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College Bound: Tyler Hunt
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After an extremely successful career at Jasper that saw him next 66 total goals and 28 assists, Tyler Hunt will be playing soccer in college along with several other players with southern Indiana ties at Kentucky Wesleyan College.
A Q&A with Jasper senior soccer player Tyler Hunt who will be playing collegiately at Kentucky Wesleyan College.
What was the biggest factor into your decision to play soccer collegiately? It's been a dream since I was a kid so I've really worked hard to try and get to that point. It's just nice to see it all unfold.
What stood out about Kentucky Wesleyant over other schools you visited? I visited a few colleges but Kentucky Wesleyan seemed like the best fit for me. It was small, everyone was close — a lot of players I've played with in the past, guys I played travel with signed there last year. They told me it was a really nice program and they're getting some good recruits this year, too. The program is definitely on its way up.
During your time at Jasper, who or what do you feel most prepared you to play soccer in college? Kyle Kendall — he was a mentor toward me from freshman year all the way to senior year. He's the one who really helped develop my leadership skills throughout all four seasons.
What was your biggest accomplishment during your career at Jasper? Definitely our win against No. 6 ranked Lake Central — that was a really big win, there's no way we could have gotten that win without everybody being in and the team being so close to one another.
If you could describe your high school athletic experience in one word, what would it be? Phenomenal.
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CLC Profs address seminar on emerging issues on devolution and jurisprudence
CLC Profs address seminar on emerging issues on devolution and jurisprudence Prof Nico Steytler and Prof Jaap de Visser addressed a group of Kenyan judges as part of a seminar, which was organised by Kenya’s Judiciary Training Institute in collaboration with the Katiba Institute (headed by Prof Yash Pal Ghai). https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/news/clc-profs-address-seminar-on-emerging-issues-on-devolution-and-jurisprudence https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/news/clc-profs-address-seminar-on-emerging-issues-on-devolution-and-jurisprudence/@@download/image/Kenya.png
Prof Nico Steytler and Prof Jaap de Visser addressed a group of Kenyan judges as part of a seminar, which was organised by Kenya’s Judiciary Training Institute in collaboration with the Katiba Institute (headed by Prof Yash Pal Ghai).
Kenya’s Constitution devolves significant power to the 47counties in a manner that resembles many of the provisions in the South African Constitution. There are thus many useful comparisons to be made between the two countries.
Prof Steytler addressed the judges on the history of provinces and local government in South Africa and on the manner in which the South African judiciary has interpreted provincial and local powers.
Prof De Visser addressed the judges on how South Africa’s judiciary dealt with human rights violations by provinces and local governments and on how judges have used their power tocraft remedies in the context of intergovernmental relations.
Former CLC doctoral researchers Dr Conrad Bosire and Dr Mutakha Kangu also addressed the judges in what turned out to be a dynamic and constructive engagement.
The engagement is set to result in a book about devolution in Kenya. The International Development Law Organisation (IDLO) and Kenya’s Institute for Social Accountability have joined efforts in commencing a book project on the topics of the seminar. Dr Conrad Bosire (Katiba Institute) and Ms Wanjiru Gikonyo [Shown in the picture] from Institute for Social Accountability will co-edit the book which promises to be critical addition to the literature on devolution in Kenya.
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ILLINOIS STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 45: Pappas Speaks to Senior Citizens and Organizations at District Advisory Panel
by Press release submission | Jun 25, 2019
Illinois State House District 45 issued the following announcement on June 19.
State Rep. Diane Pappas, D-Itasca, spoke with senior residents within the 45th District as well as other senior organizations that service the community at her Senior Citizen Advisory Panel Monday morning.
“We had many different perspectives at the round-table, and I was pleased to see participation from the many organizations who provide resources and services to our senior community,” said Pappas. “However, there are definitely areas for improvement, such as communication and coordination between agencies serving different municipalities, townships and counties, as well as providing seniors with clear information from a trusted source on exactly what services are available.”
Panel attendants discussed a variety of issues, including fraud and consumer protection, Medicare, and public transportation, which sparked a unique conversation about the future of transportation, including automotive artificial intelligence. There are no topics that are off the table. Pappas is interested in exploring every issue that seniors consider important.
“I urge anyone who has questions, concerns, or legislative suggestions pertaining to the senior community to attend future meetings of my Senior Citizen Advisory Panel,” said Pappas. “I also urge those interested in making sure they are not overpaying for their utilities to attend my Citizens Utility Board Clinic June 26th from 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. at the Bloomingdale Horizon Senior Independent Living Community located at 160 W Lake St, Bloomingdale.”
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All posts tagged domestic violence
A Thousand Lies by Laura Wilson
The judge said (I will never forget this), ‘In many ways your life has been a form of punishment.’ Sometimes I wonder what he would have said if I had told the truth.
So Sheila Shand, a woman convicted of the manslaughter of her father, wrote in her journal in 1988, hinting at one of the many lies which Laura Wilson’s crime novel, A Thousand Lies, goes on to uncover and explain.
Sheila’s journals, and the sections from her point of view, are an important element of the novel, but the main story centres around her great-niece, Amy Vaughan. Amy is a journalist whose estranged mother has just died and left her another journal, one belonging to Sheila’s sister Mo, revealing a branch of the family she’d not known existed.
Throughout the novel, Amy struggles to deal with the complicated grief of losing a mother who blamed her for her father’s desertion, a ne’er-do-well father who returns in time to take advantage of her meagre inheritance and possibly endanger her life, and a neighbour who has the potential to become a future lover. At the same time she becomes increasingly caught up in the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of her great-aunt Mo, and the trauma that has kept Sheila and her ailing mother Iris silent for many years.
A Thousand Lies was first published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger award. I discovered the author, Laura Wilson, via a Twitter suggestion after I’d followed Julia Crouch whose book Tarnished I reviewed last week.
I can’t say I was as riveted by A Thousand Lies as I was by Tarnished, but I am fascinated with its subject matter – domestic violence and its long-term psychological effects on women, particularly the ‘learned helplessness’ that keeps women trapped in a vicious cycle. Wilson deals with the subject with sympathy, subtlety and insight, and the plot intrigues the reader enough to keep the pages turning.
One shortcoming, for me, was to do with the novel’s structure: the most dramatic events occurred in the distant past, which the journal device and flashbacks bring to life. The effect of this ‘once-remove’ is an emotional distancing. For many crime readers, this distancing might be a good thing, as the events described are horrific. Readers of psychological suspense, however, might find the storyline lacks a desired sense of immediacy and engagement.
As events of the past begin to bleed into the present, however, the novel heads for a thrilling climax. A Thousand Lies is the first I’ve read by this novelist, but it won’t be the last. It is an engaging read.
Author: Laura Wilson
Title: A Thousand Lies
Publisher: Orion
I borrowed a copy from the library.
by Elizabeth Lhuede on December 5, 2014 • Permalink
Posted in Book review, crime, fiction, Psychology, suspense, thriller
Tagged A Thousand Lies, crime novel, domestic violence, Laura Wilson, learned helplessness, suspense, thriller, UK fiction
Posted by Elizabeth Lhuede on December 5, 2014
https://elizabethlhuede.com/2014/12/05/a-thousand-lies-by-laura-wilson/
What Came Before by Anna George
‘My name is David James Forrester. I’m a solicitor. Tonight, at 6.10, I killed my wife. This is my statement.’
This is the dramatic opening of What Came Before, the brilliant psychological thriller debut by Melbourne writer Anna George. The rest of the novel reveals how the murder came to happen.
We see Forrester’s wife, Elle, before her death. She’s working in the film industry, having left a career in law. With one successful film behind her, she is busy directing another. This latest is about “limerance”, the early stages of romantic love.
Elle encounters Forrester, a high-powered lawyer she remembers from her legal days. She is immediately attracted. By what? His looks, the interest in art they share. Certainly not his sociability, as he proves indifferent to her friends. As they begin their relationship, she experiences an almost delusional infatuation – the “limerance” of her film’s title – which leads her to ignore warning signs that the relationship isn’t healthy.
Unknown to Elle, Forrester’s marriage has disintegrated, leaving him angry at his ex and missing his young step-daughter. He’s also a frustrated artist, a control freak and a very unhappy man.
Throughout the narrative, point of view switches from Forrester, as he dictates his “witness statement” and consults a retired QC for legal counsel, to Elle, as she lies in death – or the imagined transition that follows death. This dual narration, swapping tenses between past and present, makes for compelling reading as we are led inexorably to the inciting incident, Elle’s death.
One question often asked about women in abusive relationships is, “Why did they stay?” What Came Before answers this question. “Limerance” makes us idolise our partners, letting us see only what we want to see; tells us to forgive their failings, to look only at their good qualities; blinds us to the escalating “cycle of violence”. The longer we stay, the more we believe they are essentially “good”, that their character defects are a result of damage done in childhood, that we are connected to them in some essential way, the more dangerous the relationship becomes.
Anna George has drawn on her own experience* of “emotional abuse” to create the relationship between Forrester and Elle, and her experience shows. For me, though not for all reviewers, she manages to make Elle sympathetic, despite her irrational choices. George also conveys what it’s like to be the man who resorts to violence, his self-justifications, his belief that he was provoked. If I had one criticism of the characterisation of What Came Before, it’s of the moment when Forrester makes a transition from “emotional abuser” to “physical abuser”. For me, the transition appeared too abrupt. Thinking about his behaviour in terms of “narcissistic rage”, however, I can make more sense of it. Far from being egoistic, Narcissists lack the internal resilience that would allow a healthier psyche to take criticism, perceived rejection or opposition. In this light, George gets the psychology for Forrester right; the result is believable and frightening.
The publishers have described this novel as “literary”, and in the vein of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. What Came Before is clever, like Flynn’s novel, but the cleverness isn’t at the expense of its emotional truth. The characters come across as real, their motivations consistent, their delusions understandable. Does this make it “literary”? It’s a well-written psychological thriller which deserves to become a best-seller.
Anna George has been added to my already impressive list of “must read” Australian female crime and suspense authors. I can’t wait for her next book.
* Anna George mentioned this in an interview with Carol at Reading, Writing and Riesling blog, here.
This review forms part of my contribution to the Australian Women Writers Challenge and Aussie Author Challenge. A review copy was kindly supplied to me by the publishers via Netgalley. What Came Before has already been reviewed for the AWW challenge by:
Author: Anna George
Title: What Came Before
Published:25/06/2014
ISBN-13:9780670077731
ISBN-10:0670077739
Publisher:Penguin Aus
Imprint:Viking
by Elizabeth Lhuede on July 3, 2014 • Permalink
Posted in Aussie Author Challenge, AWW challenge, Book review, crime, literary fiction, suspense, thriller
Tagged Anna George, australian fiction, Australian women writers, crime fiction, debut novel, domestic violence, legal thriller, Melbourne, murder, Penguin, unreliable narrator
Posted by Elizabeth Lhuede on July 3, 2014
https://elizabethlhuede.com/2014/07/03/what-came-before-by-anna-george/
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music, gigs, news and general ramblings…
gigs and tour!
tour diary day7: oxford
Well now, England is indeed a green and pleasant land, and Oxford is full of foppish handsome types in eclectic knitwear scooting around on bikes, just like in Inspector Morse, as one had hoped. We spent a little down-time, and perhaps slightly more down-time than we really deserved, but when faced with a real ale and this…
…one simply must deflate and soak in the atmosphere. We almost went punting, but the one-frock-a-day wardrobe wouldn’t have put up with falling in, so we contented ourselves with watching the ducks. We’ve been debating our next tour, and wondering if a tour of floating venues would be possible, will research that, we could even rope in the 80s wedding band theme very conveniently.
Our venue was a superb little bookshop called the Albion Beatnik, everyone should go there, and the gig was very ably promoted by the very kind Feed the Birds, so a great time was had by all, listening to Rob St. John and Arthur Sawbridge, and having a peruse through the vintage 20s-40s fiction shelves, which could’ve happily strapped onto the roof of our charabanc, but I contented myself with Agatha Christie’s secret notebooks. Warm, warm people.
We stayed at a pal’s; anyone with a garden in Scotland would blanch at the mere idea of tomatos growing outside in mid October, but such is as it is in Oxford, England that oh so very green and pleasant land, the garden was in mid-summer fruition…
making us all wish we had chosen to live a bit further south..
More later… Sheffield…Glasgow…2 more sleeps!
October 15, 2011 by emilyscottmusic
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Pia Pack
Austin Weiner and Pia Pack : What Artists are Listening To Poscast. Chimento Contemporary. Los Angeles. Photos
April 3, 2018emsartsArt
“Have you ever wondered what artists listen to while in the studio and what that tell us
about the artist? London based artist Pia Pack did and took her relocation to Los Angeles as an opportunity to get to know her new city and fellow artists. What Artists Listen To first season explores the soundtracks of Los Angeles female identifying artist’s lives through discussion of tracks on their curated playlist. Inspired by Kim Schoenstadt’s Now Be Here project, Pia decided to focus solely on female identifying Los Angeles artists for the first season of W.A.L.T.
“I love the project because for most artists music has gone hand in hand with their studio practice since the very beginning – it’s a bit like asking to see their dairies. As a listener, it further fleshes out the artists, it’s an insight into their artistic process.“ says creator Pia Pack. The live version will feature Alexandra Grant, Zeal Harris, Cole James, Alison Saar, Shizu Salamando, among others. Pia’s studio work focuses on the way people connect and interact, translating movements and mapping sounds into her artwork. At the centre of her practice is the desire to bring people together. Pia Pack studied fine art in London at Byam Shaw St. Martins School of Art,Wimbledon School of Art, and Hochschule für Künste, Hamburg. She recently completed her MFA at Bath School of Art.
The podcast will launch on 17 March on iTunes, please visit www.whatartistslistento.com for further information and the live version lineup.”
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1990 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1990 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1989–90 season, and the culmination of the 1990 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested by the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Bruins; the Oilers won, four games to one. For the Oilers, it was their fifth Cup win in seven years, and the only one since they traded Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988. This would be the last of eight consecutive Finals contested by a team from Alberta (the Oilers appeared in six, the Calgary Flames in two).
Edmonton Oilers 3*** 7 1 5 4 4
Boston Bruins 2*** 2 2 1 1 1
* – overtime periods
Boston: Boston Garden (1, 2, 5)
Edmonton: Northlands Coliseum (3, 4)
Edmonton: John Muckler
Boston: Mike Milbury
Edmonton: Mark Messier
Boston: Ray Bourque
Don Koharski (1, 4)
Andy Van Hellemond (3, 5)
Kerry Fraser (2)
Bill Ranford (Oilers)
Series-winning goal
Craig Simpson (9:31, second, G5)
CBC (Canada-English)
SportsChannel America (United States, except Boston Area)
NESN (Boston Area games 1,2 and 5)
WSBK-TV (Boston Area, games 3 and 4)
Bob Cole and Harry Neale (CBC)
Jiggs McDonald and Bill Clement (SC America)
Fred Cusick and Derek Sanderson (NESN and WSBK)
Paths to the FinalsEdit
Further information: 1990 Stanley Cup playoffs
Boston defeated the Hartford Whalers 4–3, the Montreal Canadiens 4–1, and the Washington Capitals 4–0 to advance to the Final.
Edmonton defeated the Winnipeg Jets 4–3, the Los Angeles Kings 4–0, and the Chicago Blackhawks 4–2.
In game one, Petr Klima scored at 15:13 of the third overtime period to give the Oilers a 3–2 win; this game remains the longest in Stanley Cup Finals history (see Longest NHL overtime games), edging both Brett Hull's Cup-winner in 1999 and Igor Larionov's game-winner in 2002 by less than 30 seconds.
Though the Oilers ultimately won the series in five games, it was the Bruins who dominated play during the early part of the series. The Bruins had more chances to win the opener, and at one point had a 15-4 shot advantage in game two before the Oilers came back.[1]
In game five at the Boston Garden on May 24, the Oilers won 4–1, the first time they had ever clinched the Cup on the road. Craig Simpson scored the game-winning goal. Oilers goaltender Bill Ranford, originally the backup who took over from Grant Fuhr for the remainder of the regular season and the entire playoffs, was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
Mark Messier won his first Stanley Cup as a team captain, and his fifth overall.[2] He would win his sixth Stanley Cup as the captain with the New York Rangers four years later, and scored the Cup-winning goal, making him the only player to captain two different Cup-winning teams.[3][4]
Ray Bourque would not reach the Stanley Cup Finals again until the Colorado Avalanche won in 2001. As for the Bruins, they wouldn't return to the Stanley Cup Finals until their championship season of 2011.[5] The Oilers did not reach the Finals again until 2006, losing in seven games.
Boston Bruins vs. Edmonton OilersEdit
May 15 Edmonton Oilers 3–2 3OT Boston Bruins Boston Garden Recap
Adam Graves (4) - 09:46 First period No scoring
Glenn Anderson (7) - 13:00 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 03:43 - Ray Bourque (3)
18:31 - Ray Bourque (4)
Petr Klima (5) - 15:13 Third overtime period No scoring
Bill Ranford 50 saves / 52 shots Goalie stats Andy Moog 28 saves / 31 shots
May 18 Edmonton Oilers 7–2 Boston Bruins Boston Garden Recap
Adam Graves (5) - 08:38
Jari Kurri (8) - pp - 10:53 First period 19:07 - Ray Bourque (5)
Jari Kurri (9) - 04:21
Craig Simpson (13) - 15:28
Esa Tikkanen (11) - 17:10
Joe Murphy (5) - 19:12 Second period 02:56 - pp - Greg Hawgood (1)
Jari Kurri (10) - pp - 07:27 Third period No scoring
Bill Ranford 25 saves / 27 shots Goalie stats Rejean Lemelin 14 saves / 18 shots, Andy Moog 1 saves / 4 shots
May 20 Boston Bruins 2–1 Edmonton Oilers Northlands Coliseum Recap
John Byce (2) - 00:10
Greg Johnston (1) - 15:04 First period No scoring
No scoring Third period 05:54 - pp - Esa Tikkanen (12)
Andy Moog 28 saves / 29 shots Goalie stats Bill Ranford 20 saves / 22 shots
No scoring First period 02:13 - pp - Glenn Anderson (8)
16:27 - Glenn Anderson (9)
No scoring Second period 01:00 - Craig Simpson (14)
19:15 - Esa Tikkanen (13)
John Carter (6) - 15:02 Third period 18:36 - Craig Simpson (15)
Glenn Anderson (10) - 01:17
Craig Simpson (16) - 09:31 Second period No scoring
Steve Smith (5) - 06:09
Joe Murphy (6) - 14:53 Third period 16:30 - Lyndon Byers (1)
Edmonton won series 4–1
Team rostersEdit
Years indicated in boldface under the "Finals appearance" column signify that the player won the Stanley Cup in the given year.
Boston BruinsEdit
Finals appearance
Bob Beers
D R 1985 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania first
Ray Bourque – C
D L 1979 Saint-Laurent, Quebec second (1988)
Andy Brickley
LW L 1988–89 Melrose, Massachusetts first
Randy Burridge
LW L 1985 Fort Erie, Ontario second (1988)
John Byce
C L 1985 Madison, Wisconsin first
Lyndon Byers
RW R 1982 Nipawin, Saskatchewan second (1988)
Bobby Carpenter
C L 1988–89 Beverly, Massachusetts first
LW L 1985–86 Winchester, Massachusetts first
Dave Christian
RW R 1989–90 Warroad, Minnesota first
Lou Crawford
LW L 1989–90 Belleville, Ontario first
Peter Douris
RW R 1989–90 Toronto, Ontario first
Garry Galley
D L 1988–89 Greenfield Park, Quebec first
RW R 1989–90 Petrolia, Ontario first
Greg Hawgood
D L 1986 Edmonton, Alberta second (1988)
Craig Janney – A
C L 1986 Hartford, Connecticut second (1988)
Greg Johnston
RW R 1983 Barrie, Ontario second (1988)
Gord Kluzak
D L 1982 Climax, Saskatchewan second (1988)
Rejean Lemelin
G L 1987–88 Quebec City, Quebec third (1986, 1988)
Ken Linseman
C L 1984–85 Kingston, Ontario fourth (1983, 1984, 1988)
Nevin Markwart
LW L 1983 Toronto, Ontario second (1988)
Andy Moog
G L 1987–88 Penticton, British Columbia sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Cam Neely – A
RW R 1986–87 Comox, British Columbia second (1988)
Billy O'Dwyer
C L 1987–88 South Boston, Massachusetts second (1988)
Allen Pedersen
D L 1983 Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta second (1988)
Dave Poulin
C L 1989–90 Timmins, Ontario third (1985, 1987)
Brian Propp
LW L 1989–90 Lanigan, Saskatchewan fourth (1980, 1985, 1987)
Bob Sweeney
C R 1982 Concord, Massachusetts second (1988)
D L 1984 St. Stephen, New Brunswick first
Glen Wesley
D L 1987 Red Deer, Alberta second (1988)
Jim Wiemer
D L 1989–90 Sudbury, Ontario first
Edmonton OilersEdit
Glenn Anderson
RW L 1979 Vancouver, British Columbia sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Jeff Beukeboom
D R 1983 Ajax, Ontario third (1987, 1988)
RW R 1988–89 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan third (1985, 1987)
Kelly Buchberger
RW L 1985 Langenburg, Saskatchewan first
Grant Fuhr
G R 1981 Spruce Grove, Alberta sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 - did not play: injured)
Martin Gelinas
LW L 1988–89 Shawinigan, Quebec first
Adam Graves
LW L 1989–90 Toronto, Ontario first
Randy Gregg
D L 1981–82 Edmonton, Alberta sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Charlie Huddy
D L 1980–81 Oshawa, Ontario sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Petr Klima
LW R 1989–90 Chomutov, Czechoslovakia first
Jari Kurri – A
RW R 1980 Helsinki, Finland sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Mark Lamb
C L 1987–88 Ponteix, Saskatchewan first
Kevin Lowe – A
D L 1979 Lachute, Quebec sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Craig MacTavish
C L 1985–86 London, Ontario third (1987, 1988)
Mark Messier – C
C L 1979 Edmonton, Alberta sixth (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Craig Muni
D L 1986–87 Toronto, Ontario third (1987, 1988)
Bill Ranford
G L 1987–88 Brandon, Manitoba second (1988)
Eldon Reddick
G L 1989–90 Halifax, Nova Scotia first
Reijo Ruotsalainen
D R 1989–90 Oulu, Finland second (1987)
Geoff Smith
D L 1987 Edmonton, Alberta first
D L 1981 Glasgow, Scotland third (1987, 1988)
Esa Tikkanen
LW L 1983 Helsinki, Finland fourth (1985, 1987, 1988)
BroadcastingEdit
In Canada, the series was televised on the CBC.
In the United States, the series aired nationally on SportsChannel America. However, SportsChannel America's national coverage was blacked out in the Boston area due to the local rights to Bruins games in that TV market. NESN televised games one, two, and five in the Boston area while WSBK had games three and four.
Edmonton Oilers – 1990 Stanley Cup championsEdit
7 Mark Lamb
8 Joe Murphy
11 Mark Messier (Captain)
14 Craig MacTavish
9 Glenn Anderson
10 Esa Tikkanen
12 Adam Graves
16 Kelly Buchberger
17 Jari Kurri (A)
18 Craig Simpson
20 Martin Gelinas
32 Dave Brown
85 Petr Klima
Defencemen
4 Kevin Lowe (A)
5 Steve Smith
6 Jeff Beukeboom
21 Randy Gregg
22 Charlie Huddy
25 Geoff Smith
26 Reijo Ruotsalainen
28 Craig Muni
30 Bill Ranford
31 Grant Fuhr
33 Eldon "Pokey" Reddick
Coaching and administrative staff
Peter Pocklington (Owner), Glen Sather (President/General Manager)
John Muckler (Head Coach), Ted Green (Co-Coach)
Bruce MacGregor (Asst. General Manager), Ron Low (Asst. Coach)
Barry Fraser (Director of Player Personnel/Chief Scout), Bill Tuele (Director of Public Relations)
Werner Baum (Controller), Dr. Gordon Cameron (Chief of Medical Staff), Dr. David Reid (Team Physician)
Ken Lowe (Athletic Tainer-Therapist), Barrie Stafford (Trainer), Stuart Poirier (Massage Therapist)
Lyle Kulchisky (Ass't Trainer), John Blackwell (Director of Hockey Operations, AHL)
Garnet Bailey (Scout), Ed Chadwick (Scout), Lorne Davis (Scout)
Harry Howell (Scout), Albert Reeves (Scout), Matti Vaisanen (Scout)
Stanley Cup engravingsEdit
Garnet "Ace" Bailey won seven Stanley Cups. His name was engraved on the Stanley Cup five times. He was engraved as Garnet Bailey in 1972, G. Bailey in 1970, 1985, 1987, and Ace Bailey in 1990. His name was left off the Stanley Cup, but he was awarded Stanley Cup rings in 1984, 1988.
#29 Vladimir Ruzicka(C/LW) joined Edmonton from Europe in January. Ruzicka played 25 games, but did not dress in the playoffs.
#19 Anatoli Semenov(RW) joined Edmonton from Europe in May. Semenov played two games in the Conference Final.
Neither player qualified for engravement on the Cup, but both players received Stanley Cup rings. Ruzicka was also included on the team winning picture.
Grant Fuhr only played 21 games during the regular season due to injuries. Although he would miss the rest of the regular season and the entire playoffs, he qualified to be on the Cup by dressing for over 40 regular season games.
Members of all five Edmonton Oilers championshipsEdit
Glenn Anderson, Grant Fuhr, Randy Gregg, Charlie Huddy, Jari Kurri, Kevin Lowe, Mark Messier (seven Players), Peter Pocklington, Glen Sather, John Mucker, Ted Green, Barry Fraser, Barry Stafford, Lyle Kulchisky (seven non-players)
Nine non-players were part of all five championships, but not all engraved each year: Garnet 'Ace' Bailey, Ed Chadwick, Lorne Davis, Matti Vaisanen, Gordon Cameron, Bill Tuele, John Backwell, Werner Baum, and Bob Freedman
Members of all five Edmonton Oilers championships and New York Rangers championship (1994)Edit
Glenn Anderson, Kevin Lowe and Mark Messier.
1989–90 Boston Bruins season
1989–90 Edmonton Oilers season
Inline citations
^ K.P. Wee (October 2015). The End of the Montreal Jinx: Boston's Short-Lived Glory in the Historic Bruins-Canadiens Rivalry, 1988-1994. pp. 90–93. ISBN 978-1517362911.
^ Cole, p. 120
^ Morrison, Scott (2010). Hockey Night in Canada: Best of the Best Ranking the Greatest Players of All Time. Toronto: Key Porter Books. p. 34.
^ Ulman, Howard (May 28, 2011). "Bruins reach Stanley Cup finals, top Lightning 1-0". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
Cole, Stephen (2004). The Best of Hockey Night in Canada. Toronto: McArthur & Company. pp. 120, 128. ISBN 1-55278-408-8.
Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp. 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7.
1989 Edmonton Oilers
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Determine Fertile days with the Symptothermal Method
Determine Fertile days with the Symptothermal Method – How does it work? Use the signs of ovulation mucus & temperature to get pregnant faster. As a fertility coach, I keep being asked how to determine your fertile days to get pregnant faster. The Symptothermal Method is the best scientifically tested method to determine the fertile days and to limit ovulation exactly to a few days. In clinical trials, it has been shown that couples who determine their fertile days with the Symptothermal Method get pregnant faster. I myself have get pregnant twice with the Symptothermal Method despite Hashimoto and luteal Insufficiency and would like to share my experiences with you in this article. What is the Symptothermal Method (NFP)? NFP [...]
Triphasic Chart as a Sign of Pregnancy?
Is the triphasic chart of the basal body temperature in the course of the cycle a sign of pregnancy? All about triphasic temperature curves can be found in this article! What is a Triphasic Temperature Chart? A triphasic temperature chart means that the basal temperature rises slightly about a week after the rise in temperature triggered by ovulation. The expression comes from the fact that in a normal cycle curve with ovulation, a biphasic course of temperature can always be observed. This means that the curve can in principle be divided into two parts – the low-level temperature and high-level temperature position. In some cycles, however, three phases can be detected and this is called the triphasic temperature curve or [...]
Reliably Recognize Implantation Bleeding
How can you reliably recognize implantation bleeding? We‘ll show you a method to clearly distinguish implantation bleeding from the period. Many women watching their cycle a little – wonder in the event of an intermenstrual bleeding whether it is an implantation bleeding and whether something can be done against such bleeding? In this article, I would like to answer the most common questions about implantation bleeding and, in the end, point out a method for you to determine beyond reasonable doubt whether it is an implantation bleeding. Is there an Implantation Bleeding? And if so, why? Yes, there may be an implantation bleeding in the cycle. Suppose the egg is fused in the fallopian tube with a sperm (fertilization), then [...]
Why is men‘s fertility decreasing dramatically?
Studies show that male fertility decreasing by about a third between 1989 and 2005. Why is this decline occurring? What can be done about it? In a study [1] in France with about 26,000 couples in treatment for unfulfilled desire to have children, a decrease in sperm concentration of about 32 percent was observed between the period 1989 and 2005. The men had to do a Spermiogram regularly in this study, so the study data are very reliable. While the average 35-year-old man from 1989 still had a sperm concentration of 73.6 million spermatozoa per ml of ejaculate, in 2005 there were only 49.9 million spermatozoa left. As I have described in my article “Voegeli Prevention for Men,“ a man [...]
Learn to interpret the cervical mucus correctly to get pregnant and determine your fertile days in the cycle. I’ll give you my top tips in this paper! What is the Cervical Mucus? Cervical mucus is the secretion that is formed in your cervix and then passes through your Vagina to the outside. The more Estrogens are in your body, the more the amount and water content of your cervical mucus increases. The Estrogens, and thus the water content of the mucus, increase until ovulation. For this reason, cervical mucus is one of the most important ovulation signs to determine the fertile days in the cycle. However, the cervical mucus is not only a marker for the fertile days, but it [...]
Basal Thermometer Thermometer iSnow SNO-T02 in a Test
Is the basal thermometer iSnow SNO-T02 suitable for determining the fertile days in the cycle with the Symptothermal Method? My test report on the range of functions, operation and much more. With the iSnow-T02 basal thermometer I have found an international Symptothermal Method thermometer, which is available in many countries and languages and is also suitable for Symptothermal Method beginners to determine the fertile days. But – is the iSnow basal thermometer really suitable for Symptothermal Method application to determine the fertile days if you wish to have a child? You will learn about functionality, operation and design in my test report. What can the iSnow SNO-T02 basal thermometer do? The iSnow SNO-T02 is a very simple basal thermometer that [...]
My Domotherm Rapid Basal Thermometer Experiences
My experience with the cheap Domotherm Rapid Basal thermometer including test report to the user manual, features and more. Again and again, I get the question, which is the cheapest and affordable Basal Thermometer. Today I would like to introduce it to you: It is the Domotherm Rapid. By the way, I started measuring my basal temperature with this thermometer in 2009. Like all thermometers, in this review, I will rate the functionality, operation and design of this thermometer. Features – What can Domotherm Rapid Basal Thermometer do? The Domotherm Rapid Basal Thermometer is very simple. It has a flexible tip that facilitates oral measurement under the tongue. In addition, it can store a temperature value so that the value [...]
Master of Menstrual cycle
How does the menstrual cycle work? Increase your knowledge of your body and the fertile days and become a Master of Menstrual cycle in just 5 minutes! The menstrual cycle begins on the first day of the menstrual period and ends on the last day before the next menstrual period. The length of the menstrual cycle can vary from woman to woman and from menstrual cycle to menstrual cycle. Usually, the menstrual cycle lasts 23 to 35 days. Contrary to the presentation of many textbooks, most women do not have a 28-Days menstrual cycle. In a study of 10,000 cycles of healthy women, only 13% had a menstrual cycle length of 28 Days. The menstrual cycle can be divided into [...]
Ovulation calculator – are they really that good?
In this article, you’ll learn everything about ovulation calculators. Is it possible to calculate the fertile days and thus become pregnant more easily? As a fertility expert, Women keep asking me if you can’t just calculate the fertile days in the cycle with an ovulation calculator? Can an ovulation calculator really help you get pregnant or is that just a utopia? I set out to show you in this article in concrete terms what an ovulation calculator is really worth and how it works. Finally, I will objectively evaluate the ovulation calculator with regard to the fertility indicator. How does an ovulation calculator work? An ovulation calculator calculates the fertile and infertile days in the cycle based on the average [...]
BabyMad basal thermometer in test
Is the BabyMad suitable for the Symptothermal Method application to determine the fertile days in the cycle if you desire to have a child? My test report on functionality, operation and design only here!! I’ve wanted to test BabyMad’s optical beautiful basal thermometer for a long time, as many women from my environment already use it. Opinions on this thermometer are so different that I really wondered – how good the BabyMad basal thermometer really is. Is it really suitable for determining the fertile days in the cycle? My test report on functionality, operation, design and much more in this article. What can the BabyMad basal thermometer do? The BabyMad thermometer, like the L-Care basal thermometer, is a standard basal [...]
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The expected value of a random variable. Arithmetic average of a sample.
Arithmetic Mean Average
An average calculated by adding the value of the points in a data set and dividing the sum by the number of data points. For example, suppose one wishes to calculate the average income of a country with exactly five people in it, and their incomes are $25,000, $26,000, $43,000, $70,000, and $72,000. It is calculated as:
($25,000 + $26,000 + $43,000 + $70,000 + $72,000) / 5 = $47,200.
A limitation to the arithmetic mean average is that it can be overly affected by extremes in either direction. For example, if one of the five persons in the country earns $100 billion per year, the arithmetic mean average income would be in the billions and would not accurately count the other four citizens. For this reason, many analysts use the median in conjunction with the arithmetic mean average. The arithmetic mean average is also called simply the mean.
The average of a set of numbers.Contrast with median,which is the middle figure in a set of numbers,and mode,which is the value that appears most often in a set of numbers.
Example: A survey of home values in a neighborhood of nine houses obtained the following values:
The mean, or average, is the total of all values divided by 9, or $143,044.The median is the middle number when the numbers are all arranged from highest to lowest,which would be house 5, or $139,850.The mode is $139,000,because it is the number that appears most often.
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123 posts in In the News
Apr 25, 2018 / Announcements, In the News
Chelsea Wood receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
SAFS professor Chelsea Wood has been awarded the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award, given annually to seven recipients for mastery of the subject matter; enthusiasm and innovation in the teaching and learning process; ability to engage students both within and outside the classroom; ability to inspire independent and original thinking in students and to stimulate students to do creative work; and innovations in course and curriculum design.
Mar 27, 2018 / Publications, In the News, Research
A whole new ocean zone is needed for these fish species
Scientists currently classify groups of reef species by the depths at which they occur, with the so-called “mesophotic” species living at depths of 40-150 meters. Now, though, new data suggests that an additional depth zone is needed for reef species living in the coral reef twilight zone, to be called the “rariphotic” zone, covering the depths of 130-310 meters (400-1000 ft).
Mar 23, 2018 / In the News, Research, SAFS News
Stunning footage of bizarre mating anglerfish with glowing cat’s-whiskers fin rays
In a world’s first, a mating pair of anglerfish is observed in the wild, evoking awe in SAFS professor Ted Pietsch, who comments in UW Today on the video footage by researchers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen aboard a submersible run by the Rebikoff-Nigeler Foundation. Only 14 females (and no males) of this species have ever been recorded, all collected in jars and none observed alive in the ocean.
Feb 15, 2018 / Announcements, In the News, SAFS News
SAFS professor Chelsea Wood receives prestigious Sloan Fellowship
SAFS Professor Chelsea Wood was awarded a Sloan Fellowship, awarded to early-career researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. Prof. Wood is a prolific researcher who uses parasites and pathogens (both human and fish-based) to uncover fundamental ecological truths about the natural world. She will receive $65,000 to further her research initiatives, which includes using museum fish specimens as “parasite time capsules”, as reported in UW News.
Feb 10, 2018 / Publications, In the News, Research
With sea ice loss, beluga whales make longer and deeper feeding dives in the same places
Satellite tracking devices on beluga whales in the Arctic show how they reacted to far lower sea ice concentrations in recent years. Instead of shifting where they feed, as might have been expected, beluga whales continued to feed in similar (but now largely ice-free) places. However, where dive data were available, their dives were significantly longer and deeper than in years with higher ice concentrations.
Feb 9, 2018 / In the News, Research
Narwhals prefer serene glaciers over rambunctious glaciers
Combining data from glaciers with tracking devices on narwhals, reveals that these elusive marine mammals prefer glaciers that calve infrequently over active calving glaciers. The research, to be presented by SAFS professor Kristin Laidre at the Ocean Sciences Meeting next week, shows narwhals congregating at the outlets of serene glaciers in Greenland’s Melville Bay. Prof. Laidre speculates that the cold fresh water melting off the glacier may stun fish, making them easy prey for the hunting narwhals, while active glaciers produce more silt-filled waters that are harder to hunt in.
Jan 24, 2018 / Publications, In the News, Research
The curious tale of the piranhas that merely eat a few scales off their fish prey
Not all piranhas eat in the feeding frenzies that Hollywood is so fond of depicting. Instead, some species remove and eat just a few scales from their prey. As described in UW News, some of these scale-eaters ram into their unsuspecting prey, while others open their mouths to extraordinary dimensions and use specialized teeth to pry off scales. The wide variety of approaches is captured in a new paper that placed these fish in CT scanners, as part of the Scan All Fish program led by SAFS professor Adam Summers.
Forgotten fish naturalist and illustrator remembered in new book
Naturalist Charles Plumier’s work has been resurrected by SAFS Professor Ted Pietsch in a new book Charles Plumier and His Drawings of French Caribbean Fishes. Plumier lived in the era just before Linneaus created his Latin naming system for species names, and as a result, none of Plumier’s detailed painting and descriptions of species were given priority. Prof Pietsch talks in detail about the inspiration for his book with Michelle Ma in an interview posted on UW Today.
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AG hopefuls Jay Fant, Ashley Moody attack each other before state GOP meeting
Charter school executive snags spot on Jacksonville community college board
No 'Taj Mahals': School tax debate separates Richard Corcoran, Duval Superintendent
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The Fants appear delighted with their first month’s haul.
A.G. Gancarski
Personal attacks percolate in the Republican race for Attorney General, with Rep. Jay Fant and former Hillsborough Judge Ashley Moody giving and receiving fire.
The timing is no accident: Moody and Fant — and every other important Florida Republican — will be at the meeting of the state party this weekend in Orlando.
Fant’s broadside against Moody was pushed out in an email to supporters Thursday. It essentially saw the campaign doubling down on attacks made in December, when Fant called for Republican Party of Florida chairman Blaise Ingoglia to bar Moody from the meeting.
That call was rejected.
The email, written by Fant campaign chief of staff Carolyn Tucker, says the meeting is “ONLY FOR REPUBLICANS,” and should exclude Moody, “a proven Clinton liberal.”
“Clinton liberals, like Ashley Moody, don’t believe in securing our borders, won’t crack down on sanctuary cities, and won’t protect Florida’s Stand Your Ground Laws … as a liberal judge, Ashley Moody betrayed second amendment conservatives (more revelations on that subject coming VERY soon),” Tucker continues, calling Moody a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
Moody’s campaign fired back.
“A conservative Republican since college, it is astounding and disheartening to learn a fellow Republican, Jay Fant, continues to baselessly attack me. His willingness to send misleading and false information is quite different than the Jay Fant who ran for the State House in 2014. Back then, he insisted that clean campaigning in the primary is critical to our Republican Party,” Moody asserted.
Moody countered Fant’s attack on her SYG position also.
“I am a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights and Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. I am the only candidate for Attorney General who has actually granted Stand Your Ground immunity to an individual using deadly force with a firearm to protect himself.”
Moody wasn’t done.
“My loving and incredible father, who taught me respect for the rule of law and the importance of faith and honesty, is a federal judge who had the backing of Republican U.S. Senator Connie Mack throughout the bipartisan nomination process, even though he was ultimately appointed by then President Clinton.
“Regardless of who appointed my father, as a 42-year-old woman, a mom, a former federal prosecutor, and former judge, for Jay Fant to assert that I can’t have political views different than my father is offensive,” Moody said.
“I believe in strictly adhering to the protections of our Constitution, enforcing our laws, and securing our borders. As a wife of a federal law enforcement officer, I have the utmost respect for law enforcement, which is why my candidacy has been endorsed by 30 Republican Sheriffs from across the state,” she added.
Meanwhile, mud is flying in Fant’s direction also — from the former chair of his hometown Duval County Republicans, Cindy Graves.
Graves is not backing a candidate in this race; however, she is bringing up the most serious oppo against Fant in an email with a provocative title: “How a statewide Florida candidate cost FDIC $82 million.”
Graves charges Fant with “the destruction of the most conservative bank in the South, as the man responsible for bankrupting” First Guaranty Bank.
Graves notes that Fant “is very well funded as the bank failure did not affect his own wealth. At the time of the bankruptcy, he built one of the most enviable river estates in Duval County.”
This bank scandal, says Graves, “is the best-kept open secret in Florida politics.”
We reached out to Melissa Stone of the Fant campaign for comment on this.
“The facts are that when the federal government bailed out big banks with taxpayer money during the Great Recession, Jay Fant was working in a small family-owned community bank. Small businesses like his didn’t get a big government bailout. The big boys who caused the mess got paid and the little guys were left holding the bag,” Stone said.
“Bad government policy killed that small business, but fortunately depositors and taxpayers lost nothing. Bad policy has bad consequences. Bad policy on Stand Your Ground laws, for example, by an Attorney General who doesn’t believe in them could leave Floridians vulnerable to unwarranted prosecution when they take action to protect their lives, their homes and their families. Jay supports Florida’s strong Stand Your Ground laws, but not everyone running for Attorney General does.”
In this article:Ashley Moody, Carolyn Tucker, Cindy Graves, Jay Fant
Written By A.G. Gancarski
A.G. Gancarski has been a working journalist for over two decades. Gancarski has been a correspondent for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. In 2018, he was a finalist for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies "best political column." He can be reached at a.g.gancarski@gmail.com.
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Enrollment Strategies
Getting Creative to Drive Out-of-State Enrollments
Joel Wincowski | Vice President for Enrollment Management, University of Maine
Sometimes a little creativity is all it takes to buck troubling enrollment and labor market trends.
Public and private institutions across the United States tend to covet out-of-state enrollments, especially when the number of in-state high school graduates begin shrinking. The impact of these shrinking numbers means more than just budget shortfalls at universities. They can predict long-term challenges for the state’s labor force and economy. However, sometimes a little creativity goes a long way. In this interview, Joel Wincowski reflects on the Flagship Match program that aims to drive out-of-state enrollment numbers at the University of Maine’s flagship campus.
The EvoLLLution (Evo): What was the impetus behind creating the Flagship Match program?
Joel Wincowski (JW): The impetus behind creating the Flagship Match program was a desire to attract more out-of-state students to the University of Maine and keep the discount rate down. Flagship Match was created with the intent to attract students away from other universities by offering them a UMaine education for the same cost as their home state flagship university.
The University of Maine is a vibrant and beautiful institution with vast academic offerings. By making a compelling offer of affordability to out-of-state students, we diversify our student body, increase enrollment, and help support the Maine workforce since 22 percent of college graduates go on to stay and work in the state they studied.
Maine is the oldest state in the country and our college-age demographic is shrinking. By attracting young people to Maine to attend the University through Flagship Match, we help mitigate that demographic aging trend.
Another added benefit from launching the Flagship Match program was the high visibility that the University of Maine received in the press. By establishing this program, we created a presence in the media that was not there before, further heightening awareness of our university throughout the country. Moreover, the identification with other flagship schools enhances our image significantly; it puts us in comparison to with schools ranked higher than us.
Evo: What were some of the most significant roadblocks you faced in making this program a reality?
JW: We had tremendous support from the administration for this program after they understood the potential enrollment and discount advantages.
Trying to restructure how financial aid is done on a merit basis rather than a need-based basis poses challenges for a university system. Questions also arose regarding whether this would really yield us our class or will we come in with lower enrollment? How to market the program and create an awareness of the benefit took thoughtful analysis of trends, messaging and outreach.
There were naysayers, of course. But getting the support and buy-in from the campus community through collaborative team building helped counter any doubt. We had support from our provost, Jeff Hecker, and this helped with our internal messaging.
Evo: Since launching, what kinds of results have you been seeing as a result of the program?
JW: Since launching Flagship Match, we have seen an uptick in enrollment figures, applications, campus visits, senior inquiries and transfer students.
Total applications for 2016 were 14,623 compared to 11,552 in 2014. Enrollment saw a 38-percent increase of 399 additional non-resident students for the fall of 2016. We will see a strong increase in tuition generated revenue due to this growth.
Our discount rate has dropped to 22.7 percent for in-state students and 33.6 percent for out-of-state students, down approximately 4 percent.
Our graduate school numbers are growing as well. We also received notice in the press. Notable publications that covered Flagship Match include the Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, University Business Magazine, The Hartford Courant and the Washington Post.
Evo: How do you see the Flagship Match program expanding and evolving over time?
JW: We have an aggressive branding and media campaign squarely focused on our current Flagship Match target audience across New England—in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut—as well as in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
This campaign will remain agile and modern and will evolve to attract our target audience in those states. Moreover, in 2017, we will extend Flagship Match to other states including Rhode Island, Illinois, and California. Accepting students from those states will further diversify our student body, continue to lower our discount rate and help support the Maine workforce.
By matching the in-state tuition rates at flagship public institutions in nearby states, the University of Maine has increased demand for its programming from out-of-state learners.
As the population of Maine is aging, increasing the number of out-of-state graduates will vastly improve the quality of prospective employees entering Maine’s labor market.
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SARAH JESSICA PARKER...WHAT KIND OF HOUSEHOLD NAME IS THAT?
SHE'S A MATCH FOR BRUCE WILLIS IN STRIKING DISTANCE. SHE MAKES LETTERMAN. NOW, IF ONLY HOLLYWOOD KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH HER?
By Jess Cagle
October 01, 1993 at 04:00 AM EDT
Are you going to cover my zits?” Sarah Jessica Parker wants to know. She sits before a large mirror, in a trailer on the Pittsburgh set of Striking Distance, a mystery/romance/shoot-’em-up in which she is costarring with Bruce Willis. The makeup woman dabbing base on her face says no, since the red spots are mostly in her head, not on it, then adds, ”You’re in one of those,” grabbing a stack of tabloids and handing a Star to the star. Parker finds herself on page 14, where W.B. of Westerley, Conn., writes in, ”Who has Sarah Jessica Parker been dating since she and Robert Downey Jr. split up?” Parker laughs, wide-eyed. ”Really bad picture,” she says, mashing her thumb over her own shiny color close-up. Then she studies the printed answer: ”Sarah had a brief fling with John F. Kennedy Jr. and is now involved with actor Matthew Broderick.” ”Good,” she says, sighing and glancing at the mirror for a last-minute pimple check. ”They kept it simple.”
One year later Striking Distance, in its opening weekend, is topping The Fugitive. And once again critics are singling out Parker, as Willis’ partner both on the Pittsburgh police river patrol and in bed, as the bright spot in a blemished movie. Parker, 28, bristles at being misquoted recently in articles that say she is disappointed in the film; actually, she hasn’t even seen it. She will say that making it ”was a tough experience. I think anybody involved in the movie would tell you that shooting on the water for five months is not a simple task.” In other words, it was a lot of hard work for a movie that establishes only two things: (1) Parker should never again part her hair in the middle, and (2) Willis should enjoy what little hair he has left. Ever since her career took flight in 1991 when she played SanDeE*, Steve Martin’s dizzy seductress in L.A. Story, Hollywood hasn’t known what to do with this beguiling, offbeat beauty. Last year’s modest hit Honeymoon in Vegas positioned her as the industry’s next romantic leading lady, but this summer her role as Sarah Sanderson, a dumb-blond witch, was almost edited out of Disney’s wickedly awful Hocus Pocus. Although Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy (Sister Act) spent weeks rehearsing their wacky, child-eating characters, the studio ultimately opted to play up the roles of their young prey. ”I haven’t experienced editing to this degree before,” says Parker, discussing Hocus Pocus one summer afternoon in her comfy, sunny apartment in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Perched on her sofa, wispy thin, cocking her cigarette like Bette Davis, she can talk nonstop for minutes without a breath. Her white blouse is tied high above the waist, and her bellybutton peers over hot pants fashioned from cutoff gray sweats. The entire ensemble teeters on red suede platforms. Her giggle and tenuous self-assurance make her likable; her brains and excitability keep her interesting. On her truncated Hocus Pocus character: ”She was, like, Renfield mixed with Lolita mixed with a Shakespearean wood nymph mixed with, like, a 4-year-old with breasts. It was totally up to me to create her. I understand the choices that they made. I just wish they had left in a lot of the weird moments.” Parker views her career ups and downs with an absence of melodrama. ”I’m not one of those people who had a meteoric rise,” she says unapologetically. ”So I don’t expect anything to happen overnight.” ”Up to now, she has often chosen her roles more carefully than her movies,” says producer Laurence Mark (The Adventures of Huck Finn), who hopes to reteam Parker and former boyfriend Downey for the movie of Stephen McCauley’s The Object of My Affection, a 1987 novel about an unwed expectant mother and her gay male best friend. ”And she’s usually better than the movies that surround her.” * Indeed, it’s not her roles that have set her apart from the competition- Mary Stuart Masterson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and ”basically any actress with three names,” she says. Parker has distinguished herself by sheer force of personality. She has never wanted for tabloid attention: Sarah plus Downey. Sarah plus John-John. Sarah plus Honeymoon costar Nicolas Cage. Sarah plus Matthew. Once, erroneously, Sarah plus Michael J. Fox. And no three-name actress is better on a talk show. On her frequent David Letterman appearances, she flutters, she flirts, she charms, she disarms-a hip Teri Garr for the ’90s. This is one of the twists of Parker’s career: Her turns promoting her movies at Letterman’s desk are usually much better than the movies themselves. Recently, when Willis went on Letterman’s Late Show to plug Striking Distance, the host’s mind was still on an earlier visit by Parker. ”We’ve had her on the show several times, and we think the world of her,” he told Willis. ”You can’t go wrong with (Sarah). She’s terrific.” Last June, back in Letterman’s NBC days, in front of about 4 million Americans, Parker publicly encouraged Broderick, her 18-month steady, to propose to her. He wasn’t amused. ”I feel older than her in some weird way, or more bitter,” explains Broderick, 31. ”I just don’t want everybody in my business.” Says Parker, ”In all honesty, Matthew has a certain maturity I don’t possess. I wish I didn’t have such a big mouth.”
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Zahhāk or Zahāk[1] (pronounced [zæhɒːk][2]) (Persian: ضحّاک) is an evil figure in Persian mythology, evident in ancient Persian folklore as Aži Dahāka (Persian: اژی دهاک), the name by which he also appears in the texts of the Avesta.[3] In Middle Persian he is called Dahāg (Persian: دهاگ) or Bēvar Asp (Persian: بیور اسپ) the latter meaning "he who has 10,000 horses".[4][5] In Zoroastrianism, Zahhak (going under the name Aži Dahāka) is considered the son of Angra Mainyu, the foe of Ahura Mazda.[6] In the Shāhnāmah of Ferdowsi, Zahhāk is the son of a ruler named Merdās.
Etymology and derived wordsEdit
Aži (nominative ažiš) is the Avestan word for "serpent" or "dragon."[7] It is cognate to the Vedic Sanskrit word ahi, "snake," and without a sinister implication.
The original meaning of dahāka is uncertain. Among the meanings suggested are "stinging" (source uncertain), "burning" (cf. Sanskrit dahana), "man" or "manlike" (cf. Khotanese daha), "huge" or "foreign" (cf. the Dahae people and the Vedic dasas). In Persian mythology, Dahāka is treated as a proper noun, and is the source of the Ḍaḥḥāk (Zahhāk) of the Shāhnāme.
The Avestan term Aži Dahāka and the Middle Persian azdahāg are the source of the Middle Persian Manichaean demon of greed Az,[8] Old Armenian mythological figure Aždahak, modern Persian aždehâ / aždahâ and Tajik Persian azhdahâ and Urdu Azhdahā (اژدها) as well as the Kurdish ejdîha (ئەژدیها) which usually mean "dragon".
Despite the negative aspect of Aži Dahāka in mythology, dragons have been used on some banners of war throughout the history of Iranian peoples.
The Azhdarchid group of pterosaurs are named from a Persian word for "dragon" that ultimately comes from Aži Dahāka.
Aži Dahāka (Dahāg) in Zoroastrian literatureEdit
Aži Dahāka is the most significant and long-lasting of the ažis of the Avesta, the earliest religious texts of Zoroastrianism. He is described as a monster with three mouths, six eyes, and three heads, cunning, strong, and demonic. In other respects Aži Dahāka has human qualities, and is never a mere animal.[citation needed]
Aži Dahāka appears in several of the Avestan myths and is mentioned parenthetically in many more places in Zoroastrian literature.[citation needed]
In a post-Avestan Zoroastrian text, the Dēnkard, Aži Dahāka is possessed of all possible sins and evil counsels, the opposite of the good king Jam (or Jamshid). The name Dahāg (Dahāka) is punningly interpreted as meaning "having ten (dah) sins".[citation needed] His mother is Wadag (or Ōdag), herself described as a great sinner, who committed incest with her son.[citation needed]
In the Avesta, Aži Dahāka is said to have lived in the inaccessible fortress of Kuuirinta in the land of Baβri, where he worshipped the yazatas Arədvī Sūrā (Anāhitā), divinity of the rivers, and Vayu, divinity of the storm-wind. Based on the similarity between Baβri and Old Persian Bābiru (Babylon), later Zoroastrians localized Aži Dahāka in Mesopotamia, though the identification is open to doubt. Aži Dahāka asked these two yazatas for power to depopulate the world. Being representatives of the Good, they refused.
In one Avestan text, Aži Dahāka has a brother named Spitiyura. Together they attack the hero Yima (Jamshid)[clarification needed] and cut him in half with a saw, but are then beaten back by the yazata Ātar, the divine spirit of fire.[citation needed]
According to the post-Avestan texts, following the death of Jam ī Xšēd (Jamshid),[clarification needed] Dahāg gained kingly rule. Another late Zoroastrian text, the Mēnog ī xrad, says this was ultimately good, because if Dahāg had not become king, the rule would have been taken by the immortal demon Xešm (Aēšma), and so evil would have ruled upon earth until the end of the world.
Dahāg is said to have ruled for a thousand years, starting from 100 years after Jam lost his Khvarenah, his royal glory (see Jamshid). He is described as a sorcerer who ruled with the aid of demons, the daevas (divs).
The Avesta identifies the person who finally disposed of Aži Dahāka as Θraētaona son of Aθβiya, in Middle Persian called Frēdōn. The Avesta has little to say about the nature of Θraētaona's defeat of Aži Dahāka, other than that it enabled him to liberate Arənavāci and Savaŋhavāci, the two most beautiful women in the world. Later sources, especially the Dēnkard, provide more detail. Feyredon is said to have been endowed with the divine radiance of kings (Khvarenah, New Persian farr) for life, and was able to defeat Dahāg, striking him with a mace. However, when he did so, vermin (snakes, insects and the like) emerged from the wounds, and the god Ormazd told him not to kill Dahāg, lest the world become infested with these creatures. Instead, Frēdōn chained Dahāg up and imprisoned him on the mythical Mt. Damāvand[citation needed] (later identified with Damāvand).
The Middle Persian sources also prophesy that at the end of the world, Dahāg will at last burst his bonds and ravage the world, consuming one in three humans and livestock. Kirsāsp, the ancient hero who had killed the Az ī Srūwar, returns to life to kill Dahāg.[citation needed]
Zahhāk in the ShāhnāmaEdit
In Ferdowsi's epic poem, the Shāhnāmah, written c. 1000 AD and part of Iranian folklore the legend is retold with the main character given the name of Zahhāk and changed from a supernatural monster into an evil human being.
Zahhāk in ArabiaEdit
Persian painting, depicting Zahhāk ascending on the royal throne.
According to Ferdowsi, Zahhāk was born as the son of a ruler named Merdās (Persian: مرداس). Because of his lineage, he is sometimes called Zahhāk-e Tāzī (Persian: ضحاکِ تازی), meaning "Zahhāk the Tayyi". He was handsome and clever, but had no stability of character and was easily influenced by evil counsellors. Ahriman therefore chose him as the tool for his plans for world domination.
When Zahhāk was a young man, Ahriman first appeared to him as a glib, flattering companion, and by degrees convinced him that he ought to kill his own father and take over his territories. He taught him to dig a deep pit covered over with leaves in a place where Merdās was accustomed to walk; Merdās fell in and was killed. Zahhāk thus became both parricide and king at the same time.
Ahriman now took another guise, and presented himself to Zahhāk as a marvellous cook. After he had presented Zahhāk with many days of sumptuous feasts (introducing meat to the formerly vegetarian human cuisine), Zahhāk was willing to give Ahriman whatever he wanted. Ahriman merely asked to kiss Zahhāk on his two shoulders. Zahhāk permitted this; but when Ahriman had touched his lips to Zahhāk's shoulders, he immediately vanished. At once, two black snakes grew out of Zahhāk's shoulders. They could not be surgically removed, for as soon as one snake-head had been cut off, another took its place.
Ahriman now appeared to Zahhāk in the form of a skilled physician. He counselled Zahhāk that the only remedy was to let the snakes remain on his shoulders, and sate their hunger by supplying them with human brains for food every day otherwise the snakes will feed on his own.
Zahhāk the EmperorEdit
Armenian Princess Tigranuhi, daughter of Orontes I Sakavakyats, before wedding with Ajdahak. Azhdahak is identified as Astyages in Armenian sources.
About this time, Jamshid, who was then the ruler of the world, through his arrogance lost his divine right to rule. Zahhāk presented himself as a savior to those discontented Iranians who wanted a new ruler. Collecting a great army, he marched against Jamshid, who fled when he saw that he could not resist Zahhāk. Zahhāk hunted Jamshid for many years, and at last caught him and subjected him to a miserable death—he had Jamshid sawn in half. Zahhāk now became the ruler of the entire world. Among his slaves were two of Jamshid's daughters, Arnavāz and Shahrnāz (the Avestan Arənavāci and Savaŋhavāci).
Zahhāk's two snake heads still craved human brains for food, so every day Zahhāk's spies would seize two men, and execute them so their brains could feed the snakes. Two men, called Armayel and Garmayel, wanted to find a way to rescue people from being killed from the snakes. So they learned cookery and after mastering how to cook great meals, they went to Zahhāk's palace and managed to become the chefs of the palace. Every day, they saved one of the two men and put the brain of a sheep instead of his into the food, but they could not save the lives of both men. Those who were saved were told to flee to the mountains and to faraway plains.
Ajdahak dream
Zahhāk's tyranny over the world lasted for centuries. But one day Zahhāk had a terrible dream – he thought that three warriors were attacking him, and that the youngest knocked him down with his mace, tied him up, and dragged him off toward a tall mountain. When Zahhāk woke he was in a panic. Following the counsel of Arnavāz, he summoned wise men and dream-readers to explain his dream. They were reluctant to say anything, but one finally said that it was a vision of the end of Zahhāk's reign, that rebels would arise and dispossess Zahhāk of his throne. He even named the man who would take Zahhāk's place: Fereydun.
Zahhāk now became obsessed with finding this "Fereydun" and destroying him, though he did not know where he lived or who his family was. His spies went everywhere looking for Fereydun, and finally heard that he was but a boy, being nourished on the milk of the marvelous cow Barmāyeh. The spies traced Barmāyeh to the highland meadows where it grazed, but Fereydun had already fled before them. They killed the cow, but had to return to Zahhāk with their mission unfulfilled.
Revolution against ZahhākEdit
Fereydun defeats Zahhak
Main article: Kāve
Zahhāk now tried to consolidate his rule by coercing an assembly of the leading men of the kingdom into signing a document testifying to Zahhāk's righteousness, so that no one could have any excuse for rebellion. One man spoke out against this charade, a blacksmith named Kāva (Kaveh). Before the whole assembly, Kāva told how Zahhāk's minions had murdered seventeen of his eighteen sons so that Zahhāk might feed his snakes' lust for human brains – the last son had been imprisoned, but still lived.
In front of the assembly Zahhāk had to pretend to be merciful, and so released Kāva's son. But when he tried to get Kāva to sign the document attesting to Zahhāk's justice, Kāva tore up the document, left the court, and raised his blacksmith's apron as a standard of rebellion – the Kāviyāni Banner, derafsh-e Kāviyānī (درفش کاویانی). He proclaimed himself in support of Fereydun as ruler.
Soon many people followed Kāva to the Alborz mountains, where Fereydun was now living. He was now a young man and agreed to lead the people against Zahhāk. He had a mace made for him with a head like that of an ox, and with his brothers and followers, went forth to fight against Zahhāk. Zahhāk had already left his capital, and it fell to Fereydun with small resistance. Fereydun freed all of Zahhāk's prisoners, including Arnavāz and Shahrnāz.
Kondrow, Zahhāk's treasurer, pretended to submit to Fereydun, but when he had a chance he escaped to Zahhāk and told him what had happened. Zahhāk at first dismissed the matter, but when he heard that Fereydun had seated Jamshid's daughters on thrones beside him like his queens, he was incensed and immediately hastened back to his city to attack Fereydun.
When he got there, Zahhāk found his capital held strongly against him, and his army was in peril from the defense of the city. Seeing that he could not reduce the city, he snuck into his own palace as a spy, and attempted to assassinate Arnavāz and Shahrnāz. Fereydun struck Zahhāk down with his ox-headed mace, but did not kill him; on the advice of an angel, he bound Zahhāk and imprisoned him in a cave underneath Mount Damāvand, binding him with a lion's pelt tied to great nails fixed into the walls of the cavern, where he will remain until the end of the world. Thus, after a thousand years' tyranny, ended the reign of Zahhāk.
Place namesEdit
"Zahhak Castle" is the name of an ancient ruin in Hashtrud, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran which according to various experts, was inhabited from the second millennia BC until the Timurid-era. First excavated in the 19th century by British archeologists, Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization has been studying the structure in 6 phases.[9]
The Konami video game Suikoden V has two references to Zahhak—an evil knight named "Zahhak" as well as a large ship named "Dahak".
In Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, there exists a primal zerg that goes by a similar name (Dehaka).
In the webcomic Homestuck of MS Paint Adventures, Equius Zahhak is a troll with extreme physical strength and a fascination with horses.
In the visual novel Sekien no Inganock - What a Beautiful People, incorrectly-manifested Kikai are referred to as "Zahhak".
In the video game series Mass Effect, a Quarian named Professor Zahak was involved in the creation of the Geth, a hive mind consciousness of artificially intelligent machines.
In the Xenaverse, Zahhak (referred to as Dahak) is the supernatural (and thoroughly Satanic) adversary whom both Xena and later Hercules on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys must defeat in order to save the world from utter destruction. When Dahak appears on Hercules, his appearance is like a crustacean.
In Final Fantasy Legend III (known outside the United States as SaGa 3), intermediate boss Dahak is depicted as a multiple-headed lizard.
In Prince of Persia: Warrior Within the Prince of Persia flees from a powerful shadowy figure called The Dahaka.
In Future Card Buddyfight the buddy of the main antagonist is named Demonic Demise Dragon, Azi Dahaka.
The Marvel MAX Terror Inc. issues feature an immortal villain named Zahhak, bound to two demonic snakes. Unless fed with other people's brains, they start eating his own.
In Quest Corporation video game Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber, Ahzi Dahaka is a venerable dragon of the Earth element that is commonly encountered during the latter half of the game.
In High School DxD, Azi Dahaka is an Evil Dragon and considered as a very strong being. He leads a terrorist group together with another Evil Dragon named Apophis.
In the light novel series, Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?, Azi Dahaka is represented as a three-headed white dragon and is one of the main antagonists in the series.
In "In the land of Angra Mainyu" by Stephen Goldin, Nameless Places , Arkham House,1975, Zahhak has escaped his cell and the professional hero must re-confine him until Judgement Day.
In The Darkness (comics) and videogame of the same name, the protagonist Jackie Estacado could be a faint reference to Zahhak. He is possessed by an evil force (the titular "The Darkness") which, among other things, causes dark snakes to grow out of his shoulders which seem to like eating humans.
In the Mount and Blade Warband mod Prophesy of Pendor, Azi Dahaka is the evil snake goddess worshiped by the Snake Cult. They have infiltrated the Empire faction and represent an important antagonist in the game.
In Project Celeste, a fan remake of Age of Empires Online, there is a legendary piece of gear called Zahhak's Sword of the Undying.[10]
In Shadowverse card game Azi Dahaka appear as a legendary Dragoncraft-class card come from Chronogenesis Expansion.
In Mage: The Awakening, Dahhak is portrayed as a fallen king of Atlantis, as well as the Aeon of Pandemonium.
Other dragons in Iranian traditionEdit
Besides Aži Dahāka, several other dragons and dragon-like creatures are mentioned in Zoroastrian scripture:
Aži Sruvara - the 'horned dragon'
Aži Zairita - the 'yellow dragon,' that is killed by the hero Kərəsāspa, Middle Persian Kirsāsp.[11] (Yasna 9.1, 9.30; Yasht 19.19)
Aži Raoiδita - the 'red dragon' conceived by Angra Mainyu's to bring about the 'daeva-induced winter' that is the reaction to Ahura Mazda's creation of the Airyanem Vaejah.[12] (Vendidad 1.2)
Aži Višāpa - the 'dragon of poisonous slaver' that consumes offerings to Aban if they are made between sunset and sunrise (Nirangistan 48).
Gandarəβa - the 'yellow-heeled' monster of the sea 'Vourukasha' that can swallow twelve provinces at once. On emerging to destroy the entire creation of Asha, it too is slain by the hero Kərəsāspa. (Yasht 5.38, 15.28, 19.41)
The Aži / Ahi in Indo-Iranian traditionEdit
See also: Proto-Indo-European religion
Stories of monstrous serpents who are killed or imprisoned by heroes or divine beings may date back to prehistory, and are found in the myths of many Indo-European peoples, including those of the Indo-Iranians, that is, the common ancestors of both the Iranians and Vedic Indians.
The most obvious point of comparison is that in Vedic Sanskrit ahi is a cognate of Avestan aži. However, In Vedic tradition, the only dragon of importance is Vrtra, but "there is no Iranian tradition of a dragon such as Indian Vrtra" (Boyce, 1975:91-92) Moreover, while Iranian tradition has numerous dragons, all of which are malevolent, Vedic tradition has only one other dragon besides Vṛtra - ahi budhnya, the benevolent 'dragon of the deep.' In the Vedas, gods battle dragons, but in Iranian tradition, this is a function of mortal heroes.
Thus, although it seems clear that dragon-slaying heroes (and gods in the case of the Vedas) "were a part of Indo-Iranian tradition and folklore, it is also apparent that Iran and India developed distinct myths early." (Skjaervø, 1989:192)
List of dragons in mythology and folklore
False messiah
Arnavāz
Azhdahak (Armenian mythical being), identified as Astyages
^ "zahāk or wolflike serpent in the Persian and kurish Mythology | khosro gholizadeh". Academia.edu. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
^ loghatnaameh.com. "ضحاک بیوراسب | پارسی ویکی". Loghatnaameh.org. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
^ Bane, Theresa (2012). Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures. McFarland. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-7864-8894-0. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
^ کجا بیوراسپش همی خواندند / چُنین نام بر پهلوی راندند
کجا بیور از پهلوانی شمار / بود بر زبان دری دههزار
^ "Characters of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh". heritageinstitute.com. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
^ "Persia: iv. Myths an Legends". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
^ For Azi Dahaka as dragon see: Ingersoll, Ernest, et al., (2013). The Illustrated Book of Dragons and Dragon Lore. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B00D959PJ0
^ Appears numerous time in, for example: D. N. MacKenzie, Mani’s Šābuhragān, pt. 1 (text and translation), BSOAS 42/3, 1979, pp. 500-34, pt. 2 (glossary and plates), BSOAS 43/2, 1980, pp. 288-310.
^ قلعهزهاك 30 قرن مسكوني بود [Castle inhabited 30 centuries] (in Persian). Cultural Heritage News Agency. 2007-03-04. Archived from the original on 2006-10-01. Retrieved 2006-05-28.
^ https://forums.projectceleste.com/threads/zahhaks-sword-of-the-undying.3821/
^ Zamyād Yasht, Yasht 19 of the Younger Avesta (Yasht 19.19). Translated by Helmut Humbach, Pallan Ichaporia. Wiesbaden. 1998. CS1 maint: others (link)
^ The Zend-Avesta, The Vendidad. The Sacred Books of the East Series. 1. Translated by James Darmesteter. Greenwood Publish Group. 1972. ISBN 0837130700. CS1 maint: others (link)
Boyce, Mary (1975). History of Zoroastrianism, Vol. I. Leiden: Brill.
Ingersoll, Ernest, et al., (2013). The Illustrated Book of Dragons and Dragon Lore. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B00D959PJ0
Skjærvø, P. O (1989). "Aždahā: in Old and Middle Iranian". Encyclopedia Iranica. 3. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 191–199.
Khaleghi-Motlagh, DJ (1989). "Aždahā: in Persian Literature". Encyclopedia Iranica. 3. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 199–203.
Omidsalar, M (1989). "Aždahā: in Iranian Folktales". Encyclopedia Iranica. 3. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 203–204.
Russell, J. R (1989). "Aždahā: Armenian Aždahak". Encyclopedia Iranica. 3. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 204–205.
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A king's book of kings: the Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Zahhak
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The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) declared the University of Edinburgh’s Rares-Mihai Popa its 2012 Scholar of the Year in November. Rares-Mihai is a third year student reading for a combined bachelor’s degree (BEng) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Management.
The foundation, which was formed to attract the brightest student talent to the £23bn-pa UK electronics industry, presented the award to the CSR funded UKESF Scholar at the annual NMI electronic systems industry awards, held last night in London.
Neil Dickins from the award’s sponsor, the IC Group, believes the industry provides an exciting and dynamic environment where young talent can flourish: “The UKESF is doing a superb job of getting this message out and attracting talented students to our industry; just look at this year’s candidates for the award, all five were top notch. They each made significant contributions during their work placements, were passionate about technology and made thoughtful, well-written submissions.
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CSR’s Nick Salter said: "During his summer placement Rares-Mihai made a significant contribution to the performance of our NFC [near field communication] chips. This emerging data transfer technology is one of the most important new standards and offers a significant market potential to us for use in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi audio devices in the consumer and automotive electronics industries.
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The UKESF’s Wendy Daniell also cited Rares-Mihai’s dedicated work with the IET’s Scotland South East Young Professionals Committee to promote the profession to other students in schools and universities, which had contributed to his award.
On winning Rares-Mihai commented: "Having met many of the other scholars I knew the competition would be strong, so I’m delighted to have won this award. The opportunities that I’ve experienced through the scholarship scheme, and with CSR, are definitely helping me to develop the all round skills that are needed to succeed in this industry and I’m already encouraging other students to get involved with the UKESF and benefit in the same way."
NMI’s CEO, Derek Boyd said: “The scholars, and in particular Rares-Mihai, show the value of bringing the brightest minds into our industry and we urge those employers who rely on electronic engineering skills to get behind UKESF and continue to attract the best young people onto electronics courses and to support their skills development while at university.”
UKESF was founded in 2010 by collaboration of public bodies, private companies and UK universities to address the threat of a diminishing skills base in the UK electronics sector. Its principal aims are to increase and sustain the supply of industry ready graduate engineers and boost career take up in the industry, worth £23 billion per year to the UK economy.
Rares-Mihai Popa receives UKESF scholar award from Derek Boyd, CEO, NMI and Neil Dickins, IC Group
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Stephen Moyer as Reed Strucker
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Andy and Rebecca spend time together, while Polaris deals with her daughter, but she has to go through constant exercises and starts to argue with Reev and Frost's sisters, she wants to know against whom they will fight.
Caitlin supports Reed in dealing with powers.
Andy and Lauren have dreams about themselves in which they talk.
John helps Reed in controlling the power, he starts the exercise with him.
John, Reed, Marcos and Clarice meet with Shatter, who tells them that they have new mutants.
One of the sisters takes Polaris for a walk, shows her the bank - which is the goal, the girl talks about her past and laboratory.
Purifiers find mutants.
Caitlin and Lauren come to the therapist to find out what power Rebecca has, the woman shows the girl's sessions, talks about everything she knows.
A group of mutants must flee Purifiers, Shatter runs to them to distract them, while Reed uses his powers to tear down the wall.
Turner shoots Shatter by killing him.
Esme comes to Polaris apologizing for being in Dawn's mind, the girl tells how she lost her two sisters Mindee and Celeste.
After returning home, Caitlin and Lauren see how Reed does not control his power.
The series tells about the marriage of Strucker, who one day discovers that their beloved children, Andy and Lauren, have the abilities of superheroes of mutants. From now on, the family must flee from federal agents and the world. The Strucker family will join the underground mutant community - Mutant Underground Headquarters who are struggling to survive. The series premiered on 2 October 2017.
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Demonstration of vertebral and disc mechanical torsion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis using three-dimensional MR imaging
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Daniel Birchall, David Hughes, Dr Barbara Gregson
This study was designed to demonstrate and measure mechanical torsion in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis using three-dimensional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Ten patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were imaged with three-dimensional MR imaging, and the data post-processed through multiplanar reconstruction to produce images angled through individual endplates. Transverse rotation was measured at each endplate and these measurements used to calculate the amount of vertebral and disc mechanical torsion present. A test object was imaged in order to validate the measurement technique. Mechanical torsion was demonstrated within the vertebral bodies and discs of the imaged subjects, with vertebral mechanical torsion contributing on average 45% of the overall transverse plane deformity. It is concluded that deformation occurs in the transverse plane within the vertebrae and discs of subjects with idiopathic scoliosis, and a significant proportion of the rotation present in the scoliotic spine occurs as a result of plastic deformation within the vertebrae themselves. We believe that this is the first systematic demonstration of mechanical torsion in idiopathic scoliosis.
Author(s): Birchall D, Hughes D, Gregson B, Williamson B
Journal: European Spine Journal
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-004-0705-5
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Melanoma is a very common nodular skin disease of older grey horses (usually over 7-8 years of age). More than 80% of grey horses will have at least one melanoma during their lives.
Horses can develop melanoma at any age – some can even be present at birth!
As melanomas are very common in grey horses, many people think they must be benign, incidental skin tumours. Whilst the majority are benign they can become malignant and their locations can have implications for the horses welfare.
More than 80% of melanoma lesions will become malignant at some point. In some this happens quickly whilst others may be benign for a long time before they transform into a malignant form.
Melanomas that arise in horses that are NOT grey tend to be more dangerous. They are usually a single, isolated lesion. In grey horses they are more likely to be present in large numbers and may occur in clusters.
The size of the tumour does not determine if its malignant or not. Small melanomas can nbe highly malignant and large ones benign or vice versa.
In some horses melanoma can become highly malignant and can spread to the internal organs which has a very poor prognosis for the affected horse.
Which horses are affected?
Breed susceptibility to melanoma may not be totally true and it is the colour grey which is the most significant predisposing factor.
Most grey horses over 10-12 years of age will have at least some melanoma lesions. The large majority of affected horses have multiple lesions.
Where the horse is flea-bitten grey with chestnut or brown flecks, the susceptibility for melanoma appears to be much reduced. However there is a still a higher risk in these colours than in chestnuts or horses of other colourings.
Melanoma also occurs in non-grey horses, and cremello/albino horses are sometimes severely affected. When melanoma occurs in non-grey horses it tends to be more dangerous than in grey horses.
The Arabian, Lipizzaner, Andalusian and Percheron breeds appear to be more susceptible, whilst the naturally grey Erisakay pony appears to be a less affected breed.
What does a Melanoma look like?
Melanoma tumours are easy to recognise. Melanomas are small, isolated nodules with a very black colour. Melanomas do not regress spontaneously.
Melanomas usually start as small, solid, spherical lumps in and under the skin. They may form chains and can vary widely in size. One tumour may grow at an alarming rate while those adjacent may remain stable in size. As they become more dangerous they can get bigger and merge into larger areas of tumour.
Faster growing lesions, and those that have been damaged or injured may ulcerate and expose a black soft tissue. Melanomas may bleed and exude a black tarry jelly like material.
Sometimes melanomas lose their colour, becoming grey/blue then beige and finally red/pink in colour.
Conditions that could resemble or be mistaken for melanoma include other cutaneous nodular diseases such as sarcoid and carcinoma, as well as other internal neoplasms. The clinical appearance of melanoma is usually so distinctive that in most cases tissue sampling for histological confirmation is probably not necessary. However samples taken from the suspected melanoma, either by a needle or by an excised piece of tumour, will usually confirm the diagnosis however.
Where do Melanomas occur?
Melanomas occur in the skin, ear and eye. The cells responsible for them (melanocytes) are normally responsible to the colour of the skin and therefore most lesions are found in the skin.
If a melanoma is found internally it is due to spread from a malignant melanoma of the skin
The most common site for melanoma is the skin of the perineum (around the anus and the base of the tail). More than 50% of melanoma tumours are situated in and around the perineum.
Melanoma can also occur in the following areas:
Eyelids, iris and retina
Mouth, in particular the lips
Parotid salivary glands and lymph nodes
Penile and vulval skin
Internal organs, including the intestine, heart and lungs.
Melanoma may have little effect on an individual organ until it reaches a size that interferes with the function of that organ, however in some sites such as the eye and the spinal cord, even small tumours can have a devastating effect.
What causes Melanoma?
In humans melanoma is associated with exposure to sunshine and the risk is increased with sunburn. However in grey horses the locations where melanomas develop are usually not exposed to much sun! Whilst we know there appears to be a genetic susceptibility that is linked to the grey genes, little else is known about the cause of melanoma in horses.
Typically melanomas start as one cell changes that result in an expanding clone of abnormal cells. The trigger for cancerous change seems to be an abnormal accumulation of melanin pigment in otherwise normal cells. Changes to the genetic structure of the cells seems to be triggered by the abnormal and sustained presence of the pigment in the cells.
These early “tumours” are probably very benign.
Melanoma of non-grey horses, humans and dogs appear to be induced by a more conventional cancer mechanism involving a sudden genetic mutation in one cell following exposure to UV light or some other cancer inducing factor.
How does Melanoma affect the horse?
Melanoma’s main effect are due to their location and change to the structure of the affected tissue. Their size and location will influence how dramatic the effect is. Melanoma within the spinal cord will have dramatic clinical consequences even if the tumour is benign in nature as there is little room for growth. Melanoma in the heart can cause severe heart rhythm issues which may result in sudden death.
Melanoma in the perineal region can affect defaecation and urination as it become massive. In mares melanomas may create reproductive difficulties with both mating and parturition.
Melanomas can result in an unacceptable distortion of the local anatomy in various organs. The most common site for this problem is in the parotid (throat) region below the ear. There may be enormous expansion of the tumour masses. Whilst melanomas at this site seldom cause significant functional problems, Airway distortion and pressure can arise.
Guttural pouch and Parotid melanoma
Melanoma masses are commonly found in the throat/parotid region where they may involve the lymph nodes and parotid salivary gland. They can become extremely large without causing any airway obstruction. These lesions usually represent secondary spread from a melanoma in the skin.
Any horse with melanoma in the skin should have its guttural pouches examined using an endoscope prior to treatment. The presence of melanosis or melanoma within the pouches indicates that multiple areas may be affected and the treatment plan may have to be radically altered.
Many grey horses will have at least some melanosis (black areas) visible on the lining of the guttural pouch. These look like tiny black spots and are most often on the outer surface.
Melanoma is most commonly found overlying the maxillary artery or other major blood vessels within the guttural pouch. It will often look like a splash of black paint. If the melanoma invades the blood vessels this can result in rapid and usually fatal bleed. The affected areas may expand slowly over time or regress and “re-appear” at other sites. Any evidence of melanoma in the guttural pouch is a bad sign as it indicates that the melanoma has spread throughout the body.
Parotid melanomas are rarely ulcerated unless they are interfered with by surgical biopsy.The more serious and aggressive forms appear as spherical or unevenly spherical shaped tumours. Usually they have a shiny surface and are most often found on the walls of blood vessels. Despite their size and aggressive behaviour, they seldom ulcerate. However on occasions they can bleed considerably and be confused with a diagnosis of guttural pouch mycosis (fungal infection).
Melanomas can also occur inside the eye. They develop from the iris which is the area of the eye around the pupil that gives the eye its colour. Intraocular melanoma is rarely malignant, but the physical size of the melanoma may compromise vision and function of the pupil and the surface of the eye (cornea) resulting in corneal oedema (cloudiness)and non-ulcerative keratopathy (inflammation).
Ciliary or iridal melanomas are the most common forms. They are often located in the side of the eye closest to the nose (nasal quadrants) at the base of the iris. Melanoma in the eye often has a blue-black appearance rather than pure black (this may distinguish them from iris cysts and granulae irridica that characteristically have a very black or dark brown appearance).
Primary iridal melanomas are usually very slow growing and can sometimes remain symptom free for life. In a few cases, contact between the tumour and the corneal lining (endothelium) can cause a significant keratopathy and with pain and opacity across the surface of the eye.
In a few cases the melanoma may expand into the vitreous (jelly within the eye) and cause serious visual defects, glaucoma (excessive pressure in the eye) or bleeding in the back of the eye.
Lesions on the retina which is reponsible for vision at the back of the eye are very rare and there is no information on the effects these small aggregations might have on vision.
The malignant forms of melanoma are usually highly aggressive with rapid spread of multiple tumours in all major organs and body cavities. Malignant abdominal melanoma may result in colic that is likely to require surgery to resolve. There may also be large accumulations of fluid in the abdomen and/or chest (peritoneal and/or pleural effusion). The fluid may be blood tinged and contain obvious melanocytic cells.
Symptoms will reflect the organ that is infiltrated. For example, kidney involvement may cause blood in the urine and melanocytic cells may be found in the cellular deposit from a urine sample.
Involvement of the spleen may cause bleeding into the abdomen with abnormal melanin producing cells present in the fluid.
Malignant melanoma in the chest limiting the space available for the lungs to inflate and may damage the nerves affecting the face and eye which run through the chest area.
Should I just monitor the Melanoma?
Many melanoma lesions may not alter significantly for many years and may have no material effect on the horse. However, horses with melanoma should be checked at regular intervals. This should include careful assessment of the parotid salivary gland and parotid and retropharyngeal lymph nodes (often best checked by endoscopic examination of the guttural pouches). The melanoma lesions themselves should be measured to ensure that any change in size is accurately identified at an early stage. Using a tumour map will help ensure that you can identify and measure all existing lesions and identify new lesions.
It may take years before the melanoma lesions become unacceptable in appearance or start to affect the horses function or welfare. Many horses with melanoma die of an unrelated cause. However you cannot predict which horses will be fine with the melanoma being left untreated and which will quickly develop spread and serious disease.
Treatment and Management Options
Surgical removal of melanomas is recommended when they can be removed without significant skin damage or subsequent scarring. Individual, ulcerated or pedunculated tumours are usually amenable to surgery. Tumours in the eye or eyelid that are dramatically limiting vision or causing significant discomfort are usually better removed. However where removal of the melanoma in would result in complications (such as eyelid or mouth) it may not be possible to remove them due to an inability to close the resulting wound. Extensive penile melanomas can however successfully removed from breeding stallions without any secondary consequences.
Cryosurgery involves freezing the lesion by a series of cycles. However it is rarely effective in melanoma lesions. Melanomas that have ulcerated and which bleed significantly can sometimes be managed by careful and repeated cryosurgery. Cryosurgery of eyelid melanoma is not recommended because of scarring. Combining cryosurgery with local chemotherapy may provide a better overall effect.
Oral cimetidine therapy has been reported to be successful in some cases of melanoma. There is no evidence to support its use in melanoma that has spread/disseminated. Cimetidine is thought to act through its affect on a type of white blood cell called a T-Killer cell. However, the results are very variable with some reports finding no benefit. Recent research has confirmed that this is not an effective way of managing melanoma and should probably not be used.
There are reports of successes with a cisplatin/sesame oil emulsion containing 1mg cisplatin per ml. The material is infiltrated into the lesion at fortnightly intervals. Some improvements are reported but the evidence is limited.
Melanoma vaccines
Anti-tyrosinase vaccines are now commercially available for dogs (ONCEPT™, Merial, USA) in which there are reports of some success. The vaccine has also been used in a few horses with melanoma with reports of significant benefit. This treatment does not cures affected horses but partial remission and stabilisation of growth rates was more commonly reported (Brazil, 2015).
However, the cost of the vaccine is substantial and with no predictable results, it means that the vaccine is a bit of a lottery that costs a lot of money for a ticket!
Radiation treatment is surprisingly poor at treating melanomas. High doses of gamma radiation delivered via a linear iridium 192 source had no material effect on one case treated. Similarly, beta radiation also had no effect when applied to melonomas on the lower eyelids of a horse.
Long Term Outcome
Grey horses with uncomplicated skin melanoma have a good prognosis. Many affected horses live normal lives and it is often simply the cosmetic and social appearance of the tumours that result in the animal being destroyed. However, the disease is unpredictable. Even small tumours in “inconvenient” sites could have a profound effect on the animal; for example, a large melanoma in the thoracic inlet could cause recurrent choke and/or neurological effects.
Spinal, ocular, cardiac, or brain tumours may be catastrophic while others may cause clinical disease (colic or cardiac dysrrhythmia) and reduced athletic performance, that is not immediately attributable to the melanoma. Not all these are treatable and so may threaten the life of the horse. A few cases are highly malignant and it is currently impossible to predict which horses will be affected.
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Muslim women defy French burkini ban and go swimming fully-clothed in protest
Muslim women defy French burkini ban and go swimming fully-clothed in protest (before being fined £30)
Jean Bron swimming pool, Grenoble is among many in France that ban burkinis
The protest was part of action by the group Citizen Alliance of Grenoble
The women received a £30 fine from police after they were called by pool staff
By Leigh Mcmanus For Mailonline
Muslim women have defied a ban on wearing ‘burkinis’ in a local swimming pool in France.
The Jean Bron swimming pool in Grenoble is among many in the country that ban burkinis – a full body bikini – but ‘Operation burkini’ saw a group of activists break the rule and bathe for an hour.
It was part of action by the group Citizen Alliance of Grenoble who say it’s a Muslim women’s right to bathe in the controversial garment.
The Jean Bron swimming pool in Grenoble is among many in the country that ban burkinis but this group of Muslim and non Muslim men and women bathed anyway as a protest
Two of the women involved said: ‘We have a dream: to have fun in public swimming pools like all other citizens’. Those who entered in burkinis were fined£30 by police
The action saw many people in the pool cheer the seven women but it did result in a £30 fine from police after they were called by pool staff, according to France Bleu.
The publication also reported that the women were given a verbal warning after their fine.
Speaking to the BBC, two of the women involved said: ‘We have a dream: to have fun in public swimming pools like all other citizens, to accompany our children whenever they want to have a swim while it is very hot in the summer here in Grenoble.
The move was part of action by the group Citizen Alliance of Grenoble who say it a Muslim women’s right to bathe in the controversial garment
There is an ongoing campaign started by Citizen Alliance last year in a bid to have the rules governing public swimming pools in Grenoble reformed
‘We must fight against discriminatory policies and prejudice in France, as we are actually deprived of our civil rights of access to public services and city-owned infrastructures.’
The move was part of an ongoing campaign started by Citizen Alliance last year in a bid to have the rules governing public swimming pools in Grenoble reformed.
But Matthieu Chamussy, a member of France’s centre-right party The Republicans, said the mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle should enforce the rules.
Matthieu Chamussy, a member of France’s centre-right party The Republicans, said the mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle should enforce the current rules
He added: ‘Political Islam is moving forward step by step and the cause of women receding.’
In 2010, France became the first European country to ban the full-face veil in public and the burkini is a bid to allow women to bath while adhering to modesty edicts.
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Could You Become a Daughter of the American Revolution? Find Out Here
Do you believe that you may have an American Revolutionary War ancestor? Or perhaps you already know you that you do and would like to connect with others who also have Revolutionary Era roots?
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Started in 1890 as a way for women to showcase their patriotism and serve their country, this lineage-based organization now has nearly 200,000 members who take part in a wide variety of important projects. Members come from many backgrounds, a testament to the rich diversity of our country and its history.
DAR members have access to many special opportunities, but perhaps the most intriguing is the chance to connect their family trees with the detailed, proven lineages that comprise such an important part of America’s past. And DAR has made it easy to begin finding such a connection with two free online databases for genealogical research.
If you have already done some research and believe one or more of your ancestors may have served in the Revolutionary War, you can do a search now to see if they, or their descendants, appear in one of these databases.
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Note: DAR is a women’s organization. Men with Revolutionary War ancestors can take a look at SAR, Sons of the American Revolution, which also has free research databases.
We’d love to hear if you are currently applying for membership or are a member of DAR. Tell us about it in the comments.
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Sara Reuning says:
Please, follow up on your interest! DAR is a fun and rewarding organization whose Mission is Historic Preservation, Education and Patriotism. Members of local chapters enjoy speakers who present programs about history, women’s issues, education, conservation, patriotic information, etc. Among many activities, we volunteer in our communities, celebrate our national patriotic holidays, as well as take opportunity to pursue genealogical interests.
Enter your zipcode or your city & state on this chapter locator page to see what chapters are close to you. http://www.dar.org/national-society/become-member/chapter-locations If there are chapters nearby, you should see little white shields with blue stars on the map. Click on each to see the chapter name, website, & a link to provide information to show your interest in membership.
Barbara Stowell says:
I have a very simple question, I should have asked my Mother-in-law when she was still living. Can I join based on my Husband’s family?
Marylin DeYoung says:
I don’t think so. It has to be a direct ancestor of yours.
There must be a direct ancestor of the prospective member, either male or female, who provided military or material support for the cause of American freedom during the years of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783.
This link will give you an opportunity to explore names you may know: http://www.dar.org/national-society/genealogy Look at the Genealogical Research (GRS) heading to enter surnames of possible ancestors and descendants of those ancestors. You may very well find a familiar name!
I am a daughter and really enjoy this organization. My grandmother was a daughter too. Have old roots back to first families of Virginia and Jamestown. Wish I had joined sooner.
Roberta Smith says:
Yes I have researched on my own and at this point I have 6 – 5th and 6th generation grandfathers who were Revolutionary War Veterans.
Jo Campbell says:
I have been a member of NSDAR since 2007 through patriot Martin Roberts of VA. My daughters are members also: one through Patriot Thomas Hutchins; one through William Depriest and one through James Mead of Vermont. I treasure the friends I have made from all over the country and the service work that we do.
Erin Kelly says:
I am eligible a few times, using Jabez Beckwith, Benjamin Barrett, and several other lines (Stone, etc.)
At the moment I see no reason to peruse membership. Perhaps when I am older ❤️
When I informed my mother and grandmother of our eligibility they were over the moon.
Today’s DAR is not just for older women. We are a very active, non-political, service organization. We are actively looking for women 18-35 to be involved in our communities and schools to preserve history, educate children, and promote patriotism. Don’t wait until you are older, then regret the time you could have been making a difference in your community, with our military, and helping to educate children. I only joined 9 years ago, and wish I had joined when I was much younger.
Linda williams says:
Yes, I am a daughter! Have all the paperwork to prove it. Even met with people! Grandma was a member too. But turned out too expensive to join at the time.
My line goes back to Thomas Jefferson. And further to Pocahontas!
Judith Stone-Young says:
My line goes back to William Stone born 1720 in Scotland moved to Virginia with his wife Victoria and fought on Kings mtn
rosemary Houck says:
I am now in the process of applying for membership in the local chapter of DAR. However, the amount of documentation has me stalled at present. My line goes back to William Tomlinson of Virginia– born in 1730. Any help would be appreciated.
Is the registrar of a local chapter working with you? If not, you can find out who to contact through the National Society of DAR. They can be very helpful. Mine did most of the work for my first patriot. I’m still working on the second one and have hit a brickwall. My registrar has been faithfully working with me, but neither of us can get just one piece of documentation that I need.
We are proud to say that Rosemary’s paperwork was completed with help from our Lineage Research team. She is now a member of the Zebulon Pike Chapter in Colorado Springs, CO. You do not have to do your application alone. There are resources and helpers in each chapter to assist you with the process.
Ruth MF Tucker says:
I have been a member of DAR since 1996 when I joined on the line through David Kingman, Massachusetts. My mother had been a member since the mid 1970s and I was able to link to her membership. Since then I have expanded her research to update the files and also extend it to several other Revolutionary War ancestors.
I am a member of DAR through Moses Bedunah, the first time he was used. I am preparing a supplemental for William Hovey who is already established. My daughter, 2 granddaughters, and the granddaughter of a cousin have followed me in through Moses Bedunah.
Mary Brisley says:
Marshal Catlin
My grandmother was Gertude Catlin, her father was Marshaling Catlin. I believe his ancestor landed in 1640
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Artificial Ground Freezing
Artificial ground freezing – is the most universal and safest way to increase ground strength.
Artificial freezing of thawed and frozen ground by seasonal cooling devices has become widely spread in permafrost zone in the Far North. Thermal stabilization of ground helps to solve the problem of permafrost thawing under buildings and structures to prevent settlement and destruction of foundations.
Artificial ground freezing technology is also successfully applied in the construction of buildings on weak and unstable water-bearing grounds:
in the construction of tunnels of various purposes, including escalator tunnels in subways;
in the engineering of mines and pits for the construction of dams, power plants, docks and other buildings;
in the construction of foundations for industrial buildings and machines on unstable grounds;
in the construction of storage facilities and underground tanks with regular maintenance of their walls in a frozen state.
At present, when designing basements and foundations of buildings erected in complex geotechnical conditions using artificial ground freezing technology, it is required to apply computer simulation for predicting temperature fields and mechanical properties of the ground. These predictions should take into account ground freezing and thawing with the computation of convective heat transfer, moisture migration to the freezing front, and also the work of cooling devices.
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You are here: Home / News / Military and Law Enforcement / Swedish Assault Rifle | The AK5c
Swedish Assault Rifle | The AK5c
A special guest contributor from the Swedish Forces wrote an overview of their service weapon, the AK5c.
The Swedish AK5C
Well, you know the FN FNC? The Swedes have their own modern version known as the AK5 C the C stand for Cesar, it’s a licensed built and standard issue weapon for the Swedish Armed Forces. I’m a Swede, soldier, photographer and gun nut so please bear with my English while I’ll write about this weapon system.
The AK5 which means Automatic Carbine was adopted in the later 80’s, replacing the old AK4 (HK G3A3) the AK5 is a licensed built FN FNC by Bofors modified for the Swedish climate and specs. The two first versions Adam and Bertil was in service until somewhere in the 2006/7 where it was replaced by the now issued and modernized Cesar and David, the David being a shorter barreled version.
AK5B above and AK5A below. Not my picture so copyright goes to Henrik Svensk
Well, Imagine having magazine compatibility with the STANAG magazine (AR-15 rifle platform) but the somewhat same operation and reliability of the famous Kalashnikov rifles? Well here it is, today, there are lots of manufacturers that can use a long stroke piston and AR-15 magazines in their weapons, but the FNC was designed in the late 70’s so this was somewhat new.
The gun itself operates very similar to the Kalash, using a rotating bolt and a long stroke gas piston system, the gun could be fired a lot before needing actual cleaning unlike the M16. Now using M16 mags giving it compatibility with other NATO countries that uses STANAG 5.56 magazines. Instead of having a big chunky Kalash safety, the AK5 has a more and ergonomic style selector resembling the G3 and MP5 series.
AK5C left side fire selector, and bolt catch
AK5: Old versus New
The main difference is that it of course has M1913 rail systems, ambidextrous safety and missing of a burst fire function (only semi and full auto), the sliding stock is also new and it’s still fold able as all other versions, also in the new C and D versions, a bolt-catch was installed.
All the new features and touch ups makes the system more modern in all ways, and in my humble opinion the FNC was a gun before it’s time.
AK5 Technical Data
Caliber: 5.56×45 Nato using STANAG Magazines.
Weight: 5 kg loaded and with red dot.
Barrel length: 350 mm (13.8 inches)
Combat effective range: 400 meters.
Rate of fire: 650 rounds per minutes.
Personal Experiences and Thoughts
As compared to other weapons, 5kg is quite heavy, for a gun in 5.56, but since the gun was designed to fire rifle grenades it needed a rugged construction, otherwise the ak5 is quite ok.
The safety is very easy to operate, it moves easily without needing to change grip of the gun.
The bolt catch is a nice addition but since the old A and B versions did not have bolt catch function, using the old steel issued mags the gun will not lock up when the last shot is fired, the new “plastic” mags solves that problems but they are arguably the worst magazines, being wider and bigger inserting the plastic mags into the magwell is harder than the steel ones, and no the FNC does not have a flared magwell like the M16, which is kind of a downer, the plastic mags is also less reliable and more sensitive to sand/dirt, using a non issued mag, Magpul Pmag Gen 3 for example, its more reliable, sturdier and the bolt catch actually works, but the if the officers catch you using it they will do insane back flips of anger, hate and discontent.
The mag release and bolt catch is located in the same positions as the M16/AR 15 system and they’re not ambidextrous, so AR operations would still be able to operate this system without much re-training, the charging handle though is like a Kalash, it moves with the bolt and BCG and is located on the right side of the gun, the dust cover is spring loaded and will always keep dirt out of your gun.
The flash hider is just terrible, we could at least had a flash hider and comp hybrid… the rails are quite ok, no need for fancy stuff, and if needed an M203 40mm can be mounted under the gun. The Aimpoint CS which is the issued red dot has lots of points to improve, in my opinion, but the kill flash and see trough covers are nice!
In arctic climate it performs good, just keep you gun dry when it’s colder than -30c and your gun should not freeze, walking in and out of -30c to +15c and back out could still make your gun sweat and freeze,(even at warmer temperatures) and that happens to basically every gun.
Overall, the AK5 does not have the same reliability as the famous Kalash weapons, but it still jams less than an AR-15 direct impingement system and in my time using it from mid 2010, I had less than 50 jams, and if I remember correctly 4 were operator error and 2 were from a mag mixed with sand… but in the end, I guess it depends on how much your weapon is worn, many ak5s are all too worn and as as result more jams are popping up.
Only dust, nothing that will interfere with the gun. my rifle, also tape on steel mags, I prefer the steel ones.
Summary: The AK5C is still a good carbine, rugged for harsh use and a reliable gun when used correctly, a skilled operator can go pretty far with it, and even though it’s been upgraded to modern standards , the renovated guns are still wearing out.
Me, at the range 2012 I think, a borrowed Ak, with tape for marking that it’s just been maintained from the armory
Mates from the platoon, practicing CQB with BFA and blanks
Unloading procedure,thumb in magwell then dry firing
Medic going to take care of wounded during exercise
CQB Training, mount for aimpoint magnifier seen on top rail, it’s issued.
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Regis Women’s Volleyball Drops GNAC Opener to Rivier
Rivier (5-4, 1-0 GNAC) 25 25 25 3
Regis (Mass.) (3-4, 0-1 GNAC) 20 13 6 0
K: 4 Players (#4, #16, #21, #14) - 6
B: 2 Players (#16, #14) - 2
D: Sydney Racevicius - 10
SA: Avery Pollard - 4
K: Katryna Veasey - 5
B: Lauren Butt - 3
D: Caroline Fuentes - 8
SA: Caroline Fuentes - 1
WESTON, Mass. – In the first match of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference schedule for both teams, Rivier University defeated Regis College, 3-0 (25-20, 25-13, 25-6), Thursday night in a women's collegiate volleyball match at Higgins Court.
Katryna Veasey (Quincy, Mass.) led the Pride offense with five kills, while Lauren Butt (Topsfield, Mass.) finished with three kills and three total blocks and libero Caroline Fuentes (Downey, Calif.) paced the defense with eight digs. The Rivier offense was spread out, with four players collecting six kills apiece as Hayley Macken dished out 25 assists to go along with three kills, three service aces, and six digs.
In the opening set, an ace by Fuentes helped give Regis the early lead at 8-4, but Rivier took over with six unanswered points, led by Macken with a kill and a block assist. The set went back and forth until the final stretch when the Raiders closed out the set on a 6-3 scoring run, capped by consecutive kills from Taylor Dunster.
Rivier (5-4, 1-0 GNAC) maintained that momentum throughout the rest of the match, scoring five straight points early in the second set to take the lead and then finishing off the set with a 10-2 scoring run, led by two kills apiece from Sydney Racevicius and Courtney Collins.
The Raider service game took over in the third set, as Rivier notched 10 service aces on its way to completing the sweep. The visitors also received a perfect 5-for-5 attacking effort from Avery Pollard in the final set, while the Raider defense held the Pride to three kills in the third set, two of them by Julia Pelland (Brockton, Mass.).
Regis (3-4, 0-1 GNAC) continues its stretch of home contests with a tri-match Saturday, Sept. 15, starting at 11 a.m. against Dean followed by a match against Curry at 3 p.m. Rivier brings its four-match winning streak into a home tri-match of its own Saturday, welcoming Roger Williams and Westfield State for a series of contests starting at 11 a.m.
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Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education & Counseling
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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Date: 8:30am - 4:30pm PST November 15 Location: Lewis & Clark, TBA
Lewis & Clark, TBA
The Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is an intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course for caregivers (any person in a position of trust) who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. Just as “CPR” skills make physical first aid possible, training in suicide intervention develops the skills needed for suicide first aid.
After this workshop, participants will be able to:
Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide;
Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner;
Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them;
Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide;
List the types of resources available to a person at risk of suicide;
Make a commitment to improving community resources and networking; and
Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention, and includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk as well as for caregivers.
The workshop is for all caregivers, including mental health professionals, educators and school support staff, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, youth workers, police and correctional staff, clergy, and community volunteers.
“Prior to participating in ASIST, I was reluctant to get involved in conversations involving suicide because I felt uneasy about how to engage effectively. I walked away from this training with clear and applicable tools to enter a conversation with confidence and fearlessness, equipped to support and converse openly about suicide. It was absolutely one of the most valuable trainings I have experienced in my career.”
- Laurel Auda-Capel, Counselor, Roosevelt High School
Class Details & Registration
Dates: Friday-Saturday, November 15-16, 2019, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Instructors: Leslie Rodgers, LCSW, and Kathy Wilson-Fey, MA
Noncredit: $295, includes 14 CEUs, PDUs or Washington Clock Hours
Student Rate: $145
We are committed to making our events accessible to all needs and abilities. When registering, let us know your access needs. Please contact us at 503-768-6040 or cce@lclark.edu with questions.
Please note: Student registrations are for current students only and do not include continuing education credit (CEU/PDUs)
Graduate Continuing Education credit: CECP 866, 1 semester hour, $350
Materials fee: $45. Each participant will receive a kit including a 20 page workbook, background and feedback forms, and more.
Continuing education credit registration form (PDF)
Graduate Degree-Applicable credit: SPSY 534, 1 semester hour, $947
Non-Lewis & Clark students seeking degree-applicable credit, please contact the CCE for more information.
Leslie Rodgers is a licensed clinical social worker and registered ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills) trainer with over 20 years experience working with children and adults in various therapeutic settings, including group homes, psychiatric hospitals, and schools. Her current work involves implementing best practice procedures and providing staff development in student threat assessment, suicide prevention, and crisis response for Beaverton School District. She holds a B.A. from the University of Texas and a Masters in Social Work from Portland State University.
Kathy Wilson-Fey is a registered ASIST Trainer and has clinical counseling and teaching experience in a variety of settings, including community college, community mental health, and an international university. She is in her ninth year as a mental health specialist in public schools, where she works with students and families, trains school staff on suicide intervention, and coordinates school support during crises. Kathy is fluent in Spanish and is committed to equity work and cultural competence. She holds a BA from Whitman College and a masters in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon.
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Sun Stomp opens at Light City
Published at April 13, 2018 December 4, 2018 In Category News Tags: baltimore, light art, light city, mckeldin square, projection, public art, solar power, sun stomp Leave a comment
Experience the power and beauty of the sun through Sun Stomp! Sun Stomp is a solar powered LED display and sun-inspired, interactive audio-visual environment at Baltimore’s third annual Light City festival. The massive public art project is a collaboration between public artist Graham Coreil-Allen, video artist Mark Brown, and solar engineer Matt Weaver.
Sun Stomp will be awaiting your foot-powered activation each evening, April 14–21, in the gateway to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, McKeldin Square. The installation is Stop 24 on the Light Art Walk, on the southside of Pratt Street between Light and Calvert Streets.
What: Sun Stomp, a solar powered LED display and sun-inspired, interactive audio-visual environment at Light City
When: April 14-21, 2018, 7pm-12am weekends, 7pm-11pm week nights
Where: Light City stop #24, McKeldin Square
101 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
Free. More info: http://sunstomp.art & https://lightcity.org
Audio Tour: 410-934-7821 enter 8#
Sun Stomp features a 34’ tall scaffolding sculpture with an interactive projection on one side and an array of sixteen, 290 watt solar panels on the other. Electrical Energy is collected during the day and stored as chemical energy in a battery bank in our Power Shed, which provides electricity to the colorful array of LED neon lights illuminating the structure after dark. Participants are invited to stomp on the bleacher footboards to trigger sun-inspired projected visuals, increase the LED brightness, and amplify sounds of the Sun sourced from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Solar and Storage Statistics:
Sun Stomp features 527 feet of LED lighting.
All 16 solar panels provide 4,640 Watts per sun hour or 23,200 Watts per day in April.
The average home in Baltimore uses 7,546 kilowatts per year; the same amount of electricity produced by these 16 solar panels and stored by the Battery Bank.
The 16 solar panels installed on a home would save $1,052 annually in electricity charges.
During Light City the Sun Stomp solar panels will prevent 200 pounds of CO2 emissions from local electricity generation.
Follow Sun Stomp updates and tag your photos #SunStomp & #LightCity2018
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Sun Stomp to Premiere at Light City!
Published at February 20, 2018 December 4, 2018 In Category News Tags: baltimore, interactive media, LED, light art, light city, mckeldin square, public art, solar power, sun stomp Leave a comment
Graham Projects is excited to announce Sun Stomp, a solar powered light display and interactive audio-visual environment that will take place in McKeldin Square during Baltimore’s Light City festival, April 14-21, 2018. Sun Stomp is a collaborative production of public artist Graham Coreil-Allen, video artist and DJ Mark Brown, and renewable energy engineer Matt Weaver.
What: Sun Stomp, a solar powered LED display and sun-inspired, interactive audio-visual environment at Light City Baltimore.
When: April 14-21, 2018
Where: Light City, McKeldin Square
More info: http://sunstomp.art
Premiering at the 2018 Light City Baltimore festival, Sun Stomp will be a solar powered, LED-lit framework supporting a participatory, sun-inspired video projection and soundscape. The monumental scaffolding structure will feature an interactive projection on one side and a sloped bank of solar panels on the other. Energy collected during the day will power a three-story, colorful array of LED lights illuminating the open grid sculpture after dark. Participants will trigger projected visuals and amplified sounds by touching and sitting on contact-microphoned viewing bleachers. Sun Stomp’s solar powered LED display and interactive audio-visual environment will visually and experientially demonstrate the awesome and beautiful power of the sun.
The Baltimore-based Sun Stomp Collective brings expertise in solar energy, interactive media, and participatory environments. Matthew Weaver has over a decade of experience in renewable energy engineering, including hydrogen and solar; and grassroots organizing around social justice and sustainability. Mark Brown is a video artist, DJ, curator, and AV expert at the Peabody Conservatory. His video work embraces the Internet as both gallery and medium, creating new works from the cracks, glitches, and fall-out of digital realities. Graham Coreil-Allen is a public artist and organizer making cities more inclusive and livable through public art, radical walking tours, and civic engagement.
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Meanwhile in the Future: We've Invented an Empathy Machine
Rose Eveleth
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When you were a kid and stole your friends’ toys, your parent probably asked you this angry hypothetical: “How do you think that made them feel?” But what if you actually could feel what another person is feeling? This week, we travel to a future where humans have invented an empathy machine.
Before we dive into what that machine might do to our world, let’s pause for a minute to think about what empathy actually is. There are two forms of empathy: cognitive empathy and emotional empathy. So says Maia Szalavitz, a journalist and coauthor of the book Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential — and Endangered. She walks us through the differences between the two types.
Already, we’re getting to one of the huge hurdles with this idea. Empathy is a nebulous concept, and the way each of us experiences it in the world is really different. So if we start thinking about how this empathy machine might actually work, we start to struggle with the uniqueness of each human’s experiences. How might a machine like this operate? If it simply records a pattern of neurons firing in your brain, and copies it into my brain, it probably won’t make me feel what you’re feeling.
I also talked to Samantha Rich, who equates this issue with the age-old stoner question: Is the blue I see the same blue you see? In the case of emotion and memory: Do I experience fear or love or excitement the same way you do? Unfortunately, nobody can really answer that question. Rich is a science fiction writer who recently published a fascinating short story in an anthology called Accessing the Future. It’s set in a future where people wear little screens on their chests that broadcast their neural activity. So everybody can see what’s going on with everybody else all the time.
Rich’s story raises some really interesting questions about how much information we should really know about each other, and how much insight one can truly get about a person from seeing things like biometric data. Just because you’ve got information about what a person is feeling, doesn’t mean you can really understand that feeling.
But let’s say that, in this future, we have some good way of actually exchanging full emotional experiences. That I can put on a helmet and really feel what you felt at a certain moment. Really understand it. Some think that that kind of device would be incredibly powerful. One of those people is Heather Schlegel, a social scientist and futurist who thinks a lot about how technology and intimacy interact.
A few years ago, Schlegel worked on a project called UME, an imagined future company that offered a service very similar to the one we described in the beginning of this podcast. “UME is the leading company in emotion extension technology. At UME, we connect how you feel with your loved ones,” their website says. As part of this design future, Schlegel and her team came up with some theoretical news story topics describing the public’s reaction to this kind of technology. They include things like this: athletes use the emotional connection with their coaches, to get better insight and feedback; surgeons and nurses connect with their patients to better understand their needs; a property developer creates a UME community where all individuals must have embedded empathy technology; a primary school rejects any students without an empathy connection; UME encounters religious pushback, seen as interfering with “higher connections” to God.
If you could get this kind of system to work, there would be all kinds of great applications. People could use it to become closer, to understand other people’s emotions, to feel experiences they might never get the chance to have themselves. The justice system could use it as a punishment, forcing criminals to feel the pain their crime caused the victim and family. People with social anxiety could use it to better understand the interactions they’re having.
But here again is where we need to pause. It seems like being able to experience other people’s emotions and mental states would be a good thing, right? That it could even change people’s minds about subjects, give them a better understanding of people whom they haven’t met, and maybe even purge the prejudices that most people harbor inside them. But is that actually true? Does experiencing other people’s emotions and memories actually make you more respectful of them as people?
Possibly, if done correctly, says Szalavitz. But we’d have to really be careful about how we use it. As Rich points out in her story, just having some pieces of information about a person’s emotions can’t really tell you everything. And it’s still unclear whether it’s possible to experience another person’s feelings at all, without our own history and memories and biases mucking it all up.
Here’s the thing. Humans, as a species, have a huge capacity for empathy. Much of our world and economy is built on trust, which requires some amount of empathy. And, in fact, we already kind of have an empathy box. It’s called the Internet. The internet can carry stories of experiences you’ve never even dreamed of, ones you’ll never have yourself, to you. And if we listen to those stories and try to understand what they’re telling us, we can in fact do a lot of the work that this future technology might do for us. So while we wait for this magical box to come, we can turn to another magical box in front of us and do a lot of that work ourselves.
Besides, as Szalavitz points out, there’s at least one invention we have right now that greatly increases empathy: books.
As usual, if you have thoughts about futures we should explore on the podcast, leave us a note in the comments, on Twitter, or email us at overthinkingit@gizmodo.com. We also have a Facebook page now! Check it out. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud or via whatever RSS reading app you chose.
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What is Kitsune? [Definition; Meaning]
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Mischief is synonymous with foxes. While they may be cute and fluffy, they represent a world that could turn dark and dangerous. Such is the case with the kitsune of Japanese folklore. All of us are familiar with Japanese spirits, or yokai, that grace the screens of different anime throughout pretty much every genre. However, we are not always familiar with the certain yokai that we see. This article will not only familiarize you with the mischievous kitsune but will also broaden your understanding of Japanese folklore as a whole and, in turn, allow you to be a more educated anime viewer.
Kitsune in Mythology
These shapeshifters are tricky as they can take the form of any human being. This allows them to meddle in human affairs and alter them to fit the kitsune’s whims. However, kitsune are not always negative yokai to have around. They are historically split into two distinctions: the helpful and wise zenko and the mischievous and meddlesome yako. The zenko were known for serving the Shinto god, Inari. They brought wisdom and provided good luck for those they visited. The evil yako delighted in playing the trickster and took part in possession in order to antagonize and humiliate humans. Both kinds of immortal foxes can grow up to nine tails, with a new one growing each century. They also hold their spirit in a mystical ball at all times which is one of their few weaknesses. Legend tells us that if their spirit is destroyed then the kitsune dies with it. This incredible yokai had many more powers than simply shapeshifting. They were believed to be able in influence the world around them and visualize objects into existence. The power of the kitsune varies widely between legends and can go anywhere from shapeshifting to controlling the weather. Whatever the legend, it is clear that these powerful yokai were not to be messed with.
People throughout Japan believed in these magical creatures which were known to mate with humans, producing offspring. Those known to have descended from a yako were often shunned by society and made to live a life of shame. However, while there may or may not have been yokai, those who acted strangely were convinced of having a mental illness known as kitsunetsuki.
Kitsune in Anime
Few yokai are more adorable than the kitsune, however in anime, they can be portrayed as ill-tempered and irritable or useful and loyal. Much like the legends, their likeness in anime often is true. For example, in Inu x Boku SS, Soushi was the descendant of the reincarnation of the kitsune. Due to this, he was forced to live secluded and alone for the formative years of his life because of his family’s shame. He was likely to be descended from the more dishonorable kitsune, the yako. However in Gingitsune, Gintarou is portrayed as a messenger of Inari and is helpful to the Saeki family which are obviously traits of the zenko. Other examples of kitsune can be seen throughout countless anime, including Tomoe from Kamisama Hajimemashita, Kyuubi from Naruto, and Shippo from InuYasha.
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While these yokai may be adorable, some can also be devious and dangerous. Few yokai are as famous as the mystical kitsune and few are more widely represented in pop culture. These fox demons are ones that you should not go against, as even the most destructive kitsune is known for honoring friendships and promises. Legends surrounding them are easily accessible for any future learning you would like to do on these fascinating creatures.
We hope that you have enjoyed this article and thank you for taking the time to read it. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments section below.
Author: Lauren
I am an anime lover, travel addict and wanderlust seeker. If I am not watching anime or reading manga, you will probably find me in my garden, playing the piano or writing. I love video games, particularly Final Fantasy and am anxiously awaiting the next release (though it probably will not be for at least five years). I hope that you will take a look into my top 5 anime so you can learn more about me. I hope that my articles will enlighten you and help you grow in knowledge of the anime community!
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Windows 10 becomes most popular Operating System ever
By Brian Quinn on October 6, 2016
Since its commercial release last summer, Microsoft’s Windows 10 has been off to a jackrabbit start — the fastest-growing of any version of Windows, by Microsoft’s count. In early January, just five months after making Windows 10 generally available, the company reported that the OS had already hit the 200-million-device mark, significantly outpacing the growth trajectories of both Windows 8 and Windows 7.
Microsoft still has a ways to go before it hits its goal of putting Windows 10 on 1 billion devices by fiscal 2018, but the company is counting on a pair of Windows 10 updates coming this year, both code-named “Redstone,” to make the OS more attractive to stragglers.
Redstone will give Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant the ability to “float around Windows 10” (for instance, as a search widget in a live Word document) and the Redstone updates are expected to “be a larger update than the others and will provide new functionality and support for new classes of devices that aren’t already part of Windows 10.”
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Applications recently received under the Licensing Act 2003
The table below lists the applications that we have recently received, and they can be viewed using the links in the Downloads section.
A new application is usually one received for a premises that does not currently have a licence (one premises may have more than one licence).
A variation application is where the premises licence holder has applied to change some of the conditions or details of their existing premises licence.
A minor variation application is where the premises licence holder has applied to make small changes to the licence that will not affect the licensing objectives.
A review is where one of the responsible authorities or interested parties has indicated that, in their opinion, a premises is not complying with one or more of the licensing objectives.
applications recently received for new or existing premises licences
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The Admiral (previously Napiers) 72 Vale Road, Ash Vale, GU12 5HS
Variation 01/08/2019
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Haydon Place, Guildford, GU1 4LR New 25/07/2019
Aldershot Road, Pirbright, GU24 0DQ Minor variation 23/07/2019
Copies of the applications are also available to view at our licensing team office, at Guildford Borough Council, Millmead House, Millmead, Guildford, GU2 4BB.
This page is updated weekly. Applications are removed after the closing date for representations. If a hearing was necessary because representations were received then the hearing will be heard by a Licensing Sub Committee, and all those who made valid representations will be invited to attend the hearing.
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Gwulo: Old Hong Kong
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Carlos D DANENBERG [c.1840-1928]
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Carlos D
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c.1840-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
His funeral was reported on page 9 of the The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1928-10-30:
LAID TO REST.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. CARLOS D. DANENBERG.
The funeral of Mr. Carlos D. Danenberg, an old Portuguese resident, father of Professor Emil Danenberg, who died on Sunday at the advanced aged of 88 years, took place yesterday afternoon at the Roman Catholic Cemetery.
Followed by two of the sons of the deceased and other relatives and also a large number of friends, the cortege wended its way through the Cemetery path to the Chapel where a short service was held at which Father Spada officiated, assisted by Fathers de Angelis, Granelli and Maglioni, and students of the Catholic Seminary. The remains were then taken to an older portion of the Cemetery and interred with the usual rites associated with a Catholic burial.
Messrs. F. and S. Danenberg (sons), A. E. Alves (son-in-law), E. and W. A. Roza (grandsons) were the chief mourners, other relatives and friends present being Chev. J.M. Alves, Messrs. A. F. B. Silva-Netto, J. M. Rocha, E. J. and M. A. Figueiredo, and many others.
Wreaths were sent by the following:
Fred and Beatrice; Judith and Arthur; Scylla; Elsa, Alda, Fred and Eddie; Reginald, Gus, Roy, Bianca and Eva; Elfrida and Fred; Faustina, Edmondo and children; Olga and Alfonso.
Mr. Chee Tong, Mme. M. Careira, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gardner and family, Mrs. Emilia M. Alves, Mr. A. L. Alves, Mr. M. J. V, de Figueiredo, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. de Figueiredo, Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Co., the Portuguese staff of Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Co., Mrs. Maria de M. C. Soares, Mr. J. J. Basto, Mr. and Mrs, J. E. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. E. V. M. R. de Sousa and family, Mr. and Mrs. P. V, Botelho and family, Mrs. Maria, J. R. and Miss C. Osmund, Mrs. F. F. Eca da Silva; Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Mody, Mr. and Mrs. E. Leitao, Mr. and Mrs, H. H. Xavier and family, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Stapleton, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. de Graca, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. B. Silva-Netto, Mr. W. H. C. Bourchier, Mr. J. A. de V. Soares, Mr. A. H. de Silva, and others.
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Sports roundup: Selma, Kingsburg compete at CSL meet
Jeremiah Martinez Staff Reporter
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DINUBA - The Selma and Kingsburg swim teams competed in the Central Sequoia League finals meet at Dinuba High School on April 24.
The Vikings won the boys and girls divisions, which are consecutive titles for both squads. For the boys, it was Kingsburg’s sixth-straight league title and the girls claimed its eighth CSL championship in a row.
On the girls side, the Bears finished 17 points behind Kingsburg’s first place score of 341.50 points. As for the boys, the Vikings recorded a total of 412.50 points, which was a 203.50 margin of victory for Kingsburg. The next closest score was 209 from Exeter.
For Selma, there were a trio of records broken in the girls division. The Bears 200 yard freestyle relay team of Tori Valdez, Audrie Naranjo, Abi Baker, and Julianna Colado set a new league and school record in the event with a time of 1 minute, 43 seconds and 83 tenths of a second. Colado set a new school record in the 100 yard freestyle event, coming out on top with a time of 55:25 seconds.
Colado, Baker, and Valdez also competed in the 400 yard freestyle relay event. Alongside Mya Lopez; Colado, Baker and Valdez placed first in the event with a time of 3:51.03.
Selma diver Taylor Serna set a new league and school record enroute to winning the girl’s diving competition. The senior’s first place score was 424.15 points, which was a 203.05 margin of victory over the second best finish.
For Kingsburg, league champions in the individual events include Jonas Huckaby, Jacob Peterson, Jacob Wilson, Wyatt Ward, Sofia Righetti, and Caoilinn Hardy.
Huckaby took home two gold medals after winning the 100 and 200 yard freestyle events. The senior set league records in both events. In the 100 yard freestyle, Huckaby finished with a time of 48.01 seconds. In the 200 yard freestyle, Huckaby’s record was set at 1:45. 62.
Peterson placed first in the boys 500 yard freestyle event. Righetti took home gold in the same event, but in the girls division. Wilson took home the gold for winning the 50 yard freestyle event and Ward finished first in the 100 yard backstroke.
Wyatt set a league record in his event with a time 58.50 seconds.
Hardy placed first in the 100 yard breastroke and 200 yard individual medley events.
League individual champions from Selma were Colado, Baker, and Lopez.
Colado and Baker each took home four gold medals including the ones earned in the 200 and 400 yard relays. Colado won the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events. Baker won the 100 yard butterfly and 100 yard backstroke. Lopez was the champion of the 200 freestyle alongside being apart of the 400 yard freestyle relay team.
Colado, Baker, Valdez and Serna will compete in the Division I Valley meet. Other Bears qualifiers include Audrie Naranjo (100 yard breastroke, 200 individual medley, 400 freestyle relay), Claire Machado (100 yard backstroke, 200 medley relay), and Will Winter (500 yard freestyle). Winter is the only male competitor to advance to the Division I meet from Selma.
As for Kingsburg, the Vikings have a total of nine individual swimmers that will compete in the Valley meet. League winners Peterson, Ward, Wilson, Righetti, and Huckaby will compete at the meet.
Other Kingsburg competitors include Audrena Butts (100 yard butterfly), Nadia Garabedian (50 freestyle), Jillian Gipson (100 backstroke), and Jackson Huckaby (200 individual medley, 500 freestyle). All six of the Vikings relay teams (three boys, three girls) will also compete in the Valley meet.
The Central Section Division I meet will take place on Friday and Saturday at Clovis West High School.
SELMA - The Selma softball team defeated Immanuel High 21-5 in a mercy-shortened five inning Central Sequoia League game on Friday.
The Bears scored its 21 runs on 17 hits on a day where seniors were recognized pregame. The Eagles scored all its runs in the fifth inning.
Selma scored in every inning including an eight-run surge in the first. The Bears scored five runs in the second inning and four times each in the third and fourth.
Notable batting performances from Selma include Dom Trevino (2-for-4), Genesis Rodriguez (2-for-3, three RBIs), Chrissy Wallace (2-for-3), Ashley Paz (3-for-4) and Majenta Harper (2-for-3).
Alyssa Grijalva was the winning pitcher for the Bears.
The 16-point victory came two days after losing 7-1 to Exeter on the road.
Selma (16-8, 6-5 CSL) will conclude the regular season on the road against it’s rival Kingsburg (19-5-1, 7-3 CSL) on Thursday. The Bears dropped the first meeting 8-4 to the Vikings on April 3. As of press time, Selma is the No. 2 team in the Central Section Division III rankings, according to MaxPreps.
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Posted on June 18, 2011 in Legibility, Trolleybuses, Wellington
Yes, says Wellington, New Zealand (pop. 389,000)!
In North American debates about pedestrian and transit malls, we're usually told that such things only work in Europe, with the implication that age, historic density, and cultural history of European cities makes them unrealistic mentors for the young North American city. Well, as an urban culture, New Zealand is even younger than North America. In fact, the urbanization of both Australia and New Zealand happened around the same time as that of the North American west, and the level of attachment to cars is also comparable. So North America needs a better excuse!
Wellington's "Golden Mile," long the core business strip and highrise office district, is now a two-lane, largely bus-only facility, the last bit of which was finished last November. It features generous sidewalks, near-continuous awnings for shelter (a city requirement) and hardly any commercial vacancies. In fact, the whole thing appeared to be bustling throughout my stay the past week, with plenty of pedestrians and plenty of activity around the abundant street-level retail that lines the entire thing.
The pic above, of course, was taken by the City on a perfect sunny day. Having spent most of the last week in a conference room, I can offer only pics taken early in the morning:
Note the green paint. In Australia and New Zealand there is never any question about where bus lanes are, and zero excuse for not noticing them. Note also that the red bus is about to turn right from one green lane into another; the Golden Mile isn't entirely straight, but the green lines (and abundant buses) make it perfectly clear where it is, and how it works.
I'll come back to some of the interesting details of the Golden Mile, but meanwhile, next time someone tells you that North American cities can't emulate Europe, ask why they can't emulate New Zealand!
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30 Responses to can transit-only streets work in small cities?
Eric Doherty June 18, 2011 at 11:07 am #
Maybe this also suggests that transit only streets work better with electric transit vehicles. Noise, and the stench of diesel exhaust does not make for a great pedestrian street.
Can’t tell for sure from the photos, is there a mix of diesel/gas buses as well as trolley buses?
Jarrett at HumanTransit.org June 18, 2011 at 11:21 am #
Mix of trolley and diesel buses, yes, and a more even mix than Granville Mall in Vancouver.
JJJJ June 18, 2011 at 2:51 pm #
How long until the first person comes in to say
“That looks nice, but it would be/work so much better with trains instead”
Ive got 4 hours.
Cap'n Transit June 18, 2011 at 3:56 pm #
City size isn’t the main factor, and neither is density. The critical factor is modeshare; if you have too many cars people will drive away from the pedestrian center. If transit is infrequent or inconvenient people will not stay where it’s hard to drive.
Alon Levy June 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm #
It’s also a function of street width; this is why it’s easier to pedestrianize in old cities than in new cities, rather than an attachment-to-cars factor. The street in question doesn’t look very wide to me – perhaps 18 meters building to building, which for small-city main streets is narrow enough to be turned into a transit mall.
Gus June 18, 2011 at 6:24 pm #
This street (Manners Street) was actually de-pedestrianised to construct the transit mall. While geographically speaking it does sit near on smack bang in the middle of the CBD, It’s not really a ‘main street’ by any means, as until now there was no road through there. See the map below. The new transit mall runs on Manners St between Cuba and Victoria. The CBD is (roughly) the area bound by Thorndon to the north, the motorway to the west, Buckle/Arthur Sts to the south, and Mt Victoria to the east, with the main high-rise district being north of Manners St around Willis St, Featherston St, Lambton Quay, and The Terrace.
Tom West June 18, 2011 at 6:25 pm #
@Alon: I’ve heard the opposite argument – that only wide streets can be made transit only, because buses need room to overtake one another!
The reality is that different street widths need different designs (shockingly!).
@Eric: Stephenson St, Birmingham, UK has well over 100 diesel buses per hour throughout most of the day. It’s no worse than standing next to a busy street with 500 cars per hour.
Nathanael June 18, 2011 at 9:03 pm #
Small?!?
I consider that a midsized city, but then I come from a small city.
Matthew Flower June 19, 2011 at 12:39 am #
The AiportFlyer bus is Orange. But it’s awesome you’re in my hometown! You coming to Auckland?
Jarrett June 19, 2011 at 2:22 am #
@Gus. It’s not fair to say that Manners St was “de-pedestrianised”. There are plenty of pedestrians there, possibly more than before at some times. I’m also referring to the entirety of the Golden Mile, not just this segment.
Scott June 19, 2011 at 7:05 am #
“In Australia and New Zealand there is never any question about where bus lanes are, and zero excuse for not noticing them” This made me laugh. Just search for “bus lane nzherald” and you will see what I mean.
Wellington also has a very high ridership heavy rail system for a city of its size. However it has been criticized for a lack of investment in recent decades. The NZR DM class (build 1938 – 1954) are still used in regular service.
Trolleybuses were used historically used in Wellington for routes too steep for the tram network. The tram network has been ripped up decades ago, the trolleybuses remain.
Unfortunately due to the high standby cost of line workers (i think) the trolly buses are not run on weekends, instead they are replaced by diesel buses.
Jarrett at HumanTransit.org June 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm #
I admit I haven't been to every bus lane in Aus and NZ. I can describe only the ones I've seen in Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, and Wellington. Perhaps there are some that I didn't see because they weren't marked.
Trolleybuses currently look very expensive to operate in Wellington, as they do in Seattle. Proposals to replace them with motorbuses make bottom-line sense in the short term, but are much more problematic in the long term when you factor in obvious but less quantifiable issues like fuel security and GHG emissions. So it's understandable that they "economize" in the short term, e.g. by not running trolleys on weekends, but continue to retain the trolleybuses. Besides, people love them.
@Tom West: in an LRT-grade transit mall, all vehicles make all stops (unless they’re emergency vehicles), so there’s no need for overtakes. I understand it’s different for Bogota-grade BRT, but I imagine that a trolleybus route would function more like LRT than like diesel BRT.
By the way, I checked Manners on Google Earth, and it seems to be 15 meters building to building. For comparison, Manhattan streets are 18 meters.
Matt June 19, 2011 at 6:07 pm #
@JJJJ – there is a call for light rail in Wellington, but the best route for it is not the Golden Mile (Lambton Quay, Willis and Victoria Streets, Manners St and Courtney Place) but on the Quays (Waterloo, Customhouse and Jervois Quays with Cable and Wakefield Street). The Quays is currently a bit of a racetrack, and needs to be slowed and tamed and, if it is a word, boulevardised, but that can really only be done if the Inner City Bypass is taken off Vivian and Buckle Street, and is undergrounded under Buckle Street and the Basin Reserve. The NZTA (the transport ministry) is currently doing a somewhat of a sham public consultation on exactly that, and railroading (the irony of the term railroading here is amusing, so maybe I should use the word driving instead) through an ugly flyover option instead.
The final outcome will be far from ideal. There’ll be a finished inner city bypass motorway (which will soon be congested). The Quays won’t be fixed properly and it will still be a barrier between the city and the waterfront, and there will be no light rail (and the study into it is only to shut up the Mayor and councillors as part of the shambolic consultation). The best Welllingtonians are going to get in the next few years is a few improvements to the bus system south of the Golden Mile. They can ask for a lot more, but no one in central government is listening.
PBY June 19, 2011 at 7:19 pm #
The “Golden Mile” has skinny 2-lane bus only parts like Manners St in the picture and very wide parts like North Lambton Quay where it is 4 lanes + parking + planted median and wide footpaths.
Its not the width of the road that determines how successful the PT route will be. Its about designing the different width parts differently.
I think the Golden Mile route is still the best for any future PT spine in Wellington.
Aidan Stanger June 20, 2011 at 12:30 am #
Note the green paint. In Australia and New Zealand there is never any question about where bus lanes are, and zero excuse for not noticing them.
Everywhere I’ve been with colour coded roads has red bus lanes and green cycle lanes. What colour are the cycle lanes in Wellington?
PBY June 20, 2011 at 2:53 am #
Cyclists can use the green bus lanes, unless they are signed as “Bus Only”. Cycle lanes are generally marked with a white stripe and a cycling logo. There are a few areas where cycle lanes crossing vehicle entrances to commercial property are painted green, I think thats just to get the attention of car drivers though.
Wellington needs more dedicated cycle lanes, the CBD is small enough that cycling is usually the fastest way to get around.
Jarrett at HumanTransit.org June 20, 2011 at 3:04 am #
Aidan. Good point. Red bus lanes are common in Aus, and are the standard in Sydney where they're quite common. NZ seems to prefer green, but also uses green for bicycles, with white stencils of bikes on them. I guess if a green patch of pavement is too small for a bus, we're to understand it as a cycle lane, unless it's just an experiment in developing photosynthetic pavement to scrub carbon from the air.
EngineerScotty June 20, 2011 at 9:47 am #
Alon,
What do you mean by “LRT-grade” transit mall?
Best practice for a transit mall (whether bus only or bus/rail mixed) is to have 2+ exclusive transit lanes per direction with skip-stop service; this is especially true for surface malls where transit vehicles may be stopped by cross traffic. And by “transit mall”, I mean an area where many bus services converge (such as the transit malls in Portland, Minneapolis, or Ottawa) with headways measured in seconds, not a shopping district situated on a busway, with headways measured in minutes. (If you have busses arriving at headways that are a multiple of the average dwell time; then yes, a single lane will suffice).
Portland’s mall is configured as such, and handles 180 busses and 10 trains per hour per direction without breaking a sweat; Ottawa famously has a single-lane-per-direction mall which is a major bottleneck for its otherwise fine BRT system.
Wad June 20, 2011 at 1:10 pm #
I would actually like a shopping district along a bus lane, Scotty.
The California transit malls (Long Beach, San Bernardino, Santa Rosa) have transit amenities stuck on forgotten streets. You’ll often see parking garages or the rear ends of buildings mooning the passengers. This makes the transit malls appear hidden in plain sight.
Long Beach recently was able to attract development to the Transit Mall itself. A few midrise rental buildings were built along a promenade, and two of the buildings have fronts to the Transit Mall along First Street. A hotel will go up on what is now a surface parking lot.
Alan Robinson June 20, 2011 at 1:36 pm #
@ Jarrett
Be careful when suggesting photosynthesizing paint.
EngineerScotty June 20, 2011 at 3:44 pm #
Nothing wrong with shopping districts along bus lanes… I’m just trying to separate two distinct applications that are both commonly called “transit mall”.
Scotty:
When I said LRT-grade transit mall, I meant one intended primarily for light rail rather than buses. The Calgary transit mall is two-tracked.
Jarrett, In NZ despite well marked bus lanes many people “plead innocence” and blame the bus lane markings. The main news paper has run many “anti bus” lane articles accusing the council of “revenue gathering”. Many car drivers blame bus lanes for congestion despite clear evidence otherwise.
A study done by the auckland council found most drivers that drove in bus lanes knew the rules and were not put off by additional signage, rather only by the presence of an enforcement officer.
Your observations about the Seattle trolly buses seem similar to the Wellington situation. Prior to the construction of the current trolly buses the entire fleet very old, run-down and unreliable. The financial modeling favored diesel replacement, however it became a media issue and the council decided to update the trolly bus fleet as a city icon. I really like the trolly buses. Wish we had a cleaner running bus fleet here in Auckland.
M1EK June 21, 2011 at 10:01 am #
In order for this to be truly applicable to the US experience, we need to know
– How much does gas cost in NZ compared to, say, median income?
– What other taxes do drivers pay?
– How much does the typical driving commuter pay for parking?
Transit-only malls like this would and do work in a couple of US cities. Nobody’s disputing that. What’s up for dispute is the idea that because suburban people will (sometimes) ride buses in cities like SF and NY, they’ll ride them in Sunbelt cities where parking is free.
Transit malls are done on all surface modes – diesel buses, trolleybuses, light rail. Portland has a light rail transit mall in a one-way pair, and Calgary has one on a two-way street. It’s a standard way to run trains through a downtown area that has no preexisting dedicated right-of-way without blowing the entire budget on a tunnel.
Zoltán June 22, 2011 at 7:09 am #
@M1EK
Whatever parking costs, and whatever fuel and other taxes area, there will be people that need or want public transport, which most of the time means a bus. Some people can’t afford and don’t have a car; others have difficulty affording a car and would prefer to have no or fewer cars, others live in households with fewer cars than occupants and don’t have use of a car all of the time. So to take an area and say “people won’t ride buses” seems extremely fatuous.
Working to create an a concentration of the things people need to get to in a pleasant pedestrian environment, and creating as frequent a service there as any city’s circumstances make possible, can only be of benefit to those people who want to use public transport. Often, public transport improvements increase the mobility of those people that already used public transport as much as they attract anyone new, and given that life in North America is hard without a car, that’s no bad thing.
If what you’re actually getting at here is “people won’t ride buses… but they will ride rail”, I stick by the view that it’s mostly about cost, journey time, frequency and being of tolerable levels of comfort. Besides, if you do build rail in your small North American city, your city will still need a whole lot of buses, and why waste the benefits of the right of way you’ve created for the rail line downtown in being a good route for bus service too? That might even justify exclusivity from general traffic that rail alone doesn’t.
Gus June 23, 2011 at 12:25 am #
@Jarrett Sorry I was replying to the comment above mine, and I meant de-pedestrianised in the sense that the function of the street changed from pedestrian only to a mix of modes.
M1EK June 23, 2011 at 5:41 am #
@Zoltán
Would that it were that easy. You can sometimes get suburbanites in Sun Belt cities to ride the bus if you give them a good train first, but even that’s iffy. It’s ignoring reality to pretend that choice commuters in, say, Houston are as likely to ride the bus as they are the train – and if you’re not shooting for choice commuters here, you’re never going to get the political will to get any dedicated right-of-way anyways.
Chris Kok June 24, 2011 at 3:44 pm #
It seems that looking at the difference between Europe, the US, and Oceania is the right level of analysis. Each site needs to be evaluated at street level. I’m sure there are places in suburbanized Los Angeles that would have the urban density, transit density and numbers of pedestrians to make a pedestrian/transit mall work. It all depends on the local characteristics.
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At junior high, taco time espouses healthy eating
May 15, 2019 at 7:02 am | By Chris Peterson
The Devries family, Teagan, Makenna and Leah prepare cauliflower and chick peas for roasting during a healthy taco dinner at the junior high last week.
Cauliflower and chick peas. An ancient variety of field corn. Walnuts and lentils. And, oh yeah, some good old chicken.
That’s what a host of families last week cooked up as part of a taco night at the Columbia Falls Junior High. The idea was for families to try healthy, new ways of cooking, said Jenna Foster the Foodcorps service member working with the junior high this school year.
“It’s all new recipes and all of them are on the healthy side,” Foster noted. “There’s zero actual taco meat.”
Which is to say, beef. Having said that, cauliflower and chick peas are pretty tasty once they’re roasted with spices; and lentils and walnuts taste a lot like hummus once the lentils are cooked and the walnuts are roasted and then blended into a puree.
The chicken was cooked on the stove in an array of spices and then shredded. The tortillas were made from painted mountain corn, noted counselor Shari Johnson. The corn, a field variety, is one of the first corns that was likely cultivated by Native Americans thousands of years ago, Johnson said.
Soaked in a solution, the kids ground it up and then make tortillas. The corn was grown in the school’s garden, which Johnson oversees every year.
All of it smelled great and tasted even better. Who said tacos can’t be healthy?
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Executive Search Gets ‘On the Ball’ In Sports Recruitment
April 27, 2017 – For years, the majority of senior level search assignments emanated from traditional employers. Prominent among them: financial services and healthcare concerns, industrial and manufacturing companies, and consumer products giants. But as the search for talent expanded and grew more complex, institutions that at one time seemed insular moved to recruit more and more outsiders.
Over the last decade, executive recruiters have pushed hard into every new space open to them. Some of less traditional sectors often relied simply on internal networking to fulfill their talent management needs. Today, search firms of every stripe are active in every industry – from non-profit and academia to the cannabis sector. Even faith-based organizations seeking a new pastor now turn to their neighborhood executive recruiter.
Talent Starved Sector
One of the most talent starved industries to swing to external search providers in recent years is sports. Large and complex compensation packages throughout the sector, with even larger and more complex employment contracts, have soared. That’s certainly helped attract recruiters. Sports teams, from the professional level on down to college athletic programs around the world, now all require the same professional talent as IBM. It’s no wonder dozens of search firms grind it out for every plum assignment that surfaces somewhere every day.
Jay Hussey, CEO of SRiCheyenne, runs one of those global sports and entertainment focused search firms. It is one of the most recognizable boutique recruiting brands around. Even more recognizable is the firm’s client list, which reads like a Who’s Who in the sports and entertainment field: America’s Cup, UFC, New York Red Bulls, United States Ski and Snowboard Association, NBA, WWE, Manchester United, Wimbledon, and AC Milan, among a host of others.
Based in Boston and New York, SRiCheyenne has been helping drive the performance and growth of these businesses in addition to building transformational teams in the digital and technology industries for 20 years. Mr. Hussey sat down with Hunt Scanlon Media just last week to discuss the latest in recruiting trends. It is an enlightening look inside one of the biggest and most lucrative marketplace sectors around.
Jay, you merged SRi merged with the Cheyenne Group in the U.S. earlier this year. What led to the merger and how did it alter the firm’s footprint in the sports and entertainment space?
SRi had distinguished itself as a leader in sports recruitment; the Cheyenne Group had made its reputation doing top-of-the-house search and talent consulting for a range of broadcast, print and online content companies. Given the natural symbiosis of the sports and media industries, combining the two firms’ capabilities made perfect strategic sense. Also, our two firms’ geographies lined up perfectly. SRI was born in the U.K. and went on to expand its footprint into Europe and, more recently China, Singapore, Australia and Japan. The biggest missing piece for them was North America which the Cheyenne Group fills in with its presence in Boston, New York and Los Angeles. On top of those synergies is the cultural compatibility between the two firms. Both organizations share an entrepreneurial passion to build a world-class firm and both share an unshakable commitment to delivering client value.
The sports sector has become a burgeoning global industry in the last 25 years. At what point in time did large sports organizations begin to turn to search firms on a regular basis to find top talent?
Historically, professional sports clubs were run like, well, clubs. League officials, team owners, managers, and coaches all surrounded themselves with the people they knew, the people they trusted from their own ‘tribes.’ Just in the past six years, according to an analysis conducted by Forbes, the top 10 global sports franchisees (teams like the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester United and Real Madrid) have seen their market valuations double. They are now competing as global brands in a world of entertainment choices that is being revolutionized by new digital platforms and technologies. Managing this growing complexity requires leaders with wider ranging skills and more diverse industry and functional expertise. Naturally, that’s where executive search firms can add a lot of value, and not just in identifying and recruiting talent from different tribes but also in helping sports industry executives gain practical insight into how other organizations and other industries have navigated similar disruptive changes.
What type of top management positions are most in demand by sports organizations today and do you typically pull directly from just the sports industry or do you look to other, related fields for talent?
Related to your last question, the sports industry is being reshaped by the seismic forces of globalization and the growth of digital media platforms (including social, live streaming, and over-the-top broadcasting). Leagues, teams, and national governing bodies are all looking to build or expand their leadership expertise in these areas. For example, we recently had the assignment to find the chief commercial officer for the England & Wales Cricket Board, an organization with a loyal but aging fan base. They needed someone who could expand the appeal of the sport to a younger, digital savvy audience. Our successful candidate had previously been a senior marketing executive for a global consumer packaged goods brand who brought a brilliant track record of building innovative online / offline customer engagement teams and programs.
“The top 10 global sports franchisees have seen their market valuations double. They are now competing as global brands in a world of entertainment choices that is being revolutionized by new digital platforms and technologies. Managing this growing complexity requires leaders with wider ranging skills and more diverse industry and functional expertise. That’s where executive search firms can add a lot of value.”
Professional coaches, it would seem, appear to be known quantities by most sports organizations. Why are search firms brought in for these assignments?
I would argue that this phenomenon is not all that unique. If we are leading a CEO search for a global 100 organization, chances are that our short list of candidates will all be well-known executives with high-profile public reputations. The value you get from a professional search process, whether you’re hiring a head coach or a chief executive, is the search firm’s expertise and experience in deeply evaluating those candidates’ functional skills, leadership competencies and culture fit. A good search firm will also reach into less obvious talent pools to find those outside-of-the-box candidates who will challenge your assumptions about the ‘usual suspects.’
SRiCheyenne is part of the wider SRi Group, a global search firm. Are there specific nuances when recruiting for a professional football team in the U.S. versus one in the U.K.?
It’s funny that you bring this up because since joining SRiCheyenne as CEO a couple of months ago, I’ve been receiving a running lecture from my U.K. and European colleagues on what ‘proper football’ is all about! We’ve done a lot of work in European football, including with teams in the U.K.’s Premier League where there is a very peculiar process, at least from an American’s viewpoint, of ‘relegation.’ This happens at the end of each season when the three teams at the bottom of the Premier League standings are demoted to the second division, called the Championship (yes, the losing teams go to the ‘Championship,’ go figure!) Reciprocally, the three top teams from that league are elevated to the Premier League for the next season. Not surprisingly, the revenues generated from broadcast rights, sponsorships, merchandise sales and the like are much greater at the Premier League level. If a team builds its player and organizational salary structures around those revenues one year but is relegated the next, it can find itself in a very uncomfortable economic situation, to say the least. So, as tough as it may to be own, say, the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, at least they don’t need to worry about a 1-15 season landing them in the Arena Football league!
Contributed by Christopher W. Hunt, Publisher; Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor — Hunt Scanlon Media
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by Paul Bui
Feb 24 2014, 4:10pm
life is just a bowl of neneh cherry's
Today sees the release of Blank Project, the first solo album released by Neneh Cherry in 18 years with RocketNumberNine, Four Tet and harmonies from Robyn...
Neneh Cherry by Mark Lebon. Jacket Jean Paul Gaultier.
Neneh Cherry and i-D have a longstanding friendship. When i-D was in its infancy, Cherry was on hand helping publishers Terry and Tricia Jones staple the early issues together. Since then the Swedish chanteuse has had quite a colourful career. In her teens, Cherry dropped out of middle school in New York City to return to London and front several punk bands. Alongside immersing herself in the Bristol drum and bass scene (legend has it she helped bankroll Massive Attack), Cherry carved her own solo path with her lauded debut album Raw like Sushi. The lead single Buffalo Stance would go on to capture the style of the time, embodying the spirit of Ray Petri's ingenious fashion house. Two more albums soon followed, as well as Cherry lending her voice to several collaborations (including tracks with Pulp, Cher and Gorillaz). But it's been 18 years since the last solo record. i-D catches up with our old friend to ask why the long pause?
You've had a very worldly upbringing. Which place feels most like home - New York, London or Sweden?
I think they're very different connections. In London I'm always going to go there for the creative source. I have my tribe there. I miss New York like I miss an old lover. I think once that city has gotten under your skin it's hard to let go. I use it a lot as a landscape when I'm writing lyrics. And then Sweden - that still is my family home. It's a place that doesn't really change that much. That's the kind of heartbeat.
This is your first solo record in 18 years. Why the extended pause?
To tell you the honest truth, I don't really know why. It's not that I can't be specific, but I just know that I'm here now more than ever. You know, I've been working, I've been writing, I've been doing stuff, but I suppose I just wasn't in a place where I really was able to release something … it just wasn't time. I took a left turn and I chose to come off the treadmill, and here we are.
Four Tet produced this new album and Robyn makes an appearance. What was it like working with them?
Robyn is a beautiful goddess and I love her very dearly. We had a fantastic day when we did the track in her studio in Stockholm. Working with Four Tet was also really amazing. He has a very pure way of recording music. I wouldn't say puritanical by pure, I mean that he just wants to go in and capture what's happening there in the moment rather than layering something up fifty million times and bypassing the original spirit of the record.
And what exactly is that spirit?
Well the new record is a series of ten songs that I've written - some just by myself, and some with Cameron McVey and Paul Simm who I did a whole writing spell with. It's very fierce but connected into the ground. It's tough, beautiful, it's kind of organic but it's also roughneck electronics.
Your classic hit Buffalo Stance is such an iconic song; do you ever get sick of getting requests to perform it?
If I were forced into being in a karaoke relationship with my old songs, where I didn't have other things going on, maybe it would be difficult. But to me they're just wonderful little gems of my life. I really have to appreciate that they still carry on and that people are still interested in listening to them.
That Buffalo aesthetic, championed by you, Ray Petri and his collaborators in the late 80s is still very relevant today. It was a big influence on designers, stylists and magazines like i-D. What was it like being part of that scene?
We were all really good friends. I remember Ray and myself put together a gang of Buffalos to go on a freeform modelling trip to Japan that was quite nutty. Ray was really someone that made me look at myself, and taught me in a very natural way about style. In a video that Mark Lebon was shooting, he put me in an Azzedine Alaia dress with trainers, and I was like "Yeah, this feels kind of good!" It was a style based in something that I recognised and knew. That's why I still think it's timeless, it's classic - it's the street.
Did you know you were a part of something special while it was happening?
I think during times when things are going on, you don't sit around agonising or analysing the fragments of what it's about. You're just doing it. It was really a time where it was about breaking down the boundaries and it was quite - may I say - revolutionary, without us knowing or thinking about it in that way. But it [Buffalo] was a bit like "Up yours! I'm just gonna get up and get on with this and unload."
Do you find that over the years you've acquired a whole new audience for your music?
I hope so, and I hope that I'll continue to make new friends through music. It's difficult for some people because I've always changed a lot, without trying to. I suppose that I'm always following slightly different threads. But if you listen to what I'm doing now, I think there's energy of other things that I've done. It isn't Buffalo Stance or Seven Seconds; it's a new sound but I hope it reaches new people.
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Text Paul Bui
Photography Mark Lebon
Styling Judy Blame
Hair Johnnie Sapong at Jed Root
using Leonor Greyl
Make-up Camila Fernandez using YSL
Nail technician Marie Isabel at the Book Agency using Chanel autumn/winter 12 and Body Excellence Hand Cream
Photography assistance Catalin Plesa, Rory Cole, Maxwell Tomlinson,
Liam Hart, Pedro Paz Lopez
Hair assistance Ranelle Chapman
Post production Cat the Man
Backstage photography Tom Ryling
Special thanks to Maud Kealey
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Home > Latest News > CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WILL BE VERY CHALLENGING FOR IRISH FARM SECTOR – ICSA
CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WILL BE VERY CHALLENGING FOR IRISH FARM SECTOR – ICSA
ICSA general secretary Eddie Punch has said that the Government Climate Action plan will be very challenging for the agriculture sector. However, he said that farmers will always respond to the right incentives.
“ICSA believes that it makes much more sense to produce livestock in a sustainable way from Irish grassland rather than relocate it to South America where the potential environmental impact of increased productivity is much more damaging.
Nonetheless, the requirement to achieve a 10-15% reduction in agricultural emissions by 2030 will not be easy. Livestock farming systems have very low profitability and any extra cost cannot be carried by farm families. Some reductions in emissions can coincide with improved economic efficiency however.”
“We also need to look at policies to ensure that farmers who engage in best practice from an environmental point of view are rewarded. For example, future Agri-environment schemes need to be a lot more like REPS and a lot less like GLAS in terms of ensuring that those who participate are paid for their costs and for their labour.”
“We also need to look again at better policies at both national and EU level on renewable energies. For example, we want to see the development of renewable biogas produced in anaerobic digesters on Irish farms.”
“This can be a win-win in delivering benefits to rural communities, reducing imported energy and providing extra income for farmers. It is also a far better solution for industry in the ETS sector to use biogas than to buy carbon credits and this option can also help with marketing lower carbon footprint foods.
Likewise, Ireland should support increased use of sustainable biofuels, produced from crops grown in the EU.”
However, the ICSA slammed EU plans to do a Mercosur deal. “It makes no sense to bring in more beef and other agricultural products from South America while pressing EU farmers to reduce emissions. Cutting down rainforests in South America and then blaming Irish farmers for climate change is illogical.”
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Attack of the Seniors
As I approach senior citizen status, I’m beginning to experience what it means to belong to this age group—young people look upon me with pity and I probably should schedule a facelift. On the bright side, I’m allowed to become cranky with anyone who doesn’t respect my opinion as the only one that matters.
I’ve also started to take a modest interest in things labeled “senior.” Thus I was attracted to the recent headline in the Fort Bragg Advocate News: “Senior Center Vote to Fire Bush Baffles All.”
On the surface, the senior center board had silly reasons to fire their executive director Charles Bush. He allegedly has a messy office, spends too much time in the dining room, not enough time fundraising, and refuses to fire a crabby volunteer.
Of the 9-member board, the vote came in 4-2 with 2 abstaining. The ninth member claimed that the vote was called for illegally and walked out before it was taken.
Tensions ran high at The Purity as people wondered aloud: Was Charles fired or not?
The plan to dump him began brewing over the summer. The seniors who frequent the center are highly supportive of him and none too happy with board members who favor letting him go.
After the “firing,” the board president was spat upon one afternoon while walking through the halls of the center. Another time, she found her car had been keyed. She received a death threat. All board members suffered harassing telephone calls.
How could I not be captivated by a story that included death threats, crank calls, car keying, senior citizens spitting on one another, sex, drugs, alcohol and adultery?
(The sex, drugs, alcohol and adultery claims have not been corroborated—so it’s probably best not to repeat them.)
Suffering from a lack of drama in my life (new puppy notwithstanding), I decided to attend the senior center board meeting on September 27th.
I arrived 15 minutes early to find people pouring into the vast dining room faster than Charles Bush could haul out chairs to seat them.
I looked toward the open kitchen and saw two people stirring a large cauldron. Others plucked feathers from chicken carcasses. The thick scent of tar hung in the air.
The room was packed with a growling gray-haired mob, worrying stones in their pockets and hoping their aim was as good as in years past. I estimated 10,000 people, but it was probably closer to 200.
A weary looking vice-president attempted to call the meeting to order amidst problems with the sound system.
Angry cries of “I can’t hear you!” and “Put the microphone up to your mouth!” reverberated throughout the room.
The glitches were worked out. The vice-president’s first announced was that the president (who had previously been spat upon and received death threats) and three other board members would not be at the meeting. The crowd grumbled.
What would become of all that tar, all those feathers?
The collective expression of the five board members present was a mixture of fear and disdain, self-protection and disgust. They would not cower before a bunch of peon vigilantes.
Charles pleaded with everyone to simmer down, to treat one another with respect. This harkened me back to the days when my daughter Laine attended Redwood Elementary. Each Friday, the student body gathered on the playground for “Friday Opening.” The short session ended with everyone reciting the Redwood Oath: Be kind. Be safe. Be responsible.
Fort Bragg Advocate News photo
The crowd grudgingly shifted from feral to nearly calm. A half hour was set aside for public comment. Each person who wished to was allowed a few minutes to express his or her opinion. The opinions were overwhelmingly in favor of keeping Charles as executive director.
At the close of public comment, four letters of resignation—from absent board members—were read into the record. The crowd gasped.
Another letter of resignation was read, then one more. The crowd gasped again as the two grim-faced quitters got up and walked out of the room.
In less than one hour, the Redwood Coast Senior Center Board of Directors went from nine members to three. I have not witnessed such drama since “Dynasty” went off the air.
The senior center should have no trouble filling the vacant board seats. Perhaps the person who spat on the former president will apply. And the one who keyed her car. And the one who issued a death threat.
The final three seats can be fought over by those who made the threatening phone calls.
Before each board meeting, the principal of Redwood Elementary can lead a recital of: Be kind. Be safe. Be responsible. Don’t threaten to kill one another.
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12 thoughts on “Attack of the Seniors”
Angie on October 18, 2013 at 6:24 am said:
You tell a grand tale, Kate. I was grimacing and squinting and oooohing and ouching, dodging and
gasping all the way through. Your seniors gave that Board the ol’ “Rope-A-Dope” treatment! Take THAT!! Can’t get more entertaining than that……without purchasing a ticket! Laughing out loud……..
Kate on October 18, 2013 at 2:45 pm said:
Those whacky Mendocino Coast seniors. Such fun.
PatriciaMoore on October 18, 2013 at 7:19 am said:
I am still reading you and commenting because you do such a great job making me laugh! Would that I could put words to paper in such an authentic, touching, clever, realistic fashion! It all comes alive after you have written it out!
Thanks Pat. As you know from your time spent living here, most of these stories tell themselves.
Kathy on October 18, 2013 at 12:28 pm said:
Sad to say, the report of death threats isn’t surprising. Or keying a car. But spitting is really over the top. I hope things end peacefully, and if they don’t, please report again. You’ve started my day with a laugh.
Spitting is the best/worst. Perhaps a sign that the person needs to have his/her medication adjusted.
Thanks for reading and commenting, Kathy.
Meg on October 18, 2013 at 1:03 pm said:
That’s nuts! Drama at the Senior Center for sure.
See what we have to look forward to when we get older? The roller coaster ride just keeps on rolling!
Marcia Lucas Williams on October 18, 2013 at 3:13 pm said:
And who says Seniors don’t know how to have fun–and they’re not even blonde!! Maybe gray is the ‘new’ blonde! You’ve done it again Miss Katie Poo! Loved it and double loved it!!
Thanks MW.
Love the expression: gray is the new blonde!
We’re gonna put that one to use!
cravesadventure on October 22, 2013 at 10:40 pm said:
What Fun and Drama – love your story!!!
Thanks cravesadventure. Love living in a small town where fun and drama abound!
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Transcribed from the Powerpoint Presentation
Nationally there are only about 350 schools that turn down more than half of their applicants. That means that there are thousands of schools that are accessible to most students and that often offer money to qualified candidates.
There is one study that found that “the top third of students in non-elite schools outperform the bottom third of students in the Ivies in what was dubbed the “Big Fish-Little Pond Theory.” (Malcolm Gladwell) – An interesting take on finding the right place to thrive.
“If our kids don’t learn to persevere when things get really challenging, if they don’t learn resiliency in the face of set backs, and if they don’t learn that they’ve got more in them than they thought, it’s going to be really, really hard for them to flourish as adults.” – Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania
It’s nothing new…
1932: “The successful adjustment of American educational relations demands a sharp deflation in the swollen and unwholesome concern with mere admission to college.” — William S. Learned, from the New York Times
1957: Excerpts from a NY Times article on College Admissions titled “High School Seniors’ Agony,” by Charlotte Devree
–”Competition for admission to college today has created an unprecedented time of intense study, worry and waiting”
–”Getting into college has never been so competitive”
–”Standards of admissions have shot upwards. Parents who got into top notch colleges on medium marks and good all-around qualifications cannot understand why their sons and daughters can’t.”
…but it is having an impact!
“Nearly one in six college students has been diagnosed with or treated for anxiety within the last 12 months, according to the annual national survey by the American College Health Association.” from NY Times article, “Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/anxious-students-strain-college-mental-health-centers/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0
American Psychological Association’s 2013 survey showed teens to be the most “stressed out” generation in the US
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/american-teens-are-even-m_n_4768204.html
So what can we do to help?
Teach to be good consumers
Educating students and parents on the right questions to ask when doing college searches/visits
Educate families about how to meaningfully evaluate rankings
Talk to students and families about creating their own ranking system based on what they value most
Spread and teach the idea of finding the “Right Place(s)” and not the “Best Place(s)”
Dispel the myth of (single) “Fit”
Talk to families about the importance of semantics in the college process
Establish the balance between empathy and honesty
Point out that it’s a choice to let this process be anxiety provoking
Encourage open conversations among all parties involved
Ability to recognize one’s own and others’ feelings, and use this to inform thinking and behavior
“So-called noncognitive skills — attributes like self-restraint, persistence and self-awareness — might actually be better predictors of a person’s life trajectory than standard academic measures.” from NY Times article, “Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught?” by Jennifer Kahn
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/can-emotional-intelligence-be-taught.html?pagewanted=all
“How to be Emotionally Intelligent”
Daniel Goleman
–Realistic self-confidence
–Emotional insight
–Self-motivation
–Cognitive and emotional empathy
–Compelling communication
–Team playing
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/how-to-be-emotionally-intelligent.html?_r=0
What does EI mean to us in college admissions/counseling?
MBA programs are using it for admissions
–Notre Dame: Personal Characteristics Inventory
Possibly expanding to undergrad?
–Yale: Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
http://www.eiskillsgroup.com/example-items/
–Dartmouth, MIT…
Emotional intelligence does not come without failure
Generational changes/challenges
Fear of downward mobility
Facebook/technology/social media
Changes in parenting styles
Interesting insights
Some excerpts from Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be, published this year with a series of articles in the New York Times:
–”…too many kids get to college and try to collapse it, to make it as comfortable and recognizable as possible.”
–” You don’t become a great academic because you’re trying t become a great academic. You become a great academic when you look out the window and you have something to say about what’s wrong with this picture that’s unique.”
–”Many people flourish in their careers and their relationships because of the buoyancy of their spirits, their talents for establishing a positive rapport with everyone around them and the emotional wisdom which they separate what’s vitality important and what’s not.”
Very helpful tool in explaining to families why it’s about the match and not the elite schools.
Some other helpful books:
–David and Goliath By Malcolm Gladwell–Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz
Find something you like to do first and you’ll find out how to make money with it later.” – Bobbi Brown
“Great educations aren’t passive experiences; they’re active ones.” – Condoleezza Rice
Advice to Families
Forms and Schedules
Googling How to Succeed in Business
Controversy, Cows, and Colleges
On Curiosity
Joe Korfmacher quoted in US News & World Report
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Taraweeh Summary
Taraweeh Salaah – Night 26
August 13, 2012 Ahmed 1 Comment
By Sheikh Abdul Hamid Lachporia – Canada
In the Name of Almighty Allah Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Tonight’s Tarawee consists slightly more than the first half of Amma (JUZ 30) and the Surahs that will be covered are listed individually with brief explanations and their meanings.
SURAH NABA: [The Great News]. The Great News for man, in his spiritual destiny, is the Day of Judgement to come, the Day of Sorting Out. It sets forth Allah’s Loving Care in a fine nature passage, and deduces from it the Promise of the Future, when Evil will be destroyed and Good will come to its own: and invites all who have the will to seek refuge with their Exalted and Most Gracious Lord.
SURAH AL NAZI’AT: [Those Who Tear Out]. This Surah deals with the theme of Judgement from the point of of Pride and its Fall. The Parable of Fir’aun occupies a central place in the argument.He flouted Allah’s Message specially sent to him, and arrogantly proclaimed: “I am your Lord Most High!” He perished in this life and will answer for his deeds in the next.
SURAH ABASA: [He Frowned]. Men who are not blessed with the good things of this life may yet be earnest seekers of Truth and Purity, and deserve as much attention as those who seem to wield some influence, yet who in their pride are self-sufficient. Allah’s Message is universal and all have a right to hear it. The Surah recapitulates the Mercies of Allah to mankind, and the consequences of a good pr a wicked life here, as seen in the spiritual world to come, in the Hereafter.
SURAH AL TAKWIR: [The Folding Up]. The Surah opens up with a series of highly graphic images portraying the break-up of the world as we know it [verses 1-13] and the enforcement of complete personal responsibility for each soul [verse 14]. This is followed by a passage showing how the Qur’anic Revelation was true, and revealed through Sayyidina Jibra’eel Amin Alayhis Salaam, and not a rhapsody from one possessed. Revelation is given for mankind’s spiritual guidance in verses 14 to 29.
SURAH AL INFITAR: [The Cleaving Asunder]. In subject matter this Surah is cognate to the last, though the best authorities consider it a good deal later in chronology in the early Makkan period. Its argument is subject to the threefold interpretation as referring (1) to the Day of Judgement, (2) to the Lesser Judgement, on an individual’s death, and (3) to the awakening of the Inner Light in the soul at any time, that being considered as Death to the Falsities of this Life and a Rebirth to the true Spiritual Reality.
SURAH AL MUTAFFIFIN: [The Dealers in Fraud]. This Surah is close in time to the last one and the next one. It condemns all fraud – in daily dealings, as well as and especially in matters of Religion and higher spiritual life which will be exposed to view at Judgement, however hidden they may be in this life. Give everyone his due for the record of ill deeds and good is fully kept, and the stains of sin corrupt the soul. Reject not Real Now, nor mock for the time will come when the True will come to its own, and then the mighty arrogant will be abased.
SURAH AL INSHIQAQ: [The Rending Asunder]. This Surah opens with a mention of some cataclysmic events, shows that the present phenomenal order will not last, and Allah’s full Judgement will certainly be established. Mankind should therefore strive for the World of Eternity and True Values.
SURAH AL BURUJ: [The Constellations]. The subject matter of this Surah covers the persecution of Allah’s votaries. Allah watches over His own, and will deal with the enemies of Truth as He dealt with them in the past.
SURAH AL TARIQ: [The Night Star]. The subject matter is the protection afforded to every soul in the darkest period of its spiritual history, The physical nature of man may be insignificant, but the soul given to him by Allah must win a glorious Future in the end. Through the darkest night comes a penetrating light of a glorious Star. Such is the power of Revelation: it protects and guides the erring. For what is man? But a creature of flesh and bones! But Allah by His Power doth raise man’s state to a Life Beyond! – when lo! All things hidden will be made plain. Man’s help will then be but the Word of Allah, which none can thwart. So wait with gentle patience – for His Decision.
SURAH AL A’LA: [The Most High]. The argument is that Allah has made man capable of progress by ordered steps, and by His Revelation will lead him still higher to purification and perfection. Let us look to the Eternal Goal, with hearts and souls of Purity, and glorify His Name: For in this changing, fleeting world, His Word is always True, and will remain through all the ages, ever the same.
SURAH AL GHASHIYAH: [The Overwhelming Event]. The contrast between the destinies of the Good and the Evil in the Hereafter – on the Day when the true balance will be restored. The Signs of Allah even in this life should remind us of the Day of Account, for Allah is Good and Just, and His Creation is for a Just Purpose.
SURAH AL FAJR: [The Dawn]. Its mystic meaning is suggested by contrasts – contrasts in nature and in man’s long history. Thus does it enforce the lesson of Faith in the Hereafter to “those who understand”. Man’s history and legendary lore show that greatness does not last and the proudest are brought low. For enforcing moral and spiritual truths, the strictest history is no better than legend. Indeed all artistic history is legend, for it is written from a special point of view. Man is easily cowed by contrasts in his own fortunes, and yet he does not learn from them the lesson of forbearance and kindness to others, and the final elevation of goodness in the Hereafter. When all the things on which his mind and heart are set on this earth shall be crushed to nothingness, he will see the real glory and power, love and beauty, of Allah, for these are the light of the Garden of Paradise.
SURAH AL BALAD: [The City].This Surah refers to the mystic relation (by Divine sanction) of the Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam with the City of Makkah. The Prophet’s own City persecuted him. Honoured by his nativity, it sought to slay him. Yet he loved it and purged it of all that was wrong. What toil and struggle did it not involve? Man is made for toil and struggle. Let him not boast of ease and wealth. He will be called to account for all his doings. Let him use his God-given faculties, and tread the steep path that leads to Heaven’s Heights: The steps thereto are Love, unselfish Love, given freely to Allah’s creatures – all those in need – and Faith in Allah, and Patience joined with self-restraint and kindness. Thus only can we reach the ranks of the blessed Companions of the Right Hand!
SURAH AL SHAMS: [The Sun]. Beginning with a fine nature passage, and leading up to man’s need of realising his spiritual responsibility, it ends with a warning of the terrible consequences for those who fear not the Hereafter. Allah gave the soul the power of choice and the sense of Right and Wrong. Let man keep it pure and attain salvation. Soil it with sin and reach perdition. Inordinate wrongdoing ruined the Thamud. They defied Allah’s Sacred Law and His Prophet, and went to Destruction for their crime.
SURAH AL LAYL: [The Night]. Here we are told to to strive our utmost towards Allah, and He will give us every help and satisfaction. When we consider Allah’s Wonderful Creation, we see many mysteries – many opposites – many differences; the succession of nights and days, the creation of male and female. Can we wonder at the differences in the nature and objectives of man? He is endowed with Will, and he must strive for the Right through all his diverse paths. For the Righteous, the way is made the smoother for bliss: for the arrogant crooked will, the way is the smoother for Misery. But Allah’s Guidance is always near if man will choose it. And what is the goal for those who choose aright? The sight of the Face of Allah Most High: For that indeed is happiness supreme.
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Tonight’s Tarawee consists of Tabarakalladhi (JUZ 29). The Surahs that will be covered are: Surah Al Mulk [The Dominion]; Surah Al Qalam [The Pen] or Nun; Surah Al Haqqah [The Sure Reality]; Surah Al Ma’arij [The Ways of Ascent]; Surah Nuh [Noah}; Surah Al Jinn [The Spirits]; Surah Al Muzammil {The Enfolded One]; Surah Al Muddaththir [The One Wrapped Up]; Surah Al Qiyamah [The Resurrection]; Surah Al Insa [Man] or Al Dahr [The Time]; and Surah Al Mursalat [Those Sent Forth].
SURAH AL MULK:
This Surah of 30 verses belongs to the Middle Makkan period. Allah is mentioned here by the name of Al Rahman [Most Gracious], as He is mentioned by the names of Al Rabb [Lord and Cherisher] and Al Rahman [Most Gracious] in Surah 19. Lordship is right and in fact belongs to Allah Most Gracious, Whose Goodness and Glory and Power are writ large on all His Creation. The beauty and order of the heavens above us proclaim Him. Then who can reject His Call but those in pitiful delusion? And who can fail to accept, that truly knows himself and the mighty Reality behind him? The earth and the good things thereof are prepared for man by his Gracious and Exalted Lord, Who guards him from hourly dangers. Who sustains the wonderful flight of the birds in midair? Above, and below, and in midair can we see His boundless Signs. We know that His Promise of the Hereafter is true. The spring and source of the goodness of things is in Him, and will appear triumphant when the Hour is established.
SURAH AL QALAM: [The Pen], or Nun
Our Nabee S.A.W. was the sanest and wisest of men. Those who could not understand him called him mad or possessed. So, in every age, it is the habit of the world to call Truth Falsehood and Wisdom Madness, and, on the other hand, to exalt Selfishness as Planning, and Arrogance as Power. The contrast is shown up between the two kinds of men and their real inner worth. True Judgement comes from Allah, and not from the false standards of men. The Pen is the symbol of the permanent Record, the written Decree, the perfect Order in the government of the world. And by that token, the man of Allah comes with a Plan and Guidance that must win against all detraction. Truth is high above Slander. But men must be tried against selfishness and overweening confidence in themselves such as would lead them to forget Allah and His Providence – like the brothers who built castles in the air above their garden and found it desolate in one night’s storm. But repentance brought them forgiveness: Thus work the Wrath and the Mercy of Allah.
SURAH AL HAQQAH: [The Sure Reality].
In this fleeting world few things are what they seem. What then is sure Reality? Nations and men in the past assumed arrogance and perished because they were unjust, but that destruction was but a foretaste of the Doom to come in the Hereafter, when all creation will be on a new plane, and true values will be fully established. To the Righteous will be Bliss, and to Evil, Punishment. The word of Revelation is not a Poet’s imagination or a Soothsayer’s groping into the future. It is Allah’s Own Message, of Mercy to the Righteous, and warning to those who reject the Truth. Praise and Glory to the name of Allah Most High.
SURAH AL MA’ARIJ: [The Ways of Ascent].
Patience and the mystery of Time will show the ways that climb to Heaven. Sin and Goodness must each eventually come to its own. Man can ascend to the Presence of Allah, but by gradual Ways and in process of Time. But what is Time? A Day is as fifty Thousand years, on two different planes. What seems near is far, and what seems far is near. So will Judgement be, when things as we know them will be transformed completely in a world all new. Evil will come to its own, whatever its masks in this transitory world. And Good will surely reach its goal. The good life is patient, in prayer and well-doing, Faith and the earnest search for the Good Pleasure of Allah, purity and probity. These are the Paths to the Heights and the Gardens of Bliss. No Evil can enter there: For the evil are other ways, leading by steep descent to dark Ignominy!
SURAH NUH: [Noah].
The theme is that while Good must uphold the standard of Truth and Righteousness, a stage is reached when it must definitely part company with Evil, lest Evil should spread its corruption. The story of Hazrat Nuh Alayhis Salaam’s agony is almost a Parable for the prosecution of our Beloved Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam in the Makkan period by the Pagans.
SURAH AL JINN: [The Spirits].
Two years before the Hijrah, when the Nabee S.A.W; despised and rejected in his native city of Makkah went to the lordly men of Ta’if, they maltreated him and nearly killed him. What caused him greater pain was the maltreatment of the humble and lowly men who went with him. On his return journey to Makkah, a glorious vision was revealed to him – hidden spiritual forces working for him – people not known to him accepting his mission while his own people were still rejecting him. Within two months some strangers from Madinah had privately met him and laid the foundations of that Hijrah which was to change the fate of Arabia and the course of world history.
SURAH AL MUZAMMIL: [The Enfolded One].
The subject matter is the significance of Prayer and Humility in spiritual life and the terrible fate of those who reject Faith and Revelation. Devote yourself to the service of Allah in the stillness of the night, but not all night. In the world’s persecution rely on Allah, Who will deal with His enemies fittingly. Let not Allah’s service be a matter of difficulty to you: do all your duties in whole-hearted remembrance of Allah, and ever seek His bountiful Grace.
SURAH AL MUDDATHTIR: [The One Wrapped Up].
The subject matter of this Surah is similar to the one before it. Prayer and Praise, and the need of patience in a period of great spiritual stress: the unjust who cause sorrow and suffering now will themselves experience agony in the Hereafter. The Seer, by devotion and contemplation, prepares himself for the duties of Guide and Leader to mankind. When there comes the clear Call, he must stand forth and Proclaim the Message – in purity, unselfish devotion, and patience long-suffering – to save mankind from the Distress of the Final Day.
SURAH AL QIYAMAH: [The Resurrection].
The subject matter of the Surah is the Resurrection, viewed from the point of view of Man, especially unregenerate Man, as he is now, and as he will be then, his inner and psychological history. Eschew all Evil: for man was not created without purpose or without responsibility. The Day of Account will come, and his own conscience bears witness that he must walk straight; for he must face the Realities of That Day. With patience await the unfolding of Allah’s view. Woe unto man that he thinks not now of Allah’s Purpose and the noble Destiny for which Allah gave him Life and all its Gifts.
SURAH AL INSAN: [Man]. or Al DAHR: [The Time].
Its theme is the contrast between the two classes of men, those who choose good and those who choose evil, with special reference to the former. The title of the Surah recalls a Pagan Arab idea, which personified Time as existing spontaneously from eternity to eternity and responsible for the misery or the happiness of mankind. In Verse 45 of Surah Al Jathiyah we read: “They say…..nothing but Time can destroy us.” This attitude is of course wrong. Time is a created thing: it has its mysteries, but it is no more eternal than matter. It is also relative to our conceptions and not absolute. It is only Allah Who is Self Subsisting, Eternal from the beginning and Eternal to the end, the absolute Existence and Reality; We must not transfer His Attributes to any figment of our imagination. This deification of Time [Dahr] as against a living personal God has given rise to the term dariyah, as applied to an atheist or a materialist. The Righteous are patient in Constant Devotion: Allah’s Way is open to all. Whosoever has the Will, may attain to the Perfect Goal.
SURAH AL MURSALAT: [Those Sent Forth].
The theme of this Surah is similar to that of Surah Al Qiyamah. It denounces the horrors of the Hereafter, for those who rejected Truth. The refrain, “Ah woe, that Day, to the Rejecters of Truth!” which occurs ten times in its fifty verses, or, on an average, once in every five verses, indicates the leitmotif. Will man not learn from his own little story, or from nature around him? The Blazing Fire will be indeed an enveloping Punishment. How dreadful the contrast with the Bliss of the Righteous! Learn, you, therefore, Humility, and approach Allah’s Throne in Repentance and Earnest Endevour.
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Tonight’s Tarawee consists of Qad Sami-Allahu (JUZ 28) and the Surahs that will be covered are the following: Surah Al Mujadilah [The Woman Who Pleads]; Surah Al Hashr [The Mustering]; Surah Al Mumtahinah [ That Which Examines]; Surah Al Saff [The Battle Array]; Surah Al Juma’ah [Frida]; Surah Al Munafiqun [The Hypocrites]; Surah Al Taghabun [The Mutual Loss And Gain]; Surah Al Talaq [Divorce]; and Surah Al Tahrim [Prohibition].
SURAH AL MUJADILAH: [The Woman Who Pleads].
The subject matter of this Surah is the importance of a woman’s Plea on behalf of herself and her children and a condemnation of all secret counsels and intrigues in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Summary: – All false pretences, especially those that degrade a woman’s position, are condemned – as well as secret consultations between men and intrigues with falsehood, mischief, and sedition. Observe order and decorum in public assemblies, and seek not in selfish pride to engage your leader’s private attention. It is wrong to turn to the enemies of Allah for friendship. They make their oaths a cloak for wrongdoing, and keep back men from the Right. But none can resist the Power or the Judgement of Allah. The Righteous seek only His Good Pleasure, and rejoice therein as their highest Achievement.
SURAH AL HASHR: [The Mustering].
The special theme of this Surah is how treachery to the Ummah on the part of its enemies recoils on the enemies themselves, while it strengthens the bond between the different sections of the Ummah itself, and this is illustrated by the story of the expulsion of the Jewish tribe of Banu al Nadr in Rabi’ al Awwal, 4 A.H. This fixes the date of the Surah.
Summary: – The expulsion of the treacherous Jews from the neighbourhood of Madinah was smoothly accomplished. Their reliance on their fortified positions and on the faith of their allies in treachery proved futile.
But the internal bonds in the Ummah were strengthened. Such is the Wisdom of Allah, Lord of the Most Beautiful Names. There is no god but He! the Good, the Glorious, the Irresistible! All Creation sings His Praise – the Exalted in Might, the Wise!
SURAH AL MUMTAHINAH: [That Which Examines].
The point here is: What social relations are possible with the Unbelievers? A distinction is made between those who persecute you for your Faith and want to destroy you and your Faith, and those who have shown no such rancour. For the latter there is hope of mercy and forgiveness. The question of women and cross-marriages is equitably dealt with. The date is after the Pagans had broken the Treaty of Hudaybiyah about A.H. 8, not long after the conquest of Makkah.
Summary: – The enemies of your Faith, who would exterminate you and your Faith, are not fit objects of your love. Follow Nabee Ebrahim Alayhis Salaam’s example. But with those Unbelievers who show no rancour, you should deal with kindness and justice: marriage between Believers and Unbelievers. Let not Believing women be handed over to Unbelievers. No marriage tie is lawful between them. When women wish to join your society, take their assurance that they yield not to sin or unbeseeming conduct. Take every care to keep your society free and pure, and self-contained.
SURAH AL SAFF: [The Battle Array].
The subject matter here is the need of discipline, practical work, and self-sacrifice in the cause of the Ummah. Its date is uncertain, but it was probably shortly after the Battle of Uhud, which was fought in Shawwal, A.H. 3.
Summary: – Allah’s Glory shines through all Creation: but what discipline can you show to back your words with action? What story can you learn from the stories of Nabee Moosa and Nabee Esa Alayhim Salaam? Help the Cause, and Allah’s Help will come with glorious results. Do you only mock and insult the messengers as they did of old? Nay, trust in Allah and strive your utmost in His Cause, little have you to give, but glorious is the reward that Allah will give you – now and in the Eternal Life to come!
SURAH AL JUMU’AH: [Friday].
The special theme of this Surah is the need for mutual contact in the Community for worship and understanding. The spirit of the Message is for all, ignorant and learned, in order that they may be purified and may learn wisdom.
Summary: – The Revelation has come among unlearned men, to teach purity and wisdom not only to them but to others, including those who may have an older Message but do not understand it: meet solemnly for the Assembly [Friday] Prayer, and let not worldly interests deflect you therefrom. Allah’s care for His creatures is universal. His Revelation is for all – ignorant and lowly as well as learned and high placed – now and forever. None can arrogantly claim exclusive possession of Allah’s Gifts; If they do, search their hearts within, and you will find them afraid of Death and Judgement. Men of Faith! On the Day of Assembly, when you hear the call, hasten earnestly to answer it: leave off business, and join in common worship and devotion. Then you may disperse about your ordinary business, but remember the Praises of Allah always. It is He alone that can provide for your every need, and His Gifts are the best.
SURAH AL MUNAFIQUN: [The Hypocrites].
The special feature here dealt with is the wiles and mischief of the Hypocrite element in any community, and the need of guarding against it and against the temptation it throws in the way of the Believers. The Battle of Uhud [Shawwal A.H. 3] unmasked the Hypocrites in Madinah. This Surah may be referred to some time after that event, say about 4 A.H. or possibly 5 A.H.
Summary: – False are the Oaths of the Hypocrites for they only seek selfish ends. Believers should beware of their wiles and strive devotedly always for the Cause. The Oaths of the Hypocrites are a screen for their misdeeds. They think they deceive with their fair exteriors and plausible talk, but their minds are impervious to the real Truth. They may plot to withhold from men of Allah such things of this world as they may command. They may plot to expel and persecute the righteous; they may call them ill names and slight them. But to Allah belongs the treasures of the heavens and the earth, and He will bestow according to His Wise and universal Plan. Let not the world’s foolish craze divert the Believers from the service of Allah – from good deeds and Charity. Now is the time: all vain will be your pleas and your regrets when the shadow of Death cuts off your last chance of Repentance!
SURAH AL TAGHABUN: [The Mutual Loss and Gain].
The special aspect spoken of here is the mutual gain and loss of Good and Evil, contrasted in this life and in the Hereafter. It is an early Madinah Surah, of the year 1 of the Hijrah or possibly even of the Makkan period just before the Hijrah.
Summary: – Both the Unbelievers and the Believers were created but the One True Creator, Who created all and knows all. Why should Unbelief and Evil exult in worldly gain when their loss will be as manifest in the Hereafter as will the gains of the Believers? The Gainers here will be the losers there, and the Losers Gainers. Some of this exchange you will see even here, in this life, for Unbelievers who deny the Hereafter; but in the Hereafter, full account and true adjustment of good and ill will follow before the Judgement Seat: Nay, Good will get more than its full reward: for Allah is Bounteous, Merciful, Mighty, Wise.
SURAH AL TALAQ: [Divorce].
The aspect dealt with here is Divorce, and the necessity of precautions to guard against its abuse. The relations of the sexes are an important factor in the social life of the Community, and this Surah as well as the following Surah deal with certain aspects of it. “Of all things permitted by Law”, said our Beloved Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam, “divorce is the most hateful in the sight of Allah”. [Abu Dawud, Sunan, 13.3] While the sanctity of marriage is the essential basis of family life, the incompatibility of individuals and the weaknesses of human nature require certain outlets and safeguards if that sanctity is not to be made into a fetish at the expense of human life. That is why the question of Divorce is in this Surah linked with the question of insolent impiety and its punishment.
Summary: – Provision to be made for women in case of Divorce, insolent impiety always leads to punishment.. Use all the precautions to protect the interests of unborn or newborn lives as well as social decency; and close not to the last door of reconciliation. Allah’s Laws must be obeyed: It is man’s own loss if he is deaf to the voice which teaches him, or blind to the Light which guides him. Allah’s universe of beauty and wonder stands strong in wisdom; Let man but tune himself thereto.
SURAH AL TAHRIM: [Prohibition].
The point dealt with here is: how far the turning away from sex or the opposition of one sex against another or a want of harmony between the sexes may injure the higher interests of society. The date may be taken to be somewhere about A.H. 7.
Summary: – The failings of the weaker sex should not turn away men from normal social life: harmony and mutual confidence should be taught and enforced, and Allah’s blessing will descend on the virtuous even if their lot is cast with the wicked. Respect each other’s confidence, and if you fail, repent and make amends. The good man seeks virtue for himself and his family. If Evil is yoked to Good, it must take the fruit of its own deeds; the worldly tie will profit naught; but good should firmly make a stand and will be saved, for Allah does care for All His true devoted Servants.
Tonight’s Tarawee consists of Kaala Fama Khatbukoom (JUZ 27) and the Surahs that will be covered are:- the concluding second half of Surah Al Dhariyat, Surah Al Tur [The Mount]; Surah Al Najm; Surah Al Qamar [The Moon] Surah Al Rahman [The Most Gracious]; Surah Al Waqi’ah and Surah Al Hadid.
The commentary of Surah Al Dhariyat was covered last night.
SURAH AL TUR; [The Mount]
Surah Al Tur is an early Makkan Surah. All Signs of Allah, including previous revelations and other sacred symbols, point out that Allah’s Final Judgement will take place on the Day of Reckoning. The perpetrators of evil will be severely punished on that day while those who enjoined the good will reap the benefits of Allah’s rewards. All Praise is due to none other than Allah and all the points raised by the disbelievers are without foundation. They have failed to grasp the Divine Message. Praise Allah in the stillness of the night and at the holy hour of dawn as the stars retreat, singing glory to the Maker of their own most glorious Sun.
SURAH AL NAJM: This is an early Makkan Surah.
Summary: – The impression received by the Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam in revelation is neither error on his part nor deception by others, nor does he speak from selfish motives. It comes clearly from Allah, Who is not what the vain imaginations of men conceive. He is All-in-All, First and Last, Lord of All, Ample in forgiveness. Those who turn away are petty and ignorant, not knowing that Allah is the source and goal of all things – in men, in nature, and in the events of history – therefore serve Him. He has created all of us, and knows all that we are. It is not for us to justify ourselves, but to offer ourselves totally as we are. Learn from His Revelation and Adore the Lord of your innermost soul.
SURAH AL QAMAR: [The Moon].
This is an early Makkan Surah. The theme of the Surah is explained by the refrain: “Is there any that will receive
admonition?” which occurs six times, at the end of each reference to a past story of sin and rejection of warnings and in the appeal to the simplicity of verses 15, 17, 22, 32, 40, and 51. There is an invitation to listen to the Message and turn to Truth and Righteousness.
Summary: – The Hour of Judgement is nigh, but men forget or reject the Message, as did the people of Nabee Nuh A.S., of ‘Ad, of Thamud, of Nabee Lut A.S.; and of Fir’aun. Is there any that will receive admonition? Will the present generation learn wisdom by warning? Alas! Is there any that will truly receive admonition? The Righteous will dwell in the Gardens of Bliss – in joyful Assembly of realised Truth, in the Presence of their Sovereign Most High.
SURAH AL RAHMAN:
The majority of Commentators consider this an early Makkan Surah, though some consider at least a part of it dating from Madinah. The greater part of it is undoubtedly early Makkan. It is highly poetical and most sublime, and the refrain “Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?” is interspersed 31 times among its 78 verses. It is the sixth of the series of seven dealing with Revelation, the favours of Allah, and the Hereafter. Here the special theme is indicated by the refrain. The rhyme in most cases is the Dual grammatical form, and the Argument implies that though things are created in pairs, there is an underlying Unity, through the Creator, in the favours which He bestows, and in the goal to which they are marching.
Summary: – Allah Exalted and Most Gracious has sent Revelation, one of His greatest favours to mankind. His Creation is in pairs, well-balanced; all created things receive His Favours, but they will all pass away, and only Allah will endure through the ages. Ultimately all evil shall return to its destination, as well as all Good, but ever blessed is the name of Almighty Allah, Lord of Glory, Honour and Bounty. Which, then of the favours of your Lord will you deny?
SURAH AL WAQI’AH:
This is the seventh and last Surah of the series devoted to Revelation and the Hereafter. It belongs to an early Makkan period, with the possible exception of one or two verses. The theme is certainly of the Day of Judgement and its adjustments of true Values. Allah’s Power, Goodness and Glory, and the Truth of Revelation.
Summary: – When the Day of Judgement comes, the world as we know it will be shaken to its foundations, and mankind shall be sorted out into three sorts: Those nearest to Allah, in exalted Bliss; the Companions of the Right Hand, in Bliss; and the companions of the Left Hand, in Misery. Surely the Power and Goodness of Allah, of which Revelation is a Sign, should lead man to accept the Message and glorify Him. Glory and Praise to Allah the Beneficent, Supreme to Justice, Mercy and Truth!
SURAH AL HADID:
With this Surah we have now studied the contents of nearly nine tenths of the Holy Qur’an. The comprehensive scheme of building up the new Ummah or Brotherhood and its spiritual implications is now complete. The remaining tenth of the Qur’an may be considered in two parts. The first contains ten Surahs i.e. Surahs 57 to 66 all revealed in Madinah, and each dealing with some special point which needs emphasis in the social life of the Ummah. The second i. e. Surah’s 67 to 94 contains short Makkan lyrics, each dealing with some aspect of spiritual life, expressed in language of great mystic beauty. The present Madinah Surah is chiefly concerned with the spiritual humility and the avoidance of arrogance, and a warning that retirement from the world may not be the best way of seeking the Good Pleasure of Allah.
Summary: – Allah’s Power and Knowledge extend to all things: Follow His Light direct, without doubt or fear or half-heartedness, but with humility, generous charity, and faith, and not in a life of isolation from the world.
August 9, 2012 Ahmed Leave a comment
Tonight’s Tarawee consists of Ilayhi Yuraddu (JUZ 25) and the Surah’s that will be covered are: the concluding section of Surah Fussilat or Ha Min; Surah Al Shura; Surah Al Zukhruf; Surah Al Dukhan; and Surah Al Jathiyah.
SURAH AL SHURA:
The theme is how evil and blasphemy can be cured by the Mercy and Guidance of Allah, which come through His Revelation. Men are asked to settle their differences in patience by mutual Consultation which explains the title of this Surah.
Summary: – The Contrast of blasphemy against Revelation, Unity and Faith as relying on the Signs and Mercy of Allah. Evil comes through men’s own deeds, of which they cannot avoid the consequences, but Guidance comes through Allah’s Mercy and Revelation. Inspiration is part of the Glory and Goodness of Allah. His Unity is shown in His Creation. Yet man will turn to false gods, and dispute about Religion. Faith has been one at all times. But sects and divisions rose through selfish contumacy. Let all contention cease, and conduct weighed by the just balance of Allah’s Word. The Just and the Unjust will all be brought before Allah, Whose Mercy and Bounty are writ large in the Signs in His Marvellous Creation – one, yet diverse! What we call the ills of life is due to our own ill deeds; and many of them are forgiven by Allah. His Plan can never be frustrated. This life is but a stage of conscience. Live true and resist all wrong, but learn the best way to do so. Rely only on Allah, else no protector will you find. Allah’s Revelation comes as a Guide and Mercy. It shows the Straight Way, the Way of Allah All-Wise.
SURAH AL ZUKHRUF:
This Surah deals with the contrasts between the real glory of Truth and Revelation and the false glitter of what people like to believe and worship. It cites the examples of Nabee Ebrahim A.S; Nabee Moosa A.S; and Nabee Esa A.S. as exposing the False and holding up the Truth. The keyword [Zukhruf, Gold Adornments) occurs in verse 35, but the idea occurs all through the Surah.
Summary: -The Book of Revelations makes things clear, even though the ignorant and foolish mock at it and ignore Allah’s Signs: it will last, while its rejecters will perish will perish. Nabee Ebrahim exposed the falsehood of traditional worship: the glitter and adornments of this world will not last: what was the end of Fir’aun in his arrogant fight with Nabee Moosa A.S.? If Christians go back to Nabee Esa A.S.. he was but a man and a servant of Allah. He came to to still the jarring sects, not to create a new one. He preached the One True Creator, his Lord. So give up disputing and join in devotion to Allah. This is the Way to the Garden of Bliss, but the opposite leads to the Fire. Beware! the Truth has come, and Allah knows how you receive it. He is the Lord of power and mercy. The Truth must prevail: resist it not.
SURAH AL DUKHAN:
The theme of this particular Surah is how worldly pride and power are humbled in the dust if they resist spiritual forces, and how Evil and Good find their true setting in the Hereafter. The title word DUKHAN occurs in verse 10. It means smoke or mist, and may refer to a drought or famine. The “smoke” or “mist” is interpreted on good authority to refer to a severe famine in Makkah, in which men were pinched with hunger that they saw mist before their eyes when they looked at the sky. Ibn Kathir in his Tarikh mentions two famines in Makkah, one in 8th year of the mission, say the fourth year before the Hijrah, and another about the 8th year after the Hijrah. But as either or both of these famines lasted as many as seven years, the dates are to be taken very roughly. It is even possible that the two famines were continuous, of varying severity from year to year. Bukhari mentions only the post Hijrah famine, which was apparently so severe that men began to eat bones and carrion. Abu Sufyan (about 8 A.H.) approached the Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam to intercede and pray for the removal of the famine, as the Pagans attributed it to the curse of the Nabee S.A.W.
Summary: – Revelation explains clearly how worldly pride and arrogance may come to naught, even at long odds, against spiritual truths. A people may be given all blessings and may fall in its trust, as did the Bani Is’rail: will the Quraysh learn the lesson of Good and Evil? The children of Bani Is’rail were granted gifts and favours but they became arrogant and fell. Can the Quraysh escape the doom for sin? We created the world for just ends. The Day will come when good and evil will be sorted out. Each will meet the fruits of its own deeds. Give good heed to the Message revealed, and wait and watch.
SURAH AL JATHIYAH:
Summary: – The title, Al Jathiyah [“The Kneeling Down” or “Bowing the Knee”] taken from verse 28, expresses the leading idea in the Surah. In this life, in spite of the Signs of Allah, and the evidence of His Goodness all around, men go about in Unfaith, and mocking at Faith, but the end will bring them all to their knees. The Signs of Allah are everywhere. His Power, Wisdom, and Goodness are shown through all creation and in revelation. How can man be so ungrateful as to reject true Guidance, reaping thus the fruits of evil? But men of Faith have patience and forgive their weaker brethren, and trust in the final justice of Allah. Form no sects, as was done aforetime, nor make your lusts your gods. The future is sure, and in the hands of Allah, to Whom all will bend the knee, when Truth will shine in all its glory. So praise and glory to Allah, the Lord and Cherisher of all the worlds.
Tonight’s Tarawee consists of Faman Adhlamoo (JUZ 24) and the Surahs to be covered are as follows: The remaining half of Surah Al Zumar, the whole of Surah Al Mu’min (The Believer) or (Ghafir – Forgiver) and the first section of Surah Fussilat or Ha Mim.
SURAH AL ZUMAR:
What distance separates the man whose heart is melted by the Message of Allah and enlightened by His Light, and let him who rejects Revelation! Allah teaches men by Parables. Straight is His Word and clear. Any doubts in the minds of men will be resolved after Death. Even now Allah’s Signs are enough. No other can guide. Death and his twin brother sleep, are in the hands of Allah; to Him is our Goal. He Alone will judge in the end. His Will is all-in-all. No other thing can be of any account before His Law. But no soul need be in despair because of its sin. Allah’s Forgiveness and Mercy are Unbounded. Turn to Allah in repentance now, for at Judgement it will be too late. Unity in worship and life is commanded by Allah. Go not astray. When Judgement comes, it will be a new World. In perfect justice will the followers of Evil be sorted out from the Good. And the righteous will rejoice, singing Praises to Allah with the Angels on high.
SURAH AL MU’MIN (OR GHAFIR):
This Surah is called Ghafir (Forgiver). It is also called Al Mu’min (The Believer) from the story of the individual Believer among the people of Fir’aun, who declares his faith and looks to the future. Here it is about the Individual’s witness to Faith and Virtue, and his triumph in the End. As to the precise meaning Ha Mim no authoritative explanation is available . If Mim here has a signification similar to Mim in Alif, Lam, Mim, it means the End of Things, the Last Day, and all these Surah’s direct our special attention to the Ha, the emphatic guttural. in contrast with the softer breathing of Alif, may be meant to suggest that the Beginning is only for the End, the Present for the Future, and to emphasize the eschatological element in Faith. But this is mere conjecture, and should be taken for no more than it is worth.
Summary: – Faith is ever justified, for Allah forgives. Evil deeds must have Evil fruits for Allah knows and is Just. In all history Evil came to Evil; the protest of Faith, in the midst of Evil, may be ignored; but Faith is protected by Allah while Evil perishes. No doubt is there of the Future Judgement; the Power, Goodness, and Justice of Allah are manifest. Will man dispute or will he accept the Signs before it is too late? Travel in space and time, and you will see that Evil came to nothing but evil. Mighty men of old in arrogance plotted against Allah’s Truth, but were brought low. A humble believer in Fir’aun’s Court stood up for Truth, and counselled his People to obey the Right: In earnest humility did he address them. They heard him not. But he was saved, and they were engulfed in the Wrath of Allah. The keys of Life and Death are in the hands of Allah. Dispute not the Signs of Allah, but learn from History and the world around you. Science and skill avail you not if the soul is dead.
SURAH FUSSILAT or HA MIM:
To prevent confusion with other Surahs of the Ha Mim Series, the word Sajdah is sometimes added to the title, making it Ha Mim al Sajdah, the title being necessary as there is another Surah called Al Sajdah. To avoid the double title it is sometimes called Fussilat, from the occurrence of the word in verse 3. For this particular Surah the theme is that the basis of Faith and Revelation is Allah’s Power and Goodness, and the fruit of both is man’s righteousness and healing.
Summary: – What is Revelation and Faith, and what is man’s attitude to both, and what are its consequences? Revelation explains, and makes things clear. It gives the message of hope and mercy, and it warns men against the snares of Evil. Do not deny Allah, the Lord of the World’s, Whose Glory and power are shown in Creation, and His Mercy in Revelation. Learn from the fate of the peoples of old! Learn from the warnings of our own nature. Your very limbs and faculties, if misused, bear witness against you. Repent before it is too late. The best of men is the man of faith, who calls all men to share his Faith. Knowledge belongs to Allah, but Falsehood deprives man of hope, humility, and clear sight, and drives him to hypocrisy. So turn to Truth, and live.
Tonight’s Tarawee covers Wama Liyaa…(JUZ 23). The Surahs that will be recited this evening are: the three and two third Rukus of Surah Ya Sin, Surah Al Saffat in its entirety, Surah Sad, and half of Surah Al Zumar .
SURAH YA SIN:
This particular Surah is devoted to the Beloved Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam and the Revelation which he brought. The abbreviated letters Ya Sin are usually construed as a title of the Nabee S.A.W. But it is not permissable to be dogmatic about the meaning of abbreviated letters. This Surah is considered to be “the heart of the Qur’an”, as it concerns the central figure in the teaching of Islam and the central doctrine of Revelation and the Hereafter. As referring to the Hereafter, it is appropriately read in solemn ceremonies after death. In chronology it belongs to the middle or early Makkan period.
Summary: – The Qur’an is full of wisdom, and those are unfortunate who cannot profit by it. The Wisdom of Revelation – the Qur’an received through the Nabee S.A.W. – is a guide to the Straight Path, and a warning against the terrible state in which the yokes of sin are enslave us. The righteous receive it with joy, for they believe in the Hereafter. Behold, there was once a City, to which came two righteous men with the Gospel of Truth. But they were rejected and persecuted: they were joined by a third, But the City refused to believe or to turn from iniquity. Only one man was found in its outskirts to be witness to Truth, Faith and Righteousness, and he did suffer Martyrdom. He attained Peace, but mourned for his people, in that they shut their gates of salvation and Allah’s Mercy on themselves. Alas for man’s short-sighted folly in defying The Grace that would shield and deliver him!
Are there not enough Signs around you to bear witness to Allah, and His saving Grace? The earth dies and revives: there are mysteries of Life and Sex, of Light and the Stars and Planets in heaven, that follow their orbits by Law and in harmony! There are the ships and the modes of transport by which man can conquer the forces around him with Allah-given Gifts! Learn the Laws of Goodness from them and believe in the Hereafter, it will come when least expected. Be prepared for Allah! When the Day comes, men will be taken aback. The Judgement Seat will be established. Blessed will be those who attain Salvation: Their Joy, Satisfaction, and Peace will be crowned with nearness to their Lord! Alas for the sinful, who deliberately followed evil: their own nature and actions will speak against them. They will face the realities of Punishment! Both Revelation and Nature are eloquent in instructing man for his own good in the Hereafter, which will come as a certainty. Praise and Glory to Allah.
SURAH AS- SAFFAT:
This is the fourth in a series of Surahs in which the mysteries of the spiritual world are manifested in different ways, tending to the defeat and final extirpation of Evil. The defeat of Evil is throughout connected with Revelation, and here the ranged fight is illustrated by a reference to the Angels in heaven and to the earlier Prophets in our earthly history from Nabee Nuh A.S; to Nabee Yunus A.S. This Surah belongs to the early middle Makkan period.
Summary: – Through all the mysteries of the heavens and earth, there is a sorting out of the evil against the good: their final destinations contrasted. Peace and victory came to Nabee Nuh A.S; Nabee Ebrahim A.S; Nabee Moosa and Nabee Haroon Alayhim Salaam, to Nabee Ilyas A.S. and Nebee Lut A.S. in their conflict with Evil. So was it with Nabee Yunus A.S. when he glorified Allah. But men will ascribe to Allah what is unworthy of Him. Allah’s Prophets strive for His Glory, and shall be victorious. Allah is One, the Source and Centre of all Affairs. High is He above all creatures. The ranks of Angels and Messengers stand firm in His Service. Evil is sure to be overcome. So Praise and Glory to Allah, the Lord of Honour and Power, and Peace to His Messengers.
SURAH SAD:
This Surah, both in chronology and subject matter is cognate to Surah Al Saffat and carries forward the same argument. But here the emphasis is laid on the working of earthly power when combined with spiritual power, and it is pointed out how much more significant (and real) spiritual power is. For this reason the illustrative stories are mainly those of Nabee Dawood A.S. and Nabee Sulayman A.S. who were kings as well as Prophets, and a parallel is suggested with the unfolding public life of our Beloved Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam.
Summary: – Worldly and evil men are surprised at the renewal of Truth and Righteousness; but righteousness has more power than worldly strength, as is seen in the story of kings like Nabee Dawood A.S., who had both. Nabee Sulayman also loved Allah more than worldly power, which may be good but may be misused by evil men of power and insight, chose the path of final bliss rather than final misery. So also is the case of Nabee Muhammad S.A.W. the final Messenger; his Gospel of Unity must triumph over all jealousy and Arrogance in Allah’s good time. The Gospel of Unity is the True Cure for Evil for it gives the good news of Allah’s Power
Supreme, and His Mercy and Forgiveness again and again. It warns us to avoid Evil, for Evil arose from selfish pride and rebellion. No power has it over Allah’s Servants, sincere and true: while Revelation comes as a Gift free to all Allah’s Creation.
This is the last of the series of Surahs which deal with the mysteries of the spiritual world, as leading up to the Ma’ad, or the Hereafter. Its subject matter is how Creation in its great variety is yet sorted out in Groups or Classes, all governed by one Plan, and created and sustained by One Creator, Who will separate Good from Evil at the Last Day. The words Zumar occurs in verses 71 and 73. It belongs to the later Makkan period.
Summary: – The variety in Creation yet points to the Unity of Plan: there is only One Creator: to Him is due all worship and from Him flow all Justice and Grace. There is Unity in Revelation, and Guidance comes from Almighty Allah alone. Turn to Him only, for all else is false. Allah’s Mercy is all-embracing: despair not: seek it before it is too late: for Judgement and Justice will come for certain. To Allah is due sincere devotion, and to Him Alone. There is none like unto Him. All nature obeys His Laws, and our own Growth and Life proclaim Him Lord and Cherisher. How can we blaspheme? We must serve Him, the One, the True, with sincere devotion, and follow His Law in its highest meaning or else the loss is our own. All nature proclaims aloud His Grace and Loving Kindness.
August 5, 2012 Ahmed 1 Comment
Tonight’s Tarawee consists of Surah Wamay-Yaqnut….(JUZ 22). The Surahs to be be covered are the remaining two thirds of Surah Al Ahzab; Surah Saba (Sheba) in its entirety; Surah Fatir (The Originator of Creation} in its entirety and only one and a third Rukuh of Surah Ya Sin:
SURAH AL AHZAB:
The Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam’s household is not for worldly ends: his consorts have a place and dignity beyond ordinary women. They must recite and proclaim the Signs of Allah. For women have spiritual values and duties like unto men. Allah decrees, no unhappy wedlock; fear not to dissolve such and provide what is right and fitting for the service of Allah. High is the Nabee S.A.W.’s position, and he must order his household as best befits his work and duties. Allah does watch all things. The Hour will come when all Evil will be punished. Fear Allah, and always speak the word that leads to Right. Let man but strive in Faith, and fulfil Allah’s Trust – by the Grace and Mercy of Allah.
SURAH SABA (SHEBA):
This Surah leads off with emphasis on Allah’s Mercy and Power and Truth. We are told how Angels manifest the Power of Allah, and how different is Good from Evil and Truth from Falsehood. No good or Truth is ever lost. Human power and prosperity are fleeting; but Allah’s Power and Justice endure, and will enforce personal responsibility on man on the Last Day. Faith and Unfaith will eventually find their true places and true values; Falsehood has no power; Truth is with Allah. Man should understand and not resist Allah’s Revelation. Human wisdom and Power, as given to Nabee Dawood A.S., were only for establishing righteousness. Human glory, like Nabee Sulayman A.S.’s rested on slender foundations. Saba (Sheba) but enjoyed her fair and prosperous state as long as she obeyed the Law of Allah, but perished for unrighteousness. Learn then, that the Mercy and Power, Wisdom and Justice, of Allah are beyond all comparison. Do right and prepare for the Final Day.
SURAH FATIR:
This Surah deals with the mystery of Creation and its maintenance, with various forces typified, with various forces typified by the wings of Angels. Whether we look to outer nature or to man. Allah’s Grace proclaims His Glory, and protects His votaries from Evil. It is an early Makkan Surah, but its chronology has no significance. The forces which maintain Creation, as typified by Angels, were themselves created by Allah, to Whom Alone all praise is due: all else is naught. All good is from Allah: who then will choose Evil, and reach the doom that goes with Evil? Allah is the Source of all things: all Power, Wisdom, Beauty, and Truth from from Him. It is Evil that deceives and plots in the dark. All knowledge is with Allah. The things that are good and pure and true are not as the things that are evil, deceitful, and false. Allah is free of all needs: it is we that need Him: let us seek His love and live. His Message will save us from wrong, while dark is the fate of those who reject Him. Praise and Glory to Him, the Cherisher of all! Man can see by his own experience what infinite shades and grades of colour there are in nature. So there are grades in the spiritual world. The Good and the True understand Allah, Who knows and watches over all His Creation. The Good will reach Eternal Bliss, while Evil will find no helper. Arrogance and plotting will be the undoing of Evil: its doom is sure, if it fails to profit by the respite granted by the All-Merciful Allah.
The very first section [i.e. one and a third Rukuh of Surah Ya Sin will be read this evening but the commentary will be presented tomorrow evening Insha’Allah when the main portion of the entire Surah will be recited.
Tonight’s Tarawee consists of Surah Utloo-Maa-Oohiya…(JUZ 21) and the Surahs that will be covered are:-
The remaining half of Surah Al Ankabut, Surah Al Rum, Surah Luqman, Surah Al Sajdah and a third of Surah Al-Ahzab.
SURAH AL ANKABUT:
Proclaim the Message of Allah, and pray to Him for purity and Guidance. Almighty Allah’s Revelation carries its own proofs and is recognised by men of wisdom. Its rejecters but lose their own chances of profiting by the Truth, and attaining the Paths that lead to Allah’s own gracious Presence!
SURAH AL RUM:
This Surah deals with the question of Ma’ad or the Final End of Things, from various points of view. In the last Surah, we saw that Revelation was linked up with Life and Conduct, and Time (looking backwards and forwards) figured forth the frailty of this Life. In this Surah the Time theme and its mystery are brought into re3lation with human history in the foreground and the evolution of the world in all its aspects in the background. The corruption introduced by man is cleared away by Allah, Whose Universal Plan points to the Hereafter. This Surah was revealed about the 7th or 6th year before the Hijrah, corresponding to 615-616 of the Christian era, when the tide of Persian conquest over the Roman Empire was running strong. The Christian Empire of Rome had lost Jerusalem to the Persians, and Christianity had been humbled in the dust. The pro-Persian Pagan Quraysh rejoiced exceedingly, and redoubled their taunts and persecution against the Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam, whose Message was a renewal of the Message of Nabee Esa A.S. preached in Jerusalem. There is no doubt about the prophecy and its fulfillment. For the exulting Pagans of Makkah laid a heavy wager against the fulfillment of the prophecy with Hazrat Abu Bakr. and they lost it on its fulfillment.
Summary: – The ebb and flow of worldly power – as symbolised in the conflict of the Persian and Roman Empires – are but outward events: the deeper meaning is in the working of Allah’s Universe – how Good and Evil reach their final end. The changes and changing variety in Allah’s Creation, physical, moral, and spiritual, yet point to the Unity in Nature and Religion: man should not break away from that Unity, but glorify Him, the One, for there is none like unto Him. The hands of men have wrought corruption and mischief: but Allah purifies the moral world as He does the world of physical nature, strengthening the weak and pulling down the pulling down the mighty in due season: wait therefore in patience and constancy, and be not depressed.
SURAH LUQMAN:
The argument of the Final End of Things is here continued from another point of view. What is Wisdom? Where shall it be found? Will it solve the mysteries of Time and Nature, and the world higher than the physical Nature, which brings us nearer to Allah? “YES”, is the answer: “If, as in the advice of Luqman the Wise, human wisdom looks to Allah in true worship, ennobles every aspect of life with true kindness, but avoids the false indulgences that infringes the divine law – and in short follows the golden mean of virtue.” And this is indicated by every Sign in nature. This Surah belongs to the late Makkan period.
Summary: – The earnest seekers after righteousness receive guidance, unlike the seekers after vanity, who perish: all Creation bears witness to this: Wisdom, as expounded by Luqman the Wise, is true service to Allah, and consists in moderation. True Wisdom is firm and enduring, and discerns Allah’s Law in the working of His Creation: it looks to the Final End of Things, whose mystery is only known to Allah.
SURAH AL SAJDAH:
This short Surah closes the series of the four Alim, Lam, Mim Surahs, which began with the 29th. Its theme is the mystery of Creation, the mystery of Time and the mystery of Ma’ad (THE FINAL END) as viewed through the Light of Allah’s Revelation. The contemplation of these two mysteries should lead to Faith and the adoration of Allah. This Surah belongs to the middle Makkan period and is therefore a little earlier than the last, but its chronology has no significance.
Summary: – The mystery of Creation, the mystery of Time and the mystery of the End of Things are but known by external symbols to man: Revelation brings faith and humble adoration, and is a blessing like Rain, which brings life to dead soil. Clear are the Signs and the Revelation of Allah – in nature, history, and the Message of His living Prophets. If they learn not now, alas! It will be too late when the Wings of Time are furled.
The story of Al Ahzab or the Confederates, who tried to surround and annihilate the Muslim Community in Madinah, is full of underhand intrigues on the part of such diverse enemies as the Pagan Quraysh, the Jews (Banu al Nadir) who had been already expelled from Madinah for their treachery, the Ghatfan tribe of Bedouin Arabs from the interior, and the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayzah in Madinah. This was the unholy Confederacy against Islam. But though they caused a great deal of anxiety and suffering to the beleaguered Muslims, Islam came triumphantly out of the trial and became more firmly established than ever. It was a well organised and formidable attack but the Muslims had made preparations to meet it. One of the preparations, which took the enemy by surprise, was the TRENCH (Khandaq) dug around Madinah by the Prophet S.A.W.’s orders and under the supervision of Hazrat Salman Farsi R.A. The siege and battle are therefore known as the Battle of the Trench or the Battle of the Confederates. The position and dignity of the ladies of the Nabee S.A.W.’s Household and the Muslim women generally, salutary principles are laid down to safeguard their homes and protect them from slander and insult.
Summary: – The pagan customs in human relationship should be abandoned, and men and women should be held in honour according to natural relationships and spiritual positions. High position and seemly conduct for the wives of the Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam to be treated kindly and gently. Respect due to the Nabee S.A.W. and his family, slander to be avoided and punished: guard your words and your responsibilities.
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Body Matters
"Feeling happy" that Facebook kissed the "feeling fat" emoticon goodbye
Kit Steinkellner
Until today there was a pretty uncool “feeling” option available when posting a Facebook status. For those out-of-the-know the “feeling” options are those little smiley-face buttons on the bottom bar that allow you to accompany any status you’re posting with a “feeling” and an emoticon demonstrating said feeling. You could be feeling “blessed” or “sick,” “chill” or “stressed.” And then, way down at the bottom, there used to be a chubby-cheeked, double-chinned emoticon to use if you were “feeling fat.”
Well we are SO happy to report that after a change.org petition went viral and got over 16,000 signatures, Facebook has done away with the controversial “feeling fat” choice.
Here is Facebook’s announcement:
Now, let’s take a look back at how this whole thing came to be.
Catherine Weingarten, along with Endangered Bodies — a global initiative challenging companies who body shame — set out to rid Facebook of that offensive emoticon. Catherine started a Change.org petition called, bluntly, “Remove the ‘Feeling Fat’ Emoticon Option.” In the petition, she explained why she finds this status option so deeply problematic:
When Facebook users set their status to “feeling fat,” they are making fun of people who consider themselves to be overweight, which can include many people with eating disorders. That is not ok. Join me in asking Facebook to remove the “fat” emoji from their status options.
Fat is not a feeling. Fat is a natural part of our bodies, no matter their weight. And all bodies deserve to be respected and cared for.
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world right now. With 890 million users each day, it has the power to influence how we talk to each other about our bodies. I dream that one day the platform will actively encourage body positivity and self-esteem among its users, but for now, all I ask is that it stop endorsing self-destructive thoughts through seemingly harmless emojis.
Catherine’s points make 100% sense to us. It does seem that the main reason Facebook users would use the “feeling fat” status update would be to express loathing for their own bodies and we’re so glad it’s gone. Even though we are in the middle of a body positivity renaissance, the word “fat” still carries stigma and is considered by many to be a trigger word. There are people who embrace the word fat, who imbue it with positivity and pride, but it’s abundantly clear that the Facebook “feeling fat” emoticon was not a part of the fat acceptance movement. There was nothing body positive about this status update.
In a world in which websites like Pinterest and Instagram have banned #thinspiration and #thinspo — users who search this hashtag now find themselves directed to information about eating disorders — it seemed out of touch for Facebook to allow “fat” on their list of “feelings.” We are so glad that Facebook listened to its users and ditched an option that made thousands and thousands uncomfortable.
As Catherine wrote to her Change.org followers, “I’m thrilled that FB decided to remove the ‘feeling fat’ emoji. This success shows us that people together can challenge the cultural messages that are so damaging to our ability to love ourselves and live comfortably in our bodies. As someone who struggled with body image, I feel so happy that I’ve helped eliminate one form of body shaming hatred on the internet.” We’re so glad you did too!
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Watch Supernatural 14×19 Sneak Peek "Jack in the Box" (HD) Season 14 Episode 19 Sneak Peek
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Watch – Supernatural 14×19 "Jack in the Box" Season 14 Episode 19 Sneak Peek – A PILLAR OF SALT- Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Castiel (Misha Collins) investigate a series of suspicious deaths that have a biblical element for them . Robert Singer directed the episode written by Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner (# 1419). Original issue date of 04/18/2019. Subscribe to tvpromosdb on Youtube to get more promotions of the supernatural season 14 in HD!
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Health Care for 60450 Livestock by Vedanta Hindustan Zinc in Rajasthan
A significant step in bringing down cattle mortality & morbidity rate in Rajasthan
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UDIAPUR: Hindustan Zinc in association with Rajasthan Government organized a massive vaccination drive in Rajasthan in Hurda & Shahpura Tehsil that benefitted more than 60,450 Livestock belonging to over 4,650 farmers.
Reports suggest that India has the largest livestock population in the world, around 278 million. In Rajasthan, the Animal Husbandry sector is one of the largest contributor to the State Exchequer. It alone contributes to 8% of GDP of the State. With around 567 lakhs of livestock in Rajasthan, Animal Husbandry is a major source of income for the rural people. The Animal Husbandry has played a significant role in reducing poverty in rural areas by generating various revenue models like milk production, wool production, mutton, to name a few.
While understanding the dependency of the rural people on the Livestock for the sustainable livelihood, Hindustan Zinc has been focussing on the health care of these Livestock during such drives. Through various vaccination camps in a span of 4 months, the company vaccinated about 34,800 and diagnosed and treated more than 25, 650 Livestock. Such health care drives have been essential in decreasing the cattle mortality & morbidity rate resulting in high productivity for the rural people.
Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Group Company in Zinc-Lead-Silver business has been pro-actively working towards cattle breed improvement through artificial insemination and cattle immunization for increasing the milk yield capacities and productivity of milching animals.
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Gujarat first to act on 10% quota, starts today, says Chief Minister Vijay Rupanihttps://indianexpress.com/article/india/gujarat-first-to-act-on-10-quota-starts-today-says-cm-vijay-rupani-5536815/
Gujarat first to act on 10% quota, starts today, says Chief Minister Vijay Rupani
Following the announcement, the Opposition Congress accused the government of rushing through the decision and also questioned whether the law first needs to be ratified by the state legislature.
By Express News Service |Gandhinagar | Updated: January 14, 2019 1:10:43 pm
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A day after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill for 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections in the general category, the Gujarat government announced that it would implement the provisions in education and government jobs from January 14.
In an official release quoting Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, the state government said: “From Makar Sankranti — January 14, 2019 — the economically weaker sections of non-reserved candidates will start getting benefit of 10 per cent reservation in higher education admissions and government jobs…”
Declaring that Gujarat was the “first” to implement the “historic” and “revolutionary” legislation, the release said the new quota will be in addition to existing provisions available to SC, ST and SEBC (Socially & Educationally Backward Classes).
Rupani later posted on Twitter: “Happy to state that the Government of Gujarat has decided to implement 10% EWS reservation benefits from 14th January, 2019. It will be implemented in all ongoing recruitment process too wherein there is only advertisement published but first stage of examination is yet to held.”
Following the announcement, the Opposition Congress accused the government of rushing through the decision and also questioned whether the law first needs to be ratified by the state legislature. However, a senior government official said the “new Act does not require ratification by the state assembly under the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution”.
According to the government, the new quota will be implemented in admissions and jobs that were advertised before January 14, but for which the actual process has not started.
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However, if the recruitment or admission process — tests or interviews — has started before January 14, the 10 per cent quota would not apply, the release stated. “In case the procedure for recruitment has not begun and only an advertisement has been issued, the new advertisement will have to be issued for the recruitment,” the release further said.
In 2016, following the Patidar quota agitation, the Gujarat government had promulgated an ordinance providing 10 per cent reservation in education and government jobs for economically weaker sections in the general category.
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However, the ordinance was quashed by the Gujarat High Court — the government’s appeal is pending before the Supreme Court. “With the passing of the new law, the petition of the state government before the Supreme Court is redundant and not required,” said the official.
Gujarat Congress president Amit Chavda described the government’s decision as “a political announcement”. “The central government generally informs state governments about the new Act and its rules and then it gets implemented. Here, the Chief Minister has simply made an announcement through a tweet and a press release. We do not know the modalities of the Act’s implementation, how will it be implemented and what will be the rules,” said Chavda.
Following the state announcement, the Gujarat Public Service Commission (GPSC) postponed all its exams scheduled to be held on January 20.
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Lok Sabha Elections: BJP releases third list of 36 candidates, Sambit Patra to contest from Purihttps://indianexpress.com/elections/lok-sabha-elections-2019-bjp-releases-second-list-of-candidates-sambit-patra-to-contest-from-puri-5639047/
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Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP's third list includes 23 nominees from Andhra Pradesh, six from Maharashtra and five from Odisha and one each from Assam and Meghalaya.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its third list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections a little past midnight Friday. The list contains 36 names from five states — Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Assam and Meghalaya.
Ahead of the multi-phased polls, 23 candidates have been announced for Andhra Pradesh — the state goes to polls in the first phase on April 11 — six candidates for Maharashtra, five for Odisha and one candidate each for Assam and Meghalaya.
BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra will contest the elections from Puri parliamentary constituency in Odisha.
In the party’s second list, also released on Friday night, one candidate (Lalubhai Patel) has been announced for the seat from Daman and Diu. The UT votes in the third phase of the polls on April 23.
BJP’s third candidate list for 2019 Lok Sabha Elections
The saffron party had released its first list of 184 candidates on Thursday which confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek re-election from Varanasi, his parliamentary seat. The list also said that BJP chief Amit Shah will contest the Lok Sabha elections for the first time from Gandhinagar, where LK Advani is the sitting MP.
In the first list, 16 candidates are from Maharashtra, eight from Assam, two from Arunachal Pradesh, five from Chhatisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir each, 21 from Karnataka, 13 from Kerala, 10 from Odisha, 16 from Rajasthan, five from Tamil Nadu, 10 from Telangana, five from Uttarakhand, 28 from West Bengal and two from Andhra Pradesh.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the company looked into purchasing Twitter last year but went with video streaming provider BAMTech instead.
Speaking at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment conference this week, Iger said, “We thought Twitter had global reach, a pretty interesting user interface, and a compelling way that we might be able to present and sell the content our company makes to the consumer. But we decided, ultimately, not to go in that direction. And we ended up — took us months to do it — buying a platform called BAMTech.”
He clarified that Disney’s interest in Twitter wasn’t about the social media aspect, but rather distribution for all things Disney. His comments were the first public confirmation of Disney’s interest in purchasing the social media platform.
Twitter was in talks with several companies last year, including Salesforce and Disney. None of those deals were completed.
BAMTech, a spin-off of MLB Advanced Media, will power Disney’s streaming services. As part of Disney’s move to its own streaming service, Walt Disney Studios and Pixar films will be removed from Netflix in 2019.
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Home » Queering the Genre » The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Listen. A god is speaking.
My voice echoes through the stone of your master’s castle.
This castle where he finds his uncle on his father’s throne.
You want to help him. You cannot.
You are the only one who can hear me.
You will change the world.
As has been well established here before, I am a big fan of Ann Leckie’s fiction, and hugely enjoyed her science fiction trilogy. I’m also a fan of big, complex, political epic fantasy that uses the second person (or rather, of The Fifth Season, the only book I know of which fits that criteria). So Ann Leckie doing big, political epic fantasy in the second person? Sign me up!
The Raven Tower is a brilliant retelling of a classic story. Without giving too much about Leckie’s textual inspiration away, the contemporary plot follows the beats of that story almost exactly, while retooling them to give the women more agency and less unjust punishment, and with a focus not on the central character of the original but on one of the side-characters as a lens through which to follow the action. The resolution is simultaneously inevitable and expected but also completely new as what has, up until that point, looked like a solely historical, secondary plot, is brought fully into the present.
That secondary plot in The Raven Tower is one of the brilliant aspects of the novel; the narrator tells, interspersed into the main action of the plot, their own story, a story that goes into the deep past of the world. The early parts of the secondary plot involve the appearance and evolution of life on the planet around the character, to give some impression of quite how deep that past is. With a very self-absorbed narrator and very little action, Leckie’s writing is beautiful and moving, and still manages to move the reader and action along; the solipsism of the character falling away as they start to interact more and more with others, and we see those ties changing and strengthening and forcing actions in fascinating ways.
The Raven Tower‘s narrator is not, of course, the protagonist; rather, the reader steps into the role of protagonist, as a trans man named Eolo, addressed in the second person. Eolo is the person whose eyes we follow the main plot, although in reality he is the aide to the focus of the action; a curious and intelligent young man, he’s a brilliant character, unfailingly loyal but also with an independence of thought and action that I really appreciated. His transition isn’t made a big deal of, though it is mentioned at a couple of points; the novel is totally accepting of his gender, although certain characters are at times potentially less so.
The rest of the cast of The Raven Tower are a bit of a mixed bag. Some of them fail to rise above their bases in the story that Leckie has reworked, especially Hibal as the usurping king and Oskel and Okim as his pawns who are given a much more full backstory but still escape largely without character. Even Mawat is a little flat, although in a very human way; he is essentially a character defined by his temper and his belief in a set way of the world. When the latter is shaken, the former comes out; there is very little emotionality other than anger to him, although that anger is well written and Leckie does convey how much it defines him.
It’s with the women that Leckie really builds on the source text to do a lot more. Zezume, Mawat’s mother-figure, is a complex and conflicted character with a lot of agency in the plot, although she also proves flawed in who and what she places her faith in; The Raven Tower has a strong theme around misplaced faith and the consequences of it. Tikaz is the strongest case of this; a woman whose father has pushed her at Mawat, and who Mawat was in the past infatuated with, but who rejected him, and is absolute in her independence. She’s a fantastic character, smart and willing to fight for her place and her status, and Leckie really makes her shine.
This might sound like a decent book but not an outstanding one. All the elements are there; the genius is in the way Leckie takes them all, and uses them to create something so fresh, new, and brilliant. There’s a lot more to be said about The Raven Tower, but a lot of it is spoilery, or small; the way Leckie writes indigenous peoples and imperialism into her story, the way global trade links play a key role in the world, the way there is no good or bad side in the ultimate view only different kinds of bad side… there is an awful lot to percolate, to the point where a full accounting would be many thousands of words. Or the length of the book itself.
In the end, The Raven Tower takes its source material, highlights some of the problems of it while solving or evading them, and marries it to a fantastic narrative that takes in deep time and divine conflict, to become probably the best fantasy novel of 2019. And 2018 isn’t even over yet…
DISCLAIMER: Ann Leckie is a friend. Review based on an ARC provided by the author.
Tags: ann leckie, epic fantasy, fantasy, gender, queering the genre, trans, transgender
By Intellectus_Speculativus in Queering the Genre, Review on October 21, 2018 .
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ChasingButterflies says:
So this may be a stupid question, but which story is this a retelling of? I think I might not know the original.
Intellectus_Speculativus says:
For the sake of vaguely avoiding spoilers, The Danish Play
Thank you 🙂 I must admit that even though I studied some English literature, I somehow didn’t read that one (some of his other plays I did read though) and so I didn’t think that The Raven Tower was a retelling while reading it. I guess it would have been more fun if I had known that. Or it would have taken away the last bit of suspense from which the book didn’t have a lot to begin with.
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Five Fascinating Facts about Charles Dickens
Curious Dickens trivia relating to his life and work
1. Dickens’s house had a secret door in the form of a fake bookcase. The fake books included titles such as ‘The Life of a Cat’ in 9 volumes. This was at his home at Gad’s Hill, in Kent. He also reputedly had a series of fake titles called ‘The History of a Short Chancery Suit’ in 47 volumes (a reference to the very long Chancery case which inspired his novel, Bleak House).
2. In his courtship letters to her, Dickens addressed his future wife as ‘dearest Mouse’ and ‘dearest darling Pig’. These were almost certainly meant as terms of endearment, but it’s tempting to respond to them differently from our retrospective position: Dickens’s affection for his wife soon dwindled after they were married, and he seemed to harbour more romantic and sentimental interest in her sisters than in poor Catherine herself. When his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth died suddenly, aged 17, in 1837 (in Dickens’s arms), he was devastated. But his grief appears to have been disproportionate: he kept her clothes in the house and wore her ring for the rest of his life.
3. On days when he gave public readings, Dickens had two tablespoons of rum with fresh cream for breakfast, and a pint of champagne for tea. Half an hour before the start of the reading itself, he would also drink a raw egg beaten into a tumbler of sherry. Dickens’s public readings (of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, among others) were hugely popular, both in Britain and America; when he gave his first public reading in America, the line of people in New York City queuing for tickets was almost a mile long.
4. The Oxford English Dictionary credits him with the first use of butter-fingers, crossfire, dustbin, fairy story, slow-coach, and whoosh. He also gets the credit for ‘boredom’ in the Oxford English Dictionary, coined in his novel Bleak House (1852-3), but this has since been traced back even earlier, to 1830.
5. In 2009, an ivory toothpick once used by Charles Dickens was sold at auction for $9,000. Made of ivory and gold, the implement is engraved with Dickens’s initials. It was originally expected to fetch $3,000-$5,000, but the final sale was for a whopping $9,150 (£5,625). An authentication letter written by Dickens’s sister-in-law indicates that Dickens used the toothpick up to his death in 1870.
We have more great Dickensian trivia in our book of literary facts, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History
. Continue your Dickensian odyssey with our discussion of his forgotten children’s book, our pick of the best Dickens novels, and our selection of the best biographical and critical studies of Dickens’s life and work. You might also enjoy our favourite Robert Louis Stevenson facts.
If you’re looking for an authoritative and engaging biography of Dickens, we’d recommend Peter Ackroyd’s Dickens: Abridged
Image: Young Charles Dickens, c. 1830s, 1905 (republication) after Robert Seymour, public domain.
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DGAP-News: VTG AG boosts revenue in first nine months of 2017 - Railcar capacity utilization at highest level since the end of 2008
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VTG AG boosts revenue in first nine months of 2017 -
Railcar capacity utilization at highest level since the end of 2008
- Further increase in revenue
- Railcar capacity utilization at highest level since the end of 2008
- Revenue and EBITDA up again at Rail Logistics
- One-time charges prompt slight decline in Group EBITDA and Group net profit
Hamburg, November 16, 2017. VTG Aktiengesellschaft (WKN: VTG999), one of the leading railcar leasing and rail logistics companies in Europe, increased its revenue in the first nine months of 2017. Group revenue improved to EUR 750.2 million, slightly up on the same period a year ago (9M 2016: EUR 742.0 million). Despite this increase, EBITDA of EUR 250.7 million fell just short of the previous year's figure (9M 2016: EUR 255.9 million). This drop is attributable essentially to one-time charges for the preparation of unleased wagons and the planned takeover of the Nacco Group. Accordingly, Group net profit of EUR 44.1 million was slightly down on the figure for the same period of the previous year (9M 2016: EUR 45.0 million). Earnings per share (EPS) followed suit, slipping from EUR 1.24 in the comparable period of 2016 to EUR 1.21 in the period under review.
"The numbers for the first nine months show that we are consistently maintaining the positive revenue trend witnessed in recent months. Development at the logistics divisions is satisfactory, and capacity utilization at Railcar has reached the highest level since 2008," explains Dr. Heiko Fischer, Chairman of the Executive Board of VTG AG. "Regrettably, one-time charges for the preparation of unleased wagons and the planned acquisition of Nacco slightly put the brake on our EBITDA. At the same time, continuing growth in demand for our products and services is an indicator for the development of our business."
Railcar: Revenue up in third quarter - Fleet capacity utilization at highest level since 2008
Revenue at the Railcar Division rose 2.7 percent in the third quarter of 2017, up from EUR 128.5 million in the second quarter to EUR 131.9 million. Revenue thus totaled EUR 386.0 million in the first nine months of 2017 (9M 2016: EUR 387.7 million), corresponding to a minor year-on-year decline of 0.4 percent. The sustained positive trend in revenue [in the past two quarters] thus virtually made up for the rather lackluster start to the year. At EUR 249.1 million, EBITDA for the division was 2.5 percent down on the same period a year ago (EUR 255.5 million). One-time charges totaling EUR 4.2 million for the planned takeover of the Nacco Group and the preparation of newly leased wagons were the main reason for this dip. On the other hand, one-time income of EUR 3.2 million had positively influenced EBITDA in the third quarter of 2016. The EBITDA margin for this division, which is based on revenue, thus edged down 1.4 percentage points to 64.5 percent (9M 2016: 65.9 percent). Capacity utilization for the entire fleet increased to 92.1 percent (9M 2016: 89.8 percent), the highest level since September 2008.
Investments of EUR 211.8 million in the first nine months of 2017 were substantially higher than the figure of EUR 154.8 million for the same period a year ago. Most of this money was channeled into the purchase of new and used wagons and, hence, into tangible assets - above all to expand the fleets in North America, Russia and Europe.
Increase in EBITDA at logistics divisions
The Rail Logistics Division saw revenue increase by 5.7 percent to EUR 247.2 million in the first nine months of 2017 (9M 2016: EUR 233.7 million), again continuing the positive trend experienced in recent months. Sustained positive business development in southeastern Europe is the main reason for this gain. Transports for the metalworking industry and in Project Logistics likewise plotted a positive trajectory.
On the back of this revenue trend, the division's EBITDA improved by 10.4 percent to EUR 5.1 million in the first nine months of 2017, up from EUR 4.7 million a year ago. The EBITDA margin for Rail Logistics, which is based on gross profit, edged up by 0.8 percentage points from 22.0 percent in the same period a year ago to 22.8 percent in the first nine months of 2017.
Tank Container Logistics posted revenue of EUR 117.0 million in the first nine months of 2017, a year-on-year decline of 3.0 percent (9M 2016: EUR 120.6 million). The transportation volume was higher but freight rates were lower in the period under review. The temporary closure of the key railway line near Rastatt, southwestern Germany, also had a negative impact on revenue development in the third quarter. Despite this slight decline in revenue, the division's EBITDA improved in the first nine months of the current financial year, climbing 8.4 percent from EUR 7.7 million in the same period of 2016 to EUR 8.3 million in the period under review. The EBITDA margin, which is based on gross profit, was up by 1.0 percentage point to 37.0 percent, slightly higher than at the same point in the previous year (36.0 percent).
VTG Executive Board concretizes August forecast for 2017
For the current financial year, there is no change in the expectation that Group revenue will be slightly higher than in the previous year (2016: EUR 986.9 million).
In the forecast published in August, the Executive Board expected Group EBITDA for the current financial year to be in a corridor between EUR 330 million and EUR 360 million. The top end of the forecast EBITDA spread includes potential proceeds from the acquisition of the Nacco Group in the 2017 financial year. However, since the antitrust authorities are still continuing their examination, the Executive Board now expects that the closing will not take place until the first quarter of 2018. Accordingly, expenses associated with the acquisition of the Nacco Group will be recognized in the result for the 2017 financial year, but no income from the Nacco Group will be realized this year. The Executive Board therefore believes that EBITDA for the year will in fact be at the bottom end of the spread forecast in August.
Key figures for the VTG Group
1.1.- 30.9. 1.1. - 30.9. Changes
Financial Year 2017 2016 in %
Revenue in EUR million 750.2 742.0 1.1
EBITDA in EUR million 250.7 255.9 -2.0
EBIT in EUR million 109.7 115.9 -5.3
EBT in EUR million 63.0 69.2 -8.9
Group profit in EUR million 44.1 45.0 -1.9
Depreciation and amortization in EUR million 141.0 140.0 0.7
Capital expenditure in EUR million 211.8 154.8 36.8
Operating cash flow in EUR million 170.5 226.1 -24.6
Earnings per share in EUR 1.21 1.24 -2.4
Railcar division
Revenue in EUR million 386.0 387.7 -0.4
EBITDA margin in % 64.5 65.9
Rail Logistics division
EBITDA in EUR million 5.1 4.7 10.4
Tank Container Logistics division
EBITDA in EUR million 8.3 7.7 8.4
30.09.2017 30.09.2016 in %
Number of employees 1,497 1,434 4.4
- in Germany 1,017 952 6.8
- abroad 480 482 -0.4
Balance sheet total in EUR million 3,058.4 3,001.5 1.9
Non-current assets in EUR million 2,731.3 2,726.2 0.2
Current assets in EUR million 327.1 275.3 18.8
Shareholders equity in EUR million 778.4 774.0 0.6
Liabilities in EUR million 2,280.0 2,227.5 2.4
Equity ratio in % 25.5 25.8
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VTG Aktiengesellschaft is one of Europe's leading railcar leasing and rail logistics companies, with a fleet of more than 80,000 railcars. VTG is a full-service provider, supplying tank cars, standard freight cars, intermodal cars and sliding-wall railcars. Beyond its leasing activities, the Group delivers a comprehensive portfolio of multimodal logistics service focused primarily on rail freight and global tank container transportation.
With the combination of its three interlinked divisions Railcar, Rail Logistics and Tank Container Logistics, VTG offers its customers a high-performance platform for international transport of their freight. The Group has many years of experience and specific expertise, in particular in the transport of liquid and sensitive goods. Its customers include numerous well-known companies from almost every industrial sector, for example the chemical, petroleum, automotive, paper and agricultural industries.
In the financial year 2016, VTG generated revenue of EUR 987 million and operating profit (EBITDA) of EUR 345 million. Via its subsidiaries and affiliates the company, which has its head office in Hamburg, is mainly present in Europe, North America, Russia and Asia. As at 31 December 2016, VTG had 1,443 employees worldwide in consolidated companies. VTG AG is listed on the official Prime Standard market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and also on the SDAX (WKN: VTG999).
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Director of Donor and Volunteer Engagement
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Come join a team of dedicated staff at an exceptional time in Smithsonian history, as the Institution implements a new comprehensive strategic plan and expands the programming, educational, and scholarly activity of its museums and research centers.
Following a successful national campaign, the Smithsonian has built a model fundraising organization, one that will meet the growing needs of this unique organization and offer excellent professional opportunities. This position offers exciting opportunities for the successful candidate to make a significant impact on the future of the Smithsonian.
The Director of Donor and Volunteer Engagement will work as a senior manager within the Smithsonian's central office of Advancement to lead programs and outreach that engage volunteer leaders, donors and prospects associated with the Smithsonian, with overarching goals of broadening financial support for the Institution and building the foundation for our next comprehensive campaign.
With a focus on volunteer engagement, donor relations and events, the director will shape and oversee the execution of coordinated annual programmatic, messaging and engagement strategies for key Smithsonian-wide volunteer leadership and donor audiences, including the Smithsonian Regional Councils, the Smithsonian National Board (SNB), and institution-wide top donor stewardship groups. S/he will work with colleagues and senior leadership in the central office and across all Smithsonian museums and centers in developing and executing programs that highlight the Institution's initiatives and priorities.
The Director will oversee the Volunteer Engagement, Events and Programming team, directly managing the Associate Director for Volunteer Engagement, the Associate Director of the Regional Council Program and the Donor Relations and Events Manager. Strong management, organizational and communication skills are required, as is experience working with high level donors and experienced volunteer leaders. Experience working in a fast-paced environment, executing high-profile events and programs is also a must.
The Director visions and oversees implementation of pan-institutional top donor stewardship programs, fostering a culture of philanthropy through meaningful recognition and outreach programs and events for high-level donors.
S/he oversees the execution of coordinated annual programmatic and messaging strategies for the Smithsonian National Board and Regional Councils, ensuring that advisory board members and volunteers are inspired, informed and connected through meaningful work, programs and communications showcasing the depth and breadth of content and expertise at the Smithsonian.
S/he visions, develops and executes high-profile programs and events for volunteers, donors and prospects across the country. This includes program development and speaker management.
The Director develops and maintains ongoing and active relationships with key internal and external constituencies. S/he collaborates with the museums and centers to produce strategic outreach efforts that support cultivation and solicitation plans associated with their fundraising plans.
S/he manages the volunteer engagement, events and programming budgets.
The Office of Advancement oversees and guides fundraising strategy for the entire Smithsonian and is home to a central development team. The advancement team raises significant support for a variety of Smithsonian initiatives and provides services to development teams across the institution, helping them fulfill their funding priorities.
The Smithsonian is a distinctly American institution of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park, nine research centers and 21 libraries. It is a national—and global—treasure, dedicated to its founding mission, “the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Its exhibitions, programs, collections and outreach touch the lives of millions of Americans every year, as well as many who visit from abroad, online and in person.
The Smithsonian offers a competitive salary and comprehensive package of benefits. This is not a federal position, but has similar requirements and benefits. Interested candidates should submit their resumes, writing samples and a cover letter to oastaffing@si.edu by July 31, 2019.
The Smithsonian Institution is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
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Tonight, I was gonna work on writing my top five record round ups. I started to listen to the #5 album I am gonna write about. Then I had to switch over to Too Many Daves because they have a song called “The Night The Light Went On In Chattanooga” which has the line, You Can’t Slay The Dragon Until You Ride the Unicorn! That’s pretty much the best line of poetry, lyric or any other sentence in the known and unknown universe. How in the fuck am I supposed to think about any other bands when that line is running through my head constantly.
You can gift me the new Too Many Daves album Weekend At Daves to goodgovernor@yahoo.com. You can find a link to the awesome here. Hook an unemployed brother up.
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Interview with Shelby Cinca
Shelby Cinca is a music maker with many different voices. Often, when a person is known for a distinct sound, remnants of that sound can be found in other projects that follow. This is not the case with Cinca. After the spazz core group he founded in the 90’s, Frodus, disbanded in 1999, Cinca went on to form The Cassettes, Travelers of Tyme and Triobelisk. Since moving from Washington DC to Sweden, he has started the digital label Swedish Columbia, which includes artists from DC, Sweden and elsewhere. Cinca does graphic design and has also served as an engineer on many projects, a job which is taking up more and more of his time. He has also released a new EP with his Travelers of Tyme which hasn’t released music in quite some time.
Shelby Cinca is a music maker with many voices. Often, when a person is known for a distinct sound, remnants of that sound can be found in other projects that follow. This is not the case with Cinca. After the spazz core group he founded in the 90’s, Frodus, disbanded in 1999, Cinca went on to form The Cassettes, Travelers of Tyme and Triobelisk. Since moving from Washington DC to Sweden, he has started the digital label Swedish Columbia, which includes artists from DC, Sweden and elsewhere. Cinca does graphic design and has also served as an engineer on many projects, a job which is taking up more and more of his time. He has also released a new EP with his Travelers of Tyme which hasn’t released music in quite some time.
Through these different channels, Shelby has created a massive body of work with a precision that many artists do not have in one genre, let alone the groundbreaking work Cinca often creates. Between each project, whether it’s his retro-future DJ jams or his punk rock inspired yelps over fuzzed out guitars, Cinca is a musician and artist aware of every detail. His full on immersion into new ways of musical distribution are at the forefront of what is to come, home-grown labels and brands that benefit the artists who create them, not the media giants who seek only to profit from them’s. While he is quite aware of what a brand can do, his years as a graphic designer informing those capabilities, Cinca is not interested in a faceless relationship. It is the share and share alike nature of Swedish Columbia and all his ventures that truly puts him at the front of the pack.
KYS: How did your label Swedish Columbia come to be?
SC: The label started originally as a flagship to release some t-shirts that my friend Håkan from Division Of Laura Lee and I were working on. The brand eventually morphed to release electronic records by friends from 90s punk bands that wouldn’t otherwise see the light of day. Word spread amongst my peers after I began making my own electronic tunes out of necessity to create some sort of music while on tour. I found out as soon as I started sharing my creations with friends that I wasn’t alone with this and many of my peers made it known that they also want to release something and then it naturally evolved to friends of friends, etc…
KYS: What made you decide to do an all digital label via Bancamp?
SC: Bandcamp was a no brainer decision because everything about it is user-friendly. For DJ types who want super high-quality they can get FLAC and the mp3s are at 320k which is still higher than iTunes and most everyone else. I found Bandcamp soon after their launch and everything about it made sense to me as it solved many problems simultaneously– getting the records out there for “Choose Your Own Price”, an embeddable widget for my website, full-song streaming, downloadable extras, and very detailed statistics.
I think overall the great thing about digital distribution is that you aren’t locking in a release by pressing X amount of physical items that sit on a shelf. You can release some pretty obscure niche music without really worrying about breaking even. Not to mean that I wouldn’t ever press something– but at the moment I like keeping it simple and focusing on getting lots of music out there.
KYS: What type of response have you gotten utilizing Bandcamp and the pay what you want model?
SC: Bandcamp has been awesome– people usually pay more than the minimum amount I ask for. I think if you don’t treat potential customers as criminals and break down the barrier so we are all equal creative people in the same boat then people usually err on being generous. It feels good to know you are supporting a fellow artist and I think Bandcamp makes it even better since no big multi-national corporation is getting money from the release. It’s totally indie and is the very spirit of punk and DIY. I actually think most blogs and music-press need to start focusing on reviewing Bandcamp releases since that’s where the pulse of underground DIY music is.
KYS: How did you get hooked up with Japanese artist Itaru?
SC: Itaru was the drummer from Atomic Fireball whom Frodus did a split 7″ with in 1999. We kept in contact over the years after touring back in 1999 and he would send me some of the electronic music he was working on occasion. He didn’t have a solid plan with his own music as far as releasing it and I stepped in and offered to help. He’s definitely one of my favorite artists I work with since I feel he has a really unique and challenging approach to what he does.
KYS: One of your post-Frodus projects has been Triobelisk, which feels like video game music and post-culture dance music. I know you started making that music on tour with Frodus and the Cassetes, but you’ve continued to grow with it. What does working in that capacity offer you that some of the more traditional bands you’ve been in can’t?
SC: Triobelisk offers me a way to be in total control of all the decisions and trajectory of it. I can get as nerdy sci-fi gamey with it as I choose which is lots of fun for me. It has opened my mind in approaching instrumental music and making video-game inspired tracks that could work being DJ’ed or just listened to. I’ve also heavily enjoyed interfacing with different music programs– in particular Ableton Live. It’s really one of the only programs where you can fluidly jam with your own ideas quickly which is very rewarding and it pushes composition + creative sound exploration in more musical ways than in sound-engineer ways as other programs tend to do. Being that within the music and music-software alters how one thinks about sound/composing in ways that a band doesn’t. It is very structured due to it being on a computer so it makes you start thinking a little like that even when you are playing with humans.
I still have a very active imagination and connection to my child-mind and Triobelisk is very much an early childhood idea stemming from really liking the cantina band in Star Wars and the Meco “Star Wars & Other Galactic Funk” LP. I would daydream about being an alien musician on some weird off-world colony. It truly is a childhood dream come to fruition however there aren’t aliens present that we know of but maybe that’s next step after these body scanners are at airports– we will be in Total Recall when alien anatomies are revealed by the scanners such as beings with extra faces on their stomachs!
KYS: The other thing I’ve been really drawn to with Swedish Columbia, aside from the music and the democratic distribution method is the art work for the releases. Each artist has a distinct visual quality, but all are really intense. Can you talk about some of the graphic artists you work with?
SC: Since all you are getting is a square for the artwork I really try and make the covers count. I have done many of the covers but for a while at the beginning of the label I was working with this Finnish artist Sakke Soini to do all the artwork. He is a photoshop wizard and established the aesthetic of Swedish Columbia with some of the first key releases such as: Jonathan Kreinik and his dystopian mini-soundtrack “Return to Precinct 13”, Triobelisk “1” and Tanimura Midnight “s/t”. I have also used some illustrators such as a comic artist Chris Faccone for the Triobelisk character in “Brain Traveller” and Kurt Lightner (http://flavors.me/kurtlightner) for the new Itaru EP.
KYS: Travelers of Tyme, your project with former Frodus Alumni Jim Cooper recently released a new EP. How did that come about? Had you and Jim been wanting to do this for a while?
SC: Yeah! Jim and I wanted to do this ever since we recorded the first Travelers of Tyme in 1995. Jim moved to Chicago to go to college soon after we recorded the first Frodus album “Molotov Cocktail Party” and we only saw each-other during subsequent summer/winter-breaks so it became hard for us to actually pull off a lot sessions but we did all we could to fit in a few back then. We actually did one remote track for a compilation CD “An Evening in Nivram: A Tribute to The Shadows” in 1996 where we recorded drums and guitars on Jonathan Kreinik’s open-reel 8 track in Arlington, VA and mailed him the tape to Chicago to record the rest. I guess that was a shape of things to come as technology caught up over the past 14 years during our inactivity so now its easy to work remotely.
Travelers of Tyme really returned when I was in Romania this year after my Dad passed away and staying at our family home I kind of just went into high-focus music world in order to deal with it.I began with recording on some songs that Nick Kraly (projectionist for The Cassettes) sent me. Nick then visited me in Romania and we recorded a bunch more tracks and Jim added orchestration/extra-instrumentation on some of them remotely since I knew he was the man for the job. After one particular track with lots of odd instrumentation he said it reminded him of Travelers of Tyme and that we should pick it up again. Well after I finished up most of my parts on the “secret post-Cassettes” project I recorded 20 Travelers of Tyme songs which Jim and I have been fleshing out back and forth ever since. The EP is just a taste for “early adapters”, there is much more to come!
KYS: Also recently you and Jason Hammacher released some new Frodus music with Liam Wilson from Dillenger Escape Plan on bass. You worked with Baltimore producer Joe Mitra, who has been doing a lot of great work with a lot of local bands. How did that session go for you guys?
SC: The session was awesome! Joe was the perfect fit for it as he was an old school fan and knew 100% where we were coming from. We all inspired each-other in a positive way to achieve the best we could do. It really couldn’t have gone better. And in true Frodus fashion we even had some mad-cap happenings like Jason’s car-battery dying and having to sleep in the studio one night and then the next day having to push the car out of the garage while interacting with odd street denizens and having a rap-battle!
KYS: I’ve read you guys are possibly working on more music under the moniker Frodus Sound Laboratories. With you in Sweden and Jason in DC, is this mostly a digital collaboration? Are you guys passing tracks back and forth by email?
SC: Nah- Jason hasn’t had much time to set up a home recording setup and I think we work best by jamming in the same room taking cues from each-others’ musical signals. So we need to block off time to create. We haven’t done anything in 2010 but I hope to start some sonic experiments in 2011.
KYS: I also read that you and Jason are working with a bunch of different guys from Refused and Darkest Hour. Any chance of collaborating with Nathan Burke? Part of why I ask is it seems both yours and his post-Frodus bands have had similarities in aesthetic. As a fan I’d be really interested to see what the three of you would come up with.
SC: We’re open to it if he has time so we’ll have to see if things align with everyone’s schedules/lives.
Posted in InterviewTagged Frodus, Shelby Cinca, Swedish Columbia, Triobelisk
KYS Podcast Episode #15 – Work Sux
Hey Kids, It’s the return of the PODCAST. I’ve been unemployed for a month now. I made this back when I got laid off in August. This is more of a mix tape version. I cut out all of my yapping. I have to go to the unemployment office tomorrow so that sux. I’ll probably listen to this then. Anyway, you can download it here. Anyone who can get me onto iTunes gets a kiss or some better gift. Expect more of these next year. It’s good to be back.
Everyday – The Goons (from Living in America)
Black Friday – Iron Chic (from Not Like This)
Parade – Pretty Girls Make Graves (from Elan Vitale)
Tell My Boss “I Hate You” – Bomb the Music Industry (from Others! Others!)
He Gots No Job – Fleshies (from The Sicilian)
Boss Man – Grabass Charlestons (from their split with Billie Reese Peters)
Finest Work Song – R.E.M (from Document)
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now – The Smiths (from Louder than Bombs)
The Temp – Meneguar (from I was Born at Night)
Slave Labor – Government Warning (from No Moderation)
Career Opportunities – The Clash (from The Clash)
Working – Bill Hicks (from Flying Saucer Tour, Volume 1)
Take This Job and Shove It – The Dead Kennedy’s (from Bed Time for Democracy)
Goddamn Job – Off With Their Heads (from We’ll Inherit the Earth, a Tribute to the Replacements)
Sixteen Tons – This Bike is a Pipe Bomb (from Dance Party With…)
Clocked In – Black Flag (from The First Four Years)
Hard Work – Paul Baribeau (from Grand Ledge)
Still Working – Sean McArdle (from Northern Charms)
Posted in PodcastTagged Bill Hicks, Black Flag, Podcast, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Clash, The Goons, The Smiths
Weekend Update and Call For Contributors
KYS will be ending the year with two interviews. Starting on Monday, you can read about Shelby Cinca, a multi-talented musician and artist. Next week you should be reading about Joao Da Silva from Birds and Wires and about his new tape label Fabrica Records. There will also be one last podcast in 2010, a few more reviews for 2010 and of course my annual, year-end reviews of my favorite music (which I really need to start on).We’re going to be reverting back to a three updates, Monday, Wednesday, Friday for a week or two and then close out the year on 12/23/2010.
As we enter deeper into unemployment land and desiring to craft more time for what I actually care about, I have decided to open up Korrupt Yr Self to other contributors. I am looking for people who are into comics, skateboarding, and photographers. You do not have to make a weekly commitment, I only ask that what you cover be somewhat relevant. I am also open to more music reviews and interviews but I am really looking to expand into other areas that I have interests in, but not the authority to write about.
If you are interested in contributing to KYS, write to me at goodgovernor@yahoo.com. I do not need a writing sample or anything, just tell me what your into and why you might want to blog. All contributors will also be able to do podcasts if they wish. With KYS I have aimed to write about music that not a lot of people are really covering, not that it’s super obscure stuff, but I definitely don’t feel like what I cover gets a good amount of real attention. So you know, keep that in mind. Honestly if you are reading this, you kind of know the feel of this blog.
So, there you have it. Get awesome. Live trying.
Posted in AwesomeTagged Joao Da Silva, Shelby Cinca
Happy Conquest and Conquer Holiday From the KYS Corporation for World Domination (TM)
Hey kids, if you are reading this at work in the morning, then I am on the road to Pittsburgh with my parents. Also, if you are reading this, chances are you’ve been checking in pretty regularly. Coming on the day in which American’s sit down around a dead animal, gripe about work, watch football and generally start the super consumption season at the feet of Coca-Cola Jesus (seriously, the Red and White Santa Klause suite is totally a Coke Inc. construct) I did just want to thank anyone that has or will read this non-sense. Since being laid off, I’ve actually gotten to write a lot more often about the music I am listening to and that I am into. It’s a real, true and deep pleasure for me. I still think I have a long way to go at this whole thing, but I think I am getting better. There are glimpses of what I am really trying to say on this stupid blog here, and more and more I think it’s shining through.
After I got back from Albuquerque, I pretty much wasn’t sure what to do with myself. I have a lot of time to get the necessary stuff done which leaves a lot of free time. Since I am in a sort of exile from my real life, the only outlet for creative thinking that I have is this blog. Which, for you lucky minion of mine, means more and more content. All during a time when I thought this thing would be silent. In fact, I have done so much writing, that I am gonna start writing up and scheduling my best of lists and reviews while on vacation (that is if my aunt and uncle have wireless, I am not sure if they do. However, I can at least start typing in the car). This means that by the time I am in Albuquerque, you’ll still have some stuff to read before the holidays hit us in the face.
It’s been a crazy year at the KYS industries. I did 14 podcasts, over a hundred posts and two zines. Looking back at that productivity makes me pretty psyched. I do hope to continue a three times a week pace all next year and at least two podcasts a month.
So, totally thank you for reading. I’m glad I managed to pick up some strangers. The few of you that have returned and commented, thanks so much. The internet is such an over-stuffed, dust ridden vacuum and operating under such circumstances is pretty wild. So, word up to you.
Be Cool, Don’t Be A Fool. Brush Twice To Be Sure.
Posted in Rants
Kanye West still sucks on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
November 23, 2010 November 22, 2010 korruptyrself7 Comments
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
G.O.O.D Music
Kanye West raps as though he is the downtrodden man. Such exclamations from the mouth of a multi-platinum selling artists (I stole this record, I’m not paying for this shit) are hysterical for a sexist, egoist, who seems to lack both grace and any real connection to the real world or the true downtrodden man. Considering that the first words uttered of Kanye on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (that title is too long and unpoetic, I can never recall the whole thing) is “yeah,” we know from the get go we can expect no revelation of true genius/madness/sadness/sickness, but the same old Kanye. At the very least Mr. West refrains from dropping a few “uhs” into the mix, but these gripes are the least controversial offerings Mr. West can give us.
The best part about My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy comes right in the beginning, where he both brags about how much head he gets and yet how Kanye is considered a less talented icon to the beloved Beatles. Seeing as both were all sensation and contain such little substance, they were both made to be the perfect distraction for the consumptive driven American public. Two songs in, and I’m already wanting to drive my car into a crowd of headphone connected kids who might be listening to this. A tip boys a girls, no matter what Kanye says in “Gorgeous”, he is not subject to TSA searches when he flies, nor does the boy wunder fly coach. I am sure his cash flow gets him to the front of the line and in first class when he does succumb to flying commercially.
Kanye’s restraint is almost admirable. It takes him three whole songs before he calls an unlucky woman a “bitch”. The over-indulgent “Power” brings us West at his most egomaniacal, his precious thoughts being upended upon the public, despite the struggle he endured tearing himself away from the party to be alone with his thoughts. The swirling guitar lines that transverse the entire track distract from the core beat an actually pretty uplifting vocal sample. But this grating ear pollution can not overcome some of the most banal rapping I’ve heard. Kanye can flow, but only with trite references to the Obama nation, the film Lost in Translation and how awesome he is. Things only get worse ladies. I know you love him, but let’s be reasonable.
During “All of the Lights,” a highlight track musically that would have been better in the hands of a Mos Def or Q-Tip, Kanye’s lamenting both Michael Jackson and hitting a woman in the first lines. And this album has already been called “easily the most thrilling album of 2010” by the Washington Post and hailed with a 10.0 by Pitchfork? This is not acceptable. The established media continues to trump up hip-hop as the CNN of the streets and Kanye here is being presented to a larger audience as some nuanced threat whose showing the public their reflection. West repeatedly gets a pass for his violence and degradation of women by media outlets who want to jump on the party wagon. Why? Because he can throw out a decent track every once in a while?
Recently, Kanye lamented about that being accused of being a racist (here’s a tip Kanye, you are) was one of the worst things he was ever accused of. He went so far as to almost apologize to George W. Bush for calling him a racist (here’s another tip Kanye, he is a racist, don’t apologize to him for that, apologize to the American public for not using your platform to articulate the actual issues) . Such public flailing can’t possibly be admirable when you follow it with self-healing in the global plaza of television with an album that contains violence against women. West isn’t even apologetic on “All of the Lights,” all he wants is access to his daughter, who can’t possibly navigate the ‘ghetto university’ without his actualized world view. That kid is better off with out you dude, she doesn’t need to grow up in an environment of the ‘champagne wishes/30 white bitches’ you have to offer her.
A few dope beats and a self-indulgent album that is punishing to endure gets you branded an unsung hero. Acting like the court jester, but failing to actually challenge any tangible social or political issues with any real insight gets you the attention of an eager public. The inability to articulate any idea with any compassion in any type of coherent matter lands you the carte blanche from the public to open your mouth whenever the fancy strikes you. In a society that loves the limitations of 140 characters for expression in an onslaught of the idiocy that all of us hold, Kanye West is the master. That he is actually able to sit still long enough and craft over an hour of music, that has it’s tides of good and bad like any commercial hip hop album, is the true feat of genius here. It’s not that the music is brilliant, sometimes it is, but mostly it’s just samples over beats and repetitive plinks of electronic instruments. It’s not that the lyrics are meaningful in any universal way, it’s fairly clear that Kanye is only concerned with himself and his own experience. No, what makes this album so extraordinary is how the collective conscience celebrates the underachieving, simply because we find it entertaining. We are not concerned with content, even when it reinforces the worst kinds of behavior and attitudes that plague the human experience. It’s not Kanye West that disappointing, it’s a society that exalts this behavior, encouraging the worst from each other.
Posted in Rants, Record ReviewsTagged Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Sexism, Violence Against Women
Spray-Paint The Walls: The Story(?) of Black Flag
Spray-Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag
Stevie Chick
Omnibus Press
I still remember pretty vividly the first time I heard Black Flag. It was the summer of 1991, I was getting ready to go into high school and Perry Farrel had some Lollapalooza tour. I read about it in Spin magazine and remember clearly a photo of a muscle and tattoo clad angry dude named Henry Rollins, sweating profusely and screaming into a microphone. The side article mentioned that he was a former member of Black Flag.
Here is the catch, when I was eight, my dad used to own his own business. A few storefronts down from his was a record store. For years, when I would accompany my father to work, I would spend HOURS in that record store, flipping through all the vinyl covers. Before I heard the music, Black Flag, Slayer, King Diamond and many others really effected me with fantastic, frightening cover art. I really wanted to hear what was inside (or sometimes I was too scared, I still don’t own King Diamond), but being relatively small, I knew there was no way this shit was going to get past the mom filter. Poison, Warrant, even Metallica seemed on the surface harmless. But no way was “the hard stuff” gonna get in.
So it’s 1991, my friend Keith and I go to the Waxie Maxie’s in town to flip through tapes. He buys Jesus Jones or EMF or some other big name group at the time. I buy Black Flag’s “The First Four Years”. We get back to his house and I put on my tape at some point, and Keith looks at me funny. He is not into this tape at all. Me, I fucking love it. It’s the most violent, fierce, balls out music I have ever heard. The three singers all sound different wave lengths of deranged, the guitar sounds like it’s going to shoot electricity out. Everything just sounds chaotic and fucked up and desperate, just like I felt at 14.
Weeks into high school, Keith and I went our separate ways. We didn’t have a falling out or anything and at the core we were still the same kids who liked rock music and skateboarding. But Keith was into Zepplin and AC/DC and those bands seemed like a bunch of pansies to me. And they still do. Black Flag changed the direction my life would take permanently. It dictated who my friends would be, what I would read, how I would view fine art and the way in which I would play music and create art.
Having said all this, when I first saw Spray-Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag at Smash Records a few months ago, I pretty much had to read it. Sure, most of the story is pretty well-known. Henry Rollins did a good job with Get In the Van and releasing Planet Joe by Joe Cole. The former is Rollins’ account of much of what occurred during his tenure with the band. The later is a tour journal from the last tour written by the ultimate roadie. And there have been a few essential interviews and book chapters on the group. But nothing defining on the band. Spray-Paint The Walls is a first attempt at tackling this band.
However I wish I had done some research before buying this product. I’m not saying that I was dissatisfied with Spray-Paint The Walls as a story. It’s fairly well written and pretty thorough and covers a part of the Black Flag story that I’ve wanted to read more about, IE the first four years. The interviews with Keith Morris and Ron Reyes are essential reading, parts of the story that are rarely heard. It was a total pleasure to find out more about the earliest, most formidable years with the band.
There are some major problems with this book. Those problems would be the fact that Greg Ginn, Henry Rollins and Bill Stevenson were not interviewed for this book. Now, I don’t blame Stevie Chick for this at all. All three of those guys have pretty much said that the story of Flag is in the past and thus closed. None of those guys are talking about the history of the band. Nothing Chick could do about that, but the source material used barely scratches the surface and in the case of Rollins and Ginn are pretty well read and well-known. Chick uses a great deal of reference from Get In the Van to add Rollins perspective. More often than not these passages feel forced and is better used for historical points rather than interjection. And Greg Ginn basically comes off looking like an asshole, which I am sure he is in a way, but the man isn’t given an opportunity to defend himself. Further, Dez Caden and Raymond Pettitbon are also absent and only scant effort is made to include them. For me and many others, Pettitbon, whether he likes it or not, is essential to the Black Flag experience.
Further depth and analysis into later Black Flag releases are also pretty sparse. Chick does a phenomenal job with the Flag up to the Damaged LP, but after that, details about and even mention of later albums falls off. Granted, it seems most of the albums after this were recorded during marathon sessions, but jesus they are so awesome. Chick has the vocabulary to cover this material, but it feels, like many, that after Chuck Dukowski exited the band, so did interest. Of course, in my opinion, the best music today influenced by Black Flag is born from the later period, rather than people coping from the early stuff.
All in all though, I was sad when the book ended. It didn’t have everything I was looking for, but it does a really strong job of capturing the early history of punk through the eyes of one of its quintessential bands. It also tells some of the story that hasn’t been totally there. Mike Watt and Kira Rossler both contributed interviews to the story that are invaluable. If punk rock history is important to you, and it should very well be or you wouldn’t be reading this nonsense now, then it might behoove you to pick this sucker up and turn the pages while the chaos of Black Flag rages around your head.
Posted in Book ReviewTagged Black Flag, Greg Ginn, Henry Rollins, King Diamond, Kira Rossler, Mike Watt, Overkill, Slayer
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Past Tense (#23 Jack Reacher)
Fiction > Crime and Thriller
Author: Lee Child
Series: Jack Reacher Ser.
The most hotly anticipated paperback thriller of the year follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.
Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He thinks, what's one extra day? He takes the detour.
At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It's a strange place... but it's all there is.
The next morning in the city clerk's office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place?
So begins another nail-biting, adrenaline-fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense, but the past can be worse. That's for damn sure.
Publisher : Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint : Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Author : Lee Child
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In So Many Words…
Tag Archives: liberal arts
February 4, 2011 · 10:15 pm
Lessons in dining etiquette at K-College
ETIQUETTE SERVED
by Jane Parikh
Business dining etiquette was on the menu at a dinner for Kalamazoo College seniors last fall.
With copies of a 77-year-old etiquette book on a nearby table, Meredith Parfet, director of Global Research Operations for MPI Research in nearby Mattawan, instructed about 100 “K” seniors on the intricacies of eating with the boss, business colleagues, or prospective employers.
She said the positioning of the knives, forks, and spoons at each place setting provides a visual guide to the order in which each eating utensil is used.
“It’s outside in and top to bottom,” Parfet said.
Her instruction on the proper use of tableware was one of several “Ah-hah!” moments for many of the students at the dinner. Another came when Parfet talked about proper napkin etiquette.
“Place the napkin on your lap when you’re seated, place it on your chair when leaving the table, and place the napkin to the left of your plate when you’re done,” she said.
Parfet’s presentation was part of the College’s twice-yearly, two-day Professional Development Institute (PDI) offered to “K” students in order to prepare them for life after graduation. Sponsored by the College’s Center for Career and Professional Development, the Fall Quarter PDI included workshops and seminars on topics such as networking and job hunting.
As a top level executive with MPI, Parfet has attended many business dinners both in the United States and abroad. She said sometimes the best thing to do is what everyone else is doing.
“Manners are a form of politeness. They show that you’re prepared, put together, and composed,” Parfet said. “Manners are also a way of setting things up so you avoid insulting people.
“The rule I always learned in a cross-cultural exchange is to show humility.”
Kathleen Kruse, a senior majoring in biology, said Parfet’s advice put her mind at ease, particularly when she discussed the art of conversation.
“Stick to discussing current events and don’t discuss politics, religion, or sex,” Parfet said. “Try to find some middle ground. People like to talk about themselves and things related to them.”
Tyrice Fitzpatrick said he wished he’d had this information when he was in Costa Rica for his Study Abroad program. Fitzpatrick, a senior majoring in English with an economics minor, said his knowledge of manners was based on what
“We want you to sit at a business dinner and feel confident. We want you to dazzle them.”
he learned while working at a banquet hall during high school.
“When I was in Costa Rica I was surrounded by the most upper class people there, and I was uncomfortable because I didn’t know what kind of conversation to have,” he said.
Offering students the opportunity to learn about an important but often overlooked part of getting along in the business world was the idea behind the Etiquette Dinner, said Kalamazoo College Provost Michael “Mickey” McDonald.
“The more knowledge you have, the more relaxed you’ll feel,” McDonald said.
Here’s some additional advice from Parfet that likely won’t be heard during commencement activities. Graduates who break bread with the boss or clients should dress conservatively, double-check their breath, turn off the cell phone, take a deep breath, and smile.
“We want you to sit at a business dinner and feel confident,” Parfet said. “We want you to dazzle them.”
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Tagged as graduating seniors, hornets, kalamazoo college, liberal arts, mpi, professional development institute
K-College alumni offer supportive words
AMAZING THINGSby Jane ParikhWhen Kalamazoo College students march down the Quad and accept their diplomas each June, they also receive membership in the extensive network of “K” alumni.
During Fall Quarter 2010, the College’s Center for Career and Professional Development plugged into this alumni network during the first of two scheduled Professional Development Institutes (PDI) for students wanting to get a jump start on post-graduate plans.
Each PDI engages alumni and other friends of the College in two days of events aimed at helping Kalamazoo students consider and prepare for life after “K.” Through workshops and formal and informal discussions, students meet with alumni and business leaders, and make connections designed to help them find and secure employment opportunities.
During a panel discussion that concluded day-one of the Fall PDI, four alumni put forth a very strong case for the value of a Kalamazoo education. They spoke about experiences they had as “K” students that helped lay the groundwork for their successes in the working world.
“You have no idea how willing alumni are to open their networks to ‘K’ students,” said Douglas Steel ’80, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for U.S. Bioremediation, Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City. “Whether you realize it or not, you’ve acquired a unique skill set. You’re not going to listen to old people who say ‘That can’t be done.’”
As an example, Steel mentioned fellow “K” classmate Larry Bell ’80, founder of Bell’s Brewing Company in Kalamazoo. “Larry Bell didn’t major in beer-making while at ‘K,’” Steel said. “But, he is proof of what can happen if you have an idea and don’t let the details bog you down.”
Regg Wilson ’70 encouraged students to always emphasize finding their passion. He said this was one of the most important lessons he took away from his time as a student. “One of the great assets ‘K’ gave to me was the knowledge that I could master something in 10 weeks,” said Wilson, founder of Cultivating Your Legacy and president of Los Angeles Philanthropic Advisors Network. “You can be fearless in a relatively short amount of time.”
Surviving the rigors of 10-week quarters and gaining the confidence that goes along with that are valuable commodities in a global economy that demands flexibility and a strong knowledge base. PDI panelists agreed that “K” graduates are thought of very favorably by leaders in the public and private sectors because of their ability to think in a critical and sometimes unconventional manner.
Kalamazoo County Eighth District Court Judge Anne Blatchford ’82 told students that she left “K” a much stronger and more confident individual because of the challenges issued to her throughout her experience with her professors and advisors. She recalled one particularly grueling episode when her SIP (Student Individualized Project) advisor had her rewrite her resume more than a dozen times in preparation for
“One of the great assets ‘K’ gave to me was the knowledge that I could master something in 10 weeks. You can be fearless in a relatively short amount of time.”
her project. He then had her tell him what it takes to represent Kalamazoo College.
When he felt Blatchford was ready, he allowed her to begin work on her SIP. “I had to earn that respect,” Blatchford said. “I learned from that experience that I had the tools I needed, and he showed me how by making me do it. It’s that belief in yourself that you leave ‘K’ with.”
This is what gave Harry Garland ’68 the courage to leave a teaching position at Stanford University to start his own company. Garland now is chairman of Garland Actuarial, LLC , and Agile Sciences, Inc., based in San Francisco.
“Anybody who graduates from this college has tremendous capability,” Garland said. “It’s important for you to realize you have the capability to do amazing things.”
A second PDI for “K” students is scheduled for April 14-15 at the College. For more info on this and other programs sponsored by the Center for Career and Professional Development, call (269) 337-7183, or visit www.kzoo.edu/careerdevelopment.
Tagged as graduating seniors, hornets, kalamazoo college, liberal arts, professional development institute
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Chris Aguirre is a successful Art Director and Visual Development Artist at Dreamworks Studios.
Prior to working in animation, Chris Aguirre worked in many creative fields such as Political Cartoonist for The El Paso Times, Graphic Artist for Advertising Agency, Interior Store Designer, Fashion Illustrator, Stage Designer, Texas Pageant and last but not least, Western Boot Designer for Tony Lama Co.
His first major Studio job was on no less than on Steven Spielberg’s “Tiny Toon Adventures”. Over the course of his 20 years in the industry, Aguirre was Art Director and developed various television and featured productions for DreamWorks, Disney, PDI, Warner Bros, Feature Animation, Ardman Animation, Hanna Barbera, and Universal Studios.
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As Character Designer, one of the memorable characters Aguirre created is “Puss in Boots” for DreamWorks blockbuster “Shrek 2”, but his long list of contributions include work on “Shrek”, Space Jam, Back in Action, Animaniacs, Space Chimps, Toy Story 3, Baldo, Tak and the power of JuJu, Super Hero Squad, and Tom and Jerry specials.
Aguirre has also taught Character Design at renowned CalArts campus.
My job of Visual Developer Artist and “Puss in Boots character”…
Puss in Boots 3d character
Chris Aguirre has given us an exclusive interview for IMAGINESS, despite his multiple occupations, where he talks about his work at the DreamWorks Studios and about the development of his “Puss in Boots” character.
Chris Aguirre
What does an Art Director and Visual Development Artist do? Is it a job that is done internally?
The Art Director job is to overlook at everything color in backgrounds, layouts, characters, to keep track of everything quality in general, you also have solid communication with your team of artists, that everyone has a clear understanding of the style, it’s a job that mostly done internally.
The job of a Visual Development Artist is to work with the Directors and Art Directors to come up with new concepts based on the script it can be characters and backgrounds designs all in rough form.
What was the inspiration to develop ‘Puss in Boots’ character?
The inspiration for “Puss in Boots” … I had to look at films of Antonio Banderas just to study his expressions and characteristics to capture the personality and of course lot of reference on cats! photos, anatomy, fur types… some people even brought some cats … but they could never keep still! 😆
Draw traditionally and then go digital?
Yes, I strongly recommend to draw traditionally … then go digital! But I also go back to the old ways once in a while just to not lose that also.
What is your most recent job?
Currently, I’m working at Dreamworks Studios as a Visual Development Artist on “Trolls” for NetFlix.
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Animated films are increasingly realistic, studies develop their own programs to achieve this realism?
Not sure about this… 🙄
All those animated films with special effects inspire vocations … Do you think being a digital artist is a job that has a future?
Yes! Artists will always be needed regardless of technology ……You will always need “IMAGINATION”! 😉
If you want to get in touch with Chris Aguirre, contact us at IMAGINESS and we will get your message.
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Minisymposium summary
Tumor invasion marks one of the last stages of tumor progression and emerges from the combined effect of tumor cell proliferation, migration and microenvironment interactions such as tumor-induced vasculature, immune cells, etc.. In the case of glioblastoma, the most common primary brain tumor, cell invasiveness into the surrounding brain tissue is particularly critical and is typically related to a poor prognosis and quality of life.
Despite intense research efforts over the past years with many biological insights, very little clinical progress has been made, with median survival for glioblastoma still less than 2 years and cure an impossibility. The use of mathematical and computational methods has the potential to improve the understanding of the complex biology of this disease, which may allow for more rational and effective therapies.
In this minisymposium, colocated at the European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB) in Gothenburg, young and senior researchers present novel mathematical models proposed to decipher the complex nature of glioma invasion. Special attention is also given to studies that provide insights into the evolution of benign brain tumors to invasive malignant gliomas, including the most aggressive of them known as secondary glioblastoma.
Alvaro Köhn‐Luque, ZIH, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Haralambos Hatzikirou, cfAED, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Jacob Scott, IMO, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA
Andreas Deutsch, ZIH, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Mathilde Badoual, Paris VII University, Paris, France
Katrin Böttger, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Thomas Buder, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Philip Gerlee, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA
Juan Carlos López Alfonso, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Alicia Martínez Gonzalez, University of Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Russel Rockne, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Kristin Swanson, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Date: Tuesday June 17 2014
Location: Chalmers Conference Center (Chalmerplatsen 1, 412 58 Göteborg), Room Catella.
Presentations: 20 minutes + 5 min discussion
A book of abstracts is available here
14:10 - 14:20 Andreas Deutsch
14:20 - 14:45 Philip Gerlee The Influence of phenotypic switching on tumor growth rate and cell density Haralambos Hatzikirou
14:45 - 15:10 Katrin Boettger Investigation of the effect of phenotypic plasticity on tumor growth
15:10 - 15:35 Alicia Martínez-González In-silico glioma models: what can we take advantage for the clinical practice?
16:00 - 16:25 Kristin R. Swanson Quantifying changes in glioma biology with treatment using modeling of edema formation and clinical imaging Jacob Scott
16:25 - 16:50 Mathilde Badoual An edema-based model for diffuse low-grade gliomas under radiotherapy
16:50 - 17:15 Juan Carlos López Alfonso Modeling dose-painting effects in radiotherapy by means of an agent based model
17:15 - 17:40 Russel Rockne A data-driven calibration of a nonlinear mechanistic model for DNA damage and repair: applications to radiosurgery and heavy ion irradiation treatment for glioblastoma
17:40 - 18:05 Thomas Buder Linear dependency between residual tumor fraction and regression probability can provide decision support after partial resection of pilocytic astrocytoma
18:05 - 18:30 Alvaro Köhn-Luque
Haralambos Hatzikirou
Jacob Scott
Round table discussion and closing
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Multiple personality in order
Posted by Stephen Centanni | Oct 28, 2015 | Music Briefs | 0 |
Band: Granger Smith/Earl Dibbles Jr.
Date: Thursday, Oct. 29 with doors at 7 p.m.
Venue: Midnight Rodeo, 7790 Tanner Road, 251-639-2222
Tickets: $12 General/$25 VIP, available through Ticketbiscuit
Photo/ (earldibblesjr.com) Earl Dibbles Jr.
Midnight Rodeo is giving the Azalea City a chance to tune up for the Halloween weekend with a stellar country music up-and-comer who gives you two for the price of one. WeMo’s premiere honky-tonk could not have picked a better country act for the Halloween season than Granger Smith, but when you book Smith you also get his alter ego, Earl Dibbles Jr.
Dibbles is a Beech-Nut-spittin’, backwoods redneck with “a 12-gauge by his waterbed.” He prides himself on his dedication to the white-trash lifestyle, which he lauds at great length in songs such as “The Country Boy Song.” Smith is a country artist with a wholesome, good-ol’-country-boy-next-door image. Both can be found on Smith’s latest EP, “4X4.” This appropriately named four-track release should satisfy fans until Smith’s next full-length recording. “4X4” is filled with the memorable hooks and smooth vocal work that has made pop country a popular sub-genre.
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These Are All of the People Robert Mueller Has Busted So Far for Making False Statements
by Matt Naham | 4:21 pm, November 29th, 2018
The number of guilty pleas in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation are piling up as the special counsel forges ahead.
Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Thursday to making false statements to the House and Senate Intelligence committees.
Cohen admitted he violated 18 USC § 1001(a)(2), which makes “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation” a federal crime.
He is far from the first person to be ensnared by the Mueller probe for making false statements thus far. This is the what 18 USC § 1001 says, the crimes these defendants pleaded guilty to committing:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.
Former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, but ended up making an eleventh hour attempt to stay out of prison. A judge denied that and Papadopoulos started his prison stint on Monday, November 26. Then there were former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan, who lied about his Ukrainian dealings with Gates. All of these men have pleaded guilty to making false statements. Flynn and Gates still haven’t been sentenced.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort recently saw his cooperation agreement fall through for making false statements to FBI investigators. Mueller has not yet filed a report that he said will detail the “nature” of Manafort’s “crimes and lies.” Manafort has denied that characterization of his statements.
Next up on the list is right-wing author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who backed out of plea negotiations with the special counsel — this one related to a false statements charge. Corsi’s associate Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. may also be on the hook for things they’ve said in the past on separate matters.
Stone’s statements about WikiLeaks have been under the microscope; Trump Jr.’s statements about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting and the Moscow Project are also of interest.
[Image via Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images]
false statements, michael cohen, Robert Mueller
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Matt Naham is managing editor of Law&Crime. He formerly worked as news editor and weekend editor at Rare.
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280 Manuel tv4/LYRwrL1077QK8fY+Be1PRmw= 324 2017-08-07 00:42:33 0 days, 4 hours, 3 mins, 9 secs 0 days, 1 hours, 9 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 2 hours, 54 mins, 9 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 56 mins, 51 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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276 youtuber/Daimond_LPS CQ9heQsKXOXu3lCqoUhPp4Fow+I= 599 2017-02-23 15:35:29 0 days, 4 hours, 24 mins, 32 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 13 mins, 2 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 11 mins, 30 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 35 mins, 28 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
275 JuviaGFX | デザイナー | +BjTAQAumGFeukz3letTA1gZ2mY= 22 2017-03-04 19:02:17 0 days, 4 hours, 26 mins, 15 secs 0 days, 1 hours, 35 mins, 42 secs 0 days, 2 hours, 50 mins, 33 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 33 mins, 45 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
274 Dennis M4mE+0DeW9Ell6wzoFhVDkBcDCE= 4100 2017-09-06 20:31:50 0 days, 4 hours, 28 mins, 31 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 1 mins, 20 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 27 mins, 11 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 31 mins, 29 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
273 iTzFireHD OyNdjWi2iWUojaul7/1EC+DRZ8Y= 4548 2017-11-15 18:55:36 0 days, 4 hours, 31 mins, 55 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 31 mins, 55 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 28 mins, 5 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
272 LEON fdCr7mbX/6bRrm3A24OcW+Xmv0I= 934 2016-12-25 16:05:50 0 days, 4 hours, 31 mins, 59 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 31 mins, 59 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 28 mins, 1 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
271 BadFelix Handy AyY7UeOG1y/3luFAfT3SiFXXySU= 2293 2017-07-16 02:08:37 0 days, 4 hours, 34 mins, 32 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 1 mins, 19 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 33 mins, 13 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 25 mins, 28 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
270 G3rm4n Fr34k 1o3XR/6yqACpiqXpZ5lMB/986jw= 4307 2017-10-02 17:36:48 0 days, 4 hours, 36 mins, 42 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 36 mins, 42 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 23 mins, 18 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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268 yαɴ ɴ. hWrUoTvRLR8n/sJAmCjwdl83cNI= 4765 2018-05-31 18:00:08 0 days, 4 hours, 38 mins, 4 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 32 mins, 11 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 5 mins, 53 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 21 mins, 56 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
267 Jinges Khan wdnONTYl0Trk9LnjjtHz0y6NC1M= 1590 2017-09-04 16:44:58 0 days, 4 hours, 38 mins, 31 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 23 mins, 52 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 14 mins, 39 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 21 mins, 29 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
266 Der sucuk uLURZF53VhM6cIHoKn2R+6YVnLs= 3302 2017-06-22 12:42:49 0 days, 4 hours, 47 mins, 55 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 44 mins, 19 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 3 mins, 36 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 12 mins, 5 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
265 Daniel OtC7p40GBHEfUoLpR/3JwpbLLpA= 3445 2017-11-24 17:55:35 0 days, 4 hours, 48 mins, 36 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 48 mins, 36 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 11 mins, 24 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
264 Tim +lxmN5Y4cl3HCFTeh2684pEzjss= 5079 2018-11-04 19:28:25 0 days, 4 hours, 48 mins, 46 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 2 mins, 17 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 46 mins, 29 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 11 mins, 14 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
263 BerkaySkur29 JrBNIEGlLmGXeu6O5D69eeDldm4= 2151 2017-02-28 15:18:00 0 days, 4 hours, 49 mins, 9 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 49 mins, 9 secs 4 days, 19 hours, 10 mins, 51 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
262 L0STmax /YzL5NuUYujsePxb7+KFEL7d9HE= 3312 2017-06-30 12:19:21 0 days, 5 hours, 4 mins, 47 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 27 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 4 mins, 20 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 55 mins, 13 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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259 Min3craftLP jhHwjB0q9tP8wSNLNA/99g2xwFc= 4776 2018-01-25 18:50:41 0 days, 5 hours, 15 mins, 48 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 15 mins, 48 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 44 mins, 12 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
258 DELTAPOPO 7pxU3tbkcH9BuevmMS45cbtrB0U= 924 2016-12-18 17:39:50 0 days, 5 hours, 21 mins, 28 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 4 mins, 58 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 16 mins, 30 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 38 mins, 32 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
257 Brachy LP nST5fL9uzAMCUsjtAaH8NQqbpzs= 999 2017-02-14 18:59:18 0 days, 5 hours, 25 mins, 46 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 8 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 17 mins, 46 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 34 mins, 14 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
256 Voll Kress Ey (In Polen) yO/zM8IrsmeBWxxU64gOogKWp9E= 3337 2017-06-04 18:27:38 0 days, 5 hours, 27 mins, 11 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 27 mins, 11 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 32 mins, 49 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
255 TristianOderSo R7jJUMsc2kQAzrO5u8vzLflaFAA= 4277 2017-10-03 16:07:49 0 days, 5 hours, 32 mins, 14 secs 0 days, 3 hours, 17 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 2 hours, 15 mins, 14 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 27 mins, 46 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
254 Galasch1 NlN/v2HWeTaWQwYa95qY1UzkPi0= 1552 2017-01-20 19:58:12 0 days, 5 hours, 34 mins, 1 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 30 mins, 55 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 3 mins, 6 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 25 mins, 59 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
253 Mike sui7+oHBunJflAw8rwTCZtLkZH4= 2827 2017-11-18 21:36:25 0 days, 5 hours, 36 mins, 11 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 5 mins, 38 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 30 mins, 33 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 23 mins, 49 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
252 DayDab xr0IRg2ASZ5mtVkHcwoYJXyAjpc= 2522 2017-09-24 17:08:46 0 days, 5 hours, 39 mins, 55 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 29 mins, 29 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 10 mins, 26 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 20 mins, 5 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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250 Altay qu5uoTDBySErVjmzL0hCVeowGA4= 2639 2018-06-21 21:15:04 0 days, 5 hours, 41 mins, 52 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 41 mins, 52 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 18 mins, 8 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
249 Martin 1 c8zFFNFFy861uuxFKiv2UskZ71Q= 200 2017-10-11 18:59:26 0 days, 5 hours, 45 mins, 10 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 35 mins, 51 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 9 mins, 19 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 14 mins, 50 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
248 DerBaum563412 e++58Yb361KC/ID7iKX7Az3BXj0= 4369 2018-02-14 19:14:58 0 days, 5 hours, 49 mins, 26 secs 0 days, 1 hours, 20 mins, 42 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 28 mins, 44 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 10 mins, 34 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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246 BadFelix ZMjfN3f3wjf7rWlwWdBgW7U9ZmQ= 3290 2019-02-11 20:59:04 0 days, 5 hours, 58 mins, 21 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 2 mins, 24 secs 0 days, 5 hours, 55 mins, 57 secs 4 days, 18 hours, 1 mins, 39 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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243 Altay TsnSE4cgOoxEAIDV4cykDIT0Yj8= 274 2017-01-22 19:47:46 0 days, 6 hours, 22 mins, 59 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 22 mins, 59 secs 4 days, 17 hours, 37 mins, 1 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
242 killfoxe gL71I36v/WLNw0Dslj2gBOA/XZg= 850 2017-07-23 00:42:51 0 days, 6 hours, 24 mins, 17 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 6 mins, 39 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 17 mins, 38 secs 4 days, 17 hours, 35 mins, 43 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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240 wiz CMSMiQnAg1DgVru++Sb29Jjnz1s= 4549 2018-12-16 19:19:05 0 days, 6 hours, 34 mins, 43 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 34 mins, 43 secs 4 days, 17 hours, 25 mins, 17 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
239 Domme VD01FzKx/No10/ysBW74e+GL5KQ= 746 2017-02-15 16:49:34 0 days, 6 hours, 36 mins, 47 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 17 mins, 21 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 19 mins, 26 secs 4 days, 17 hours, 23 mins, 13 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
238 florom# fyJ33lgf7B3aD2Xj8sGWrIZvonw= 3984 2017-07-27 12:25:43 0 days, 6 hours, 39 mins, 21 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 39 mins, 21 secs 4 days, 17 hours, 20 mins, 39 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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236 MLGTheHearts smrk3dPm+Sf5YTZfLBykQnm0Heg= 1958 2017-04-12 21:07:45 0 days, 6 hours, 40 mins, 44 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 21 mins, 21 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 19 mins, 23 secs 4 days, 17 hours, 19 mins, 16 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
235 MacAppleHD/Stanley DX5cNEC/yRqYTea4KL19V4g7yKY= 2508 2017-04-19 16:52:42 0 days, 6 hours, 42 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 35 mins, 6 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 6 mins, 54 secs 4 days, 17 hours, 18 mins, 0 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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230 BASH 4LLFGSWMR1MbNOOfQdyNgXknj0s= 2826 2017-11-18 21:36:53 0 days, 7 hours, 5 mins, 59 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 4 mins, 8 secs 0 days, 7 hours, 1 mins, 51 secs 4 days, 16 hours, 54 mins, 1 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
56 Hendriksmen i1ArkSK/D0KKGi7pAtUq6rL/WQk= 2807 2018-02-25 14:24:02 5 days, 7 hours, 7 mins, 57 secs 0 days, 3 hours, 24 mins, 5 secs 5 days, 3 hours, 43 mins, 52 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer 2017-12-24 12:13:25 4 days, 16 hours, 52 mins, 3 secs LeveL 2 | Amateur
229 Tim 9YQrZNfd3zbVESI4EsUj0+ii2E4= 137 2017-07-21 22:34:12 0 days, 7 hours, 10 mins, 12 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 4 mins, 58 secs 0 days, 7 hours, 5 mins, 14 secs 4 days, 16 hours, 49 mins, 48 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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201 AhmedPlays 26ifwI2hd1uWuTQUj7JmdgKJ7os= 538 2017-02-05 12:54:57 0 days, 10 hours, 47 mins, 6 secs 0 days, 9 hours, 49 mins, 22 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 57 mins, 44 secs 4 days, 13 hours, 12 mins, 54 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
200 SKUR_TRK lSf+VI1d+SYWkn2FoAq7Ilb2IE4= 577 2017-02-23 19:51:52 0 days, 10 hours, 54 mins, 31 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 10 hours, 54 mins, 31 secs 4 days, 13 hours, 5 mins, 29 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
199 Malcora l7DGexJac0TyULLwT13SADCpvTI= 5094 2018-10-28 20:51:26 0 days, 11 hours, 5 mins, 30 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 11 hours, 5 mins, 30 secs 4 days, 12 hours, 54 mins, 30 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
198 Megu mGeWoZbsUTUOJNbeeKip/YkJ/n4= 3343 2018-02-20 17:04:28 0 days, 11 hours, 8 mins, 48 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 22 mins, 23 secs 0 days, 10 hours, 46 mins, 25 secs 4 days, 12 hours, 51 mins, 12 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
197 FlousenMC 29JnaXw4HD5uLqZ6cjaKuTXuMmo= 4596 2017-12-02 17:00:54 0 days, 11 hours, 21 mins, 56 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 58 mins, 23 secs 0 days, 10 hours, 23 mins, 33 secs 4 days, 12 hours, 38 mins, 4 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
196 PlexMinex 6FSNpEFBkWp5Je0ciikRmDNhI/M= 4010 2019-05-11 21:36:16 0 days, 11 hours, 30 mins, 16 secs 0 days, 1 hours, 15 mins, 17 secs 0 days, 10 hours, 14 mins, 59 secs 4 days, 12 hours, 29 mins, 44 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
195 XxUnlegitFinnxX/ Finn wYqTGPyYyMmm4llkhPNZc+NQ3cc= 2520 2017-04-21 19:33:29 0 days, 11 hours, 34 mins, 44 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 11 hours, 34 mins, 44 secs 4 days, 12 hours, 25 mins, 16 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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194 Daniel 7JCBWXcEjbj8F30MeEoIp88HGhY= 1068 2017-01-03 13:59:30 0 days, 12 hours, 9 mins, 57 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 10 mins, 41 secs 0 days, 11 hours, 59 mins, 16 secs 4 days, 11 hours, 50 mins, 3 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
193 Gyma 3uzXmmCyD5/wtKN1RFFdhQxcXjg= 2728 2017-10-11 21:54:20 0 days, 12 hours, 28 mins, 2 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 53 mins, 49 secs 0 days, 11 hours, 34 mins, 13 secs 4 days, 11 hours, 31 mins, 58 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
192 lauraa /R3R4raz2m5mNcVC6Anmvgd5UNY= 4358 2017-10-31 03:17:56 0 days, 12 hours, 30 mins, 42 secs 0 days, 3 hours, 5 mins, 15 secs 0 days, 9 hours, 25 mins, 27 secs 4 days, 11 hours, 29 mins, 18 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
53 Detektiv_ConanLP IDapEi+RGRYucs5KSROpQTVHu5s= 845 2018-01-05 09:29:19 5 days, 12 hours, 36 mins, 18 secs 0 days, 6 hours, 0 mins, 17 secs 5 days, 6 hours, 36 mins, 1 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer 2017-11-03 15:28:15 4 days, 11 hours, 23 mins, 42 secs LeveL 2 | Amateur
191 User1668 F4c+RHZ71nbY7T+WeTCbU2YHQbw= 230 2018-03-13 18:18:51 0 days, 12 hours, 59 mins, 54 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 12 hours, 59 mins, 54 secs 4 days, 11 hours, 0 mins, 6 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
190 _CuzImLegitHacks 9CjiIKy82+nGJ9GDpuY+j+/8q7g= 509 2017-01-22 18:35:34 0 days, 13 hours, 5 mins, 43 secs 0 days, 3 hours, 9 mins, 35 secs 0 days, 9 hours, 56 mins, 8 secs 4 days, 10 hours, 54 mins, 17 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
189 JIDDL a35yokVqTNWPiGp80n0LXq+AR8A= 4095 2017-11-19 15:38:41 0 days, 13 hours, 6 mins, 37 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 57 mins, 4 secs 0 days, 12 hours, 9 mins, 33 secs 4 days, 10 hours, 53 mins, 23 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
188 ItzJoschiBoy YT LamO8YBderNfLRuKSmB8JBCczmg= 3521 2017-06-27 20:54:07 0 days, 13 hours, 32 mins, 5 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 13 hours, 32 mins, 5 secs 4 days, 10 hours, 27 mins, 55 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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185 Voll Kress Ey PAIZvDSQLGx1HHHsFNN98Pzp4MA= 3342 2017-09-27 13:42:31 0 days, 13 hours, 49 mins, 20 secs 0 days, 4 hours, 30 mins, 38 secs 0 days, 9 hours, 18 mins, 42 secs 4 days, 10 hours, 10 mins, 40 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
184 Derbree PUBORLPgss/uFzIWl3E7BxYOOtQ= 5088 2018-11-17 02:28:22 0 days, 13 hours, 54 mins, 38 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 16 mins, 56 secs 0 days, 13 hours, 37 mins, 42 secs 4 days, 10 hours, 5 mins, 22 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
183 koenig15 D4PGTV0h5XrhJFjLyxZr9yQcCCM= 5050 2018-12-24 14:33:08 0 days, 14 hours, 40 mins, 58 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 50 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 13 hours, 50 mins, 58 secs 4 days, 9 hours, 19 mins, 2 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
182 Quasel 9R9KIXvJH/5OzNaTTjwNa++Uqos= 1551 2017-01-19 18:52:29 0 days, 14 hours, 51 mins, 33 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 14 hours, 51 mins, 33 secs 4 days, 9 hours, 8 mins, 27 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
181 SKURTRK QDg3ysYZEs4lgX2My2R4HWM4Fes= 3988 2017-07-28 14:38:18 0 days, 15 hours, 30 mins, 30 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 11 mins, 33 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 18 mins, 57 secs 4 days, 8 hours, 29 mins, 30 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
180 BadSnix OT8xfaXDifJfv/g+YYsZACke8yw= 562 2017-02-05 17:18:58 0 days, 15 hours, 35 mins, 19 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 2 mins, 44 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 32 mins, 35 secs 4 days, 8 hours, 24 mins, 41 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
179 Altay /G5r7/54cFKgzwESfZHAhkSPNlc= 5458 2019-07-14 00:03:36 0 days, 15 hours, 37 mins, 25 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 15 mins, 57 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 21 mins, 28 secs 4 days, 8 hours, 22 mins, 35 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
178 Marcus 2jH/CVOiR+u15jvfh28fx8B3zZ0= 2791 2017-11-04 12:28:53 0 days, 15 hours, 47 mins, 17 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 39 mins, 47 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 7 mins, 30 secs 4 days, 8 hours, 12 mins, 43 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
177 GamerLuckse fbX8fB/NFnr/Upyuphjx5gv01TU= 3468 2017-06-30 07:35:39 0 days, 15 hours, 56 mins, 3 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 43 mins, 38 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 12 mins, 25 secs 4 days, 8 hours, 3 mins, 57 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
176 kutrapali ipUCxzwzu7k62+h0gWFiixdomuY= 4390 2017-12-28 00:41:29 0 days, 16 hours, 3 mins, 35 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 28 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 3 mins, 7 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 56 mins, 25 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
175 Osman k9vIo3U22gUDcHiM0T6cZpA1Tcc= 4945 2018-06-27 17:27:18 0 days, 16 hours, 5 mins, 2 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 21 mins, 4 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 43 mins, 58 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 54 mins, 58 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
174 Plotrex HnFI0NcmFT7cR1OM77TphcS0ZFE= 5043 2019-06-12 01:19:27 0 days, 16 hours, 10 mins, 3 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 28 mins, 51 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 41 mins, 12 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 49 mins, 57 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
173 Sara 617aGnpK6itmmB7IfA6vtBPlcc0= 440 2016-12-28 13:38:26 0 days, 16 hours, 17 mins, 15 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 11 mins, 56 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 5 mins, 19 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 42 mins, 45 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
172 WhiteLovell | Dead wPk9kvg47adHl7t8QkacgQQ5xgY= 4321 2017-10-19 15:45:56 0 days, 16 hours, 23 mins, 16 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 6 mins, 18 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 16 mins, 58 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 36 mins, 44 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
171 Y1D0N4T0R irhkBapyxvrU8YZzj3TSliwTTx8= 4618 2017-12-22 20:23:58 0 days, 16 hours, 33 mins, 5 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 46 mins, 28 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 46 mins, 37 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 26 mins, 55 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
170 Braincrushers JFXECj5VMwxfXyUHr9HS++iitIo= 764 2017-09-14 16:10:19 0 days, 16 hours, 34 mins, 43 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 15 mins, 0 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 19 mins, 43 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 25 mins, 17 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
169 Henning hmgMsy0ZkmEdLsSGOCipOI4i/l4= 2253 2017-06-09 19:30:54 0 days, 16 hours, 34 mins, 56 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 19 mins, 42 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 15 mins, 14 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 25 mins, 4 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
168 TheReal suGJ8QzaKr8ONoC52xuIXz9lpfo= 947 2017-04-13 00:37:52 0 days, 16 hours, 41 mins, 58 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 19 mins, 19 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 22 mins, 39 secs 4 days, 7 hours, 18 mins, 2 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
32 xXDrunken_MasterXx ZHBGZWjoU5kcn5mg3H6HYWbjhi8= 2240 2018-04-14 12:01:46 10 days, 16 hours, 53 mins, 3 secs 1 days, 18 hours, 32 mins, 29 secs 8 days, 22 hours, 20 mins, 34 secs LeveL 2 | Amateur 2017-11-25 19:31:36 4 days, 7 hours, 6 mins, 57 secs LeveL 3 | Player
167 Teamspeakuser SbuULHvEFbXM4Nx5VemLc8/14bA= 1768 2017-07-28 17:15:28 0 days, 17 hours, 14 mins, 33 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 26 mins, 17 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 48 mins, 16 secs 4 days, 6 hours, 45 mins, 27 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
166 Exotiic_Replay lAsWvJRGCiYzvp5ZvfWNBLziQHk= 675 2017-12-20 22:05:19 0 days, 17 hours, 16 mins, 17 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 41 mins, 20 secs 0 days, 16 hours, 34 mins, 57 secs 4 days, 6 hours, 43 mins, 43 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
21 yahuuuu2 I like Cheesecake vfLS7EiBH+n0y/QraVzuboUr0cQ= 40 2017-01-24 20:38:50 15 days, 17 hours, 23 mins, 51 secs 1 days, 0 hours, 43 mins, 38 secs 14 days, 16 hours, 40 mins, 13 secs LeveL 3 | Player 2017-01-24 15:10:08 4 days, 6 hours, 36 mins, 9 secs LeveL 4 | Member
165 Farid Bang TNb9Y6AtBA43MR6T6P1PNoC+iU4= 608 2017-02-05 12:57:51 0 days, 17 hours, 28 mins, 3 secs 0 days, 1 hours, 29 mins, 16 secs 0 days, 15 hours, 58 mins, 47 secs 4 days, 6 hours, 31 mins, 57 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
164 ᠌᠌ ᠌ ᠌ ᠌ ᠌ ᠌ ᠌᠌ jwXkcPNgT6Q7bwQl+FYhh9V0p3Q= 5084 2019-01-09 01:23:57 0 days, 17 hours, 41 mins, 5 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 3 mins, 59 secs 0 days, 17 hours, 37 mins, 6 secs 4 days, 6 hours, 18 mins, 55 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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158 Charged_Phoenix wBSaA8+6o0HGWzZrz1VfqS/PyEw= 4578 2017-12-03 13:37:58 0 days, 19 hours, 31 mins, 21 secs 0 days, 0 hours, 39 mins, 32 secs 0 days, 18 hours, 51 mins, 49 secs 4 days, 4 hours, 28 mins, 39 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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152 McFeetersAkaFaby JIK6KIQy3MbuSLJFu0onBm8U57E= 4588 2017-12-28 19:56:01 0 days, 21 hours, 8 mins, 30 secs 0 days, 2 hours, 16 mins, 34 secs 0 days, 18 hours, 51 mins, 56 secs 4 days, 2 hours, 51 mins, 30 secs LeveL 1 | Newcomer
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TrumpNation
The Art of Being The Donald
O'Brien, Timothy L.
With unprecedented accessincluding personal interviews with Donald Trump himselfone of the nations leading business journalists reveals the good, the bad, and most of all, the ridiculous truth behind the public image of The Donald. Whatever anyone thinks of Donald Trump, the truth is far more complexand fascinating. Instead of society nightlife, most evenings hes at home watching TV and munching Oreos. He has a line of clothing and bottled water emblazoned with his image, yet he needed a loan from his siblings to stay afloat. His name is featured on some of the worlds most magnificent buildings and casinos, while a $1.8 billion debt hangs over his company. Hell use a friends cell phone to save money on a call. Hell call a journalist a total whack job on television, then turn around and invite him to fly down to Palm Beach on his private jet. These are the contradictions of Trumps world, and beneath the public faade, theres a man few people ever see. Now, New York Times business reporter Timothy L. OBrien pulls back the velvet curtain surrounding The Donaldwith access rarely granted to a reporter beforeand takes the polish off the image of Americas so called most popular billionaire.
Publisher: New York : Warner Business Books, 2005.
Characteristics: 276 p., [8] p. of plates :,ill. ;,24 cm.
Alternative Title: Trump Nation
Read more reviews of TrumpNation at iDreamBooks.com
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Businessmen — United States — Biography.
Real Estate Developers — United States — Biography.
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Mario Gotze makes transfer declaration amid shock Arsenal link
Mario Gotze has responded to transfer speculation by stating that he is paying little attention to rumours over a potential move to Arsenal.
The World Cup winner has been linked with a shock summer switch to The Emirates.
Gotze has just one year left on his Borussia Dortmund contract, having inked a four-year deal in 2016 following three seasons with Bayern Munich.
And there have been suggestions that Unai Emery could look to land a cut-price deal this summer, for a player who rediscovered form and fitness last term, after a difficult period.
The arrivals of Julian Brandt and Thorgan Hazard mean that Gotze won't necessarily be first choice for Lucien Favre next season however.
Nevertheless, he is not focusing on a potential move anywhere else right now.
"I always hear these rumours, they come up every year," declared Gotze, speaking to DAZN when asked about speculation.
"Everyone has their value and the club has to decide who fits where."
When asked about potentially extending at the Westfalenstadion he added: "I have a year on my contract and I am comfortable in the Bundesliga.
"I am very relaxed, I wanted to play a reasonable season, contributing with my performances and focusing on myself was important for me."
BVB sporting director Michael Zorc declared last week that the Bundesliga runners-up are hoping Gotze will sign a new contract.
“We have heard rumours from England for years," Zorc told Sport Bild. "As always, we are relaxed.
"Mario Götze has not approached us with a request to move. We are enjoying good exchange with Mario's father and his advisor.
"At the beginning of the new season, we will sit down together."
Related： ArsenalBorussia DortmundGötzeUnai Emery
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A crash which seriously injured two elderly people on the Bruce Hwy at Bajool. RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue
Elderly couple in serious condition after CQ crash
by michellegately
17th Sep 2018 10:27 AM | Updated: 18th Sep 2018 10:48 AM
UPDATE, Tuesday September 18: AN ELDERLY couple injured in a serious car crash yesterday remain in hospital in a serious condition.
A spokesperson from Rockhampton Hospital said the couple in their 70s were in a serious but stable condition after the accident in Bajool yesterday.
2PM: THE RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue Service has released further details about a crash on the Bruce Hwy this morning which seriously injured an elderly couple.
It is believed the car crashed after the male driver, aged in his 70s, suffered a medical condition.
The vehicle rolled three times before coming to rest on the side of the highway.
The man's wife, also aged in her 70s, was airlifted to Rockhampton Hospital suffering suspected head injuries, broken ribs, a broken leg, lacerations, and suspected internal injuries.
The driver was driven to hospital with multiple injuries.
The highway has now re-opened.
12.45PM: AN ELDERLY woman has been airlifted to Rockhampton Hospital in a serious condition after a crash on the Bruce Hwy.
The female passenger in her 70s suffered serious leg and head injuries and was flown to hospital by the RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue Service.
The male driver was driven to Rockhampton Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
It is believed he may have suffered a heart attack or other medical condition prior to the crash, which happened about 10.10am about 10km north of Bajool.
One lane of the Bruce Hwy remains closed and police diversions are in place.
Delays are expected.
11.30AM: PARAMEDICS are continuing to treat two elderly people seriously injured in a crash on the Bruce Hwy.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson said crews remained on scene treating a man and a woman, both believed to be aged in their 70s.
Both are in a serious condition.
The spokesperson said the woman suffered a serious leg injury, while the man was believed to have suffered a heart attack.
They said it was possible the man may have experienced the medical condition before the crash.
The highway remains closed.
10.35AM: THE Bruce Hwy will be closed in both directions to allow the RACQ Capricorn Helicopter to land safely.
Paramedics at the scene have called for the rescue helicopter after a single vehicle crash on the highway about 10km north of Bajool.
Reports from the scene indicate a female passenger has a severely broken leg, while the male driver may have suffered a heart attack or medical condition.
Queensland Police Service officers are controlling traffic flow on the highway and delays are expected.
10.25AM: EMERGENCY services are rushing to the scene of a single vehicle crash on the Bruce Hwy.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokesperson said the crash happened about 10.10am on the Bruce Hwy near Bajool.
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Home » Articles » Assault prevention: SURVIVING RAPE – THE AFTERMATH – 2005
Assault prevention: SURVIVING RAPE – THE AFTERMATH – 2005
Rachel Alkallay October 3, 2005
Montreal – Christine Johnson* stepped out of the suburban mall and into a nightmare. On a warm September evening eight years ago, two men, one pointing a knife into her back, grabbed her, forced her into a nearby bus shelter, and, while one threatened her with the knife, watched as his partner raped her, as cars whizzed by and pedestrians strolled unknowingly across the street.
When he was finished, his partner said, “Now it’s my turn to have fun,” and proceeded to anally rape her on the cement floor of the shelter.
Johnson’s life has not been the same since. A strikingly attractive former model, she gained 75 pounds, stopped wearing make-up and let herself go. Her life falling apart, she finally sought help from psychologist Martin Veilleux, who specializes in treating victims of trauma. Veilleux referred her to a personal safety expert George Manoli.
A nine-year veteran of the Montreal police force during the day, Manoli, 39, holds a Black Belt 4th Dan in Japanese Karate and is the author of three manuals on how to avoid becoming a victim. He became interested in rape re-enactment sessions while teaching his hands-on assault prevention courses for women and noted a student’s shaking, hysterical reaction as he began acting out an assault.
Manoli realized that victims of assault formed a unique group, and designed a course that dealt specifically with assault and its aftermath. He molds each course to the rape victim’s story. ‘’It has to be individually tailored,’’ explains Manoli. Sessions are about three hours long, and most survivors require three to four sessions to get through.
The course covers why the assault victim’s are chosen, the attack and the aftermath. “Knowledge gives us power,” says Manoli. ‘’Knowing the options of what she could have done gives the survivor confidence that she will not be a victim again.’’ It also lessens the survivor’s guilt. ‘’Why did you let it happen ? Did you fight ? Did you scream ?’’ – can be crippling questions when asked by misguided friends.
The rape re-enactment sessions produce a great deal of tears and trauma for the victims in the initial stages, but ultimately help the rape victim in overcoming her fears. Sessions proceed slowly, with the survivor recounting the rape in painful detail, often amidst much crying and several breaks to calm down. The next step involves reviewing assertiveness training responses and self-defense moves, including fending off both verbal and physical assaults.
Progressive sessions re-enact the actual rape scenario, from the first encounter with the rapist to remembering the words, the gestures, the sounds and smells associated with the rape. The woman is encouraged to wear similar clothing, and Manoli re-creates the same physical atmosphere as much as possible.
‘’The survivor will recall details as we repeat the process,’’ says Manoli. He wears protective gear during the sessions and encourages women to kick, scream, bite and ‘’get angry’’.
Christine Johnson required 15 hours’ worth of sessions to re-live and work through the trauma. By the end of the sessions, Johnson, 45, says she ‘’would know what to do today in the same situation. I would never let them take me anywhere else.’’
Other forms of sexual assault which don’t end in intercourse can be equally brutalizing. One woman, a nurse, came to Manoli, traumatized because a hospital patient had assaulted her. She screamed and fought back ; co-workers rushed to her aid. But the women’s sense of victimization increased when hospital administrators refused to do anything about the incident and discouraged her from reporting it to the police.
Johnson’s case was unusual in that she did not know her attackers. Seventy percent of rape victims, like the nurse, are acquainted to some degree with the rapist.
An unfortunate by-product of rape is the number of broken marriages and relationships. Women who have been raped can have a variety of problems in relating to men, both emotionally and sexually ; the woman can withdraw from her partner, or flare up in anger for no apparent reason.
The partner doesn’t know how to deal with these changes ; many men can’t get over the idea that their woman has been touched by another man, says Manoli. ‘’The boyfriend often calls me between sessions, worried about what is happening with his girlfriend.’’ He encourages husbands/boyfriends to be there during the sessions to fully understand what the women is going through.
He also advises that, in the aftermath of rape, the victim talk about what happened, both to the police and friends who will be supportive, understanding and non-judgmental of what happened to her. Relationships rarely survive these changes, adds Manoli ruefully.
He encourages women to take these sessions in conjunction with treatment by a psychologist, preferably one who specializes in trauma. Johnson’s psychologist, Martin Veilleux, has dealt with several rape victims, and notes that ‘’Frequently, a patient will come to me as a result of another trauma – a bank robbery, a mugging – and the rape will surface during our sessions.’’
The victim often denies the trauma of the event, adds Veilleux, believing that she can get through this alone. If she tries to resolve it herself, another (traumatic) event will make her even more fragile.
He sees the after-effects of women who haven’t dealt with the rape in its aftermath. ‘’It becomes more difficult after years pass. Certain chapters in life will crystallize into her character. Sexual problems are common when a new partner comes on the scene.’’ The longer treatment is postponed, the more deeply rooted the problems may become. Manoli has treated survivors raped as recently as two months ago to one who was raped over 19 years ago.
‘’If a women is strong enough to come and take my course, I consider her a rape survivor,’’ says Manoli.
In addition to rape re-enactment courses, Manoli gives hands-on courses in street smart assault prevention for women and teens, date rape prevention for single women, street-proofing courses for children and anti-bullying courses for those who are constantly picked on.
George Manoli can be reached at (514) 328-4683 or gmanoli@videotron.ca
* The name has been changed with the approval of Christine Johnson.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Would you be concerned if the "GeoServices REST API" became an OGC standard?
Frans Thamura frans at meruvian.org
Wed May 8 18:25:15 PDT 2013
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I think we must review how openoffice become iso standared, and microsoft
that behave like esri, want new standard called msoffoce xml.
He submit his docx, xlsx, etc, which he said better and more complete, but
anyone adopt.
For respect, i hope we can follow this model. Esri no need standard, or
using his api as new standard, that is bad.
Happen in java world, people in community use struts as standard in 1999,
competitor come, smiliar case, a standard body inside sun organization
called jcp, play with new standard called jsf. Boom. Oracle and sun make
standard from new standard, and reject struts or action framework or an
adoption from html request response, this case happen several time by them,
jdo, ejb. That bad for ecosystem, none use esp they, and marketshare still
low until today.
My proposal if the current standard can be extend, that is better, with
esri's new standard rather create one, esp this is a ms office in gis
world, dangerous for ecosystem, this is about marketshare and business in
their side.
I prefer they submit to iso or oasis.
On May 5, 2013 4:21 AM, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adrian,
> Thankyou, I was hoping that someone such as your self with insights into
> the standard would explain the details. You email has been a great help.
> I'm also hoping that someone will provide a more detailed comparison of
> the similarities / differences, to help the rest of the community
> understand what is happening.
> On 05/05/13 02:43, Adrian Custer wrote:
>> Dear Cameron, all,
>> There is indeed a massive conflict at the OGC related to this proposed
>> standard and it may be useful to inform this list about that conflict and
>> the process.
>> However, I am unsure how expanding the *discussion* here helps.
>> The proposed standard aims to document a series of web services and a
>> JSON based data exchange format. The standard comes in eight parts
>> 12-054r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 1: Core
>> 12-055r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 2: Catalog
>> 12-056r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 3: Map Service
>> 12-057r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 4: Feature Service
>> 12-058r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 5: Geometry Service
>> 12-059r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 6: Image Service
>> 12-060r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 7: Geoprocessing Service
>> 12-061r2 GeoServices REST API - Part 8: Geocoding Service
>> and there are also
>> 12-068r2 GeoServices REST API - JSON Schemas and Examples
>> The documents describe the functioning of a set of web services,
>> developed originally by ESRI, and the JSON format for many objects, also
>> defined by ESRI, and used by those services.
>> The OGC request for comments (now closed) is here:
>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/**standards/requests/89<http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89>
>> with each of the documents.
>> Note that Cameron was either unclear or incorrect in his presentation of
>> where the standard now stands.
>> * The document was released for public comment. (see above)
>> * A response to all the comments was issued. (however incomplete)
>> * The document was then released for a vote.
>> * The vote was suspended because two 'no' votes were heard.
>> * A response was issued to the 'no' votes.
>> * The vote was resumed
>> * The vote was (re) suspended because two additional 'no' votes
>> were heard, with new arguments.
>> => the vote is current suspended awaiting
>> (1) a response to the new reasons, and
>> (2) a decision of what to do next by the leadership of the
>> OGC technical committee (where all this work happens),
>> since we have not yet faced such lack of consensus.
>> The proposed standard has been controversial from the start at the OGC.
>> The controversy, as best as I can tell, centers on the following issues:
>> * no backwards incompatible changes were allowed,
>> * no work was done to integrate the proposed services with existing
>> OGC services (W*S, ...),
>> * the only implementations are by ESRI and its partners,
>> * the name of the standard and services are not accurate or distinct.
>> Banning backwards incompatible changes is controversial both because it
>> blocked collaboration at the OGC (which essentially had to approve the ESRI
>> implementation as is) and because it prevented things like using GeoJSON
>> where appropriate. Also, going forwards, backwards compatibility will have
>> to be maintained giving the existing implementations (i.e. ESRI's) a huge
>> advantage in defining extensions (ESRI already has a number in the
>> pipeline).
>> The lack of integration with existing services is controversial both
>> because they made no effort to work with the existing working groups and
>> because it splits the work of the OGC into competing efforts. There is no
>> clear path forwards towards harmonization despite the fact that most groups
>> working on OGC Services are tackling issues in the same area (simple
>> services, JSON exchange format, REST design).
>> The dominance of ESRI is controversial both because the working mode
>> lacked any collaborative spirit and, perhaps most critically, because this
>> is seen as a way through which ESRI can bring its own service onto an equal
>> footing with the current, public OGC standards in the government
>> procurement game. Governments are shifting towards requiring that all
>> spatial software conform with published, open standards; the proposed
>> standard, if adopted, would allow ESRI to push its own software as also an
>> "Open Standard" and compete on an unequal footing with implementations of
>> the software being worked on by everyone else.
>> The name of the standard 'GeoServices REST API' and the services are
>> controversial for many reasons. The 'GeoServices' moniker is non-descript
>> (many OGC standards are for geospatial services) and matches the current
>> ESRI marketing terminology. 'REST' is a buzzword and implies a lot of
>> design work which has not been done (and is happening elsewhere at the
>> OGC); furthermore, if REST is about the design of a service's behaviour
>> (that the service acts based on the transfer of representations of
>> resources), then the word does not relate to an 'API'. Finally, the 'API'
>> word does not really describe the standard which is describing a number of
>> services and data exchange formats. The names of each service, e.g. either
>> 'Map Service' or 'GeoServices Map Service' is problematic: how do we make
>> sure that people know the difference between the 'OGC Web Map Service' and
>> the 'OGC GeoService Map Service' ?
>> However, despite these criticisms, note that a number of members of the
>> OGC members feel that the OGC should be in the business of releasing
>> standards and letting the marketplace decide which standards to adopt,
>> implement, and use.
>> My personal feeling is that the name must be changed to clearly separate
>> this set of services from the others. Beyond that, I am not against a new
>> competing standard, even despite the huge advantage it gives ESRI in a
>> market it already dominates. However, I would not mind seeing the standard
>> fail, if only to show groups the consequences of trying to railroad
>> documents through the standards group rather than building support for them
>> through open collaboration.
>> Which brings us to OSGeo and what useful contribution it could make to
>> the debate. Simply rehashing the issues above is not going to be useful to
>> anyone. If new ideas arise, or a large, common position emerges on the
>> issue, I'd be glad to inject them into the OGC discussion.
>> I suspect there is at least a week before voting resumes, although the
>> rules going forwards are not yet clear.
>> cheers,
>> ~adrian
>> On 5/4/13 7:46 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> OSGeo Community,
>>> Currently, voting OGC members are to decide whether to accept the
>>> "GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is already a contentious
>>> issue, with 13 votes for, and 10 votes against, 72 outstanding votes,
>>> with voting halted temporally, being reopened again in a few days, and
>>> closing 2 weeks after that. [1]
>>> I'm wanting to hear whether people in the OSGeo community have strong
>>> opinions regarding this proposed standard, and whether we as a
>>> collective OSGeo community should make statements to the OGC, and voting
>>> OGC members, stressing our thoughts.
>>> If there is sufficient interest, I'll raise this issue with the OSGeo
>>> Board, with the intent of drafting a statement on behalf of OSGeo.
>>> As background:
>>> * "The API was initially developed by Esri and implemented on the ArcGIS
>>> for Server platform." [2]
>>> * The proposed GeoServices REST API specification overlaps with most OGC
>>> standards already deployed, including: WMS, WMTS, WCS, WFS, SE/SLD,
>>> CS/W. This effectively means that for most use cases covered by the
>>> GeoServices REST API, applications would now have two standards to
>>> support. Also, spatial infrastructure programs will be impacted, as OGC
>>> compliance won't necessarily equate to interoperability.
>>> * Most (all?) current OGC web service standards to date have an Open
>>> Source reference implementation, which was often (always?) part funded
>>> by OGC testbeds, and open source implementations were tested against
>>> proprietary implementations during OGC testbeds. As far as I'm aware,
>>> there has been very little up-take from the Open Source community of the
>>> "GeoServices REST API", and I'm unaware of any testing of non-ESRI
>>> applications during OGC testbeds. (Someone may be able to correct me
>>> here).
>>> [1]
>>> https://portal.opengeospatial.**org/?m=projects&a=view&**
>>> project_id=82&tab=5&subtab=0<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=82&tab=5&subtab=0>
>>> (OGC member login required. Votes counted as at 4 May 2013)
>>> [2] http://www.opengeospatial.org/**standards/requests/89<http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89>
>> ______________________________**_________________
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Redknapp fear as James battles to be fit for FA Cup final
metrowebukmetroMonday 28 Apr 2008 8:07 am
Harry Redknapp was left to worry about England goalkeeper David James’ FA Cup final fitness as Blackburn celebrated the latest success of match-winning striker Roque Santa Cruz.
James is starting a 19-day battle to be ready for Pompey’s Wembley date on May 17 against Cardiff after missing his first Barclays Premier League game since moving from Manchester City in a £1.2million deal at the start of last season.
Injury fear: James
The 37-year-old tore a calf muscle in last week’s 3-1 defeat by his former club at Eastlands and although Pompey tried to keep it a secret, boss Redknapp was forced to ban him from training on Friday after a scan revealed the full extent of the damage.
Redknapp admitted: ‘You never know with calf injuries how long they will take.
‘He did it at Manchester City and we finally got him to have a scan on Thursday which showed a grade-one tear.
‘If he had trained Friday it could have turned into a grade four but, no, hopefully it shouldn’t be a problem – if he takes his time and gets the right treatment.’
It has been a difficult week for Redknapp with the death of his sister-in-law Pat, the mother of Chelsea star Frank Lampard.
Defeat by battling Blackburn, courtesy of Paraguay striker Santa Cruz’s clinical 73rd-minute strike at Fratton Park, means that Pompey, barring a miracle, cannot now finish fifth in the table.
That was their insurance plan for entry to the UEFA Cup should they suffer a shock defeat by mid-table Championship side Cardiff, but Blackburn can still make it into Europe if they finish above Aston Villa and take England’s Intertoto Cup place which could lead to a repeat of this season’s UEFA Cup participation.
Redknapp said: ‘Fifth was always going to be difficult for us but I don’t think it’s the most important thing.
‘Things have not been easy for me. My wife is in bits but you just have to crack on. A win against Blackburn would have been nice but that’s how it goes, and if we can win at Wembley that’s probably the only win that matters now.
‘Blackburn came with a 4-5-1 set-up with Santa Cruz on the right of midfield and it was only in the second half when Mark (Hughes) pushed him up front with Jason Roberts and they looked a better team.’
That was enough, though, and the South American, bought from Bayern Munich last summer, buried the winner past James’ stand-in Jamie Ashdown.
It was his sixth goal in the last seven games and his 21st this season, and Rovers manager Hughes insisted: ‘Liverpool paid something like £25million for Fernando Torres but Roque came here for just over £3million and I’d say that, pound for pound, he’s probably the better buy.
‘We haven’t the resources to go out and pay £10-15million for a player but I’m certainly happy with the four strikers I’ve got and, no, we are not selling this one.
‘There has been some mischief in the papers about him being wanted by other clubs but we have given him as good as any top club could give him, and this is just the first year of a contract he’s signed for four years.’
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Horse tangled in barbed wire had its ears and eyelids ripped off by dogs
Harry ReadheadTuesday 6 Jan 2015 3:53 pm
Warning: Graphic images
The horse was left in the freezing cold for two days (Picture: Blaze’s Tribute Equine Rescue)
A horse left for dead after having his ears and eyelids ripped off by dogs is on the road to recovery after thousands of dollars in donations.
Rudy the horse spent two days tangled in a barbed wire fence in freezing conditions in Oklahoma City, where he was unable to move as dogs savaged him, fracturing his jaw and ripping off his ears and eyelids.
But his rescue and subsequent crowdfunding appeal by Blaze’s Tribute Equine Rescue centre quickly generated thousands of dollars in donations, with the goal of $8,000 smashed and more than $16,000 raised in total.
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Dogs ripped off Rudy’s ears and eyelids (Picture: Blaze’s Tribute Equine Rescue)
And Oklahoma City Animal Control is currently pursuing charges against a man who rang them on Thursday saying he wanted the horse removed from his property.
‘They didn’t even go out there to check on him to see if he was alive,’ one of the horse’s rescuers told News 9.
‘They didn’t call a vet to come out and help or anything like that, and I think that’s the most distressing thing.’
After receiving round-the-clock care for several days, Rudy can walk and eat. And despite not being put up for adoption yet, the offers have already been flooding in.
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Avril Lavigne returns to spotlight after two years following Lyme disease battle
Emma KellyTuesday 24 Apr 2018 12:56 pm
Avril is back and looking healthy (Picture: Rex – Backgrid)
Avril Lavigne has been out of the spotlight for the past two years following a severe battle with Lyme disease.
However, she has made her big return to the red carpet – and we’re glad to have her back.
The 33-year-old was far from a sk8er girl as she turned up the glamour at the Race To Erase MS Gala in Los Angeles.
Avril wore a floor-length black dress featuring a train, side split, mesh sleeves and intricate embellishment on the neckline and cuffs.
The Complicated singer was struck down with Lyme disease (Picture: SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock)
The Complicated singer sported a statement necklace and wore her blonde hair in voluminous curls as she posed at the Beverly Hilton.
Avril suffered a major health scare back in 2014 when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease shortly after her 30th birthday.
The disease, which is spread by tick bites, left Avril bedridden for five months, with the singer believing she was dying.
She told People in 2015: ‘There were definitely times I couldn’t shower for a full week because I could barely stand. It felt like having all your life sucked out of you.
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‘I felt like I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t move. I thought I was dying.’
Thankfully, Avril is back to full health and is working on her sixth album – which is partly inspired by her illness.
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The Canadian star, who was previously married to Deryck Whibley and Chad Kroeger, told E!: ‘I’ve been writing songs that are really just powerful and true and honest and sincere and I think people will really be able to relate to it.
‘I’ve gone through a lot of personal stuff in the past two years and so I’ve really drawn from that. I mean, I always do but this album is so different…I am producing, too, the songs. It’s more of a vocal record and just like, hearing the lyrics and really hearing the emotion in the vocal.’
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Happy As Lazzaro review: Netflix’s strange but fascinating fantasy
James LuxfordWednesday 3 Apr 2019 11:17 pm
(Image: Netflix)
Following the Oscar season success of Roma, Netflix is developing its reputation as a home for interesting, niche cinema that continues with this Italian-set drama, bought by the streaming service after its success at Cannes last year but thankfully getting a theatrical run.
Adriano Tardiolo plays Lazzaro, a hard-working, good-natured farmhand whose naivety blinds him to the fact that he is being exploited by his boss Alfonsina (Nicoletta Braschi), a corrupt tobacco baron.
He is unwittingly drawn into an unusual adventure when his boss’s son, the charismatic Tancredi (Luca Chikovani), convinces him to take part in a wild scheme.
The film is so intent to side-step your expectations that it almost defies description. Little mysteries pop up all over the place, particularly relating to the period the film is set in, with certain objects standing out in the old-fashioned rural surroundings.
The leisurely first half also leads us to wonder just what is to happen to our sweet, easily led protagonist.
Tardiolo makes you believe in Lazzaro’s innocence, untarnished by the human weakness that surrounds him. Director Alice Rohrwacher maintains a fairytale-like tone throughout Lazzaro’s journey, making the oddities we encounter easy to accept (particularly when they are wrapped up in beautiful cinematography and a poetic script).
The mid-film twist, which is difficult to explain without spoiling the film, answers some questions while throwing up many more.
Gone is the natural beauty, exchanged for something much harsher and yet more recognisable than what has come before.
It’s a jarring surprise that takes the film in an entirely new direction, while infusing the strangeness with message about the upper classes’ never-ending hold over those who work for them.
The dramatically different tone of the second part of the film hammers this message home in a way that will resonate with everyone who sees it, as despite the fable-like format of the story, it feels very pertinent to today’s society, feeling very old and new at the same time.
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It’s easy to see how Happy As Lazzaro found a different path to audiences than larger Hollywood fare.
If you’re only used to watching superhero films, the film’s sheer peculiarity may leave you feeling lost. However, possessing the patience to invest in a truly unique story is rewarded with a captivating reflection of greed, desperation, and the potential for innocence to survive both.
Happy As Lazzaro is in cinemas 5 April.
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Vegan nomads jailed for feeding starving baby only ‘breast milk, rice and potatoes’
Lucy MiddletonFriday 24 May 2019 9:35 pm
The little girl had been subjected to ‘prolonged starvation’ (Picture: Google)
A baby girl nearly starved to death after being given a diet of only breast milk, rice and potatoes by her ‘nomadic’ parents.
The 18-month-old was rushed to hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, where medics found that she was just hours of death, having been subjected to ‘prolonged starvation’.
One doctor told The Local that the little girl’s case was ‘worse than anything we have seen at the hospital before’.
A court heard that the baby’s parents had believed their daughter to be a ‘citizen of the world’ and had never reported her birth to any authority.
She was also never checked over by professionals and so had not had any vaccinations or early years examinations.
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In court, Judge Per Norden said that although the girl had not been intentionally harmed, he found some of the parents’ views ‘remarkable’.
The couple said they both followed vegan diets and called themselves ‘nomads’ who prefer to live with friends.
The Judge singled out the mother’s view that a person could live without food or water with the correct conditioning as an example of their shocking ideology.
Prosecutor Ximena Bene pressed for two or three years imprisonment for the parents.
However, their defence lawyers argued that the couple had not caused the child’s condition and it had instead been due to a stomach bug.
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The couple were both sentenced to three months behind bars for gross negligence causing bodily harm.
They were also ordered to pay 60,000 kronor (£5,000) in damages to their daughter, who they will be able to see under supervision at a care facility monitored by social services.
The girl is currently in foster care, having made a full recovery at the Queen Silvia’s Hospital, in Gothenburg.
Her father was further sentenced for several minor crimes including drugs offences and drink driving.
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Microluxe20
A free, open source tabletop game based on the Microlite20 ruleset.
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Microluxe20 is a tabletop role-playing game designed to be simple, yet powerful.
Playing a game shouldn't feel like work. The easy-to-read rules of Microluxe20 help players spend more time
playing and adventuring, and less time micromanaging a heavy ruleset.
Adventure, Simplified
Roleplay without bounds! Microluxe20 uses a stat/skill framework designed to make encounters feel fluid and fun, emphasizing storytelling and player interaction over the traditional "straight-jacket" skill systems found in many modern tabletop games.
An Expansive World
Explore the world of Terador, a continent brimming with culture and conflict. Travel through runic deserts, expansive mountain ranges, and dense forests, meeting unique people and fantastic creatures.
The rules and campaign setting are open source, released under the Open Game License. Anyone is free to download, modify, and create content based off of Microluxe20. If you are interested in contributing, please take a look at the project's source!
Built from Strong Roots
Microluxe20 is heavily based off of Microlite20 and the SRD (3.5), and is designed with compatibility in mind.
Players and GM's alike should have little to no trouble using Microluxe20 with content designed for other SRD-based systems.
Microluxe20 is a constantly evolving project. Interested in balancing or changing the game's mechanics? Want to make your homebrew rules more official? Check out the project on github and join in! You don't have to be tech savvy to help out! Feel free to submit feature requests and other changes through the project's issues board (here).
For the technical crowd, this project uses a gulp task to create the rulebook pdf's from markdown. This way, the rulebook can be version controlled, and then bundled up into a PDF when its ready to be released. More information on contributing to the project can be found in the project's official README file.
© Microluxe20. Released under the Open Game License.
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Pardon Me While I "Her ASS" You
byLoftus Party
"Psst."
"Hey baby."
"HEY!"
"Nice butt. You workout?"
"Your eyes, they're SO exotic."
"Uhm, sure, I'll move."
I have just committed every sin imaginable on their harassment scorecard. So says the Feminist Action Club at Sierra College. That's right, a harassment scorecard. According to their statement (linked at the end of this blog), they have created a non-confrontational way for those who feel sexually harassed to address situations without having to speak up or further escalate into a more inflammatory tone. A card with a checklist is provided to the offending harasser to politely but specifically let them know that they have done something to make the victim feel harassed or threatened, and under no uncertain terms, identifies it as harassment and demands it to stop.
This card makes me want to harass somebody. Look, I was raised to respect and honor the role that women and men both play in our society. Yes, there ARE ROLES. If there weren't male and female roles, we would cease to exist. We need women to be women and we need men to be men. We need women and men to interact socially and sexually in order to procreate and continue as a species. If this feminist trend continues, human life will cease to exist. We will become extinct. I've seen this movie before. The robots will take over.
The idea that commenting on the attractiveness of someone else's ass has turned into sexual harassment (hey, wait....... her "ass" ment - damn, I never thought about it that way) is a farce, and de-legitimizes ACTUAL sexual harassment caused by those who truly need help with boundaries (cough-cough Bill Clinton cough-cough). That this is originating from a college campus is no surprise, but it gives the appearance of being educational, which again, is a farce. The only education that the sexual harassment card provides is a theory of beta-male dominance - an oxymoron to the Nth degree.
If you Google "what do women want" (well, if you are Googling that, you have other issues entirely, but I digress), you'll find hundreds of thousands of references geared towards trying to understand a woman's psyche. When I was a kid, "Google" was my dad, or my best friend, or that Taylor Swift female friend-character from her You Belong With Me video. But no matter where you go to try to figure out women, the task suits only one ultimate purpose - to figure out how to get in their pants.
That's all modern feminism has become - a way to stop men from getting into women's pants.
Just stop, feminism. You're drunk. And you're gonna end the human race.
Sierra College Feminist Action Club
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Big Billy – Only in my dreams
I was watchin’ a kung fu movie on TV and I got the munchies. So I had two slices of leftover pizza at about midnight and Minnie said that’s what gave me this weird dream – and let me tell yis, it was the weirdest dream I ever had in my life. No way, I says, pizza don’t do that (unless they were funny mushrooms or somethin’).
Anyways, the morning after I get up from this weird dream, I went to Tim Horton’s as usual to have coffee with Timmy and Tommy and Murph and Cyril (yes, Cyril too, even though Minnie and Joan are still fightin’ and not talkin’ to one another).
Holy cripes, boys, the weird dream I had last night, I said to them when we sat down.
Oh yeah? Tommy says. What was it about?
Now Tommy, see, thinks he’s a bit of an expert on everything, so he perked right up when he heard I had a weird dream so he could tell me what it means. I think he seen a show on dream interpretation one time years ago, so automatically he considers himself Sigmund Friggin’ Freud.
Well, I says, I dreamt I was drivin’ along in my truck and Minnie and the kids were with me …
See, Tommy says, that’s like your life, whenever you’re movin’ down a road or somethin’ it’s a symbol of your journey through life.
Murph rolled his eyes at the interruption.
Anyways, I said, there were all these signs that we were comin’ up on a tollbooth and Minnie kept lookin’ in her purse and in the dash but we didn’t have enough money to pay the toll …
See, Tommy says, that means you got bills in your life and you’re afraid you don’t have enough to pay them …
Holy cripes, Murph says (he got a temper, eh) – are you gonna let him tell his story or what, doctor?
Yeah – sorry, like, Tommy says.
OK, so we get to this tollbooth and we don’t got the money to pay, so this old woman workin’ the toll booth tells me to move over into a special lane.
Was the old woman somebody you knew? Tommy says.
Holy jumpins, Murph growled and banged his hand on the table. Will ya quit cuttin’ him off? I wanna hear the damn story.
Sorry, like, Tommy says.
Well, I says, she kinda looked like Minnie if Minnie was about 90 years old.
Tommy raised his eyebrows and stuck out his bottom lip, like he had an idea about that, but he didn’t dare say anything with Murph glarin’ at him.
So anyways, I says, we get in this special lane and we can see right away, the lane just leads to a cliff, and we can see the cars in front of us get to the edge of the cliff and just drive over and fall off. So Minnie and the kids start screamin’. Anyways, for some reason I start fiddlin’ with the radio until I find like this special station. It don’t got music, it got like this weird rumblin’ noise and then all of a sudden we’re not in the truck anymore, we’re ridin’ on the back of a dragon and the noise from the radio became like the dragon’s roar.
For some reason, I says to Minnie, even though it makes no sense – What do you think you are, an astronaut? And she says, no, I’m a Chinaman and *poof* she turns into Bruce Lee. Now, normally, Minnie don’t look like Bruce Lee at all, so this kind of surprised me. So I went to ask a question about it, but as soon as I opened my mouth, Bruce Lee gave me a karate chop right on the neck and knocked me off the dragon. So I was tumblin’ down with my eyes closed, but when I opened them, I wasn’t fallin’ – I was sittin’ in a bathtub that was full of pancakes instead of water.
Pancakes? Tommy said, because he couldn’t help himself.
Murph growled and cocked his eyebrow up into his ball cap and Tommy said – Sorry, like.
Yeah, pancakes, I said. And Cyril was standin’ on the toilet, wearin’ a gold bikini, pourin’ syrup all over me and the pancakes. Only then I realized, it wasn’t syrup, he was pourin’ out, it was loonies. Me and all the pancakes were getting’ loonies poured all over us, and that’s when I realized we’d have enough to pay the toll.
So I grabbed two fistfuls of loonies, struggled my way out of the pancakes, and then ran out of the bathroom to go find Minnie and the kids in the truck so we could finally pay the tollbooth.
(I took a sip of my coffee and they all realized I was done.)
That’s it? Murph said.
Yup, I said. Minnie found me naked, sleepwalkin’ down the hall yellin’ for Bruce Lee to come back with his dragon.
She musta thought you were mental, Timmy said.
Oh, I said, she thinks I’m mental anyways.
All right, Murph said, finally turnin’ back to Tommy. Tell us what that all means if you’re such an expert.
Hmmmm, Tommy said. I dunno. Any chance you ate cold pizza before you fell asleep in front of that kung fu movie that was on TV last night?
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Scots celebrate senior day; Piedmont takes game two despite Ballard's homer
Piedmont (26-7, 14-2) 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 5 5 0
Maryville (TN) (23-9, 15-1) 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 6 1
HR: Hannah Hoban
HR: Reid Ballard
Maryville College softball celebrated Senior Day for their six seniors on Saturday afternoon, as Piedmont College took the second game of the series, 5-3.
The Scots celebrated the careers Morgan Corland, Sarah Gordon, Casey Joliff, Alexus Murray, Gabrielle Rathmell and Christen Torres in their final regular season game of the year.
The six softball standouts have led the program to back-to-back USA South Regular Season titles, the program's first USA South Athletic Conference Tournament title and only the third NCAA Tournament trip.
"This senior class is so special to me and to this program," Head Coach Leah Kelley said. "They set the foundation and the standard of what it looks like, to play like and be a Scots softball player. Every day, they brought their best effort to the field, and off the field, they went above and beyond for Maryville College."
The seniors led the Scots to a 101-59 record, while winning 64 percent of all challenges. They claimed a 51-19 mark in conference challenges, as they established a new school record of 31 wins. The squad also claimed runners-up in the Atlanta Regional Tournament.
During Saturday's game, MC was led by Reid Ballard. The junior went 3-for-3 on the day with a run and an RBI. She tallied her for Orange and Garnet home run, while lacking just a triple from hitting the cycle on the afternoon.
Piedmont College took advantage of a leadoff walk in the top of the first inning. Rebekah Stegmayer walked, advancing to second on a long flyout to right. A passed ball pushed her to third, before the speedy center fielder scored on a wild pitch for a 1-0 Lion lead.
The game went scoreless until the Scots tied it with one swing in the bottom of the fourth. Ballard launched solo home run over the 220 sign in center field. Her first Maryville College homer tied the game at 1-all.
The Scots took their first lead of the game in the bottom of the fifth. Corland reached on a wild pitch, as Rathmell's fielder's choice left a runner at first. Rathmell took second on a wild pitch, before Ashton Hayden singled to short. Murray scored Rathmell with a single to left-center, as Hayden would score on a wild pitch two tosses later for a 3-1 advantage going to the sixth.
Piedmont took a one-run lead with a three-run top of the sixth. An error and a pair of singles loaded the bases, as Christen Torres stopped a run with a force at home. Katlyn Andrin used a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Kaylee White from third. Pinch hitter Rachel Oberholtz gave the Lions the lead, 4-3, lacing a two-RBI single to left. Haley McCurry and Maddy Holloway scored on the play.
Hannah Hoban added to Piedmont's lead in the top of the seventh. The first baseman launched her second homer of the series – this one to left – giving the Lions a 5-3 lead.
Maryville brought the go-ahead run to the plate in the bottom of the seventh, but Piedmont's Madison Whiteside came in to earn the save.
Maryville College (23-9, 15-1 USA South) was led by Ballard's 3-for-3 effort, as Hayden went 2-for-3 with a run. Murray recorded a 1-for-3 day with an RBI, as Rathmell added a run for the Scots.
Joliff went 3.2 innings, allowing just one hit, one earned run and a pair of walks. The senior tallied a strikeout. Corland – also a senior – went 3.1 innings, striking out three. She gave up four hits, two walks and only one earned run.
Piedmont College (26-7, 14-2) was led by Oberholtzer who went 1-for-1 with two RBI. Hoban was 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI, adding in a home run.
The Scots will look next to the USA South Athletic Conference Tournament. Tourney opponents and times will be announced this week.
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Evelyn Barnido
Patriots for America Continuing Ethics Violations
Two readers – from different parts of the state – sent me the anti-Greitens mailer. It echoes the same narrative on the website – see it here. The group behind the website and mailer – Patriots for America has still not filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission despite the obvious activity to oppose a gubernatorial candidate.
130.049. An out-of-state committee which according to the provisions of subsection 10 of section 130.021 is not required to file a statement of organization and is not required to file the full disclosure reports required by section 130.041 shall file reports with the Missouri ethics commission according to the provisions of such sections if the committee makes contributions or expenditures in support of or in opposition to candidates or ballot measures in this state in any election covered by this chapter or makes contributions to any committee domiciled in this state. An initial report shall be filed no later than fourteen days prior to the date such out-of-state committee first makes a contribution or expenditure in this state.
Follow-Up on Accountability Committee
The immediate response from the unveiling of the Humphrey’s Accountability Committee is a mix of bristling and blistering. Rep. Ron Hicks railed, “They want a bunch of robots.” You have to be with them on every issue or you’re no good.
It appears that the ads will harden the position of the twenty on this issue rather than push them toward compromise, but we’ll see….
Of the twenty state representatives targeted by the Humphreys’ Accountability Committee very few face an opponent as of today. Of course filing doesn’t open for two more months…
16 have no announced opponents: Reps. Galen Higdon, Nick King, Kevin Corlew, Bill Kidd, Sheila Solon, Jeanie Lauer, Bart Korman, John McCaherty, Kathie Conway, Chrissy Sommer, Ron Hicks, Becky Ruth, Elaine Gannon, Kevin Engler, Dave Hinson, and Paul Fitzwater.
Two are running for a new office: Rep. Anne Zerr (tough primary in Senate 23) and Linda Black (St. Francois County commissioner).
One is not running for re-election: Rep. Sue Entlichter. There will be a crowded primary to replace her.
And one – Rep. Shane Roden – has an announced opponent.
HuffPo on Rex
There’s a profile of “Mega-Donor” Rex Sinquefield on Huffington Post. See it here. In the article Republicans Sen. Rob Schaaf and former Sen. Scott Rupp both bemoan the no-limits campaign contributions for which they voted years ago.
Pull Quote: Since 2008, Sinquefield has contributed at least $35 million to candidates, political parties, political action committees and ballot initiative campaigns, according to state campaign finance records.
Sinquefield’s contributions to candidates and political action committees have helped to create an unprecedented Republican Party supermajority in the state assembly. His donations to ballot initiative campaigns have succeeded in putting significant restrictions on taxes at the local level. But with Democrat Jay Nixon in control of the governor’s mansion, Sinquefield’s main agenda items of eliminating the state’s income tax, expanding charter schools and private school vouchers, and crushing labor union power by passing so-called right-to-work legislation have remained just out of reach….
But it is unlikely that labor can match the spending of Sinquefield or the other mega-donors supporting Republicans. Since Missouri ended its contribution limits in 2008, all labor unions have contributed a combined $24 million in the state. That is $11 million less than the amount contributed by Sinquefield…
In recent elections, Sinquefield’s money has been used to target primary Republicans who have strayed from his anti-tax, anti-labor line…
While unsuccessful in recent elections at unseating Republicans in primaries, Sinquefield’s committees and contributions have boosted more conservative candidates to victory in open-seat primaries. Both the tactics and outcomes mimic those of national conservative groups like the Club for Growth and Senate Conservatives Fund that challenge and -- more often than not -- lose against incumbent Republicans in primaries, but succeed in nominating their candidate in open-seat primaries. These outcomes still have the effect of dragging the party further right…
Shamed for Fusion
Rep. Shamed Dogan’s legislative agenda aims to restore “fusion voting” with HB 1771.
“Fusion voting would candidates to run for office in multiple political parties' primary elections and if nominated, to represent multiple parties in the general election. Fusion voting was once widespread throughout the United States, but became rarer as state legislatures began banning fusion voting after minor political parties began to have success with the process. I hope to add Missouri to the list of seven states that currently allow fusion voting so that Missourians will have more choices in their elections.”
KC Chamber Announces New Head
I'm very pleased to announce the selection of Joe Reardon as the next President and CEO of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
I think he is an exceptional choice.
As former Mayor/CEO of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, Joe led - and won - the national competition for Google's first high-speed fiber network. Once Google announced it was expanding into Kansas City, Missouri, he and KCMO Mayor Sly James worked together to maximize the benefits to their two communities…
Although Joe's start date with the Chamber has not yet been determined, it will be sometime in the first quarter of 2016. Meanwhile, we're planning a thoughtful and thorough transition, and I have committed to the Chamber's Board that I will continue to serve as President and CEO until Joe is aboard…
James A. Heeter
Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
McCaskill for Kander
Senator Claire McCaskill sent a fundraising blast email for Jason Kander yesterday…
Friend: When Jason Kander announced his campaign to defeat Sen. Roy Blunt, pundits across the board said Missouri had a safe Republican seat.
They’re not saying that anymore…
We can win in Missouri. Jason can beat Roy Blunt and help take back the Senate. But we can’t do it without you….
Thank you for helping send another commonsense Missouri Democrat to Washington.
Wilson Passes
Boone County Democratic activist Bruce Wilson died. See the obituary here.
Sarah Wood Martin on Facebook reflects….
I first met Bruce in 2002 when I was volunteering as a college student. The great thing about Bruce and Nancy is that they genuinely enjoy young people being involved. I have called Bruce so many times over the years asking for favors including "I need a very large parade vehicle" and "can you give this candidate five minutes if they show up at Murry's". He always came through for me. Bruce not only leaves a void in local politics, but at Mizzou tailgates and all over Mid-MO. He knew everyone on a first name basis, from the waitress to the Governor.
Bruce used to tell me, "you sure do eat a lot for a little girl," and then he'd try order more food for me. I wouldn't be where I am today without several Boone County Democrats like Bruce and Nancy and Olin and Phyllis Fugit supporting (and feeding me) me as a college volunteer and campaign staffer…
On Twitter former Sen, Tom Dempsey announced: “I'm officially a lobbyist...in Florida!” The Gate Way Group for which he works has been establishing a presence in the Sunshine state.
The small weekly newspaper in Southwest Missouri, the Webb City Sentinel, is for sale. Owner for the past 36 years is nearing retirement. To inquire, send message to news@webbcity.net.
Eapen Thampy takes on big government in a CCTV America debate over federal asset forfeiture. See it here. He mentions the Camp Zoe controversy in the second half of the episode.
New Committees
Access Clean Energy was formed a campaign committee to support “Clean Energy Measurers” on the November 2016 ballot. Its treasurer is Andrew Linhares, the staff attorney for Renew Missouri.
Federal Filings
The 7th District Congressional Republican Committee’s December filing showed no receipts and $1,921 cash on-hand.
Dairy Farmers of America Inc – DEPAC’s December filing showed receipts of $22,096, and $932,504 cash on-hand.
Missouri Democratic State Committee’s December filing showed receipts of $81,111, and $11,038 cash on-hand.
Monsanto Citizenship Fund’s December filing showed receipts of $40,911, and $241,101 cash on-hand.
Legal Services of Southern Missouri seeks Executive Director. “The next Executive Director will lead LSSM as this pre-eminent legal aid organization seeks to preserve and enhance high quality of legal work for clients, continue a leadership role in southern Missouri and throughout the legal aid community, and nurture newer generations of LSSM staff… Salary based on experience ranging from $120,000…” See the ad here.
Emily Lewis added Missouri Bankers Association.
Meredith Kenyon, Amy Volkart, and Andrew Wheeler added Missouri Hospital Association.
David Hale added David Hale & Associates, and Love Inc of Columbia.
David Kent added Heartland Credit Union.
Amy McLard added Heartland Credit Union; and deleted Missouri Corporate Credit Union.
People for Solon - $5,001 from CHIPP.
Friends of Nick King - $5,001 from CHIPP Political Account.
Koster for Missouri - $10,000 from Stephen Smith.
Friends to Elect Brandon Ellington - $5,001 from CHIPP Political Account.
Greitens for Missouri - $5,001 from William French.
Greitens for Missouri - $5,500 from Matthew O’Reilly.
Conway for State Representative - $5,001 from CHIPP Political Account.
Greitens for Missouri - $5,001 from Kenneth A Schwab.
Greitens for Missouri - $10,000 from Jo and Wayne Scheer.
Greitens for Missouri - $10,000 from Richard Scrivener.
Missouri Senate Campaign Committee - $25,000 from Rivertown Enterprises Inc.
Citizens to elect Kurt Schaefer Attorney General - $20,000 from Supporters of Health and Research Treatments.
Hawley for Missouri - $10,000 from C Boyden Gray.
Friends of Wayne Wallingford - $6,000 from MO Optometric PAC.
Missourians for Peter Kinder - $5,001 from Pfizer Inc.
Citizens for Kevin Corlew - $5,001 from Carpenters Help in the Political Process (CHIPP).
Committee to Elect Shalonn ‘Kiki’ Curls - $10,000 from CHIPP.
Happy birthdays to former Reps. Sam Komo, Talib El-Amin, and Barney Fisher, and Kristian Starner.
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5 Movies To Spice Up Valentine's Night
Valentine's Day night is the perfect time rekindle the fires of romance. If you're going to watch a movie for inspiration, there some some tried and true films stand the test of time for Cupid. & Co.
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You Can Burn Calories This Halloween By Doing This!
We all know that Halloween comes with a lot of candy. Candy comes with extra calories and that comes with extra weight.
This Horror Movie Villain Is The One Texans Fear The Most
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5 Horror Movies Based In Texas That Aren't "...Chainsaw Massacre"
If you're wanting to delve into the dark side of the Lone Star State, be sure to fire up these five movies as we get closer to Halloween.
Do You Remember the Disney Sunday Movie Mr. Boogedy?
I am a sucker for nostalgia. A nostalgia that I seem to be the only one that remembers. Things like TV shows and movies of days gone by...and one Halloween movie that was a favorite of mine.
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Grab Your Shades And Bathrobe, Lebowski Is Back In Amarillo!
Grab your bowling buddies and get ready to catch The Big Lebowski in theaters in August! The film will be shown in local theaters for two days only!
Bring the Family Out for Free Mystery Movie Night at the PPHM
The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum is a wonderment. It holds so much amazing history of the Texas Panhandle and there are mysteries behind every corner. However, they are taking the mystery outdoors on Friday.
Lake Meredith Is Kicking Off Movies At The Lake With A Classic!
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Tagged: Ben McMahan
Timber Rattlers Report – Friday, June 29, 2012
Outside of a terrible third inning which saw the best-fielding infield in the Midwest League post four errors and allow four earned runs (six total in the frame), the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers played a pretty good game Friday evening.
It was a departure of sorts from my usual coverage of the Milwaukee Brewers, but the opportunity arose to actually report on the game up in Appleton, WI Friday night between the Timber Rattlers (Class-A affiliate of the Brewers) and the Peoria Chiefs (Class-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs).
The final score ended up at 8-7 in the home team’s favor, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.
A run in the first inning and a five-run fourth negated a third inning outburst from the Chiefs.
Timber Rattlers’ starting pitcher David Goforth battled through that third inning which saw the entire infield struggle to record outs (his own throwing error costing him some runs). Manager Matt Erickson, after the game, said that “the third inning was uncharacteristic of our game” and that “all six of the guys in the infield…all had a mental or physical error in that one inning and when you do that obviously you’re going to give up a big inning.”
Ironically, in talking to the previous game’s starting pitcher and friend of the podcast Chad Pierce before Friday’s game, Pierce lauded the play of what he rightfully called the infield “by far the best in the Midwest (League)”. To their credit, SS Yadiel Rivera and 2B Carlos George each had plays where they ranged far up the middle and converted hits into outs.
Before the game among other questions I asked first baseman Nick Ramirez, another friend of the podcast, about the infield play and how the quality of the field helps them make plays.
“This is one of the better fields I’ve played on in my professional career. We drag it every three innings and no one really knows how much that takes effect on your mentality. (Having a) fresh drag (means) I’m not going to get a bad hop. They take of this field, they keep it looking nice, and it’s really level.”
In my conversation with Chad Pierce he also had high praise for the Rattlers’ outfield which saw a tremendous diving play from Ben McMahan in LF late in the game Friday night to save a couple of runs for relief pitcher Stephen Peterson.
I asked Friday night’s starting center fielder, and yes…friend of the podcast, Mitch Haniger about the play of himself and his fellow outfielders. Haniger said that the right-center gap (405 feet to the wall) is always in the back of his mind and that the wind changes from day to day but that having speedy outfielders in all three spots really helps.
“All five of the outfielders on this team are real fast. I didn’t think that I was going to get to a ball last night in the gap and I just hear Lance (Roenicke) saying ‘I got it. I got it.’ and just pulled up right next to him and back him up. So it’s been great having guys by your side that if you can’t get to balls, they’re going to be there.”
Goforth pitched well otherwise including a six-pitch fourth inning which no doubt helped his offense out by limiting Chiefs starter Michael Jensen’s downtime between frames. Erickson praised Goforth after the game for his ability to bear down and get through three additional frames after the long third.
The Timber Rattlers got back in the box quickly and struck hard in their half of the fourth resulting in a 28-pitch fourth for Jensen where he let the Rattlers right back into the game by surrendering a pair of two-run home runs and another run. That tied the game up at six after four innings.
The game remained tied until the seventh though a lead-off triple in the sixth inning by Cubs uber-prospect Javier Baez looked to put the Chiefs back on top first. Goforth pitched around it however and completed six full innings in front of a short bullpen on this night.
Goforth’s final line: 6.0 IP, 7 H, 6 R (2 ER), 0 BB, 4 K, 99 pitches (70 strikes)
Stephen Peterson took over in the 7th and walked a pair of batters around two outs. The lead runner stole third and then scored on a wild pitch from Peterson, before the reliever got out of the jam. That run would not prove the game-winner, however, as the Rattlers had yet another rally in them.
Peterson pitched a scoreless 8th inning, thanks in large part to that aforementioned tremendous diving catch in left field by McMahan. 1B Nick Ramirez then tied the game back up in the bottom half of the frame with a mammoth home run just fair inside the RF foul pole and “exactly” 398 feet away from home plate. That came off of Chiefs reliever Yao-Lin Wang who started the eighth inning for Peoria.
Current closer Tommy Toledo entered for the 9th and kept the Chiefs off the board. But Wang countered with a scoreless bottom half to send it to extra innings.
Following a second perfect frame in the 10th inning from Toledo, the Chiefs called upon Luis Liria to handle Greg Hopkins, eighth-inning hero Ramirez, and McMahan, he of the earlier two-run home run back in the big 4th inning.
Hopkins led off the frame with a single back through the box. Ramirez struck out after Hopkins advanced to second on a wild pitch. They intentionally walked McMahan to pitch to SS Yadiel Rivera who worked a walk to load the bases after being down in the count 1-2.
Up stepped Rafael Neda who earlier in that same big fourth inning had hit the first home run of his professional career. Neda was nearly hit by a pitch early in the at-bat, but ended up singling through the left side of a partly drawn in infield for the game winner!
After the game, Neda said that not only getting his first home run but also being able to walk-off in extra innings was the biggest moment of his career to this point other than his first professional hit but it wouldn’t have been possible without the earlier rally. I asked Neda to describe how it happened and he said that “One hit started leading to another one. We just wanted to help our pitcher because there were four errors in the inning. As a catcher I wanted to help him a little more and we luckily came back in that inning.”
So despite the one rough inning, the Timber Rattlers played a very solid game all around. Most importantly, the win brought the team back to even on the second half of the year at 4-4. It was the fourth consecutive Win for the T-Rats.
This of course comes after a first-half which saw Wisconsin finish with the best record in their division. This assures them of a playoff spot but several key pieces to the success in the first half were promoted up the organizational ladder.
Therein lies the dynamic of managing at the Minor League level. I asked Erickson about that dichotomy of not only wanting to win but needing to get his players better and to move them along. His answer was perfect.
Said Erickson, “It’s player development until the first pitch of the game. Then we’re trying to beat somebody’s ass.”
Friday night, that ass belonged to Michael Jensen and the rest of his Peoria Chiefs teammates.
Your Brewer Nation Timber Rattler of the game was Rafael Neda. 2-for-5, 1 R, 3 RBI, including his first professional home run and the walk-off single in the 10th inning.
(FULL AUDIO OF OUR INTERVIEWS FROM FRIDAY NIGHT WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE SOON FOR DOWNLOAD. I WILL UPDATE THIS SPACE WHEN THAT HAPPENS.)
Until then, here are the highlights from last night’s 8-7 Timber Rattlers victory:
Written by Brewer Nation 6 Comments Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with Ben McMahan, Brewers, Chadwin Stang, David Goforth, Greg Hopkins, Lance Roenicke, Matt Erickson, MiLB, Mitch Haniger, Nick Ramirez, Rafael Neda, Stephen Peterson, Timber Rattlers, Tommy Toledo, Yadiel Rivera
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Joshua 5Joshua 7
Joshua 6 New International Version (NIV)
6 Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”
6 So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” 7 And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”
8 When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. 9 The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. 10 But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” 11 So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there.
12 Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. 14 So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. 16 The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! 17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted[a] to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 18 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”
20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
26 At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:
“At the cost of his firstborn son
he will lay its foundations;
at the cost of his youngest
he will set up its gates.”
27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.
Joshua 6:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 18 and 21.
Joshua 6:1 : Jos 24:11
Joshua 6:2 : ver 16; Dt 7:24; Jos 8:1
Joshua 6:4 : S Ex 19:13
Joshua 6:4 : S Lev 25:9
Joshua 6:5 : Ex 19:13
Joshua 6:5 : ver 20; 1Sa 4:5; 2Sa 6:15; Ezr 3:11; 10:12; Ps 42:4; 95:1; Isa 8:9; 42:13
Joshua 6:6 : ver 4
Joshua 6:7 : Nu 10:35; 1Sa 4:3; 7:1
Joshua 6:9 : ver 13; S Nu 2:31; Isa 52:12
Joshua 6:10 : ver 20; 1Sa 4:5; Ezr 3:11
Joshua 6:15 : 1Ki 18:44; 2Ki 4:35; 5:14
Joshua 6:16 : S ver 2
Joshua 6:17 : ver 21; Lev 27:28; Dt 20:17; Isa 13:5; 24:1; 34:2, 5; Mal 4:6
Joshua 6:17 : S Jos 2:1
Joshua 6:17 : ver 25; Jos 2:4
Joshua 6:18 : Jos 7:1; 1Ch 2:7
Joshua 6:18 : Jos 7:12
Joshua 6:18 : Jos 7:25, 26
Joshua 6:19 : ver 24; Nu 31:22
Joshua 6:20 : Lev 25:9; Jdg 6:34; 7:22; 1Ki 1:41; Isa 18:3; 27:13; Jer 4:21; 42:14; Am 2:2
Joshua 6:20 : S ver 5; S 10
Joshua 6:20 : Heb 11:30
Joshua 6:21 : S ver 17
Joshua 6:21 : S Dt 20:16
Joshua 6:22 : S Ge 42:9; S Jos 2:4
Joshua 6:22 : S Nu 21:32
Joshua 6:22 : Jos 2:14; Heb 11:31
Joshua 6:23 : S Jos 2:13
Joshua 6:25 : Jdg 1:25
Joshua 6:25 : S ver 17; S Jos 2:6
Joshua 6:26 : 1Sa 14:24
Joshua 6:26 : S Nu 5:21
Joshua 6:26 : 1Ki 16:34
Joshua 6:27 : S Ge 39:2; S Nu 14:43
Joshua 6:27 : Jos 9:1; 1Ch 14:17
Joshua 6 King James Version (KJV)
6 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
2 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord.
7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord.
8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
11 So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.
17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
27 So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
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Worlds Collide for LiFT Theater Characters in a Crossover Event
Posted by Laura Powers | Feb 25, 2019 | News | 0 |
Little Falls, NY – LiFT Theater has traditionally presented live stage performances since their launch in 2012. However, the grassroots theater troupe took their talents to a new “stage” in 2018 when they branched out into podcasts. On March 2nd and 3rd, these worlds collide with an original play that includes Little Falls’ only professional problem solver, Mac Blac, and the beacon of justice, The Brass Lantern!
Angela Harris created a play for the first Little Falls Cheese Festival in 2015 that was directed by Matt Powers. This inaugural “cheese play” was a hit with audiences and lead to Harris writing several more scripts for the colorful cast of characters. The storyline features Mac Blac who is charged with solving the problems of Little Falls. Some of his major cases included locating cheese, a cheese board, a cat, and even the Big Cheese. Through ongoing confusion and run on questioning, Mac Blac always cracks the case. Of course, no one knows Little Falls as well as Mac, which is made clear in Harris’ scripts.
A few years later, Matt Powers was discussing his interest in exploring radio theater with his colleague, A.G. Devitt. That discussion resurrected a character Devitt had created more than two decades prior for a series of comic books. Devitt put his character, The Brass Lantern, away unsure if it would come back to life. That is just what happened when he and Powers joined forces to write, record, and produce a 6-episode podcast with an additional holiday special, all available for free download online. The Brass Lantern is a high-action production featuring Matt Arnold and Elaina Dare as they battle heinous villains including the wickedest man alive, John Countryman, to protect Beacon City. With blinding light, blazing guns, nerves of steel and a mask of brass, crime has nowhere to hide from The Brass Lantern!
The stark disparity between the lighthearted, campy Mac Blac stories and the edgy, action-packed Brass Lantern, makes this project unique. Creators Harris and Devitt have merged their distinct projects together for a live stage performance titled, “Where’s the Brass Lantern?”
LiFT will hold two performances at the Little Falls Community Center located 524 East Main Street. Performances will be Saturday, March 2 at 6:30pm and Sunday, March 3 at 2:30pm. The shows are free to the public with a suggested $5 donation. “Where’s the Brass Lantern” will run for 35-40 minutes. For more information, please see the ‘LiFT Theater Company’ and ‘The Brass Lantern’ Facebook pages.
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OOMMF: Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework
By Michael Joseph Donahue1, Donald Gene Porter1
1. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
A portable, extensible public domain program and associated tools for micromagnetic simulation
Version 1.2b0 - published on 14 Oct 2016
doi:10.4231/D3XS5JJ23 cite this
This tool is closed source.
The OOMMF (Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework) project from the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) produces a portable, extensible public domain micromagnetic program and associated tools.
OOMMF allows the user to run micromagnetic simulations. The input models necessary to perform a simulation should be a mif 2 file. The outputs can be displayed in various formats such as a data table, graph, or magnetic configurations. Users can build models through MIF generator for OOMMF, or M-file Mif Automatic GEnerator (MAGE), which are other tools available on nanoHUB.
New on nanoHUB: JOOMMF is a way to access OOMMF through Jupyter notebooks in nanoHUB.
Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework (OOMMF) is a project in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of ITL/NIST, in close cooperation with µMAG, aimed at developing portable, extensible public domain programs and tools for micromagnetics.
More information can be found at http://math.nist.gov/oommf/.
The OOMMF user guide can be found at http://math.nist.gov/oommf/doc/userguide12a6/userguide/.
The First Time User Guide for using OOMMF on nanoHUB: https://nanohub.org/resources/23834.
Source Code By: M.J. Donahue and D.G. Porter from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Michael Joseph Donahue, Donald Gene Porter (2016), "OOMMF: Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework," https://nanohub.org/resources/oommf. (DOI: 10.4231/D3XS5JJ23).
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Adipose hormone may play role in obesity-related asthma
by The Endocrine Society
New research suggests a hormone released from fat tissue is critical in the development of obesity-related asthma and may be a target of future treatments for the disease. The findings will be presented Saturday, March 23 at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in New Orleans, La.
Along with genetic susceptibility and environmental exposures, obesity is emerging as a risk factor for asthma. Many studies have shown obesity also affects the course of asthma. However, scientists do not understand how obesity contributes to asthma. An estimated 40 percent of people with asthma have obesity.
"There is a great unmet need for novel treatments for obesity-related asthma, because these patients are less-responsive to current therapies," said lead researcher M. Furkan Burak, M.D., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass.
The study looked at the adipose hormone aP2, which is increased in the circulation of humans and animals with obesity. It is involved in the body's inflammatory responses and previously has been shown to contribute to chronic inflammatory diseases associated with obesity, such as diabetes and heart disease. In previous research, the investigators detected increased aP2 levels in blood and lung fluid in mice with obesity.
In the new study, they measured aP2 levels in blood and lung fluid of people with and without asthma. They found aP2 levels were 25.4 percent higher in the blood of people who were affected by asthma and met the criteria for obesity or being overweight, compared with people without asthma. Higher levels of aP2 were associated with asthma status only in people with overweight or obesity. There was no significant difference in aP2 levels in normal-weight people with and without asthma.
They also measured aP2 levels in lung fluid collected from 13 people with obesity and 36 normal-weight people with and without asthma. They found aP2 levels from the individuals with obesity were 23 percent higher compared with the other study participants.
"These data suggest that aP2 may be an independent risk factor for obesity-related asthma," said co-investigator Gurol Tuncman, M.D. Ph.D., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "The findings also suggest anti-aP2 treatments can impede obesity-related asthma development and its chronic complications. Our studies present an exciting opportunity for clinical translation of anti-aP2 drugs to treat obesity-related asthma."
New findings may help guide treatment of patients with asthma
Provided by The Endocrine Society
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How we created an app to deliver emotions
A case-study of how we developed the Tricky Letters app using Lean UX and Lean Startup approach
Julia Nechaieva
Dec 2, 2013 · 10 min read
We are Tricky Eyes, a small design studio based in Moscow. We have recently created and launched Tricky Letters, an iPhone app that delivers daily inspiration to users in the form of visual letters. They arrive at unpredictable times via an engaging Mailbox character — the heart and soul of our app.
We came up with our initial idea, then submitted it to a series of experiments: first as a prototype for ourselves, then a version for a small group of people. Then we started production on the app for App Store. With each phase we set forth a hypothesis and found a way to test it. We want to show you how our app concept evolved and eventually took on its current form.
We are Julia, the product manager, and Sergey, the designer. Zoreslav, our developer, joined us later.
Julia, Sergey and Zoreslav
Back when we worked for a big game company we created iPad game for kids called Creativium. We liked the app development process so much that we decided to continue on our own. In April we founded our design studio Tricky Eyes; now we had total freedom.
Coming up with our idea and testing it on ourselves
We dedicated our first month of work to brainstorming, studying existing products and prototyping. We wanted to come up with an idea that we would want to implement. It was not so easy, actually.
We used different creative techniques and studied the App Store’s lists of top apps.
At one point we stumbled upon Bret Victor’s video in which he shows how to come up with ideas for games based on ordinary things that he sees throughout the day. We guided our brainstorming with this method.
During this process, we thought of the mailbox in our apartment building. Typical mailboxes in Russia are not in very good condition and are hardly a sight for sore eyes — you don’t look forward to checking your mail.
Looks horrible, hah?
But what if they were a joy to check, we thought? What if every time you saw your mailbox, you looked into it because you’re anticipating a letter? How happy would you be when you finally received it?
We jotted down the idea for an app where the player has such an inviting mailbox and receives letters in it. The player doesn’t know when a letter will come so she has to wait and check her mailbox regularly.
In order to test out this app idea, Sergey created a simple prototype in a few hours using CoffeeScript and Node.js. It was a web app that worked on only our local network. Julia would open the site by tapping its icon on her iPad home screen and check if she had received a letter. Sergey would manually upload the letters to the server.
Julia complained that the letters didn’t contain cute animals. So Sergey sent her a photo of Arnold. Next to some cute animals.
Our hypothesis was that Julia would check her Mailbox for at least 3 days.
Julia ended up checking her Mailbox for 5 days. She wanted to continue but Sergey had gotten tired of sending the letters.
Our hypothesis was confirmed in this simple experiment. Some insights that we got were:
— The sender does matter. Julia was waiting for letters from Sergey specifically and she wanted them to be personal.
— If Julia didn’t like a letter she became upset.
— The way Julia used the app was more likely the iPhone way of using than the iPad one: she opened the app more than 10 times a day.
Creating a prototype for real users
Hence we started a new learning cycle. We wanted to make sure that Julia was not the only person on earth who would love this idea.
We kept the mechanics of random delivery time but decided to make the user’s experience more pure: we needed a real iPhone app.
We put together visual material for design inspiration: the Black Mirror series, David Lynch movies, vintage American ads from the ‘50s, and flat UI graphics from Dribble.
Sergey created some simple sketches. It’s interesting to note that the final app layout remains unchanged from these.
The idea of using flat graphics was born at this point.
To discover what kinds of letters people would like, we created several types of them. When the player received a letter the app would ask her if she liked it.
As mentioned above, the second prototype was made as a native iPhone app because we wanted people to have a real experience while using it. However, we tried to create it as quickly as possible. So we used graphics from Shutterstock, hardcoded all the algorithms, and created enough letters to last a week only. It took only 2 days for developer to develop this version.
We then selected a group of people to install this version of the app and play it. We chose 15 of our friends who are emotionally similar to Julia: they love modern design, value small joys, are open-minded and addicted to their iPhones. They all work with technology and web but would describe themselves more as product/design people than developer types.
Our hypothesis was that at least 50% of them would play for a week.
Everybody ended up playing for the whole week. We analyzed their behavior using app stats and interviews. We dug the most where what they told us was not confirmed by the data.
Through this process, we obtained a long list of discoveries. Here are four that we’ve selected:
We drank a lot of coffee during the interviews.
— The way of using: our users checked the app every time they saw its icon on the iPhone screen.
— Emotional connection: they were talking about Mailbox as about the living character and believed it was him who sent the letters.
— Fortune cookie wisdom: our users liked the most the letters that they found relevant to their lives.
— Disappointment: they didn’t like that there was nothing to do in the app when a letter hadn’t arrived yet.
Production phase
At this point we were ready to produce an app for release on the App Store. The limitations we set for ourselves were:
— To target an English-speaking audience.
— Everything had to be completed by the three of us within two months.
— It should run smoothly and be visually current. The App Store doesn’t forgive half-baked apps, nor do its users.
Mailbox character
We understood that Mailbox, as the heart and soul of our app, needed to become a real character with his own story and personality.
We were inspired by Clifford Simak’s sci-fi stories about extraterrestrial creatures that influence people’s lives, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the FEZ game, Le Petit Prince, Wall-E and the Bender from “Futurama.”
Julia even wrote a story about Mailbox. It was bad, but it helped her further develop the Mailbox character.
Mailbox ended up becoming a self-sufficient, super-intelligent creature from another universe. He exists outside of our temporal plane. He knows more about people then they know about themselves. He is a kid and a grown-up at the same time. He wants to help, but he can also be very sarcastic. He is discovering our world and sometimes gets excited about it, but sometimes also tires of it.
Inspirational letters
In creating the visual letters we pored over our big shelf of art and design books on and biographies of great contemporary people. We decided on the themes of inspiration and motivation for the letters; we wanted people to think about something important after opening one of them.
We often buy many books. We order them on Amazon every month and also bring some back from every trip.
The short text of each letter would be accompanied by an image, to make for a complete message and fill the player with positive emotion.
Creating the letters was one of the favorite parts of the project for Julia.
We wanted the letters to look familiar, like your friend’s Instagram photo, or photos that you might take yourself. They should not be glossy, commercial-style photos like the ones in magazines.
Graphics and technology
Sergey chose a flat style because of its modernity and simplicity. He’d rather learn Cinema 4D then spend days polishing candy graphics.
We used 3D-editor to create the Mailbox. Sergey came up with a new aesthetic that he calls flat 3D. Mailbox was a 3D model that looked like flat graphics.
This approach allowed us to handle and change the graphics and animations easily. For example, we created dozens of versions of the app icon in a matter of minutes.
Mailbox talks to a player
Mailbox really came alive when we started animating him. We wanted him to speak to the player personally. He knows when the player last opened the app, how often she plays with it, and what time of day it is when she opens it. He greets the player, asks for her opinion, jokes with her, gets mad if she neglects him, and tells her his story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u4LX-6DTX00
Mailbox eventually acquired several thousand phrases to say to a player depending on the situation.
Some tips that helped us to develop rapidly
1. We were eager to use already existing resources. The sound effects were created in a freeware 8-bit sound editor and the icons were made from Unicode symbols.
2. To create visual mock-ups for the app background themes, we borrowed graphics from other people to try out. It allowed us to experiment with different styles, compositions and settings without making a real drawing. The themes that we would settle on we later drew from scratch.
3. We used a lot of paper in our design work. For example, we printed out the app templates for sketching the background themes.
4. Our entire team had access to source code on GitHub, made commits to it, and could build the app without the developer’s help. Julia edited the dialog texts, and Sergey fixed typography and formatting. He also tweaked the shadow and animation settings. The app had a “god mode” that allowed us to jump immediately to the needed UX case to check it.
This efficient teamwork is one of the accomplishments that we are the proudest of with the Tricky Letters project.
We worked at our home studio.
OK, now the app was almost ready; time to present it to the public.
Release day and afterwards
Pop quiz: what do GTA5, iOS7 and Tricky Letters have in common?
Answer: They were launched on the same date: September, 17th. It was not our finest hour at press.Never again will we plan our releases at the same time with rockstar companies. At least not until we become just as big.
http://trickyletters.com
We were not going to push marketing from the very beginning. What we needed was to obtain a specific number of app downloads in order to test our hypothesis.We wanted to measure how people like our app through one metric: retention.
We drew a line on the sand that at least 80% of users will stay by the second day and at least 40% will stay by the 7th day.
We made the app paid from the very beginning to have only users who saw value in the app.
9to5mac.com wrote a review of Tricky Letters that helped push it into the top 50 of paid Lifestyle apps in the US. Then some organic traffic came. We reached our download goal very quickly.
Retention was greater than we had expected: 85% of users stayed through the second day and 65% stayed through the 7th. It was clear that users liked our app; they expressed this in reviews and the data confirmed it.
The second thing that we are the proudest of with Tricky Letters is the Mailbox character. People got him just the way we intended. They wrote us “what a jerk is this Mailbox :)”, “what a cute thing”, “my friend Mailbox”.
We even heard of one interesting way that people use Tricky Letters: one girl told us that she took screenshots of Mailbox when he talked to her and sent them to her friends.
Tricky Letters was a successful attempt. The project definitely has potential. People like the mechanics we implemented: the uncertainty in letter delivery time combined with a unique deliverer character makes our app emotionally engaging. The inspirational letters touch human feelings and gives positive emotions to the user. A great combination, we think.
However, our story with Tricky Letters is finished at this point. The people who sponsored our development will continue with the app on their own. We wish you good luck, guys!
P.S. If you found value in this article or have something to share with us, you can always write us a note:hello@trickyeyes.com.We would be happy to hear from you!
Product Manager at Google. UC Berkeley Haas MBA. Post-internet artist. San Francisco. https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianechaieva/ http://hashtagicons.art/
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Blood and Wisdom by Czar
The mashed potatoes are a little clumpy. The skins are burnt and interfere with the garlic and rosemary. They could have used more butter; perhaps grandma ran out, perhaps she forgot to tell grandpa when he went out earlier.
The chops, however, are fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. I don’t know where grandma goes from here with these chops. She’s made them hundreds of times in my twenty-seven years. Hundreds. But these are absolutely perfect ─ the sort of meat that men on death row request before they’re strapped to a chair and zapped.
We’re just sharing looks, the three of us, as usual. Grandpa always said, “If people are talking during their meal it’s because the food tastes like shit.” I’m not saying he’s right, but I can’t say he’s wrong. Certainly at this moment, he’s right.
Every few bites, one of us takes a soft slurp from something wet. Grandma and her wine, grandpa and myself: a bottle of beer. I’m not a drunk, none of us are, we just like a drink or two with supper.
The cutlery clinks and clanks atop the plates. Grandpa is always the first to finish, then myself and grandma last. Grandpa and I may finish first, but we never interrupt grandma’s meal with dialogue. When she finishes, we discuss the luxury we just consumed.
“My love,” Grandpa says to grandma, his voice sounding as concrete feels, “dinner was exquisite.” He smiles, taking her small hand in his large mitt.
She smiles as he brings the top of her hand to his mouth, leaving a kiss upon it.
Grandma’s face may be withered, her hair white, but her green eyes are still filled with brilliant light as they connect with mine.
“Plans for the night, hun?” She asks, smiling her old white smile.
Studying is what I tell her. I’m not lying either, but she knows that. Gran and Gramps both love so much that I’ve found something to love: teaching. I want to be an English teacher at an elementary school. Open their minds when they’re young so they’ll be wise forever.
Over the next hour, Gran puts on a pot of coffee, the trio remaining at the table. As per usual, the grandparents rekindle the passion between them by telling old stories that one or both of them have forgotten. It’s actually rare that I hear the same story more than once.
Their love is so infectious.
Gramps is seventy-five and Gran is seventy-two. They’ve been married for fifty years. Five-zero.
Honesty and integrity, faith and loyalty for every year of their five decades together. There have been bad times, bad years for sure. I’ve lived with them forever, but they’ve never given up on each other.
“…And you’re grandpa’s best friend, Marty,” Gran says, laughing. “Sat outside that poor girl’s house for weeks on end!” Takes a breath.
And then what happened? I say, sipping a mug of java.
Grandma pats her mouth with a napkin. “Well, the two of them got married, stay married for nineteen years, until one day she shot him to death in his sleep.”
“I remember the funeral,” Grandpa speaks low, splashing a bit of whiskey into his coffee. “His parents sobbed for months, died of broken hearts.”
The traumatic silence of the memory dances between the three of us, allowing each warm cup to be drank until it’s dry. Silence. From the corner of my eye I spot grandma opening and closing her hand beneath grandpa’s. Must be sweaty. They flash a smile.
“I think there’s a game on tonight,” Grandpa says to me. “First one following the All-Star break, time to see who really wants it.”
I can’t help but smile, old man loves spending time with his grandbaby so damn much. I tell him that I’ll be more than happy to watch with him.
Grandma shakes her head, smiling. She’ll watch the odd game with us, but that’s about it. She, I guess, just never got the point of “putting a ball through a glorified peach basket.” I’m sure she’ll end up painting or writing a story, knit up a sweater before halftime. She’s pretty awesome that way.
It’s so perfect, this quaint little dining room. The old table, place mats at each of the four chairs─despite there only being three of us─lace curtains over the windows, little island in the center of the kitchen, a cross here and there. Not to mention the tile flooring that grandpa must remind us of every week. At least once. That’s all because he installed it.
Grandpa fills up our cups of coffee, grinning as he returns to the table. He must have a story to tell, he always does.
“Used to work with this guy Steve.” Gramps places the mugs on the table. “As you both know, men who smash coal like their drink…” he pauses, Gran and I smile.
“…So one day we’re all busting coal when old Steve, drunk as a goddamn skunk, drives a pickaxe into his foot…”
Grandma and I gasp, Grandpa is already laughing, but of course.
“…But we’re all messed up too, so none of us notice until Steve passes out from blood loss!”
“Well, what happened, you old fool?” Grandma laughs.
“Let’s just say it was an awkward conversation with the foreman.”
It doesn’t take Gran long to wear herself out with laughter and wine. She excuses herself to dig away at one of those cozy mystery novels she loves to read.
Never been much of a book person myself. Oh well, as long as she takes pleasure in it. Probably why she’s gotten things going at once, she never allows her mind to rest.
Eventually Grandpa and I move to the living room with the old tall clock and treasure chest and pictures which tell many lifetimes of memories. Oh, and the plastic-wrapped furniture.
Our team, the Buffalo Beamers, are losing at halftime but manage to pull it together for a blowout once the fourth quarter rolls around. We manage not to wake the dead with our celebration.
And then Grandpa leaves for bed. Now, I am alone in my room.
I haven’t heard a peep from the other bedroom for an hour maybe, hour-and-a-half. Can’t imagine being so in love that you can stop having sex with whoever you’re sharing a bed with. Then again, they’re both pretty old; ten-to-one, grandpa’s got a stash of blue pills somewhere.
In his pickup, or in a sock drawer. The beside table, maybe.
Maybe it’s Grandma; perhaps she’s the freak with the whips and the collars and chains and leashes. Bondage hoods and nipple clamps. Maybe Grandpa even lets her put a strap to him.
Too far?
Too far.
It’s the studying, the impending exam, that carries me for hours into the night. I love this; this small and cozy home, this small and cozy town, but I’ve gotta get the hell outta here. Maybe if I could make enough money to move just outside the town and travel every day for work back into it. I like shopping malls and expensive coffeehouses and chain restaurants, I just don’t want to live in them.
The watch on my wrist says: 10:15.
I need to be there at one in the morning. Takes ninety minutes to get there. I’ll leave early just to make sure. Most of the snow is gone but it’s mighty friggin’ cold outside. These Midwest winters can be real bitches.
In a perfect world I’d just take grandpa’s truck, but the world isn’t perfect. He’d notice the mile change, the fresh oil in the morning that never seems to stop running. I’ll just walk. I have to walk.
Study until 10:45, that’s what I’ll do. Keep up on the importance of positive reinforcement. Reward the child when right, comfort the child when wrong. This all takes time, repetition and comfort. Spoil the child.
I’m hoping somebody will let me intern for them within the next year, eighteen months. I know I’m a little old for such a start, but that’s how life goes sometimes.
Who knows, they might see my age as a good thing; matured, less likely to fold under the stress of all the screaming and fussing and crying and nose picking that comes with children of that age. I just need to be able to hand my grandparents a check so I can pay my way doing what I love. Not waiting tables, not working in the one retail store in town, and not scrubbing toilets.
It’s 10:55.
Wrapping magazines and printing paper, duct tape over for forearms and wrists, thighs and stomach. Multiple layers of clothing. Hoodies and shirts and sweats beneath my jeans. Everything I can think of while remaining within the rules: no throats and no face. Perfect. Only clothing and household items, nothing solid or immovable. Perfect.
Tie up the last laces of my boot and strap Velcro around the tops, around the ankles, make sure these babies don’t go anywhere. They’re good enough for SWAT teams, better be good enough for me.
All black: hoodies and beanie, boots and pants and the layers beneath. Won’t draw any attention on the long walk to The Venue. I hold my ear to the wall… nothing.
Move out from the room, to my grandparents’ room, ear to the door… nothing.
I’ve got seven-and-a-half hours until they wake up, precisely.
I know exactly which tiles in the dining room and kitchen to avoid. Every third tile from the entrance, without fail, squeaks. As does the fourth of center on the left side following the island. Last obstacle would be the door of the screened porch past the living room, but no worries, I greased it down earlier while Grandma was gardening and Grandpa was at the store.
First concrete step.
Second concrete step.
Open the door slowly, then close it.
The air is cold but the grass is only slightly crisp from the cold weather. Odd. Not enough to wake up anybody in the bedroom behind me from the backyard. The shed is getting larger, even in this black, empty night. Its edges and pointed top are impossible to miss.
By the front door, which is locked, sits a flower pot, there’s pot in it. Within said pot is a key for said locked door. It’s so cold, if I wasn’t wearing these gloves it might stick to my skin.
The key sounds like a pipe, wiggling its way into the lock, clicking when it finds home.
Righty-tighty, left-loosie.
Another click and the old wooden door opens, just enough. Just gotta squeeze through this door, it’s not too hard. Right to the left of the door is another pot; the search goes without luck until I recognize the crinkling plastic. Remove from pot and slip the baggy into my pocket. Step out from the shed, close, and lock door.
Step-step-step. Crunch-crunch-crunch. Back through the yard. Down the little hill that leads into the concrete driveway, up fifty feet and I’m over the gravel entrance, then a left.
There aren’t many houses to either side of me, just dark, deep woods. The road beneath me is smooth, almost entirely quiet and straight. There’s plenty of cracks and crunches circling me, probably deer or little rodents making for home or in search of shelter for the night. Up ahead, some quarter-mile, there’s a light─the Josephson’s porch light, one they always keep on at night. It lets me know I’ll be making a right before long. From there it’s a few miles.
A pair of headlights, probably from a truck, turn down onto the street. I step further onto the shoulder, so much so that I’m on grass. I would hate for the vehicle to stop in efforts of being a Good Samaritan. Nope. Too many questions, lose focus, start questioning what I’m doing out here.
The truck’s getting larger with every step, like they’re only moving with me. A one-sided relationship, a willing patient with a bored therapist. A loving dog with an abusive owner.
It’s kicking up gravel, little putter-patter of shrapnel sticking into the frosted tips of grass. The motor is rumbling. It’s like an old man breathing his last breaths, like I’m the Good Samaritan.
I don’t know if it’s the truck, its owner or me that’s screaming as I’m illuminated from the four-wheeled tank. And then nothing. We just pass each other.
Boop.
I turn back to look at the truck, I don’t know, ten seconds later, and it’s gone. Fucking gone.
Turning back—oh shit! I’m thrown to the ground, blam!
Almost right after my ass lands on the concrete I can hear a galloping pack of hooves clacking. First over the concrete and then the grass. The sound disappearing into the woods. I can’t help but laugh aloud at myself.
“You big pussy,” I say into the night. “Stand up.”
Just keep on moving towards the light at the end of the street. There’s a warm bottle of water in my front pocket, I retrieve it and unscrew the cap, sucking back just enough to lube up my mouth before swallowing.
Already, I’m playing the future out in my head. Once I get to the corner I’m going to jog for fifteen minutes. Then I’ll walk for five, after that I’ll walk for five, after that I’ll jog for ten more. After that, walk, and after that? Who knows.
The air’s burning through my lungs like some little guerrilla soldier just ran down my throat and dropped a grenade into my body. He was probably smiling as it went off, sending dozens of little bits of death through my organs.
Like a driver checking the blind spot, I glance back over my shoulder. It won’t be long until the Josephson residence is completely out of sight. Once it is, then I’ll stop to walk for a spell. Check again, the light’s dying.
And stride; stride, stride, stride, stride. Breathe, in through the nose and out through the mouth. And stride; stride, stride, stride, stride.
I wonder what grandma and grandpa are dreaming of. I hope it’s nice. One time, multiple times, I snuck into the bedroom and read grandma’s diary. She writes about Heaven a lot, dreams about it a lot.
They’ve always been Atheists. Can’t imagine what Grandpa’s diary would be like if he had one, poor guy has a rough time writing down a grocery list.
Glance back. And stride; stride, stride, stride, stride. Glance. Stride, stride.
Another guerrilla soldier dropping another grenade into my lungs. Another explosion and another collection of shrapnel ripping my insides to bits. Another glance backwards: blackness.
The long strides come to a sudden halt. Quick walk slows to a slow trot. The collective sigh of disappointment from the wildlife around me drains out the howling wind. They wanted to watch me run the entire trip, what a bunch of assholes they are.
The steps over the pavement grow however, the clouds leaping from my mouth are short and rapid. Before long, I’ve gained what control I can of my wind in this weather.
Makes about as much sense as pushing a boulder up a hill every day after it rolls back down.
Grandpa was telling me about a book or something. Nihilism or something. The essence of the futility of hope and effort.
I should read something. Something besides a goddamn text book.
The Venue, an old abandoned factory, used to be a forge I think. It is packed with pickup trucks and sports cars, motorcycles and four-wheelers. Easily a hundred vehicles. Who knows how many people to each. There’s more than enough light being thrown through the dusty windows to give me an idea as to where I’m to enter. As I get closer to the entrance I begin fiddling with the bag in my pocket.
What ground of the lot not filled by wheels is trashed with bottles and empty cigarette cartons and wrappers and who knows what the hell else. Maybe fifty yards until I’m stepping through the front door. Might as well be hell.
The shapes around me vary. Some are short, some tall, some fat. Some are small. Some of them are so broad, others narrower than me. Everybody’s wearing boots, it’s obvious from the earth’s crunching.
From the corner of my eye I can see the breath of those around me shifting direction. They’re sizing me up, scanning who’s first and which ones will be second, who they’ll be seeing thirty minutes after the party gets started.
As if heaven opened, somebody makes it to the front door, allowing a mob of light to shine out into the night, lets me see the pair up front: two men, tall with beards, dawning leather. I wonder where they’ll end up.
Three, four, five more people walk past me towards the door and step into the concrete playground. I’m in next.
Upon entry, there’s a green steel pole with a sign posted on it: FOLLOW YOUR GENDER. I do as I’m told and go in the proper direction, to my locker room. No gender neutrality or transgender victim cards in this place.
As I move through the long, yellow, crowded hall I’m allowed faint glances into the center of the building. Poles and ladders, a floorspace the size of a football field illuminates by portable spotlights. The sight blinks away as I move in front of a wall. The locker room is getting close. Not too far ahead I’m able to hear waves of hooting and hollering, war cries from those ready to do battle. My hands are shaking by the time I step into the stinky room.
The entrance door has been ripped from the hinges, the floor covered in dirt and grease and definitely shit. The hollering only grows as I step into the first bay of green lockers. The tile walls match the flickering light: yellow. Reminds me of the color of a smoker’s house before they die.
Onto the second bay, less folk but still too crowded for any level of comfort. Not that that’s something I should be looking for this place anyway. Third bay, only one other person, at the end of the bench; dark hair with eyes to match and a granite jaw. We say nothing. Not even a nod. If anything, we might be giving each other a sniff.
Sitting here on the bench, tightening wraps around both wrists, I can’t help but think of the grandparents. Which one of them has woken up first to go to the bedroom, which of them cracked my door silently to peek in on the bundle of pillows they believe to be me. Been checking in on me every night of my life. Twenty-seven friggin’ years old and they refuse to quit.
The locker at the end of the bay slams shut, a deep breath following uneasy. The steps turn back and then there’s a voice, soft and trembling.
“Three—three minutes,” she says. I nod and keep quiet.
Her footsteps carry away once more, this time without return.
The pack of hooting and hollering hyenas grows louder, fading into the hallway which leads into The Venue’s main square. Finally, something that resembles peace and quiet; all I hear now are the whispered prayers of those still in here.
To my feet, push out a breath. I know I am loved.
The first step to my right, out of the bay, leaves me in an uneasy freeze to maintain my balance. From my ankles to the knees are made of granite, up to my hips and I’m nothing but rubber. Stay for just a moment, I can’t fall here. Another deep breath and then a second step. The feeling to my lower half returns slowly.
My strides grow shorter as the exit door comes into view. Looks as if the pearly gate just opened, but they lead to demons. The light grows and then the voices return, coming from the main square. Just louder and louder, like a goddamn moshpit.
If there is a god, I am not asking for your forgiveness. If the devil is real, I do not align with you. Between me and myself, heaven and hell are one in the same.
Now that I am here, amongst the demons, I cannot see where the flesh ends; just rows and layers of men and women. Young and almost old. You’d have to be crazy to be smiling, and some of them are. I am not one of those faces. Like a goddamn cow farm, so tightly packed in, so many leather jackets and leggings. Morbid hide.
All the little whispers around me, like rabid bees. Bumping elbows, catching nasty looks for it. Look for them first.
Our little world of two-hundred goes quiet, deathly silent, as a crackling male voice bounces about the bodies like a rubber ball.
“Prom queens and parasites, the soon-to-be-haves and the forever-to-have-nots, I am Gauge. Only Gauge…”
The man coughs into the speaker repeatedly, chuckling for a moment afterward.
“…By now I will assume all of you know the rules, you should considering you had to read them to unlock this location. But allow me to refresh my own memory…”
More coughing, this time from Gauge and somebody behind me.
“…Thirty minutes, last cow standing. You’ve all got ten seconds.”
Coughing. More of it and then the speaker slams quiet. Then the beeps.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six; reach into my pocket. Four, three; pull out the knife, two, one.
The buzzer’s not even finished by the time I’m jamming the hunter’s blade into the back of a small woman; two, three, six times. She’s screaming so I shove the weapon into her neck, spraying the crowd with her crimson.
I feel the thud in my lower back. Somebody is trying to stab me!
Spin around, staring back at me is a bearded man covered in blood. The first thing I do is cram the knife into his eye, then slash through his lips. From nowhere another knife enters his cheek.
I thank the aiding man with a stabbing blow. Tear right with the blade. Rip out.
His intestines fall to the floor, he slips on them and crashes lifeless to the concrete below.
A fist, or the palm of a hand, slams into the back of my head, throwing me atop the floor of flesh. I roll onto my back atop the bodies, just in time to move from a long blade being driven downward by a well-built black woman. I reach up and pull her close. Hands clutching her face towards me, legs wrapped around her waist. My grip won’t last for long.
As if the gods of death are watching, the woman is swarmed like maggots to a corpse. They begin to stab and slice and tear at the woman with their knives, her screams canceling my ability to hear.
Whoever killed the black woman, some of them anyway, turn their affection to me. Stabbing at my exposed forearms, only to hit the rolled paper.
One of them slashes my hand—goddamn it.
Now the other.
I dodge their attacks at my face, their blades sticking into the back of the woman’s head. I squeeze out just enough.
Grabbing at one of the men, I yank him towards me by the wrist and slit his throat, immediately wearing his red. The other flees after I slash his wrist.
Kicking and squirming, I manage to get out from under the body. It’s a matter of moments before the back of my thigh is torn into. My leg is steaming wit heat almost immediately. I hear the boot behind me, so I duck down, allowing the charging body to roll over my back.
They land with a wet thud, their stunned state allows me more than enough time to stomp on their face until it shatters. Their skull slides off the heel of my boot and I step towards the ever-dwindling crowd. Staggering.
I don’t know if I’m killing or the bodies just happen to be falling as I cross them. I want to be the one killing them. That is until I see her, the girl from the locker bay.
She’s been stripped down on top to just a green tank-top. Her entire face, neck, and chest are saturated with blood. I swear there’s red rings around her blue eyes.
In her left hand is a long, serrated machete, in her right a hunting knife that is considerably longer than mine. Hanging from the blade is a chunk of piping-hot flesh.
Reaching down blindly, ignorant to the death around us, I take hold of another knife in my free hand. Duel-wield.
She and I are screaming as we charge each other.
It’s a Monday. I step into the third-grade classroom at Borton Elementary School. So many little faces from all races, walks of life, and futures. Nothing to divide us.
Before them, in front of my desk, I wish them a good morning.
They respond as one, “Good morning, Mrs. Gruenwald!”
Czar resides on the small Island of Malta.
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Birthday Girl by Sharon Frame Gay
The faces around the table are blurred. They’ve lost their hard edges, my vision deteriorating. In front of me is a cake gaily decorated in pinks and greens with enough candles to set off the sprinklers in the ceiling.
I am one hundred and four years old today; April the 11th, the time of year when spring lambs are born. I came into this world in a small town in North Carolina. Father named me Charlotte, after the city where he grew up. He said he wanted to move to the shadier side of the Carolinas, up into the Great Smoky Mountains, where you hear owls as you fall asleep and count the hills and ridges as they rise from the smoke of dawn. Over a century later, I’m still living in the same small town Daddy moved us to after he and Momma started their family.
When I married, I moved from my childhood farm to a house near Main Street, and from there to a tiny apartment above the drug store. Finally, I came to this retirement home. Not five miles away from my earliest memories it sits near these beloved hills.
To prepare for the party, I was bathed and brushed like a poodle in one of those fancy pet salons. The nurses and attendants in the facility fussed over me with lotions and hair dryers until I was exhausted. Then they stood back, smiled, and flourished a mirror. I stared long at the reflection.
Peering back was a very old woman. My face looked like one of those storage bags they sell on television, where they put a vacuum hose in it and suck all the air out. I have dark brown eyes, but they’re cloudy now, covered with overhanging lids, two tiny orbs peering out of fleshy curtains. There are skin tags and age spots scattered across my face and neck like a map of a heavily populated state. Hair, once long and thick, the color of an oak leaf in the fall, is now wispy and white, scalp shining through like a baby’s bottom.
“Thank God I still have my mind.” I burst out laughing. “That’s what they all say.” I laugh some more.
The gals give a hug then leave me in my room in a wheelchair. It’s not time for the festivities yet, they say, so here I sit, fingers laced in lap. The skin on my hands is paper-thin and fragile. I am afraid of banging them on a doorknob, or bruising them knocking against the nightstand reaching for water, so I wear soft white gloves for protection.
I’m in my best nightgown, light blue with tiny white dandelions sprinkled across it, the bodice smocked and embroidered. It’s my favorite piece of clothing, and I insist on wearing it today. On my feet are pink slippers with non slip bottoms.
I never wear shoes. I only walk to the bathroom and back. The rest of the time, I am in this wheelchair, my feet in retirement.
My daughter Esther knit a yellow shawl that I wear every day. I wrap it around my shoulders and pretend she’s here with me, though she lives three hundred miles away.
She’ll be here today, along with my son Gerald and his wife, kids and grand kids. Esther will bring her sons, too, and their wives and grand children, even a couple of great-grandchildren. Esther’s husband Roy passed away five years ago. She still has to work, well into her seventies. After retirement, she’s moving back here, to be closer to me.
I think to myself, Hurry, Esther.
Four years ago, my hundredth birthday was quite the shindig. I suppose everyone thought they would celebrate my natal day, and have a hail and farewell party all at the same time. It was something to behold. The party was in a rented hall, and over fifty people attended. There were speeches, little kids reciting poetry, live piano music, and a potluck dinner. My birthday was announced on national television. A photo of my face peered out of a Smucker’s jelly jar on the Today Show.
Most folks don’t make it another four years, but I surprised everybody, including myself. Family and friends have dutifully gathered every April 11th and twisted paper streamers through the dining room of the facility, brought vases of peonies and jugs of lemonade and ice tea, and sang “Happy Birthday”.
While waiting for the party to begin, I glance around the room. My eyes rest on a photograph of Peter, my husband, dead so long ago I barely recognize him. I wonder if that will change in heaven. Will I walk right past him, or run into his arms?
He passed away almost forty years ago. I gaze at his face, so much younger than mine now, and try to remember what it was like to feel the bulk of him wrapped around me as we made love, recall the fights, the kisses and the laughter we had over the years. Would he still think I was pretty if he saw me now? Would he sneak his hand up my leg, a sly smile on his face, and will I slap it away, tired and weary, like I was when the kids were babies?
He went off to war decades ago then came home. We had to learn the map of each others’ body all over again. There were shy moments in the dark, his stranger’s breath on my neck, a warrior now who knew things. Things we didn’t share, because he refused to talk about the battles. It was never the same between us, but over the years things softened, grew more comfortable.
Peter was as dear to me as my next breath. The day he died I begged God to take me with him. I cried and yanked strands of hair out of my head, heart yearning. Over time I learned to talk about him the way you talked about a character in a book, fondly, but able to close the cover and move on.
Now they wheel me down the hall. There’s a singular quietness in the dining room, as though everyone is holding their breath. We push through the door, and the room energizes with children and teenagers, middle aged folks, and the other ancient ones who are on a journey in this tired old place.
They light the candles on the cake and sing right away, as though they want to make sure I live long enough to purse my lips and send weak wisps of air towards the cake. Esther steps in and helps, blowing the flickering candles out before the wax runs down into the frosting, turning it hard and inedible.
I clap my gloved hands together and make a big show of opening presents. Talcum powder that smells like another era, new slippers to replace the ones that I have just recently broken in to perfection. Bath soaps and a fresh Bible, with a white cover that looks like leather, and a rose colored book mark. There are sweet cards with bluebirds and posies. I thank one and all, flash a gummy grin and raise my Minnie Mouse hands in the air, give a thumbs up. They all laugh, hug me, then drift over to the refreshments, cheese and crackers, little sausages in puff pastry, cake for later.
One by one, I am approached by my guests. As always, after they kiss my cheek or shake my hand, they wish, “Happy Birthday,” then ask what the secret is to my longevity.
Truth be told, I have no idea. But they want to know, they are eager to know. Their faces peer at me with such yearning and hope that I set out to oblige them.
I tell the stout, sweating young man who works for the local newspaper that my secret is exercising every day and eating plenty of vegetables. I assure the spinster in the corner that it was years of living alone after Peter died and my children left home that afforded me this luxury. To the tightly wound nursing facility manager, whose very breath comes out in spirals of angst and tension, I say that a glass of wine every night is the key to survival. And once, just to see what might happen, I announced to my fellow residents that daily masturbation does wonders to loosen the body and enhance one’s longevity.
I am not sure why I ‘m still here, or what God had planned for me. I don’t know what I did to maintain my body, and give it cells and atoms that are more robust than someone else’s.
What I do know is this: I lived. I laughed and played as a child, and I grew into a woman. My heart was broken and pelted with the heartache of many storms. I got back up and tried again, and again, and again.
I held sick babies in my arms, and a dead husband in my lap, waiting to hear the squall of the ambulance. There were Little League games, weddings, Christmas trees, and funerals. Quiet, magical days drifted into one another like waves on an autumn pond.
I had friends who helped, friends who hurt. Scares. Oh, so many scares. Frights that kept me up nights, cursed my days.
And joy. The kind of joy you can only get when those frights go away and are replaced by love so magical, so sweet, that the sun pours itself into your soul.
My life is like this old nightgown, faded from many washings, but soft as a summer’s morning, yielding and cozy. I remember when it was bright and starched and filled with promise. Over time, it learned to give in, to fold without whimper, yet still cover with a sense of purpose. Every button knows my fingers, a rosary of sorts, as I twist and stroke them in my hands.
On bright days, I ask the nurse to put it on a hanger, set it on a hook outside for a few hours. It comes in smelling of sunshine and trees. I pull it over my head, bury my face in it. Remember.
I asked to be laid to rest in it. Esther shakes her head. She thinks I’m kidding. I’m not. It’s written in a letter to her, in my dresser drawer. I asked her to lay me down in blossoms of pink peonies, strewn around the coffin like a spring storm. I tell her to wash this gown, set it in the sun to dry and place it back on my body.
Until then, I look around the room, touch my collarbone with a finger, my way of getting God’s attention, and whisper, “How about next year?”
Sharon Frame Gay grew up a child of the highway, playing by the side of the road. Her work has been internationally published in anthologies and literary magazines, including: Chicken Soup For The Soul, Typehouse, Fiction on the Web, Lowestoft Chronicle, Thrice Fiction, Crannog Magazine, and others. Her work has won prizes at: Women on Writing, The Writing District, and Owl Hollow Press. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee. You can find her on Amazon as well as Facebook as Sharon Frame Gay-Writer. Twitter: @sharonframegay
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Concealment by Mitchell Toews
The train, a legacy from the recent Olympic Games, got me within a few miles of my Sunday morning destination. I made the last leg of the journey on a zoo transfer. The shuttle arrived, its exterior fixed up to look like a classic safari vehicle with a painted pride of lions basking on the side.
I passed the day observing the zoo patrons more than the exhibits. The people and the surroundings all served to remind me of my alien status. America is Canada’s snub-nosed angry cousin. It’s especially raw down here in the South, different than northern towns like Grand Forks and Fargo. Those small cities seemed more like Swift Current or Saskatoon – vaguely familiar country towns. Atlanta became the place where my Canadian assumptions concerning Southern social norms were debunked.
The pine forest encircling the parking lot where I waited for the bus back to the train station reflected this sense of strangeness. Invading kudzu vines cloaked the trees in leafy green velvet, and exotic insects echoed in the clearing, creaking, “Katy did, Katy did.” I didn’t know what kind of a bug made that noise but I did know there were none of them in Northern Manitoba where I grew up. I was sure some of my co-workers back in Winnipeg would know; they had come to these equipment shows in Atlanta many times. This was my first.
When the shuttle arrived, it was the same one as before but with a new driver, a heavyset woman with tired eyes under long lashes. She double-checked the date on my MARTA pass as I boarded, flicking a curious look at me when I thanked her.
I found a window seat and settled in. At the first bus stop, we braked to pick up a woman wearing a bright yellow dress, pushing a baby stroller. Two small children followed her as if in tow. I heard the driver mutter something but could not make out what she said.
As the door opened to admit these new passengers, the bus driver shouted at the woman. Once again, I couldn’t understand what she said, but her eyes flashed with anger and her tone was certainly hostile. I felt the crawling insecurity of a stranger in a strange land.
The yellow dress woman’s face registered complete shock, and then I could see a kind of understanding grow in her eyes. All conversation stopped. The occupants included an older man and woman─seniors with a young boy who I took to be their grandson, a young couple with a boy about four years old, and an elderly woman clutching a small wire shopping caddy. And me.
The woman straightened her back and instructed her children to lift the front of the baby stroller up the bus steps. With some difficulty, they hoisted the carriage.
I hopped over to help. The mother smiled her appreciation to me, albeit with some uncertainty, as I sat back down. Then she returned her attention to the browbeating she received from the bus driver. Her demeanor changed. Eyes narrowed. She regarded the driver frigidly and shoved coins into the receptacle, then leaned down and said something in a snarling Southern accent. The children froze by her side.
After a sputtering rebuttal from the driver, the new passenger stood back and said in a haughty tone, “No… you need the Lord!”
At this, our driver drew a great breath, as did I. Deliberate as a chess master, she slid the gearshift into Park and engaged the upright handle of the emergency brake with a ratcheting staccato. After closing the accordion door, she looked squarely at me and said, “First off, I do not remember givin’ you a promotion to the rank of MARTA conductor, did I?” She held a single finger up at me, like a metronome, paused and filled with imminent movement. “Do not get involved where you got no business and do not leave your seat. It’s a safety violation. Sir.”
Confused by being drawn into their fire-fight, I felt exposed. My ears and neck went hot like a schoolboy called out in class. A second later the bus bucked forward.
Still mumbling to herself, the driver picked up the radio mic with a theatrical flourish. She put her gaze on the mirror, focusing on the yellow dress woman.
She lapsed into the sing-song, clipped lexicon of CB radio: “C’mon MARTA station. Claudette in fifty-five. Come back. Claudette in fifty-five here, over.”
The young mother settled herself and her children near me. She sat and glared at the driver in the mirror, watching the stocky woman speaking quietly into her radio microphone.
We drove on in relative calm although it was disconcerting to watch the driver. She sat hunched in her seat, her glaring attention on her adversary. She only glanced at the road when she had to. In time her attention fixed on the mother and didn’t come unstuck.
“I seen you,” the driver decreed in a loud voice, puzzling us all. The bus picked up speed on the winding residential street.
“Seen me what?” the yellow dress woman asked.
“You went to high school with my sister, Suzette. I seen you down there,” the driver said. “You were walking down there.” She poked a careless finger at distant downtown high-rises.
The grandfather stood up. “I do not care to listen to this private conversation anymore. The two of you make yourselves look like the most forlorn and wicked creatures on earth and we have heard enough!”
“Amen,” croaked the old lady with the shopping caddy.
The driver hit the gas, sending the grey-haired man thumping back down in his padded seat in the back row.
“Sit down, sir, or I may have to ask you to disembark the vehicle,” the driver shouted. The top-heavy bus squealed, now on two-wheels for all we knew, as it careened down the road.
In defiance, I too stood up. I grasped the chrome bar behind the driver to steady myself and begged for caution. “Please slow down. There are children on board.” It was my voice, but uncertain and quavering. Just be quiet! I chastised myself, feeling conspicuous once again.
My plea didn’t work. The driver held the pace and scoffed at me. “Don’t take it too far, mister. I won’t warn you again.”
My Walter Mitty thoughts of being the bold stranger who took matters into his own capable hands dissolved. I sat once more and the vinyl-clad seat wheezed in derision, mocking me.
The yellow dress woman quietly cried as the bus sped up. She shushed her children, and checked on her baby. The young lady seated behind her offered a tissue from a large handbag.
She dabbed at her kids’ wet cheeks. “I am not perfect and I’m first to admit it. But I swear the Lord wove these children in my womb, just like it says in the Psalms. They never had to want. I used to stroll down there on the Met, it’s true. But that’s behind me now.”
It had been a long speech for her and she shuddered with emotion, sniffing and coughing a bit. The bus slowed.
Rising now, her body swayed slightly. “I’m not proud, but I can’t take it back. This little one comes out of that time in my life and she is fine. I never seen a better baby for feeding or sleeping, so I know she’s healthy.”
It seemed like she wanted to say more but she stopped. I think we all imagined more as we looked at her, standing in front of us, grasping a dangling leather loop next to her head. We rode on in silence save for the hum of the air conditioner. Beneath us, a stone stuck in a tire tread clattered on the macadam. Like “Wheel of Fortune,” its clicking cadence now in retard.
“My name is Claudette,” the driver said after a long pause. “I had a Metro route a few years back, and I saw you sometimes around the Parkway. I knew who you were and what you were doing. I remembered you from school, see? So, when I saw you and your kids today, and you in that dress, I got pissed, you know” She paused, her eyes wide and searching in the mirror. “Like, I was scared y’all was goin’ down there today with them kids… workin’.”
The bus slowed to a roll and I heard children playing as we passed an outdoor public pool. For a second, I smelled chlorine.
“I’m Flora,” the yellow dress woman said. Then, seeming to surprise herself she added, “I’m long ago through with the Parkway.” Her son took her hand and she added, “I never did that; I never brought my kids along. Others might have, but I never. And besides,” Flora said, her voice strengthening, “don’t you know that those who did bring ’em – they never had no choice? Believe me.”
Claudette nodded and we continued on in silence for a minute or so.
Flora resumed her seat. “Listen, I’m sorry, everybody. Please forgive me.” She scanned the mirror, her eyelashes up and down, up and down, like the wings of a Painted Lady.
She nodded at Claudette in the mirror and then turned to stare at the older fellow who had spoken up. She let the weight of her gaze rest on him for a few extra beats, then lifted her chin a bit and turned her back.
“Okay. Now, Flora, you listen to me,” Claudette said. “I’m letting you off here ‘cuz I sent a security code – when I say the words fifty-five on the radio, that’s a secret code that means, ‘alarm’ and they are gonna have alerted the MARTA police. Cops’ll be waitin’ for us at the station.” She turned down the air conditioner fan. “I was gonna teach you a lesson, understand? I see now that you shouldn’t have to answer to them like you already answered to me, an’ I’m sorry for that. So, Flora, you and your kids get off here and catch a regular city bus. Should be one soon.” She swung a hand lever and the door folded open. “I’ll just tell ‘em at the station that I got mixed up or what not.”
With the shuttle parked, the driver stood up and turned to face us. She was built like a down lineman, hands on her hips, her polished nails in bright contrast to her navy-blue uniform pants. “Everybody good with that?” Tear streaks marred her rouged cheeks.
No one disagreed. She nodded at the older gentleman in the back. “We good?”
He stared at her, tilted his head and placed his hand on his wife’s shoulder and answered her in a low voice. “We’re good.”
“Alright, man!” she pointed a bedazzled nail at me. “You able to help Miss Flora get them kids all in order down there on the sidewalk?”
I rose immediately, glad at the chance for redemption.
“That’s fine,” she said. “And for you being so Christian, I won’t report your earlier misbehaviour, distracting the driver an’ all. Alright with you?”
I was about to speak when from behind me came a startling noise. The young father had stamped his shoe on the floor of the bus.
“No. That’s not how this ends.” He looked back at his wife. Their young son sat on the woman’s lap. The little boy’s red, wet face reminded me of how terrifying all this must be for him: the adults shouting and the bus swerving down the road, now his father in a rage.
“Stay on the bus please, Miss.” He gestured at Flora. Then he half-turned to the passengers. “I think we should all make a complaint against this bus driver. She’s irresponsible and I don’t think she should be driving a van with children in it. Or driving at all for that matter. She risked our damn lives.”
Then he jabbed his finger at me. “You were right to tell her to slow down.”
I didn’t like the hard look the driver shot at me. We had suffered enough with this issue. No sooner had a truce been called than he broke it.
“Jason, please.” His wife grabbed the back of his shirt.
“Leave us out of it,” the tall grandfather rumbled from the back of the bus.
Flora rolled her eyes.
The driver spun around in a rage to get back into her seat. In that same moment the young man lunged by her to grab the keys from the ignition.
“Not again.” He huffed. “You won’t put us in danger again.” He butted against her in his haste, knocking her off balance.
She staggered and stumbled down the steps. She fell on her back and struck her head on the sidewalk. Sprawled half in the open doorway, halfway outside, her eyes were shut and I wasn’t sure if she was conscious.
The children wailed and the older woman behind me screeched, “Stop it, stop it!”
Flora peered down at Claudette, then back at me. “Use the radio. Call for help.” She checked her children then took one step towards the door. As she did, two gunshots sounded.
The windshield exploded. It sprayed kernel-corn pieces of glass. A third shot tore a blooded hole in the young father’s shirt sleeve. He screamed.
The air reeked of gunpowder. Strangely familiar to me, it was like firecrackers.
“Fucker,” Claudette screamed from the sidewalk. Her raised arm stood straight out, aiming a silver handgun at Jason. “You don’t knock me down. Thas assault. You don’t tell me nothin’. I run this bus. It’s a safe bus.”
Holding his wounded arm and wriggling down in the driver seat, Jason tried to hide behind Flora who lay slumped across the transmission hump in the centre of the dash. Head down, eyes closed, Flora did not move.
I could just see the fallen bus driver. Beyond her, a man watered his lawn. He threw down the hose and ran stiff-legged to his front door, water flowing down the white driveway, darkening it like spilled oil.
“Bastard. Goddamn bastard gonna take my keys, gonna jack my bus.” Spittle caked on Claudette’s lips and her MARTA hat lay on the concrete behind her. “He tried to kill me, he tried to kill me,” she bellowed from the curb, squirming to hike herself up as she kept the nickel-plated gun pointed in Jason’s direction. One of her pants pockets was turned inside out and her neck glistened from a dripping gash on the back of her head. She strained to see Jason behind Flora’s inert body.
I crouched, terrified and motionless. Bound, incapable of movement, my thoughts plodded. I did not breathe. Jason’s wife stepped by me fast and sure. I saw the glint of something in her hand. She shot three times in rapid succession. The blasts were deafening in the tight compartment. The fabric of Claudette’s starched shirt jumped as the slugs slammed into her chest. A second later dark red florets showed like port wine on a white tablecloth.
The scene in front of me might as well have swung around like it was filmed with a hand-held camera. A sense of vertigo overcame me. I felt like I was slipping backwards and down a deep hole, falling away beneath the chaos. My mouth went dry. I could taste the acrid gunpowder tang in my throat.
Beneath the clamour of the children, my ears rang from the shots. I realized that I was clenching the leg of my bench seat so tightly that my wrist ached. I released my grip, rubbing feeling back into my palm.
The young woman adjusted something on her gun and put it back in her purse. The click of her handbag closure, sharp as a finger snap, brought me out of my trance. She held up her cell phone, flipped open the mouthpiece, and dialled. Her hand trembled as she waited for the call to be answered. Her son stood against her, his small arms ringing her thigh.
“Nine-one-one? I want to report an incident on Hill Street Southeast. Yes, near the pool, not far from the zoo. We need an ambulance. There are three gunshot victims, one fatality, or maybe two. One assailant. Yes, I think she’s dead. Just a second,” she held her free hand over the phone. “Jason, it’s over now. We’re going to be alright.”
Afterwards, I sat in the night heat, resting on the bumper of an EMS van. I inhaled a Marlboro that a police officer had given me. Hadn’t smoked in years. American tobacco, smells like a cigar.
With residual guilt, I cupped the cigarette in my hand to hide it, thinking oddly of a long-ago hockey trip to Warroad in Minnesota.
The police detective, a man named Granger, came back with more questions. He wore a crumpled suit and a matter of fact attitude. Squad car lights flashed and “Do Not Cross” police tape encircled us. It felt like we were on a cop show soundstage, running our lines.
“So, you mind if I review, once more?” he asked, palms up like a set of scales.
“Suppose so,” I said. Insects chirped, a droning, constant background chorus coming from dark concealment in the surrounding forest.
“The driver, she gets knocked down the steps by the man, Jason Drury, and then…” the detective reached in his jacket for a pen and paused, allowing me to complete his sentence.
“A lot happened at once and then there were shots. I kind of blanked out.”
“Okay, no problem. So, then the driver, Claudette, she’s down on the sidewalk yelling and then what?”
“The guy, his name is Jason, right? He’s flattened out in the driver’s seat, trying to hide behind poor Miss Flora,”
“The woman in the yellow dress?”
I nodded, exhausted. I had gone through this several times. My gut clenched as I recalled the tall woman falling forward, limp. “Yeah. Say, listen, sir,” I said slowly. “I can’t think straight anymore, and we’ve covered this plenty, right?” It’s this heat – so muggy. I’m built for the cold.
He flipped shut his spiral bound notebook. “Sure, you’ve been helpful.” He clicked his pen.
“Thanks. But, one question. I’ve just been wondering,” I said. “The guns were both legal?”
“They each had legal carry and conceal permits, yes,” he said. “Y’all from England, right?”
“Canada, actually,” I corrected him. “We have guns too, eh, but not so many handguns. I’d never heard a pistol, you know, shoot, before tonight.” God, it was loud.
“That right? Canada? Okay.” He clicked again and made a note.
My ears still hurt from the gunshots. The Detective paused, drawing himself up and rolling his shoulders. “Yeah, those two guns were legal. And, between you and me, I doubt Mrs. Drury will be charged. She did it all by the book, protecting her family.”
I took a last hot drag. I thought of her making the 9-1-1 call, tending to her husband and calmly settling her son in the aftermath. By the book.
“You know, that older fellow on the bus?” Detective Granger said. “He had a handgun too. A Glock in a holster under his cardigan. Also legal. But, maybe this is a good thing. He forgot to load it. He had it unloaded because his grandchild was with them for the weekend.”
The detective shrugged. He pointed at his car. “I can give you a ride. You ready?”
I stood unsteady from the tobacco. In my mind, I saw the grandfather drawing his pistol. Click. Click. The horrible realization. I could see it as a reel of film and then imagined the result.
The detective gave me a grim little look. I noticed grey hairs in his eyebrows, deep creases at the corners of his eyes and sweat on his forehead. “Yeah, tonight was not great,” he said. “Odd too. Two female shooters.” He looked at me, pocketing his notebook. “And tonight we had one female deceased, maybe two – I sure hope Miss Flora makes it. Bullets don’t see gender or race or nationality. That much I’ve learned. Bullets don’t know right and wrong.” Granger patted his hip, finding his keys.
We walked, his leather soles slapping on the pavement, breaking the evening silence as if to signal the end of the event. The insects grew louder as we left the scene.
“Katy did, Katy didn’t,” Granger said, mimicking the amplified refrain from the Georgia woods – a hung jury arguing this or some older unknown crime.
Mitchell Toews lives and writes lakeside. When an insufficient number of, “We are pleased to inform you…” emails are on hand, he finds alternative joy in the windy intermingling between the top of the water and the bottom of the sky or skates on the ice until he can no longer see the cabin. His writing has appeared in a variety of English language literary journals in Canada, the UK, and the US. Details at his website, Mitchellaneous.com
Mitch is currently at work on a novel set in the noireal forest. He’s also stubbing his bare pedal digits on a screenplay adaptation for a trilogy of his about three fishermen’s lives on the Pacific coast, 1955-1976.
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Blessed Are the Little Things by Leila Allison
There were only four tables in the cafe, and I saw that my date was already seated at one of them. I had figured this out by the process of elimination (there was nobody else in the cafe except her and the young woman behind the counter), and the stretched possibility that my date bore a slight resemblance to the younger, fitter, and brighter-looking person in her profile gallery. A “helpful hint” on the lonely hearts’ site says that you can judge your match’s interest level by the amount of preparation she has invested in meeting you. Interestingly, the lady had gussied herself up to a point which lay between rushing to the convenience store at five in the morning for coffee filters and awakening in a dumpster. And she seemed oblivious to every atom in the universe that wasn’t displayed on her iphone.
“Hello,” I said, extending my hand, “I’m Jim, you must be Daphne.”
She glanced up from her phone and looked at my hand as though I had offered her a dead carp.
“You’re a half-hour late, Jim,” she said with a voice that had a lot of smoke and very little estrogen in it.
Actually, I was forty-three minutes late. I had left three messages in her site mailbox explaining such, and since she was still gazing into her phone I could no longer support the fantasy that she didn’t know about my messages. Regardless, I’d interpreted her forgiving the other thirteen minutes as a good sign. That, however, was to be the acme of my Daphne Experience.
The young woman behind the counter made eye contact with me, glanced incredulously at Daphne, and sent a sad smile. I smiled back and held up my hand as to say, “Please give me a minute to fix this before you bring the water,” although I learned later that it was a place-your- order-at-the-counter kind of place.
I sat down and broke out the charm. The site says never do that, never break out the charm; it also says that the only thing a person can try too hard at and still succeed with is to looking pathetic. For reasons I cannot explain, I tend to test the soundness of good advice by giving its opposite number a spin. All I can say in my defense is that I’m human, and being such I cannot resist putting my foot in it, which is precisely what I did when I told extremely distracted Daphne, “I’m sorry I’m late but one of the little ones got out of his habitat and I had to wrangle him out from behind the radiator.”
Aside from the disgusted glance at my hand, this breaking out of the charm led to the only other time milady pried her attention from her phone to acknowledge my existence. Sneaking a peek at the screen that she made no attempt to conceal from me, I noticed she was in a text string with someone named “SexMachine6969.”
“You got kids? No kids. Got too many thugs of my own in lockup,” she croaked. (This sharing ran contrary to the information in her profile. Although I will allow that she most likely had once been as childless as she most assuredly had also once been twenty-seven.)
Right here my all-consuming passion for my “little ones” rose its paw and erased all trace of the lonely heart site’s helpful hint list from my mind (i.e. “Discuss Shared Hobbies,” “Listening is the Soul of Conversation,” and “Leave the Babbling to the Brook”). To be fair, however, I couldn’t dredge up the will to feign interest in hearing the rancid thoughts of SexMachine6969 spoke by a voice whose tonal quality was similar to that of Styrofoam dragged across a dusty blackboard on an especially arid day, so I guess I took babbling like a brook as an option instead of a ban.
“Oh, not children.” I instantly found my thoughts transported out of the cafe and into my apartment. “Dwarf hamsters. I mentor six Kazakhstan Roborovskis. They are rescue hamsters named Assault, Battery, Claudius, Hamlet, Big Tony and Bigger Big Tony. You see, Robos, even though they only get to be four to five centimeters long and weigh just up to twenty-five grams–a porty twenty-seven in Bigger Big Tony’s case–can be bred to be extremely fierce. At this very moment there are dwarf hamster fighting rings operating in the remote deserts of Mongolia and China. When I heard about this terrible abuse of animals I signed myself up as a Robo mentor. It’s a challenge I love. Quick little fiends, however; just as I was heading out the door Hamlet somehow got out of his habitat and made for his Uncle Claudius’ enclosure with revenge and murder in his tiny eyes. But, as always, he hesitated and then ran under the radiator to think about it for a while.”
I caught myself hogging all the facetime and stopped. “How thoughtless of me, Daphne.” I pulled out my own phone and opened Gallery. “I’ve got pictures. Took them during Battery’s first birthday party. As you see I can bring them together only in a special plexiglass meeting habitat in which each one of them is clapped-up like Hannibal Lecter.”
I glanced up to find that Daphne had fled the scene during my reverie, as I had hoped.
Even though blind dating disappointment usually gives me a forlorn, childlike feeling of “oh” inside, it’s probably better to accept the fact that you will most likely die alone with your latest generation of rescue dwarf hamsters than it is to spend another minute in the company of someone who has neither manners nor a perceptible desire to put any effort into creating a good first impression.
I sat back and sighed.
The young woman behind the counter waved and jogged over to take Daphne’s place. I blinked in confusion, but our eyes met and she smiled. “I’d like to see their pictures.”
Leila Allison lives in the menacing Pacific Northwest. She is a member of the Union of Pen-names and Imaginary Friends, and, as such, she works only between three and six in the morning, seven days a week, as stipulated in the contract between Leila and her “employer”–a dubious, shadow-like person who only comes out from under the bed to buy cigarettes and feed a parakeet named Roy.
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Know Guns by J.L. Higgs
“Hey, Dad. Grandpa’s got a gun!”
“What the fuck,” Cheryl mouthed to me. Our eyes locked, and I dropped the suitcases.
From where I was, I couldn’t see our seven-year-old son, Jack. We’d arrived at the cabin near dusk. Though we’d been delayed in the Friday traffic heading north from the city, Hank’s car was nowhere in sight. While Cheryl and I had been unloading the car’s trunk, Jack had dashed inside and straight upstairs to the bedrooms.
Guns had always been a part of my life. I’d grown up in a rural community. As a boy, we played army almost daily. Our fathers had served during the last war. Even though we were kids, we all expected that when the time came, we’d do our duty as well. In the evenings we watched TV on our old Dumont and the good guys always won. Cavalrymen defeated Indians, the Japanese were beaten by our soldiers, and in the shoot’em up Westerns, the lawmen always triumphed.
The one common denominator: guns.
The scales always tipped in favor of the good guys not just because they were the good guys, but because they were also good with their guns. Back then, the fact that the victors were always white never made an impression on me. Few people who looked like me appeared on TV in those days. We knew Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan actually lorded it over white actors in blackface.
Between all the kids in my neighborhood, we had everything we needed for our war games. Helmets, canteens, pistols, machine guns that made rat-tat-tat-tat-tat sounds, and air rifles. I liked the air rifles. You could shove their muzzles in the ground, then blast the compacted dirt out their barrels. Sometimes we’d have to temporarily halt our games to settle who shot and killed who first, but when we were called in for dinner, the living and the dead always arose and went home.
As a kid, I swore when my time came, I was going to be a Marine. They had the coolest uniforms. When my cousin, Tommy, joined up he’d went into the Marines. He was strong and tough. He carried himself with a swagger us younger kids envied and tried to imitate.
Through him, I met Roy. Roy was the local Marine Recruiter. He shared a recruitment office in the basement of our Post Office with a Navy recruiter named Sandy. A full-size cardboard cutout of Uncle Sam stood outside it with “I want you” emblazoned across his chest and his huge finger pointing at me. The words seemed less a request than an order.
Despite our patriotic leanings, when our turn actually came around, my friends and I wanted no part of it. There was a real war going on in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Many people sent far away returned dead. Others like my cousin Tommy, who survived seemingly intact, came back changed. Whether they were even alive and not the walking dead depended on your point of view and definition of living. That was when I learned that in the real world, being a good guy and good with a gun didn’t always ensure a favorable outcome.
As I walked to the base of the stairs only one thought went through my mind, Dear God, please don’t let that boy be holding that gun.
“Jack,” I called out. “Where are you?”
“In grandpa’s room,” he said.
“Well buddy, you need to get out of grandpa’s room. I’m not sure he’d want you in there. Why don’t you come down and help me bring the bags upstairs?”
“Yeah, buddy.”
“How come grandpa keeps a gun behind his door?” He came into view, half carrying, half dragging the gun.
I glanced at Cheryl. Her eyes were filled with terror.
My throat went dry as I moved closer to the stairs. I’d never imagined ever being on the wrong end of a gun.
“Jack,” I said. “You know we have rules about touching other people’s things without asking first.”
“Well, then you know that you shouldn’t be touching grandpa’s gun.” I swallowed deeply. “I want you to lay it on the floor very carefully. So you don’t break it. Because that would make grandpa sad.”
I held my breath.
Jack laid the gun down. Then he bounded down the steps and into the front room.
Cheryl grabbed him and held him tightly. She kissed the top of his head again and again.
I walked up the stairs, picked the gun up off the floor, and checked the safety. Then I pulled back the bolt and looked in the chamber. Nestled inside was a live round. I sat the butt of the gun on the floor, leaned it at an angle, and plucked the round out. Then I put the gun back in Hank’s room.
“Was it loaded?” asked Cheryl as I rejoined her and Jack in the front room.
“Goddammit.” She cursed more in the last few minutes than in all the year’s I’d known her. Anger poured out of her so fast I didn’t even try to keep up. Finally, she stopped and stood there with tears running down her face.
“It’s okay.” I wrapped my arms around her. “Everyone’s fine. No one got hurt and…”
The sound of a car door slamming made Cheryl charge from my arms and out the front door like she was on fire. Before Hank could straighten up she was on him. Though I couldn’t hear a word, from the way her arms were waving around, she was giving him hell.
Hank just stood there absorbing every blow. Finally, she swatted his arm, then steamed off down the path that led to the pond.
I opened the cabin door and Hank, his arms full of grocery bags, came in. He looked at Jack and me. Without saying a word, he sat the bags on the kitchen counter and emptied them. After placing the perishables in the refrigerator, he put the canned goods in the kitchen cabinets.
“Grandpa, where’d mom go?” Jack dragged a stool over to the kitchen counter. He climbed onto the stool as Hank continued putting away the groceries.
“A walk.”
“Why’d she go for a walk now? Doesn’t she know we’re going to eat soon?”
“She knows.”
Hank had grown up hunting. The prior year, he’d invited me to go deer hunting with him. I’d agreed to go. It’d been years since I’d had venison. Some folks didn’t care for its strong flavor, but I did.
Sitting on the beat up boards of the stand in a tree, our guns lying across our laps, there was nothing to do but wait. Deer hunting required silence and patience. You waited, listened, and hoped. In the days before, Hank had checked for tracks, droppings, and patches on tree trunks where deer had rubbed away the bark with their sprouting horns. Based on what he’d seen, he’d concluded that deer were passing beneath the stand on a regular basis. So, that was where we waited.
Hank and his four brothers had built the stand. The scrap wood steps they’d nailed to the side of the tree had been replaced many times over. Most recently around the year Jack had been born.
The first time Cheryl had said she wanted me to come home with her and meet her father, I’d shook my head and said, “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“Why not?” she asked.
“I think that’s rather obvious,” I replied.
“Scientifically speaking, there’s no such thing as race,” she countered.
“Yeah,” I responded. “Well, this is America, not some science convention.”
She sighed, looked me in the eyes and said, “You don’t know my father.”
Damn right and I don’t want to, I thought, envisioning pitchforks and burning crosses materializing out of thin air if he were to lay eyes on me.
Seeing my raised eyebrows, Cheryl had laughed. “Don’t be such a wuss,” she said. “Everything will be fine.”
Despite my doubts, I ended up going home with her and was shocked to be proven wrong. From the moment I met Hank, he never displayed a single moment of concern or hesitation regarding Cheryl and me. His approach to raising her had been to try to equip her with the ability to make good decisions. Then he’d accepted the fact that it was up to her to make her own decisions. Nothing was more important to him than her happiness. That included me, and Hank’s attitude was that was fine with that.
The same had been true when Jack was born.
“I’ll be back,” I grabbed two jackets from the pegs near the cabin door and slipping one on.
As I walked along the path to the pond, I tried to think of what to say to Cheryl. She didn’t hunt. In fact, she hated guns. When we’d learned she was pregnant with Jack, one of the first things she made me promise was, no guns.
At the time that seemed easy enough. I was familiar with guns, but didn’t own any nor did I feel inclined to, but what I hadn’t realized was that when Cheryl had said no guns, she’d meant, no guns.
No water guns, no air rifles, no BB guns, no kind of toy or real gun, period. Even the game at the county fair where you shoot water into the mouth of the clown to see who can get their balloon to pop first and win a prize was banned. No guns meant, no guns.
Once Cheryl’s no guns policy had been established there were times when it had led to some awkward situations. Like when she was ready to return to work after Jack had been born and she wanted to place him in a home daycare. We’d be interviewing potential care providers and everything would seem perfect. Then she’d look at me and I’d know it was time to ask the deal breaker. “Are there any firearms on the premises?”
A yes answer immediately eliminated that care provider. Rationales, explanations, reassurances about safety – gun safes, locks, ammo kept separate from weapons, etc… were a worthless use of breath. Any guns, no Jack.
Cheryl had never mentioned she was a crack shot. It was Hank who told me. He’d said that when Cheryl was a little girl, he taught her how to handle a rifle. According to him, she was a natural. Her hands were steady, she was calm, and she breathed just right. She could zero the sight and barrel with such accuracy that hitting whatever she was targeting was a sure thing.
As Hank explained it, Cheryl never had any qualms when it came to guns until the summer she turned fifteen. That year he’d sent her away to spend time with her grandmother and the rest of her mother, Betty’s family. After Betty’s death, he’d moved the two of them back to the town where he’d grown up and he felt it was time she got to know them. Unfortunately, when a local boy pointed out Cheryl and said, “ain’t she the girl whose mother killed herself”, she learned the truth concerning her mother’s “accident.”
When Cheryl confronted Betty’s family they admitted she had placed the muzzle of a shotgun in her mouth and pulled the trigger. Hank had arrived home from work that day and found his wife’s brains splattered on the dining room wall and a screaming infant girl. He’d then sold the house and moved back to his hometown.
Everyone had done their best to reassure Cheryl that what had happened had nothing to do with her. They explained that nowadays people called what Betty had had post postpartum depression. But back then, it had no name. Instead, people figured that sooner or later Betty would stop feeling blue and get back in the swing of things. Following that summer, Cheryl wouldn’t touch a gun.
I knew it was impossible for me to understand how Cheryl’s mother’s suicide had affected her, but sane or not, her mother had made her own choice. Hank then also made his. He’d done his best to raise a little girl on his own and shelter her from the horror of what had happened to her mother.
There was no way he could place the blame on a gun. Guns had been a part of his family’s way of life for generations. Every member of his family that I’d met had a deep respect for guns. They’d established inviolate rules about responsible ownership and passed them down from generation to generation.
To them, guns weren’t good or bad. They were simply tools in the hands of whoever held them. I respected Hank’s family, and I respected their guns, but in general, I struggled to understand white people’s obsession with guns.
In rural communities where people hunted deer, rabbits, and turkeys, having guns made complete sense to me. When I lived in the country, I’d killed my fair share of destructive varmints, woodchucks that wouldn’t accept the fact your garden was off limits, the same with foxes and your chickens, but Cheryl, Jack, and I lived in suburbia. Why did there seem to be more white gun owners and collectors there? Definitely more than I’d ever known while living in the country, blacks and whites combined. And so many of the weapons they owned were clearly designed for war.
Were some of these people consciously or subconsciously doing exactly that, preparing for war? Based on daily news reports, things were just as bad in cities. Young black men killing other black men, Latinos killing Latinos. There was nothing to hunt in suburbia or cities, they were just full of people.
As I came around the bend and into the clearing, I saw Cheryl sitting on the pond’s battered wooden dock. She was staring at the water. I walked up and placed the jacket I was carrying around her shoulders. Then I sat down beside her. Small circles formed on the water’s surface. Each steadily expanded outward like a smoke ring until it could no longer maintain its perfect form. Then it broke apart and disappeared.
“It was an accident,” I said.
“I know,” she replied, a painful sadness in her eyes. “I know Hank would never do anything to hurt Jack.”
“You ready to head back?” I got to my feet.
“Yeah.” She took my hand and standing up.
We walked back toward the cabin side-by-side in silence. At one point I squeezed Cheryl’s hand, and she squeezed mine in return. As we drew close to the cabin, there was a strong smell of smoke in the air. A fire was going in the burn pit. Its flickering flames lit both Jack and Hank’s faces and they were each holding a stick with a hot dog over the flames.
“We’re hungry,” said Jack. “We started cooking.” He smiled.
Cheryl walked over to the packages of hot dogs and buns on a plate near Hank and took out two hot dogs.
“There’s sharpened sticks over there,” said Hank keeping his eyes focused front.
She grabbed two sticks, shoved a hot dog on the end of each and handed one to me. I grabbed a bun and walked over to Jack.
“Hey, buddy. I think yours is done,” I said.
“But I like it burnt.”
“No, you don’t.” I took hold of his stick and pulled it from the fire. Then I slid his hot dog off the stick and into the bun. I handed it to him and he took a bite.
“Good?”
“Uh huh,” he said, bits of hot dog and bread falling from his mouth.
“Cheryl.”
“Yours looks done.”
“So it is.” He pulled his hot dog out of the fire and blew on it. Then he took a bite taking care not to burn his lips or tongue.
Once we all had our fill, Jack’s being two, Hank pulled out a bag of marshmallows. He stuck a single marshmallow on the end of Jack’s stick, then his. Then he proceeded to show Jack how to roast marshmallows without charring them.
After Jack had eaten four or five marshmallows, Cheryl told him he’d had enough and it was time to start getting ready for bed. Jack opened his mouth to begin his nightly negotiations, but Hank stepped in.
“Mind your mother,” he said. “If you’re quick about it, there’s a couple of empty jars in the kitchen we can use to catch some fireflies.”
With that as an enticement, Jack was gone in a snap.
“Thanks,” said Cheryl to Hank. “Any more sugar and he’d be totally wired tonight.”
“Like his mother used to get.”
“Yeah,” replied Cheryl. “Like his mother used to get.”
Jack came charging back out the door. It slammed behind him.
“Whoa,” I said seeing his bare feet. “You need something on your feet.”
“Hey, where’s my jars?” Hank rose to his feet. “Come on.” He scooped up Jack in his arms. “We can get something for your feet and the jars.”
As Hank carried Jack back inside, I walked over to Cheryl and began massaging her neck and shoulders.
“You want to catch fireflies?”
“Then I guess we should leave them to it and tidy up things inside before bed,” I said.
Cheryl nodded. We wrapped an arm around each other’s waists and walked back to the cabin. Jack and Hank passed us heading in the other direction on their way to catch fireflies.
The next day, Saturday, passed without incident. In the early afternoon, we went swimming in the pond. Later, Jack and Hank went for a nature walk. While they were gone, Cheryl and I stayed behind and drove ourselves crazy working on a one-thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. That evening Cheryl made dinner and things seemed to have returned to normal.
On Sunday morning, I thought it’d be best to get an early start. That way we’d avoid the weekenders, who were also returning home. When I awakened I could smell coffee. In the kitchen, Hank and Jack had been busy making a mountain of waffles. With his eyes as big as platters, Jack had crammed so many waffles into his mouth, he looked like a chipmunk.
“You’d better slow down, buddy.” I rubbed his head as I slid onto a stool at the counter.
Hank handed me a cup of steaming hot coffee. “She alright?” He gestured with his head in the direction of the loft where Cheryl was still sleeping.
“Yeah,” I replied. “She’s fine. You know how she is about guns.”
“Yup. Sure do.” Hank took a sip of his cup of coffee. “We good?”
“Of course.” I picked up my cup, toasted him with it, then took a sip. “Good coffee.”
“You know I’d never want any harm to come to the boy.”
“Well, just as long as you know.”
“I do.”
“Dad, what are you and grandpa talking about?” asked Jack, reminding us of his presence.
“Nothing, buddy. You need to finish your breakfast.” I got up from the stool and headed back to the loft, coffee in hand.
Cheryl was awake but still wrapped in the bedsheets. When she saw me she sat up and scooted backward until her back was against the bed’s headboard. I handed her the cup of coffee.
“You make this?” she asked.
“No,” I said. “Your father did.”
“Good. You make lousy coffee.”
“Well good morning to you too,” I said.
She laid a hand on my wrist. “I take it he’s up.”
“Yeah. The kitchen’s waffle world.”
“I better go down there.” She handed me the coffee and leaped out from under the sheets. “He’ll let Jack eat as many waffles as he wants. The last thing we need is Jack getting car sick on the way home.”
While Jack, Hank, and Cheryl continued with breakfast, I began packing. I’d finished with Jack’s things and started in on mine when Cheryl returned and joined in.
“He seems okay this morning.” She balled up a sweatshirt and tossed it into her suitcase.
“Look, I know he didn’t mean for it to happen, but…”
“I know,” I said. “It’s okay. I understand.”
Cheryl resumed packing. I snapped the locks on my bag shut, then went and got Jack’s bag from the other room. Outside I skirted the edge of the burn pit, made my way to the wagon, and deposited the bag in the trunk. As I walked back to the cabin, I stopped at the burn pit for a moment, then continued on.
Cheryl had finished the packing and brought the last of our suitcases downstairs to the front room. I tucked one of the small bags under my arm and grabbed each suitcase with a free hand.
“Let me help.” She slipped the small bag out from under my arm. She grabbed the door, and I shuffled through. We placed the suitcases in the trunk, then headed back to collect Jack.
“Did you notice?” I nodded toward the burn pit.
Cheryl stopped and stared. Scratched in the pit’s ashes were the words, Jack & Grandpa.
“That’s nice,” she said.
“Look there.” I pointed at the large clump of ashes after the final “a” in grandpa.
Her eyes followed my finger, then stopped. Barely visible was what remained of the stock of the gun Jack had found when we’d arrived on Friday.
“He must have.”
Cheryl shook her head and we resumed walking.
“You all set?” asked Hank as we set foot back inside.
“Yup,” I replied. “We’ll be seeing you.” I waved, took Cheryl by the elbow and pretended to leave.
“You who?”
“Me. Jack. You can’t leave without me.”
“Darn,” I said, smiling at my son. “I thought we were forgetting something.”
Cheryl took Jack by the hand and the four of us went outside to say final goodbyes. As Cheryl buckled Jack into his car seat, Hank went over to Jack’s open window, thrust in his hand, then quickly withdrew it.
“I’ve got your nose.” He held the tip of his thumb between his forefinger and middle finger.
“Give it back.” Jack squirmed in his seat.
“Alright.” Hank reached back in and touched Jack’s nose. “Only as long as you promise to come visit me again real soon.”
“Dad, I love you.” Cheryl, gave Hank a hug.
“I love you too, little girl.” He hugging her back.
“Hank.”
“You take care.”
“You too. Look after my little girl and grandson,” he added as Cheryl and I got in the car.
I started up the wagon, stuck my arm out the window, and gave Hank a wave as we began making our way down the cinder driveway. In the rearview mirror, I could see Hank standing alone waving goodbye.
“You all stay safe,” he yelled. Then he turned away and headed back toward the cabin.
J L Higgs’ short stories typically focus on life from the perspective of a black American. He has been published in over 30 magazines including: Indiana Voice Journal, Black Elephant, The Writing Disorder, Contrary Magazine, Literally Stories, The Remembered Arts Journal, Rigorous, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
He currently lives outside of Boston.
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Tenderloin by Steve Carr
In this room I’m hidden by a camouflage of poverty. It’s a small room with a bed that pulls down from the wall, a Murphy Bed they call it. To me, my bed is Murphy. There are no sheets or covers on Murphy and the mattress has a tear in the middle and its intestines are sticking out. I have no pillow but I rest my head on a helmet and dream that I’m somewhere else other than this room.
There’s a dresser with five drawers but I only use the bottom one, hiding my papers there: my army discharge papers, high school diploma, newspaper articles about me winning swimming competitions when I was in high school. Everything else I own, my civilian clothes, my army uniform, army boots, two thirty pound dumbbells, and my emptied duffel bag, are scattered about on the floor forming small mounds that I step over like the dead bodies I stepped over in Iraq. The mirror above the dresser has a crack that looks like a scar.
The walls have the wounds of neglect, cracking green paint and peeling yellow wallpaper. There’s a window with torn plastic curtains that looks out on the busy street and the small grocery store across the street. No one going by on the street or in and out of the store knows I’m watching them through the holes in the curtain. This room is my bunker.
I still wear my dog tags. They remind me of who I am, or was. Alone in this room it’s easy to forget a simple thing like my own name. Looking into the cracked mirror; its scar becomes my scar, an injury across the smooth flesh of my muscled chest.
I came back from Iraq, from the army, uninjured but not unscathed. No one can see the damage but me. I see it in my reflection; my blue eyes hold the injuries of witnessing what no man should see. My biceps, triceps, forearms, pectoral muscles, abdominal muscles, glutes, quads and calves are strong and well developed, but identity isn’t. It has gotten lost along the way.
Lifting dumbbells in front of the mirror I watch the armor that is my flesh ripple with every arm curl. In this room no one can pierce my armor. Out on the streets, it’s a different story. It’s a dangerous place called the Tenderloin. It’s the bruised underbelly of this city and I am now part of the bruise. It takes strategic thinking about when to venture out, so I when it is dark I watch through the holes in the curtains, for the time that is right to infiltrate those who inhabit the city streets.
Against this wall at night, one booted foot against it, my knee bent, my back pressed against the heat of the summer-heated bricks, I can only be seen by those looking for me; not me exactly, but the type of me they are looking for. I wear my sand color camouflage fatigues and a tight black t-shirt and black army boots but in the darkness where I stand I am the same color as the shadows.
The warm winds blow and tousle my short blonde hair. Rivulets of sweat run between my shoulder blades down my spine and the middle of my pecs. This is the weather of Iraq without the sand. I inhale the drifting toxins of the city: gas fumes, rotting trash, urine. From this location I spot the window of my room, the light left on like a safety beacon.
“How much?” A middle aged man in khaki shorts and a blood-red polo shirt passing slowly by asks me.
“Not interested,” I say.
“I’ll make it worth your time,” he says.
“My time isn’t for sale.” I shift the other boot against the wall.
He moves on, targeting another inhabitant of the shadows not far from me. Their muffled voices are low and indecipherable until they depart into the alley. The sound of what they are doing with their bodies blends into the multitude of other sounds on this street: seller and buyer.
I separate myself from them and focus on the prostitute across the street adjust her neon pink stockings, Jade. Her hair is down tonight, separated down the middle and hanging around her face like a hajib of hair. I know her, not modest or religious, her hair doesn’t fool me.
A car pulls up to the curb beside her. She leans into the open passenger side window of the car. Apparently there is no agreement on the terms so he drives off leaving Jade now adjusting her halter top. What she wears is her uniform. She catches me and waves. I wave back.
She walks on and I realize how alike we are. Jade and I, both survivors of different kinds of war. Her war is the streets of the Tenderloin and I left the war in Iraq to enter this one in Jade’s territory. It’s a different combat zone.
“Have a cigarette?” a young man in tight jeans, a button down blue shirt and wearing cowboy boots asks.
“I don’t smoke.” I set my jaw.
He leans against the wall so close his cologne and after shave surround me. I’ve seen him before. He is a wanderer, one of the many who are always walking these streets. I’ve seen him through my curtains going in and out of the store, and up and down this street. His brown cowboy boots are well-shined. I notice those kinds of things. I’ve named him, Boots.
“Hot night.” Boots glances up at the starless sky.
“I’ve seen hotter,” I tell him.
He leans even closer to me. “I have some brown sugar,” Boots whispers as if it was a secret that no one in the Tenderloin had ever heard before. “We could go to my place.”
“No thanks,” I tell him.
The two have come out of the alley. The man in the shorts adjusts his belt and hurriedly walks past me. The other one stands at the entrance of the alley surveying the landscape and in the half-light he looks young, illegally young for what he is selling, which in itself is illegal.
He walks the other direction and escapes into the night. I am an observer, where strangers briefly become allies. I have several lookout posts in the Tenderloin, but this one near my room is where I mainly station myself. Boots nervously taps the toe of one of his boots against a crack in the pavement. He is as watchful as I am, but I can only guess what he is watching for.
Back in the room I remove my sweat-soaked t-shirt and stand in front of the mirror and while the scar is still there, there are no fresh wounds; not on me or on the mirror.
Lying in the dark on my back on Murphy I’ve pushed the helmet aside and am staring up at the ceiling. Light from the grocery store’s white neon sign shines through the holes in the curtains to form bullet holes and grenade beams between the cracks that are like lines on a terrain map on the ceiling. The ceiling fan does not work and is idle and useless. The room is even warmer than outside.
I’ve taken off all my clothes and deposited them on a mound of other gear. I sweat. It drains from my pores. This being naked, it is a test of my sense of safety. I’m not vulnerable in the room, only when I leave it.
Beneath the naked flesh of my back, Murphy’s protruding innards push into me. It’s a test of endurance, my ability to sustain the feeling of discomfort, so I don’t move. I hear a brief scream from outside as I drift off to sleep. I’ve heard screams before, when awake and not awake.
Morning comes with the subtlety of a tank rolling across hard earth. The sound of heavy traffic breaks through the barricade of my dreams. Eyes open, I glimpse the ceiling as it is in the light of day, a canopy of cracked plaster. I don’t move. My naked body adjusts to the dryness of the daytime heat.
Sweat sticks to my skin; I’m an evaporated salt lake with nothing left but granules. My skin has adhered to Murphy and as I rise up I pull some of Murphy’s insides with me. I sit on the edge of Murphy and survey the landscape that is the room. It’s a wasteland of neglect.
With a towel around my waist I go to the only bathroom on this floor and stand outside it waiting for whoever is inside. Around me is the carnage even worse than that in my room. Everything needs repair. After the sounds of the shower cease, the door unlocks moments later and the old man who lives in another of the rooms, comes out in a tattered purple bathrobe. He wears the difficulties of his life on his face like a mask of despair.
I go in as he goes down the hallway toward his room. I lock the door and undo my towel and urinate in the ringed toilet bowl. There is no brush to clean it with even if I wanted to. Every part of the building outside my room echoes. My urine hits the water in the toilet bowl and reverberates around me like choppers just as they land.
I read the graffiti on the walls as I have every morning. Nothing new is added. The writers moved on or grew tired of deciphering each other’s codes. Finished, I step into the shower, turn it on, and let cool water rinse the night from my skin.
My time in it is brief and after shaving I go back to my room. A yellow note sits pinned on my door. I open it and read: “Rent Past Due. Payment in full required. Management.”
In the room I dig beneath the papers in the bottom drawer of the dresser and take out the white envelope that I keep my money in and flip through the bills counting up the total. There’s enough to pay half the rent if I include what little is in my pants pocket. Sitting back on a mound of clothes, the softness is like a dead Iraqi soldier’s body I sat on while getting my picture taken. I pull one of the articles from high school out of the drawer and look at the picture of me when I was a champion swimmer in a pair of Speedos.
My body has changed.
I’ve changed.
The names of my parents are in the article: Bill and Doris. In the room they are just names on a yellowing piece of newsprint. I fold the article and place it back with all the other emotional contraband and close the drawer. Naked, exposed but unable to be seen, I stand at the window and peek through a hole in the curtain. Even in the brightness of the morning sun the shadows are everywhere in the Tenderloin.
In a different pair of fatigues the same color as the others and a different t-shirt, also black, I leave the room and exit the building to step out into the fury of noise and odors that is the Tenderloin on a weekday. Crossing the street to the store I see a man in a suit standing in my location. He’s reading a newspaper, an innocent occupier in my nighttime territory.
The store is cool and surprisingly quiet. The Korean man behind the counter is Mr. Chin. It’s not his real name. It’s the name I have given him. He has a mole in the middle of his chin and Mr. Chin sounded more Asian than Mole.
His age is hard to determine but his jet black hair is lined with strands of gray and his eyes have the weariness of age. Placing a carton of orange juice and a pack of fig newtons on the counter I don’t call him Mr. Chin. I don’t call him anything.
“How are you today?” he asks in a very formal way as always. “It looks like it’s going to be another hot day today.” He tallies the cost of my two items on the cash register.
“I’m used to the heat.” I hand him money.
Mr. Chin is always here it seems, night and day. He’s a motionless target in the Tenderloin where enemy combatants roam. Without knowing why, I worry about him. “Don’t you ever sleep?” I ask.
“I have insomnia,” he says. “Keeping busy takes my mind off wondering why I’m always awake.”
“Sleeping isn’t all it’s cut out to be.” I refuse a bag for my juice and cookies.
“Neither is being awake.” He smiles and I leave the store.
Finding a place to sit on a wood crate at the entrance of the alley, I sit down and open the carton and fig newtons. The alley reeks of refuse and stagnant water and in the heat is a noxious mixture that kills the taste of the juice and cookies. Stuck on the wall near where I’m sitting is a used condom glued there with bodily fluids like a medal of honor in a whorehouse. I’m unable to finish what I bought for my breakfast. I toss the half-empty carton of juice on top of garbage in an open trash can and wrap the package of fig newtons in my hand to be eaten later.
On a street in Baghdad I was accosted by a man who spoke no English but was definitely trying to warn me about something. When a bomb exploded a hundred yards up the street in the direction I was headed, I realized what he was trying to say. Paxton Street is much the same way; I feel like a foreigner always headed for unspeakable danger. I was told that it has improved over the years, becoming in some parts more gentrified, but I see few signs of it.
When I run into Boots coming out of an adult book store he’s more surprised to see me than I am to see him. I look down. He’s wearing the same cowboy boots.
He nods. “You always look like you’re dressed for combat.”
“I am.” I grip the cookies until they’re crushed. “Listen,” I say hesitantly, knowing I am about to enter a mine field. “I need to earn some money.”
“What are you willing to do for it?” he asks.
“Not what you think.”
A car drives slowly by and the driver taps the horn. Boots waves him on and the car continues up the street. “I know this guy looking for just your type,” Boots says.
“I told you, I’m not looking to make money that way.”
“I know,” Boots says. “This is something different. It’s not even illegal and the guy has lots of money and is willing to pay.”
“What does he want?” I ask, feeling as if Boots is that Iraqi but only I am being led into danger and not being kept from it.
“Meet me tonight at your usual spot and I’ll bring him along. You guys can meet and if you two are cool with each other he can tell you himself.”
“What do you want out of it?” I ask.
“I’ll get my take from him afterward,” he says.
In the afternoon I put the window up. Hot air blows the plastic curtains into the room. Their ends snap like muted gun fire.
I stand in front of the mirror and do arm curls. This combined with squats and crunches done between the mounds of my belongings is my daily routine. My dog tags tinkle against each other with every lift. On the top of the dresser the empty package of fig newtons rustles in the breeze. I’m readying myself for something; a secret mission.
With each curl I exhale in and out the smells of the Tenderloin and the odors in the room. My clothes lay on Murphy. I haven’t washed them for a week and they’re thick with sweat. When I leave the room and then come back in it’s my scent I smell first, then that of the city.
Looking into the mirror is therapy. It reassures me along with the scent in the room that I exist, that I fought in Iraq and lived.
It’s me I’m looking at in the mirror when there is a knock on the door. I put on my pants and open it cautiously.
“Did you get the note I pinned on your door?” It’s Beard. That’s not his name but he has a beard that reaches down to his stomach. It was the first thing I noticed about him and before I knew his name. He’s a big man, obese not muscled. He’s proud of his job as manager of the building. I know this because he told me so.
“Yes, I got it,” I say.
“Are you going to be able to pay your rent by tomorrow?” Beard looks around me at the room and grimaces.
“Yes,” I tell him. “I’m making arrangements to get it tonight.”
“Good,” Beard says. “I don’t like to throw veterans out if I don’t have to.”
“You won’t have to throw me out,” I say.
He takes another look at the room, the hills of my belongings. “I’ll be back tomorrow and you can give me the rent then.” He turns and walks away.
I shut the door and put on the rest of my clothes. Without me or my clothes Murphy looks naked.
At twilight the store is busier. At the freezer I see through the glass there’s one burrito left. I open the door and take it out. I stare at the microwave instructions printed on the back. My diet sucks and the food I put into my body does not nourish me.
In the Army I was fed well and had a roof over my head as well as a steady paycheck. The only cost was the possibility of being shot or blown up. I put the burrito in the microwave at the back of the store and while waiting unscrew the cap on the water. I’m prepared to have my supper even before I get in line at the counter.
After Mr. Chin takes care of another customer, I step up and put the heated burrito and the water on the counter and take out a few dollar bills from my fatigues pocket. Before he puts his fingers on the cash register he says “You seem like a nice guy. I could use some help if you’re interested in working here.”
“Sure,” I say. “When do you want me to start?”
“Is tomorrow morning, okay?” He tallies up the price of my purchase on the cash register.
“Sure.” I pick up the burrito and bottled water and leave the store.
The street is bathed in fading sunlight as I cross it and take up my place at my lookout. In a matter of minutes even before the sun is completely down the young man – the kid – that was here last night takes his place in the same spot he was in last night. I quickly eat the burrito and down the water and walk over to the entrance of the alley and toss the burrito package and empty bottle in the trash can.
I’m looking at him and he is looking at me. He seems as if he stepped out of one of the photos of me in one of the newspaper clippings. I think of him as the me back then and name him, Me.
Me is wearing a tight white t-shirt with gold lettering on the upper right chest that says All-American.
“What are you looking at?” he asks.
“You shouldn’t be here,” I say.
He leans back against the wall and crosses his arms over his chest. “It’s a free country. I can be where I want.”
“I meant you shouldn’t be using this disgusting alley to conduct your business.”
“You know a better place?” Me asks sounding partially sarcastic and partially honestly inquisitive.
I think about my room, not because I would offer it to him, but it’s the only safe place I have known for the past three months. “No.”
I return to my spot and prop my boot against the wall and watch the shadows turn to night along the street. Me almost disappears in the darkness, his white t-shirt partly visible. I’m lost in thought, thinking about working at the store. It isn’t much but it’s enough.
Jade suddenly pops up in front of me. She has changed her uniform. She’s wearing a tight yellow vinyl skirt and a bright green bikini top. She almost towers over me in her knee high boots with spiked heels. Her hair is wound around her head like a turban.
“I saw you talking to that little sleaze ball who wears the cowboy boots. If you’ll take my advice steer clear of him. He’s connected with some pretty strange dudes.”
“Okay, thanks,” I say.
“Au revoir.” Jade crosses the street. Her heels click like small firecrackers on the pavement with every step she takes. It reminds me of Fourth of July parties with Bill and Doris. It also reminds me of the sound of tracers being shot into the night sky.
Neither Jade or Me have seen any action. We three occupy our territories being watchful and restless, each for different reasons. The light shines through the window in the room, reminds me I have somewhere to go for rest and relaxation. I have it for now at least.
I spot Boots and the man with him as they walk toward me. In my head I instantly name the man, Swagger. It’s how he walks, as if he owned the world. As if about to undergo military inspection I stand up at parade rest. Boots and Swagger come up to me.
Without really acknowledging me, Boots turns to Swagger and says, “See, I told you, just what you’re looking for.”
Swagger is wearing a t-shirt and jeans and is nearly as muscular as I am. He looks me over from boots to my hair.
I feel like a mannequin in a store front window being examined for the cut of my clothes.
“You’ll do just fine,” he says.
“Do just fine for what?” I ask.
He raises his left hand to swat away a gnat and I see a wedding ring on the third finger. “I’d rather not discuss it here,” he says as if what he has in mind will be broadcast by loud speakers throughout the Tenderloin. “You must live nearby. Can we go there?”
Boots shuffles his feet on the sidewalk, the scuff of it is an annoying distraction. “Don’t you have somewhere else you can be?” I ask him.
“Oh, sure.” Boots turns to leave. “I’ll catch up with you later for my cut,” he says to Swagger. He walks toward Paxton Street, stopping in front of Me and whispering to him. They walk on together.
“I don’t do anything sexual,” I tell Swagger.
“What I’m looking for isn’t sexual, at least not in the usual sense. You could make up to five hundred dollars.” He reaches into his jeans and pulls out a roll of money held together by a rubber band. “But I don’t want to do this if you don’t have a place we can go to.”
No one other than me has been in the room since I moved into it. Even Beard has not gotten any further than my open door. “We can go to my room,” I say reluctantly. When the sound of gunfire rings out from Mr. Chin’s store I think it’s noises in my head.
Swagger and I glance in that direction. Within moments the sound of police sirens pierce the night.
“He’s been shot,” Jade yells to me from across the street.
I cross the street with Swagger. Two police cars and an ambulance pull up in front of Mr. Chin’s store. A small crowd of onlookers including Jade are chattering among themselves.
“The guy tried to rob him, then shot him and ran out.”
“He’s such a nice man.”
“Who are they talking about?” Swagger asks.
“Mr. Chin, I think,” I say. “He owns the store.”
“Is he a friend of yours?” Swagger asks.
“The last friend I had was killed in Iraq,” I say.
Swagger looks at his watch. “I don’t have lots of time. Can we go?”
Going into my building I look over my shoulder and see two paramedics bringing someone out of the store on a stretcher, covered by a sheet.
The room is as I left it. It never changes in any noticeable way. The air is hot and thick with the stench of body odor. Swagger says nothing as he comes in and I close the door behind him. He stands feet spread apart between two mounds of clothing. He reaches into his pocket and takes out the roll of money and tosses it on Murphy.
“A hundred dollars every time you punch me,” he says.
“What?” I say, uncertain that I have heard him correctly.
“I want you to punch me,” he says. “And hard. Anywhere but my face.”
“Are you sure?” I ask.
“Yes.” He removes his t-shirt.
“What are you doing?” I say. “I told you nothing sexual.”
“I’m not wanting sex with you.” He sits on Murphy and pulls off his shoes and socks. “I just want you to punch me a few times. That’s all. I just prefer to be naked when you do it.” He stands up and takes off his jeans and underwear and faces me. “Go ahead. I’m ready.”
I punch him on his left chest just above his nipple. He’s staring at me with disappointment written on his face. “Surely you can punch me harder than that.”
I land another much harder punch above the other nipple. The sound of my fist making contact with his bare flesh is like a bullet striking a cardboard target. He reels back slightly, and closes his eyes for a moment. He slowly opens his eyes. They are glassy like a cat in heat. “Oh, yeah that’s more like it.” He reaches over to the wad of money and takes out a hundred dollar bill and hands it to me. “Again,” he says.
I shove the money into my pocket and hit him in the stomach. He bends over and spits up on the floor. When he stands there is a smile on his face and I see that he’s aroused. He gives me another hundred dollar bill. I hit him again, this time on his left jaw.
“I told you not the face,” he says.
Then I punch him again, and again, and don’t stop. I am a relentless machine of released anger. He collapses on Murphy in a pile of blood and sweat. His face swells. Bruises already darken the skin around his eyes. His breathing grows labored.
“Why?” he asks. Blood drips from his mouth.
“I was in Iraq,” I say and lay into him again.
Steve Carr, who lives in Richmond, Va., began his writing career as a military journalist and has had over 240 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies since June, 2016. He has two collections of short stories, Sand and Rain, that have been published by Clarendon House Publications. His third collection of short stories, Heat, was published by Czykmate Productions. His YA collection of stories, The Tales of Talker Knock was published by Clarendon House Publications. His plays have been produced in several states in the U.S. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. His website is https://www.stevecarr960.com/. He is on Twitter @carrsteven960.
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KITEZH by A.L. Sirois
The digital clock on my car’s dash read 8:59 am. I took my .380 semiautomatic out of the glove box and slid it in the holster inside my jacket. Not that I thought I’d need it here; I’m simply in the habit of having a gun on me. I walked across the pea gravel to the flagstones leading to the green front door, pressing the doorbell at precisely 9:00 am.
The door swung open, answered by a tall, loose-limbed man with straight dark hair, dark eyes and a pleasant smile. I also noticed the grey patches under his eyes, and wondered how well he had been sleeping of late.
“Miss McNeil. A pleasure. I am Peter Orlov.” His English was ever so slightly accented by his native tongue. “Please, come in.”
Orlov ushered me into a house tastefully decorated in a more or less classical style, with polished wood floors, plenty of light from wide windows, bookcases, and flowers on end tables.
I learned early on that I don’t play well with others. I’m not anti-social—well, maybe a little—or truculent, I like having my way and I’m usually right. Over the years I’ve found that most people don’t appreciate these tendencies.
College wasn’t for me, either, so I joined the Army. Having a natural facility for languages I trained as a cryptologic linguist. The armed services and I turned out not to be such a great fit, either, even though I enjoyed the opportunities provided me. My twin brother, Terry, became a career military man. Fine by me. We have no other family, and as long as he’s happy, I’m happy. After I was discharged I knocked around the West Coast for awhile, grew bored, and came back east.
Terry helped me get into my current line of work. I’m an investigator. I find things, learn things; take risks for those who can’t. Or won’t. Terry is well connected with the CIA and DMS and other alphabet agencies that occasionally need someone like me to follow up on off-the-books stuff. My clientele tends to be high-end. Very high-end.
Which often makes opening e-mails from strangers interesting.
A particularly interesting one hit my in-box two days earlier. It was from Peter Orlov, whom I did not know, and read, simply, Dear Miss McNeil: I want to know where I was. And I want to return there.
He’d attached a scan of a Pravda article from 1987 detailing the disappearance of nine-year-old Pytor Abramovich Orlov while vacationing with his parents and younger brother, and his mysterious reappearance two days later in the center of Arzamas, the nearest city. When asked where he’d been, Pytor lapsed into glossolalia, which ceased only when questioning ended. Otherwise his speech was unimpaired.
Also attached to Peter—Pytor—Orlov’s email were several colored pencil sketches he’d made of strangely dressed people who looked somehow Slavic but wore bright voluminous garments and turban-like headgear. The men donned forked beards, and the women hid their breasts under dozens of strands of wampum-like necklaces. Perhaps in emulation of the male turban, their hair was worn in an up swept all-but-spherical coif, like an expanded Sixties “beehive.” All, men and women, were light of complexion, with dark eyes and dark hair.
I’m well-traveled, and have spent time on all the continents—including Antarctica—doing research for my clients. I didn’t recognize the particular ethnic group depicted in Orlov’s meticulous drawings. They certainly were not Russian, or even Slavic. If anything, they looked somewhat Persian.
Intrigued, I replied, agreeing to see him. Two days later I was in Nyack, New York.
According to my research, both Orlov brothers came to the States from Russia as children in 1989. Peter was now thirty-eight years old, the wealthy if somewhat eccentric and reclusive CEO of a rising pharmaceutical conglomerate. Jurij changed his name to George and took over the day-to-day running of the corporation as its COO. Peter had no wife, no ex-wives, no children.
Orlov led the way through the foyer into a sitting room. “Miss O’Neil, will you take coffee or tea?”
“Decaf green tea would be wonderful if you have it. And do call me Alice.”
“Then you must call me Peter.” He excused himself.
I examined my surroundings. Low bookcases lined three walls, with paintings above them. French doors opened onto a slate patio, brushed this October day by leaves from a black walnut tree. Its spherical seedpods sat scattered on the flags like green golf balls.
I turned as he entered with two steaming cups—Noritake china on a silver tray along with a sugar bowl, tongs, spoons and creamer. Real silver, too, not plate. And he did his own serving. Odd, for such a wealthy person.
I dropped a lump of raw sugar into my cup as he settled into a wing chair opposite the window. “I couldn’t place the costumes in the drawings you sent.”
A half smile. “I would have been astounded if you could.”
“And that’s the clothing worn by the inhabitants of the place to which you were taken.” I took a chair across from his. “Kitezh, or whatever you call it.”
“I was not taken there. I walked there.”
“Walked?” I set my teacup down on the table beside my chair. “Peter.” I switched to Russian. “I know my Russian geography. It’s more than fifty kilometers from where you vanished, near Lake Svetloyar, to where you turned up.”
“Fifty-three.” He smiled with a crooked humor.
“And you… walked there.”
“In a manner of… at the age of nine?”
“In two days?”
“Ah. No.” He leaned forward. “I was somewhere else, in between. In Kitezh.” His gaze became distant. “At that time it was near the lake. They didn’t want me to get lost, you see, so they took me, teleportedme, whatever, to Arzamas. I didn’t walk fifty-three kilometers.”
“’They?” I gaped. “Teleported?” And what did he mean by at that time?
“The inhabitants of Kitezh.” He sighed, smiling. “It’s such a beautiful place, Alice.”
He wasn’t speaking in the past tense. The place was real, alive, to him.
“There was a fountain, with two and three-story homes all around, peaked roofs, very quaint but overgrown with electric ivy, a blue sky such as I have never seen any—”
“Wait, what? Electric ivy?”
He waved a hand. “I call it that. All the houses were festooned with green wires. At first I thought they were vines because they had leaves, with curling offshoots like Morning Glory tendrils seeking purchase, but the leaves were transparent, with flat electronic components inside them. These vines covered the houses.”
“Solar collectors.” This man was not lying. At least, he didn’t think he was.
“I saw no other source of power while I was there.”
“I see. Go on. And on your return?”
He shook his head as if to settle his thoughts. “I walked from the square at the behest of my… hosts, headed for a street entry, and no sooner did I set foot off the cobbles then I stepped into Arzamas. I was in front of the town hall.”
“The transition was instantaneous?”
“Yes.” His hands grew animated. “And so that was the fifty-three kilometers. In a single step.”
I sipped my tea as he filled in details. Lake Svetloyar was a popular tourist destination among a certain class of Russians. Peter’s parents, petrochemical engineers, had often vacationed there when their boys were young.
“We got off the bus in Balakhna. You say you are good with geography, Alice. Do you know the town?”
“I know of it.”
“Nestled in the arms of the Volga. An historic region, but there’s not much for young boys to do there. My father loved to fish, though, and my mother to sketch. They took us to the lake on the second day. I drew for a while with Mother, but got bored and wandered off, exploring, as boys will do. George adored fishing, and stayed with our father. I skipped stones on the lake, caught a frog or two, let them go and then I got hungry so I turned back.” He frowned and sighed. “And saw a city on the shore of the lake, placed between me and my parents. I had to have walked through it, you see; but I never saw it until I turned back.” He paused, but I said nothing, simply nodded for him to continue.
“I call it a city, but it was more a village. The lakeside path I walked became a cobblestone street. Wood frame buildings lined it. This was Kitezh.” At my blank look, he went on.” He leaned forward. “A mythical city, like… I don’t know, the Emerald City? Or the place where Batman lives. But I believe Kitezh took me, and after I was there for a short time, deposited me in Arzamas.”
In a single step. “You could not discuss this when you were young. Yet now you can speak of it.”
“I could not write about my experience, either, although again I thought I was being perfectly clear.” He shrugged. “Scrawls. Nor could I type coherently into a computer. My parents feared I had a brain tumor. MRIs and PET scans ruled that out. At last I stopped talking about what happened to me and thereafter had no further speech or writing problems.
“My parents were both killed in a train wreck in 1988. George and I were raised by relatives here in America. When we came of age we devoted ourselves to our parents’ business. They had a small pharmaceutical company, which George and I have grown into a multinational corporation. When our corporate headquarters moved to New York City, I came here. George stays in Manhattan.
“Two years ago I was in an automobile accident that left me in a coma for four days. When I came to I found George sitting at my bedside, looking oddly at me. He said I had been raving about Kitezh. Do you understand? I could talk about it at last, even if I was delirious! The accident somehow negated the conditioning, hypnosis, whatever, I’d received in Kitezh. Or maybe the compulsion had worn off with time, I don’t know. I told him I’d simply been dreaming.” He sighed. “I did not want to worry him. About my sanity, you see. He never says anything, but I believe he has his doubts.”
“Mmm.” I knew a little something about that. “So you came to me, to find Kitezh.” I took a last sip of my tea and carefully put the cup down on the table. Outside, a black walnut seedpod hit the patio flagstones with a clunk.
“Russia? I’ve never been there. I speak the language, but—”
He waved this aside. “I have friends there who will help you.”
“You’ve tried to find it yourself?”
He frowned, his gaze again growing distant. “I have returned to Russia several times to search for it, to no avail. I would swear Kitezh recedes from me.” He pursed his mouth. “Avoids me.” He went to his computer and called up a sound file. It was forty seconds of a strange melody, simple but with odd intervals, hesitantly played on a piano.
“This is a song I heard while I was there,” he said. “Someone played it on a flute one night. I’ve never forgotten it. I picked it out on a piano and recorded it.” He handed me a flash drive. “Here’s a copy.”
Peter Orlov was no crackpot. Somethinghad happened to him. Something he couldn’t explain.
“It is said, you know,” Peter told me, “that only those who are pure in their heart and soul will find their way to Kitezh.”
I allowed myself a tight smile. “Even so, I am hardly pure in my heart and soul.”
“I have nowhere else to turn. Will you help me?”
“I’ll try.” We shook on it, and the discussion turned to my fee.
He didn’t blink.
On the flight to Russia I went over Peter’s notes and drawings as well as the official accounts detailing his “disappearance.” I also obtained his medical records. None of the documentation gave me the least hint how to find Kitezh.
Others had heard of it, however, as I learned after spending a few hours on the Internet. According to legend, as the Mongols swept through the region some eight centuries ago they learned of Kitezh and detoured to sack it. They reached the lake shore town, saw it had no fortifications, and drew their weapons for slaughter. Kitezh’s citizens ringed the village wall, praying for salvation as the horsemen advanced. Like a miracle, water burst forth from dozens of places in the ground. As the Mongols stared in amazement the city sank beneath the lake and was never seen again.
Except occasionally, here and there, at different locations around the lake where young Pytor Abramovich Orlov stumbled on it.
Allegedly.
My first move would be to check out the area.
Two days’ travel later I was in a Volga 3102 with crappy suspension, jouncing along a semi-improved roadway toward Lake Svetloyar. My driver, Mikhail, a laconic chain-smoking dumpling of a man with close-set eyes, had met me at Moscow Airport. He was one of the friends Peter mentioned. He seemed surprised that I spoke fluent Russian.
“Poor Pyotr. He’s been obsessing about Kitezh since he was a child.”
He nodded, never taking his eyes from the road, for which I was grateful. My insides cramped in an uproar from the car bouncing along all the ruts. “He visited me the last time he was here, a few months ago. He thinks the city flees him, you know.” He blew smoke out of his nose in a gentle snort.
“He did say something about that.”
“Why he thinks you could be of help. I do not know.”
“I’m a professional researcher.”
His glance, eyebrows raised, asked a further question.
“Of the paranormal, you might say.”
He scoffed. “Supernatural?” After that he said nothing more, which was fine with me. I was in no mood to explain how an army cryptologic linguist had become a professional cryptologist. He concentrated on his cigarettes and his driving and I concentrated on not puking all over his bouncing, smoky little car.
At last we arrived at our destination, a small hotel near the lake—more of a bed and breakfast, really, with a dining room. I signed in while Mikhail brought my luggage to my room. As it was not tourist season, I turned out to be the only guest.
Mikhail took his leave in a cloud of cigarette smoke. Jet-lagged and ill, I went straight to bed, wakened the next morning by my cell phone to a misty dawn.
While dressing the next morning, my cell phone rang. I dug it out of my pocket. The LED panel read G. ORLOV.
Aw, crap. I flipped it open. “McNeil.”
“What progress, Ms. McNeil?”
“Hello, Mr. Orlov.” No George and Alice with this brother. “Nothing definite yet.”
Silence. Then, “I expect results, Ms. McNeil. I told you when I hired you: I can’t allow the company to be run by an unbalanced CEO, even if he is my brother.”
Fighting between the Orlov brothers wasn’t my concern. Peter Orlov thought he’d found me on his own, but it was George who’d heard of me and nudged my name and rep into his brother’s ken. Peter took the bait. He believed in me because he wanted to.
“Understood, sir,” I said, as coldly as I could. George’s money was better than good, but he was an arrogant, entitled jerk. I prepared for Peter to be an even bigger one, but found myself surprised: I liked Peter. Which made this subterfuge all the more distasteful to me.
It was all business, yeah, and I had two big paydays coming, one from each brother, but that didn’t endear me to myself.
“Good,” he said. “I’ll call later.” The line went dead.
Breakfast consisted of strong coffee and pastries of a type I’d never seen before: dark braided bread coated with a fruit compote glaze and filled with mildly spiced meat. Scrumptious, but I could no more than nibble at it. My stomach wouldn’t cooperate.
As the waiter, a pasty-faced man in his fifties, cleared the table I flipped my cellphone open to access my media files. “Have you ever heard this tune, my friend?” I played Peter’s little melody.
The waiter’s eyes went wide then became hooded. He spoke but not in Russian. I couldn’t place the tongue. He caught himself and said, curtly, “No. Never.” He hurried away with the dishes.
I left the inn with a backpack containing one of the pastries, some cheese, and water—and a couple of very sophisticated little devices to detect and measure ambient electromagnetic fields. The air blew cool and slightly damp, but with an apple snap to it that I never encountered in the States. Tourist season was past, and I stood alone on the lakeside trail. The water lapped conversationally and birds sang.
Despite the day’s beauty, as I walked the path something seemed off to me. Kitezh, I felt sure, was not likely to be sitting around waiting for me to find it. It would more likely be wandering amid the dark fir forest crowding the lake.
I began thinking of the city as an animal-like entity, something with intelligence and purpose.
The trees around me grew somehow more menacing and I couldn’t shake the conviction that I was being watched. My instruments, however, revealed nothing out of the ordinary. Three times I resolved to turn back; instead, after an hour and a half or so I made it all the way around the lake. I had gotten some good exercise, but learned nothing.
Back at the hotel I ate a good dinner, and went to bed.
The next morning I took the lakeside trail once more, in the opposite direction. This time I got about three-quarters of the way around the lake before I saw a sketchy trail twisting away from the main path, threading into a narrow, steep sided ravine. I was a dozen or so steps into the cleft before an unexpected aroma of fresh bread filled my nostrils. I walked a few meters further, the delicious odor drawing me on despite my unsettled stomach.
Ahead, the way became quite rocky before curling around a dark stand of juniper that obscured my view. As I came round the thick bushes, the walls of the ravine closed in overhead, tunnel-like. The path became a cobbled passageway, the stones rising from the ground like bubbles from oatmeal.
Another twist of the trail hid the further end of the tunnel. The scent of bread grew even stronger. I rounded the corner, and stepped into a garden.
I stood on the edge of acres of trimmed grass framing beds of pale flowers unfamiliar to me. Stands of equally unfamiliar trees dotted the expanse. The way I’d been following continued through this park-like setting.
To my knowledge, there was no tourist attraction like this anywhere near the hotel.
I approached the nearest of several flowerbeds. The blossoms sat cream-colored, as large as saucers, with delicate mauve throats and long tapering leaves. Within each bloom sparkled what I took to be dewdrops. I leaned closer, and saw that each “drop” contained a strange little dark nucleus. As I moved back, these nuclei shifted position, as though aware of me, watching me.
A chill fluttered across my stomach. Then, partially hidden beside another plot of the weird flowers, I saw someone kneeling. A man, obviously, though his back was tome and his face unseen. He wore a sort of tunic and a turban was wrapped around his head. Beside the plants a small box had been affixed to a short post, like a low-sitting wren house.
I sucked in my breath. He could have walked out of one of Peter’s sketches. I drew closer, and saw that he was placing electrodes from a small device to the shrub. Knowledgeable as I was of common (and uncommon) electronics, I had never seen anything like the smart-phone-sized thing he held.
I approached him. He looked up at me. Blue eyes twinkled in a seamed, tanned face decorated by a dark goatee—the face of a fortyish man who spent much if not most of his time outdoors. He climbed easily to his feet and bowed to me.
“Greetings and welcome,” he said in Russian. “I am Benedikt.”
“Thank you. My name’s Alice. Uhm… what are you doing, there?” With my chin I pointed at the wire-festooned plant.
He chuckled. “I’m stimulating this plant to produce a version that will bear pure white flowers. It’s rather resistant, but I think I’ve got the correct settings at last.” He opened the box’s hinged top, placed the hand-held gadget within and clicked shut the lid.
“I’m an electrobotanist,” he said, as if that was sufficient explanation.
What the devil is an electrobotanist? I licked my lips. “Is this… Kitezh?”
He smiled. “Come with me, Alice, if you would.” Benedikt set off through the park. Ahead, above a screen of vegetation, I saw the peaked, vine-grown roofs of what seemed to be a quaint Middle European town. The odor of baking bread had grown so strong now that I felt I could chew the air. “Kitezh… you are familiar with some of our local tall tales, I see.”
Tall tales. “I was taking a walk around the lake. I saw a little side-path, and…”
“It’s easy to get lost around here. You’re American, I think?”
“Hardly a sought-out tourist destination, the lake, for Americans.”
I simply shrugged.
Within a few minutes we passed the screen of vegetation and entered a beautiful village. The lake lapped against a small wharf to which were tied a number of coracles, all appearing quite new, with polished oarlocks and painted a shiny green. It was the most charming little place I have ever seen, complete with a glittering fountain in the town square.
“Benedikt, I walked around the whole lake yesterday. There was no way I wouldn’t have noticed the trail to this place.”
“Yet somehow you did not.” He smiled. “It’s surprising what one can overlook if one is preoccupied.”
“I notice things for a living.” Never mind that I missed the path. “I came here specifically to find Kitezh.” I withdrew my cell phone from my pocket and began taking pictures.
Benedikt said, in a gentle tone, “That won’t work here.”
“Oh, no service, huh?” He was right. There were no bars on the display. While less than a tenth of a mile away I had been talking with George Orlov. Well, cell phones. “That’s all right, I’m only taking pictures.” And a few discreet movies. As well as whatever data the gizmos in my backpack can gather.
He shook his head, smiling. “I’m sorry. It won’t take pictures, either.”
I checked the phone—another point for Benedikt. Nothing in memory or on the card. The damn thing must be malfunctioning. But I knew it wasn’t. Whatever mental blip that caused people to speak in tongues after they left Kitezh apparently had an electronic analog, some sort of jamming field.
“Once you return through the ravine,” Benedikt said, “your phone will work.”
Without waiting to hear more I spun round and ran back the way we’d come. But somehow in my excitement I managed to lose my way. Again.On the path. At last, though I no longer knew where I was, I stopped. I pulled out my cell phone, saw two bars and punched Peter’s number.
His voice: “Hello?”
“Morel muspi. Rolod tisi tema, reutetcesnoc gincsipida tilé. Man h’bin. C’nun suirav sisilicaf soré. Des téra.” Listen to me. I found the place. It’s real. Kitezh is real. It’s all true. I’ve proved it.
“Who the hell is this? Alice, is that?”
“Des téra!” It’s real!
“Alice, you’re talking gibberish. Wait. You… can’t tell me what happened, can you?” He muttered something to himself. “You found it.”
“Mm-hm! Nio ni tilev—” Shaking with frustration I gave up, and walked on with the phone clutched in my hand. I was back on the trail around the lake, out of Kitezh and presumably free of its influence. I turned around, and saw nothing of the path’s offshoot that had led me there. It was maddening.
“Alice, are you there?” from my phone.
I lifted the phone to my ear. “I’m here.” I walked back a few steps and saw the way unfold out of the shrubbery like a live thing approaching me. “Wait, Peter.” I stepped onto the path. “Wait a moment.” I ran as fast as I could toward the ravine. At its mouth stood Benedikt the electrobotanist. He smiled, and tapped his forehead.
Yeah yeah, Yellow Submarine; it’s all in the mind.“You’re not going to let me tell him.”
His smile broadened but remained kindly. And a little pitying?
Into the phone, I said, “Goodbye, Peter. I’ll talk to you later.” I was panting. I faced the electrobotanist. “How much longer do you think you can keep this up, Benedikt? You Kitezhians or, or whatever you call yourselves.”
Benedikt extended a hand, palm up—walk with me. We strolled toward the village. “You’re correct,” he said. “We’re not going to be able to maintain our secrecy forever. It’s harder these days, with modern technology all around us. We regularly take the village to regions in Chinawhere—”
“Whoa. Wait. You take the village?”
“Oh, yes. It’s, well, portable.”
“But how can you move a whole,” I trailed off. “You’re not going to tell me.”
He smiled.
Just like Brigadoon, I said to myself, frowning. “Okay, go on with what you were saying.”
“We go to China, where there are deposits of rare earth elements we need for our own various technologies, including what you’d call a ‘cloaking device’ shielding us from outside view.” He sighed. “But the Chinese are growing suspicious due to ‘unexplained’ depletion of these deposits, and we may soon need to investigate extraterrestrial sources.”
“Well, I can under—wait. Extraterrestrial?”
“Asteroids. Let’s just say we’re working on it.”
“But this is…” I spread my arms and shook my head, at a loss for words. “How can a little lakeside village be capable of such a thing?”
“We’re not, not yet.”
“Not yet? My God.” My head was spinning. George Orlov was going to get his money’s worth, all right.
Peter already had. My very inability to tell him the truth told him the truth.
I would not, of course, be able to tell George what I had learned, that Kitezh was real, but my glossolalia would be sufficiently revealing. I had a pang for what I was doing to his unsuspecting brother.
“I know your circumstances, Ms. McNeill,” Benedikt said. “Why you’re here.”
“Peter Orlov. To our way of looking at things, his boyhood visit here happened only a few weeks ago.”
I thought about the waiter back at the hotel. “Yeah, I think I’m starting to get it. You’ve been spying on me.”
“More like investigating what sort of person you are.”
“If you’re that good, you must know what I am. What I do.” I took a breath. “I’ve killed people, Benedikt.”
“Oh yes, we know. But we feel that in all cases the deaths were justified.” He smiled. “Otherwise you and I would not be talking now.”
“Uh-huh.” We walked a few more steps in silence while I thought. To someone in my line of work, Kitezh was like Paradise. I could learn so much. “Benedikt, listen. Do, do people ever stay on, here? You know, having stumbled in, do you allow some visitors to stay?”
“It has happened. If Peter finds us again, he’ll be allowed to stay. He has knowledge of financial matters that we would be able to use.”
“Yeah. What about someone like me? Could I stay?”
“Alice, the only reason we are having this conversation now is because we have been discussing our need for someone like you.”
“That’s settled, then. You won’t regret—”
He held up a hand. “You do understand that if at some point you decide to leave, you won’t be able to talk about it to anyone outside.”
“Yeees.”
“Nor will you retain the knowledge. We will have to edit your memory to remove any memories of Kitezh or what you did here.”
I swallowed. “Yes. But what about Peter Orlov?” I knew it was a foolish question as soon as the words left my mouth.
“I think he will make his way back here eventually.”
“Hmm. And George?”
Benedikt shrugged without bothering to speak.
I nodded slowly. George would be stuck. No proof and no investigator. On the other hand, if Peter was convinced that Kitezh existed, nothing would keep him from getting back to it. George would get his wish. He’d end heading the corporation.
I thought about the life I would be leaving behind. I had no family left except my younger brother, a career military man. He knew about my line of work, had in fact helped me get into it, being well connected with the CIA and DMS and a bunch of other alphabet agencies that occasionally needed someone like me to follow up on off-the-books stuff. If I vanished he’d assume I had good reason, or got tangled with something bigger or weirder than I could handle.
Aside from him and a few houseplants, there was no one.
We stood in Kitezh’s town square, Benedikt and I. There was the splashing fountain, the little houses covered with electric ivy, and a blue sky such as I had never seen. Small catlike mechanisms prowled the square, their metal claws ticking on the cobbles.
The breeze shifted warm and laden with good scents. A melody drifted past me; the same one Peter had recorded. A chill tickled my spine. I might call it unearthly.
I held out my hand and he took it.
“You’re not staying,” he said.
“I can’t just…disappear. I have family.” I released his hand. “A different kind of family. And other clients. Dangling threads that need tying up, you know? Believe me, I’d rather stay.”
Benedikt stared into my eyes for a long moment. Then he nodded. “Very well. Good luck, Alice. Perhaps I will see you again one day.”
I don’t like goodbyes. I turned and walked away.
A.L. Sirois is a writer, developmental editor, graphic artist and performing musician. He has published fiction in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Amazing Stories, and Thema, and online at Electric Spec, Mystery Weekly, Every Day Fiction and Flash Fiction Online, et al. His story “In the Conservatory” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Other works include a fantasy novel, THE BOHEMIAN MAGICIAN (Dragon Scale Publishing, 2017), and JERSEY GHOULS (Azure Spider Publications, 2018). As an artist, he’s produced hundreds of drawings, paintings and illustrations. He lives in Rockingham County, North Carolina with his wife and occasional collaborator, author Grace Marcus.
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Observation 168907: Amanita flavoconia G.F. Atk.
Collection location: Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania, USA [Click for map]
Who: Tim Martin (T Martin2010)
About Amanita flavoconia G.F. Atk.
Alternative Name(s): Amanita flavoconia var. flavoconia
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Draft For Wild Mushrooms Of The Northeastern United States By Erlon (Private)
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Amanita flavoconia G.F. Atk. T Martin2010 47% (2)
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Probably A. flavoconia.
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When attempting to ID an Amanita, it’s good to try to obtain the base of the stipe. Often this is buried in the ground, and may be quite fragile.
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Airy, eclectic indie rock from the Southern California quintet. Produced in part by frequent Kanye collaborator and “Uptown Funk” co-writer Jeff Bhasker, Strange puts a gently contemporary spin on '70s styles, evoking early Michael Jackson (“Elsewhere”), prime Led Zeppelin (“Jungle Youth”), and the soft rock dreams of Toto (“Titus Was Born”).
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Apollo 50th Anniversary
Join the City of Nassau Bay as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Mission! Due to the City's proximity to NASA Johnson Space Center, the City of Nassau Bay sustained rapid development during the Apollo era to house astronauts, NASA employees, contractors, and their families. We are proud to celebrate the City's contribution to human space flight in the past and into the future.
The City of Nassau Bay and the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake are partnering for a two-day celebration to commemorate this historic anniversary of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 lunar landing.
For Space Center Houston traffic / lane closure related information, click here to be taken to the traffic map.
Saturday, July 21st: Night of Celebration Cocktail Reception
Join the City of Nassau Bay and the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake for a night of celebration commemorating 50 years since the historic Apollo 11 Mission. This event will be held on Saturday, July 20th from 6:00pm to 11:11pm, at the Hilton Houston NASA Clearlake (3000 NASA Pkwy, Nassau Bay, Texas)
Join us at the Hilton for a private cocktail reception -- break out your 60s era attire and enjoy an evening paying homage to the Apollo era.
6:00pm: Registration & Bar Open in Atlantis Ballroom Foyer with a digital photo booth available from Oh What Fun!
6:30pm: Hors d’Oeuvres buffet open with live music by The Crossroads Refugees (playing rock music from the 60's-70's-80's)
7:30pm: Evening program, including special Apollo recognitions, remarks by a VIP Speaker on Apollo 11 Program, and announcement of Mad Men Style Costume Contest Winner.
8:00pm: Live cigar rolling demonstration, with cigars and TX Whiskey on the Harbor Patio (smoking will be allowed on Harbor Patio ONLY)
8:56pm: Lunar Landing Video from International Space Station on the Harbor Patio
Immediately Following Video: Grand Finale Fireworks Display on the Harbor Patio
11:11pm: Desserts and dancing in Atlantis Ballroom until evening conclusion at 11:11pm.
Let us know you are interested in attending or share this Facebook event with your Friends! Click here to go to the Cocktail Reception Facebook event.
Reserved Tables – $500
Includes one Reserved Table with 10 chairs, access to Hors D'Oeuvres Buffet for 10 guests, 10 drink tickets, 10 vouchers for cigars and 10 commemorative whiskey glasses (including whiskey sponsored by TX Whiskey), dessert and dancing. To reserve a table, email Melinda.Mintz@Hilton.com or call 832-864-0100 to reserve your table as a limited number of tables are available.
Individual Tickets – $40 before July 1st, $50 after July 1st until Sold Out
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Sunday, July 21st: Apollo 11 Movie in the Park
The City of Nassau Bay will host a special Movie in the Park screening of the Apollo 11 documentary. This family-friendly event includes something for everyone – food trucks, space exhibits, kid-friendly activities, face painting, complimentary moon pies, and of course, a free showing of the Apollo 11 film!
Bring the whole family to Howard Ward Park (18300 Upper Bay Rd). Don't forget to bring your own chair or blanket.
These FREE festivities will kick off at 8:00pm, with the film screening to start at approximately 8:30pm (depending on sunlight).
Let us know you are interested in attending or share our Facebook event with your Friends! Click here to go to the Movie in the Park Facebook event.
Both Days, Saturday & Sunday: Self-guided Apollo Driving Tour
Visit the City of Nassau Bay for a self-guided driving tour. Drive by the homes of the members of the historic Apollo missions. Homes will be clearly marked. Visit Nassau Bay City Hall (1800 Space Park Drive, Ste 200) or the Hilton Hotel for a tour map. You can also view the interactive map below (or click here to be taken to the map website).
Space Center Houston Traffic Lane Closure Information
The historic Apollo lunar landing on July 20, 1969 paved the way for future space exploration. Fifty years later, Space Center Houston will be the site for a major celebration of this awesome time in history. On Saturday, July 20th, Space Center Houston is hosting Apollo 11 50th Anniversary that is slated to bring thousands of visitors to our area.
There will be no parking available to the public on Space Center Houston property. Visitors will be shuttled in from other locations but as you can image, mobility in the area, pedestrian as well as automotive, will be impacted. While the anniversary celebration plan and adjusted traffic patterns have been developed by Space Center Houston, we want to make you aware of the possible impact to travel in the area.
Lane Closures
Lane closures along NASA Rd 1 will be in effect from 8:00am until midnight.
The NASA Rd 1 turn lane at Point Lookout Drive into Space Center will be closed.
Two right-hand traffic lanes westbound on NASA Road 1 in front of Space Center will be closed for Shuttle Bus Use ONLY.
Texas Department of Transportation approved all traffic configurations.
We understand this may be an inconvenience due to the amount of traffic expected, so please take this information into consideration while making travel plans in the area. We also ask everyone to use caution while traveling along NASA Rd 1 on Saturday, July 20th.
Visitors to Space Center Houston are reminded to use the shuttle bus service provided and are asked not to park in local business parking lots. Business parking lots are private property and parking availability is controlled and subject to the rules of the business/property owner.
Pedestrians are reminded to use crosswalks located at the closest intersection and to avoid crossing roads where no traffic control devices are available.
Below is map showing the traffic configuration at Space Center Houston for July 20th Apollo 11 Celebration.
Click here for the PDF version of the traffic map.
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November 30, 2007 February 28, 2013 Neeraj Bhushan
Indian Judiciary
Major Indian newspaper The Times of India has of late been carrying news stories related to low pay-packets given to Indian judges.
Will someone ask the English daily if it is at all concerned about the people who are engaged in many other meaningful professions! And there are millions of them.
Let’s start with those employed in the very newspaper itself. Will this newspaper publish details of the salaries given to its journalists who are greatly discriminated with?
As for the Indian judiciary, it is a mirror of our society. Our Parliament, media, bureaucrats, politicians and police are only teaching the judiciary how it should behave.
By the way, what extraordinary thing has our judiciary done to merit even higher pay package!!!
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Next Do It Taslima Nasreen
no need to justify the wages of judiciary. times of india is not paying very well to their employees, why they are not writing a series of article on that.
One should compare apple with apple and not with an orange. Salaries and perks of judges in India are released on the basis of a well-defined structure and is comparable with the remuneration provided to the corresponding rank officials in other government departments.
One cannot compare salaries in public sector to what people earn in private sector. Moreover, nobody forces anyone to become judge. They are there for a different purpose; to deliver justice and help reduce evil from the society. More money is absolutely not a solution.
People who want more money should go for other high paying jobs.
Every profession has its own merits and demerits, advantages and disadvantages. Know these only, one chooses a profession. Thanks.
If TOI is not paying enough doesn’t justify Judges are paid well.
I feel most of the government employees are paid less at the same time good amount of them are over paid( as they don’t work).
I give full marks to TOI for the news, at the same time ur question is valid and they should publish that as well.
Your views are appreciated.
dsingh says:
badhiya hai!!!
Anil Kumar Rai says:
The series of articles published by TOI regarding Indian Judiciary is well researched and well studied. I appreciate that at last if not electronic media but print media has been chasing with ill indian judiciary. It is said that justice delayed is justice denied and at least TOI is focussing in correct direction for a big and greater goal of this society and country. If indian judiciary is made to function in correct shape and efficiently, our country will rise and progress much faster. At present no body in this country is afraid of indian judiciary and state is like that if you have money and power, you can do anything in this country and will not be punished. Case will remain pending in court and will solved in 20-30 years and convict will die in the mean time. People are fed up with indian judiciary.
Regarding salary issue, its a capitalist world and no body wants to give a reasonable money to its workers in this country. Its a total exploitation everywhere . Also its a demand supply theory which is applicable with salary.
How true!
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Added on 08/04/2014 Rich Howells Arts on the Square , Scranton
VIDEO: A Fire With Friends play a new, untitled song
After undergoing some recent lineup changes, Scranton’s A Fire With Friends treated fans to a brand new, as-yet-untitled song on the Summersteps Records Stage at Arts on the Square in downtown Scranton on July 26. We were there to grab some pictures and a video of the new song, which they joked could be named […]
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VIDEO: Seven-minute extended preview of ‘Star Wars Rebels’ released
The new Disney-owned “Star Wars” universe will debut in theaters on Dec.18, 2015 with the release of “Episode VII,” but small screens will receive a first look into this brave new world with the debut of “Star Wars Rebels,” an animated TV show created in the same style of “The Clone Wars” series on Cartoon […]
VIDEO: Eww Yaboo – ‘Lost for So Long’
Eww Yaboo of Sugar Notch performed several songs from their latest record, “Keep Dreamin’,” on the Summersteps Records Stage at Arts on the Square in downtown Scranton on July 26, including “Lost for So Long.” We were there to grab some pictures and film the video above. Listen to the entire album below: Keep Dreamin' […]
VIDEO: Heavy Blonde – ‘Johnny Got Fangs’
Scranton’s Heavy Blonde finished their lively set (and possibly damaged some vocal chords) on the Highway 81 Revisited Stage at Arts on the Square in downtown Scranton on July 26 with the rockin’ “Johnny Got Fangs.” We were there to grab some pictures and film the video above. Look out for a new album from […]
VIDEO: Indigo Moon Brass Band – ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’
Wilkes-Barre’s Indigo Moon Brass Band brought their New Orleans sound to the Highway 81 Revisited Stage at Arts on the Square in downtown Scranton on July 26. We were there to grab some pictures and film the last song of their set, “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Our apologies for the shaky camerawork at […]
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VIDEO: Motionless In White introduce The Misfits at AP Music Awards
Introduced as “Scranton, Pennsylvania’s own Motionless In White,” frontman Chris Motionless and bassist Devin “Ghost” Sola represented the Electric City at the inaugural Gibson Brands Alternative Press Music Awards last night, held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. They announced a live performance of the current incarnation of […]
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8 June 2009 by Tom Marshall
Farmers could save billions on pesticides and help protect the environment by dipping seeds in a natural plant chemical.
Field of maize
The technology - which makes plants significantly more resistant to pests - has now been licensed for use by US agricultural company Becker Underwood in collaboration with Plant Bioscience Limited.
Scientists have long understood that spraying crops with jasmonic acid - a chemical naturally produced by plant leaves when attacked by insects - reduces pest attack. But crops treated with the chemical don't grow as well as those that are untreated.
Researchers at Lancaster University's Environment Centre and Stockbridge Technology Centre found that plants grown from seeds dipped in jasmonic acid are considerably more resistant to pests. The chemical seems to prime some plants' natural protective responses.
Early trials at Lancaster University saw promising results when researchers treated the seeds of tomato plants, sweet pepper and maize. Red spider mite attack on tomato plants was down by 80 per cent, aphid attack on sweet peppers cut by 70 per cent and caterpillar damage to maize was reduced by 38 per cent.
Large-scale field trials
Initial results were so encouraging that Becker Underwood quickly started large-scale field trials in a number of commercially-important agricultural crops in the US. Their results showed clear reductions in pest damage with increased crop yields, and has led to the company negotiating a worldwide exclusive licence to use the technology.
"The potential for significant yield improvement due to the lessening of plant damage caused by pests is very exciting," says Eda Reinot, head of research and development at Becker Underwood.
The seed treatment started out as 'pure ecology', but it's developed into a new technology that could really help improve food production around the world.
- Dr Nigel Paul of Lancaster University
"When we first set out to test jasmonic acid on seeds, it seemed unlikely it would work," says Dr Nigel Paul, who led the research at Lancaster University. "So for it now to be licensed for commercial use so soon after our initial research is very exciting."
Applying jasmonic acid to seeds protects many crops for at least ten weeks after germination of the seeds. Treated seeds can also be stored and sown at a later stage.
"We think treating seeds with jasmonic acid acts rather like immunisation, protecting plants for an extended period after treatment," says Dr Jason Moore, a member of the Lancaster team.
Until now, genetic modification (GM) technology has been touted as the best hope for increasing crop yields without using excessive pesticides. But GM has long been unpopular in many countries. What makes jasmonic acid so exciting is that it is a more natural way to protect plants.
In addition to cutting pesticide use, the new technology could be a financially beneficial alternative for farmers and growers using pesticides, because seeds are cheaper to treat than whole crops.
The original research showing the effect of jasmonic acid on seeds was funded by NERC and the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board. But it was further work funded by a NERC scheme to investigate developing research outcomes into commercially-viable products that proved the commercial potential of treating seeds with jasmonic acid.
"The seed treatment started out as 'pure ecology', but with the support of our funders and now PBL and Becker Underwood, it's developed into a new technology that could really help improve food production around the world," adds Paul.
The Lancaster team now want to take their research further. They are investigating its value in disease control and further funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council will allow the researchers to explore exactly how jasmonic acid works its magic on plant seeds.
Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University - external link
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6 Upcoming MCU Films That Could Introduce X-MEN Characters
Mar 12 2019 • 9:00 AM
This year’s Dark Phoenix is almost certain to be the last iteration of the cinematic version of the X-Men that has been at play now for nearly two decades. With the upcoming Disney/Fox merger, the X-Men and all associated characters will be back in the hands of Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios. But after 19 years and 10 films, how does Marvel make the concept of an X-Men movie a cinematic event again?
The answer might lie in Marvel Studios’ past. What made The Avengers a special theatrical experience was the fact that Marvel wisely built up to it with five previous films introducing the main characters. And to make the big screen X-Men an “event” once more, Marvel might want to think about using the same tactic, and introduce several of the main characters in other movies before the eventual X-Men team-up film.
And we’ve got some ideas for which upcoming movies they can use to introduce their take on the X-Men.
Storm in Black Panther 2
Storm is one of the most iconic members of the X-Men, and it’s almost certain any big screen version would include the African weather witch. But she also has deep ties to another non-mutant Marvel hero: Black Panther. In the pages of the comics, Ororo Munroe and T’Challa were star-crossed lovers as youngsters; they even eventually got married!
Sadly, the union didn’t last, as the events of Avengers vs. X-Men forced the pair apart, but a Black Panther sequel with Storm as co-lead could set the world on fire, and introduce the MCU Storm to audiences before a new X-Men film. Black Panther 2: Storm Over Wakanda anyone?
Mystique and Rogue in Captain Marvel 2
With Captain Marvel setting box office records, another chapter is inevitable. We have no idea who the villains would be in a sequel to Carol Danvers’ big screen follow-up, and we think they might want to go back to those Ms. Marvel comics from the ’70s for inspiration. It was in those stories that future X-Men villain (and occasional X-Man) Mystique made her debut.
It was also Mystique’s adopted daughter Rogue who once stole Carol’s powers, which resulted in her becoming one of the X-Men’s powerhouse fighters (something she hasn’t really been in Fox’s X-Men films). Not only would the Mystique/Rogue combo be a perfect adversary for Carol, but it would be a great introduction for both characters, setting up future appearances.
Wolverine: A Hulk/Weapon X movie
Whether he’s your favorite X-Men character or not, it’s inarguable: Wolverine is the most popular member and the face of the brand (sorry Cyclops). But after Hugh Jackman’s iconic portrayal in nine films, how can Marvel reintroduce a cinematic Logan and make it exciting beyond “hey, new actor!”? One idea: You introduce Logan as Weapon X, the Canadian government’s secret weapon against unusual threats.
And the first threat that Wolverine took on in the comics—in his first appearance, and many other times after that—was none other than the Incredible Hulk. If the MCU debut of Wolverine finds him trading blows with his original adversary Bruce Banner, played by Mark Ruffalo, not only does it give us something the previous X-Men movies couldn’t, it gives us a unique debut for Logan before an X-Men team-up film.
Colossus in the next Deadpool movie
One of the key members of the X-Men has long been Peter Rasputin, the Russian powerhouse called Colossus. But in the actual X-Men films he appears in, Colossus was just a bit player. Only in the two Deadpool films did they use Colossus as a major player, and he finally looks and sounds just as he does in the comics.
We’re not sure how the Deadpool movies will relate to the MCU, if they even will at all, but they would be wise to use they already beloved version of the character as played by actor Stefan Kapicic. as the X-Men films’ eventual Colossus. We’ll leave to the brilliant minds behind the MCU on how to make the logistics of all that work.
The O5 X-Men in X-Men: Children of the Atom
The upcoming Disney+ streaming shows, heavily rumored to be about Loki, Scarlet Witch and the Vision, among several others, are going to be produced by Marvel Studios and tie-in heavily into any upcoming movies, according to Kevin Feige. So why not incorporate the X-Men into this strategy?
The best way to do this would be to do a series that incorporates the concept of the Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters into the MCU and gives us a proper introduction to the original five X-Men: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, Beast, and Iceman. A serialized, coming-of-age school-based show would be the best way to introduce the original members (and Professor X) before the final phase. Which brings us to…
The Uncanny X-Men
Just as Avengers brought several beloved superheroes into one unit, so could an MCU X-Men movie do for Marvel’s mutants. Echoing Giant Size X-Men #1, which introduced the world to the second (and most popular) generation of X-Men, the basic premise of this movie could have four of the original five students incapacitated or captured, leading Charles Xavier and Cyclops to recruit a new team, consisting of Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, Colossus and maybe one other (we vote for Nightcrawler) to rescue them and stop the bad guy. This would make the seventh big screen film starring the students of Xavier’s School something special, and not just a another X-Men reboot film with a new cast.
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A scalable multiservice Cable TV network
The Net Insight Nimbra platform was selected because it was considered technically superior in regard to multi-service support for broadcast TV and different types of IP data – not only for the initial ring network but also for future expansions of the network into a meshed topology.
ZTV is one of the best-known Cable TV Multiservice Operators (MSOs) in Japan. The company first began operating in a single area in 1994. Since that time, it has expanded to cover 31 areas with more than 300,000 subscribers in the west central region of the country. Today, ZTV is the leading communications service provider in the region with over 100 TV and FM radio channels, including many HD programs, together with 160 bps high-speed broadband internet and primary voice over IP telephony services. In addition to bundled services offerings to consumers, ZTV also provides enterprise ICT services such as Ethernet data and iDC data center services.
In 2009, ZTV began planning to update its regional cable TV distribution network. The existing TV distribution from headend to hub nodes was using legacy Intermediate Frequency (IF) modulation over fiber, which made integration with other services difficult. The IF transport platform was also reaching its end-of-life.
Until now, ZTV relied on separate backhaul networks for TV, voice and data. The company recognized the need to integrate more services over the same fiber in order to save capacity for the future as well as improve and simplify management of the network.
The new transport solution should support multicasting of SDTV and HDTV, highspeed broadband internet, voice over IP, file transfer for exchange of local programs as well as enterprise data services over the same network.
With so many services carried over a single platform, the new solution should support network and equipment redundancy and include a comprehensive network management system for monitoring and provisioning of services. And because ZTV coverage areas are at risk of service outages caused by seasonal typhoons, a more stable and resilient backbone network is necessary.
The Net Insight Nimbra platform was selected because it was considered technically superior in regard to multi-service support for broadcast TV and different types of IP data – not only for the initial ring network but also for future expansions of the network into a meshed topology. The capabilities of the Nimbra Vision network management system and strong local support that Net Insight’s business partner Itochu Cable Systems provides were also key reasons why ZTV chose Net Insight.
The phase 1 network consists of eight Nimbra 680 switches with the main headend connected to seven hub nodes over a dark fiber ring. Each Nimbra 680 node is equipped with flexible 8-port video access modules for ASI multicasting and the 8-port Gigabit Ethernet access module for data services. ZTV selected the 10 Gbps STM-64 trunk interface for the fiber ring to have a future-proof network supporting service expansions. The carrier-class Nimbra 680 switch comes with redundant power supply, redundant 80 Gbps switch modules and redundant control modules. The ZTV network also implements redundant access modules and separate trunk modules for the east/ west fiber ring interfaces to maximize service availability.
The Gigabit Ethernet access card supports a variety of services thanks to its built-in layer 2 switch. The Ethernet Switching functionality includes full IEEE802.1D/Q multipoint-to multipoint MAC layer switching – allowing ZTV to tailor its IP data and voice services to customer demands. In addition, guaranteed 100% QoS transport is available to carry realtime IP/Ethernet services in secure, bandwidth-configurable channels.
The new ZTV cable TV network was installed during the first half of 2010. Initially the network was used only for TV distribution of 19 ASI transport streams from the main headend, delivering both DVB-C and ISDB-S services to the hub nodes where QAM modulators are located. This will later be expanded by 29 transport streams over the same network for HDTV.
The installed Gigabit Ethernet cards will deliver consumer and enterprise data services in a second phase. For consumers the network offers high-speed Internet backhaul circuits from DOCSIS cable modems. For enterprise customers the Nimbra solution provides high-quality Ethernet private line services.
Future expansion plans include VoIP distribution circuits between telco soft switches and local CMTS. If demanded by enterprise clients, there are also plans to add multipoint-to-multipoint LAN services.
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“Nigerian Courts Do Not Have The Capacity To Try Me” – Nnamdi Kanu
Nnamdi Kanu while speaking on a world press conference yesterday in Jerusalem, vowed to return to the country as he disclosed why he left Nigeria.
The IPOB leader who had been charged with treason but granted bail by Justice Binta Nyako after 18 months in detention, stated that Nigerian courts do not have the capacity to try him. According to him, there is something fundamentally wrong with the brains of those that rule Nigeria.
Nnamdi Kanu who fled the country and resurfaced last Friday in Jerusalem after almost a year, said;
“The Nigerian court is a Kangaroo court. I did not jump bail, I left because the court failed to protect me. I shall not be honouring the court. I cannot be tried by a court I do not recognise. The zoo called Nigeria cannot jail me. I will fight till the last day. Till now, Binta Nyanko’s court has yet to hold a hearing about the circumstances that led the Nigerian Army to come to my house to kill 28 people. Only upon a clear pronouncement of the intentions of that very court, which I suggest to them should be free, will this very case move forward. Going forward, there must be guarantee from the international community so that this case can proceed and I will prove once and for all that there is something fundamentally wrong with the brains of those that rule Nigeria.”
Stephen Ishaku
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History of Surfing –
Surfing is one of the oldest continuously practiced sports on the planet. The art of wave riding, itself, is a mixture of sensitivity to being in the environment at a given moment and sheer athleticism. Uniquely, surfing is also one of the few sports that creates its own culture. Non-surfers and beginning surfers divide the question about surfing’s origins in two parts: “When were the first surfboards ridden?” and “Who were the first surfers?” A surfer who has been into it for a while might put it more in terms of: “When was the first stoke?” In Hawaiian, the term is hopupu, but it means the same thing: to be high on life, especially riding waves.
Riding with a board to catch the power of an ocean swell originated in Western Polynesia between three and four thousand years ago. The first surfers were Polynesian and began standing up on wooden boards in the surf of the Pacific Ocean sometime between 1500 B.C. and 400 A.D. Somewhere in that period — probably early on — the first surf stoked surfer began the surf culture many of us around the world practice in our own ways, today. Riding the ocean’s waves began with seamen who rode the waves of the open ocean in outrigger and double-hulled canoes. That surfing stems from a nautically-based culture with a legend-filled history of outstanding waterman is undeniable. The first surfers were waterman who initially became noted for their finesse with outrigger and double hulled canoes before taking to mere slabs of wood. Very possibly, these island fishermen first envisioned a more recreational use for waves when they used them as the fastest means for getting their canoes over the coral reefs and on to the beach with their catch. At some undefined stage, catching waves developed from being part of the everyday working skill of the fisherman to being a sport. Instead of work it became play. This change revolutionized surfing.
“For thousands of years,” wrote 1960s world champion surfer Fred Hemmings, “cultures living and prospering on the coastlines of the world’s great oceans viewed waves as an adversary of nature.” Where these people all saw difficulty, it took the Polynesians to see the fun in it.
Yet, the way of the surfer was not the same as that of the ocean-traversing voyager, sailor or ocean fisherman. As 1960s world champion surfer Mike Doyle pointed out in his autobiography Morning Glass, “The tradition of the waterman comes from Polynesia and is different from the tradition of the sailor. The waterman’s skills include surfing, paddling, rowing, and rough-water swimming. He might also be skilled at diving, fishing, spear fishing, tandem surfing, life guarding, and handling outrigger canoes. But he isn’t necessarily skilled at sailing or navigation. The difference is that a waterman focuses on the coastal waters, while the sailor’s realm is the deep water. By reading about the early days of surfing, I learned that the watermen who came before me didn’t just go to the dive shop or the surf shop and buy the latest thing on the rack. They designed their own boards, their own dive gear, and their own outrigger canoes. They were constantly thinking and experimenting with other watermen about ways to perfect their gear. Nobody knew then how a surfboard should be designed. The only way to find out what worked and what didn’t was to try it.”
Unfortunately, “wave sliding,” a.k.a. surfing — what was termed he`e nalu, in old Hawaiian — cannot be traced to its exact beginnings. How it developed in its infancy can only be surmised. Yet, there is some hope that future archaeological work in the Pacific will reveal some answers over time. Meanwhile, much of what we know of early surfing is what was recorded by the first Europeans to land in Polynesia in the late 1700s, hundreds of years after The Long Voyages had ended.
At the time of the first Polynesian/European contact on the island of Tahiti, in 1777 — British Navigator Captain James Cook described how a Tahitian caught waves with his outrigger canoe just for the fun of it: “On walking one day about Matavai Point, where our tents were erected, I saw a man paddling in a small canoe so quickly and looking about him with such eagerness of each side, as to command all my attention… He went out from the shore till he was near the place where the swell begins to take its rise and, watching its first motion very attentively, paddled before it with great quickness, till he found that it overlooked him, and had acquired sufficient force to carry his canoe before it without passing underneath. He then sat motionless and was carried along at the same swift rate as the wave, till it landed him upon the beach. Then he started out, emptied his canoe, and went in search of another swell. I could not help concluding that this man felt the most supreme pleasure while he was driven on so fast and so smoothly by the sea…”
References to the art of surf riding are scattered throughout traditional Polynesian meles — chants or oral history related told through song. By the end of The Long Voyages, surfing had become one of the most widespread of the Polynesian sports. He`e nalu was practiced in one form or another throughout the Pacific region, from New Zealand to Hawaii, and from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to New Guinea. Board surfing became most advanced on islands within the Polynesian Triangle bounded by Hawaii , Rapa Nui , and Aotearoa ( New Zealand ). In Western Polynesia , Melanesia and Micronesia , surf sports like board surfing were mainly a children’s pastime, usually limited to boys. By contrast, on most main islands of Eastern Polynesia , surfing became a sport for both sexes and all ages. The epicenter of board skill was Hawaii , where he`e nalu developed its highest expression.
Assuming that, like most things, surfing started simply and then grew to be more complex, a likely sequence in the origin of Hawaiian surfing would go something like this:
1) From basic canoe surfing there followed simple body surfing, called he`e umauma (Hay-ay oo-MAU-ma) in the Hawaiian language.
2) Then came a rudimentary form of surfing, mainly a children’s activity practiced with small body boards, which spread throughout the Pacific. This type of simple surfing with a body board, — we commonly call it “body boarding” or “boogie boarding,” today — may be several thousand years old; as old, perhaps, as the settling of the Pacific islands.
3) From the body board, in Eastern Polynesia , sprang an adult sport practiced with bigger boards (papa he`e nalu).
4) Afterward, in Hawai`i , surfing reached its peak and “found its noblest expression.”
Various surf historians — like early 1900s surf pioneer Tom Blake, scholar Ben Finney and James Houston, as well as Leonard Lueras — have all noted that there were other spots on the planet where forms of surfing were practiced. One was the mid-western coast of Africa and the other was Peru.
Off the coast of western Africa , “in areas of Senegal , the Ivory Coast and Ghana . Near Dakar , Senegal ,” wrote Finney and Houston, “… African youths and young fishermen regularly body-surf, ride body-boards and catch waves while standing erect on boards about six feet long. These Atlantic skills seem in no way connected with the Pacific, either historically or prehistorically. Evidently, it’s an old pastime in west Africa; young Africans were seen riding waves while lying prone on light wooden planks as long ago as 1838, long before surfing began to spread from Hawaii.”
This was a reference to the British explorer Sir James Edward Alexander observing surfing by natives in Equatorial West Africa in 1835. Volumes one and two of Alexander’s Narrative of a Voyage of Observation Among the Colonies of Western Africa, published in 1837, are remarkable in their scope and detail. The often poetic accounts of every detail of West African life in the early 1800s — sex, murder, slavery, war, passion, drunkenness, death, revolt and a note on surfing — are impressive.
James Edward Alexander was anchored off the island of Accra , off the Cape Coast not too far from the “yellow sands” of what used to be called Guinea . On November 16, 1835 , while describing native island life, Alexander noted that, “from the beach, meanwhile, might be seen boys swimming into the sea, with light boards under their stomachs. They waited for a surf; and then came rolling in like a cloud on the top of it. But I was told that sharks occasionally dart in behind the rocks, and ‘yam’ them.”
Meanwhile, off the coast of Peru , wave riders constructed papyrus reed flotation devices which they would use to ride waves close to shore. That this practice went rather far back in time is substantiated by ancient clay pots that have drawings of Peruvians standing up while riding waves on these bundled reed floats. The papyrus “boards” were similar to modern ones in that the wide point was just behind the middle of the boards and they also had nose and tail lifts.
Surfing as we know it, however, stems from Polynesian origins and primarily from the Hawaiian development of the sport. As part of the general marine adaptation pioneered by the first people to enter the open Pacific, papa he`e nalu became a recreational activity that was most highly developed by the Hawaiians. The first Polynesian settlers to land in Hawaii were probably already skilled in simple surfing, and perhaps after a few hundred years of riding Hawaii ‘s waves the uniquely Hawaiian form of the sport emerged. So, actually, that first ride or first stoke could have been as early as 2000 B.C., at the outset of Polynesian migration from the Malay archipelago.
Although the spirit of surfing was diminished during the 19th century, it did not die. He’enalu, in fact, fared best of all the traditional Hawaiian sports and games. Most of the others quickly disappeared in the early period of foreign contact. Surfing’s flame died down, but a fortunate combination of circumstances preserved in Hawaii the Polynesian pastime that disappeared completely in such other early cultural centers as Tahiti and New Zealand . From somewhere a spark remained to smolder through the dark century of Hawaii ‘s transformation. It was nearly one hundred years after the abandonment of the taboo system, when what little that remained of the old world was almost unrecognizable, that new, fresh elements in a changed Hawaii fanned the spark and brought the sport of surfing back to life.
As the 20th century began, the Waikiki area of Oahu was the center for the few still surfing. Waves were ridden occasionally on Maui and possibly on Kauai . Surfing on the once popular Kona coast had apparently disappeared. Although Waikiki was a prominent surfing location in ancient times, its position as the center for the remnants of the sport depends as much on the major shift in the Hawaiian population from Kona to Honolulu. By 1900 28% of the Hawaiians and many part Hawaiians were living in or near Honolulu . This concentration may help to explain why surfing survived at Waikiki . Yet by 1900 even at its so called “center”, there was barely a suggestion of the sport’s former glory.
In 1900 one of the early surfriders at Waikiki, William Cantrell says, Princess Kaiulani was an expert surfrider from around 1895 to 1899. She rode a long olo board made of wili wili. She apparently was the last of the old school at Waikiki. Princess Kaiulani was the daughter of Governor Archibald Cleghorn and Princess Mariam Likelike and the niece of King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani. Kaiulani was given the Ainahau estate in Waikiki by her Godmother Princess Ruth, and there she entertained Robert Louis Stevenson in 1889. He wrote a celebrated poem, “Forth from her land to mind she goes,” on the occasion of her departure to attend school in England, after which she traveled throughout Europe with her father. The Princess was widely loved as a linguist, musician, artist, horsewoman, surfer, and swimmer.
From 1903 to 1908 marks the true revival of the sport, encouraged by the following old timers: William Dole (Dole Pineapple Co), Dudie Miller, Duke Kahanamoku, Harold Castle (Castle & Cook) George Freeth, Dad Center, Kauha, Holstein, Jordan, Lishman, Atkinson, Steamboat Bill, Winter, Brown, Kaupiko, Mahelona, Keawamaki, May, Curtiss, Hustace, Roth, Aurnolu and McKenzie.
The large olo boards were no longer made. The alaia type boards in use could not match the fine relics of earlier days that you can see in the Bishop Museum, in Honolulu today. Most boards were about 6 feet long; many were hardly more than rough-hewn planks. The sport might be said to have returned to its infancy: boards were short, riding techniques were simple, the whole pastime was unelaborated and practiced only by a few. Soon after the turn of the century, however, the first signs of a revival appeared.
During the 19th century few Caucasians learned to handle a surfboard. Mark Twain, during his trip to Hawaii in the 1860’s said, “None but the natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly.” It was a popular myth, in fact, that only a Hawaiian could balance himself successfully while standing and riding a wave. Despite this belief, in the early 1900’s, a number of Honolulu residents, including many enthusiastic schoolboys and beachboys, re-discovered the waves at Waikiki, and gradually interest in the sport was renewed.
One of these was George Freeth, who was born in 1883 of Hawaiian and Irish parentage. In 1900, at the age of 16, he taught himself to ride standing up on the board instead of lying down. The board on which he accomplished this was a solid, heavy, 16-foot olo design. The story is that it had been given to him by his uncle, a Hawaiian prince, and the board is now a treasured item in the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Freeth was an innovator and experimented with shorter boards by cutting the old 16-foot boards in half. As the locals were rediscovering surfing at Waikiki, tourist from the United States and Europe were discovering Waikiki for the first time. In 1901 the first major resort opened in Waikiki. The Moana Hotel was plush and built in a Beaux-arts style of architecture, distinguished by a grand Banyan tree in the courtyard fronting the beach and by a wooden pier that extended some 300 feet into the water. In order to promote the Hotel advertisements began appearing around 1906 proclaiming surfing and canoeing to be exciting vehicles of sport for tourists.
Surfing is and always will be a sport of intense excitement and the shared experience of riding waves in what is most responsible for its revival. In order to facilitate this shared experienced another Waikiki institution was beginning to emerge as a main player responsible for surfing’s emerging popularity in the early 1900’s — the Waikiki beach boys. In 1907 George Freeth was brought to Redondo Beach, California, to demonstrate surfboard riding as a publicity stunt to promote the opening of the Redondo-Los Angeles railroad owned by Henry Huntington — who gave his name to Huntington Beach. Freeth stayed on in California to become the first lifeguard, and in this way brought the art of surfboard riding to the United States. He became a national hero and earned both the Carnegie Medal for bravery and the Congressional Medal of Honor when in a particularly violent storm in December 1908, he made three trips through mountainous surf to rescue seven Japanese fisherman. At least 78 people owed their lives to his work as a lifeguard. He was a great swimmer as well as surfer, and in 1912 he would almost certainly have been selected to represent the United States at the Olympic Games had it not been ruled that he was a “professional” because he was a paid lifeguard.
At the age of 35 he died in San Diego during a national influenza epidemic; locals said that Freeth exhausted himself rescuing several swimmers at Oceanside and became an easy victim of the virus. Freeth was a great man; he had the build of a surfer and by “standing on the water” at Redondo Beach he began the move of surfboard riding out of Hawaii through the rest of the world. Also prominent in the new movement was Alexander Hume Ford, an adventurous mainlander who was so enamored with the sport that he took it upon himself to personally boost its revival and popularization. In 1907, Ford organized and formed the Outrigger Canoe Club, for the purpose of “preserving surfing on boards and in Hawaiian canoes”. Hence the birth of the world’s first organization whose sole mission was the perpetuation of wave-riding. The club soon offered facilities for dressing, and a grass hut for board storage right on the beach. This gave surfers easy access to the sand and to the long sloping rollers.
As we re-call surfing first came to California in 1907 to promote Huntington Rail Line – so it seems that right from the start surfing and commercialism went hand in hand as both the sport and the tourist travel industry evolved over the years. So much for the “soul theory of surfing evolution”. Yet, despite this capitalist drift, surfing is and always will be a sport of intense physical and cerebral excitement and the shared experience of riding waves is what’s most responsible for its revival.
By 1912 surfing was beginning to expand from the Redondo Beach area with places like the Palos Verdes Cove being ridden. It was Duke Kahanamoku who brought surfboard riding to Australia. In 1912, C.D. Paterson, of Manly, had returned from Hawaii with a solid, heavy redwood board which a few local bodysurfers had tried to ride, but couldn’t. Then three years later the New South Wales Swimming Assn. invited Duke Kahanamoku to swim at the Domain Baths in Sydney, where he broke his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds. While he was in Australia he made a tour of the beached and chose Freshwater to give an exhibition of the art of surfboard riding. He didn’t know about the old redwood board in the district so he set to work to build his own out of piece of sugar pine supplied by a surf club member whose family was in the timber business.
Sunday morning. A clear, brilliant day. Spectators were milling around to watch. Manly Surf Boat was on had to give Duke assistance to drag his board through the break – an offered he laughed at good naturedly. Picking up his board he ran to the water’s edge, slid on and paddled out through the breakers. He made better on time on the way out than the local swimmers who escorted him. Once out beyond the break it wasn’t long before he picked up a wave in the northern corner, stood up and ran the board diagonally across the bay, continually beating the break. Duke showed the crowd everything in the book, from head stands to a finale of tandem surfing with a local girl, Isobel Latham.
At this point surfing truly became an international sport. As surfing was about re-creating itself all around the globe, another institution was about to emerge from the ranks . Board shaper – A kahuna from ancient times. Although the old traditions and rituals accompanying the act of selecting a tree had been replaced with a modern ritual – plunk down some cash for a plank and drag it home – the soul of the Kahuna expressed their desire to maintain a link with the past through the Shaper.
The board itself became the hero. George Freeth and Duke Kahanamoku, two of the first modern shapers had proven many times that the surfboard was a lifesaving tool – while thousands enjoyed the art of wave-sliding (he’enalu) hundreds owed their life to a board and a surfer. George Freeth became a national hero and earned both the Carnegie Medal for bravery and the Congressional Medal of Honor when in a particularly violent storm in December 1908, he made three trips through mountainous surf to rescue seven Japanese fisherman. At least 78 people owned their lives to his work as a lifeguard.
One June day in 1925 at Newport Beach, Duke Kahanamoku was enjoying a picnic with fellow actors when a pleasure yacht, the Thelma, capsized in raging offshore surf. Of the twenty-nine people on board that day, seventeen died. With his surfboard, Duke managed to save eight, battling his way out and back through churning white water, three times. Newport’s police chief call Duke’s performance “the most superhuman surfboard rescue act the world has ever seen.
By the late 1920’s tourists flocked to Hawaii to experience the world’s most famous beach — Waikiki. Surfing was becoming very popular in southern California, partially because of the new and lighter hollow boards which were being produced by Tom Blake. The design was influenced by the ancient boards he had seem at the Bishop Museum. The original blank was 16′ x 2′ x 4′ thick — and about 150 pounds. It finished up 15’ x 19″ x 4” looking like a cigar but it was only 100lbs.
Over the next few years Blake and his good friend Duke Kahanamoku spent much time together shaping, surfing attempting world swim records and acting too, in Hollywood. Along with Johnny Weismuller, Duke and Tom were all world class swimmers and were constant companions on the southern California scene. In the late 20’s while Duke and Weismuller were in Hollywood, Blake was in Santa Monica, building lighter paddle boards, finally getting the weight to 60 pounds. Soon these boards shapes were modified to wave riding.
From about the early 30’s surfers weren’t content anymore with simple wave riding – the surfers ambitions out-raced the equipment they had to work with. Ever since then the surfboard was the focus – pushing technology and design to provide boards that could match surfers skills. Leading the field was TOM BLAKE.
During the 20’s techniques and equipment grew more and more refined and by 1928 a group of California surfers announced the 1st Pacific Coast Surfboard Championships. Adds in the Santa Ana Daily Register invited the public to bring their picnic baskets and enjoy a day at the beach watching surfboard riding by world famous figures such as Duke Kahanamoku, Tom Blake, George Freeth, and many more. Aug. 5, 1928 was the day of the big contest, and the largest crowd in the last five years was on hand to witness the event. This too was the day Tom Blake would introduce his latest invention, the Hallow Hawaiian Surfboard. Not everyone on the beach would appreciate his efforts though, because he was nearly laughed off the beach with his new board. As blake recalls,
“When I appeared with it for the 1st time before 10,000 people gathered for a holiday and to watch the races, it was regarded as silly. Handling this heavy board alone, I got off to a poor start, the rest of the field had gained a 30 yard lead in the meantime. it looked really bad for my board and my reputation and hundreds openly laughed. But a few minutes later it turned to applause because the big board lead the way to the finish of the 880 yard coarse by fully 100 yards.” Blake emerged from the water triumphant, and his reputation as an inventive and keenly competitive waterman grew even stronger.
With this success the hallow board was on its way to revolutionize modern surfing, but not without the usual controversy along the way. Sides were taken on both sides of the boards. “Blakes Cigar” as it was called in Hawaii had set new records in the 100 yard and half mile paddling events of the Hawaiian Surfboard Paddling Championships on Jan 1 1930. Longtime Waikiki surfer and paddlers Sam Reid recalled the controversy a 1955 memoir he wrote for the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
“It was a hollow victory , for Blake had hollowed out his 16 ft cigar board to 60 pounds weight , compared with an average 100 to 120 lbs. weight of the other 9 boards in the event.” The purist demanded that all contests by limited to solid boards while others called it the beginning of a new era in surfing. Reid goes on to say reverberations of the hollow board tiff were heard from one end of the Ala Wai to the other and echoes can still be heard at Waikiki even today, 25 years later. At a meeting of the 3 surfing clubs, Outrigger, Hui Nalu, and Queens, held immediately after the disputed races, it was decided that henceforth there would be no limit whatsoever on the design of paddleboards.
Within a year, Reid said, surfboard builders were experimenting with all sorts of sizes, shapes, weights, and materials, including airplane fabric boards, hydroplane bottoms and converted single sculls. Imagination of design ran wild as he recalled. Later in 1930 Blake received the first ever patent on a surfboard for his Hawaiian Hallow Surfboard. These 1st models were manufactured by their Thomas N.Rogers Co. in Venice, Ca. and a few years later by the L.A. Ladder co.
At this time too the Hawaiian scene were in full swing. Waikiki was the lap of luxury without a doubt. The tourist industry was bringing thousands of people every month to Waikiki . People from all over the world came to Waikiki, among these were many famous actors, musicians, filmmakers, and politicians. Among these early guests were Edward, The Prince of Wales, who created quite a stir when he stayed at the Moana Hotel and went for a outrigger ride. Also a few years later Shirley Temple, Bing Crosby, and many others were regularly scene at Waikiki. By this time the Beach Boys of Waikiki has become internationally famous not only for the surfing prowess, but also for their music, clowning antics, and colorful names. Who could forget names like Steamboat, Turkey Love, Rabbit, and Blue Molokai. Sarah Parks, the chief beachside and surfing correspondent for the Honolulu Star Bulletin during the 50’s recalls some of these legends in her most memorable surfing column. Miss Parks suggested that a bored Honolulu hostess should.
“invite Waikiki’s beach boys to partake of your board. Introductions She noted would go something like this: Hostess: Mrs McWorkel, this is Turkey. He’ll be seated on your left. And on your right we have another man from the beach, Sally. And have you met Steamboat? And this is Steamboat Jr., and these are Steamboats relatives, Tugboat, Sailboat, Lifeboat, and Rowboat. Of course you’ve met Dad, and here are Curly, Splash, Rabbit, Tarzan ,Boss, Panama Dave, Blackout, Wata, Zulu, Mungo, Eight Ball, Nose, Scooter Boy, and oh… here comes Dead Eye. Indeed what visitor to the world’s most famous beach, doesn’t yearn for the good old days when Da boys would go out and ride “beeg ones”on their 120 ft and longer redwood surfboards.
By now in California another phenomenon was about to give surfing a big boost, the car had made it possible to range even further to look for the perfect waves, and this ritual was called the surf Safari. Many a surfer would spend their weekends sat San Onofre, Long Beach, or Palos Verdes. Surfers were a colorful and radical group in California’s expanding population. These early California surfing pioneers were the ancestors of the Surfing Lifestyle we enjoy today. They were known for their colorful exploits, and for their party animal attitudes. However, these guys were no wannabe posers, anyone could throw a baseball, catch a football, or hack at a golf ball, but who the hell would want to carry the 100 plus pounds wood plank down the 2782 decent steps to Palos Verdes Cove, slip into the cool 50 degree Dec. water during a cold snap in a storm, and actually enjoy themselves. These guys were nuts, purple, and fully stoked. Early Calif. Surfers were he men of legendary stature, it was cold, it got big, and it took every ounce of your strength to surf, and the only thing you’d wish for at the end of the day was for a little more strength and just 1 no 2 more waves, and that’s it. Compared to the Hawaiian Brothers who really had it going on in those days, there was very little glamour to surfing in the early California days. But that would change soon enough. By 1935 Tom Blake was again at the leading edge of innovation. Ever since the beginning of surfing there was one peculiar drawback to board designs, and that was the boards propensity to slip sideways and always at a critical time in the maneuver.
Blakes innovation was to add a small fin at the bottom rear end of the boards. This allowed the surfer to pivot and turn more freely and with more lateral stability. Gone forever were the days of sliding ass, or straight off Adolph. This simple yet critical invention revolutionized surfing both for the spectator as well as for the surfer. Because the board became more maneuverable surfers were able to create more and more exciting rides from a spectator standpoint. The Pacific Coast Surfing Championships became an annual event and was dominated 4 of the next years by Preston “Pete Peterson of Santa Monica. Other Early surfing champs included Keller Watson, Gardner Lippincott, and in 1939 Whitey Lorrin Harrison, and in 1940 Cliff Tucker.
Tucker the 1940 champion said flat that his friend “Peterson was the greatest waterman on the West Coast in those days. As far as I’m concerned he was the best and maybe Whitey Harrison was second best. Tucker recalled that in the early 30’s surfing days ‘that a man could still be arrested in Santa Monica for not wearing a top”, and competition surfing was heavy duty and tough.
“If you were in a contest situation and a guy took off in front of you, he recalled, it was your obligation to show no mercy or decency. You either went right through him or otherwise mowed him down. I guess the only thing that’s changed over the years is that nowadays some folks surf that way even without the contest.
As we mentioned earlier one of surfing early ritual was the Surf Safari. This was not only a Calif. thing because by the early thirties some of the 1st California surfers began to make the voyage to Hawaii to take on the Fabled big waves. If you’d look at him today you’d say naah, but our guest Whitey Harrison was one of California’s Bad Boys of Surfing. In 1932 at the height of the depression Whitey tried to stow away on a ship bound for Hawaii but caught and was transported back to San Francisco. He spent the night in the slammer— and stowed away the next morning. After 2 and a half days hidden in a life boat he gave himself up, but at least this time he made it to the Islands. Meanwhile Pete Peterson had paid his way across but eventually he ran out of money and ended up moving in with Whitey at Waikiki. Later Whitey and Pete stowed away back to the mainland on the USS Republic masquerading as members of a contingent of 1,000 soldiers being shipped back to the states. Thanks to these pioneers stowing away became a surfing tradition right up to the 60’s, and Whitey himself made four out of five successful trips in this way.
All during the 30’s and 40’s there was a constant quest the refine and lighten the old style boards. While in Hawaii Pete Peterson found a solid blond colored wood board on the beach. The size and shape of this mysterious board were about the same as his board but it weighed only 30 to 40 lbs. Apparently it had been made in Florida with wood from So. America called balsa wood. Soon everyone was scrambling to get this new balsa wood and it became harder and harder to get.
In the late 30’s Pacific Ready Cut Homes, in California was the first company to mass produce commercial surfboards, and in 1937 hired Whitey Harrison to shape boards for them. These boards were constructed of balsa and redwood laminated together with the newly available waterproof glue. They were 10’ long 23″ wide and 22” at the tailblock. For his effort Whitey shaped four boards a day and knocked down $100.00 a month. These new boards were known as the swastika model because of the Co. logo. Years later Whitey found out that a guy named Dutch was a Nazi and when the war broke out they dropped the swastika.
History of Windsurfing –
Windsurfing or boardsailing is a sport that combines sailing and surfing and uses a one-person craft called a sailboard. The basic sailboard is composed of a board and a rig.
In 1948, twenty-year old Newman Darby first conceived of using a handheld sail and rig mounted on a universal joint, to control a small catamaran. Darby did not file for a patent for his design, however, he is regonized as the inventor of the first sailboard.
Californians Jim Drake (a sailor and engineer) and Hoyle Schweitzer (a surfer and skier) received the very first patent for a sailboard. They called their design a Windsurfer. The early Windsurfer boards measured 12 feet (3.5 m) long and weighed 60 pounds (27 kg). Later in the 1980s, Newman Darby did file for and receive a design patent for a one-person sailboat, the Darby 8 SS sidestep hull.
According to Newman & Naomi Darby in their article The Birth of Windsurfing: “Newman Darby found he could steer a conventional 3 meter sailboat by tipping it fore and aft enough to make turns even without a rudder.
This is when (late 1940s) Newman got interested in steering a boat without a rudder. Several sailboats and 2 1/2 decades later (1964) he designed the first universal joint to go along with a flat bottom sailing scow. This sailboard was fitted with a universal joint mast, a centerboard, tail fin and kite shaped free sail and thus windsurfing was born.”
Naomi Darby, Newman’s wife, was the first woman windsurfer and helped her husband build and design the first sailboard. Jim Drake’s and Hoyle Schweitzer’s patent for a sailboard was granted in 1970 (filed 1968 – reissued 1983). Drake and Schweitzer based the Windsurfer on Darby’s original ideas and fully credited him with its invention.
According to the official Windsurfing website “The heart of the invention (and patent) was mounting a sail on a universal joint, requiring the sailor to support the rig, and allowing the rig to be tilted in any direction. This tilting of the rig fore and aft allows the board to be steered without the use of a rudder – the only sail craft able to do so.”
Hoyle Schweitzer began mass-producing polyethylene sailboards (Windsurfer design) in the early 1970s. The sport became very popular in Europe and by the late 70’s windsurfing fever had Europe firmly in its grasp with one in every three households having a sailboard. The first world championship of windsurfing was held in 1973. Windsurfing first became an Olympic sport in 1984 for men and 1992 for women.
History of Paddleboarding (SUP) Stand-up Paddleboarding –
The popularity of the modern sport of SUP has its origination in the Hawaiian Islands, where surfing schools used stand up paddleboards to teach their students to surf. By standing on their boards using a one bladed paddle, students became familiar with the sport and allowed them to quickly spot the good wave sets.
In the early 1960s the Beach Boys of Waikiki would stand on their long boards and paddle out with outrigger paddles to take pictures of the tourists learning to surf. This is where the term “Beach Boy Surfing” originates, another name for Stand up paddle surfing. Some of the more famous Beach Boys such as Laird Hamilton and Rick Thomas would SUP when the surf was flat as a way to stay in shape, this was common with surfers.
In the 80’s and 90’s, as the Hawaiian surfers were SUPing to stay in shape between swell, they soon found themselves entering events such as the Moloka’i to O’ahu Paddleboard Race and Mākaha’s Big Board Surfing Classic.
History of Kiteboarding –
Kitesurfing, also known as kite surfing, fly surfing, and kiteboarding, involves using a power kite to pull the rider through the water on a small surfboard, a wakeboard, or a kiteboard.
A kitesurfer uses a board with foot-straps or bindings, combined with the power of a large controllable kite to propel himself and the board across the water. However, this simplicity also makes kitesurfing challenging. A kitesurfer’s body is the only connection between the kite and the board. The kite is piloted in the sky while the board is steered on the water.
The sport is still in its infancy, but is rapidly growing in popularity. In 2006, the number of kitesurfers has been estimated at around 150,000 to 200,000.
The sport is becoming safer due to innovations in kite design, safety release systems, and instruction. Many riding styles have evolved to suit different types of riders and conditions, such as wake style, wave riding, freestyle, jumping, and cruising.
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The Early Preseason Atlantic Division Picks and Predictions
Posted on September 27, 2017 by George Foussekis
Jean-Yves Ahern – USA TODAY Sports
The NHL preseason is in full swing, and teams are gearing up for the start of the regular season on October 4. During the preseason, hockey fans have seen some new faces surrounding their favorite respective clubs.
I recently took a shot at how the Metropolitan Division might look this upcoming season. While the Metropolitan Division got 4 teams into the playoff picture last season, the Atlantic Division got 4 teams into the playoff mix too. Will there be a repeat in 2017-18? Will the same Atlantic Division teams make the playoffs, or will some fall out? Which teams could get back into the playoff picture?
Here is how I am looking at the Atlantic Division clubs in the preseason:
PROJECTED STANDINGS FINISH IN 2017-18:
1. MONTREAL CANADIENS*
2. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING*
3. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS*
4. BOSTON BRUINS
5. OTTAWA SENATORS
6. FLORIDA PANTHERS
7. BUFFALO SABRES
8. DETROIT RED WINGS
*denotes playoff teams
Analysis: The Red Wings will be in a beautiful new building this year at Little Caesars Arena. While the Red Wings have plenty of rich tradition, this team is not built for the current time. The core group of this team which consists of Henrik Zetterberg, Justin Abdelkader, Darren Helm, Jonathan Ericsson, and Niklas Kronwall – they are all over the age of 30. The Red Wing defense is slow and old, and the goaltenders cannot stay healthy. Old time hockey needs to be rebuilt in Detroit. This team will struggle to score goals and will have a hard time keeping goals out of their net.
Analysis: The Sabres have a new coach and GM this year. New Sabres GM Jason Botterill spent the last few seasons in Pittsburgh learning under their GM Jim Rutherford. New Sabres Head Coach Phil Housley coached for Team USA before, and played for the Sabres in the 1980s. Once Botterill took the GM job, he wasted no time and brought the Sabres some much needed defensive help with Marco Scandella and Nathan Beaulieu. While the Sabres probably still need a piece or two up front and on defense, the biggest thing the Sabres need to get done is to sign star centreman Jack Eichel to a long-term extension.
Analysis: The Panthers had a rough year in 2016-17. They were plagued by injuries, and some were very significant. Jonathan Huberdeau played in only 31 games, Aaron Ekblad played in only 68 games, Aleksander Barkov only played in 61 games, and Roberto Luongo only played in 40 games. The good news for Florida is that Roberto Luongo looks ready to go after he had hip surgery. The Panthers also have a new head coach with Bob Boughner now at the helm. If the Panthers can stay healthy, this team might be at the playoff bubble. The biggest concern facing the Panthers is their blueline. Aaron Ekblad, Mark Pysyk, Alex Petrovic, and Michael Matheson are all under 25 years of age.
Analysis: If there is a team that I am ready to sell low on, it is Ottawa. They are a team that has some nice players, but not great players. Defenseman Erik Karlsson is the most dynamic offensive weapon this club has, but the loss of defenseman Marc Methot will likely hurt this club more than what people realize. Craig Anderson is not getting any younger as he is now 36 years of age. The Senators still lack a game changing dynamic offensive forward. The Senators are a streaky team and are not deep at any position. The Senators can still be a playoff team, but I think there are others around them that will be improved in 2017-18.
Analysis: They say that sometimes the best deals that you make are the ones you do not make. After replenishing their prospect pool over the last couple of years, the Bruins got back into the playoff picture in 2016-17 after a 2-year absence. The Bruins were linked to Matt Duchene over the summer, but remained quiet on the trade front. The Bruins re-upped one of their biggest contributors from last year with David Pastrnak as they signed him to a 6-year deal. Pastrnak and fellow teammate Brad Marchand both recorded over 30 goals and 70 points for the Bruins last season. The Bruins have groomed some young defensemen in a short time, as they have brought Charlie McAvoy and Brandon Carlo into their mix. Head Coach Bruce Cassidy has a young roster to work with, but they should remain in playoff contention if Tuukka Rask gives them another strong season in net.
Analysis: I am not ready to sell my soul on the Maple Leafs winning the Atlantic Division now. However, this team will be very fun to watch in 2017-18. With Auston Matthews, Mitchell Marner, William Nylander, and other young players, this team will throw up some goals. Adding veteran Patrick Marleau from the Sharks was a nice add for this young team, but a pricey add. The Maple Leafs must make a tough decision soon regarding James van Riemsdyk. The 28-year old New Jersey native is on the last year of his contract and will become an unrestricted free agent next summer. He is a nice piece that could give them a nice return for some much-needed defensive help. If Frederik Andersen can play respectably and improve his goaltending numbers a little bit, the Leafs are positioned to challenge for the top of the division. For now, it is a safe bet the Leafs will be in the top 3.
Analysis: If there is a team that should be back in the playoffs in 2017-18, it is the Lightning. The Lightning missed out on the playoffs by 1 point in 2016-17, and Steven Stamkos missed 65 games for the Lightning. When healthy, Stamkos is one of the most potent goal scorers in the game right now. Lightning GM Steve Yzerman is one of the best GMs in the NHL right now. Over the summer, he re-signed forwards Ondrej Palat and Tyler Johnson to affordable long-term contracts. In October 2016, he re-signed 40-goal scorer Nikita Kucherov to a bridge deal that is under $5m per season. Yzerman is a bargain hunter, and he has done a great job managing the salary cap. In addition to managing the cap well, Yzerman shipped Jonathan Drouin to Montreal, and he landed a stud young defenseman Mikhail Sergachev. The Lightning won 8 of their last 10 games last year, but just fell short. Now, they will be healthy, and their top players will not have to worry about contract extensions looming over their head. I think the Lightning will be back, and could possibly challenge for the top spot in the Atlantic Division.
Analysis: When people think Montreal is going to fall off, the Canadiens prove everyone wrong. A major reason for this is Carey Price. Price is the best goaltender in the Atlantic Division, and it is not even close. Jonathan Drouin will bring more skill and speed to the Canadiens offense and will probably become their top offensive producer. Over the summer, GM Marc Bergevin brought in defenseman Karl Alzner from free agency to bring more defensive stability to the blueline. The Canadiens have a solid blueline, a great goaltender, and some exciting young forwards up front. They will likely be the favorite to win the Atlantic Division.
By: George Foussekis
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8 Responses to The Early Preseason Atlantic Division Picks and Predictions
Habs dont have a great blueline and need at min another F. I have the Bolts winning and depending on the panthers young guys, they may finish 2nd.
Jon Sorensen says:
Agree on part of this. I’ve got Toronto making it to the top. Tampa Bay are VERY close second.
Harrison Brown says:
If the Bolts stay healthy, they’re No. 1.
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