Past Madeleine was an imaginary lure, pretending to be what she was not (Judy played Madeleine). What Judy is doing now in playing Madeleine is TRUE LOVE. In Vertigo, Scottie does NOT love Madeleine – the proof is that he tries to recreate her in Judy,
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changing Judy‟s properties to make her resemble Madeleine. The result like Marx brothers joke: “Everything about you reminds me of you – your lips, hair, arms, legs… everything except you yourself.” A person doesn‟t resemble itself, it IS itself No wonder Vertigo can be read as a variation of the Ravelli-joke from Marx brothers: “You look like Emmanuel Ravelli!” “I AM Emmanuel Ravelli!” “Well, no wonder, then, that you look like him!” No wonder Judy looks like Madeleine – she IS Madeleine… This is why the idea to clone a child to parents who lost him (or her) is an abomination: if the parents are satisfied, their love was not true love - love is not love for the properties of the object, but for the abyssal X, the je ne sais quoi, in the object.
In his Wissen und Gewissen, Viktor Frankl reports on one of his post-WWII patients, a concentration camp survivor who reunited with his wife after the war; however, due to an illness contracted in the camp, she died soon afterwards. The patient fell into total despair, and all Frankl‟s attempts to drag him out of depression failed, till, one day, he told the patient: “Imagine that God would give me the power to create a woman who would have all the features of your dead wife, so that she would be indistinguishable from her – would you ask me to create her?” The patient was silent for a short time, then he stood up, said “No, thanks, doctor!”, shook his hand, left and started to lead a new normal life.3 This patient did what Scottie, who precisely tried to recreate the same woman, wasn‟t able to do: he became aware that, while one can find the same woman as to her positive features, one cannot recreate the unfathomable objet a in her.
There is a science-fiction story, set a couple of hundred years ahead of our time when time travel was already possible, about an art critic who gets so fascinated by the works of a New York painter from our era that he travels back in time to meet him. However, he discovers that the painter is a worthless drunk who even steals from him the time machine and escapes to the future; alone in today‟s world, the art critic paints all the paintings that fascinated him in the future in made him travel into the past. Surprisingly, it was none other than Henry James who already used the same plot: The Sense of the Past, an unfinished manuscript found among James‟ papers and published posthumously in 1917, tells a similar story which uncannily resembles Vertigo, and caused penetrating interpretations by Stephen Spender and Borges. (Dupuy notes that James was friend with H.G.Wells – The Sense of the Past is his version of Wells‟ Time Machine.) After James‟ death this novel was converted into a very successful play Berkeley Square, which was made into a movie in 1933 with Leslie
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Howard as Ralph Pendrel, a young New Yorker who, upon inheriting an 18th century house in London, finds in it a portrait of a remote ancestor, also named Ralph Pendrel. Fascinated by the portrait, he steps across a mysterious threshold and finds himself back in the 18th century. Among the people he meets there is a painter who was the author of the portrait that fascinated him – it is, of course, his own portrait. In his commentary, Borges provided a succinct formulation of the paradox: “The cause is posterior to the effect, the motif of the voyage is one of the consequences of this voyage.” James added a love aspect to the trip into the past: back in the 18th century, Ralph falls in love with Nan, a sister of his (18th century) fiancee Molly. Nan eventually realizes that Ralph is a time-traveler from the future, and she sacrifices her own happiness and help him return to his own time and to Aurora Coyne, a woman who had previously rejected Ralph but would now accept him… This story just psychotically (in the real) mystifies the circle of symbolic economy, in which effect precedes the cause, i.e., retroactively creates it.
And – here is the surprise - exactly the same holds for the legal status of the rebellion against a (legal) power in Kant‟s legal philosophy: the proposition “what the rebels are doing is a crime which deserves to be punished” is true if pronounced when the rebellion is still going on; however, once the rebellion wins and establishes a new legal order, this statement about the legal status of the same past acts no longer holds. Here is Kant‟s answer to the question “Is rebellion a legitimate means for a people to employ in throwing off the yoke of an alleged tyrant?”4:
“The rights of the people are injured; no injustice befalls the tyrant when he is deposed. There can be no doubt on this point. Nevertheless, it is in the highest degree illegitimate for the subjects to seek their rights in this way. If they fail in the struggle and are then subjected to severest punishment, they cannot complain about injustice any more than the tyrant could if they had succeeded. /…/ If the revolt of the people succeeds, what has been said is still quite compatible with the fact that the chief, on retiring to the status of a subject, cannot begin a revolt for his restoration but need not fear being made to account for his earlier administration of the state.”
Does Kant not offer here his own version of what Bernard Williams developed as “moral luck” (or, rather, “legal luck”)? The (not ethical, but legal) status of rebellion is decided retroactively: if a rebellion succeeds and establishes a new legal order, then it brings
about its own circulus vitiosus, i.e., it erases into ontological void its own illegal origins, it enacts the paradox of retroactively grounding itself – Kant states this paradox even more clearly a couple of pages earlier: “If a violent revolution, engendered by a bad constitution, introduces by illegal means a more legal constitution, to lead the people back to the earlier constitution would not be permitted; but, while the revolution lasted, each person who openly or covertly shared in it would have justly incurred the punishment due to those who rebel.”
One cannot be clearer: the legal status of the same act changes with time. What is, while the rebellion goes on, a punishable crime, becomes, after a new legal order is established, its own opposite – more precisely, it simply disappears, as a vanishing mediator which retroactively cancels/erases itself in its result. The same holds for the very beginning, for the emergence of the legal order out of the violent “state of nature” – Kant is fully aware that there is no historical moment of “social contract”: the unity and law of a civil society is imposed onto the people by violence whose agent is not motivated by any moral considerations: “since a uniting cause must supervene upon the variety of particular volitions in order to produce a common will from them, establishing this whole is something no one individual in the group can perform; hence in the practical execution of this idea we can count on nothing but force to establish the juridical condition, on the compulsion of which public law will later be established. We can scarcely hope to find in the legislator a moral intention sufficient to induce him to commit to the general will the establishment of a legal constitution after he has formed the nation from a horde of savages”.
What Kant is struggling with here is nothing other than the paradoxical nature of the political ACT. Recall, from the history of Marxism, Karl Kautsky‟s defense of the multiparty democracy: Kautsky conceived the victory of socialism as the parliamentary victory of the social-democratic party, and even suggested that the appropriate political form of the passage from capitalism to socialism is the parliamentary coalition of progressive bourgeois parties and socialist parties. Lenin saved his utmost acerb irony for those who engage in the endless search for some kind of "guarantee" for the revolution. This guarantee assumes two main forms: either the reified notion of social Necessity (one should not risk the revolution too early; one has to wait for the right moment, when the situation is "mature" with regard to the laws of historical development: "it is too early for the Socialist revolution, the working class is not yet mature”), or the normative (“democratic”) legitimacy (“the majority of the population is not on our side, so the revolution would not really be democratic”) - as Lenin
repeatedly put it, it is as if, before a revolutionary agent risks the seizure of power, it should get the permission from some figure of the big Other – say, organize a referendum which will ascertain that the majority supports the revolution. With Lenin, as with Lacan, the point is that a revolution ne s'autorise que d'elle-meme: one should assume the revolutionary ACT not covered by the big Other - the fear of taking power "prematurely," the search for the guarantee, is the fear of the abyss of the act nicely rendered in the anecdote about the exchange between Lenin and Trotsky just prior to the October Revolution: Lenin said: “What will happen with us if we fail?” Trotsky replied: “And what will happen if we succeed?” Se non e vero e ben trovato…
Even some Lacanians praise democracy as the “institutionalization of the lack in the Other”: the premise of democracy is that no political agent is a priori legitimized to hold power, that the place of power is empty, open up to competition. However, by institutionalizing the lack, democracy neutralizes – normalizes – it, so that the big Other is again here in the guise of the democratic legitimization of our acts – in a democracy, my acts are “covered” as the legitimate acts which carry out the will of the majority. In contrast to this logic, the role of the emancipatory forces is not to passively „reflect“ the opinion of the majority, but to create a new majority – as Trotsky put it, a revolutionary subject should act “not in statically reflecting a majority, but in dynamically creating it.“ Kautsky‟s worry that the Russian working class took power „too early“ implies the positivist vision of history as an „objective“ process which in advance determines the possible coordinates of political interventions; within this horizon, it is unimaginable that a radical political intervention would change these very „objective“ coordinates and thus in a way create the conditions for its own success. An act proper is not just a strategic intervention into a situation, bound by its conditions – it retroactively creates its conditions.
We can see where Kant‟s weakness resides: there is no need to evoke “radical Evil” in the guise of some dark primordial crime – all these obscure fantasies have to be evoked to obfuscate the act itself. The paradox is clear: Kant himself, who put such an accent on the ethical act as autonomous, non-pathological, irreducible to its conditions, is unable to recognize it where it happens, misreading it as its opposite, as the unthinkable “diabolical Evil.” Kant is here one in the series of many conservative (and not only conservative) political thinkers, from Pascal and Joseph de Maistre, who elaborated the notion of illegitimate origins of power, of a „founding crime‟ on which state power is based; to obfuscate this origins, one
should offer to ordinary people “noble lies,” heroic narratives of origins. And the surprise is that a formal analysis of the works of great artists like Hitchcock enables us to disentangle such ideological mystifications.
*Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, European Graduate School, Switzerland.
1 I rely here on Jean-Pierre Esquenazi, Hitchcock et l’aventure de Vertigo, Paris: CNRS Editions 2001, p. 123-126.
2 Jean-Pierre Dupuy, “Quand je mourrai, rien de notre amour n’aura jamais existe,” unpublished manuscript of the intervention at the colloquium Vertigo et la philosophie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, October 14 2005.
3 Viktor Frankl, Wissen und Gewissen, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1966.
4 Available online at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm.
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President Obama, your grandma says hello
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under kenya
Sarah Ogwel Onyango, better known as "Mama Sarah"
Though Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya, it’s hardly a tourist attraction. It does boast a decent expat community mostly working in NGO and research groups, but for many Mzungu, it’s just a waystation, a stopover for a safari, a watering hole on the trek from Kenya to Uganda.
Not true, however, of the infinitely smaller village of Kogelo, about an hour-and-a-half drive north and west. There, in the shade of a giant tree, in a circle of handmade wooden chairs, an 87-year-old woman plays the role of tourist magnet, pulling thousands of Kenyans and foreigners alike.
Meet Sarah Ogwel Onyango, or as she is better known, Mama Sarah. She is the stepgrandmother to President Barack Obama.
(Mama Sarah doesn’t accept press interviews — a police guard there ensures that the media are kept at bay — so I went purely as a tourist. The pictures and recording (above) are entirely my own, not to be sold for publication.)
I went with a group of friends; we hired a private 11-person van (known as a matatu) for the trip, which turns down bumpy dirty roads and runs past a secondary school named after then-Sen. Obama.
The village — really just a scattered collection of huts, small farms and a market center with a few shops — was typical rural Kenya until its most famous grandson became senator and eventually president.
Mama Sarah’s house now has a satellite dish and television and a water tower and solar panels and police protection. The road still shakes car suspensions and fillings loose, but its wider and better than it was, the locals say.
But one look at the nearby school yards, the fields of cane and maize, the rustic huts with thatched roofs, and you’re hit with the amazing accomplishment this place symbolizes. In two generations, a family line went from herding goats to the U.S. presidency.
The story boiled down is thus: Barack Obama Sr. was raised on the family homestead here and attended a mission school. He excelled in classes so much that he went on to better schools, eventually a nearby university and then a job in Nairobi. He took courses and an exam that got him to Hawaii.
In the United States, he met a woman from Kansas. That woman gave birth to Barack Obama Jr., the Harvard law grad turned community organizer turned senator turned president.
Talk about the immigrant dream.
Tags: barack obama, immigration, kenya, kogelo, mama sarah, photography, tourism, village life
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3 Responses to “President Obama, your grandma says hello”
Did you sarge her?
Charlie Dalton Says:
Is she the one that saw Barack when he was born in Kenya, or was that his real Grandma? Maybe you can ask her the next time you see her. Are you doing any fishing? Send some pics.
Adam Jadhav Says:
Fishing safari was too expensive, unfortunately. But I’ll probably get some time in with a rod in Madagascar.
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Motion for a Resolution tabled by Mr Klepsch and Mr Bertrand on behalf of the Christian-Democratic Group (Group of the European People's Party), Mr Pintat on behalf of the Liberal and Democratic Group and Mr Rippon on behalf of the European Conservative Group with request for urgent debate pursuant to Rule 14 of the Rules of Procedure on the outcome of the Camp David meeting. Working Documents 1979-1979, Document 372/78/rev., October 1978
UNSPECIFIED (1978) Motion for a Resolution tabled by Mr Klepsch and Mr Bertrand on behalf of the Christian-Democratic Group (Group of the European People's Party), Mr Pintat on behalf of the Liberal and Democratic Group and Mr Rippon on behalf of the European Conservative Group with request for urgent debate pursuant to Rule 14 of the Rules of Procedure on the outcome of the Camp David meeting. Working Documents 1979-1979, Document 372/78/rev., October 1978. [EU European Parliament Document]
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Angola Rising
- Dialogue of ministry in Angola; a land rising from past challenges -
Keila: An Original Angola Board Game
Kiela is a mancala game played by Kimbundu speaking people in northern Angola near Grandos Lagos and Alto Zambeze. The name of the game means "puzzle" or "mindsport"
The game plays an important role in the oral literature and it is said to be a game of peace because "it can turn enemies into friends".
The "Instituto Nacional do Património Cultural" reports that the first official tournament was held in 1989 by the SIAC/Fenacult. Later in 1999, the government of Angola instituted the "Prémio Kiela", a tournament which has offered prizes up to 1,500 US$ for the winner. In the early 2000s, the game was supported by the Angolan Ministry of Culture and the province governor Aníbal Rocha.
In 1991, Bernardo Francisco Campos developed the first Kiela software and registered it with the Directorate of Spectacles Property Rights, in Lisbon. Later in 2001, Campos founded an Angolan organization called "Associação para a Promoção do Kiela (Aprokiela)" with the objective to promote Kiela and other cultural values. Campos also trademarked the game in 18 countries, among them South Africa, the European Union, and the USA.
Kiela is played on a board made by four rows of ten holes. Each player controls the two rows on his side of the board.
The initial position depends on the experience and strength of the players:
▪ Beginners start with one seed in each hole of the outer rows and one stone in each of the four right holes of each player's inner row.
Initial Position for Beginners
▪ Advanced players start with two seeds per hole in the same holes as described above.
Initial Position for Advanced Players
▪ Expert players may, at their first turn, rearrange the stones on their side.
Possible Position after Expert Play
At his turn a player takes the contents of one of his holes, which contains two or more seeds, and sows them one by one anti-clockwise into the succeeding holes of his board side.
If the last stone lands in an empty hole, the turn ends.
If the last stone lands in an occupied hole all these stones (the one just landed plus the ones that were already there) are picked up and sown in another lap.
▪ If this occupied hole is in the inner row and the opposite hole of the opponent is occupied, the stones of this hole are captured and the player keeps on sowing with them starting in the hole following the one that allowed him to capture.
▪ If the outer hole of the opponent is also occupied, the player captures also its stones, and then sows the stones of both opponent's holes.
When a player cannot move (i.e., all his holes are empty or contain single stones), he has lost. (From Mancala.wikia.com)
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Angola's Fishing Resurgence
Angola currently produces over 300,000 tons per year of fish and crustaceans, of which some 85% is consumed locally and aims to increase production by 30% in the coming years. One-third of Angola’s animal protein comes from fish and artisan fishing represents 30% of the country’s total fishing activity countrywide.
Despite a clear abundance of fish stocks, there is, as yet, no intense exploitation of the resource and few sizeable fishing vessels are in evidence. Nevertheless, such is the plenitude that Angolan’s fish and shellfish industry is already returning to its former pre-war prosperity.
Fisheries minister Victória de Barros Neto believes Angola has the potential to land much greater catches. The long coastline, normally blessed with hospitably calm seas, is clearly capable of greater sustained development and of providing food resources to meet the population’s demand for a healthier diet. Angola’s coast is 1,600 km long and its exclusive economic zone waters cover 330,000 sq. km.
As part of its effort to boost the fishing industry, Angola will hold its first ever International Fishing and Aquaculture Fair. FIP Angola (Feira Internacional das Pescas e da Aquaculture de Angola) runs from November 27-30. The event claims to promote the quality of fishery products, facilitate the exchange of experience and encourage innovation. Over 15 various countries have signed up to participate in this knowledge-sharing program.
Angola also has a well-developed tradition of sea angling as a sport along its extensive and uncrowded coast. The most accessible type of hobby-fishing involves beach-casting where not only record-sized fish can be captured, but provides a cost-efficient food source.
Game fishing from boats, is conducted by long-established clubs to distances as far as 50km offshore to hunt giant fighting fish such as blue marlins and tarpon.
Some of the largest Atlantic sailfish are caught off Luanda, and a record specimen of 64.6kg was landed off Lobito in March 2014. Angolan holds many of the world line records for sailfish and a Sailfish Classic game fish competition is held in Luanda every year with contestants taking part from around the globe.
Angola’s Ministry of Fisheries is making large investments in long-term structuring, spending $60 million on two fisheries protection and research vessels. These will help fight illegal fishing of protected species while also acting as rescue boats. In order to reinforce Angola’s capacity to control and inspect fisheries, the ministry also acquired scientific research vessel Pensador to study phytoplankton and zooplankton.
Another Ministry of Fisheries initiative announced in June involves using fish waste and fish with low commercial value in the production of animal feed supplements and fertilizer. The effort will also reduce the problem of environmental contamination.
The future looks increasingly bright for Angola’s diet as well as the fish and seafood resources that serve it. (From Sonangol Universo Magazine Sept 2014)
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Members please note there are a number of changes to The Club's opening and closing times during summer; The Garden and Rose Room will however remain open throughout the entire season. Please click here to view all Summer Closing Hours.
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The Birley Clubs
ABOUT DRESS CODE YOUR DOG CLUB RULES THE TEAM HISTORY
A Birley Club
In 2018, Annabel’s opened the doors to its much-anticipated new home, a Grade I listed Georgian mansion house at 46 Berkeley Square. For the first time, Annabel’s now offers an all-day and all-night experience, set across 26,000 square feet, for Members to work, dine and entertain.
The original Annabel's opened in 1963 at 44 Berkeley Square. Over five decades the Club has earned a global reputation founded on superb service, exclusive ambience, first-class cuisine and unparalleled entertainment.
Annabel’s encourages individuality and fabulous party dressing. The Club's Dress Code does not wish to be binding or overly prescriptive, however we do politely ask our Members and their guests to dress for the occasion and be respectful in their choice of smart attire.
Sneakers are permitted, though flip-flops, shorts, gym wear, sportswear, ripped jeans, baseball caps, hooded jumpers, beachwear and revealing outfits are not. After 6pm Gentlemen are required to wear jackets.
Dogs are most welcome on the Ground Floor of the Club until 6pm throughout the week, as long as they are accompanied by their Owner.
Dogs are not allowed on the furniture. Members can contact Reception upon arrival for further information regarding the Club’s Dog Walker.
Club Rules in Brief
Respect the Club as if it were your home
Please refrain from photography within the Club, Members are encouraged to respect the privacy of other Members
Posting to social media should be discreet and not involve or feature other Members and their guests inside The Club.
The Club is both a place of relaxation and business, so please always be considerate of Members indulging in either pursuit
Mobile telephones must be kept on silent
Speaking on the telephone and the use of laptops is permitted in the Mexican and The Elephant Bar during the day until 6pm
Members are encouraged to dress for the occasion and be respectful in their choice of attire
Dinner reservations for more than four guests should be mixed groups of ladies and gentlemen
Always ensure that your guests (and your pet dog, if it accompanies you) behave appropriately – they remain your responsibility
Dogs are only allowed on the Ground Floor, daily until 6pm and are not allowed on the furniture
Children under the age of 18 are allowed in the Club on weekends until 6pm
Members are welcome to bring three guests to the Club without a reservation and are reminded to present their Membership card on entering the Club
Members are reminded to stay with their guests throughout their visit and must not leave guests unattended in The Club, around the Club, or at the Club after you leave.
Valet parking is not available for the time being
Bills cannot be signed to your membership account and must be settled on the day
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HADI AKNIN
Chief Operations Officer, Annabel’s
Following his most recent role as Director of Operations of Sushi Samba at the Heron Tower in London, Hadi joined Annabel’s in April 2018. Hadi has previously worked at Marcus Wearing's Petrus, Gordon Ramsay's Maze, as well as Pont de la Tour and Launceston Place.
JULIEN JOUHANNAUD
Executive Chef, Annabel's
An Alain Ducasse protégée, having been Executive Sous Chef at Bar&Boeuf, Monaco, from 2002-2005 and later Executive Chef at Adour Alain Ducasse St. Regis Hotel in Washington D.C., Julien has since used his culinary skills to travel the world. He has worked in Las Vegas, Singapore and most recently at Le Bilboquet in New York.
Carlos Martínez
Head Chef, The Garden & Rose Room
Spanish chef Carlos has worked at 18 Michelin-starred restaurants throughout Europe. Born in Valencia, for more than six years he worked in Cahors, France, with Claude Marco, a classically-trained chef and former chef at Le Gavroche.
Later, he moved to Fribourg, Switzerland, to work with chef Pierrot Ayer, before heading to the UK to work for Daniel Galmiche at Cliveden House in Berkshire. After nine years at Cliveden House, Carlos spent several years working as executive head chef at The Stafford in London, and head chef at Maze by Gordon Ramsay.
Head Chef, The Nightclub
Canadian-born Ryan hit the London scene in 2012, working first at the Michelin starred L’Atelier de Joel Rubochon before joining Oblix at The Shard in 2013, where he became Head Chef. Ryan joined Annabel’s in 2017.
COKO BECKER
Head Chef, The Mexican
As the former Head Chef of Mexico’s most internationally celebrated restaurant; Pujol, Chef Coko joined Annabel’s as Head Chef of The Mexican where his focus is on creating new and interesting dishes, based on Mexico’s plethora of exceptional ingredients that complement the culinary culture of the Club. The restaurant’s menu is rooted in Mexican flavours and traditions, providing fresh, light and fragrant dishes with an emphasis on colour and simplicity.
CLÉMENT ROBERT
Group Head Sommelier & Wine Buyer
Clément Robert started his wine career from an early age, attending the catering school in Le Touquet. At the age of 18 he moved to Angers to take his sommelier degree. After a spell as trainee Sommelier at a Michelin starred restaurant in the Loire, Clément moved to England in 2006 where he became Assistant Head Sommelier of the Hotel Du Vin Brighton, and then Head Sommelier of the Hotel Du Vin Cambridge. In 2009, he joined Summer Lodge Hotel as Assistant Sommelier to Eric Zwiebel MS and won the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs’ International Young Sommelier of the Year competition, before being named UK Sommelier of the Year in 2013. After working for nearly 5 years as Head Sommelier for Medlar restaurant in Chelsea, In 2015 he took charge of the wine buying for Texture group. Clément passed his MS in 2015.
LUIS SIMOES
Bar Director, The Birley Clubs
Luis joined Annabel's in 2017 straight from his role as opening Bar Concept Director at The Chiltern Firehouse. Prior to that he was Bar and Lounge Manager at The Ritz Hotel.
Bars General Manager, Annabel’s
Award-winning cocktail maestro Frankie arrived in London in 2007, aged 19. By the age of 25 he was working at The Rivoli Bar at The Ritz, making him the youngest ever Bar Manager since the hotel opened in 1906. Portuguese-born Santos joined Annabel's in 2017 from The Chiltern Firehouse, where he worked for three years concluding his time there as Beverage Director.
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"These are all albums that I thought were gone forever. I didn’t think they would ever show up on CD, but they are and I couldn’t be more pleased."
Each of the 10 volumes of "The Signature Series" contains two Anne Murray studio albums on one CD. All tracks have been reproduced in their original LP sequence. Recorded from 1969 to 1987, they have been digitally re-mastered from original sources and have been restored using Sonic Solution’s No-NOISE. Each volume includes a full colour booklet, featuring rare personal and career highlight photos selected by Anne.
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2013 Ford Explorer Sport Review
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I had the chance to test drive the 2013 Ford Explorer Sport — the brand new souped-up, blinged out version of this favorite SUV. And now I want to buy it. Really.
What differentiates the Explorer Sport from the standard Explorer is the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine. When I drove it I could feel the impressive horsepower and super-fast acceleration. Its sport suspension and tight handling reminded me of when I have driven a BMW X-5. Open roads when using the six speed SelectShift Paddle Shifters on the steering columns, which allow for the that stick-shift feel, made for a seriously beautiful drive.
The EcoBoost engine also means that although this is a seven-seater, it will receive an EPA-estimated 20 MPG (17 city, 24 highway), which is much more fuel-efficient that other SUVs this size. Although I drove to both Gaithersburg and Baltimore round-trip from our house in Silver Spring, in addition to my usual Montgomery County soccer mom circuit, I did not have to visit the pump all week.
The four wheel drive was the best I have tested. Ford’s Terrain Management System makes transferring from the drive settings easy, even mid-drive. There is normal (front wheel drive for every day), mud/ruts (allows tires to spin as needed), sand (all-wheel drive) and grass/gravel/s now (minimizes wheelslip). A new feature for 2013 is Hill Descent Control for safe maneuvering of off-road downhills. A special button signals the Explorer to maintain a steady speed down the hill, and the driver simply steers.
If you have a trailer, boat or other item you would like to tow, the Explorer Sport is also celebrated for its towing capabilities (which I did not test).
The entire family loved the Explorer Sport’s Remote Start/Automatic Climate Control System. With just a click on the keyless start fob, the cabin temperature was pre-heated to 72 degrees, the heated seats were set to high and the rear defrost/heated mirrors were activated before anyone climbed in. This took “warming up the car” to a whole new leverl! In hot weather conditions, the cabin can be cooled to 72 degrees and the cooled seats set to high before you enter!
As I wrote about in my review of the Ford Escape, I love using SNYC with MyFord Touch to sync my iPhone with the Explorer Sport’s system, and soon my contacts, playlists and addresses were easily accessible on the LCD center touch screen. I used both voice commands and touch to call friends, find locations on the navigation and change radio channels. I also could charge my phone while driving using the USB port.
The Sony audio system’s HD speakers were crystal clear for both local and satellite radio, and I loved the ease of navigating channels from the steering column.
And as a mother of three, the Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) gets my vote for safest invention. A little light comes on the side mirrors if another vehicle is in your blind spot! My second vote goes to the ingenious “back-up camera” (aka the Forward and Reverse Sensing Systems).
This car is seriously beautiful, inside and out. The big 20-inch machined aluminum wheels have painted pockets, the leather-trimmed bucket seats are living room-worthy, the front grille on the Sport has an exclusive Explorer badge that is not featured on the other trims. It comes in White Platinum, Ruby Red, Ingot Silver and Tuxedo Black. It is really, really pretty.
I used to think that with having at least three children (hey, who knows what the next years may bring!), my only car option was a minivan or a massive Suburban-sized SUV. But the Ford Explorer Sport felt just as roomy as my trusty old Honda Odyssey. I was able to load just as many groceries, strollers and children as I needed. And I felt pretty sporty and luxurious while doing it.
The 2013 Ford Explorer Sport was a dream of an SUV, combining luxury and family features. It is now at the top of my list for my next car purchase.
I received a 2013 Ford Explorer Sport to test-drive for seven days and a full tank of gas. No other compensation was received. It was a pleasure to review.
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The Chicago Tribune’s Editorial About Same-Sex Marriage And Swastika Cakes Is Right — Here’s Why
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Chris Caesar
Updated: Dec 8, 2017 @ 18:03
The Chicago Tribune might not know a lot about baking, but it does have a flair for cooking up some enticingly false dichotomies for its readers.
The paper’s editorial board caught some heat this week after running a piece defending a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding, citing his religious objections to the institution. The paper called for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision that found the baker’s decision discriminatory under Colorado state law.
“Designing a wedding cake, [the baker’s] attorneys contend, is an expressive activity — and freedom of expression includes the right not to be compelled to express views one doesn’t share,” the editorial read. “In 1978, a New Hampshire motorist didn’t want to display the state’s ‘Live Free or Die’ slogan on his license plate — and established the right to refuse … To be forced to create a cake for a same-sex wedding is a similar burden. Imagine a Jewish baker being required to put a swastika on a cake.”
Leaving aside the, uh, clunky analogy of making a Jewish person bake a swastika cake versus a guy objecting to a lame state motto on his license plate, the editorial got us thinking: what are some other, extremely plausible, very legitimate, not-strawmen scenarios that may emerge if the Supreme Court upholds the Colorado court’s decision?
Jocks having to bake cakes for nerds
Picture this: You, the successful head of a very popular chain of jock bakeries, catering to jock needs and jock interests. A pie that looks like the Barstool Sports logo? You can do that. Cake that looks like a can of Coors Lite? Done. Doughnuts in memory of a good friend who died from hazing? No problemo, my good dude.
Then, suddenly, the kid you used to intimidate into doing your Algebra II homework rolls up to the store. It’s been a few years since high school, and now, he’s successful, too — doing computers or some shit. He’s wearing nice clothes and seems more confident than you remember, resurfacing old — but familiar and unsettling — feelings.
He strolls up to the counter, not recognizing you. Every nerve ending in your body pulsates with rage as El Dorko casually hits you with this: “Hey there. This is kind of a strange request, but, my friend LOVES Star Wars. We thought it might be fun to get him a cake shaped like a lightsaber for his birthday … is that something you could do?”
Back in your glory days, you’d kick this dweeb to the curb — and he’d deserve it! Instead, you have to take his order and bake a laser sword cake like a total bitch. This is the America you want to live in? OK dude.
You having to bake a cake for your crazy ex’s wedding
So, it sounds like you want to force bakeries to make cakes for gay weddings.
OK, well, it just so happens that your ex-girlfriend Danica and her insane new boyfriend Phillipe are getting married after only two months of dating, and in a subconscious display of narcissistic dominance, Danica is demanding that you, her well-intentioned and still-devastated ex, bake an elaborate cake for the festivities.
What’s that? You feel uncomfortable getting involved in organizing a party for the woman who, when you last saw her in person, screamed that you “fuck like shit” and it was good she stopped loving you because her family always hated you anyway?
Hm, sorry to hear this. According to Liberal Logic, I’m afraid you’ll have to bake the cake anyway ^_^
Radiohead having to bake a cake for Coldplay
Can you imagine it? Thom and the boys are hunkered down in the studio, making laser and space noises for their new groundbreaking album, and just hit their stride in the creative process. “Pew, pew,” the space noises go.
Suddenly, an unwanted interruption: a phone call, to Jonny Greenwood’s mobile. Sighing, he answers on speakerphone.
“Hey blokes, this is the manager of Coldplay,” the voice on the other end of the phone says. Greenwood rolls his eyes to the back of his head and makes a mocking self-strangulation gesture to the rest of the band, who quietly laugh.
“We were wondering if it might be possible for you guys to make a giant cake that says, ‘Radiohead <3s Coldplay, Our Favorite Band’ for Chris Martin’s birthday next month,” the manager continues.
“Ummm, first of all, we’re a band,” Greenwood says. “We don’t bake cakes. And we think Coldplay are wankers. We don’t even like that band. Why would we make a cake like that.”
But the manager smiles, knowing he has Radiohead exactly where he wants them.
“Maybe you should check with the U.S. Supreme Court,” he snarls. “We expect the cake by next week.” He hangs up.
Personally? I’d like to hear Radiohead’s new album. But if you liberals think they should be wasting time baking cakes for Chris Martin, be my guest.
Mafia dudes who make their victim bake a cake for their own funeral before burying them alive in cement
Sure, force bakeries to make cakes for gay weddings — what could go wrong?
Well, think about this: You’re a guy who just double-crossed the Mafia, and they’ve driven you out to the middle of nowhere to shoot out your kneecaps and drown you in a block of wet cement. You’re scared. You’re frightened. You’re thinking about what will happen to your family. Suddenly, you’re thrown to your knees onto the dirt. The burlap sack tied over over your face is roughly pulled off. You inhale sharply as the cold forest air hits your face.
“One last thing before we turn your lungs to sidewalk, you piece of shit,” the Mafia dude spits, grabbing your shirt. What could he possibly want, you wonder? He’s so deranged. So unhinged. You look into his eyes and see … nothing.
“Bake me … ” he growls, “Bake me a fucking cake. Bake me your funeral cake. We like to get really weird with dudes who double-cross us, and I bet it will really freak your wife out if we’re like ‘hey, your dead husband made this, dumbass,’ hahaha.”
Folks: wouldn’t you just want to get your own torturous murder over with? Are you honestly going to be at your culinary best in this situation? Do you think your wife really wants to be “freaked out” at your own funeral? Do funerals even have cakes?
You, a Jewish person, having to bake a swastika cake for Nazis
This is something that would for sure happen, and is absolutely the same thing as making a selectively religious baker put two tiny grooms on top of a cake instead of a tiny groom and tiny bride.
As very smart people at important newspapers know, literal Nazis, just like gay people, are a protected class in America who have been historically targeted for discrimination, making this scenario a particularly fair and accurate parallel to the actual question at hand.
Enjoy your swastika cakes, libs — you earned them.
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Sleepaway camp the movie
Sleepaway camp the movie. Sleepaway Camp (1983) 2019-02-11
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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Phoebe, now lost, calls back for Angela, who appears behind her and hits her in the head with a log. Angela tells them that she sent her home. Phoebe, distressed, runs off into the woods. A press release announcing the film was sent out several years back, indicating it would enter production in 2008 and be released in 2009. In 2012, that footage was cleaned up and flashbacks from the previous films were added to it, along with newly recorded narration and visual effects. They attempt to swim ashore where Lenny is waiting for them.
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Cast as as Tony Higgins at Valerie Hartman as Trivia There is a name discrepency with one of the campers. A remake has indeed been rumored and discussed in recent years, though no plans are set in stone. Angela and Peter prank their father by capsizing their boat. While we all anxiously await the arrival of that must-own release, today we whet your appetite for those gory summer camp shenanigans by looking back on five Sleepaway Camp sequels that were planned but never quite happened. The cook, Artie, attempts to Angela, but Ricky catches him, and Ricky and Angela run out. Angela grows so irritated that she murders the trucker.
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I think you can figure out where the story was to go from there! A Pirate Ship Ropes Course! He finds the cabin and enters it and is greeted by Angela, who pours battery acid on his face, hideously mutilating and killing him. Much like at the previous camp, she gleefully tortures and kills anyone who misbehaves or annoys her. Murders are again committed by an unknown person at the camp, but it is revealed that Angela has made a return in another disguise, a male police officer named Sheriff Jerry who uses an due to supposedly having had. Honestly, the second question is one that can only be answered if and when the movie comes out. Is it these religious kooks or Angela being her bad little transsexual psychopathic self again? The film tells the story of a young girl and her cousin who are sent to a summer camp, where a group of killings begins shortly after their arrival. Back at camp, Rob informs T. Later, Angela carries the camper's body toward the abandoned cabin and refers to him as Matt.
That Sleepaway Camp Ending Is Still Horrifying 35 Years Later
Judy seduces Paul, and Angela finds them kissing. Unlike many of its contemporaries, which had adults portraying youth, the cast of Sleepaway Camp was primarily made up of adolescent actors. Series creator Robert Hiltzik now owns the rights to the Sleepaway Camp franchise, which, as of 2013, is to be. Writer and director Robert Hiltzik mines little tension from his story of a youth summer camp besieged by a killer dumping boiling water on pervy camp cooks and stabbing counselors in the shower, Psycho-style. Guests can also feel free to bring their own coolers filled with food, drinks, or anything they want to keep cold. Felissa Rose is marvelous as Angela,especially with her creepy stare. Molly wants to cheer Angela up before she leaves the camp, so she and Sean go to the abandonded cabin to see her.
After the arrival of the teenage campers, several are mysteriously murdered by an unseen killer. Angela then cuts Sean's head off with Judd's machete. Angela drives Mare away from camp and gives her a choice to be good and stay but Mare is so upset that she'd rather just leave, so Angela murders her with a power drill. The film is about psychopathic camp counselor killing undesirable teens at summer camp. It was directed by , the director of the original 1983 film. Full Synopsis One night at , head counselor , a group of boys and enjoy a campfire and tell each other scary stories deep in the woods.
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When campers Kenny and Mike mock Angela, Ricky and his friend Paul fight them. She then travels back to the camp after receiving advice that revisiting might help her overcome her problems. Angela chases after her and after a struggle, Molly pulls the knife out of Angela's pocket and threatens to stab Angela if she tries to come near her. . Image via United Film Distribution Company First, the set-up: The film opens on a father and two children—a boy and a girl—tragically getting run down by a speedboat one summer afternoon, with a sudden eight-year time jump obscuring just who exactly survived the case of water skiing gone horribly wrong. After Martha gained custody of him, she raised Peter as the girl she always wanted, already having a son.
Is The New SLEEPAWAY CAMP Sequel Still Happening?
After Ricky rescues Angela, children fling sand at them. Though Berserk could still happen someday, there has been no progress in the last few years, as far as I know. Angela suddenly appears behind them, knocks Sean out and ties the duo up. She wants to send them home as well but T. One of the unnamed lucky campers survives Angela.
Simpson told , about the project. After campers Billy and Mike throw water balloons at Angela, Billy is stung to death when someone traps him in a bathroom stall and drops a hive in it. Katz has since had the movie set up at Ted Field's Radar Pictures - which had a hand in both the Texas Chain Saw and Amityville Horror remakes - who are riding high on their so there might be money to spare on this smaller project, should it still exist at the company. The purportedly final film in Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp trilogy, titled Sleepaway Camp Reunion, was also announced to be in the works. However, Mary Anna, a counselor at the camp, recklessly strikes John and one of the children with her speedboat. From what I gather, a supernatural element was to come into play, with either the spirit of Angela possessing one of the teens, or Angela herself coming back from the dead. The following film in the franchise, Return to Sleepaway Camp, was filmed from September to November 2003, but due to supposedly poor , its release was delayed until 2008 in order to have time to improve them.
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Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s “As You See It” at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019. All photos by Alexander Christie; courtesy the artist and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix.
As You See It
Ryohei Kan
Web Review BY Cleo Roberts
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
Japan United Kingdom
Preoccupied with the limits of perceptibility, Ryohei Kan filled his solo show, “As You See It” at London’s Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, with images of seemingly empty white-cube spaces, gesturing to the very environment that the pieces inhabited. By creating these meta-simulations of exhibition spaces, Kan punctured the façades of the gallery, and prompted closer examinations of the surroundings that influence and are shaped by art.
Endless Gallery (2019) is transparent in these aims. Located in the gallery’s basement, the video metamorphosed one of the walls into a portal, leading visitors through multiple virtual, brightly lit galleries. The one-to-one scale walkthrough glides through room after empty room. The experience is made all the more austere by the clipped footsteps that accompany the footage, asserting an unnervingly anonymous presence in the architecture. The effect is the viewer’s anticipation of an encounter with someone or something, as would be the norm in such a space. This play with the viewer’s expectations of a gallery, and its role as a host to works of art, are reinforced by a nearby intervention, Door (2019). Peering into the silver peep-hole of an inconspicuous door, visitors see an endless vista of white corridors, going from the blank gallery to nowhere.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s Endless Gallery, 2019, single-channel video: 2 min 52 sec (looped), at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s Door, 2019, mixed media installation with video: 4 min 29 sec (looped), at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
Kan’s photographic works build on this scene. In his “White Cube” (2012– ) series, he captures the immaculate details of a group of interiors. The dim corners of spaces, track lighting, walls void of any adornment besides barely perceptible holes and scuff marks, and polished concrete floors are the images’ sole subjects. These are contrived compositions staged by Kan. He builds meticulous 1:12 scale models based on his collection of internet images and photographs in art books of international galleries, erasing any artwork to reduce the highly specialized architecture to its bare walls. He then photographs these sets, drawing viewers’ attentions to the lack of specificity in the environments.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s White Cube – 6 (left), 2013, and White Cube – 15 (right), 2015, both C-prints, 100 × 150 cm each, from the “White Cube” series (2012– ), at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
The artist’s proclivity for mixing the virtual with the real is also evident in Palette (2019). Three sheets of paper, each featuring grids that fade from charcoal gray at the top to white at the bottom, spanned the length and width of one of the gallery’s walls. The squares all have a distinctive pattern evoking the texture of concrete. These are the paper swatches used by Kan to construct his mock galleries. Although pinned to the wall, they embody movement through the markings and cracks that resulted from their use, and much like Map Large White (2017), a dizzying, densely gridded drawing based on an architectural blueprint, they speak of the physical experience of space, reconciling Kan’s inert depictions with circulations of activity. Endless White Cube (2016–19), the video placed next to the drawing, added to the rendering’s dynamism with its forward movement through open door frames, more pristine cuboid rooms, and over glossy linoleum floors. There is both a utopic and dystopic quality to the depicted space, which has no traces of what existed there before, and yet, because of this, is primed for what is to come.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s Palette (left), 2019, triptych of inkjet prints on paper, 335 cm x 112 cm each, and White Cube – 28 (right), 2018, from the “White Cube” series (2012– ), C-print, 60 × 60 cm, at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
RYOHEI KAN, Map Small Blue, 2017, blue print, 42 × 42 cm.
In line with architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s concept of “organic architecture,” according to which a space’s meaning is ascribed by those who inhabit it, making a building a living entity, Kan’s concern with “voids” creates room for contemplation. Giving insight into the rarely bare gallery, much like Yves Klein’s installation Le Vide (1958), the minimal exhibition had a confounding and disorientating effect. With the gallery fabric opening out into virtual rooms, the viewer was left grappling and perhaps questioning what they really see or what they should be seeing.
Ryohei Kan’s “As You See It” is on view at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, until May 17, 2019.
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LAKE Production Company launches new brand – with new logo and service charter
LAKE Production Company Limited launched today a new logo and Service Charter, as part of a complete new corporate branding strategy. A rather cool refreshment of its corporate looks ahead of their first National Tangains Music Festival that has been scheduled for 24th December 2017, at the Siaka Steven Mainbowl, Freetown and the 2nd edition of the National Entertainment Awards (NEA) in April 2018.
LAKE Production has launched a new corporate branding strategy, highlighting its mission to become Sierra Leone’s number one premium event management, advertising, public relations, marketing, branding and media production company. The launch is geared towards maintaining its leadership in the media and entertainment business and expanding into new marketing opportunities and digital technologies.
Following a significant and strategic rebranding process, LAKE launched its new Service Charter, reflecting a cohesive new array of branding elements, including a modernized logo.
LAKE’s new corporate branding is the culmination of the transformation which started on the 25th May 2012. After 5 years of building an established and strong brand as a leader in the Sierra Leone entertainment industry, the new generation of senior leadership outlined an updated strategy and defined the company’s mission.
“LAKE’s new corporate branding strategy is built on our rich corporate history as an established industry leader and incorporates the growing opportunities our leadership team is pursuing going forward,” noted Alhaji K. Tarawally, Chief Executive Officer of LAKE Production Company Limited. “Building on our long years of experience, we are leveraging our core capabilities and industry expertise to create significant, business value for the entertainment industry by advancing beyond Event Management to Creative technology, Dissemination & Media booking, Social media strategy & implementation, Resource management, Business consulting, Content Syndication, Measurement & Optimization, Corporate, Political and Celeb Branding.
LAKE’s brand stands for more than organising national entertainment events. Together with our team, customers and entertainment shareholders, LAKE is building a sustainable future for the Media and Entertainment market in Sierra Leone.”
LAKE Production is the only event management company that has the legal and sole ownership franchise to organize and manage the following national entertainment events in Sierra Leone including; National Entertainment Awards (NEA), National Music Awards (NMA), Miss Mano River International Beauty Pageant, Miss Freetown Beauty Contest, National Hip-hop Music Awards and National Music Festivals…All of which are registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission and Office of the Administrator and Registrar General of Sierra Leone.
LAKE Production became a legal entity on the 25th May 2011. But its real beginning can be traced in October 2009 from Premier Media Company Limited where a renowned broadcaster, Alhaji K. Tarawally popularly known as Laj-K, teamed up with a group comprising young Sierra Leoneans from a wide spectrum of the society with the intention of forming a social organisation aimed at hosting shows only. This group included a Lawyer, Journalist, Accountant, Marketer, an Actress, ICT Specialist and Banker, to name a few. Some of the most challenging experiences became the building blocks upon which newer experiences were created.
In its early formative years, LAKE Production was first registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO) with the Freetown City Council. On the 25th May 2012, Laj-K decided to take a step further by registering it as a Business Enterprise under the Administrator and Registrar-General. After successfully organizing three annual National Music Awards, the founder and CEO decided to upgrade the business from a Business Enterprise to a Company Limited by Guarantee, on the 30th March 2017.
LAKE Production Company Limited was established to become the best source of television, music video, photography, design, production and creative thinking—not just in Sierra Leone, but the West Africa sub-region as a whole. After more than seven years of experience in event management, digital technology, marketing, branding, photography, public relations and media production, LAKE’s creator Alhaji K. Tarawally envisioned a company that could leverage all of those experiences in an uncommonly effective way with the primary objectives of enhancing standards, employment, sales and innovation.
The Founder and CEO of LAKE Production Company Limited, Mr. Tarawally is a household name in Sierra Leone with many beautiful personalities that we will continue singing forever, having successfully worked for most of the top media institutions in Sierra Leone during the past 14 years of his media sojourn. Suffice it to say for now that there are three icons that help us explain it all: in the first place, he was the Head of Programme of the biggest Media Empire in Sierra Leone (Television, Radio, Newspaper and Printing Press) – Africa Young Voices for almost three consecutive years, before rising to the position of Head of Monitoring and Quality Control–with a wealth of 14 years’ experience in Mainstream Journalism, Event Management, Marketing, Branding, Public Relations and Communication Consultancy.
Secondly, he is an academic and is presently a lecturer at the Mass Communication Department at the LICCSAL Business College, an affiliate to the University of Sierra Leone – teaching Broadcast Media, Multimedia and Public Relations.
The third icon of Mr. Tarawally is that he is an entrepreneur, having managed retail operations, overseen successful and profitable national events, launched initiatives in ways that have never been previously done, created work that has been honoured with international and national awards.
Creative skill, experience and insight are not characteristics that bloom after a few days or weeks of sunshine and rain. They are constructed, dismantled and discovered through unexpected challenges, unforeseen opportunities and uncommon belief in the abilities that are often only partly tangible but still truly obvious.
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TILLERSON blows up at White House aide over staffing decisions — TRUMP mocks CNN, Pelosi at closed-door fundraiser — SERGIO GOR’s PR hobby — B’DAY: Carl Forti
Filed Under: On The Hill, Trending
Driving the Day
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: SERGIO’S HOBBY — Sergio Gor, Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) prominent communications director, is helping out Fox News’ Eric Bolling with PR for his new book, “The Swamp: Washington’s Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It.” Gor has been helping coordinate interviews with Bolling and accompanying him on some TV interviews for the book. Gor said he is doing this on his own personal time, and Paul gave it his stamp of approval. Gor told us, “I was happy to lend a hand to my friend and former boss Eric Bolling as he launched his new book.”
TODAY is the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone. Walt Mossberg, the renowned tech journalist, said at the time that “It is certainly the most beautiful and most radical smart phone or hand held computer I have ever tested.” http://bit.ly/2tou6DQ
Happy Thursday, and happy almost Fourth-of-July weekend. There’s plenty of palace intrigue, horse trading in the Senate over health care and the deets on how Democrats are plotting to thwart Republicans’ health care legislation.
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— WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE WHITE HOUSE — JOSH DAWSEY, ELIANA JOHNSON and ALEX ISENSTADT: “Tillerson blows up at top White House aide,” by Josh Dawsey, Eliana Johnson and Alex Isenstadt: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s frustrations with the White House have been building for months. Last Friday, they exploded. The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment.
“Tillerson also complained that the White House was leaking damaging information about him to the news media, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Above all, he made clear that he did not want DeStefano’s office to ‘have any role in staffing’ and ‘expressed frustration that anybody would know better’ than he about who should work in his department — particularly after the president had promised him autonomy to make his own decisions and hires, according to a senior White House aide familiar with the conversation.
“The episode stunned other White House officials gathered in chief of staff Reince Priebus’ office, leaving them silent as Tillerson raised his voice. In the room with Tillerson and DeStefano were Priebus, top aide Jared Kushner and Margaret Peterlin, the secretary of state’s chief of staff. The encounter, described by four people familiar with what happened, was so explosive that Kushner approached Peterlin afterward and told her that Tillerson’s outburst was completely unprofessional, according to two of the people familiar with the exchange, and told her that they needed to work out a solution.” http://politi.co/2ukaMVf
— WHAT TRUMP IS HEATED ABOUT: “Trump rips media, mocks Pelosi at closed-door fundraiser,” by Alex Isenstadt: “President Donald Trump, facing dimming approval ratings and a stalled legislative agenda, rolled out his greatest hits on Wednesday evening – ripping into CNN, assailing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and hailing his party’s string of special election wins. Before a rapt audience of 300 supporters, major GOP donors and party leaders attending the first fundraiser of his 2020 reelection campaign at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., the commander in chief returned to his comfort zone.
“Speaking for around 30 minutes at the closed-door event, according to two people present, the president continued to bash a favorite target – the media, and in particular CNN. Trump derided the network for errors and presented himself as a victim of their reporting, which he described as deeply unfair. At one point, the president turned his fire on one of the network’s liberal commentators, Van Jones. With Republican Party benefactors in attendance, the president highlighted the special election victories – especially last week’s for a Georgia congressional seat. The president poked fun at the unsuccessful Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff for not residing in the suburban Atlanta district he was running for. Ossoff, the president joked, raised over $20 million yet couldn’t get an apartment in Atlanta. …
“Then there was Pelosi, who Republicans aggressively tied to Ossoff – and whose future as Democratic leader has been questioned in the wake of the Georgia race. Republicans, Trump joked, needed Pelosi to stay atop her caucus.” http://politi.co/2sjG8PC
— QUICK NOTE: Do you think lambasting the House Democratic leader is a way to get to a bipartisan compromise on health care, infrastructure or, for that matter, anything?
— WHAT’S HAPPENING TO TRUMP’S AGENDA: “Beleaguered health care bill gets new terms in effort to secure votes,” by Jen Haberkorn, Josh Dawsey and Burgess Everett: “Senate Republicans and the White House have agreed to add at least $45 billion to their Obamacare repeal bill to address the opioid crisis and are near agreement on allowing consumers to use Health Savings Account money to pay for their premiums, according to people familiar with the matter. The additions come as Senate Republicans are scrambling to get to 50 votes on their health care legislation. Both additions are expected to help get additional Republicans on board – opioid funding could help win over moderates and HSAs for conservatives. But there is no guarantee the language will do enough to substantially improve the bill’s prospects, Republican sources said.” http://politi.co/2t2J2VL
— THE NEW TIMELINE: “Republican leaders, having already delayed their Obamacare repeal vote until after the Fourth of July recess, want to come to an agreement in principle on the modified bill by the end of this week. After a score from the Congressional Budget Office – which would take up to two weeks – they hope to hold a vote.”
— THE INTRAPARTY SQUABBLING: “Portman and McConnell clash over health bill: If McConnell cannot win Portman’s vote, there’s no way Senate Republicans will be able to repeal Obamacare,” by John Bresnahan and Seung Min Kim: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman, close allies and typically mild-mannered men, got into a heated exchange over Medicaid at a meeting earlier this week.
“McConnell sided with conservatives eager to dramatically slow the program’s growth, and laid into Portman for opposing it. ‘As OMB director, you backed entitlement reform,’ he said, according to multiple GOP sources in the leadership meeting. Portman was Office of Management and Budget director under President George W. Bush, and McConnell was implying that Portman had changed his stance from when he worked in the White House.
“But Portman, who has backed individual spending caps for Medicaid under the GOP plan but not the slower growth, was having none of it. ‘The leadership has overreached on this bill,’ Portman shot back.” http://politi.co/2sptlpN
— THE FRUSTRATION IS GROWING … — “Republicans frustrated as their to-do list grows: The GOP agenda is stalled, and even more difficult votes loom,” by Rachael Bade and Burgess Everett. http://politi.co/2tojnJA
BEHIND-THE-SCENES — “How the push for a Senate health-care vote fell apart amid GOP tensions,” by WaPo’s Bob Costa, Sean Sullivan, Juliet Eilperin and Kelsey Snell. http://wapo.st/2sTuj0Y
— ON FOX: “As GOP buckles down on health care, conservative media loses interest,” by WaPo’s Dave Weigel: “The network’s prime-time shows, ratings kings of cable news, ignored the health-care story. Fox’s 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. shows began with stories about a sting video that caught a CNN producer dismissing his network’s coverage of Russia and the 2016 election. ‘The Five,’ Fox’s 9 p.m. show, began with the ‘bombshell’ news that President Barack Obama had said — in October 2016 – that it would be ‘impossible’ to rig the election. Nine minutes were spent on the Senate bill before a segue way into the CNN story.” http://wapo.st/2s4UrmU
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THE BIG QUESTION, via AP’S JULIE PACE: “GOP ponders whether Trump helps sell health care”: “It was a platform most politicians can only hope for: A captivated, 6,000-person crowd and more than an hour of live, prime-time television coverage to hype the Republican vision for a new health care system. But when President Donald Trump got around to talking about the Republican plan – about 15 minutes into his speech – he was wildly off message. Instead of preaching party lines about getting the government out of Americans’ health decisions and cutting costs, he declared: ‘Add some money to it!’
“The moment captured a major dilemma for Republicans as they look for ways to jumpstart their stalled health care overhaul. A master salesman, Trump has an inimitable ability to command attention, and that could be used to bolster Americans’ support for Republican efforts and ramp up pressure on wavering lawmakers. But some lawmakers and congressional aides privately bemoan his thin grasp of the bill’s principles, and worry that his difficulty staying on message will do more harm than good. ‘You know, he’s very personable and people like talking to him and he’s very embracing of that, so there will be certain people he’d like to talk to,’ said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. ‘But I’d let Mitch handle it,’ he continued, referring to the lead role Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has played thus far.’” http://apne.ws/2skdVbq
DEPT. OF POLITICAL MALPRACTICE — “Senate Democrats Sought to Work With Trump. Then He Began Governing,” by NYT’s Jennifer Steinhauer: “Rather than taking advantage of his honeymoon phase to pick an issue on which Democrats from conservative states might be amenable – fixing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, cutting taxes or stiffening immigration laws – Mr. Trump raced toward the most partisan corner of the room, pushing to repeal the health care law with no input from Democrats, in a manner that has proved deeply unpopular. …
“‘I am a moderate from a state Trump won,’ said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, who is up for re-election next year in a state where Hillary Clinton received just 38 percent of the vote. ‘You’d think they would have called me sometime.’ ‘I am ready to work with President Trump on things like infrastructure. I happen to agree with him on the water rule,’ she added, referring to a regulation that Mr. Trump is seeking to roll back. ‘These are just lower priorities for them, I guess.’” With a Scott Mulhauser cameo http://nyti.ms/2sTU8Ol
TRUMP’S THURSDAY — TRUMP is going to the Department of Energy to “give remarks at the Unleashing American Energy event.” The president and first lady are hosting South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House for a reception and dinner.
NYT IN KENTUCKY, ON A1 — “In McConnell’s Own State, Fear and Confusion Over Health Care Bill,” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in Whitesburg, Kentucky: “Perhaps nowhere has the health care law had as powerful an impact as in Kentucky, where nearly one in three people now receive coverage through Medicaid, expanded under the legislation. Perhaps no region in Kentucky has benefited as much as Appalachia, the impoverished eastern part of the state, where in some counties more than 60 percent of people are covered by Medicaid.
“And in few places are the political complexities of health care more glaring than in this poor state with crushing medical needs, substantially alleviated by the Affordable Care Act, but where Republican opposition to the law remains almost an article of faith. While some Senate moderates say the Republican bill is too harsh, Rand Paul, Kentucky’s other Republican senator, is among Senate Republicans who say they are opposed to the current bill for a different reason: They believe it does not go far enough to reduce costs.” http://nyti.ms/2t3QTT0
THE RESISTANCE — “Democrats to ‘crank up the outrage’ over Senate Republican health care bill over July 4 break,” by USA Today’s Heidi Przybyla: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to delay a vote on a GOP health care plan is giving Democrats a big opportunity to seize the July 4 recess to dial up the pressure to kill the bill. Several outside progressive groups are planning campaigns over the congressional recess to highlight the stories of real Americans who could lose health care – and targeting vulnerable and moderate Republican senators with paid media, phone calls and protests.” https://usat.ly/2tro4mz
THE STORY OF THE DAY — BOSTON GLOBE’S ANNIE LINSKEY (the pride of Fairfield County) ON REP. SETH MOULTON (D-MASS.) — “Seth Moulton seemed to be in Nancy Pelosi’s fan club. And then he wasn’t” (with a Salem dateline): “Over last Labor Day weekend, when Democrats were under the mistaken belief they would win the White House and Senate, Representative Seth Moulton sat down to pen a note that departed from his renegade brand. Three pages of gushing words to Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, thanking her.
“For everything. For the plum House Armed Services Committee assignment she’d given him (‘people at home are thrilled,’ he enthused). For the chance to sell the Iran nuclear deal on TV (‘the opportunity you gave me to exercise that on a national stage did not go unnoticed,’ he wrote). Even for the intern she’d helped secure (‘I don’t know where we’d be without Dennis – he’s extraordinary!’ Moulton exclaimed).
“‘The bottom line is that I’m proud to be in public service, but I wouldn’t be able to do the job as well without your help,’ he concluded, laying the groundwork for a pitch to win a coveted spot on the House Transportation Committee as well.
“Shortly after he sent the note, the political landscape shifted, and so did Moulton’s tone. After a devastating November election for Democrats left Republicans in control of all branches of government, Moulton became a loud voice opposing Pelosi’s leadership, joining 62 other House insurgents who voted to replace her in November. Last week, as the Democratic Party reeled from another loss in a hard-fought House race in Georgia – giving Democrats an 0-for-4 record in House special elections for Republican-held seats this year – Moulton again joined a band of House members demanding that Pelosi, 77, step aside.
“Loyalties in Washington are fluid, but even by the Capitol’s standards, Moulton’s change in posture is striking. The September note included no hint of the simmering dissatisfaction he said he was feeling at the time. Pelosi, through a spokesman, declined to comment.” http://bit.ly/2tn8tUG
NEW WHITE HOUSE EMAIL BLAST — WEST WING READS. The Trump administration is launching a new email called “West Wing Reads” aimed at sharing stories they like about the Trump presidency. Today is the first edition they are sending out. A White House digital staffer told us: “West Wing Reads was launched to give Americans across the country an inside look into the articles White House staff are reading each day. We focus on sharing stories and perspectives that may have been missed by the mainstream media. These types of articles were among the most popular parts of White House’s 1600 Daily newsletter and we are excited to deliver this content in a dedicated email.” See yesterday’s edition, which featured stories from Breitbart, National Review, the Washington Free Beacon, the Wall Street Journal, the Hill, and the Washington Times http://bit.ly/2t4hhwi
WEST COAST WATCH — “California Republicans don’t want to be caught again without a statewide candidate — but the party is fractured,” by L.A. Times’ Seema Mehta and Phil Willon: “The GOP may be in dire straits in California, but a flurry of recent moves suggests the party of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon is not willing to abandon the 2018 gubernatorial race, as it did four years ago. The big question is if the party will be able to marshal enough support behind a Republican candidate for governor and avoid a repeat of last fall’s Senate campaign, which, thanks to the top-two primary, was fought between two Democratic candidates.
“Several Republicans are in the mix. They include conservative Orange County Assemblyman Travis Allen and Rancho Santa Fe venture capitalist John Cox. Speculation is mounting that former state Assemblyman David Hadley plans to announce a run. There also are furious efforts to recruit San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer into the race, because he is viewed as the strongest possible contender. …
“House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) is concerned about next year’s turnout, and has been working hard trying to convince Faulconer to enter the race and show him he has a path to victory, according to multiple people familiar with McCarthy’s efforts who were not authorized to discuss them. Party Chairman Jim Brulte has made at least one personal appeal to the mayor during a face-to-face visit to San Diego.” http://lat.ms/2tooDgk
VALLEY TALK — “Apple’s Cook Reaped $145 Million Last Year, Most of S&P 500 CEOs,” by Bloomberg’s Laurie Meisler, Alicia Ritcey and Jenn Zhao: “Don’t be fooled by Tim Cook’s 2016 reported pay of $8.75 million, which ranked the Apple Inc. chief executive officer in the bottom third of all CEOs in the S&P 500. Cook, 56, actually took home $145 million, almost all of it from awards granted back in 2011. … Reed Hastings, 56, of Netflix Inc., reaped $106 million last year. Take-home pay for the top 25 S&P 500 CEOs who served in their positions for the last full fiscal year totaled about $1.65 billion.” https://bloom.bg/2u1jqJ2
THE JUICE …
— SPOTTED yesterday at a meeting of business policy experts hosted by the Office of Public Liaison in the West Wing: Michael Gallagher (ESA), Rebecca Oliver (CA Technologies), Kristie Arslan (Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council), John Stanford (Prism Group), Tim Day (U.S. Chamber), Omar Vargas (3M), Chris Myers (Caterpillar), Carolyn Coda (Swiss Re), Diane Rinaldo (SAP) and Brian Wolff (EEI).
— BRENDAN CARR is President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the open Federal Communications Commission seat. “Carr is a familiar face at the FCC, having worked as an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai when he was a commissioner during the Obama years.” http://politi.co/2tmKGUu
— KATHLEEN MELLODY has been named managing director and head of federal affairs for the insurance company The Hartford. She previously served as special assistant to President Barack Obama.
Playbook Reads
PHOTO DU JOUR: President Donald Trump poses with a jersey given to him by members of the World Series champion Chicago Cubs in the Oval Office on June 28. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
ON MAGAZINE STANDS — NEW COVERS …
— TIME: “Game of Thrones: Inside the World’s Most Popular Show” http://bit.ly/2u1zc6W
–THE ECONOMIST: “Trump’s America: A special report on a divided country” http://bit.ly/2s4WJCe
— BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK’s annual Global Tech double issue: It’s “a deep dive into the innovators and innovations around the world—and out of it. The issue includes: Ashlee Vance on the new space revolution [https://bloom.bg/2t4hO0Y]; Drake Bennett on Nokia’s fight to stay relevant [https://bloom.bg/2tnUZrX]; Brad Stone on Tencent’s global problem [https://bloom.bg/2trYkGG]; Vernon Silver on the hackers Russia-proofing Germany’s elections [https://bloom.bg/2spw4iT]; [and] a detailed interactive graphic on the future according to Elon Musk [https://bloom.bg/2u1yTZE].” The full issue https://bloom.bg/2tmPUAc … The cover http://bit.ly/2spnYqL
–THE NATION: “TRUMP AND THE NRA: Arming the culture war has just begun.” The cover shows a “Make America Great Again” hat resting on the ammo clip loaded into a machine gun. http://politi.co/2spUXv2 … The cover story by George Zornick http://bit.ly/2t3RGn5
TRUMP INC. – “Trump’s future business plans may be hiding in plain sight: The Trump Organization has registered and renewed hundreds of domain names – from MarALagoVegas.com to TrumpTowerMoscow.com,” by Isaac Dovere, Madeline Conway and Tyler Fisher: “Publicly available internet directory records analyzed by POLITICO … appear to provide a road map for ventures the president’s company has been considering, though some are in places that are now trouble spots for his presidency: TrumpRussia.com and TrumpUkraine.com were both renewed on June 29, 2016, while DonaldJTrumpSignatureCollectionVenezuela.com, TrumpApparelVenezuela.com, TrumpClothingVenezuela.com, TrumpHomeBathVenezuela.com, TrumpBeddingVenezuela.com and TrumpHomeAccessoriesVenezuela.com were updated on Oct. 14, 2016.” http://politi.co/2spOQqm
THE LATEST ON THE RUSSIA PROBE — “Senate Panel Digs Into 2,000 Financial Documents in Trump Probe,” by Bloomberg’s Steven Dennis and Billy House: “The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible links to Russia is now focused sharply on financial transactions involving the president’s associates – with the committee searching for improprieties in more than 2,000 documents it has received from the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit.
“The Treasury Department turned over the documents to the committee a few days ago after protracted negotiations with the committee, the panel’s vice chairman, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner, told Bloomberg – and only after Senate Democrats threatened to hold up a Treasury nominee until they received the information.” https://bloom.bg/2trlaOD
FOR YOUR RADAR — “U.S. sets new visa rules for 6 mainly Muslim nations, refugees,” by AP’s Matt Lee: “The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a ‘close’ family or business tie to the United States. The move came after the Supreme Court partially restored President Donald Trump’s executive order that was widely criticized as a ban on Muslims.
“Visas that have already been approved will not be revoked, but instructions issued by the State Department say that new applicants from Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen must prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling already in the United States to be eligible. The same requirement, with some exceptions, holds for would-be refugees from all nations who are still awaiting approval for admission to the U.S.” http://apne.ws/2s4bcOX
****** A message from the Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs (CAPD): A new study projects pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) will save Medicare Part D $896 billion over ten years. PBMs drive savings for taxpayers and seniors by negotiating discounts from drug manufacturers; by encouraging the use of lower cost, clinically equivalent drugs; and by providing clinical programs that improve health outcomes. Learn more at affordableprescriptiondrugs.org ******
BUSINESS BURST — “All U.S. Banks Pass ‘Stress Tests,’ in Sign of Financial Health,” by WSJ’s Liz Hoffman and Ryan Tracy: “Big U.S. banks plan to increase dividend payouts and share buybacks to their highest levels in years after the Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved capital plans for all 34 firms taking part in its annual stress tests. The approvals—the first time since the annual tests began in 2011 that all firms got passing grades—reflect a turning point for big financial institutions that have been shackled by tighter regulation since the financial crisis. They could also herald a return to precrisis days when banks were reliable dividend payers and shareholders flocked to them.” http://on.wsj.com/2tm7l3R
THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was drawn to one particular item in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget – the massive cuts to foreign aid. The Trump budget proposed cutting the combined budget of the State Department and USAID by 28 percent, with a big chunk of that expected to come from foreign aid (http://politi.co/2tq4BCW), which makes up less than 1 percent of the U.S.’s budget. Desmond-Hellman says she is concerned that if the cuts came into fruition, it could stymie the progress of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations to eradicate diseases like polio and promote family planning for women.
“The reason I’m concerned is – from where I sit and given the background I have – it is really extraordinary how much progress global health, global development has had as a result of America’s leadership,” the scientist-turned-philanthropic chief told Playbook. “That’s the focus I have, making sure we don’t hamper progress and that we continue with that progress.”
PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY CAN’T COVER GOVERNMENT CUTS: “Globally in 2016, there was $37.6 billion in development assistance for health all over the world. Of that $37.6 billion, the United States provided $12.8 billion and the U.K. contributed $4.1 billion. We’re the largest private philanthropy in the world, we contributed $2.9 billion. … Private philanthropy will never make up for the important contributions that governments — like the government of the United States and the government of the U.K. – provide for that kind of global health and global development assistance.”
FOREIGN AID BENEFITS THE U.S.: “You call it foreign aid and it feels like it goes far away. But one of the things that brought this close to home is the 2014 Ebola outbreak. … The kind of work that organizations like the WHO, the CDC in the U.S. do on pandemic preparedness … is such a good reminder of how much an outbreak anywhere is a health threat everywhere. In 2014 Americans were deeply scared and nervous about Ebola.”
CUTS COULD THREATEN HIV/AIDS FUNDING: “America and PEPFAR [President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] are literally known around the world. PEPFAR provides life saving medicine – HIV/AIDs therapy – for more than 11 million people who are living with HIV. In countries when PEPFAR has a presence, we actually know between 2004 and 2014, there was a 40 percent drop in political instability. In non-PEPFAR countries, political instability dropped only 3 percent. PEPFAR countries grew three times faster. It’s good for American businesses and it is good for the world economy.”
FRIENDS ON THE HILL: “We’re heartened by members of Congress. A lot of members of Congress have spoken up in their support of these foreign aid programs and many members of Congress have actually seen for themselves how powerful the U.S. is – soft power.”
MEDIAWATCH — “Trump seizes the advantage in war with media: White House staffers were ‘elated’ when they heard that three CNN journalists had resigned over a botched story,” by Hadas Gold: http://politi.co/2toK2G3
— Joseph Lichterman (@ylichterman): “NYT is hiring a pets reporter. Required: ‘Pet ownership experience—dog and/or cat at minimum, other animals a plus’” See the job posting http://bit.ly/2sjVcwD
–“I Have to Ask: The Maggie Haberman Edition” – Slate podcast: “The New York Times White House correspondent on what she has learned covering Trump.” http://slate.me/2ts5V8o
— The Atlantic has named Amy Zegart and Kori Schake as contributing editors. They’ll write about national security and international affairs.
Playbookers
SUNDAY SO FAR – NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).
SPOTTED: at Boxcar Tavern sitting together last night: Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Angus King (I-Maine), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) … Chris Matthews having dinner last night on the patio at the Monarch steakhouse in Aspen … Speaker Paul Ryan dining at Acadiana last night with lots of security … Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) last night at Harris Teeter in Navy Yard buying white wine … Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Rep. Crist were also spotted at Sonoma on Capitol Hill … Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) driving a red Chevy truck at Second and C St. SE last night … the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. on the 7 p.m. Acela in first class from WAS to NYP.
SPOTTED last night at Global Strategy Group’s annual summer cocktail party at Bar Deco: Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), Adrienne Elrod, Lu, Jenna Kruse, Mike Collins, Robby Mook, Mickey Ibarra, Jason Bresler, Mindy Myers, Paul Kane, Xochitl Hinojosa, Eloy Martinez, Isaac Dovere, Jason Bresler, Rob Jesmer, Patrick McHugh, Clay Schroers, Matt House, Kyle Herrig, Sabrina Singh, Pat Burgwinkle, Scott Mulhauser, Kara Carscaden, Adam Temple, Holly Jackson, Jon Vogel, Navin Nayak, Josh Raymond, Jorge Silva, Ted Mann.
OUT AND ABOUT IN LONDON – The Financial Times last night hosted its annual FT summer party, bringing together more than 400 guests from business, finance, politics and media. Pool report: “In the room filled with flowers from Wild at Heart, the crowd enjoyed Laurent Perrier champagne and canapés surrounded by the restaurant’s signature feature of 218 contemporary paintings and custom FT branding. Guests left with with goody bags that included a FT branded Aspinal journal, Hotel Chocolat treats, FT ‘A World Transformed’ Rubik’s Cubes, Molton Brown toiletries, FT Weekend Summer Menus and a Best of FT Weekend supplement.” Pix http://bit.ly/2t3uYLT
— TRANSITIONS — Brian Darling, former senior communications director and counsel for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), is launching Liberty Government Affairs. http://bit.ly/2t3bl6p … Joel Leftwich is joining Glover Park Group’s government relations practice as a managing director and will be part of GPG Food, the firm’s food and agriculture practice. Leftwich most recently was the Republican majority staff director for Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) on the Senate Agriculture committee. … Amelia Breinig has been hired as press secretary for the U.S. Trade Representative. She previously was deputy press secretary for the Senate Finance Committee. … Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) has named Fritz Brogan as finance chair of his campaign and leadership PAC.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD – Andrew Gray, JPMorgan Chase’s managing director of corporate communications and Misty Martineau on Wednesday welcomed Parker Elizabeth Gray: “Born at 6:31 p.m. this evening weighing 8 lbs 12 oz. Everybody is happy and healthy. We had to deliver in the OR because she came so quickly (about 6 minutes of pushing) hence the cool outfit. Hope that her teenage years go as smoothly.” Pic http://politi.co/2tntqPa
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Carl Forti, political director of American Crossroads super PAC and a founding partner at Black Rock Group, is 45. How he got his start in politics: “Elected politics? Elected senior class president at Fairport High School. Go Red Raiders! National politics? Paul Wilson at Wilson Grand Communications was kind enough to hire me out of college to be a video editor. I started editing TV commercials for GOP candidates and moved up from there.” Read his Playbook Plus Q&A: http://politi.co/2s4q93K
BIRTHDAYS: Macon Phillips … Hanna Trudo, who starts as a staff writer covering national politics for National Journal on July 10 … Andy Duberstein, VP at Sard Verbinnen … Politico senior investigative reporter Josh Meyer (h/t Tim Burger) … Old Dominion University basketball coach Jeff Jones, a.k.a. Mr. Danielle Jones … Ben Jarrett, political analyst at Embassy of Israel … Jennifer Pett, press secretary for Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) … Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is 74 … Rep. Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) is 73 … Microsoft’s Christina Pearson … former Solicitor General Don Verrilli, a partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson, is 6-0 … Emily Spain, legislative director for Sen. Carper … Kaya Singleton, congressional outreach manager at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (h/t Samantha Greene) …
… photojournalist Gabriella Demczuk … Cathy Rought, VP at BerlinRosen … Tamera Luzzatto, former HRC and Rockefeller chief of staff, managing director at Pew Charitable Trusts and Board Chair of the Bach Consort (h/ts Jon Haber) … campaign finance consultant David Wolf … Obama WH alum Brian Gabriel … Amy McDonald (hubby tip: Matt) … Paul Francis Baier, son of Bret and Amy … Tom DeVor … Harry Hartfield … Katie Zirkelbach, principal at Zirkelbach Strategies … Owen Kilmer … Jacob Levine of Houston … Christopher Wenk, executive director of international policy at the U.S. Chamber, is 41 … Bobby Watson is 6-0 … Eric Washburn … Patty McHugh (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Ed Black … Christian Marrone is 42 … William Pinzler is 71 … Bruce Soll is 6-0 … Bridget Luehrsen … actor Gary Busey is 73 … comedian-writer Colin Jost is 35 (h/ts AP)
****** A message from the Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs (CAPD): A new study estimates that Medicare Part D costs would be 58 percent higher without pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs’) clinical tools and price negotiations with drug manufacturers and pharmacies. The study shows PBMs significantly lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries. In fact, PBMs are projected to save Medicare Part D $896 billion over the next decade. Thanks to PBMs, Medicare Part D continues to drive savings and value for taxpayers and beneficiaries, ensuring that more than 39 million American seniors can access the prescription drugs they need. Learn more at affordableprescriptiondrugs.org ******
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APOD Collection: Mercury and Venus Transits
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Post by owlice » Sun May 27, 2012 10:00 pm
Mercury and Venus Transits
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3D Mercury Transit
Composite Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
Mercury is now visible shortly before dawn, the brightest "star" just above the eastern horizon. But almost two weeks ago Mercury actually crossed the face of the Sun for the second time in the 21st century. Viewed with red/blue glasses, this stereo anaglyph combines space-based images of the Sun and innermost planet in a just-for-fun 3D presentation of the Mercury transit. The solar disk image is from Hinode. (sounds like "hee-no-day", means sunrise). A sun-staring observatory, Hinode was launched from Uchinoura Space Center and viewed the transit from Earth orbit. Superimposed on Mercury's dark silhouette is a detailed image of the planet's rugged surface based on data from the Mariner 10 probe that flew by Mercury in 1974 and 1975.
Hand Drawn Transit
Credit & Copyright: Mark Seibold
The sight of Mercury's tiny round disk drifting slowly across the face of the Sun inspired and entertained many denizens of planet Earth last week. In fact, artist and astronomer Mark Seibold viewed both the 1999 and 2006 transits of the solar system's innermost planet through solar filtered telescopes and composed this rendering of Mercury "hovering in the photosphere" near the edge of an enormous solar disk. The original work is a 23 by 17 inch pastel sketch. While the artist's hand is creatively superimposed, Seibold concentrated on offering an impression of Mercury's silhouette, surrounded by shadings reflecting his visual experience that are not easily captured in photographic exposures. Of course, before the age of cameras drawings were more widely used to record telescopic observations of sunspots and planetary transits.
Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun
Credit & Copyright: David Cortner
What's that dot on the Sun? If you look closely, it is almost perfectly round. The dot is the result of an unusual type of solar eclipse that occurred last week. Usually it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. Last week, for the first time in over three years, the planet Mercury took a turn. Like the approach to New Moon before a solar eclipse, the phase of Mercury became a continually thinner crescent as the planet progressed toward an alignment with the Sun. Eventually the phase of Mercury dropped to zero and the dark spot of Mercury crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Mercurian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. From above the cratered planes of the night side of Mercury, the Earth appeared in its fullest phase. Hours later, as Mercury continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Mercurian solar eclipse will occur in 2016.
Mercury and the Chromosphere
Credit & Copyright: Phil Jones
Enjoying Wednesday's transit of Mercury from Dallas, Texas, astronomer Phil Jones recorded this detailed image of the Sun. Along with a silhouette of the innermost planet, a network of cells and dark filaments can be seen against a bright solar disk with spicules and prominences along the Sun's edge. The composited image was taken through a telescope equiped with an H-alpha filter that narrowly transmits only the red light from hydrogen atoms. Such images emphasize the solar chromosphere, the region of the Sun's atmosphere immediately above its photosphere or normally visible surface. Left of center, the tiny disk of Mercury seems to be imitating a small sunspot that looks a little too round. But in H-alpha pictures, sunspot regions are usually dominated by bright splotches (called plages) on the solar chromosphere.
Simulated Transit of Mercury
Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, will spend about five hours crossing in front of the Sun today - beginning at 1912 UT (2:12pm EST), November 8. Specially equipped telescopes are highly recommended to safely spot the planet's diminutive silhouette however, as Mercury should appear about 200 times smaller than the enormous solar disk. This simulated view is based on a filtered solar image recorded on November 3rd. It shows active regions and the Mercury transit across the Sun at six positions from lower left to middle right. Depending on your location, the Sun may not be above the horizon during the entire transit, but webcasts of the event are planned - including one using images from the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. This is the second of 14 transits of Mercury during the 21st century. The next similar event will be a transit of Venus in June of 2012.
Space Station, Venus, Sun
Credit & Copyright: Tomas Maruska (SAAD)
On June 8, Venus was not the only celestial object to pass in front of the Sun. A few well-situated photographers caught the International Space Station also crossing the Sun simultaneously. Pictured above is a unique time-lapse image of the unprecedented double transit, a rare event that was visible for less than a second from a narrow band on Earth. The above image is a combination of 12 frames taken 0.033 seconds apart and each themselves lasting only 1/10,000 th of a second. The image was taken from the small village of Stupava in Slovakia. The next time Venus will appear to cross the Sun from Earth will be in 2012.
Transit of Venus Stereogram
Credit: G. Schneider (Steward Obs.), J. Pasachoff (Williams College), TRACE Project, NASA
Venus glides in front of an enormous solar disk in these two frames from the TRACE satellite imaging of the inner planet's 2004 transit. Arranged in a "right/left" stereogram, the frames are intended to be viewed at a comfortable distance from the screen with your eyes gently crossed, allowing the images to merge and produce a pleasing stereo effect. Shown during the ingress (beginning) phase of the transit, the silhouetted portion of the planet appears to float dramatically in front of the Sun's granulated surface. Of course, the dense Cytherian (Venusian) atmosphere also scatters and refracts the intense sunlight. The effect is visible across the portion of the planet still beyond the Sun's edge and viewed against the blackness of space.
A Picturesque Venus Transit
The rare transit of Venus across the face of the Sun earlier this month was one of the better-photographed events in sky history. Both scientific and artistic images have been flooding in from the areas that could see the transit: Europe and much of Asia, Africa, and North America. Scientifically, solar photographers confirmed that the black drop effect is really better related to the viewing clarity of the camera or telescope than the atmosphere of Venus. Artistically, images might be divided into several categories. One type captures the transit in front of a highly detailed Sun. Another category captures a double coincidence such as both Venus and an airplane simultaneously silhouetted, or Venus and the International Space Station in low Earth orbit. A third image type involves a fortuitous arrangement of interesting looking clouds, as shown by example in the above image taken from North Carolina, USA. There the distant orb of giant Venus might have been mistaken, at first glance, for a small but unusually circular cloud.
A Rare Annular Venusian Solar Eclipse
Credit & Copyright: Peter Lawrence
An unusual type of solar eclipse occurred last week. Usually it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. Last week, for the first time in over 100 years, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. The dark spot of Venus crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Venusian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. From above the thick cloud tops of Venus, the Earth appeared in its fullest phase, brighter in the Venusian sky than even Mars appeared from Earth last August. Hours later, as Venus continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Venusian solar eclipse will occur in 2012.
Venus and the Chromosphere
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip
Enjoying the 2004 Transit of Venus from Stuttgart, Germany, astronomer Stefan Seip recorded this fascinating, detailed image of the Sun. Revealing a network of cells and dark filaments against a bright solar disk with spicules and prominences along the Sun's limb, his telescopic picture was taken through an H-alpha filter. The filter narrowly transmits only the red light from hydrogen atoms and emphasizes the solar chromosphere -- the region of the Sun's atmosphere immediately above its photosphere or normally visible surface. Here, the dark disk of Venus seems to be imitating a giant sunspot that looks perhaps a little too round. But in H-alpha pictures like this one, sunspot regions are usually dominated by bright splotches (called plages) on the solar chromosphere.
Venus at the Edge
Credit: D. Kiselman, et al. (Inst. for Solar Physics), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
With Venus in transit at the Sun's edge on June 8th, astronomers captured this tantalizing close-up view of the bright solar surface and partially silhouetted disk. Enhanced in the sharp picture, a delicate arc of sunlight refracted through the Venusian atmosphere is also visible outlining the planet's edge against the blackness of space. The arc is part of a luminous ring or atmospheric aureole, first noted and offered as evidence that Venus did posses an atmosphere following observations of the planet's 1761 transit. The image was recorded using the 1-meter Swedish Solar Telescope located on La Palma in the Canary Islands. For the Institute for Solar Physics, Dan Kiselman, Goran Scharmer, Kai Langhans, and Peter Dettori were at the telescope, while Mats Lofdahl produced the final image. Excellent movies of the transit - including one of the emergence of Venus' atmospheric aureole - are available from the Dutch Open Telescope, also observing from La Palma.
Venus Transit at Sunrise
Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College)
Did you see the transit? While some watched by webcast, sky gazers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia were able to witness the complete 6 hour journey of Venus' silhouetted disk across the face of the Sun. As seen from North America, the much heralded Venus Transit of 2004 was nearing its final stages at sunrise yesterday in this telescopic image. The view looks across the Atlantic from Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. In fact, many in eastern North America experienced a dramatic view of a perfect, dark, round Venus against a reddened Sun filtered by banks of low clouds. Ironically, the Sun takes on the appearance of a cloud covered planet itself as Venus marches toward the right through this dreamlike scene.
A Planet Transits the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Ronald F. Dantowitz (The Clay Center)
Today an astronomical event will occur that no living person has ever seen: Venus will cross directly in front of the Sun. A Venus crossing, called a transit, last occurred in 1882 and was front-page news around the world. Today's transit will be visible in its entirety throughout Europe and most of Asia and Africa. The northeastern half of North America will see the Sun rise with the dark dot of Venus already superposed. Never look directly at the Sun, even when Venus is in front. Mercury's closer proximity to the Sun cause it to transit every few years. In fact, the above image mosaic of Mercury crossing the Sun is from two transits ago, in November 1999. Will anyone living see the next Venus transit? Surely yes since it occurs in 2012.
A Mercury Transit Sequence
Credit & Copyright: Dominique Dierick
Earlier this month, the planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth. Because the plane of Mercury's orbit is not exactly coincident with the plane of Earth's orbit, Mercury usually appears to pass over or under the Sun. The above time-lapse sequence, superimposed on a single frame, was taken from a balcony in Belgium on May 7 and shows the entire transit. The solar crossing lasted over five hours, so that the above 23 images were taken roughly 15 minutes apart. The north pole of the Sun, the Earth, Mercury's orbit, although all different, all occur in directions slightly above the left of the image. Near the center and on the far right, sunspots are visible.
Mercury Transits the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault
How big is the Sun? The Sun is not only larger than any planet, it is larger than all of the planets put together. The Sun accounts for about 99.9 percent of all the mass in its Solar System. Merely stating the Sun's diameter is about 1,400,000 kilometers does not do it justice. Last week a chance to gain visual size perspective occurred when planet Mercury made a rare crossing in front to Sun. Mercury, a planet over a third of the diameter of our Earth, is the dark dot on the upper right. In comparison to the Sun, Mercury is so small it is initially hard to spot. Also visible on the Sun are dark circular sunspots, bright plages, and dark elongated prominences -- many of which are larger than Mercury. The above contrast-enhanced picture was captured last week from France.
Mercury Spotting
Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA
Can you spot the planet? The diminutive disk of Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, spent about five hours crossing in front of the enormous solar disk yesterday (Wednesday, May 7th), as viewed from the general vicinity of planet Earth. The Sun was above the horizon during the entire transit for observers in Europe, Africa, Asia, or Australia, and the horizon was certainly no problem for the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Seen as a dark spot, Mercury progresses from left to right (top panel to bottom) in these four images from SOHO's extreme ultraviolet camera. The panels' false-colors correspond to different wavelengths in the extreme ultraviolet which highlight regions above the Sun's visible surface. This is the first of 14 transits of Mercury which will occur during the 21st century, but the next similar event will be a transit of Venus in June of 2004. Need help spotting Mercury? Just click on the picture.
Spot The Planet
Credit & Copyright: Rick Scott and Joe Orman
OK, it's a picture of the Sun (duh!), but can you spot the planet? Of course, most of the spots you've spotted are sunspots, as large or larger than planet Earth itself. The sunspots are regions of strong surface magnetic fields which are dark in this picture only because they are relatively cool compared to their surroundings. Over the past few years, the number of sunspots has been steadily increasing as the Sun approaches the maximum in its 11 year activity cycle. But also visible in this photograph from November 15, is planet Mercury. At just over 1/3 Earth's size, Mercury is passing in front of the Sun, its silhouette briefly creating a diminutive dark spot drifting across an enormous solar disk. While "transits" of Mercury do occur 13 times a century, this one was additionally a very rare grazing transit of our Solar System's innermost planet. Spotted Mercury yet? Click on the picture for a hint.
Mercury And The Sun
Credit: Brian Handy (Montana State Univ.), TRACE Project
Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower, skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. The last occurred in 1993 and the next will happen in 2003. Enjoying a mercurial transit does require an appropriately filtered telescope, still the event can be dramatic as the diminutive well-done world drifts past the dominating solar disk. This slow loading gif animation is based on images recorded by the earth-orbiting TRACE satellite. The false-color TRACE images were made in ultraviolet light and tend to show the hot gas just above the Sun's visible surface. Mercury's disk is silhouetted against the seething plasma as it follows a trajectory near the edge of the Sun.
X-ray Transit Of Mercury
Credit: ISAS, Yohkoh Project
This sequence of false color X-ray images captures a rare event - the passage or transit of planet Mercury in front of the Sun. Mercury's small disk is silhouetted against the bright background of X-rays from the hot Solar Corona. It appears just to the right of center in the top frame and moves farther right as the sequence progresses toward the bottom. The dark notch is a coronal hole near the Solar South Pole, while a flaring coronal bright point can be seen to the left of the notch in the top frames. The frames were recorded on November 6, 1993 by the Soft X-ray Telescope on board the orbiting Yohkoh satellite. Transits of Mercury (and Venus) were historically used to discover the geometry of the solar system and to map planet Earth itself.
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House Committee hears testimony on bill that would legalize medical marijuana
By: Jill Ornitz
Links: HB 800
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JEFFERSON CITY - Medical marijuana would become legal in Missouri if a bill heard by a House committee is passed into law.
The House Emerging issues committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow physicians to issue prescriptions for medical marijuana and would set up a proper licensing process for medical marijuana dispenseries.
The committee heard a range of testimony from television personality Montel Williams to Missouri Veterans of Foreign Wars Representative Tom Mundell.
Mundell told the committee his post-traumatic stress disorder improved considerably after he began using marijuana.
"I was on 71 pills a day," Mundell testified. "I was taking 41 in the morning and 30 at night. And I take three now."
Mundell said he would not have discovered the benefits of marijuana if it was not for his wife. He told the committee that while having a PTSD episode in the garden of his home, his wife forced him to smoke a marijuana cigarette which helped him calm down.
Williams uses medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of his multiple sclerosis. He told the committee he tried everything he could to alleviate his pain and medical marijuana was the only thing that worked.
"I'm going to say to you right now, I could care less about anybody who wants to get high," Williams testified. "Your problem, not mine. I'm only concerned about people who need to have relief with medication."
Lawmakers said they were concerned about the potential cost of opening up what they called a certified care center. These care centers, which would serve as dispenseries, would need to be approved by both local and state authorities. Representatives compared this process to starting a franchise and said the bill did not guarantee any sort of refund for care centers that would not be approved.
But Williams said the ability to open certified care centers would stop the cycle of healthcare professionals treating symptoms with unnecessary amounts of medications because of individual reactions.
"You go to the doctor, if the Vicodin makes your stomach upset so they give you a Percocet," Williams said. "Percocet makes your stomach upset, they give you an ultrasound. If that's not strong enough they give you an oxycontin. We chase this, why? Because not all of it works for everyone."
Williams told that consensus shows that medical marijuana works as a treatment option. He testified that access to medical marijuana upheld American ideals.
"I have to ask how dare you deny someone the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" Williams asked legislators.
Other organizations in favor of legalizing medical marijuana include the Missouri Nurses Association. The National Narcotics Officers Associations' Coalition testified against the legislation.
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